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Who: EVERYBODY
Broadcast: Maybe
Action: Lone Breaker System
When: The fleet will be in this system from 3/10 to 4/14

Welcome to the Lone Breaker System. The planet consists of a single ghost town that replenishes its stock daily, and a desert that does not. There are quite a few points of interest, no consequences, and a mystery to be investigated!

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You died back home? How did that happen?

[Suddenly his flying, Andrastian stable mabari are looking better and better.]

How plenty is plenty, young man?

[Crap, this conversation. He's at least grown the last few years enough to recognize that it's a bad topic — adults tend to not take it well. So he sort of skirts around the first two questions.]

It's been a while! Um...! Like — five years... I think.

I'm okay now, though.

[He sees what you've done there, Takeshi. And while he won't press much now, he is filing it away for further questions later. Be prepared to be asked again.]

Five years... Have you been with the Fleet this entire time?

Oh, no! I mean, I've been in this fleet for like... ummm. Two years now?

But before, I was on a different ship for a few years. One not in the fleet. It was called The Tranquility.

[And it was way shittier than here.]

Tranquility? That seems unusual for a ship, if I'm honest. Aren't they named after people and scary things?

I knew a pirate who called her ship 'The Siren's Call'.

... The Siren's Call... That sounds kinda spooky.

The Tranquility was really spooky, too. It was really hard to live on sometimes... We had to get in special pods once a month, too! Or we'd be smash into a puddle in the ship. It was kinda scary, especially when the hallways would act funny.

I think the scariest thing Isabela ever had to deal with was a scurvy-laden crew and being the only woman on the ship for months on end.

[Not that that would stop her.]

Smashed into a puddle if you miss some creepy pod in a month. [He frowns and tries not to think about what that would mean, but the last bit has his attention.]

What do you mean about the hallways acting funny?

It's like — it's like they kinda were alive. They changed all the time, so it was easy to get lost.

You ever been in a place that moved on its own like that?

Nooooooo, I can't say that I have. I mean, I've been in genuinely haunted places, but... the walls didn't suddenly change.

[The Warden's Keep was pretty bad though.]

[He gives a nod.]

It was real bad. But it ended up mostly being this real crazy guy who wanted to be a god.

That, uh, that seems to be pretty common. If they don't want to be gods, they still want to rule the world or whatever, from what I can tell. But, you know, being in charge is more than just telling people what to do.

[So says a king.]

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