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[syvarris]

((Yeah, let's say Skylar was stasised.  Kri can join if kre wants, but there's no reason to give free mission experience if kre's AWOL.

Also, I'm not sending anything across until we agree to do so.  Partially because Ozark is basically the mission lead, partially because when things go wrong it's good not to be the guy who pressed the button.))

Your people can be housed here.  We don't exactly have enough high quality quarters prepared for all of them, but simple accommodations can easily be provided.  We don't currently require additional staff.

Spoiler: @Ozark, in the past (click to show/hide)

((This is just Saint being inquisitive about a subject he thinks is important.  We can retcon the discussion to have ended earlier if you'd like, so that we won't end up with multiple time threads.))

"No.  I want details, although it doesn't matter which ones.  What was the name of your mother?  Your first love?  Do you remember any specific jobs, beyond 'various odd jobs'?  Most importantly, do you feel like every skill you have now, you gained at some point in your life?"

Okay, first question is whether we have the option of staying on Heph (or on a ship), and using QEC-bots to operate things in the apocalypse lab, so we aren't there ourselves.  We obviously can't do that when we start exploring in-person, but it should keep us safe in case we accidentally drag back some small monster, or a portion of a black hole.

Corollary to the above: Can the human members of our team use Man-Machine-Interfaces, or are those origin tech?  Remember, we took tech from both braincases and amps to create those, although there aren't any space magical effects, to my knowledge.

Do we have any technology that's a... less harmful version of the mindfuck gun?  Something which forces Mind rolls, but doesn't do severe/permanent harm?  I'd like to be able to test how resistant our subjects are to mindfuck before sending them into an alternate universe.

What equipment should we bring with us when we go into the anomaly personally?  I know very little about what stuff we have.  Just sensors and armor?

Regardless of the answers, everything in the below spoiler should be stockpiled on ships near the apocalypse lab, ready for use, but not so close that a local apocalypse would destroy them.

Spoiler: Supplies to be stockpiled (click to show/hide)

Lots of simple drones designed for durability, which carry a sample of every element from the periodic table, and an array of sensors; Cameras, EM, radio, sonar, motion detectors, etc.

An example of every complex mundane material we commonly use.  Stuff like supercrete and battlesuit plate; no anomalous stuff.

Lots of life.  Samples of cellular life: microbiology, plants, animals, and that human fleshball that detects anomalous effects.

Excessive amounts of sods, both flesh based and roboticized.

Fully human test subjects.  The Blops team gets to decide what exactly this means, but Saint will veto any humans who have significant health issues which might cause death.

ALL the equipment we intend to bring along with us on our trips.  Yes, this is extremely undefined at the moment.  Everything you mention above, I guess.

attachment:manifest

Attached is a list of everything we'll be taking with us.  We'll be able to ship anything else over at any time, but consolidating the basic list is a good idea.  Are there any suggestions on what else to bring?

I haven't added this to the list, but I believe we should also send some sort of mobile laboratory across before any humans.  We could set the lab up to perform basic experiments, designed to ensure the physical laws on the other side are similar to our own.  It would be nice to know if the speed of light or force of gravity varies before we send anything valuable in.

[Ozarck]

PW

To the Doctor
Dester frowns in frustration.
Ahhh. Forgive the vagueness. I barely know where to start. The events of my team's recent mission, including it's origin have been swirling around in my head for some time now, and it's difficult to grab one piece of debris from that thought tornado at times. Let me try.

Are Amps and Manips from some other universe? How did we develop them? Did we know of some universe breaking threat related to them before this recent destabilization?

Additional actions: Move all necessary equipment and personnel out to the apocalypse lab and nearby ships before using that cargo space for evacuation. When we don't need the ships, then let the evacuation begin.

Question for clarification: We can send a refrigerator sized chunk of matter over to the other universes, right? So about four cubic meters-ish? as far as we know, we can move the matter across, then back, from the control unit in this dimension, right? Can we also, at least in theory, use the control unit to move something from our universe, to universe b, then from b to universe c, then back to our universe?

Yes, bring them up to speed. remember though, we only know so much. I am trying to find out more from the leadership here, but that's never easy.

To Saint, during our conversation, which I totally don't mind carrying on for a little while while the main thread moves along toward !!adventure!!
My mother's name was Mom. What? Don't look at me like that, you had a mother too, right? Fine it was Elise Gree. I'm not talking about my first love. As for work, I once spend a year and a half as an apprentice technician maintaining mining equipment on a moon around [planet name expunged]. the food was surprisingly good. The Chef's name was Miguel, which I thought was weird, since all the Miguels I had met were tall, Dark skinned fellows, and he was shorter and more olive complexed, with freckles. Odd. He looked more like an Alphonse or a Desmond. Everyone called him Bork though. And I acquired all my current skills the old fashioned way. So what about you? tell me about your journeys.

Spoiler: miscellaneous clutter (click to show/hide)

((Skylar could "rest comfortably" here on Heph while recovering from stasis catatonia. Or continue to be ornamental. It's all good. Haven't heard from adwarf (Jesse) recently. Anyone know if he's going on this one? Last ER post was October 8th))

Syv, here are a couple hints from PW about what we can expect to have.

You can join us, sure. Honestly We should evacuate Heph so you guys can do things.


In any case, what we're gonna do, OOC, is this:

I'm gonna give you a machine and it's gonna have what amounts to three digits you can enter. Sort of an X, Y, Z thing and it will open a portal to...whereever that is. Now, you're gonna be given probes, animal test subjects, "volunteers", cameras, shuttles, supplies, basically anything you need to do the exploration of these places. The general rules of "Grab anything interesting and bring it home" are still in effect, but the major goal here is finding someplace that is stable and friendly enough for us to live there. You know, someplace where your carbon atoms aren't spontaneously changed into hydrogen atoms for no known reason.  So, at some point, you're gonna have to go in there yourselves and check things out. Then we'll establish a colony and run it for a while just to make sure that nothing happens over time.

Questions?

Outfitting in standard gear is probably not gonna happen. If only because, well, we don't want to give you a false sense of security. We'll outfit you in things more fitting for the places you're going. And since we don't know fucking anything about where you're going, it's just gonna be highly protective in general. The first trips will probably be nothing but scouting, and then we'll go back to anywhere that looks useful or possible in terms of settling.

There is the small chance that you might just insta-gib  when exposed to whatever you're gonna be exposed to. Just a heads up.


Still up for it?

((I'm fine with whatever, but I vote Ozzie be the official leader of this mission, rather than de facto))

Thanks!

[syvarris]

((Yeah, I'm aware of those statements.  My action is pretty much asking for more information, because "Highly protective in general" isn't very helpful.  Does that mean a battlesuit-type mech?  Human-sized armor?  Sitting in the center of a massive battleship?

...If you're talking about the manifest, it's more or less just a way to confirm "There's nothing else people think we should bring, right?"  Yes, we can always request whatever else we need, but it's best to figure out that we want to test material X in universes right now, rather than after we've visited twelve already.))

Saint's head returns to looking forward.  "Thank you.  As for myself, I used to be a doctor's assistant in a hospital.  I was never very interested in treating people, but my planet had a shortage of proper medical professionals, so it paid well.  The doctor I worked under ended up killing several patients through negligence, although I think it may have been intentional, and I was a convienent scapegoat."  Saint sighs here.  "So it goes.  I ended up in the ARM, woke up just after we had taken this very planet, and spent a year helping with repairs.  My first mission was to defend this very facility.  I was stationed in a bunker at the outskirts in that direction"--he points forward, and slightly to the left--"and ended up being taken out by friendly artillery.  My brain was only barely recoverable.  After being given a new body, I was launched into a UWM warship in a boarding pod, and by the end of that I was back to being a dead brain.  When I came back, they were recruiting people to stay here and run Hephaestus."  Saint shrugs.  "Apparently I'm unusually competent with research and development, so I was chosen to stay, along with Anton Chernozorov and Simulacrus Ferratum-Inanis.  Skip [several] years, I'm the last admin still concious, so I'm essentially the only leadership on this planet, aside from Aresteve, and he has no initiative or creativity.  There's two catatonic admins, but they seem to be in the final stage.  Is that a sufficient answer?"

[Ozarck]

Dester looks at Saint's metal features for several seconds.
Sufficient? Oh, yes, I suppose so. A very professional answer anyway. I won't pry, but those sound like some stories left untold behind the bare facts. Some interesting, though probably painful stories.

Dester looks away for a moment, his face troubled. When he resumes, his voice is quiet. I myself was sent to the HMRC for another's crimes.

Dester sighs. Well, I guess we should get back to work, and plan out how this mission shall proceed. So far, as I understand it, we are moving the universe teleportation device to a lab off-planet, stationing a bunch of supplies nearby, and proceeding with a slightly modified version of the currently proposed plan. I believe you mentioned some Quantuum entanglement guided robot bodies? like yours? Dester gestures at the mechanoid before him. Those sound useful for oversight of the initial stages, and perhaps to bring with us once we actually step through to the other side. Ah, that reminds me. Have we a variety of programmable robots as well? We ought to send robots over to perform simple tasks, both as tests and for logistical purposes.

Let's get the word out to people that we are recruiting volunteers to be the first humans into these other universes. What kind of incentives do you thing would be appropriate? Hazard pay? First priority on relocation for family members? Upgraded accommodations? I'm sure we can find suitable compensation to appeal to enough people that we needn't necessarily ... abduct and force people to go. We can at least try it that way first, right?

Oh, and I believe someone suggested that we evacuate the planet? Is that possible in the time we have?

Spoiler: A plan for Standard Interuniversal Exploration Operating Procedure Mk 3 (click to show/hide)

Phase Zero: Locate the interdimensional portal in as isolated a place as reasonably possible. Ensure all available countermeasures are prepared for potential backlash through the portal from other dimensions. Remove all space magic from the premises, including surgically installed amps and other tools.
Phase one: unmanned drones containing a sample of each element. Wait one minute, bring drone back if nothing explodes, dissolves, grows into an abomination, or otherwise becomes useless, move to phase two
Phase two: sensors. Cameras, EM, radio, sonar, motion detectors, etc. Poke around for a minute or three, then return. Examine all evidence. If nothing seems terrible, move to phase three.
Phase three: life. Send samples of cellular life: microbiology, plants, animals, and these disposeable "Sods". Remain for five minutes, return. if everything lives and functions properly, move to phaze Four
Phase Four: Human test run. Strap a few (preferably willing) conscious humans and perhaps roboticised humans into an autonomous drone and send them in. Five minutes then return. If they haven't gone immediately mad/dead/abominable, record their experiences and analyze. after careful analysis, if acceptable, move to phase five
Phase Five: Explore. Time to start exploring. Go in (or send a team) for one hour, then eight, then a full day, then a week. This is the point at which we will probably have to go in personally as well, though having a crew of grunts along will be acceptable. Explore, record, and report. We're getting closer to something human habitable now!
Phase Six: Evaluate options. have we found something survivable? Suitable? Idyllic? Should we send people to one or more of these universes to prepare short term and long term colonies? Do we have enough time to consider any more carefully, or need we gtfo now? if the latter, which option should we gtfo to?
Phase Seven: Begin the process again from a new universe, just in case this one is being eaten by a thermophage, universal black hole, cosmic entity, generic madness, or grues.

Notes: We should send any equipment, which we expect to use during our explorations, in one of hte earlier stages, as best befitting that set of equipment. information gathering items could go with the sensors. Complex electronics could go when we send robots. foodstuff and other organics could go after we send lifeform samples. Heavy armor and  other powerful equipment could go in phase four.

All feedback is appreciated. better to raise issues now than to have them raised for us by some monstrosity from the other side.

[Gentlefish]

((Remember, it's a tagged object, not a portal. It's a teleport, not a jaunt. No need to worry about 2-way leakage except on the return trip.))

That looks acceptable. However, in phase five, I recommend we take soil samples if we run across a planet. If the -verse is survivable, it may not necessarily be suitable for mundane plant growth, and our fancy tech may not work there.

[Ozarck]

you bring up a good point. Phase five will needto be expanded into an SOP of it's own, I think, in order to get all the things we need to do while exploring listed.

It looks like our primary plan for initial investigation of universes is coming together. However, phase five, where we actually go in and explore, seems to need expanded into a complete plan itself. May I have suggestions on things that need done while we explore for suitable locations? Ryan has mentioned taking soil samples.

[Twinwolf]

Twinwolf Petra's eyes are kind of glazing over at all the science-y talk, up until the plan.

See if there's liquid, and then test it? Same with plant life? Just because it seems safe doesn't mean it is.

[piecewise]

((Yeah, let's say Skylar was stasised.  Kri can join if kre wants, but there's no reason to give free mission experience if kre's AWOL.

Also, I'm not sending anything across until we agree to do so.  Partially because Ozark is basically the mission lead, partially because when things go wrong it's good not to be the guy who pressed the button.))

Your people can be housed here.  We don't exactly have enough high quality quarters prepared for all of them, but simple accommodations can easily be provided.  We don't currently require additional staff.

Spoiler: @Ozark, in the past (click to show/hide)

((This is just Saint being inquisitive about a subject he thinks is important.  We can retcon the discussion to have ended earlier if you'd like, so that we won't end up with multiple time threads.))

"No.  I want details, although it doesn't matter which ones.  What was the name of your mother?  Your first love?  Do you remember any specific jobs, beyond 'various odd jobs'?  Most importantly, do you feel like every skill you have now, you gained at some point in your life?"

Okay, first question is whether we have the option of staying on Heph (or on a ship), and using QEC-bots to operate things in the apocalypse lab, so we aren't there ourselves.  We obviously can't do that when we start exploring in-person, but it should keep us safe in case we accidentally drag back some small monster, or a portion of a black hole.

Corollary to the above: Can the human members of our team use Man-Machine-Interfaces, or are those origin tech?  Remember, we took tech from both braincases and amps to create those, although there aren't any space magical effects, to my knowledge.

Do we have any technology that's a... less harmful version of the mindfuck gun?  Something which forces Mind rolls, but doesn't do severe/permanent harm?  I'd like to be able to test how resistant our subjects are to mindfuck before sending them into an alternate universe.

What equipment should we bring with us when we go into the anomaly personally?  I know very little about what stuff we have.  Just sensors and armor?

Regardless of the answers, everything in the below spoiler should be stockpiled on ships near the apocalypse lab, ready for use, but not so close that a local apocalypse would destroy them.

Spoiler: Supplies to be stockpiled (click to show/hide)

Lots of simple drones designed for durability, which carry a sample of every element from the periodic table, and an array of sensors; Cameras, EM, radio, sonar, motion detectors, etc.

An example of every complex mundane material we commonly use.  Stuff like supercrete and battlesuit plate; no anomalous stuff.

Lots of life.  Samples of cellular life: microbiology, plants, animals, and that human fleshball that detects anomalous effects.

Excessive amounts of sods, both flesh based and roboticized.

Fully human test subjects.  The Blops team gets to decide what exactly this means, but Saint will veto any humans who have significant health issues which might cause death.

ALL the equipment we intend to bring along with us on our trips.  Yes, this is extremely undefined at the moment.  Everything you mention above, I guess.

attachment:manifest

Attached is a list of everything we'll be taking with us.  We'll be able to ship anything else over at any time, but consolidating the basic list is a good idea.  Are there any suggestions on what else to bring?

I haven't added this to the list, but I believe we should also send some sort of mobile laboratory across before any humans.  We could set the lab up to perform basic experiments, designed to ensure the physical laws on the other side are similar to our own.  It would be nice to know if the speed of light or force of gravity varies before we send anything valuable in.

We don't know. Interference could prevent it. Yes, quantum interference.  But you could certainly try.

MMI's are just things to translate brain to robot, so to speak. They've got nothing special in them. All we took from amps was the brain interface, not the crunchy lovecraftian core.

We could just give them xenospit. Thats a good, dirty method of testing will power.

Stick it on the wiki and we're good. Whats the point of it, by the way? Reserves? Or some sort of canary system for detecting minor reality fuckups or memory leaks?

PW

To the Doctor
Dester frowns in frustration.
Ahhh. Forgive the vagueness. I barely know where to start. The events of my team's recent mission, including it's origin have been swirling around in my head for some time now, and it's difficult to grab one piece of debris from that thought tornado at times. Let me try.

Are Amps and Manips from some other universe? How did we develop them? Did we know of some universe breaking threat related to them before this recent destabilization?

Additional actions: Move all necessary equipment and personnel out to the apocalypse lab and nearby ships before using that cargo space for evacuation. When we don't need the ships, then let the evacuation begin.

Question for clarification: We can send a refrigerator sized chunk of matter over to the other universes, right? So about four cubic meters-ish? as far as we know, we can move the matter across, then back, from the control unit in this dimension, right? Can we also, at least in theory, use the control unit to move something from our universe, to universe b, then from b to universe c, then back to our universe?

Yes, bring them up to speed. remember though, we only know so much. I am trying to find out more from the leadership here, but that's never easy.

To Saint, during our conversation, which I totally don't mind carrying on for a little while while the main thread moves along toward !!adventure!!
My mother's name was Mom. What? Don't look at me like that, you had a mother too, right? Fine it was Elise Gree. I'm not talking about my first love. As for work, I once spend a year and a half as an apprentice technician maintaining mining equipment on a moon around [planet name expunged]. the food was surprisingly good. The Chef's name was Miguel, which I thought was weird, since all the Miguels I had met were tall, Dark skinned fellows, and he was shorter and more olive complexed, with freckles. Odd. He looked more like an Alphonse or a Desmond. Everyone called him Bork though. And I acquired all my current skills the old fashioned way. So what about you? tell me about your journeys.

Spoiler: miscellaneous clutter (click to show/hide)

((Skylar could "rest comfortably" here on Heph while recovering from stasis catatonia. Or continue to be ornamental. It's all good. Haven't heard from adwarf (Jesse) recently. Anyone know if he's going on this one? Last ER post was October 8th))

Syv, here are a couple hints from PW about what we can expect to have.

You can join us, sure. Honestly We should evacuate Heph so you guys can do things.


In any case, what we're gonna do, OOC, is this:

I'm gonna give you a machine and it's gonna have what amounts to three digits you can enter. Sort of an X, Y, Z thing and it will open a portal to...whereever that is. Now, you're gonna be given probes, animal test subjects, "volunteers", cameras, shuttles, supplies, basically anything you need to do the exploration of these places. The general rules of "Grab anything interesting and bring it home" are still in effect, but the major goal here is finding someplace that is stable and friendly enough for us to live there. You know, someplace where your carbon atoms aren't spontaneously changed into hydrogen atoms for no known reason.  So, at some point, you're gonna have to go in there yourselves and check things out. Then we'll establish a colony and run it for a while just to make sure that nothing happens over time.

Questions?

Outfitting in standard gear is probably not gonna happen. If only because, well, we don't want to give you a false sense of security. We'll outfit you in things more fitting for the places you're going. And since we don't know fucking anything about where you're going, it's just gonna be highly protective in general. The first trips will probably be nothing but scouting, and then we'll go back to anywhere that looks useful or possible in terms of settling.

There is the small chance that you might just insta-gib  when exposed to whatever you're gonna be exposed to. Just a heads up.


Still up for it?

((I'm fine with whatever, but I vote Ozzie be the official leader of this mission, rather than de facto))

Thanks!

"No. They are from our universe. We developed them through a process that is...well, lets just say that we basically tinkered with the source until we got it to do things. Yes. I'm not sure you have clearance for anything more. Steve is still considering what is going to become common knowledge in the wake of this event."

Thats just the tag; the thing which allows the machine to know what to move and where to move it and where it is currently. We can move things much larger.  And yes, it can be moved to and from. Yes, you could go a to b and b to c and c to a.

[Ozarck]

To the Doctor

Source? What was the source of the amps then? Who are you anyway? Why did you join this rebellion against the UWM?

As soon as the resources are in position and everyone is ready, begin Phase one of the plan: Send a small drone, containing a sample of each element (except those with very short half lives or that are created exclusively in labs) To coordinates 0, 0, 1. Wait one minute and then bring the drone back.

[Kedly]

Attached Files: Security Staff Speech draft; Shipping and Sales Staff Speech draft

As per stage 5, I suggest we use the security staff for the first few tests as that way we can have multiple promising universes being checked out at once, and have the security staff note anything to us once they come back. Specific instructions I would give them would be to avoid contact with anything not immediately hostile, instead to just stay away until they can be brought back, at which point they inform us that they found life, and to be on the lookout for anything that might be ideal for setting up a base of operations, or a resource to exploit. Once an interesting universe shows anything of interest is when we ourselves would jump in, as an added bonus, this will allow us to figure out who our top performing security staff are before we decide who to bring with us for backup.


Saint, you should read over my speech drafts as well, as they may contain information you do not wish me to share. I am revealing that this place is scientifically focussed, and that the machines we will be using are transportive in nature. I am doing this for a few reasons, I believe those two pieces of information to be relatively unimportant, they won't reveal heph's true nature, (or even that we are being transported to new universes) but they will allow us to put HEAVY security in keeping them in their quarters without making them too suspicious. I believe for a lie to be truly effective, it must be created out of the truth. That being said, if an employee is doing something suspicious, do not hesitate to remove them, add them to your subjects for experiments, kill them, whatever, I will make it look like they were fired and them and their family were deported.

Please share any concerns you may have with me, and if I am unable to reassure you by modifying or explaining why the information is being given, I will remove any info you request

Gather up our security personnel and inform them of our company's new initiative. We have partnered up with a science outpost that is studying new transportation technologies, and they have recently stumbled into a breakthrough with teleportation technology that allows us to reach sections of space that are outside UWM protection and jurisdiction. Our current objective is to set up trading posts and contacts in these unexplored sections of space, in order to capitolize on new trading possibilities. This of course will be insanely dangerous for the first few stages, and as such, security staff who participate in the first few trips while we find new outposts will be paid triple time for the first few excursions, double time for those who decide to help guard after the sector is deemed livable and back to normal pay once we have a base of operations set up. As a further incentive to take on the vital and dangerous stages, the family members of any staff who dies during these phases will receive that staff's wages for the rest of their lives. That being said, we have our scientist co-partners performing preliminary tests to reduce the danger of these new regions before we will be sending our security staff in as recon. Thank them for being an important part in helping our company reach even greater fortunes.

After that meeting is concluded, gather up our remaining staff and let them know that until further notice they are on 100% paid leave, and that we have accommodations set up for them on this planet until their skills are needed once again. Inform them that as this is a science base working on new transportation technologies, any area outside of where they have been cleared to stay is highly classified, and any employee or family member found outside the cleared areas will be promptly fired, and them and their family will be shipped to the nearest stable planet. Thank them for being an important part in helping our company reach even greater fortunes.

[syvarris]

((You may want to inform Saint that you're telling your people this is a science installation.  He currently thinks they're essentially mercs in service of ARM, and is going to post robosod guards in their area unless you convince him not to.  He doesn't trust them.))

[Kedly]

((Duly Noted, I'll CC Saint in that message. My view [and by extension Vincent
s] is that the best lies are ones created through half truths, and by admitting this is a science facility, but lying about what it is actually researching, it is an easier to maintain lie, without revealing too much important info))

[Ozarck]

I edited my action above to begin phase one. I think we are ready to at least send a drone with elements in it through.

[syvarris]

((Tired--long day.  This may result in confusing statements; my apologies if it does.  Spoilers are for compact reading & shorter PW post.))

Spoiler: Saint's conversation with Dester (click to show/hide)

When Dester asks about quantum entanglement bodies: "Yes, I will provide the software and tools required for your team to use remotely operated bodies.  However, it is possible that the device's activation will disrupt nearby quantum entanglement somehow, so we cannot rely on it.  I also highly doubt our own entanglement devices will function in another universe, although I see no reason not to try."

When he asks about programmable robots, Saint tilts his head.  "What do you mean?  Why would we need true robots?  If they are necessary, we do have them, but I don't see what we would need them to do that couldn't be accomplished with sods or humans."

When Dester asks about incentives, Saint simply shrugs.  "Persuasion of the volunteers is up to you and your team.  I did not expect any conscious subjects.  I would suggest we avoid coercion, because we do not want to give them any reason to lie to us, but I imagine that you have already considered that."  Saint pauses to give Dester an approving nod.  "Your team has shown itself quite capable of leading these people.  I trust your judgement."

Finally, when asked about evacuating a planet, Saint turns towards Dester, and changes his holographic SS to a ??.  "Evacuate the planet?  The apocalypse lab has no population, because it was constructed specifically for potentially planet destroying experiments.  Hence the name."

Spoiler: Saint's text messages to BLOPS team (click to show/hide)

In case you were not aware, all our experiments with the reality relocater will be on a different planet; specifically, the eleventh from the sun.  To increase safety, standard robotic bodies equipped with quantum entanglement communicators will be deployed there for our use.  However, to use them, you have to have a brain implant called a "Man-Machine Interface" installed.  These implants are just as safely installed as amps, and do not include any 'magical' effects--they simply allow you to interface with computer systems as easily and effectively as a person using a robotic body.  If you would like to utilize this technology, I have attached the location of the medical center to this message.

Note that quantum communication may be disrupted by the activation of the reality relocater, so this is not completely guaranteed to keep us away from any possible danger.

To be honest, I am impressed.  I expected that we'd treat these people as mercenaries for ARM.  Keeping them in the dark will certainly leave our options open, assuming you can pull it off successfully.

Nothing mentioned in your speech is dangerous information, so I have no trouble with it.  I must say that my first priority is security, and maintaining a proper facade is second to that, but I like your plan and will try to support it.

Now, there is one suggestion I have for you and Dester, which may be difficult to employ.  I expect some of the realities we will be entering will have mind altering effects.  People vary in their resistances to such things, and it would be preferable for our initial teams to have similar degrees of resilience, so that comparisons are accurate.  There are multiple methods to assess a person's mental resilience, but the quickest and most effective are drugs such as xeno-spit.  It is up to you and Dester whether or not, and how, we'll test this before sending people through, but I highly recommend you do so.

"Dester, I just sent a message to you and Vincent, suggesting we test any volunteer's mental resilience before sending them into another reality."

1.Test if quantum entanglement is working right now.  Just switch to possessing a bot at the apocalypse lab, and make sure it's working properly.

2.I've okayed Kedly's plan of housing and lying to their... company personnel, but I want to make sure everything is secure.  Select an area to house the people which is out of the way and not too near anything exceptionally important, then seal off most entrances.  Remaining entrances should be constantly guarded by robosods using riot gear, with orders to turn back anyone who tries to leave (and to disable them non-lethally if that doesn't work).  Heavy robosods equipped with combat gear should also be ready to deploy, in case things really go bad for whatever reason.  If anyone somehow gets out of the area, they are to be immediately captured and detained.  Make sure robosods patrol all the nearby facilities.

3.Can we get enhanced capacity mods as mission equipment?  I'm guessing not, but it's worth asking.

Reality Ripper:

4.Can this thing teleport stuff around in our own reality?  Did we invent a new type of FTL?

5.How exactly is the teleportation activated?  Does the machine in our reality control when stuff is teleported where, or can someone on the other side tell the tag to teleport back?

[Ozarck]

Well, a new universe might cause different issues for a robotic body, or a robotic personality - an Artificial Intelligence - than for a human one. It may help to test the effects of a different universe on something like that before sending in a more complex device such as your body. Better to test it than to find out later, when the QEC reverses, and you become the puppet of your machine. And as for them being useful ... well, I have been places where there were no sods and few enough humans, that many simple, routine tasks were handled by robot. Plus, robots are more flexible in design than human bodies. it's easier to send a fleet of eight kilo scout bots to fly over an empty looking moon than to send a fleet of eighty kilo humans armed with flight suits.

It appears that Vincent has taken the initiative on incentives.

I assume the suggestion of evacuating the planet was made either because someone overlooked the existence of the off world lab, or because they wanted the majority of the population out of the star system, not just off the surface.

Test their will? I recall something about similar tests for space pilots and the like, from history. I see no reason that people would be particularly resistant to that as a part of the training and testing for the mission.

Mr. Saint has suggested testing our human scouts' willpower before sending them across. I suggest you guys develop and implement a general training regimen for any of our people we expect to send over, just to get the civilians minimally competent at least, and to give the veterans a broader perspective. Additionally, if you find yourself in need of guidance, I will be happy to suggest a few activities for you, including getting those robot body control things installed.