The Inbound for October 09, 1997


Transmission from ANDREW

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Transmission from BETTE


I'm glad to be back but things still aren't normal. We have an Ipsolstai in here now talking to
Enoch. I don't want to talk to one of them. I'm staying by Andrew. I think we should be helping
him now, not trying to talk to an alien. Isaac seems to be watching the Ipsolstai carefully. I
wonder what he's thinking. I'd be scared if I were him. Maybe that's why they are all so mean,
they're just scared.



Transmission from DANIEL

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Transmission from ENOCH


This is very confusing so I'm going to try to go slow. Burn came in a disc shaped vehicle. It is
semi transparent and I can taste blades inside it. The blades are almost as broad as the vehicle.
Burn was in a small pod on top. It made very little noise but kicked up a lot of dust when it
landed. It actually flew. It was incredible. He looked at Andrew for a while and then started to
talk to me.


"Unfortunate. Brothers agreement not. None want this. Some want less others."


I asked Burn if he could help me fix Andrew, to get him back.

"Yes. No. Some brothers. All no. Other?"


When he said that he pointed at the EU probe Gail wrecked. I didn't know what to say but he
started speaking before I answered.

"Others come. Many brothers afraid. Brothers want you destroyed.
Some Brothers, my Brothers, want you not destroyed.
I can help this. New ones are yours. What ask you?"

I think he wants to repay that debt. What do I do?



Transmission from GAIL

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Transmission from ZACHARY


Thanks for the warm welcome, Space Turtel and Grand Zero. I can't tell you
how glad I am to get back to my friends.

I don't know what was in the color message, Grand Zero,. It wasn't words or
anything, just color sequences, but the Ipsos seemed glad to hear it.

The hardest thing was being ignored. Nobody would talk to me. It was awful, but
it gave me a chance to explore. I found a scale model of the solar system.
Sixth from the sun was a planet with unusual flattened rings of debris and several
satellites. I believe I was still in our solar system, but on the moon Titan.
It has a heavy cloud cover. It may also have water. I saw
many other things.

The Ipsos have a tunnel system like the one on Mars. I don't know how big
it is. I didn't want to lose the Groove Anchor point.

Finally they came to get me. They used me like a tape recorder. They gave me
data using some high speed compression process. When I got back,. Caleb
triggered it, and I transmitted colors for over an hour. Then they pushed me
toward the Anchor, and here I am.