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// I changed my mind. Brief explanation.
All right, Cadet Hamilton of TSN Sabre, Lt. Cmdr. Mundy looks at her, sounding resigned. We’ll accept your preposterous story, for now, and act as it it were true. You shall remain under surveillance, of course. But we’ll allow you to contact your officers, and we’ll keep an eye on their actions, too. If you’re telling the truth, it might explain 4th Hunter’s recent behaviour.
He shakes his head, and adds,
It says a lot about a culture, when the best explanation for not destroying civilian habitats is that the people involved came from a different universe…Parra hesitates a moment, then adds, And, Sir? This may sound strange… this universe’s Capt. Verok and Lt. Parra joined the TSN after defecting from the ISN, correct? We only know that from looking at our records, but…
But what now, Parra? Lt. Cmdr. Mundy braces himself for more bad news.
But, Sir, I think they didn’t really defect. They were actually spies. The Captain and I received transmissions from sources we couldn’t identify. We didn’t like the sound of those orders, so we disabled the comms equipment. He concludes, with pride, They haven’t been getting any intel from us.
Now you tell me? Lt. Cmdr. Mundy is having trouble remaining calm. We could have used that to feed the ISN disinformation!
But Sir, how would it have looked… Parra tries to interject.
You people really must be from a different universe, Lt. Cmdr. Mundy concedes, you have no sense of political intrigue. Do you still have that covert comms equipment? Take it to Lopez in Engineering, let’s see if we can get it working again, and how we can put it to use.
//Does anyone mind if I skip any more explanation? It doesn’t feel right to write the Verok and Parra side of the dialogue. Verok and Parra switched with their Mirror-Universe selves, who were not with 4HG at the time of the switch. They were, in fact, with the Mirror-TSN. Why? Well, that’s another story… and may be told at some more appropriate time. (Flashbacks! We could do flashbacks!)
Parra, Verok and Hamilton will corroborate each other’s story, hence the message 4LD received from Hamilton.
Lt. Cmdr. Mundy looks non-plussed.
Parra, what are you blathering on about?
Sir, that bout of Arvonian flu I had a while ago? And Capt. Verok? Neither of us had Arvonian flu. We were trying to understand what was happening. It was when the switch happened. We were in the Poseidon Rift with 4th Light and TSN Grant, we came across the Caltron formations as the science ships brought the Forerunner Artefacts together… and then we were here.
Parra, if this is some sort of joke, I swear…
Not a joke, Sir. Capt. Verok and I were wondering if we were going mad, and trying to act as everyone was expecting us to. We had no idea where the rest of 4LD were. But now the Cadet is here, and says she knows.
Crackling and hissing over the comms system interrupt the conference. A pixellated outline appears on screen. An urgent voice, distorted by static, says
…lton reporting. Sir, I’ve found them. They got your black…Shrieks of static … info in exchange… Static
… Os being held in Atl… Static Do you read? Static …mmand. Imminent transfer… Static …peat, imminent… Static …ess Fenr…
Long protracted static burst
