ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Application Recording PERIOD: Pre-Expedition SPEAKERS: Quasar, C. [ID: CQUA] TOPIC: UESC Marathon Mission SUMMARY: An excerpt from materials submitted by religious leader Cygnus Quasar, as part of an application to join the UESC Marathon mission. Records indicate this candidate was rejected. =================================================================== [CQUA]: The technical intricacies of such a mission of course will be important and… and that's not my strength, of course. I've never claimed otherwise. But I'm not here to advise on the technical intricacies. You've asked me to speak as a theologian. To answer the question, why should the Astral Harmonies chapter join the expedition? [CQUA]: I've been asked variations on this before. What business do the gods have on a mission like this? Why bring them along? Such questions give me far too much credit. It's not in my power to bring the gods anywhere. They are already there, in Tau Ceti. They will be on this journey whether we invite them or not. [CQUA]: Murmuring in the cryofluid, whispering in the data banks… Singing the cosmic melodies that surround us on all sides. So the gods are with you either way, and they will speak, regardless of your belief in them… perhaps in an entirely new tongue. I only wish to be your humble translator. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]