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

[outer_authority]

[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.

Comments

[Action]

[erranthero]

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]

[Action]

[misterbrief]

[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.

[Action]

[erranthero]

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.

[Action]

[misterbrief]

[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?

[Action]

[erranthero]

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

[Action]

[misterbrief]

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.]

[Action]

[erranthero]

There was a war with the neighboring planet.

[Obviously not.]

[Action]

[misterbrief]

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

[Welp. Sucks for them.]

[Action]

[erranthero]

More mutually assured destruction. Nobody won.