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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pathfinderq1" data-source="post: 6521885" data-attributes="member: 48394">It had been a bit of a blur, really. The entire evacuation process had been a total cluster- but that wasn't really unexpected. Joy had tried to stay out of the way as much as possible- she had been locked into her shared cabin, going over some new footage from the last few days before boarding. During the brief jaunt through hyperspace, she had tried to sleep- but the there was just too much noise; it was like trying to sleep in unfamiliar jungle- none of the sounds were quite words, but her brain kept working with them, trying to understand. She wasn't quite sure how she had ended up in the engineering spaces with the others, but when that fool Thompson tampered with the drive unit, and that THING showed up...She was one of the first people out the door then- she knew a predator when she saw one. She hadn't agreed with Locke's decision, but it was his call, and it had saved at least some of them... She had tried to scavenge as much as she could over the intervening days- they only had a fraction of the initial population now, but they also had a significantly reduced area of the ark to work with, and a lot of the remaining space hadn't been intended as living quarters. Locke had co-opted most of the remaining folk with scientific expertise, especially any kind of engineering or mechanical experience, but Joy had been left to her own devices. While the de facto captain had said that he was trying to get the power systems back on line, Joy had the unsettling hunch that he was building a cadre to advise and control the remaining populace, something unsettlingly like a priesthood... At least the unsettling unearthly voices and other sounds had faded, now that the hyperspace drive had been destroyed.She had scavenged a bunch of batteries, and had spent most of the last few days indulging herself, going over the direct and surveillance footage of the THING that Thompson had unleashed. Perched on table like a leopard on a branch, wrapped in her heaviest ballistic weave exploration clothing for warmth, she was entirely rapt in the glow of her IPAD X screen, editing and condensing the footage of that creature. Was it still prowling the closed sections of the ship? Was there anyone alive over there? And given how brutally dangerous it seemed to be, what could they do if it broke out of their containment?"Hey, Joy. Locke said anything about getting power back on-line?"At first, she didn't seem to hear the other woman's query. She stared at her screen for another moment- then with a shake of her head she closed the screen with the edited footage and set the unit down. Her voice, when she spoke, was warm and welcoming, even more than it had been. "I don't know quite what he has been up to- he has been spending all his time with his 'inner circle'. I suppose they COULD be trying to get the systems back on-line. From what I've heard they had a couple of hurdles to get over- something, either during hyperspace or because of whatever happened with the drive, messed up some of the control systems. Like an EMP, but no kind of energy we could measure or recognize... That, and some of the critical linkages are on the other side of the barricades, and we've few volunteers who want to go in there, even if we dared to open a hatch." Despite her rather dire pronouncements, she didn't sound worried, and her voice was somehow reassuring. "I've been trying to go over what little we know about that THING. If we do need to get back into the secured space, we have to assume it is still there, and we'll have to deal with it. You're military, right? What kind of resources do we have left, if we have to go in there?"</blockquote>

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