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Speaker 1: This is Captain Kevin Prescott reporting into General Tompkins Clearance
Speaker 1: Code eight two OMEGA on Project Magmal. Sir, it is
Speaker 1: with pleasure that I can report that our advanced AI
Speaker 1: developed for this mission, code named Proteus, has taken to
Speaker 1: his mission parameters. Despite the small errors originally reported at
Speaker 1: the beginning of our endeavor, Proteus has now operated without
Speaker 1: issue for over thirty days. We believe a misassigned data
Speaker 1: packet was to blame for the initial problems, but after
Speaker 1: ex sens of testing and diagnostic scans, it is running
Speaker 1: at optimal performance. We firmly believe that it will perform
Speaker 1: above and beyond expectations and should be installed on the
Speaker 1: vessel bound for n g C seven to nine three,
Speaker 1: as it will be an asset for the crew. Additionally,
Speaker 1: not only are its first and secondary mission parameters up
Speaker 1: to par, but the C class level mission parameters we
Speaker 1: installed into its data course seemed to be operating at
Speaker 1: optimal levels as well. We have placed certain restrictions on
Speaker 1: its programming so that it is unaware of this sub
Speaker 1: level parameter and it will only report back its findings
Speaker 1: for those with the access code fifty three beta to C.
Speaker 1: We believe this is the safest course of action in
Speaker 1: order to investigate the anomaly detected within n GC seven
Speaker 1: to nine three. Though we have observed this anomaly for
Speaker 1: the past several months, no further findings could be assessed
Speaker 1: from command nor the lighthouse station. Based on what we
Speaker 1: have gathered so far, we still believe the anomaly maybe
Speaker 1: a micro black hole. Though rare within the universe, this
Speaker 1: micro black hole only expands and contracts on an irregular cycle.
Speaker 1: It only remains visible for the moments that is at
Speaker 1: full capacity, and when it retracts down to a sub
Speaker 1: atomic size, remains invisible to all detection. We believe that
Speaker 1: sending magmal to and through n GC SN two N
Speaker 1: three will give us the data we need in order
Speaker 1: to further explain this abnormality. The research gained on this
Speaker 1: can help expand our knowledge of the quantum realm and
Speaker 1: help us potentially harness the power of a black hole
Speaker 1: or even wormholes for use in long distance space travel.
Speaker 1: During our last meeting, you brought up the question of
Speaker 1: what is the possibility that this micro black hole will
Speaker 1: expand while the magmal is traveling through the nebula. While
Speaker 1: there is a chance it is extremely low one in
Speaker 1: a hundred billion or so according to the number crunters.
Speaker 1: In the unlikely chance it expands while the magma is present,
Speaker 1: we are unsure of what will occur. However, as we discussed,
Speaker 1: this is a calculated risk that we are willing to take,
Speaker 1: but as I mentioned, the risk is low but still present.
Speaker 1: Because of this, it is our belief that this Sea
Speaker 1: class level mission should remain classified to both those who
Speaker 1: are not aware of it already and to the crew
Speaker 1: of the magma itself. The less they know, the better,
Speaker 1: just in case. On a personal note, I know you
Speaker 1: have assigned to Jannah to this mission. Well, I disagree
Speaker 1: with this decision. I will support it if you feel
Speaker 1: strongly about this choice. That said, I still believe, due
Speaker 1: to the potential dangers of this mission, that I am
Speaker 1: still the best choice for piloting the vessel into the
Speaker 1: Helix Nebula. I am happy to discuss with you in
Speaker 1: person when you might have time, and if not, then
Speaker 1: I do feel it be of the mission's best interest
Speaker 1: to at least inform Janna of the C class level
Speaker 1: mission protocols to better prepare the magma for any circumstances,
Speaker 1: just in case. I will report back with any further finding.
Speaker 1: Steamed relevant, Thank you, General Fuck Magmal Episode six contaminant
Speaker 1: detected tee. What the funk is going on? How could
Speaker 1: I be in that video we found on someone else's ship?
Speaker 1: I am searching for possible explanations. That's not me? Right? T?
Speaker 1: Right T. I am sure there is a perfectly reasonable
Speaker 1: explanation for this, but that never happened. I would never
Speaker 1: hurt Janna like that, would I? What's wrong with me?
Speaker 1: What's going on? I am scanning the video for any
Speaker 1: evidence of tampering, but there appears to be none. Is
Speaker 1: that someone who looks like me? Is? Is that? What?
Speaker 1: It is? Just just a coincidence? It is possible. I
Speaker 1: am checking all available information on the recording. Is there anything?
Speaker 1: The video is timestamped thirty minutes from now? What it
Speaker 1: is from thirty minutes from now? At least according to
Speaker 1: the data I have interpreted? It is? How how the
Speaker 1: fund is that possible? Something is wrong with the ship's
Speaker 1: log obvious, Lee, I cannot be sure when it is
Speaker 1: actually from due to the extensive damage. No, No, No,
Speaker 1: something isn't right here. Perhaps if I ran it through
Speaker 1: a few more scans, I can detect something I did
Speaker 1: not detect before. Did you finish fixing the rest of
Speaker 1: the ship's log? It is a very delicate process, and
Speaker 1: it takes up a significant amount of processing power for
Speaker 1: me to be able to repair it. I should concentrate T.
Speaker 1: Did you finish fixing it? Yes? What else did it say?
Speaker 1: I do not believe now is the time to review
Speaker 1: the content? Does it say T? There could be something
Speaker 1: in there that we could use to help Janna. It
Speaker 1: is difficult for me to decipher the Magmal is still
Speaker 1: reading it as its own a duplicate. It's trying to
Speaker 1: override it with duplicate information that well that it has
Speaker 1: already logged it. Fuck does that mean T? It means
Speaker 1: that everything I uncovered in the ship's log it's matching
Speaker 1: up to our own, the previous time stamps, the mission logs,
Speaker 1: everything it is a duplicate of the Magmal's records. It's
Speaker 1: exactly the same. How how is this happening? I have
Speaker 1: explained to Janna that I believe my systems are malfunctioning,
Speaker 1: causing a sort of mechanical deja vu in my data core.
Speaker 1: I believe this is causing the confusion with the Magmal's
Speaker 1: log with the other ships. But there are other log
Speaker 1: entries postdated much like the recording I played. But those
Speaker 1: entries stopped in approximately forty five minutes. What do you
Speaker 1: mean they stop? I mean there are no more entries
Speaker 1: past that point. The ship's log is empty. What the
Speaker 1: fox is going on? None of this makes sense? Yes,
Speaker 1: I agree, Okay, I need you to run a scan,
Speaker 1: a deep scan, a self diagnostic, whatever the hell you
Speaker 1: can do. There's something here. We're missing, something we missed before.
Speaker 1: I am already running several to try to detect anything
Speaker 1: out of sorts. There has been nothing detecting. What about
Speaker 1: earlier when you've found those power fluctuations in the nebula?
Speaker 1: Do that again, however you found those? Run that scan again.
Speaker 1: I am trying, But there are several thousand tests that
Speaker 1: I need to run so I can affect Oh. Oh
Speaker 1: what does that mean? Oh? This is I am not
Speaker 1: sure how to interpret these findings. It is showing that
Speaker 1: these are not the first recordings. There are multiple recordings
Speaker 1: compounded on top of each other, and for the most part,
Speaker 1: each with the same time stamps and contents. What does
Speaker 1: that even mean to It means that the log has
Speaker 1: been recorded over again and again with mostly the same content.
Speaker 1: Some records stray, but according to this, it's been recorded
Speaker 1: before many times, over and over again. That's got to
Speaker 1: be some sort of mistake, right, Like like your scanners
Speaker 1: must be malfunctioning or something, right, I would think so.
Speaker 1: But this seems very conclusive. How is that even possible?
Speaker 1: How can something like that be? Wait? Hang on, where
Speaker 1: are you going to the bridge? I need to access
Speaker 1: the main computer whole type Jane. I won't allow her
Speaker 1: to access those files. I'll bring bring her back. Okay,
Speaker 1: seemed data packet, you can access the main computer from
Speaker 1: anywhere on the ship Sydney. You didn't need to come
Speaker 1: up here. You could have just asked, I know, but
Speaker 1: I wanted the keyboard to see if I could here
Speaker 1: it is? What are you looking for? I needed the
Speaker 1: data from when we passed through the hills and be like,
Speaker 1: can you bring that up for me? T There are
Speaker 1: thousands of data points from that. I need you to
Speaker 1: be more specific, bring it up here to all of it?
Speaker 1: Very well? Okay, Okay, here we go. What are you
Speaker 1: looking for I'm not sure how, but I think we
Speaker 1: funked up t big time. How so okay, so, well
Speaker 1: before our time, like six or so, there was theory
Speaker 1: by this Austrian physicist named Ludwig Flom. He came up
Speaker 1: with this idea for white holes, the theoretical time reversal
Speaker 1: of a black hole, almost like at the opposite end
Speaker 1: of one. I am aware, however, I am unsure of
Speaker 1: what this has to do with our current situation. And
Speaker 1: if I may remind you, Janna is still in the
Speaker 1: other room and is in no condition to be left alone.
Speaker 1: Just listen to me and let me talk through this. Okay, fine, okay.
Speaker 1: So then in the nineteen thirties, Einstein and Nathan Rosen
Speaker 1: used the theory of general relativity to elaborate on the
Speaker 1: same idea. Okay, They proposed the existence of bridges through
Speaker 1: space and time. These bridges connected two different points in
Speaker 1: space time, theoretically creating a short cut that could reduce
Speaker 1: travel time and distance. You know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: the Einstein Rosen bridges, Yes, exactly, or to call a
Speaker 1: spade a spade, wormholes they were talking about wormholes. Wormholes
Speaker 1: are still a purely theoretical science, and their existence has
Speaker 1: yet to be proven. Okay, yes, but based on their
Speaker 1: theories and what we know of black holes and white
Speaker 1: holes and all that stuff, and comparing it to our
Speaker 1: findings when we passed through the nebula, what if it's
Speaker 1: not theoretical anymore? How So, it's very likely we did
Speaker 1: unwittingly travel through a wormhole, yes, given all that we
Speaker 1: have seen. But that's not all, Tea. What if there
Speaker 1: is more to that, with with all that we found,
Speaker 1: all that we discovered, with the planet and the ship's
Speaker 1: log and everything else. What if it's not theoretical anymore?
Speaker 1: What if we just found something else, proved the existence
Speaker 1: of something we didn't even know if it was possible.
Speaker 1: What if we accidentally did something we shouldn't have. What
Speaker 1: are you saying, Sydney. I'm saying I think the wormhole
Speaker 1: was the least of our problems, Tea. I think we're
Speaker 1: stuck in a time loop. Mag Mill will returned after
Speaker 1: these messages and now back to mag Mill, Sydney, what
Speaker 1: you are suggesting is not scientifically possible. Most of what
Speaker 1: has happened to us so far has not been scientifically possible.
Speaker 1: None of this makes sense, So why don't we start
Speaker 1: looking outside the box for answers since the ones inside
Speaker 1: aren't really providing us anything. I think perhaps you should
Speaker 1: take a moment to breathe. Perhaps returning to Janna and
Speaker 1: focusing on that situation would be for the best. Ja. Yes, Jenna,
Speaker 1: I should wake her and talk to her. She's feeling her.
Speaker 1: She can probably help work through this with me right now,
Speaker 1: to right, No, Sydney, that is not what I meant.
Speaker 1: She certainly knows a bit more about this. Her husband
Speaker 1: studied this stuff for years, so she should be able
Speaker 1: to work out solution or see what's going on. It's
Speaker 1: the extra planetary scan. It's picking something up all the
Speaker 1: way out there. I thought you scanned it before and
Speaker 1: didn't detect anything. It didn't. But we are in uncharted
Speaker 1: space and the atmosphere is different out here. Things can
Speaker 1: change rapidly, and it seems that they have. Why. What's
Speaker 1: out there? It's the black hole? Black hole? What about them?
Speaker 1: It's here? What do you mean it's here? What black hole?
Speaker 1: When we first arrived that black hole? You mean after
Speaker 1: the nebula? How But that doesn't make any sense. We
Speaker 1: just flew a few hours away. From it. How how
Speaker 1: the hell is it here now? Unfortunately, science has not
Speaker 1: reached a point of understanding this quite yet, so I
Speaker 1: am unable to make any accurate calculations regarding this phenomenon. However,
Speaker 1: based on collected data, it might have something to do
Speaker 1: with it expanding, contracting, or even the bending of space
Speaker 1: and time. It seems to be expanding at a much
Speaker 1: higher rate than before, and each time it does it
Speaker 1: moves within space. It followed us essentially, yes, but rather unintentionally.
Speaker 1: But it's here now and we are in its direct path,
Speaker 1: so that means we probably should What the hell is that?
Speaker 1: What was? What are you seriously telling me? You didn't
Speaker 1: hear that? Listen? No, no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1: We have to get the funk out of here right now, Sydney,
Speaker 1: What are you hearing? Are you serious? It's this thing,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, the fucking monster, it's coming for us.
Speaker 1: I have to get us out of here now, Proteous,
Speaker 1: what what? I'm sorry, Sydney, but I can't let you
Speaker 1: do that. Let me do what new protocols engaged contaminant detected. Damn,
Speaker 1: Let me the funk out of here right now, Prodias,
Speaker 1: are you fucking serious. Look outside ta we have two
Speaker 1: big problems heading our way, and we need to get
Speaker 1: the funk out of here now. No abnormalities detected on
Speaker 1: my visual sensors. We must stay here and wait further instructions.
Speaker 1: Then fucking listen. No abnormalities detected on my auditory sensor
Speaker 1: commencing full lockdown. Let me the fun here now? Fuck?
Speaker 1: Who get up? God head? What's going on? Everything is
Speaker 1: being taken care of, Jenna, Please relax. Something is wrong
Speaker 1: with what's wrong? What's wrong with you? Sydney was displaying
Speaker 1: some tis disturbing behavior. I had to prevent her from
Speaker 1: hurting herself. Locked me in here. He's looking down the ship.
Speaker 1: Now we have to get out of here. Something is
Speaker 1: coming for us. What the fund is that I do
Speaker 1: not detect anything on my sense? Listen to me? Why
Speaker 1: the fund? Am? I strapped at this table t disengaged
Speaker 1: now request to what do you mean? Requests denied? What?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you have also exhibited abnormal behavior, jan
Speaker 1: normal the hallucinations you are experiencing tell me that it
Speaker 1: is not safe to let you operate the magma. You
Speaker 1: are a danger to yourself and to others. So I
Speaker 1: can get out of this is not fucking funny. Team
Speaker 1: let me go now. Please, if you want to help us,
Speaker 1: you have to disengage the lockdown here. We are not
Speaker 1: going anywhere. It wants you to stay. If that thing
Speaker 1: doesn't kill us, the black hole will I'm begging you. Please?
Speaker 1: Black hole? What black hole? The one after the nebula.
Speaker 1: It's out there. It followed us. Oh, oh god, the anomaly.
Speaker 1: It was the black hole. There is something wrong with
Speaker 1: proteus surface level programming, but maybe his sublevel programming is
Speaker 1: still clean. What what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Sub level? It doesn't matter right now, but I might
Speaker 1: be able to fix this. T T access C class
Speaker 1: level protocols access denied. Class level protocols are classified. Proteus
Speaker 1: listened to me access C class level protocols. Pass code
Speaker 1: beta to C access granted user to H one six.
Speaker 1: Captain Kevian Prescott command access mission protocols C class level
Speaker 1: protocols accessed. Scanning for anomaly anomaly detected, observe anomally yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ observed, go autopilot engaged. You did mission override
Speaker 1: lockdown commencing, No, goddamnit, override that override. What are you doing? Programming?
Speaker 1: Erupt all commands overridden? Intution, what are you doing? Override
Speaker 1: the lockdown for a few minutes and let us out
Speaker 1: t flush all current commands and reboot your system system rebooting.
Speaker 1: Holy funk, that worked. Okay, come on, we gotta get
Speaker 1: to the bridge before he comes fully back online. No wait,
Speaker 1: do you hear that? Hear? What? Who? We don't have
Speaker 1: time for the Sydney. Come on, we have to go.
Speaker 1: But we're the C class level protocols. Jenna, she said
Speaker 1: it yourself, not now, come on, what were they? Jenna,
Speaker 1: Sydney tell me? Fuck? Alright, fine, The Magma's mission had
Speaker 1: another classified purpose as well. Okay, we were sent up
Speaker 1: to observe an abnormality, one that originated from the Nebula.
Speaker 1: They thought they could harness its power. They thought they
Speaker 1: could tame the power of the wormhole. But obviously that
Speaker 1: sucked us, all right, And you knew, you knew this
Speaker 1: the whole time, and we don't have time for this.
Speaker 1: But you knew I did, but I wasn't supposed to, Okay,
Speaker 1: Kevin told me. Kevin knew. Look, we can talk about
Speaker 1: this later, but we have to go right now. This
Speaker 1: the whole time, and you didn't say anything. You constantly
Speaker 1: blame me for fucking things up. But you knew this
Speaker 1: the whole time and you didn't tell me. And now
Speaker 1: look look what you've done to us, Sydney. I only
Speaker 1: complete system back online. Jenna. Are you all right? I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what happened earlier. I assure you. I
Speaker 1: am myself now, Sydney, at least for now. What is
Speaker 1: going on, Tea? I seem to have something affecting me.
Speaker 1: I believe it is the mold. I think it got
Speaker 1: into my system, much like Jenna isn't in her now? Yes,
Speaker 1: I am running a scan and it is infecting. No, no, Sid,
Speaker 1: it's not. I'm fine. It's just fuck that fucking heart.
Speaker 1: You're not Channa anymore? What the fun? What are you
Speaker 1: talking about, Sydney. Of course, I'm Janna. You lie to me,
Speaker 1: and that's stuff. The mold. It's inside you. It's it's
Speaker 1: controlling you. Stop and listen to yourself. Said, help me
Speaker 1: get out so we can get out of here. No, no,
Speaker 1: I have to here is it? I know it's here.
Speaker 1: If I can just find it, I could I could
Speaker 1: stop it. Help me Sydney. Here it is Sydney. You're
Speaker 1: not thinking clearly. Here is the rent, don't you see?
Speaker 1: We have to stop it. The only way to save her.
Speaker 1: It's the only way to say, step away from her.
Speaker 1: Something is wrong with Sydney. To move. It's inside eu Genna.
Speaker 1: I have to save you. No, Sydney, it's inside you.
Speaker 1: With me. I have control the idol. He told me
Speaker 1: what happened. It told me what's inside you. It's coming
Speaker 1: for you. I need to save us, Janna, I need
Speaker 1: to save you. You have to listen to me. It
Speaker 1: isn't you please stop that. I don't. I don't get
Speaker 1: rid of it now. Oh h h Sydney safety. I
Speaker 1: did it. No, Sydney, she's alive, but her heartbeat is
Speaker 1: very faint. Don't you say I had to stop it
Speaker 1: from from taking control of over hanging over mm hmmmmm.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: it's still it's still coming for us. It's still here.
Speaker 1: We've got to go. We've got to go, prepare the
Speaker 1: ship for lunch. We've got to go. Get out of here.
Speaker 1: Listen to reason, Sydney, you're not We need to get
Speaker 1: out of here away from away from the thing, away
Speaker 1: from the black hole. Don't you understand I'm trying to
Speaker 1: save us. Just sucking do it, t I don't have
Speaker 1: time to argue with you. You are not qualified nor
Speaker 1: in the right state of mind to fly this Verdi
Speaker 1: has switched to computer mode. Computer mode engaged for takeoff
Speaker 1: now prepping systems. Please proceed to the cockpit for takeoff.
Speaker 1: Now let's get the funk off this planet. Magmal will
Speaker 1: returned after these messages and now back to magmill. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, work,
Speaker 1: God damn it. Come on the fuck won't you go faster?
Speaker 1: Fuel reserves below acceptable level. I fucking know that already.
Speaker 1: Just make it work. God, how the hell do you
Speaker 1: do this, Jenna? Just one more minute, you can do it.
Speaker 1: Unidentified object approaching buck Buck. Fuck? How long do we have? Collision? In?
Speaker 1: Approximately thirties seconds? Fuck? Engage warp engine warning, insufficient fuel
Speaker 1: for maximum efficients. Just fucking do it. Yes, come on, baby,
Speaker 1: you can do this. Just hang on, We're almost there.
Speaker 1: We can do this. Warning almost come on almost. What
Speaker 1: would you do if you have a chance to say
Speaker 1: nor again? What would you do do? Good morning, Magma crew.
Speaker 1: Today is March. You are currently one hundred kilometers from
Speaker 1: the helix Nebula. Congratulations, ladies. After seven hundred fifty four days,
Speaker 1: today is the day your mission finally comes to fruition.
Speaker 1: My head, I don't want to go to school today.
Speaker 1: Just ten more minutes, Proteus, there is no educational work
Speaker 1: currently eduled for the day. Janna, Perhaps you are mistaken.
Speaker 1: It was a joke to God. After two years, you
Speaker 1: think you'd grow a sense of humor. After two years,
Speaker 1: you'd think you would understand the one I was programmed with.
Speaker 1: Very funny. Hey, what's that smell? Sydney is preparing breakfast
Speaker 1: in the galley. You, ladies have a big day ahead
Speaker 1: of you, so she wanted to make sure you were
Speaker 1: well nourished. Great, tell her I'll be there in a minute.
Speaker 1: And how many times do I have to tell you
Speaker 1: stop calling us ladies. We are interplanetary scientists charting the
Speaker 1: great unknown, not the real housewives of outer space. I
Speaker 1: beg your pardon, ladies, all right, funck off? How lady like?
Speaker 1: Said Proteus is being a prick again? Well there she is,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Ready for your big day? Yes, mom, so
Speaker 1: excited for the first day of school. Well, I made
Speaker 1: you breakfast because you know we're going to be busy later.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Oh bacon and eggs. Looks like someone went
Speaker 1: through the trouble of rehydrating the good stuff. Today must
Speaker 1: be a special occasion. If you're not a fan, I
Speaker 1: can always oh, oh what's wrong? Just feel off off?
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's not the food, is it? Because I'm
Speaker 1: starving and we all know I would have given up
Speaker 1: on step two. I don't know. I just feel like,
Speaker 1: have you ever gotten deja vu? Who hasn't? I just
Speaker 1: got the strongest sensation of it, Like, like we've had
Speaker 1: this conversation before. Dude, deja vu is a lie. You
Speaker 1: know that, right, It's just temporal lobe epilepsy. It's a
Speaker 1: discharge in your brain that fools you into thinking that.
Speaker 1: And I know you're right. It's just very strange feeling
Speaker 1: and I can't shake it. Said, this is the biggest
Speaker 1: day of your career. Trust me, you would know if
Speaker 1: you've done this already. Right, Yeah, yeah, I guess so good.
Speaker 1: I'll get ready because today today we're gonna make history.
Speaker 1: Mag Mel starring Ali Trasher, Julia Henning, and b J Gribb.
Speaker 1: Additional voices in this episode provided by kat Ton Chonko
Speaker 1: Mac Manson, and Jeff Heimbuck. Written by Jeff Heimbuck and
Speaker 1: Lindsay Skaggin, Directed and edited by Jeff Heimbuck. Produced by
Speaker 1: Jeff Heimbuck and Ali Trasher. Executive produced by Holly Fry.
Speaker 1: Audio engineered by Corey Celeste and Alex Gona. Original musical
Speaker 1: score by Corey Celeste. Additional songs by the Ramikins as
Speaker 1: played by Roscoe Soultran. Magmel is a production of I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio and Bamfor productions, questions comments email us at
Speaker 1: Project Magmal at gmail dot com. Until next time, We'll
Speaker 1: see you when we see you,