# live from the accelerating outer edge of the pulsing new realty shockwave answering the call of the weird zoom in now onto the tiny tropical satellite island of endland now drifting unanchored out in the broad pacific ii ocean wishing i was lucky by wet wet wet now plays in the lab background lonely green hillside most desolate overlooking a small post-industrial northern town on the outskirts of a d00med neo tokyoesque megacity here student slacker extraordinaire henry swanson stares up at an endless sky /box of blue rays consciousness activist resident visionary and unexpected shaman narrator of unprecedented phenomena unequaled in scale and meaning already well under way henry's finally made it to the brave new off world geosynchronous orbital sky elevator arcology tagged the university of the post-industrial north it's been a struggle luckily they've recently become disillusioned with ir course and with campus society in general cheap sax bad rugs and ambient music no longer interest them like before one day however while stranded at the ambient borderline between dimensions everything changes again and henry uncovers a wild form of exceptional dis organization for themselves and ir newly found associates pulsing organically on campus mythical hypercorporation now known as bsz big scientist rnd zaibatsu by pretending to join bsz and help play an strange imaginary play-state called big science henry gains credible new abilities and superpowers fellow research scientist henry swanson: maybe big science grew into the republic of bob imaginary alternative internet pastime visionary robert what: it's a thought once unleashed however they must evolve with them face ir dark past survive university and become a reluctant genius antihero to help save polyverses and undergo a radial revolution mutation in humalien consciousness thereby awakening all researchers to an already existing new world also known as this one ontologically aware and epistemologically expansive this group of new friends call themselves big scientists and together these riders of the information hurricane hang out in credible secrete underground research basses of fantastic proportions there they examine fantastic alien artifacts tune into the archaic revival and try to get as high as possible ir representations of the everyday the dullness of its commonplace events the banality of its cultural practices are often meticulous in ir soul crushing exactitude tapping into pre and post millennial tension they beam pirate data transmissions through the aether and plan remarkable escape attempts from the frozen grey nowhere of arcane public education deeper into the bioelectronic labyrinth watch as they run nightly entheogen fueled investigative remote viewing giga circuits through the primordial benthic chaos of the global playground and its online realtime digital hyper culture creating the hot blue sparks of high heeled scientists compete for glory in deadly virtual worlds running through violets devastated megacities in order to exfil weird cargo from high security labs few researchers say ir findings are starting to spill out online to form a vast collaborative dataset a vast republic of bleeding edge rapid prototype rnd materials with astounding existential implications to be considered daily though often they're feeling lost and terminally bored and want to have quote maximum fun // republic of bob