Fail locked to Communications Dpt

[cargojet]

09:07
Bridge is ours. No resistance encountered.

09:12
Doors locked. Not opening from the inside. Attempting manual release. Request assistance.

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[cargojet]

I mean hypothetically--okay, so hypothetically, the Jump drive is turned on and it doesn't work how it's supposed to, or something's gotten in there, and say the ship gets ripped apart in that instant. But say, because of the way it travels, because it's experimental, because you should never fuck with time and space, that instead of exploding like BOOM it instead explodes across said time and space, so that what is left is echoes, and we're somehow coming instead toward that explosion instead of moving away from it. And the increasing heat down that side of the ship is just one part of it.

I'm not a scientist, so some reassurance I'm not talking out of my ass would be great.

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[starked]

Implying half of us don't talk out of our ass. Knowledge or no knowledge about it—

[ Everyone bullshits to be honest. ]

That's one option of what could happen. Time's messy and not— You're not supposed to fuck with it because you wouldn't know something's going wrong. Not really. Unless you're in tune to that sort of shit. For that entire thing to work though— if you're arguing that the echoes are all heading to the same end point, the boom, the colder parts are farther away. Or have to be.

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[cargojet]

I know all about not fucking with time. On the other hand, sometimes you have to fuck with it. Sometimes the act of not fucking with it in the first place is what fucks it, and sometimes fucking it is what stops it getting fucked. Trust me, I've done by fair share of time travel bullshit before we got here. I don't get the science, cause back home there never was any, but I get the basic idea: you don't fuck with time, time fucks with you.

And yeah, that would sort of be the idea. Like the gardens being tropical, and the medical bay being uncomfortably cold. Shuttle bay's a good temperature, and residencies are unpredictable, like, you know--like someone's twiddling a thermostat somewhere, and it's gone haywire.

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[starked]

So many fucks in such a small space. It's accurate though, contrary to what just about— actually no The Time Machine was faintly accurate. But everyone thinks it's fine but you change anything in the past, you fuck up and the future probably sucks.

Not someone— the differences don't make sense for someone to be twiddling them unless you've got a lot of tentacles attached to you. Computer system, someone programming it that way and making it appear normal when you look for it, now that could work.

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[cargojet]

You're going to have to run that second part past me again.

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[starked]

Forgot you're not me.

K. Something goes wrong because you've put some virus or are just fucking around with a system. People trying to find it should see where it's coming from and either neutralize it or fix it. Or say fuck it and we're screwed. Unless you've got whatever you're doing set up— to seem completely normal. Like a cloak. We can't see you breaking shit or where the shit's being broken because everything looks normal.

Even though it's clearly not.

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[cargojet]

So like running a loop on a surveillance camera?