Wreckages
Parent Page: The Mailstrom
Discovery
The first wreckage/shard combination was provided as an example on the Mailstrom information page, and subsequent combinations have been found through audio clips, on buttons handed out at various NIN and AIR related events and in the Year Zero CD case and booklet.
| Link | Wreckage | Shard | Wreckage Discovery | Shard Discovery |
| [1] | atropine | gH319x | Button - Pig Cop | Button - Chip Held By Crying Angel |
| [2] | belladonna | 3Mz3tU | Brute Force | Button - Man In Headlock |
| [3] | bitter | BGtg57 | Button - You Will Be Heard (Black on White) | Button - AIR Flag (White on Red) |
| [4] | cleansing | 3Rrt45 | Button - Art is Witness (White on Red) | Button - Art Is Resistance (Black on Grey) |
| [5] | cleaver | I682fg | Brute Force | Button - Speak Truth (Red on Black) |
| [6] | corrida | MKs742 | Button - Hand With Bottle | Button - AIR Flag On Man's Back |
| [7] | flense | E5PPvv | Button - Art Is Resistance (White on Black) | Button - Art Is Resistance (White on Red) |
| [8] | flood | LHL7P3 | Year Zero Booklet - Number Dial Trace Code | Year Zero Booklet - Number Dial Trace Code |
| [9] | fratricide | 774HZx | Button - AIR Flag (Red on Black) | Button - AIR Flag (White on Grey) |
| [10] | gallows | Y3RG7J | Information Page Sample | Information Page Sample |
| [11] | gasoline | UUu891 | Button - Robot Head | Button - Robot Holding Molotov Cocktail |
| [12] | hubris | 39tpLe | Button - OSR LA Meetup (Need Image) | Button - AIR Flag (Black on Desert Camo) |
| [13] | infarction | 6k961G | Button - AIR Flag (Red on White) | Button - You Will Be Heard (White on Black) |
| [14] | necrotic | blE34c | Brute Force | Button - Police Baton |
| [15] | needle | jP411R | Button - AIR Flag (Black on White) | Button - AIR Flag (White on Black) |
| [16] | pain | HTDTNA | exhibitA.wav From Exterminal Combined With Capital G | Capital Letters On pain's Try Again Page |
| [17] | parasite | tP366K | Brute Force | Button - Robot Holding Speakergun |
| [18] | pliers | Ji3p09 | Button - AIR Flag (White on Blue) | Button - AIR Flag (Blue on White) |
| [19] | regret | Ad54S7 | Button - AIR Flags (Orange on Black) | Button - AIR Flag (Grey on Yellow) |
| [20] | scorpion | 4rTL21 | Year Zero Case - Gun | Year Zero Case - Gun |
| [21] | sickle | Nnqa49 | Button - AIR Flag (White on Green) | Button - Bird-Like Figure |
| [22] | slander | Yr4893 | Button - Art Is Resistance & AIR Flags (Black on Red) | Button - Art Is Resistance (Red on Black) |
| [23] | spore | pQw2pP | Button - You Have A Voice (White on Green) | ?? |
| [24] | tumbrel | AD44Us | Button - Purple Guy | Button - Purple Guy |
| [25] | usurp | 397W4P | Year Zero Booklet - Red Letter Hex Code | Year Zero Booklet - Red Letter Hex Code |
| [26] | venom | D3i8Na | Button - AIR Website Background & AIR Flag | Button - AIR Website Background & You Have A Voice |
| [27] | wetwork | c276E4 | Button - AIR Flag (Grey on White) | Button - AIR Flag (Black on Red) |
| [28] | widow | vC99iT | Button - AIR Flag (Black on White) | Button - AIR Flag (White on Black) |
| [29] | wretched | Ypq2QQ | Button - Angel's Hand With Sickle | Button - Angel |
Content
Each wreckage is an email caught by the Mailstrom's decryption net, providing insight into the lives of people living in world of year zero.
atropine
http://themailstrom.com/atropine_gH319x.htm
Background Text: Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge by James Morrow
belladonna
http://themailstrom.com/belladonna_3Mz3tU.htm
Background Text: Angels in America by Tony Kushner
bitter
http://themailstrom.com/bitter_BGtg57.htm
Background Text: A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
cleansing
http://www.themailstrom.com/cleansing_3Rrt45.htm
Background Text: Beloved by Toni Morrison
cleaver
http://themailstrom.com/cleaver_I682fg.htm
Background Text: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
corrida
http://themailstrom.com/corrida_MKs742.htm
Background Text: Equus by Peter Shaffer
flense
http://themailstrom.com/flense_E5PPvv.htm
Background Text: Orientalism by Edward Said
flood
http://www.themailstrom.com/flood_LHL7P3.htm
Background Text: Also Sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
fratricide
http://themailstrom.com/fratricide_774HZx.htm
Background Text: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
gallows
http://themailstrom.com/gallows_Y3RG7J.htm
Background Text: 1984 by George Orwell
gasoline
http://themailstrom.com/gasoline_UUu891.htm
Background Text: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
hubris
http://themailstrom.com/hubris_39tpLe.htm
Background Text: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
infarction
http://themailstrom.com/infarction_6k961G.htm
Background Text: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
necrotic
http://themailstrom.com/necrotic_blE34c.htm
Background Text: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
needle
http://themailstrom.com/needle_jP411R.htm
Background Text: 1984 by George Orwell
pain
http://www.themailstrom.com/pain_HTDTNA.htm
Background Text: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
parasite
http://themailstrom.com/parasite_tP366K.htm
Background Text: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
pliers
http://themailstrom.com/pliers_Ji3p09.htm
Background Text: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
regret
http://themailstrom.com/regret_Ad54S7.htm
Background Text: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
scorpion
http://themailstrom.com/scorpion_4rTL21.htm
Background Text: Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
sickle
http://themailstrom.com/sickle_Nnqa49.htm
Background Text: Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
slander
http://themailstrom.com/slander_Yr4893.htm
Background Text: Hiroshima by John Hersey
spore
http://themailstrom.com/spore_pQw2pP.htm
Background Text: The Fate of an Honest Intellectual by Noam Chomsky
tumbrel
http://themailstrom.com/tumbrel_AD44Us.htm
Background Text: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
usurp
http://www.themailstrom.com/usurp_397W4P.htm
Background Text: Not Yet Deciphered
Connections:
- First site to link to Mining For Life.
venom
http://themailstrom.com/venom_D3i8Na.htm
Background Text: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
wetwork
http://themailstrom.com/wetwork_c276E4.htm
Background Text: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
widow
http://themailstrom.com/widow_vC99iT.htm
Background Text: M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
wretched
http://themailstrom.com/wretched_Ypq2QQ.htm
Background Text: Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau