#(ANDRUINS 1)
  ---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----

XENO-HISTORIAN KILGORE HERE, SIR.
WE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THESE
RUINS ARE THE REMNANTS OF THE
ANDROSYNTH CULTURE. FROM THE MASS
DESTRUCTION WE HAVE WITNESSED, WE
CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT THERE WAS
SOME KIND OF HUGE LAND WAR HERE
WITHIN THE PAST FIVE YEARS;
HOWEVER, THERE IS NO, REPEAT, NO
SIGNS OF ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT OR
INVASION FROM SPACE. JUST A WHOLE
MESS OF BUILDINGS SHOT TO PIECES.

PROBABLY THE WEIRDEST THING WE'VE
SEEN, OR NOT SEEN, ARE CORPSES.
THERE AREN'T ANY! IT'S AS THOUGH
SOMETHING APPEARED OUT OF NOWHERE,
BLASTED EVERYTHING WITH NUCLEAR
BAZOOKAS, THEN GRABBED ALL THE
ANDROSYNTH AND DISAPPEARED.

AN ADDITIONAL REPORT SIR, FROM
SCIENCE OFFICER BUKOWSKI. WE HAVE
LOCATED AN ANDROSYNTH SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH STATION AND I HAVE BEEN
TRYING TO MAKE SOME SENSE OUT OF
WHAT IS LEFT OF THEIR CENTRAL
COMPUTER.
AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, ABOUT SEVEN
YEARS AGO, THE ANDROSYNTH BEGAN
EXPERIMENTING WITH SOMETHING THEY
CALLED DIMENSIONAL FATIGUE
PHENOMENA.  I CAN'T FIGURE OUT
WHAT THIS DIMENSIONAL FATIGUE (OR
DF AS THEY CALL IT) IS, BUT MAYBE
IF WE EXPLORED ANOTHER CITY, I
WOULD BE ABLE TO FIND MORE
INFORMATION ON THIS SUBJECT.
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#(ANDRUINS 2)
  ---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----

BUKOWSKI AGAIN, SIR.  WE HAVE
FOUND ANOTHER RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
WELL, THE RUINS OF ONE, ANYWAY.
THE COMPUTER HERE'S IN  BETTER
SHAPE, ALLOWING ME TO LEARN A BIT
MORE ABOUT THE ANDROSYNTH'S
INVESTIGATION INTO DF, DIMENSIONAL
FATIGUE.
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THEIR STUDIES
ACTUALLY BEGAN OVER TEN YEARS AGO,
AFTER ONE OF THEIR BLAZER VESSELS
DISCOVERED SOME PRECURSOR
ARTIFACTS IN ALPHA LALANDE. AS
FAR AS THEIR SCIENTISTS HERE COULD
TELL, THE DEVICES GENERATED DF
WAVES WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE USER
TO SEE INTO OTHER. WELL, OTHER
DIMENSIONS -- REALMS OF EXISTENCE
WHICH SHARE POSITION WITH OUR OWN
UNIVERSE, BUT HAVE A DIFFERENT,
UM, WHAT SHOULD I CALL IT, REALITY
PHASE.

ANYWAY, THE ANDROSYNTH HAD HOPED
THAT THE DIMENSIONAL FATIGUE
TECHNOLOGY CONTAINED IN THE
DEVICES WOULD PERMIT THEM TO
CREATE NEW, FASTER FORMS OF
HYPERDRIVE AND HYPERWAVE. INSTEAD,
WHEN THEY BEGAN THEIR EXPERIMENTS,
THEY MADE CONTACT WITH SOMEKIND OF
LIFEFORM ON `THE OTHER SIDE', A
CREATURE FROM AN ALIEN DIMENSION.

THE RECORD IS FRAGMENTARY HERE.

I SEE REQUESTS TO THE CENTRAL
COMPUTER FOR INFORMATION -- DATA
ON `REALITY ABERRATIONS', THE
`MOSQUITO MANGE' AND, ER, GHOSTS,
POLTERGEISTS, AND OTHER MALEVOLENT
SUPERNATURAL CREATURES.

THE REQUESTS GROW MORE URGENT,
ALMOST FRANTIC, AND THEN... THE
RECORD ENDS.

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#(ANDRUINS 3)
 ---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----

CAPTAIN, THIS IS ENSIGN HAWTHORNE
STANDING IN FOR BUKOWSKI. SIR,
BUKOWSKI HAS FOUND SOMETHING BUT
IN THE PROCESS HE HAS GONE KIND,
WELL... KIND OF NUTS.

WHEN WE FIRST GOT TO THIS CITY,
BUKOWSKI WENT WILD BECAUSE THE
SCIENCE CENTER WAS PRETTY MUCH
INTACT.

HE LOCKED HIMSELF IN THEIR
COMPUTER CONTROL CABIN AND SPENT
ABOUT TEN HOURS ALONE IN THERE.
WE COULD HEAR HIM MUMBLING TO
HIMSELF, THEN HIS SPEECH GOT
LOUDER UNTIL HE WAS SHOUTING.
HE WAS SCARED, SIR, DAMN SCARED.
WE FINALLY DECIDED THAT WE'D
BETTER CHECK UP ON HIM, BUT
BUKOWSKI, WOULDN'T LET US INTO THE
ROOM.  HE SAID THAT NO ONE COULD
EVER KNOW WHAT HE HAD LEARNED.
THAT JUST KNOWING WAS ENOUGH TO
ALERT `THEM'

HE KEPT TALKING ABOUT `THEM',
CRAZY STUFF, SIR, ABOUT HOW `THEY'
COULD SEE HIM NOW, AND `THEY' WERE
MOVING TOWARD HIM.  THEN BUKOWSKI
STARTED THRASHING AROUND THE ROOM,
SCREAMING THAT HE HAD TO DESTROY
EVERYTHING BEFORE `THEY' SAW US
TOO.

HE DID A LOT OF DAMAGE TO THE
ANDROSYNTH'S COMPUTER BEFORE WE
STOPPED HIM, AND I GUESS HE MUST
HAVE HURT HIMSELF IN THE PROCESS.
HE'S CUT UP PRETTY BADLY.

YOU KNOW, IT'S STRANGE, HE MUST
HAVE HURT HIMSELF WORSE THAN I
THOUGHT. NOW, WHEN I LOOK AT HIM,
IT SEEMS LIKE HE HAS EVEN MORE
CUTS THAN JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO,
AND BOY, IS HE SCREAMING!

BASED ON THE DAMAGE BUKOWSKI
WREAKED ON THE CENTRAL COMPUTER,
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE WILL FIND
ANYTHING MORE DOWN HERE. I THINK
WE HAVE LEARNED ALL THAT WE CAN
FROM EXPLORING THESE RUINS, AND
FRANKLY, WITH ALL OF BUKOWSKI'S
RANTING, I'M GETTING A BIT NERVOUS
MYSELF. CALL US BACK TO THE SHIP
SOON. PLEASE.
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