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[cruciblemods]

This is Commander Orion. I am attempting to contact the individuals currently trapped onboard the Crucible. If you can hear me, please respond

Comments

[hisoldgirl]

Orion.

[cruciblemods]

Acknowledged.

Do you have any other information to convey?

[hisoldgirl]

No. I still require the information I requested before.

Or do you still claim to not believe I am on this ship?

[cruciblemods]

I'm willing to accept that you are on the ship, but what I don't know is if I can trust you. Not just on moral terms, but in terms of ability and security. I have to decide if you can act effectively on that information and whether or not I can give it without alerting the captain, which would render all of this completely useless.

[bit_impossible]

How about this, Orion: if you come on-board, your father will die.

And you're the only person who could've done it.

[cruciblemods]

...you've said that before, but out of everything you've told me, that's the most impossible of all.

I'd never kill my own father.

[bit_impossible]

No? In the past, you've gotten awful angry at him. Quite livid and upset, if I recall correctly.

Called him a "stupid old man".

[cruciblemods]

We've had our...disagreements recently, but nothing that would make me go so far as to kill him.

We have other family...my mother, my siblings...there's nothing he could do, obstinate as he is, that would make me commit something so horrendous.

[celestial_okami]

Orion, it seems our conversation was cut short last time.

[cruciblemods]

I'm afraid you'll have to remind me about where we left off. There's been a lot to try and sort through these last couple of days.

[celestial_okami]

Needing information to stop the anomalies until help can arrive. You have your people to take care of, while the rest of us need to find a way home. I won't ask you to put your people in danger for us.

Do you know of a way to do this?

[cruciblemods]

Without knowing what's causing them, there isn't a way to stop the anomalies from happening. We couldn't stop them when we were still on the ship and unfortunately we can't stop them now.

If we can get on the ship in the first place, there are a few options: we can attempt to stop the engines or I can try to re-route bridge control to a different part of the ship.

[psychmaster]

Of course there's something zetta wrong, you hectopascal!

There's a black hole coming and you've mixed up all of the variables on this ship!

[cruciblemods]

You're going to have to slow down and speak more clearly, young lady, or have your parents take over the Sphere instead.

[psychmaster]

Parents? They aren't here.

[cruciblemods]

Then I'll need you to be a little calmer if you have something you need to tell me. We only have a short amount of time.

[by_my_will]

I missed your last transmission. What do you currently know?

[cruciblemods]

I know that at least sixty persons of unknown origin are currently on a ship that is supposed to be abandoned who claim they've lived through the same events three times but have no explanation for it.

[by_my_will]

Except for the idea of it being a time anomaly of some kind. That's the best theory I've heard so far.

[cruciblemods]

The problem with that is that it's just that: a theory. One that sounds like something straight out of a holo novel.

That makes it very hard to deal with, as well as believe.