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Situation Desk: Disorientation, amnesia in wake of New Year's; Lisa Hines reporting.
Topic Started: Jul 30 2009, 11:03 PM (335 Views)
David Alteron
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A galactic outbreak of nausea, amnesia, and confused identity. Nobody can say for sure what's happened in the last 24 hours since New Year's Day, but a massive majority of the galactic public is saying that things aren't how they should be. We go now to Lisa Hines for more details. Lisa?

Good afternoon, Bryan. I have to say, this may be the largest - and strangest - story that GNS has ever reported. Across the galaxy, the symptoms are varied, ranging from nausea and a strong feeling of déjà vu to many cases of amnesia, confused identity, and even what appears to be multiple personality disorders - many people are either confused, disoriented, or believe that they are someone who does not exist. On their own, these cases of confusion could be anything from déjà vu or intrasense feed malfunctions to serious neural problems, but the sheer volume of these cases makes them impossible to ignore.

Many surveyed report that they remember the galaxy at least somewhat different yesterday than it is today, with changes as small as a personal preference being overturned or large as vague recollections of political alliances that do not exist. A citizen's group called What Past? has already founded through social networking portals to piece together collective memories of the past. Their findings are published hourly, and while most events in this 'past that never was' are still vague, the group's work can be found under the Mythos tag of our minutely GNS VitaStat feed.

Out of fifty five million planets surveyed, 91% of the galaxy proper, over 94% of them reported overwhelming numbers of these cases - meaning that at least 85% of the settled galaxy has been affected by this strange phenomenon. The whole of humanity, it seems, has experienced it - whatever 'it' is.

Explanations range from the mediocre to the bizarre, with the most common theory being an intrasense virus of truly epic proportions and some of the more out-there views incorporating noticeable shifts in space-time. Both of these theories have their problems - intrasense viruses have been all but unheard of since protection against them peaked in the early 2990s, and believers in 'temporal dissonance' do not have enough mainstream scientific report to conduct proper experiments.

While we can't seem to verify any of these theories at this point in time, Bryan, everything seems to point towards our analysts having a busy time of the next few weeks. We'll update this story as often as we can. Back to you, Bryan.


Thanks, Lisa. Now on to the rest of today's story lineup. First - the strange outbreak affecting the galaxy seems to be slowing wars and commerce everywhere, but how long will it last? Michael Jefferson reports.
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Cripple

It was the magnetic storms, I tell you!

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Bogle
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Oh, for you, I just hit you over the head with a bat. You don't get a special amnesia. :P
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