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Arilanna Tayrey (astrogator) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2022-04-12 13:36:00

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dddddeeeeaaaaaaannnn!!!!, peter parker (616), rawdon crawley, ~arilanna tayrey

This is Lieutenant Tayrey of the Tradelines, with the Prosperity. What is your station designation?

I'm going to need to patch across station comms, or take out a Sibril line if we're too far out. The Prosperity will settle the account ~~if it hasn't disappeared betweenspace because I apparently~~

It's urgent. ~~I'm the astrogator.~~ The ship could be lost. Wake your first-shift captain if you have to.

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	cpt_crawley 2022-04-12 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	Hello, this is Colonel Crawley of... the King's Guard. We are a former mining station, in the region of Sagranda, near the Arcadian trading route. You will not be able to contact your ship from here. (Reply to this) (Thread)

astrogator
2022-04-12 10:30 pm UTC (link)

~~King's Guard? What kind of way-out frontier station has~~

Can you clarify? When you say I can't contact the ship, do you mean you won't allow it, or you're having communication trouble and it isn't possible?

If this is a frontier station then I know a Sibril line is going to be costly, but my ship will settle it. It's very urgent. Possible catastrophic incident in L-space.

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	cpt_crawley 2022-04-12 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	I mean we are having communication trouble and it isn't possible. I don't know what a lot of those words mean, I apologise. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tom_jr 2022-04-12 10:38 pm UTC (link)
	Liberty might know. She explained L-space to me a couple of months ago. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cpt_crawley 2022-04-12 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, good, I'll message her. Thank you. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	astrogator 2022-04-12 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	Understood. It's not your fault. ~~It's mine, and they're all going to die, and~~ That's a hazard of the slower ships. I'm guessing this isn't a frontier station, but an older one. There's no Arcadian route on our Tradelines. If I can't contact the ship then there's nothing I can do except wait and hope they come through safely. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cpt_crawley 2022-04-12 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	It's a strange one, to be honest. We're all in a similar but different situation. Out of time, out of place, out of communication range. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	astrogator 2022-04-12 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	I can try to repair your long-range communications if you could do with the assistance, but even if I can do it, it'll take time. When exactly did your people go out from Earth, Colonel? ~~You're making it sound almost like this is one of the lost pre-Breakaway settlements.~~ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cpt_crawley 2022-04-13 12:04 pm UTC (link)
	Perhaps, but you’ll want to talk to Finn Collins about that one. His name will be loaded into your contacts already. We’re all from different times, ranging from I think the Vikings to… I’m actually not even sure. I’m from the 19th Century myself. The station has an earth date of 2022 AD but I doubt it’s accuracy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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astrogator
2022-04-13 12:17 pm UTC (link)

~~You mean you're not in command of~~

Earth 19th century? I'm sorry. I think I completely misunderstood this situation ~~or I have gone completely mad.~~ You got here through some kind of temporal anomaly, then, I take it? I don't think the first ships went out until 2060? Something like that.

And you must have no idea what I was asking for. A Sibril line is - well, when the early ships went out, communication between colonies was unbelievably slow. When we established the Tradelines, we set up relay stations along them, to push messages. I won't go into the mechanics of it, but faster. But if you're not within range of a relay station, you'd have to send a ship out there, until someone came up with Sibril lines, which can do it remotely. But the further out you are, the more expensive they are, so not many station captains or frontier colony directors would agree to it for no good reason.

I needed one because I'm the ship's astrogator. It's my job to see the ship safely through L-space. I don't know what I did wrong, but it must have been catastrophic for me to end up here without the ship. And if I can't contact them, they'll be lost. All of them. ~~Everyone I care about.~~ And it'll be my fault, and I'll never get back on the Tradelines again because an astrogator coming back without a scratch on her and saying everyone else was lost is either murderous or dangerously incompetent. And I'm not. I honestly don't know what happened. We were on course and it was a known route.

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cpt_crawley
2022-04-14 04:35 pm UTC (link)

Yes, that's it exactly, you've got it. As far as I'm aware, we've all come here through the same temporal anomaly, as you call it.

Ah, I see. Then I have learned something today.

~~Astrog~~ Like a navigator for space, okay. You didn't do anything wrong, this place just 'steals' you from a particular moment in your life, keeps you for... however long it deems necessary- and then spits you back out again. They won't be lost, whenever it does spit you back out, you'll go back to the same moment in time and won't have been missed at all. We believe this because more than a few people, myself included, have experienced this very phenomenon. And then returned to tell the tale, as you can see.

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	Private astrogator 2022-04-14 05:10 pm UTC (link)
	Then it wasn't an L-space incident at all? That changes everything! I can go back, and I can bring everyone through safely. This saves my ship, and my career, and - thank you! I can't say how much difference that knowledge makes. Thank you. How long were you here before you went back? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Private cpt_crawley 2022-04-16 10:56 am UTC (link)
	Not unless something else had happened before you appeared here. You're very welcome, I'm glad! Oh, I hate to tell you, it was a couple of years. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Private astrogator 2022-04-16 03:35 pm UTC (link)
	No, it was all nominal, very routine trip. As routine as L-space ever gets, anyway. That was why it was such a shock to find myself here. After what I thought might have just happened, I can put up with a couple of years. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ddddeeeeaaaannn 2022-04-13 11:25 am UTC (link)
	Hello! Dean is Dean of the Swords Of Orion! :D Dean is happy to meet a new friend! Dean does not know a lot of what new friend as said, but we are in the stars. Dean can show new friend around, if they would like? There are other people here, and everyone is friendly! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	astrogator 2022-04-13 11:40 am UTC (link)
	Look, I'm not trying to be rude, but I don't need a station tour ~~from someone who thinks that 'in the stars' is in any way a helpful~~ right now. I'm sure you mean well, but people's lives are at stake, so unless you have a working transmitter and can get me a Sibril line to the the nearest relay station, I need to focus on the problem. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ddddeeeeaaaannn 2022-04-13 11:48 am UTC (link)
	Oh okay. No, Dean can not help with that. But Dean can tell new friend that this is not the place you know of. Or uh... Grm.. World? You know of? Dean does mean well! :D But, Dean can not contact any of Dean's friends through Dean's stone, and that is made of magic! So, Dean is unsure of what a uh.. Tra-Transmitter is! But, it may not work. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	astrogator 2022-04-13 11:59 am UTC (link)
	I know. I'm not where I'm supposed to be, and this station's transmitter is broken. Look, kid, I really need to sort this out with the Colonel. Maybe you can show me around later? And I'll explain the transmitter to you then. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ddddeeeeaaaannn 2022-04-13 12:02 pm UTC (link)
	Kid is not a kid. Dean is a dragon! :D Okay, Dean would like to show Dean's new friend around! That sounds like fun, Dean likes learning new things! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Private thwipsnquips 2022-04-13 12:00 pm UTC (link)
	You can't hear my sigh or see me facepalming, but.. To translate for our resident big dumb blue idiot(also be nice to him, he just wants friends): Have you heard of the multiverse? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	yellow_zu 2022-04-13 01:22 pm UTC (link)
	Hi, I'm Zu. Like Rawdon said, I don't think you will be able to contact your ship here but if you wish, I could show you the star maps and you can use my ship to try and contact yours. It might orient you. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	astrogator 2022-04-13 01:34 pm UTC (link)
	~~Rawdon? Is he the~~ Please. That would help. It could save my ship. I can do it the old way, just let me take your ship out into range of the nearest relay station. Does it have a Matsukata drive? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	yellow_zu 2022-04-13 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	How about we go to my ship and we go from there? Can you take a few pictures of where you are? I can portal to you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	astrogator 2022-04-14 02:06 am UTC (link)
	~~Do you know how suspicious that~~ I haven't got any holoimaging equipment with me. How about I find the docking bay and meet you there? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	yellow_zu 2022-04-14 03:41 am UTC (link)
	There are multiple docking bays. My ship is in the one at Wheel One. Can you read the languages around here? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	astrogator 2022-04-14 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	No, I'm...not local. Lucky there are some people here with my language! The signage here isn't very helpful. As it happens, I'm not going to need that relay station after all, but it was a very generous offer. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	yellow_zu 2022-04-14 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	I would talk to Tommy, he's got an app that translates the Sagrandan into our language. Okay, I wish you good luck. Let me know if you need anything. (Reply to this) (Parent)