PORTAL PROLOGUE
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FILENAME(S): PORTAL PROLOGUE
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.3.5..PORTAL PROLOGUE.---------------...
. I'VE ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING OF A LO
NER. THAT'S WHY I VOLUNTEERED FOR THE MI
SSION. YET THIS EMPTY WORLD BELOW SCARED
ME... WE CAME IN OVER FLORIDA. I KN
EW IT HAD TO BE EARTH. BUT THE BROAD FAC
ILITIES OF CANAVERAL WERE NOTHING MORE T
HAN GRASSY FIELD, THOUGH THE OUTLINES WE
RE THERE, AND THE MONUMENTS OF THE EARLY
LAUNCH FACILITIES SEEMED TO BE IN GOOD
REPAIR. ONLY AFTER WE LANDED COULD I SEE
THAT THEIR PRESERVATION WERE LESS THAN
PERFECT... I WALKED AROUND, POKING I
NTO THE FEW REMAINING BUILDINGS. ALL WER
E EMPTY AND SILENT. GULLS CIRCLED OVER H
EAD; BIRDS SANG. I FOUND A TERMINAL OF U
NKNOWN DESIGN IN A BUILDING. NEARBY WAS
A SMALL CAP LABLED WITH THE WORDS "MINDL
INK XV3-2044." I PUT IT ON, BUT NOTHING
HAPPENED. THE TERMINAL WAS INACTIVE, AND
I COULD FIND NO WAY TO CHANGE THAT. IT
HAD NO SCREEN, NO KEYBOARD ONLY WHAT I T
OOK TO BE A HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTION PLATF
ORM, AND THIS CAP. I'M NOT EVEN SURE IT
WAS A TERMINAL... GYGES HAS BEEN REM
ARKABLY LITTLE HELP. ALL HER EXPERT SYST
EMS, ALL HER POWERFUL AI FUNCTIONS SEEM
HELPLESS. SO I ASKED HER TO GO OVER SHIP
'S LOG... OUR TRAJECTORY WENT ACCORD
ING TO PROGRAM. WE APPROACHED 87.79 PERC
ENT LIGHTSPEED WITH THE FIRST FIVE YEARS
' SUBJECTIVE TRAVEL. THEN SOMETHING INTE
RRUPTED THE PROGRAM, GYGES IS UNABLE TO
ANALYZE WHAT. A BROAD SWATCH OF DATA STO
RAGE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN WIPED. A PROTON
FLUX? MAGNETIC ANOMALY? THE SCOOP PERFOR
MED ACCORDING TO DESIGN. SPEED INCREASED
TO 93.45 PERCENT C, THEN TO 94, 95, 96,
97. TIME DILATION BEGAN TO AFFECT THE C
IRCUITS IN WAYS GYGES COULD NOT DETERMIN
E... WE NEVER REACHED 61 CYGNI...
I LISTENED TO AUDIBLE REPRESENTATIONS.
MOSTLY THE HISS OF HIGH-SPEED DATA, TH
E SHRILL CHATTER OF BITS FLOWING IN THE
SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUITS. WHY DO I DO TH
IS? I DO NOT KNOW. THERE'S NOTHING ELSE
TO DO... ONCE I THOUGHT I HEARD SOME
THING. I ASKED FOR SLOWER AND SLOWER REP
LAYS. I TRIED FILTERING AND MODULATING T
HE SOUNDS. IT WAS ALMOST LIKE MUSIC, A C
HANT OR PATTERNED POLYPHONY. I MOVED THE
FREQUENCY UP AND DOWN... I HEARD WH
AT I THOUGHT MUST BE A NAME: PETER DEVOR
E... I MUST HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN. YET
THE NAME WAS THERE, HIDDEN IN THE CHITTE
RING DATA, CLEARLY ENUNCIATED. I LISTENE
D TO IT OVER AND OVER. THEN I WENT OUTS
TIDE AGAIN.... IT WAS A WARM SPRING
DAY. A LIGHT BREEZE CAME IN FROM THE OCE
AN. THE AIR WAS CLEAN AND BRACING WITH S
ALT AND OZONE. IT WAS SO MUCH LIKE THE D
AY I HAD LEFT THIS FIELD (HOW MANY YEARS
AGO?) THAT I FELT A STRANGE SENSE OF DI
SORIENTATION. IT WAS AS IF, FOR ME, EVE
RYONE AND EVERYTHING FAMILIAR HAD VANISH
ED OVERNIGHT... GYGES SAMPLED ALL AV
AILABLE FREQUENCIES, ALL AVAILABLE CHANN
ELS... THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE WORLD
, SO I LIFTED THE SHIP AND MOVED SLOWLY
OVER THE FACE OF THE EARTH, LOOKING FOR.
..I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR..
. WHERE WASHINGTON D.C. ONCE SPRAWLE
D BESIDE THE POTOMAC LAY A SCATTERED PAR
KLAND WITH ANCIENT MONUMENTS; THE LINCOL
N MEMORIAL, THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, THE
CAPITOL BUILDING. THE PENTAGON WAS JUS
T AN OUTLINE, A PENTAGONAL BERM COVERED
WITH GRASS... IN THE LIBRARY OF CONG
RESS BUILDING I FOUND A MAP CALLED: INTR
CORP WORLD ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS ARCHIV
AL HARDCOPY, WITH A DATE: 14 AUGUST 2077
. THE MAP INCLUDES WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN
ORGANIZTIONAL CHART FOR THE INTERCORP C
OUNCIL AND ITS POLITICAL OR ADMINISTRATI
VE REGIONS... I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE ANY
NAMES. BUT I READ AN OUTLINE OF 21ST CE
NTURY HISTORY. MY OWN DEPARTURE IS LISTE
D FOR 2004, MONDAY 24 MAY. ONE OF THE FI
RST HYPERSONIC SALT-CYCLE SUBORBITALS TO
OK ME UP THE GYGES SCOOP. IT'S ALL THERE
. THE NEWSNETS OF THE TIME CARRIED LIVE
COVERAGE OF THE SCOOPS GOING OPERATIONAL
. BY THE TIME I'D LEFT FOR MARS ORBIT, I
WAS ALL BUT FORGOTTEN. SO MANY OTHER TH
INGS SEEMED TO BE HAPPENING IN THE WORLD
... IN ENTRY FOR THURSDAY, 5 FEBUARY
2076: "GYGES 61 CYGNI SINGLE MAN EXPLOR
ER TELEMERTY CEASED AS OF THIS DATE. SIG
NAL ATTENUATION INDICATES SYSTEM SHUTDOW
N. PRESUMED LOST.".. THAT'S ALL. "PR
ESUMED LOST." NO EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND WH
AT HAPPENED... I HAD NO IDEA HOW MUC
H TIME HAD PASSED, OF COURSE. WHEN THE S
HIP REVIVED ME, 200 MILLION KILOMETERS O
UT, I WAS DISORIENTED AND PUZZLED. LATER
, WHEN WE SWEPT IN OVER THE SOUTH ATLANT
IC ON OUR FIRST ORBIT, I GREW ALARMED...
THIS WAS NOT THE WORLD I LEFT, ALTH
OUGH THE GENERAL GEOGRAPHY WAS FAMILIAR.
THERE WAS THE HOOKED CIRCLE OF ANTARTIC
A, THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, THE BROAD BUL
GE OF SIBERIA AND THE ARTIC ICE CAP, BUT
WHERE WERE THE CITIES? WHERE WAS THE CO
NSTANT COMMUNICATIONS CHATTER? WHERE WER
E THE SIGNS OF TRAFFIC AND HUMAN LIFE? T
HE PLANET I WAS ORBITING WAS EMPTY....
YET THE SYSTEM WAS THE SAME. THE LP-5
COLONIES STILL HOVERED AT THE LEGRANGE
POINTS, BUT THEY TOO WERE SILENT. THE MO
ON CIRCLED OVERHEAD, BUT NO VOICES CAME
OUT OF THE LUNAR BASES. THE GEOSYNCS AND
RELAY SATELLITES HAD CERTAINLY MULTIPLI
ED SINCE I'D BEEN GONE, BUT NOTHING BUT
UNMODULATED CARRIER WAVES MOVED BETWEEN
THEM... YESTERDAY, I WAS LAID INTO T
HE COMPLEX HUM OF THE FIRST CRYOFIELD AB
OARD THE GYGES AND PUT TO SLEEP. FOR ME
IT WAS YESTERDAY, YET YEARS HAVE PASSED.
I SHOULD HAVE REVIVED IN ORBIT OFF 61 C
YGNI AND SPENT A YEAR OBSERVING THE DOUB
LE STAR... THIS DID NOT HAPPENED...
GYGES HELD ME, MY CRYOFIELD, AND THE
MOST ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE C
OMPUTER EARTH SCIENTISTS COULD PRODUCE I
N THE EARLY 21ST. SHE SPOKE AND UNDERSTO
OD STANDARD NATURAL LANGUAGE. SHE CONTAI
NED THE INTUITIVE AND DEDUCTIVE SKILLS O
F COUNTLESS SCIENCES, LIFE SUPPORT, ENTE
RAINMENT, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTION. I
ANTICIPATED NO PROBLEMS... BUT I AWO
KE (IT SEEMED) MOMENTS AFTER I'D GONE IN
TO THE CYROFIELD -- 200 MILLION KILOMET
ERS FROM EARTH, INWARD BOUND -- AND EVER
YTHING HAD CHANGED... MANHATTAN IS A
MONUMENT. THE TRIANGULAR MILE-HIGH PYRA
MIDS OF MIDTOWN STILL STAND, BUT THEY'RE
EMPTY. THE LOWER EAST SIDE IS A VAST FI
ELD LITTERED WITH ABANDONED VEHICLES OF
TYPED I HAVE NEVER SEEN. SOME OF THEM HA
VE BEEN OPEN TO THE SEASONS FOR YEARS. B
RAMBLES HAVE GROWN OVER THE SEATS AND TH
ROUGH THE STEERING COLUMNS (AT LEAST I T
HINK THAT'S WHAT THOSE WHIPLIKE EXTENSIO
NS FROM JUST BELOW THE LEFT-HAND WINDOW
MUST BE). A COLD WIND IS BLOWING...
THEN, EARLY IN JUNE, I FOUND AN ENTRANCE
... EVERYONE HAD MOVED UNDERGROUND.
OF COURSE THAT MOVEMENT HAD BEGUN BEFORE
I LEFT, BUT I HAD HAD NO IDEA IT WOULD
BE SO EXTENSIVE. THE WORLD HAS BEEN REFO
RESTED... IT IS VERY BEAUTIFUL, BUT
THERE IS NO ONE TO TALK TO. I AM THE LAS
T PERSON LEFT ALIVE... UNDERGROUND I
S NOTHING BUT DESOLATION. ENDLESS CORRID
ORS WHERE MY FOOTSTEPS ECHO. CONDENSATIO
N COLLECTS AND RUNS DOWN THE WALLS. OCCA
SIONALLY A GUST OF AIR SHOWS SOME RANDOM
ACTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE CONTROLS, SO S
OMEWHERE THERE'S STILL POWER, BUT I HAVE
YET TO FIND A MACHINE OR TERMINAL THAT
WORKS. NOT THAT I UNDERSTAND HOW TO WORK
THEM EVEN IF THEY WERE ACTIVE. THE LIFT
S DON'T WORK, AND I'VE HAD TO CLIMB ACCE
SS LADDERS OR STAIRS... THERE IS NO
SIGN OF VIOLENCE. IT'S AS IF EVERYONE HA
D STEPPED OUT YEARS AGO AND NOT RETURNED
.... THE GYGES WORKS VERY WELL ON TH
E PLANETARY SURFACE. NATURALLY I LEFT TH
E SCOOP IN ORBIT, BUT SHE WAS DESIGNED T
O BE RUGGED AND INTELLIGENT. SHE SANG TO
ME AS WE FLEW OVER WHAT WAS ONCE THE EA
STERN UNITED STATES (RECENTLY CALLED, FR
OM THE CHART, THE "NORTHWEST ALLIANCE").
NOTHING EXISTS BUT TREES, AS FAR AS I C
AN SEE, AS FAR AS GYGES'S SENSORS CAN S
CAN: TREES AND ROLLING HILLS. THIS USED
TO BE CALLED PENNSYLVANIA WHEN I LEFT, A
ND THIS WAS OHIO. THE LAKES GLEAM TO THE
NORTH, PALE AND BLUE... I LANDED SO
UTH OF CHICAGO. THE LOOP IS ENCLOSED IN
A DOME, THE OLD 20TH- CENTURY BUILDINGS
PERFECTLY PRESERVED. EVERYWHERE ELSE, TH
ERE'S NOTHING BUT FOREST AND MEADOW, RIV
ER AND LAKE... I WALKED INTO OLD CHI
CAGO. THE ACCESS LOCK TO THE DOME STOOD
OPEN. ANCIENT COMPUTER PRINTOUT LITTERED
THE STREET. I FOUND A HOSPITAL ON THE F
IRST LEVEL DOWN. THERE WERE BODIES IN SO
ME OF THE BEDS, THE FIRST SIGN OF HUMAN
BEINGS I HAVE FOUND... THE BODIES WE
RE MUMMIFIED INSIDE LIFE-SUPPORT TENTS.
THEY HAD BEEN DEAD FOR YEARS, AND THERE
WERE NOT TOO MANY OF THEM. I SAT BESIDE
ONE OF THEM, WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM, WHAT
TERRIBLE DISEASE THEY WERE ABANDONED HE
RE IN LIFE-SUPPORT THAT NO LONGER FUNCTI
ONED... ON THE SECOND LEVEL I FOUND
A TERMINAL WITH A SMALL READY LIGHT BURI
NG. NEARBY I FOUND THE "WORLDNET EMERGEN
CY OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS.".. THE IN
STRUCTIONS TELL ME WHAT TO DO IF MY MIND
LINK IS NOT FUNCTIONAL. I DON'T KNOW WHA
T A MINDLINK IS, BUT I ASSUME THAT IT MU
ST BE ADAPTED TO MY OWN MIND, AND THIS H
AS NEVER HAPPENED. SO I WILL READ THE IN
STRUCTIONS, AND THEN I WILL FIND OUT WHA
T HAS HAPPENED TO THE WORLD, WHERE THE P
EOPLE HAVE GONE, AND IF I MUST REMAIN AL
ONE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE... GYGES
TELLS ME MY PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT IS
IN PERIL. I HAVE BEEN TOO LONG WITHOUT
OTHER PEOPLE..
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