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[longaevus]

It's curious - a recurring word, or perhaps a theme. 'Salvation'. Is it to mean that this is meant for us, for our salvation or perhaps a rather more subtle meaning.

[ This is known as 'Helen woke up and went exploring'. She's guarded though, hence the text, and far too curious for her own good. But Helen likes answers, not that she'd been able to find any - there's far too little power in the ship for full access to the database, but the ship itself is something else - and her next port ]

Latin, Italian, some possibly more ancient, or perhaps simply unknown. [ Forgotten, or alien. Vampires and Praxians have had their own language, and she's met aliens. She doesn't doubt the possibility of that ] Perhaps a reach out of someone wishing to be heard?

I wonder if they received an answer.

[ And are they still here? ]

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[standsentinel]

Not at this time. They're related to more, ah, basic concerns for the local population. There was a raid, and some critical resources were compromised.

[longaevus]

[ Oh dear, to put it mildly ] How long ago was this?

[standsentinel]

Roughly three weeks ago. The locals are understandably upset, as it was one of the ship people, like us, who brought it all down on their heads. I've been working on some stopgap measures, others have been trying to forage, and I believe a woman named Ms. Potts has been looking into trade. But it's a little hairy right now, as you might expect.

[longaevus]

Do you know whom it was which caused this? And how the locals are doing since then? [ Has anyone helped them? ]

[standsentinel]

Well, like I said, people are doing what they can. If you know any ways to rapidly boost crop yield, or ways to process or culture algae or seaweed or other resources, it'd be a help. Hell, at this point I'd be willing to buy into magic, if it would provide something tangible.

Trade's the likely answer, though. And I do know the 'whom', but this is starting to get clsoe to things I'd rather talk about off the comm network. Filtered isn't the same as encrypted, after all.