✧ 03

[bi_otic]

Who: Kaidan Alenko
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: The Space Bar/Iskaulit
When: Today

[Kaidan's not in here to drink, which seems like an odd choice, but it makes for a decent quiet neutral place to settle down and sort out the thoughts that have been rattling around for quite some time. The calibrations merely encouraged the notion he's had for some time. Sitting in a booth near the back he pulls up his comm]

Before everyone gets lost exploring this new planet, I wanted to bring up something that I've been thinking over lately. Well, pretty much since I got here, if I'm honest, but especially lately.

There's been a lot of people gathering information on Atroma...I missed out on our last opportunity for that and I don't think it was a coincidence, but in any case...I think our efforts might be a bit too scattered. It might help if we put out heads together, all at once, and figured out exactly what questions we should be asking and what we know so far.

[He glances aside, as if Atroma wasn't aware of everything going on on the network anyway] I'd also like to do more than just ask questions. Testing the limits of our cage, I guess you could say.

That's about as much as I should say over the comms, but I'm just saying...we should think about getting together. It's like trying to move a boulder - a group of people working together can accomplish what the same amount of people acting alone could ever do. I'm not saying we have to do this right now...but if you want to talk it over I'll be here on the Iskaulit for awhile. Maybe later we can make use of something a little more official, like the lecture hall. For now I just want to see who's interested.

Comments

[darksmokerising]

Kaidan, mmn. [She nods finding interest in the Celtic root of his name. It's a good name and she likes it. But his neat probe into her name makes her laugh quietly.]

Da was, well. He was always very much in love with Arthurian legend and he wanted a Merlin in the family. Mum was against it but his charm won in the end. She wanted the i to be an a if she could get Margaret down as my middle. Compromise on both sides and here I am, strangely named and full of that sorcery my father wanted.

[bi_otic]

Does that power run in your family, or was that just a happy coincidence?

[darksmokerising]

I'm not entirely sure. [Merlan frowns a little.] My father was pretty interested in that kinda stuff, from what I remember of him. He could have had some, my mum might have had a little but she hated it if she did. My aunt Lillian is a very skilled practitioner of the magical arts, so, maybe that factors in somehow.

[She takes a breath and shakes her head slowly.]

I was ten when I watched my parents get possessed by demons. They just disappeared and took any real answers with them. Maybe it's luck, maybe it's just whatever Micah left behind, I really don't know.

[bi_otic]

[His eyes widen just a little, the surprise obvious, though it's not quite disbelief. He normally wouldn't give credence to the word demons being uttered with sincerity, but here it's a different story.]

Jesus...that's...I'm sorry.