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Hello! Um, I'm told that there are others of you out here that arrived on the ship? Which is pretty interesting! Have any of you investigated it at all? Do we know where it came from? I mean obviously we all got on it somehow—which is another thing to investigate, now that I mention it, because I have like zero memory of that—but if anyone's taken some more diagnostics on it that I was able to do in a few hours I'd love to compare notes! I guess I'd also appreciate if someone could fill me in on the situation out here, since this is... not anywhere near any place I've ever been, based on my GPS.

Oh, um! I forgot to introduce myself, ahaha... anyway, I guess you can call me Judy? I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you; um, feel free to say hello? Hi.

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[Judy, huh? That's a girl's name. Potentially a hot girl's name. Hudson is intrigued.]

[Time to put on his Superconfident Badass 'Don't you fret none, little lady' face.]

[Though his voice may be a little hoarse from all that screaming like a girl he did about the dinosaurs. He's hoping it sounds husky and macho.]

Been working on the ship for a while. I got the lights and doors working. [Actually that had been an accident, but Potentially Hot Chick doesn't need to know that.]

Don't worry though. I'll keep you safe. [GRIN: you feel safer already, admit it!]

[oh my god this is why she doesn't use her real first name on the internet outside of livejournal sobbu

well, apart from because the fact that she is kind of... a cyber criminal but w/e]

Um... thanks? I mean, it doesn't look too bad out here, I guess. How's the work been with the ship?

[Hudson is trying to figure out how to work 'are you hot?' into this conversation. ]

Yeah well, getting a bit of a break right now.

Before though. Yeah. Dinosaurs. I was ALL up in that.

[Because they kept chasing him. But history is written by the victors, dammit. Besides, dinosaurs can't write.]

Ship's kind of failing. Mostly because we keep getting distracted.

Oh yeah, and it's alien tech no one understands.

Dinosaurs, that sounds amazing! Gosh, although from the way you say it I am guessing it was more like Jurassic Park than getting a dinosaur petting zoo, that was probably terrible. Sorry ._.

Well, hopefully I'll be able to help out with the ship? I mean I'm sure with what you and other people have figured out so far if we put our minds to it I'm sure we could figure something out. Though—what's been distracting? Have there been... a lot of dinosaurs?

Not so amazing when they're trying to eat you.

[Apparently Hudson is irresistible to dinosaurs. If only he could swap that out with 'irresistible to hot chicks'.]

Hey, I could show you around the ship, if you want. The main consoles, that sort of thing. [It would be like...a date or something.]

Dinosaurs, before that there was a fire, and some toxic gas that made everyone crazy. Mountain lions. The Man trying to bring us down.

[Shrug.] It kind of adds up.

Oh, that would be great, if you could show me what you've found on the ship. I'm pretty sure I found the main consoles, but I didn't spend a whole lot of time exploring.

[little does she know what she has gotten herself intoooooo]

—egad, that sounds kind of awful. No wonder. Well, here's to hopefully having a bit of peace? Fingers crossed.

Show you everything I know.

[Potentially ominous eyebrow waggle.]

Yeah, I wouldn't count on it. But you don't have anything to worry about, Judy. [Heh. Hot chick name.] I'll keep you safe.

Uh... great! I am quite sure that I will be safe, yes. No worries here.

[Wait. Did he tell Judycakes his name? That would suck if he didn't. Better say it again, just to be safe.]

[But you know, smooooothly. ]

You run into anything ugly, you just let old Hudson here know. [He flashes a smile.]

We don't know much.

- Previously unknown world - 'Verdana'
- Ship's data is locked up tight - not even the best minds we've got can get in
- Dangers: the Authorities (if you see hovercars, hide), wild predators (wildcats, wolves, carnivorous dinosaurs), apparently wildfires
- Feel free to just ignore the jerk-off in the helmet.

[What's the matter, Shepcakes? Jealous? Don't want to share the Hudson with another babe?]

[No, she just doesn't want to see his stupid get the new chick killed.]

All of the above: duly noted. o7

Do you have any more deets on the Authorities, aside from the ominous name?

oh and also I forgot to say thank you! thank you very much, that was very helpful.

re: Authorities --
Advanced weaponry, collars that block the use of any sort of superhuman power or ability (they use these on anyone deemed a threat), extremely disciplined, tend to raid en masse.

re: gratitude --
The more you know, the less I have to tell the next guy.

[........ D: is this place run by a particularly batshit branch of the Technocratic Union or something

...also it would probably be prudent to pretend to be normal, yes. words chosen carefully:]

Wow. Creepy!

Superhuman powers? Is that a... thing, around here? Do the collars to anything aside from block... stuff like that? Also, what constitutes "a threat", I feel like that would be good to know.

"Is that a... thing, around here?"

Yes.

"Do the collars to anything aside from block... stuff like that?"

Not as far as we know.

"Also, what constitutes "a threat", (...)"

We're not sure. Assume that if you're dangerous in any way and they notice, you're a threat.

Oh, well then, hopefully I won't have anything to worry about. Hopefully, anyway. I can't imagine why they'd ever think of me as a threat, though.

[LIES LIES LIES]

What kind of things have they gone after people for in the past?

Situation, as previously stated, can be consider hostile.

Priorities are currently restoring functions to the alien ship. Having come from the ship, the Authorities may label you as a potential threat.

I'm hearing a lot about the Authorities but not a whole lot about... why they're doing what they're doing. Do we know?

Concern that we will have some sort of advantage over them and upset the order they've maintained over the inhabitants outside of the domes. Any further motivation is still a mystery, but that alone is sufficient for concern.

Edited 2012-06-04 05:36 (UTC)

Hm, well, that makes sense. So the domes are inhabited? I wondered.

One escaped recently. I don't know much about him.

Escaped? Are they prisons?

I see Shepard's already given you the sitrep, but my name's Kaidan, I'm one of her people, and it's good to meet you, Judy.

Words like 'diagnostics', 'GPS' and 'compare notes' catch my eye when they're all bunched together like that. You coming from a tech background?

It's nice to meet you too, Kaidan!

And, yes, actually—I'm a computer programmer by trade and training.

We're short on functioning computers on this side of the dome, at least from what I've seen, but the Authorities have the tech for them.

If we got our hands on some of it, your skills could be critical. I dabble a little, but it's a) not my primary field and b) probably the wrong era of tech for me anyways.

Sweet. I've got some computer equipment with me; I'm not much of a hardware person, but I've put together enough boxes in my day to maybe be able to rig up some more computers if we've got the parts.

Wrong era...? I guess I can't expect the technology out here to be what I'm used to, can I.

Yeah, wrong era -- nobody is really sure what the actual year is here, and we have people from different times waking up in the pods.

2186 for me, I've met others from the early 21st century. The ruins here are somewhere in the 20th to my eyes.

Granted, even in my time every major human programming language still goes back to a derivative of C if you go deep enough. Maybe between us we can bash something out.

It seems this planet is unknown to everyone who awoke on the ship. As is the origin of the technology; there are some familiar elements, but it is impossible to tell if those are meaningful or merely a side effect of similar function.

Are you an engineer?

Hm, interesting. I'm looking forward to getting a more in-depth look at it and poking at the systems a bit more. Although—well, I guess I have an engineering degree, but I'm more of a software person than a hardware person, you could say? How about you?

It seems likely that there was some data corruption during the event that caused it to crash. Which is unfortunate; I would dearly like to know who built it, and where they came from.

And no, I'm no engineer. Most of my experience with spaceships comes from travel, not training.

Well, hopefully I will be able to do something about that! I've done data recovery before, so maybe we'll get lucky. In any case, I intend to try.

You've been in a spaceship before? For travel? Are you an astronaut?

Not precisely. My people have been a space-faring culture for several millennia. I take it you are from pre-spaceflight Earth?

Not quite pre-spaceflight, although we haven't ventured far as of yet.

[...well, officially, anyway, and if the Umbra doesn't count.]

We started sending people into space about half a century ago, maybe...? So it's still very novel for me!

I'm sorry. I hope I have not given offense. Pre-Contact human history is outside my area of expertise.

It poses some very interesting philosophical and ethical questions, actually.

Oh, I'm not offended at all! I imagine I'd be the same way talking to someone from, say, the Renaissance. And, of course, I imagine a lot gets left out of history books.

If you feel compelled to not share spoilers, I don't mind, since that's probably best time travel practices, although I think if there are time laws I think whatever brought us here has already broken a good number of them, haha.

I suppose that touches on the most pressing question. Is there any time travel in place, or have we merely all been collected at very different times in very different places, and kept in cryo-stasis so long that it has affected our memories?

That is a good question. I know there are some people who would be able to pull off something like this, but I wouldn't know why they'd do, well, this. I guess it would probably be helpful to ascertain the year relative to our timeframes. If there even is a year relative to our timeframes. If only we could get it out of the ship's computer.

I'm not sure if that would be more or less difficult than determining how long the ship has been here, and advancing from the forwardmost point in time anyone here can recall. I do not recognize the language on the few interfaces I've seen, but we may be able to find a familiar dating system, if someone could get that far into the ship's systems.

[The Doctor's smile is a little strained, probably because he looks like he just got trampled, but it's genuine.]

Pleasure to meet you, Judy. I'm afraid I haven't much to tell you about the ship you haven't heard already - the more I study it, the more questions I have.

Might I ask where you've ended up? It may still be dangerous out in the open. ...Well. More than usual.

Pleased to meet you, too! I don't think I caught your name, though? I'm heading out from the ship; I can see some buildings up ahead. Is that where everyone else is?

I'm guessing they used some kind of device to wipe our memories...I've seen something like that before. Not here, but it might be hidden somewhere.

Really... Well, that's rather worrying. If you don't mind my asking, what was it exactly that you ran into?

I'm not sure, honestly. Some technology made by Sato Systems. But it involved playing music through headphones...I think it works playing any sort of noise through speakers, too. Anyway, when my friend Gabe put them on, he started shaking and then he collapsed. Then he couldn't remember how we got there.

Hm.

[A shell company of the Technocracy, maybe? She wouldn't put it past them, and it sounds like their style. Although she feels like if they had a hand in this she'd be in a lot worse of a situation, because, um, they hate her. Weird. The other possibility, of course, is that there are other bad things out there behind this that she doesn't know about. Better the devil you know...]

It could definitely be something like that... although, for obvious reasons, I suppose it'll be hard to get any confirmation. Was your friend ever able to remember any of it, or was it just gone forever?

I'm not sure...it happened pretty recently, though.

But it was used on all of us when we were brought to Tower Prep, and we started to remember how we got there in our dreams.

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