HP: 2
Condition: As close to normal as was possible, given the circumstances
Shannon looked at her wrist comm. Unrecognized caller, no encryption. The odds of two universes as different as theirs using even remotely similar standard encryption algorithms were... low, so he didn't have much choice. But obviously it was Rand. "Got it. When you get back on the ground let me see if I can come with an encryption algorithm that both of our comms can run; I'd rather not be transmitting in clear here."Flynnarrel wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2017 12:21 am"I see what could be rivers and a giant ziggurat-thing. Smaller clearings. No signs of vehicles. I'm returning... wait, I see something in the trees. Checking it out."
She relayed his report to the others.
It surprised Shannon that the girl was from Earth Prime; if she hadn't mentioned that, Shannon would have taken her for someone twenty or so T-years old who got prolong or something like it early. She certainly acted more like a midshipwoman with third-gen prolong than a 14-T-year-old kid.
<<Keep an eye on Lindsey, would you? He's botched a lot of chances to not be a bad guy before.>> Shannon signed.OOC: I'm assuming pegging Randin as Mandolarian and identifying Lindsey is doable with a routine Expertise (Merged Universe) check. Also, text in <<angle brackets>> is in sign language; blue is Shannon, purple is Sherlock.
<<If you insist. But I think we have more pressing problems.>>
Shannon drew her pulser (by outward appearances, it looks like -- and is -- a high-tech pistol) and took a defensive position. She might be ONI, but the Royal Manticoran Navy did not let others do their fighting for them. Besides, the anti-ballistic fabric in her uniform was surprisingly effective against less advanced firearms. Heavy pulsers or plasma weapons would be another matter, but as long as she avoided facing marines in battle armor, that probably wasn't on the menu. Of course, this was the post-Merge universe. Just because something was unlikely or made no sense or violated the laws of physics as she knew them didn't mean it wouldn't happen.