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[drivinsandrock]

[Quatre's Sphere has obviously been turned on for a purpose. He's seated in his cabin, staring directly into it.]Fellow passengers, I have come to a very disturbing conclusion due to the recent events we have witnessed and I had hoped to discuss this with you. Perhaps through this I can verify that my fears are wrong, that I am simply being

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[bit_impossible]

[takes a deep breath] Well, the experiment aspect is plausible, like I said, however, I think our being here is a result of that experiment and Ganymede and Co.'s meddling in the affairs of time when they had no damn right to. Humans don't perfect time travel for hundreds of years, and just from the looks of the technology around the ship, I'm perhaps being too giving.

Anyway, whatever Ganymede went to test perhaps started what could be the regular anomalies we've experienced. Like being turned into animals, that sort of thing. That could have eventually led Orion to leading a mutiny against his father, Ganymede going mad from the power--or something else happened when he flicked the switch to affect his mind--and he eventually barricading himself in the lowest levels of the ship. Orion did say the security systems were activated after Ganymede locked himself away. And while the Captain was busy doing that, Orion had civilians assigned to corral the remaining passengers onto the escape pods while countless other crew members were killed trying to get to Ganymede. Orion's lucky he made it out alive.

We don't know how much time passed since then. A temporal anomaly's starting point is very difficult to pinpoint and I suspect the only person who knows for sure how long this has been going on is Ganymede himself. He could've been stuck here for years before the first of us began to arrive. There's so few of us left now, unfortunately. Ganymede probably continued to give announcements over the Sphere network even without a single passenger to hear him. He just wanted to hear his own voice and knowing he was in complete control without anybody to get in his way probably tickled him pink. For a time.

Now, the Captain's words did change after each reset, another correct point. However, each greeting he gave us after waking up from the reset was slightly different. He's probably had to adjust his little welcoming speech with each new change to the ship. He's in the bridge, so of course he'd be monitoring what's happening and when you've been with a ship for a very long time, you notice even the slightest detail that's missing or that's been changed.

Plus, the Captain's wise enough to pretend that he doesn't remember what's happened to him, but that's an act he started to drop a few months ago. We finally became something he couldn't ignore and I'm betting you're wondering how that could be possible. Aren't you?

[drivinsandrock]

That does indeed sound like it's plausible.

I do wonder why he can't ignore us now, why we can suddenly remember. Even why Orion can't.

[bit_impossible]

Ah well, some of us have been able to remember everything from when we first arrive onward--with the exception of the black holes themselves. Even if you've got the best mental blocks to prevent any sort of tampering with your mind, you'd forget about that. [doesn't sound the least bit bitter here, why do you ask?] I can only speculate why we've been allowed to remember the black holes this time around and usually the cause for a shift in the anomaly is due to something having been changed before the reset.

But to get back to why Ganymede remembers. He's been at the centre of the storm. Time will rewind on itself there still, but he'll still remember. And that's why we remember as well. The farther out you go from the nexus point, the less you'll remember, if anything at all. It could just be another day for you and you'd be none the wiser anything was amiss.

Orion, however, is a special case. By all rights, he should remember what happened, having been on the ship and in the bridge the past two times, but he came too close to the truth and I think as the reset took place, he sacrificed his memories in order we remembered ours. An equal exchange of sorts with whatever the device is that's causing this entire mess. Ganymede would never make such a sacrifice because doing so would rob him of every glorious moment he's had leading this ship to its doom every three months. Of course, turning up dead is also a good reason why he's retained his memories when the reset has occurred.

[drivinsandrock]

Your insights into Ganymede's personality are disturbing, but do ring true with his behavior.

[bit_impossible]

I've had quite a lot of time to observe him... [being trapped on a ship with no access to the main computers, consoles, bridge, or even his proper TARDIS can drive this Time Lord to boredom rather quickly.]