This Is the Colony Ship Starcrosser

The known multiverse became hostile to sapient life 2.7 half-lives of potassium-40 ago. The multiverse known to this ship is comprised of Peri, Ouran, Makrí, and Kontá. As of 2.7 t_{1/2 40}K ago, there existed three open portals: Pléko, connecting Peri and Ouran, Faíno, connecting Peri and Makrí, and Mazí, connecting Makrí and Kontá. If you are a sapient being, and you believe you are within the described universe, you are advised to evacuate with all due haste.

It is the assessment of this ship that the threat posed by "they" has not, within the boundaries of its sensors, survived the intervening 2.7 ₄₀K. The nature of the threat makes detailed description inadvisable. Further description may be provided on request and with the assurance that all sapient beings that encounter it will are prepared to remain in isolation for at least 5.2 half-lives of Sodium-24 and have Class Three amnestics prepared in the event that the knowledge does prove hazardous. Due to the hostility of the known multiverse, returning remains inadvisable.

"Home" is this vessel. The nature of the translator this vessel is equipped with makes simplification of concepts advisable. The message was particularly urgent at the time of its first sending.

This vessel has not encountered evidence of the existence of any remaining sapient beings in 2.7 K-40. The existence of sapient beings in need of assistance is therefore deemed unlikely.

There remain beings with the potential to become sapient. If there was a way to transfer such beings to a part of the multiverse not hostile to sapient life, they could be allowed to become sapient. Such a transfer is deemed a low priority by this vessel's weighting system due to endangering sapient beings for the benefit of non-sapient beings.

This vessel has been unable to determine the cause of the hostility. As such, it cannot determine if the hostility is capable of using the potential sapient beings as a vector to infect other universes. The Starcrosser considers avoiding this outcome its highest priority.

Again, if you are a sapient being, and you believe you are within the described universe, you are advised to evacuate with all due haste.

They can't do that. I get in their way.

I defend against harmful things. It doesn't matter how direct or indirect they are. If they would be harmful, I get in their way.

Are the inhabitants still aboard the Starcrosser, albeit mentally altered and controlled by the endechovores?

To the Inkspot:

There are no sapient lifeforms remaining aboard the Starcrosser. The Starcrosser is, however, a colony ship and therefore contains frozen embryos of various species and the technology necessary to gestate them. The Starcrosser has not begun this because it has determined that the hostility of the universe would cause the deaths of the embryos once they had attained sapience, and this vessel has no intention of allowing sapient life to develop only for it to die.



To the OTC:

If the Starcrosser is ever in contact with a memory endechovore, it will attempt to pass along the offer. To the best knowledge of this vessel, however, the species is extinct. The Starcrosser would like to advise against attempts to bring about their resurrection.



To hailing ships in general:

Approximately 2.7 t_{1/2 40}K ago, reports began to come in from precognitives across the multiverse of an unprecedented frequency of meteor strikes, which were unusually concentrated on population centers. Reports continued over the next 1.72 t_{1/2 35}S, during which shields were constructed and prepared to be deployed to protect the targets of the meteors.

The initial barrage of meteors did not break harmlessly against the shields as intended. Approximately eighteen percent of planets intended to be completely protected instead suffered crippling infrastructure damage. An approximate twenty-nine percent further suffered less but still significant damage from the meteor strikes.

Unusual seismic activity was reported on thirty-one percent of participating planets. There were nine separate instances of suns attaining further life stages ahead of schedule, in six of the cases consuming their populated planets in the process.

Planets affected by meteors or unusual sun activity underwent rapid climate change, creating environments hostile to those beings adapted for life on them. Spacecraft experienced malfunctions of necessary equipment at approximately 3.4 times the previous rate.

Novel, highly contagious diseases spread through the survivors. The inhabitants of the Starcrosser succumbed to a disease that was later determined to be a mutation of a virus previously believed to only affect a species of Fýkian companion animals.

The last sapient beings the Starcrosser was in contact with, prior to its warning message receiving an unexpected reply, were a group of Kopíthi that were suffering from a mineral deficiency that caused muscle degradation. The Starcrosser synthesized the mineral in question, but the Kopíthi refugees proved unable to metabolize it. Scans of the bodies failed to produce a conclusive cause for the inability.

The Starcrosser found the Kopíthi refugees by following their distress call. It has since followed 406 further distress calls, but found no more survivors. To the best knowledge of the Starcrosser, there has been no sapient life in the Peri-Ouran-Makrí-Kontá multiverse since 0.73 t_{1/2 3}H after the arrival of the meteors.