➔ INITIATIVE ANNOUNCEMENT oo3; { encrypted to all transports }

[initiates]

➔ INITIATIVE ANNOUNCEMENT;

Transports. There is a mission in your nearest future. Information has been held from you, but its vitality has now become known. In the interest of our upcoming mission, it is pertinent that we, the Initiative, reveal to you this information. Be listening.

The government of the United Earth is developing technology similar to our own. Technology that will allow them to enter your world. The worlds that we have brought you from, and more. Their motive has become clear: purge those worlds of their resources for use in the United Earth.

The United Earth has been sustaining itself on very limited, stockpiled resources. Oil, coal, even nuclear power. Elements such as helium. Plants and wildlife that once existed on this very planet but that have been extinguished by their greed.

They have been consuming the last of their supplies. We kept our attention on their dwindling resources with the hope of discovering their in-development alternatives, and we have done just that.

Their alternative resources will be coming from other worlds. They will be coming from your worlds. It is without doubt that they will be merciless in their hunt for sustenance.

We hope that this information will assist you in our very first mission as its time is fast-approaching.

Comments

[no response yet; ic response may come later]

[destructivedemiurge]

[ What once was conjecture has been explicitly confirmed. The ones who run this Initiative can travel between worlds - and they can take what they so choose with them. The arrivals so far have presumably been for some purpose; it's hard to believe that random chance would conspire to bring so many with common factors to a place like this.

But if they can go to other worlds, and they can manipulate the timelines themselves, that means...

He can continue, just as he planned to, with his work.
He can wait for the pieces he needs to be added to the board.
He can take what victories he can until everything is set into motion.
And when he finally reaches the other side, when he has eradicated the obstacles in his path, he will return the most precious piece of all - the one taken from him - to this board instead.

He will destroy this world, and he will create it anew. ]

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[curepotion]

What do they know about the outside worlds? Do they know anything?

[initiates]

We are unaware of the details they have in their possession. It would appear that they are at a very early stage of study.

Our operatives in the United Earth have been working closely with us to further this information.

( Voice )

[septim]

[ A cyclical problem of their own creation. He wants to scream at them, tell them to deal with this situation on their own and return them all to their worlds.

Martin's exhausted, mentally and physically, but as always, he draws strength from unknown reserves, pushing aside his own feelings for promises he's made to others, the good of his realm and people he cares for.

He speaks in a steely, composed drawl. ]

Does time stop in our realms while we're here? Is our absence noticed?

[initiates]

We are unaware. Their technology does not mirror our own. When one is recruited by the Initiative and using our technology, your timeline remains stagnant.

We cannot say the same for theirs at this time.

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[xiaolindragon]

alright you've got my attention.

so heres my question. how did they even know about our worlds?

sounds to me like someone left a trail and they followed it.

[initiates]

Our technology and our machines were built using information that belonged to the United Earth. It had been theirs in the very beginning.

It is only through an operative within their scope that we were able to use this technology to our advantage - at the time, we did not know their intended use for it. Until recently.

[ video ]

[umadrobin]

Just one question.

Are they sending Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Robert Patrick?

[initiates]

I am afraid I do not understand the question.

[moirailcompass]

:33 < i have a number of questions if i may
:33 < not just about this mission
:33 < but in general

[initiates]

We will do what we can to answer them.

Voice

[onemoredeath]

Now that... Makes things a little more critical don't you think? When are we going to this battle we are suppose to fight?

[initiates]

It will be announced in time. Soon.

[biwinning]

what.
they want two take 2hiit from alterniia?
they can fuckiing have iit.

[Text]

[notabeeotch]

How far have they gotten in developing this technology? Is it possible they've begun the process already?

[initiates]

At this stage, we have reason to believe that they have completed the technology. They have yet to begin the process.

[stonefaith]

They're welcome to it.

[ GUESS WHO'S STILL MAD? ]

video;

[fervidity]

That government can enter...our world? Y-You mean those guys in suits?!

Hey! Then you gotta send us back, dammit! We've gotta protect our villages and homes, ya know! That technology brought us here so now you put us back where we belong!

If you can't do that, then tell us how to stop them from goin' to our worlds!

[initiates]

Ultimately, our missions to the past will be our action toward the future. It is in everyone's interest to follow the paths we have laid for them in our research. In our missions.

[peachhat]

Oh, I hope they go for my world, they'll quickly learn what pain is.

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[survivalism]

I was wondering if this might have anything to do with the Masked's recent stay here. You know, not that they got the idea of traveling to other worlds for resources from you.

[all the cynism that is probably not entirely lost in text.]

[initiates]

An understandable assumption, were it not their technology in the beginning. We took it for our own purposes, though it had been theirs and in-development long before.

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[boughtabookstore]

[ Oh.

Well.

Time to re-evaluate information. ]

[feel_nevermore]

So. Just tell us where they're keeping that technology so that we can go and destroy it.

[initiates]

Ah, were it only that simple.

Your suggestion has been noted.

[multiplyby8s]

Hahahaha!
Good luck with that.
You're not going to find shit.