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

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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)

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