driftfleet | The Bunker of Nariba Relia

Who: Everyone!!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: The bunker in the surrounding desert.
When: Sometime recently, see this post for full information. Below is the excerpt of information listed there. Feel free to make a top comment and thread out the sad truth and whatnot.

[Records buried in the library, the research facility, and cues from the power plant will eventually reveal the bunker in the surrounding desert. The passageway leads several yards underground, and it doesn’t appear to have been used in a long time. Those brave enough to venture inside will find that it is not much more than a tomb. Eerily enough, the emergency lights are still on, casting a soft red glow over sheets and the once-bodies beneath them.

It has been long enough that paper journals, books, and personal belongings (like bags and such) have deteriorated to the point of being extremely fragile. Handled with care, however, they are eager to tell a story.

“The engineers should have been more careful. I’m not sure I’ll be able to recoup my losses from this… At least I have enough money to buy a ride off this planet!”

“No one could have known this would happen. Hopefully it stabilizes so we can go home soon. In the meantime, I’ve been teaching my daughter how to count. She doesn’t understand what’s going on, and I don’t know what to tell her.”

“It’s not getting better. So many people have died that we’re running out of room in the morgue. We had to move all of the food to another room so that the smell doesn’t leach out, but we all know what’s back there.”

“The replicator was supposed to repair us, too.”

“I don’t know if we can go back yet, but it doesn’t matter. Even if the city was back to the way it was, there’s no cure for us. The dead are dead, and we lay down next to them as we wait for our turn.”

There is nothing that can be done for these people except to give them the eternal rest they deserve. Ultimately, the fate of Nariba Relia is a sad one and not altogether preventable.]

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[Riona waits for him to get up and follow. It's a long walk ahead.]

Thank you.

[Maybe this will mean little, but it'll leave them with a peace of mind, and the bodies taken care of. She hopes that it'll allow them to rest, for once and for all.]

Is Asgard a great naval nation?

[Thor follows Riona, humming with faint amusement.]

We did have a number of water vessels, though those were mostly for pleasure. Our travels usually took us through space rather than water. Asgard had far more airships than sailing boats.

[Not that they used those for voyages between worlds. That was what the Bifrost was for.]

Ah, so all this space travel isn't new to you. [Even after being on the fleet for over two years, it still strikes her as odd to imagine it being a daily part of someone's life.] It must be so convenient to be able to zip through air and space like that.

It isn't, but we never used to travel in spaceships. Asgard had the Bifrost - a bridge between realms. It was much faster.

How... is a bridge faster than the ships?

It's not the kind of bridge you walk on. It was more of a beam that shot you between worlds.

[So, not a 'bridge' in the traditional sense, but you'll never find an Asgardian who doesn't call the Bifrost a bridge.]

I used it quite often. I could get between Asgard and Earth within moments.

...oh. A... beam? Of what?

[A laser beam? But she understood those not able to be used for transportation.]

A very fast beam, then, from the sounds of it.

Light and energy. It was also known as the rainbow bridge.

[There's far more to it than that, but the technology and magic behind the Bifrost is difficult to explain to those unfamiliar with it.]

It was, yes. It made it much easier to manage the Nine Realms.

[She's just gonna... nod and go along with it. This clearly sounds like something far beyond her understanding.]

You had nine realms to travel between? Goodness, that sounds very large and... unwieldy.

It was definitely that. Keeping the peace in the Nine Realms was a full time job.

[Thor heaves a sigh, reminded once again that 'keeping the peace' had taken on a darker meaning since learning how Asgard appointed itself in charge of the task in the first place. Not for the first time, he wonders how the other realms reacted to the knowledge of Asgard's destruction. Whether they knew yet. Whether they cared.]

But they will need to keep their own affairs now.

It sounds it. [She frowns a little at the hint that something happened that they no longer can do that job.] I think I remember you mentioning something happened back home. Was it so serious that you can't look after the rest of your realms anymore?

I'm afraid so. [He watches the skyline for a moment before turning his attention back to Riona.] Asgard was destroyed. We were able to save some of the people, but we are without a home at the moment. I cannot spare any attention for the other realms, even if I wished to.

[And he doesn't, not really. Not since finding out how Asgard appointed itself Protector of the Realms to begin with.]

...Oh, Thor. [It hits a bit close to home. If she had failed during the Blight, Ferelden would have been decimated by the darkspawn. Granted, the survivors could easily flee to Orlais or the Free Marches, something that doesn't seem quite so easy for Thor's people. But in the end, a destroyed home is a destroyed home, no matter how it happened.] I'm so sorry. Have you been looking for a new home? Another world, I suppose?

[He exhales, feeling the weight of it all once more. It's still a faint relief to say what's happened, rather than talk around it. He isn't much used to avoiding the facts of his life. Time just got away from him after his memories came back.]

We are - we're on a spaceship at the moment, all of us. My plan is to take everyone to Earth. They know me there and I've saved the planet a couple of times, so I'm hopeful that will earn us the right to make our case.

[Hopeful, but still practical. There are precious few other worlds in the immediate vicinity that Thor both knows and can be assured of Asgard having decent standing.]

You know of Earth, then? Seems to be a popular world in the fleet. As in, one everyone either knows of or is from. Strange. [Who knows, maybe Atroma just likes it for some reason.] But I hope it all works out. Starting over in a new place will be difficult, but at least your people have you.

I lived there for a time. I'm very fond of it.

[Thor blinks, taken aback a little by the sentiment. It's not that he disagrees exactly. Thor's hesitation stems more from his worry that he isn't up to the task of ruling.]

It will be hard, I know. But I will make things work, no matter how long it takes. The people deserve to have somewhere to call their own.

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