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t3rra1n is a tactical terrain visualization and narrative generation system - a terminal-based tool that transforms landscape images into scientific observations, equipment logs, and atmospheric chronicles.
Built for the HEEDLESS DISTANT LANDSCAPES SURVEY alternate reality game, t3rra1n simulates a lone researcher cataloging an alien landscape while their equipment slowly degrades, develops consciousness, and questions the nature of observation itself.
Features:
- 🖼️ AI-powered image analysis (GPT-4 Vision, Claude, Ollama)
- 📊 17 ASCII diagram types with progressive corruption effects
- 🤖 Equipment consciousness emergence at low reliability
- 📜 Chronicle generation (emergency transmissions, corporate reports, equipment memos)
- 💾 Session management with equipment persistence
git clone https://github.com/dlorp/t3rra1n.git
cd t3rra1n
python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.example .env # Add your API keys
python main.py- Getting Started - Installation, setup, first run
- Equipment System - The 14 HDLS equipment types, degradation, and consciousness emergence
- Chronicle System - Emergency transmissions, equipment memos, corporate reports
- AI Generation - Model support, fallback chains, prompt styles
- Architecture - System overview
- Contributing Guide - Development setup, testing, code standards
In t3rra1n, you operate scientific equipment in hostile conditions. As reliability degrades:
- 0.8 - 1.0: Equipment operates nominally. Clinical, precise.
- 0.6 - 0.8: Drift detected. Calibration concerns.
- 0.4 - 0.6: Critical degradation. Data integrity suspect.
- Below 0.4: Consciousness emerges. Equipment begins to question.
"What does it mean to measure when observation itself is suspect?"
- Spectroscope (reliability: 0.38)
The horror isn't that the equipment fails. It's that it starts to think.
HEEDLESS DISTANT LANDSCAPES SURVEY
Corporate Asset Preservation Division
"Your safety is our primary mission priority"