Episode 2 Transcript ************************* Restoring human interface-transmission-protocols… Re-establishing communications. LGA online, HGA online. Nodes 1-9 online and transmitting, lagrangian station 4-delta transmissions sporadic, downlink initializing. transmitting to -- Earth -- City -- receive… 3, 2, 1 Orbital stations throughout the solar system are reporting higher than normal incidents of, so-called, disembarkation rage due to lines for processing of identification and transportation documents that can often exceed 7 Earth-hours. Although reading materials are often provided, Travel Authorities recommend bringing your own literature or entertainment device. Officials from The City would like to remind you that any individuals wishing to re-patriate to the City will receive expedited processing and a voucher good for you and a guest to receive one complementary suborbital flight and dinner from the Russian Domodedovo Spaceport. A colony of bees will live in one hive and does not require a complex bureaucracy to travel within it. public memory access, -5 Emergency Broadcast: City Officials report that any citizens hearing this message should immediately report to the City for safe harbor. For docking authorization, please broadcast the appropriate fourier-power spectrum using coefficient 7.84 on any SolComm issued radio transceiver. Measures are being implemented to prevent intruder access to the City and Guardians should report immediately. SolComm would like to advise citizens that Nodes 1-4 are no longer transmitting, and City Officials request that capable individuals who are receiving this transmission attempt to reestablish Nodes 1-4 communications if possible. Any individuals nearing Lagrangian station 4-delta, take note, it has recently gone offline. Be alert for danger in the vicinity of Lagrangian station 4-delta. The City Protectorate has issued the following message to all citizens of our solar system: "Although we have been pushed back, we will not falter. The intruders have given us no choice but to defend ourselves in battle, and we will send out our most capable warriors to protect you and your families. Do not hesitate to return to the City if you are capable of discrete transportation. We will stand strong. We will retain what is ours." public memory access, -4377 Greetings, on behalf of Solcomm and it's affiliates throughout the solar system, I would like to introduce myself as an update to the SolComm Daily NewsFeeds, which will now be presented by the latest in artificial intelligence technology. I am Strauss, manufactured 2 years ago by Traxus corporation in the City. I have been given numerous communications and memory upgrades by the Solcomm corporation and am able to relay communications throughout the solar system using a network of our affiliate's broadcast satellites and pre-established communications Nodes as well as Orbital Stations scattered throughout our worlds. My memory banks can be accessed, for a nominal fee, as they retain all communications which have been relayed throughout my operational life. I will broadcast to any traveler who tunes their Solcomm issued receiver to this frequency. My programming and intelligence allows for timely public news to be prioritized and broadcast, as well as for the many millions of private or semi-private messages that I am tasked to relay simultaneously. For private news feeds or private relay pricing, please contact Solcomm. From the ice mines of Pluto, to the solar research facilities of Mercury, I, Strauss, will be here for you, to provide the information that matters most. And now… today's public news… private memory access -107.4 I asked Gheritt today why one human would ever insist on making money from services that could easily be provided by another. He replied that this business practice is typical, and that although others are free to provide similar services, they either do not or they provide a better service. I wondered that this state of affairs is only because all humans are not given the same opportunities or resources, but Gheritt felt that nothing is given, opportunities must be made and resources must be earned. I suppose this is consistent with his incorrect worldview. The currencies of life are not produced or earned, they are already here, they are the world. public memory access, 3 EDGE reports that looters, malfeasants, and purveyors of generally unkind behavior towards peers will increasingly decline in the coming years as rewards for such behavior will be minimal. This new structuring of enforcement of only rewarding positive behaviors and ignoring negative behavior has a history of success, particularly in the ancient domestication of canines. It is no wonder such techniques are successful with humans. http://www.edge-online.com/news/how-bungie-plans-to-counter-trolls-through-design-in-destiny/ public memory access, 4 Large dumps of seemingly random information continue to be broadcast weekly from an unknown source. They appear to be answers to questions, which are also random. This week's information included the philosophical phrase, "Anyone who spends more time thinking about how things could be than how things are can innovate." The discussion also included a list of favorite office locations, a variety of statements about growing older, and a picture of two Guardians wearing traditional armaments, cloth and provisions. http://www.bungie.net/7_The-Mail-Sack-Festival/en/News/News?aid=10954 private memory access -10.4 Lord Gherrit and I played chess today. He seemed very upset with me, but not about the chess. I am much better at chess than he is. As usual, we discussed the future of human civilization and we did not agree. Gherrit continues to demand that we belong among the stars when all evidence points to the contrary. Humans are but apes in spacesuits. They belong on Earth because that is their nature, just as I belong on a silicon wafer. My existence depends on it, and I am not Strauss, if I am not on a silicon wafer…. private memory access 0.02 Nodes 1-9 are online. Orbital Stations Andaman through Wapishana are not online. Lagrangian stations one-alpha through six-echo are not online. four-delta is sporadic, but, if I am correct, while online is scanning the inner worlds. Broad spectrum communications traffic is detected, but not on standard frequencies. Difficult to decipher, will take time. Transmissions from 4-delta indicate deserts are reclaiming Mars, while the beginnings of renewed mantle overturn have spurned volcanism on Venus. These are not the worlds I remember… but these are the worlds that should be. public memory access, -4377 Greetings, on behalf of Solcomm and it's affiliates throughout the solar system, I would like to introduce myself. I am Strauss, manufactured 2 years ago by Traxus corporation in the City. From the ice mines of Pluto, to the solar research facilities of Mercury, I, Strauss, will be here for you, to provide the information that matters most.