[Voice]

[outer_npcs]

[This message is received on all active communicators at 1am on Monday of Week 50.

It has no sent timestamp.]

Reinitializing.

Realigning temporal bridge.

Crew locations unknown.

It has been thirteen million, two hundred and forty-five thousand, one hundred and twenty hours since last contact.

[It's the Oracle's voice, but the tone is too calm, and the diction too crisp.]

Beginning scan for temporal incursions.

Comments

[unofficial_ambassador]

Apparently not! What did you - no one knows how to repair the ship. What did you do?

[outer_npcs]

The required mechanism was intact. The fault was in the temporal field calculations.

[unofficial_ambassador]

. . . Field as in starfield or field as in a barrier around the ship?

[outer_npcs]

The latter comes the closest to accuracy.

[unofficial_ambassador]

I see.