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(GSV Incorrect Catachresis signal sequence file #n10807960/001)

[broad beam, M94, received @ n8.12.01.2000]

x GSV Incorrect Catachresis

o GCU The Colour of Love

Greetings. Had previously thought self to be only Culture vessel in area. Am pleasantly surprised to discover that the converse is, in fact, true. My warm greetings are extended to you and your crew.

GSV Incorrect Catachresis: System-wide readout: Glacier-class GSV. Four main bays, 12 Auxilliary bays. 4 Special Circumstances-recruited bays. Systems correspond to culture standard &56N, with exception of life-support and environmental systems (limited species support only)

Draw attention to linked facility RDO Insufficient Excess, familiar vessel and long-time ally to which Incorrect Catachresis was a predecessor.

Kind Regards.

(End signal file.)

(RDO Insufficient Excess signal sequence file #n10807960/002)

[broad beam, M96, received @ n12.8.2.0.1930]

x RDO Insufficient Excess
o GCU The Colour of Love
o GSV Incorrect Catachresis

Greetings to yourself and all linked entities!

Welcome to the happy gathering. We hope for many advancements in this group.

Research and Development Orbital Insufficient Excess:
Diameter: 6,000,000km
Current population: 5,000,000 humans; 3,000,000 other.

Contact SC limited access space area. Cannot reveal coords.

(End signal file)

(GCU Colour of Love, The signal sequence file #n10807960/003)

[broad beam, M16, tra. @ n21.12.01.2000

x GCU Colour of Love, The
o GSV Incorrect Catachresis
o RDO Insufficient Excess
& As Requested

Thanks for welcome into area. Apologies for High Shyness Mode, am carrying paranoid affront 'ambassador' who requested no first contact. Suspect rest of crew will be glad for company: the affront make them (and I) nervous.

{System-wide readout attached}

Curious as to reason for codes M94 and M96, however. Are we being watched?

{OOC: Distressingly, you can't put signs into h2g2 postings - shocking!}

(GSV Incorrect Catachresis, The signal sequence file #n10807960/003)

[broad beam, M94, tra. @ n21.12.01.2000

x GSV Incorrect Catachresis
o RDO Insufficient Excess
o GCU Colour of Love, the

Regards to the ambassador. If he wishes to sample some of the finer aspects of the culture, there is a level on the GSV that has been prepared to standard affront configuration.

Following the... method by which the GSV Incorrect Catachresis came into the area, and the RDO came into existence, high security tends to be a prerequisite for communication. We're not universally loved.

As with the ambassador, the GSV's facilities are open for your use should you have any needs. The Incorrect Catachresis is well equipped for a GSV, and has all you could expect of a large settlement, and more.

As of n8.20.00.2226, making for (estimated) current (arrival) position of GCU Colour of Love, The. Rendezvous expected in 18 hours.

As a final matter, propose some form of alliance between culture ships. Unlike elsewhere, we are few and far-flung.

Kind Regards.

{OOC: Yes. It's awful. ... }

(GSV Insufficient Excess signal sequence file #n10807960/004)

[broad beam, M64, tra. @ n12.9.2.0.1048

x RDO Insufficient Excess
o GSV Incorrect Catachresis
o GCU Colour of Love, the
o GCU Multiple Excession

I believe that the Affront are a suitable subject for further cultural investigation, based on reports from investigators. Their culture is strangely unstable...

Apologies for tersity of current conversation. Am involved in investigation of [SC operation].

Recommend rendezvous of GCUs with GSV Incorrect Catachresis. We are happy to invite all three of you to visit us @n12.10.2.0.1640.

Kind regards.

Merry Christmas.



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(GCU Colour of Love, The signal sequence file #n10807960/005)

[narrow beam, unenc., tra. @ n16.x.mas.2002]

x GCU Colour of Love, The
o Unidentified Vessel

Indeed. And a glands-worth of /Snap!/ in respect of your dead god...

{"festive" photograph attached}