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[regulatingpressure]

Got two things to ask and one thing to offer. I'll try to make it short and sweet.


QUESTION 1: What destroyed or depopulated your version of Earth? Nukes, asteroids, zombies? If nothing did yet, what took the closest shot so far?

Same question if you're not from Earth - just swap out Earth for wherever you came from.

I'm not compiling a spreadsheet or anything. I guess it's just something I've wondered.


QUESTION 2: What are we even doing here? What's our destination? The purpose of the voyage? Who sent us, and why us? Maybe I missed something and by all means point me there if I did, but in less than a day, this ship sucks up more resources than the Ark could spare for a month.

I've been here for over a month now and I'm the first person I've seen ask anything like this so far. I want to think it's because we were up to our airholes in highly invasive nanotechnology. Or - like I said, maybe I missed the big 'who, what, where, and why' memo.


OFFER: I'm bored off my rocks, if you haven't picked up on that yet. I was a zero-G mech back on the Ark, and if that's not enough, I helped fix the thing that saved your asses pre-Jump. I can repair, rebuild, or build from scrap just about anything you can think of. So somebody give me a job before I start opening panels and improving whatever the hell's inside.

[ is she serious? she very well could be, so throw her a bone here, yeah? ]

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text; oh gosh galadriel. make her blush

[regulatingpressure]

[ that - that, she wasn't expecting. she announced her part to reinforce her credibility, not to get any kind of gratitude. ]

Didn't do it by myself.

[inafadingcrown]

I am aware. I do not think that makes your efforts any less worthy of praise.

[regulatingpressure]

Well thanks. I mean it.

[inafadingcrown]

You are most welcome. May I ask your name?

[regulatingpressure]

Raven Reyes.

What about you?

[inafadingcrown]

Well met. I am Galadriel.

[regulatingpressure]

Well met to you too.

[inafadingcrown]

[Too bad Raven can't hear the chuckle that follows that.] I take it that that is not the turn of phrase that you would have used then. [Can you tell she's amused? Probably not. But she is.]

[regulatingpressure]

Why, did I say it wrong?

[inafadingcrown]

You did, yes, but it is of no consequence. I understood you well enough.