Col. David Telford [Stargate Universe] (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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outer_divide2012-03-03 10:24 pm
cametohissenses) wrote in outer_divide2012-03-03 10:24 pm
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To all of us stranded here - my name is Colonel Telford of the US Air Force. I'd like to help further our attempts to get ourselves organized.
I understand that we have some exploration parties established and out there looking for answers by now. However, I feel like we should have some sort of ground base to bundle our efforts as well. I'd also like to take inventory and know where we stand in terms of provisions, medical supplies and weapons at this point.
I wasn't in the best condition when I came to and I could imagine I won't be the only one - are there any doctors around who could establish an infirmary and tend to the injured? Do we have people with scientific background who could start working on the ship and those pods?
Finally, are there people with combat experience among us who would be willing to establish a watch and securing of the perimeter with me?
I understand that we have some exploration parties established and out there looking for answers by now. However, I feel like we should have some sort of ground base to bundle our efforts as well. I'd also like to take inventory and know where we stand in terms of provisions, medical supplies and weapons at this point.
I wasn't in the best condition when I came to and I could imagine I won't be the only one - are there any doctors around who could establish an infirmary and tend to the injured? Do we have people with scientific background who could start working on the ship and those pods?
Finally, are there people with combat experience among us who would be willing to establish a watch and securing of the perimeter with me?
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Uh, I'm not married. Kara Thrace.
[A long beat.]
Lieutenant, actually. Assigned to the Battlestar Galactica, Colonial Fleet.
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My bad, Lieutenant.
Which system is your Fleet affiliated with?
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The Cyrannus system. We, um, the Fleet protects all of the Twelve colonies. Or what's left of them. I was from the planet Caprica, before it-- it was nuked all to hell.
[She grits her teeth and downs some more liquor.]
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It's tempting to go with "I'm sorry", but as a soldier he knows how empty and overused that phrase is. Especially with things going to hell.]
You're at war?
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[Her expression goes stony, expressionless.]
About 50,000 of us left. Used to be nearly 30 billion.
No way in hell I'm staying on this rock. I've gotta get back. They need every pilot they can get.
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[He doesn't actually know what else to say to that, because holy crap, those numbers are a mess.]
You got any allies you can try to reach out for?
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It's only been us humans. We haven't encountered any other forms of sentient organic life. And we've got faster than light travel.
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FTL and no encounters? I doubt we're from the same galaxy then. We've encountered quite a few other races by now and our space exploration is pretty new.
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We got an enemy like that. We call them 'Replicators', though. Name's pretty much program.