001 . Video

[coffeeking]

[Ianto pops up on screen with a professional smile. He's never bothered to introduce himself on the network before, but he's never had anything important to say to everyone until now.]

Now that everyone's had the chance to settle in, I was hoping you would all be kind enough to answer some questions.

Waking up here doesn't tend to be a pleasant experience, and I doubt it ever will be. But I believe it could be made just a bit less confusing and uncomfortable, if explanations and answers to questions are closer at hand. So the questions are simple ones:

What would you have liked to know immediately upon waking? What reassurances would you have liked to hear? Was the information you were given by others too sparse for comfort, too much to process in your immediate condition, or just too unbelievable? And if your first reaction was disbelief, what sort of evidence would you have liked to see?

My ultimate goal is to keep new arrivals as calm and well-informed as possible when they wake. The situation will never be pleasant or easy to swallow, but we can at least stave off some of the worst reactions and keep anyone from panicking.

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( perma!vid the sequel )

[payload]

Well. [ More consideration on Capa's part. If it were left to him, it'd be as simple as asking: what do you know and what can you handle but he understands that the whole point of this exercise is to make the transition as smooth as possible. ] I guess that depends on how you're looking to disseminate the information. Are we talking something face-to-face, like the way museum docents are on hand during a tour to answer questions? Or simply a burst packet of information uploaded to all the comms systems every jump?

(trilogies are overdone)

[coffeeking]

I was thinking a bit of both. A public greeting in person as well as some kind of recorded announcement. We can have an information packet for more detailed information that isn't quite as pressing.