"The explorer normally holds the secrets of the discovered, but sometimes the secret he never will know is the discovered holds the secrets of the explorer as well."

-- Annals

On the ninth day I arose at dawn in my structure. The only light was coming through the door (there was no chimney, as there was no wood to burn). I sat and listened to the moans of other Worker's. We were silent - possessing no nerves to our voices - so that the Officers did not have to shout.

It was cold. So cold. In the morning the wind came of the lake, which was so cold that on some morning you could see ice forming among the surf. We do not know where the ice comes from, but I hypothesize that there are mountains close by which may be melting.

By the first bell, every Worker had eaten 250 pellets of food and we were being marched over the second Dune toward the Site. We trudged for an hour through the sea of alien forms, twisted and bent in the sand. Some where skeletal, like giant fossils dumped on the sand many thousands of years ago, some where great shards of buckled metal with no discernible structure or features at all.

As we moved through the Site the structures gradually got larger, some now being many hundreds of footfalls long. Eventually we were seeing structures many thousands of footfalls long. We where taken to what appeared to be a small hill. We were given tools and told to try and find a way in. At the end of the 7th bell, we had dug through the layers of dry soil covering the hill. Slowly we picked at the thing we found inside, stripping the layers of brown rust until it's surface became silver and smooth. A succession of tools cracked the skin into a small hatched. Peeled back from the surface, the hole opened up into a completely dark space inside. Someone dropped a tool in there by mistake and it made the most almighty noise. The Officers set up a set of bright lights to work through the night, and instructed us to make the hole bigger.

"The 8th day entry has arrived through the Wire."

"Print it out and place it on my desk please."

"Command confirmed." The attendant opened the machine he was carrying an typed an instruction. "Will there be anything else Speaker?"

"Yes. Get me some water. To wash."

"Command confirmed." The attendant typed another instruction. "Do you still wish to travel tomorrow?"

"I feel as if I will manage." The printout arrived in a pneumatic cylinder.

"Very well." The attendant opened the tube and placed it's contents on the Speaker's desk. "Are you scheduled to see the Administrator today?"

"Yes. But that's not until later. Do not disturb me from the fourth bell onward."

"Command confirmed." The attendant removed the label from the tube and sent it back. "Do you wish me to leave?"

"That will be all." The Speaker stiffened, preparing to rise. The attendant bowed and left the chamber.

Here follows the fourth day in the Chroniclers journal. The computer on the top of Dune 3 stopped responding for over 14 minutes this morning, Infrastructure have been contacted. The Workers completed their personal structures today in the lee of Dune 5. Brick making facilities have been dismantled as a gesture of control. The components of Reactor DS220 and turbine arrived today on the rail-line and assembly has begun. Worker Sek #990 assigned to complete activity within the next three days. Infrastructure has delivered an extra 2 days of battery supplies to ensure completion.
All Workers have now seen the Dehalis site. Officers report no unexpected responses. Excavation of Artifact 1 will commence at midday tomorrow.

"Darkness in the desert, " he said, "is true darkness."

"How so?"

"Have you tried to watch Workers in the dark?"

They sat in silence for a few more minutes as Gehra finished his meal.

"Is it true they've sent us the Worker that killed Anaxis?"

"Yes."

"I thought that that wasn't possible."

"I did too."

"How does that happen?"

"I assume it's like in the parks where we have these special trees. Rather than having green leaves like every other, they can be bred to have purple leaves."

"I've seen them."

"What you haven't seen is that if left long enough, parts of the tree turn back to green - even after generations of purple trees."

"You're saying a Worker is similar to a tree."

"We bred them especially for the Great Cause. Work is all they know - just as purple trees only know purple leaves."

"And by reverting - if you will - what skills has he acquired?"

"Some which are particularly useful to the Project."

"Has he seen it yet?"

"He was sent to the Hill today to see the site. Response appears normal."

"We'll hope it stays that way."

"Yes," said Gehra. "For the good of us all."

Amex was waiting for a train - unsurprisingly late - to take him to the Ministry of Culture. The name sounded benign enough, but he knew full well what would be waiting. So thrilled was he to receive an upgrade that he didn't give it a second thought.

It was a harsh world. He knew that. The people who did not adapt - who did not push themselves - withered and died on their sleeping vines. Those who thought that the Depression would finish and the planet would somehow fix itself had proven to be the ones that did not accept the vaccine. When they awoke in their apartments - breathing in the black mould of the dying vines - they prayed for salvation.

Amex was not afraid to admit that he had stolen from the dead (the fact everyone he worked with had also made it less intimidating) but once the Aehætrr left there was no facility left to make the things which kept the world turning. No augmentation was possible without the implants, and the implants inside Amex had seen at least five others through their lives. But nethertheless, things were improving. The cities may still be crumbling, the rails still rusting and the factories failing but the world that was promised was in sight once again, and as he got on the squeaking and rattling train, looking out at the vandalized mile-high skyscrapers he had to admire the skill and determination of those who built them. It was duty and choice that drove him to destroy those who dared to spray their names over the marble lobbies, and threw the gleaming furniture through the windows.

The Informant trudged through the coarse sand until he reached the computer at the top of the dune. It stood there, magnificent and dark against the bright blue sky, with its singular red eye watching over the lake. As the Informant trudged up to the machine and saw himself in the black surface, the eye swivelled to see him. The two stood in silence for a moment.

"Obelisk," the informant said. "Acknowledge access code Dehalis, 27 Persik 9".

The colour of the eye changed to green. A voice - the Operator - spoke. "Confirmed Informant Hacka 9. You have 450 seconds of access."

"Launch the ingestion program."

"Ingestion program launched."

"Switch zone. Worker."

There was a long pause. "Zone changed."

"Open tape slot."

"Tape slot opened." The informant pushed the tape he had prepared into the rectangular slot beneath the eye, there was a satisfying click as the machine accepted it.

"Ingest records found on tape."

"Ingesting." The tape span while the Informant dug in his bag to find the other tapes. "Ingestion finished. 243 records processed."

"Eject tape." It was done. The next tape was placed in the slot.

"Switch zone. Feasibility."

"Zone changed."

"Ingest records 2 to 42 on tape."

A large pause. "Ingest completed."

"Eject tape." The tape came out.

"Close tape slot." The rectangular slot closed.

"Switch zone. Workers."

"Zone changed."

"Change status of all Workers to full."

A very long pause. "Command completed."

"Find worker with name 'Gon'."

"Worker found."

"Print details." The printer buzzed.

"Printing completed." A small slip of paper was ejected from the machine. "Will that be all?"

"That is all."

"Informant, your next code will be Dehalis 28."

"Thanks Hamis."

"No problem Hacka."

The eye turned red again as the connection to the operator was closed.

We were taken from the train and scattered across the beach, with the lake lapping at our carbon fibre cages. We were left there until morning, by which time I couldn’t get the taste of the disgusting water out of my mouth. They came around to each one of us with a portable terminal, connected via satellite to the Central Worker System. Correlating the cage identity code with each worker, each of us was then logged for purposes of tracking, and our second set of arms were disabled while we were released from the cages, as well as our lifting power being temporarily reduced by around 50 %

After this we were taken along a path to a raised section of the beach, ontop of a dune. There was a field centre set up there. In which we were given tools to make bricks. It was a one hour march to the marshland, were organic matter existed in sufficient quantity to produce the mud necessary for building. We were told to place the bricks on the dry ground, upon which they became covered in salty grit. We were told that it could take up to a week for them to fully dry, so we were told to transport them back to the camp to protect them from looters. Once we had returned, they made a deafening noise like squeaking speakers in our minds until we returned to a cage for the night.

The next day we arose again and were told we would receive food. We went to the raised dune, where the Officers were eating their meal. We were paraded in front of the Officers, who were sitting at a high table for unknown purposes. We where then separated into groups and then given 10 minutes where we could grovel beneath the Officers’ table to eat whatever they dropped. We were told to march to the top of the dune in the baking heat to see the surroundings. It was only then that we got an idea of what Dehalis was.

"And what of the cost minister? 8 % of our economic output is put toward the worship of the Aehætrr. Do you not feel at a time when our infrastructure is in such decay, that we should not dedicate more resources to that, rather than worship."

"At a fundamental level, our society revolves around the dependence of who we are, and what we will become when we move on."

"Society may work that way Minister, but should the state be supporting such programmes as Dehalis, a program whose primary objective seems to be to return religious artifacts at the cost of many thousands of productive workers -? "

"I do not know where you get the figure of thousands - "

"But the Dehalis programme nonetheless is using these workers. Is it the Administrations position that these Workers should be used?"

"The Dehalis programme is not only a programme of immense cultural importance but it is believed that the artifacts we find will also be of great technological importance. The Aehætrr were scrupulous in cultivating our beliefs and developed our technologies such to the point of that which they are today - "

"You mean they left us with this decaying infrastructure?"

"I was not implying that. The Aehætrr have given us a hard environment to live in and of course we will see it's effect on perishable items like railway links and - "

"But Minister does this mean that the Aehætrr have treated us unfairly? Does this mean that they have abandoned us?"

The Minister appears to sigh at this point. "Think of it as a test of faith."

Subject Name	Subject Occupation	Birthdate	Status
=========================================================
Anaxis III	Stargazer and Heretic	30/03/23	Deceased due to murder
Case details:	Knowledgeable worker reassigned to Dehalis programme.

Sat in the mud I wonder about the night sky - or more correctly the lack of it. It looks like an obscene photograph of a sunny day, taken through a red gel so that it looks terribly dark and dramatic. The small number of clouds are brightly lit with night light from the cities, creating a grating mix of orange and dark black.

Anaxis often told me about the stars, (or lack of them - he didn't seem to make up his mind as to whether they existed). It bothered him that there appeared to be nothing out there. According to him, we should be able to detect faint radiation from the stars. His ideas however were ridiculed for being worthless and expensive. He showed me pictures from old books, showing how the ancient versions of ourselves thought that the stars rotated around them, and that behind the stars was the light of the divine. He said that as soon as our faith in the divine faded, so did our belief in the stars, and so they faded.

I wonder if there were shapes in the stars. According to Anaxis, there were so many that it seems likely you could construe virtually anything from them. Perhaps they showed you what was going to happen.

I wonder if I would have been able to tell how it would die?

Here follows the first day in the Chronicler's journal. First day here is defined as the moment from which the transport arrived at Camp 1.

The transport has arrived at Camp 1 following three days of travel across the Achati desert. This is the first transport sent since Infrastructure laid the lines. The project is still waiting for a report from Feasibility as to whether temperatures are manageable near the site, they estimate daytime temperatures of over 50 degrees. At Camp 1, daytime temperatures are mitigated by the breeze from the inland Achati sea. Feasibility have expressed concerns about Camp 1 itself, as there seems to have been no thought given to the provision of supplies - including electrical power and water.

The water found near to the site was very quickly established to be undrinkable, the salinity seems to be greater than that of most oceans. In addition we found a number of industrial contaminants present - such as selenium and hydrocarbons - that would not agree with the Workers. Given the lengths the general has gone to gather this consignment, it would seem a shame to waste them. The water has however proved adequate for the construction of bricks. The Worker's will be given instructions and equipment to create them tomorrow, from which they will also construct their own shelter. In the immense heat, the majority of Worker's are by the lake already.

An interrupt stemmed from some primitive part of my mind. The annexation of Anaxis III's terminal datastore is around half done. I drop out from watching the landscape speed by and visualize the secrets that are stored on the device.

At this time, my brain - connected to myself via my nervous system - sent the first tentative crackles of electric current toward the strip, nestled in a convenient tumor for purposes of blood supply. The device, a memory strip, sent a few tentative crackles back. There's a problem however. I can see the files on the strip, but I can't make out the contents - they appear to be corrupted with encryption. A shame. I would have preferred to view Anaxis' secrets a little sooner. Even with billions of brain-cells set on the problem it might almost a year to view the things within.

I contemplated the nature of the device for a moment. It's an antiquated device - modern terminals seem to have given themselves over to silicon memory now - but one of my favorites. The strip is simply made up of a number of biological "buttons" upon which are placed a number of cells. By placing hormone at a particular point on the tape, the state of the cells on the button could be altered. I think this makes it easy for me to read, but I'm not precisely sure how the mechanism works - despite the fact that I have similar devices hanging off my spine like a strange floppy ribcage.

But at the same time, knowing how I work is not what I was built for.



Delivered-To: dehalis.obsidian
Received: by 10.103.226.18 ( d18cs302688mur);
--(08:31) 542.23.09
From: Unknown Sender

Subject: Consignment

The latest batch of Workers were sent to Dehalis yesterday as per your instructions. As requested, the majority of them have been convicted and have been removed from the living register tape.

One of them recently killed the eminent cosmologist. In many ways, it seems like he is a unique Worker. He has an obsession with storing and retrieving data. We discovered he could recall the exact locations of all the places he has worked since he was a Bud - if any Worker will go in and out it will be him. I'm sure it won't take you long to find out the one I mean.





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58: z pick mhk sand up to geel it run bemwpen my fifgers the wxnd dpesn t ttop eazingiinlodmy syes make the winl stop make the wind strp make the wmnd stop
59: v pick chn sand up to seel it run beowpen my fitgers the wend ddesn t htop eakingpintokmy fyes make the win stop make the wind styp make the wpnd stop
60: pick rhf sand up to oeel it run between my fitgers the wbnd ddesn t xtop eajingcintoqmy qyes make the winn stop make the wind stkp make the wznd stop
61: j pick dhg sand up to eel it run between my fixgers the wcnd doesn t xtop easingjintonmy vyes make the winb stop make the wind stgp make the wind stop
62: o pick fhp sand up to keel it run between my fingers the wynd doesn t rtop eaiingrintogmy qyes make the winz stop make the wind stpp make the wind stop
63: y pick ihi sand up to veel it run between my fingers the wmnd doesn t etop eawingvintolmy hyes make the winz stop make the wind stgp make the wind stop
64: p pick chf sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wjnd doesn t gtop eaqingqintolmy hyes make the winv stop make the wind stsp make the wind stop
65: f pick thw sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wbnd doesn t btop eakingfintowmy gyes make the win stop make the wind stvp make the wind stop
66: s pick thl sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wcnd doesn t wtop eayingyintoemy byes make the winb stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
67: h pick thq sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wynd doesn t ntop eadingyintoomy zyes make the wini stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
68: pick thj sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wond doesn t etop earingqintodmy cyes make the winc stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
69: e pick thf sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t ftop eauingdintoymy oyes make the winc stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
70: p pick thw sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t htop ealingkintokmy nyes make the wins stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
71: pick thy sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t ltop ea ingrintoxmy syes make the wina stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
72: w pick thm sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t ftop easingyintormy kyes make the winm stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
73: p pick thy sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t dtop eaqingiinto my myes make the winr stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
74: s pick thy sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t ltop eawingginto my wyes make the winu stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
75: i pick thz sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t ntop ealingbinto my hyes make the winu stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
76: i pick thu sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t itop eavingbinto my vyes make the wins stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
77: i pick thp sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t jtop eacingwinto my cyes make the winv stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
78: i pick tho sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t xtop eahingeinto my pyes make the winj stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
79: i pick thd sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t ktop ea ingkinto my vyes make the wino stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
80: i pick thx sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t ytop eayingginto my qyes make the winf stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
81: i pick thj sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t ltop earingsinto my zyes make the wint stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
82: i pick thn sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t vtop eauingzinto my dyes make the winy stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
83: i pick thr sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t top eadingointo my oyes make the winl stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
84: i pick thv sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t btop ea inghinto my cyes make the winp stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
85: i pick thj sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t ztop eakingkinto my dyes make the winj stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
86: i pick thj sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t mtop eamingointo my myes make the wina stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
87: i pick thv sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eayingninto my vyes make the win stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
88: i pick thm sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingjinto my syes make the wini stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
89: i pick thm sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingointo my oyes make the wink stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
90: i pick thy sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingninto my yes make the winn stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
91: i pick thl sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingrinto my gyes make the winq stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
92: i pick thj sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingpinto my tyes make the winz stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
93: i pick thl sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingxinto my iyes make the winb stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
94: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingeinto my lyes make the winq stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
95: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingginto my oyes make the winr stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
96: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingrinto my wyes make the winl stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
97: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingwinto my qyes make the winy stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
98: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingxinto my dyes make the wink stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
99: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingqinto my ayes make the win stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
100: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingkinto my jyes make the wint stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
101: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingfinto my pyes make the winw stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
102: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eatingminto my lyes make the win stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
103: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my dyes make the wina stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
104: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my hyes make the winz stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
105: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my kyes make the winj stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
106: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my jyes make the wine stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
107: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my fyes make the wint stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
108: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my hyes make the wins stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
109: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my fyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
110: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my uyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
111: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my byes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
112: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my gyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
113: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my jyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
114: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my iyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
115: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my oyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
116: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my hyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
117: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my uyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
118: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my byes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
119: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my lyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
120: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my fyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
121: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my yes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
122: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my jyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
123: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my cyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
124: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my yes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
125: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my vyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
126: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my pyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
127: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my pyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
128: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my wyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
129: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my qyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
130: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my oyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
131: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my pyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
132: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my kyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop
133: i pick the sand up to feel it run between my fingers the wind doesn t stop eating into my eyes make the wind stop make the wind stop make the wind stop

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SLUGD_DECODE: CANNOT DETERMINE OBJECT NATURE

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[[DECODER: THREAD_ERROR]] (Focus going into mind I think...)

[23:57:08] kerneld | memd : MEMORY ALERT! 2 out of 522 word(s) remain
[23:57:09] kerneld | jobsd : KiLL JOB(s)
[00:25:30] jobsd | stdout : All jobs killed.
[00:26:44] slugd | dump complete (job finished)
[00:26:45] slugd | verifying data on tape...

[00:34:32] slugd | File "/usr/bin/slugd", line 608, in
main()
File "/usr/bin/slugd", line 604, in main
curses.wrapper(run_iotop, options)
File "/usr/lib/parsec.5/curses/wrapper.py", line 44, in wrapper
return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds)
File "/usr/bin/slugd", line 562, in run_slugd_verfid
ver(win, process_list, options)
File "/usr/bin/slugd", line 445, in __init__
curses.curs_set(0)
_curses.error: curs_set() returned ERR

[00:34:54] kerneld | errout : infinite loop detected in dkerneld system module
[00:34:55] kerneld | errout : solution taken - killed dkerneld (PID 12)
[00:34:56] kerneld | stdout : dkerneld has encountered a problem and is being restarted
[00:35:02] kerneld | errout : request to dkerneld for file on disk timed out
[00:35:37] kerneld | errout : error_recovery not possible. saving log files and preparing for restart...
[00:37:23] kerneld | errout : timed out waiting for dkerneld to respond
[00:38:53] kerneld | 0 278 128 1 1 95 3
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[00:38:59] kerneld | errord [Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000]

ERROR: /bin/errord exited abnormally (pid 213)
mount: error 6 mounting sdfzc
mount: error 2 mounting nsdfx
switchroot: mount failed: 22

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill initd!

SYSTEM FAILURE JOBS / DATA MAY HAVE BEEN AFFECTEd



They took me from the roadside. They placed me in a black spiders embrace. The spider took me to the side of the train, where I was stuck with the spider still digging its' hands beneath my armor. The train left and I saw all the landscapes of the world stretch beneath the dark, obsidian sky.

When I was first born, they told me that it was a sin to allow one to be taken from his homeland. I left my homeland of my own volition.

And I have never returned. I wonder what it is like now. I don't know what it is like now.

There are others on the train. I can hear them in my mind. We cannot speak because the spiders are holding foul tasting reeds in our mouths but I can hear them nonetheless. We travel together as one mind, one body. Despite our temporary grouping we still know not where we came from or where we are going. We are the god's children stuck in darkness but I am holding the light.

The wind is so loud. The sand blasts us. We are so far away. We are lost. We can hear nothing.


Trans Init: physlink @ building
22/09/53 8:94. Terminal ID: #02A-FA2-3DA


The date is 22/09/53. Amex III is sitting at his desk, watching his terminal load it's operating instructions. Today - he thinks - a small amount of research.

The Department for Information Retrieval and Transmission had recently installed a large new transistor cluster - it took up around half the 30th floor of their building. He'd been impressed with it's size and complexity when he went to see it - but what he was really interested in was the data it contained.

The terminal chirruped to signal it was ready. He found the piece of paper he had scrawled the instructions onto.


DECA5:out -23-22-32-19 -nodie -hold -accept.redirect
[22/09/53 (8:96:23)] DECA5 started on MAIN.
[22/09/53 (8:96:30)] DECA5 is waiting for available line.


Amex would happily admit that his knowledge of machines was less that he would have liked. What he did know was that the DECA5 protocol is a new thing. It was only used on the very new clusters.


[22/09/53 (8:97:23)] DECA5 has connected to the Department for Information Retrieval and Transmission using line 13.
[22/09/53 (8:100:32)] DECA5 has received instructions for navigation constants.


Department for Information Retrieval and Transmission

IMPORTANT: Accessing this service from a public terminal may not be secure. Only use this service from with an administrative building.

AUTHORIZATION CODE PLEASE:

Inside his cluster was the capacity for 10 billion characters of information to be stored. It stored information on artifacts - specifically an ID code, their current storage location, their discoverer and a tiny image of what they looked like. He tapped in his authorization code, and then he was in.


SEARCH: DEHALIS
218 Result(s) estimated.


Here follows the police report following the inquest of the murder of Anaxis III by an as yet unidentified Worker-class organism. The chosen name of this organism (henceforth known as "the subject") appears to be "Gon".

The subject was found 2.8 kilks (1.3 km) away from the container in which Anaxis (henceforth referred to as "the victim") had made his home. Anaxis had recently grown unstable and paranoid, and preliminary searches have returned a record of exceptionally high levels of use on his academic terminal (sometimes for periods of days.) Before the the victim was found dead he had been searching for classified information on the Higher recovery project 23 (which is apparently irrelevant to the matter at hand.) Approximately 14 minutes after the last search was made (which is the time we believe that the subject gained entrance to the residence) Anaxis' transponder reported his death. After this the academic terminal he was using was accessed and all files where copied onto an external storage medium. The terminal itself was smashed onto the floor and has been completely destroyed.

Upon searching the subject we found no such evidence of any storage mediums. The subject was compliant and did not seem hesitant at answering basic questions. He was found attempting to evade an armed patrol and was shot with a electrically charged rifle. He is currently detained in Cell 97.

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There are no stars here. There haven't been any for hundreds of years. They are like children, they scatter to the four winds.

- Anaxis III (Chief star-sighter)