Last night we died.
Today we woke up in another solar system. After confirmation that our Patterns were present and not corrupted in the Forge System's hard drives aboard the Wulf Orbital, our Patterns here were "disabled" (picture a technician changing .pdf to .wtf and you get the idea).
At that point, as far as the universe is concerned, the only place our patterns technically existed were millions of miles away aboard a space station hurtling around a planet that no intelligent life had ever visited.
With the Forge reporting "ready" for the three of us, we were sedated and euthanized. Aboard the Orbital, Pattern completion was achieved and printing began automatically. Several hours of printing later, we awoke in orbit of Wulf 3.
The Wulf system had been chosen due to its almost identical planetary layout to Humanity's home solar system - A yellow dwarf star, orbited by 7 planets, the third of which was positioned a mere 20 million kilometres closer to its sun. Still within the habitable zone, breathable atmosphere, liquid water... no life. The perfect place for curious humans to go poking around.
So here we are, freshly baked and ready for our next journey - to Wulf 3's surface. Rather than redeploying via Forge, we'll be taking a lander down to the surface. Our "save point" now set as the Orbital, should we run into any surprises on the way down. For now though, we're resting and filling up our new bodies with the finest printed nutrients. Resurrection really takes it out of you.
If all goes well, my next update will be from the surface of another wooooooorld! Exciting!
Here's something awful to ponder til then... if the same system that printed me, printed all of my food, does that make me a cannibal?
Great, I've given myself the heebie jeebies now.
Love you bye!
-Cas
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PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT - MICHAEL WERNER, 07 DECEMBER 2028
Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening, welcome to the Forge Institute. My name is Michael Werner, you'll no doubt be more familiar with my colleague, geneticist Kate Sams. It will soon become clear why I am introducing this press conference rather than Kate.
For many years, our work here has delivered incredible advances in the field of organ and limb transplantation. With the discovery and development of The Forge we effectively tore up and rewrote what it meant to replace damaged and missing tissue with the ability to print and graft perfectly compatible organs, tissue and indeed entire limbs from a patient's own genetic code.
Our most recent discovery, borne from tragedy, will again change everything.
Kate Sams and her team have, for some time, been further expanding The Forge, as a tool to remove and rebuild in-place, giving surgeons the ability to repair patients' damaged limbs and organs right there on the operating table. no more transplants, no more lengthy rehabilitation. Limb amputation and replacement would become a streamlined one-procedure process. Simply scan the patient and the forge gets to work rebuilding what's broken.
During a routine calibration, Kate left the lab while The Forge analysed and scanned the sample genetic pattern - her genetic pattern. It was during this brief moment when tragedy struck. Kate slipped atop the stairwell and fell. The fall was significant, severe and unfortunately fatal. Kate was mercifully killed instantly.
Ladies and Gentlemen please, settle down and please, please understand and forgive my apparent coldness.
I feel it's poss-Please! No questions yet! Please under- Okay. I think it's best I hand over to a colleague now. Please welcome to the stage... Kate Sams.
It looks like today's the day! Confirmation signal was picked up from the orbital early this morning. The Lander is pinging back a nice healthy set of stats and Hab printing appears to be underway!
It has been decided that we'll be deployed to the orbital first, rather than trusting the Forge System that dropped with the lander. There's nothing in the data that suggests any damage... but I think they want some fresh eyes (pardon the pun) in a controlled environment before we start printing bodies from unconfirmed matter...
Hey I guess once we do deploy on Wulf, that would make us extra-terrestrials, technically?
I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty nervous. This isn't my first redeployment, but its a new world record for distance!
And if anything does go wrong they can just kill me and redeploy me back here... Fuck.
It'll be fine. I'm fine. It's all fine.
Okay! Enough worrying, see you all in SPACE!
-Cas