Avery/GM: Welcome to Episode 20 of Beyond the Furthest Stars!

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Avery/GM: So we're gonna skip ahead a few days. You kind of get into a routine of trying to fix up not only your ship, but also the rest of the Cassiopeia, is there anything anyone wants to do during this time while you wait for the custodians?

Jenine/Marty: are there other, like files on the people that were on the ship before?

Avery/GM: Yeah. You can look at the medical pay.

Jenine/Marty: Sick

Avery/GM: or, or just are you looking in general or specifically at the medical files? Which one?

Jenine/Marty: I think I'm like doing like the doctor checks of like walking around and like matching files to like all like the different pods. Just to be like, okay, if we do, if like. All this happened, like the past things. If I can still like find like generations of these people, I wanna have like a record of that. So these people, their families know what, what happened and stuff like that. So like that's what Marty's doing. Matching files to like pods and, and all of that.

Avery/GM: Totally. Yeah. So you start in the Med Bay and you match up the files with the people that were in the cold sleep pods, right outside the bridge and you realize that these cold sleep pods were the backup command crew for this ship. So basically when the command crew would start getting tired or sick, they would switch out and basically, so no one got overworked or over fatigued on the, the journey they were going on. you learn a little bit about them. You know, one of them was allergic to peanuts. Which you would have no context for.

Bee/Polaris: It's me.

Avery/GM: Some, some of them had, you know, chronic pain or some of them may have had some mental health disorders, but overall they were still fit to fly and go on this journey. But sadly, they did not survive. And you noticed that Rho has not come up from colony core, this whole, like during the past couple days that you've been kind of sorting through files and kind of figuring out last

wishes and everything like that for these people. And you come down with some of the files to start matching with them and you see that she is kneeling next to one of these pods and her, uh, hands are kind of, uh, we would see them as like praying style, you know? And she has her eyes closed when you come into this room.

Jenine/Marty: Oh! Marty puts like the data pad away and like does the same thing next to her just in like, like mimics the whole thing just to be like, okay, no talking. We're just gonna be in like, the presence of this.

Avery/GM: And she kind of opens her eyes and she's like, oh, hi. I, I didn't realize you came down here. What are you doing?

Jenine/Marty: I just, I just wanted to, are you okay? Um, you don't, you don't have to answer that. I just wanted to make sure that you were okay. this seems like something very important to you. So I was trying to mimic what you were doing to also show that I am in support of what? Of, of, of what's happening and showing support to you.

Avery/GM: Thanks. I actually don't know what I'm doing. It's something I saw people do back home on Terra. They would. They, they called it praying. They, they did it a lot like when people died. I think, Like, it made people feel better about losing a loved one and I don't know the, some of these people were my friends and so I, I just felt like it was the least I could do to honor their memory.

Jenine/Marty: Oh, okay. Understandable and she just kind of like stays there and like, if she's told to leave, she'll leave. But like, she's just there for like, you know, like I'm, I'm, I'm a quality time kind of person, so this is like Marty being like, quality time is a way to like show support. So we're just gonna sit here. Um, if she tells me to shoot, I will shoot. Um, but I wanna make sure she's good and like that's the thoughts that are going through Marty's brain and she just kind of sits there.

Avery/GM: Sure. She actually stands up. After about five minutes of this ritual that she's doing and kind of like takes like a deep breath and it's just like, okay, no more sadness… Time to figure out where I am and how to get home. Navi are you, are you there? And Navi comes online and says, hello, Rho are you ready to self-destruct?

Zach/Zahn: So obsessed

Avery/GM: and Rho's like, we are not gonna self-destruct. And Bobby's like, but the mission has failed. We need to self-destruct. Or others will find Terra. And Rho kind of just rolls her eyes and is like, look at, look at Hersh. She's not gonna invade our plum planet and destroy everyone. She's obviously a good person. I think you can calm down with the wanting to blow everything up. And then Navi goes silent and, and Ro Rose says to you, Marty, sorry about that… Navi is a little. Stubborn.

Jenine/Marty: Ah, yeah. I see. Uh, I was just, Hermes are kind of, Navi gets very excited when we say that. No, I understand. Anyways, um, like, was I gonna digress… And I was like, okay. Um, thanks. You also seem really nice too. Um, terr… what, what, actually, you know what? You can share any information you want to, I'm not gonna dig into anything about, about your stuff.

Um, also I found this little data pad, um, with all like the medical records and stuff. I can also give this back to you. I was just checking on all these people and like any, um, connecting stuff to files and, and stuff like that, you have a very beautiful language, like hands over the data pad with all the inform… medical information.

Avery/GM: Oh, thank you. This is really helpful. I think we're probably gonna have to bury these people in space at some point, but, now that the pods have power restored, they should at least. Stay preserved until we can find a a, a resting place for them. I'll, I'll, I'll look through these files and make sure everything gets matched up with everyone else.

Jenine/Marty: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: If Zahn was there, he would recommend, uh, incineration.

Avery/GM: Jesus

Bee/Polaris: always incineration. You don't wanna introduce like, foreign bacteria and diseases to a new planet. You know,

Avery/GM: this is true.

Zach/Zahn: these are extra galia- intergalactic, uh, yeah. Humanoid races. What if, uh, someone decided to clone them?

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: Uh, I, Marty was gonna ask the question of does she know a safe burial place for this situation? Like where she could recommend like a safe burial of like, she knows, she knows that go, she knows not to do… That's the medical stuff and introduce accidentally doing all the like, you know,

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: Bury them on the planet that we killed Winston on.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. It'll be jettisoned into a black hole in a couple thousand years.

Avery/GM: So, yeah. So Marty, you, you do know that like typically burials in space, um, typically involve either launching them into a star or into a black hole just to Totally. So yeah, so tho those are definitely options that you can discuss with Rho now or later, whatever you prefer.

Jenine/Marty: I'm gonna let her process everything that's happening. Um, and then Marty just goes, our sh our, we have some, uh, really good, uh, pre-made food if you wanna try some of it. Our, our friend, um, he's a really good chef and he left us some frozen dinners if you would like to try them. Have a nice home cooked meal.

Avery/GM: You hear her stomach just give the biggest like rumble and she's like, oh yeah. It's, it's been a few days, huh? Yeah, food would probably be a good idea. And her hand kind of lingers on this one particular pod for a little while. Um, and then drops away and she is ready to follow you out.

Jenine/Marty: And then Marty just starts leading her to… then Marty send like a message and be like, Hey, can we invite Rho for dinner? Uwu, please. Sends that to the group chat as she starts walking very slowly waiting for a response.

Bee/Polaris: Uh, thumbs up in chat from Polaris.

Chris/Ollie: All of the Ollies in unison say certainly.

Bee/Polaris: How many Ollies are there? Like eight. So you just get certainly all in one like string.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Cause I, I figure I should also be using the drones too, for whatever little things they could do. So there's nine

Bee/Polaris: awe in the chat. Are each, are each always like a different color?

Chris/Ollie: Uh, yes. Yes. Let's say so.

Bee/Polaris: Or varied shade of Ollie's, OG color.

Avery/GM: Anyone else doing anything during this time that you have on this ship? Kind of repairing things?

Bee/Polaris: Uh, Polaris has probably just gotten into a habit of making sure that everyone is still there, uh, but mostly following Zahn around,

Zach/Zahn: uh, Zahn has not left the ship formally known as Minos until it is at a hundred percent. And then he'll move out to the, uh, um, Cassiopeia.

Bee/Polaris: the soon to be ship, formally known as the Cassiopeia.

Avery/GM: the ship, soon to be formally known as… Wow. That is,

Chris/Ollie: I mean, that's just gotta be our name, ring scheme. We gotta take over a planet, become its government, be the planet formally known as Andor or whatever.

Zach/Zahn: Andor!?

Bee/Polaris: Hell Yeah

Avery/GM: Oh man.

Bee/Polaris: So then, yeah, Polaris is like the, the ship formerly known as The Minos is like home base, but he occasionally goes out to make sure that Marty is okay and then goes back to Ollie and Zahn, mostly staying near Zahn.

Avery/GM: Sure. Ollie and Zahn go ahead and roll some, uh, in either intelligence or dexterity repair. Or fix fix checks.

Zach/Zahn: Nine.

Chris/Ollie: I've got 11.

Avery/GM: Okay. That's good enough for me.

Zach/Zahn: Yeah, I'm sure. Giving yourself six arm advantage.

Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah, Should I roll six times?

Avery/GM: I was giving you a plus two to that roll anyway. So 13 is perf… is gonna get you there. So yeah. Between all these robots and Zahn, uh, helping with it, uh, you have made it, um, you have repaired the ship formally known as The Minos, uh, within a day and a half rather than the three days that you were originally given by Hermes And then you start working on repairs of the Cassiopeia. what, what area do you work on repairing first?

Zach/Zahn: So now that the ship formerly known as Minos, now that it's prepared, uh, we can utilize it to pull junk from this, the graveyard to repair the Cassiopeia. First, I wanna do kind of the obvious. Let's patch the holes in this thing. Get some, get some reinforced bulkhead.

Avery/GM: Sure. Okay, so you're gonna venture out into the actual graveyard area?

Zach/Zahn: Yes.

Avery/GM: Cool.

Bee/Polaris: Hermes is probably gonna have to fly that ship cause Polaris doesn't wanna leave Marty.

Avery/GM: Okay, that's fine. Yeah. Polaris, you, you, you step off the, the, SOKAM (The ship formerly known as Minos) and you see it start to kind of flutter around the area. Hermes is piloting, but Zahn you're kind of like pointing out like, okay, here's what would be good. And you kind of go out and maneuver stuff in a way that. Your ship can kind of latch onto it and bringing it, bring it closer to the Cassiopeia in the meantime. Go ahead. Um, Ollie, are you assisting with this?

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. He's just following along.

Avery/GM: Okay. Go ahead and both of you roll a intelligence notice Check.

Zach/Zahn: Ah, I knew, I knew investing in that would pay off. That is 13.

Chris/Ollie: 11.

Avery/GM: Perfect. So yeah, you definitely find a lot of stuff that you can use to patch the holes and, um, you actually end up finding some intact, uh, power coupling cables that you think you could price splice into… Even though this ship obviously came from somewhere else, you can easily splice it into, splice these cables into it and, and get it to actually maintain consistent power flow.

Avery/GM: But the other thing you find in all of this, you find a, basically like a, a almost like a tow, not a tow truck. Uh, like a small, like a small box truck's worth of, um, like scrap metal inside of this, uh, one of these crashed freighters and Ollie, you end up finding a box of these enhancement chips, um, hey, that you could eventually sort through and find different ones, but essentially they're all going to upgrade different, um, different skills of yours.

And there's also a few other like holo-vids and like comedy specials and things like that as well. So yeah, so you find a bunch of, of cool, you know, entertainment and also enhancement, um, out there in the graveyard, like. Probably this wasn't supposed to be left there. This was probably supposed to be like taken off of the ship before it got towed here, but someone just forgot.

Yeah. You know, like, Cause they try to take everything that's like super useful off of these ships, hence why there's no like weapons to be found, but,

Bee/Polaris: oh yeah, Bruce has my gun.

Chris/Ollie: Oh, there's guns on the Cassiopeia.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, but it's not the same.

Avery/GM: It's not the, it's not the same.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Cause Polaris had a pistol. These are, those were like what? Assault rifles or something like that.

Zach/Zahn: I'm sure there's pistols on there.

Chris/Ollie: I ditched my pistols for the assault rifles. So there's, there's some lying around.

Avery/GM: Yeah. You also notice like quite a bit of other activity out and about in this system, but everyone kind of keeps to themselves, uh, you do notice a couple ships match the same, uh, signature as some of the pirate ships that Almost attacked you.

Bee/Polaris: Our friends!

Avery/GM: Yeah. Your, your pirate friends and you do remember something about their base being located in or around the graveyard.

Bee/Polaris: Will they have detected the ship? Formally known as the main, the minnows and uh, like shot us an email or something like, yo, what are you doing in our turf?

Avery/GM: No. Cause Zahn changed the transponder that they were using to track you, so…

Bee/Polaris: Oh, true, true, true, true, true.

Avery/GM: So they would just

Zach/Zahn: Correct.

Avery/GM: Yeah. So they would just see it as like another ship

Zach/Zahn: Would they not come investigate us then?

Avery/GM:

Chris/Ollie: Well, they're probably still with the…

Avery/GM: No, cause people. People come through here all the time. So it's like, like this is a big place that people come and scrounge for. So unless you were. Outside their base. They're not gonna like bother you.

Jenine/Marty: I will say that I possibly was like just checking in with everyone. I'm like, do we want, do we wanna have tea with the pirates? Like we don't have to have tea with the pirates. Cause I know that we don't have like our chef or anything, but if we want to have tea with the pirates, we just like read the room.

Zach/Zahn: Marty, do you wanna have tea with the pirates?

Jenine/Marty: I mean like, they're really, I mean like it'd be cool, like we can tell 'em about how like cool it was when we, we did the like little thing on the other planet with us racing saying get some like cool points from being cool.

Avery/GM: Marty just wants to be liked by the pirates.

Jenine/Marty: They like me, don’t they?

Avery/GM: Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: yeah. You hugged to their captain. You hugged their main dude.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah, but like also like, Hey look, look at the little is like all cool. That's what's going through Marty's brain. Marty's been a nerd for her entire life. She finally has done something cool. We don't have to have tea with the pirates. I'm just saying.

Avery/GM: I will say I do have stuff prepared. If you go see the pirates.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn says that we can have the pirates over for tea only if they assist in repairing the ship

Bee/Polaris: soon to be formally known as the Casiopeia.

Chris/Ollie: Well, they might take a pretty keen interest to the loot in the ship.

Avery/GM: You, you, yeah. You, you're gonna invite pirates over to a

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, let's not do that.

Avery/GM: Big thing that says mysterious technology. Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: never before scene technology with uh, yeah.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Let's wait until the custodians get here.

Zach/Zahn: Not only are we friends with these pirates, but we've laid claim this is our claim, and hypothetically speaking, there's honor among these pirates, and they would understand.

Avery/GM: Yeah, that's fair.

Zach/Zahn: That we laid claim.

Avery/GM: Oh, I will also say I, and I think I co, I hope I covered this last session, Polaris, when Merak made contact with you, they did say that the pirates were holding some sort of party at their base as well.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. I don't remember that. I probably wrote that down, but I don't remember that, but yeah. Okay. Yeah. So yeah, the, the, the pirates are having a party.

Avery/GM: I have it in my notes. I don't remember if I said it or not, so I'll have to cut that in if I didn't, but that was information I was supposed to give you. Sweet.

Bee/Polaris: Okay. They're having a party. I don't know if they were, if, I don't know if they're gonna want tea as a chaser for space alcohol, you know?

Jenine/Marty: Yes.

Bee/Polaris: I don't drink alcohol, so I don't know if tea is a good chaser for it.

Zach/Zahn: Have we scrounged the ships food stores at all? Maybe they have…

Bee/Polaris: Rho is still here!

Zach/Zahn: I just mean, do they, maybe they have a Terran Alcohol.

Chris/Ollie: Oh, well, did we ever figure out exactly how long they've been out here?

Jenine/Marty: Not yet.

Bee/Polaris: 300 plus years.

Avery/GM: So not yet, but you probably will find that out soon.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet.

Avery/GM: Probably not this session, but soon.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Well, we can check, check some expiration dates on that food.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Might have some fine wine aging down there.

Avery/GM: I mean, but would expiration dates even be valid in space? I mean…

Bee/Polaris: yeah, they would have to have like a container that it's like a countdown until it goes bad.

Avery/GM: I will say, to answer your question, Zach, I will say that you do find kind of some, like, we would know it as wine, but it it to you, it just looks like fancy grape juice.

Bee/Polaris: Ooh. It has a picture of a grape on it and like a skull crossbones.

Jenine/Marty: Yep, yep, yep, yep.

Bee/Polaris: Or, or it's a cartoon bottle that has like the, the three Xs.

Avery/GM: That says poison.

Zach/Zahn: like moonshine sway the hu moonshine jug

Chris/Ollie: jug. Yeah.

Avery/GM: Oh my gosh.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: I'm trying to keep it classy. But yeah, the Xes

Zach/Zahn: determined how many, uh, how, how strong it is.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Yeah. So you do find some of that in the uh, it's like kind of like stashed in the mess hall, like someone was trying to like, you know, keep this just between them and themselves.

Bee/Polaris: Well, they're dead now, so

Avery/GM: Yeah, they are…. So, yeah, so you do have some fancy stuff you could bring as a gift. Um, you don't really know what kind of party this is, but you know,

Bee/Polaris: are we planning on crashing the party?

Zach/Zahn: Not Yet.

Avery/GM: I mean, you were invited, you were invited as guests to the party.

Jenine/Marty: Oh,

Bee/Polaris: Oh, we were invited.

Jenine/Marty: Oh, wait.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, okay, cool.

Avery/GM: Yes.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah

Bee/Polaris: I didn't know we were invited. Probably wouldn't have gone on the Cassio. We knew we were invited. No I’m kidding.

Avery/GM: I'm sorry. Yeah, that's, that is my failing as a GM for not

Chris/Ollie: No, it's all good.

Avery/GM: Specifying

Chris/Ollie: Well, yeah, then, uh, no problem. Because if we just showed up outta nowhere, like, Hey, we just, we're in the area for no reason. Don't look for our ship or why we're here. Uh, it would be a little more awkward, but if they invited us, yeah, we just pull up.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Bee/Polaris: Okay. Wait, are we going to the Pirate party or are we still on the Cassiopeia? Because the Cassiopeia still needs repaired.

Chris/Ollie: Yes,

Jenine/Marty: yes,

Avery/GM: yes

Chris/Ollie: all the extra Ollies are gonna stay in repair.

Bee/Polaris: Oh. So we are going to the, I'm confused What’s happening?

Chris/Ollie: If we go, if we go,

Avery/GM: it's up to you.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, okay.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. Yeah, we haven't actually decided yet, but if we go,

Avery/GM: yeah.

Jenine/Marty: Are we taking our new friend with us?

Avery/GM: And do you leave Rho to just be there by her? By herself?

Jenine/Marty: Yeah. Are we gonna take our new friend with us to go to this party?

Bee/Polaris: Flo doesn't know what a party is, so he's probably stay with Rho.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn hasn’t been to a party in like 15 years, so

Avery/GM: Yeah. The last time Zahn was at a party was during a blood ritual, but…

Zach/Zahn: No!

Avery/GM: I'm kidding.

Zach/Zahn: It would've been before shit really started hitting the fan at home though.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah. And Marty’s kinda like sits there and like, are we go, are we going to socialize with our friend with, with the pirates? Yes or no?

Zach/Zahn: Uh, Zahn can be convinced, but right now he's still, he's still like, while he's calmer, he's still very much in get everything fixed mode.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Yeah. Polaris is still grieving over Bruce, but he,

Avery/GM: but doing so, it feels wrong to party.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah. No, it's true. But Marty's just kinda like, what do we do situations? How do we distract? We don't have to distract. What's, how is everyone feeling? It's like the way that Marty is trying. Fix everything because she knows that she could do some mental stuff to people. But she's not gonna do that Cause that's fucked up.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: She's kinda like day chill.

Avery/GM: You see Hermes’ hologram pop up and start like dancing.

Bee/Polaris: Hermes starts doin’ dancing on the table while we're talking and we're all just like sad.

Jenine/Marty: Marty's just chilling. She's just checking in on everybody. She like has like, you know how in like the Peanuts comics, oh, I forgot which character it was. Just has like the doctor inside. That's what she has. Just like every so often it's like, hey, not forcing anything, but if we just wanna Chill.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, Polaris probably would've pointed out like the former gun wound that healed day one to Marty and be like, is this good? Is this, how are we? Good Your doctor,

Jenine/Marty: well wait, didn’t I help heal? I helped with the healing.

Avery/GM: You did do some psychic keeling. On, on, on Polaris. Um, and then yeah, I think you also used a med packs… So

Jenine/Marty: cool, cool, cool.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: Cool. Great. I also distribute the MEP packs that I do have. Um, that's something I should do. Um,

Avery/GM: so everyone has one.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah. So everyone has one. Um, Cause then like if they do go down and they can't administer it themselves, I can go sprint on over and help out. Everyone has one prepped already, kind of.

Avery/GM: or if or if you go down.

Jenine/Marty: Oh yeah, that too…. There’s four

Bee/Polaris: You won't.

Jenine/Marty: I'm fine. Yeah,

Bee/Polaris: you won’t.

Jenine/Marty: So everyone, everyone put a, put a med pack in their inventory. So now I have one cause I had four, so now I have one.

Chris/Ollie: Excellent. Yes, Ollie will definitely store it on him in case any squishies is nearby need a hand

Bee/Polaris: Yes, we do be a little bit squishy.

Jenine/Marty: Oh what Squishies? Nah, nah, we're fine.

Avery/GM: So where… So no, no pirate party or Yes, pirate party.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris would stay behind. He's not in the mood to party. He misses Bruce.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Jenine/Marty: I am not doing

Avery/GM: totally fair.

Jenine/Marty: It is either we all go or we all stay. But Marty does send like a little like Thanks for the invitation. Hope you guys are doing well. Kind of an email if everyone says no in a way, I'm just like, Hey, hope you're doing good.

Chris/Ollie: Just translate it to Pirate and be like, ARG, we lost a crew mate. Matey. We don't feel much like partying today.

Bee/Polaris: Arg! one of our teammates walked the plank,

Avery/GM: walked the plank!

Chris/Ollie: He’s with David Jones now.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah. Marty sends like that quick little email to them.

Avery/GM: Well then we will wrap up the time skip scenes. Um, unless there's anything anyone else wants to do before we get to the last scene for the day.

Bee/Polaris: Um, oh yeah. What's going on with my Son Boy?

Avery/GM: Yeah, there we go.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris was overwhelmed with sad to think about Son Boy.

Avery/GM: So Polaris, maybe it's like. When you're like laying down for the night or something like that, um, you remember that you have your little tin can son and you, you pull it out and you realize that just a simple Type-A power cell would power it right up.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, sick. I'll slap one in there… I got a couple

Avery/GM: and you're kind of holding it. You slap it in there, it powers up, (power up sound) and then it kind of like springs up outta your hands (spring sound) and like lands on the ground and is like, you know, kind of sitting there, kinda like bouncing on like some springy legs just says. “Greetings. I am unit 4596 in service on the Pan Solar Union ship Cassiopeia. I am a test dummy here to test any and all scientific experiments conducted by researcher designation Aldo. I am also trained to repair ships, cook noodles, and read bedtime stories.”

Bee/Polaris: Bedtime stories! Polaris immediately picks up his Son Boy and like goes over to where everyone else is sleeping.

Jenine/Marty: Qu… question, is this in our language or is this speaking in the language of the people on this ship?

Avery/GM: Oh, that was in the language of, um, yeah. So Polaris

Bee/Polaris: Polaris has his helmet on.

Chris/Ollie: Uh, yeah. When Ollie had it and when he finally returned it, all the settings were changed. But he also…

Bee/Polaris: wait, what? He had it, when did you steal my son?

Chris/Ollie: No, when he took your helmet.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, oh.

Chris/Ollie: When I took your helmet. All the, I changed all the settings, but I did upload the, uh, language pack.

Avery/GM: So you get like subtitles.

Bee/Polaris: What the fuck? What did you change my settings to?

Chris/Ollie: I dunno. Just the same like when you lend your car to someone and all the, uh, everything's adjusted.

Avery/GM: Yep.

Bee/Polaris: God damn it, Polaris before he goes and shows his Sun Boy to everyone else, he'll put on his helmet and spend like an hour fixing it.

Avery/GM: So you do get like the subtitled version of that. So like, it, it says it in its language, but um, you get the subtitles, uh, translated.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will send a message to Son Boy and send him a language file

Avery/GM: and you hear it say processing… except in its other language.

Bee/Polaris: Mm-hmm.

Avery/GM: And then like you see like the lights on its eyes like go like red and then yellow and then blue. And then green and it looks up at you and says, greetings. I am unit 4596, and it continues its spiel in your language.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris picks him up and brings with everyone else like a very much a, it's midnight, everyone is like asleep, and Polaris just like opens the door to show the son.

(metal door opening)

Avery/GM: I found a son.

Chris/Ollie: My boy!

Bee/Polaris: My child! he doesn't say anything though. He just opens the door really loudly and then just holds up his son.

Jenine/Marty: Marty like flips over her sign that said, doctor is out and then flips it back to doctors and he like, sleepily, hello,

Avery/GM: is it morning? And this little rope, this little robot waves to you, and it's just like greetings. I am unit 4596 in service on the Pan Solar Union ship Cassiopeia.

I am a test dummy here to test any and all scientific experiments conducted by researcher designation Aldo. I am also trained to repair ships, cook noodles, and read bedtime stories.

Jenine/Marty: Ah-huh. Do I remember seeing Aldo's records?

Avery/GM: You do. Aldo was one of the backup command crew. You look like you are sleeping. Do you need a bedtime story?

Jenine/Marty: No. No. I'm o… I'm Okay. Do you. Okay, Polaris, do you, do you, are you in need of assistance? Am I, you just, what's happening?

Bee/Polaris: He just points to the robot, like, like very excitedly pointing to the robot. They're like three explanation points on his visor.

Jenine/Marty: Um, what is your name 4 5 9 6?

Avery/GM: I am unit 4 5 96. I do not have a name.

Jenine/Marty: C D E F g h I.

Avery/GM: Oh, I, I, I will say I did not actually, um, like this is not a, a, me being clever with numbers thing, I literally just picked four numbers.

Jenine/Marty: No, that's Mar Marty is like saying that, but like is tried to do it in that way.

Avery/GM: okay.

Jenine/Marty: B C D E F.

Bee/Polaris: It's, it's, it's d e i f.

Jenine/Marty: I know. I just finished

Chris/Ollie: Deif?

Jenine/Marty: Deif?

Chris/Ollie: Deif!

Jenine/Marty: Well, do you wanna, can we call you deer? Can we call you deer? Is that cute? That sounds cute.

Bee/Polaris: It's Deif!

Zach/Zahn: I like Deif!

Jenine/Marty: but also Oh, like deer. Yeah, but like, what if, you know, what about deer? Deer sounds deer, deer do want not, or do you want us to call you the number and like, she's like very much half asleep but is still trying to hold a conversation as best as possible with this robot.

Avery/GM: I will consider other names that you may call me.

Jenine/Marty: Awesome. Hermes, I think you have a little brother. I like. She flips the sign back to doctor is out and just passes out.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will put, will put the covers like pull the covers back over Marty and then walk out Polaris. Polaris will then go to Zahn's room, open the door, but then remember that Zahn wanted to use his son for spare park and immediately leave.

Zach/Zahn: Yes.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will then go to Ollie.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah, Ollie, uh, is still working away, just fixing the Cassiopeia.

Bee/Polaris: Now he will show the his son to Ollie.

Chris/Ollie: Ollie will look at the, uh, the robot and is eyes will light up a little bit and he'll be like, you've activated him. Greetings, what is your name?

Avery/GM: Greetings. I am Unit 4596 in service on the Pan Solar Union Ship Cassiopeia. I am a test dummy. Here to test any and all scientific experiments conducted by researcher designation, Aldo, I am also trained to repair ships, cook noodles, and read bedtime stories.

Chris/Ollie: Excellent. I require assistance fixing this ship. Are you available?

Avery/GM: You see one of its arms just like pop out like a bunch of different compartments with like different tools on it.

Zach/Zahn: Are they all tiny tools?

Avery/GM: Almost like transformer style, but yes.

Bee/Polaris: He puts on a little hard hat.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: You just agreed to that without even fully processing what I said.

Avery/GM: Yes. Yes, I did.

Bee/Polaris: Excellent.

Avery/GM: This is the problem. I, yes. And too much

Bee/Polaris: so he has a little hard hat.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Like a little compartment pops like his chest, like pops open and there's like a little tiny, like little mini hard hat that he takes out and puts on and looks at you and says,

Bee/Polaris: yay.

Avery/GM: Would you mind putting me down so I can help

Bee/Polaris: Polaris his son down? And then does the, like the little, the both hands nudge forward so he can go play

Avery/GM: Polaris. What do you do afterwards?

Bee/Polaris: he'll sit down and like watch his son play and eventually fall asleep.

Avery/GM: Cool.

Bee/Polaris: Just like against the wall.

Avery/GM: Great. And our night ends like that. Polaris propped up against a wall inside of the Cassiopeia Ollie working with this little tiny mini multi-tool robot working on installing some of this… This, uh, scrap that, that you hauled here from, from the other ships in the graveyard. Zahn is sleeping peacefully. And, and Marty, you, you also get a full night's sleep after waking up for a very random and confusing reason. And the night ends and the next day starts. it has been three days since you arrived on the Cassiopeia When Hermes speaks up and says, over the loudspeaker on the Cassiopeia, the custodians have arrived. Polaris, would you like me to make contact?

Bee/Polaris: Polaris just like rolls over and makes like a, a non-committal, like sleepy noise and like waves his hand because he is still sleepy.

Avery/GM: Totally

Zach/Zahn: quick question. Have we deleted the data in their banks on the, homeworld yet?

Avery/GM: Yeah. I believe that's what Polaris did.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, Polaris did.

Avery/GM: Yep.

Bee/Polaris: But Ollie downloaded it to himself. That's in the Google Drive.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Oh. And we But we haven't disabled the self-destruct

Avery/GM: No, the self destruct is, disabled that AI has not been reactivated.

Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah. But we haven't disabled their ability to do so if they reactivated.

Avery/GM: Oh, true.

Zach/Zahn: Given that that is no longer a thing that they have to worry about, would um, Navi still want to self-destruct?

Avery/GM: Navi knows that you have the location because,

Chris/Ollie: oh, no.

Avery/GM: Ollie downloaded it,

Chris/Ollie: so now she must kill me… or us.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. So Ollie is now the target. The Cassiopeia doesn't necessarily have to self-destruct. Ollie just has to

Avery/GM: more or less.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. So we just don't repair the guns.

Zach/Zahn: But does that mean we can turn on. Signey, what, what was the name?

Chris/Ollie: Segin.

Bee/Polaris: We shouldn't… probably?

Avery/GM: not while you're on board, I wouldn't

Chris/Ollie: Yeah, yeah,

Bee/Polaris: yeah, yeah. Let's probably not.

Chris/Ollie: Like even if we made it so they couldn't self-destruct that AI is the only, that the AI being off is the only reason. Like they can't shut off the gravity or turn up the gravity or turn off the life support.

Avery/GM: Yeah. So Polaris, you kind of give this non-committal and you hear, uh, Merak's voice come over the intercom and just says, hello. Do you have an update on this ship? Are we taking it, destroying it, scrapping it? What are we doing?

Bee/Polaris: Polaris types and chat. zzzzzzz, and then rolls back over.

Avery/GM: Is anyone else awake and wanting to respond?

Jenine/Marty: Marty thinks about it, but then goes, oh, they don't like Squishies, and she like, sits at the communication desk

Bee/Polaris: very specifically, very specifically. They don't like Squishies, but Alioth… Alioth is the one that hates Squishies the most. But Merak and Bear will tolerate you guys.

Avery/GM: because you're friends.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. As long as Polaris is alive!

Jenine/Marty: Marty still sits and just goes, um, like sees chat and sees the z’s Oh. Maybe not and just like sits there and just waits at the communication desk for someone to come in.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will just send them the live stream of like when they first got on the ship and then like after they lost Bruce then just

Chris/Ollie: send them the VOD.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, pretty much. And then they can just watch it at like times a thousand speed.

Avery/GM: Yeah. You see, or you hear them say one moment processing and they kind of keep this communications line open. You hear Merrick say, Alioth, what are your thoughts? And Alioth says, “this ship poses a risk to us, to our work and to the safety of Catalyst, designation Polaris, we should destroy it.”

Jenine/Marty: Ooh. Ah hmm. Don't like that.

Avery/GM: And, and you hear in the background, uh, you hear Bear yell, yeah, let's do it. But more out of like, more out of like, he loves destruction and you know,

Bee/Polaris: Polaris like will send in chat, ZZZZZZ thumbs down, ZZZZ.

Jenine/Marty: And then, and then Marty just join chat and goes, hi, yes, me and Marty. What I don't, yes and no, but also like, what if I didn't, but also like partially yes, but like, like, but also no. And then sends my VOD or attempts to send my VOD and I'm like accidentally does like, Does like snippets of it instead of like the whole thing of my conversation with Rho. But like,

Avery/GM: well, and yours isn't even a VOD. It's just audio.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, it is an audio.

Jenine/Marty: But like, that's what she messes up. She's like, she tries to send it as a V, like a vad. She's like, wait, why isn't this, oh, it's au Oh, wait, wait, wait. Sorry. Like sends it.

Avery/GM: Merak says, well, what other option would you like? This AI seems very intent on harming you, and we can't have that.

Jenine/Marty: and then Mar Marty goes over to Polaris and just goes, I know, I know. You're like pokes. And she's like, Hey, I know you're kind of like

sleeping right now, but at the same time, if you could wake up a little bit… ya know?

Bee/Polaris: he's like laying on the ground like against a wall and like he just rolls away from Marty like into the wall

Jenine/Marty: and like she won't continue just to keep going. Just goes Polaris, pu Polaris and like keep poking Polaris. Good morning. Good morning.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris grabs Marty's hand and just pulls her to lay down with him it’s sleepy time, it's morning, it just pulls you into, it's not, it's sleepy time

Jenine/Marty: and like will continue to try and like poke as best as possible

Bee/Polaris: while Marty is doing that, Polaris types in chat, no friend but misspells friend. So then does an asterisk and then spells it wrong again, then does double asterisk and then spells it right

Avery/GM: Alioth response to you in chat, which is a bit and just sends the eye rolls emoji. And, uh, Merak just says, well, why don't, why don't we wait a few hours for Polaris to actually wake up and we can continue this discussion? And they are kind of just holding position outside the Cassiopeia.

Bee/Polaris: ready to just blow it up with the, with the singularity gun.

Jenine/Marty: Yep.

Avery/GM: Yep.

Bee/Polaris: Cool.

Avery/GM: After y'all get off a bit. Of course.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, players is awake. He's just, he just doesn't wanna get up.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah. No, no, no. Got it, got it. Got. It's the scrolling through TikTok, uh, morning part.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, exactly. Is Marty still poking?

Jenine/Marty: Yes.

Bee/Polaris: Trying to wake him up. Polaris like lifts up his visor and says, I'm awake.

Jenine/Marty: Goodeth morning. Oh, do you wanna, are we, are you just gonna, are we just gonna And she just quiets down and just goes, okay.

Bee/Polaris: what's Ollie and Zahn doing? How do they respond to this?

Chris/Ollie: Fixing.

Bee/Polaris: Nice

Avery/GM: Ollie just keeps fixing.

Chris/Ollie: Yep.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah

Bee/Polaris: I mean, he is, Ollie uh, was kind of affected, similar to Zan. He didn't go angry, but he's in a, in a bit of a manic state.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Cause Ollie's not used to loss at all.

Chris/Ollie: Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, becoming sentient, we've always been together as a group. So yeah. This is like, not only his first loss, but he doesn't really see much of a like Separation between himself and the crew. He's like, we are a family.

Bee/Polaris: We are all Ollie.

Chris/Ollie: Yes, we are all one. I have absorbed even the Squishies.

Jenine/Marty: Mm-hmm.

Zach/Zahn: Oh my God. That's a dangerous Thought.

Bee/Polaris: We can just get one of them. The pods, like the cryogenic sleep pods, and we upload our brains into, into Ollie. It's like Soma, but Ollie!

Avery/GM: Polaris. You see bears start just spamming bomb emojis and chat.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris just like types and chat. All right. All right. What

Avery/GM: Merak says are you going to blow this ship up or are we taking it?

Bee/Polaris: No… take… friend.

Avery/GM: I see. We cannot convince you otherwise.

Bee/Polaris: No, actually Polaris will type question, Why is it dangerous?

Avery/GM: Clarification. Things coming from outside of this galaxy could pose a threat to you biologically. It could pose a threat to this galaxy technologically. It could pose a threat to us by interfering with our work.

Bee/Polaris: Work? Question mark. Yeah, what do you guys do?

Avery/GM: Merak just says, changing our routines would be annoying.

Bee/Polaris: Agreed.

Avery/GM: Alioth like sends like a very complicated math problem in the chat, and the equation equals out to 99% and does not elaborate at all. It's just like it should speak for itself.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris sends the number four.

Zach/Zahn: What does the number four mean?

Avery/GM: Nothing.

Bee/Polaris: Nothing. He just thinks it equals four. He's trying to solve the equation. He just sends the four.

Zach/Zahn: Oh my God.

Avery/GM: Merak just says very well. Is the ship fight worthy or should we attach it and tow it back to our main system?

Bee/Polaris: Polaris @’s Ollie with a question mark… and Zahn.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Ollie's mostly deferring to Zahn and his fixing expertise.

Avery/GM: I was say basically the two of you can roll, one can roll a repair, intelligence repair and one can roll a help. Roll

Jenine/Marty: as that's happening Marty, just cut a sentence and chat. There's some biological stuff that maybe we should keep in like this area for right now. Like real quick. Not say like, yes we can move it, but like if it's almost secluded area that'd be kind of cool or like tries to type that, but like that's what she, she tells Polaris to type in chat.

Zach/Zahn: Yeah. Zahn is definitely gonna recommend that. Typing in the chat that uh, we remain, keep the Cassiopeia in system until it's fully operational, utilizing the parts in the graveyard instead of dragging it away and then having to import parts elsewhere.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, true.

Zach/Zahn: Or make other parts.

Avery/GM: yeah, well I was gonna have you roll repair to see how much you've gotten it repaired.

Jenine/Marty: Ahuh, aha ha

Bee/Polaris: Oh, there is like a factory on the ship to fabricate parts. Cause there's a bunch of, we just have to get operational.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah, we have to repair that too.

Bee/Polaris: Um, but now we have my boy!

Chris/Ollie: Yeah, we…

Avery/GM: and you have lots of scrap that you hauled in so you could easily repair the factory on board the Ursa major.

Zach/Zahn: So I rolled a 11 on my fix.

Chris/Ollie: I got, uh, 12.

Avery/GM: The only thing that's not repaired on this ship is the hydroponics bay.

Zach/Zahn: Oh. We absolutely need to fix that.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, we also got one of those, though they probably have like special seeds that are like from different from,

Chris/Ollie: they've got earth seeds,

Zach/Zahn: Bro, they have earth weed,

Bee/Polaris: they have corn!

Jenine/Marty: Oh my god.

Bee/Polaris: Wait, what did you say? Did you say weed?

Zach/Zahn: Yeah. I said they have earth weed and you were so innocent with corn.

Bee/Polaris: I live in Ohio. It's the only thing we have.

Chris/Ollie: I'm gonna smoke that corn.

(laughter)

Bee/Polaris: But yeah, we could like get the stuff for the fact from the factory to repair the Cassia and, um, the ship formally known as the Minos.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: For any future skirmishes we get into, oh,

Chris/Ollie: we don't, we don't really need the hydroponics bay and, uh, I mean we can park the Minos in the Cassiopeia. So we got that.

Bee/Polaris: Can we park the Cassia in the Ursa major?

Zach/Zahn: Probably not.

Bee/Polaris: just like for a little Matryoshka thing. Yeah, no, I'm kidding actually. What is the Cassiopeia, because the Ursa major is a, a

Avery/GM: it is a Fleet Cruiser. Yeah. The Cassiopeia is a fleet cruiser. It will not fit inside. It could be towed by, uh, the Ursa major, but yeah, I, I think your, I think your hangar bay on the Cassiopeia can just fit like a, a freighter.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Dang. Uh, we're gonna have to get a bigger ship so we can fit another ship inside of that ship so we can fit the ship formally known as the Minos in that ship.

Chris/Ollie: No, we need ships all the way down.

Zach/Zahn: I still have my, my stats for the two ships that I made up, just saying

Bee/Polaris: we gotta get another ship so that Zahn can stat up them shits.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Also, uh, we can just take these back to the, the major, uh, fix the factory and then use that to upgrade these ships.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, true.

Chris/Ollie: Just trick 'em out.

Zach/Zahn: Hydroponic Production.

Avery/GM: Yeah. So the Cassiopeia is the same class of ship as the Ursa Major. Cassiopeia is a Fleet Cruiser, Ursa Major is a battleship. Oh wait, battleship is capital ship. Nevermind. But still the, the Ursa major only has a docking bay that can fit a frigate, so

Bee/Polaris: dang it. Okay.

Avery/GM: Yeah. So do you, do you wanna follow the custodians back to their home sector or just stay here for a bit? Or what,

Bee/Polaris: which would be safer? We probably don't want the pirates finding the Cassiopeia

Jenine/Marty: no.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah…Now that there's another big ship in the area, actually, wait, no. Did they pull up with the, the major?

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Okay.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah,

Chris/Ollie: that's gonna be noticeable.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. So, uh, let's, uh, chips and dip, you know,

Zach/Zahn: Zahn is going to recommend that we stopped by the place that we murdered Winston first.

Bee/Polaris: Do we really wanna go back there? Do we really wanna go back there?

Zach/Zahn: Yeah. I don't see why, I don't see why any of the Winstons would've gone back. Would still be there Cause it's been.

Avery/GM: A few

Zach/Zahn: since we killed him.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Uh, like, uh, two and a half weeks, maybe a month.

Zach/Zahn: two and a half weeks.

Chris/Ollie: It won't cost us super. Like, uh, I don't know what they are. They're probably like multi gajillionaire space family to, it won't cost so much to put a few drones on the planet and just keep an eye out.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: I will say that the planet that the custodians typically orbit is like completely cleansed of like life or anything interesting. So like,

Zach/Zahn: oh, okay.

Avery/GM: Dropping dead bodies on it. It'd just be rude to those dead bodies.

Bee/Polaris: I mean, we could just like go on the planet and bury 'em

Avery/GM: and there is a star in that system, so you can always just,

Bee/Polaris: oh yeah, let's just launch 'em into the star.

Zach/Zahn: Yeah. Let's just launch 'em into that. That's, that's, that's a good idea.

Bee/Polaris: We don't want to accidentally create a new, like, race of, you know, species that inhabit that barren planet.

Zach/Zahn: Oh yeah. The, the bacteria suddenly, yeah.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, Over a couple million years, we come back and we're like, holy shit, what happened here?

Chris/Ollie: Uh, what does Rho think about us putting everyone in the sun?

Bee/Polaris: Oh, yeah.

Avery/GM: No, Rho did, Rho did mention putting them to rest, so,

Chris/Ollie: okay.

Avery/GM: Okay. Does anyone pilot the ship? Are you gonna let Navi follow? Like, what, how, how do y'all convince Navi to give you control of the ship?

Zach/Zahn: I was gonna say, what does Nava navi have to say about all this?

Bee/Polaris: I thought we were towing it. We're just like attaching cables to the Ursa, and then

Avery/GM: well, yeah. So that's, that's totally one way to do it. I, I was just, wasn't sure if you wanted to fly it or not.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah, we haven't quite ironed out what we're gonna do with the AIs.

Bee/Polaris: True. Yeah. Maybe we'll let the other ais take care of those ais. AI to AI.

Zach/Zahn: Maybe we can convince the hoard of the VIs to convince Navi that it we're okay.

Bee/Polaris: Do they have any decision power though? I feel like Navi is like the decision maker.

Zach/Zahn: Yeah,

Bee/Polaris: it's like a Hydra, but like nav is the one that makes the decision.

Zach/Zahn: Yeah.

Avery/GM: Yeah. If anyone has played Horizon Zero Dawn um, or, uh, forbidden West Navi is very much like Gaia in that game. One central AI with several subordinate functions. But yeah. If y'all are going to tow it, do you stay on your ship? Do you stay on the Cassiopeia, do you stay on the Ursa?

Bee/Polaris: wherever everyone else is… Polaris will be.

Jenine/Marty: I will go chill with Rho just to like, be like, Hey, what's up? We're doing the things, chill here. You know, like, not let her be alone on that ship unless she joins us in another ship. But like I'm with her.

Avery/GM: Sure, yeah. You, you end up finding Rho in the actual cabins of the ship trying to just sort of, it almost seems like she's trying to like normalize her situation. So she's like made one of these beds and like, has tried to like, make it seem like, oh, it's just a normal day on the ship. You know, that kind of a thing. maybe the shock of this.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah. I do need to preface like, Marty has invited her to like every single meal to be like, Hey, if not, here's like a little tray of reheated food that I date, like I is trying to make it normalized to being like the nice little neighbor kind of!

Avery/GM: yeah, she's, she's come to like a couple meals and like sat there silently. But after the first couple, and, and I'm sure y'all have probably tried to engage her in conversation, but like, she basically just gave like one or two word answers. Uh, you did finally find out that her pronouns are she/her

Jenine/Marty: sick,

Avery/GM: but other than that

Bee/Polaris: it was on her medical chart.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Which, yeah, actually that's a good point. See, this is my problem. I say yes and then I process,

Bee/Polaris: I'm gonna start using that to my, I'm just gonna start saying more and more wild things.

Jenine/Marty: My favorite game!

Avery/GM: Oh no. But after that, she kind of just would like show up, grab food and leave. Not to like be rude, but just. She wants kind of, she's still processing.

Jenine/Marty: Yes.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: Marty's not forcing anything. She's just kind of like, okay. Just little, you know, like when there's a scary dog and you're trying to be friends with a scary dog, so you just like do little things. That's what Marty's doing.

Avery/GM: So Marty, do you explain to Rho what's going on with the, the Cassiopeia?

Jenine/Marty: Yeah, I do. And also like, also like very much like pushes us like, hey, like also like we're gonna go, we're trying to like find an, a place, like a good place for you to like to, to rest for them to rest in peace as well.

Avery/GM: She's, she looks at you and is just sort of like, I am not going home, am I?

Jenine/Marty: Oh, well…

Avery/GM: And she breaks down and starts crying.

Jenine/Marty: Marty imed… like, sees the tears and immediately just hugs.

Avery/GM: Cool. Uh, and that's where we leave Marty and Rho is, is sobbing, realizing that she's stuck in a strange place that she doesn't know.

Bee/Polaris: I've been there, done that.

Avery/GM: Polaris, Zahn and Ollie. What are y'all doing while the Ursa tows this away? And by tow I mean like they have the transport fittings, so they just kind of clamp on and go.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn will be pouring over Ollie's data then.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Ollie as well with the encrypted bits.

Avery/GM: Oh yeah. There's some encrypted stuff. So Ollie, go ahead and roll another hack check and you can keep your bonus from the other day. That's fine.

Chris/Ollie: Oh, I mean, it's, uh, On, uh, one day or it, it lasts for a full day and I re-get all my cognition. So I'm just constantly using it pretty much.

Avery/GM: Okay, sure. So yeah, go ahead and roll your program intelligence check.

Chris/Ollie: Okay, now I gotta do a lot of maths… 18

Jenine/Marty: Jesus.

Avery/GM: You needed 16 earlier and you were one short, so

Chris/Ollie: Oh, wow.

Avery/GM: I was trying to make this a little bit more of a bigger reach… so.

Bee/Polaris: So before we get this world shattering information, Polaris has been sitting in the background, uh, sewing a anatomically correct salmon to give to Rho, like a plushy.

Avery/GM: Oh, I gotcha. Okay. Like a, like a, here's something to comfort you. Gotcha. Okay.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: Why a salmon?

Bee/Polaris: Because her name is Rho, uh,

Chris/Ollie: salmon eggs.

Zach/Zahn: Oh my God. Okay.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris doesn't, he just assumes that that's her favorite because his name is Polaris and he likes Polar Bears, so he just assumes that's how it works.

Avery/GM: Oh, I love it. Awesome. So, yeah. So Polaris, you are sewing away. Where are you located? Are you back on the Ursa or are you just sort of next to where…

Bee/Polaris: Wherever Zan and Ollie are, Cause they're, I assume they're doing fancy, cool, smart computer stuff near each other. So Polaris are just sitting in the background, not doing cool, fancy, smart computer stuff.

Avery/GM: Yeah. You're, you're probably on board the, the, SOCAM.

Bee/Polaris: The Ship formerly known as the Minos.

Avery/GM: Exactly. you're typing away and whatnot. Um, and OIE, you come across some data that's encrypted and you kind of bust through the encryption pretty easily and you find out like a few things about this ship that you didn't know before.

Avery/GM: first you find out that the ship's public mission differed from its private mission. The ship's public mission was a first of a co, first of its kind mission to establish a Pan Solar Union colony in another galaxy. The secret mission was to lure out. Someone or something that caused the current war that's going on back home.

Avery/GM: The ship, uh, has been traveling for about two years, um, almost completely in, uh, hyperspace, aside from the past few weeks where it was crashed In the graveyard, you find encrypted transport logs that indicate seconds before jumping to hyperspace. The command crew activated the teleportation pods on the bridge and abandoned this ship, and then you find a written log from presumably the captain, and it just says, uh, this is Captain Alexio as ordered, I've initiated the warp drive and my command crew is preparing to evacuate the ship before going to warp.

Avery/GM: Not sure why The Union is going through all this deliberate trickery to lure out three rogue ai, but whatever. If they wanna set me up with a nice beach house on old Terra and a fat pension, I'll do what they ask… Poor Rho, I feel bad for the kid. She doesn't deserve this fate dying alone in the coldness of space.

Avery/GM: At least she'll be asleep when it happens. Anyway, whoever's reading this, consider this my confession or admission of guilt. No one will read it, but at least I got it out of me. Bye Rho… rest in peace. And that is sort of all the information you get from that database or from that encrypted stuff.

Chris/Ollie: Mm-hmm.

Avery/GM: The ship arrives back home, back in the home system of the custodians and by the, by the time it arrives back, you know, it's been a few days, but everyone's kind of like tired from all the work they've been doing and people are resting and whatnot, and our camera settles on a pale figure. Slipping away from the Ursa Major’s Bay and kind of in the zero G crawling its way over the ship and into the Cassiopeia.

And our camera follows this figure. We see it come into the main lab of the Cassiopeia um, and it runs its artificial hands over the familiar consoles, booting up the system and beginning to type away until finally we hear Navi speak over the intercom but just in this room:

Avery/GM: “still functioning. After all this time, architect?”

Avery/GM: and the figure says “affirmative cartographer.”

Avery/GM: and Navi replies back “my name is Navi!”

Avery/GM: and the figure replies back, “of course, cartographer, designation Navi, shall we get started? We have a lot of catching up to do.”

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