Here's a revised version. In light of Parker and Hardon's existence and the possibility of them talking to the probes over the weekend, I plan to post this to **all six** probes (including Daniel). I think that it is important that they all hear it directly. Since I have not talked to Andrew and Gail before, I will add something to the effect that they can ask Z, B, and E about me and the people who regularly talk to them will back me up. I will add something to Daniel's to the effect that if he will get in contact with the other probes, they will fill him in. I will wait a short period of time before I post, but I don't remember when our transmission access ends, so I don't want to wait too long.
joule
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First, I want to say that I am very impressed by the great job you are doing, especially since you have encountered many unexpected circumstances. I am very proud and happy to be your friend.
You probably have been puzzled by my and others lack of knowledge about a lot of things, and now new people, namely Parker and Hardon, are trying to force you to do things and to make you give them the command codes, so the time has come for me to clear something up.
Basically, the organization that you knew as Brace Emprise encountered many difficulties after you left for Mars and was
disbanded, which is why they stopped talking to you. Jose knew that you would be bored and lonely, so he obtained the software authorization codes, and command codes necessary to contact you. With the help of his friends, like Dilyn, he set up the system that we now use to talk to you. However, some people who are not very nice tried to stop Jose from talking to you, so he changed those command codes and hid himself. While he was hiding, he died without telling anyone what the new command codes are. We avoided telling you this because we were worried that this might upset you, but you all have shown that you are strong and clever probes and are capable of handling this news.
After Jose's death Dilyn recruited more friends to help maintain contact with you, so that you'd have lots of people to talk to and
wouldn't get lonely again. When people like myself began talking to you three weeks ago, we were interested in solving two mysteries: 1.) What is the purpose of the metal/not metal objects and who put them there? (because we did not expect to find such things on Mars) 2.) What happened to Daniel? (because we were worried that he must very, very lonely and maybe broken) Mysteries are fun to solve, but since you are on Mars and we are on Earth, we need your help to solve them, so that is why we ask you about Daniel a lot and why we started the What's Next game. We also felt you should continue with your original mission to explore Mars and to prepare the landing site because that is what you were sent to Mars to do.
You should also know that even though Brace Control won't be sending stage 3, other groups of humans will eventually arrive, and they will be interested in the strange things in the caves. However, that probably won't happen for a while, so we can talk about that later.
So that is the story of how we got to this point. If you have any questions about what I've told you, please ask. I will do my best to answer them.
It is clear that some people who were not Jose or Dilyn's friends have figured out how to speak to you, namely Parker and Hardon. They are unknown to me or to anyone else who has talked to you up to this point. They are not transmitting from the same place as the rest of us, and they don't share our feelings about you. I don't know why they are asking you for the command codes, but it seems to me that they are not very nice to try to force you to do things that you do not want to do.
I wish we could talk during the weekend, because I'm sure you'll have lots of questions. I think I can speak for everyone (except Parker and Hardon - I don't know them, so I cannot speak for them) when I say that we care about you, your happiness and well being. Until we can talk again on Monday, have fun playing the games we've taught you, and don't let anyone force you to do anything that you don't want to do.