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[Ozarck]

1)where is the hiss coming from? If it's the room with the invisible probe, tag the whole room and launch it right back into 0, 0, 57, and mark that one as blacklisted. If it's from teh room with the chia probe, do likewise 9launch the room into it's universe of origin) and evacuate the premises to an expendable shuttle.

2)How long did our suit clocks record us as being in universe? Do these match up with the clocks left in Universe Prime? What were the jumps between universes like for Dester? Any more information than our first test subjects gave? I Ask Gus as well about his experience with the Jump.

3)Dester asks for a report on the team that was sent to deal with the thermophage and their mysterious disappearance.

4) Dester approves blacklisting Spiderverse. though he is interested in examining these potentially sapient spiders a bit more, when time allows.

5)Finally, FYI: Dester is going to step back and do more oversight of the team, now that people are actively searching universes.

to Gus: that's a fine specimen, General. good work. thank you for coming along. This was very exciting.

Hi everyone. First, I want to congratulate you all on a job well done so far. our mission is far from over, but we've been making significant progress. Have we found a new home for humanity? Well, we've found a bolt hole or two at least. bought some time, as it were. And we've discovered some very interesting realities, as well as some extremely dangerous ones. And with all this progress, we've accumulated a lot of data and experience. let's meet and discuss what we've learned, and how to move forward better. Let's combine our information and see if we can find any patterns or clues on how to better look for compatible realities. Snacks will be provided at the meeting! And of course, if you are unable to attend in person, please do so via commlink.

*Everyone in mission gets this message - heph people and Black Ops alike.

After attending administrative duties and reporting on his exploration, Dester meets with Charles.

To Charles: hello, I've heard you have awakened from stasis, and wish to be a part of the team? welcome aboard. Tell me a bit about yourself. How did you come to the HMRC? what skills and assets do you bring? What interests you about our mission?

[Gentlefish]

Sure. Goo-verse has been explored. It's nothing crazy, but the liquid is non-Newtonian and mostly carbon. So if we need carbon, it's there in bunches.
Just a heads up, if you go to a mostly-liquid universe, especially one that's non-Newtonian, don't be smart and try to launch a probe using any sort of firearm.

Wait, so I can hear it
Send probes to:

3466, 8545, 5004
4229, 4923, 6838
8835, 5839, 6895

Or however many of these you feel like generating.


Ryan, leaving the scientists with an order to inform him about the status of each universe he has sent probes to, moves to the board room meeting.
"I didn't think I'd be having another meeting like this after my arrest," he jokes, "Nevermind one on the status of new Universes."

[Empiricist]

"My name is Charles Leroux, or so that is what I remember it as. You see, once, I was oh so sure of what I did to get sent here. I had murdered a patient of mine in bout of psychosis, I was a fool. I was scared, I wanted to believe that I was sane, that the hallucinations were just stress, that I still keep working. Not the best choice, especially not for a psychiatrist like myself. When I got here, my condition deteriorated, I began losing self-control, ended up in this body thanks to that."
He taps a metallic fist against his mechanical head.

"I was sent down here when we took the planet, and when we repelled the UWM counterattack. Didn't really end up leaving, since we needed propaganda at the time, so I ended up becoming one of the people working on it. See, what happened then was, I began slipping in and out unconsciousness. Didn't notice it at first since I spent most of my time working in a VR, it helped me organize my thoughts. But then well, the lapses increased, I notice large spans of time that I couldn't remember. I've recovered now as you can see, but also my hallucinations seem to have at least died down, so I'm beginning to suspect that they were actually caused by stasis dementia and that I'm not who I thought I was."

"As for my skills, I saw combat during the Inti revolution and the Assault on Hephaestus. Though I don't think that's too relevant for this mission unless something goes horribly wrong. I excel at public speaking if I may say so myself, and have experience in persuasion in propaganda. Again, may not be particularly relevant here aside from experience in working with eccentric individuals such a Brother Lars. Finally, and perhaps most relevantly, I have experience in R&D and major projects such as these. I've designed utilities for the armory, and, prior to his disappearance, I was working with Dr. Sanctor on a project of his."

"For the mission, I see that it is crucial to our survival as a species. Indeed, I had known about the poor state of our universe for a while now, not that much to came to a head from it, bringing it up in our propaganda would have only caused panic. Looking back on it, I thought that this would be our coffin. That short of some miracle, we could only delay it at best, and even that was uncertain. This mission is the miracle I thought we would never have, a means to escape, a means to leave our sins and mistakes behind. I know it is foolish to hope for eternal life, be it for oneself or for one's species, but one can dream, can they not? And assuming this mechanism too does not go haywire in the distant future, it indeed be possible."

[Ozarck]

Hallucinations? that sounds like a bad start to an exploration of another universe. Are you sure you want to work on this? I have been doing a lot of the frontline testing here, but now that my team is getting into the swing of things, I think I will step back and take an oversight role. Will you work with supervision? I'd like to minimize any risk caused by mental trauma.

Still, you say you are good with R&D. Can you study the qualities of some of these universes? perhaps there is something about some of them we can use. there is one off limits without prior approval of myself and at least one Hephaestus head, and I see a request for making another off limits in the same way ... spiders? hmm, I better look into that.

Hmm, you said you are unsure who you were. Who did you think you were and who do you think you are now?

[syvarris]

1.Can Saint's body hear the hissing sound, despite his actual body being on a warship in orbit?  If so, send all test rooms containing extra-universal stuff to a different universe.  If the sound continues, ban all probes.  Manually, with (nonlethal) robosods.

2.If Saint doesn't hear the hissing sound in orbit, and Dester doesn't successfully deal with it, try to figure out if the sound is omnipresent in the base or local to one area.

3.If the hissing sound is dealt with, send two QEC-equipped probes to the cavern 'verse for ten minutes, then bring them back.  They should try to communicate while there.  When they come back, have a mook check if the message successfully got across.

4.If 3 showed that QECs work in the cavern 'verse, repeat the experiment, except with the second probe switching between our universe and the cavern universe, updating me on the first probe's video feed every time.  Does this work?

((Thanks for the quote, Ozark.))

[Empiricist]

"I wouldn't think so, but I've survived city-devouring manipulator overloads and the wrath of an amp specialist back when my hallucinations were far worse. As strange as it might sound, I think I've gotten pretty good at differentiating them from reality. So it shouldn't be anything worth worrying about, unless I start screaming about a talking sheep. Because other people have seen it as well, and it told me things I couldn't have known myself.

I thought I was an insane shrink. And right now, I don't have any better theories, even if I'm beginning to doubt it more and more.

And yes, can go looking into harnessing the properties of the other universes."

[Kedly]

Does the ER-verse have technology similar in function to a universal translator?

Take a turn to round up the calmest and most loyal of our security force (and sales staff, with the added part of speaking as many languages as possible for the sales staff) to brief them on a mission (between 5-10 security 1-3 sales staff). Let them know that we have come in contact with possible intelligent life, and that as a trading company, this is possibly a great opportunity for business, we have had minimal contact so far however, so this MAY be a very dangerous mission. The mission is for them to land their ship in a less densely populated area and attempt to make friendly contact, attempting to set up a further meeting if communication can be established (with translation devices if possible), if a meeting does get set up, staff are to end the conversation, get back on the ship, and fly somewhere remote until they can be extracted, the sales staff will be in charge of the talking, and the security staff will be in charge of protecting the sales staff. If at any time things become hostile, they are to board the ship as quick as possible, and with as little engagement towards the aliens as possible, and keep the ship as far away from danger as possible until they are pulled back. There will be a ship pilot staying on the ship ready to fly off at a moments notice. Also inform them that the sector of space we are sending them to is not naturally livable to humans, so if any of them leave or compromise their suit in any way, it may very well lead to death. Inform the crew that due to the possibky high risk of this mission, their pay will be triple, and if they are to die on this mission, their family will continue to receive their increased pay for the rest of their lives.

If possible to run the mission this turn, have them sent to fractalverse in a ship, all staff equiped with suits that have decent defensive capabilities set with a hud display that includes a 5 hour timer to show how much mission time is left, high firepower weapons (that look as NON-intimidating as possible) go to security staff, anything that would help with communication/translation go to the sales staff). The ship is to be equipped with camera's pretty much everywhere, the mission is to last 5 hours

Finding calm staff takes priority over running the mission this turn

Finally, attend Dester's meeting whenever it is scheduled to happen, share what I know.

I have attached an overview of the mission plan I intend to go over with our security and sales staff. I'd like to attempt contact with the beings inhabiting universe 7,7,7. Please inform me of any changes you would like before I round up the staff. As we don't quite know how the species will react to another living thing, I suggest none of us go this trip, and we send just the staff. If things go well, I would like to go during the next trip

[Empiricist]

((I'll be on vacation from tomorrow until the 30^th, so I might not post too many actions. Definitely won't be particularly detailed actions seeing as it'll be from my phone.))

[syvarris]

((Assuming that the hissing sound is limited to the base, and Saint isn't sending sods to prevent you from doing anything:))

I see no significant flaws in your plan.  Although, I do wonder what you intend to gain with this mission.  (7,7,7) does not seem like a particularly good candidate for colonization, and does not seem to have any important resources.  Are you simply trying to satisfy scientific curiousity?

[Kedly]

The life there seems intelligent, Im thinking that maybe for once we can make allies with another species instead of destroying them. If they're friendly, we might be able to establish trade with them. Also, as soon as testing this universe is done, I'd like to establish a colony on the Cave World. If nothing else it seems rich in resources, and would allow us to get the civilians off of heph until a we can find something better

[Ozarck]

the plan looks fine to me. I am a touch concerned about making first contact through our staff, though. they aren't exactly trained for that. perhaps send them in to the universe on a couple of trial runs before having them make contact with the creatures? I do see several long term possible uses for this exploration, even if that universe is not suited for long term human habitation. As for colonizing the Caverns: that is part of the subject of our meeting. I was hoping to put Petra or Ryan to work organizing colonists and instructing them on the gravitational effects and how to remain safe while building a colony within.

[Kedly]

Yeah, I'm not happy with employees making first contact either, but I can't think of any other way of testing these species aggressiveness before I myself try communicating with them, which is why I will be choosing our calmest employees, and only getting them to try and set up a meeting, and nothing more, I can hold off on the contact part though if you have some ideas, if you have some better ideas I will take them, as I don't want to mess up a chance for a new ally, especially one that has sovereignty over an entire universe. As per the meeting I will definitely attend.

[NAV]

((First contact sounds like it might make a good actual mission. And it would be totally lame to give that moment to a group of NPCs when we have perfectly expendable player characters!))

[Kedly]

((1, our blops mission is small, and Vincent and Petra are the only the only talkers, not much in the way of expendables
2, Sending actual players would pretty much garuantee that things would not go well, and I kind of want to create some alien allies =P
3, the NPC's are mostly being sent as fodder, I want to see if they are immediately going to be stabbed in the face, without using my face to test that))

[Egan_BW]

((Recommend sending live rabbits in little spacesuits to see if they have a stab reflex.))