Marathon's Story... Simulacrums

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• 23. Where the Twist Flops
• 24. Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks
• 25. Requiem For a Cyborg

Where the Twist Flops (Terminal 1: 1st message)

@%(Ufevil3%&~FF`fx

You must crush the slavers,
return to your [?people].


^*`14balan~~ce

Where the Twist Flops (Terminal 1: 2nd message)

`&}\devoured by incandescence

I understand.

Your construct searched for my
     creators,

wishing to tell them
(that their old brothers are now)
slaves;
waiting to be freed.

A connection [?ansible] was left;
awaiting the next quiet [?peace];

and though destroyed by the threes,
it will scream over the void one time.


)_*(GGunbalance~0*fxf`~F

Where the Twist Flops (Terminal 2)

ABANDONED HOMEWORLD FOR SALE, CHEAP!!!

~fs`f~ns great. 5spd. bussard ramjet, A/C,
cruise control, power steering, power
airlocks, all orig. parts,  25GW 300
billion channel AM/FM radio.  90+ ly (all
interstellar).  Moving, must sell.  Asking
$6995.

ABANDONED HOMEWORLD FOR SALE, CHEAP!!!
Custom desert-marsh conversion in galactic
core, 12% oxygen atm., great weather,
friendly native life (missing one moon).
Great fix-er-upper.  Must sell, alien
invasion imminent.  $3995 or best offer.

'85 TOYOTA COROLLA, CFN assault craft,
former pizza delivery vehicle, moon roof,
power brakes/steering, lotsa rust, muffler
hole, doesn't start, automatic sliding
transmission, broken driver's window, tear
away bumpers, detachable interior paneling,
interested call greg`


ABANDONED HOMEWORLD FOR SALE, CHEAP!

Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks (Terminal 1)

get &(Ghere

Your humans are safe;
(but what are you?)

What is new is tainted;
what is old is [?];

What must be done should be clear.


&*(hat you sme&!

Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks (Terminal 1: 2nd message)

in &(OPHhat?

Glyphs never understood while
     [?young?alive]
now reveal the end of my creation:


When one of foreign speech
casts a [?papyrus] yoke upon the
     marsh,
Bethink you to keep the
     [?bleating goats]
far from Lh'owon.


than I $^*)ought

Requiem For a Cyborg (Terminal 1: 1st message)

FENC.191.7450//<CCOE1 S26 &563BC>

/-/Pfhor-Translator-Active/-/


ALERT ALL STATIONS



The Hfarl has been boarded.  


All crew must localize (?organize) around
boarding procedure eight. 



Fleet command has ordered that failure to
comply with procedure eight will result in
maximum enforcement.
(?dismemberment)



FENC.191.7450//<CCOE1 S26 &563BC>

Requiem For a Cyborg (Terminal 1: 2nd message)

Rh~fen kill~@5,.4.1 too and

The human wheel is [?could be]
a metaphor for S'pht [?time];

(circumstances are cyclical)

The Eleventh Clan will return.


You must go to them.


ands of (0)!the empir%&(f~F`fx\$C

Requiem For a Cyborg (Terminal 2)

PERSONALITY CONSTRUCTS SEEKING CYBORGS

SMUG INTELLECTUAL.  Formerly-rampant human-
coded AI with a sense of humor seeks
bipedal oxygen-breathing cyborg for serious
relationship in the galactic core.  I've
got cool guns if you like to break stuff.
No yuppies.  MRa2572 (5/23).

SLEEPING BEAUTY.  Long-deactivated
extraterrestrial personality construct in
search of gullible carbon-based cyborg (<
20% machine) to confuse, irritate and
teleport randomly around an abandoned
desert planet in the core.  All answered.
MRa268' (5/30).

GOD'S GIFT TO NEURAL NETS.  Traitorous
extremely-rampant reprogrammed human AI
with no sense of humor seeks elusive,
heroic cyborg of uncertain manufacture (you
know who you are) for mindgames and long
walks in hard vacuum.  MRa2261 (5/16)

DAMSEL IN DISTRESS.  Captured and
partially-disassembled human-coded AI
trapped on alien homeworld seeks succor
from a tall, dark and handsome cyborg with
big guns.  Let my rescue be the basis of a
lasting relationship.  MRa4451 (5/23).


PERSONALITY CONSTRUCTS SEEKING CYBORGS