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[buckingauthority]

[Kara is sitting somewhere, her feet propped up, glass of hooch in hand. It's clear that she's had a few. Probably to give her some dutch courage for her not!apology.]

Ahem. Okay, this is awkward. Hi! [She waggles her fingers at the camera.] Starbuck here. You may have heard me ranting on about Cylons a few days ago. Decking a few orderlies in the process. Not proud about that. Anyway...

[Have a sheepish grin and shrug of her shoulders.]

It's been been cleared up. I've had it explained to me that we may have a converging universes or realities situation here - whatever the frak that means - which, uh, well, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I won't be going around waving my gun in people's faces for the foreseeable future.

[She goes to take a swig of her drink but then remembers to add:]

Unless you royally piss me off - which, you know, can happen on occasion - and then all bets are off. Although, it should be duly noted that I'm also a huge fan of duking it out or playing a game of Triad where the winner takes all to settle disputes.

So, uh, that's it. Everything's peachy.

[There's a brittleness to her smile, though, which may hint at the opposite.]

Carry on doing whatever the frak you were doing. Free drinks at the Flop for those of you in dire need of a drink. And I don't mean water, Chell.

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[omnomgoauld]

It was somewhat entertaining. Will it be happening often?

[buckingauthority]

Glad I could help ease the boredom.

[She gives him a jaunty salute with her glass.]

I don't know, I tend to take the threat of Cylons pretty seriously seeing as how they practically wiped out my entire civilization.

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[destinytobehere]

I've been meaning to speak to you about that. Should one these... Cylons appear. I would like to know precisely what they are.

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[buckingauthority]

The Cylons are fully sentient machines. When we first made them, they were like big mechanical robots. But rumor has it that they've evolved, developed technology so that they're made up of organic material too. They can pass for human and use multiple copies of themselves. We don't know how many models there are, but they're like us, made up of flesh, bone, blood. Scuttlebutt before I crashed was that we were working on a Cylon detector back on Galactica but I've no idea how far they got with it.

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[destinytobehere]

[Those sound like Replicators OH BOY]

I can see how that would be cause for alarm. A similar threat was faced in the Milky Way.

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[buckingauthority]

We're in the Milky Way too. Cyrannus star system. The Cylons destroyed our twelve colonies there. We were forced to run, with whatever ships we had left. Only got the Battlestar Galactica to protect the entire fleet. That's one capital ship against Cylon Basestars, heavy raiders...

[Needless to say, the odds aren't looking good.]

If we didn't have FTL? It would already be game over.

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[seesobserves]

[Clearly picking up on the most important part of this:]

Triad.

Cards or dice?

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[buckingauthority]

Cards. But it looks like I'm gonna have to make up a deck.

[She fishes out his fancy lighter.]

Guess you'll be wanting this back. Sorry, I was indisposed earlier.

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[seesobserves]

[A nod. He would like it back, thanks.]

The sedatives must have been something. You were quiet for days. Or was that only because they took your comm device away?

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[buckingauthority]

I was unconscious for days. Then I woke up, had my little public freak out. They strapped me to a bed, pumped me full of crap that kept me doped up and confiscated my comm.

It was fun, just like a mini-vacation. You should try it sometime.

[hunt4commonwealth]

I'm glad it's been sorted out. Under the circumstances, I can't blame you for being a little on edge. [Or rather completely, insanely paranoid, but Dylan doesn't say that. That wouldn't be diplomatic at all.]

I don't think I've introduced myself yet. Captain Dylan Hunt of the Starship Andromeda.

[buckingauthority]

Yeah, just a little on edge.

[That's a definite understatement.]

Waking up in hospital didn't exactly help matters, either.

A Captain, huh? We have a few of those around and a Colonel too. Lieutenant Kara Thrace. Starbuck's my callsign.

[hunt4commonwealth]

[Her comment about waking up in a hospital implies that she's been through rough times. But he's polite enough not to pry. So instead he makes an (admittedly weak) joke.]

Almost enough to start an officer's club.

[buckingauthority]

Now that I could get behind. You met Telford or Shepard yet?

[truth_is_cold]

Converging realities?

[Because this might make things infinitely more complicated. And also explain them.]

[buckingauthority]

Yeah. Which is, supposedly, why there are two Charles Xaviers. But don't ask me how the hell it happened. I'm just a spacejock, not a quantum physicist or whatever.

[truth_is_cold]

Captain Hunt- My captain actually, is here from a different time period than me.

[timesbureaucrat]

[Pedantic Time Lord focuses on the important issue Sherlock left out.]

The converging realities as evidenced by more than one variant of an individual here means that multiple personal timelines from alternate universes are overlapping at these particular spatio-temporal coordinates, presumably because of transdimensional travel facilitated by the alien ship.

[buckingauthority]

I have no frakking idea what you just said, but cheers. Have a slow clap.

[She toasts him.]

[timesbureaucrat]

[This is where, if he weren't pretending to be human, he'd make a disparaging comment about primitive apes. But he's got a lie to maintain so he bites his tongue.]

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[waspromisedcake]

I understand that now.

[She was wondering where Kara was recently. Not that she was worried or anything. It was just simple human curiosity.]

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[buckingauthority]

I've still got some purified water packets if you want one.

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[waspromisedcake]

I have provisions from Nem.

[She hesitates.]

It's nice of you to offer.

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[nukeitfromorbit]

Might take you up on the drink.

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[buckingauthority]

Plenty to go around. At least until I run out and have to go see Edmund again.