[voice] [locked to all player characters]

[ryuuzaki]

[You may know the drill: the low, calm, somewhat English-accented voice of a young man.]

This is Ryuuzaki, speaking for Communications.

From the viewpoint of network traffic, there are still no signs of any new arrivals this jump. The department will let you know if anyone turns up.

Those of you who have been monitoring the length of jumps: do you know how long this one lasted? Is it possible to tell whether or not we've moved at all?

Did anyone find new items in their lockers?

We can't check on the drive itself, but we can determine whether or not there's anything further to discuss.

[Talk of past jump drive malfunctions leads to concern about potential current ones... other than the usual. Or does the lack of new arrivals mean it's now functioning as it's supposed to?]

Comments

no worries boo!!

[wiped]

Something's different about the jump. Lydia and I were tracking it, but it went backward last month. The star charts we made matched up.

slides in here hi

[circumitus]

it went backwards?
can you tell how far back we went?

heyyyyyyyyyy

[wiped]

We're missing pieces, so it's hard to tell for sure. But the map matched up with one from two jumps ago.

Rey took the words right out of his fingers.

[ryuuzaki]

Has it ever matched up before, that you're aware of?

mindmeld activate.

[wiped]

Maybe. We're missing records, but we're going back through what we have.

[ryuuzaki]

It could be a coincidence. I've never been aware of any indication that we've been on a straight trajectory in a single direction; if the ship is trying to stay lost, for want of a better way of putting it, then some randomness and apparent inefficiency in terms of the route might apply. If it is a coincidence, though, it's a weird one... a little too close for comfort for the return visit to be to a location where we were so recently.

[wiped]

I don't think it could be a straight line, with the way it moves. But nothing's matched up like this before that we know of. I can tell if you if that changes.