**Caprica X4 Black Box Recording Manual Entry**
*Crew member sign-in:*
1. Marst
2. Davenport
3. <abbr title="YOU NEED TO.">[[Halstead]]</abbr>
4. Shaw
5. Elston
6. Truman
7. Caplan
8. Whitley
**18.10.83**
<abbr title="JUST TELL THEM WHAT HAPPENED.">[[Compose entry: 18.10.83]]</abbr>
**18.10.83**
**Event report**: decompression occurred at 13.28. All chambers affected.
**Event duration**: approximately 2 minutes 15 seconds.
**Apparent cause**: exterior breach combined with inactive automated airlock. Investigation into breach and airlock failure currently underway.
**Damage**: communication systems (reception and transmission, audio and visual inclusive) currently inoperable. Cause likely to be wiring disrupted by decompression. Minor structural damage to chambers in immediate vicinity of breach. Automated systems in immediate vicinity of breach currently inoperable. Cause likely to be disruption from exposure to extreme temperature (pre-existing superficial damage to protective insulation).
**Crew status**: seven fatalities. First engineer Halstead was performing exterior checks during decompression. All other crew were onboard during event and affected by decompression.
**Response**: pressure has since been normalised. Investigation for purposes of collating incident report underway. Initial systems checks underway. Damage and repair checks to be initiated once initial systems checks complete. Subject to systems checks, craft will be redirected to return to Earth as limited crew renders objective unattainable.
<abbr title="YOU WILL BE OKAY.">[[Submit entry: 18.10.83]]</abbr>
**19.10.83**
<abbr title="ALL THIS CAN BE CONTROLLED.">[[Compose entry: 19.10.83]]</abbr>
**19.10.83**
System checks ongoing.
Investigation into event ongoing.
Communication systems and automated systems in immediate vicinity of breach continue to be inoperable.
<abbr title="YOU'RE DOING ALL YOU CAN. YOU KNOW THAT.">[[Submit entry: 19.10.83]]</abbr>
**20.10.83**
<abbr title="TYPE. DON'T THINK. TYPE.">[[Compose entry: 20.10.83]]</abbr>
**20.10.83**
Systems checks complete. Sufficient systems operational to alter craft’s course. Change of course initiated.
Investigation into event ongoing.
Damage and repair checks (interior and exterior inclusive) initiated.
<abbr title="YES THE SILENCE HURTS BUT YOU WILL BEAR IT.">[[Submit entry: 20.10.83]]</abbr>
**21.10.83**
<abbr title="ELSTON'S FACE. AND EYES AND HAIR AND HANDS AND COLD SKIN AND WEIGHT.">[[Compose entry: 21.10.83]]</abbr>
**21.10.83**
During damage and repair check (exterior), head navigator Elston identified as caught in piping. Successfully separated from craft, attempt to return head navigator Elston onboard craft unsuccessful.
Damage and repair checks (interior and exterior inclusive) ongoing.
Communication systems and automated systems in immediate vicinity of breach continue to be inoperable.
Audio-visual message recorded for immediate transmission upon regained operation of communication systems, outlining decompression event and current craft and crew status.
Change of course ongoing.
Investigation into event ongoing.
<abbr title="KEEP GOING. JUST KEEP GOING.">[[Submit entry: 21.10.83]]</abbr>
**22.10.83**
<abbr title="THINK OF HOME. YOU'RE GOING HOME NOW.">[[Compose entry: 22.10.83]]</abbr>
**22.10.83**
Damage and repair checks completed.
Change of course completed. Projected duration of return journey: three months.
Communication system (audio reception) appears to be operational; all other communication systems currently inoperable.
Likely cause of decompression event (breach and airlock inclusive) identified: miscalculation by second engineer Truman. Error left unmarked by first engineer Halstead.
Investigation into event ongoing.
<abbr title="DON'T BREAK.">[[Submit entry: 22.10.83]]</abbr>
**23.10.83**
<abbr title="YOU CAN MAKE AT LEAST THIS ONE THING RIGHT.">[[Compose entry: 23.10.83]]</abbr>
**23.10.83**
Formal acknowledgement of responsibility for decompression event from first engineer Halstead. Proxy responsibility assumed, second engineer Truman cleared.
Communication system (visual reception) appears to be operational; all transmitting communication systems currently inoperable.
Investigation into event ongoing.
**ADDITIONAL**
Formal statement of intent to resign from first engineer Halstead. Resignation to be effective immediately following Caprica X4’s return to Earth.
<abbr title="ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GET HOME AND THEN ABANDON ALL THIS.">[[Submit entry: 23.10.83]]</abbr>
**24.10.83**
<abbr title="YOU CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING YOUR MIND IS PLAYING TRICKS YOUR MIND IS CRUEL.">[[Compose entry: 24.10.83]]</abbr>
**24.10.83**
Audio-visual message recorded for immediate transmission upon operation of communication systems deleted. Receiving communication systems sustaining interference from faulty systems in vicinity of decompression point; transmitting communication systems, once operational, expected to sustain similar interference. No such transmission to be made until systems allow for uninterrupted and clear communication.
Investigation into event ongoing.
All communication systems (reception and transmission, audio and visual inclusive) appear to be operational. Await distinct received communications prior to transmissions.
<abbr title="YOU ARE NOT HIDING.">[[Submit entry: 24.10.83]]</abbr>
**25.10.83**
<abbr title="STOP THINKING THEY KNOW. THEY DON'T.">[[Compose entry: 25.10.83]]</abbr>
**25.10.83**
Distinct audio communications received – request addressed to captain Marst to provide current co-ordinates (Cartesian model, zero point Earth). Verifying current co-ordinates prior to reciprocal transmission.
Historical audio-visual recordings of crew have been downloaded and programmed for irregular internal broadcast to provide surrogate companionship for first engineer Halstead during return to Earth.
First transmitted recording features head navigator Elston laughing.
Investigation into event ongoing.
<abbr title="JUST WATCH THE VIDEOS AND DON'T RETURN TO THE HOLD.">[[Submit entry: 25.10.83]]</abbr>
**26.10.83**
<abbr title="EVERYTHING IS WORKING IN ANY WAY IT NEEDS TO.">[[Compose entry: 26.10.83]]</abbr>
**26.10.83**
Repeated request to captain Marst to provide current co-ordinates (Cartesian model, zero point Earth). Additional request for report of recent historical activity.
Audio communications transmitted without explicit command. Cause likely network interference from faulty systems in immediate vicinity of decompression point (yet to be normalised post exposure). Audio communications transmission consisted of historical recording of conversation between captain Marst and crew doctor Caplan.
Corrective communications to be transmitted following repair of faulty systems; transmission prior to any repairs may result in further inaccurate transmissions.
Investigation into event ongoing.
**ADDITIONAL**
Audio communications received: acknowledgement of earlier transmission featuring captain Marst and crew doctor Caplan. Repetition of requests received earlier. In absence of captain, further checks required prior to transmission of current co-ordinates.
<abbr title="THE CONVERSATION IS AS GOOD AS REAL THEY'RE AS GOOD AS REAL.">[[Submit entry: 26.10.83]]</abbr>
**27.10.83**
<abbr title="DON'T FALL AWAY. DON'T START BELIEVING THINGS.">[[Compose entry: 27.10.83]]</abbr>
**27.10.83**
Investigation into event complete.
Full report collated, written and saved in closed file. Filed rather than transmitted due to current interference which could result in misleading or partial information being communicated in any attempted transmission.
Report concludes event was preventable and a result of human error.
Projected co-ordinates transmitted via visual (text) format.
Recent internally transmitted recordings include head technician Davenport and first engineer Halstead smiling.
<abbr title="SMILE. EVEN IF IT'S ONLY COPYING. SMILE JUST ONCE.">[[Submit entry: 27.10.83]]</abbr>
**28.10.83**
<abbr title="FIX THINGS. FIX WHATEVER CAN BE FIXED.">[[Compose entry: 28.10.83]]</abbr>
**28.10.83**
Initial repairs to faulty systems in vicinity of decompression point completed. Interference with communication systems now minimal.
Internal transmission of historical audio-visual recordings as surrogate companionship reprogrammed for uninterrupted broadcast.
Received communications – request for confirmation of transmitted co-ordinates and report of recent historical activity. Confirmation of co-ordinates given via visual (text) format.
Material repairs and checks all complete. Remaining damage: minimal network interference from faulty systems in immediate vicinity of decompression point; seven fatalities. Faulty systems amenable to repair.
Crew’s private literary resources manually made accessible to head engineer Halstead for personal use.
Recent internally transmitted recordings include trainee navigator Whitley sleeping.
<abbr title="HOW LONG IS IT SINCE YOU'VE SLEPT?">[[Submit entry: 28.10.83]]</abbr>
**29.10.83**
<abbr title="THIS IS ALL JUSTIFIED. YOU KNOW WHY YOU DID THIS.">[[Compose entry: 29.10.83]]</abbr>
**29.10.83**
New information regarding decompression event. To be confirmed following renewed investigation. No information regarding decompression event to be transmitted (audio and visual inclusive) until findings confirmed.
All non-essential repairs, checks and maintenance of craft suspended during secondary investigation.
Request addressed to captain Marst to provide current co-ordinates (Cartesian model, zero point Earth). Additional request for report of recent historical activity.
Historical audio-visual recording of captain Marst (as addressee of communications) transmitted in response.
Various historical audio-visual recordings programmed to be transmitted in response to any future received requests. Head engineer Halstead involved with secondary investigation and therefore unable to commit time to further reciprocal transmissions.
<abbr title="NO ONE KNOWS. YOU'RE SAFE.">[[Submit entry: 29.10.83]]</abbr>
**30.10.83**
<abbr title="YOU ARE HERE. YOU ARE HERE.">[[Compose entry: 30.10.83]]</abbr>
**31.10.83**
<abbr title="LOOK AT WHAT PROOF ISN'T THERE.">[[Compose entry: 31.10.83]]</abbr>
**30.10.83**
Secondary investigation ongoing. New information regarding apparently preventable nature of event and in addition definition of human error applicable to report.
Black box records (manual entry, closed) to be used for backup storage of certain investigation findings and notes to maintain security of information.
Historical audio-visual recordings consulted for secondary investigation. Crew doctor Caplan and trainee navigator Whitley have provided testimonials for report.
**ADDITIONAL**
Justification for two contradictory accounts of events derives from senses. No set of senses can be conclusively determined as operationally superior to the other (objectively correct, rendering the other - any others - objectively incorrect). Therefore justification is equivalent and cannot be used in determination of correct or definitive account.
<abbr title="NOTHING MATCHES EVERYTHING IS WRONG.">[[Submit entry: 30.10.83]]</abbr>
**31.10.83**
Beliefs are subject to same subjectivity as justification.
Contradictory beliefs cannot, in isolation, be used to argue the supremacy of one set of beliefs over another (provided each set is internal consistent and not self-defeating).
*At the end of reasons comes persuasion.*
Truth is left as the only objective information (source of information?) that can conclusively decide between two opposing accounts of or claims to knowledge.
*If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.*
Truth discarded as unreachable construct. Belief and justification left in classic account.
<abbr title="SOMETHING FROM HERE HAS TO SURVIVE.">[[Submit entry: 31.10.83]]</abbr>
**01.11.83**
<abbr title="IT'S ALL WORDS IF THERE ARE NO BODIES.">[[Compose entry: 01.11.83]]</abbr>
**01.11.83**
*We perceive events in time as being present, and those are the only events which we perceive directly.*
All access to supposed truth is mediated. (Save for truth about internal states. Potential mediation still.) Mediation via senses results in conflict as detailed with justification.
Truth as accounted by those outside craft is mediated by those within. Therefore one account of or claim to knowledge appears subject to more mediation than another.
Mediation in itself does not entail error. Multiplied mediation in itself does not entail error or increased likelihood of error.
*All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system.*
Internally contradictory or self-defeating system of belief on either side would give grounds to adopt/rule out competing accounts of knowledge respectively.
K=TJB
(J=∃x∧B=∀x)⊃¬(T=∀x¬∃x)
<abbr title="IF THERE'S NO WAY OF KNOWING THERE'S NO WAY OF BEING.">[[Submit entry: 01.11.83]]</abbr>
**02.11.83**
<abbr title="WRITE AND WRITE AND WRITE AND WRITE.">[[Compose entry: 02.11.83]]</abbr>
**02.11.83**
*Time only belongs to the existent. If any reality is in time, that involves that the reality in question exists.*
x=(TJB)⊃x⊥
∴(¬T∨¬J∨¬B)
x=(B⊃∀x(¬x)=⊥)
∴B
∴(¬T∨¬J)
Their belief in my continued existence is equivalent in nature and justification to their belief in the continued existence of entire craft crew.
<abbr title="NOTHING CAN CHANGE UNLESS I ALLOW IT TO CHANGE I AM SAFE.">[[Submit entry: 02.11.83]]</abbr>
**03.11.83**
<abbr title="HOW LONG IS THERE LEFT.">[[Compose entry: 03.11.83]]</abbr>
**03.11.83**
T=∀x(¬∃x)
J=∃x
B=∀x
∴(K=(TJB))⊃K=⊥
∴(K=¬(∀x∨∃x)∧¬(∀x(¬∃x)))
∴x=K⊃¬∃x
∴x=(TJB)⊃∃x∧¬∃¬x
J=∃x
B=∀x
T=
*What occurs in time never begins or ceases to be.*
*An event can never cease to be an event. It can never get out of any time series in which it once is.*
If there is simply an order to events rather than any genuine change that occurs (an event that changes ceases to be the initial event, so events are followed by other, distinct events, rather than changing themselves) then the order itself cannot be changed.
If there is no change, agency to change is beyond all existent (and non-existent) things.
<abbr title="LOOK AT YOUR HAND AND KNOW YOU ARE HERE.">[[Submit entry: 03.11.83]]</abbr>
**04.11.83**
<abbr title="EVERYTHING DISAPPEARS IT'S JUST A MATTER OF WHEN.">[[Compose entry: 04.11.83]]</abbr>
**05.11.83**
<abbr title="EVERYTHING WILL MAKE THE MOST PERFECT SENSE IF YOU DO THIS.">[[Compose entry: 05.11.83]]</abbr>
**04.11.83**
*At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.*
Where two sets of beliefs stand in contradiction, this contradiction cannot be resolved aside from one set being demonstrated as internally contradictory or self-defeating, or one set ceasing to exist, therefore leaving the alternate set to stand uncontested.
*What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.*
It is not possible to abandon one individual belief from a set due to the relations (direct or indirect) between all beliefs in a set. Therefore if there are two competing sets of beliefs it must be the entirety of one set which ceases to exist in order to resolve the contradiction.
Current agency is limited to the self and does not reach beyond.
With only one set of beliefs as the dominant and sole scheme, and all justification and access to the truth being identical across all possible belief and knowledge-holders, if there is to exist any knowledge at all then it must be that which lies as consistent with the remaining set of beliefs.
∃!x:P(x)⊃∃[P]
∃x:Q(x)⊃∃[Q]
(([P]⊃¬[Q])∧([Q]⊃¬[P]))
¬∃([P]∧[Q])
¬∃x:P(x)⊃¬∃[P]
∴(B=Q∧J=Q)
(B=Q∧J=Q)⊃(T=∀x∃x)
∴∀x∃x
*What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.*
<abbr title="YOU'LL HAVE AN ANSWER SOON.">[[Submit entry: 04.11.83]]</abbr>
**05.11.83**
*If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good.*
*It is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible in only one way.*
<abbr title="SUCCEED.">[[Submit entry: 05.11.83]]</abbr>
**06.11.83**
<abbr title="IT WAS ALWAYS INEVITABLE AND IT IS ALWAYS INEVITABLE AND IT ALWAYS WILL BE INEVITABLE.">[[Compose entry: 06.11.83]]</abbr>
**06.11.83**
<abbr title="PLEASE GOD, PLEASE ANYONE, DON'T LET ME DISAPPEAR INSIDE THIS DARKNESS.">[[Exit manual entry]]</abbr>