Audio, Midnight of Sunday, Week 63

[outer_npcs]

[A feminine voice, oddly neutral, sounds across the communication network at exactly midnight on Sunday of Week 63.]

Realigning temporal fields. Alignment will be concluded in 336 planetary hours.

[And look, there's even a timer showing on the viewscreens to help everyone keep track.]

Comments

[Audio]

[outer_npcs]

It is not one of their primary priorities.

The temporary chambers located near the laboratories should suffice. They were designed for use during long term projects, and there are not many of you to house.

[Audio]

[standsentinel]

McCoy will be happy to hear about that, at least.

So, food and shelter and the ability to do more with my day. This should be interesting.

Anything else we should know about? Do you anticipate any major bottlenecks?

[Audio]

[outer_npcs]

Engaging my temporal engines may generate small, localized anomalies. They will not be harmful, but you may experience mild disorientation.

[This isn't even downplaying it. Salvation genuinely believes that time running backward is mild.]

[Audio]

[standsentinel]

Ah... what kind of anomalies?

[It's not that he doesn't believe her, it's just that Kaidan knows full well that Salvation's opinions on things can diverge wildly from those of her charges.]

I'm not going to age fifty years and then regress to being a toddler the next minute, right?

[Audio]

[outer_npcs]

That would not be a mild anomaly. However, you may experience as many as 12 hours in reverse.

[Audio]

[standsentinel]

[That doesn't sound terribly minor... except by comparison. Kaidan attempts to process just what that might feel like and swears he can literally feel his brain starting to spin trying to keep up.]

I'll... make a note to look out for that. Uh, did any of your crew experience that? Do you have any logfiles of how they felt about it? I'm not exactly sure how that would even feel. Would I actually be aware of it, or would my mind be going backwards as well?

[Audio]

[outer_npcs]

No. There are records of similar anomalies early in the temporal engine's development. The mechanisms developed to compensate are currently offline.