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May 14th, 2010
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How to tell if someone plans to screw you: they ask you to trust them. Dead giveaway. I can tell Jon knows. De doesn’t, which is a comfort.

May 13th, 2010
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Voice In The Speaker is calm, cultured – sounds amused, but kind – and says it knows what’s going on and can be trusted. I almost laugh.

May 12th, 2010
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A voice from the comms unit on the wall explains it’s the time variation affecting the station that “faceted” the station’s AI.

May 11th, 2010
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Ignoring the fact we might randomly scatter into atomic confetti, it’s harder to find Kaetlyn. “When” just got added to “How” and “Where”.

May 10th, 2010
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So we shouldn’t be experiencing time dilation while in a shielded vessel. Except we are. Randomly, and in varying amounts. That’s super.

May 8th, 2010
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Deirdre’s long explanation (which still feels dumbed-down) is that this impossible station is old; time dilation is “leaking in”. FanTAStic.

May 7th, 2010
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Every pilot’s manual explains why FTL travel is impossible, and concludes with “Then we found an old ship that could do it, and copied it.”

May 7th, 2010
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Jumpspace (which this station, impossibly, floats within) is, as we understand it, ‘between’ time. Not that anyone *really* understands it.

May 6th, 2010
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Jon and Dierdre’s read the same: two months since we got off the Bin. D says she might know why, but her eyes say it’s not a good thing.

May 5th, 2010
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The chronometer says that those 100 steps took about one minute. And two months. Wait, what? WHAT?