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[priceoffreedom]

I can't say I know very much about space, or how this spaceship works, but I have a few questions.

What does it run on, and who's piloting?

And is there a reason that we can stop by at the nearest planet and get off this thing? Anything has to be better than this, right?

[There's a pause.]

If these are stupid questions, I'd rather you just explain why, and spare me the sarcasm.

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[brassbucket]

No sarcasm here. I'll let the hows and the whys for people who've been here longer to answer, but...

This ship is the only place we know could return us to our own places, times, universe, and so on. If you get off and get left behind, you're likely never going to see it again, or anything that you're meant to do and live through, back home. Not everybody's trying to return, but some of us must.

It's not a reason why we can't. But it's a pretty important argument against trying to do it, for a lot of us.

[priceoffreedom]

I'm saying park the ship. Is there a reason we can't do that?

Outside of the fact that no one seems to know how we're getting from point a to point b in the first place.

[starbuckslord]

I dunno if there's anything stopping us from getting off this thing, but we have to consider if this is the only place with any sort of technology capable of getting us home.

Even if it's just an accident of the jumps, we've gotta figure out what's making it happen and maybe reverse engineer it. Without blowing ourselves up in the process.

[ Optimist, much? ]

[priceoffreedom]

Do you feel optimistic about that, Peter?

[dino_zarf]

We can't even reach the controls. The only thing any of us can actually pilot are the shuttles. And that means we don't control whether we get close enough to anything we can shuttle to.

We could drop folk off on a planet, but most of us are more interested in home than anything else.

[THere are exceptions, of course. The kid on the flight crew sure didn't seem keen to go back. But he definitely is. Get home. Meet that baby.]

[priceoffreedom]

How feasible do you think it is to say on board, in the long term?

[iceboxed]

we're only here because of the tranquility
who says we get to leave it

[priceoffreedom]

[S I L E N C E]

What's your name?

[overdraws]

I haven't really been here very long, just a couple of jumps.. but from what I've been told, we can't really get to the bridge to pilot it.

[priceoffreedom]

Yeah, I'm getting that idea. It's not exactly reassuring.

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[lostsoldier]

[ Not answering at all is tempting, but— it's important, getting information out and getting people thinking is important, so he flips the anon switch instead, for all the good it does since Loki's little stunt. ]

jump 030 plenty of people tried to get off for good at arima station but experienced increased anxiety about needing to returning to the tranquility the longer they were there
not one of them got away

which means even if we could get off, it's going to be a little more complicated than that

[priceoffreedom]

Do you think it has something to do with the Jumps?

[trusted]

I was there. The locals didn't take much of a shine to us either. Even without intervention elsewhere, I wouldn'tve called it hospitable.

Worth the trip for the girls at the card tables, though.

Ever stopped anywhere that actually looked like home?

[favouring]

During his time here, Nathan Petrelli staged an attempted takeover of the bridge - unmanned, but not unprotected. It was, regrettably, a failure. Some who were involved remain aboard, and may be willing to discuss it with you.

We do not know who is in control of the ship, or how they control it. We do know that we don't.

[priceoffreedom]

Or, what it runs on, either, it seems.

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[forgodssake]

no access to piloting capabilities and attempts at obtaining access have been met with failure

the last colonised territory we found was a criminally overrun asteroid

finding "the nearest planet" with habitable terrain and atmosphere is its own astronomically unlikely mission even if we did possess piloting capabilities

the shuttles don't possess sufficient life support for far enough reaching recon missions to find such places

we would first need to unlink ourselves to the mysterious forces that bind us to the ship and I am not all the way convinced nanite removal would do the trick

sorry to repeat what others have said before but I thought I might as well be thorough
and this isn't to say I wouldn't try to leave, if we could
it could be our best chance at survival

[priceoffreedom]

I appreciate your thoroughness.

So the anxiety we feel when we go off-ship, you're saying it's linked to the nanites.

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[pushesback]

[Oh. It's the good twin.]

You know...even if we could get off at the next stop, I'm not sure I would.

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[priceoffreedom]

Nick.

Why?

[IN THE ROOM]

[trusted]

Nice try.

[Bucky's sprawled back in a chair, feet up on the polish of the desk.]

I see what you're at.

[LIKE A BOSS]

[priceoffreedom]

[He just moves Bucky's feet off the desk.]

Aren't you smart.

[He does give him a grin, though.]

[skjalf]

As others have said, at the moment it seems impossible to leave. But I am convinced there is a way, which may be found if we pool our skills and resources together.

( because optimism is so much better than moroseness in their grim situation. )

I intend to learn about the stars we sail among, sir. Others know much of the inner-workings of this ship. In time, my hope is our knowledge will be such that escape will be within the grasp of all.

[priceoffreedom]

What makes you think that there's a way off?

[klutziness]

well first off as i'm sure you've heard 5743943 times by now we can't actually get to the control room
second: let me tell you pretty much all the places we've stopped since i've been on this ship have sucked
like hardcore
at least we generally know what we're up against on the s.s. horrorship
plus if we don't smiley usually gives us some kind of heads up

[priceoffreedom]

The red...colon and parenthesis?