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[encryptedlock]

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[supertorso]

We have computers? Why am I only hearing of this now?

Whatever it is, yes, I would love to look at it if someone will let me borrow their laptop or something. It has been waaaay too long since I've seen technology.

[encryptedlock]

Of course we have computers! We're not all stuck in the twelfth century.

And I think there's a couple of free terminals in the library. [You can't borrow his computer because, uh, it lives in his brain.]

[supertorso]

Whoever you are, I love you for bringing this to my attention. Having to transition to twenty-first century technology on Earth was bad enough, but I think I would've gone crazy in this place.

[ There's a loud whooshing noise and then the sound of a chair being pulled out. ] Okay, so what am I looking at?

[ Yes, she just ran at superspeed for the library. ]

[encryptedlock]

Name's York, and I'd be at a loss without tech myself.

[And he chuckles a bit.] Look for the star chart.

Filtered -- Placeholder

[inmylight_comdr]

[Also tends to go looking places she shouldn't, but didn't recognize anything. ]

Fascinating. Looks like Nagato put a lot of work into this.

What do you find familiar, though? I haven't seen anything yet that reminds me of home.

Filtered -- have a good vacation!!

[encryptedlock]

Delta said he scanned and nothing matched any known start charts from any of the colonies, but I was hoping--

[that a Spartan might recognize something he didn't]

Filtered -- will do! eventually! XD

[inmylight_comdr]

I'll make a point to study it a little more in depth later, but no, nothing struck me so far as being a reminder of home.

[A small pause, and then,] Noble Six would have had a definitive answer for you.

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[encryptedlock]

...You remember I told you Sierra-117 found something that changed the course of the war?

That something was Delta Halo.

York

[dontpatr0nizeme]

Hmm...

Very interesting. You see something familiar?

Wash

[encryptedlock]

Delta Halo doesn't ring a bell?

Seriously, am I the only one here who breaks into top-secret files on a regular basis?

York

[dontpatr0nizeme]

Maybe it does; maybe it doesn't.

And York, I was a bit busy to go beyond Command's top secret files for a while. Though I'm also not the one that specializes in that shit.

Wash

[encryptedlock]

You're an ass. [Sorry, he's freaking out a little right now. And he knows you were still around after the war, so you ought to recognize the Halos.]

Yeah, okay, but still. Why the hell would a book in the library have reference to something from our universe?

[cricketycricket]

I've spotted Kasterborous, yes...

Only, the troubling thing is, it's missing something very important.

[encryptedlock]

And Delta Halo isn't a constellation, but it's damn familiar to me.

What's missing?

[cricketycricket]

Something quite important, York: my home planet, Gallifrey. The TARDIS would've shown it in scans. Yet, there's Kasterborous, clear as day on the charts.

Some other star has taken the place of my home, York. That's made me rather peevish, to say the very least. I'm sure the sight of something named after that Halo of yours is just as unsettling...

[encryptedlock]

Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly how it feels.

...Don't suppose there's any matches on any of the star charts in your databases either? For the whole sky pattern, I mean.

[whiskeyless]

I would be happy to look at it. Is there anything specifically I should watch for?

[encryptedlock]

Yeah. Anything that seems out of place. So far, between three people we've recognized six constellations, but the kicker is they're all either from different sections of the galaxy, or they shouldn't be constellations at all.

[whiskeyless]

I don't recognize any constellations, though Pandora's Box and Baldr's Death are two myths in my world.

[encryptedlock]

Right. Greek for Pandora and...uh...the one with Thor for the other one.

[There's an echoy sigh as a somewhat mechanical voice corrects him.] Norse mythology.

Right. I knew that.