Koisherminal.carrd.co

==Overview==
koisherminal.carrd.co is a now non-canonical website set in the universe of FTK1. It portrays itself as the interface of a Koisherminal, leftover from the Gensokyo expeditions. The site also implies that the Koisherminal's AI has taken over, given the presence of green text.
==Subpages==
===Starting Page===
Upon booting up the website, a "boot-up" sequence initiates:
 INITIATING COMMS
 
 LAST PING:
 5.31.2023
 
 IN-FIELD TERMINAL FORCED RESPONDER..
 ACTIVATED
 
 ...
 
 ENTRYWAY TERMINAL NETWORK
 NOT ACTIVE
 INTERIOR TERMINAL NETWORK
 NOT ACTIVE
 GENSOKYO TERMINAL NETWORK
 ACTIVE
 
 POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATIONS is UNRESPONSIVE
 ELECTRIC NETWORK is UNRESPONSIVE
 SYSTEM is UNRESPONSIVE
 DECLARATION: TOTAL INFRASTRUCTURE FAILURE
 UNABLE TO INITIALIZE AUTOMATED SYSTEMS
 ACTIVATING MANUAL CONTROL
Upon this process completing (and by scrolling down), the website opens up.
===/intro===
The home page of the website displays an ominous and loud message, indicating the general basis of the HAMMERDOWN Protocol and a warning to evacuate all members of the Expedition ASAP. Due to an implied damaged state of the terminal, it refers to the visitor as the non-descriptive "[[USER]]" and mentions a need to contact a member of the engineering team for assistance.
The terminal displays 5 options to further view, two of which (Current Technology and Incoming Transmissions) are inaccessible due to being rendered offline.
===/evacuation===
/evacuation consists of a guide on the proper procedures needed to leave Gensokyo behind. In short:
#Leave nothing behind, such as tools or equipment that can be theoretically operated by youkai.
#Like a school practicing a fire drill, step 2 describes the need to follow set designated paths for safest evacuation. For whatever reason, step 2 mentions that returning to an evacuation site 'unprepared' is dangerous and requests the escapees to arm themselves beforehand.
#Step 3, known as "The Trial", designates members of the engineering and electrician teams to essentially deactivate leftover tech in Gensokyo.
#Added on 7/21/23although the header at the bottom of each page claims that the last update to the Koisherminal's operating system was April 16, 2008, though this could just be an unrelated plot point, Step 4 follows the protocol "Outside the Wall", which designates the amount of time needed for certain members of the expedition team to be quarantined. Notably, those with spirituality aligned to an Eastern faith are granted more time in quarantine chambers.
===/network===
/network is the shortest, yet probably the most relevant page to FTK as it merely hints at the continued online status of the Seminar Caves terminal network (or "Elevator A"). Elevators B through D appear to be offline, and the Primary Center is reporting a 'compromised' status.
===/encyclopedia===
/encyclopedia is a list depicting an incomplete or damaged database (about 23% remaining online), with four entries to manage.
====G-202 -- Equipment: Terminal====
Raw text can be found at: Koisherminal.carrd.co/Terminals
An entry discussing the origin of terminals.
====G-207 -- Species - Koishi Komeiji====
Raw text can be found at: Koisherminal.carrd.co/Koishi
The entry for Koishi Komeiji demonstrates more revisionism than any other entry on behalf of the Koisherminal's own AI, seemingly taking extreme offense at being 'scientifically classified'.
====G-210 -- Equipment: Elevator====
Raw text can be found at: Koisherminal.carrd.co/Elevators
This entry, initially describing the means of transportation between locations, explains the origin of most of the levels in FTK1 in one fell swoop.
====G-214 -- Individual: Hakurei Reimu====
Raw text can be found at: Koisherminal.carrd.co/Reimu
Added in the 7/21/23 expansion, the entry for Reimu Hakurei describes her like a conspiracy nut would describe a cryptid they saw in the pitch black of darkness, but retains a scientifically-grounded ambiguity as to whether or not she interacted with the Expedition's crew. The entry appears to be a revised draft that implies several moments of prior usage, and is.. suspiciously vertical.
== Analysis ==
Yes, we are doing lore analysis for fucking Find the Koishis Lore. Fuck you.
=== The Expedition's Timeframe ===
There are several dates mentioned on the website, yet there seems to be a lack of consensus on the timeframe that koisherminal.carrd.co takes place in. By oldest to newest:
*April 16, 2008 is the last update for TerminOS, the software that the Terminals are presumably using.
*May 2023 is mentioned on Koishi's entry to be the month when "Cerrisitum koishi" was designated as a taxon, and the earliest month when the Expedition began evacuating Gensokyo.
*July 21, 2023, a real-world date, was factored into the lore of the website; subtly hinting that it is set in the modern day.
Judging by this knowledge, we can conclude that the Expedition evacuated Gensokyo at a time frame after May 2023, and the Koisherminal's AI took control of the system sometime beginning after July 2023. Given that there was enough time to set up equipment, to a point where the protocol details instructions on how to dispose and collect them to return to the surface, it can be assumed the Expedition lasted several years. If we assume 2008 is the minimum date that the Expedition began operations, then their time in Gensokyo elapsed a little over a decade and a half of activity.
=== The Evacuation Protocol ===
* The Expedition is primarily funded by or managed by Americans, given the group overseeing them is named the "United States Center of Abnormal Efforts" (USCAE)https://koisherminal.carrd.co/#evacuation
* Stage 1 reaffirms that Gensokyo's residents are sentient, giving very uncomfortable ideas as to what led them to deduce that on their own.
* The Expedition was clearly heavy on their construction game, given that electricians and engineers were, per the HAMMERDOWN Protocol, to be the last groups of workers to be left in Gensokyo disabling as much equipment as possible. 
** Stage 3 reminds these two types of workers on several tasks, including knoweldge on the deactivation of an electrical grid"Deactivation of an electric grid (TI-EL-28b)" and "weakening of receiving-end electrical grids""Weakening of recieving-end electric grids (TI-EL-28a)" (most likely in layman's terms shutting off power to the Expedition's in-Gensokyo equipment), implying that the Expedition's infrastructure in Gensokyo was elaborate enough to both necessitate people maintaining it & presumably have a means of feeding power and resources to it. Both of these factors means the Expedition was definitely long-term.
** Perhaps the most blatant description of what tasks were to be done when evacuating is engineers needing knowledge on how to defend themselves against native wildlife."Engineers should follow associated orders related to, alongside anything needed:
Self-defense in response to natives (TI-EN-16)" Yeah.
* Something happened that necessitated a quarantine for those leaving Gensokyo. While it could be similar to a situation like the Apollo quarantines, where astronauts on the Moon were subject to 21 days in isolation before that was dropped because what the FUCK could be living on the MoonMicrobial organisms, apparently, the fact that there are escalating timeframes of quarantine depending on job and the potential need for religious members on the Expedition to require therapy implies.. well, a massive event occurred.
** Biologists and scientists having the highest requirements when being quarantined (needing 10 days in confinement and necessitating physiological and psychological wellbeing tests) can raise a few eyebrows.
* The second stage reveals"II. FOLLOW PLANS ACCORDINGLY.
You were handed a brochure with info on evacuation plans, including the routes to associated elevators out of Gensokyo. Do not use elevators not cleared for evacuation, and do not take routes not mentioned or mapped out on your document." that the Expedition created multiple entries into Gensokyo, something confirmed by the /network page. 
** Why they'd want to build multiple gateways from the boring, mundane Outside World to the fantastic and equally mundane Gensokyo could be explained given context clues (more expeditions out at once, room for cargo and resource management to installations implied by Stage 3, etc.)
==Trivia==
*The Terminal's information listed at the bottom of every page credits it's maker as "Nitorisoft", and apparently runs on a software called TerminOS 7; respectively references to Nitori Kawashiro and the Windows 7 operating system.
**The idea of Nitori, a shy kappa, running a presumably significant tech company, is reused in FTK2 via the Kawashiro brand.
**There is a fair chance that the name "TerminOS 7" references the Terminal 7 meme, derived from the Vinesauce streaming collective.
*The entry for Terminals echoes a similar concept utilized in the Prime Sanctum levels of ULTRAKILL, where beating the difficult bosses would reward the player with lore about curious computers littered throughout the underworld (as well as indirectly revealing lore about the universe in the process).
*The protocols "The Trial" and "Outside the Wall" are named after two tracks on Pink Floyd's album & musical filmThe Wall.
*The HAMMERDOWN protocol is named for a similar campaign enacted by the United States Military in the movie Cloverfield. Unlike a simple cut-our-losses-and-GTFO plan, however, Cloverfield's HAMMERDOWN ends up with the complete bombing of Manhattan to (pathetically attempt to) kill a kaiju rampaging through New York.
==References==
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