Transmissions from The Canis

Recovered lessons, warnings and fragments from an evolving world.

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Understanding Sun Eaters

Lesson One

Logic introduces Understanding Sun Eaters, Lesson One, in a dark archive classroom with field guides, notes and astronomical diagrams.

Understanding Sun Eaters.

Lesson 1

Logic holds open a Sun Eater field guide while explaining that Sun Eaters can grow to extraordinary sizes.

‘Sun Eaters can grow to
extraordinary sizes,

Logic points toward an unstable star diagram while explaining that Sun Eaters are attracted to unstable stars.

and they are attracted to
unstable stars.’

Logic studies an illustrated Sun Eater in an old archive book beside notes and a glowing unstable star chart.

‘If you see one,

ogic sits calmly at the archive desk beneath a Sun Eater diagram, warning viewers to remain calm if one appears.

you might as well
remain calm,

Logic leans forward with raised hands in front of an unstable star chart, delivering the warning that it is already too late.

it is already too late.’

Understanding Tenet

Lesson Four

Logic introduces Understanding Tenet, Lesson Four, beside an open archive book containing an illustrated portrait of Tenet.

Understanding Tenet

Lesson 4

Tenet interrupts Logic’s lesson and tells her she is explaining his story incorrectly.

‘Tenet is from…’

‘You’re doing it
wrong.’

Tenet steps in front of Logic and insists that she is doing the lesson wrong.

‘She’s doing it wrong.’

Logic reacts in disbelief as Tenet sprawls across the archive desk during Understanding Tenet, Lesson Four.
Tenet takes control of the lesson while Logic reluctantly agrees to let him tell the story.

‘Okay…’

‘I’ll tell the story’

‘Seriously?’

Tenet reclines behind the desk beneath his illustrated portrait and refuses to approve Logic’s version of the lesson.

‘I’m not signing this off.’

Spineless

A warning. Not everything here thinks.

Spineless creature spreading across cracked earth beneath a stormy sky. Dark fantasy artwork introducing The Canis transmission 'Some things spread', showing black and crimson tendrils overtaking the landscape.

Some things spread

Towering jellyfish-like entity dragging black tendrils across a desolate landscape. Dark fantasy artwork reading 'Some things take', representing the spreading force known as Spineless within The Canis.

Some things take

Rows of human figures transformed with jellyfish-like heads stand motionless beneath grey industrial skies. Dark fantasy artwork reading 'The lost are enchanted', depicting people consumed by The Condition.

the lost
are enchanted.

Enormous crimson-and-black Spineless organism rises from a pool of dark liquid, its tendrils merging into the ground beneath storm clouds. Dark fantasy artwork reading 'The rot', symbolising The Condition taking root across Omens.

The rot,

A figure transformed by The Condition silently eats while seated among others like it. Dark fantasy artwork reading '...has reached the roots...', suggesting the spread has become impossible to ignore within The Canis.

has reached the roots…

Corruption

Power unchecked poisons. Every crown rots

Logic appears in the style of a cheerful 1950s advertising presenter, smiling while introducing the Corruption crown with the headline 'New! Corruption™'. Dark satirical artwork from The Canis.

New!

Corruption™

Logic poses beside the Corruption crown and its fictional product box in a retro kitchen advertisement. Dark fantasy satire reading 'For a more efficient tomorrow', parodying consumer marketing within The Canis.

For a more efficient tomorrow.

Logic studies the warning label on a fictional Corruption product box listing side effects including reality distortion, concentration of power and institutional decay. Dark satirical artwork from The Canis.

Side effects may include:

Reality distortion.
Concentration of power.
Institutional decay.

Logic looks unimpressed while holding the Corruption product box beside the decaying organic crown. Dark fantasy satire ending with the line 'We really need better warning labels.'

We really need better warning labels.

Understanding Raptors

Lesson Two

Logic introduces Lesson Two: Understanding Raptors, holding an illustrated field guide describing geometric cosmic entities known as Raptors. Dark fantasy educational artwork from The Canis.

Understanding Raptors.

Lesson 2

Logic presents a geometric diagram of a dormant Raptor while explaining that Raptors prefer to remain dormant. Classroom-style dark fantasy artwork set in The Canis.

‘Raptors prefer to be dormant.’

Logic gestures toward a floating alarm clock while explaining that time means nothing to Raptors. Dark fantasy classroom artwork exploring the strange nature of these ancient cosmic beings.

‘Time means nothing to them.’

Logic gestures toward chalk sketches of galaxies, explaining that these immense cosmic structures are merely Raptors' doodles. Dark fantasy educational artwork from The Canis.

‘These are their doodles.’

Logic points toward the viewer while explaining that Raptors sculpt galaxies. Classroom-style dark fantasy artwork introducing the immense scale of these geometric entities.

‘They sculpt galaxies’

Logic looks concerned while talking about Raptors. Classroom-style dark fantasy artwork introducing the immense scale of these geometric entities.

‘Unfortunately, asking one for help,

Logic warns that asking a dormant Raptor for help is like asking a piranha to help blow up balloons, standing beside a smiling piranha holding a purple balloon. Dark fantasy comedy from The Canis.

is like asking a piranha to help blow up balloons.’

Tenet Disrupts

Lesson Fail

Professor Logic begins another lesson while Tenet interrupts from his chair, beckoning the viewer to come closer before pointing excitedly off screen. Dark comic-style classroom scene introducing another chaotic lesson from The Canis.

‘Come closer.’

Tenet lounges in a leather chair, trying to distract Logic with a faux warning about Sun Eater.

‘Is that Sun Eater?’

Tenet reclines across the desk, asking the audience to remember the lesson before becoming distracted by memories of seeing people in face paint on Earth. Dark classroom scene from The Canis featuring the sarcastic traveller.

‘Where were we?’

Tenet becoming distracted by memories of seeing people in face paint on Earth. Dark classroom scene from The Canis featuring the sarcastic traveller.

‘I saw people in face paint, like home…’

Tenet lies across the desk, casually explaining that he asked someone at a black metal festival which star system they came from, only to receive a confused stare. Humorous comic panel from The Canis.

‘Which star system you from?

Guy just looks at me…’

Professor Logic walks away laughing as Tenet lounges across the desk, still confused after mistaking black metal face paint for people from his home world. Humorous classroom moment from The Canis.

‘He was at a black metal festival.’

Tenet reclines on the desk with one hand raised, innocently asking what a "liver pool" is after misunderstanding the name Liverpool. Comic panel from The Canis featuring the disruptive, confused traveller.

‘What is a liver pool?’

Understanding Conditions

Lesson Three

Professor Logic introduces Lesson 3, "Understanding Conditions," holding an illustrated field guide showing Spineless, a drifting jellyfish-like Condition from The Canis, inside her observatory classroom.

Understanding Conditions

Lesson 3

Professor Logic presents Lesson 3 about Spineless, explaining that Conditions are not creatures but forces that drift, spread and linger throughout The Canis.

‘Conditions are strange.
They spread.

Professor Logic sits beside a glowing aquarium containing Spineless, holding a finger to her lips beneath the words "Silence is enough," while the mysterious Condition drifts behind glass.

Silence is enough.’

A giant Spineless floats inside a glass tank while Professor Logic stands behind it, introducing the concept of uncertainty during Lesson 3 in The Canis.

‘Uncertainty’

Professor Logic opens a glowing jar of crystalline Canes above a massive Spineless specimen, demonstrating one of the living artifacts used throughout The Canis.

‘The Canes {F},

Professor Logic lowers a glowing Cane into the aquarium as Spineless illuminates with blue and crimson light, illustrating that action, not perfection, changes the balance in The Canis.

were never waiting for
perfection.’

Message Delivered

Never Follow A Light That Knows Your Name

Professor Logic explains that music is the only thing capable of making Tokens grow, standing beside her archive desk inside the observatory classroom in The Canis.

‘Music is the only thing that can make it grow,

Professor Logic pauses mid-lesson after noticing her name being called, no one else can hear it.

…It nearly bit my…’

Thin streaks of golden light slice through the observatory as Professor Logic reaches forward in alarm, sensing an incoming message from deep space.
More golden beams tear across the classroom while Professor Logic ducks for cover as the mysterious transmission intensifies.
Professor Logic reaches toward the viewer and says "Duck" as brilliant streams of light race through the observatory from every direction.

‘Duck.’

A violent burst of golden light shatters the observatory wall as a warning message arrives: "Wrong star. Do not reply. He is coming."

‘Wrong star. Do not reply. He is coming.’

The observatory wall lies cracked after the transmission while Professor Logic peers cautiously over her desk beneath the warning, "Never follow a light that knows your name."

‘Never follow a light that knows your name.’

Signal Interupted

Attempting Reconnect

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