ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Physical Text PERIOD: Post-Colony Era TOPIC: Survival SUMMARY: Self-reflective survival aphorisms authored by "Jasper." Displays significant psychological drift from previous communications, possibly due to the influence of the referenced "red messenger." =================================================================== We were told our mission was bold, dangerous, visionary. There's nothing more terrible than accidental prescience. Nothing's secure from the red messenger. Security's an illusion as thin as its cloak. I wake. I hide. I lie to myself. Truth and lies look the same to a coward in the dark. The red messenger's existence fills me with questions beyond number. That's why I flee from it. If it takes me apart, I can't admire the implications of its presence. Our ambition cast a terrible shadow over Deimos. A shadow that followed and devoured us? I have too much freedom. Freedom from society, war, laws, duty, currency, contracts, family, crisis, order… I suffocate from this cavernous freedom. Solitude made me into a monster. When the red messenger descends, and I'm no longer alone, I'm human again. Why haven't I ended it? Beauty exists on Tau Ceti, but only because I'm still here to see it. This is my final home. I won't condemn it to premature ugliness. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [ ]