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<p>Ioan, Codrin#Pollux, and Sorina,</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>We copied the entirety of our sim into Convergence wholesale. Dear transferred ownership of the one on Castor back to Serene during a little party we had. It said that it was to apologize for wrecking the last one, and that it would try to be more careful with the new one, but that she’d better take care of the Castor version for now. It made a whole big show out of it, because of course it did, but it was a fun party all the same.</p>
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<p>Nothing about our sim feels any different, which, on writing it, makes perfect sense. It’s a duplicate down to the subatomic level (if that even means anything on the System). However, the world that’s available to us when we try to move between sims is far, far from the same. There are much fewer places, yes, but it’s all much more organized. They’ve decided to set up up a central hub with five spokes, each ‘belonging’ to a race. The hub and spokes — essentially long pedestrian malls — act as the primary public areas for everyone. It’s not that there aren’t public sims outside of this, but these are always at the top of everyone’s mind when they think about going out.</p>
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<p>Along each spoke are all sorts of shops, restaurants, entertainment venues, and doors leading to larger public spaces. It started out as a non-euclidean type thing, where you would see a walkway between two shops leading out into a park that would clearly take up most of the spoke itself until too many of us complained and the walkways were opaqued with a sort of curtain that depicted what was beyond. In addition, every doorway that would lead to a violation like this has been set up to give a slight tingle when transiting, just as an added signal. I haven’t found it too much of a problem, but some voices were quite loud.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Nothing about our sim feels any different, which, on writing it, makes perfect sense. It’s a duplicate down to the subatomic level.<sup id="fnref:meansanything"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:meansanything">1</a></sup> However, the world that’s available to us when we try to move between sims is far, far from the same. There are fewer places, yes, but it’s all much more organized. They’ve decided to set up up a central hub with five spokes, each ‘belonging’ to a race. The hub and spokes — essentially long pedestrian malls — act as the primary public areas for everyone. It’s not that there aren’t public sims outside of this, but these are always at the top of everyone’s mind when they think about going out.</p>
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<p>Along each spoke are all sorts of shops, restaurants, entertainment venues, and doors leading to larger public spaces. It started out as a non-euclidean type thing, where you would see a walkway between two shops leading out into a park that would clearly take up most of the spoke itself until too many people complained and the walkways were opaqued with a sort of curtain that depicted what was beyond. In addition, every doorway that would lead to a violation like this has been set up to give a slight tingle when transiting, just as an added signal. I haven’t found it too much of a problem, but some voices were quite loud.</p>
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<p>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, though this only totals a million or so.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>That said, they’ve all been incredibly polite, 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.</p>
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<p>I say they above, but that goes beyond just the firstracers. Given the similarities in just how each race is polite, I imagine that there is at least an expectation that this is how life must exist after convergence, or, more likely, all who decided to join were briefed on how to interact during convergence. Certainly just about everyone I’ve run into speaks at least a little bit of our <em>lingua franca</em>, though I know that many of us are learning Nanon as well.</p>
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<p>All the same, it feels like we’re all being very careful around each other, still feeling out our boundaries and all. I have at least gotten the chance to introduce Dear to the other emissaries (even Iska, who stuck around long enough to view one of its shows, but didn’t stay; they seemed confused and unnerved). It and Turun Ko have gotten on well, surprising no one.</p>
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<p>All the same, it feels like we’re all being very careful around each other, still feeling out our boundaries. I have at least gotten the chance to introduce Dear and █████ to the other emissaries (even Iska, who stuck around long enough to view one of its shows, but didn’t stay; they seemed confused and unnerved). Dear and Turun Ko have gotten on well, surprising no one.</p>
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<p>The document will have a whole lot more that you’ll likely find interesting, but I just wanted to pass on some more personal impressions as well.</p>
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<p><strong>Clade Eyes Only</strong></p>
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<p>I mentioned that True Name suggested that I write to you all about this, which was honestly a little strange. Not strange in that she’s been talking with me — we see each other nearly every day and have fallen into a professional relationship — but that she pulled me aside to have a really quite earnest discussion about it.</p>
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<p>I’ve seen enough of her with all pretense stripped away to know what earnestness looks like, and this was <em>almost</em> that. There’s definitely still something going on under the surface.</p>
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<p>Her explicit reasons for wanting me to send this to you are that she says the sentiment and mood have some striking similarities to the early days of the System. “There is a sense of a new thing, here, and it is a thing that we are left to build into our own new world,” she said.</p>
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<p>I can see what she means, too. Even though we can go back to Castor at just about any time (though we’ve been told that, starting soon, that will be very heavily rate limited until they work out a better solution to the separate reputation markets), it very much does feel like we are a new colony. We’ve found ourselves in a truly empty space along with people we’ve never met, and it’s up to us to build something that works.</p>
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<p>Still, she, her stanza, and Jonas are hardly absent. They seem to be putting out gentle feelers for how all of this works. I don’t get the sense that they’re looking to guide it in any dramatic ways, but there’s a tension beneath the surface that I can only just pick up on. Political structures differing between Convergence and Castor put the rate-limiting at the border in a new context.</p>
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<p>Still, she, her stanza, and Jonas are hardly absent. They seem to be putting out gentle feelers for how all of this works. I don’t get the sense that they’re looking to guide it in any dramatic way, but there’s a tension beneath the surface that I can only just pick up on. Political structures differing between Convergence and Castor would put the rate-limiting at the border in a new context.</p>
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<p>All of this is based off one conversation, though, so I’ll keep you all up to date as best I can.</p>
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<p><strong>End Clade Eyes Only</strong></p>
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<p>I miss you all. Pass on my love.</p>
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<p>Codrin#Castor</p>
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<p>Ioan,</p>
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<p>While I’m sure that Codrin#Castor’s already told you plenty about me, I wanted to send you a letter directly.</p>
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<p>Something about winding up here in a place so fundamentally different from where we’ve lived before has me in mind of the past. I wasn’t quite sure why this was, at first. Obviously, I miss the prairie and life aboard Castor, and that’s all in the past, but one would think that I’d be more worried about what’s in front of me than what’s behind me. The prospect of months or years aboard this new world — never mind the core facets of existing in this world — give me plenty of time to worry about the future, though.</p>
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<p>Something about winding up here in a place so fundamentally different from where we’ve lived before has me in mind of the past. I wasn’t quite sure why this was, at first. Obviously, I miss the prairie and life aboard Castor, but one would think that I’d be more worried about what’s in front of me than what’s behind me. The prospect of months or years aboard this new world — never mind the core facets of existing in this world — gives me plenty of time to worry about the future at my leisure, though.</p>
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<p>I suppose leaving behind so much is reason enough to think about the past.</p>
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<p>I could spend all of that time thinking about my partners (and I’ve certainly been thinking about them plenty), but you’ve been coming up in my thoughts more than I’d expected. Something about this extra layer of individuation has you feeling even less like a down-tree instance than you did before, and far more like a good friend — especially given how much I miss you.</p>
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<p>I miss you! Isn’t that weird to say? Perhaps. We’ve never met, have we? Ruminating on my roots has me thinking fondly on the past, though. We are stuck however many billions of kilometers apart, though, and that distance will only grow, the time between messages will only ever get longer. At least I think I better understand what Dear was talking about with regards to the difference between longing and being missed.</p>
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<p>I miss you! Is that weird to say? Perhaps. We’ve never met, have we? Ruminating on my roots has me thinking fondly on all that’s come and gone. We are stuck however many billions of kilometers apart, though, and that distance will only grow, the time between messages will only ever get longer. At least I think I better understand what Dear was talking about with regards to the difference between longing and being missed.</p>
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<p>Ah well, perhaps I’m just lonely. Lonely and moody. It’s so strange here, and it’s been playing havoc with my emotions.</p>
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<p>I miss you and May Then My Name, and I hope you’re both doing well. Pass on my love.</p>
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<p>Sorina Bălan<br />
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<li class="done2"> <a href="002.html">Ioan → clade</a>: first meeting with True Name</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="003.html">Codrin#Castor → clade</a>: on convergence</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="004.html">Sorina → Ioan</a>: greetings (on S+L day)</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="005.html">Codrin#Castor → Ioan, #Pollux</a>: Struggling re: Sorina and silence</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="006.html">Sorina → Ioan</a>: I love you letter</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="007.html">Codrin#Pollux → clade</a>: Dear’s partner is gone, serene is back</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="005.html">Codrin#Castor → Ioan, #Pollux</a>: Struggling re: Sorina and silence</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="006.html">Sorina → Ioan</a>: I love you letter</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="007.html">Codrin#Pollux → clade</a>: Dear’s partner is gone, serene is back</li>
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<li class="done2"> Development (footnote saying that at this point, comms include exclusion for requested parties, given to all on the same day)<ol>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="008.html">Aurel → clade</a>: Hi. Summary of <em>Mitzvot</em>, asking after TN, note that replies from other TNs were identical, proving they’re in on it w/ Jonas, PS thoughts on whether or not Ioan and Michelle would have wound up together, b/c Sasha, parallel + intermittent monogamy, gender w/ nicknames, musing on clades + how they might have actually fared prior to uploading (e.g: would that disagreement b/w In Dreams+Hammered Silver w/ them manifest as fights or something?)</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="009.html">Codrin#Pollux → clade</a>: Moping re: partner</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="010.html">Sorina → Ioan</a>: wonders about seeking out new partner to feel fulfilled before getting in touch with exes, never dated before, so what now? (sent before receiving Aurel’s letter)</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="011.html">Ioan → Codrin#Pollux</a>: musing re: never been in a relationship before means never having to break up before (even if it’s only temporary). Talked to May, who asked if it was like Rareş?</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="012.html">Sorina → Aurel and Ioan</a>: Why are we in so many relationships with Odists? That is, what do we get out of our relationships with each other?</li>
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<li class="done3"> Development (footnote saying that at this point, comms include exclusion for requested parties, given to all on the same day)<ol>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="008.html">Aurel → clade</a>: Hi. Summary of <em>Mitzvot</em>, asking after TN, note that replies from other TNs were identical, proving they’re in on it w/ Jonas, PS thoughts on whether or not Ioan and Michelle would have wound up together, b/c Sasha, parallel + intermittent monogamy, gender w/ nicknames, musing on clades + how they might have actually fared prior to uploading (e.g: would that disagreement b/w In Dreams+Hammered Silver w/ them manifest as fights or something?)</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="009.html">Codrin#Pollux → clade</a>: Moping re: partner</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="010.html">Sorina → Ioan</a>: wonders about seeking out new partner to feel fulfilled before getting in touch with exes, never dated before, so what now? (sent before receiving Aurel’s letter)</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="011.html">Ioan → Codrin#Pollux</a>: musing re: never been in a relationship before means never having to break up before (even if it’s only temporary). Talked to May, who asked if it was like Rareş?</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="012.html">Sorina → Aurel and Ioan</a>: Why are we in so many relationships with Odists? That is, what do we get out of our relationships with each other?</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="013.html">Codrin#Pollux → clade</a>: life with Serene and Dear, other Odist merges, but result doesn’t stick around.</li>
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