[Community Event] Project Nauru

[Tenacity]

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Source: Shuttlecraft Artemis
Comm ID: Dr. Eva Strauss
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Ms. Gridley, I greatly appreciate you and your crew's contributions to this project. We have known for some time, based on artifacts and equipment found in this and other excavation sites on Nauru, that they were exceptionally experienced with various forms of Antimatter-Based technology, but this does appear to be the first reference we've seen to a purpose-built weapon. They do, as you say, seem to have been a pacifist society with no infighting or war, so this is a remarkable turn of events in their history. Please, continue the translations if you have time, we encourage others to do the same.

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[TLI-Inferno]

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Translation of File #004

The weapon test was a mistake. The antimatter blast hit aela, war sister in the sky, and it was thrown away from us in pieces. Already, we feel the effects of losing aela, as we watch the debris from her spread across the skies and disappear into the void.

File 004

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From this translation, interpreting based on the translation of files 001-003, it seems conclusive that the aforementioned great weapon was tested the next day, as planned, but destroyed a large vessel in its testing. From this, it can be determined that the developed weapon was powerful, but it was not properly anticipated or controlled.

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[R.P.Curator]

Hello Dr. Strauss.
This is the translation for file 6.
Sincerely,
A. Gaunt


""We die.
There is nothing we do, but die.
Our legacy, our people, will be gone within the month.

What have we done?
How has our civilization come to this bitter end? Everything has been for naught?
We die. ""

[Kiny0]

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To : Dr Eva Strauss.
From : Ms. Elicia Gridley.
Subject : Re : Project Nauru.
Source : Freeport 11, Omicron Delta

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Dr Strauss,

Here is our work on the next file on the list.

My findings prove that your conjectures on their anti-matter expertise to be right. Indeed, their technology seems to be based on this very form of power. Again, the conflict between the Naurians and the "creatures" probably started over the rich presence of Iridium in the crust of their planet. Our civilization probably is millennia older than these two species, and yet not so different, don't you think ?

But I digress. Either way, they were rather confident about the capabilities of their super-weapon. Something feels a bit off in file #004. If they knew that their weapon would blast anything in their sky, why would they have opened fire while one of their vessels were in orbit as well, and be ravaged at the loss of said ship ?

What's shacking me is that in file #002, the Naurians claim that "For the first time in the history of our species, we have reason to look up, to the skies". Maybe me and my colleague misinterpreted this sentence, but we don't think the Naurians had any star ships at all. "For the first time in the history of our species, we have reason to look up, to the skies". This feels like they were waiting for someone or something to come to their world, but not actively seeking this someone.

This is why I don't believe "Aela" to be one of their ships. Perhaps it was a celestial body, a comet, maybe. But it represented some sort of spiritual being for the Naurians. I think they went on with the firing procedure, and this "Aela" came right as the procedure ended and they could not abort it, hence why they deem the weapon test a mistake in file #004.

Also, The choice of words is important here. They specifically use the word mistake. Not failure. A failure would imply that the test was not successful, but it indeed was. Their use of mistake here shows a judgement on their own actions. We believe they felt guilty to have built such a weapon, and they think they are punished for it by destroying "Aela".
Then again, this is only speculation, and we might discover more about this "Alea" in another archive.


Elicia Gridley out.

File #007

The weapon advances well. The Antimatter blast it creates should be strong enough to destroy any vessel in orbit of our world, even those more advanced.
It is fitting that these creatures who came to take our resources, our precious metals, should meet their end to the very same technology they so desire.

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To : Dr Eva Strauss.
From : Ms. Elicia Gridley.
Subject : Re : Project Nauru.
Source : Freeport 11, Omicron Delta

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Dr Strauss,

The recent events concerning the anomaly in Omicron Delta gave us a lot of data to analyse for the weeks to come. I, however, have found some time to spare and got my teeth on the eighth file. I came up with this translation.

To my disapointement, it did not contain many information about the whole situation. It is rather an expression of remorse in front of the "inevitable situation" their people suffered.
We will keep you updated on any further progress on the nineth file.

Elicia Gridley out.

File #008

Is it folly ? Folly that we, as a people, chose to never look up ?
Our focus has always been to our feet, to the vast riches below us, to the planet that supports our lives and our families.
Maybe, just maybe, if we had looked up to the stars, we would have been better prepared for this inevitable situation.

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To : Dr Eva Strauss.
From : Ms. Elicia Gridley.
Subject : Re : Project Nauru.
Source : Freeport 11, Omicron Delta

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Dr Strauss,

Here we are, the last two files. In the last one we have one further mention of Aela. I still have no idea about what it could be however. My theory about it being a comet doesn't seem to hold true here.
A shame there are no more public artifacts of their people available. I'm sure the history of the Naurians holds many mysteries. Their civilization does not seem to differ particularly from ours, so maybe we could learn from them. I am no sociologist, but even I can see the potential findings one could uncover from such a people.

Either way, this was a pleasure working with you on this project. Feel free to contact us for anything, we'd be glad to help once more aboard the Boone.

Elicia Gridley out.

File #009

We are a unified people. We do not fight, we do not want for more than we have. We could not understand the motives of the visitors, not at first.
Now we know, now greed and envy have begun to infect our society. Our leaders build the weapon to selfishly keep what the aliens want to take from us.
We should have just given it.

File #010

The great creatures of the deep lakes cry out. They can feel the tension of our planet as Aela slips away, they mourn for it as if for a lost sibling. They despair, as we despair in our final hours. They will survive this, protected by the waters of our world.
We will not.

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[Tenacity]

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Source: Shuttlecraft Artemis
Comm ID: Dr. Eva Strauss
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Amazing work, everyone! With these translations, and a few others handled by my expeditionary teams, we're really starting to put together the history of Nauru and its people. This will have widespread consequences for all of Sirius. All of you have been credited for your work on this project, and will be notated in my final thesis paper.

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