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Raise the Alarm (Friday, Week 45, mid-afternoon)

[For those on the ship, the afternoon's calm is broken by the sudden wail of alarms, and the blooming glow of amber warning lights set in the ship's floor panels.

For those off the ship, the light display is absent, but the alarms still wail from the ship-linked communicators.

The ungodly racket is accompanied by a dispassionate feminine voice - those few who saw her before the crash might recognize the voice of Salvation's AI, though the message itself is recorded.]

Hostiles detected in corridor 83-alpha. Containment initiated. Dispatching security.

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Well, I didn't exactly want to find out what it might have done to us. Just because I've been told those pods sustain the lives of the contents inside, doesn't mean that they aren't being used as a power source as well. Maintain the source and it continues to provide energy. Perhaps that's half the reason why anything on this ship still works. And how can we be certain unless we can get farther into the ship to see what else it's hiding from us.

Maybe he should refrain from insulting me without knowing the entire story. But whatever. If he can get us out of here, fine. I'll behave.

We know the power core is functional, and it's using most of it's energy to sustain the pods. There are power failures elsewhere, but not there. The ship's wired to keep us alive not use us as frakking power-cells. '

And fine, whatever, just...don't yell alright? He's an eager guy, but he's got a lot on his plate. Give him a break. I mean to later. And if it makes you stop acting like a baby, I'll fix the door you broke too. I shoulda stopped you before, so it's at least 25% my fault.

Edited 2013-10-10 02:53 (UTC)

[He still doesn't buy it, but he figures that when they get farther into the ship, they'll see if that's truly all the pods do.]

Oh? And why didn't you try to stop me? [Try being the operative word.] You didn't know this would happen, did you?

The forcefields? No. I figured it'd use heavy bulkheads instead, like most security. Uses less power. I intended to fix any damage after the fact anyway. And I figured it'd be better to go with you and make sure you didn't do anything that might get you killed. Let's face it, you aren't exactly subtle or level headed.

[Subtle, no, he knows he's not and he doesn't try to be. Level headed though? He thinks he's perfectly level headed.]

I'm perfectly capable of making rational decisions, thank you. I just don't like the idea of standing around and not trying to do something about our situation. [A trait he picked up from Goku over the years.] And I wasn't about to stop here. It's just been proven now that I'm not going to be able to get through that forcefield. [As much as that fact burns.]

Well, the smart thing was to contact engineering. which is done. Stark and Alenko will get us out of here. And if they can't then Shepard will. It blows gundark-chow, but waiting's what we've gotta do.

[Hot-headed shounen asshole]

[Hey, it's just who he is you stuck-up Force user]

Argh, fine. [He haughtily sits up against the wall, crossing his arms. He's not going to like it but he'll wait.]

Are those people the ones in charge of repairing this ship then? Some job they've done.

Give them more credit, you great big nerf. We've only had a few months to really work on the ship, give or take some timeline problems.

[His eyes narrow, but that at least was a better excuse than what he was given before. Which was 'we know what we're doin'!]

Are you referring to when the ship decided to send a few of you into the past?

Yeah. I was one of the lucky ones, sent back to before the domes went up. Whole kriffing society, gone.

What, did some intergalactic warlord hit this planet too? [It's more of a sarcastic statement, since obviously if that were the case the planet would probably still be in slavery.]

There was a war with the neighboring planet.

[Obviously not.]

I see. So this planet was too weak to defend themselves and they lost. It all makes sense now.

[Welp. Sucks for them.]

More mutually assured destruction. Nobody won.

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