[Video] [FLEETWIDE] [Encrypted from Atroma]

[tallasaking]

[Tyrion's face appears on the screen, scarred and faintly bemused, as he peers at the feed, then shifts something off to the side. Some sort of computing device. He shifts it again, and the screen changes, narrows, with a small bit of scripts running along the top. He sighs, shakes his head a little.]

I need someone who has the communications augment. This ... this is not secure enough. It is secure, but not secure absolutely. Which is what we require.

[He grumbles, and goes back to fiddling with wires.]

Comments

[Encrypted Video]

[candothat]

I'm certain that you have found someone to help already, but I have that augment as well as some prior experience with such things.

Do you hope to keep things from the Atroma?

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[tallasaking]

I can always use more eyes, my friend.

I do. Although ... I honestly do not think it is working.

[Encrypted Video]

[candothat]

Then you have mine as well. I'm Pavel Andreievich Chekov.

May I ask why you think that?

Re: [Encrypted Video]

[tallasaking]

Ah! You are Pavel. Kitty speaks highly of you, greetings indeed.

[He taps his fingers.] You know when a device is running, and all the lights are on, all the gears are moving, but you just know something small, something critical is off? That is how I am feeling right now.

[Encrypted Video]

[candothat]

She does? Any good things that she said were exaggerations, probably.

Ah. That isn't so much to go on, but I understand that feeling. And the Atroma... it's difficult to know how to successfully evade someone when so little is known about them, their capabilities, and their motivations.

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[tallasaking]

Oh more than likely. She exaggerates about me all the time.

Precisely. I thought we got a foothold when we found that cache of information -- but now I am wondering if they planted it all. If this is all some sort of test.

[Encrypted Video]

[candothat]

Perhaps she has exaggerated about you to me. What is your name?

[He could put that communications augment to use and find it himself, but that seems kind of rude.]

A test, yes, or maybe a game. I don't believe that we have gained any information that the Atroma wouldn't want us to have.

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[tallasaking]

I am Tyrion Lannister, and perhaps she just likes exaggerating all of us? That I absolutely believe.

[A wry smirk, before he looks thoughtful.]

Yes, it could be that as well. A trap so we would give away the position of our enemy -- but we weren't broadcasting anything to them. I wish we had more clarity.

[Encrypted Video]

[candothat]

I'm pleased to meet you, Tyrion Lannister, and I promise to be slightly skeptical of anything Kitty may tell me about you.

We will learn more, I'm certain--either by work and luck or when our captors decide that we should.

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[tallasaking]

Pleased to meet you as well, Pavel, and thank you. Someone ought to make sure I'm listened to, after all.