Across the Expanse: Day 61
Day 61
Amy: Alright… let’s get this rigged up.
Jim: Yeah, by the way I figured out what the pirates were hiding in those
files.
Amy: They were actually hiding something?
Jim: Yeah, though I kinda figured that out a bit late.
Amy: I’ll say, better late than never though, what did you figure out?
Jim: It was kinda silly really, they hid a message in the filenames.
Some of them were oddly capitalized, spelled out
a basic message. There are Timeless Ones on this moon, and their tech could
have gotten them some big money.
Amy: How… crude.
Jim: Smart though, no one would really think to look through a bunch of
porn. No one except some bored officer stuck on some rock in space.
Amy: A fat load of good that did, I found this before you even figured
it out.
Jim: … this is true, but there are still some more stuff to sift
through, may find something new.
Amy: I mean if you want to use that as your excuse then sure.
Jim: ...like I said, this requires further looking into, what’s the
status on the line?
Amy: Almost at the bottom, this is a hell of a drop.
Jim: I’ll head down first then.
Amy: And why is that?
Jim: Because I’m the only one with some infantry combat experience
behind his belt?
Amy: ...makes sense, let me just shine a light… whoa.
Jim: Wha- whoa.
Amy: This thing is HUGE! How the hell are we supposed to navigate any
of this?
Jim: Think we should call this in?
Amy: ...not right now, I think we deserve to explore this thing a
little bit before we let the Coalition in on this.
Jim: I’m assuming that this is from sort of curiosity instead other
motives?
Amy: What are you saying?
Jim: I’m saying that Faar’ Shar tech would fetch quite the price over
at the Negal Systems.
Amy: You’re the one bringing it up you know. I just don’t want to spend
the next few days being told to not touch anything here just for the government
to block us off from looking at the place.
Jim: They could also just send us off somewhere else just so we don’t
interfere, so we could have a chance to get off this rock.
Amy: ...tempting, but nah, I don’t owe them anything. I say we take a
look at this shit then call it in.
Jim: Whatever you say, now hand me the line.
*Start Transmission*
Amy: So how’s it looking down there?
Jim: Beautiful, looks like a fusion between some kind of hard light and
really crisp architecture. Like something straight from those old sci-fi
novels.
Amy: You sure those constructs aren’t just light?
Jim: I’m picking up different levels of heat for each construct which
seems to correspond with their color, looks like mosts of these contrustructs
are for simple illumination. Others are generating a lot of heat, and are
running along the walls like wires, so I maybe those are energy conductors for
the ship?
Amy: Well whatever is supposed to be generating light is doing a
shit job. I can barely spot anything from up here. It's like dots with no glow.
Jim: Maybe it’s because the ship is inert? I dunno I’m just spitballing
right now.
Amy: Either way it doesn’t look like this hole is gonna seal itself up
any time soon. I’m just wondering why it opened up here to a massive drop.
Jim: Probably because the ship is sideways, everything looks kinda
lopsided.
Amy: Joy, that’s gonna be fun to work with.
Jim: Eh, gotta start somewhere. You coming down?
Amy: Yeah, on my way already.
*End Transmission*
Amy: *Whistle* Damn, this is impressive.
Jim: Yeah, looks like we’re in some sort of central hub.
Amy: Think any of these doors will open?
Jim: Tried all of them, none of them work. I think I found something
like a ventilation system though, maybe we can crawl through that.
Amy: Great, tight spaces, my favorite.
Jim: Never took you for claustrophobic.
Amy: I just don’t like feeling constricted, why do you think I like
flying so much? Anyways I say we spend today just looking over this room and
whatever the vents take us to. Tomorrow we’ll figure out a plan on how we’re gonna
explore this thing. Sound good?
Jim: Fine by me, better to be cautious about this anyways.
Amy: Right, then let’s get cracking.
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