† 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]

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[lostsoldier]

[ He's silent for a beat. She's right, about a lot of that at least, and unlike Erik maybe he isn't willing to sacrifice everybody who doesn't agree. His voice sounds tired, when he does answer. ]

They're targeting our life support, Kate. They don't need to take us prisoner. They don't need to board us at all while we've still got air.

[alsohawkeye]

Then we surrender and we draw them in. We get onto their ships and we take them out and take them over. We wizard in, snatch Van Rijn, and negotiate a new option.

This plan is so incredibly unlikely and people are acting like that's okay because it's our only choice. It's not.

[lostsoldier]

You want to surrender and see if they stop firing, try it. I wouldn't, if I were them.

They might not have known what we could do when they got here, but you all didn't blow up every ship you hopped onto. There'll be witnesses. Surveillance. If nothing else they know now they can't control us or predict us as easily as they thought, and they already knew they didn't need us. It would be a mistake for them to let us live now.