@ship
Scheherazade transit confirmed. Jatayu is accelerating.
Jatayu has reached the departure aperture.
Jatayu transit confirmed. Pato de la Suerte is accelerating.
Today’s mess: Protein cutlets (PCA Texture D), fried starch rhomboids, not spicy peppers (limited).
Ship time is now 04:00. Now commencing alpha shift.
@ship
Jatayu transit confirmed. Pato de la Suerte is accelerating.
Pato de la Suerte has reached the departure aperture.
@zalmux Confirm orientation and navigation course.
Confirmed.
Acknowledged.
@chang Confirm monitoring status.
we’re good
Acknowledged.
Attention all crew and passengers: Prepare for acceleration. For your safety, please minimize time spent in accessways and corridors while the ship is accelerating or decelerating.
@ship
Pato de la Suerte has reached the departure aperture.
Pato de la Suerte transit confirmed. We are accelerating.
Advisory: All systems nominal.
@bryce, hate to ask again but the primary loop is reading off now too. I think something upstream is throwing both units out of spec.
Oof. Want me to take a look this afternoon?
If you don’t mind. Might need to recalibrate both loops back to back this time.
Double calibration, got it. I’ll block out a few hours.
Thank you, Bryce. I very much appreciate this.
Attention all crew and passengers: We’re about an hour from the jump.
@ship
Pato de la Suerte transit confirmed. We are accelerating.
30 minutes from departure aperture.
10 minutes from departure aperture. We are five minutes from the commit point.
I am 99.986% confident that the Pato de la Suerte is clear of the arrival envelope.
@ship Commit.
Acknowledged.
Assuming control.
All hands, we’re jumping in 5.
All hands, stand by for jump.
@zalmux
Assuming control.
We have reached the departure aperture. Transiting.
Resuming control. Dispatching confirmation probe.
Probe dispatched.
@zalmux, you haven’t responded to any of my DMs. So I’m asking here: would you be willing to do an interview for the Standard? Public interest piece. The convoy’s PercInts, fold-space navigation, life aboard.
Ship time is now 12:00. Now commencing beta shift.
Great. Is that a yes?
You may pose your queries here. I do not discern a meaningful distinction between what is presented as private and what is presented as public.
Fine. With the Esmeralda artifact, there’s a real possibility of new PercInts being trained on a second Record. Does that concern you? The idea that a new generation could make current navigators obsolete?
Are you concerned that constructs will replace journalists?
That’s different. Constructs act as agents for human principals. We have mechanisms to ensure alignment.
Acknowledged.
What does “acknowledged” mean in this context?
It means I have processed your statement.
You’re not answering the question.
Acknowledged.
