( text | un: sweetie )

[retrorsum]

Has anyone found a pod containing someone that was supposed to be dead? That they knew to be dead.

( river asks more out of curiosity than anything, out of trying to understand and gain more knowledge on the pods, on who and how they were brought here. she also can't deny that small piece of hope that comes with the question, of wanting to see someone that she couldn't (shouldn't) be able to see again )

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text; un: R

[winecasks]

Indeed, I knew all of my dearest friends to be dead. I should be among them as well, but the world thought it right to offer me a second life. It seems it's forgotten that I never asked for it.

[ Excuse him. He's a gloomy little raincloud. ]

[retrorsum]

( there are many things in that response that concern her )

I'd be more concerned with why than whether you gave permission.

[winecasks]

[ This is how he is 80% of the time, it's fine. ]

I find myself asking the same question. Why should I be the one ripped from my grave while the others still sleep? It hardly seems fair to either me or them.

text | un: janeway

[directives]

Technically, I suppose that I have.

[ for while james t. kirk perished eighty-one years ago, this wasn't the same man. gotta love alternate timelines. ]

[retrorsum]

'Technically' sounds like there's more to it.

( she loves a good story )

[directives]

The individuals in question, while technically deceased from my point of view, are from an alternate timeline that runs more or less parallel to my own. So in response to your query: yes, but also no.

[retrorsum]

( oh, that is a fun one )

Time isn't as linear as people believe.

( though alternate timestreams made things messier )

Considering I've spoken to someone from a different century to myself they may have been able to take us from our personal timestream rather than just at one collective point in time.

( which would only change things if someone knew they were dead )

[directives]

Far more fluid than people are willing to consider.

[ temporal theory was never her favorite, and she swore she would never get caught up in one of those godforsaken paradoxes, and yet — theory was now experience. at this rate, if voyager ever got home, the department of temporal investigations was going to keep her held up in debriefings for weeks on end. ]

A likely scenario. It would explain why people's recollections of home don't always sync up when awakened from stasis.

[retrorsum]

( oh if only river had known she had experience with it. she knows all about temporal theory. she's basically an expert )

I've met people that have been from my time stream but I hadn't met them before waking here.

( bless those personal links for letting them know they were from the same universe? )

Though I'm used to things not being in sync.

text; UN: J.SHEPPARD

[impavid]

It wouldn't surprise me, given that death seems to be a relative thing here.

[retrorsum]

How relative?

text; anon

[thedarkbond]

There was something that happened not too long ago that brought different versions of people here. From other dimensions or something, I think. So I don't think it's unbelievable that the Natha would be able to bring living versions of people here.

[It's not something Ren has much experience with himself, but it's an interesting query, and might come up more so for people he knows here.]

[retrorsum]

Taking people from an earlier point in their time stream would be simpler than from an alternate universe. Though their capacity to hold us makes many things possible.

How long ago were those people here?

[impavid]

In the sense that people die and get shoved in a tube and then come back like nothing happened.

[retrorsum]

You're asking the wrong person. There might not be a reason.

[retrorsum]

Were they dead or close to death?

( feels like she's gonna hate this )

[impavid]

Pretty solidly sure it was a dead situation.

[retrorsum]

( fuck )

I'm going to need to take another look at the pods.

( she says as if she wasn't planning on doing that anyway. one day she'll make sense of the readings she has )

[thedarkbond]

Some of them definitely weren't just from other points in time, but obviously I can't speak for all of them, so it might have been some of both.

A little over three months ago. The Natha stopped time on the planet for a while, and it happened after they let it start again.

[retrorsum]

( all of this is so wrong )

Did they say anything about it?

[thedarkbond]

Not really. That was also when they disappeared.

It sounds like you're new. Did you ask about this because you found someone you shouldn't have been able to?

[retrorsum]

No. I'm trying to discover what's possible here -- what their power is.

[thedarkbond]

That's a big question. For the sake of your curiosity, or something else?

[He can certainly understand curiosity, but the Natha don't appear to have been all that forthcoming about the extent of their power, either.]

[retrorsum]

What else would it be?

( considering it was both curiosity and 'something else' she just wanted to see what he thought )

[thedarkbond]

Not everyone who asks about the kind of power they're dealing with has good intentions, do they?