After much diligent work, the alien technicians have successfully rebooted the Taxon project. Citizens will not notice the interruption to services their lives, and will wake up with no idea that the city (and they themselves) had briefly ceased to exist. It will be September, and there will be nothing wrong with that ( Read more... )

Taxon is offline.

The source of the radio signals, the other entities who wish to liberate the citizenry, managed to launch an attack on the city's programming. The resulting instability threatened the entire endeavour, and so in a desperate attempt to save it the alien caretakers went with every technician's solution of last resort ( Read more... )

"Say, why's this thing so empty?"

Flo, the newest alien on the Taxon Board of Affairs (there is no board of affairs, she just finds amusement in abbreviating it TBA), is making a personal visit to Taxon today. As in, in person. She's got the suggestions box in her hands, lifted from it's hook on the wall. It's upside down and she's shaking it, ( Read more... )

The presence of Aliens in the building was something uniquely un-ignorable, and uniquely catch-able ( Read more... )

The sun's scrambled high into the sky like a sure-footed kid climbing a tree-it's the itch under his collar and the sweat on his palms. He raises the hoe and swings it down into dry earth, sending up a puff of dust. There's always one weed left. Sun's baleful glare on his back, he drives the blade in again. He hears himself grunt (it sounds more ( Read more... )

Kurt's explorations finally bring him to the 11th floor! Took long enough. After spending some time just acclimating to the new stage area, he is hit with something of a wonderful idea ( Read more... )

It's around five o'clock in the morning when the citizens of Taxon find themselves inexplicably transported into rooms within the Sanctuary. Doors are left open and beds unmade, food abandoned and lights left on, still shining brightly for those who were awake and are no longer present. The Extras don't seem to notice the captive population's ( Read more... )

[ it's happening again. there's a burst of whining feedback, and static that lasts for a few minutes with sounds barely audible beneath it. then the message loops and all of taxon can hear its message in english. ]

We could ---kssh--- in culture, but ---kssh---

We are people ---kssh--- their lives how they want to live, ---kssh--- is best for you ( Read more... )

[ here it is again, citizens. the static, the feedback, the voice. this time the language is only from earth in the most technical sense: it's klingon. ]

We could explain ourselves, the similarities and the differences of our cultures, but this it ---kssh--- we are here.

We are those, you for ---kssh--- freely for lively your life, there want, ( Read more... )

[ it's happening again. the static, the feedback, and then the low murmur of a voice. speaking in chinese this time, in between the disruption of constant static. ]

我们会解释，但为何我们这里，我们的文化相似性和存在的不同，可能性。我们是自由的你，我们要和他们的人 - 自由地在你的生活你能在自己 --kssh-- 为了相称的活它，尊重你的这一事实是我们程序员的组成 --kssh-- 明星是你的人的比例，为了漫步在你面前的一个自由守护的测试，是有是，希望的城市。我们在空锡你你这 --kssh-- 知道，尊重高兴， ( Read more... )