Train Log

[voidtreckermods]

Please use this space to record your thoughts and feelings about your ongoing voyage with the Voidtrecker Express.

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Nita Callahan

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6th Fiddlesticks, Voice

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[Nita can't bring herself to use her Manual for this one, so for once she's specifically venting to the train instead before falling into bed.]

I hate being cut off like this. Whatever's doing it, whatever's holding the spiritual powers of this world hostage, we have to stop it.

... I had times like this in Nautilus, even times where I forgot I was a wizard, but none of those were Nautilus' fault!

You're not knocked out by whatever's wrong here too, are you? I mean, are those visions we see yours?

[There's an awkward silence, before she backtracks and says:]

I know I can't hear you, especially now, but the worst thing I've experienced when it comes to this is being alone.

And we're not. And you're not, either. Just remember that, okay? We have to remember that...

18th Imagination, Voice

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Been a while since I used this.

[Though given that might have been partly deliberate, she's not sure if she should apologize. Disingenuity helps no one!]

Anyway - Nita Callahan here, wizard on Orange Team. We took some losses on Nion... but we also learned a lot.

[Some of which hasn't been processed by those who plan on sharing it yet, but!]

First and foremost, we... learned about a planet called Enrara. And another one called Thistea?

If looking them up is going to be like looking up other missing worlds, then there's nothing to look up.

[Excepting that it's like the Arc of Curiosity, but she doubts that.]

But that doesn't mean there's no one left who remembers them. And one of those people was Halo, a native and voidcraft pilot herself.

[Wait-]

Maybe I should backtrack a little. The mission we went on, to Nion, was specifically about saving a world from so-called 'world-miners' - some local ring that had sabotaged the planet's shield, presumably to harvest the debris. We did what we could, where we could, to power up the shield for the short and long term, keep animals from tangling with the solar stations - and, in the end, from letting the world miners get away with what they were doing, let alone doing it again.

... We found out about the world miners because Halo sent a few of our Voidtreckers a warning. It looked like they were off the comms for a while, but they weren't really.

Halo died because the world miners shot down her voidcraft - the Voidflash, I think Roland said it was? Or Kaiba. So we've learned our lives are tied to the Voidtrecker Express, directly.

[So many questions to ask, so little brainspace.]

We- we lost people in the final fight. Not permanently. We also lost some of the saboteurs, which I'll admit I don't feel as bad about, but- we could have learned something from them, and with their own ship gone they couldn't exactly have done much damage to the rest of their universe.

[She shakes her head at it all, which of course doesn't show on the recording.]

They're not a part of the bigger problem - the Void Ministry is, and whatever those shadows are. Assuming they are what erased Enrara's system from the void network...

We still don't know all the pieces, but I can't help feel we need to, and soon.

So, Voidtrecker Express - we can only help you if you let us. Will you?

Nita, out.

13th Jelly, Morning, Voice

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Hey, there.

[Nita sounds... not tired, but sleepy. Someone turned on the wrong device to record first, maybe?]

Finished another mission, and I still crashed. I wasn't even all that taxed this time... No matter.

This last mission was to the biodome formed around the star Crysodale IV- no, Crysohale IV, thanks Bobo.

[She sounds just a bit snarky, there.]

And no casualties, though we weren't able to do much this time to make sure whatever happened won't happen again.

I know we're basically crisis management, that it's likely all factored in, but it still feels pretty slap-dash when we don't get to see the long game.

[Nita stops, and presumably she's shaking her head or something, because the next thing she says is:]

No, that's too petty. It feels a little like what the Powers do, when we can't see Their plan. They see things a lot further ahead, and behind, than those stuck in linear time do; all is done for each. Time as a hall of mirrors.

Something like that, anyway.

[She sighs.]

So, mission success - I just wish we could do more follow-up. Not just with the worlds we help, but all the places we left behind.

... Thanks, again. For listening.

Nita out-