When they all look up, Andromeda carries on, and Cortana flickers to life next to her.
"You've all been given a basic briefing on the situation, but here's a more thorough one. Please hold your questions until I'm through. You are all currently trapped on a spaceship--for those of you that don't know what a spaceship is, it's a closed-off ship that travels so far into the sky that it can reach the stars. This particular ship is run by--this ship is--an artificial intelligence named Stacy. For those of you that don't know what a artificial intelligence or program is, think of it as a sort of non-physical person that lives in an object. Cortana and I are also AIs and captives of Stacy ourselves. More can be explained about us later."
"Stacy is traveling in the space between dimensions--that is, the space between universes, meaning some of you may be from planet Earth, but not the same Earth. She has pulled some of you from different times, as well."
"Over fifty individuals like yourselves have woken from podsleep before you. They were working together to explore the ship and try to find a way to confront our captors. Until recently."
A 3-dimensional map of the main floors of the ship appears.
"We are here."
A glowing blue dot appears to correspond with where the Pod Caverns are.
"Approximately an hour ago, we registered fluctuations in Stacy's nervous system, here."
The area where the machine was in the city glowed with a red dot.
"Her internal sensors and other systems started to malfunction. Shortly after, all contact with Stacy and the ship's sensors cut out. This was one of the last images we managed to receive."
A 3D image of a somewhat panicked-looking scruffy-faced young men that look related, surrounded by very angry-looking group of crewmates in the Mess Hall is displayed, and the area where the Mess Hall is has a dot to show where it took place.
"We believe from this and other images--" Another picture, of a stocky Latino holding a gun to the head of a strange creature in blue armor. "--that some of the crew has turned against the rest of the crew. We also believe, given most of their psychological profiles and the unlikelihood of their turning, that they are being influenced by some external force."
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"You've all been given a basic briefing on the situation, but here's a more thorough one. Please hold your questions until I'm through. You are all currently trapped on a spaceship--for those of you that don't know what a spaceship is, it's a closed-off ship that travels so far into the sky that it can reach the stars. This particular ship is run by--this ship is--an artificial intelligence named Stacy. For those of you that don't know what a artificial intelligence or program is, think of it as a sort of non-physical person that lives in an object. Cortana and I are also AIs and captives of Stacy ourselves. More can be explained about us later."
"Stacy is traveling in the space between dimensions--that is, the space between universes, meaning some of you may be from planet Earth, but not the same Earth. She has pulled some of you from different times, as well."
"Over fifty individuals like yourselves have woken from podsleep before you. They were working together to explore the ship and try to find a way to confront our captors. Until recently."
A 3-dimensional map of the main floors of the ship appears.
"We are here."
A glowing blue dot appears to correspond with where the Pod Caverns are.
"Approximately an hour ago, we registered fluctuations in Stacy's nervous system, here."
The area where the machine was in the city glowed with a red dot.
"Her internal sensors and other systems started to malfunction. Shortly after, all contact with Stacy and the ship's sensors cut out. This was one of the last images we managed to receive."
A 3D image of a somewhat panicked-looking scruffy-faced young men that look related, surrounded by very angry-looking group of crewmates in the Mess Hall is displayed, and the area where the Mess Hall is has a dot to show where it took place.
"We believe from this and other images--" Another picture, of a stocky Latino holding a gun to the head of a strange creature in blue armor. "--that some of the crew has turned against the rest of the crew. We also believe, given most of their psychological profiles and the unlikelihood of their turning, that they are being influenced by some external force."