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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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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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