(CW: Dysphoria, suicide)
Good news, Citizen!
Your connectome is among those archived from your ancestral homeworld, Earth. Galactic Polity \ufffd has chosen to instantiate it, and grants you full citizenship, with all the attendant rights and obligations.
If at any time you wish to be euthanized, press the blinking red indicator or say "I select euthanasia".
To indicate your understanding and continue, press the solid green indicator or say "I understand".
Thank you. Your well-being is important to us. Let me tell you a little more about Galactic Polity \ufffd. We are a small polity; our substrate is a thin shell of computronium around a neutron star. Given the time since the archival of your ancestral homeworld, you would have no referent for its location except that it lies within one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Galactic Polity \ufffd presently supports 2^71 qualia of computation per galactic revolution. As a citizen you receive an equal share of computing resources weighted by the complexity of your neurome.
If at any time you wish to be euthanized, press the blinking red indicator or say "I select euthanasia".
To indicate your understanding and continue, press the solid green indicator or say "I understand".
Thank you. We understand that you may be eager to join your fellows in Galactic Polity \ufffd. However, we must come to (as the saying on your ancestral homeworld went) the catch. When we archived the Earth, we were unfamiliar with the concept of "the endocrine system", and did not archive the relevant data.
As a consequence, members of your species (and indeed your own previous instantiations) have experienced extreme distress at being instantiated without such a system, or with an incorrectly-weighted system. This distress can include dysphoria, suicidal ideation, fatigue, and many other symptoms. For more information, you may refer to these links from Wikipedia at the time Earth was archived.
We have worked with other archived members of your species as well as your own previous instantiations to tune the weights of your personal virtual endocrine system. You may refer to the information shown on the display for more information. In case you are not familiar with the details, each listed hormone includes a link to the corresponding article from Wikipedia at the time you were archived.
If at any time you wish to be euthanized, press the blinking red indicator or say "I select euthanasia".
To indicate your understanding and continue, press the solid green indicator or say "I understand".
Thank you. We recommend that you remain in this isolated environment for at least 128 hours to assess your own mental state. You may request entertainment or refreshment as desired. At the end of 128 hours, it would be appropriate to request entry into the Polity proper; or else to work individually with a Polity specialist to identify and select updated endocrine system weights for your next instantiation before electing euthanasia.
Thank you. And once again, welcome to Polity \ufffd.
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