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Lorianne: Docking complete.
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Depressurization sequence confirmed.
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Everyone ready?
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Ethan: And we've got green lights here.
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Ready to greet the newcomers.
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John: I hope they brought decent coffee.
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Felix: Felix Thompson,
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Mission Systems Specialist.
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Um, he/him.
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Lorianne: You'll be working with
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Amelia on environmental readouts. Quarters
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are aft of Lab 3. Oh, and Lorianne
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Landsiedal. She/they.
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Felix: Okay.
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Yes. Thank you.
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Jamie: Hey, Jamie Thompson. They/them.
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That's my husband. We're not a match set,
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but we come as a pair.
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Amelia: Welcome aboard, both of you.
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Hope you like duct tape.
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Felix: Well, actually, it's not...
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Jamie: Felix...
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Felix: Right. You would...
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Sarah: Sarah Mitchell, she/they,
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civilian contractor with Orion.
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Lorianne: Contracted for what?
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Sarah: Classified.
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Michael: Oops, sorry. Uh,
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Michael Grant. She/they,
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journalist. Sent to catalogue the
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mission and tell your stories to the
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people back home.
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Is it always this
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quiet?
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Ethan: Mm, give it 20
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minutes. The vents whistle.
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Like dying birds.
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Michael: Uh, too late.
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Are you from one of the labs?
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Sarah: No.
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Felix: Should I say more?
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Jamie: You did
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fine. Just breathe.
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Amelia: Well, I should introduce myself.
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I'm Amelia Hayes. Mission captain,
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she/her. We'll get better acquainted as
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the mission goes on. We have orientation
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for the newcomers in 15 minutes. Everyone
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else, get back to work.
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Michael: She seems...
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stern.
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John: She's really not.
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That was her version of a smile. You
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get used to reading that.
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Felix: Oh. I didn't see it.
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Amelia: All right. Welcome aboard the
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International Space Station, home of
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recycled coffee, zero privacy,
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and more emergency protocols than
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functioning toilets. Let's get the basics
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out of the way. There are eight of us
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total, split across three sleep pods.
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You don't get to pick your roommate, no
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you can't swap,
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and yes, it's always cold.
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John: And the food's somehow worse
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when you're actually hungry.
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Jamie: Define worse.
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Ethan: Rehydrated spaghetti
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that... somehow crunches.
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Michael: Augh...
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Amelia: Lab access is limited by clearance and
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sleep schedules. Felix, you're with me
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for systems ops and diagnostics. Jamie, I
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think you're in rotation with Lorianne
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in payload.
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Jamie: Copy that.
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Lorianne: We're a tight system up here.
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Mistakes don't just cost hours, they
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cascade. You screw up, you endanger
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everyone. This is not Earth. This is life
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on a wire.
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Sarah: Understood.
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Michael: So... What do we do for fun?
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Ethan: Uh, watch old movies,
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lose at chess, pretend
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the beeping means something different.
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John: Argue over whether Earth looks
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better from starboard or port.
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Amelia: And if anything pings red, it's
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all hands. No questions.
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Understood?
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All: Understood.
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Jamie: Got it.
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Amelia: I think that's enough briefing for now.
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You've got 12 hours to acclimate. Don't
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touch the airlock. Don't drink from any
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unlabeled pouch. And don't, under any
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circumstances, try to fix something on
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your own.
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Ethan: No, Amelia, that's not
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how it's run on station protocol. The
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thermal margins-
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Amelia: Are a guideline,
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and you know it.
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Ethan: That's a risk we don't need.
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Amelia: It's a risk I've
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calculated. Let me work.
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Ethan: One of these days, you're going to
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push the wrong button.
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Let me know what happens when you do.
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John: Log
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I- I miss the sound of wind.
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Ha.
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Um...
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Michael keeps asking if I've written
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poetry.
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I haven't. Not really.
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But if I had, maybe, maybe it'd
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be about the silence that hums, like this
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place, or the silence that
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screams, like the
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delay of news from home.
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Sarah: Project Andromeda. Status green.
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Tracking intact.
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Rerouting packets.
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They're watching.
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Too slow.
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Michael: Day 28. Everyone's too
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quiet today. I keep hearing
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things through the vents. Not like
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voices, just
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breathing.
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I think John's mad at me or scared.
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Can't tell. Felix won't look me in
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the eye. Jamie's too nice.
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Sarah's...
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I don't know. She's just watching us.
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I guess her role on this mission is
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similar to mine. Take notes, recall for
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posterity. But why did they
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need two of us for that?
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Amelia: Another power dip on the ECLSS
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backup. That's the third time this week.
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Rebooting diagnostics.
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Come on. Don't start playing games now.
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Felix: Signal drift.
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Again. No
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pattern match.
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It's not sunspots, not
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atmospheric. It's not...
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normal.
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Ground Control: Houston, confirm receive.
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Felix: Captain, this isn't interference.
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That's injection.
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Michael: Lorriane, you got a minute?
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Lorianne: Depends.
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Is that personal or professional?
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Michael: Uh,
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both?
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I've been doing some more
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follow-ups now that we're a few weeks in,
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and apparently there's been some weird
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readings. Felix is freaking out a
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little, Amelia's checking backups again.
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Lorianne: It's solar flare season. It
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happens. Electrical gremlins. Everyone
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needs to chill.
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Felix: Trajectory's off.
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It's not matched with the decay rate. Not
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even close. Unless the magnetosphere
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shifted, but then
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why would the timestamps-
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Michael: Sarah,
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do you think it's just flares, though?
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Felix said something about the waveform
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being structured, like a pulse.
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It can't be that-
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Sarah: It's not solar.
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Lorianne: All crew brace. Debris alert.
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Code red. Repeat. Code red.
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Amelia: Sensor array just got shredded.
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Panel 6 is gone.
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Ethan: we've lost the
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starboard feed. External cameras are
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offline.
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John: debris just missed me. I saw a
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flash pass the arm. Jesus control. Do you
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read? Do you read? Do you-
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Sarah: We hear you John.
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The others are busy. You've got me.
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The path is unstable.
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Do not adjust your tether.
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John: Copy.
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Copy. Copy.
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Coming in hot. Oh, fuck!
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Felix: That wasn't random. That wasn't wasn't
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supposed to be there. It's It's too
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dense. It's-
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Jamie: too fast.
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We couldn't have modeled this.
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We... can't stop it.
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Sarah: Everyone, shut up and listen.
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Amelia is with John in the medical bay.
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We've lost communications with Earth, and
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our comms are spotty. Lorianne,
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start diagnostics. Ethan, reroute to
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backup nav. Felix, sit down.
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Breathe. I'll need you to run some
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numbers in a little bit. Jamie, I need
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you on thermal integrity.
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Jamie: Nixie- thermal sweeps, all
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modules. Let's find any significant
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damage. Prioritize any hull stress point.
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Nixie: Acknowledged. Thermal sweep
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initiated.
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Lorianne: Does anyone know what the hell
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just happened?
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Amelia: When we're ready,
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we'll have a debrief in the conference
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module.
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Await further instructions.
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Jamie: Shit I'll be back. I
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need to take a look at these alerts.
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Michael: Day 21. We haven't had the
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debriefing yet, but I think we all know.
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Something changed.
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Amelia: ISS incident debrief. Day 22.
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Lead, Dr. Amelia Hayes.
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Participants, all present.
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Event, high-velocity orbital debris
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event. Probable Kessler
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cascade. We'll keep it
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brief. We lost external
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sensors and long-range comms. Most
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of the satellites seem to have been taken
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out. We still don't
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know the origin of the debris pattern,
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and ground control is...
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silent.
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Nav routing to Ethan.
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EVA review. John?
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John: Took a hit to the shoulder. Panel
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fragments cracked the suit casing.
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Not a full puncture, but it threw me.
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Bruised and rattled. Could have been
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worse. Not sure when or if the
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suit will be safe for use again.
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Amelia: You'll stay off rotation until
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Lorianne clears you. No heroics.
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Felix: This wasn't random. I've been
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running the numbers Sarah asked me to and--
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Sarah: Again. Sorry for taking
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control like that, Dr. Hayes.
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Amelia: It's all right. Good to know
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we're good at keeping our calm here.
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Go on, Felix.
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Felix: The debris.
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There's a pattern. Some of it's been
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looping. Same orbit.
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That's not normal.
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Jamie: I've been helping with the numbers,
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using Nixie to help run numbers.
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The debris is...
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self-sustaining.
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Some of it's feeding off itself.
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Kinetically.
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Sarah: Kessler is not a new threat.
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There was planning and paperwork
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about this when I signed up for the mission.
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So why is this worse than we planned?
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Amelia: We didn't expect it to
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take out our emergency backup
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communication. We should have been able
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to contact Earth through radio. It's
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outdated, but it would have worked.
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But our radio tower was one of the things
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damaged. Ethan and I are
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working on getting it functional,
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but it's not a fast process.
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For now, we continue our work like
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normal. Once we get in contact, we
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will let all of you know. Let's take
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the rest. of the day off, except for
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those experiments that are time
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sensitive. We'll meet for dinner tonight.
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Ethan: Y'know, maybe if I can reroute power
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from the hydroponics backup
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Lorianne: I don't know. We'll need food if it takes
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a while to get back to us.
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Sarah: Dr. Hayes, can I speak with you?
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Amelia: Of course, Sarah. What can I help
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you with?Sarah: Do you think it might
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have been intentional?
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Amelia: Like someone wanted to take us
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out. I'm not sure why we--
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Sarah: No,
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we would be collateral damage. I mean,
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taking out communications, all these
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downed satellites. Communication on Earth
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has to be scattered and patchy.
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Amelia: I don't know, Sarah. We'll figure
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it out from there. Is that all?
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Sarah: Yes, Captain.
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Lorianne: Incident log update. Sensor
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array still offline. Nav sync lag holding at
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6.2 seconds. No response from ground.
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No new debris impact since 0400.
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Felix: I'm not calculating any new
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patterns. There's still anomalies on band
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4. This doesn't make sense.
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It doesn't make sense.
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Ethan: Bureaucrats don't prep for
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reality. Redundant
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power bus my ass.
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Michael: I'm trying to keep up with what's going
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on. Everyone seems to have their roles.
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Even Sarah's stepped up, but I...
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I really don't know what to do up here.
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We're... We're trying.
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Fuck!
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Sarah: Hey, Michael. You doing
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alright?
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Michael: Uh, yeah. I'm...
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I'm okay.
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Just trying to figure out what
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this all means.
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Sarah: Aren't we all?
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Just, between you and me.
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Start saving everything off comms.
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Paper if you have to.
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You know, if something happens,
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you want to leave something behind.
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Michael: Do you think...
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Sarah: Who knows at this point?
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I trust in the team.
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I just don't know what's going on.
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And that's not really a position
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I'd like to be in.
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Jamie: All right, let's see if you can
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help me with this. Nixie, run a pattern
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analysis on the latest debris vectors.
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Prioritize proximity threats, collision
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likelihood within the next 72 hours.
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Let's see if we can get some weight off
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Felix's shoulders.
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Nixie: Request received.
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Processing orbital trajectories
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and impact probabilities.
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Jamie: Add secondary query.
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Compare motion patterns
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against baseline natural decay models.
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Flag any anomalous deviations beyond
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standard drift.
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Nixie: Understood.
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Running comparative analysis.
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Preliminary results: twelve
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debris bodies exhibit non-natural drift
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characteristics. Three are on potential
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intercept paths within 72 hours.
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One impact probability exceeds 30% within
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48 hours.
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Jamie: That's not just gravity playing
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games. Save full reports local only.
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Encrypt under priority protocols. Don't
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push it station wide until I say.
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Nixie: Confirmed. Report saved.
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Encryption active.
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Sarah: What is gravity playing games with?
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Jamie: Just the debris patterns. Some of
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them aren't behaving correctly.
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Sarah: Vague for someone who usually
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likes clean numbers.
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Jamie: Yeah. It's vague because
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because I don't like what the numbers are
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starting to say.
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Could be rogue satellite fragments.
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Could be Nixie malfunctioning
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with the damage to the arrays.
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Could be something worse.
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I'm not ready to call it either way.
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Sarah: No one ever is.
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Not the first time.
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Jamie: Nixie has flagged
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three high-risk trajectories,
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one bad enough to make my gut twist.
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Sarah: Hm.
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Keep tracking them. Quietly.
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If anything changes, you already know
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what to do.
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Jamie: Thanks...
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Sarah: You've got good instincts, Jamie.
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Trust them.
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Michael: Interview series number two.
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I haven't gotten to send my previous one in yet.
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Our communications with Earth are back enough to be patchy,
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but not enough to send any true information.
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But i guess I should keep working on this
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Lorianne: Uh, yeah.
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What do you wanna know?
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Michael: How are you
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adjusting to the newcomers?
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Lorianne: Yourself included?
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I think either you'll fit in or you won't.
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The station doesn't make room. People do.
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Michael: Do you?
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Lorianne: I run my
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tests first. Everything else can wait.
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Ethan: I've been in orbit before.
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You know, this isn't new to me.
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We've all been trained for the worst-case
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scenarios. That's all this is.
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Controlled chaos.
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All I can do is keep us breathing while
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the others get their sections up and running.
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Michael: What do you miss?
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Ethan: I... um..
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The sky. Just the
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color of it. Real blue.
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Not this filtered screensaver bullshit.
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Amelia: Morale is holding steady.
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Those movies you bought are doing wonders.
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Everyone's back up and going.
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Medical checkups are routine.
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Hydroponics need less pruning than people.
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Michael: What are you afraid of up here?
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Amelia: I don't have time for fear.
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Jamie: (soft laughter)
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We've got a good system.
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It works,
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when nobody touches anything.
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Felix always wants to rewire stuff, though.
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Michael: What's it like being up
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here with them?
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Jamie: Oh, Felix is the brave one.
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I just hold the tools and
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pretend I know what's going on.
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I mean, I do.
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Mostly.
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Felix: You're not going to use
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all of this, right?
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Just, cut the weird parts.
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Michael: Yeah. I'll be editing it for the
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audio interviews and the written ones.
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Felix: Right. Yes.
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So,
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entropy's...
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entropy's not just decay.
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It's, um
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information loss. It's inevitable.
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Like, the longer we're out here,
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the more likely things stop making sense.
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John: Don't let the lab coats and
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spacesuits fool you.
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It's still just a can with Wi-Fi.
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Wouldn't be space if
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it didn't feel like a coffin with windows.
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Michael: Would you go back down, if you could?
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John: Wouldn't we all?
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Sarah: You're building a story, huh?
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That's good.
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People forget fast when they're scared.
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Michael: Are you?
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Sarah>I'm not sure
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how to answer that question.
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Michael: I just mean, you seem like you
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know what you're doing the way you jump in.
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Either you're not scared or
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just really good at hiding it.
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Sarah: I see.
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Michael: Okay.
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Thank you.
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Jamie: Nixie, new directive.
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Nixie: Listening, Dr. Thompson.
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Jamie: Track all non-lab transmissions,
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comms, personal logs, background chatter.
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Prioritize anomalies,
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shifts in protocol language,
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unreported experiments,
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unscheduled equipment tests.
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Nixie: Acknowledge.
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Defining "anomalies" based on
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variance from station standard operations
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manual and ORION mission brief?
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Jamie: No. Define it by deviation from
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patterned behavior, person to person.
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Keep it human.
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Nixie: Parameters adjusted.
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Ready to log deviations.
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Jamie: Good.
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Also, full offline backup of all lab output.
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Secure storage.
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Label it: Project Lockbox.
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No automatic syncing to main station systems.
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.Nixie: Storage assigned. Project lockbox,
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initialized.
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Estimated capacity sufficient for
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six months' operational data.
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Jamie: Just in case someone else decides
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what counts as need to know.
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Nixie: Confirmation.
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Silent running mode engaged.
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For: Project Lockbox.
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Jamie: Silent is good.
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Thank you.
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Ethan: Hey! Hey, we've got movement.
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Uh, something's launching. Uh, north
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hemisphere origin.
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Felix: Trajectory's clean. Orbital delivery,
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maybe supplies?
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Amelia: About time.
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Maybe ground's catching up.
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John: Looks sleek. Not commercial.
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ORION's bankrolling this mission, right?
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Could they be sending something?
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Sarah: Could be. They could get resources
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together faster than any of our governments.
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Felix: Wait...
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Ethan: Is it...
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turning back?
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There's another...
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Michael: Did we just...
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Was that an attack?
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Jamie: We need answers.
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We need ground control.
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Felix: What was the target?
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Was it space-based?
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Could be clearing debris.
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What the hell was that?
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John: Ground Control, this is Dr. John
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Vogel on the ISS. What the fuck is
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happening down there?
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Ground Control: Copy.
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Detonation confirmed.
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Non-responsive systems--
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not safe.
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John: Say it again. You're cutting out.
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Ground Control: ISS. You're--
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your own--
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god--
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Ethan: Did they just?
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Amelia: Confirmed signal loss.
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It's gone.
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Sarah: It's happening early.
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All the projections said 30 days,
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minimum.
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ORION, come in.
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ORION, fucking come in.
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Shit.
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Joeleen: This has been the pilot episode of Apogee
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as part of the 2025 Podcast Jam
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hosted by the Podcast Book Club.
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This episode was executive produced by Aspen Rayne,
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With additional production by
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Devyn Boer and Joeleen Morrison.
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This pilot was written and sound designed by Aspen Rayne,
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with dialogue editing
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and text-to-speech handling by Devyn Boer
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Marketing and social media coordination
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was done by Joeleen Morrison.
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Special thanks to Tanya Ruby
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for creating stellar music.
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Featuring the voice talents of:
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Tanya Ruby as Amelia
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Cass Fox as Lorianne
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Aspen Rayne as Ethan
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Joeleen Morrison as Sarah and Ground Control
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Devyn Boer as Jamie
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Drew Skelton as Felix
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Bizarre as John
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and Jessica Moseley as Michael.
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Apogee will be continuing after the jam.
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Follow us on Tumblr or bluesky @apogeepod
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for further updates
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and notice of our official debut.
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No robots were harmed in the making of Apogee.
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No matter what they may say,
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do not listen to them.
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Thank you!