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NXB SCHWARZCHILD
DEPARTMENT OF METASCIENCE

ANOMALOUS MATERIALS RESEARCH DIVISION
Karl Friede, Research Overseer
NXB-SCH-RND-MTS-00451

I. THE NATURE OF TIME

Imagine a perfect world.

Imagine you as a God. You, the infinite self, existing across more than one timeline on more than one reality. Except this isn't God, it's you. We've long known the existence of parallel worlds and timelines and our successful track record in away missions is proof of that. We exist in more than one point in more than one time. How many points, and for how long? Our calculations say: everywhere, forever. We found God, and God is us.

Imagine disappearing the next time you blink. One moment you're here, reading this memo, and the next you just disappear. This doesn't mean a cessation of existence - we at NanoTrust discovered how to make people disappear without a trace years ago and harnessed it as a source of energy. No, imagine disappearing in your entirety - your past accomplishments, your future endeavors, your current self being scrubbed from all possibility. Imagine the infinite Yous blinking abruptly out of existence with no trace and no proof. Not even a bloody smear or a pile of ash or a memory half-remembered.

When our ancestors first discovered the power of the atom centuries ago, they said "We are now all bitches". Well, they didn't bank on discovering what we found. Why trade in the destruction of a city? Buildings can be replaced. People can be replaced. In another time they still exist. Why be that sloppy?

Gentlemen of the board, I present to you our latest discovery: acausal erasure. Temporal scrubbing. Or in layman's terms, fucking deleting someone out of reality.

No, God can't help you, and I can prove it. If our paratemporal telemetry is correct, we aren't the first to discover this. This means that someone, somewhere, found God and killed it.
We now live in the history god abandoned.

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"Glory to the Last-Born."

 

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NXB SCHWARZCHILD
INTRADIMENSIONAL RESEARCH

TIMELINE INTEGRITY INVESTIGATION DIVISION
Emilia Zampano, Code Talker
NXB-SCH-RND-IDR-02991

[SYS.ADMIN] START OF LOG [2.00.256]
[SYS.ADMIN] RECONSTRUCTIVE OBSERVER LOG:
PULSE AT 00' 00" 00^ DETECTED

FREQUENCY CRYPTOGRAM SAVED
PREVIOUS SCAN SIMILARITIES: NaN
<< PAST / CURRENT / FUTURE >>

 

: There it is again
: second time this week
: been getting weird readings on the oscillobserver
: infinite similarities
: not possible
: how is a hypothetical more real than the sample?
: brought it up with Fred
: dumbass thinks its a bug in the code
: we have this thing hooked up to the wetware all day and night
: it can't be a bug in the code
: hypothetical infinitely similar to sample
: current trend means that the more we observe, the realer it gets
: how is that possible?
: we can't be getting realer than we were two days ago
: this needs further study

: unless the past is somehow becoming less real
: which is impossible, since the weapon hasn't been fired once

[SYS.ADMIN] END OF LOG [0.00.256]

 

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NXB SCHWARZCHILD
ARCHIVAL MAINTENANCE SERVICES

OFFICE OF THE MEMORIZER
LORD MEATFLESH, Memorizer
NXB-SCH-LIB-MEM-42069

MARTIN C. has entered chatroom S3CUR3 TALK FOR ASSHOL3S 
Encryption key: TU5FTU9OSUMgVk9JRA==

MEATFLESH: hey asshole
MARTIN C.: have you been changing your shit again? Jesus, Navy. You can't keep breaking SOP just because you're the Memorizer.
MEATFLESH: i have to have fun somehow
MEATFLESH: keeping track of all these records is boring
MEATFLESH: especially since Redact McAsspants is pretty much big brothering everything
MEATFLESH: even your porn
MEATFLESH: you sicko
MARTIN C.: I'd rather you not degrade the station VI like that. She is not "Big Brothering" anyone.
MEATFLESH: [DATA CORRUPTED]
MEATFLESH
: when I rememorize this document and see a blank entry
MEATFLESH: you owe me 12 creds
MARTIN C.: did you study that data core entry I sent you?
MEATFLESH: yeah but idk why you needed me to lol
MEATFLESH: there was nothing on it
MEATFLESH: in fact the memory was in the negatives
MEATFLESH: so I now have a few more bytes than if I just deleted it
MARTIN C.: Nothing? As in... Nothing?
MEATFLESH: yeah
MARTIN C.: that's impossible.
MEATFLESH: yeah
MARTIN C.: but I remember reading it.
MEATFLESH: maybe you've been staring into the shard for too long
MEATFLESH: you probably have like..........................
MEATFLESH: space cancer
MEATFLESH: [FILE: MARTIN_HAS_SPACE_CANCER.JPG]
MARTIN C.
: update me when anything develops.
MEATFLESH: whatevs
MEATFLESH: make sure to say hi to Karl for me

chatroom S3CUR3 TALK FOR ASSHOLS closed.

 

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NXB SCHWARZCHILD
WEAPON'S RESEARCH DIVISION

METAMATERIALS FORGE
Patton Strauss, Forgemaster
NXB-SCH-WPN-MTM-00001

Shaping the past to protect the present.
A new age in the protectorate.
Stuff you can rely on.

jesus this shit gets boring. why do we even need a slogan for a death machine???

Delete your enemies, asshole.
Say goodbye forever.
Never know what hit em.

Time. Unyielding. Unbroken.
An unmoving wall.
Until now.
Be the hammer, not the nail.

 

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NXB SCHWARZCHILD
COMMAND PLATFORM

CAPTAIN'S OFFICE
Roger Rogerson, Captain
NXB-SCH-WPN-MTM-00001

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NSS CYBERIAD
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

XENOSCIENCE DIVISION
Ingrid Valera, Xenoscientist
NSS-CYB-RND-XNS-00210

Captain,

I've read over the data files and they don't seem to make sense. CC faxed us saying that they don't have any records of an experimental research base called the Schwarzchild, and even asked if I was making this shit up. Honestly, where did you find these? None of these positions and departments make sense, and nobody named here even exists in NT's employment records. And I don't mean in the usual, "we're-firing-you-but-actually-killing-you" way. I mean in the "these people don't actually fucking exist, and neither does the ship, or these filing codes" way.

If anything the gateway exploration wasn't a total loss. We found some bluespace materials with readings I've never seen before. But this? Maybe it was a prank, or maybe the clown snuck in and left fake records everywhere to fuck with you. I don't know. As of this moment, it all looks like really shitty science fiction.

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