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[once Starling has offloaded her supplies from the First Breath, the challenge is where to bring them all. she puts them all in a corner of the hangar for the moment, and perches on a crate while she opens up a video feed.

as it turns on, she's tending to her hair - a few loose strands came out of her ponytail, and she's tucking them behind her ear]

Hey, all. This is Clarice ... I know I've met most of you already, and some of you are seeing Temba for the first time. I was only here for a day before Coruscant, so I'm mostly in the same ship, as it were. I got a lot of good supplies for us to use, but I'm at a loss as to where to put 'em. Or where to put myself, too. Any advice'd be sorely welcome.

Also, since we were sent to gather information, and I did an awful lot of that back home, I'd like to help compile everything anyone might'a found. Not to brag, but I've been piecing collections of evidence and data together to make bigger pictures for a long time, so we might be able to get a little more for the Agri if we have everything together.

I'm in the hangar right now, if anyone wants to come see me, but I might make my way toward the Deep End later in the day.

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Right.... Mobile phones took incredible steps in their development during the past decade back on Earth. And your Earth may still be different from the one I know. The version of it Tony is from for example is even more advanced in its technology. It's daunting!

[ The geography seems largely the same, however. ]

They took advantage of other races as well, even used a rather primitive one as set dressing baiting us to assume they attacked the Agrii and attack these innocent beings. But... Let me find the video we found on the ship the Agrii are using.

[ It takes a few moments, but Jon then shares this video with Clarice:

It is Agra 10, just a century or so before now. The Agrii are there, walking around Temba, going about their business. But their race isn’t the only one you see. Among them are people from what look like different planets and, potentially, different universes. Just like the group of heroes you have here now. And just like the old Drift Fleet.

As you keep watching, it is clear that these people ARE from Drift Fleet. A Drift Fleet that aired episodes 100 years ago. Your shuttles are there, looking newer (but older-fashioned) and with different names. But they’re the same shuttles. It appears as though this Drift Fleet has made a supply stop at Temba. (Heroes who were recently in the Drift Fleet will notice this is just like dozens of other stops the Fleet made on occupied worlds.) The Agrii have set up trading tables and exchange goods for credits - credits that seem to mean nothing to them, even though they gladly accept them. It’s as though this is normal for them, to see strange people walking around their town, carrying money and needing supplies. And perhaps it is.

But halfway through the recording, the energy storms start. They are harsh and deadly to the Agrii who fall, choking to the ground. They seem surprised. Like they have never experienced an energy storm before. The rest of the ‘episode’ shows the Fleet working to get the Agrii off the planet and up into a ship the Atroma provided. It’s the same ship the Agrii are using still.

The video ends with Temba abandoned and its people stuck in a ship they do not understand. The Fleet is forced to move on to their next drift and their next stop. Agra 10 is left behind them, abandoned and forgotten. ]

[she watches the video in stoic silence, her mind clicking immediately into evidence-analyzing mode. she can recognize the lines of the First Breath there, though the name on the side is different and the colors are far less faded. of particular note to her is the Agrii's lack of care about money in any form.

the storm is the first she's seen with her own eyes, and her eyes widen as she watches the rest of it play out, then narrow again. she's not about to wholesale blame the Atroma, but ... she has more questions, along with a little more understanding for what may have led to their current situation.]

Thank you, Jon. That was ... important.

[she takes another moment to mull it over]

Do you know if those storms showed up anywhere else on this ... what'j'a call it? Reality show?

[ He simply nods. ]

I feel like there is a lot of information that needs to be shared on a much wider scale. That's... What I had hoped to turn the former library into, if I'm being quite honest.

[ Which so far he hasn't had much success with. ]

No, that's not something I could clearly say. For a while it looked as if the tower in the North-Western part of the city was tied to the storms, but... We never could quite prove that. Where you here when there was still a blue light at its top?

[ He doesn't believe she was, but can't be entirely certain. ]

It's a good goal, and I've got every confidence you'll get there.

[she's not paying him lip service, either: she's seen his zeal, she really does believe it]

I ... hmm. You know, give me a second to try and remember.

[aka mun is not able to pop on Discord and ask rn, plz hold]

[ Well, he appreciates the vote of confidence. ]

You may rather remember being here when the huge spiders invaded the city. That's when... That may actually have been caused by the tower. We sort of... Broke it. When trying to turn off its signal.

Good Lord, no, I don't remember any giant spiders! I was only here about a day before everyone got sent to Coruscant.

[she shakes her head and manages to suppress a shudder. regular old spiders don't bother her any, but giant ones? not enough tuffets, curds, or whey in the world, nosiree bob]

Right. You're lucky you missed them. They... Were horrible.

Spiders aside, the tower is still there. And while the light on it was active, an energy field was active around it very much like the storms we have experienced in the past. Unfortunately we couldn't conduct any proper research before it broke.

And I'm guessing now that it's busted, you can't get anything out of it, either. Like all those broken orbs near the fountain?

...Christ, there are still broken data points around the fountain, aren't there. We already cleaned a lot of them away...

[ Jon sighs, shaking his head. ]

So far, nothing. Sundance has tried to hack into it with no success.

You did say Tony had some, yeah. I can try to help clean it up if you need, since I'll be goin' back and forth to the library.

Who or what is a Sundance?

Yeah, Tony took some to try and recreate the technology. Maybe restore some of the data, but... No luck. I assume he reuses the material for other projects, so... There is a place where I deposit them.

As for Sundance... She's Cayde's Ghost. If you meet Cayde, you will meet Sundance as well. A floating, sentient little robot. O-of sorts.

If you show me the drop box, so to speak, I'll chip in. I'm gonna be passing through the area a lot bringin' stuff to the library, it'll be easy.

... so that's what that was. I wasn't sure if it'd be rude to ask.

I'd actually be surprised if Cayde would be offended by- Basically anything.

But certainly. I can show you the place. It's one of the side rooms of the library. I gather anything that might be usable in there.

Alright! I'll see you in a little bit, then.

[[ ooc: Sure thing! ]]

Edited (...maybe let's not use the grumpiest icon I have and make this seem passive aggressive XD) 2021-05-06 14:30 (UTC)

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OK if we wrap this and handwave? ;)

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