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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crazy_monkey1956" data-source="post: 4733069" data-attributes="member: 49514">The Control Room: NathanThe tech gives Nathan a thorough rundown of how the system works.OOC: I'm not a scientist, so I actually have no idea how a psionically resonant crystal of unknown origin could be made to interact with modern computer technology.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Nathan does get enough of a working knowledge that, with some time to fiddle with it himself, he should be able to operate and eventually program the controls.Wandering the Facility: AmyAmy is greeted amicably by many of the US Air Force folks going back and forth from one place to another.  She eventually finds herself near the mess hall, which currently smells of chili dogs, where there's about six AF enlisted and civilian techs enjoying a late lunch.  The mess hall has a small kitchen with a civilian cook, with vending machines, a small microwave, and a coffee maker on the opposite end of the room.One of the techs she met briefly earlier, a civilian technician named Paul Wilson, enters the mess hall as Amy is passing by and says to her, "Oh, hey, you're the Australian, right?  Have you had lunch, yet?  Care to join me?"R&D: ConnorJanice blinks, apparently a little perplexed, "Well, no, not really.  I mean, if their corpse were in contact with the crystal at the time, but they'd still be a corpse where ever they ended up."She turns her labtop around so Connor can see the screen and brings up a diagram that currently looks like a simple straight line."On the other hand, parallel universe theory tells us that for every decision any sentient being makes, a new universe comes into being where that individual makes the other choice."She clicks the mouse and the line splits in two branches."In turn, every choice in both of the alternate realities spawns two, maybe more, alternate realities."The lines continue to branch in a repetitive pattern until the screen is nearly full of branching lines."So, in some realities a person who died could be very much alive.  That person may not be the same person as they were in this reality, though.  For example, there's probably a reality out there where I didn't come home after two days when I ran away at 15, which means in that reality I'm probably dead, maybe worse."General Staunton's Office: HowieStaunton nods, "You have quarters on the barracks level, upstairs.  Jameson tells me that you and he made sure some of your stuff was left there, including a video recording you left for yourself.  I'd go watch that if I were you."Staunton's desk phone rings at that point.  He holds up a hand for Howie to wait a moment, then answers it."This is Staunton.""What?  Does Harvey know?""Damn.  Well, we can't delay the mission.  Get him into treatment."He hangs up, his face suddenly more somber.  He rubs his forehead and says to Howie, "Max evidently has a brain tumor.  Get yourself situated and be ready to go at 0600 Thursday morning.  Dismissed."</blockquote>

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