@cassian.andor

[evasives]

I don't know if many people from it are left, but last October quite a number of the Displaced experienced one of three dreams. They involved a bridge, a facility, and the first hints of our Avian themed bird projects. A few nights ago I had another dream that seemed to take place in the same facility as described in two of those original dreams.

In this new dream, a device called a Swiftlet was shoved into my chest, right where we light up upon Displaced contact and use of our powers. The point of the Swiftlet seemed to be control. Whoever was using it wanted to control me and what came next for me. Given all the bird themed naming conventions we keep running into, this name does not seem insignificant.

I think I witnessed a facility we as Displaced were kept in, or where we were given these powers, which I suspect now may be more like pieces of a whole rather than individual gifts. Throughout the dream I felt like I was in several places at once. I witnessed flashes of powers: air pockets on fire, the ground moving, and life being stolen from a nurse. They key part is these powers only bloomed after the use of the Swiftlet, when I fought back against it. I wanted to be whole. Immediately after, there was a sense of collective consciousness. Of many people fighting back. It was only stopped by a gas filling the facility, which is about when I woke up.

I would like to know if anyone else shared this particular dream, or any similar. If we are seeing fragments, we need all of them to put it together.

Related and recently with curious timing, it seems as though untraceable messages once again went out. This happened once before, though those messages all came from one source - leaked by Cassius, an AI formerly known as DAWN - the very same AI who caused the EMP in November. These messages were collected in this file, by a Displaced who has since disappeared. For the new messages, we have a second document. Given the source of some is still unclear, perhaps we should keep them separate but still accessible. See if anything is relevant to you.

We are all after different things. But we have to start pooling our information if we want to get anywhere collectively.

Comments

@marta.cabrera

[veraz]

I haven't had any dreams like that.

I only just arrived about a month ago so none of this is exactly relevant to me, but I'm glad the article I received has already been noted in the second document.

I feel very out of my depth with all of this, honestly.

@liuqi.wu

[kill7]

what are the chances you just ate something heavy before sleep and just had a real crazy nightmare

@ren.amamiya

[variate]

Swiftlet.
Spinetail.
Meadowlark.

[evasives]

I can see why it would be confusing, especially being thrown in without any context. I can try to clarify anything pressing for you, but I am far better with some areas than others.

The mention of James Henries in yours, especially in relation to his aviation addiction, is quite interesting, as his name shows up frequently enough to be significant. He was the governor of a world called Zerzura that we found ourselves in several months ago - and yet his name also appears on record on Earth here.

The aviaries comment raises the biggest flag to me.

[evasives]

Nothing I ate last night was unusual. I would not consider this a nightmare, but it was one of the strangest I have ever had.

[evasives]

One more for our bird theme.

Have you come across Swiftlet as a concept before? Or any other birds? I don't suppose you have anything new on the Spinetail front yourself.

[ he was going to reach out to ren, if this message hadn't caught his attention first. ]

@jyn.erso

[realists]

Don't forget Cassius calls us little birdies.

[variate]

Nothing with Swiftlet, and nothing from Zerzura called Swiftlet.

[ that he can remember, anyway.

it feels like a memory coming together that he had forgotten. it was a strangely familiar feeling. ]

Were you lucid?

Did anything remind you of the Mariana Trench?
Or Pluto?

[variate]

Yeah, Cassius definitely knows more than he's letting on.
I'd like your opinion, if you're willing to share.

[kill7]

i noticed i have been having dreams that ain't mine. is it a thing here often... you said about october.

[realists]

I'm partial to birds. Opinion on what? Cassius, Cassian's dream, the symbolism of bird imagery?

[evasives]

Sedated. For the Swiftlet part at least.

No, it was just a very white facility, but I am unfamiliar with Pluto and the Trench beyond what I have looked up in my time here. I would not know what to look for, unless the facility was there unbeknownst to me.

What does Pluto have to do with this?

[variate]

The connections between all three of those.

[evasives]

The Displaced are able to share dreams with one another, walk and move between them. Sometimes alter them.

The ones from October, however, were not familiar memories to any of us.

[kill7]

... so i am literally and accidentally all up real people's business huh

is it controllable?

@liuqi.wu

[kill7]

this again?

do we already know what to do about the text i got about it or are we still confused

[variate]

[ before he gets back to Cassian even tho CASSIAN'S RIGHT THERE REN ]

When's the date on that message?

[variate]

One of the messages mentioned the resources used for the Pluto colony to be redirected toward the Mariana Trench.
Pluto and the Mariana Trench are really different places, and both aren't friendly.
Why do that?
Then there's JH in the Spinetail documents. I'm pretty sure that's Henries. He's supposed to be dead, too.

It's been on my mind. I thought I'd ask.
It feels like I'm missing something that's right in front of me.

[kill7]

(qi in his #done at repeating that the resources for the pluto colony tadatadatada specially cuz he doesn't understand WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT........ so he sends this attachment)

here man i forwarded it to you

again do you finally have an answer because i don't know what to do with this information

[realists]

I don't think Cassius has anything to do with how we get the dreams, but I wouldn't doubt he knows more about the contents than he is letting on. Especially about the birds.

[veraz]

It seems to be a repeating theme.

My only idea would be to speak to the author of the article; see if there's anything they'd be willing to say off the record regarding Henries, things that didn't make it to press.

@annabeth.chase

[intellects]

( text messages, emails — those, as strange as they may be, make sense. it's data. information. she doesn't expect to understand it all, but it's there.

but her dream? that's different. and this post is the only place where anyone seems to be talking about dreams. )

I've had dreams about the future before, but never about someone else's past. Does Project Meadowlark mean anything to you?

@august.jónsson

[bloodbathing]

[ Maine hasn't had any dreams like that, but shit. "I wanted to be whole" strikes home in a way he doesn't want to think about. ]

Got a message. Xelkov Corporation internal memos. Will add.

[evasives]

Yes. Not much privacy even there.

Not yet, but I know there are people who are training and trying to work at just that. It's a work in progress, but it seems promising.

[ he drops a fairly recent post, with the relevant parties all mentioned within. ]

[evasives]

Neither sound particularly hospitable, no. Cassius was for space exploration, correct? What are the chances he or other similar AI had anything to do with Pluto, given the technology for human space travel is limited in this world?

Are there dates on the Spinetail documents? There is message that puts Henries in charge of Giles Bell in 2266. The same one that brings up his aviary obsession. I know he should be dead by all accounts, but perhaps he is not, or perhaps someone is making use of his name.

Johann Grey is attached to the message about Pluto - and he is also connected to Jovavich, who is absurdly interested in terraforming Jupiter. This is a man who orchestrated at least two brain surgeries and has connection to Cassius as well.