voidmissions | [M15] ENEMY: UNKNOWN

On opening their eyes, Voidtreckers will feel a sense of disorientation, a dizziness to their vision and inside their head. Both clear quickly, letting them remember where they came from: in the midst of a mission, some unknown entity jumping them, and then —

They're here. Wherever here is.
They stand in an empty room. The lighting of the room stings their eyes after how dark the rest of the station has been. The walls, ceiling and floor are all bright white, tiles. There is no visible door, no windows.

After the disorientation comes fear. The hairs on the back of their neck stand up. For those with danger sense, these senses are going haywire, even though any other abilities are still not working. The feeling can be pushed down, it is similar to the air of expectation at the start of a horror film, the anticipation of fear rather than being in a truly dangerous situation. It might be that they have been on the train long enough to have felt it before.

Heavy footsteps sound, it is almost impossible to tell where they are coming from as the echo through the empty space. The feeling of dread grows until part of the far wall slides open with a mechanical hiss.

Filling the doorway are two huge figures, around seven foot tall and bulky. They are in large metal suits, almost like power armour, black with highlights of gold. They wear a mask that covers their whole face. It is impossible to see the figure inside at all. Their breathing comes through heavy and raspy and when they walk their footsteps are heavy. The door closes behind them and their presence makes the room feel smaller. One of them scans a green light over the voidtrecker.

"Do not be alarmed. Under sections ninety six of Inter-dimensional law and on behalf of the Void Ministry we have intercepted Voidcraft designation Voidtrecker Express as part of ongoing investigations. You have been taking part in a simulated excercise to gauge your skill and strength. No harm shall come to you or your crew, you are protected by inter dimensional law. You have been chosen for questioning and we ask that you comply. You have the right to refuse our interview but we have the right to hold you until our investigation is complete or one week in standard void time has passed, whichever is longest. Complying with us will ensure our investigation is more efficient."

The inspector talking pauses here, as if giving the voidtrecker time to take in that information.

"Do you accept our interview?"

ENEMY: UNKNOWN

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He couldn't dismiss the legend, but there's a moment when he holds his tongue, his mouth, a desire to glance at the door that had led him into this room, but-

Tidus leans, elbows resting on his legs, voice more private between the two of them.

"So that's the thing, right? The Voidtrecker got remembered like legends... but you know about the Captain we met? A few of us anyway - she was from the world. But everyone - no one remembered her, forgot her like the world was. Diagad wasn't forgotten though - those inspectors knew about it. And, yeah - then there's the mission that Inigo was on where the train ran."

So that's three worlds. One remember, one forgotten - but what about that previous mission?

"If that mission planet's number is remembered or means anything, that means there's something different about the train's system, doesn't it?"

He leans, letting his voice be more of a murmur, knowing that carries less well and is still equally pointless when technology and technique mean anyone wanting to listen can simply hear. Even when none of them had their powers, such as they were. It wasn't two way. The sheer artificiality of it was another bother, but he couldn't blame that one on the inspector whatevers.

People were dangerous enough when they simply existed. Taking things down to be less dangerous... for them, and maybe for collateral damage? Sure. Fine.

Frustrating, but not what's on his mind.

"I'd think so, but I admit I don't know what causes the difference. Amount of energy? Biggest ripples thrown through the void? That other Captain, what were her missions like? Did she have a big crew? Is it numbers, a numbers thing? 'Cause Chaos was in several other worlds first, right?"

The Voidtrecker was all over the place too, even after. But what, if anything, was the link?

"I just want access to whatever system numbers are supposed to be in the Ministry." He frowns, because no, that doesn't resolve their own numbers — but at this point, it would give him something to compare against. Or any of them? He can't say he even knows, were the Ministry's records that comprehensive?

"...try looking up a directory?" If Jingyi's interested in the numbers, then what else has access to numbers? It comes after a moment of thought, wondering if they would be freely available, or available to the public. But if they were able to look up about planets and locations by their system numbers...

"You can get lists like that in collections. Dunno if anything would exist for void numbers, but if people move around to different planets - you might find something looking up something like that?"

That or searching for travel magazines, and getting numbers at random.

"I'd need our system numbers first to make that really useful," he says, grumbling about it. Then he could ask for as many directories as possible, as many listings, as many things akin enough to the Void Ministry's system registry to try and track down their homes as, well, known.

Though new systems, he knows, are also out there. In a way, couldn't they be from unknown systems too? Sure, but he doubted that it was the case for all of them, just as it wouldn't make sense for none of them to come from known, Void-inactive worlds.

Or maybe it did. How vast, how immeasurable, were the systems of the Void?

"Whatever. Nothing I can do about that right now, I guess."

[M15] ENEMY: UNKNOWN - THE INTERVIEW

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