chiron_survivor | Entries tagged with ic communication

From: Adia Costas To: Contact List Hi, everybody. I did not get a chance to tell Captain Agathon about the Nexus. His daughter, Hera, was kidnapped by the enemy Cylons. Galactica is going on a rescue mission, and I'll be helping in the medical bay. I'll be okay! I have my PINpoint. But I wanted to send a message, because I've been locked out of the Nexus before, and I didn't want anyone to worry while I was gone. Thank you to every one of you who listened to me and offered me advice. I would not have survived this long as a refugee without all your kindness and generosity. You are some of the best friends I have ever had. I wanted you to know that. How special you are to me. xo, Adia

A couple of days after seeing Paladin, Adia is back in the Nexus. She uses the opportunity to sit down at a computer terminal and send an email to her friend.

Dear Paladin, I hope that you are doing well since I last saw you. I'm attaching to this email two pictures. One is of a water bear. Their official name is tardigrade. Its face isn't as cute as I remembered, but you can see that it has little claws on its feet. You can only see them with a microscope. I also attached a photo of a red panda, which is one of my favorite animals, and more traditionally cute. Do you have an animal like this on your world? I wish I could say things are going well, but unfortunately, problems have increased on New Caprica. The Resistance has started bombing Cylon sites, and the Cylons are responding by increasing security and imprisoning more humans. I am fine, though, and so are my friends. I'm still trying to visit the Nexus as frequently as I can. Take care, Adia ps -- if you have trouble opening the pictures, let me know. There should be a little paperclip symbol. It looks like an elongated spiral. The pictures might also just be there at the bottom of the email.

Adia's trips to the Nexus are fairly regular these days. It's not always easy to slip away from New Caprica, but at least her duties are on a schedule. Even the union meetings she attends with her chemist friend (more than a friend now -- his charming smile and passionate demeanor have almost pushed out a certain Cylon from her mind) are fairly predictable.

On one such trip, she sits down at a Nexus terminal and types up a message to Oceanglide:

Hello, Oceanglide! Thank you again for your book of poetry. I read through it once, and now I'm going back over each poem. I think my favorite so far is the one about the icebergs, but I love them all. I met a Decepticon named Scrapmetal in the Nexus earlier today. He's... interesting. About your size, but I don't think he's a mini-con. He said he doesn't know you but would like to meet you sometime. Just thought I'd let you know. Hope to see you in the Nexus again soon. cheers, Adia

Adia hadn't meant to stop visiting the Nexus. It was something she was learning to enjoy, in fact, a respite from the daily tribulations of her cramped, inter-stellar life.

And then her PINpoint stopped working.

She wasn't certain why, but she suspected that it had something to do with the cylon virus that infected some of the fleet and nearly allowed a Centurion invasion. Which thankfully didn't succeed, but a few days later, when she tried to use her PINpoint, gobbledygook appeared on the screen and she didn't go anywhere.

The same thing happened the next few times she tried, so she buried it in the bottom of her foot locker and tried not to break down. She hadn't realized how much she had relied on that little device -- her portal to another, better universe -- until it no longer worked. The worst part was, there was no one she could tell, no one who could try and fix it. It was just one more secret she had to keep.

Life went on. She continued to work in her lab and slowly befriend others. Battlestar Pegasus, long thought destroyed, returned to the fleet, and some very lucky people were reunited. Adia was not one of them.

Then one day, while she sat on her bed and read over some research, she heard something beep in her foot locker. She opened it, and digging through her personal mementos, carefully retrieved the source.

Her PINpoint. It was working again.

She didn't hesitate to use it.

((OOC: Just an explanation for why Adia has been gone, which was in reality due to the mun being away and then super busy. ^_^ But Adia is back! Please feel free to contact her!))

Adia was in the Nexus again. It had been several days -- things were messy in the colonial fleet and she didn't want to risk disappearing. It was always a small gamble, whenever she used her PINpoint. Would someone notice her missing? Would the Fleet jump too far through space for her to return? What if the cylons attacked and turned her only home into space debris?

She worried about that last option a lot.

She had found a few good articles on the topic of evolutionary linguistics, as Oceanglide had requested, and put them on a small portable drive, along with a photograph of a Centurion. She still felt a mixture of emotions towards him, someone she thought understood her so well, yet was so different from her in all the wrong ways. She also felt betrayed, even though that wasn't fair at all. It reminded her too much of Caspar. But then again, almost everything did.

Adia found a computer terminal, once close to the park with the moving trees, and connected the drive to it. Funny how the appropriate connector was there. She uploaded the files, then sent them to Oceanglide with a small note attached:

Here are a couple of articles on Colonial language development. I hope you find them interesting. I attached the photo of the Centurion, too.

She paused, then added one more line:

The cylon who shot our commander was shot and killed by someone who works on the raptors. Out of anger, they say. I don't think the cylon gave up any information.

Then she sends the email, and sighing, sits back in her seat and watches a juniper bush lazily crawl by. She's done here, but she's not ready to go back.

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