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.
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.
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.
A voice from the comms unit on the wall explains it’s the time variation affecting the station that “faceted” the station’s AI.
Ignoring the fact we might randomly scatter into atomic confetti, it’s harder to find Kaetlyn. “When” just got added to “How” and “Where”.
So we shouldn’t be experiencing time dilation while in a shielded vessel. Except we are. Randomly, and in varying amounts. That’s super.
Deirdre’s long explanation (which still feels dumbed-down) is that this impossible station is old; time dilation is “leaking in”. FanTAStic.
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.”
Jumpspace (which this station, impossibly, floats within) is, as we understand it, ‘between’ time. Not that anyone *really* understands it.
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.
The chronometer says that those 100 steps took about one minute. And two months. Wait, what? WHAT?