outer_divide | [ 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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If I was rescued from something, I guess I should be glad to be alive. [The part that's hard is he doesn't remember needing rescuing.]

I'm afraid that I don't fully understand the science behind it, but there were weaknesses of a sort in our home universes, and those of us who . . . passed through were rescued by Salvation. If it hadn't crashed, once the weaknesses had been repaired we'd have been put back where we came from none the wiser.

That's the best explanation anyone has tried to give me so far. [Though he can't be sure that first fellow hadn't tried.]

So we're stuck for now with a wrecked ship? [Salvation had looked in pretty good shape for a wreck, but he didn't have any idea how long it had been being repaired.]

For now, yes. We have a group of brilliant people working on repairs, but none of us have ever seen a ship like this before.

Right. I've been told I ought to talk to them, or someone like that. I'm not an engineer, but it was recommended I pass on something I'd seen at home. Skywalker or Stark or Alenko.

Should I go back to the ship to find them?

Most of the time, at least one of them is there working. It couldn't hurt.

I'll get back out to see them then. One of them anyway.

Thanks.

Be careful, if you're out past curfew you'll have to spend the night on the ship.

That's an option? It beats finding a tree in the wilderness.

It's safer. The ship's defenses are working.

Ah. I wish I'd asked about that earlier.

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