[video; open]

[51stcentury]

[Viewers are greeted by a charmingly dashing white smile, easy and confident without being cocky, shining blue eyes and the face of a 1950's matinee idol. He's dressed in his customary outfit of braces and greatcoat, his very presence commanding your attention]

Hey there, kids. So it's come to my attention that there are some of us a little more used to this whole traveling in space thing, am I right? I mean. There are some of us on here who have literally never even heard of the idea, which. Is charming, really it is. But that means that this whole Tranquility thing has gotta be more than a bit of a shock. So here's where I'm going to be taking a poll.

How many of you are familiar with travel in space? How many of you have heard of it, but never dreamed you'd do it yourself? How many of haven't even dreamed of traveling the stars?

I figure if we cover that much at least, we'll be able to determine how many of us need a bit more explanation than the fact that we seem to be on some sort of large passenger vessel traveling through some undetermined part of some unknown galaxy. Vague, I know, but I haven't exactly found a viewing screen yet, have you? That's where the rest of us come in. Maybe, with your help, we can figure this all out.

[He goes to reach forward to turn off the video feed, before a thought comes to him and he stops, a more mysterious look in his eyes as he does] I don't suppose that any of you are familiar with time travel...?

Comments

[goingsilent]

I guess that depends on what you mean by "not too happy." I'm not as upset as a lot of people. But I'm not a big fan of mysteries -- unless I'm the one causing them. [ From her tone, it sounds like that last part, at least, is a joke. ]

[51stcentury]

You and me both. [Jack chuckles, with a grin] So long as you're not running around screaming questions at people and being generally hysterical about being here, [Eridan] you're off to a good start.

[goingsilent]

I'm sympathetic to the people who have never been anywhere near space. But there's also nothing wrong with an adventure, even if it's an unexpected one.

[51stcentury]

It is a little jarring that there's no warning of how or why we're here, and I understand that there are those who'd want to desperately get back to where and when they were. [Jack would, if he had been stolen a year ago]

I mean. I'm still not too happy with the amount of information we just don't know about all of this.

[goingsilent]

I can understand that, especially when what we have managed to gather together isn't particularly reassuring.

[51stcentury]

The fact that we had to gather it together rather than being told in the first place isn't particularly reassuring in and of itself.