The Emergency - Page 62

(forest near work site)

                Your report makes no sense.  Law enforcement should be interrogating the captive attackers and holding them for collection.  Your claim that the prisoners are being taken to the tracks or executed if they refuse is… bizarre, at least.  What possible reason could the officers have for such dereliction of duty, not to mention murder?  We have been open-minded regarding your previous claims but this…

WARNING!  FIRE DETECTED IN AREA.

We are showing a high heat signature and smoke originating from the wreckage site of train Y-64-Vi.  Fissionable fuels storage may be compromised.  Law enforcement personnel are vacating the site immediately.  Cause of ignition unknown; further sabotage suspected.  While your bizarre statements are vindicated, there will be some questions to answer when you return.  Please move away from the region, following the tracks toward GeVinVas.  A transport will be rerouted immediately to evacuate you.

• Wait where you are
• Run further into the forest
• Return to the original work site
• Run down the tracks toward TeKenVas
• Run down the tracks toward GeVinVas

The Emergency - Page 63

(deeper forest)

                Our information shows that you have remained within the wilderness area outside of your assigned work zone.  A citation has been added to your work record indicating failure to follow orders.  Please return to your previous work site to assist authorities in their investigation.  Continued avoidance may lead to legal penalties, including…

WARNING!  FIRE DETECTED IN AREA.

We are showing a high heat signature and smoke originating from the wreckage site of train Y-64-Vi.  Fissionable fuels storage may be compromised.  Law enforcement personnel are vacating the site immediately.  Cause of ignition unknown; further sabotage suspected.  Please move away from the region, following the tracks toward GeVinVas.  A transport will be rerouted immediately to evacuate you.

• Wait where you are
• Run further into the forest
• Return to the original work site
• Run down the tracks toward TeKenVas
• Run down the tracks toward GeVinVas

The Emergency - Page 64

(internal dialogue)

                Greetings, ChoTen.  Do not be alarmed.  All of the events you have witnessed have led you to this nexus, the clarification of your inner perceptions.  No physical action could lead you to this point.  Only by examining and discarding all possibilities, all potential timelines, could you realize what essential truth lay behind them, untouched.  That is the true emergency you faced today, not a crisis, but a rebirth.

                In your society, the Zig culture as represented on the world EssTinTal, you were a skilled but low-status transportation worker, a repairman for the systems that move citizens from city to city.  You were a cell in a greater body, necessary for a time but disposable when no longer needed.  Yet now, to us, you are an entire world, the most important organism in existence.  With you, through you, we become greater than our parts… you and we together become greater than either alone… you are greater than any Zig, alone. 

                Others have come to this revelation, within your former culture, within this world.  The majority still resist and fear what they do not understand.  The atrocities you witnessed are the result of their panic.  The trains, the subject of your professional devotion, sabotaged and destroyed.  The rule of law perverted, with protectors made into persecutors.  Wise leaders treated like dangerous animals, not because they had lost any righteousness, but because they had gained new wisdom beyond that publicly accepted. 

                If we wish to indulge philosophy, it might be that all these events were meant to lead us together.  If our enemies had not struggled so hard to protect their isolation, we might not have met.  Even after making contact, you might have remained ignorant and isolated, if you had not looked within and sought what was missing. 

                Be welcomed with joy.  We are joined, now and forever.  We are ChoTen.

END

The Emergency - Page 65

(location unknown)

                Worker ChoTen, please report.  Last positioning data showed you in the vicinity of derailed Train Y-64-Vi.  Satellite imaging shows a blast crater and incendiary effects consistent with main battery breach.  The entire region around switch 3 is gone.  Please report to indicate your status. 

[Law enforcement reports worker ChoTen deceased, pending genetic analysis of accident site debris.  The last sighting places ChoTen within the radius of explosion around track Y-64, switch 3, following the derailment of Train Y-64-Vi.  The worker was seen moving toward the switch site for unknown reasons.  Investigation is ongoing, but prior evidence of erratic behavior – unsupported and unlikely reports, dereliction of duty, and disobedience toward superiors – suggests possible mental disorder.  Recommended that official documentation remain charitable toward the deceased; disordered acts could be attributed to a head injury sustained during the original derailment accident.  No evidence links worker ChoTen to the conspirators responsible for initial or subsequent sabotage… not that any evidence remains at the accident site.]

END

The Emergency - Page 66

(tracks to GeVinVas)

                We are relieved to hear that you met with the emergency transport out of GeVinVas.  We saw the detonation of Train Y-64-Vi even from here.  It must have been deafening from your position.  Please try to relax and compose yourself before your scheduled arrival in TeKenVas.  The transport is taking a wider route to avoid the destroyed region.

Report immediately to TeKenVas Medical for evaluation.  We will need a report on both your physical injuries and mental health status.  There will be some difficult questions to answer regarding both the sabotage you observed and the subsequent attack on and destruction of Train Y-64-Vi.  There have also been reports of an attempt on the life of a Revered One in GeVinVas.  To be honest, you will be investigated to make certain you are not involved with the criminal conspirators responsible for these acts.  If you have no connection to these persons, you have no reason for concern.

Otherwise, expect to have a few paid ‘vacation days’ coming up, although you won’t be travelling far until this matter is resolved.

END

The Emergency - Page 67

(forest near wreckage site)

Worker ChoTen, please report.  Last positioning data showed you in the vicinity of Train Y-64-Vi.  Satellite imaging shows a blast crater and incendiary effects consistent with main battery breach.  The entire region around switch 3 is gone.  Please report to indicate your status. 

… ... ...

                We are relieved that you survived the detonation.  You were likely exposed to considerable radiation from distribution of the fissionable materials within the maglev engine.  It is even more imperative that you evacuate the area and meet with the emergency transport we have dispatched from GeVinVas. 

• Continue to wait where you are
• Return to the wreck site
• Walk further into the forest beyond
• Walk down the tracks toward TeKenVas
• Walk down the tracks toward GeVinVas

The Emergency - Page 68

(forest near wreckage site)

Worker ChoTen, please report.  Last positioning data showed you in the vicinity of Train Y-64-Vi.  Satellite imaging shows a blast crater and incendiary effects consistent with main battery breach.  The entire region around switch 3 is gone.  Please report to indicate your status. 

… ... ...

                We are relieved that you survived the detonation.  You were likely exposed to considerable radiation from distribution of the fissionable materials within the maglev engine.  It is even more imperative that you evacuate the area and meet with the emergency transport we have dispatched from GeVinVas. 

• Continue to wait where you are
• Return to the wreck site
• Walk further into the forest beyond
• Walk down the tracks toward TeKenVas
• Walk down the tracks toward GeVinVas