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Launch: phys-side: Douglas - Douglas feels a feel while working on the launch - 1021 - TODO merge with below
Launch: phys-side: Douglas - Douglas and May write to each other about the launch - 2722
Secession: sys-side: Michelle - Michelle dies among her clade, passing on tasks to first lines (True Name gets launch?) - 1131
- Launch: phys-side: de - REJECTED: de no longer a POV character - Disappointed that launch went through regardless, walks the station in a daze, thinking backwards from current thought - 887
+ ~~~Launch: phys-side: de - REJECTED: de no longer a POV character - Disappointed that launch went through regardless, walks the station in a daze, thinking backwards from current thought - 887~~~
Secession: phys-side: Yared - Yared uploads, the final before secession - 3080
Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Green - The triad tell each other fictional stories around the remnants of the fire of why they left no forks - 2599
Secession: sys-side: Michelle - Michelle meets with Council of Eight, discusses spending a bunch of reputation to fork; meets up with Jonas and pledges True Name - 2293
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
Launch: phys-side: Douglas - Douglas answers May’s questions - 3489
- Part II - Progression
+- Part II - Progression
- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - Ioan(s) and May start to parcel out work, but get off topic onto feelings. - 2644
- Secession: phys-side: Yared - first change from Yosef, talking with True Name and Jonas - 2791
- Secession: sys-side: True Name - brings news of the bill to Council of Eight, discuss speciation - 1833
@@ -174,15 +174,43 @@
- Launch: phys-side: Douglas - May had responded immediately, ofc, but asked about life on earth (hinting she uploaded ~time of Michelle), reminisces about childhood - 4738
- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - Ioan interviews May about why she stayed behind, thoughts on not telling Douglas re: herself as Michelle
- Secession: phys-side: Yared - another change from Yosef, Yared starts to actually kind of believe that this is a good idea
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Blue - Makes up with Dear, who gives suggestions on some names to interview and how to go about them
+- Secession: sys-side: True Name - Meets with Jonas to discuss latest post from Yared, picking up on secession undertones, Jonas admits to own clade.
+- Launch: phys-side: Douglas - Douglas walks the station, processing news of Michelle’s death, then talks with May
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Green - Author who wrote an outline for a book, has been writing them independently on launches and sending back to editor sys-side, who is compiling them; mentions as postscript for Ioan only that given what ey learned about early clade, should maybe pass on communications between LVs encrypted
+- Secession: phys-side; Yared - discusses secession with True Name/Jonas despite the fact that he isn’t supposed to, gets help drafting the post with suggested changes from Demma
+- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - Musician who set up transmission of music between sys/phys
+- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - Ioan and May share growing concerns from LV messages
+- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - Ioan interviews Do I Know God After The End Waking, who was tasked by True Name and Jonas to meddle with sys-side politics to increase support for secession, points em to Jonas still on system
+- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - Ioan, distracted, interviews a series of poor families (as ey was) re: what they miss, what excited them, first thing they did, what was disappointing, biggest regret
+- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - Ioan interviews Jonas Prime, who has grown pessimistic, life wants to spread and multiply to make itself stronger, this is the root of the launch: offsite backups
+- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - Ioan interviews historian keenly interested in staying close enough to earth to keep cataloging, has picked up on some of the patterns; also wants to be close to Ioan, weaseled her way into the interview
+- Launch: phys-side: Douglas - Talks with may about launch-era political machinations from phys-side
+- Launch: phys-side: Douglas - Learns more about the clade, mentions some concerning stuff re: patterns phys/planet-side
+- Launch: phys-side: Douglas - Sabotage attempts
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Green - Distracted, interviews depressed astronomer who knows this is as close as he’ll ever get, but studies all the same through text, learn more about Dreamer Module (phys-side idea that got past resistance sys-side, implied Jonas/True Name)
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Green - Interviews True Name, who was tasked by Michelle as political side of launch, first time sys and phys have worked together in meaningful way in ages, tickled to see Douglas Hadje, nudges him through channels to apply for launch director (look at that manipulation go)
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Green - Interviews No Jonas, hints at how big an influence he and Odists (not just TN!) had on both phys/sys side after secession, anything to keep System growing
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Green - Interviews True Name, confronts for truth about the Odists’ role in post-secession, confirms, laughs down concerns.
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Blue - interviews Zeke/Ezekiel, who has gone a bit sideways, now a prophet, having a hard time reconciling two launches/diverging futures, points Codrin towards True Name as something sinister
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Blue - talks with Dear about secession and the mood before and after in general, but also w/in clade, Dear hints that Praiseworthy started shaping the history even before secession and the art of propaganda
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Blue - interviews Why Ask Questions Here At The End Of All Things, who was tasked by True Name and Jonas to meddle with sys-side politics and increase support for secession
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Blue - Finds Yared, Debarre, and user11824, who talk about how the council was undermined, then overridden by Jonas/Odists after secession, Yared talks about Toledot Yeshu, Demma as Paul (left unsaid whether or not Demma was influenced by anyone sys-side, implied no; phys-side also had its own politics)
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Blue - Interviews Ne Jonas, humanity best viewed as a resource to be used or a crop to be tended by System
- Part III - Arrival (all stories reach present, all discuss irreversibility)
-- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - Ioan and May get together, discuss irreversibility of that act, since Ioan didn’t fork like Codrin.
-- Launch: phys-side: Douglas - Douglas uploads, talks about necessity of not being on launches, learns about Michelle/Ode Clade
+- Secession: phys-side: Yared - Vote passes with both secession and L5 amendments intact, those who know him are torn on whether he’s a hero or villain; zero compensation/recognition from Demma, who derides the system, go marry it if you love it so much.
+- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - Ioan interviews True Name, finds out she’s still everywhere w/ Jonas, steering system (see quote below)
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Green - Interviews True Name for the last time, learning that True Name/her stanza and Jonas orchestrated the launch from the beginning, have been in contact across sys/launch (irreversible)
+- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - kind of freaks out at May b/c like finding out your in-laws-ish are the illuminati, though ey comes around because a) she explains need for control as trauma response, and b) tells myth in progress, about how the gods created the world in an attempt to shape it to their will, but instead became impersonal forces in the face of absolute independence
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Blue - Interviews Dear about just how much influence the Ode clade had/still has
+- Launch: sys-side: Ioan - Ioan and May get together, discuss irreversibility of that act, since Ioan didn’t fork like Codrin; if the clade exists to explore/exploit need as trauma reaction, what do each of the stanzas do (True Name’s: political machinations; Praiseworthy’s: artistic machinations), liberal side (not always later lines) has grown more earnest, rebelling against need to control.
+- Launch: phys-side: Douglas - Douglas uploads, talks about necessity of not being on launches, learns about Michelle/Ode Clade
- Epilogue
-- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#green - Green launch’s Dreamer Module picks up a signal from another similar ship (actually impersonal POV, though Codrin breaks in occasionally), Dreamer Module turns out to also contain detailed instructions on how to grow a human. Last bit of irreversibility: can’t un-meet a new species (316.2 years after launch (just past Oort cloud), maybe they found a way to slow system time down?)
+- Launch: launch-side: Codrin#green - Green launch’s Dreamer Module picks up a signal from another similar ship (actually impersonal POV, though Codrin breaks in occasionally? Ey talked w/ astronomer), Dreamer Module turns out to also contain detailed instructions on how to grow a human. Last bit of irreversibility: can’t un-meet a new species (316.2 years after launch (just past Oort cloud), maybe they found a way to slow system time down?)
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- Ioan actually gets with May, discusses irreversibility of decision b/c no earlier fork like w/ Codrin
- Both threads should start around/after the event, so Yared’s first chapter should be of him uploading on Secession Day
-- Interviews (not all interview style, some probably get interviewed more than once, interleaved):
-- Launch-side:
-- Aside 1: Depressed astronomer who knows this is as close as he’ll ever get, but studies all the same through text (how we learn why that limitation is there, learn more about Dreamer Module)
-- Aside 2: Zeke, who has gone a bit sideways, now the prophet Ezekiel, having a hard time reconciling two launches
-- Aside 3: Author who wrote an outline for a book, has been writing them independently on launches and sending them back to an editor sys-side who is compiling them
-- True Name: Tasked as political side of launch, first time sys and phys have worked together in any meaningful way in ages
-- Why Ask Questions Here At The End Of All Things (All Things): Tasked by True Name and Jonas to meddle with sys-side politics to increase support for secession
-- No and Ne Jonas: Reveal just how much bigger a political influence sys-side had on phys-side even after secession to keep the System going and growing, not all savory, what’s best for System at all costs
-- Dear: Codrin interviews it about about just how much influence the Ode clade had/still has
+- Interviews (not all interview style, some probably get interviewed more than once, interleaved):
+- Launch-side:
+- (Green) Aside 1: Depressed astronomer who knows this is as close as he’ll ever get, but studies all the same through text (how we learn why that limitation is there, learn more about Dreamer Module)
+- (Blue) Aside 2: Zeke, who has gone a bit sideways, now the prophet Ezekiel, having a hard time reconciling two launches
+- Aside 3: Author who wrote an outline for a book, has been writing them independently on launches and sending them back to an editor sys-side who is compiling them
+- (Green) True Name: Tasked as political side of launch, first time sys and phys have worked together in any meaningful way in ages, tickled to see Douglas in the candidates
+- (Blue) Why Ask Questions Here At The End Of All Things (All Things): Tasked by True Name and Jonas to meddle with sys-side politics to increase support for secession
+- (Green/Blue) No and Ne Jonas: Reveal just how much bigger a political influence sys-side had on phys-side even after secession to keep the System going and growing, not all savory, what’s best for System at all costs, humanity has become a resource/crop to be tended by the System.
+- (Blue) Dear: Codrin interviews it about about just how much influence the Ode clade had/still has
-- Sys-side:
-- Aside 1: Historian keenly interested in staying close enough to Earth to keep cataloging, also keenly interested in Ioan, weaseled her way into the interview
-- Aside 2: Musician who set up transmission of music (via MIDI etc) between sys- and phys-side
-- Aside 3: Series of poor families (like where he was phys-side, but much more recent): what they miss; what they were excited to see; first thing they did; what was disappointing (“System freeze” a la Seattle freeze); biggest regret
-- Do I Know God After The End Waking (End Waking): Tasked by True Name and Jonas to meddle with finances back on Earth after secession to nudge them to decreasing the cost of uploading etc
-- Yared Zerezghi: Never forked after growing paranoia that quitting = death, talks about Toledot Yeshu and Demma as Paul
-- Jonas Prime: Discusses how life wants to spread and multiply because that makes it stronger, reveals that this is the root of the launch - offsite backups, bitter, need for life to continue trumps morals; phys-side humanity has become a resource/crop to be tended by the System.
-- May Then My Name: Ioan interviews about why her stanza really exists (political machinations), why Dear’s exists (artistic machinations), why the clade exists (to explore need: each stanza deals with manipulating something, politics, emotions, etc, borne out of being created for political reasons a la taskers but kept long a la dispersionistas), May is freaked that she’ll push Ioan away.
+- Sys-side:
+- Aside 1: Historian keenly interested in staying close enough to Earth to keep cataloging, also keenly interested in Ioan, weaseled her way into the interview
+- Aside 2: Musician who set up transmission of music (via MIDI etc) between sys- and phys-side
+- Aside 3: Series of poor families (like where ey was phys-side, but much more recent): what they miss; what they were excited to see; first thing they did; what was disappointing (“System freeze” a la Seattle freeze); biggest regret
+- Yared Zerezghi: Never forked after growing paranoia that quitting = death, talks about Toledot Yeshu and Demma as Paul
+- Do I Know God After The End Waking (End Waking): Tasked by True Name and Jonas to meddle with finances back on Earth after secession to nudge them to decreasing the cost of uploading etc
+- Jonas Prime: Discusses how life wants to spread and multiply because that makes it stronger, reveals that this is the root of the launch - offsite backups, bitter, need for life to continue trumps morals; phys-side (maybe also w/ True Name on launches?)
+- True Name: discovers that True Name is now on every System, still steering w/ Jonas clade (climax-ish)
+- May Then My Name: Ioan interviews about why her stanza really exists (political machinations), why Dear’s exists (artistic machinations), why the clade exists (to explore need: each stanza deals with manipulating something, politics, emotions, etc, borne out of being created for political reasons a la taskers but kept long a la dispersionistas), May is freaked that she’ll push Ioan away.
-- Douglas:
-- Sabotage attempts
-- Launch-era political machinations from phys-side
+- Douglas:
+- Sabotage attempts
+- Launch-era political machinations from phys-side
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Notes
- The ships (identical) are similar to from Accelerando combined with a scissors mechanism a la Ilium and a rail gun. There’s a small version of the System (plenty of room for folks to fork, etc), an RTG for power, some external physical manipulators and materials (like 1-2 tons) for repair along the way if needed, a few attitude jets, and a light sail once it’s launched on each. Thin scaffold type thing about 10k kilometers long spun around the middle. In the scaffold is a rail gun to assist in propulsion as the ships are flung out into space by angular momentum, each in opposite directions.
-- The launch process is the first time the sys-side and phys-side have worked together in any notable capacity since secession.
+- The launch process is the first time the sys-side and phys-side have worked together in any notable capacity since secession.
- Release should take the form of an ARG similar to the original Qoheleth.
-- The creators of the system tried to come up with better communication than just text, and could when just one was in the system via dream-reading scans, but when multiple dreamers interacted, it quickly lost focus. Can communicate at any time via text through perisystem or view one individual’s dream if they fork into a reserved spot in the perisystem(though that instance can’t merge back, just as waiting room instances can’t merge), so it’s only really good for presentations
-- Difference between conservatives and liberals is that the conservatives play with need on a very grand scale, liberals on a very small/individual scale. Ioan struggles with May after learning a lot of this about the Clade, because even if she’s earnestly in love with em, it’s like learning your inlaws are illuminati. Ey comes acround because a) she explains need for control as trauma response, and b) tells myth in progress, about how the gods created the world in an attempt to shape it to their will, but instead became impersonal forces in the face of absolute independence
-- Quote: She stood from her chair and walked up to where ey remained stubbornly seated. “If you do not wish to be unhappy with the answers to difficult questions, Ioan,” she said, tousling eir hair. “Then you do not need to ask them.” / She smiled down to em, and in that smaile was kindness, and in that kindness was a hatred ey could not fathom, and then she quit.
-- Dear says in Qoheleth that it uploaded in the 2130s after the L5 station had been set up, have to address this incongruence (either shift dates, or give it a reason to lie; probably the latter, to downplay stuff to one it does not yet trust)
-- True Name and Jonas begin wielding more and more power within the council despite the promise that forks will not influence balance of power, leads to Debarre leaving council
+- The creators of the system tried to come up with better communication than just text, and could when just one was in the system via dream-reading scans, but when multiple dreamers interacted, it quickly lost focus. Can communicate at any time via text through perisystem or view one individual’s dream if they fork into a reserved spot in the perisystem(though that instance can’t merge back, just as waiting room instances can’t merge), so it’s only really good for presentations
+- Difference between conservatives and liberals is that the conservatives play with need on a very grand scale, liberals on a very small/individual scale. Ioan struggles with May after learning a lot of this about the Clade, because even if she’s earnestly in love with em, it’s like learning your inlaws are illuminati. Ey comes acround because a) she explains need for control as trauma response, and b) tells myth in progress, about how the gods created the world in an attempt to shape it to their will, but instead became impersonal forces in the face of absolute independence
+- Quote: She stood from her chair and walked up to where ey remained stubbornly seated. “If you do not wish to be unhappy with the answers to difficult questions, Ioan,” she said, tousling eir hair. “Then you do not need to ask them.” / She smiled down to em, and in that smaile was kindness, and in that kindness was a hatred ey could not fathom, and then she quit.
+- Dear says in Qoheleth that it uploaded in the 2130s after the L5 station had been set up, have to address this incongruence (either shift dates, or give it a reason to lie; probably the latter, to downplay stuff to one it does not yet trust)
+- True Name and Jonas begin wielding more and more power within the council despite the promise that forks will not influence balance of power, leads to Debarre and user11824 leaving council
+- Normalize “LVs”, capitalizing Secession, launch arms vs struts, …