whistlesatengineers | First Clue

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[ The first sound out of the comm was a suspicious thump thump thump. Someone’s testing to see if it’s on, maybe? After that, someone whistles what sounds like the acknowledging warble a computer might make. After that is a long, tense pause, followed by a grunt. The audio flicks off, but typing starts after a few more moments. ]

Gunney? Dare?

[ Another long pause before the typing continues. ]

This isn’t New Mombasa. This probably isn’t even Earth, is it? Where am I?

[ More importantly, where are his guns?!]

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2029. It would be 2030 by now.

[Well, if he gave her his frequency, they could talk on her cybercomm.]

Wow. Yeah, a little far back. Luna hadn't even been settled yet. I came - come? - from 2552.

Outlier. Most of the people from Earth are clustered in the early 21st century--a knot around 2008, actually.

2008? Strange year to choose. Did something happen back then that I didn't hear about?

[ Apparently, Lady Gaga and Octomom didn't make it into the history books. ]

Not where I'm from. There wasn't even an active war that year.

[They never even existed in Ghost in the Shell.]

I think there was some kind of guerrilla warfare thing in the Middle East, but other than that...

[ It's a safe assumption they did in his ~~considering the I Love Bees viral campaign~~. ]

None of us know why the people who arrive do, and the crew won't give a straight answer.

We're all flying blind? That's even better.

There's next to nothing here that qualifies as "good."

Figuring that out. So basically just a normally abnormal place, right?

If you like.

Food is on Deck 4.

[This Rookie person is probably a biological, right?]

Thanks. Deck four; I'll have to remember that.

[ He and his are just about as organic at they come. ]

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