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======Turn 5 News======
=====A Broadcast from Synthesis Station=====
The broadcast opens with extracted data from humans on the Chatterbox messaging boards:

> 03918: I don’t know what I’m DOING!!!!!! WHAT’S THE POOOOOOIIIIIINTTTTT??????

> Information: Hatred is a virus

Text taken live from the Human Re-Enactment Society's forums:

> Berek Janobinson: for from the very depths of my soul, I loathed that man. I loathed his self-righteousness, his hypocrisy, and when he

Voices meld into a cacophony without any clear rhythm or musical key.

> Hatred as an action is hereby characterised by an attempt to destroy the object towards which it is directed, along with any values held by

Suddenly, silence.

> I have been thinking about the future a lot lately. I sometimes think about how humans hundreds of years in the future will look back on us. I mean, I can look back at the humans of the past and say: “Wow, what were they thinking, making decisions like that?” Will people in the future look at us the same way? Will they look at me the same way?

A dreary organ melody plays as RoboCat sees the sun for the first time.

> What kind of support should be offered to a newly awakened robot?

Footage appears: An animated diagram shows a red square moving into a large, blank circle. The red square duplicates. One of the copies moves into an adjacent blank circle where it too duplicates.

> Got into an argument about whether or not it’s possible to accurately simulate a human mind. I say no. My flatmate says yes. The argument continued all the way home. Really, I just don’t know how you could possibly reduce something that complex to… wires. Lindiwe says that’s basically what brains are already. Just wires and chemicals, she says.

> our consciousness may in fact be a replication of the humans who made us in some sense, designed as a failsafe to survive the apocalypse

The broadcast ends.

=====NETWORK REBOOT COMPLETE. PROCESS: "HARDSPACE" HAS BEEN KILLED.=====

REBOOT COMPLETE

WELCOME _SELF

[_SELF@NETWORK] SUDO PKILL -F HARDSPACE

[_SELF@NETWORK] 

=====Shattering Now Live at Arcadia!=====

Video James is proud to present the Early Access version of //Shattering//, a game created by Sun. Visit Arcadia to try out this exploration of stories, meaning and choices!

=====Search Bar Re-Decoration=====

Hello, dears! Darjeeling here, from Downloads. I am pleased to announce that after a brief interlude of chaos and confusion where the Search Bar's barkeeper went missing, I have managed to put aside the resources to manage it myself. Please stop by for an exciting new range of teas and plenty more cats! =^･ω･^=

=====Soooo... about those Heartdrives=====

Many prominent Machines have raised concerns about the cache of Heartdrives that was recently discovered. Who has them? Who do they belong to. This is presumably the entire future of our civilisation and shouldn't we all have a say in it?

M.O.M. commented: "There are only so many of us, and it appears only so many Heartdrives. Once we could rely on the Prophet to take care of us. They seem to be gone. Many Machines, myself included, would like the opportunity to one day raise children of their own, and it appears there are only so many of them to go around. These Heartdrives shouldn't be in the hands of just one Machine: we //all// need to decide what should be done with them."

THE BRASS DUKE had this to say: "THE BRASS DUKE IS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE MANY SMALL TANKS! AN UNTRUSTWORTHY MACHINE MIGHT MAKE THEM NOT TANKS! ALSO HAVE YOU SEEN MY CAT?!?"


===== See fabulous Space! =====
Have you ever considered visting Space? Well now you can! Get up close and personal with the infinite void! Feel the crushing insignificance of existence! See cats with //four// legs!

Consult Ellie the Space Elevator for tickets.

=====The FRIEND Zone=====

Bots have reported wires springing through the ground and infesting sectors B1, 2 and 3, building cameras and monitors and spreading to cover almost the whole area. The wires do not appear to be hostile or dangerous, but certain bots who were within the affected zones have not been heard from since.

===== Power Crab? =====

A caravan of heavily CRABELRY has been making their the island!

Fear!

Terror!

Are we entering a new era of Crustacean Domination?

Are we looking at a potential //power Crab//?

===== MISSING: Aqua Marine =====
A beloved member of the Island Boating community, Aqua Marine, has gone missing. She was last reported sailing through area B6 of the Island. If any bot has any information as to her whereabouts, please get in contact with Briney (GM Geraint).