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[ video ] 001 (Sunday p.m., Week 66)

[A man in a blue uniform coat with a ridiculously high stiff collar appears. His expression is grim under an abundant mess of brown hair peeking from under the large front-brimmed hat he has jammed onto his head.]

This is Captain Bulge of Sirius Platoon. If anyone in the SDF can hear me, please respond. I don't know yet where I am, and I need to know what happened. Did the Alfort forces retreat? Is Destiny safe?

This is very important. I have no idea where I am, except that it's not one of our trains. I may be in an enemy ship. If-if that's the case, then if anyone in the SDF gets this transmission, leave me. It isn't worth a rescue. I know what to do if the situation is that hopeless.

[A pause, because it isn't usually in the course of his duty he has to offer to commit suicide if necessary. He looks around again, and the background shows he is still on Salvation, although its obvious not something he recognizes. After another grimace and frown, he turns back to the device.]

I have reason to believe that I may be somewhere else entirely. It's far too quiet here to be still in battle.

I've been prepared to give my life to the Railways for years, but I don't want to waste it. Yu-Manabu, one of your damned insubordinate rescue attempts would be welcome about now, so long as I'm not on an Alfort ship. The rest of you, David especially, you'd better take care of Big One. I'm counting on you, too. Save Destiny and the Railways and get your butts home.

Somebody please respond. Come in, SDF headquarters.

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Far from SDF. Everyone from ship isolated from usual command structures. Unable to make communcations contact across dimensions.

[He shakes his head]

Expectation of self sacrifice not currently applicable.\

[Trust him. Self sacrifice was the last thing he remembers from home.]

[Bulge doesn't trust him, not entirely, but he would be perfectly happy not to be trapped on an enemy ship in the aftermath of a major battle.

Across dimensions. That sounded like the while holes.]

Have you heard of an Alfort galaxy?

I can't afford to be too trusting.

Unfamiliar. Likely universal variation. Earth main constant.

[And someday he will figure out why]

That's a relief.

Now that we've established where this isn't, do you know where we are?

Verdana. Not present on charts of any offworlders. Appears to be dimensional anomaly.

That is not a name I know. Fair enough.

I believe I have found some transport.

Is there anything else you can tell me about this ship? I've never seen anything like it in my career.

Remarkable vessels. Interdimensional transit requires new paradigm of physics. Somewhat outside of expertise. But fascinating piece of technology.

Alenko, Stark and Skywalker main experts.

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[...is this sort of thing normal where people come from? One day she'll learn to just not think about it.

Mostly, she's just not asking.]

I'm afraid I don't know what any of that means, but I can assume that none of it is here.

[Her appearance reminds him a bit of Julia or maybe even Kanna Yuuki. There were no shortage of strong women in his world. He gives her a nod, if not a smile. He doesn't have a smile him right now.]

I think that's what he was saying. [He still isn't sure about that.]

Maybe you could tell me where this is.

When I woke up in that...ship [she still can't convince herself that is actually is one] they told it was "Verdana." Other than that, I'm not actually certain. It's nothing I'd heard of until I found myself magically here.

It's rather like a nightmare.

It isn't like most of the ships I know.

Verdana... [He's searching his memory.] I don't think I've heard of that one. [He's gradually accepting the other dimension idea, though it's hard not to worry that they are in the same place as Alfort. It is easier for him to accept the idea than it might have been if not for his recent experiences.]

I hope it's not magic.

I wonder what the Supreme Commander would think of this place.

There hasn't been a train crashing recently or anything like that has there?

I hadn't either until I woke up here. It may or may not be magic. I can't really tell.

[She takes half a second to look confused, though.]

I...don't know what a "train" is, in that sense. I'm assuming it isn't anything close to what I'm thinking it is. [Because that's usually the case around here.]

[Now there is a hint of a smile, almost kindly.]

I wouldn't know magic if it danced on the end of my nose.

But I can explain what a train is. Regular old-fashioned trains are vehicles with a big engine on the front that pulls various railcars or carriages behind it on a track that has been previously laid out along the route. Space trains follow the same idea but there are special rails in space for them to fly between planets and systems. SDF trains don't even need the tracks.

I don't remember leaving Big One, so I was a little worried it might have crashed here. I think someone would have noticed, if it had.