There are very few things that have fundamentally shifted the course of human history. But to reshape the landscape to the point that we, as a people, realized we were merely scratching the surface of said shattered ground under our feet?
This is why the Shift Noumena isn't just an unnatural crisis. It's an existential one. In the sense of the ecological has already been proven, no need to be discussed forward. I believe the understated effect, the understated toll we're taking, is the psychological. We as a species are being challenged to exist.
The Shift Noumena—or rather, the painful little we all know about it so far, by it’s very nature is meant to break the foundations of the empirical world we’ve built… Just to show how little we’ve come.
Cosmic waves that have irreversibly damaged landmasses. That has physically deformed nearly every survivor of these events. Doomed to have constantly moving, constantly shifting, warped areas for as long as the Noumena keeps occurring. With no way to cure or fix any of it.
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This was supposed to be an empirical log of my efforts so far in dealing with the Shifts. Data, graphs, updates regarding warped-affected locales. But I can't help to express the ungodly burden that living in this insanity. Despite taking the brunt of the effects, famously, I don't exactly fear for my life. It's one of the many reasons why I've been assigned this daring mission, after all.
It doesn't change the fact that during this research, many people that accompanied me have already been infirmed or worse. Exactly one hour outside, to brave the twisted remains once-was Majorca. This log has been nothing but personal so far, but seeing this beautiful land from grace aside, the Shift expeditions proved that the process is yet another slow grind in our efforts to "avert" this crisis. I have seen many strong men steadily being chipped away. Even within our protective shell headquarters, the landscape has become too inhabitable. Surging ground beneath our feet, forcing us to constantly move. Warped landmasses forcing us to brave not just impossible obstacles, but brave impossible perspectives. The human mind can't simply render all of this as if it were normal. We went in thinking that this was going to be in the class of a severe, but containable disaster clean up. We left knowing how we don't belong in this cosmic yonder we've found ourselves in.
We're all very tired.
Dr. Gia Taber, 1st Over-Mind