[audio] Comms PSA

[ryuuzaki]

[Filtered away from Charlotte Daniau and Joseph Davis.]

[L's voice is smoother than he is in person — low, slightly English-accented, calm and articulate and completely assured. He hasn't had much call to make public announcements on the ship in the past, but Nathan has left it in his lap this time, and he's not a stranger to addressing a crowd in this kind of capacity.]


Greetings. This is Ryuuzaki, speaking on behalf of the Communications Department.

The corrupted audio message sent by Charlotte Daniau originated in the Crew Quarters, which are located several levels below the bridge. Natasi has already transmitted the fully restored version of the recording, which matches ours.

Obviously, we would advise caution in entering that area, but we can confirm that it's currently accessible. Those of you who are interested in pursuing this might also check in with Security to see how they intend to handle it.

The other voice in the transmission appears to that of Joe Davis, the only passenger from the nineteenth jump. We don't know his status, but in my opinion -- [at this point, very slight irritation creeps into his voice] -- this recording throws any information we've received from him in the past into question.


[He knew they should have interrogated Joe properly, even as he wonders now if it would have done any good. If Joe was here on an operation, he might have been very hard to break.

In any case, while things don't sound good for The (Putative) Man From Pernambuco, this is all formatted with the express intent of not tipping off either Joe or Charlotte. It's possible that Charlotte could use the reassurance, but L doesn't think it's a risk worth taking.]


[OOC notes: This is the second half of the information needed to launch CharlotteQuest on the 6th. IC-ly, it should be considered to have happened just long enough after Caprica Six/Natasi's post for characters to have started thinking about what to do about what they heard and even for them to have started conversations about it on that earlier post, if you want (even if you haven't yet started them before this post went up, in OOC time). Another idea is for other characters who were working on this and whose players want it noted that they solved it to pipe up and confirm the accuracy of what was posted.

L will talk to anyone who seems to want to talk to him in particular, if that happens, but also feel free to use this post to continue making plans, volunteer, work things out, whatever! He probably won't get involved in those other kinds of conversations past a comment or two, and other Comms people may hop into them, too.]

Comments

voice;

[peckish4action]

OH and for all of you from the last jump tuning in, keep in mind that the next jump is likely to happen very soon, and you really want to be down in medbay and in the grav pods for it. Icky goo and everything.

Robin out.

Re: voice;

[ryuuzaki]

Yes. This is another reason for caution, if you're a recent arrival: you don't want to become trapped in the Crew Quarters this close to the upcoming jump.

However, if you decide to go exploring, Communications will keep an eye out for you as much as we can.

Just try not to make Tyke angry.

voice;

[jurisimpudent]

[ Just a little defensive: ]

Indeed, try not to, because Tyke's "anger" stems from people doing things that endanger them and the people around them. If Tyke is "angry," odds are it's because you've done something foolish that will hurt the people around you.

voice;

[51stcentury]

No shit it throws everything we've heard about him to the wind. What happened to the whole "the only thing I know about Tranquility I read in a history book" spiel?

[ryuuzaki]

The question would be the title of the book.

[An Ops manual? A debriefing? Sarcasm there, but it's obviously not directed at Jack; it's contempt directed at Joe, and at the general mistake of not having gone at him hard enough, collectively.]

But everything else, too. I'm not certain we can believe everything that he told any of us about van Rijn, although it may still be accurate, and there have been other possible sources -- Joe wouldn't have been completely aware of what we'd already heard, and he wouldn't have wanted to make the mistake of contradicting earlier sources too fully.

[51stcentury]

Well, a lot of the facts he shared seemed to back up earlier statements by Ward and Resnik. Not necessarily about Van Rijn per se, but about the universe at large. About Tranquility herself and why she was built, that sort of thing. There are other facts that have been backed up too. The only true question I really have at the moment is about Joe himself. The whole it having been fifty years between when Tranquility went missing and when he came aboard on Jump Nineteen isn't all that difficult a concept. Jaye already proved that time works differently during a jump, although anyone with a good grasp of jump mechanics and wormhole technology oughta know that. Of course, it makes an awfully good cover as well.

If you're interested in Van Rijn, though. We do know that Tranquility was Van Rijn's baby. And an expensive one at that. I've got some propaganda posters pilfered from the Cyllene to prove it. And word on the street on Arima didn't exactly paint a pretty picture about him either.

[Spending a lot of time trying to gather information about the whereabouts of the kidnapped crowd during that time, keeping his ear to the ground, Jack definitely got the chance to hear some things.]

[ locked to comms, 100% ]

[borndying]

Yo. Who the fuck is Joe?

[ locked to comms, 100% ]

[ryuuzaki]

We went into the stasis pods for the nineteenth jump and didn't wake up until after the twentieth.

We learned two things after that. The first was the missing number, along with the fact that there was a passenger who corresponded to it -- a farmer from a place called Pernambuco on Pasiphae who claimed that his name was Joseph Davis. All the new arrivals apart from him were 020s. The second was that we had been in stasis for about a year.

Please see the attached archives.

[ATTACHED:

Jaye claims it's been a year; there is confirming forensic evidence
Joe's initial statements ]

[ locked to comms, 100% ]

[borndying]

( save save save. harry really needs to up his stalking game, but he hadn't been digging that far back; had been more concerned with more recent events to put current passengers into context. )

Got it, thanks.

We probably would've looked less like we're clutching our undone pants to our collective ass if we'd looked for outside skills earlier. People here would fucking pick the least convenient minute to suddenly feel proactive.

( harry has remarkably little regard for most of the tranquility's passengers, although in fairness he's not really criticising natasi in that way, given...she is in medical, he can see it on her number. still, the pearl-clutching 'why didn't you tell security' is starting to grate on him. )

action

[cliver]

[ assuming they're all still in comms. Nothing is actually private on the network. ]

[ firmly, arms crossed. ] He's a good man.

[ She knows this looks bad, but she doesn't doubt Joe after spending time with him aboard the Cyllene. He protected her. ]

[ryuuzaki]

[His eyes widen a little, indicating that he's raised the eyebrows that must be living somewhere under his thatch of dark hair, and emphasizing his words.]

His cover identity is a good man. A cover identity would only have been successful if he had acted in accordance with it. He needed us to think he was a good man... whether or not he is one is irrelevant.

text;

[puppydogeyes]

Certainty of accuracy?

[For the tracking, she means.]

text;

[mindtricks]

What do you intend to do?

[ she's asking in the interest of inter-departmental cooperation and out of respect for SEC's role aboard this ship. ]

text;

[puppydogeyes]

Send a team down there.
Recon + retrieval.

[If there's anything other than a communications device to retrieve, that is.]

text;

[peckish4action]

It's good. The signal was from there. The information wouldn't have gone out, otherwise.

text;

[puppydogeyes]

[The last line peaks her irritation, not liking the implication that her checking was wasted words.]

I know how comms operates with release of information.
Last I heard your tracking tech was still leaving a shitton of breathing room.
Confirmation was necessary to assess number of bodies needed.

text;

[cliver]

High certainty. We've all reached the same conclusion.

And I want to be a part of your team for this, too.

text;

[cargojet]

I'd like Clara to be involved. Maybe she can find more information on the communication if she gets close enough to its source.

[mindtricks]

Thank you for the information.

[ her voice is business-like, brusque in the way of a soldier.

she liked joe — but that doesn't matter now. what matters is that they've unearthed some information and it might be a trap, but it might not be and that alone means they need to check it out, learn more. ]

text;

[cliver]

[ She's putting it on the network publicly, rather than under a filter of some kind, because she wants people to know her opinion on this. ]

I don't think that it's necessarily damning.

[ #leavejoealone ]

action?

[peckish4action]

[ Yeah, Robin's following stuff. He's restless, okay? ]

You all right?

action!

[cliver]

[ She's keeping a close eye on it, too, jumping in where she can (trying not to come off as too naive or stubborn in her defense of Joe). It's hard for Clara — putting the bigger picture above the individuals she knows.

She keeps her arms crossed, obviously a little frustrated by the conclusions others are endorsing. ]

I'm fine. [ ish. ] It's Joe I'm worried about.

text;

[expect]

( he was going to make this a general question, but spotting someone familiar he hones in: )

What the hell is going on here?

text; info dump ahoy

[cliver]

Charlotte Daniau either intercepted, recorded, or unearthed an exchange between two individuals, seemingly regarding the state of the Tranquility.

Charlotte is presumably a member the original Tranquility crew, loyal to Captain Gallagher (the first captain, unseated in murky circumstances, with his current status equally murky). A few jumps back she made her presence known to us by damaging key ship systems and equipment in an attempt to stop the drive — the jump drive, that is, which is propelling us through time and space to an unknown location. She wasn't entirely in her right mind, particularly considering her memory gaps and perception of time. In fact, she may have been temporally displaced. Notably, she believed the jump drive to be the source of our trouble and implied that half of the original crew has become murderous. I have theories about that, but we'll stick to facts for now. Essentially, she was saying what you and I know to be true better than most: time energy corrupts.

If the drive is as dangerous as she thought, it may have done just that. Regardless, I assume she failed on all accounts, as passengers like ourselves combated her efforts by repairing the damage to the ship, and we are still experiencing jumps. Notably, she stated that if we all died, but the drive was destroyed, it would be worth it in the end. She also helps out in medical, though I suspect she avoids interaction with other members of the department when possible, which leads me to believe she has our best interests in mind.

She recently attempted a second-hand transmission, but the result was scrambled, to say the least, possibly by an outside source (or simply the conditions of the ship itself). Natasi broadcasted the clearest version of the transmission salvageable just a few hours ago. As far as I can tell, Charlotte is NOT the female voice in the recording.

However, the male voice belongs to Joseph Davis, a mysterious passenger who arrived with the number nineteen in his nanites during the twentieth jump. It seemed as though everyone else remained in stasis for the duration of the nineteenth jump, except Jaye, who survived outside the pods because of her shape shifting ability. The amount of time that she perceived as passing during the jump was far more than we suspected. She and forensic evidence confirm that a year passed. She was never the same after that.

For his part, Joe is largely unassuming, claiming to only know of the Tranquility through the media on his home planet. However, he did support Van Rijn, the man who commissioned the Tranquility. Of course, it sounds like most people did.

I've spoken to him several times and consider him a friend. When the ship docked at a space station, he accompanied me and helped me return safely. As far as I'm concerned, this does not prove he was lying to us or anything of the sort.

[ | ATTACHED:
JOSEPH'S ARRIVAL
JAYE'S EXPLANATION
CHARLOTTE VS. ENGINEERING
CHARLOTTE'S FAILED TRANSMISSION
NATASI'S EXTRACTION ]

[ryuuzaki]

Call it extremely suspicious.

[#teamINFORMATION]