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Who: Indiana Jones and cool people
Broadcast: Fleet-wide, from inside the Marsiva.
Action: Any other newcomers on the big'un
When: Now.

[Thanks to his prior conversation with one Peggy Carter, Indiana has at least a slight grasp on the situation. Now that he does, there's nothing for it but to make contact with his fellow 'passengers'. After all, there might be some slim chance he'll encounter someone he knows. Failing that, answers will do just as well.]

I've seen a lot of spooky and strange things in my time, but a fleet drifting through space is a first. [Though he's reminded of that 'job' in Roswell only a few months ago. Hardly a pleasant memory.] My name is Indiana Jones, I'm a Professor of Archaeology -- not that there's much call for it up here. I'll take any volunteers eager to fill me in on the situation.

[He stares at the communicator a bit longer, scratches at his stubbled chin, and decides to ask the inevitable.]

Just tell me it's not the Soviets. [Because dammit, he's retired from the spy business.]

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Take it easy. I don't mean nothing by it. [He's getting older and he has girls like this in his classroom. Better to think of them as kids than anything else.] How long you been here?

Seventy-two days now... Two months exactly, huh? But nothing much has happened while I've been here. One planet, some kind of infection that affected the bugs that lived there.

Riding around in space strikes me as a strange place for nothing much to happen in.

Sorry to disappoint you, but space is a whole lot of nothing.

Maybe. But there's already a lot more in it than I'd been led to believe.

[This fleet, for instance.]

Sure, there's a lot of shit in it, but there's a lot more nothing.

Arguing semantics won't get us anywhere. What's your name?

Nightingale. Gray Nightingale, of Takshaka, if that means anything to you.

It does, but not in the way you're probably expecting. [At the very least - there doesn't seem anything snake like about her. Which is just as well.]

[That gets a start out of her.]

Wait, you recognize-?!

The name comes from the mythological Kurukshetra War talked about in the Mahabharata. Takshaka is the king of the nagas - snake worshipers. I'm going to hope it's not something you subscribe to.

[Oh. Of course.]

Oh, that's right... Swan did mention that the team names came from his world's mythology, for whatever reason. I guess that explains why we were the snake team.

This Swan... he's from my world, then. But you're not?

Born and raised in Delwight, Ashvara, as far as I know. Never been to "Earth", and don't particularly care for what I've heard about it.

You can't believe everything you hear. What's got you so sore on it?

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Mostly, that fucking everyone seems to be from there, and I've never met a single other person from my world in either of these interdimensional shitholes I've been to.

Also, it apparently doesn't have any magic, which is fucking annoying to hear.

Easy there, sweetheart. No reason to get worked up about it. [Doesn't have magic. Well, fifteen years ago, he'd probably confirm that. Now...]

You've gone through this before?

Yeah. Long story. Short version, Takshaka was my team at that last place, and I know my way around these sorts of shitholes now.

And this isn't worked up.

[Tsk tsk. Does she kiss her mother with that mouth?]

Any chance you know your way out of them?

... Winning, I guess.

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