[Voice and Video: Poi day 5]

[voidtreckermods]

Attention Voidtreckers and Passengers of the Voidtrecker Express. Please direct your attention to this missive sent to us by a representative of the Void Ministry.

[A video begins to play. It shows a blue skinned creature with a head of white horns sat behind an official looking desk. They look into the camera with a neutral and not unpleasant demeanour.]

Voidtreckers. I am Minister Bhra'ik'no and the lead judge on the committee that discussed your case this last void month. I have read testimonies from many of you, studied the detailed report delivered by Minister Ten-Nank and heard the testimony of Voidscout Anan and her crew. We have also done impact reports of some of the systems that were noted as systems you have visited as void missionaries.

There is also some early scouting of the systems you hail from though that is a longer investigation and not something I can go into detail of at this moment.

As Ten-Nank explained in their missive, the two differentiating thoughts about your journey through the void by the early discussions of the committee were that you should be detained for your own safety whilst we figure a way for you to return to your homes, or that you should be allowed to continue as you are, but with a higher oversight by the ministry which would include being given our aid when it was needed.

After reading the reports and hearing the testimonies, we concluded that as you have worked successfully as a void mission craft for over one void year, and there is no reason for us to prevent you from continuing. We have concerns for your tethers and your health and Minister Ten-Nank has given you reading material about those subjects. However we do not believe that you are in any danger that we could prevent by detaining you.

We understand that trust between us has been strained which is why we would like to offer our assistance and invite you to take part in one of our centralised missions. You will be paired with some ministry void missionaries on an unstable system that we are caretakers of, and they will assist you with equipment and expertise. Your time and organisation will be your own- we are not expecting you to work for us, only with us.

The task is one we could use help with from a large missionary craft such as yourselves, and our hope is that it will foster better relations between us. We have sent coordinates to your craft- we hope that you will join us in this.

[They bare their teeth at the camera, in what is probably a form of smile and then the missive ends. The train speaks a moment later.]

I understand that voidtreckers feel that the void ministry can help us, that we should communicate and work with them. The voidtrecker express trusts the judgement of its crew. I shall take us to system #281992471

Poi 5

[yondu]

[As a mission should be coming up, he should say something about this. Or at least put this out there so that if something happens to him there'll still be people willing to leave and keep this information. Have people know that they're not lost yet.]

This is Yondu Udonta with Blue Team. I know this whole tetherin' information threw us for a loop. And it's hard for us to pull our heads together right now. But soon we'll have a mission and for the most part I figure when some of y'all have a focus it'll help. For others it might be a little harder.

I asked the train if the original crew had any abilities like ours, and she said no. I asked her if I'd be correct in assumin' that it was significant that we got a history of changin' worlds. Buildin' 'em, destroyin' 'em, savin' 'em. She said yeah. We got experience and skills and resourcefulness that don't just extend to savin' worlds but I would wager would extend to savin' ourselves. But sometimes even people with as many credentials as we got gotta reach out for help.

I cain't offer much help in the way of the short term sense but I can say thinkin' long term, if people pitch in and keep searchin' for a solution then we'll all end up figurin' somethin' out. Even the people we seen wander off already will end whole and livin' the way they need to be. And if we end up walkin' off into the fog, the inertia from what gets started'll carry us and whoever comes after can finish what we started. And if the Ministry ends up fuckin' us over, then I believe the lot of us got the skills to do it our damn selves if we need to. [Even if that takes longer.] We got time travellers. People that can make whole ass bodies. People that can raise the dead or find items that'll do it for 'em. People that can heal situationally unfortunate individuals back from nigh on the worst-case scenario.

Sayin' this now 'cause I don't want anyone goin' out an' fightin' with an empty heart. At the very least ya need a real solid possibility of gettin' what you want in mind. Because more'n likely there'll be a fight durin' this mission.

I told Anan we'd leave 'em information on who was tethered and who was gone. So if you got a spare moment before next platform? [Which this train can have a hell of a lot of downtime so quite possibly.] If you left and came back, if you've flickered out and came back. If you've witnessed someone leave, write it out, put it in somethin' weatherproof, leave it on the platform where the Ministry can find it when they come through to the liminal stations. We can keep a copy of it here for own minds. Just don't let it hold ya back when somethin's comin' at ya. Know you can still do somethin'.