driftfleet | Settling Dust And All...

Who: Nami and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit
When: Now

Space Bar is back open for business. Brand new seedy-looking furniture and everything.

[Wryly. Well, you take what you can get in a rest stop like this, and it's not like their furnishings were classy to begin with. She might have had to empty out her double casino winnings for the most part, but what the hell. It's in the name of business and there will always be more casinos, right?

Anyway. She's making this announcement from the Space Bar, but she has a lot more to say.]

So...this is the third attack on the Fleet that people know of. Two by this mystery Fleet and one by a bunch of jackass raiders. It pretty well stands to reason that it's gonna happen again some time in the future-- hopefully a lot later rather than sooner, but. There were a lot of near misses.

[Aria still hasn't woken up. For one.]

So a couple things:

One, I'd really appreciate getting whatever information we can together about both groups, and I would assume I'm not the only one. People actually managed to speak to that first Fleet this time, didn't they? I know my Comms officer got through, at least. So what gives that they rescued us this time instead of screwing us over? We need to work out what the hell is going on there.

Two, the raiders were pretty cut and dried, and I don't think they had Atroma ties-- at least, their ships aren't compatible with our augments. I think they were exactly who they said they were. But even if they don't come back... we weren't prepared for an attack. And we should be, because I guess space piracy is totally a thing, and next time we might not have a handy bunch of ships lurking nearby to help us out. Our crews need to be well balanced so that no ship is left without crucial defences. We need to have some kind of contingency plan in effect fleetwide, even if it's only an outline. I don't have the experience for that kind of thing, but I know there's people among us who do.

So... if you've got any information, no matter how trivial you think it might be, could you share it? Experiences, weird stuff that happened, anything. And ideas for how to deal with this if it happens again would be great, too. I'm gonna be writing up a policy for my own ship. I'd love to hear what other captains did with theirs. And definitely, seriously, please give thought to moving to another ship that's lacking your augment if you're already a little redundant on your own.

I guess that's it...? [I'm not used to speechifying!

...well, she can hope someone with more experience will take over from here.]

((ooc: given this is a call to share thoughts on this, feel free to threadjack taggers))

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We're all from different worlds. Nobody knows where our own worlds are in relation to where we are now, and the Atroma present our only opportunity to find a way directly home.

So successfully breaking with the Fleet might also mean we never find our way home, no matter where we go or what we try. And if our augments don't work and we don't know how to use the ships on our own, that presents even more problems and restrictions.

... That would be a terrible outcome.

I certainly can't afford to remain here in space when I have so much waiting for me at home.

I know the feeling.

...and I wonder if time will still... kind of be frozen if we break from the Atroma, too.

[Seriously, how do they do that.]

Also a great concern.

How on earth do they do that?

[Your brackets called it.]

You got me. Unless there's some kind of universal law of physics that says if you're yanked out of your own time you can only return to that moment or...something weird. The last place I was in had the same thing happen, so it's not specific to the Atroma.

... I'm not a physicist, unfortunately.

It makes me pine for the team I've left behind, in that regard.

[Never heard the term physicist before, but it's pretty obvious what one is in context.]

Know a lot of physicists, do you?

Mostly by affiliation. My employer Mr. Stark is an inventor and is very involved in the sciences. So people of his variety come and go through the household.

[Dr. Wilkes is a nice guy. When he's not phasing in and out of reality.]

Handy. Did you ever pick up any of it yourself? [She doesn't expect so, but you never know.] Or did they know much about space? I don't know if that comes under 'physics' or not.

Space was certainly very new. Very new indeed. We haven't even put a man in it yet, where I'm from. But while I don't know much about physics, I am always learning something new in the company of geniuses.

I'm especially proficient at repairing common household electronics, if I do say so myself.

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