Settling Dust And All...

[namisan]

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))

Comments

[Video]

[goldenglasses]

I spoke to a woman in a small, quick ship painted red and white. She couldn't give me her name, said that just having a name would be enough for them to danger her and her crew.

I'm assuming by they she meant our lovely hosts.

voice.

[edwinjarvis]

The aiding ship I spoke to had been part of the fleet before, it seems.

[It's rather shocking, but also potentially inspiring to those who'd want to break free of the Atroma's iron grasp. Especially those who might not want to return home... Whoever the dickens that may be.]

They didn't want to tell me anything that would jeopardize their escape from the fleet.

Their primary message was -- to not give up hope.

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[expellerhead]

That kind of Fleetwide unity is going to be difficult to achieve. An admiral is out of the question, but maybe a council of the ranking officers on the ships?

[video]

[passingthrough]

This was the third? I'd only ever heard of one before. The one before the calibrations. What was the other?

[As for her other points she agrees. It's always made her uneasy when the Windrose was missing any key spots or when they have redundancies. Not that she can imagine any of them leaving either.]

Video

[stabsbothways]

Aren't you worrying too much?

Our 'benevolent' hosts have an invested interest in us not taking the ferry to corpseville all at once.

[dancingmd]

I've suspected for a long time that they have been trying to help us - or at the very least, that they aren't targeting us, that they're targeting our hosts. The woman I spoke to said she had been in our place before, so that only strengthens that impression for me.

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[bi_otic]

I was in communication with one of the other ships. I'd say one thing that stood out is that they definitely had a working knowledge of our augments and the capabilities of the different roles.