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was received the 14th of october 2167

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following salvage operations in belt

1:01

quadrant gamma

1:04

communications officer will stevens

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orpheus mission log day 278

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the orpheus is now on day 278 of our

1:15

mission from mars base hawking

1:18

the transmission that spurred this

1:20

mission has now become separable from

1:22

the background radiation

1:24

while in the original recordings the

1:26

signal was only detectable by frequency

1:28

analysis

1:29

it's now audible to the human ear

1:32

to me this is an incredibly exciting

1:34

development

1:36

but my enthusiasm is not shared by the

1:38

crew

1:40

for reference here is the original

1:42

recording from base hawking the only

1:44

base to have detected the frequency as

1:46

their deep space sound equipment is the

1:48

best in the vicinity of mars

1:59

and here is the recording i made from

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the orpheus yesterday

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[Music]

2:13

our initial suspicions were correct

2:16

there is something deliberate and

2:18

patterned about this transmission

2:21

its waveform and repetition

2:24

implies some form of intelligence and

2:26

technology at its source

2:29

so having reached the decision window

2:32

location

2:33

we are making that decision to continue

2:36

the outward journey away from mars to

2:38

attempt to locate a more definite source

2:42

there's still skepticism among many of

2:45

the crew

2:47

i get the feeling that at least half the

2:49

crew never believed that there was a

2:51

likelihood we'd make this decision and

2:53

continue the outward journey

2:56

i think they were hoping that we would

2:57

have made the alternate decision to

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divert course for outer orbit base

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bergson which is around 30 days travel

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from here

3:06

but as both comms officer and mission

3:09

specialist

3:11

i was required to make the unpopular

3:13

decision to send us further into unknown

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space

3:17

for potentially another year

3:20

however it has been agreed that if after

3:23

another 150 days we have not reached the

3:26

transmission source we will be forced to

3:29

turn back to base bergson as the nearest

3:31

fueling and supply station

3:35

now that i have a clearer signal to work

3:37

with

3:38

our pilots and i can start to put

3:40

together an estimated distance and

3:42

vector

3:43

it will of course be an estimate but

3:46

given the amount of background

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interference i

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currently believe it's unlikely to be

3:52

more than 100 days from our current

3:53

location

3:55

i will update this log as and when

3:57

significant progress has been made

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end recording

4:04

supplemental officer stephen's personal

4:06

communication

4:08

hi mum hi dad

4:10

if i've timed this right you should be

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receiving this in time for mum's 70th

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birthday

4:15

so happy birthday

4:18

dad don't forget that card i left for

4:20

mum i know what your memory is like

4:22

so our project up here among the planets

4:25

has made some significant progress as

4:28

you know i can't tell you all the

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details but it will mean that i'll be

4:32

traveling for another year at least

4:34

before i return to earth

4:36

i know we all thought i'd be out here

4:38

for a long time but it's only when

4:40

you're living it that you realize the

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reality of this length of time

4:44

do you remember me saying that i

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technically age more slowly this far out

4:48

well i calculated it

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file corrupted

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time is such a strange dimension

4:57

you can tell the ricohs that their son

5:00

laurie is getting on well uh for his

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first long haul assignment he's

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performing admirably

5:06

he's only an ensign now but roddy sorry

5:09

rodriguez his engineering mentor

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reckons he'll be working independently

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before his mission ends

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captain jay shares the opinion too

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he still won't let me forget that um

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insisted on calling him captain jason

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repeatedly when you met him

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it may be unusual for a captain to go by

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his first name but it's not a difficult

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name

5:31

anyway it's time for dinner here i'll

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catch up with you soon love you hugs and

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kisses

5:37

supplement ends

5:41

communications officer will stevens

5:44

orpheus mission log day 294

5:48

it's been over two weeks since my last

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mission log update

5:52

tensions are high amongst the orpheus

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crew

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four of us including captain jay

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see the value and purpose behind this

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mission but the other five have formed

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their own

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social clique separate from us

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they're still performing their duties

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they recognize that responsibility

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and they're at least behaving

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appropriately but the tensions during

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our downtime

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could be cut with a knife

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i have been religiously checking and

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rechecking the signal

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as frequently as my responsibilities

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allow me

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the problem is that when you listen to

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and analyze the same sound too

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frequently

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you fail to notice when a minute change

6:37

becomes

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something significant

6:40

yesterday i compared the up-to-date

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signal sound to the first

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clean recording we made two weeks ago

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and it's definitely clearing up

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i don't know if it's decipherable to the

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human ear but the frequency graphs are

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showing more separation in the spikes of

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frequency

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here is the latest recording

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[Music]

7:10

i will continue to make definitive

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comparison points with time-stamped

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signal recordings from the last few

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weeks

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this would have been a futile exercise

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before this time but the changing sounds

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might be a way

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of triangulating a more definitive

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destination point

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i will update again in one week

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end recording

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communications officer will stevens

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orpheus mission log day 301

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the crew have become more accepting of

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the mission now

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this could simply be down to their

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concession that holding a grudge in a

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confined space for a year is not going

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to help anyone especially when it can't

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be changed

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but i also hope that my sharing of data

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also played a part in convincing them of

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the value of this mission

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while all my research is in the ship's

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central computer and i know the captain

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checks it regularly i don't think the

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rest of the crew have ever had the

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vested interest to keep an eye on it

8:16

after dinner a few days back at captain

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jay's request

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i put on a short demonstration of the

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progress that has been made

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and the improvements we've heard in the

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signal

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i may not have won everyone over but i

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think there's more investment in the

8:31

mission from a few of the naysayers

8:34

anyway here is the latest signal

8:36

recording

8:45

not much to comment on at this stage

8:48

end recording

8:52

supplemental officer stephen's personal

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communication

8:56

hi mum and dad

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so lovely to hear back from you and such

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wonderful news about lisa's new baby boy

9:03

it breaks my heart that i won't be able

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to meet my nephew while he's so little

9:07

i'll have to make up for lost time when

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i'm home

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i've had some

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difficult times with the crew here not

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everyone's been on the same page with

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the mission

9:18

you remember tiffany

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from the bbq before we left she's our

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pilot and she's always had my back in

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these disagreements

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but sometimes it feels like it's just

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me and her against the world

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the research institute doesn't allow

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relationships between mission crew but

9:38

mom you did call it she and i have grown

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close

9:41

part of me hopes

9:43

for that reason that we don't get

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assigned to another ship together

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i'll get her to join me on one of these

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messages sometime

9:51

speak to you soon hugs and kisses

9:55

supplement ends

9:59

communications officer will stevens

10:02

orpheus mission log day 305

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it's only been four days since my last

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entry but that's because

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i was right

10:12

three weeks of tracing the signal has

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given me the information needed to

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triangulate a more precise location

10:19

we now know that it's emanating from a

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location in the asteroid belts

10:25

until we get closer we can't say much

10:28

more than that

10:30

it could be the source but it could also

10:33

be a relay or even a deflected signal

10:37

gravity affects radio waves too after

10:39

all just like it does with visible light

10:42

there's also

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too much interference from the moving

10:46

rocks in the belt and

10:48

the metals that are contained within

10:50

those rocks

10:52

the sound of the transmission is

10:54

probably not going to get much clearer

10:56

until we can establish

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a more direct line of transmission which

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will mean maneuvering around the belt

11:03

until we can pinpoint a position

11:06

our pilot tiff believes she can get us

11:09

into

11:10

what did she call it

11:12

a slightly spiraling sun synchronous

11:15

orbit

11:17

near the belt

11:18

at a safe distance allowing us to

11:20

maximize our ability to scan the

11:23

suspected area

11:25

i think people forget just how

11:28

vast the asteroid belt is

11:32

and how few known rocks exist there

11:35

our point of interest is about as far

11:38

from series vesta or eros as you can

11:41

find and there's no real reference

11:43

points to base our search on

11:46

i will update this log when tiff has

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positioned us at the belt

11:50

end recording

11:54

communications officer will stevens

11:57

obvious mission log day 315.

12:01

we're here at the belt

12:04

and

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well

12:07

it's

12:07

stunningly beautiful dangerous

12:11

but beautiful

12:13

we have to remain constantly aware that

12:15

the belt is not a finite structure and

12:17

has no defined edges of course

12:20

so we have to keep the sensors on watch

12:22

for stray rocks at all times

12:24

what i didn't realize was how the

12:27

gravity and the dust of the belt plays

12:30

with the light

12:31

it's almost as if the red light is

12:34

dulled but the greens and blues are

12:36

accentuated

12:38

our infrared cameras seem to be picking

12:40

up

12:41

literally nothing

12:43

and we have to assume it's some strange

12:45

effect of the asteroid metals and

12:47

refractions of the red end of the light

12:49

spectrum

12:51

our resident physicist ozell

12:53

is fascinated and will be recording his

12:56

own findings and theories on the matter

12:59

tiff did position us well in order to

13:01

scan the asteroids and we are already

13:04

receiving a less interrupted signal

13:06

i'm actually beginning to wonder

13:08

if the signal is

13:10

more than just an intelligent data

13:12

communication

13:14

but in fact is transmitted audio

13:16

recording

13:18

the pitch shifts seem to imply that

13:21

there's a grammar and a speech pattern

13:23

in the transmission

13:25

listen for yourself

13:31

it couldn't be human as there have been

13:33

no recorded expeditions to this region

13:35

before

13:36

but that being said

13:38

many expeditions over time have gone

13:40

missing

13:41

and presumed to have gone beyond the

13:44

belt

13:45

if it turns out we're here on a rescue

13:47

mission

13:48

it certainly won't be a wasted journey

13:51

i will update again when we pinpoint

13:53

location

13:55

end recording

13:59

supplemental officer stephen's personal

14:01

communication

14:03

hey lisa congratulations i can't wait to

14:06

meet little joseph so glad you went with

14:08

that name after all

14:10

but you know i'm calling him joey right

14:12

fair warning

14:14

i heard you had to stay in hospital for

14:16

a few days i hope everything's okay i'm

14:18

sure andy's taking care of you though

14:21

mum and dad seem well in their messages

14:24

but i can always read their tone of

14:26

voice

14:27

give mom an extra big hug from me

14:30

i told you about tiff before right

14:33

uh she's been harassing me for baby

14:35

pictures so you better be sending me

14:37

some soon

14:39

honestly i think it'll actually help the

14:40

whole crew it's always good to get a

14:42

little reminder of life continuing as

14:45

normal back on earth

14:47

you were at school with lorenzo rico

14:49

right he's up here with us as a trainee

14:51

engineer he mentioned you in passing the

14:53

other day completely slipped my mind

14:55

that he knew you

14:57

i never met him until our first mission

14:58

briefing

15:00

but it seemed he knows the rest of my

15:01

family already

15:03

anyway i'll speak to you soon

15:05

take care

15:07

supplement ends

15:11

communications officer will stevens

15:13

orpheus mission log day317

15:17

it's not taken us long to find a

15:19

location

15:20

it appears and disappears behind an

15:23

asymmetrical rotating asteroids so

15:26

we have to maneuver into the belt

15:29

with

15:30

an estimated

15:32

million kilometers between each

15:33

significant rock this shouldn't be too

15:36

dangerous

15:37

but our path will still require careful

15:40

plotting

15:41

tiff believes she'll have the

15:43

calculations confirmed by tomorrow

15:46

in other news four members of the crew

15:49

have been experiencing

15:51

some strange occurrences while we've

15:54

been in orbit here

15:56

they've been reporting an overwhelming

15:58

sense of not being alone

16:01

like catching a glimpse of movement in

16:03

their peripheral vision when no one's

16:05

around or

16:07

moments of deja vu

16:09

but so significantly that they've been

16:12

predicting events

16:13

even catching dropped objects as if they

16:16

knew it would happen

16:18

the crew's reports of these experiences

16:20

have been remarkably similar

16:24

our doctor simmons is interviewing each

16:27

of the crew that have reported these

16:28

experiences but doesn't believe there's

16:31

any reason for any sort of

16:33

group

16:34

hallucination i believe simmons will be

16:37

writing up his own reports and theories

16:39

on this

16:40

once we make progress with our journey

16:42

into the belt i will report further

16:45

end recording

16:48

supplemental officer stephen's personal

16:51

communication

16:53

hi mum i hope dad is watching this too

16:55

and that his golf game doesn't get in

16:57

the way of sending your next message

16:59

baby joseph is adorable the whole crew

17:02

agrees

17:03

i've asked tiff to come and say hi to

17:05

you today she should be here in a moment

17:09

the mission's been

17:11

weird

17:12

i wish i could share more of the details

17:13

with you

17:15

tiff must have lost track of time

17:19

track of time

17:24

in the meantime

17:29

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17:34

communications officer will stevens

17:36

office mission log day 319

17:41

tiff moved us into our new position

17:43

yesterday

17:44

the location we receive the strongest

17:46

signal from

17:48

the gravity

17:50

magnetism and mineral constituents of

17:52

the belt

17:53

are clearly having further unexpected

17:55

effects on the light here

17:57

as we moved amongst the rocks the light

18:00

distortion became more

18:02

pronounced

18:04

having already lost the red light

18:06

spectrum at the edge of the belt we seem

18:08

to have now lost the greens and yellows

18:11

of our vision too

18:13

everything is now only visible in hues

18:15

of blue

18:17

it's making reading some of the computer

18:19

outputs especially hard

18:21

and distinguishing color-coded control

18:23

panels now requires us to look more

18:26

carefully at the labels

18:28

more worryingly

18:30

six out of the nine crew members have

18:32

now reported visions of some kind of

18:34

presence on the ship

18:36

myself included

18:39

last night

18:40

i was doing the final checks of the

18:42

transmission tower

18:44

when i felt a chill like

18:47

a draft behind me

18:49

the only way that happens in a closed

18:51

environment like this

18:53

is when someone or something passes you

18:58

none of the crew were anywhere near the

19:00

transmission tower though

19:02

when i looked along the link corridor i

19:04

saw

19:05

in the blue light

19:08

something it it's so difficult to put it

19:11

into words like

19:14

a bright

19:15

glowing

19:17

sphere of energy

19:19

but not a solid sphere

19:21

it was like it was gaseous

19:24

see-through

19:27

and emitting what looks like vapor

19:29

trails

19:31

but the strangest thing of all

19:33

was its pattern of movement

19:36

after i watched it for a second or two

19:39

it stopped

19:40

stationary for about

19:42

five seconds

19:43

it was as if it noticed me and was

19:46

staring back at me somehow although it

19:49

was of course completely faceless so i

19:52

can't be sure of that

19:53

then

19:54

with a sense of urgency it started

19:57

moving again this time

19:59

about three times as fast

20:01

continuing away from me down the

20:03

corridor and turning the corner at the

20:05

end

20:06

there was clearly something sentient

20:08

about this

20:10

thing

20:12

i've reported all of this to doc simmons

20:14

he has a detailed log but i'm starting

20:17

to wonder if these entities are

20:19

connected to the signal somehow

20:22

they're appearing more vivid as we move

20:24

closer

20:25

but

20:26

everything we see

20:28

is so much more difficult to be certain

20:30

of

20:31

due to the lack of contrast in colors

20:32

that we can see here

20:35

with everything in shades of blue it's

20:37

hard to be

20:39

100 sure of what i saw

20:42

but i'm not the only one that's seen

20:43

them

20:44

doc and tiff both report similar

20:46

sightings

20:49

unfortunately

20:50

the signal is no clearer here than

20:52

before

20:58

but we do have a new location to head

20:59

for deeper inside the belt where we

21:02

believe it's originating from

21:05

tiff will get us there in a couple of

21:07

days

21:08

end recording

21:13

communications officer will stevens

21:17

office mission log day

21:21

323

21:24

323 i think

21:28

i'm

21:31

a couple of days late with my entry

21:33

uh it's

21:35

been difficult to make this report

21:39

while

21:40

deep blues continue to be the only color

21:42

we can see around us

21:44

we've started experiencing

21:46

[Music]

21:48

can only call them time dilations

21:52

i don't mean simply things

21:55

going faster or slower like movement or

21:59

speech i'm talking about

22:01

missing and

22:03

repeating time

22:05

all the crew experiencing it

22:08

i

22:10

lost

22:12

the last two days

22:15

i don't know where i was

22:16

or what happened

22:18

but i'm gradually experiencing episodes

22:21

of it

22:22

out of order

22:24

but not memories these are

22:27

experiences like i'm living the moment

22:30

there and then i can

22:32

feel the objects i can hear the sounds

22:35

but

22:36

seconds later

22:37

i'm back in the present

22:39

it's

22:40

like i'm experiencing my own actions in

22:43

a different timeline

22:46

but as a result it's getting harder to

22:49

know when the present is

22:52

i can't remember if i'm

22:54

in a flashback experience now

22:57

or if this is real time

23:00

the

23:01

only unifying factor that the crew can

23:04

find for these time lapses

23:07

is that they coincide with

23:11

our experiences of the glowing energy

23:14

sphere entities or

23:16

geese as we've started to refer to them

23:19

when one of these geese

23:21

is near us for any length of time

23:25

we find ourselves

23:27

somewhere else

23:29

unable to account for the time between

23:33

only later do we start

23:35

re-experiencing the missed episode

23:38

a couple of days late with my entry

23:42

the two days i just lost

23:46

is the longest period of time yet

23:49

that anybody is unable to account for

23:53

seemingly nobody saw me in those two

23:56

days

23:57

and the crew were worried about where i

23:59

could have gone

24:01

we're all in a defined and limited space

24:04

i certainly wasn't outside the ship

24:08

no airlock activity was detected

24:11

we've

24:12

also

24:14

lost a crew member

24:16

ensen rico

24:18

was assisting engineer ramirez in

24:21

replacing faulty equipment

24:23

but in front of ramirez's eyes

24:27

rico started

24:29

getting

24:31

to taller

24:33

but also

24:34

thinner

24:37

stretched like toffee is how ramirez

24:39

described it

24:42

all this time rico's eyes were fixed on

24:45

him

24:46

and a look of shock became

24:50

froze on his face

24:53

when the doc arrived on the scene

24:55

it was too late

24:56

rico's

24:58

ribbon-like body

24:59

had stretched more than double his

25:02

original height

25:04

and was

25:05

curled into a pile on the floor

25:09

the crew were already suffering mentally

25:11

and

25:12

this has really thrown a punch as our

25:14

sanity

25:18

i do wonder if

25:19

the geese

25:21

have always been here

25:23

just

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in a different visible light spectrum

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perhaps

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their proximity is

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just as responsible for experiences of

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deja vu in normal life

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just a theory

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it's

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like i'm experiencing my own actions in

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a different timeline

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the latest recording of the signal

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follows

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we're still on course for the signal

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source point

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hopefully we'll be there any day now

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and recording

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supplemental officer stephen's personal

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communication

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mum

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dad

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i'm not permitted to tell you details

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but captain jay has allowed me to say

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something

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it's

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like i'm experiencing my own actions in

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a different timeline

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uh we don't know if this message will

26:27

even send

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so i wanted to let you know

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somehow

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about lorenzo rico

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his parents will probably here about the

26:37

same time

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same time

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same time

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file corrupted

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supplement ends

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communications officer will stevens

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obvious mission log

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day

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i honestly have no idea anymore

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so

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tiff managed to get us to the source

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points

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the location we were certain the signal

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was coming from

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but as soon as we got here

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the signal

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vanished

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as if

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we triggered it to stop somehow

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but getting here

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made our situation a whole lot worse

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we didn't realize how bad until too late

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otherwise

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captain jay would have turned us around

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the blue spectrum

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is gone

27:55

in other words the entire visible light

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spectrum

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is now just

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darkness

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fortunately

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before we entered this zone of

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invisibility for want of a better term

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physicist orzelle had hypothesized this

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possibility and had already found the

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ultraviolet goggles

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the ultraviolet spectrum is still

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visible but

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at times i

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wish it wasn't

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we only have

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two pairs of prototype ultraviolet

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vision goggles

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so we have to take it in turns to

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perform our duties and the rest of the

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time we're

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in the dark

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ozell suggested that maybe the light

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spectrum frequencies and wavelengths are

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being

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dimensionally altered in some way

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it's in some way similar to our

28:52

experience of time maybe

28:55

it could all be connected

28:59

one of the pairs of goggles is

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permanently with tiff as she tries to

29:03

work out why the ship

29:05

won't move from our current position

29:08

and why we can't leave this location

29:11

once we were locked on course for this

29:14

location the computer locked us out

29:16

we've been without control of the ship

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for a couple of days at least

29:23

the other pair is passed by the captain

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to the next person whose duty is most

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necessary

29:30

until 20 minutes ago that was me and

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this record is

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absolutely necessary

29:38

so i made sure to have the recording

29:40

controls at hand while i sit here in my

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quarters

29:44

in the dark

29:48

time lapses we've been suffering

29:51

are getting worse

29:53

we often find ourselves getting stuck in

29:56

loops for periods of time unaware

29:58

and unable to remove ourselves unless

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someone interferes

30:02

which is increasingly difficult

30:05

in the dark

30:08

the most terrifying thing though

30:10

is what the ultraviolet spectrum shows

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us

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the geese

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are not just energy beings they exist in

30:20

three-dimensional space

30:22

just not

30:24

our three-dimensional space

30:28

our shift into the

30:30

ultraviolet spectrum

30:33

or is it even perhaps

30:34

an ultraviolet dimension

30:37

either way

30:38

it has enabled us to see them more

30:41

clearly and

30:43

they're

30:45

alternate versions of

30:48

us

30:49

each of the crew

30:51

has found their ultraviolet

30:53

doppelganger

30:55

in their own workspace seemingly

30:58

performing their

31:03

the same duties

31:04

in a few minutes ahead or behind each

31:07

other

31:08

the

31:09

only ones that have been truly aware of

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us

31:13

seem to be wearing goggles similar to

31:16

our own ultraviolet goggles

31:18

but while we're able to see through some

31:21

sort of

31:23

ultraviolet dimensional gateway

31:27

interaction

31:28

isn't possible between us and them

31:32

we have tried

31:34

objects cannot be passed between us

31:39

and sounds cannot be heard

31:41

writing works but requires the

31:44

doppelganger to also be wearing the

31:46

goggles

31:49

the only thing we do know

31:52

is

31:53

not to try and touch our own

31:56

doppelganger

31:57

we found that out the hard way

32:00

the two versions of ourselves

32:03

that we're aware of

32:05

may actually just be two of many

32:09

tiff

32:10

bless her with her goggles

32:13

saw engineer ramirez interacting

32:16

with his own doppelganger

32:19

on the bridge

32:20

but when the two entered the same

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physical space

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parts of them

32:26

stretched and entwined

32:30

while other parts

32:31

did not

32:33

she said it was like

32:35

somebody part solidified like stone

32:39

while others stretched like a putty

32:41

until his body was

32:44

no longer recognizable as human

32:47

and

32:48

his stretched screaming face

32:52

resembled that edward munch painting

32:57

other than the unfortunate ramirez

33:01

doc simmons has spent the longest time

33:03

with his doppelganger

33:05

and through careful written interaction

33:09

has confirmed most of the established

33:11

facts and theories i've spoken of which

33:14

he fills us in on while we sit together

33:17

in the dark at meal times

33:21

it's strange though

33:23

our doppelgangers always seem

33:28

a few steps ahead of us

33:31

like they're performing similar duties

33:34

to us

33:35

in the same order

33:36

but asynchronously to us

33:40

about two minutes ahead

33:43

it's like a weird childhood nightmare i

33:45

used to have of arriving at school to

33:47

find

33:48

another version of myself already

33:50

sitting in my seat in the classroom

33:53

at least

33:55

now

33:56

i'm wondering if that was only a dream

34:01

ensign andres suggested that the two

34:04

versions of ourselves

34:06

that we're aware of

34:09

may actually just be two of many

34:12

perhaps even

34:14

infinite versions of ourselves

34:22

perhaps all inhabiting the same space in

34:26

a few minutes ahead or behind each other

34:30

that one really got my head spinning

34:41

my first call of duty on my shift was to

34:44

send for help from vase bergson

34:47

but

34:48

like the last week or so we seemingly

34:51

can't transmit from the belt

34:54

i don't want to undermine captain jay's

34:56

command but i do wonder if

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instead i should be sending a warning to

35:04

not follow us into the belt

35:08

but in any case

35:10

we're too deep now

35:11

in the belt

35:13

for

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any call of any kind

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we can't

35:19

transmit

35:21

it's likely we're trapped here

35:22

indefinitely

35:24

we can't

35:25

transmit

35:27

it's likely we're trapped here

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is

36:12

data corrupted file ends

36:15

archive note the international aerospace

36:18

research institute has no record of an

36:20

orpheus mission

36:21

records indicate that this log describes

36:23

the crew of the research vessel arbo

36:26

captain jay weathers pilot tiffany

36:28

haywood and mission specialist

36:30

communications officer will stevens are

36:32

confirmed members of the argo research

36:34

mission

36:35

the argo went missing after losing

36:37

communication when passing mars base

36:39

berkson in october 2167

36:42

the content of philo rp278

36:45

has been deemed a hoax and classified to

36:47

prevent speculation

36:50

end of archive philo rp278

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