It could be either. It could be a week or two before SOS-con, it could be up to a year depending on how many reports have filtered down to the ground.
The Ciara's crew aren't exactly the most famous people. And at this stage, Haruhi is just some looney who they managed to milk for a bit of cash and then offload somewhere else. One among many stories of weirdos that're told in bars and ports all through 2011-2012 by all sorts of Fen. And then promptly forgotten about as just another 'hey no shit there I was' story.
Whic of course leads to some fun on day in April when they're just sauntering into Mars orbit at the end of a run, and Haruhi's message just drops into their inbox.... "Hey, you remember that Lunatic we dumped on Stellvia a while back? You remember how we said we'd never hear from here again... well this just arrived on All-call."
They then spend the rest of the next two years running between Mars and Ceres and 6565 Reiji....depending on which is nearest to Port Phobos....trailing melodramatic rescues, heroic sacrifices and debris while escorting convoys coming in out of Jupiter. And only really get recognised for it afterwards by those few who've had cause to celebrate the big grey battleship coming tearing out of the darkness all guns blazing, just when all hope seemed lost for them.
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The Ciara's crew aren't exactly the most famous people. And at this stage, Haruhi is just some looney who they managed to milk for a bit of cash and then offload somewhere else. One among many stories of weirdos that're told in bars and ports all through 2011-2012 by all sorts of Fen. And then promptly forgotten about as just another 'hey no shit there I was' story.
Whic of course leads to some fun on day in April when they're just sauntering into Mars orbit at the end of a run, and Haruhi's message just drops into their inbox.... "Hey, you remember that Lunatic we dumped on Stellvia a while back? You remember how we said we'd never hear from here again... well this just arrived on All-call."
They then spend the rest of the next two years running between Mars and Ceres and 6565 Reiji....depending on which is nearest to Port Phobos....trailing melodramatic rescues, heroic sacrifices and debris while escorting convoys coming in out of Jupiter. And only really get recognised for it afterwards by those few who've had cause to celebrate the big grey battleship coming tearing out of the darkness all guns blazing, just when all hope seemed lost for them.
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