So far, they pick when we talk. Figure that's fair; they're in more danger than we are.

[At least it seems to Natasha. Maybe the dangerous are just different.]

After we got that intel, something weird happened. They called it calibrations. Second time it's happened, first time I'd been here for it. Story is normally it only happens once a season.

They brought all of us on the Marsiva, their flagship there. Hard to explain what happens then. Most of the time it's just internment. At night, though, parts of our memory end up shared. There are rooms where other members of the fleet can interact with them.

I can't say for sure it had something to do with punishing us, but the timing is too on the nose not to think the two events were related.

[It was a hard couple of months.]