the curse is expanding

 

planets aren't safe for centuries

perils of the moons are becoming more and more apparent

hexpace is present on all celestial bodies

and its influence is expanding 

 

no one should stay on planet's surface for longer than thirteen hours

and darkness is even worse than daylight 

 

even worse things are hiding under the ice

fields of paradox and corruption, slowly twisting everything they touch

if you don't believe me

just ask the spirits of the nebulae 

 

>>things found in the deepbore vault's computer, on nanax
>>aren't what they seem

>>if someone uploads them to a manufacturing processor
>>assuming there are any manufacturing processors left
>>the machine will produce something terrible 

time

The flow of time isn't uniform (not only in this mausoleum).

Yes, the interstellar travel still takes decades. Most of us spend this time in deep cryosleep. But for the outside world - it is much shorter. Years, sometimes only months.
That's not how time dilation should work.

But there is more - it happens only for the 'regular' travelers. It becomes even weirder for Pilgrims.

Once the Pilgrimage starts to follow a Vector, they... disappear. Become almost impossible to trace. It doesn't occur in an instant - but ships of the Pilgrimage seem to fade. But even when they become impossible to detect, they are still able to send messages back to the rest of cosmos.

And once they disappear, who knows how the flow of time looks for them.

The first Artificial Prophets claimed that they will have to follow the Vectors 'longer than eternity'. 

the three sages

1. Are they the Great Sages Of Our Time? Are they contemporary?
2. Did they all die?
3. Are they just aliases, ways to conceal the workings of groups of researchers?
4. Which one am I? Am I real? 

mausoleum

i've contained myself here
this pocket universe is so distant that i should be safe
not me
all data stored in mausoleum
funny thing isn't it?

because time cannot be trusted anymore
there are beings existing outside its limits
hunters living off the lesser entities
limited by space-time

i don't even know why i'm documenting everything
last time i peeked outside
everything was dead and empty

CANNOT BE SURE IF THE MAUSOLEUM WAS FIRST
OR THE EVENTS HAPPENING OUTSIDE
I DON'T KNOW IF I'M A CHRONICLER OF THE PAST
A PREDICTOR OF THE FUTURE
OR IF I'M CREATING THE OUTSIDE WORLD
BY GATHERING INFORMATION ABOUT IT

i travel for millennia
unnoticed
by the world unfolding around me

without me everything would be forgotten
or wouldn't happen at all
 

who is ator ganad

  

BELIEVE ME, I ASK EVERYONE, CHECK EVERY ARCHIVE
AND IT SEEMS THAT ATOR GANAD HAS ALWAYS BEEN HERE
ALMOST OMNIPRESENT

BUT NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN HIM ATOR GANAD TALKED TO ATOR GANAD

YET GANAD'S ANNOTATIONS ARE EASY TO FIND
IN THE CHRONICLES OF THE PAST

GANAD IS A MASTER OF
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

MAYBE THEY ARE LEFT FOR US TO
LOOK FOR THE ANSWERS OURSELF
? 

XU DAO 

 

 and there is even this photograph