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[hotheadwarmheart]

[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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[10billionpercent]

[ He just really likes mysteries. ]

I've actually figured that out already thanks to a massive headache.

If this void operates like the theories of the void from my world, there's a lot that math calculations can tell you, so you might be surprised what they do know, if we ever happen to get there, I hope they have all kinds of information!

[hotheadwarmheart]

Chances are I probably wouldn't understand it if they did have that kind of information. Academics have never been my strong suit.

But there are definitely people on board who would understand it, so I'm right there with you hoping they have something that might be helpful to us.

[10billionpercent]

[ He openly chuckles. ]

You could call me academically inclined.

It would certainly be a fascinating side trip, the only question now is how do we get there?

[hotheadwarmheart]

[Lea chuckles too.]

Yeah, I kinda gathered that.

As for how we get there... well, if the Void Ministry is like most bureaucracies, it'll have branch offices. So we just have to hope we end up landing on a world that has one, I guess. And that whatever we're doing leaves us time to check it out while we're there.

[10billionpercent]

[ He smiles, he's not ashamed if people think he's a nerd. He is. ]

Ah, that plan also makes sense, a satellite branch, which sounds like complete bureaucracy. You could always sacrifice someone to dealing with void systems, while everyone else works on the problem.

[hotheadwarmheart]

You've got more faith in bureaucracies than I do if you think they'd do something that makes that much sense.

[In Lea's experience, bureaucracies were usually the opposite of sensible.]

Anyway, I'll let you know if I find out anything that might be important or hear about any void ministry offices on worlds we're gonna be visiting.

[Though the latter, they'd probably all hear about.]

[10billionpercent]

[ He did mean Lea's plan made sense, but no matter, the correction isn't terribly important. ]

I'd appreciate that. [ He grins and cuts his video, hoping for a future update on that. ]