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Topic: Xeno Syndicated: The Quantam Exponent

The following text was retrieved by imperial archaeologists in year 984 of the Danaiian calender from planet 3 of the 54:45 system of the Milk Way galaxy, a planet referred to in the text itself as planet 'Earth' of the 'Solar System'.  The authorship is believed to be of a human from a period estimated to be the equivalent of the year 432 of the Danaiian calender.  The exact period of authorship is unclear however, due to evidence of temporal flux at the archaeological site.

The Quantam Exponent: Entry 001

Even though I hope at least someone back home will find out about this, I doubt anyone will believe it.  I wouldn't usually care, but people back home on Earth have got to hear about this for their own safety.  I mean they just don't know what's in store for them in the future, and something has got to be done to change human destiny.  At least I think so.

Anyway, what's happened is that I somehow finally got myself from out of the clutches of those [] xenos.  It's probably all an accident that I was able to.  In any case, I'm free, and sitting here in a partaxian monastery on a planet in some nowhere star system in Andromeda writing all this out so that the governments of Earth back home in 2008 can know what the [] is happening out here in the wider universe.

I suppose it is long past the year 250,000 AD by the Earth dating system.  Now, I haven't lived all that time.  I was, of course, taken here to this time period by some Quantam who recruited me into all this bullshit with the Xeno Syndicate, and then [] off to who knows where or when.  The fact is, I don't really have a clue when this is.  All I know is that these partaxian wizards claim they can send a message back to 2008 for me.  Apparently, they can only send it once every 8 hours (that's only 4 and a half universal minutes, I'm told - don't ask me about how it's all converted.  I have no [] clue).  Anyway, I have to wait until sun-up before they can send it off for whatever reason.

So what I figure is that since I'm not planning on going anywhere for a while, I'll just start at the beginning and get it all out so that maybe people back home might find it not only useful in averting the future slavery of the human species, but also, perhaps, a little entertaining, too.

So here it goes.  It all started back when I was a short-term trading weanie in New York in 2008.  I was riding home on the subway after losing big on the market that day.  Oil prices were simply absurd, futures on food were skyrocketing, while commodities were plummeting, and the US economy was heading into widening inflationary gap.  But I guess if you're reading this you already know that.  The point is that I had pissed away $50,000 of my own money that day, never mind the $400,000 I had lost for the firm (it was a small investment-banking outfit on 23rd and 9th operating out of a dingy office built in like the 1500's or something). Anyway, I was deciding whether to get off at the Brooklyn Bridge, and take a walk out over it, jump, and off myself.

So I was sitting there on the subway thinking along those lines when this really pasty-looking white bum started staring right at me.  He was really sickly-looking, as if he lived in the subway system and never went above ground or anything.  He was looking directly at me all, and I sort thought to myself, What the hell are you looking at, freak? Then, I distinctly heard the words, You, you sorry-assed good for nothing short term trading weanie who's about to kill himself over a bad day at the office.   - or at least it was something like that; I can recall exactly what the bastard said to me at first.

Now, as you can imagine, was pissed, and so I stood up and yelled at him, "What did you say to me old man?"

But then I heard something to the effect of, You know what I said, and you know I'm speaking to you in your mind.  Sit back down and watch.  At the next stop, I'll get off the train and drop a brochure.  Follow me and pick it up.  Pick it up and call the cellphone number on the front. I'm going to wink at you now to prove you're really hearing me.

He was just staring at me the whole time, lips not moving a bit.  And then he winked, too.

I just sat there in a kind of trance.  I mean, what are you supposed to think when something like that happens.  Anyway, the next stop was the one for the bridge, and so when the old man got up, I followed.  When he dropped the brochure, I picked it up.  It was for some telepathy convention in Las Vegas.  Then I lost the bastard in the crowd.  But I did call the number when I found a pay phone that worked (I'd smashed my mobile phone to bits earlier in the day).

To cut a long story short, I didn't end up going off and offing myself off the bridge.  Instead, I ended up meeting the people I talked to on the phone at that convention in Las Vegas.  I mean they sent an e-ticket to me and everything.  I never really did acknowledge the reality of the whole telepathic exchange I had had on the subway with that guy until long after.  I kept thinking it was all just a coincidence or something.  I suppose you could say I was in a sort of dream-like state for a few weeks.   I later found out that that's how it usually works when the Xeno Syndicate recruit telepaths.  You don't really believe its real, even while you're going through the training scenarios.  It's some sort of thought-dampening field they use on you right from the start.

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stop making new threads for each bits of story tongue. Kinda seems like spam from afar. Wouldn't it be better to just post all of it in one place?

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

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The Quantam Exponent: Entry 002

Dammit. I fell asleep while I was typing my last entry on this bloody annoying partaxian keyboard.  They have like a thousand more buttons on it than regular keyboards.  Anyway, while I was sleeping some early-rising partaxian monk snuck in here and took my datachip, which I suppose he's already transported back to 2008.  I wasn't finished with what I had to say, though.

So, where did I leave off?  Las Vegas.  Right. 

I guess you'd think that it's pretty unbelievable that part-human part-alien telepathic recruitment agents from the future would hang out at a telepathy convention at Las Vegas.  But I'm telling you, it's true.  You see, there are just so many weird things going on in Las Vegas that if a bunch of authentic telepathic time travellers from the future wanted to go ahead and hold a public conference in Las Vegas, they could go right ahead and hold one and no one would bat an eye.  Google 'ESP Conference' and see just how many hits you get.  Hell, if your timeline isn't all [] up, you could probably google the very same one I attended.  It was the one at the end of May, 2008 - the one at the Flamingo Hotel, I believe it was. I'm not kidding.  Google it.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that no sane person would actually take such a gathering of so called 'telepaths' seriously, right?  I mean, people walking by on their way to the casino would see the sign, peer into the conference hall, and automatically assume there's just bunch of crazies, quacks, and con-artists having some sort of party.  I mean, usually such conferences are just a bunch of tables put together by a group of con-artists trying to sell various ESP training machines to any poor sap around who'd actually believe in such crap.  Or other ESP conventions are just a bunch of crazies who all happen to share the delusion that they do have some sort of telepathic proficiency.  In any event, at every such convention, you always have the one or two people, who actually do have some ESP ability and don't know who to talk to about it or how to use it better.  They show up, hang around in the shadows and ask some tentative questions, and then, usually get approached by the time-travelling half-human half-alien telepath recruiters I'm talking about.

But I'm getting sidetracked.  I should go on with what happened to me, I guess.

First, the people who had sent the e-air-ticket were the ones running the ESP / telepathy convention.  A group of them picked me up at the airport.  The were strange folk.  And I mean weird - kind of like church-going people who who have this happy-go lucky sort of bubbliness about them as if the everything is always just hunky-dori.  Even back then I could tell they weren't really telepathic at all.  They were either just crazies or con-artsist (I never bothered to find out which).  Anyway, somebody was paying for everything, and so I didn't much care what the schedule was or where they were taking me.  Apparently, everything had been arranged by a so called Mr. Durling (I later found out that he was the pasty-looking guy on the subway).  Surprisingly, now that I think about it, I didn't find the whole scenario strange at all.  That in itself is kind of scary.  I guess I could just crack it down to the xeno and their hypnotism machines.  Their machines can make anything seem completely unsurprising.   

I guess you could say I was in a state of just playing along to see where all this was leading. They took me to this motel out by the airport to freshen up and leave my bags.  Then, we went to dinner at the convention hall - it was a catered buffet complete with that guy with the Cajun / French accent who cuts the roast beef and puts it on your plate for you.  Damn, I miss some good-ol- barron-of-beef with aus-jus.  These partaxians are bloody vegetarian for Christ's sake.

Anyway, After dinner, I went out to have a smoke.  When I was coming in, I saw that same pasty-looking bum (Mr. Durling) from the subway in New York.  He was cleaned up a bit, wearing a cheap wrinkled gray suit this time, looking like some typical gambling junky having just got away from the office, stopping off to play the slots for a bit before heading home to the wife and kids.

I went up to him.  "Hey!  I saw you in New York yesterday.  So what the hell is going on?"

He turned around and spoke to me, just like he had on the subway, mouth closed, eyes staring What the hell do you think I'm doing? I'm starting your training.  I'm getting up to get a drink at the bar in a few seconds.  Sit down here, take the token I'm placing right here, see, and play the machine once.  It'll be a winner.

He got up just like I heard him say, and so I sat down, played the slot machine, and sure enough won - the jackpot!  $500 in tokens in one go.

I looked back at him, and he was just walking away, but I heard him speak in my mind while he was walking away, What are you gawking at?  Collect the tokens, cash them in, and meet me at the bar.  You're buying.

I opened my mouth to say something, but, well, what I would have said would have sounded absolutely crazy, and there were a bunch of people around me all stopping to see the tokens flying out of the machine, pointing and and having a grand time, generally just standing around being amazed that someone actually won for a change.

Anyway, after I got my cash, I met him at the bar.

"So, what are you drinking?", I asked sheepishly.

"Scotch.  It's all I ever drink in this godforsaken place."

Now that I think about it, I had the feeling he wasn't just talking about the hotel or Las Vegas, or even this solar system.

"So, what sort of training am I -"

Speak to me in your mind, goddammit. There's more than just video cameras surveilling this casino, you know.  The whole place is bugged, and not only by casino security.[i/]

We got our drinks, then, and he was really quite quick to pick it up and down it.  I just drank half, to be polite, mainly.

[i] We're going to have to get out of here, and fast. , he said.  So either prove to me you can speak back to me telepathically or [] off.

I thought for a moment about everything that had happened.  It was all just so messed up. The day before, I was ready to jump of the Brooklyn Bridge, and here I was about to try and send a telepathic message to this guy who had paid for my trip out to this so called telepathy convention at the Flamingo Casino Hotel in Las Vegas.  Oh, yeah, and we were being spied on by who the hell knows what.  But, again, it was like I was entirely okay with it all.  Not surprised in the least. Damn, the more I think about it, the more I see just how much those xenos had me all tangled up in their mind-control mechanisms from the very start.

Alright.  Here you are., I said in my mind. Happy now?  When are you going to tell me what the [] is going on?

Come with me. , is all he said.  And he got up from the bar and headed over to the elevators.  I followed him in with a bunch of other people.  He didn't push a button.  Instead, we just went up until all the other people got off.  Finally, there was just us.  But the elevator kept going up, even though no floor was selected.  Then, the doors opened, and I swear to God when I looked out, I thought I was on a [] space station like in Star Trek or something.  No kidding, it was just like the TV show, well, almost.

Anyway, to this day, I have no idea where (or when) we had gone or how the hell it had happened.

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I'm finished with the other thread.

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Could you remove all the BCCode?

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

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Or maybe F-mods could enable the BCCode?

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The Quantam Exponent: Entry 003

I was standing at the elevator, looking out across some sort of tactical command center.  There were these windows looking right into space, through which loomed a planet.  And it certainly wasn't Earth.  It kind of looked like Jupiter, but nothing like any photos I'd seen of it.  It dawned on me that we had somehow transported to an entirely different solar-system. 

"Where the hell is this, Durling?",  I asked, all calm and collected-like.

"Another planet, obviously.  Get over it.  Look, I don't have time to hold your hand and tell you everything.  I have to meet some people here.  You go ahead and walk around.  Get your bearings.  Just don't touch anything.  We'll be leaving for someplace else soon."  Durling walked off towards a group of pasty-looking guys who were wearing slightly more elaborate uniforms than the other pasty-looking guys around.  So I did what Durling said and walked around and tried not to touch anything. 

The room was circular, kind of like a revolving restaurant, windows going all the way around.  The floor wasn't moving, though, thank God.  The slight motion of the planet turning outside was disorientating enough.  Everybody around looked like military people - all of them as pasty-white as Durling).  They were sitting at various computer terminals by the windows.  Their displays had a sort of weird Cyrillic-looking writing system that kind of looked like a cross between Arabic and Chinese.

Then I noticed a lot of the people around were looking at me, like I was somebody important or famous, the look a superstar would get if he visited a cafe or something.  They seemed really surprised to see me, and maybe even a little awed at the fact that I was there, as if my being there was the most exciting thing they had experienced in years or something.  But nobody said anything.  They just glanced at me occasionally while I walked around.  I guessed they weren

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The Quantam Exponent: Entry 004

Over the next 3 days and 2 nights, which were 1/3 longer than on Earth for whatever reason, I had the greatest time of my life.  First, Durling and I started drinking while lounging at the beach.  There were probably about 1000 other people around, all of them as pasty white as Durling.  It was quite a sight to see, all these beach-bums without any sort of tan whatsoever.  Anyway, I was the brownest guy there by far, seeing as how my great grandfather was Chinese and all.  In any case, for a reason I can't go into much detail about yet, I started attracting a lot of attention from the ladies who were around.  I don't remember how it happened, exactly, as we had gone through about a half a litre of 50 proof rum by that point,  but all of a sudden about 20 of the sexiest girls I had ever seen started hovering around me like bees to honey.  It was crazy. 

After the 'sun went down', there was a beach party going on all of a sudden, with the trippiest futuristic trance music you could imagine.  And it wasn't just music.  Somehow, the holographic system was interacting with me telepathically or something, because while I was dancing with all these ladies, I started to imagine and fantasize stuff that actually starting coming true!  For instance, all of a sudden, I was in what seemed to be a 5 star hotel suite with like 20 of the girls, all of us drunk out of our minds, but still, somehow, fully capacitated, if you catch my drift.  Then, I vaguely recall all of us were getting it on in some crazy mass-orgy I couldn't possibly even begin to describe to you.  Let me just say that it was all so incredibly wrong, and, yet, so perfectly right.   

Anyway, when I woke up the next day, I had no hangover whatsoever.  The ladies and I got room service, and, well, suffice it to say, after breakfast, none of us were able to get out to the beach until well into the afternoon.  When I was finally all tired out, the ladies, sensing how I was feeling, sort of just slowly dispersed out to the beach or pool or wherever, which left me with these two hotties named Jaranda and Sofaya.  We went for a swim and eventually dinner at the hotel restaurant.  Then, I started to remember I was supposedly on some sort of recreation space-station in another solar-system, and so started asking them some questions about it.  It was about that time that Durling showed up.  When he sat down, the girls frowned, and, as if on cue, left.  I swear, until about then, I had totally forgotten about Durling, my time in Las Vegas, the space-stations, everything.

Durling and I spent that whole evening talking quite seriously about it all, but I can't really repeat in detail most of what was said.  Suffice it to say that along with a lot of other interesting facts that I'll go into later, Durling informed me in no uncertain terms that I was now 'on assignment' as a special operations agent for him and his group of half-human half-alien time-travelers. 

Eventually, a Xeno Syndicate inter-galactic transport vessel picked us up from Toaradis Recreation Station, and we made our way to some new Quantam colony in the Pinwheel Galaxy, which was supposedly under the control of the Xeno Syndicate that I've told you a bit about already.

Anyway, now that I'm done the assignment and free from the Xeno Syndicate, I can go on to tell you most of what happened during the whole fiasco.  It all ended up showing me how the xeno have basically screwed up human destiny, and how people back home on Earth in 2008 have got to do something about it now, before it

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> xeno syndicated wrote:

> Or maybe F-mods could enable the BCCode? <

+1

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."

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The Quantam Exponent: Entry 005

Damn.  I keep falling asleep before I can get much typed out, and this partaxian monk, named Taranado, who, by the way, is an awesome volleyball player (I've been teaching the monks beach volleyball lately and they're just going crazy for it) is always coming in here and taking my data chip to send back to you guys on Earth in 2008 - every 8 hours on the nose. 

Actually, the truth is I've been having a lot of fun here and haven't been writing much.  There are these crazy-cool games I like to play with the monks.  They use their psychic-abilities and all, like, for instance, teleportation tag.  They go teleporting themselves around the planet, always with one of them being 'it', trying to get in hypnotism range of another one.  When they 'tag' someone, they always make the other guy do these ridiculously hilarious things.  One time, Uradis made Taranado think he was a goara-goose, and for half an hour he kept trying to catch these awfully smelly fish (I call them skunk-fish) in a cesspool of pond out behind the monastery.  It was awful.  We all stood around and had a riot watching him.  Damn he was pissed-off afterwards, though, and had to go meditate for a couple of days somewhere.

Anyway, I've really got to explain some things Durling told me while we were en route to the Pinwheel Galaxy on that Xeno Syndicate intergalactic transport.  The trip took like 2 weeks (earth time), and so we had a lot of time to talk about stuff.  Of course, the intergalactic Xeno Syndicate vessels can travel faster-than-light speed, but only between galaxies, never within them.  It's one of the rules the Universal Overseers enforce, apparently.

You see, out here in the wilder, wider universe, there is a kind of caste system of civilizations.  It's all very similar to the caste system of the ancient peoples who lived in the Indus Valley on Earth, actually - you know, like 10000 or so years before 2008.  I don't know if the caste system out here is somehow connected to what was happening back then in ancient Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, but it probably is. 

Anyway, out here, there are many different levels of civilizations.  Some civilizations are higher up on the caste system, and others are lower.  The uppermost reaches of the caste system control the center of the universe and were originally responsible for regulating the Big Bang at the beginning of time and all, and were responsible for getting evolution going across the universe.  Don't ask me about specifics. I don't know much.  Durling doesn't even know if it

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I'm oddly reminded of Babylon 5 hmm

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."

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The Quantam Exponent: Entry 006

So, about 2 weeks ago, I wrote my last entry about how I was going out for a bite to eat, right?  Well, some of the monks sorta kidnapped me see, and we all went AWAL for these past two weeks.  We took a piece of shit shuttle one of the monks had hidden, and took it to the Hural system for a crazy 2 week octarine wine drinking binge.  So, if I can recommend one thing to anyone back home NOT to do is drink any octarine-based beverage, especially any of the partaxian persuasion.  I got home last night, and I'm still in a state of spacial-temporal flux.  Seriously, half the keys I type on the keyboard don't register because my friggin

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I love how even in the future things still malfunction smile

[edit] will there be any mention of droids? :\

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."

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I love the flippant treatment of time travel and quantum mechanics, especially combined with the monks.  Makes the whole story seem real even though it's so completely over-the-top crazy sci-fi stuff.

"I could only believe in a God who could dance." - Nietzsche

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Thanks for the comments.  smile

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The Quantam Exponent: Entry 007

So, what I ended up doing most of the time was just hang out at cafes and go sight-seeing.  Whenever I stayed in a certain place for very long, I moved.  I mean, if you're not aging, how many years can you stay in a certain place without people noticing you always look the same age year to year?  It ended up being every 5 years or so that i had to move on.

Every few years or so, I'd get a message or data to relay.  They were usually about which overlords were exploring which star-systems, military or economic objectives, and sometimes just general friendly chit-chat.  One time, early on during my time stationed there, the Xeno Syndicate was asked to increase mineral refinement for which the Renders would provide regular galactic credit income.  I passed on the request and the Xeno Syndicate agreed.  But if you ask me, the Xeno Syndicate were getting jipped by the Renders.  I mean, on the one hand, they got extra income to build more infra, but they didn't really need the income.  Besides, later on, the Renders were always complaining about how little iron they were recieving from the Syndicate.  But, as far as I could tell, the Xeno Syndicate was only getting less than 10 galactic credits per unit of iron.  That being said, the Syndicate did secretly dump a lot of iron on the market in those days.  But, overall, I still think the Renders were getting a steal of a deal. 

Apparently, the Xeno Syndicate didn't even want to develop its resourcing infrastructure.  They were taxing the Quantam population, which after about 10,000 years had grown to about 5 trillion Quantams on about 70 planets (about 71 billion people per planet).  This was a pretty dense population-based economic resource for the Xeno Syndicate in Pinwheel, and, as such, they were making quite a good income on their own.  But, surprisingly, the Xeno Syndicate complied with the overlords' request and started developing its mining base.

Then, a couple thousand years after that, I got a message to relay from the Renders, compaining further about a so called iron shortage.  After checking the record of shipments, the Xeno Syndicate had increased production, but the Renders were paying even less per unit than before.  The Xeno Syndicate were clearly getting scammed.

Apparently, the Renders were funding the Frenzies' conquests against a certain family of overlords.  Apparently the Azteks were in on the action, too.  Now, the Azteks were the defacto leaders of the family, and so it all seemed to be a full fledged war brimming.  Now, the Xeno Syndicate leadership was concerned about the security of their own interests in the galaxy, naturally.  As such, they stopped trading with the Renders and instead increased their special operations activity in hope of preventing fear retaliatory strikes against from the enemy family of overlords.

This was all acceptable to the family, however, as it was clear that the Xeno Syndicate had contributed a substantial amount of resources to the military campaign.  In addition, having bolstered their special operative network, the Xeno Syndicate was in a position to infiltrate the enemy, and did so successfully on many occasions, resulting in even more success of military operations.  The Xeno Syndicate's special operations network even succeeded in placing nuclear weapons throughout the enemy's top banker empires, destroying 30% of the top banker's cash factories and living quarters infrastructure in coordination with military operations.

The effect was a virtual crippling of the enemy overlord family, placing them out of contention for future galactic supremacy. 

Now, as I was watching all this unfold from the sidelines, I began to aspire to be one of those agents in the thick of it, infiltrating enemy empires, placing nukes, sabotaging portals, etc..  But I was stuck on that wardancer planet.

Durling was right, though.  It was a good way for me to get a broad picture of how things were being played out.  But I did put in a request for a transfer to a field unit.  Of course, though, it was denied.  Although I had been relay such communications and watching such activities for nearly 50,000 years, Durling informed me I was still too inexperienced to be involved in field operations.  I was to continue at my current post for at least another 100,000 years.

The Xeno Syndicate continued to grow, becoming at one brief point the most powerful overlord civilization in Pinwheel, not in number of planets, mind you, but in terms of resource production and their population-based economy.  Their intelligence network was enormous, and, as the hostilities against other enemies continued and the Xeno Syndicate conducted nuclear decimation against some of the biggest banking empires in the galaxy, the Xeno Syndicate special operations force became feared by all overlord civilizations in the galaxy.

Then, from out of nowhere sprang the complete dominance of the Forevers.  It's still a mystery as to how they became the dominant banking empire of the galaxy, with, in addition, the most massive wizard force in the galaxy.  To cut a long story short, the Forevers' wizards and the Xeno Syndicate's agents conducted coordinated attacks against huge banker empires which were left entirely crippled.  I mean, the enemy had nukes going off everywhere, trillions of their population were getting hypnotised into killing each other, billions of the enemy's units of iron and cash was being eradicated. 

After such attacks, the Azteks and Fenzies simply had a field day breaking portaled planets and nabbing systems left and right.
All in all, my analysis is that things worked out well for our overlord family, despite the Xeno Syndicate