<img src="http://stephchan.com/if/remainders/Origin2.png">
It's 3252 and we are alone in the universe.
(live: 4s)[
(replace: "It's 3252 and we are alone in the universe.")[Silently, you drift in space.]
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(live: 8s)[
(replace: "Silently, you drift in space.")[It's best to be quiet so you don't disturb them.] (stop:)]
(live: 12s)[
(replace: "It's best to be quiet so you don't disturb them.")[The [[ghosts->Spaceship]] you came to talk to.] (stop:)]
<img src="http://stephchan.com/if/remainders/DesktopComputer.png">
The Sibyl machine whirrs quietly when you boot it up.
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In the old days, they called this a seance.
(live: 4s)[
(replace: "In the old days, they called this a seance.")[But there are other ways to commune with the dead beyond sitting in an imperfect circle around slow-burning candles.]
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The system alerts you that it's found trace vibrations in the galaxy SXDF-NB1006-2.
(live: 4s)[
(replace: "The system alerts you that it's found trace vibrations in the galaxy SXDF-NB1006-2.")[It's 13 gigalightyears away from Earth.]
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(live: 8s)[
(replace: "It's 13 gigalightyears away from Earth.")[But it's not that [[far from where you are->Nav Panel]].]
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]<img src="http://stephchan.com/if/remainders/NavPanel.png">
The first space seer compared it to charting constellations.
(live: 4s)[
(replace: "The first space seer compared it to charting constellations.")[Dead stars mark the sky like totems.]
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]
(live: 9s)[
(replace: "Dead stars mark the sky like totems.")[They gleam with light, revealing the shadows of planets ceaselessly caught in their orbit.]
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]
(live: 14s)[
(replace: "They gleam with light, revealing the shadows of planets ceaselessly caught in their orbit.")[Their gravitational pull still has [[weight with the universe->Mission]].]
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]<img src="http://stephchan.com/if/remainders/AlienStation2.png">
You arrive in SXDF-NB1006-2. Like the rest of the universe, it is a graveyard.
(live: 4s)[
(replace: "You arrive in SXDF-NB1006-2. Like the rest of the universe, it is a graveyard.")[An empty space station hangs in the middle of eternity.]
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(live: 8s)[
(replace: "An empty space station hangs in the middle of eternity.")[It is time for you to see what the [[aliens have to say->SeanceOneStart]].]
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]<img src="http://stephchan.com/if/remainders/FirstContact.png">
Sibyl loads the translation program automatically.
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You calm your breath.
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]<img src="http://stephchan.com/if/remainders/AL2_firstline.png">
[<div class="speaker1">
(live: 2s) [Hello.]</div>]
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[<div class="speaker1">
(live: 2s) [You're back.]</div>]
(stop:)
(live: 5s)[[Strange.] (stop:) ]
(live: 8s)[
(replace: "Strange.")[This is new.]
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]
(live: 11s)[
(replace: "This is new.")[*What does that mean?* you ask.]
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[<div class="speaker1">Your kind has a short memory.</div>]
(live: 6s)[ [You ask...
[[Who are you?->Identity]]
[[What happened to you?->Fate]]
[[Do you know me?->Relationship]]]
(stop:)
]
(live: 3s)[
(replace: "Your kind has a short memory.")[Ask me your questions.]
(stop:)
]They describe moving with great dust storms, living always in the calm centers of them.
(live: 28s)[
[[To learn who our neighbors were.->Neighbors]]
[[To save ourselves.->SaveHumans]]
(stop:)
]
(live: 4s)[
(replace: "They describe moving with great dust storms, living always in the calm centers of them.")[They send you perplexing images of fields of light, tiny bright pinpricks wavering in the sand.]
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]
(live: 8s)[
(replace: "They send you perplexing images of fields of light, tiny bright pinpricks wavering in the sand.")[The sand came in more than 800 different colors, they tell you.]
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]
(live: 12s)[
(replace: "The sand came in more than 800 different colors, they tell you.")[You should have seen the great sculptures, striped and golden, they say.]
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]
(live: 16s)[
(replace: "You should have seen the great sculptures, striped and golden, they say.")[They sound proud.]
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]
(live: 20s)[
(replace: "They sound proud.")[But who were you? you ask. What did you stand for?]
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]
(live: 24s)[
(replace: "But who were you? you ask. What did you stand for?")[<div class="speaker1">[Every time you come, you always ask so many questions. Why?]]
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They send you a song that sounds like wind and sand, rattling the bones of some great steel cage.
(live: 4s)[
(replace: "They send you a song that sounds like wind and sand, rattling the bones of some great steel cage.")[An ecological disaster? you ask.]
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(live: 8s)[
(replace: "An ecological disaster? you ask.")[All the music we once knew is gone, they say.]
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]
(live: 12s)[
(replace: "All the music we once knew is gone, they say.")[But what happened?]
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]
(live: 16s)[
(replace: "But what happened?")[<div class="speaker1">[Why do you ask?]]
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(live: 20s)[
(replace: "Why do you ask?")[[[To learn who our neighbors were.->Neighbors]]
[[To save ourselves.->SaveHumans]]]
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[<div class="speaker1">We are long dead and do not know you.</div>]
(live: 9s)[It's less than illuminating.]
(stop:)
(live: 4s)[
(replace: "We are long dead and do not know you.")[But you have come here before and asked us your questions.]
(stop:)
]
(live: 13s)[
(replace: "It's less than illuminating.") [So you ask
[[Who are you?->Identity]]
[[What happened to you?->Fate]]]
(stop:)
][<div class="speaker1">Is that the only reason?</div>]
(live: 4s)[
(replace: "Is that the only reason?")[All we have left are our songs.]
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(live: 8s)[
(replace: "All we have left are our songs.")[If you find value in that, you can return and they are yours.]
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][<div class="speaker1">You have said this before.</div>]
(live: 3s)[
(replace: "You have said this before.")[It seems like a lonely reason to travel the universe.]
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]
(live: 8s)[
(replace: "It seems like a lonely reason to travel the universe.")[We have only songs to share with you.]
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]
(live: 12s)[
(replace: "We have only songs to share with you.")[If you find value in that, you can return and they are yours.
]
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]You know it's just a matter of technology pulling in a billion data points.
(live: 4s)[
(replace: "You know it's just a matter of technology pulling in a billion data points.")[Constructing a personality that you can interface with.]
(stop:)
]
(live: 8s)[
(replace: "Constructing a personality that you can interface with.")[Sometimes there isn't enough to retrieve communion.]
(stop:)
]
(live: 12s)[
(replace: "Sometimes there isn't enough to retrieve communion.")[But when something does talk back, it's still eerie no matter how many times you've done this.]
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(live: 15s)[
(replace: "But when something does talk back, it's still eerie no matter how many times you've done this.")[You don't think *Their software must be compatible.*]
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(live: 18s)[
(replace: "You don't think Their software must be compatible.")[You think *The spirits are restless tonight*.]
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You see it clearly in your mind.
(live: 3s)[
(replace: "You see it clearly in your mind.")[It's in the heart of their ship.]
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(live: 6s)[
(replace: "It's in the heart of their ship.")[It contains everything that their culture was.]
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Before you can consider the option, Sibyl alerts you once more.
(live: 4s)[
(replace: "Before you can consider the option, Sibyl alerts you once more.")[In a nearby galaxy, something hums.]
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]Earth is not dying, you think as you head to the second galaxy.
(live: 3s)[
(replace: "Earth is not dying, you think as you head to the second galaxy.")[But it's the only one left.]
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]
(live: 7s)[
(replace: "But it's the only one left.")[What good are songs? What protection do they offer?]
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]
(live: 11s)[
(replace: "What good are songs? What protection do they offer?")[You don't think about how it's been decades since you've heard from the rest of the world.]
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