[I/OOC] Incidental Bits

[robkelk]

AFTER ARC 4

For those without wiki access, the Rideau is a Danube-class runabout with a Washuu-tech engine, gifted to Ami Mizuno's family after an important battle yet to be named, let alone written.

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Deep space
March 3, 2044

"Captain's Log. The Rideau's sensors have detected an anomalous body three Astronomical Units off the port bow and below the ship. I have asked the rest of the ship's crew to join me in the cockpit. End recording."

The first to arrive was the ship's LMH, who rezzed into existence behind the captain's chair. "What's going on, Rei?"

"I have never seen readings quite like these, Rei Misaka replies."

"And you're worried enough to lapse into very old speech patterns."

Next to arrive was the ship's surgeon and science officer - despite the decades, she still looked almost exactly like the LMH that was patterned off her. "What sort of readings?"

"This sort, Ami." Rei pointed at the science station's monitor.

Ami sat at the science station and looked at the display. "This ... doesn't make sense. Have you ever seen anything like this, Akemi?"

The LMH looked over her shoulder. "There is nothing remotely like that in either the Federation or Juraian databases that I have been programmed with."

At this point, the rest of the crew arrived. Mii took the seat beside Rei, while Hyoga took the remaining seat. "Guess I'll stand," muttered Rob.

Mii switched on the tactical display, focused on the object, and stared at the display. "That's not possible."

"You're married to a Sailor Senshi, a clone, an angel, and me, and you think something isn't possible?" Rob looked over her shoulder at the screen. "That isn't possible. Or, rather, that's just barely possible, and only with magical intervention. Hyoga, check the passive scanners, please. Where's that body's magic flux read on the scale?"

"It's right off the scale."

"Figures." Rob looked at the real-colour image of the body displayed on Mii's monitor: a turtle swimming through space, with four elephants on its back and a disc of land on the elephants' backs. "I recommend avoiding it - the last thing we need is to land in or near Anhk-Morpork."

Rei sighed. "Mii, plot its course, please. Hyoga, signal Earth that we've spotted it; maybe somebody else will want to take a look."

"Aye, captain."

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If anybody else wants their SI and related displacees to go exploring here, feel free. This is as far as I'm taking this.