† 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

[lostsoldier]

and if they team up, we're all fucked.

[ js. ]

[fullmoon]

Not necessarily. I'd feel better about even that fight if we had out feet on the ground.

[lostsoldier]

really.
what exactly is your plan for stopping the telepathic, mind-controlling, reality-warping space alien it's taken us 4 years to so much as begin to control, once it joins forces with the megalomaniac dictator and hundred thousand soldiers under his command?

and that isn't even some obscure possibility. you said it yourself, it wants to be here. why the hell do you think that is?

[forgodssake]

and it's not going to help us any
as long as we're all divided and scattered, we're susceptible to its influence
what we consider power now might not be so when we're vulnerable

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[fullmoon]

The plan is 'I don't have one but hopefully it will work out'.
Which is coincidentally identical to the plan for running away & somehow surviving the reality-warping space alien we've only begun to control
while floating around in a damaged tin can with diminishing supplies & no idea where to go or how to get there
long enough to figure out how to keep it away from him permanently & prevent them from redeveloping the technology independently
without all being disposed of by whatever it is while we're trapped in pods so it can get back to him unopposed.

Also, I think the possibility is pretty obscure. I was being flippant.
Apologies.