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veristitalianPOPULATION
1) How many people are on board?
2) How were we brought here?
3) Why were we brought here?
4) What are the shared characteristics of the population that has arrived?
a) Is there any kind of pattern that can be established in who is here?
b) Clusters of people from some worlds seem to exist; who, from what world, and again- why?
STATION HISTORY
1) Who was here before us?
a) Where did they go?
b) Who cleaned up their personal effects?
2) Why were they here?
3) What is the meaning of the message we arrived to?
a) Whether or not they caused it, what was the disaster they described?
b) Is it likely to occur again?/Is it ongoing?
STATION FUNCTION
1) To what degree was the station prepared for our arrival?
2) Why does the network exist?
a) Are the messages we receive on there periodically (vis- our arrival, Muller speaking to makomori, the new station roster information) being sent to us concurrently, or as an echo of the past?
b) If they're current, where are they coming from?
3) Does the fact that we've been given access to it and now sent this roster mean we're intended to staff the station?
4) Individual points of data from the roster, and questions that have been asked already;
a) Hudie's discussion about neuroscience being prioritized
b) Whether 'governor' implies that this is a constituent state of a country or planet that exists elsewhere
c) If this is a military outpost with a scientific arm, or a scientific outpost with a military presence to protect the research.
i) What are the distinctions between the kinds of scientists listed on that roster?
ii) Can we read anything into the research priorities based on the number of vacancies under each?
5) What are the phenomena we're experiencing here?
a) The fainting that we experience when we destroy things
b) The fact that we understand one another's languages when spoken or typed, but not when read
c) The visions, whether they're into the past, or completely manufactured
i) Screams in the walls
ii) Explosions in the halls
d) Hermione's ladder. I'll let her explain the discovery.
6) How do we leave?
a) To the planet below; people who've been to space before, how would you normally be transported?
b) To our home worlds; requires understanding how we arrived, but can't be an objective we lose sight of.
SAFETY AND SECURITY
1) What do we need to understand about the station systems for the sake of our survival?
a) Explosive decompression: what it is, how to avoid it?
i) Specifically, is the damage passengers have been doing to the walls increasing our risk of same
ii) Should we be doing repairs? Does anyone know how?
iii) What emergency procedures should we know?
b) Food and water security. What is in these machines? How much of there is it? How can we support the existing garden plans?
c) Air
2) Medical. Ren, the clinic, what further work is needed there?
3) Personal.
a) Again, per Muller's message; is there a traitor on board?
b) Is there any credible reason to believe the population brought here poses any risk to each other that would necessitate a security force or an emphasis on personal safety?
c) Same question, external forces that might attack us as a population. What is making us as a group decide to prepare for this eventuality; instinct, or some likelihood I don't understand?
VIDEO QUESTIONS
1) Are the videos visions of the past?
2) Are the videos happening in another version of reality just beyond our own?
3) Who is sending them to us?
4) What motive might they have?
5) What is the overall message they intend to convey/why would someone want us to receive that message? To what extent do we accept it?
VIDEO 1:
a) Where were they trying to go?
b) Is where they arrived instead what triggered the calamity?
c) How did they make the transfer?
d) Why?
VIDEO 2:
a) Who were the body that was betrayed?
b) Who was the traitor?
c) What were they trying to accomplish, and how were they thwarted?
VIDEO 3:
a) What is happening in this video?
i) To the man fallen through the floor
ii) To the man killed by the flying tools
b) Is the station trying to kill them?
c) Why? Is it related to the fainting defence mechanism? If so is it possible that the walls have one objective and the inhabitants another?
---Someone who understands AI, is it possible that this place is sentient?
VISIONS
1) What are the visions people have experienced so far?
2) Are there signs of the destruction we have seen manifesting anywhere on the station?
3) Is this the past, present, or potentially a warning of the future?
4) Who is sending them to us?/How are they arriving?
Please feel free to contribute questions. I'd like to work on as comprehensive a list as possible.
1) How many people are on board?
2) How were we brought here?
3) Why were we brought here?
4) What are the shared characteristics of the population that has arrived?
a) Is there any kind of pattern that can be established in who is here?
b) Clusters of people from some worlds seem to exist; who, from what world, and again- why?
STATION HISTORY
1) Who was here before us?
a) Where did they go?
b) Who cleaned up their personal effects?
2) Why were they here?
3) What is the meaning of the message we arrived to?
a) Whether or not they caused it, what was the disaster they described?
b) Is it likely to occur again?/Is it ongoing?
STATION FUNCTION
1) To what degree was the station prepared for our arrival?
2) Why does the network exist?
a) Are the messages we receive on there periodically (vis- our arrival, Muller speaking to makomori, the new station roster information) being sent to us concurrently, or as an echo of the past?
b) If they're current, where are they coming from?
3) Does the fact that we've been given access to it and now sent this roster mean we're intended to staff the station?
4) Individual points of data from the roster, and questions that have been asked already;
a) Hudie's discussion about neuroscience being prioritized
b) Whether 'governor' implies that this is a constituent state of a country or planet that exists elsewhere
c) If this is a military outpost with a scientific arm, or a scientific outpost with a military presence to protect the research.
i) What are the distinctions between the kinds of scientists listed on that roster?
ii) Can we read anything into the research priorities based on the number of vacancies under each?
5) What are the phenomena we're experiencing here?
a) The fainting that we experience when we destroy things
b) The fact that we understand one another's languages when spoken or typed, but not when read
c) The visions, whether they're into the past, or completely manufactured
i) Screams in the walls
ii) Explosions in the halls
d) Hermione's ladder. I'll let her explain the discovery.
6) How do we leave?
a) To the planet below; people who've been to space before, how would you normally be transported?
b) To our home worlds; requires understanding how we arrived, but can't be an objective we lose sight of.
SAFETY AND SECURITY
1) What do we need to understand about the station systems for the sake of our survival?
a) Explosive decompression: what it is, how to avoid it?
i) Specifically, is the damage passengers have been doing to the walls increasing our risk of same
ii) Should we be doing repairs? Does anyone know how?
iii) What emergency procedures should we know?
b) Food and water security. What is in these machines? How much of there is it? How can we support the existing garden plans?
c) Air
2) Medical. Ren, the clinic, what further work is needed there?
3) Personal.
a) Again, per Muller's message; is there a traitor on board?
b) Is there any credible reason to believe the population brought here poses any risk to each other that would necessitate a security force or an emphasis on personal safety?
c) Same question, external forces that might attack us as a population. What is making us as a group decide to prepare for this eventuality; instinct, or some likelihood I don't understand?
VIDEO QUESTIONS
1) Are the videos visions of the past?
2) Are the videos happening in another version of reality just beyond our own?
3) Who is sending them to us?
4) What motive might they have?
5) What is the overall message they intend to convey/why would someone want us to receive that message? To what extent do we accept it?
VIDEO 1:
a) Where were they trying to go?
b) Is where they arrived instead what triggered the calamity?
c) How did they make the transfer?
d) Why?
VIDEO 2:
a) Who were the body that was betrayed?
b) Who was the traitor?
c) What were they trying to accomplish, and how were they thwarted?
VIDEO 3:
a) What is happening in this video?
i) To the man fallen through the floor
ii) To the man killed by the flying tools
b) Is the station trying to kill them?
c) Why? Is it related to the fainting defence mechanism? If so is it possible that the walls have one objective and the inhabitants another?
---Someone who understands AI, is it possible that this place is sentient?
VISIONS
1) What are the visions people have experienced so far?
2) Are there signs of the destruction we have seen manifesting anywhere on the station?
3) Is this the past, present, or potentially a warning of the future?
4) Who is sending them to us?/How are they arriving?
Please feel free to contribute questions. I'd like to work on as comprehensive a list as possible.
video records
Date: 2018-05-21 04:13 am (UTC)And the message cuts off.
---
There's a woman with frizzy red hair and freckles on screen, looking slightly panicked. "My name is Martina Muller," she says, and her voice is calm and slightly accented. There's a sudden crash behind her, and she cuts herself off with a gasp. "You have to warn the others! There is a traitor on board. Wherever you are, there is a traitor on board, you have to–"
And then the message cuts off.
---
A young man in the Reverie Terminal jumpsuit, his expression very stressed, standing at one of the consoles in one of the corridors. Behind him, the wall has been opened, its wiring revealed. An open toolbox and a screwdriver next to it stand by the panel on the ground. “—need immediate help,” he’s saying, voice panicked. The reason for the panic? Probably the fact that behind him, another man (middle-aged going by his features), is halfway into the ground and sinking further, as though the ground has turned to liquid. He’s scrambling, shouting (“Get me out of here!”) — and then he’s sinking further down to the neck and the shouting turns to choking.
“It’s this place.” That’s the young man again. “It’s killing us, fuck!”
And then the panel from the ground, the toolbox and the screwdriver all go flying. The panel hits the older man in the neck, his eyes roll back. The screwdriver hits the young man. Impales him, the tip of it coming out of his front. He makes a gurgling noise, reaching for something — and the message cuts off.
VISION RECORDS
Date: 2018-05-21 05:04 am (UTC)-Voices in the walls crying out for help, accompanied by clattering
-Witnessed by a dozen people or more
2) DESTRUCTION
-Explosions, shattering lights, spitting sparks
-Witnessed by initially only a few people, but becoming more frequent
Hypotheses: Month 1
Date: 2018-05-21 06:42 am (UTC)The people who came here before us were trying to save the world, but somehow did the opposite.
They tried to save the world by moving something; on attempt number six they thought they had succeeded, but they did not end up where they had intended.
There was a traitor among them.
The station began to try to kill them.
2) The World Under Our Own:
Just beyond the corners of our vision, the station is destroying itself.
The metal buckles, the electronics spark. It never stays for long, because it isn’t entirely true in this reality. If we were to slip a half-step away we could see it happen.
Messages from these other tries come through on our network piecemeal.
Rubbish from the other attack; the shattered corner of one of our own intact tabletops found in the wrong hallway.
We can hear them screaming.
3) The Enemy is Near:
The station is trying to kill us.
Machines may be intelligent. Some are in humanoid bodies. Others are not.
The ability it has to reach into our heads and allow us to speak to one another speak to a tremendous power to distort thought.
It knows when we try to damage it and makes us faint before we can do harm. It knows when mechanics are doing something it does not like.
It is the traitor referenced by Muller.