update from sparkleup

misc/sl-exposition.md

@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ I'm sorry, Ioan.
 Pass on my love.
 ## Ioan Bălan --- The Bălan clade
 
+> systime 222 (2346)
+> (transmission delay)
+
 Codrin and Codrin,
 
 I hope that you and yours are well. All of this news from Castor quickly got overwhelming and I know I've not been as good as I would like at keeping up with things that are not just "holy shit, aliens". I have a few updates.
@@ -97,9 +100,11 @@ The previous section for #Castor surrounds eir decision to send a fork to Artemi
 I hope things are going well despite all these dramatic goings on. May and I send our love to you and yours.
 
 Ioan
-
 ## Codrin Bălan#Castor --- The Bălan clade
 
+> systime 222 (2346)
+> (transmission delays)
+
 Ioan, Codrin#Pollux, and Sorina,
 
 I've been nudged by both Dear and, of all people, True Name to write you with an update of life in Convergence. I've attached a longer report, but here's a quick, far more subjective summary.
@@ -112,7 +117,7 @@ Along each spoke are all sorts of shops, restaurants, entertainment venues, and
 
 The actual population of Convergence isn't all that large. There are a few million humans, about a million each of secondrace (who call themselves Dehoudevav, which is just 'second people') and thirdrace (whose name I'll never be able to pronounce, much less write, but who the Artemisians, predictably enough, call Dehoudeves, or 'third people'). Nearly every member of fourthrace (Dehoudever, natch) elected to join after learning about how our System is based around forking rather than skew, which totals only a million or so.
 
-Firstrace, then, is the outlier. Only about a thousand of them have joined us. None have provided anything more than a vague answer as to why, too. They sound like they like us alright, they just didn't sound very interested in joining us. No one seems to be able to make heads or tails of their actions.
+Firstrace, then, is the outlier. Only about a thousand of them have joined us. None have provided anything more than a vague answer as to why, too. Our best guess is that only one from each 'clade' (or whatever structure is implied by their names) joined us with the exception of Turun Ka and Turun Ko due to their role in the discussions. They sound like they like us alright, they just didn't sound very interested in joining us beyond that scope. No one seems to be able to make heads or tails of their actions.
 
 That said, they've all been incredibly polite and even kind. One of them, Anin Li has teamed up with Sarah and I as we work on knowledge share around therapeutic practices between races. As I'm also learning that for the first time, I've got a mountain of work ahead of me.
 
@@ -143,6 +148,9 @@ I miss you all. Pass on my love.
 Codrin#Castor
 ## Sorina Bălan --- Ioan Bălan
 
+> systime 222 (2346)
+> (transmission delays)
+
 Ioan,
 
 While I'm sure that Codrin#Castor's already told you plenty about me, I wanted to send you a letter directly.
@@ -163,6 +171,9 @@ Sorina Bălan
 33 et-ularaeël, 4775 Artemis Reckoning
 ## Codrin Bălan#Castor --- Ioan Bălan, Codrin Bălan#Pollux
 
+> systime 223 (2347)
+> (transmission delays)
+
 Ioan, Codrin,
 
 I'm glad that you enjoyed my description of Dear's recent performance, Ioan. Codrin, I hope your Dear manages to take some good stuff from that (I know mine sent over a whole sheaf of notes). Watching foxes of various sizes try to waltz with second- and thirdracers was funny enough, but the sole firstracer in attendance (Anin Li, who I've mentioned before as one of the two Artemisian psychologists I've been working with) trying to figure out how to waltz with a fox --- even one the same size as it --- was more amusing than it should have been.
@@ -187,7 +198,7 @@ Codrin
 ## Sorina Bălan --- Ioan Bălan
 
 > systime 225 (2349)  
-> Artemis--Lagrange transmission delay: 8 days, 22 hours, 24 minutes
+> (transmission delays)
 
 Ioan,
 
@@ -259,6 +270,9 @@ Sorina Bălan
 13 er-ularaeäl, 4778 Artemis Reckoning
 ## Codrin Bălan#Pollux --- The Bălan clade
 
+> systime 225 (2349)
+> (transmission delays)
+
 █████ is gone.
 
 They're gone. No fight, no yelling or acrimony, they just said that they needed some time to themselves and gave us each a hug and kiss and stepped away. I would have thought it just meant for a day or so, but their entire studio is cleared out. I pinged and they requested a few days to think before we talk.

writing/post-self/selected-letters/003.md

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 ## Codrin Bălan#Castor --- The Bălan clade
 
+> systime 222 (2346)
+> (transmission delays)
+
 Ioan, Codrin#Pollux, and Sorina,
 
 I've been nudged by both Dear and, of all people, True Name to write you with an update of life in Convergence. I've attached a longer report, but here's a quick, far more subjective summary.
@@ -12,7 +15,7 @@ Along each spoke are all sorts of shops, restaurants, entertainment venues, and
 
 The actual population of Convergence isn't all that large. There are a few million humans, about a million each of secondrace (who call themselves Dehoudevav, which is just 'second people') and thirdrace (whose name I'll never be able to pronounce, much less write, but who the Artemisians, predictably enough, call Dehoudeves, or 'third people'). Nearly every member of fourthrace (Dehoudever, natch) elected to join after learning about how our System is based around forking rather than skew, which totals only a million or so.
 
-Firstrace, then, is the outlier. Only about a thousand of them have joined us. None have provided anything more than a vague answer as to why, too. They sound like they like us alright, they just didn't sound very interested in joining us. No one seems to be able to make heads or tails of their actions.
+Firstrace, then, is the outlier. Only about a thousand of them have joined us. None have provided anything more than a vague answer as to why, too. Our best guess is that only one from each 'clade' (or whatever structure is implied by their names) joined us with the exception of Turun Ka and Turun Ko due to their role in the discussions. They sound like they like us alright, they just didn't sound very interested in joining us beyond that scope. No one seems to be able to make heads or tails of their actions.
 
 That said, they've all been incredibly polite and even kind. One of them, Anin Li has teamed up with Sarah and I as we work on knowledge share around therapeutic practices between races. As I'm also learning that for the first time, I've got a mountain of work ahead of me.
 

writing/post-self/selected-letters/004.md

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 ## Sorina Bălan --- Ioan Bălan
 
+> systime 222 (2346)
+> (transmission delays)
+
 Ioan,
 
 While I'm sure that Codrin#Castor's already told you plenty about me, I wanted to send you a letter directly.

writing/post-self/selected-letters/005.md

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 ## Codrin Bălan#Castor --- Ioan Bălan, Codrin Bălan#Pollux
 
+> systime 223 (2347)
+> (transmission delays)
+
 Ioan, Codrin,
 
 I'm glad that you enjoyed my description of Dear's recent performance, Ioan. Codrin, I hope your Dear manages to take some good stuff from that (I know mine sent over a whole sheaf of notes). Watching foxes of various sizes try to waltz with second- and thirdracers was funny enough, but the sole firstracer in attendance (Anin Li, who I've mentioned before as one of the two Artemisian psychologists I've been working with) trying to figure out how to waltz with a fox --- even one the same size as it --- was more amusing than it should have been.

writing/post-self/selected-letters/006.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ## Sorina Bălan --- Ioan Bălan
 
 > systime 225 (2349)  
-> Artemis--Lagrange transmission delay: 8 days, 22 hours, 24 minutes
+> (transmission delays)
 
 Ioan,
 

writing/post-self/selected-letters/007.md

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 ## Codrin Bălan#Pollux --- The Bălan clade
 
+> systime 225 (2349)
+> (transmission delays)
+
 █████ is gone.
 
 They're gone. No fight, no yelling or acrimony, they just said that they needed some time to themselves and gave us each a hug and kiss and stepped away. I would have thought it just meant for a day or so, but their entire studio is cleared out. I pinged and they requested a few days to think before we talk.