trans_9 | Beyond the Sea [Closed]

||Attention, Attention. The following personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention. The following personnel please report to the Observation Deck.

Howard Bassen
Allenby Beardsley
Jake Berenson
John Crichton
Kanoe Zouichi
Lash
Jamie McCrimmon
M'gann M'orzz
Erhart Ritter||

On the Obs Deck, the following mission information was displayed, for any who cared to see:

Planet Designation: Nereus IV Status: Terrestrial, H-class Non-sentient life: Extensive flora and fauna Semi-sentient life: Yes Sentient life: Yes Water: 79.3% of planet's surface Climate: Earth-like Landscape: Variable. Much of the planet's landmasses are partially submerged. Air: Normoxic concentration: 31% oxygen, 60% nitrogen, 2% xenon, 4% trace gases, such as hydrogen, krypton, and argon. Air Pressure: 93.8 kPa (kilopascals) = 13.6 psi (pounds per square inch) Sky: Blue. Sun: Class G yellow star Warnings: Occasional hostile or poisonous sea life. Mission: Assist the crew of the Saratoga in investigating the communications loss with the deep oceanic station, Deepstar 7.

Additional setting information for the station, including a list of available areas, is here.

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Allenby looked around. This place looked like one of the space colonies, apart from the blue sky--the landscape and weather were completely perfect. She grinned when she spotted Zouichi watching some kids.

"Hey there!" She waved expansively. "Nice place, huh?"

Zouichi turned at the sound of her voice, curious. "It is. But we can't stay in here forever."

He didn't really seem to recognize that this was a dream. Or recognize Allenby, come to think of it. "I've never seen you here before. Are you part of R&D?"

"Uh..." The smile left Allenby's face. She didn't see anything strange about being in this place either, despite having no clue where it was, but she did know Zouichi. "You don't recognize me? It's Allenby! You know, Allenby Beardsley."

Zouichi looked at her, frowning a little. "Allenby? No, I'm afraid not. Are you... consulting from the overseas branch?"

He really seemed to believe he was wherever and whenever this was. Which meant that she was either a simulation, or somehow connected to Toua Heavy Industries.

"No, Neo-Sweden," Allenby responded automatically. She frowned. "What the heck is goin' on here? Did you... lose your memories somehow?" She glared around at the idyllic landscape. "But how?!"

Zouichi smiled politely, but backed up a step or two. "If you're part of a protest group, I assure you that Toua takes the rights and wellbeing of its artificial humans very seriously."

With a name like that, Allenby was probably part of some group that had hacked into the Shikiomi somehow. He'd heard this happened every once in a while with the other environments, but not with the newest generation's...

"I ain't a protester!" Allenby said. "If you got rebooted, or whatever--" She ground her teeth together. "I am gonna kill Stacy for this. She's got no right to be doing this to your head!"

Unless... she was the one hallucinating? Maybe she really didn't know him. "Hey. Where the hell is this anyway?"

What a strange person. And who was Stacy? Maybe Allenby was some kind of simulation after all.

"This is the Shikiomi. It's where we're being trained before we're released into the real world." So basically, you might say it was Zouichi's hometown. Sort of.

A dark-haired young woman came through the grass toward them, peering at Allenby. "Hello," she said. "I didn't know we were expecting visitors. Is everything all right?"

"Hey lady, what the hell's going on?" said Allenby. So rude, answering a question with a question. "Either Zouichi's got his brain wiped or I'm goin' crazy, because I know him but I never heard of Shikiomi and I sure ain't in your training program."

"His brain... wiped? Why would anyone want to do that?" she shook her head. "This is a learning environment; we'd be undoing all the work we've already done. I'm Kurokawa, by the way. Kurokawa Saya. And right now, we're in Toua Heavy Industries's main headquarters building."

For his part, Zouichi seemed a good deal more comfortable with Saya around, as though her mere presence was reassuring. He didn't even react as the scenery shifted, becoming a sleek, high-tech underground laboratory setting.

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