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Ooooh, shit. Looks like the Admiral's dead.
You know, the one who knew the details about the top-secret part of the mission? Probably the ONLY one who knew the details about the top-secret part of the mission? The top-secret, ghost-related details of the mission....
Very lucky shot for the ghosts. Whether it's good or bad luck remains to be seen.
Military expeditions must have someone ready to take over, and if they work like humans do that's probably Zane as second-in-command. But how, whether, and how quickly Zane gets whatever mission information the Admiral had, could be critical.
So far, all the exposition we got about the fleet's secret mission came from Zane, not the outright military crew ... though, if all of those have the mindset cpt. Kas demonstrated towards Quantum, they wouldn't talk about that secret stuff even if they somehow wound up out in space with a suit sans radio.
Stop finding new ways to get shot down in Sol System, Zane. You're gonna make us look like a bad neighborhood.
"Thank you for choosing Raharran Alliance Airlines. Have a great day."
"Please do not remove your vacuum suit's shoes as you leave our spacecraft through the emergency exits!"
For your own safety and increased chances of survival remain seated hunched over, behind the back of a female clutching a small child until crashlanding is complete.
The Humans had the right idea, hide under the table immediately.
Funny to see that all the Alliance members with their wildly different "biologies" - from Zane to Quantum to the Azinarsi - have been cold out for roughly the same time, while the humans stayed awake (and apparently remembered their earthquake drills well). I can practically hear the 50-years-into-the-future human spacecraft mechanic sneer "grav-shock dampeners? We don't need no stinkin' dampeners!"
They're obviously not in microgravity, so this meeting room is someplace within the habitat cylinder (rather than near the dedicated antenna), right? The very "compromised" one? Let's see how well a Raharr rescue vacuum suit fits a human, then. Unless the Alliance has balls like NASA, of course ...
"Duck and cover - lala-lala-laaaa" has not been
hammered into innocent children's heads for no reason it seems.
Weeeeeell, the original Bert and his tune are a bit USA-, nuclear attack-, and Cold-War-centric to have haunted the representatives of Protagonistan and China in their childhoods; I'm not aware that any of the more widespread awareness campaigns for natural disasters have ever reused that exact catchphrase.
... though the Dawn has been hit by superior enemy firepower, which makes D&C somewhat on-topic again ...
"Funny to see that all the Alliance members with their wildly different "biologies" - from Zane to Quantum to the Azinarsi - have been cold out for roughly the same time, while the humans stayed awake"
No particular reason to think it's been very long or that anyone else was unconscious. The Admiral is dead, the digitized being guy is having his suit work its way out from under debris (and certainly wouldn't have been "unconscious"), etc.
Home generates gravity by spinning the hab module, so anything that causes some force on it, be it maneuvers, or damage from fighting will be felt by the people inside it. Or the buildings, or anything not nailed down properly.
Sure - but that doesn't mean that, without the structural damages having been looked at, the rescue operations will rely on "it'll take quite a while" (and not "whoops, there goes an entire hull section, make that a couple seconds now") and forego having everyone don a vacuum suit before they walk into the big, wide open part of the cylinder.
Or worst-case-scenario , the Dawn has to be evacuated leaving only the most essential 400+ tech-crew. If so , any carefully 75+ year slow integration into Alliance tech, culture , diplomacy & history would be completely void. It will be a fast-track 24/7 hammering of info and lectures into feeble little human minds through TV , conferences, educational centres. Guess attendance is mandatory!
"Todays news : 30000 aliens of mixed species will be quickly housed planetside, in vacant homes in major cities. Do not flinch when meeting a Alien (legal Alien alien) shopping. Always be helpful such as maybe inform them that those cans with the little delicious looking Feline on it is what its intended FOR. not whats IN it. And now the weather...:"
(the number of 30000 is out of thin air . According to Wiki it can house up to 50k but I do not think the actual number has been stated in this setting)
Some evolutionary anthropologist claims Homo Sapiens are , maybe , the quickest adapters on Terra. Now comes the chance to prove it.
Umh, I was talking about the rescue operation (next couple weeks, tops), not the repairs (years) ...
... but anyway:
the number of 30000 is out of thin air
"more than 15,000", actually.
I'm not entirely sure that the Alliance crew would go to "freely mingle with the feeble-minded natives" immediately. They seem wary of getting too hasty with such things, and that artificial island they have started to build for their own planetside territory(?) looks a good deal larger than you'd need to house three and a half nominal diplomats-slash-xenopsychologists. Biggest question probably is how far they've gotten with it yet and how much more material they'll need deorbited to finish ...
I remember when bottles of dishwashing detergent and the like here showed large images of citrus etc. on their label, and were occasionally mistaken for lemonade by kids. And IIUC there still are people buying pet chow instead of meat meant for human consumption because they can't afford the latter. I guess that the Raharrs are rather safe(r) there, even if they do not all carry a tasterbot like the one Gharr used on page 79.