xi. voice + text

[firstroar]

I have information to share with you all, about information that we lack.

[a pause.]



For as long as we have endured this world, changed it or watched it change well beyond our control, the amount we do know is vastly smaller than what we don’t. Perhaps never will. So it is that our struggles are like...swiping in the dark, feeling out shapes and phantoms we can perceive as guesses at best. Or, maybe better...there are suggestions of light to trace out those shapes, but never enough to be certain. Only enough to strike.

The artificial intelligence we rescued has confirmed there is no exact point recorded for the origin of the United Earth’s ruling computer. It makes sense: History is written and told by those in power. The less we understand about it, so more is the advantage and threat it has against us. As it stands, we don’t know what dire impact we may have caused in altering the world to this state. We don't know how long days like these can last, what is in the works over there.

Regardless of what is chosen for our steps in the future, I believe it in everyone’s interest to know about this machine’s past. AI has offered the chance to piece together the missing history of the United Earth, should we wish it.

[another pause.]

The problem with this is the exact one it seeks to resolve: I can’t tell you what to expect.

The point of focus to start is the very day the United Earth is established, and the records of it are vague at best, pointedly pro-UE throughout. What may be waiting there could be dangerous or not at all.

It’s why this is something everyone should hear and understand. Something everyone can put a hand in, in some way. Powerful fighters, quick-thinking saboteurs, hackers, healers…

But going in all at once, as an army, may not be the best approach. A small number to survey, relay information, and signal reinforcements should there be a need...Which means a greater number waiting on standby for a potential call.

The AI itself can be carried to this point in time by way of one of the diamond drives, and, given the chance to digest as much as it can in that particular point in time...it can clear the path for greater understanding of what was at work to build this enemy.

It means this isn’t a single trip, but the springboard to a number of missions. It’s knowledge to be gained to make wiser choices for the here and now...and tomorrow and yesterday, perhaps. I can’t say what’s right, how much of a hand we should have in this world’s history.

At the least, we can paint for ourselves a better picture of the world we are all trapped in...and, maybe, glean some sense of what kind of impact we make on it, living as we do.

Should you wish to do this, I can give you what little information there is to work with. And that's something that can change and grow.


[immediately following this posting, a text transcription of this entire tl;dr is available to read. all responses by Blue will be VOICE

also, ooc sign-ups]

Comments

Lenga asks pedantic questions about numbers IC and OOC she is sorry

[speakveryclearly]

Of course, alone is rarely standard operating procedure ever since the United Earth decided abduction was a worthy addition to its atrocities of choice. So half a dozen, or so, at a time? Assuming this first group doesn't discover anything that completely invalidates this whole course of action, would we send other groups of similar size out simultaneously, or should these investigations always be single and staggered?

it's a tough number job and someone has to do it

[firstroar]

It's my feeling we should tread slowly, carefully at first. We don't know how much information we can get at the start...and how it will open up paths to other places of interest. Our consistency is as variable as the locations we have to explore.

[speakveryclearly]

So... at this point we're doing little more than rolling the dice to see what's on the next space of the board.

[firstroar]

That's right.

[he wishes, truly wishes he could offer more.]

[speakveryclearly]

It'll get us closer to the end, though, won't it?

[firstroar]

Everything we do draws us nearer to an end...if an end is truly at all possible. But as far as the mysteries behind this world are concerned, I would say yes.