Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human Colonist
Date [standardized human time]: June 25, 2160
The next generation of humans were a third of the way through development in ectogenesis. Soon, there wouldn’t be only thousands left of my kind. When I remembered what I was fighting for, it gave me the willpower to push through the hell General Radai was throwing at us. Ever since our engagement with the Sivkits, the Resket seemed hellben...
2024-04-25 11:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Gress, Krev Hostage Negotiator
Date [standardized human time]: August 4,...
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Memory Transcription Subject: Chloe de Vries, United Nations Consultant
Date [standardized human time]...
2024-04-23 11:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Alien Liaison
Date [standardized human time]: June 20, 2160
The Sapient Coalition’s scouting party outside their space hadn’t paid dividends so far; it’d been combing potentially habitable worlds for any clues, while also searching for an opportune place to set up a listening post. If there was one thing that this incident proved, it was the value of having eyes and ears even beyond their area of ...
2024-04-22 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Gress, Krev Hostage Negotiator
Date [standardized human time]: August 2, 2156
Rameki was able to acquire the aquarium owner’s location through the Trombil-built surveillance network; I de...
2024-04-20 11:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Alien Liaison
Date [standardized human time]: June 10, 2160
Onso had delivered with the ticket into the Sapient Coalition’s doors, earning us a trial period of six months, though it could be cut short at any time by a majority vote. The Technocracy granting us that long of a leash might’ve been to ensure that we’d slip up, but despite our differences, we knew better than to show them in front of t...
2024-04-18 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Gress, Krev Hostage Negotiator
Date [standardized human time]: August 2, 2156
It was fortunate that Juvre was so patient with Lecca, with her propensity to pull on his tail and hang on him as if he was a jungle gym. My little one had a motor that never quit, running around as a bundle of energy. I remembered how she’d chase the young obor, who was only a year older than her; the horror that I’d felt when she swun...
2024-04-17 11:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Kelvanis, Terran Resident
Date [standardized human time]: January 12, 21...
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Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human Colonist
Date [standardized human time]: June 9, 2160
Quana and Gress didn’t mesh, even after I tried to share his story with the Jaslip. The fluffy carnivore demeaned me as gullible for buying his ignorance, though potential dishonesty was unthinkable to me after seeing the look in his eyes. My Krev exchange partner had opened up his soul to me, and I wouldn’t let the quadruped’s vitriol t...
2024-04-15 11:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Chloe de Vries, United Nations Consultant
Date [standardized human time]...
2024-04-13 11:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human Colonist
Date [standardized human time]: May 14, 2160
It had been one thing to practice at the range with Cherise, and another to have a helmet providing real time trajectory estimates and corrections. The augmented reality feed could detect my inaccuracy patterns, providing an analysis on what to adjust. Quana proved able to handle a weapon, firing almost every shot into the center ring of the h...
2024-04-11 11:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Kelvanis, Kolshian Asylum Seeker
Date [standardized human time]: January...
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Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Alien Liaison
Date [standardized human time]: May 14, 2160
While Dustin’s kind hardly looked like ferocious predators, Kaisal had quite the intimidating stature. His teeth were visible poking out of his elongated snout, serrated fangs that could eviscerate a Bissem in a flash of feathers if he so desired. The forward-facing eyes were narrowed to slits, which left him with a perpetual scowl on his face...
2024-04-08 11:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Chloe de Vries, United Nations Consultant
Date [standardized human time]...
2024-04-06 11:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Alien Liaison
Date [standardized human time]: May 14, 2160
Much like Dustin foretold in his introduction speech, it was odd how swiftly the madness of first contact became normalcy to the Bissem public.
The war raging on Ivrana left Lassmin untouched, even as thousands fell amid naval clashes and shoreline battles—several cities had been devastated by collateral damage. Our diplomatic efforts we...
2024-04-04 11:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Kelvanis, Kolshian Asylum Seeker
Date [standardized human time]: January...
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Memory Transcription Subject: Gress, Krev Rent Collector
Date [standardized human time]: March 16, 2160
Standing across from the masked biped, I had felt nothing but disdain. It figured that a being from Federation space would show no respect or common courtesy to us, but I’d tried to meet Taylor Trench in the middle: more than I should, and much more than he deserved. The fact that set off alarm bells in my head was that they needed to stage t...
2024-04-02 11:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human Colonist
Date [standardized human time]: May 14, 2160
Keeping one eye on the hab module’s entrance, I found myself thinking as I waited for Gress to arrive. The sudden change of our circumstances wasn’t lost on me; I never would’ve dreamed two months ago that I’d be chatting it up with an alien I barely knew, who had binocular eyes and a carnivorous palate. It would’ve defied my imagina...
2024-04-01 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Chloe de Vries, United Nations Consultant
Date [standardized human time]...
2024-03-30 11:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Hello! I formatted my chapters the same as I've been doing for two years, and woke up to find that on Android, Patreon has decided paragraphs really didn't need those spaces. The chapters are still readable like normal on browser, iPhone, or PC as far as I've been able to check, so try reading it on the web or through your email if you're having issues! Wish I could fix beyond that.
While I'm making a post to everyone, figured I might as well give a hint of what's to come. I'll be posti...
2024-03-28 14:39:02 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human Colonist
Date [standardized human time]: May 14, 2160
The Krev Consortium had been true to their promises for bringing Tellus up to their technological standards. I stood atop a cliff overhang, looking at what had once been an empty steppe. Towering skyscrapers were clustered together, more than we could ever use with our current populace; perhaps they could be filled, once the new generation the...
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Memory Transcription Subject: Kelvanis, Kolshian Asylum Seeker
Date [standardized human time]: January...
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Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Scientist
Date [standardized human time]: March 23, 2160
Scrolling through the top broadcasts now, I saw that much like at first contact, the titles were replete with aliens. This time, every topic that we had discussed in our disclosure conference showed up in the headings. Panels debated the Tseia’s coverup of first contact, while also reenacting how the Starlight Incident played out; historians off...
2024-03-25 11:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Kelvanis, Kolshian Asylum Seeker
Date [standardized human time]: January...
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Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Scientist
Date [standardized human time]: March 21, 2160
What a week it had been since the aliens landed in Gray Basin. It was just a few days ago that I had no idea whether Bissems were alone in the universe, and all of the possibilities enraptured my mind. My entire life up to that moment was spent imagining how first contact would play out, and how our species might rise to the occasion. In the time ...
2024-03-21 11:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Chloe de Vries, United Nations Consultant
Date [standardized human time]...
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Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human Colonist
Date [standardized human time]: March 21, 2160
My gaze wasn’t sure where to settle, between the six lazing diplomats from each species. Every set of eyes was on me, from the Ulchid who had her tail-leg curved beneath her like a mermaid, to the curled-up Smigli, to the Trombil, whose eye socket was evidently made of metal. I approached the table with a sheepish posture, and watched Cher...
2024-03-18 11:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Kelvanis, Kolshian Asylum Seeker
Date [standardized human time]: January 5, 2150
I walked down the famed streets by the School of the Flora for what might be the last time; the ro...
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Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human Colonist
Date [standardized human time]: March 20, 2160
There was no sensation of being yanked to Avor, despite our downward trajectory. Without any view from inside the tunnel, it was impossible to differentiate between this rapid descent and any other train ride. That also meant that we couldn’t steal a peek of the passing atmosphere, thanks to the enclosure blocking our view altogether. I su...
2024-03-14 11:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Memory Transcription Subject: Chloe de Vries, United Nations Consultant
Date [standardized human time]: January 5, 2150
The start of a new year was often when people on Earth tried to usher in change, though few had resolutions that took them as far away from home as I was going. When I’d applied for the position around Aafa’s orbit, I hadn’t expected to get it; my only training was an online webinar program that was the most basic requisit...
2024-03-13 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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