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I'll keep that in mind, thanks.

[ He can't help finding the accent a little amusing, but still he manages to understand it fine enough, if nothing else then by the context of the conversation. He nods, agreeing with Niko's idea. ]

The uniform should work just fine, but a tracker wouldn't do any harm either. Just in case someone gets to him. I'm not a fan of keeping tabs on someone like that, but... [ He shrugs. Exceptional circumstances. ]

I'm not really, either. But this is probably an okay case for it.

You are a scientist, right? What is your specialty?

Nuclear physics, biochemistry, gamma radiation studies. I do know plenty about pretty much all fields of physics, and I have some knowledge in various fields of engineering too, as well as medicine. [ The latter mostly from his experience in third world countries and nothing else, but still. ] Why do you ask?

[Well, he's certainly got a lot of experience under his belt. Damn.]

I was asking the captains about them getting help fixing the Ingress. Have you talked to them any about it? It sounded like they were not against the idea of people looking at it. I brought it up with Tali too.

Not that I think there would be some easy magic fix, but more people knowing things about it is definitely better than just one captain.

[ It's a thing when one is a genius and aching to learn more about pretty much anything. ]

I never did, no. But I could ask them if they want me to look into it, once things settle down. [ As much as he doesn't care for or trust the captains... ] I've been studying the ship myself, and I know Tali works with the engines, so we could take a look around. I know someone else who might know enough to help too.

I am hoping if we start figuring it out, there won't be reason to keep us anymore.

But all I do is drive and fly and shoot. [And he can break into things some.] So I'm not able to do much.

Tali has a lot of experience on her side, I know that. She is from a space faring race.

Hopefully. Who knows.

[ Bruce still isn't entirely sure he believes there isn't some higher purpose for their presence here, but then he's always been suspicious. And the shadier people are, the more suspicious he gets. But no need to spread distrust when he might just be wrong-- and Niko's right, looking into how the Ingress works might go a long way to getting them home much sooner, or at least stopping it from dragging any more new people into the ship. ]

I know, she told me. She probably knows more about space ships than most people on board. If you've already mentioned this to her, I'll get in touch with her too. We can go to the captains about it and offer our help.

Yeah. I brought it up. I think it will do her good to have something to do that might help.

This is the second time we have been trapped in a place like this, and the first time those captains [the instructors] tortured her when she failed to do a good job.

Just thinking maybe we can fix the situation would be good for our heads, you know? Whether it is people working on the ship or people giving you support and watching your back.

[ He frowns, not liking the sound of that one bit. ] Guess we'll just have to make sure that never happens here. [ He's seen no evidence of it, at least, but who knows. At least Bruce knows that he has the ability to stop something like that from happening if he has to. And good luck torturing him - that won't end well for anyone. ]

I agree. At least we have a purpose, and it'll be uplifting for the rest of the crew, too. Always raises the morale a little, when we're not just drifting aimlessly. Sometimes it feels like we are.

[The captains here aren't as pointlessly crew. Just desperate, kind of aimless assholes. Maybe they don't intend to be, but that they're kept here, with hands marked. That's not exactly the traits one would associate with a good person.]

Yeah. I know what you mean.

Even if they know the planets we go to...

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Well, we know for a fact that this ship was on Caducus Primary before we were even on board, most likely with a whole different crew. It's almost as if the Moira's stuck traveling in one big circle.

[ Now there's some food for thought. Because Bruce needs more paranoid theories to keep him up at night and everything. ]

I wonder if there are also charts of good planets to dock and load up at.

[Leave it to Niko to be a little less paranoid. He's actually a bit too trusting at times, even with his cynical nature. Even if he sort of accused them of stealing the ship, he's a career criminal. He steals vehicles. He can't judge as others can, and didn't really see that as being that bad if that were the case.]

Or it is going back the way it came.

I'm not sure why Caducus Primary would be on that list, considering.

[ Seriously, there's a room full of glass pieces and statues, exactly the kind of stuff that the natives in Caducus Primary had claimed the Moira crew had stolen during their last visit. Even if it had been an entirely different crew and the current captains had stolen it in the meantime, Bruce isn't really buying that they wouldn't have checked the rooms and found all that in there.

Bit difficult for him to be that trusting - or trusting at all. He's learned the hard way that that's not how people work. ]

Or that. One way or the other, makes you wonder how many of the planets we'll dock will recognize the ship. I can only hope not all of them will have bad stories to tell. [ Though next time they're told to leave, Bruce is making his way back onto the ship right away. Not taking any more risks. ]

The probably thought it was an easy target and they wouldn't remember. But ah... when I was in the merchant navy, there was always ports that it was okay for our ship to visit. Sometimes people would leave the ship, never come back and use it as an excuse to escape their mother country.

You do it enough, you get caught. The ship gets impounded. But it is still an open port.

So I guess there are a bunch of open ports on the way home. Yeah, the ship might have been there before, and maybe they fucked up in different places, too. It's not so much trusting as... well, maybe that part isn't as strange as it looks. What is strange is that they are pretty obviously thieves. I used to be a career criminal. I know what sort of shit smuggling can get you into. And ah... none of it good.

[Used to be. That's a nice thing to say. Even if the CDC made him do terrible things, he can still use the words "used to be". His mother would be exceptionally proud of him.]

[ Bruce nods at the explanation, easily making sense of what Niko's telling him. He imagines it's something like that, that even knowing what might've happened on a previous visit, they thought the natives wouldn't remember it now. And maybe, if it weren't for the sentiment that the natives ascribed to their glass creations, they wouldn't have. ]

Makes things a little complicated for us.

[ Or for most of them, anyway - Bruce doesn't know everyone on the ship, for all he knows a lot of them were or are thieves, but he does knows that he isn't, for instance, unless one counts the odd shirt or pants that he took, whenever he came to naked in the middle of practically nowhere. Yet they were all stuck here, being lumped together by crime or crimes they had nothing to do with.

Not that Bruce was one to talk, when the Hulk destroyed an entire planet. But then that wouldn't have happened if the captains hadn't deemed Caducus Primary as a safe place to visit either. ]

But you're not anymore. [ No judgment, really - what people were before coming here hardly matters to him, at least not when it comes to stealing or smuggling. Bruce might not have been as understanding if it happened to be something much worse. ] At least we haven't run into any similar problem on this planet yet. There's still something going on, but no word that the Moira was ever even here before.

[ So maybe they lucked out on that. ]

No. My home was kind of a shitty place. Here? Not so bad. [It's amazing what being desensitized from being a child soldier lets a man be capable of. But at least now he's trying to use that for... sort of good...]

[He doesn't want to be kidnapped and forced to kill a lot of people again anyway.]

That doesn't mean I like being owned. And yes, I agree. I've been riding around with Snake, looking for information.

[That was very close to "Snehk."]

We have not found much.

Really? [ Bruce arches his eyebrows a little. ] Well, I guess it's all a matter of perspective.

[ He would much rather be back in New York himself, for instance, but of course it shouldn't surprise him so much that not everyone comes from a world even remotely as nice as his. What issues he has, he will always have them, no matter where he goes. It hardly changes with him being here. ]

It's surprisingly difficult to find anything. People do seem to know something, but no one talks about it. Any recorded information is virtually nonexistent, as if someone's doing their best to keep the whole thing quiet. [ Which, of course, only makes Bruce want to know what's happening even more. ] Thanks to what happened on the planet, the dreams and that broadcast, we know that it has something to do with Link'd, and these Komai too - some kind of group opposing them. But that's where the whole thing starts and ends. The details are impossible to figure out.

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Obviously I don't care what order pronouns are supposed to go in...

hahaha man it took me a while to even notice. <<

And then for some reason I lost this tag.

don't sweat it :>

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