@clarke.griffin

[strove]

Thank you to Yalena for getting us sorted. [Sort of sorted. Sort of.] Now that we've arrived in New Tokyo and we're stuck inside for a little while, I think we should talk about some new changes that we're facing. I can't be the only one.

But first: a good number of us are here unwillingly, but we have to wait until we're fully prepped before we can go anywhere. Heading outside in these temperatures while unprepared could cost you your life. We all hate being trapped somewhere. I think that's pretty well-established. We also hate having to do anything or be anywhere when we didn't ask for that to happen. At least it doesn't seem like we were drugged, though it wouldn't hurt for Katelin and I to take some blood samples to confirm that. We'll have to store them until we get back.

As for the changes in your lives: have you noticed any? For instance, apparently I'm a lab tech at Giles Bell. I tried to set myself up for a new internship there that I could get easily, but I got ... elevated. Or hired beyond that? I'm not sure what the right terminology is here. Has anyone else noticed this? Or had it happen to them? I got permissions to take leaves from both of my jobs. And no, I'm really not prepared to work as a lab tech. I don't even know the first thing about setting up gels.

As a bit of a personal request ... does anyone think we can make pancakes in the small kitchen here? I have a craving for them. I've not really had cakes of the "pancake" variety before, but I want them now. And if you think we can, can you make them?

[This last bit is Loki's fault.]

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[strove]

[Oh. He definitely has it mixed up. And that's not including the part with the science that she doesn't know about. Which ... is going to be true soon, thanks to her job. What a trip.]

No, our Ark was a collection of twelve space stations from a wide variety of nations, only it started to fail, so we had to go down to the Earth to see if it was inhabitable. While down there, a lot happened, eventually leading us to this AI that was creating the City of Light—which is akin to the Ark you know. Only it wasn't good for any of us.

Does that make sense?

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[theseuschip]

Sort of? The one they had— the WAU was built to run things in PATHOS-II. I just figured ALIE was your ship’s A.I.

[ in other words: as a time-traveling caveman, not as much sense as the wrong thing he was imagining before she told him the correct thing, but. ]

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[strove]

The second version of her was meant to be, but she was very different by then. So, in a roundabout way, you saw why she was created.

[Clarke wonders if this is just what happens with similar situations.

That's most likely it.]

She was a remnant from before that used what little bit of tech that was left in the world to communicate with people and bring them to her. Come to think of it, that must have been pretty hard to accomplish.

[And yet—she followed her directive.]

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[theseuschip]

You can do a lot with a strong enough blast of EMP.

I guess it's sort of comforting to know I'm not alone. I mean, if we both had to go through that, at least we're both here.

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[strove]

Without anyone we know, but ...

Sometimes I wonder. I mean, if we can get here, can other people? Things aren't perfect, but if you're not glowing or doing anything like that, you can fit in. You can forget what came before.

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[theseuschip]

[ at first he has no idea what she's getting at, because they do bring other people? There are all these other people here?? Except oh wait those two statements are related. ]

Other people we know? Like via time travel?

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[strove]

And dimensional.

Both.