A Note about the blog posts from the future [CE 2224]: In January 2021, with Perseverance scheduled to land on Mars the following month, NASA activated its experimental Quantum Transmitter. NASA designed the transmitter to communicate with Perseverance, without regard to location and at faster than light speeds—near real-time. Unfortunately, they lost the connection after they completed the initialization routine. However, as an unintended consequence, NASA connected with a specific locus in the space-time continuum, located on the Moon, in 2224. That locus was the storage device of the quantum computer, which hosted a popular blog site. It is from that blog site that we extract these entries.
Sadly, NASA lost contact with that locus in June 2022, and no subsequent blog posts could be shared for the last several years.
That has all changed. We’re happy to report as of July 2026 that the connection has been re-established and sharing of posts from two hundred years in our future can resume.
Please enjoy a peek into what’s coming, and hopefully, I’m not violating some temporal directive. So far, no visit from the time cops.
Contributor: Gabriella Huston, Chairperson of the Editorial Board of the Plinius Daily
Originally Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2224 (Earth Standard Calendar)
The editorial board at the Plinius Daily has consistently and continually advocated for transparency in the data collected by the Surveillance AI, popularly known as SYLVIA. When the system was implemented and during the public comment period that preceded its roll-out, Consortium leadership assured the public that data would be public and transparent.
It appears all it takes is a murder at the docks to throw this assurance aside.
Yesterday morning, following the restart of the gravity system after the monthly maintenance window, the docks should have been open for normal transit and receiving. Instead, the Plinius Police cordoned off the shipping terminal, and a fleet of cruisers blocked access roads. Observers on foot reported at least half a dozen Justine manikins in operation.
Obviously, the police were collecting evidence of a crime. A conversation with a dock official, who requested anonymity, confirmed to this writer that there had, in fact, been a death overnight while the gravity system was down for maintenance.
A death indeed. We have questions. Who could gain access? Why wasn’t surveillance active to prevent it? Who was the victim? Who’s leading the investigation?
And now we find that Inspector Henry MacDonald of Intersol has arrived from Mars and is joining the investigation. Why was the public not informed? Why are the police involving off-Luna, interplanetary law enforcement? Why, in fact, is Intersol personnel even on Luna?
We have questions and we expect answers.
We’ve requested interviews with Mayor Boyden and Police Commissioner Naidoo, since they have declined to hold a press conference and no official announcements are forthcoming from the police.
Watch for updates by subscribing to: Plinius Daily-Holding Power Accountable.
[Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents in this story are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, actual institutions, or actual events is purely coincidental.]