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[ The video feed clicks on to reveal Robert Capa — a man in his mid-thirties with shaggy hair (still damp from the tube where he awoke) and a five o'clock shadow and narrow shoulders covered by the ship's uniform he found in the locker marked with his identifying number. His eyes, bright blue, are particularly striking in that they are wholly calm, despite the latest series of events. The rest of his face is calm as well, the muscles of which never really rearrange themselves much to convey this emotion or that. When he speaks his voice is measured and even, though there is a certain start-stop to the cadence.

His words are prefaced with an inhale. It seems to steady him. ]

I guess I should start with the obvious question. We can figure out where to go from there, depending how the answers trend. [ Capa rubs his chin; the scrape of his stubble is audible. ] Is anyone here part of the ship's natural crew?

[ He pauses, letting that inquiry and whatever implications it may carry set in. There's a vague flicker of emotion, maybe worry, in the set of his mouth but it's as understated as the rest of him. ] And maybe, more importantly: can anyone recall how they got here?

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The problem here is that obvious questions usually only lead to obvious answers.

I'm no scientist, but it seems like you'll be sifting through a lot of obvious answers just to find one or two outliers.

Edited 2011-12-08 16:29 (UTC)

Well, better you than me. Do you have a lot of experience with breaking systems?

I suppose so. But that doesn't mean you can get good at one by getting good at the other. I guess there's nothing to suggest that breaking this particular "system" would help us, anyway.

Edited 2011-12-08 18:43 (UTC)

Smart. I prefer pounding the pavement myself, metaphorically speaking, but everyone has their own strengths.

A bit of a jack of all trades, really. Mostly, I'm an art dealer.

A space art dealer, in fact. Trekking across the known galaxy in search of hot, new artistic talent to bring back to my clients. It's a lot more fun than you might think.

You'd get a better answer out of an engineer, but the way I understand it, we blast a bunch of element zero with electricity which creates a field that shrinks the mass of a ship to a point where FTL is possible. Mass effect fields? Ever heard of them?

But you do have FTL space travel?

So this must be like waking up in a storybook for you.

Well, you do seem to be keeping a level-head about it. From an outside perspective, at least.

[ THIS IS SHOULD OBVIOUSLY EXPLAIN EVERYTHING, KASUMI. ]

That explains everything, obviously.

And makes fewer things seems completely impossible, which cuts down on what takes you by surprise, I bet.

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