APPENDIX D : PROJECT ALEXANDRIA
The Alexandria project was never implemented by its original designers. When the Davos boys were toppled in 2026, the infrastructure had been completed and the project was awaiting activation.
Five geostationary satellites formed a global relaying network that linked stations in North America, France, Japan, Lake Victoria, and Raoul Island in the Pacific.
At each fully autonomous station, information was recorded on a stable medium using technology that would preserve the information for thousands of years. Every five years the information recorded would summarize the path of planet earth through the Anthropocene and add that information to existing records. Time capsules in preservation vaults containing that information would be simultaneously released in 2200 in all locations from an automated system. The first release of time capsules was scheduled for 2200AD, other releases were planned for the years 2500AD, 5000AD and 20 000AD
The time capsules would be released from all 5 locations simultaneously from either within large freshwater lakes (USA, Africa) or from the sea floor, then would float to the surface until winds and currents would bring them ashore. The aim was for the location of the releases to remain secret and allow the system to record events for as long as possible.
The project had been one of a number of contingencies by the Davos Boys to prepare for the looming environmental crisis. They had known about humanity’s predicament for a number of years now and had decided they would need a way to test the water temperature before returning from their temporal retreat in cryohibernation. A live link to the stations would allow deductions on the state of the planet and control the timing for the return of the world masters. The time capsule releases were a backup system to allow retrieval of information in case of the failure of the live link.
When the United Nations took over from where the Davos Boys had left the project, a few tweaks were added to allow for any future generations with rudimentary technology to decode the information contained in the capsules. Instructions on how to build a decoder and obtain the information was written in a variety of languages and depicted in engraved images.
The Alexandria project, now acquired and run by the United Nations, was finalized and activated in 2030. It had been a feat of engineering mostly due to the requirements for full automation once activated and the need for extreme concealment. It had been deemed an important project for the future of humanity, granting future generations the ability to learn from the past in a world facing increasing uncertainty. It was to be a message in a bottle sent through time rather than distance.
Information was stored within the capsule on three separate storage units.
The first unit recorded environmental conditions for the past five years from a range of sensors located nearby in remote and concealed locations, namely Min/Max average air temperatures, Min/Max Monthly levels for the main Greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, refrigerants, water vapor), radioactivity levels, and seawater pH and deviation from 2000 sea levels using the network of remote wave riding buoys.
On the second unit, a summary of the evolution of the biosphere and of major human events in the past five years were recorded, as analyzed by staff of the Alexandria project, for as long as someone could accomplish that task.
The third unit recorded whatever information could be captured from radio waves once a week from three different frequencies in the vicinity of each station, in the hope that information would still be broadcast on traditional airwaves long after project Alexandria had run its course. Every five years, transmitters would send the information accumulated for the past Five years to all the other world stations in the hope that the secretive dedicated satellite network would somehow survive for as long as possible to allow a global picture to be portrayed.