[ ganymede is used to not having his memories in proper working order, so it's both familiar and disconcerting at the same time. it doesn't scare him in the same way it would others, maybe, but it does leave him feeling like a wound up spring. he takes a breath. takes a drink. ]
Space is as beautiful as it is horrifying. [ a callback, to one of their earlier conversations. ] I've seen any number of monsters and races, since I was first picked up off of Pluto's Kerberos by the ones that gave me my arm. The chances... aren't zero, unfortunately, but we're better prepared now than we were then. And I can just hope that us destroying that ship stopped it from spreading beyond what poor souls they already took.
[ stop i hate that. he's patient though, letting ganymede take time to compose himself and doing his best not to just stare at him. ]
I'm believing that more and more with each passing week. I don't like the idea of not knowing what we might come across, but it helps to know we're a little more on guard. [ a glance to ganymede's arm though, fleeting as it is. ] ...it's gonna depend on how they were able to accomplish becoming dopplegangers, isn't it? I mean not that I'm anticipating or hoping something or someone escaped, it's just...we always have a lot of possibilities. You did the best you could in the time you were given. That's the important part.
[ the glance gets a small flex of fingers, no longer gloved because - well, if nothing else, a lot of people know that it's a prosthetic. ]
We all try do the best that we can with what we have. Even if we question it later. [ a rueful huff, but. ] The missions we can at least try to prepare you all for, get you weapons or suits or some kind of protection that you can take with you. The anomalies, like the one you went on... that, those, I'm even less sure of. It doesn't really feel like there's much we can do to prepare anyone, in the long run.
I just wish I understood why they were happening to begin with, you know? If we had an idea, we could try to prepare ourselves better. Not that I'm not glad we have an advantage when it comes to the missions themselves, but...it feels like there's too many unknown factors. And with the things that're happening to you guys...
[ he wants to be prepared if there's a point the senior crew can't help, just to make sure they can all be saved and get out of here. ]
Too many of those unknown factors, us included in that. [ wryly ] I don't want us to become a problem when we already have so many problems.
[ whether that's as a liability, or something else. he's already been used as a weapon against those he cares about - he'd rather it not happen again. ]
We're looking into it, though. At least as best we can. With you all being taken through portals, or tears, or whatever we want to call them... they don't seem that different from the warp portals that we use to travel short distances. And we received that ability as officers. Makes me wonder if it's something involving the ship.
Then you shouldn't have gotten to know us better. [ equally wryly. ] There're too many people on this crew who are going to want to make sure you guys are just as safe as we are. Don't forget that.
...you think the ship's just doing it at random to see who survives and who doesn't, maybe? Like a test of will.
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Space is as beautiful as it is horrifying. [ a callback, to one of their earlier conversations. ] I've seen any number of monsters and races, since I was first picked up off of Pluto's Kerberos by the ones that gave me my arm. The chances... aren't zero, unfortunately, but we're better prepared now than we were then. And I can just hope that us destroying that ship stopped it from spreading beyond what poor souls they already took.
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I'm believing that more and more with each passing week. I don't like the idea of not knowing what we might come across, but it helps to know we're a little more on guard. [ a glance to ganymede's arm though, fleeting as it is. ] ...it's gonna depend on how they were able to accomplish becoming dopplegangers, isn't it? I mean not that I'm anticipating or hoping something or someone escaped, it's just...we always have a lot of possibilities. You did the best you could in the time you were given. That's the important part.
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We all try do the best that we can with what we have. Even if we question it later. [ a rueful huff, but. ] The missions we can at least try to prepare you all for, get you weapons or suits or some kind of protection that you can take with you. The anomalies, like the one you went on... that, those, I'm even less sure of. It doesn't really feel like there's much we can do to prepare anyone, in the long run.
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[ he wants to be prepared if there's a point the senior crew can't help, just to make sure they can all be saved and get out of here. ]
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[ whether that's as a liability, or something else. he's already been used as a weapon against those he cares about - he'd rather it not happen again. ]
We're looking into it, though. At least as best we can. With you all being taken through portals, or tears, or whatever we want to call them... they don't seem that different from the warp portals that we use to travel short distances. And we received that ability as officers. Makes me wonder if it's something involving the ship.
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...you think the ship's just doing it at random to see who survives and who doesn't, maybe? Like a test of will.