XX1: Getting to Know You

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That debacle was pretty much something out of an extra terrestrial movie where various sentient beings are abducted from their home planets and jam-jarred for observation. The subjects are convinced that their confinement is inescapable, gradually assume complacency, and adapt to their new lives under the oppressive scrutiny of a humongous totalitarian microscope. They eventually all but forget Big Brother's watchful eyes behind concealed cameras recording everything down to the minutiae of their daily lives, and any genre-savvy movie enthusiast could easily tell you what's soon to follow.

It's actually not half bad. I'm sure someone out there has had it worse.

Let's get down to business. I'm taking a roll call.

Raise your hand if you're familiar with any of the following chumhandles:

• gutsyGumshoe
• tipsyGnostalgic
• golgothasTerror

If you're not one of them, that's also cool. I'm not going to be disappointed.

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[If only Dirk knew that they were opposite sides of the same coin. Being one of only two remaining members of humankind where he comes from makes him this paranoid.]

Same here.
Unfortunately, it appears that no one really knows who or what brought us here in the first place.
Even though we don't know why we're here, we're simply expected to run the ship and play house because the original crew went missing.
It's not that I mind having to get along with people if they're willing to do likewise,
I just don't see the point of running the ship with a mishmash of random people from different times and places.
There's got to be a catch, like this is observation or an experiment,
Because what other reason could there be?

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[swagneto]

[ Give them time, he'll get there. ]

Experimentation, more than likely. Why else would you deliberately mark us in a way that we can't rub it off? Forcing the number of us to get along will only end in failure, given the amount of dissenting opinions on board.