One of the major problems with previous attempts at spacetime 
mapping has been the inability to compute the required solutions 
fast enough to prevent rapidly-shifting spacetime from disrupting the 
computation. While this is ultimately an intractable problem, the use 
of the 68883 accelerator chip to speed up the calculation should 
help to mitigate this. 


Previous attempts at using subspace radio to provide subscription 
services has met with failure due to limited bandwidth availability. 
However, this device will primarily be used within inconsistent 
spacetime, and as a result can take advantage of the local 
inconsistency to more effectively compress communications, 
allowing sessions to be handled more efficiently. 


Bibliography 

1. Glover, C. (1985, Feb 10). Applications of the Grunewald-Meier 
Equations to Spacetime Mapping. Journal of Applied 
Paramathematics, 12, 101-108. 

2. Fellows, D. A. & Goris, J. D. (1988, Oct 10). Enhanced Spacetime 
Mapping Using Differential Chronometry Data. Anomalomatics 
Review, 68(3), 15-22. 

Footnotes 

1. Recovered data logging equipment indicates that the area had 
had 71127787 independent spatial dimensions and 3 distinct time 
axes during the event. 


Industrial Espionage 


The following document was collected in the aftermath of [DATA 
EXPUNGED]. Sensitive portions of the document have been 
removed. 


7/16/87 

Brand new entry in a brand new journal. This isn't my 
standard-issue Wondertainment Magic Journal. This is 
my new standard-issue Prometheus Labs E-Recorder. 
It's encoded to my voice, fingerprints, retinas, and even 
my pulse. It looks like a Wondertainment Magic Journal, 
but this thing makes it look like pencil and paper. Thing's 
crazy. | can tell it what | want to write and it'll do it. Heck, 
I'm saying this out loud right now and it's recording and 
formatting and everything! Only problem is that it picks 
up a whole lot of sound that | have to go back and edit 
each time | record. Also it can't pick up on italics or 
anything. But | can record video footage with this and | 
can connect online and | can write documents on this. It 
can play music. It even plays Tetris. It's got more 
processing power than a Wondertainment Super-Brain 
and costs more than a house. And | got it for free in the 
mail. | Know | shouldn't be telling people this, but it's so 
fuckin’ huge that I've got to tell somebody. The entire 
department got bought out by Prometheus Labs. I've 
never even heard of Wondertainment selling something 
before. 


7/19/87 

First day at my new Job. This place is crazy. This 
morning, | woke up and there was a box on the front 
door from Prometheus Labs. | open it up. It's this big blue 
disk and the packaging tells me it's a teleporter. A 
teleporter! It's already prebuilt and everything. All | had to 
do was fit some pieces together like Wonder Bricks and 


plug it in to the wall. It lit up and then | stepped on it and 
suddenly | was flying into a mattress. This hits the wall at 
like a thousand miles an hour but there isn't even a scuff 
on it. So | get off the mat and pick it up. And I'm looking 
around, and Jesus Christ | still don't know where in the 
world | am. | mean it's this huge shiny steel and glass 
warehouse. And there's fucking fish swimming outside 
the glass. And | don't mean tuna. | mean fucking 
anglerfish. There's an honest to god anglerfish outside 
the windows at the top. Some guy is talking to me and | 
think he was saying something about the mattress, but 
whatever. This place is fucking amazing! | got a tour of 
the place, and it is just incredible. It's like Atlantis. 


7/22/87 

So | finally finished touring the city. This place is 
basically Atlantis. It's an underwater city made of glass 
and some kind of weird metal. | think we get supplies 
through those teleporters. | dunno why, but we use a 
maglev to get around down here instead of them. Still, 
it's pretty cool. The buildings are just these big, rounded 
structures. They're made out of the same glass and 
metal. The last five days all I've done is live here and get 
accustomed to the city. And this place is definitely a city. 
I've got a pretty swell apartment. It's got a hella view of 
the ocean but then so does everywhere down here, and 
it's pretty spacious. Real nice wooden flooring, granite 
countertops, even a luxury Jacuzzi in the bath. It's made 
of glass, but the good thing's that it's one way. Somehow 
they got all my stuff from home down here. Kinda freaky 
that they got in so easily, but everything seems fine. 
There's even loads of shops down here, like a 
Nordstrom's and Mens Wearhouse and Subway and 
even a theater! Plus my Prometheus ID card lets me get 
everything for free! They call this place Sub-City Twelve, 
and | heard someone mention Sub-City Six. Does that 
mean there are eleven others down here? 


7/23/87 
Today | finally got a tour of my new office. It's totally 


different from the rest of the city. It's inside a goddamn 
volcano, if you can believe it. Like seriously, | rode the 
maglev into an underwater volcano and ended up in 
here. Guess it's fake. There's no glass in here, just a 
whole lot of plastic and some weird metal | can't identify. 
It's sealed off from the rest of the city and completely 
stocked with top-of-the-line gear. They even have a 
biological 3D printer! Lots of biological engineering going 
on in here. | mean, just to get in you need to get like, five 
levels of decontamination, wear this spacesuit, and like 
every other door is labeled with a Class-4 Biohazard 
symbol. | don't really know why | was hired, though. | 
mean, yeah | helped design the dragon snails and 
custom pets, but what would Prometheus Labs want with 
something like that? They're just pets. I've been 
assigned to Dr. Frederick Werthal. He seems like a 
pretty chill fellow. | dunno though... he's like, 
Polynesian? So that's going to be weird. Still, | think I'll 
like it here. | met some nice guys. Ranjit, this Indian guy, 
Annie, this Asian with a real sweet rack, Gunther, this 
really pale German, and Bernard. Bernard's kind of 
weird. She's black and her name is Bernard. Yeah... So 
this should be interesting. 


7/25/87 

So I've been assigned to a secret project. | don't even 
know what it's for, but I'm been asked to oversee the 
design of pioneer organisms. And | mean pioneer 
organisms. Werthal is designing a lichen that grows in 
volcanoes! Are they trying to colonize another planet? 
Why is this secret? Prometheus's probably already done 
that. Even weirder, we got lessons at the shooting range 
today! Why would you need gun training at the bottom of 
the sea? Why would anyone shoot a gun inside a glass 
dome keeping billions of gallons of water from flattening 
them? Why does the brass think it's a good idea to teach 
me- a biological engineer- how to shoot a pistol? | mean, 
the security drones are good enough, right? If they're 
going to be coming in all hours of the day to check on us, 
they better be good to justify a violation of privacy. Still, | 


guess | can't complain. Werthal says the video footage is 
stored on the RAM. That means it gets deleted after their 
shifts, right? 


8/1/87 

The lichen bred successfully. | have developed a mold 
that grows in a volcano. | Know it's not a mold, but when 
you put it like that, you really realize what it is we're 
doing down here. This is pushing the boundaries of 
science. Not only that, but the lichen are breaking down 
the rock in the volcano and producing organic 
compounds suitable for other organisms to grow in! | 
wanted to tell Jeff, but this is all classified stuff. | don't 
know why, it's not like this is anything special compared 
to the stuff cooking inside, like, Lab 7 or something. 
We're gonna be doing a bunch more over the next week 
or so. 


8/6/87 

So | was passing by Lab 7 on the way to the can, right? 
A-and then | hear screaming and a flash of green light. 
So I'm wondering what the hell is going on and | knock. 
And then something fucking dents the door. This is like 
6-inch thick titanium, and there's a goddamn dent in it. 
The alarm goes off and suddenly lights are flashing and 
the siren's blaring and I'm trying not to shit myself. Then 
the security drones show up. These things are packing 
heat like | don't even KNOW. | mean they could probably 
fight off a whole army. Then they storm into that room 
and the door slams behind them. And so I'm just staring 
at that door and suddenly there's like roaring and the 
alarms are still fucking blaring and flashing and shots 
being fired and | just got the hell out of there. | don't 
know what the FUCK happened in there and | don't 
wanna know. What | do know is that I'm getting certified. 


8/9/87 

All anyone's been talking about is what went down in Lab 
7. Officially, a biomemetic droid malfunctioned and 
electrocuted the guys working on it, who are currently in 


intensive care. Nobody's seen anyone from there since 
yesterday. | bet they're dead. Jesus... Lab 7 doesn't 
even do biomemetics. Who are they trying to fool? 
Nobody wants to do anything but figure out what 
happened in there and why it's been covered up. So 
what else is being covered up? Oh man... 


8/12/87 

Work finally got back on track today. We've started 
building multicellular organisms. Now | can see why they 
really hired me. They're using the organism molds from 
that... oh what was it called... whatever it's called, 
they're using its organism molds as templates. The 
molds | designed for it. Funny thing, | didn't even know 
what | was building those for. | guess | still don't. Heh. 
The point is, they really don't know how they work. It's a 
good thing we got hired, | guess. You know what? | 
totally forgot about it 'till now, but | haven't seen anyone 
else from the department since we were bought out. 
Were they in Lab 7? Speaking of Lab 7, | finally got 
certified for a gun. It was easy. All | had to do was fill out 
a few forms, get a psychiatric examination, and wait a 
few days. | celebrated by going out and ordering a Smith 
and Wesson. | keep hearing about them so | figure, why 
not buy one? From what I've heard, it can stop a bull 
elephant in its tracks. Probably lying, but hey, why not? | 
mean, I've got the money to buy it. They promoted me 
within less than a month. I'm now a senior consultant and 
that means | make a sweet 140 bucks an hour. 140 
bucks! That's like, 1.67 times my old salary at 
Wondertainment. Plus, delivery with those teleportation 
systems means it'll be here by the end of the day, | mean 
tomorrow. 


8/19/87 

Finally found out what | really got hired for. Prometheus 
is designing terraforming organisms. But not like algae or 
plankton. They're building these giant organic factories to 
do the trick. And they're trying to use mass production 
techniques. That's what all these specifications and the 


mold have been for. At first | was like, why not just use 
algae and plankton? Then when | took a closer look at 
the specifications, it hit me. These organisms are just 
shells for the microorganisms we designed earlier. 
Dunno why | didn't put it together earlier, | mean they're 
pretty obvious now | see it. Also | was designing them. 
It's actually a pretty smart method. All we have to do is 
ensure that the one big organism reproduces instead of 
millions of smaller ones. It doesn't explain why we 
haven't been developing any plants, though. | finally 
managed to build some new molds. Prometheus doesn't 
have the same tech as the doc did, so it was a bit ofa 
struggle, but | have to say that their 3D printer is 
definitely all it's cracked up to be. They're printing the 
first one out now as we speak. The gun finally came 
today. Is it just me, or is the infrastructure around here 
kind of falling apart? All week people have been talking 
about how stuff seems to break at the wrong time or their 
deliveries are late or whatnot. Hope they get it sorted out 
soon. 


8/20/87 

Hufff... huff... hufieuw. Okay, okay, keep it together. At 
least, heh, at least | can't say it wasn't a memorable day. 
Let's see... gluup... alright, that should do it. Okay, okay. 
So. The organism molds were a hell of a success, hee. 
They worked really, spectacularly well. Hoo boy these 
are some top-notch pills. What's in them? Let's see... 
oxy... oxycotin? No, something else... Nico... whatever it 
is, it's amazing. | want to take some more, but the medic 
said that this needs to last me the next week. Anyways, 
back to the molds. So they worked right and the machine 
printed out a nice specimen with the fangs and the 
converter organs and all that and shuuuu and a hell of an 
appetite | mean soon's it woke up it just snatched Ranjit 
right off the ground and just took a massive chomp | 
guess | should've remembered it was going to be hungry 
because that's how the molds are designed so | guess? 
It's my fault but hey | told them to step back but noooo 
Ranjit just HAD to get a closer look at the fangs! And 


then it bit him in two and swallowed his upper half and a 
whole server rack. Good thing we have offsite backups! | 
hit the alarm and wouldn't you know, it was busted! 
Bernard tried feeding it a fire extinguisher like a moron 
but it snapped it up like Werthal at a Chinese buffet man 
| am just making some killer jokes today. Wish Ranjit 
could've heard that one. Bernard snatched up Gunther's 
gun and just stepped up to it, still trying to fit the 
extinguisher in its mouth keep in mind, and shoots the 
extinguisher. Blows it the hell up! Then she more or less 
got shredded by extinguisher fragments. Around that 
time security finally shows up and they use- I'm not 
kidding here- they use a laser beam to slice the 
specimen in half! Where can | get myself a lightsaber? 
So then the medics came in and they took Gunther away 
and Bernard and what was left of Ranjit. Me and Annie 
got these pill bottles and were told to take one there and 
then go home and pop another. Then take one every 
evening, till the bottle's empty. The medic said they were 
universal antibiotics. Makes sense, there were some 
pretty nasty bugs in it. There's... thirty- no, twelve, um 
seven? No, six pills left. | already took one just now, see, 
and | guess Annie did too. 


8/22/87 

Can't believe | forgot to record yesterday! Must be the 
pills. Wonder what other side effects they have. Still, 
gotta take one in a bit. | think | fixed the aggression in the 
specimens. Turns out... turns out | accidentally 
scantronned a whole section of the genome! Like, you 
know how you can like fuck up scantron sheets by 
misaligning the answers? Same thing! Funniest damn 
thing. Going to print a new specimen tonight. Need to be 
more careful you know, don't want a repeat of the 
Bernard incident. Everyone's asking what happened, but 
| had to brush them off, see. It's a secret project, and we 
can't have them asking questions am | right? Golp, 
mggm. Man, these pills even taste good! Prometheus 
really thought of everything! Oh yeah, | almost forgot. 
There was a major disaster over on the east side. Part of 


the glass shattered and completely flooded it. Luckily, 
some flood doors closed that part off. Too bad about the 
guys in there, but eh. Accidents happen. Weird thing is 
that I'd never even noticed those flood doors before. 


8/23/87