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[hunt4commonwealth]

[He wakes in the pod confused and disoriented. He fell asleep in his cabin on the Andromeda, and the next thing he knows he's in a dark, alien ship. It isn't the first time he's been kidnapped, but the complete lack of guards is perplexing, as is the fact that he still has his weapon. He quickly finds the exit and explores around the ship. There's clear signs of a recent fight. That doesn't bode well, but he can't wander out here alone forever. He decides to try to make contact with whoever brought him to this place.]

I’m Captain Dylan Hunt of the Commonwealth System starship Andromeda Ascendant. Whoever's in charge here, I mean you no harm. I’d just like to talk, find out where I am and how I got here. [And, if he's lucky, how to get back to where he came from. He has a crew to protect and a Commonwealth to re-found.]

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[truth_is_cold]

I'm not entirely certain, but we are in hostile territory. Once you exit the ship, you should see a dome in the distance. It was responsible for an attack against us and the local residents.

[None the wiser for the moment. Just seems like Dylan to him.]

But the residents of the dome aren't responsible, they only regard us as a threat. The ship seems to have been here for a considerable period of time, and whoever operated the ship is the culprit. Though they may be long dead, and I don't know that anyone here has the technological capacity to access the ship's systems yet.

[hunt4commonwealth]

[Dylan stands near the ship's entrance and looks towards the dome.]

I see it. They attacked the natives? Their own people? [Dylan frowns. He doesn't like societies that show such a lack of concern for the welfare of their own.]

How far away is the settlement?

[...And Dylan notices that Telemachus' uniform...isn't the right uniform. That's the uniform of a High Guard Commander, not a Home Guard Admiral. He feels a sinking dread in the pit of his stomach, although he can't articulate why yet. His intuition has picked up on what logic insists is impossible.]

[truth_is_cold]

[Dylan's intuition is a terrible, troublesome and incredibly sensitive and accurate thing. Like an improbable divining rod for unlikely facts.]

They attacked the ship. They didn't care who was in the area. And they were especially hostile towards anyone that wanted into the dome.

You should be able to see it. There's a bombed out hotel the majority of people have been staying in, though some have remained aboard the ship. Life support systems are still non-functional, as far as I've been informed.

[He's getting up to go outside to wait on Dylan. He misses their subvocal communicators working, that would make this easier. He even almost reaches up to touch his neck and barely manages not to.]

[hunt4commonwealth]

I'll start walking that way and meet you half-way. We should maintain communication silence unless there's an emergency, that way we can stay more alert to our surroundings.

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[truth_is_cold]

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