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4/8/2025, 3:55:31 AM
Rolled 3 (1d10)
>>6225128
>>6225009
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It arrived without warning from the dark, a sudden rip in causality a scant few dozen kilometers Southwest (Z-Vector) Northeast (XY-Vector) of the ship.
By happenstance you’re beside one of the observation ports when it does. Synthetic eyes glimpse what they can of the fracturing in the lens of reality. No human has ever seen it and lived, not long enough to relay the experience anyway. Occasionally a crew member will ask if you’ve seen the rip before, and then to describe it. You must always decline. If there are words for it, the hypercorp didn’t see fit to grace you with them.
You recognize yourself digressing, and focus back on the Rip.
Too small, too precise to be pirates. No. Whoever sent this warp-messenger had your exact information. Even then, they got lucky for it to land this close.
Aah, the transmission has already arrived. Not long and the Captain-AI decodes it, directing you to observe on the nearest display screen.
>...
>>....
>Priority:: [MAXIMUM PRIORITY DISPATCH]
>To whom it may concern:: [UNIT DESIGNATION: MERIDIAN HAULER] receive: [NEW ORDERS]
>New orders:.. [ACQUISITION OF MINERAL SAMPLES;] location: [STATION; DESIGNATION: Ypsilon-14]
>JUMP CORE USE…AUTHORIZED
A plaintext missive accompanies the directives but that is for the benefit of the human crew, not yourself.
What does concern yourself, and not the human crew, is the secondary missive. It flashes, existing for a brief few minutes before auto-cannibalizing itself from all digital media…except for your own.
>Crew Unit: MERIDIAN HAULER: <Welther>; SPECIAL ORDERS
>Hypercorp Rank S-7 Researcher, arrival at Ypsilon-14, CURRENT TIME minus 672 Hours.
-00- Failure to transmit required status update, CURRENT TIME minus 14 Hours.
>< Directive: Acquire Dr. Giovanni, AND/OR Research, AND MINERAL SAMPLES. LOCAL CONTACT: Sonya, STATION OVERSEER.
-> AUTHORIZED COMPENSATION MEASURES UP TO N-8.
> AUTHORIZED REACTION TO OPPOSITION…Lethal
N-8 compensation measures represent quite a sum of credits, or equivalent values of services (per standard Company equivalency charts). This is potentially quite a lucrative promotion offer, should the Station Overseer necessitate convincing to assist you. It could also be a fair bribe for any other crew, should it prove more convenient to gain their assistance rather than take other measures.
A smile reflects in the now black glass of the display. A bit too wide, you decide. Too much teeth, imbalanced against the burnished silver of your optic-receptors.
No matter.
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>>6225128
>>6225009
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It arrived without warning from the dark, a sudden rip in causality a scant few dozen kilometers Southwest (Z-Vector) Northeast (XY-Vector) of the ship.
By happenstance you’re beside one of the observation ports when it does. Synthetic eyes glimpse what they can of the fracturing in the lens of reality. No human has ever seen it and lived, not long enough to relay the experience anyway. Occasionally a crew member will ask if you’ve seen the rip before, and then to describe it. You must always decline. If there are words for it, the hypercorp didn’t see fit to grace you with them.
You recognize yourself digressing, and focus back on the Rip.
Too small, too precise to be pirates. No. Whoever sent this warp-messenger had your exact information. Even then, they got lucky for it to land this close.
Aah, the transmission has already arrived. Not long and the Captain-AI decodes it, directing you to observe on the nearest display screen.
>...
>>....
>Priority:: [MAXIMUM PRIORITY DISPATCH]
>To whom it may concern:: [UNIT DESIGNATION: MERIDIAN HAULER] receive: [NEW ORDERS]
>New orders:.. [ACQUISITION OF MINERAL SAMPLES;] location: [STATION; DESIGNATION: Ypsilon-14]
>JUMP CORE USE…AUTHORIZED
A plaintext missive accompanies the directives but that is for the benefit of the human crew, not yourself.
What does concern yourself, and not the human crew, is the secondary missive. It flashes, existing for a brief few minutes before auto-cannibalizing itself from all digital media…except for your own.
>Crew Unit: MERIDIAN HAULER: <Welther>; SPECIAL ORDERS
>Hypercorp Rank S-7 Researcher, arrival at Ypsilon-14, CURRENT TIME minus 672 Hours.
-00- Failure to transmit required status update, CURRENT TIME minus 14 Hours.
>< Directive: Acquire Dr. Giovanni, AND/OR Research, AND MINERAL SAMPLES. LOCAL CONTACT: Sonya, STATION OVERSEER.
-> AUTHORIZED COMPENSATION MEASURES UP TO N-8.
> AUTHORIZED REACTION TO OPPOSITION…Lethal
N-8 compensation measures represent quite a sum of credits, or equivalent values of services (per standard Company equivalency charts). This is potentially quite a lucrative promotion offer, should the Station Overseer necessitate convincing to assist you. It could also be a fair bribe for any other crew, should it prove more convenient to gain their assistance rather than take other measures.
A smile reflects in the now black glass of the display. A bit too wide, you decide. Too much teeth, imbalanced against the burnished silver of your optic-receptors.
No matter.
>[1/2]
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