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[detectivewonder]

Who: Tim Drake AND YOU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide video & text stream.
Action: The Marsiva.
When: 1/29; evening.

[Tim has been pacing the deck, finding every corner, every computer console, working furiously to research whatever he can since the moment he woke up. Knowledge is a form of control; secrecy is another, and he has far too much of one and absolutely no guarantee of the second, and it makes him edgy. But once he's gotten a grip on the basic concept, delaying makes no sense.]

[The video broadcast reveals a young man - eighteen, give or take a few months - in a trim blue suit and red tie, dark hair neatly parted but still falling into his eyes, which are blue and unmistakably angry or tense no matter how well we modulates his tone and keeps it off the rest of his face, crisp and professional.]

Good... evening, I think, is the local time? Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne, Pilot Officer reporting for duty - or I will be soon, if I'm getting the right idea here. I wanted to reach out and touch base before I was assigned - get an idea of what the ships are like, who I might be serving with, how long everyone's been here. Anything you can tell me would be appreciated.

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[aberrant_type]

[The video reveals a friendly face, at least? Keen brown eyes and a keen smile. Hange gives the kid a grin. No reason not to, since he's fresh... on the ship, as the case may be.]

A pilot! Excellent, I feel like we're a bit skimpy on those. That might just be my ship's composition, though.

Welcome to the fleet.

[detectivewonder]

It might be based on prior experience - if they do that. I have some flight experience already with aerospace vehicles.

Nothing like this, though.

[aberrant_type]

Don't worry. You're equipped with what you need to know, I'm sure. Those augments have a nice trick for that - you won't fly the ship into any walls unless you do that deliberately.

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[everydayhero]

[Hiro has noticed him bustling around, mostly because he's been doing something similar, albeit less furiously. For the first few minutes, he was panicked, sure. As soon as he'd established that he wasn't home, and that his teammates weren't here either, though, he'd taken to calmly (albeit cautiously) looking around the deck. When Tim records his broadcast, Hiro is nearby, watching him. This guy... It's like he's a detective.]

Sounds like somebody's been through something like this before.

[detectivewonder]

[Tim looks startled, then shrewd, then relaxed and friendly, expressions moving across his face rapidly as he adjusts.]

Nothing like this, no. But I lived under martial law for a little while. And I watched a lot of television.

[Whenever possible a lie should be misleading but true. truth is easier to remember, and never overtly contradictory. A cover story should never cut off options, only open new ones. Besides, he really hasn't been through anything like this before. Maybe a few times with the Titans where a comparison would make sense, but still...

He holds out a hand after a moment. ]

Hi, I'm Tim.

[everydayhero]

Survival shows your bag, then?

[Gonna take that hand, and shake it. Hiro is only around 5', so enjoy the little half-pint, dude.]

Hiro. Hiro Hamada.

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[ladiesss]

Wooow, hey.

[as a stark contrast to Tim's professionalism, have a seventeen year old girl dressed up in sweatshirt and jeans, sitting with her feet up in a chair. she's whispering, for some reason, which is probably not as weird as the whole being in space thing.]

Were you going to a meeting, or something?

[detectivewonder]

A charity banquet, actually. I was on my way home.


[Friednly smile, open expression, no sign that this is weird. Maybe it isn't; who knows? He needs a frame of reference first. Until then, at least, trying to be charming is a great default setting. When talking to a girl, just think: What Would Dick Grayson Do? ]

[ladiesss]

[on the bright side, she seems very casual about all of this... seems pretty normal to her. she's been to charity banquets. she doesn't like them, but that's another story.]

Oh, okay. Sorry you got snatched up in the middle of something.

I'd be happy to answer questions, if you've got anything that hasn't already been covered by someone else...

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[catamite]

[oh wow. this one catches Nel's attention pretty fast, so he eventually flips on the video feed.

Tim gets the face of a kid around his age--but decorated with piercings, raggedy dyed hair, and... distinctly pointed ears.]

Wow, you're so professional. You actually sound like you know what's going on around here.

[detectivewonder]

I'm a computer geek. I did as much reading as I could, as soon as I woke up.

[catamite]

Oh, wow! That's impressive.

I guess you just sounded so... I don't know. Like you actually belong here or something. It's weird.

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[treasureling]

[ Malak is nearby. He hasn't been reaching out, though: he's more or less curled in a ball on one of the beds, staring in the direction of the windows, working through the shock of being somewhere very, very unlike where he should be. He thinks he should reach out to the people here.

And, finally, he does. He unfolds and makes his way to the computer terminals where the boy is. ]

You seem very professional, for a man.

[detectivewonder]

[It's tough to know how to react to that, and Tim pauses a moment, blinking.]

I come from a very professional family.

[treasureling]

I didn't mean to offend.

I'm just - curious. How did you know how to react?

[ He is genuinely apologetic; he is reminded that other places are different, even though he tends to assume men have a sort of innate weakness as compared to women. ]

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[devilsinthedetails]

Well aren't you a serious one.

[detectivewonder]

Alien abduction is a serious situation, wouldn't you say?

[devilsinthedetails]

Not really the top of my list of things to be serious about.

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[onlyanapple]

My my, aren't we all prim and proper? Reporting for duty, how precious.

[detectivewonder]

Don't they go in for a bit of spit and polish, here?

[onlyanapple]

I'm sure there are some viewers out there who dig that sort of thing.

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[got_it_memorized]

So professional~ I like it. Name's Axel--I'm captain of the Tourist. We've already got a pilot, so you probably won't be assigned here, but I guess welcome to The Weirdo Show, anyway.

[detectivewonder]

Thanks. I feel right at home.

[Obvious sarcasm is obvious.]

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[hearsthesea]

Hello, m nameI don't know if I'm the best person to answer all of your questions, but I don't think there's a lot of reason to who's assigned to a ship. At least, it doesn't make much sense on mine. Two of us were given the same role, and there are only three people here. Although, we don't have a pilot yet...

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[detectivewonder]

There's a little static on your channel.

They probably want variety. If all the crews are evenly balanced, it makes competition less intriguing.