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LOG #009
INTERVIEWED: Lansing, Merle Jr.
DATE: 2/27/2038
Lansing: Do I have to state my name and age for the record?
Nam: Oh- god, no, Merle.
Lansing: Advantage of knowing everyone you're interviewing, yeah?
Nam: [laughs] You'd think, but I don't know everyone. So- you're alright if I just start from the top?
Lansing: I've talked about it enough in my life. Lived through it enough. Go ahead.
Nam: Then, before the event occurred- what was July 15th, 2018, like for you?
Lansing: Before it?
[ten second pause]
Lansing: I want to say I don't remember anything before it, but that's not true. It's just that I didn't remember
Lansing: Well, let me put it this way- before all of that, before we lost dad and the world ended- nobody had told us our mom was a mosquito.
LOG #013
INTERVIEWED: Demir, Sumayyah; Demir, Edward
DATE: 3/4/2038
Excerpt from collected journals of Alexei Belitrov, dated 11/2/2018
pt 2 of merle
ELECTRONIC MESSAGE RECORD
TO: (Nam, Ju-Won)
FROM: (Johnson, Jacqueline)
The answers you're looking for here are actually fairly complicated, but I'll try to explain them as directly as I can- no scientific babble. I can do the scientific babble if I need to, but like hell if I want to. It's not like this is what I got a degree in, you know?
Finding out that 2000 existed sounds like the sort of thing that'd be nigh-impossible back then, but to be honest, it was just a matter of being anomalous enough. Of course I knew it was around. I can't even count how many timelines I've been in where the Foundation was using it or trying to. And at some point, word came down not to use amnestics on me- I'm still not sure what it was about. Point was, they couldn't hide it from me.
And the catch? I'm pretty sure the Council wanted it that way. If the world ends, who's got the best shot at making it and turning everything on? I'm somewhere up there, not counting the month or so I'd probably be somewhere else. You know that's why they let Cain know so much- they didn't actually tell him about 2000, I bet, but they didn't have to guess that he knew. We're not the only ones- I know Peter knew about it. Pretty sure any reality bender of a certain age would know, really. Bes didn't figure it out, but he knew something was up. Sumayyah has told me she saw discrepancies, from when she was a girl. You can't hide something that massive from a shit-ton of anomalous people. It's as impossible as we are.
The longer I live the more certain I am was that, among the higher level folks in GOIs- head honchos in the GOC, Insurgency, etcetera- 2000 was an open secret. Because they all knew the Foundation had the single best option for restarting humanity with as little damage done to the laws of physics as possible. Did all of them like it? Of course not- I've met people from the Hand who still fight about the morality of it all- but there was almost an implicit agreement to keep it around. Who knew when we'd need it, right?
And I wasn't there for it, but the story about how we all ended up settling there is honestly simple. I still off in another timeline then, but from what I know, it took about two days of chaos in Site-17 before Tommy- you called him Grabnok the Destroyer- just asked Cain what the hell they were all going to do, and Cain spilled. Just went ahead. The world had ended. Why not? I know he seems all poised and regal to most people, but I know him as well as you can by now, and all I know for sure is that he gets so bored. It must have seemed like a fun idea, to see how he'd react.
Tommy flipped his lid, I'm assuming- I can just see it, it was how he was- and he told everyone else, and it's not as if they had anywhere else to go. Just because some of them hated the Foundation didn't mean they all hated humanity. A gigantic underground shelter seemed a lot safer than the flaming wreck of Site-17, anyway.
And I'm sure it seemed really simple, once they actually got from 17 to Wyoming. 2000's made to keep out anomalous interference, but somebody set up an emergency bypass at some point, and it didn't take long to figure out. Then go in, press a button, and presto, people. Give it a few decades and it'd be like nothing ever happened. 2000 had been through some shit- it was going through repairs just before things ended- but it was still all set up fine. Sometimes I wonder if one of those lucky people who got to know about 2000 took their last breaths telling themself that everything would be just fine for humanity.
Problem was? Nobody had figured out what the hell they'd do if the world ended before those repairs were done.
someone else?? I think Adilah and Raul?
LOG #024
INTERVIEWED: Blackhawk, Margaret Mae
DATE: 4/15/2038
pt 3 of merle
Excerpt from collected journals of Alexei Belitrov, dated 2/26/2019
Perhaps I should not have doubted him, but Cain's claim that he was familiar with the workings of my armor was true. The armor on my shoulders is now, if not quite repaired, then far more in tact than it has been in decades. I had assumed the work of the Engineers was mostly lost, in this world, considering I was never given any word of it when the Foundation was in tact- but Cain claims he learned from them many years ago. He calls them the Children of the Night, but whether this is his own name or an ancient one is beyond me.
Plenty of what he says is beyond me- there is too much in his head. He remembers every word of my file, or at least the parts they allowed him to read. Every part of Brigitte's, and Tommy's, and I suspect everyone else in this facility, and every creature that lurks outside of it. That would be more than enough for one man, and yet he keeps going. I think often of what others think of me when they look at me- I would tell Dr. Friedrich this, sometimes. I do not mean even in this armor. Do I have a gait others study? A tone of voice they attempt to read something from? I wonder this because when I try to find these things in him, when he is speaking to me about what exactly he has done these repairs, I can find nothing. If it is a facade, it is a perfected one.
(Yet Tommy says he used to talk to Cain when they were allowed free roaming- in lunch halls and such- and he thinks Cain seems happier, here. After the end of the world. I wouldn't know.)
We talked for long enough tonight that I nearly forgot to put Brigitte to bed. She was waiting for me.
Letter addressed to Ju-Won Nam from Miranda (lastname), dated 4/17/2038
