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Working title: Radio Silence
Alternate title(s): The Silent Listeners
Base idea: What one may see looking into a clear night sky on class Z mnestics, OR What the universe is hiding from us
Various offshoot ideas:
- Antimemetics as an explanation for the Fermi paradox
- The universe is not empty
- We are not the first, we may be the last, but we are not alone in the history of the universe
- We do not know about alien life because that knowledge itself, or perhaps related knowledge, it dangerous
- Infonukes as a common (And known?) method of warfare
- There are potentially ruins within our own solar system, antimemetically cloaked space junk and probes, entire worlds erased from view
- It is possibly the nature of intelligent life to be destroyed, and we are not properly looking or listening for evidence of that. The universe is, or previously was, full of life that ultimately isolated itself in radio silence.
- Discovery of SCP-3125 or aspects thereof may be a natural extinction event for many species and civilizations, though not the sole scenario for the destruction of a species.
- Worth exploring later may be variant effects of 3125 on entirely different noospheres, though it will be difficult to communicate a truly alien nature in order to make that particular concept workable
Possible perspectives for writing:
- Someone looking into a clear night sky on class Z mnestics. Explore who they are, how they have access to such powerful and restricted mnestics, and what drove them to do something so undoubtedly fatal - did they think this observation could be important somehow?
- Alternate concept: Somehow someone is able to do something like previously mentioned without dying, perhaps through a germ as in Wild Light? I still don't like this as without good development it's just suicide with some exposition tacked on, or with a way to survive it just shoehorned in. If there is some way to make that action important and interesting it could still work. May also work if the perspective of MTF Omega-Zero (The Ara Orun from What The Dead Know) is used, although then there would have to be some reason for their researchers to focus on it when their main focus is dealing with active informational threats.
- Assembled received transmissions from a SETI institution. This may remove the need for a character able to perceive the information. Presents its own challenge of telling a cohesive, interesting, and accessible story out of separate pieces of information that may not have any clear order to them. Could be logged with attached dates of when transmissions were received. Would require some implication as to why nobody responded to them in any way, a way of communicating that they can't be noticed (preferably something beyond an antimemetics division tag). Transmissions in English also would not make much sense, but an alien language wouldn't make sense as it would be untranslatable. Something akin to the Arecibo message could work as a piece of the story, but would need other formats to back it up. A researcher perspective would be interesting but the explanation for how they are able to see it would be crucial.
Other notes: Inspired by the work in the antimemetics division series, especially tales by qntm, and additionally by a comment qntm made relating to antimemetics and extraterrestrials
