Chapter 13: Transcription from ‘The UnderCurrent Experience 2022’ – Interlude 1
'Foreword' as Transcribed From Dr. Firen Shika's Opening Presentation on the UnderCurrent;
"The kindest of welcomes to you Sir/Madame and my utmost thanks to you for deciding to partake in our fully immersive, state-of-the-art NTME or 'Neutral TransMissive Experience'.
As I'm sure you are already well aware we here at the institute have made a truly ground breaking discovery in being the very first humans in our history to unequivocally prove the existence of sentient foreign lifeforms other than ourselves.
These beings are still under intense study as to whether they are Aliens in a distant part of our own galaxy or from some form of alternate reality. The recordings you shall observe today are a selection of specially chosen moments from our catalogued footage of this other existence.
As you will no doubt of been informed, the system labelled 'UnderCurrent' was developed by my own team, whom you can read more on by turning to page 38 of your complimentary booklet, additional details are listed on the specifics of the system and our research in discovering it - However I shall refrain from delaying your kind-selves from the main experience with too much technical jargon.
In brief it is my great honour and pleasure to state that UnderCurrent has allowed us to see into the lives of a small collection of humanoid individuals from a world completely separate to our own.
This world differs so greatly that it had at one point been a land of what we of Earth would see as mythical creatures and wizards straight from that of folktale, furthermore however that era seems to of long passed, to the point that this race of people's have now far superseded even our own level of technology.
Now capable of traversing and even settling the space around the planet that which they call home - I doubtlessly need not tell you of the parliamentary debates going on right now as I record this, as to whether UnderCurrent might be harnessed to acquire these such technologies for ourselves, but alas I digress.
Before I let you louse on the full experience, it would be first prescient to include for you a number of smaller details, as strangely enough those who inhabit this world are not in the habit of divulging it's history at random, nor has UnderCurrent ever conveniently locked on to a helpful local historian (though we do believe such occupation indeed exist in their societies).
For the History of the world, how it came to go from an age of mirth to a thriving single space dwelling empire, before plunging once more into all out interplanetary war straight out of a Hollywood movie - We have included something we here at the institute are most proud of;
A complete transcript of the prologue to one of this other world's own books!
This fragment of a completely separate culture can be found starting on page 42 of the booklet and was achieved thanks to one of NTME's primary focal points, a man by the name 'Kolme Nilas', whom read the book during our time observing him.
Thanks to this we have been able to transcript it out in our own language and it appears to provide the most accurate yet brief account of this alternate people's history to date as backed up by the various statements of the people this experience and our research have centred on.
We believe the book was possibly written with a comical slant or to be of a philosophical nature, as it centres on explaining broud swaths of their history, often from what we believe to be the guise of the humble office worker's role in affairs.
{Editors Note; It has come into some dispute as to whether the exact word used is indeed 'Office Worker', which may actually refer more closely to 'Common Man' or 'Every person' - Pierre Havelock OBE}
Aside from this it is important to note the vantage point UnderCurrent affords is one centred around the crews of primarily two space-travel capably warships. Most of all it seems fixed on the good ship 'Am Fluchtig' and a somewhat motley crew of pilots.
These pilots do not partake in combat via the conventional weaponry you might be imagining but instead with massive mechanical Exo-suits or 'mechs' which they use two unfamiliar terms to address;
Vijaiks, we believe meaning 'Warrior' - And the far more powerful but comparatively rare, Casnels or 'Officer'.
We hypostasize these machines to be comparable to weapons of mass destruction by our standards, with powerful energy weaponry and shockingly advanced armour, along with the ability to maneuver freely in the depths of space.
These impressive creations originate back to a material we believe to be wholly unique to the other world, supposedly having arrived when a meteor struck their formative home millions, if not billions of years ago.
Two metals seem to exist here, one a more numerous substance that is easier to work with and is the main resource used in the creation of the relatively high quantity of 'Vijaiks' and in the construction of many warships and other weaponry - The other is far more uncommon and seems in fact to be highly radioactive in some fashion, being attributed by that worlds own intellectuals as the cause of the mystical creatures of the ages gone by and the strange 'magic' like abilities of the 'Magi'.
This latter material is so impressive in fact that it could be interpreted as what sparked the recent interplanetary conflicts of this galaxy in the first place!
A final point of note refers to the languages spoken in the footage you will soon see. It was at first and somewhat perplexingly believed that the people of the other world actually spoke our very own English and that when they referred to 'The Old Tounges' they references something very akin to Celtic and East Asian Dialects. You are reading story UnderCurrent – Can You Break The Cycle at novel35.com
After realising one of the members of the team, a man from Brazil who spoke his native language first and English secondarily, had actually heard the footage you will see in his native tounge.
After this discovery I allowed my own husband, a man of Indian origin, to use the NTME and he too heard what you soon will, in his own native language.
We are currently researching the cause of this and are very proud to have been allocated a specialist team of linguists who've been gathered to try and find discrepancies between what we hear and the actual languages of our world, with the aim of discerning exactly what sort of language the UnderCurrent in truth speaks.
With that said an event called 'The Great Homogenisation' also appears to of occurred, possibly in living memory of the UnderCurrent's people;
This event was spurned on by the political movements of their leaders to create one giant united nation, as such many old religions where declassified as such, cultures with old traditions as simple as naming their children with 4 or more words, where made conform to a standardised 2 name system similar to some of our own - Even the likes of military ranks were streamlined.
So while it does seem true that nearly all this world's inhabitants, that we have encountered at-least, speak in what seems to be standard British-English, it is in fact an entirely unknown form of speech that has been widely enforced with-in this world's cultures and is not in-actuality 'Our English'.
Now then - I am here required to remind you once more of your agreement to both the blackout clause and your acceptance of the disturbing nature of some of the following scenes.
The images you will see have been heavily cut down, you will have already been informed that the UnderCurrent appears to give us a concurrent sense of time with these people and what it shows is in large part out of our control.
As such the following multi-visual experience is a coalition of the lives we have been studying and should give your most venerated-selves the much requested look into the lives of the alien existence.
Once more if any of this is to your disliking or you wish not to be burdened with the secrets act, then please remove the headset now.
If not please press the Red Button to enter the full emersion sequence.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Yours Most Sincerely - Dr.Firen Shika
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