1. |
Runes on Dunes on Moons
03:46
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[A1][Protag]
Topographic scans revealed
within some runic lunar field
A scrawl of runes, etched in crust
Language lost, languishing in dust
Telescopic satellites
Our orbital augmented sight
2090, 4th of June
Discovered runes on dunes on moons
[B1][Protag]
I volunteered for
missions, sight unseen
Entrust my life to
unknown space machines
Mapped and graphed in code
my strange lunar task
To future humans
I must therefore ask:
[A2][Protag]
If in flight, my life is lost
Weigh venturing verse human cost
If my legacy is dust
May everything decay to rust
[B2][Space Division]
This letter transmits
the plan for lunar
and sub-lunar search
Expedition for
an ancient language
discovery site
Request funding stream
be secured at once
[A3][Space Division]
Recent telescope output
revealed writing carved into stone
within the Leibniz mountains
Craters engraved with human runes
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2. |
Asteroid Seas
03:59
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[A1][Protag]
My equipment is designed for
25 short hours of air
One day to make it back to base
I return to my home from there
[B1.1][Protag]
My space time vessel craft
contract like all the rest
Requirements invoked
Bespoke, low cost is best
[A2][Protag]
Plotted course to traverse the seas
Impact craters, dunes, and their like
I hope an asteroid does not
erase me in its crushing strike
[B2.1][Space Division]
The runes are mapped to the
old Leibniz mountains in
northwestern quadrant 9
To find the language strange
[A3][Space Division]
Classified intelligence states
that spectral evidence exists
of human civilization
as interstellar travelers
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3. |
Cosmic Cartographer
05:05
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[A1][Protag]
Studying the surface
Like some found dead sea scroll
Mapping out the features
prior to solo stroll
Charting out my journey
Prior to my landing
Battered lunar canvas
Runes carved where I'm standing
[B1][Protag]
Arrive to no surprise, no feature that I can't climb
A month to plot my dark sojourn, hardly enough time
Viewing frames from Hubble 5, for every choice I've made
Although these runes hold secrets still, carefully inlaid
[A2][Space Division]
It is of paramount
importance to keep this
information from all
mainstream news awareness
The mission at hand should
be developed to use
a fixed minimum of
knowledgeable agents
[B2][Space Division]
It shall be administered to mitigate concerns
of human memory permanence, findings obscured
Therefore, Space Division recommends a black mission
for a lone, minimally informed operator
[A3][Space Division]
It is ideal that the
operator must be
permitted to complete
the mission without a
viable method to
return to earth alive
There can be no spill for
those remaining earthlings
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4. |
Universal Traversal
03:49
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[B1][Protag]
Seas bereft of water and all life
Random pockmarks dotting lunar skin
Each empty lunar sea encountered
Deeper than the one I'm climbing in
Walking shock waves top-down crest to trough
Inscribed trails go cold where runes trail off
Were astral travelers here before?
I wonder just what these runes are for
[B2][Protag]
I'm finding signs of weird language here
Carved into the crumbling lunar stones
Strange low thrum, vibrations, in my feet
Rattling my weakened aching bones
The runes here seem human made somehow
Depicting smoke and trees and great clouds
I can see jubilee back on earth
Throngs of folks, jumbled up, craning crowds
[E][Protag]
Human universe traversal signs
Past travelers chosen long since gone
Are these runes our words we left behind
when we voyaged beyond the earth dawn?
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5. |
Absolute Absence
04:02
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[B1][Protag]
Scans of topography
spectral plotting transferred
Data must be sent back
I shall not be deterred
[B2][Protag]
These ancient cryptic runes
Completely hidden text
What was it that they saw
to leave earth to the next?
[D][Protag]
Abandoned writ, perhaps a guide
to ley lines traced in starry void
Authors gone from our detection
Like shattered iron asteroid
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6. |
Prison in a Helmet
04:56
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[B1]Protag
I can't say why they vanished and
I can't imagine where they went
I am alone, naive nomad
to my coffin I have been sent
[B2]Protag
I signed up for this cursed mission
Noble conquest dreams in my head
Instead I'm nearly out of air
Wonder if I will wind up dead
[D1][Protag]
Prison in a helmet
ringing silence in my ears
Mere minutes to recall
the passing of my life's years
What did I give up in
the pursuit of this fool's dream?
I left all back on earth
so everything it now seems
[D2][Protag]
My helmet my prison
Ember dying behind glass
May you all glean something
From me as I come to pass
Find where the old ones went
And maybe find their new home
Nothing left to offer
and now here I die alone
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7. |
Orbital Ossuary
07:14
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[A1][Protag]
I'm debris on Everest
Where I fall on the moon
Was it a worthy death?
I guess I'll find out soon
[A2][Space Division]
Preserved on Everest high
nomads lost on their trail
some seek ancient wisdom
or long forgotten grail
[C]Space Division
All in the name of conquest
For our human destiny
Our explorer gave his life
for more universe to see
[F]Space Division
Time will not erase our lost wanderers
Though their mission deeds may be lost to time
Each detected planetary fissure
A new mountain range to inspect and climb
[A3][Space Division]
Bones stored, no atmosphere
Remains for mission two
We'll bring you back, Protag
You amongst sublime few
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8. |
Celestial Cenotaph
13:44
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[B1][Space Division]
Memorial of Dust
Your grave in lunar rock
loss of life for Earth's hope
You drowned for us to walk
Studying language now
you died to uncover
Humans shall achieve more
than living to suffer
[B2][Space Division]
We translated your work
Your whispers left in wind
As you died, you proclaimed
'I'm done now, try again'
The moon as your headstone
Your cenotaph on high
Celestial memory
Rarely out of our sight
[D1][D2][D3][Space Division]
As for translations, and the savior runes
We'll send new nomads, to new prospect moons
Locations transcribed, out in far field space
To prolong our lives, travel routes were traced
Outside galaxy, the promise of life
Earth is left behind, no more pain or strife
We embark out now, on our final flight
Goodbye celestial, cenotaph in night
[F][Space Division]
It's been two hundred years
Since writings from the moon
The vessel, nearly done
We'll fly the ley line soon
Some hope left for humans
Or at least chosen few
Try again to create
Society anew
[G][Space Division]
Another hundred years of work
We at last managed to connect
With ancestors from eons past
Coded instructions proved correct
[I][Space Division]
Our billions became trillions
Resources all but consumed
Lost all contact once again
with those previously sent
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