001 // voice.

[scopedrop]

-- On the off chance that anyone on board the Normandy is receiving this signal? This is Garrus Vakarian.

[ The voice that flickers on in a burst of static sounds like it has some kind of effect added to it -- like there are two tones, speaking at once, a lower-pitched hum barely audible underneath a more normal sounding voice. To anyone in the

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[cognitivist]

[ YEAH YOU WISH BUDDY ]

if it helps, several questions regarding the ship were answered here.

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[scopedrop]

Somehow, I don't think someone who can't tell us about the layout of his ship can be considered a Captain.

Or a useful source of information.

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[cognitivist]

i won't argue that, but it is what it is. he's presently our most reliable source for information.

[ lol like arthur even bothered sifting through the majority of the post anyway ]

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[scopedrop]

Assuming he can be trusted.

Have you spoken to him, then?

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[dontgethit]

Nothing strikes me as familiar but from how the 'crew' is talking, it should not.

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[scopedrop]

I was hoping they might be wrong.

Guess it was a long shot, anyway. I've never heard of any of this technology in my life.

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[dontgethit]

Same here. Most of the technology where I come from is close to this level but some of this stuff... I'm not sure what to make of it.

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[scopedrop]

Any form of travel that requires us to be in specialized units to prevent injury doesn't sound particularly stable.

At least there are a lot of us, around. [ a beat. ] Small comfort, but it's all we have.

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[goingsilent]

I'm pretty sure a post-saving the galaxy vacation was part of my contract when I signed up. Oh, well.

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[scopedrop]

At least you got it down on paper. I thought the vacation was a given.

I guess it could be worse.

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[goingsilent]

We could be getting turned into goo in order to build a giant human-Turian-Quarian-machine hybrid as we speak.

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[scopedrop]

I don't want to even begin to imagine what that looks like.

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[antifroze]

The technology is pretty straightforward with a handbook, but it's way too advanced to be anything Earth's space agencies have come up with.

[ Not commenting on the "saving the galaxy" portion of this broadcast. If it's anything like "saving half of the solar system", Mace gets it. ]

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[scopedrop]

[ the galaxy is bigger than the solar system and garrus clearly had the harder time!! ]

Doesn't look like any vessel I know, Alliance or not. Nothing else is familiar, either, and I can't say I care for what they've said about jumping.

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[antifroze]

[ SAME DIFFERENCE ]

Looks like it's not any vessel anybody knows. [ Which puts them all at a severe disadvantage but details, because it's not like they weren't disadvantaged already. ]

Alliance? That some kind of government where you're from?

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[scopedrop]

[ look you saved half a solar system. there are many of those in a galaxy ]

Yes, but not mine. Human Systems Alliance.

I take it's different, where you're from.

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[in_three]

Some of it looks familiar to me.

[but without getting elbow deep in some of the complexes, Jim can't be sure.]

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[scopedrop]

That's a start.

Nice knowing that we aren't stuck on a ship that's completely foreign to everyone on board.

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[in_three]

Just most of us, from the sounds of it.

[not very promising, but, what can you do.]

Once I get a better look at the systems I'll be able to see if my theories have any basis, but this ship is unlike anything the Federation I know has developed as of yet.

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[scopedrop]

Still better than all of us.

[ BRIGHT SIDE, JIM! ]

It's unlike anything I know. I take it that the Federation would be your equivalent of the human Systems Alliance I'm more familiar with -- so this is a human vessel, after all?