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[The feed starts, as Robin holds her MID out away from herself a bit, giving the crew a good look at her.

It's weird, putting herself on display like this - she'd only made a few other posts on the network, but they had been text. Now, though... she's made the decision not to hide her face anymore. Besides, if someone wants to contact her in person, it'll be important that they know what she looks like.

What she looks like is a small child with black hair and... three arms. Even as she starts recording, she's multitasking - scribbling down notes with one hand in a notebook, about some pamphlets and brochures she's gotten from the planets that she's leafing through with another. Her third arm is, of course, holding her MID up.]

I'm busy, so I'll make this quick. My name is Robin and I became the ship's historian a few weeks ago.

If any of you come across any useful or interesting information about the ship or this planet's, please let me know. Send me a message, or come see me in my office on the Nomo deck.

[She only glances up at the camera occasionally as she begins to speak.]

Also if you're planning on doing some exploring and you want some help, you can send me a message as well. I can get past most locked doors, and I don't mind helping you if I can learn something from it.

[Maybe not the wisest thing to advertise over the network, but Robin doesn't mind breaking rules or getting in trouble in search of the truth.

She stops writing for a moment and looks directly at the camera, wearing a serious expression. Time to address the possibility of someone from her own world being here:]

...lastly, if anyone recognizes my name or my face from the posters back home, don't bother contacting me. You can just go to hell instead.

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I wouldn't either. They're all a few cards short of a full deck. Barely seem to even know how this thing runs.

Kinda makes you wonder how they got to be in charge of it to begin with. They find it on the streets or something?

From what I understand they were just the first ones to show up through the ingress. There used to be four of them.

I'm not sure how they figured out where to go to get it fixed, though.

In other words, they really have no idea what this thing is or what they're supposed to be doing with it.

Edited (wording fail) 2016-06-04 03:34 (UTC)

If what they've told people is true, maybe. What I know for sure is that WE don't know what this thing is or what we're supposed to do with it.

But I've seen the maps and the course we're following. They have a destination. I'm just not sure how they found it, if it really is the right place to go.

There either liars or clueless. Great. Just keep getting more and more reasons to follow them.

There an estimated arrival time to go along with that destination?

No, we keep running into delays. A while ago there were a bunch of metal-eating bugs that showed up and they damaged some important parts, so we had to stop to salvage stuff for repairs. Thats actually why we ended up on the prison planet.

[Or satellite or whatever it is. She's an archaeologist, not an astronomer, so the difference is sort of lost on her.]

And they changed course again to go to this planet.

[Which she only knows because of the map Than gave her. She's reluctant to admit it, but that is a point in their favor, as far as honesty goes.]

I think they're hoping that some time on a nice place that doesnt want to kill us will make us hate each other less. They're probably worried that we'll turn on them before we get to where we're going.

I don't know if it will work, but I guess it's worth trying.

So it's just a big distraction after all. It seems like a waste of time to me. It might get people to play nice for a bit, but there's too many people on this ship for them to all play nice and love each other the way that the captains want.

I hate to say it, but everyone turning on them would just lead to worse things right now. They're incompetent and useless, but whatever they're hiding and lying about, they've at least been here long enough to figure out how things work. Enough to run it, anyway.

Unless people around here can start figuring it out, I'm not interested in watching all the jokesters fight and try to scramble to the top just so that they can protect themselves and their own and then fumble around trying to figure out how it all works. That's not gonna get anything done.

Have you ever been on a ship before? This is pretty common. When journeys take a really long time, crew members get angry with each other and the captains. It's called cabin fever. The solution is to get to a port and let the crew off for a while, so they can get out of each other's hair and calm down.

I'm not saying that's all this is, but it might be a part of it. If the captains aren't going to execute people [Which, don't misunderstand, Robin does NOT condone, if only because she doesn't want to be on the chopping block herself] then this is probably the best thing to do. At least it will give everyone a chance to cool off, so they'll go a little bit longer before they kill each other.

I agree though. I don't know what the captains are up to, but right now at least I know they don't want to execute the people who step out of line. I can't say that about everyone on this ship.

Better the devils we know, even if we haven't really figured them out yet, than the ones we don't.

Edited 2016-06-07 05:16 (UTC)

Nah, those sort of long term adventures aren't big where I'm from anymore. I guess stuff like this is probably why.

So you think they're just gonna keep this up? Letting people get all messed up, then opening their wallets to try and fix the problem? I guess it's the best thing they can do for now, but it seems like it's just gonna lead to problems in the long run. It doesn't take long for people to remember how much they hate each other.

( Sorry for the delay! I had a medical procedure that pulled me out of things for a bit. )

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