List of Alterna Logs

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Alterna Log004 in an incomplete state.

Keep in mind that there are SPOILERS ON THIS PAGE. Read at your own risk!

The Alterna Logs are unlockable logs found in Alterna.

In every area, there is a new log to be filled out, totaling at 6. However a secret 7th one can be found by clearing the secret final level. (?) Each log starts out with all text scrambled and therefore incomprehensible, including the images, but completing missions in an area will decode them incrementally, eventually leading to a completed log once all missions in said area are cleared.

Logs

All seven have been reproduced below.

Log001: The Fall of Humanity

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As technology advanced at an exponential rate, so too did prosperity...and ultimately conflict. Before long, the entire world was embroiled.
In the end, nearly all life on Earth was wiped out.
As humans squabbled, natural disasters intensified. Volcanic eruptions leveled cities. The sea rose and began to consume the planet. Humanity experienced a mass-extinction event.
Soon, the surface of the Earth became a barren wasteland, completely inhospitable to life.

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Error! Against the odds-computed to be 42,791 to 1-some humans survived. Therefore, the planet was only NEARLY completely inhospitable to life.
These survivors found shelter in a vast cavern created by a cataclysmic volcanic eruption.

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The cavern provided shelter, and a massive pool of accumulated seawater provided life.
For while humanity was being decimated, marine life flourished.
All manner of squids, octopuses, and jellyfish had propagated in the deep. The surviving humans had found a source of sustenance...

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Log002: The Rise of Civilization (Again)

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The surviving humans appointed scientists to lead their new society, believing that science would provide a wiser path forward.
Fully empowered, these scientists took on the monumental task of establishing a sustainable ecosystem within the cavern.
They dubbed this new society "Alterna" and began the process of recreating the Earth they had once known.

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Of course, not even scientists are immune to nostalgia. The humans began constructing large-scale 3D-printing operations.
This allowed them to create some of humanity's favorite artifacts within the confines of Alterna.

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Additionally, they created a robust information management system, designed to indelibly record all of humanity's precious knowledge.
Such a system would naturally require some sort of record keeper. A computer that could autonomously observe and record data.
The scientists achieved their aim with the development of O.R.C.A.
Also known as the Omniscient Recording Computer of Alterna.

Log003: A New Sky

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As life in Alterna moved forward, one scientist discovered a new way to make liquid crystals from the bodily fluids of squids.
These new crystals could change color in response to faint and fleeting electrical signals emitted by living organisms.
To put that in more human terms...these crystals could read minds.
And then output imagery that matched the viewer's innermost thoughts.

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Humans were enchanted with this new invention and began mass-producing the crystals. Eventually, they lined the walls and roof of Alterna.
As the crystals absorbed the collective desires of those in Alterna, they assumed the appearance of the sky as it was seen on the surface long ago.
At last, after 25 years of being confined beneath the Earth, humanity could once again look up and see the sky.

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Log004: Humanity's Final Day

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The years passed with prosperity. The population of Alterna grew like a rising tide.
The scientists, now elders of their kind, believed they had done all they could to advance the civilization of Alterna.
They began selecting new leaders to succeed them, entrusting to them the world they helped build.
Humanity's new leaders inherited both the brilliance of their predecessors and their unquenchable thirst for innovation.
This new generation, born and raised in deep Alterna, would prove to be every bit the match of those they were to succeed.
They soon grew restless at the sight of the liquid-crystal sky, believing they deserved to behold the reality that existed outside the cavern.

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The elders-who knew what awaited outside the safe haven of Alterna-issued stern warnings to the brash young scientists.
Nevertheless, the young scientists pressed on with their plan: the construction of a massive rocket ship to escape Alterna.
Sadly, as the boosters were ignited for the first time during a launch test, tragedy struck.
The energy from the rocket boosters overloaded the cavern's liquid crystals.
A violent and terrible chain reaction ensued.
Without warning, the stone walls of the cavern began to shatter, raining debris down on humanity.
Alterna, the last civilization of once-prosperous humanity, was no more. And those few who escaped the carnage would soon follow it into death.

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Log004: Humanity's Final Day

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As the inner walls of Alterna collapsed, thousands of tons of rock and liquid crystal plunged into the waters below.
As these crystals washed to and fro among the flotsam and jetsam of humanity's former colony, they broke into microscopic fragments.
Because they had repeatedly absorbed and reflected humanity's wishes over so many years, the crystals now retained those...feelings.
Little by little, the squids, octopuses, and assorted sea creatures that thrived in the waters of Alterna absorbed these crystals into their bodies.
This process continued until, one day, the marine organisms began to feel something. Something...fresh.
These fresh impulses bore a striking resemblance to humanity's passive desire to return to the Earth's surface.

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Spurred by these impulses-and whatever else may have been floating in the polluted waters-the sea creatures began to evolve rapidly.
Each species developed pulmonary respiration, mobility, and other traits consistent with land-dwelling creatures. They began to adapt.
Their intelligence grew at a remarkable pace across generations.
Some species even gained extraordinary camouflage capabilities.
A point of no return arrived, the sea creatures of Alterna set foot on dry land and never looked back. Like humans, they strove for the surface.
Of course, survival on land was harsh, but the creatures were persistent. Soon, they found the tunnels that humans had used to escape the apocalypse.
With their path forward now clear, these fresh, fledgling beings left the ruins of Alterna behind and set their sights on the surface world.

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