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[fullmoon]

Is this quiet permanent? It's a little unnerving.

[ He means the literal quiet from the engines powering down, not the metaphorical quiet from the absence of overt disaster. The metaphorical quiet can stay. ]

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[technologist]

I don't know, why does a ship usually go into standby in the middle of space clouds?

[ Which is a sarcastic question, although. ]

Stealth?

[alsohawkeye]

[ right and computer metaphors aren't wasted on her at all BUT KATE KNOWS BASIC SCIENCE HI ]

Do we have access to the sort of sensors that could pick up if there was something else nearby?

[technologist]

Not here. On the bridge, maybe? The ship's managed to locate & dock at stations before.

[overdraws]

[ wow no need for sarcasm B( ]

so we're hiding from something
or someone

[ It's not meant to be a question, it's a serious consideration on Allison's part. ]

i don't know anything about how space works but would it be possible for someone to find us all the way out here?

[technologist]

Not likely, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

[ And a pause to be vaguely creeped out, because the question rings a bell. ]

Wasn't there something about transmissions coming from outside the ship? Last month. Jump, whichever.

continues threadjacking away lalala

[alsohawkeye]

Yeah, Jax and one of the French guys got weird messages in the last couple months that claimed to be coming from somewhere else.

Do we have any idea what the cloud's properties are? Could it hide us, make our signal harder to find or disrupt transmissions or something?

how rude

[technologist]

You'd have to ask comms about the last one, engineering hasn't got the access. But hiding out here's probably more about sensors than visibility, so it's possible.

We've had people out on the hull before. I'd suggest getting a closer look, but there's no guarantee it's safe.

[overdraws]

...there was.
i take it back
i'm glad we're hiding

[technologist]

Assuming that's what we're doing.

And if we are, we don't even know from what. Did they ever figure out who it was?

[overdraws]

not that i know of
is there any way to tell if someone's following us at all?

[technologist]

We've never tried, so I'm not sure what we've got access to. Maybe via comms, if nothing else.

But if the points of contact were a month or more apart, I'd think there's some following involved.

[overdraws]

there might be a way to back through the network and check and see if the contact there were between multiple jumps? that's where some of the contact happened, right?

[technologist]

I think the passengers were contacted directly, but there were at least two reports on the network.

[ And after a delay to check: ]

Yeah. Either they've got one hell of a range on their equipment or they've managed to follow us between jumps.

[overdraws]

awesome.

[ Meant in that way that it is totally not awesome. ]

so the ship went into stealth mode, presumably, to hide us from whatever's following us.
here's hoping they don't find us.

[technologist]

Don't know if I'd jump to that conclusion, necessarily. For all we know it's a rescue.

[ Doubtful, but also screw this ship tbh. ]

[overdraws]

considering everything else this place has thrown at us, do you really think we're lucky enough for a rescue?

[ It's an honest question. She wants to believe!! ]

[technologist]

Well, we are on a ship capable of abducting people from different times and dimensions. I'd say anything's possible, really.

[ Have some vague semi-belief ?? super comforting. ]

[overdraws]

[ BETTER THAN NOTHING?? ]

that's good? i think