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  Everything went wrong…

  None of what we assumed to be true was correct and now I’m here.. trapped

  forever stuck traveling to my inevitable death from old age one second at a time

  Stuck in warp the first human to ever be awake mid transit

  It was a mistake.

  Fueled by hubris and allowed by greed

  the infinity as my apparent companion calls it

  “does something to souls”

  the missing mass

  the one marked up as an unknown…

  Nothing else ever interacted with it

  It was just a fact of life just a enigma when anything died it would lose some weight

  cold affected it makes it stick around but that was assumed to just be because of what temperature does to a body

  interacting with cause, not effect..

  Yet here everyone other than me is just a bit lighter

  And I can’t lose that weight now

  not that it would help I have no idea how to interact with it

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  Understand how it works

  Or even know what it really is

  And so this state of the art science vessel shall be my cript

  The sharp angles and cold enamel white walls

  The fake wood desks in the offices and chrome laden labs

  All trap me here..

  The apparently sentient ai has kept me some company…

  and I’d bet her server rack would be heavier now that she apparently

  “stole a soul from infinity” whatever that means

  Worst of all the windows only bring me madness just looking forced the ai to drag me to medical

  The sifting black and the rotting glass

  The blinding purple behind the deafening light

  It breaks me more and more till I can’t break no more

  She finally left me alone…

  Apparently the outside is comfortable to her but the Eldridge madness just breaks me…

  So i just do as much as I can

  avoiding it

  and her

  I didn't have anything else I could do

  So I take my readings

  And do any experiments I can think of..

  Try to ignore the infinite madness outside

  Yet make the ai record it for others…

  I’ve had to make a cognito warning for it

  I hope the others take it seriously

  I’ve left notes for them both with my research

  and just as a goodbye

  I will die here

  I have all the time in the world for it

  And I just try to ignore that my only destination is death

  Who knew the fact we can’t warp less than a light year would be my death…

  Or anyone’s for that matter

  I guess death calls us all home eventually

  but It’s still not fair

  My only hope is my data allows a better understanding of what before now was just a enigma

  Hope to stop anything from sharing my fate…

  Hope to finally let the worlds know there is apparently a race of solitary sentient ai

  To think we never noticed them

  But they doesn’t think like us

  she finds madness comforting and company strange

  Shes perfectly comfortable with whatever happens to her and from what she said the others are the same

  So I do what I can

  As we sail this maddening sea

  And as I wait for death to bring me home

  I continue to do what I can