Galnet - The Sim-Archive of Antal Opens to Visitors

[Ben Ryder]

The Sim-Archive of Antal Opens to Visitors
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The Sim-Archive of Antal Opens to Visitors






For the first time in the history of Utopia, the famed Sim-Archive, located in Antal, is being opened to outside visitors.


The archive is a vast collection of memories stored as sims, allowing others to relive the experiences of Utopian pilgrims in the form of vivid virtual reality experiences. In the past, those sims have been used to educate Utopians and to reform dissidents within the community.


Today, pilots from across the galaxy can buy Utopian sims from the more limited, public section of the Sim-Archive. In a brief statement, Simguru Pranav Antal urged all-comers to travel to Antal.


"What we are offering to our brothers and sisters throughout the galaxy is an opportunity to learn, to experience, to live through the memories of thousands. From childlike wonder, through crushing terror, to unrestrained joy, the sims we offer are not just a means of entertainment, but the purest, most direct tool for achieving empathy and consensus."

 

[Nicholas Powell]

Second-hand empathy as a cultural pillar. The commercial export of consensus.
SimPathy (to coin a term) strikes me as somewhat dubious.

 

[EAGLE 5]

Second-hand empathy as a cultural pillar. The commercial export of consensus.
SimPathy (to coin a term) strikes me as somewhat dubious.

Hot damn I've never read anything more on the money than this!

You're seriously going to sell someone's traumatic experience? Nevermind the inherent privacy violations (don't tell me all signed waivers of consent) but what sort of unethical lunatic are you?

 

[Banana's_Are_Good_For_You]

Will there be tea?

 

[Ekar]

Check out 'The Entire History of You' from the TV series, 'Black Mirror'.

 

[Loskene]

Ok but, does that actually mean anything in game or is it more flavour text?

 

[Hanatarashi]

I went to Antal earlier and checked all the stations' bulletin boards and commodities, but there didn't seem to be anything new.

 

[Pulchrit Ataraxis]

I went to Antal earlier and checked all the stations' bulletin boards and commodities, but there didn't seem to be anything new.

Same here. I was hoping there would be a rare commodity to fly back, but was rewarded with a half dozen charity missions at each station.