un: mori | text

[setpoint]

Hello everyone.

Recently I found something in my room. It seems to be some sort of diagnostic tool that can connect to the consoles. Most of them are missing a lot of data, and some are malfunctioning, but I did learn a few useful things.

First, the consoles and life support systems were reactivated the same day we woke up. A significant amount of data is corrupted, so the tool didn't give me a current date, only the number of days since then. It seems like the station was shut down completely before we arrived.

Second, the last time those systems were fully functioning was 2654. It didn't give me a month, and I don't know how long ago that was, but it is a baseline.

[Not a very pleasant one for her, but it's something.]

The good news is, the life support systems seem to be running properly. It hasn't picked up any issues.

Comments

text; @hinatahajime

[hopefragment]

is there a way to tell if they were reactivated automatically, or if someone had to actually like... flip a switch or push a button to do it?

...how many days HAS it been? i've lost count. it has to be more than a month, right?

[setpoint]

There might be, but I don't think this tool can tell us.

As of today, it's been 50 days.

[hopefragment]

fifty days, huh...

i guess i can't be surprised about the year. i mean, this stuff is so far advanced from where i come from, it only makes sense, doesn't it? five hundred, six hundred years in the future, who knows what kind of crazy stuff we'll have?

un:castiglione

[oorah]

well that's something right?

[setpoint]

It's a start, I hope.

[oorah]

good job mako. have you taken it to the bridge yet?

un: rocipilot

[donkeyballs]

2654.

So no matter when we are, it's definitely after 2654.

[setpoint]

Unless the logs are corrupted, or someone tampered with them, yes. It seems that way.

[Which means everyone she knows is dead, basically. It's not a great feeling.]

[donkeyballs]

[ Fuck.

There's a longer pause than there should be, before he replies: ]

... Good to know, I guess.

It's probably a decent guess that it's the Earth calendar, based on the books people found.

un: tekimang

[tekimetexeng]

I guess there's no sense questioning if it's really Earth years, considering how far out we must be.

Where are you?

audio; un: alucard

[reposing]

I see.

[His tone is distant, but he keeps it professional.]

That is significantly more information than we had before. Thank you.

audio

[setpoint]

[Mako switches to audio to match, out of politeness.]

You're welcome.

[She hesitates, then continues more softly.]

I know it isn't... good news for most of us.

un: garion

[why_me]

That's a few thousand years back from the year where I'm from.

[setpoint]

A few thousand? Where are you from?

un: darkholme

[personify]

So it might be only a year since 2654 or it might be hundreds of years since then? There's no way of knowing for sure?

[setpoint]

Not that I know of, unless we can find a console whose logs are intact, or find a way to repair the data.

un: brightness_kholin

[veristitalian]

May I come and look at some of the data you're able to access?

[setpoint]

Yes, of course. I can show you how it works.

text; un: unrecovered

[notyourrookie]

2654? What the hell...

[setpoint]

How far off is that for you?

action; i'm a rebel

[wentnuclear]

[ Raleigh is lying on their bed, glancing through the replies to Mako's post. They haven't actually talked about it yet -- she showed him the tool and it's readings, of course, but the most important part of it still hangs silent and heavy between them. He glances over, less interested in other's people's responses since no one's really addressing what he wants to. ]

Mako? C'mere, take a break.

how dare

[setpoint]

[Mako is sitting at the little desk, focused on her communicator, but when Raleigh says her name, she looks up. She hesitates, considers telling him she's fine, but... a few minutes won't hurt, so she joins him on the bed, sitting on the edge of it beside him.]

You don't have to worry about me.

un: tekimang

[tekimetexeng]

[ Something in Naomi breaks at the news of the year it was, which could have been a long time ago. But she can't focus on that. She can't let herself fall apart, especially not over someone she probably didn't exist to anyway. What's important now is the work -- she's already examined the systems from the command deck, but the fact that there's a tool capable of analyzing them is of particular interest to her. So she focuses on that. ]

I'd like to see this tool. As far as I've been able to determine, the terminals and communicators are on a separate loop from the main station systems. If your tool is somehow interfacing with both, I may be able to link everything together. Maybe get our AI friend living in the terminals access to the main data cores, and a way for the rest of us to check problems from anywhere on the station. It would be extremely useful.

un; hudie

[bu773rfly]

[scene: erika, hunched over her comm like a vulture, practically salivating. like, not physically, but in her soul]

Should it be a relief to know life support can go from zero to full function that quickly? If there are ever malfunctions and we have to repair parts of it...

[setpoint]

I don't think anything was damaged before we got here, just inactive.