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[letsgetdrunk]

[A well-groomed and well-dressed woman in her mid-thirties appears on the feed, speaking in very business-like clipped tones and for those from Earth, she is clearly English.]

My name is Adelle DeWitt.

I have been aboard this ship for a few weeks now and I am interested in learning more about it, the mission and how so many came to be here via this jump system.

If any one has any pertinent information they care to share, I would be glad to hear it. I am sure many others have previously inquired as to such things and if there are any dossiers around I could peruse, all the better.

That is all.

Comments

[video]

[glassesonachain]

[Bennett smiles awkwardly, not sure if Ms. DeWitt will recognize her or not.]

I'm still relatively new to the whole...space thing so. Any information I give probably wouldn't be entirely accurate so I'll...refrain. From that. Information giving. There should be files and things floating around, though.

Hi, I'm Bennett. You, ah. I'm not sure if you'd remember but I, we've met. Back home. Not in space.

[video]

[letsgetdrunk]

[Oh, Bennett, she recognises you. Most definitely.]

I do recall you, Miss Halverson. I was following your career with interest, after all.

How long have you been here?

[video]

[glassesonachain]

Oh good. It's nice to...sort of know someone from my world. The world I was previously from. I mean, I knew of Dr. Brink before but I never met him in person until now.

But ah, I've been here for one jump, now. Which is about a month, I think.

[video]

[letsgetdrunk]

...you had not met him in person? Then this must be one of those time phenomena I have heard of.

Then we must have arrived in the same 'jump'.

[video]

[glassesonachain]

Yes, he...mentioned that. Timelines being out of sync. I know that I'm supposed to meet him in my future but that's...largely irrelevant now since we're all stuck here.

[video]

[letsgetdrunk]

What is the last thing you remember before arriving here?

[video]

[glassesonachain]

Well, I was working on my neural engineering dissertation while watching a movie with my friend. I was in Tucson. That was about it.

My life is terribly uneventful, I'm afraid.

[video]

[letsgetdrunk]

Was your friend your roommate? [Adelle pretends to take a moment to recall the name, as if she was remembering a fact she had come across in her following of Bennett's career.] Caroline something?

[video]

[glassesonachain]

Yes, ah. Her name is Caroline.

[video]

[letsgetdrunk]

I thought I recalled it. Of course, all the study is for a brilliant cause - you will have a very fulfilling career at Rossum.

[video]

[glassesonachain]

Right. Will. If I ever get off this ship. Always good to know I have a career waiting for me if I don't get slaughtered by monsters here.