[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Tranquility - the last transmission on the network was not a hoax. We have been boarded.

All non-combat personnel should keep to their quarters at the present moment. Further instructions will follow.

Note please that the boarders are able to hack all transmissions, including those which are highly encrypted. Do not discuss tactical information over the network. Do not discuss extraneous things. We do not know what will be of use to these brigands, and we need to deny them as much information as possible. Keep silent; keep vigilant; updates to come.

Comments

voice

[triedtobe]

[ He is so unimpressed with you right now... along with a lot of other people. ]

Maybe you should take a step back, think for a second, and shut the fuck up.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

[What the shit bro]

Excuse me?

voice

[triedtobe]

[ he doesn't like your face is that valid ]

Whatever impression you're trying to make is starting to look like shit.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

Whatever impression - I am trying, sir, to provide instructions to keep people safe.

voice

[triedtobe]

By dragging them off and y'know, leaving your plans where everyone can see?

voice

[jurisimpudent]

Excuse me. What part of me exhorting people not to discuss extraneous things, precisely, meant that I was leaving plans where everyone could see? You're trying to pick a fight on flimsy grounds. A piece of advice: stop.

voice

[triedtobe]

It's not flimsy when it's right there.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

Sir, I do not even know what you're objecting to.

voice

[triedtobe]

[ seriously, 'sir'? that's gonna make him snap before anything else. ]

The fact that you'll drag people to safety if you have to? That you're still talking about it all on the network? You said not to discuss tactical information, but you're still discussing. It's your prerogative-- hell, I don't give a shit what you end up doing, but you ever thought of talking to someone in person?

voice

[cargojet]

If I were given to guess, I's say you brought this down on you when you suggested you would drag people off for their own safety.

To be fair I agree with him. It was either a poor idea or poor choice of words, Miles.

[ He's watching this like a hawk. ]

voice

[jurisimpudent]

[Tautly:] It was neither.

voice

[cargojet]

Then maybe it was both?

voice

[jurisimpudent]

Sir, neither. I don't see what's difficult to understand.

voice

[cargojet]

Then explain it to me. What are you gonna do when people want to stay put? Like me, for example?

voice

[jurisimpudent]

I am going to explain to you why that is astonishingly stupid, and explain to you that heroics have never done anything save get people killed. And that heroics over equipment are phenomenally stupid.

voice

[cargojet]

Without this equipment, Miles, the lives you're saving are worth nothing.

voice

[triedtobe]

Pretty sure it falls directly under the abuse of authority, which more than a few people around here should know the definition of.

voice

[cargojet]

At least I had the decency to do it in secret. If I hadn't the country would have rioted. They'd have wanted my head.

voice

[triedtobe]

But you're doing it for their safety.

[ He's actually not mocking you this time. Go Figure. ]

voice

[cargojet]

He's young, Peter.

voice

[triedtobe]

[ excuse him while he clears his throat for a moment -- this should be touching. ]

'But that's not how it'll come at you in a game, Pete. You gotta be ready for anything.' [ ahem. ] So we get to go easy on him?

voice

[cargojet]

[ He twitches, but. ]

A game is a bit different to trying to prevent all out war against space pirates, when what you've got is a rabble, half of which want order and the other blood.

That's not baseball, Pete. We weren't having it easy at twenty, but I'm pretty sure we weren't doing this.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

What the hell, both of you. I am talking about ensuring that people don't walk into the line of - Yes, a grand violation of civil liberties, making sure people don't walk out there amongst murderous pirates!

voice

[cargojet]

You're proposing martial law, Miles.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

No I am not. I'm proposing keeping people out of gunfire.