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[Lea seems to be working on something in the kitchen when he pops on the network, though his message has nothing to do with food.]

Anybody else notice that the names of the months here seem to go in alphabetical order? When I got here it was 'Fiddlesticks', then we had 'Grasshopper', and now we're in 'Horseshoe'. And I bet it goes farther back than that too.

Wonder if there's any particular reason for that? And what the next one might be called, assuming the pattern holds. Igloo? Ice cream? Inchworm?

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Well metal ingots tend to be useful for a lot longer than inkwells, so...

[He shrugs too.]

Anyway, yeah, it probably has been around for awhile before we showed up; we know now that we're not the first people to have been on board, at least.

Still, we've got no way of knowing how long ago all that stuff you saw happened. Or if the train keeps time the same way now as it did then.

If we end up dealing with this long enough to make it to S-month, we'll know for sure.

['Starshine'. Whatever else the banter had implied - what was Sien supposed to be? - that had fit the month-name formula better.]

We'll know if the month names get reused, anyway. We still won't know if it's the same set every time though til we get past Z.

Set calendar versus pure improv on the train or void ministry's part, you mean?

Yeah. Do they have like, a set of words that they pick from, or is it always the same ones, like a regular calendar would be?

... Wonder if we can order magazines with calendars in them?

[Lateral thinking? Perhaps.]

[Lateral perhaps, but also very clever.]

I hadn't thought of that. What kind of magazines would have calendars in them do you think? Maybe sports ones, having to have schedules for games and stuff?

I'm not exactly one for sports, but that IS an idea.

There was one book I did get - 'Filling the Void' - that had dates that looked to be from a bunch of different planets' calendars. Those were recruitment posters, though.

[And none for the Voidtrecker Express!]

So the ultimate problem is more about 'can we tell how recent they're supposed to be', than anything to do with just converting time.

Yeah, that'd be the kicker. Without some kind of reference to work from, the dates we're looking at could be last week, last century, or decades from now, and we'd be none the wiser.

If we were going off of, say, Planck time-

[It's okay if Lea doesn't know what that is, because:]

Or something else rooted in 'when the worlds first came into existence', then we'd be able to sync ourselves up with that. But if we can't trust that sort of thing to map up...

[She sighs.]

All this possibility of time-travel just makes things worse.

'Planck time'?

[AKA, no, Lea doesn't know what that is.

He does, however, know how much of a headache time travel makes everything.]

Ugh, yeah, time travel makes everything way more complicated. And trying to understand it is liable to give you a headache.

[Nita stops for a second, looking befuddled.]

Still, there's some retroactive feature going on, isn't there? If the train's a legend and it had gone back in time, people would still know of the world anyway, right?

[She was still going back-and-forth on just what about time travel could have erased a world from history.]

You're asking the wrong guy there. I've got no idea how time travel works in the context of other worlds. And I only sort of understand it in mine.

... It's more that, it might be a deliberate cover-up?

Which sounds out-there, I'll admit.

[She shakes her head.]

Still hard to say if that's what's going on, though.

...You know, it probably says something about my life that I immediately assumed that you meant it being literally erased from history instead of metaphorically.

But yeah, either way, it's hard to say for sure. Especially since we don't have anything to judge against.

[Nita snorts.]

The lives we live...

[Because it could be either in her experience, too.]

Would that we get another mission on a void active world, if only just to raid their ministry's literature.

Heh, I'd be up for that. Though now that the train knows that the ministry is on the lookout for it, I'm not sure it'll go near one again. Not willingly, at least.

If it can't control which worlds are in danger...

[Still not a happy subject in the least, but-]

That, and they might be more willing to share information if we save their lives.

Maybe. Assuming they don't arrest us or something before we get a chance.

And I don't think it can control that, really, but if there's more than one world in trouble... well, I figure it's more likely to pick one without a Void Ministry office. Or to conveniently forget to tell us that the world has one, if it can't do that.

We were told that a world had requested Void Aid; can worlds who don't have a void ministry do that?

[Though that's best a matter for actual research.]

No idea. Depends on the systems they've got in place, I guess. They'd obviously have to know the Void is a thing to ask for help from it, but outside of that...

[He shrugs.]

Might be something about it in one of the books we've got about it. Or one that we could get.

Lemme know if you get the shop to cooperate with you, okay?

[Because that seems like an avenue of searching they NEED to have covered...]

Will do.

[And he knows she'll do the same.]

Anyway, talk to you later.

[He gives the screen a little wave before ending the feed.]

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[Video] Should probably wrap this before next platform. XD

Too late for that now, but we can still wrap it up quickly. X3

Heh. XD But yes, a wrap here works!

And wrapped! TY!