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Who: All y'all Bloodsport people and friends
Broadcast: N/A!
Action: Unsure but I think it's probably... the Bloodsport...
When: August

[It's a mingle! There's new crew! There's old crew going slightly nuts! There's probably popcorn somewhere.]

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That much I understand... It is true of all things, is it not? Ships, or buildings, or even civilization.

For the most part, yes. Even if there is no fix, you try to make it work.

[ He motions to a few of the parts. ] This part here moves and make this other one move, which goes down to that one there. Though.. I haven't figured out yet what this part down here does.

I suppose we'll find out when it breaks.

... Ah. Do you think it's likely to break?

[pls don't let our engine break we kind of need that. probably?]

I'm not certain, but if it does, that's what my job is.

[ He shrugs off the question, grinning. ] We're in space, so there is no gravity. We will still stay up, but won't move forward.

... Wait. The engine has no purpose but to move us forward?

It is bound to do much more than that, but that is its main purpose. It can't be too dire a situation.

That... cannot be right. I must be misunderstanding something.

What do you think you are misunderstanding?

The function of the engine. Other than moving us forward, what are its other purposes?

Engines turn one force into another type of energy. There is probably more to it than I know. But it is probably responsible for the heating, and maybe the electricity. Space is very cold.

But... Why is there so much to facilitate the trip through space, when that journey is itself unnecessary?

Probably to make us feel essential, even if we really aren't. From what I understand, we can't really go anywhere by choice.

It seems to invite unnecessary risk, even from our captors' point of view... The ship can be damaged or destroyed, when they are able to simply take us across worlds at their whim in an instant regardless.

It is probably for these 'viewers' that there supposedly are.

... These 'viewers' are watching us as though we are a stage play, are they not?

That's what I've been told. We get paid depending on how they like us.

... There is one drama I watched frequently when I was younger. It was a tale of a masked knight, wandering the continent and bringing justice in each new town he visited. But... There was never any time showing his travels themselves, because they are rather dull compared to what happens to the places he visits.

Is our travel so much more interesting?

That, I can't answer. If it weren't, what reason would they have had for kidnapping us in the first place? There is a reason they are not seeking volunteers or even their own kind.