† 009 [31 july, shortly after fitz's post]

[klutziness]

[even though the feed is garbled, rikkus' frustration and something akin to fear are clear in her voice]

Don't be ▒▓▒▓ing idiots. Get to medbay or somewhere not en▒▓neering! Trust me, you don't want a▒▓ of what's here.

[there's a short pause]

I need my engineering cr▒▓ on deck though. Stay together, stay safe. Find Fitz, stick with him. He'll ▒▓▓▒▒▒

[the feed abruptly cuts to white noise]

Comments

[fullmoon]

Neither is certain. I don't think they came here planning to kill us. I don't think they could now, if we got face to face with them.

[forgodssake]

death may not be certain
but we know what they're capable of and what they want
and we know where we stand -- between Van Rijn and what he wants

[fullmoon]

We know more about what they're capable of than they know about what we are, & we don't seem to know anything at all about this.

[forgodssake]

we know a little
for instance, we know it wants to be specifically here

[fullmoon]

To punish them for their sins.
Or to keep them, :) said.
It might not be the worst thing to let it.

[forgodssake]

because it wants to be rid of us.

we can fight them on the ground, yes, I can freeze a room of them with a thought.
but we are losing, Remus, and we're going to start losing people. perhaps all at once, once they manage to continue their assault on our life support.

the DUPPR people that boarded us knew this ship inside and out, and they know how to reduce the Tranquility to a floating tin can in space in which we will be helpless and without the luxury of this conversation.

[knackered]

I admire your optimism Remus.

Do you really want to rest your survival and well being in hostile hands? When they've captured the technology they've been after, what exactly will they do with us?

We were given a chance and that was literally blown to pieces. Recaptured technology and the people that come with it have always and will always be treated unkindly. There will be imprisonment, death by various means, and perhaps if some of us are lucky, a final chance to turn ourselves over at the expense of everyone else.

[fullmoon]

We're already in hostile hands. We always have been.
& you don't need to tell me about human depravity.
But at least I know how to make humans bleed.

[knackered]

You may not believe I am what I say, but I have seen a long and arduous past and visions of a hideous future at home.

Knowing how to make humans bleed won't serve you when you're outnumbered, outgunned, and royally bloody fucked.

[fullmoon]

This really isn't something you ought to lecture me on.

[doggedly]

[probably composing this text even as he's defending Remus, this is friendship]

ill make you bleed if you dont shut it lupin

[fullmoon]

You can't think this is a good idea.

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[anybodies]

I'm pretty fucking sure those prisoners would have rather died.

[Her voice is loud, but more recognizably, tight with pain.]

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[alsohawkeye]

Those prisoners didn't have guns or superpowers. Their options were a lot more limited than ours.

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[forgodssake]

The question you've always asked of these people, Kate, is can they send us home. Do you not think trying to wrangle control over the jump drive is the first step in that direction?

[ It's only totally incidental he jumps in on the back of Mystique's sharp response. ]

Do you think we'll have a ship left to control if we make a stand like that?

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[alsohawkeye]

I don't know, but I'm positive we won't have one if we're all dead. Remus has a point. We know how to fight people. We've only had any idea of how we'd even start trying to fight this ship for like half an hour now.

telepathy???

[kutte]

Chuck.

[ is this going to work??? is thinking intensely in charles' direction how to do this someone help ]

[altercate]

You saw the manticores. What they're planning could be worse.

[fullmoon]

I'm not sure what they're planning matters. They aren't prepared for us.

[altercate]

What makes you think they aren't? They've had one of us on their side for two years.

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[alsohawkeye]

When we jumped onto their ships and started fucking shit up they seemed pretty unprepared.

[yardbird]

I don't know about you, but I'd choose death over being their new lab rat.

[fullmoon]

I'm not suggesting anyone become a lab rat.

[yardbird]

No, but the fact that we know about what they did to those prisoners puts us in danger, too.
Odessa was terrified when I started to bring it up, like they would do something to her if anyone let on that she or we had any idea about it. That doesn't make me feel like we can trust that prime minister to keep his word.
I just can't see them treating us nicely or letting us go, knowing what we know about what happened here.

[fullmoon]

I'm also not suggesting we trust him.