::text::

[pidge_out]

[Dealing with people face to face is hard, even if Pidge were to do it via communicator. She doesn’t know anyone here, and she’s hesitant to even be addressing the entirety of the Moira’s crew all at once like this. So she opts for the easier mode of communication: text. It’s like talking to the internet that way, and… Well, to be perfectly frank, that’s easier for her to handle.]

Hello, Moira crew. [Behind the screen she winces. Even she can tell that sounds awkward. But she presses on.] I’m new to this ship, but not new to space travel - trust me - but I am trying to gather some more information than what was given to me. Hoping someone onboard can help me out.

First: If the word “Voltron” means anything to you, contact me.

Second: If you know anyone with the last name “Holt”, contact me ASAP.

[There’s another hesitant moment before the typing resumes.] I can help out with any tech stuff in exchange for any useful information you’ve got. I’m good at it, and I’ve worked with alien tech before. The stuff here is new to me, but they gave me a job that works with it pretty closely, so I’m pretty sure I can figure it out soon enough. So: you help me, I help you. Fair, right?

Right. Cool. Let me know.

Comments

[patchricide]

That, and the Balmera.

... although I hope I won't have to perform such a drastic procedure anytime soon.

[pidge_out]

I get the feeling you won't be seeing anything even close to being Balmera-sized in the ship's vet.

[patchricide]

Not unless the ship is secretly a breathing creature, and I have some reasons to doubt that.

[She taps on the nearest metal thing, just to demonstrate.]

[pidge_out]

[Pidge nods in agreement.] And if it was, I think someone would've noticed and said something about it by now.

[patchricide]

Would they? I've noticed a worrying number of my questions have been answered with some variation of, "It just works."

[pidge_out]

Well, I'm hoping so. I can't think of any reason for a living creature to have a machine inside it that ports random people and objects into its gut.

[patchricide]

Neither can I. It barely makes sense for a ship, short of providing itself a crew.

[pidge_out]

They also said that the Ingress is broken, so I doubt that's even its primary function.

[patchricide]

I hadn't considered that. Under normal conditions, it would probably allow one to pick and choose who and what is being transported, wouldn't it?

[That's just a guess, but not a hard one.]

[pidge_out]

Who, what, and exactly where to, most likely. I can't think of any other reason for a machine like that to exist.

[patchricide]

And it's surely supposed to be keeping everything together.

Given that this ship can warp its targets to the other end of the universe, people should be able to go through with a smaller space vessel, like the Lions. Otherwise, they would be stranded.