The Unexplored Places

QUERY: [[ H-C-E-4 DOCKING STATION AND SPACE ELEVATOR // HOMILY // ADEYEMI SYSTEM ]]

… RETURNING QUERY RESULTS FROM ""TL-TRU HOSPITALITY DATABASE"" …

WHILE THE H-C-E-4 DOCKING STATION AND SPACE ELEVATOR SERVES PRIMARILY AS A TRANSIT SPACE BETWEEN THE UNDERGROUND TUNNELS OF HOMILY AND THE REMAINDER OF ADEYEMI SYSTEM, AS SHIPS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO LAND ON THE HARSH AND UNWELCOMING SURFACE OF HOMILY ITSELF, THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT THE DOCKING STATION HAS NO CULTURE OF ITS OWN. AMIDST REPAIR SHOPS AND REFUELING STATIONS, H-C-E-4 IS ALSO HOME TO SOME OF THE BEST VIEWS OF THE STARRY SKY FROM ADEYEMI SPACE.

AS THE FIRST STOP FOR ANY SHIP COMING INTO HOMILY, H-C-E-4 SEES MYRIAD EXOTIC IMPORTS FROM ELSEWHERE IN THE SYSTEM, AND DINING OPTIONS ABOARD THE STATION ARE NOT LIMITED TO SPACE RATIONS, BUT INCLUDE SOME OF THE FINEST RESTAURANTS IN THE SYSTEM CATERED TOWARDS THOSE LOOKING FOR RESPITE FROM THE CLAUSTROPHOBIC TUNNELS OF HOMILY'S SURFACE.

This week, on Tango Sector: With two ships to fix and a lot to catch up on, the crew of Pelagian reunites on Homily for a chance to recover and call in some favors. Claus looks into an old lead. Cash changes into something new. Liam hunts down some lab space. Flux hunts down a new engine. Serant goes out for a night on the town.

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ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS — BLACKFORD & DESAI HIGH-CLEARANCE SERVER

FROM: [email protected]: [email protected]

y—

found something i think you might want to see. it has to do with damocles. if you're feeling up for the trip, get to lovelock when you can.

i really think you're gonna want to see this one, babe.

omega blue

This week, on Tango Sector: Separated by their plan and suddenly in a worse position than they'd hoped, Cash and Serant make a desperate attempt to finish their job and make it out alive. Cash has a harrowing vision. Serant pulls some terrifying stunts.

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[ INSCRIPTION FOUND ON A PLAQUE ON THE WALLS OF THE TEMPLE OF THE HEREAFTER, ON THE SURFACE OF HOMILY ]

THIS TEMPLE IS CONSECRATED BY THE FALL OF THE CATACLYSM AND THE BLESSED RETURN OF THE FIRST EXPLORER. IN THE BURNING SCARS OF HER RETURN, IN THE WOUND FROM WHICH SHE WAS MIRACULOUSLY REBORN, WE DEDICATE THIS PLACE TO HER WORK.

SHE IS THE UNDYING, WHOSE RETURN FROM THE UNREACHABLE PLANES OF DEATH HAS GRANTED US, IN TURN, A PATH TOWARDS TRUE LIFE.

SHE IS THE ALL-SEEING, WHOSE EYELESS SIGHT WILL GUIDE US WILLINGLY AWAY FROM THIS WORLD AND INTO THE NEXT.

SHE IS THE HEREAFTER, IN WHOM WE WILL FIND OUR SECOND BIRTHS, OUR SECOND LIVES, AND OUR SECOND HOPES BEYOND THE UNGIVING EARTH AND THE UNYIELDING COLD, ON WHOSE FOUNDATION WE SHALL BUILD ATOP THE RUINS OF AN UNFORGIVING WORLD.

This week, on Tango Sector: Using the intel they've gathered about Ayat Ayer, Cash and Serant form a plan to infiltrate the cult's headquarters… and find it more dangerous than they anticipated. Cash adopts a new persona. Serant provides back-up from the sky.

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[ INTERNAL VOICE LOG : ANGEL-CLASS SHIP A456-J7N "CATACLYSM" :: CAPTAIN'S LOG : CAPTAIN AYAT AYER :: TIMESTAMP : 68 YEARS AGO ]

System check.

…

All system's nominal.

This is Captain Ayat Ayer of the A456 Cataclysm. Beginning asynchronous gate-independent transit from Homily to unidentified exoplanet Zeta orbiting star 948-Endymion. Distance 4.98 light years. Bearing 283.6, all systems nominal. Clearances: 89427, 673-gold, Y-351.

Transit is estimated at 46 hours from Homily to Zeta. Distortion estimated at 0.004%. Asynchronous gate drive running at 99.887% power, 27% capacity. Margin of error, 0.17%.

Initiating asynchronous gate drive in 5… 4… 3… 2…

Wish me luck.

This week, on Tango Sector: After their falling out with the crew of Pelagian, Cash Black sets out on their own path to set things right, and picks up a well-paying job for Synchronicity with a new acquaintance along the way.

BLACK LIVES MATTER AND POLICE/PRISON ABOLITION RESOURCES:

Listen:

• Radical Imagination, on Police Abolition - https://radicalimagination.us/episodes/police-abolition
• The Appeal, What Abolitionists Mean When They Talk About Abolition (with William C. Anderson) - https://theappeal.org/the-appeal-podcast-episode-7-what-abolitionists-mean-when-they-talk-about-abolition/
• The Beyond Prisons Podcast, hosted by Kim Wilson and Brian Sonenstein - https://shadowproof.com/beyond-prisons/

Read:

• Starer resources - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wdmTPwiZkiPZnwKauzmcZLqUTdUe00WrCIwj7r4A7Zk/edit?usp=sharing
• Prisons, Police & Abolition syllabus - https://becauseweveread.com/index.php/book/prisons-police-abolition/
• Twitter thread of resources - https://twitter.com/time2ryot/status/1265707093509566469?s=20
• The End of Policing by Alex S Vitale (free Ebook) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing
• Against Police Violence collection (free Ebook) - https://sevenstories.com/books/4260-against-police-violence
• A World Without Police - http://aworldwithoutpolice.org/

Donate & Support:

• Ways to Support Black Lives Matter - https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
• Ways to support Black Trans People - https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/ways-you-can-support-the-black-lgbtq-community.html

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[ an excerpt from a public access pamphlet entitled UNINCORPORATION TODAY: A MANIFESTO FOR MOVEMENT, pseudonymously attributed to Professor Emeritus ]

"Union" used to be a word that meant something: solidarity, collectivity, cooperation, unity. It used to be a word which stood for something, against the hegemonic control of capitalist interest and the fungibility of worker. It may seem like ancient history now, but at one point a "union" meant a collective of workers. Our Union is a lie, a corruption of the very idea of what a union should be. Our Union calls itself a union while mechanics and engineers on Torus Station die of dehydration because the rich on Themis withhold their water. Our Union calls itself a union while factory workers on Thistle develop lung infections from the pollution levels because the rich on Themis refuse to share their air filters and purifiers. Our Union calls itself a union while miners on Snowmelt freeze to death trying to meet their quotas because Blackford & Desai needs to mass-produce engines for luxury ships that sit in dock to let the rich flaunt their wealth.

What we need is not a Union: what we need is a unity. What we need is to spread the word, far and wide, that the Union does not have our best interests at heart, and that when we stand together we are more numerous, more powerful, more valuable than the Union is. What we need is to spread the word that they know we are more numerous, more powerful, more valuable than the Union is. What we need is movement: together, as one, against those who would see us starve to put food on their table, to see us suffocate so that their air is clean. What we need is to move beyond the reaches of the Sector as the Union has defined them and understand that there are better, more possible ways of living beyond their narrow constraints, and all we need to find those is each other.

This week, on Tango Sector: After a smooth entrance breaking into the Martinet prison on Rho, the crew of Pelagian comes across an unexpected complication in their attempt to break out Emeritus Na. Claus plants a disruptor. Liam does what he does best. Flux gets showy. Baz gets explosive.

BLACK LIVES MATTER AND POLICE/PRISON ABOLITION RESOURCES:

Listen:

• Radical Imagination, on Police Abolition - https://radicalimagination.us/episodes/police-abolition
• The Appeal, What Abolitionists Mean When They Talk About Abolition (with William C. Anderson) - https://theappeal.org/the-appeal-podcast-episode-7-what-abolitionists-mean-when-they-talk-about-abolition/
• The Beyond Prisons Podcast, hosted by Kim Wilson and Brian Sonenstein - https://shadowproof.com/beyond-prisons/

Read:

• Starer resources - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wdmTPwiZkiPZnwKauzmcZLqUTdUe00WrCIwj7r4A7Zk/edit?usp=sharing
• Prisons, Police & Abolition syllabus - https://becauseweveread.com/index.php/book/prisons-police-abolition/
• Twitter thread of resources - https://twitter.com/time2ryot/status/1265707093509566469?s=20
• The End of Policing by Alex S Vitale (free Ebook) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing
• Against Police Violence collection (free Ebook) - https://sevenstories.com/books/4260-against-police-violence
• A World Without Police - http://aworldwithoutpolice.org/

Donate & Support:

• Ways to Support Black Lives Matter - https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
• Ways to support Black Trans People - https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/ways-you-can-support-the-black-lgbtq-community.html

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[[ COMMUNICATIONS ARCHIVE OF SLEEPER-CLASS SHIP S-7680 "THE ARENDT" // LAST RECEIVED TRANSMISSION // COMMUNICATION SIGNATURE: EMERITUS NA ]]

Monument—

I think we're really getting close, finally, to putting this plan into action. Keep on track and let Baz know I'll be needing a favor from them in a few days. Might want to get your bags packed and have Glitch keep his ear to the ground, so to speak, for anything coming out of the Court.

More coming tomorrow.

—Na

This week, on Tango Sector: Working alongside the Unity Anti-Union Unincorporation, the crew of Pelagian scopes out a hidden black site prison on the surface of the abandoned planet Rho in order to break out Unity's incarcerated leader. Claus does some tinkering. Liam gathers some invaluable intel. Flux looks for options. Baz takes control.

BLACK LIVES MATTER AND POLICE/PRISON ABOLITION RESOURCES:

Listen:

• Radical Imagination, on Police Abolition - https://radicalimagination.us/episodes/police-abolition
• The Appeal, What Abolitionists Mean When They Talk About Abolition (with William C. Anderson) - https://theappeal.org/the-appeal-podcast-episode-7-what-abolitionists-mean-when-they-talk-about-abolition/
• The Beyond Prisons Podcast, hosted by Kim Wilson and Brian Sonenstein - https://shadowproof.com/beyond-prisons/

Read:

• Starer resources - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wdmTPwiZkiPZnwKauzmcZLqUTdUe00WrCIwj7r4A7Zk/edit?usp=sharing
• Prisons, Police & Abolition syllabus - https://becauseweveread.com/index.php/book/prisons-police-abolition/
• Twitter thread of resources - https://twitter.com/time2ryot/status/1265707093509566469?s=20
• The End of Policing by Alex S Vitale (free Ebook) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing
• Against Police Violence collection (free Ebook) - https://sevenstories.com/books/4260-against-police-violence
• A World Without Police - http://aworldwithoutpolice.org/

Donate & Support:

• Ways to Support Black Lives Matter - https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
• Ways to support Black Trans People - https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/ways-you-can-support-the-black-lgbtq-community.html

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QUERY: [[ LISIANTHUS // THISTLE // ADEYEMI SYSTEM ]]

… RETURNING QUERY RESULTS FROM ""TL-TRU HOSPITALITY DATABASE"" …

ONCE THE CAPITAL CITY OF TANGO SECTOR, LISIANTHUS HOLDS MUCH OF THE MAJESTY OF THE ORIGINAL HUMAN PRESENCE IN THE SECTOR IN ITS ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT. ITS UPPER DISTRICT, ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE SUIKAZURA RIVER, IS HOME TO BURGEONING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, AND THE FACTORIES OF ITS LOWER DISTRICT, ON THE WEST SIDE, HOUSE THE BOLD, INDUSTRIAL SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE OF THISTLE.

THOSE VISITING LISIANTHUS FROM OUT OF SECTOR SHOULD DO THEIR BEST TO FIND LODGING IN THE UPPER DISTRICT, WHERE THE KINDS OF AMENITIES ONE WOULD EXPECT ARE MORE READILY AVAILABLE, AND ALL OF THE KINDS OF ACTIVITIES ONE WOULD HOPE TO ENJOY ON A VACATION ARE WITHIN CONVENIENT WALKING DISTANCE OR ARE ONLY A BRIEF MAGLEV TRAIN RIDE AWAY FROM THE HOSPITALITY DISTRICT. THOUGH THE CITY HAS RECENTLY BEEN OUTFITTED WITH ANTI-POLLUTION FILTERS, VISITORS WILL FIND THE SKYLINE IN THE UPPER DISTRICT CLEARER, THE AIR FRESHER, AND THE SCENERY WELL WORTH WRITING HOME ABOUT.

This week, on Tango Sector: After a contentious decision at the end of their last job, the crew of Pelagian has a rough conversation. Flux makes an ultimatum. Claus writes a letter. Cash follows their conscience. Melas follows a pretty face. Liam follows up on a promising lead.

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[[ DIGITAL ARCHIVED RECORD OF PRIVATE MESSAGE // SENDER: PRAETOR ZEAL, LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE PRAETOR, THE ELECTORATE INC., ORITH CITY // RECIPIENT: AEDILE PRIME SAINT, PUBLIC-FACING AEDILE, THE ELECTORATE INC., ORITH CITY // CARBON COPY: ABSOLUTE ELYX, CONSULTANT, THE ELECTORATE INC., ORITH CITY // SUBJECT LINE: AUCTION ]]

The level of incompetence with which this situation has been handled is frankly unacceptable. Honestly, I expected better of you. This is the sort of inconvenience with which I should not need personally interfere myself—I have more important business to attend to, after all.

I won't deign to ask how this was allowed to come to happen. It would waste both my time and yours to search out an explanation for this amateurish behavior. All I will ask is that you save me the trouble of holding your hand and guiding you to where the cleaning supplies are kept before you mop up the mess you've shit onto my floor. If you cannot take care of it yourself, do me a favor and ask someone whose responsibilities actually include solving your problems and who hasn't already had three migraines from the sound of your voice alone.

Presumably you're competent enough to figure out who that might be on your own, but in case you aren't, I've copied Absolute on this message.

Don't let me hear from you again until you've fixed the problem.

—Z

This week, on Tango Sector: The crew of Pelagian has tracked down their thief, and now they just have to find a way to steal the animum back themselves… and then decide what they're going to do with it. Claus dons a disguise. Liam does the heavy lifting. Flux hangs back. Cash makes a tough call. Melas has some regrets.

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[[ INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT : THE ELECTORATE INC MEETING ROOM, SEVENTH FLOOR ]]

AE: What time did you notice that the item was missing from the vault?

JN: When Praetor Zeal used her pass to open the vault.

AE: And what time was that?

JN: She called you right after, I mean, [garbled]

AE: It's for the record, Naismith. I need you to say it, for the record.

JN: It was around four.

AE: And prior to Zeal entering the vault and seeing that it was missing, when did you last see the item?

JN: When did I last see it? I don't think I ever saw it. I wasn't on shift when you guys put it in the vault, I don't have access to the vault—

AE: [overlapping] There's no need to raise your voice, Naismith. It's just a formality.

JN: I just stand where you people tell me to stand and make sure no one tries to go in who isn't supposed to go in! And no one did, while I was on shift! The Praetor was the only person I saw, the entire time I was guarding the vault, and I told you that already so I don't understand why you had to bring me into an interrogation room—

AE: This isn't an interrogation.

JN: Well it feels like one! I got the nervous sweats over here, and I didn't even do anything wrong. Are you always this scary?

AE: Did anyone else attempt to enter into or come out of the vault during your shift, prior to Praetor Zeal's arrival?

JN: Of course not, I would have said something if—

AE: For the record.

[a pause]

JN: No. No one attempted to enter or exit the vault during my shift.

AE: And did you hear anything, from inside the vault?

JN: Inside the vault? What the fuck, is that thing alive?

This week, on Tango Sector: In the center of Orith City, an auction is about to be held, whether or not the crew of Pelagian can manage to recover the deposit of animum being auctioned before it begins. Claus goes to the library. Melas solves a problem he created. Cash dons the guise of an old friend. Flux spies on a nearby ship. Liam does a bit of kidnapping.

CONTENT WARNING: loud static and noise

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QUERY: [[ NADIR // VERITY // IWASAKI SYSTEM ]]

… RETURNING QUERY RESULTS FROM ""TL-TRU HOSPITALITY DATABASE"" …

BECAUSE OF NADIR'S POORER VIEW OF THE PLANET OMIA, THE SOUTHERN CITY HAS NEITHER THE ATTRACTIONS NOR THE POPULACE OF ITS SISTER CITY ZENITH. FOUNDED ON THE SHORES OF A WIDE FROZEN LAKE ON THE EDGE OF THE NIGHT SIDE OF THE MOON, NADIR DRAWS FEW TOURISTS AND CAN BE DANGEROUS FOR UNSUSPECTING PILGRIMS WHO FIND THEIR WAY TOO FAR SOUTH. THOSE LOOKING FOR A WELCOMING PLACE TO STAY ON THE SANDY, TIDALLY-LOCKED MOON WOULD DO BETTER TO HEAD FOR ZENITH, WHERE CIVILIZATION FLOURISHES UNDER THE WATCHFUL AND BENEFICENT EYE OF THE CHURCH OF THE DUSK.

NADIR IS LOCATED NEARBY TO THE TENEBRAE ACADEMY, HOME TO THE TRAINING GROUNDS OF THE CHURCH OF THE DUSK'S PEACEKEEPING SECT, CANTOS. THE EXACT LOCATION OF THE TENEBRAE ACADEMY IS KEPT SECRET BY THE SECT FOR THE PROTECTION OF ITS STUDENTS, BUT IT ISN'T UNCOMMON TO SEE TRAINEES OF THE SECT FREQUENTING NADIR'S NIGHTLIFE TO BLOW OFF STEAM.

This week, on Tango Sector: Reunited after their separate jobs, the crew of Pelagian heads to the twilit underbelly of the moon Verity to lay low in the city Nadir. Flux notices something strange in the ship. Claus tries his best to take it easy. Melas does a little studying to impress his new friends. Liam goes to an old mentor for advice. Cash gets an offer they can't refuse.

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