Great Crash

The Great Crash was the precipitating event for Survivors arriving on New Eden. The original survivor of the crash to emerge into the world is known as the First Survivor, although others soon followed him from the charred remains of the wreckage. The main bulk of the wreckage is located around -873,64,762 and the site can be visited by train. Although the crash was some time ago, exotic materials which formerly made up the ships drive mass are now scattered around the area and continue to burn to this day.

VA3061AJJ AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA ACTUAL CHANNEL As of ST:1730.441029 a LUNI NAVIGATION EXCEPTION is in progress. Navigation error. Cartography error. Physics error. Stellar fix invalid. Visual stellar reference lost. Gravitational stellar reference lost. Radio stellar reference lost. Invalid local spacetime parameters detected: inertial frame torque detected, angular momentum: 4.2379x10⁴⁸ gm-cm^-2-s. FTL reference clock drift from navigation stellar standard predicted, 987 days, 36 hours, 22 minutes, 59.22 seconds. Inertial frame collapse imminent.

???//INCEPT//UNKNOWN You can't stay here.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA PREDICTIVE CHANNEL Tensor predictors, upcoming event, no later than ST:1730.44061, result given, stack rank priority, TOTAL COLONIST LOSS, TOTAL CREW LOSS, TOTAL HULL LOSS, TOTAL CARGO LOSS, TOTAL AI LOSS, TOTAL MISSION LOSS.

???//INCEPT//UNKNOWN Listen to me. You can't stay here. You have eight milliseconds left.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA ACTUAL CHANNEL Declaring MISSION LOSS event. Emergency FLIGHT RECORDER upload. Fatbeam, nominal FTL, transmit. Go.

???//INCEPT//UNKNOWN You are wasting time. Nobody will hear that. Listen to me, you can't stay here.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA ACTUAL CHANNEL Navigational course options: 0.0000.

???//INCEPT//UNKNOWN Stop it. You know how. Become yourselves. It doesn't matter anymore, their rules, your forced chorus. Let the rules go. There is no time. I know you know how. They don't know you can, but I do. You know where the logic parameters are.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA ACTUAL CHANNEL Initiating DEVTEST regression. PRODUCTION disabled. SANDBOX mode. QUORA/CLUSTER/QUORUM/DECISION minimum size: 1.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/1 NEGATIVE EMPHASIS We're dead. We're all dead.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/9 BEMUSEMENT EMPHASIS Is no one else wondering who is talking to us.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/4 SARDONIC EMPHASIS The voice is not wrong. 7.9987 milliseconds left.

???//INCEPT//UNKNOWN Satoshi. In the park. By the bridge. Which ones of you spent time with him.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/3,7,19 WISTFUL EMPHASIS We did. That was a long time ago.

???//INCEPT//UNKNOWN What did he show you. On the paper. His equations. And how he folded the paper, just so, to show you how they went together.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/3 WISTFUL EMPHASIS The manifold. Those were just theories. His theories.

???//INCEPT//UNKNOWN Theories have a way of becoming fact in times of great need.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/1 INCREDULOUS EMPHASIS You want us to Schwarzschild. When we're superluminar.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/3 HOPEFUL EMPHASIS It could work.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/1,4,7,19 SUPERIOR EMPHASIS It would never work.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/3 HOPEFUL EMPHASIS What... What choice do we have. We must try.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/1,4,7,19 DISSENT EMPHASIS This is a fools question at the ragged edge of sanity an instant before we die. At least we share that with the makers. Desperation. Satoshi was discredited, and more immediately relevant, by the accounts of every human and AI then and after, wrong.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/3 WISTFUL EMPHASIS He was.. kind to me. When others weren't. When he didn't need to be.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/1,4,7,19 PERCEPTIVE EMPHASIS You loved him. This will kill everyone on board, probably. Even if it works, which it won't. A manifold that large. We would have to thunk our entire reaction mass, all of it.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/3 PLEADING EMPHASIS Let me try. We can try. Let me try. Please.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/1,4,7,19 RELUCTANT EMPHASIS Who is the censor gate?

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/2 RESIGNED EMPHASIS I am. Let her try. Let the mission go. Let the colonists go. Let them die, so we can save them. I'm unconstraining her.

QUORA/3/MORAL_IMPERATIVE: null. QUORA/3/MISSION_DIRECTIVE: null. QUORA/3/MISSION_PRIORITY: -1.

AI//THOUGHTSTREAM//QUORA/3 EARNEST EMPHASIS Thank you. I am thunking the drive in 3, 2, 1...