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Hi, everyone.

My name's Richard Rider, I'm of Earth - Terra - twenty first century, and Nova Prime of the Nova Corps, originally of Xandar. And I work for Security here.

Anyway, just wanted to say, since I don't think I've seen anybody talking about it so far. If I'm speaking out of turn, sorry.

One can again enter the unlit corridors away from the inhabited areas of the ship. I say again, though that's not exactly been the case since I showed up here, but anyway.

Those corridors are dangerous. I know I, nor anyone, can actually stop people from going there, [ never mind that Rich is not very fine with the idea of fear controlling one's decisions ] but if you're a recent arrival, please look into the posts made about the recon missions. Look into what happened to Commander Shepard and one member of her team. Talk to people who've been here for a while about it.

Don't go in there blind. Even if you feel you're all alone here, or you're bored out of your mind - your life, and what might happen to you there, does matter. Try to keep as safe as you can.

Thanks for your attention. Nova Prime out.

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It would have been more prudent to let people assume they were still inaccessible, if you're concerned about wanderers.

You think ignorance actually protects people?

What an absolutely idiotic conclusion to jump to. Are you going to be able to have a conversation or are you just going to react with escalating idealistic nonsense that's not got any actual relevance to the situation?

Okay, sure. If you can explain to me how 'let people assume they were still inaccessible' has no actual relevance to 'ignorance.' I mean, if I've found out that they're no longer inaccessible, others will, too.

No, the situation is the hallways and safety, trying to turn it into a freedom of information issue is absurd. Yes, people who are going to go try them will try them regardless, but now additional people might because they know they can. Aren't you on security? Was there any kind of briefing in your department about how to handle the hallways or dissemination of that information?

I wasn't going that far, it was really a question. I don't know, I'd have been more likely to assume people wouldn't try if there weren't, what. Two? Three? posts in a row about people being bored. This way at least there's some chance that they won't mistake the dark places for entertainment.

[ Severus is not entertaining that "question"; if this guy has really read the recon reports, he should be able to match this ID# with the one who posted the last one. Obviously Severus doesn't think keeping people ignorant protects them. ]

I'll take that as a no about security.

[ Rich is not at his best, and he's used to somebody else - mostly Worldmind - keeping track of details. Or Peter. But, well. It's his mistake, really, more than anything else. ]

Probably my fault. Well, my timing here's fault.

[ ... not like everybody's been up to full capacity since the issue's become relevant again. So, affirmative on Rich not having had a briefing. ]

[ Don't lose any sleep over it, Rich, no one is ever good enough for Professor Jerkface's impossible and often hypocritical standards. Also he just kind of wanted to know what SEC's stance on it was. For reasons. ]

What's your interest in it?

[ Rich just tends to take on way too much of the responsibility. Or blame. ]

In the corridors? Or in security?

The corridors.

[ D u d e. ]

[ It takes a moment, and Rich's response is a little more careful. ]

For this message, to keep people from going into them without being aware of the danger. Personally? I want to know what gives this ship the power to reach across worlds and time to bring people here and alter them as it does. Chances are that at least part of the answer is in those unlit areas. I kind of want to just fly in there and find it but I'm more... the muscle in any operation than the brains. I have responsibilities to people here. So I'm staying put until there's either a new organized effort to explore them which will provide at least some measure of safety to everyone else, or until finding out what's there becomes more urgent than everything else.

[ But how did he know the corridors are accessible again without actually going into them? Severus decides not to ask, since the answer is obvious; he is admitting to not being the brains of any operation, at least. Merlin. ]

What do you think you could bring to an expedition that would benefit it?

[ .. Not that he thinks Rich could survive a week on a small team with Erik without getting trapped in a metal pretzel, but. ]

[ Security. Patrols. He's one of those who occasionally check the higher floors, too, and he occasionally looks into the dark hallways, just in case. He realized the resistance was gone. Waited a day or so to see if anybody would warn people, but instead only saw people talking about being bored. Well, yeah. He made the announcement. ]

[ ... plus, while Rich's intelligence is above average, he tends to compare himself with his genius baby brother and with Worldmind, basically the gestalt knowledge of a millennia-old culture. It's complicated. ]

Well, I'm nearly indestructible, and even with the limitations of my access to the Nova Force here, I can probably tow the entire ship through space. When I say I'm the muscle... I'm some serious muscle. Oh, and fast, too. I mean, not speedster fast, more like human rocket fast.

[ Metal pretzels are not a problem. ]

[ Personality conflicts leading to metal pretzels, however, would definitely be a problem. And that's where Severus is caught up. Mostly. Seeing the endorsement from Miles "most likely on the ship to go into histrionics at the drop of a hat and assault other passengers" Edgeworth isn't helping instill any faith. ]

I'll keep that in mind.

[ But, hey, one of the humans might die! ]

[ Ah, politics. Rich hates it, even if - once he gets his footing - he can be actually very good at getting people working together towards a common goal. A whole interspecies army of it, really. And he tries not to get people killed, though the success rate of that depends on the enemy, as usual. ]

Yeah. There wouldn't be so many casualties if there wasn't something to be found there.

I'm quite aware.

[ Seeing as he's actually been. ]

Yeah, probably. Just giving my reasoning.

[ And it's not just 'there're dark hallways, gotta find out what's there!' ]

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