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Jul 17, 2009 14:22

[a long, shrill whine of static, a burst of sharp white noise, and then--]

--ander Orion. I repeat, this is Commander Orion. If anyone can hear me, please respond. This channel is secure and is not monitored by the captain.

I'll say again, if there's anyone out there that can hear me, please respond. I'll remain on this line as long as I can.

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bit_impossible July 17 2009, 19:38:50 UTC

Orion.

cruciblemods July 17 2009, 19:40:35 UTC

Acknowledged.

Just how many people are still present on the ship?

bit_impossible July 17 2009, 19:46:40 UTC

Over seventy people. Haven't done a head count recently, I'm afraid. But I wonder if that number will even matter to you.

cruciblemods July 17 2009, 19:53:12 UTC

That many? The confusion during the evacuation must have been more severe than we realized.

...excuse me?

bit_impossible July 17 2009, 19:56:00 UTC

[he shakes his head, a confused look on his face before he feels like himself again.]

Never mind, never mind. You said you just escaped the clutches of your father not too long ago, yes? You didn't happen to leave anything behind in Level Three, did you? In the crew quarters by any chance?

cruciblemods July 17 2009, 20:03:20 UTC

...yes, we managed to evacuate the ship before the captain could cause further injury to any individuals.

The crew quarters? No, all personnel and valuable equipment were removed.

bit_impossible July 17 2009, 20:04:05 UTC

Not even a message? No?

cruciblemods July 17 2009, 20:09:49 UTC

There was some vandalism on those levels. We lost several people because of the captain's actions and my crew was...distraught.

bit_impossible July 17 2009, 20:13:17 UTC

I see. [begins to remove his tie] Well, I'm not surprised your people were a little panicked by what's been going on with the ship. We've been experiencing it for quite a while ourselves, a few longer than others.

Tell me, what sort of things went on before you left? What kind of trouble did Ganymede cause?

cruciblemods July 17 2009, 20:17:25 UTC

I'm afraid you'll have to explain that. Another passenger has claimed he was on the ship for over nine months, but the Crucible was still in its construction stages nine months ago.

Before I answer that, can you tell me who you are?

bit_impossible July 17 2009, 20:22:20 UTC

I've been here for about ten months if you think of time from a linear perspective. However, what we've been living out has been the past three months over and over--and this month is almost out. We're stuck in a recursive loop, a temporal anomaly. Certain events keep on repeating themselves, mostly those related to your father, this ship, and yourself.

I'm the Doctor, and I wager you've asked that because you're going to look me up on your passenger manifest. Don't waste your time. You've looked our names up in the past and didn't find us there before.

cruciblemods July 17 2009, 20:28:32 UTC

You'll have to excuse me, but that kind of temporal phenomena has never been observed, even in a lab. And I can promise you that there's nothing on the ship that could facilitate such a thing happening.

...it looks like you're right, Doctor. The Spheres you're using are unregistered as well.

bit_impossible July 17 2009, 20:33:13 UTC

Oh, don't be an idiot! Just because you haven't seen it with your own damn eyes doesn't mean it doesn't or hasn't happened! And you'd be surprised what can or cannot cause a temporal anomaly. I should know; I've been trapped in plenty of them in the past.

And you're damned right I'm right. I haven't been sitting on my ass all this time. I've had three interesting subjects to study.

cruciblemods July 17 2009, 20:42:57 UTC

If you're going to imply that it was a black hole, like several of your fellows have, I'm going to have to counter with the obvious. While how the interior of a black hole functions is still an unexplored science, it's unexplored because no ship or instruments can survive the gravity beyond the event horizon. Without some explanation for how it could I can't believe what any of you are saying.

I'll be honest with you. While we were evacuating anomalies began to occur on the ship, several of which cost lives. I have no guarantee that that isn't what's happening now.

bit_impossible July 17 2009, 20:51:28 UTC

[and by now, he's managed to strip himself of all clothes on his upper body, completely unaware of himself doing so.] No, I'm not going to say it was the black hole. Something else is the instigator of this anomaly; the black hole has only been the red herring! And while black holes have been unexplored by you humans, my people have created them in the past! But it's that uncertainty that makes it so damned convenient. Sure, time warps the closer you get to the black hole. At the centre of it all, that section of galaxy is collapsing in on itself; a beautiful, bright star reduced to a gaping maw in the fabric of the universe. No, we don't need a black hole for a recursive loop.

We wouldn't need your guarantee anyway. Probably expired. We've been experiencing certain...changes around the ship. Some subtle, some severe and downright dangerous. And people are already beginning to get injured again. It'll start all over again, the random deaths and all that cruelty...

cruciblemods July 17 2009, 20:59:53 UTC

I understand that such experiments have been performed outside of the Alliance, but you'll have to see things from my perspective, Doctor. Unknown individuals with questionable behavior on a previously abandoned ship now captained by an unstable man while unrecorded phenomena occur with increasing frequency and violence are telling me that impossible things are happening and have been happening, which only they recall.

Asking me to believe you is asking for a leap of faith.

...and I'm not sure what part of this discussion requires you to undress.

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