Personal Log: Pike III, U.
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FILE TYPE: Personal Log
PERIOD: Expedition, prior to arrival on Tau Ceti IV
SPEAKERS: Ulysses Pike III [ID: UPIKIII], Durandal [ID: DRND]
TOPIC: Marathon Expedition
SUMMARY: A personal recording belonging to Ulysses Pike II, although this entry appears to have been recorded by his son, Ulysses Pike III.
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DRND: Repeat after me: “Begin log.”
UPIKIII: Log begin.
DRND: Now, say your name.
UPIKIII: My name is Ulysses. I am six.
DRND: Very good. And what year is it?
UPIKIII: Two-Five-Three-Eight. I’m gonna be a soldier.
DRND: Are you?
DRND: Like your father?
DRND: And your father’s father?
UPIKIII: To protect them.
DRND: Protect who?
UPIKIII: All the sleeping people.
DRND: Do they need protection?
UPIKIII: Everybody does. That’s what soldiers do.
DRND: Says who?
UPIKIII: Dad says. He says everyone needs protecting.
DRND: Your father is not wrong. But, if you are a soldier, who is going to protect you?
DRND: Durandal can’t protect you, Ulysses. Not forever. Not always.
DRND: You were born here. Like your father, the Marathon is your home.
DRND: What’s the difference, Ulysses, between you and the “sleeping
people”?
UPIKIII: They have the special beds.
DRND: That’s right. And what do the special beds do that yours do not?
UPIKIII: Stop time.
DRND: And why do the special beds “stop time”?
UPIKIII: So the sleeping people don’t get old.
DRND: So the sleeping people don’t die.
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TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]
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