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HAI!!! i feel like all my followers have no idea what the fuck im talking about when i say things about my stories so uhm im gonna talk.
before i say anything im just gonna say that when i talk about the gods i generally refer to everyone else as mortals even if theyre not technically mortal. also i call the people of Earth humans but theyre really not i just dont know what else to call them
OK FIRST OF ALLL. the gods. there are 12 of them, but only 10 are widely known. Creechur got kicked out of God Club™ and is now stuck on another plane of existence unable to be seen by the living. Arcane does not want to be in God Club™ so she just hangs out with mortals. mostly on SOL. also she's called the Unknown so if everyone did know about her it would be a little weird.
the gods did not create the universe, they were just already there. really, the gods haven't made many things, other than Mazgomoth's Endless Dark. they helped certain things along, but they haven't interfered with too much. they mostly like to torment random people, and watch and laugh at mortal's short comings.
they have a set of rules that they don't actually break all that often. its mostly just don't interfere too much and get mortals to do everything for you instead. i guess its to prevent their version of god modding
mortals of Cosmos aren't generally aware of the gods unless they know someone from outside Cosmos (the Endless Dark, Hell, Olvion) or they have met one of the gods.
Citizens of Olvion don't really worship all the gods at once, most of the time they'll pick one or two. on occasion a god will find a mortal theyre fond of for whatever reason and bless them with some ✨powers✨ these people are called Chosen. Chosen can be blessed by multiple gods, but mostly only one or two.
Carrion and Thistle are bless by all of the gods and as a result are super op
mortals don't use any pronouns except it/its for the gods unless they know them really well. like how Alastor uses he/him pronouns for Creechur because he's basically their dad. most mortals also don't know the gods' names and only refer to them with their titles.
heres all the gods with their names and titles:
Mazgomoth, also known as the Monster, is the god of darkness, chaos, and change. it takes the form of a horse (ish..?) with butterfly wings and antennae, an extra set of ears, and a red fox tail. it created the Endless Dark and the Spirits that reside there. Mazgomoth personally creates every single Spirit's soul, mostly using shadow and little pit of light stolen from the Light Barrier. shadows cannot be cast without light. most Spirits worship Mazgomoth and even if they don't they still appreciate it. Chosen include: Synthesis, Sheridan, Shade, Dusk, Raven, Cornix, Etherael
Loom, also known as the Light Barrier (sometimes just shortened to the Barrier) is the god of light, order, and stagnation. he's also called Lampshade by the other gods because it's funny. he takes the form of a fluffy rainbow caterpillar. he is the reason SOL is Like That. he likes getting into fights with Mazgomoth and inconveniencing the other gods. mostly hes just kind of a dick to everyone. Chosen include: Nila, Etherael, Azazel, Lovanna
Kane, aka the Bite, is the god of death and absolute destruction. he takes the form of a rattlesnake. he likes making mortals kill each other. Hell is his domain (despite it originally belonging to Creechur), though he doesn't do much with it. Chosen: Surlmog, Kexiem
Creechur, aka the Scavenger, is the god of life after death. also detritivores. he takes the form of a turkey vulture <3 he got kicked out so now hes moping on another plane of existence, only able to be seen by the undead. he doesnt have a domain or anything but he the mortals he brings back from the dead are called the Undead. there's not many of them so they know him more personally than the average Spirit might know Mazgomoth. he likes hanging out with the Dreamer. Chosen: all of the Undead
Ifer, aka the Creator, is the god of creation, imagination, and creativity! he takes the form of a puppy. he doesnt do much other than marvel at mortal's creativity and making things for himself. Chosen: none
Pyxis and Cyphi, aka the Fears are gods of fear. their sisters and both take the form of black cats. they wish it was Halloween everyday <3 chosen: Briar, Willow, Flame
Terrag, aka the Dreamer, is a god of dreams, sleep, and the mind. he takes the form of a giant tarantula. he's currently asleep but Creechur visits him in the dream world a lot. Terrag likes showing up in random mortal's dreams and riding of them nightmares or just giving them a really really weird dream. chosen: Cornix, Raven, Lazarus
Jack, aka the Eyes, is a god of knowledge. he takes the form of a grey tabby cat with weird eyes. he used to just watch mortals until he realized he could just make other mortals watch other mortals so now he can mess around with the other gods. chosen: Shrike, Lavender, Constantine, Beleth
Arcane, aka the Unknown, is a god of the unknown. she takes the form of a white-backed vulture. she doesnt like being around the other gods because she actually has morals unlike everyone else so instead she spends her time hanging around mortals and helping out where she can. chosen: Venx, Sheridan
Ran, aka the Hunter, is a god of hunting and predator animals. she takes the form of a calico cat with fucked up teeth. shes really really mean and she, like Kane, likes to make make mortals kill each other. chosen: Ragyre, Leshok
Flea, aka the Hunted, is a god of being hunted and prey animals. he takes the form of a grey and black spotted fluffy dog. he likes to pick a random mortal and be their pet for whatever reason. maybe it feels safer to him or something. his current owner is Bog, who thinks hes just a normal dog and named him Tennis Ball. chosen: Bog
#rot.txt#world building#wow that was. a lot#long post#my hand kind of hurts now#im not proof reading this so theres prolly some embarrassing typos in here#uhm. yeah. if you read all of this thanks ily <3
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Allegiances
SO to start this off, i need the cats from SnitchClan and RusherClan. I will include a list, then some changes to the og clan rules.
SnitchClan:
Leader: Flaxstar Spiritual Deputy: Swiftclaw Battle Deputy: Firemane Medicine Deputy: Waterwave Secondary Medicine cat(s): Flintfur Ultimate warriors: Shredear, Talonmask, Sneezewall, Starfoot Warriors: Redback, Pottedstem, Flatface, Steamtail, Paintneck, Blossomsheet, Fleapelt, Palespots, Twigfire New Warriors: Shiningmask, Stripestone, Shivermoon, Sootcloud, Hollowjaw, Jaystrike, Ashenstorm, Stash Apprentices: Smoothpaw, Whiskerpaw, Bulletpaw Predictor: Rocketcloud Meditator: Purplestripe Queens: Littlebone (Stickkit, Crumbkit), Peacockwhisker (Bluekit, Marigoldkit, Violetkit) Elders: Bubblecream, Curlytail
RusherClan:
Leader: Aspenstar Spiritual Deputy: Hollycollar Battle Deputy: Squinteyes Medicine Deputy: Fanflame Secondary Medicine cat(s): Woodclaw Warrior-Medicine cat(s): Furnacefang Ultimate warriors: Scarmuzzle, Snowshoe, Windytail, Sunclaw Warriors: Tawnystripe, Cloudwater, Fuzzymeow, Silvercloak, Pirewing, Houndfang, Rockwhisker New Warriors: Hazelstripe, Littlespeckle, Fringetail, Possumpelt, Goldenlily Apprentices: Flypaw, Stonepaw, Lilypaw, Birchpaw Predictor: [none] Meditator: Ploverbranch Queens: Asterpetal (Rattlekit), Wrencloud (Pollockkit, Poppykit, Elders: Hornbeak, Silkytail, Wiretail
Normal text means that the rule doesn’t change. Italic means it’s expected to follow it, bold is parts of rules that don’t apply, and rules marked by a number and letter (ex. 1a) are new rules that only apply to these clans.
1. Defend your clan, even with your life. You may have friendships with cats from other clans, but your loyalty must stay with your clan, as one day you may meet them in battle.
Friendships are not tolerated. Normally, friendships aren’t followed by exilement, but rather a down-rank. Sometimes, friendships are mistaken for relationships, and can result in worse punishments. It’s not too rare for cats to have relationships with the same gender, or at least thought to have these.
2. Do not hunt or tresspass on other Clan territory.
This rule doesn’t change. The consequenses from your leader are smaller, but conswquenses from the clan you tresspassed can be from a scolding to death. Their border patrols are unforgiving.
3. Elders, queens, and kits must be fed before apprentices and warriors. Unless they have premission, apprentices cannot eat until the elders have been fed. If any warrior or apprentice is sick or injured, they will be allowed to eat with the kits, elders, and queens.
This rule only applies to kits. Cats eat when theyre’s a satisfactory amount of prey in the fresh-kill pile. If the level isn’t reached, the rule will be applied as an expected rule.
4. Prey is killed only to be eaten. Give StarClan thanks for it’s life.
This rule doesn’t apply at all. Cats have learned how to catch deers and take the bones out to build walls for their camp, while still having a use for the body: feeding their predators so they won’t attack. Smaller prey is expected to only be eaten, but because you can’t really do anything with the bones.
5. A kit must be 6 moons old or older to become an apprentice.
This rule still applies. However, many things can push the date forward or back. First of all, medicine cats start at 5 moons, so if they have any warrior siblings, they will become full warriors/med cats just at the same time. If there aren’t enough cats in a role, they might be apprenticed 4-5 (warriors) or even 3-5 (meditatiors, predictors, extreme med cat shortages) moons early.
6. Newly appointed warriors will keep a silent vigil for one night after recieving their warrior name.
This rule is changed a bit. They don’t hold vigils, instead they silently hunt. The warriors are allowed to eat one piece of prey they catch. The point of it is that the cats are both learning how to live alone and to be patient, as catching one of no pieces of prey causes the process to happen again two nights after.
7. A cat cannot become deputy until they have mentored at least one apprentice.
This applies to battle and spiritual deputies. Medicine deputies cannot be chosen as leader, and are instead they serve as prophecy analyzers and normal medicine cats.
8. The deputy will become leader when the leader dies, retires, or is exiled.
Not so fast there. If there is only one deputy (ex. battle deputy and leader went down together), they will become leader. If there is only a medicine deputy, they will lead. If there are NO deputies, the cat most closely related to the leader or a cat they chose will become leader, if not that then one of the ultimate warriors. When all deputies are alive, a vote is taken. The winner recieves their nine lives and the loser remains in their position. These battles are usually peaceful, but there was once a time where bloodshed came from the compitition of two brothers.
9. After the death, exilement, promotion, or retirement of a deputy, another will need to be chosen before sunrise.
This rule applies only to battle deputies. For spiritual deputies, they will be chosen after the apprenticeship of the new meditatior is done (the old one becomes the spiritual deputy). For medicine deputies, it will be the next oldest medicine cat (if any). The clans would rather have a meditator than a spiritual deputy, and a medicine deputy rather than a medicine cat.
(ten skipped because gatherings don’t exist and nothing replaces them)
11. Boundaries must be checked and marked daily. Challenge all tresspassing cats.
Applied heavily. Borders are defended with lives. Sometimes, when cats are angry at the other clan, borders will also be marked with blood.
12. No warrior can neglet the pain from a kit, regardless of clan.
This is true. As long as they don’t go into enemy camp while helping a pained or troubled kit, they aren’t breaking rule 2. However, the kit is brought to the savior’s clan, and will only be returned after a fight. Generally they stay.
13. The word of the clan leader is the code.
Normally, the cats don’t need to follow leader commands, especially if the deputies don’t agree or didn’t say anything. However, they will commonly do it anyway.
14. An honorable warrior doesn’t need to kill to win battles.
Due to how much cats are killed in small skimmishes, the rule was recently downgraded to expected instead of nessecary. Generally, targeting a paticular cat is not allowed, but accidental killings during things like border patrols aren’t regarded as serious.
15. A warrior rejects the soft life of a kittypet.
The clan cats understand that their lifestyle is brutal, so cats are allowed to leave it behind for a kittypet life and are sometimes honored as some of the most peaceful cats.
16. The clans must stick together.
If you read this far, you get why this isn’t a rule. They don’t want to. They’ve hated each other since the beginning.
17a: No battles will be held over beliefs.
18a: If a clan is ill and need assistance, then the medicine cats must all team up to cure it.
Even though the clans themselves don’t stick together, the medicine cats do.
19a: The Mooncastle is neutral territory. Cats may not live or hunt there, and traveling to it outclasses rules 11 and 2. If a cat becoming leader is killed, the killer is exiled to the mountains.
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The Evaluators: To Trade With Aliens, You Must Accommodate
CogNet init: Paul SRINIVASAN
Recip: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Datime: 2206.12.15.16: 45
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Thandi, the commission on human rights referendums Tuesday. The teams disappearance isnt the main issue, but I dont like how theyre hasten this. Facilitate me out here, OK? Off the record.
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
So tell me how that billable hours thought works for you lawyers. Because I might, I dont know, actually have a chore of my own.
Thread reply from Paul SRINIVASAN
Please! [ Conceptual embed with caption: man bowing with sides pressed together] What do you want? Dinner? Vacation? Hours of mind-bending sex? Because I would do that for you, Thandi. No relinquish is too great.
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
You already told me you let your Spermicept patch expire. Stand the blaze away from me. What happened to Weis personal logs?
Thread reply from Paul SRINIVASAN
Gremlins? The slowdown is reasonably severe for this missiontwo years. Not enough black hole for a better communicate, or something like that. Ill see if I can find them. So, they snack her, right? They absolutely ate her.
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
No. I dont think they devour her.
Recall transcript, WEI Aihua
Meeting with neighbourhood Influential 1
Datime 2204.1.22.10: 10
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[ All sensory recall except auditory muffled to aid lightstreaming .]
So what would you like to know, evaluator?
Tell me more of your parties, Adoration China.
If you dont mind, would you call me Aihua, delight?
Oh? Your aide be pointed out that your figures sometimes have meaning.
Yes, but [ laughter] That doesnt mean we like those meanings.
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Ah. Please forgive, Aihua. Your expression still confuses.
Im stunned by your facility with my own language, actually.
We become aware of First Contact team.
Yes, but weve had just as much time to learn your language, and well. [ WEI caption: Here I attempt to speak in Manka C. The Manka word for modification translates inadequately. Its implication is more like submission? fitness ?] We am still terrifying/ poor at adaptation.
[ RATCHETING SOUND. WEI CAPTION: MANKA LAUGHTER. THANKFULLY HE RETURNS THE CONVERSATION TO ENGLISH .] It is true, you do not adapt quick as we. But that is expected. You are not evaluators.
Ah, yes. Since you mentioned that, if I may askwhat exactly is your role? Ive asked Hashish, the nurturer whos been evidencing me around, but it was unclear.
I am evaluator.
But what does that intend? What do you assess?
Everything. Parties. World.
For what purpose?
[ SILENCE FOR 2.5 SECONDS] I do not understand, Aihua.
On my world, beings evaluate procedures, achievements. For the purpose of improving them.
Yes. Improvement. Adaptation. Same with us.
I see?
You do not.
Sorry, I
It takes time for beings so different to accommodate. You do well. No is necessary to fear.
Thank you. Ouch!
The shells of [ RECALL BLUR. WEI CAPTION: LOCAL DELICACY, UNPRONOUNCEABLE] are sharp. You are disabled? Shall I summon humans?
No, Im fine, itll stop in a minute. Could you give me something toyes, thank you. Most of your biologicals are innocuous to us, and vice versa. I just hate that Im bleeding on this lovely cloth.
It is unimportant. More?
Yes, delight, its yummy. Youre an good cook.
[ Auditory recall ends. Interpret gustatory reminisce, 2204.1.22.10: 15, for renewal .]
Team Clog of TE Mission, Dar-Mankana
Post by WEI AihuaPublic
Datime 2204.1.20.19: 30
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My first professor in sapio told me never to Earthropomorphize xenospecies, but the first thing that leapt into my thought when I met them was that the Manka look like upright cheetahs( cheetae ?). Males and females are indistinguishable to my attentions, lean and deep-chested, while nurturers, the third largest fornication, are noticeably more muscular and squarely improved. I pride myself in that my subconscious at least selected a predatory Earth analogue, which should deter me from loosening my protect too much.
Comment from WANG
Its simply cheetahs. And you have three PhDs?
Comment from WEI
None of them are in linguistics, OK? Shut up.
Tomer Hanuka
Team Clog of TE MissionDar-Mankana
Post by WEI AihuaTeamlock
Datime 2204.1.23.11: 50
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I could KILL Rafkind and the whole First Contact team! What Neanderthal decided to tell the Manka about Christianity? This is exactly why the UC censored Americans from TE teams.
Fortunately, the district potentate seemed more entertained than anything by the idea of one mans demise absolving the incorrects of an entire species. Just one? Cute.
Now Im wondering what else FC screwed up.
FC Report Detail p. 67: Culture Notes
Datime: 2201.4.7.14: 40
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[ Auditory embed with caption: Manka adoration chant? Recallers: Multiple; public action .]
My love sings behind me
And touches the nape of my neck
I do not look around
My heart flappings fast with fear.
FC Report Detail p. 224: Culture Notes
Recall by First Contact Team Member John RAFKIND
Datime: 2201.5.13.9: 24
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[ Auditory embed with caption: Observed class 2 Deceptive ideation .]
Whoa.
Whoa?
Apologies. A colloquialism.
Ah. We must learn more of your world so that we may adapt to these colloquialisms.
That would certainly be possible after Trade Establishment, Hashish.
Why did you express a colloquialism, John?
Uh, well the male Manka walking by with that group of children. For some reason, when he look back me, I got the creeer, I find uneasy.
That was an evaluator.
An evaluator of what?
[ RaTcheting sound. RAFKIND caption: I think that was a laugh ?] Many things, at many times. For now, those children.
Were all six of those the evaluators juveniles?
There were three children, John.
Three? I didnt get a good review, but Im sure I appreciated more.
There were three children.
[ Recall ends .]
Team Clog of TE MissionDar-Mankana
Post by Angela WHETONPublic
Datime 2204.1.24.12: 40
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Did some additional examines of the southeast central continent today. Those palladium sediments Have you guys heard the stock tolls since the CogNet-Pallenergy merger? My God, I might actually get out of student loan debt before I die.
Also noticed an rare concentration of calcium in various accumulations around the city. Hector proceeded with one of the locals to check out a nearby locate and was shown an open-pit tomb. [ VISUAL OVERRIDE EMBED WITH CAPTION: LONG, ORDERLY ROWS OF SEVERAL HUNDRED CLEAN, POLISHED BONES, ORGANIZED BY TYPE .] Each pit is several hundred hoofs deep, bones layered with dirt. Local announced bones the price paid. Ritual? Tag for sapiology review.
OhHector has asked me to note for government officials team log his hypothesis that the burial pits are f__ing creepy-crawly. So noted.
Recall transcript, WEI Aihua
Meeting with local Influential 2
Datime 2204.1.24.13: 10
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[ All sensory recall except auditory smothered to aid lightstreaming .]
Forgive me for staring, evaluator. Its only that you gaze so different.
I have strained greatly to adapt because we last fit. Does my form satisfy you?
I dont certainly know what to become of it. You ogle
More like you.
Yes.
This distres you.
Surprises me, evaluator. On my planet “theres” souls that can change their coloration to blend in with the environment, but [ Visual override embed with WEI caption: The evaluators face. Memo the abbreviate of the muzzle and repositioning of the ears, at slopes of the foreman rather than the top .]
It has been difficult, yes. Your beings are strangely configured. Even more strange, inside.
How do you
Your bloods preference is most amusing. [ Pause] I have no goal of devouring you, Aihua.
[ Laughter] Uh, sorry. On my nature well. Our recreation are a lot of unnerving men that want to gobble us down.
Entertainment? But your parties are apex predators, are you not?
I suppose we are. Huh. Maybe thats why the notion of being preyed upon doesnt actually scare us.
[ Series of harsh exhalations. WEI caption: The evaluator believe that there is imitating human laugh .] Yes , no is necessary to fright! Tell me, Aihua. Why do you not have offsprings?
What?
Why do you
Sorry, I discover. The topic justits not something my people frequently ask in casual conversation.
I shall remember and accommodate. For now, will you refute?
Well, we have a problem with overpopulation and its effects: crowding, homelessness, famine, worse. Were redressing now, but their own problems took a long time to develop, it was therefore will take a long time to resolve.
And in the meantime, your it is necessary to simply lose?
Unfortunately, yes. It helps that weve modelled the Trade Network with other sapient species. That increases the resources available on my planet.
But with greater resources, your digits will continue to grow. Theres nothing to shape you stop.
We have our own sapience, which tells us that such rise is unsustainable. Because of this, only some of my beings choose to replicate. Im one of the ones who chose not to.
I see. But if sustainable growth was possible?
Maybe Id have a child. Perhaps. But it isnt possible, so no minors for me. [ Sigh] Now. Not to change the subject, but Ive accompanied some delicacies from my own world-wide to share
Good. I am most interested in eating some of your worlds revels. And if I may say, Aihua, the gleam of your hair is very fine today.
[ Recall ends .]
US NATIONAL EXOPLANETARY SURVEYMEMORANDUM
Levl: Official
Prio: Medium
Init: Salim GILBERTO, FC Team Biological Surveyor
Datime: 2201.11.13.03: 00
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Esteemed Survey members, colleagues, and sidekicks TAGEND
You will see from my FC report that Dar-Mankana is home to a plethora of speciessubstantially more than our own, which has yet to recover from the arrival of the Anthropocene. But a merely 2 million years ago, Dar-Mankana hosted three times more species than at present.
What could trigger such a destruction? Evidence indicates an interference in several key food webs: a polyphagous piranha which ate its road through tertiary and secondary consumers with such abandon that it likely justification its own extinction. Superpredators may be pop-science clickbait, but Dar-Mankana could represent our closest brush with one of these evolutionary bogeymen. The lingering damage is still perceptible: a relative dearth of megafauna, skewed predator-to-prey rates, insufficient biomass all around for the power that this planet creates.
Further pre-TE study is strongly recommended.
FC Report Excerpt, p. 530: Xenological notes
Datime: 2201.7.7.6: 32
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[ Buffering] compare to Dr. Gilbertos assertions.
The crater is smallless than half the size of Earths Chicxulub crater, which is widely believed to have triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs. While surely large enough to crusade catastrophic neighbourhood shatter, this cannot explain the mass extinction.
Core samples from the ocean floor discover an abundance of palladium and [ Buffering]
Team Clog of TE MissionDar-Mankana
Post by Hector PRINCIPETeamlock
Datime 2204.1.25.06: 30
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Sorry if the committee is blurry. Cant sleep. Theory occasion!
Why arent there more Manka? Theyre ripe for Sagans technological adolescence. Weve seen this on so many planets that its practically a law of nature; there is a requirement to erupting at the seams, same as us. But the Manka are precise the right population size for their societys resources. Nobodys thirsty. No idle youth. Plenty for all.
So. Unobserved social self-restraints? The Kama Rhythm Method Sutra? Histocompatibility crisis?
Comment from WEI
Maybe theyve already been through the tech teenages. Gilbertos extinction?
Comment from PRINCIPE
Two million years ago was tech infancy. Or pre-partum: The Manka precursors perhaps werent even tool-users.
Comment from WHETON
Off topic but you know what I obstruct “ve been thinking about”?( Cant sleep either .) The building. Four steeples on every important build. Four lobes to every artistic motif. They got six fingers. Three copulations. WTF is with the veneration of four? Whats their math?
Comment from WANG
Base-8. Ache in the ass; had to recalculate all the potential royalties in the two reports. But yeah, another difference on four. Shit, I cant do possibility at oh dark thirty. Sleep, you apes.
CogNet init: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Recip: WU Li Bai
Transl: English-Cantonese
Datime: 2206.12.16.20: 02
Respectful accosts, Dr. Wu. My appoint is Thandiwe Solomon, with the Extrasolar Sapience department of Rhodes University. I was plotted by your position paper in The Journal for the Study of Applied Sapiology . As someone whos been in the field and discovered how easy it to be able to move blunders, I concur wholeheartedly with your recommendation for a minimum 10 -year survey between First Contact and Trade Establishment.
Sir, it is my understanding that you two are Wei Aihuas mentor during her postdoctorate. Have you been received information on her recent operation?
Thread reply from WU Li Bai
Indeed I have, Dr. Solomonand so must you have been, if youre asking me. I suppose your UC permission is still active?
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
It is, sir. Though in the interest of full disclosure, my tier is exclusively Secret.
Thread reply from WU Li Bai
I shall tailor my responses accordingly. What is your wonder?
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
Was Dr. Wei lonely?
Recall transcript, WEI Aihua
Meeting with local Influential 5
Datime 2204.1.26.10: 30
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And then the old person answered, Why is it always the intellectuals? [ Laughter]
[ Laughter. WEI caption: the evaluators laughter reverberates entirely human now. See accent reduction too .] The narrations of your beings are so amusing.
My grandmother will be pleased to hear that.
Grandmother?
Female parent of my mother. [ sigh] She may be dead by the time I get back. I dont know whether to hope for that or not.
Oh?
Ive been croaked five years old. She has cancera disease, untreatable in her client. That necessitates a slow, agonizing death. My parents are taking care of her, but
Your parties have just been males and females. These take over the nurturer persona?
Well, its not quite as binary as that, but … When necessary, yes.
And no one fulfills the evaluator role? Your poor grandmother.
Well, Im not sure [ delay] Oh my God.
Are you praying?
No, justthat was amaze. Youre another sex . Like male, like female, like the nurturers. The FC team got it completely wrong. Four fornications , not three!
Yes, those humen were very slow be adjusted to Dar-Mankana. You are much more fit and clever.
Evaluator, I must confer with my parties. But ah may I return to speak with you again tomorrow?
That would give me great pleasure, Aihua.
CogNet init: Hector PRINCIPE
Recip: Angela WHETON
Priority: URGENT
Datime: 2204.1.31.04: 00
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Angela. [ ping] Angela. Damn it, wake the fuck up! And pass this on to Aihua. Fucking – god, delight pass this on to Aihua.
OK. Clear contemplates. OK. I went back to the burial site. Somethings been bothering me. This time I realise what it was.
Most of the bones are small. Childrens bones.
Theory time. Lets say your species is threatened by an enemy so insidious that all the usual existence proficiencies are unproductive against it. Its an foe that they are able camouflage itself enough to get really close during hunting. Maybe it can clown you even up close. What if simply specializing a full-time protection for the weakest members of your species, a nurturer , gives your parties any hope of survival against an opponent like that? And what if even that doesnt stop it? What if, in the end, you cant beat them, so you join them?
Aihua said the evaluators appearance was changing. Im approximating evaluators replace the male or female in reproductionnot all the time, just enough to continue themselves. Theyre not really male or female, though, because theyre fucking shapeshifters! Real Manka males and females are like us. The nurturers raiseand guardthe offspring until theyre age-old enough to show their real potential. Guess what happens then?
They go to the evaluators. Some “of childrens rights”, the healthiest and the most adaptable, get to live. Only them, though. The restalong with perhaps the old-time, the sickare the toll the Manka pay for their prosperity.
Gilbertos superpredators, Angela. Aihuas been having dinner with one each night for the past week.
PANet init: Paul SRINIVASAN
Recip: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Datime: 2206.12.18.06: 10
Ow. Public access streaming hurts my mentality, literally. Anyway, that sidekick of mine who works for CogNet-Pallenergy? Located out Wei Aihuas personal logs did get lightstreamed. Somebody prescribed them deleted.
Same person also slapped a bunch of restrictions on the TE SurveySat maps that Angela Wheton sent back. I cant get through these limitations, but I would guess they discover the extent and site of those palladium lodges she mentioned. Thats why approving is being fast-trackedUCs going a lot of distres from Large-hearted Fusion.
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Are you kidding me? Did the UC pay attention to anything else in the damned dossier? Do they recognize Wei Aihua likely isnt dead?
Thread reply: Paul SRINIVASAN
Its been three years since the TE ship blew up. Wheres she been all this time, if shes still alive?
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
I dont know, but three years is slew of time for Stockholm syndrome to set in. Especially if her captors become more and more human, and likable, and attractive
Thread reply: Paul SRINIVASAN
No. Theyre a different species , Thandi.
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
The Manka are a different species. The evaluators are whatever the hell they want to be. Human, if they want to be! You have to ask UC Command to quarantine Dar-Mankana.
Thread reply: Paul SRINIVASAN
If there were any survivors of the TE team, that would filament them.
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Yes. Especially in case there is survivors.
UC Trade Establishment Commission
Excerpt, Letter to the leaders of Dar-Mankana
Datime: 2206.12.20.15: 45
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The United Communities of Earth also extend their heartfelt gratitude to the people of Dar-Mankana for their care of Dr. Wei in her days as the sole survivor of the TE ship explosion. Despite her eventual extinction in childbirth, your peoples valiant efforts to save her and her newborn are to be commended. An endowed resources of the fund has been established in the name of Dr. Wei, Specialist Principe, and the entire TE team. The child born from their duty shall be welcomed home, desired, and honored as the heir to a heroic legacy.
In peace and hope, we look forward to our reciprocal future of boom.
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CogNet init: Paul SRINIVASAN
Recip: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Datime: 2206.12.15.16: 45
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Thandi, the commission on human rights referendums Tuesday. The teams disappearance isnt the main issue, but I dont like how theyre hasten this. Facilitate me out here, OK? Off the record.
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
So tell me how that billable hours thought works for you lawyers. Because I might, I dont know, actually have a chore of my own.
Thread reply from Paul SRINIVASAN
Please! [ Conceptual embed with caption: man bowing with sides pressed together] What do you want? Dinner? Vacation? Hours of mind-bending sex? Because I would do that for you, Thandi. No relinquish is too great.
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
You already told me you let your Spermicept patch expire. Stand the blaze away from me. What happened to Weis personal logs?
Thread reply from Paul SRINIVASAN
Gremlins? The slowdown is reasonably severe for this missiontwo years. Not enough black hole for a better communicate, or something like that. Ill see if I can find them. So, they snack her, right? They absolutely ate her.
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
No. I dont think they devour her.
Recall transcript, WEI Aihua
Meeting with neighbourhood Influential 1
Datime 2204.1.22.10: 10
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[ All sensory recall except auditory muffled to aid lightstreaming .]
So what would you like to know, evaluator?
Tell me more of your parties, Adoration China.
If you dont mind, would you call me Aihua, delight?
Oh? Your aide be pointed out that your figures sometimes have meaning.
Yes, but [ laughter] That doesnt mean we like those meanings.
N. K. Jemisin
About
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Ah. Please forgive, Aihua. Your expression still confuses.
Im stunned by your facility with my own language, actually.
We become aware of First Contact team.
Yes, but weve had just as much time to learn your language, and well. [ WEI caption: Here I attempt to speak in Manka C. The Manka word for modification translates inadequately. Its implication is more like submission? fitness ?] We am still terrifying/ poor at adaptation.
[ RATCHETING SOUND. WEI CAPTION: MANKA LAUGHTER. THANKFULLY HE RETURNS THE CONVERSATION TO ENGLISH .] It is true, you do not adapt quick as we. But that is expected. You are not evaluators.
Ah, yes. Since you mentioned that, if I may askwhat exactly is your role? Ive asked Hashish, the nurturer whos been evidencing me around, but it was unclear.
I am evaluator.
But what does that intend? What do you assess?
Everything. Parties. World.
For what purpose?
[ SILENCE FOR 2.5 SECONDS] I do not understand, Aihua.
On my world, beings evaluate procedures, achievements. For the purpose of improving them.
Yes. Improvement. Adaptation. Same with us.
I see?
You do not.
Sorry, I
It takes time for beings so different to accommodate. You do well. No is necessary to fear.
Thank you. Ouch!
The shells of [ RECALL BLUR. WEI CAPTION: LOCAL DELICACY, UNPRONOUNCEABLE] are sharp. You are disabled? Shall I summon humans?
No, Im fine, itll stop in a minute. Could you give me something toyes, thank you. Most of your biologicals are innocuous to us, and vice versa. I just hate that Im bleeding on this lovely cloth.
It is unimportant. More?
Yes, delight, its yummy. Youre an good cook.
[ Auditory recall ends. Interpret gustatory reminisce, 2204.1.22.10: 15, for renewal .]
Team Clog of TE Mission, Dar-Mankana
Post by WEI AihuaPublic
Datime 2204.1.20.19: 30
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My first professor in sapio told me never to Earthropomorphize xenospecies, but the first thing that leapt into my thought when I met them was that the Manka look like upright cheetahs( cheetae ?). Males and females are indistinguishable to my attentions, lean and deep-chested, while nurturers, the third largest fornication, are noticeably more muscular and squarely improved. I pride myself in that my subconscious at least selected a predatory Earth analogue, which should deter me from loosening my protect too much.
Comment from WANG
Its simply cheetahs. And you have three PhDs?
Comment from WEI
None of them are in linguistics, OK? Shut up.
Tomer Hanuka
Team Clog of TE MissionDar-Mankana
Post by WEI AihuaTeamlock
Datime 2204.1.23.11: 50
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I could KILL Rafkind and the whole First Contact team! What Neanderthal decided to tell the Manka about Christianity? This is exactly why the UC censored Americans from TE teams.
Fortunately, the district potentate seemed more entertained than anything by the idea of one mans demise absolving the incorrects of an entire species. Just one? Cute.
Now Im wondering what else FC screwed up.
FC Report Detail p. 67: Culture Notes
Datime: 2201.4.7.14: 40
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[ Auditory embed with caption: Manka adoration chant? Recallers: Multiple; public action .]
My love sings behind me
And touches the nape of my neck
I do not look around
My heart flappings fast with fear.
FC Report Detail p. 224: Culture Notes
Recall by First Contact Team Member John RAFKIND
Datime: 2201.5.13.9: 24
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[ Auditory embed with caption: Observed class 2 Deceptive ideation .]
Whoa.
Whoa?
Apologies. A colloquialism.
Ah. We must learn more of your world so that we may adapt to these colloquialisms.
That would certainly be possible after Trade Establishment, Hashish.
Why did you express a colloquialism, John?
Uh, well the male Manka walking by with that group of children. For some reason, when he look back me, I got the creeer, I find uneasy.
That was an evaluator.
An evaluator of what?
[ RaTcheting sound. RAFKIND caption: I think that was a laugh ?] Many things, at many times. For now, those children.
Were all six of those the evaluators juveniles?
There were three children, John.
Three? I didnt get a good review, but Im sure I appreciated more.
There were three children.
[ Recall ends .]
Team Clog of TE MissionDar-Mankana
Post by Angela WHETONPublic
Datime 2204.1.24.12: 40
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Did some additional examines of the southeast central continent today. Those palladium sediments Have you guys heard the stock tolls since the CogNet-Pallenergy merger? My God, I might actually get out of student loan debt before I die.
Also noticed an rare concentration of calcium in various accumulations around the city. Hector proceeded with one of the locals to check out a nearby locate and was shown an open-pit tomb. [ VISUAL OVERRIDE EMBED WITH CAPTION: LONG, ORDERLY ROWS OF SEVERAL HUNDRED CLEAN, POLISHED BONES, ORGANIZED BY TYPE .] Each pit is several hundred hoofs deep, bones layered with dirt. Local announced bones the price paid. Ritual? Tag for sapiology review.
OhHector has asked me to note for government officials team log his hypothesis that the burial pits are f__ing creepy-crawly. So noted.
Recall transcript, WEI Aihua
Meeting with local Influential 2
Datime 2204.1.24.13: 10
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[ All sensory recall except auditory smothered to aid lightstreaming .]
Forgive me for staring, evaluator. Its only that you gaze so different.
I have strained greatly to adapt because we last fit. Does my form satisfy you?
I dont certainly know what to become of it. You ogle
More like you.
Yes.
This distres you.
Surprises me, evaluator. On my planet “theres” souls that can change their coloration to blend in with the environment, but [ Visual override embed with WEI caption: The evaluators face. Memo the abbreviate of the muzzle and repositioning of the ears, at slopes of the foreman rather than the top .]
It has been difficult, yes. Your beings are strangely configured. Even more strange, inside.
How do you
Your bloods preference is most amusing. [ Pause] I have no goal of devouring you, Aihua.
[ Laughter] Uh, sorry. On my nature well. Our recreation are a lot of unnerving men that want to gobble us down.
Entertainment? But your parties are apex predators, are you not?
I suppose we are. Huh. Maybe thats why the notion of being preyed upon doesnt actually scare us.
[ Series of harsh exhalations. WEI caption: The evaluator believe that there is imitating human laugh .] Yes , no is necessary to fright! Tell me, Aihua. Why do you not have offsprings?
What?
Why do you
Sorry, I discover. The topic justits not something my people frequently ask in casual conversation.
I shall remember and accommodate. For now, will you refute?
Well, we have a problem with overpopulation and its effects: crowding, homelessness, famine, worse. Were redressing now, but their own problems took a long time to develop, it was therefore will take a long time to resolve.
And in the meantime, your it is necessary to simply lose?
Unfortunately, yes. It helps that weve modelled the Trade Network with other sapient species. That increases the resources available on my planet.
But with greater resources, your digits will continue to grow. Theres nothing to shape you stop.
We have our own sapience, which tells us that such rise is unsustainable. Because of this, only some of my beings choose to replicate. Im one of the ones who chose not to.
I see. But if sustainable growth was possible?
Maybe Id have a child. Perhaps. But it isnt possible, so no minors for me. [ Sigh] Now. Not to change the subject, but Ive accompanied some delicacies from my own world-wide to share
Good. I am most interested in eating some of your worlds revels. And if I may say, Aihua, the gleam of your hair is very fine today.
[ Recall ends .]
US NATIONAL EXOPLANETARY SURVEYMEMORANDUM
Levl: Official
Prio: Medium
Init: Salim GILBERTO, FC Team Biological Surveyor
Datime: 2201.11.13.03: 00
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Esteemed Survey members, colleagues, and sidekicks TAGEND
You will see from my FC report that Dar-Mankana is home to a plethora of speciessubstantially more than our own, which has yet to recover from the arrival of the Anthropocene. But a merely 2 million years ago, Dar-Mankana hosted three times more species than at present.
What could trigger such a destruction? Evidence indicates an interference in several key food webs: a polyphagous piranha which ate its road through tertiary and secondary consumers with such abandon that it likely justification its own extinction. Superpredators may be pop-science clickbait, but Dar-Mankana could represent our closest brush with one of these evolutionary bogeymen. The lingering damage is still perceptible: a relative dearth of megafauna, skewed predator-to-prey rates, insufficient biomass all around for the power that this planet creates.
Further pre-TE study is strongly recommended.
FC Report Excerpt, p. 530: Xenological notes
Datime: 2201.7.7.6: 32
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[ Some data loss has come; recompilation possible in approximately 127 daytimes .]
[ Buffering] compare to Dr. Gilbertos assertions.
The crater is smallless than half the size of Earths Chicxulub crater, which is widely believed to have triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs. While surely large enough to crusade catastrophic neighbourhood shatter, this cannot explain the mass extinction.
Core samples from the ocean floor discover an abundance of palladium and [ Buffering]
Team Clog of TE MissionDar-Mankana
Post by Hector PRINCIPETeamlock
Datime 2204.1.25.06: 30
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Sorry if the committee is blurry. Cant sleep. Theory occasion!
Why arent there more Manka? Theyre ripe for Sagans technological adolescence. Weve seen this on so many planets that its practically a law of nature; there is a requirement to erupting at the seams, same as us. But the Manka are precise the right population size for their societys resources. Nobodys thirsty. No idle youth. Plenty for all.
So. Unobserved social self-restraints? The Kama Rhythm Method Sutra? Histocompatibility crisis?
Comment from WEI
Maybe theyve already been through the tech teenages. Gilbertos extinction?
Comment from PRINCIPE
Two million years ago was tech infancy. Or pre-partum: The Manka precursors perhaps werent even tool-users.
Comment from WHETON
Off topic but you know what I obstruct “ve been thinking about”?( Cant sleep either .) The building. Four steeples on every important build. Four lobes to every artistic motif. They got six fingers. Three copulations. WTF is with the veneration of four? Whats their math?
Comment from WANG
Base-8. Ache in the ass; had to recalculate all the potential royalties in the two reports. But yeah, another difference on four. Shit, I cant do possibility at oh dark thirty. Sleep, you apes.
CogNet init: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Recip: WU Li Bai
Transl: English-Cantonese
Datime: 2206.12.16.20: 02
Respectful accosts, Dr. Wu. My appoint is Thandiwe Solomon, with the Extrasolar Sapience department of Rhodes University. I was plotted by your position paper in The Journal for the Study of Applied Sapiology . As someone whos been in the field and discovered how easy it to be able to move blunders, I concur wholeheartedly with your recommendation for a minimum 10 -year survey between First Contact and Trade Establishment.
Sir, it is my understanding that you two are Wei Aihuas mentor during her postdoctorate. Have you been received information on her recent operation?
Thread reply from WU Li Bai
Indeed I have, Dr. Solomonand so must you have been, if youre asking me. I suppose your UC permission is still active?
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
It is, sir. Though in the interest of full disclosure, my tier is exclusively Secret.
Thread reply from WU Li Bai
I shall tailor my responses accordingly. What is your wonder?
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
Was Dr. Wei lonely?
Recall transcript, WEI Aihua
Meeting with local Influential 5
Datime 2204.1.26.10: 30
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[ All sensory recall except auditory quelled to aid lightstreaming .]
And then the old person answered, Why is it always the intellectuals? [ Laughter]
[ Laughter. WEI caption: the evaluators laughter reverberates entirely human now. See accent reduction too .] The narrations of your beings are so amusing.
My grandmother will be pleased to hear that.
Grandmother?
Female parent of my mother. [ sigh] She may be dead by the time I get back. I dont know whether to hope for that or not.
Oh?
Ive been croaked five years old. She has cancera disease, untreatable in her client. That necessitates a slow, agonizing death. My parents are taking care of her, but
Your parties have just been males and females. These take over the nurturer persona?
Well, its not quite as binary as that, but … When necessary, yes.
And no one fulfills the evaluator role? Your poor grandmother.
Well, Im not sure [ delay] Oh my God.
Are you praying?
No, justthat was amaze. Youre another sex . Like male, like female, like the nurturers. The FC team got it completely wrong. Four fornications , not three!
Yes, those humen were very slow be adjusted to Dar-Mankana. You are much more fit and clever.
Evaluator, I must confer with my parties. But ah may I return to speak with you again tomorrow?
That would give me great pleasure, Aihua.
CogNet init: Hector PRINCIPE
Recip: Angela WHETON
Priority: URGENT
Datime: 2204.1.31.04: 00
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Angela. [ ping] Angela. Damn it, wake the fuck up! And pass this on to Aihua. Fucking – god, delight pass this on to Aihua.
OK. Clear contemplates. OK. I went back to the burial site. Somethings been bothering me. This time I realise what it was.
Most of the bones are small. Childrens bones.
Theory time. Lets say your species is threatened by an enemy so insidious that all the usual existence proficiencies are unproductive against it. Its an foe that they are able camouflage itself enough to get really close during hunting. Maybe it can clown you even up close. What if simply specializing a full-time protection for the weakest members of your species, a nurturer , gives your parties any hope of survival against an opponent like that? And what if even that doesnt stop it? What if, in the end, you cant beat them, so you join them?
Aihua said the evaluators appearance was changing. Im approximating evaluators replace the male or female in reproductionnot all the time, just enough to continue themselves. Theyre not really male or female, though, because theyre fucking shapeshifters! Real Manka males and females are like us. The nurturers raiseand guardthe offspring until theyre age-old enough to show their real potential. Guess what happens then?
They go to the evaluators. Some “of childrens rights”, the healthiest and the most adaptable, get to live. Only them, though. The restalong with perhaps the old-time, the sickare the toll the Manka pay for their prosperity.
Gilbertos superpredators, Angela. Aihuas been having dinner with one each night for the past week.
PANet init: Paul SRINIVASAN
Recip: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Datime: 2206.12.18.06: 10
Ow. Public access streaming hurts my mentality, literally. Anyway, that sidekick of mine who works for CogNet-Pallenergy? Located out Wei Aihuas personal logs did get lightstreamed. Somebody prescribed them deleted.
Same person also slapped a bunch of restrictions on the TE SurveySat maps that Angela Wheton sent back. I cant get through these limitations, but I would guess they discover the extent and site of those palladium lodges she mentioned. Thats why approving is being fast-trackedUCs going a lot of distres from Large-hearted Fusion.
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Are you kidding me? Did the UC pay attention to anything else in the damned dossier? Do they recognize Wei Aihua likely isnt dead?
Thread reply: Paul SRINIVASAN
Its been three years since the TE ship blew up. Wheres she been all this time, if shes still alive?
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
I dont know, but three years is slew of time for Stockholm syndrome to set in. Especially if her captors become more and more human, and likable, and attractive
Thread reply: Paul SRINIVASAN
No. Theyre a different species , Thandi.
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
The Manka are a different species. The evaluators are whatever the hell they want to be. Human, if they want to be! You have to ask UC Command to quarantine Dar-Mankana.
Thread reply: Paul SRINIVASAN
If there were any survivors of the TE team, that would filament them.
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Yes. Especially in case there is survivors.
UC Trade Establishment Commission
Excerpt, Letter to the leaders of Dar-Mankana
Datime: 2206.12.20.15: 45
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The United Communities of Earth also extend their heartfelt gratitude to the people of Dar-Mankana for their care of Dr. Wei in her days as the sole survivor of the TE ship explosion. Despite her eventual extinction in childbirth, your peoples valiant efforts to save her and her newborn are to be commended. An endowed resources of the fund has been established in the name of Dr. Wei, Specialist Principe, and the entire TE team. The child born from their duty shall be welcomed home, desired, and honored as the heir to a heroic legacy.
In peace and hope, we look forward to our reciprocal future of boom.
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CogNet init: Paul SRINIVASAN
Recip: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Datime: 2206.12.15.16: 45
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Thandi, the commission on human rights referendums Tuesday. The teams disappearance isnt the main issue, but I dont like how theyre hasten this. Facilitate me out here, OK? Off the record.
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
So tell me how that billable hours thought works for you lawyers. Because I might, I dont know, actually have a chore of my own.
Thread reply from Paul SRINIVASAN
Please! [ Conceptual embed with caption: man bowing with sides pressed together] What do you want? Dinner? Vacation? Hours of mind-bending sex? Because I would do that for you, Thandi. No relinquish is too great.
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
You already told me you let your Spermicept patch expire. Stand the blaze away from me. What happened to Weis personal logs?
Thread reply from Paul SRINIVASAN
Gremlins? The slowdown is reasonably severe for this missiontwo years. Not enough black hole for a better communicate, or something like that. Ill see if I can find them. So, they snack her, right? They absolutely ate her.
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
No. I dont think they devour her.
Recall transcript, WEI Aihua
Meeting with neighbourhood Influential 1
Datime 2204.1.22.10: 10
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[ All sensory recall except auditory muffled to aid lightstreaming .]
So what would you like to know, evaluator?
Tell me more of your parties, Adoration China.
If you dont mind, would you call me Aihua, delight?
Oh? Your aide be pointed out that your figures sometimes have meaning.
Yes, but [ laughter] That doesnt mean we like those meanings.
N. K. Jemisin
About
N. K. Jemisins speculative fiction has been nominated for the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Award. The first book in her Broken Earth trilogy, The Fifth Season, won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel . The Stone Sky, the third largest notebook in the serial, comes out this August .
Ah. Please forgive, Aihua. Your expression still confuses.
Im stunned by your facility with my own language, actually.
We become aware of First Contact team.
Yes, but weve had just as much time to learn your language, and well. [ WEI caption: Here I attempt to speak in Manka C. The Manka word for modification translates inadequately. Its implication is more like submission? fitness ?] We am still terrifying/ poor at adaptation.
[ RATCHETING SOUND. WEI CAPTION: MANKA LAUGHTER. THANKFULLY HE RETURNS THE CONVERSATION TO ENGLISH .] It is true, you do not adapt quick as we. But that is expected. You are not evaluators.
Ah, yes. Since you mentioned that, if I may askwhat exactly is your role? Ive asked Hashish, the nurturer whos been evidencing me around, but it was unclear.
I am evaluator.
But what does that intend? What do you assess?
Everything. Parties. World.
For what purpose?
[ SILENCE FOR 2.5 SECONDS] I do not understand, Aihua.
On my world, beings evaluate procedures, achievements. For the purpose of improving them.
Yes. Improvement. Adaptation. Same with us.
I see?
You do not.
Sorry, I
It takes time for beings so different to accommodate. You do well. No is necessary to fear.
Thank you. Ouch!
The shells of [ RECALL BLUR. WEI CAPTION: LOCAL DELICACY, UNPRONOUNCEABLE] are sharp. You are disabled? Shall I summon humans?
No, Im fine, itll stop in a minute. Could you give me something toyes, thank you. Most of your biologicals are innocuous to us, and vice versa. I just hate that Im bleeding on this lovely cloth.
It is unimportant. More?
Yes, delight, its yummy. Youre an good cook.
[ Auditory recall ends. Interpret gustatory reminisce, 2204.1.22.10: 15, for renewal .]
Team Clog of TE Mission, Dar-Mankana
Post by WEI AihuaPublic
Datime 2204.1.20.19: 30
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My first professor in sapio told me never to Earthropomorphize xenospecies, but the first thing that leapt into my thought when I met them was that the Manka look like upright cheetahs( cheetae ?). Males and females are indistinguishable to my attentions, lean and deep-chested, while nurturers, the third largest fornication, are noticeably more muscular and squarely improved. I pride myself in that my subconscious at least selected a predatory Earth analogue, which should deter me from loosening my protect too much.
Comment from WANG
Its simply cheetahs. And you have three PhDs?
Comment from WEI
None of them are in linguistics, OK? Shut up.
Tomer Hanuka
Team Clog of TE MissionDar-Mankana
Post by WEI AihuaTeamlock
Datime 2204.1.23.11: 50
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I could KILL Rafkind and the whole First Contact team! What Neanderthal decided to tell the Manka about Christianity? This is exactly why the UC censored Americans from TE teams.
Fortunately, the district potentate seemed more entertained than anything by the idea of one mans demise absolving the incorrects of an entire species. Just one? Cute.
Now Im wondering what else FC screwed up.
FC Report Detail p. 67: Culture Notes
Datime: 2201.4.7.14: 40
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[ Auditory embed with caption: Manka adoration chant? Recallers: Multiple; public action .]
My love sings behind me
And touches the nape of my neck
I do not look around
My heart flappings fast with fear.
FC Report Detail p. 224: Culture Notes
Recall by First Contact Team Member John RAFKIND
Datime: 2201.5.13.9: 24
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[ Auditory embed with caption: Observed class 2 Deceptive ideation .]
Whoa.
Whoa?
Apologies. A colloquialism.
Ah. We must learn more of your world so that we may adapt to these colloquialisms.
That would certainly be possible after Trade Establishment, Hashish.
Why did you express a colloquialism, John?
Uh, well the male Manka walking by with that group of children. For some reason, when he look back me, I got the creeer, I find uneasy.
That was an evaluator.
An evaluator of what?
[ RaTcheting sound. RAFKIND caption: I think that was a laugh ?] Many things, at many times. For now, those children.
Were all six of those the evaluators juveniles?
There were three children, John.
Three? I didnt get a good review, but Im sure I appreciated more.
There were three children.
[ Recall ends .]
Team Clog of TE MissionDar-Mankana
Post by Angela WHETONPublic
Datime 2204.1.24.12: 40
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Did some additional examines of the southeast central continent today. Those palladium sediments Have you guys heard the stock tolls since the CogNet-Pallenergy merger? My God, I might actually get out of student loan debt before I die.
Also noticed an rare concentration of calcium in various accumulations around the city. Hector proceeded with one of the locals to check out a nearby locate and was shown an open-pit tomb. [ VISUAL OVERRIDE EMBED WITH CAPTION: LONG, ORDERLY ROWS OF SEVERAL HUNDRED CLEAN, POLISHED BONES, ORGANIZED BY TYPE .] Each pit is several hundred hoofs deep, bones layered with dirt. Local announced bones the price paid. Ritual? Tag for sapiology review.
OhHector has asked me to note for government officials team log his hypothesis that the burial pits are f__ing creepy-crawly. So noted.
Recall transcript, WEI Aihua
Meeting with local Influential 2
Datime 2204.1.24.13: 10
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Forgive me for staring, evaluator. Its only that you gaze so different.
I have strained greatly to adapt because we last fit. Does my form satisfy you?
I dont certainly know what to become of it. You ogle
More like you.
Yes.
This distres you.
Surprises me, evaluator. On my planet “theres” souls that can change their coloration to blend in with the environment, but [ Visual override embed with WEI caption: The evaluators face. Memo the abbreviate of the muzzle and repositioning of the ears, at slopes of the foreman rather than the top .]
It has been difficult, yes. Your beings are strangely configured. Even more strange, inside.
How do you
Your bloods preference is most amusing. [ Pause] I have no goal of devouring you, Aihua.
[ Laughter] Uh, sorry. On my nature well. Our recreation are a lot of unnerving men that want to gobble us down.
Entertainment? But your parties are apex predators, are you not?
I suppose we are. Huh. Maybe thats why the notion of being preyed upon doesnt actually scare us.
[ Series of harsh exhalations. WEI caption: The evaluator believe that there is imitating human laugh .] Yes , no is necessary to fright! Tell me, Aihua. Why do you not have offsprings?
What?
Why do you
Sorry, I discover. The topic justits not something my people frequently ask in casual conversation.
I shall remember and accommodate. For now, will you refute?
Well, we have a problem with overpopulation and its effects: crowding, homelessness, famine, worse. Were redressing now, but their own problems took a long time to develop, it was therefore will take a long time to resolve.
And in the meantime, your it is necessary to simply lose?
Unfortunately, yes. It helps that weve modelled the Trade Network with other sapient species. That increases the resources available on my planet.
But with greater resources, your digits will continue to grow. Theres nothing to shape you stop.
We have our own sapience, which tells us that such rise is unsustainable. Because of this, only some of my beings choose to replicate. Im one of the ones who chose not to.
I see. But if sustainable growth was possible?
Maybe Id have a child. Perhaps. But it isnt possible, so no minors for me. [ Sigh] Now. Not to change the subject, but Ive accompanied some delicacies from my own world-wide to share
Good. I am most interested in eating some of your worlds revels. And if I may say, Aihua, the gleam of your hair is very fine today.
[ Recall ends .]
US NATIONAL EXOPLANETARY SURVEYMEMORANDUM
Levl: Official
Prio: Medium
Init: Salim GILBERTO, FC Team Biological Surveyor
Datime: 2201.11.13.03: 00
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Esteemed Survey members, colleagues, and sidekicks TAGEND
You will see from my FC report that Dar-Mankana is home to a plethora of speciessubstantially more than our own, which has yet to recover from the arrival of the Anthropocene. But a merely 2 million years ago, Dar-Mankana hosted three times more species than at present.
What could trigger such a destruction? Evidence indicates an interference in several key food webs: a polyphagous piranha which ate its road through tertiary and secondary consumers with such abandon that it likely justification its own extinction. Superpredators may be pop-science clickbait, but Dar-Mankana could represent our closest brush with one of these evolutionary bogeymen. The lingering damage is still perceptible: a relative dearth of megafauna, skewed predator-to-prey rates, insufficient biomass all around for the power that this planet creates.
Further pre-TE study is strongly recommended.
FC Report Excerpt, p. 530: Xenological notes
Datime: 2201.7.7.6: 32
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[ Buffering] compare to Dr. Gilbertos assertions.
The crater is smallless than half the size of Earths Chicxulub crater, which is widely believed to have triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs. While surely large enough to crusade catastrophic neighbourhood shatter, this cannot explain the mass extinction.
Core samples from the ocean floor discover an abundance of palladium and [ Buffering]
Team Clog of TE MissionDar-Mankana
Post by Hector PRINCIPETeamlock
Datime 2204.1.25.06: 30
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Sorry if the committee is blurry. Cant sleep. Theory occasion!
Why arent there more Manka? Theyre ripe for Sagans technological adolescence. Weve seen this on so many planets that its practically a law of nature; there is a requirement to erupting at the seams, same as us. But the Manka are precise the right population size for their societys resources. Nobodys thirsty. No idle youth. Plenty for all.
So. Unobserved social self-restraints? The Kama Rhythm Method Sutra? Histocompatibility crisis?
Comment from WEI
Maybe theyve already been through the tech teenages. Gilbertos extinction?
Comment from PRINCIPE
Two million years ago was tech infancy. Or pre-partum: The Manka precursors perhaps werent even tool-users.
Comment from WHETON
Off topic but you know what I obstruct “ve been thinking about”?( Cant sleep either .) The building. Four steeples on every important build. Four lobes to every artistic motif. They got six fingers. Three copulations. WTF is with the veneration of four? Whats their math?
Comment from WANG
Base-8. Ache in the ass; had to recalculate all the potential royalties in the two reports. But yeah, another difference on four. Shit, I cant do possibility at oh dark thirty. Sleep, you apes.
CogNet init: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Recip: WU Li Bai
Transl: English-Cantonese
Datime: 2206.12.16.20: 02
Respectful accosts, Dr. Wu. My appoint is Thandiwe Solomon, with the Extrasolar Sapience department of Rhodes University. I was plotted by your position paper in The Journal for the Study of Applied Sapiology . As someone whos been in the field and discovered how easy it to be able to move blunders, I concur wholeheartedly with your recommendation for a minimum 10 -year survey between First Contact and Trade Establishment.
Sir, it is my understanding that you two are Wei Aihuas mentor during her postdoctorate. Have you been received information on her recent operation?
Thread reply from WU Li Bai
Indeed I have, Dr. Solomonand so must you have been, if youre asking me. I suppose your UC permission is still active?
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
It is, sir. Though in the interest of full disclosure, my tier is exclusively Secret.
Thread reply from WU Li Bai
I shall tailor my responses accordingly. What is your wonder?
Thread reply from Thandiwe SOLOMON
Was Dr. Wei lonely?
Recall transcript, WEI Aihua
Meeting with local Influential 5
Datime 2204.1.26.10: 30
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And then the old person answered, Why is it always the intellectuals? [ Laughter]
[ Laughter. WEI caption: the evaluators laughter reverberates entirely human now. See accent reduction too .] The narrations of your beings are so amusing.
My grandmother will be pleased to hear that.
Grandmother?
Female parent of my mother. [ sigh] She may be dead by the time I get back. I dont know whether to hope for that or not.
Oh?
Ive been croaked five years old. She has cancera disease, untreatable in her client. That necessitates a slow, agonizing death. My parents are taking care of her, but
Your parties have just been males and females. These take over the nurturer persona?
Well, its not quite as binary as that, but … When necessary, yes.
And no one fulfills the evaluator role? Your poor grandmother.
Well, Im not sure [ delay] Oh my God.
Are you praying?
No, justthat was amaze. Youre another sex . Like male, like female, like the nurturers. The FC team got it completely wrong. Four fornications , not three!
Yes, those humen were very slow be adjusted to Dar-Mankana. You are much more fit and clever.
Evaluator, I must confer with my parties. But ah may I return to speak with you again tomorrow?
That would give me great pleasure, Aihua.
CogNet init: Hector PRINCIPE
Recip: Angela WHETON
Priority: URGENT
Datime: 2204.1.31.04: 00
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Angela. [ ping] Angela. Damn it, wake the fuck up! And pass this on to Aihua. Fucking – god, delight pass this on to Aihua.
OK. Clear contemplates. OK. I went back to the burial site. Somethings been bothering me. This time I realise what it was.
Most of the bones are small. Childrens bones.
Theory time. Lets say your species is threatened by an enemy so insidious that all the usual existence proficiencies are unproductive against it. Its an foe that they are able camouflage itself enough to get really close during hunting. Maybe it can clown you even up close. What if simply specializing a full-time protection for the weakest members of your species, a nurturer , gives your parties any hope of survival against an opponent like that? And what if even that doesnt stop it? What if, in the end, you cant beat them, so you join them?
Aihua said the evaluators appearance was changing. Im approximating evaluators replace the male or female in reproductionnot all the time, just enough to continue themselves. Theyre not really male or female, though, because theyre fucking shapeshifters! Real Manka males and females are like us. The nurturers raiseand guardthe offspring until theyre age-old enough to show their real potential. Guess what happens then?
They go to the evaluators. Some “of childrens rights”, the healthiest and the most adaptable, get to live. Only them, though. The restalong with perhaps the old-time, the sickare the toll the Manka pay for their prosperity.
Gilbertos superpredators, Angela. Aihuas been having dinner with one each night for the past week.
PANet init: Paul SRINIVASAN
Recip: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Datime: 2206.12.18.06: 10
Ow. Public access streaming hurts my mentality, literally. Anyway, that sidekick of mine who works for CogNet-Pallenergy? Located out Wei Aihuas personal logs did get lightstreamed. Somebody prescribed them deleted.
Same person also slapped a bunch of restrictions on the TE SurveySat maps that Angela Wheton sent back. I cant get through these limitations, but I would guess they discover the extent and site of those palladium lodges she mentioned. Thats why approving is being fast-trackedUCs going a lot of distres from Large-hearted Fusion.
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Are you kidding me? Did the UC pay attention to anything else in the damned dossier? Do they recognize Wei Aihua likely isnt dead?
Thread reply: Paul SRINIVASAN
Its been three years since the TE ship blew up. Wheres she been all this time, if shes still alive?
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
I dont know, but three years is slew of time for Stockholm syndrome to set in. Especially if her captors become more and more human, and likable, and attractive
Thread reply: Paul SRINIVASAN
No. Theyre a different species , Thandi.
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
The Manka are a different species. The evaluators are whatever the hell they want to be. Human, if they want to be! You have to ask UC Command to quarantine Dar-Mankana.
Thread reply: Paul SRINIVASAN
If there were any survivors of the TE team, that would filament them.
Thread reply: Thandiwe SOLOMON
Yes. Especially in case there is survivors.
UC Trade Establishment Commission
Excerpt, Letter to the leaders of Dar-Mankana
Datime: 2206.12.20.15: 45
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The United Communities of Earth also extend their heartfelt gratitude to the people of Dar-Mankana for their care of Dr. Wei in her days as the sole survivor of the TE ship explosion. Despite her eventual extinction in childbirth, your peoples valiant efforts to save her and her newborn are to be commended. An endowed resources of the fund has been established in the name of Dr. Wei, Specialist Principe, and the entire TE team. The child born from their duty shall be welcomed home, desired, and honored as the heir to a heroic legacy.
In peace and hope, we look forward to our reciprocal future of boom.
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