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[brassbucket]

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.

Comments

[brassbucket]

[ Rich... has a great faith in the ability of individuals to change. He also thinks that any collective is far, far more inert. Not impossible to change. But less likely. ]

[ ... and he certainly means it in a far more ambiguous way than 'boys will be boys.' He means that people, when tossed in a new place with little to anchor them for a while, will react in similar ways to other groups in extreme situations - sometimes with the best, sometimes with the worst, always with at least an attempt to retain freedom, as they may perceive it. Not always extremely productive. ]

Yeah. There's always exceptions, but. Sounds like, odd as we bunch here may be, there's still people who're a bit... rash.

[mindtricks]

[ that isn't something anderson would argue with. ]

Hopefully not too many.

[brassbucket]

[ He tries not to be stupid. He really does. ]

Did it happen a lot, with random people, before they... stopped being available, a couple of jumps back?

[ ... a small beat, as an unexpected thought occurs to him. ]

D'you think that might've had something to do with the different nanites, or something like that?

[mindtricks]

It could have.

[ she's not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination, but she knows scientists. maybe she'll ask. ]

[brassbucket]

[ Rich rubs his face, though he abstains from a sigh that would come through. ]

Not that it helps us much, but I guess any data might help, eventually.

[mindtricks]

Do you have any contact with scientists?

[brassbucket]

... well, none other than social, but I know where to find 'em.

[mindtricks]

It might be useful to bring this up to them, if they haven't considered it already.

[ ~*~ COMMUNICATION ~*~ ]

[brassbucket]

Yeah, good point. I'll do that, thanks for the direction.

You got any suggestion for which one to go to?

[mindtricks]

I'd talk to William Tsang.

[brassbucket]

Got it.

Thanks, and stay - as safe as this place calls for.

[mindtricks]

You too.