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Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)20.50:12 No.47634656v >>47634914 #>>47634930 # >>47635129 # kronos at mars ii by macri..lpg (178 KB 1024x512) g00gle iodb So I ran a hard sci-fi game somewhat based on Peter Watt's Blindsight The short version is that the PCs, while filming a reality TV show, accidentally contacted a planet-bound alien intelligence, the first humanity had ever encountered. Things spiralled out of control from there, as the players rapidly realized the alien intelligence was much, much smarten than they were and was plaving them like a fiddle In the end, they saved the earth though, for 2 reasons ) Humans have a relatively wide limit on "acceptable tribe members" cabbages are diamagnetic I write and post the full story if people are interested. It's more of a mindfuck/existential horror story, but it was definitely scary for the players Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)21. 13 25 312 4/635348 # >>47635352 # -Camen Sandiego png| , 4096x 1912) google igdb 47634656 2108 anywhere. Incredibly hot radioactive gas A contained inside a no na Sanchez, spoiled daughter of an obscenely rich CEO. purenased a fop-of-the-line Single State 1o Ooit reuseable reentry vessel The liveable space inse ger than a standard tour bus, but the "Carmen Sandiego" can I sapphire, ness. In an atmosphere, scoop u e point armen Sandiego any gaseous ever Angelina also recruited a crew - a lealess pil ot raised on Ceres Earth, but wasn't entirely sure why nincredibly surly medic, and two l of dubious backgrounds. One was a liberated, extremely liberal number-cruncher masquerading as her editor and camera-bot. The other, housed in a repair chassis, was actually a quad-core prototype who'd Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)21:27.29 No.47635352 v >>47635514 f# Nature of Al-Copy png (109 KB, 318x314) google iadh 47635129 # The first few episodes of "Angelina's Adventures in Space!" go fairly well. Angelina isn't as dumb as she appears when the cameras are on - the crew was carefully chosen to be somewhat filmable and has always been her appearance, aided by a custom-fitted, somewhat curvaceous space suit. The rest of the crew make do with sensible ex-neo-USSR castoffs. Acticles The singutarity Is Coning Comment 104 little controversial Still the focus of her proaram Iser: alexib6) (reply) (report The ship has a Faster than Light drive, which works.. somehow, No one is entirely sure, but it's got a few rules to it, isKtally orried about ATe telteve that B0 a0 patter woat they sav, hat they're realty worried 1. You do some math involving vour ship's current mass and relative velocity to the nearest aravity well (usually a star). 2. You set a series of mechanical timers. One tells the ship when to stop falling into the aravity well in "darkspace", the other tells it when to exit darkspace, All quite complicated, but also quite manual. The timers have backups, of course, but if all 3 timers fail you might never leave jumpspace arise from matter. And I that consciousness ca If we can create a sentient being, where obes t are tumed off, save for the barest, most basi ents. Chem-lights and mechanical fans abound. ourseLves as ayting other than sachines And if we rot the endh 4. The human crew either go into suspended animation/sedation , if they're rated for it, sit in the dark and enjoy the journey Fun, isn't it? Jumpspace has a nasty habit Jump-compatible", an screwing with electronics, to the point where most Al come out the other end ins ane or non-functional, TVs flicker and spark, lights burn out, etc. The human brain also suffers. but some people are rated as etahdnscares peopte is not the artificial refore less likely to go crazy Ishow next comments1 Less likely, mind. Not "will not go crazy", It's a risk. Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)21:36.38 No.47635514 47635696# 17-Sovuz Mk 10.jpg (798 KB, 2500x2500) google iadb >47635352 # Anyway, the first jump was a mere 11.9 LY to Tau Ceti, or 3 days of time in Jumpspace. Tau Ceti Ill's timy ice/hydrogen mining colony was very happy to see a celebrity. Fadila Nazari, the medic, was very happy to see a proper bed and alcohol. get into too much trouble a derelict or badiy damaged Sovuz Mk18 dropped out of iumpspace quite near Tau Ceti Ill. Both the miners and the Carmen Sandiego's crew rushed to be the first there. Angelina wanted to look like a hero, the tere wonte sabrage Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)21:49.08 No.47635696>47635922 f 1417834936954 png (491 KB, 1280x716) google igdb 47635514 # The Soyuz was in a strange state flayed skeleton inside a space suit inside the capsule s solar panels were damaged, Enoch, the experimental model s paint was scoured or cracked the industrial repair chassis. was fascinated by the damage to the point of autistic obsession, He didn't care when the Captain discovered a hideous Eventually, they determined the crewman had died of radiation poisoning, though on a massive, horifying scale. The lack of fission byproducts meant a nuclear weapon or an engine failure was unlikely. No one was sure what could cause this kind of damage, but it was very worying. Noetic Concordance, the "producer Al, used fragmentary radiation-bunt records from the capsule leamed from the dying man's blood-flecked raving. deep space near YZ Ceti, a mere 1.6 light years from Tau Ceti. The crew decided to investigate. Some of the other records had been a distress signal from the dying pilot, although very little else could be Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)22:01:54 No 47635922 kronos 1 over satum s riipg (193 KB, 1024x1434) google iadb >47636105 f 47635696 # half, and sent drifting far from any stars, It was completely depowered and airless, Without the distress sianal from the Sovuz, it would never have , the crew discovered a twinkling wreckage field. A massive research vessel, one designed purely for deep space, had been cut. The crew boarded. and encountered after a few moments of paranoid roaming. found a survivor. The survivor was a bit odd and the crew rapidly realized was a Synthetic rsome applications. They are basical ly full-bodv prosthetics (of varying qualities) with a biglogical neural network inside. The network Synthetics were developed to replace Al have limited creative abilities Behind their trained facade no one is sure how their minds work Al were built trained, rather than programmed. Synthetics make very useful factory workers, deep-space assistants, but thew oimitate human minds, Synthetics were built to blend in Anony912 n (142 KB 1024x768) 36105 >47636272 # ch ship's Al had set the ship's jump drive to go off with a limited radius. Anything on the boundary was converted into a radiation burst that killed the rest of the crew. The synthetic had been on EVA when this happened, and escaped due to the massive distance between it and the explosion. TH But the story had a few holes in it. and as the party poked at the, the Synthetic became more and more agitated. Eventually. it tried to infect Nooetic with a virus of exceptional craftsmanship. The virus tried to convince him to vent the ship. killing all non-Synthetics., then iump back to Titan in the Sol system or so he thought). In the meantime, the Synthetic had sliced Angelina's neck with a scalpel and was trying to kill the pilot, Max. Max was a stubborm soul, and though he was thorougly bruised, he hung report Nooetic managed to isolate and defeat the attack on long enough for Fadila to bludgeon the thing to death Anonym obe ing (172 KR 1351x524) o 2 47636490 # Thew discavered an ancient hard drive inside the Sy found something interesting, but hadn't made it hetic's chest cavity. It was from the 1980s, from a Gagarin-class deep-space automated probe. The probes were designed to go out, leaping from system to system, and then retum home with what they'd collected. This one had The images showed a rocky, blasted world with one deep canyon containing a nitrogen/hydrogen atmosphere. Mesas of stone rose above the clouds, each producing an incredibly strong magnetic field. The probe clearly picked up patterned, complex radio signals. This was evidence of life, intelligent advanced lifel Evidently the Synthetic's creators had programmed in a secret mission: if evidence of intelligent life is located, destroy all other witnes ses and retun home. Its plan had gone awry, but it had still killed seven humans and forceed one Al to commit horrifving self-deletion a could from the derelict vessel, including spools of superconducting wire used to build giant deep-space radio antennas, and the completely wiped Al core. Enoch salvaged what 490 >47636675 # An Gado Probe ing (136 KB, 2048x765) google igdb 47636272 # d to head back to Earth, but Angelina Luckily the hard drive contained enough information to locate the star sted ating and contacting whatever intelligent life was out there. The Gagarin probe had been picked up by the research team's high-gain deep-space radio telescope, but it had been destroyed in the sabotage attempt The probe had visited Mir.. around 260 light vears from earth.. and at the very edge of human-explored space. It would be a marathon iourney of 56 days. but the ship was well-stocked for the trio. Alpha Centauri had trained her . He'd pretended o treat any Al that was willingly active during a On the igumey. Fadila discovered that Enoch. their 'repair Al" was still g jump as insane, homicidal, or worse, She managed to get his case open and stuck a tazer into his brain. be immobile, but she'd heard the faint sound of his cooling fans. Years of films such as "Roque Al Slaughterhouse" and "Death f four cores, rather than the one core all other Al used. He could split and reintegrate his mind at will, working as a team or s an individual without any sense of continuity loss. He was an experiment, he explained. Luckily, Enoch ran off And he had no idea if he /could be tumed off. He didn't think he'd survive. His four self-checking, reinforced cores caught any jumpspace-induced errors before they got too bad. The crew eventually believed him, but they kept him tied up in the greenhouse Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)2243:49 No.47636675>47636863 # 3-Gagarin Probe.jpg (62 KB, 1024x516) google igdb 47636490 # Mira is a binary star system. Mira A, a red giant, is slowly being pulled apart ecliptic. hydrogen gas. The world the Gagarin probe had located, with other later surveys had missed, orbited on an strange path well Mira B a high-temperature white dwarf. The inner syvstem is full t of the The Carmen Sandiego approached, trying to avoid the "magnetic tormadoes" thrown into space by the mesas. They burned off speed and spiraled down, heading for the atmosphere-containing canyon. Huge silicate mountains loomed atmosphere, and Max had to land on eyesight and guesswork either side. Radar and lidar soon failed in the electified, ion-rich Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)22:54:48 No.47636863>>47636994 # Penrose-tiling1000px-Penr...)ipg (113 KB, 600x450) google igdb 47636675 # The surface was quite strange. Clumps of platinum "grass" burst from a few cracks slightly fatter than the other n the metal-poor black stone. The only livinga creatures were small. grey insects that scuttled and clumped. They were of two sizes. one Angelina discovered the "grass" was highly charged... by touching it. Her spacesuit took most fthe damage, but she was still thoroughly surprised. Enoch was also fascinated, and spent several minutes staring the insects They are Penrose tiles." he said. "The bugs. The are forming aperiodic subsets." >47637152 # 47636994 23:03 Anonym B 694x498) 90oale igdb The crew cantured a few of the insects and Fadila dissected one. Well. she tried to dissect it it fell apart in the glovebox. The bugs weren't cellular, exactly, Metals-rich chains f catalysts marched around the metallic lavers. laving down or taking up metal. The insects contained X-ray mirror and receiver. They communicated by radio, but they didn't seem to have much electromagnets, and either the way of brains, or any reproductive system. Fadila wasn't sure if they'd evolved or been created x-ray generator A few hours later, the bugs swarmed the ship. They approached to within a few metres and fomed a ring around the vessel. Max panicked and took off, hovering on the VTOL engines >47637339 # Anonymous 06/05/16/Sun123 13:40 No 47637152 10-Landing jpa (97 KB, 2008x749) google ladb »47636994 # The insects formed images back and forth n arrow. A nice. pointed arrow like you'd find on a street sign. On Angelina's orders. Max flew the ship along, until they'd reached a large. level stone field. On landing, the insects started to form pillars, clicking and sending x-rays and While Angelina cooed and took photos, Fadila decided to try and communicate bit was very creepily done. I basically ran a convers ation with all 5 players won't o into the details in this writeup. but this t once. The best t was when Fadila. who was tvping into a terminal. said "Wait, can vou hear me?" and the bugs answered "ves" via the ship's speakers Enoch direct interfaced with the bugs via a USB 6.0 cable. Noetic tried to make friends, and thought he did a great job. Max panicked, Angelina was vapid, and Fadila was suspicious. Rightly so, as it turned out 47637493 #47640690 (You) # 06/05/16(Sun)23:25 51 dng ing (59 KB 17931416) 00ogle igdb 47637339 An >47637152 # The bugs were able to communicate. but their questions were unusual, It -for it was a sinqular entity - asked about dreams. "If you sleep, are you the same person when you wake?" "Do you dream of things that are not real?" How do you tell a dream from reality? The Millions information The mation The system crew in complexity over untold generations and evolutions but the idea was the same- information stored and accessed hy "dumb" individual podes Fventualy the information itself grew.complex enough to maninulate its comnonents and a sot of intelligence arose conquered, experimented, flouris hed and. Was conquered in turn. Other intelligent creatures arrived and pruned the bugs back to this broken canyon. As ants with aphids, so these invaders used the bugs to produce food. The enormously advanced computer system could calculate exactly how to manipulate the magnetic tomadoes. They caught protons from Mira's suns and cooled them, spinning them into tight packets. The "Eaters of Cold Protons" were not likely to be amenable to humanity's presence. They should flee. But if they helped the bugs, they would be rewarded. Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)23:36:39 No.47637493v>>47637646 #>>47637666 # 6-Camen Sandiego Interior.ipg (1.7 MB, 4256x2832) gooale iadb >47637339f The bugs would give them two things "the dream" and "the body". The body was a slightly radioactive cylinder the size of a person, made of tightly tiled bugs. The dream was a program that would be carried by the two Al, and used to awaken the body. r from the "Eaters of Cold Protons The bugs couldn't transfer itself. It couldn't turn off, or store its consciousness in an inert form, so it couldn't escape through Jumpspace. But the Carmen Sandiego could carry its offspring far, n retum, it would assist humanity, mine minerals, and teach them about the laws of physics. It promised. The group agreed. And then the Eater of Cold Protons arrived. Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)23:46:05 No.47637666>>47637872 # 9- Mira B.ipg ) google igdb >4763/49 lumpspace very low over the planet, hovering, rather than orbiting. It was a six-kilometre ring of silver, with leaf-like blades hanging below it, or behind it. It looked like a crown, or a chandelier. It dropped our A point of unimaginable brightness burned at the centre of the ring, flinging near-C protons out behind it to generate thrust. The PCs fled immediately, barely escaping into Jumspace as the Eater of Cold Protons silently pursued They were astonis hed and terrified discover, after exiting jumpspace, that it had followed them. Noetic correctly deduced that it had read his mind, or his memory banks, He'd done the math to jump them away from the star, and the results had been clearly visible... to anyone able to instantly hack his systems without him noticing Max, in a panic. punched in a random vector manual ly and briefly activated the Jump drive. Without any way of determining the exit location, the Eater of Cold Protons could not pursue. Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)23.50200 2>>47638020 # io by_golpeart d9v618q ipg (462 google iadb 47637666 # group repaired the damaged their hasty escape had caused, Enoch announced that he'd worked out how the Eater of Cold Protons "worked". A "Monopole," the eccentric Al said. "It is generating a magnetic monopole at its centre, and using it to convert protons into anti-protons, then annihilating them to generate power and thrust. Incredibly efficient and quite ive "So let me get this straight. We are being pursued by a giant sentient cyclotron?" Fadila said. much more likely," Enoch said carefully "Yes. Presumably it sees the bugs, and by extension us, as a potential threat. It will either destroy us or convert us to a useful form, and considering humanity's primitive state, annihilation air, on supplies, and on trust. The crew needed a break, and there was a deep-space research facility around 75-Ceti, 22.7 LY from their current position. The "Camen Sandiego" was low 638020 47638189 # N/ Khem7xd in(73 K0 ZE Cotl IV s cesearch station was dedicated to the alien blue-black algae. Life in any form was worth studying, so a dedicated team of 20 staff worked, from orbit and from the surface, to analyze the primordial goop. They were quite pleased when the Carmen Sandiego showed up et slip that they'd found intelligent life - and provided just enough proof to set of the station's Synthetics. They promptly went on a murderous rampage, setting off hideously bre arttacke.andaluchiesi the scienti y tried to find spare parts for their ship. But someone l As the cre retreated to one side f the station, they also realized that the sun was rising... but the sun was already visible. Quick examination revealed /three/ Eaters of Cold Protons burning through the planet's upper atmosphere towards the station. Noetic set the station's only shuttle on a blind jump, hoping to distract their pursuers, and then shut down. Enoch tried very hard not to think anything important as Max programmed in a random jump. They didn't stay behind to see the station destroyed Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon 100: 16:25 No.47638189~>>47638590f 005 hab concept final 002(...ipg (686 KB, 1920x1080) google iqdb >47638020 # The crew reasoned that the Eaters Chinese mining colony around Gliese 419 go somewhere that /wasn't on their charts,, but was still inhabited Max wracked his brain for days before settling on a rumoured f Cold Protons had read their charts and were investigating any human settlements in the area. Therefore, they needed Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon)00:37:23 No.47638590>>47638706 # adam-bum-impact.ipg (312 KB, 1500x890) google ladb >>47638189 # root out subyersive elements in the thirty three miners, via low-speed rounds to the back of the head, A stalemate had broken out on the tical upheaval. The Chinese govemment had sent five agents planet's surface, as the only orbital capable shuttle had been severely damaged. heading for the mining hase and the largast concentration of heavy metale on the planer's mbled itself into a swarm of bugs, hacked the airlock, and went off into deep space after some very rapid communication with Enoch and Noetic. It deployed a small nuclear engine and rapidly decelerating. t was at this point that Enoch realized he had been deceived. The "dream" he'd been told to hold for the bugs was just an empty process designed to trick him into thinking he was doing something useful. One of his four cores, the tazered one, was out of sync with the others and had been unaffected. Over a few minutes, Enoch waged a battle for his own mind. The bugs had manipulated him altering decisions, feeding him advice, altering perception, and even steering him away from certain topics. But he regained control of his mind Noetic, he realized, was in the same situation. Enoch quickly connected Noetic to the spare Al core they'd taken from the research vessel, and to himself. With as much haste as they could manage, they worked together to trick the bug-spawned shadow-Al. Nooetic slowed his clock speed to a crawl, while Enoch sped his up as fast as it could go. Noetic, with assistance and monitoring from Enoch, managed to trick the shadow-Al to transfer most of itself into the empty core by sending the Al suicide virus after it. Enoch then manually severed the connection. while Fadila destroved the case Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon 00:43:39 No.47638706 47639021 # TSE2010 JLD4.ipg (1.11 MB, 2486x1769) google iqdb 47638590 # or even his own mind Freed of the bugs influence, Noetic fell into a state of pure paranoia. He eventually started talking to himself, or to aspects of himself, and never again trusted anyone This was a pretty decent mindfuck for the Al plavers. d lead them around for several sessions, and they suddenly realized that l'd been manipulating them, acting as the bugs. They both out of character and in - went a little bit nuts Engch control is gested that Max look for mining worlds. Noetic had distracted Fadila when she was close to investigating the "body", and convinced the Captain to not retum immediately to earth. Basically, I'd managed to very carefully xanatos the 2 players. They Istilll refuse to play ngames where mind Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon 10 1 :02: 32 No.47639021 1257569941794 jpg (651 KB, 1440x900) google iqdb 47639068 # 47638706 # Anyway, the "body" crash-landed near the mining site and immediately started growing. The players landed, meddled, considered contaminating the area with radioactive fallout by melting down the local reactor, but decided not bother The bugs were very few in number, and probably to communica this stage. A return to earth was suggested and agreed upon. The next bit was more worldbuilding than horror I'm going to skip ahead a bit got clower still, they stopped, and were replaced with the light and x-ravs from a planet exploding. Long-range evidence suggesting something with an antimatter engine very similar to the Eaters of Cold Protons had thrown a rock at near-lightspeed at this l were from an intelligent civilization. But as it was assumed that the Eaters of Cold Protons, finding the other race to be a thre at, sent them a message. The message scoured the star system clean. ence of the Eaters of Cold Protons several vears The learned that multination gency had dis A probe l faint radio ulses froma istant star. As the probe jumped closer, it came clear th e could sleep, and experience discreet conscious ness, meaning we could survive jumpspace. Anything able to sleep and dream could deal with the random thoughts and electronic noise jumspace produced. A finely Enoch guessed that the reasons the Eaters of Cold Protons were after humanity was that tuned, highly evolved system would fall to pieces, but humans, with messy error checking, could deal with it. Therefore, we were a threat. We could expect a near-c projectile of our own shortly Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon )01:05:49 No.4/639d68 sergey-grechanyuk >47639281 )ipg x912) google iadh 7 f 224/b3 >47639021 # humanity had sent probes o search for this projectile's light-cone, the light cast off by its engines. If we located that, we could detemine how long we had before it hit. Space is big though, and it took a month before the probes located it. Secretly, (Plan A. not dealt with here, was to build a better kind of Al as humanity's successors. It went creepily) l on earth, could perform the calculations required to get a ship up to that speed Once the projectile was located, the problem was stopping it. Moving the earth sufficiently ar was ludicrous, and no Al, not even every But Angelina and her crew knew an Al who could. Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon 01:19:54 No.47639281 47639439 # KeplerSuns Planets_rowe.jpg (588 KB, 1024x1024) google igdb 47639068 # The bugs on Gliese 419 VII had heen busy They were still mining platinum and constaIcting vast networks of tunnels and mannetic towers when the PCs retumed Noetic and Enoch were very very careful about letting any data in but the most hasic black-and-white visuals and a minimal audio feed terms with the whole experience was his way of trving to come Noetic had made a terrifying discovery while... talking to himself. He'd never spoken to the bugs, not directly, They were too alien, too far removed. They'd used an interpreter. what that would say More accurately, they'd used Noetic. The bugs had copied his mind thous ands the right words and do the right things. And the f thousands of times and run tests. simulations, and plans past them, and he'd agreed to his own plan. There were a few signs- a few odd phrases, now clearly a cry for help. The bugs hadn't done it malicious l.. but Noetic was certain they didn't see hin |l in a few minutes. It had created and deleted and tortured countless copies of him until it found one it liked, on that would tens t had made him talk him: a peer Nevertheless, the bugs agreed to help. The alien seemed shocked that humanity would come it it for /helpl, but had leamed humanity's tolerance for peers was remarkably high. Humans accepted pets and gave them human traits. They spoke to inanimate, non-sentient objects with fondness. In essence they were dumb enough to treat a potential predator as a friend. And the bugs could use that. If they were ever going to be free of the Eaters of Cold Protons, they needed someone to carry them between the stars. Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon 01:32:18 No.47639439 >47639480 # hs-2010-07-a-print.ipg (656 KB. 3000x2400) google igdb 7639281 The b gave the group the inputs required to catch the incoming projectile. Due to time dilation, they'd have only hours to somehow redirect the projectile. It was n unlikely mission, but they were the only ones in a position to even try diameter. Its prow fired lasers to clear They exited Jumpspace to dilated, confused stars and a looming obsidian asteroid twenty kilometers long and five kilometers path dust and debris while stern still bumed protons to accelerate it faster. The entire structure was carved of pure black stone. but covered in tiny lines. like a record. When converted into radio waves, they turned out to be transmissions -human trans missions.. Old TV programs, recent updates on shipping. Eaters of Cold Protons were throwing our words back at us. Il jumbled together in a branching latticework. The As Enoch and Max evaded the asteroid's defenses (an oozing black oil-like metal-eating slime), Angelina and Noetic worked out a plan. They'd use the jump drive to carry the entire asteroid out of the way of the earth. Even a few seconds in jumps pace would be enough to throw it wide of the planet. They had only minutes to act though. the prow, but they needed to get another cable onto the cyclotron Noetic and Enoch tore open the ship and hooked up the superconducting cables to the jump drive. The entire asteroid had an electrical gradient to power the lasers. One end was hooked as close as they could manage the stern The magnetic flelds near it were simply too powerful, and any human or Al who got close would die before they reached it. the cable, and helped Angelina But Noetic realized that, if he filled a spare space suit with cabbages, the paraferro and diamagnetic forces acting on the suit could cancel each other out, in theory. He carefully removed the last of their battered, well-traveled cabbages from the greenhouse, wrapped the suit toss it. Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon)01:35:28 No.47639480 1462477998950 pg (156 KB, 1920x829) google jgdb 47640424 # 47639439 # The plan worked. The jump drive took in the power required to build a 20km jump field and hauled them all into jumpspace. They emerged, safely, a few moments later But sadly, Qur story ends here. While the bugs gave the group calculations to get them to the asteroid in a single jump, it would take many, many months or years to slow down enough to return to the earth, With time dilation, centuries might pass. With the bugs influence growing, the rise of non-sanient Al and the risk of the Eaters of Cold Protons firing a second shot the world they'd return Would no doubt be very different THE END

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Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)20.50:12 No.47634656v >>47634914 #>>47634930 # >>47635129 # kronos at mars ii by macri..lpg (178 KB 1024x512) g00gle iodb So I ran a hard sci-fi game somewhat based on Peter Watt's Blindsight The short version is that the PCs, while filming a reality TV show, accidentally contacted a planet-bound alien intelligence, the first humanity had ever encountered. Things spiralled out of control from there, as the players rapidly realized the alien intelligence was much, much smarten than they were and was plaving them like a fiddle In the end, they saved the earth though, for 2 reasons ) Humans have a relatively wide limit on "acceptable tribe members" cabbages are diamagnetic I write and post the full story if people are interested. It's more of a mindfuck/existential horror story, but it was definitely scary for the players Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)21. 13 25 312 4/635348 # >>47635352 # -Camen Sandiego png| , 4096x 1912) google igdb 47634656 2108 anywhere. Incredibly hot radioactive gas A contained inside a no na Sanchez, spoiled daughter of an obscenely rich CEO. purenased a fop-of-the-line Single State 1o Ooit reuseable reentry vessel The liveable space inse ger than a standard tour bus, but the "Carmen Sandiego" can I sapphire, ness. In an atmosphere, scoop u e point armen Sandiego any gaseous ever Angelina also recruited a crew - a lealess pil ot raised on Ceres Earth, but wasn't entirely sure why nincredibly surly medic, and two l of dubious backgrounds. One was a liberated, extremely liberal number-cruncher masquerading as her editor and camera-bot. The other, housed in a repair chassis, was actually a quad-core prototype who'd Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)21:27.29 No.47635352 v >>47635514 f# Nature of Al-Copy png (109 KB, 318x314) google iadh 47635129 # The first few episodes of "Angelina's Adventures in Space!" go fairly well. Angelina isn't as dumb as she appears when the cameras are on - the crew was carefully chosen to be somewhat filmable and has always been her appearance, aided by a custom-fitted, somewhat curvaceous space suit. The rest of the crew make do with sensible ex-neo-USSR castoffs. Acticles The singutarity Is Coning Comment 104 little controversial Still the focus of her proaram Iser: alexib6) (reply) (report The ship has a Faster than Light drive, which works.. somehow, No one is entirely sure, but it's got a few rules to it, isKtally orried about ATe telteve that B0 a0 patter woat they sav, hat they're realty worried 1. You do some math involving vour ship's current mass and relative velocity to the nearest aravity well (usually a star). 2. You set a series of mechanical timers. One tells the ship when to stop falling into the aravity well in "darkspace", the other tells it when to exit darkspace, All quite complicated, but also quite manual. The timers have backups, of course, but if all 3 timers fail you might never leave jumpspace arise from matter. And I that consciousness ca If we can create a sentient being, where obes t are tumed off, save for the barest, most basi ents. Chem-lights and mechanical fans abound. ourseLves as ayting other than sachines And if we rot the endh 4. The human crew either go into suspended animation/sedation , if they're rated for it, sit in the dark and enjoy the journey Fun, isn't it? Jumpspace has a nasty habit Jump-compatible", an screwing with electronics, to the point where most Al come out the other end ins ane or non-functional, TVs flicker and spark, lights burn out, etc. The human brain also suffers. but some people are rated as etahdnscares peopte is not the artificial refore less likely to go crazy Ishow next comments1 Less likely, mind. Not "will not go crazy", It's a risk. Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)21:36.38 No.47635514 47635696# 17-Sovuz Mk 10.jpg (798 KB, 2500x2500) google iadb >47635352 # Anyway, the first jump was a mere 11.9 LY to Tau Ceti, or 3 days of time in Jumpspace. Tau Ceti Ill's timy ice/hydrogen mining colony was very happy to see a celebrity. Fadila Nazari, the medic, was very happy to see a proper bed and alcohol. get into too much trouble a derelict or badiy damaged Sovuz Mk18 dropped out of iumpspace quite near Tau Ceti Ill. Both the miners and the Carmen Sandiego's crew rushed to be the first there. Angelina wanted to look like a hero, the tere wonte sabrage Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)21:49.08 No.47635696>47635922 f 1417834936954 png (491 KB, 1280x716) google igdb 47635514 # The Soyuz was in a strange state flayed skeleton inside a space suit inside the capsule s solar panels were damaged, Enoch, the experimental model s paint was scoured or cracked the industrial repair chassis. was fascinated by the damage to the point of autistic obsession, He didn't care when the Captain discovered a hideous Eventually, they determined the crewman had died of radiation poisoning, though on a massive, horifying scale. The lack of fission byproducts meant a nuclear weapon or an engine failure was unlikely. No one was sure what could cause this kind of damage, but it was very worying. Noetic Concordance, the "producer Al, used fragmentary radiation-bunt records from the capsule leamed from the dying man's blood-flecked raving. deep space near YZ Ceti, a mere 1.6 light years from Tau Ceti. The crew decided to investigate. Some of the other records had been a distress signal from the dying pilot, although very little else could be Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)22:01:54 No 47635922 kronos 1 over satum s riipg (193 KB, 1024x1434) google iadb >47636105 f 47635696 # half, and sent drifting far from any stars, It was completely depowered and airless, Without the distress sianal from the Sovuz, it would never have , the crew discovered a twinkling wreckage field. A massive research vessel, one designed purely for deep space, had been cut. The crew boarded. and encountered after a few moments of paranoid roaming. found a survivor. The survivor was a bit odd and the crew rapidly realized was a Synthetic rsome applications. They are basical ly full-bodv prosthetics (of varying qualities) with a biglogical neural network inside. The network Synthetics were developed to replace Al have limited creative abilities Behind their trained facade no one is sure how their minds work Al were built trained, rather than programmed. Synthetics make very useful factory workers, deep-space assistants, but thew oimitate human minds, Synthetics were built to blend in Anony912 n (142 KB 1024x768) 36105 >47636272 # ch ship's Al had set the ship's jump drive to go off with a limited radius. Anything on the boundary was converted into a radiation burst that killed the rest of the crew. The synthetic had been on EVA when this happened, and escaped due to the massive distance between it and the explosion. TH But the story had a few holes in it. and as the party poked at the, the Synthetic became more and more agitated. Eventually. it tried to infect Nooetic with a virus of exceptional craftsmanship. The virus tried to convince him to vent the ship. killing all non-Synthetics., then iump back to Titan in the Sol system or so he thought). In the meantime, the Synthetic had sliced Angelina's neck with a scalpel and was trying to kill the pilot, Max. Max was a stubborm soul, and though he was thorougly bruised, he hung report Nooetic managed to isolate and defeat the attack on long enough for Fadila to bludgeon the thing to death Anonym obe ing (172 KR 1351x524) o 2 47636490 # Thew discavered an ancient hard drive inside the Sy found something interesting, but hadn't made it hetic's chest cavity. It was from the 1980s, from a Gagarin-class deep-space automated probe. The probes were designed to go out, leaping from system to system, and then retum home with what they'd collected. This one had The images showed a rocky, blasted world with one deep canyon containing a nitrogen/hydrogen atmosphere. Mesas of stone rose above the clouds, each producing an incredibly strong magnetic field. The probe clearly picked up patterned, complex radio signals. This was evidence of life, intelligent advanced lifel Evidently the Synthetic's creators had programmed in a secret mission: if evidence of intelligent life is located, destroy all other witnes ses and retun home. Its plan had gone awry, but it had still killed seven humans and forceed one Al to commit horrifving self-deletion a could from the derelict vessel, including spools of superconducting wire used to build giant deep-space radio antennas, and the completely wiped Al core. Enoch salvaged what 490 >47636675 # An Gado Probe ing (136 KB, 2048x765) google igdb 47636272 # d to head back to Earth, but Angelina Luckily the hard drive contained enough information to locate the star sted ating and contacting whatever intelligent life was out there. The Gagarin probe had been picked up by the research team's high-gain deep-space radio telescope, but it had been destroyed in the sabotage attempt The probe had visited Mir.. around 260 light vears from earth.. and at the very edge of human-explored space. It would be a marathon iourney of 56 days. but the ship was well-stocked for the trio. Alpha Centauri had trained her . He'd pretended o treat any Al that was willingly active during a On the igumey. Fadila discovered that Enoch. their 'repair Al" was still g jump as insane, homicidal, or worse, She managed to get his case open and stuck a tazer into his brain. be immobile, but she'd heard the faint sound of his cooling fans. Years of films such as "Roque Al Slaughterhouse" and "Death f four cores, rather than the one core all other Al used. He could split and reintegrate his mind at will, working as a team or s an individual without any sense of continuity loss. He was an experiment, he explained. Luckily, Enoch ran off And he had no idea if he /could be tumed off. He didn't think he'd survive. His four self-checking, reinforced cores caught any jumpspace-induced errors before they got too bad. The crew eventually believed him, but they kept him tied up in the greenhouse Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)2243:49 No.47636675>47636863 # 3-Gagarin Probe.jpg (62 KB, 1024x516) google igdb 47636490 # Mira is a binary star system. Mira A, a red giant, is slowly being pulled apart ecliptic. hydrogen gas. The world the Gagarin probe had located, with other later surveys had missed, orbited on an strange path well Mira B a high-temperature white dwarf. The inner syvstem is full t of the The Carmen Sandiego approached, trying to avoid the "magnetic tormadoes" thrown into space by the mesas. They burned off speed and spiraled down, heading for the atmosphere-containing canyon. Huge silicate mountains loomed atmosphere, and Max had to land on eyesight and guesswork either side. Radar and lidar soon failed in the electified, ion-rich Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)22:54:48 No.47636863>>47636994 # Penrose-tiling1000px-Penr...)ipg (113 KB, 600x450) google igdb 47636675 # The surface was quite strange. Clumps of platinum "grass" burst from a few cracks slightly fatter than the other n the metal-poor black stone. The only livinga creatures were small. grey insects that scuttled and clumped. They were of two sizes. one Angelina discovered the "grass" was highly charged... by touching it. Her spacesuit took most fthe damage, but she was still thoroughly surprised. Enoch was also fascinated, and spent several minutes staring the insects They are Penrose tiles." he said. "The bugs. The are forming aperiodic subsets." >47637152 # 47636994 23:03 Anonym B 694x498) 90oale igdb The crew cantured a few of the insects and Fadila dissected one. Well. she tried to dissect it it fell apart in the glovebox. The bugs weren't cellular, exactly, Metals-rich chains f catalysts marched around the metallic lavers. laving down or taking up metal. The insects contained X-ray mirror and receiver. They communicated by radio, but they didn't seem to have much electromagnets, and either the way of brains, or any reproductive system. Fadila wasn't sure if they'd evolved or been created x-ray generator A few hours later, the bugs swarmed the ship. They approached to within a few metres and fomed a ring around the vessel. Max panicked and took off, hovering on the VTOL engines >47637339 # Anonymous 06/05/16/Sun123 13:40 No 47637152 10-Landing jpa (97 KB, 2008x749) google ladb »47636994 # The insects formed images back and forth n arrow. A nice. pointed arrow like you'd find on a street sign. On Angelina's orders. Max flew the ship along, until they'd reached a large. level stone field. On landing, the insects started to form pillars, clicking and sending x-rays and While Angelina cooed and took photos, Fadila decided to try and communicate bit was very creepily done. I basically ran a convers ation with all 5 players won't o into the details in this writeup. but this t once. The best t was when Fadila. who was tvping into a terminal. said "Wait, can vou hear me?" and the bugs answered "ves" via the ship's speakers Enoch direct interfaced with the bugs via a USB 6.0 cable. Noetic tried to make friends, and thought he did a great job. Max panicked, Angelina was vapid, and Fadila was suspicious. Rightly so, as it turned out 47637493 #47640690 (You) # 06/05/16(Sun)23:25 51 dng ing (59 KB 17931416) 00ogle igdb 47637339 An >47637152 # The bugs were able to communicate. but their questions were unusual, It -for it was a sinqular entity - asked about dreams. "If you sleep, are you the same person when you wake?" "Do you dream of things that are not real?" How do you tell a dream from reality? The Millions information The mation The system crew in complexity over untold generations and evolutions but the idea was the same- information stored and accessed hy "dumb" individual podes Fventualy the information itself grew.complex enough to maninulate its comnonents and a sot of intelligence arose conquered, experimented, flouris hed and. Was conquered in turn. Other intelligent creatures arrived and pruned the bugs back to this broken canyon. As ants with aphids, so these invaders used the bugs to produce food. The enormously advanced computer system could calculate exactly how to manipulate the magnetic tomadoes. They caught protons from Mira's suns and cooled them, spinning them into tight packets. The "Eaters of Cold Protons" were not likely to be amenable to humanity's presence. They should flee. But if they helped the bugs, they would be rewarded. Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)23:36:39 No.47637493v>>47637646 #>>47637666 # 6-Camen Sandiego Interior.ipg (1.7 MB, 4256x2832) gooale iadb >47637339f The bugs would give them two things "the dream" and "the body". The body was a slightly radioactive cylinder the size of a person, made of tightly tiled bugs. The dream was a program that would be carried by the two Al, and used to awaken the body. r from the "Eaters of Cold Protons The bugs couldn't transfer itself. It couldn't turn off, or store its consciousness in an inert form, so it couldn't escape through Jumpspace. But the Carmen Sandiego could carry its offspring far, n retum, it would assist humanity, mine minerals, and teach them about the laws of physics. It promised. The group agreed. And then the Eater of Cold Protons arrived. Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)23:46:05 No.47637666>>47637872 # 9- Mira B.ipg ) google igdb >4763/49 lumpspace very low over the planet, hovering, rather than orbiting. It was a six-kilometre ring of silver, with leaf-like blades hanging below it, or behind it. It looked like a crown, or a chandelier. It dropped our A point of unimaginable brightness burned at the centre of the ring, flinging near-C protons out behind it to generate thrust. The PCs fled immediately, barely escaping into Jumspace as the Eater of Cold Protons silently pursued They were astonis hed and terrified discover, after exiting jumpspace, that it had followed them. Noetic correctly deduced that it had read his mind, or his memory banks, He'd done the math to jump them away from the star, and the results had been clearly visible... to anyone able to instantly hack his systems without him noticing Max, in a panic. punched in a random vector manual ly and briefly activated the Jump drive. Without any way of determining the exit location, the Eater of Cold Protons could not pursue. Anonymous 06/05/16(Sun)23.50200 2>>47638020 # io by_golpeart d9v618q ipg (462 google iadb 47637666 # group repaired the damaged their hasty escape had caused, Enoch announced that he'd worked out how the Eater of Cold Protons "worked". A "Monopole," the eccentric Al said. "It is generating a magnetic monopole at its centre, and using it to convert protons into anti-protons, then annihilating them to generate power and thrust. Incredibly efficient and quite ive "So let me get this straight. We are being pursued by a giant sentient cyclotron?" Fadila said. much more likely," Enoch said carefully "Yes. Presumably it sees the bugs, and by extension us, as a potential threat. It will either destroy us or convert us to a useful form, and considering humanity's primitive state, annihilation air, on supplies, and on trust. The crew needed a break, and there was a deep-space research facility around 75-Ceti, 22.7 LY from their current position. The "Camen Sandiego" was low 638020 47638189 # N/ Khem7xd in(73 K0 ZE Cotl IV s cesearch station was dedicated to the alien blue-black algae. Life in any form was worth studying, so a dedicated team of 20 staff worked, from orbit and from the surface, to analyze the primordial goop. They were quite pleased when the Carmen Sandiego showed up et slip that they'd found intelligent life - and provided just enough proof to set of the station's Synthetics. They promptly went on a murderous rampage, setting off hideously bre arttacke.andaluchiesi the scienti y tried to find spare parts for their ship. But someone l As the cre retreated to one side f the station, they also realized that the sun was rising... but the sun was already visible. Quick examination revealed /three/ Eaters of Cold Protons burning through the planet's upper atmosphere towards the station. Noetic set the station's only shuttle on a blind jump, hoping to distract their pursuers, and then shut down. Enoch tried very hard not to think anything important as Max programmed in a random jump. They didn't stay behind to see the station destroyed Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon 100: 16:25 No.47638189~>>47638590f 005 hab concept final 002(...ipg (686 KB, 1920x1080) google iqdb >47638020 # The crew reasoned that the Eaters Chinese mining colony around Gliese 419 go somewhere that /wasn't on their charts,, but was still inhabited Max wracked his brain for days before settling on a rumoured f Cold Protons had read their charts and were investigating any human settlements in the area. Therefore, they needed Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon)00:37:23 No.47638590>>47638706 # adam-bum-impact.ipg (312 KB, 1500x890) google ladb >>47638189 # root out subyersive elements in the thirty three miners, via low-speed rounds to the back of the head, A stalemate had broken out on the tical upheaval. The Chinese govemment had sent five agents planet's surface, as the only orbital capable shuttle had been severely damaged. heading for the mining hase and the largast concentration of heavy metale on the planer's mbled itself into a swarm of bugs, hacked the airlock, and went off into deep space after some very rapid communication with Enoch and Noetic. It deployed a small nuclear engine and rapidly decelerating. t was at this point that Enoch realized he had been deceived. The "dream" he'd been told to hold for the bugs was just an empty process designed to trick him into thinking he was doing something useful. One of his four cores, the tazered one, was out of sync with the others and had been unaffected. Over a few minutes, Enoch waged a battle for his own mind. The bugs had manipulated him altering decisions, feeding him advice, altering perception, and even steering him away from certain topics. But he regained control of his mind Noetic, he realized, was in the same situation. Enoch quickly connected Noetic to the spare Al core they'd taken from the research vessel, and to himself. With as much haste as they could manage, they worked together to trick the bug-spawned shadow-Al. Nooetic slowed his clock speed to a crawl, while Enoch sped his up as fast as it could go. Noetic, with assistance and monitoring from Enoch, managed to trick the shadow-Al to transfer most of itself into the empty core by sending the Al suicide virus after it. Enoch then manually severed the connection. while Fadila destroved the case Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon 00:43:39 No.47638706 47639021 # TSE2010 JLD4.ipg (1.11 MB, 2486x1769) google iqdb 47638590 # or even his own mind Freed of the bugs influence, Noetic fell into a state of pure paranoia. He eventually started talking to himself, or to aspects of himself, and never again trusted anyone This was a pretty decent mindfuck for the Al plavers. d lead them around for several sessions, and they suddenly realized that l'd been manipulating them, acting as the bugs. They both out of character and in - went a little bit nuts Engch control is gested that Max look for mining worlds. Noetic had distracted Fadila when she was close to investigating the "body", and convinced the Captain to not retum immediately to earth. Basically, I'd managed to very carefully xanatos the 2 players. They Istilll refuse to play ngames where mind Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon 10 1 :02: 32 No.47639021 1257569941794 jpg (651 KB, 1440x900) google iqdb 47639068 # 47638706 # Anyway, the "body" crash-landed near the mining site and immediately started growing. The players landed, meddled, considered contaminating the area with radioactive fallout by melting down the local reactor, but decided not bother The bugs were very few in number, and probably to communica this stage. A return to earth was suggested and agreed upon. The next bit was more worldbuilding than horror I'm going to skip ahead a bit got clower still, they stopped, and were replaced with the light and x-ravs from a planet exploding. Long-range evidence suggesting something with an antimatter engine very similar to the Eaters of Cold Protons had thrown a rock at near-lightspeed at this l were from an intelligent civilization. But as it was assumed that the Eaters of Cold Protons, finding the other race to be a thre at, sent them a message. The message scoured the star system clean. ence of the Eaters of Cold Protons several vears The learned that multination gency had dis A probe l faint radio ulses froma istant star. As the probe jumped closer, it came clear th e could sleep, and experience discreet conscious ness, meaning we could survive jumpspace. Anything able to sleep and dream could deal with the random thoughts and electronic noise jumspace produced. A finely Enoch guessed that the reasons the Eaters of Cold Protons were after humanity was that tuned, highly evolved system would fall to pieces, but humans, with messy error checking, could deal with it. Therefore, we were a threat. We could expect a near-c projectile of our own shortly Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon )01:05:49 No.4/639d68 sergey-grechanyuk >47639281 )ipg x912) google iadh 7 f 224/b3 >47639021 # humanity had sent probes o search for this projectile's light-cone, the light cast off by its engines. If we located that, we could detemine how long we had before it hit. Space is big though, and it took a month before the probes located it. Secretly, (Plan A. not dealt with here, was to build a better kind of Al as humanity's successors. It went creepily) l on earth, could perform the calculations required to get a ship up to that speed Once the projectile was located, the problem was stopping it. Moving the earth sufficiently ar was ludicrous, and no Al, not even every But Angelina and her crew knew an Al who could. Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon 01:19:54 No.47639281 47639439 # KeplerSuns Planets_rowe.jpg (588 KB, 1024x1024) google igdb 47639068 # The bugs on Gliese 419 VII had heen busy They were still mining platinum and constaIcting vast networks of tunnels and mannetic towers when the PCs retumed Noetic and Enoch were very very careful about letting any data in but the most hasic black-and-white visuals and a minimal audio feed terms with the whole experience was his way of trving to come Noetic had made a terrifying discovery while... talking to himself. He'd never spoken to the bugs, not directly, They were too alien, too far removed. They'd used an interpreter. what that would say More accurately, they'd used Noetic. The bugs had copied his mind thous ands the right words and do the right things. And the f thousands of times and run tests. simulations, and plans past them, and he'd agreed to his own plan. There were a few signs- a few odd phrases, now clearly a cry for help. The bugs hadn't done it malicious l.. but Noetic was certain they didn't see hin |l in a few minutes. It had created and deleted and tortured countless copies of him until it found one it liked, on that would tens t had made him talk him: a peer Nevertheless, the bugs agreed to help. The alien seemed shocked that humanity would come it it for /helpl, but had leamed humanity's tolerance for peers was remarkably high. Humans accepted pets and gave them human traits. They spoke to inanimate, non-sentient objects with fondness. In essence they were dumb enough to treat a potential predator as a friend. And the bugs could use that. If they were ever going to be free of the Eaters of Cold Protons, they needed someone to carry them between the stars. Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon 01:32:18 No.47639439 >47639480 # hs-2010-07-a-print.ipg (656 KB. 3000x2400) google igdb 7639281 The b gave the group the inputs required to catch the incoming projectile. Due to time dilation, they'd have only hours to somehow redirect the projectile. It was n unlikely mission, but they were the only ones in a position to even try diameter. Its prow fired lasers to clear They exited Jumpspace to dilated, confused stars and a looming obsidian asteroid twenty kilometers long and five kilometers path dust and debris while stern still bumed protons to accelerate it faster. The entire structure was carved of pure black stone. but covered in tiny lines. like a record. When converted into radio waves, they turned out to be transmissions -human trans missions.. Old TV programs, recent updates on shipping. Eaters of Cold Protons were throwing our words back at us. Il jumbled together in a branching latticework. The As Enoch and Max evaded the asteroid's defenses (an oozing black oil-like metal-eating slime), Angelina and Noetic worked out a plan. They'd use the jump drive to carry the entire asteroid out of the way of the earth. Even a few seconds in jumps pace would be enough to throw it wide of the planet. They had only minutes to act though. the prow, but they needed to get another cable onto the cyclotron Noetic and Enoch tore open the ship and hooked up the superconducting cables to the jump drive. The entire asteroid had an electrical gradient to power the lasers. One end was hooked as close as they could manage the stern The magnetic flelds near it were simply too powerful, and any human or Al who got close would die before they reached it. the cable, and helped Angelina But Noetic realized that, if he filled a spare space suit with cabbages, the paraferro and diamagnetic forces acting on the suit could cancel each other out, in theory. He carefully removed the last of their battered, well-traveled cabbages from the greenhouse, wrapped the suit toss it. Anonymous 06/06/16(Mon)01:35:28 No.47639480 1462477998950 pg (156 KB, 1920x829) google jgdb 47640424 # 47639439 # The plan worked. The jump drive took in the power required to build a 20km jump field and hauled them all into jumpspace. They emerged, safely, a few moments later But sadly, Qur story ends here. While the bugs gave the group calculations to get them to the asteroid in a single jump, it would take many, many months or years to slow down enough to return to the earth, With time dilation, centuries might pass. With the bugs influence growing, the rise of non-sanient Al and the risk of the Eaters of Cold Protons firing a second shot the world they'd return Would no doubt be very different THE END

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