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Internal Compact Communication - Local Planetary Time: May 1st, 2025
TastyBlood: Alright everyone, this is the head of the first contact team speaking, I need everyone to keep this channel clear. I know we're all very excited about this new xenosophont species, but we need to make sure we do this right! There's about 8 billion cuties down there waiting for us to help them. Our initial scans show no signs of spacefaring civilization, so this should be nice and easy. I predict a timeline of about three local years before we have everything folded into the Compact. I'm wishing us all very good luck with these sophonts! Remember to have fun with it everyone, you only get to do first contact once with a species!
Signed, Langa Sudorfina, Thirteenth Bloom (she/her),
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Internal Compact Communication - Local Planetary Time: May 3rd, 2025
TastyBlood: Dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt, they noticed us. I don't know how, did someone fly a shuttle too close? It's all ruined, they're already spreading the video through their internet
PitFiend: Is there anything we can do? I don't want any of the cuties to get hurt…
TastyBlood: We'll have to see. Maybe everything will be okay. We have to hold out hope that they'll calm down and think it's a hoax.
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Internal Compact Communication - Local Planetary Time: May 9th, 2025
manyeyes: We have a problemmmmm.
TastyBlood: I know we have a problem! #AliensAreReal is already trending on their social media, they've got all eyes on the skies. Did we mess up stealth protocols or something?
manyeyes: I don't know but the surveillance team is seeing some dangerous stuff. Their local governments have no idea what to make of it and their official communications are boiling down to "we don't know what's going on and we're panicking."
TastyBlood: Let's hope this blows over. The damage is done, we're probably going to be fine.
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Internal Compact Communication - Local Planetary Time: May 13th, 2025
TastyBlood: Olor it's all fucked it's all so fucked.
manyeyes: Trust me, I know.
TastyBlood: The poor things have started blaming each other.
manyeyes: I know, Langa. I know. The US has blamed China, China has blamed Russia, and Russia has blamed the US. I know. This is bad. All three nations are mobilizing their militaries.
TastyBlood: We're going to have to move up the timeline on Earth's domestication. Oh dirt, we are going to have to accelerate the cotyledon program so fast.
manyeyes: Then accelerate the cotyledon program. We've got this.
TastyBlood: You're the best, Olor.
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Internal Compact Communication - Local Planetary Time: May 20th, 2025
TastyBlood: Okay, well, good news, the cotyledon program is going very well.
manyeyes: Yeah that probe we found really helped us, we've already deciphered most of their major languages and developed a full suite of xenodrugs. Good thinking on developing class-B first.
TastyBlood: I'm so excited! Fearful but excited. We've got this.
manyeyes: Yes we do. Everything's going to be okay.
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Internal Compact Communication - Local Planetary Time: May 22nd, 2025
RosyRosyRosy: guys im so scared their doomsday clock (which is like a metaphor for how close they are to nuclear armageddon) is at 30 seconds to midnight
RosyRosyRosy: theyre going to kill each other over us i dont know what to do
PitFiend: Calla, come to my hab, everything will be alright. The first contact team has already decided that we're going to reveal ourselves early to prevent the worst of the worst from happening.
RosyRosyRosy: Doesn't that seem dangerous?
PitFiend: Yes well, it's no more dangerous than letting the humans blow each other up.
RosyRosyRosy: if youre sure…
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Internal Compact Communication - Local Planetary Time: May 25th, 2025
TastyBlood: Zea has come up with a brilliant plan. The humans have this event called "pride month" where they decorate everything with rainbow colors. It's so cute, they have colorful flags and everything!
PitFiend: Please, I didn't come up with the plan myself, Calla was a great help.
RosyRosyRosy: Noooo, it was all you! I just noticed that they had this and thought it would be cute if we gave them rainbow flowers for it.
TastyBlood: And a great idea that is! I'll go ahead and start the drone seeding, this is going to be beautiful.
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Internal Compact Communication - Local Planetary Time: May 28th, 2025
manyeyes: I don't want to hold my breath, but it looks like the cotyledon program is a rousing success.
manyeyes: Xenodrug classes A through Z are complete, the haustoric implant is ready to be used, and I want to thank everyone who helped with this. I know it was hard, but we did it.
TastyBlood: This is such great news. I've already got the domestication center templates saved and ready for deployment, this is going to be so beautiful. We're going to help so many people.
TastyBlood: First Contact is in three days, lovelies. Is everyone ready?
PitFiend: I know I am. Everbloom, this is the fastest we've ever prepared for a species. I hope it goes well.
TastyBlood: It will have to.
DarkGoddess: Incredible work everyone, seriously.
BloodRed: A 27 day cotyledon program. What have we gotten ourselves into?
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Internal Compact Communication - Local Planetary Time: May 31st, 2025
TastyBlood: Tonight's the big night! Everyone ready?
PitFiend: Ready as I'll ever be. I've seen one sophont on the rooftops, she looks so lonely.
RosyRosyRosy: zea, falling in love already?
PitFiend: Maybe!
manyeyes: Focus, everyone, we have a lot of work to do.
DarkGoddess: Olor is right, let's try and keep cross-talk out of this channel.
PitFiend: Oh hush, Captain, everything is going to be fine.