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New arrival Broadcast/action

Who: Aeryn Sun and you! Open!
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: if your on the Marsiva
When: Wednesday night

[That wonderful open broadcast Marsiva offers will catch the newest shipmate as she wakes. And it is every bit as dramatic as could be hoped. She sat bolt up and rolled immediately out of the bunk she'd been resting in, coming to a crouch. with her back to the nearest wall.]

Zhaan? D'Ago? Crichton?

[She was dressed in a gray suit that looked quilted or insulated, white piping having a near glow to it. But the way she fussed at the high collar indicated she was not familiar with the garment.]

Where am I? What is this place? Chiana of you or Rygel have sold us out... [The near threat fell from her lips without conviction.]

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Hopefully you'll get put on one of the smaller ships then. They're all different... like everyone earns credits from the show, and we can improve the ships how we want. So my ship has more hot water and private quarters and a bigger crew, but other ships will be different.

It... is. I don't really understand how any of it works. I was just a soldier. They put me back together and sent me out to work.

[The information about the ships was helpful, but it was the later statement that made Aeryn stop short.]

You are never just anything, that is a lesson I have learned. Whatever you may have been, you can be more.

I liked being a soldier. But, I'm also not any more since I got turfed out of the army on medical. [Shrug.] But tech stuff is really not my thing.

But thanks. It's a really nice thing to say.

I loved being a soldier, it was my life. I gave everything I had to it. And it wasn't until I lost it that I realize it was nothing. Someone, no, two people I have cared for reminded me that I could be more. I could be anything I wanted to be.

If I can do that, anyone can.

How did you lose it?

I was following a group of escaped fugitives and was captured by them. I was held and the next time I was found by my people I was deemed irreversibly contaminated. I could not return as a soldier, only as a corpse.

The saddest part is that I was willing to die, it was these new people that wouldn't let me. They saved more than my life.

Contaminated? By what? Were the fugitives sick with plague or something?

I'm glad they saved your life. Sometimes you find out you were serving the wrong people.

[Oh, if only it was so easy, Aeryn smiled a bit sadly and shook her head.]

I was contaminated by their ideals, their views and beliefs. Peacekeepers will not suffer challenges to their imposed order. And at the time I felt it right that I die for breaking that even if it hadn't been my intention.

What I learned from the fugitives was exactly as you say, my people have been misguided. We've lost what could give us strength in a search for what would make us powerful.

I understand. That's really difficult.

People disappear sometimes, where I'm from. I think it's probably like that.

It hasn't been easy.

How do you cope with that?

A lot of the time... everyone just forgets. I think. Or remembers it differently. Not because they want to, but because... they make you forget.

It's a really awful, helpless feeling.

Edited 2016-05-17 01:46 (UTC)

They make you forget? I don't want to forget, my life has changed by the people who have come into it. I don't take that for granted anymore.

Yeah. The Department of Compliance does, I think. It's... I didn't want to forget things either. That's why I didn't go in for my last debrief.

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