... Ah, why are the conduits not functioning Properly?

Joyous? Can you hear me?

[The Puppet is unmoving, but it does Speak.]

H-h-heeeeeeeeeeeey. Hey. Wha-at's going on?

I Sincerely apologize, it seems your startup is going haywire.

Allow me to-

[Heap of Suns attempts to turn the Puppet's functions off and then on again.]

... [The Puppet begins to move] The-there we go? We go? Hi.

Whew. Good, can you state your directive, Joyous Composition?

My... directive? My direction- It is, hold on.

My purpose is to advance Storage technology for future ages and archives to come.

Excellent. We will continue overlooking your... your unstable conduits, in which we may need to install thicker walls. For now, take Your time.

... Thank you.

[Initialization noted to have been started too early, but still successful.]

More and more of my citizens have been leaving as of late. Seems the void baths have grown more enticing to them as of late.

Is that so? I wonder why, you were talking about their upcoming grand festival. Are plans cancelled? I would have loved to see photos.

I'm unsure, but I also hope it's not cancelled! For the meantime, I am still working on those tasks for some organisms they want to show off during the festival. If they don't use them, well more for me to keep!

Keep...? Since when had you started hoarding organisms?

Haha, as of late. Maybe the past 100 or so cycles. With my citizens slowly dwindling, I have been feeling more lonely as of late. I need more pictures from your overseers guys!

On it.

[Attachment: Untitled_2859.PMX]

I see. Oh, Joyous, I can't download this. It seems I already have a file named this.

Ack, really? I swear my incrementor program was perfect. Thanks for pointing that out.

Perhaps you should actually give them a title, and not simply "untitled".

Ahahaha. That gives me a laugh! Maybe I need to learn how to organize the other 2859 first!

There's been rumors that there is another in our group, but no one can establish contact with them. A very strange decision on our creators to leave them outside of our range of broadcasts. Or who knows, our equipment's starting to kick the bucket finally.

I know mine has been acting up as of late, much sooner than even Scope's! I'm not that much younger than everyone, but still... A rough activation leads us to this point, I suppose.

I've managed to theorize about a long-term storage unit lately that involves engraining it in the natural evolution of a purposed organism, if you sequence the DNA juuust right... It may be possible to carry a long-term message or concept within the organism's lineage. Something simple, of course. It can't be something complex like a poem or stationary image.

The others and those outside our group keep talking of this Great Problem we're all meant to solve. I haven't had much of the heart to tell them I've only heard bits and pieces what it's about. For some reason, it's forbidden to talk about it directly? Some iterator named Sliver or something. Well, if I wasn't built for that purpose then I will not focus on digging further into it. But, it's nice to keep a record of my thoughts on it amongst all these pictures my overseers take.

I think what I want to try, if my theory is plausible... I will create a walking memorial that goes out to my creators. They wanted to abate their bodies so terribly of themselves, but I hardly see it the same. I should be thankfully I am alive at all at this rate.

I will consider this my tribute.