Draw a map of the ship.
"I've spent a lot of time on the ship, so I can give you a pretty good map."
"Here's the key:"
3-1: Airlock
3-2: Detention Cells
3-3: Sentry Chamber
3-4: Equipment Locker
3-5: White Dragon
3-6: Laboratory
3-7: Engine Chamber
3-8: Experimentation Room (Carrion Crawler)
3-9: Experimentation Room (Red Dragon)
3-10: Storage Center
3-11: Navigation Center
3-12: Biogarden
3-13: WARDYN
3-14: Damaged Storage Center
3-15: Cryogenic Chamber
3-16: Mess Hall
3-17: Biolab
3-18: Crew Quarters
3-19: Bridge
Outline the guard's plans, patrols, passwords, etc.
"I have the current codes that would give you access past the blast door and to the rest of the ship. The only thing I don't have is access to the bridge."
"We haven't been able to bring our security cameras online, which is making things difficult. We send a small drone to check out every room once each hour. If it finds anything out of the ordinary, it reports back, and we send a combat squad to investigate. This system found you in the engine room, but not in the vivisection lab... I don't know why."
What are your culture's motivating ethos (i.e. honor, power, prestige, etc.)?
"I'm confused by this question. I guess our culture is motivated by power, but what else would it be?"
What is the social structure for the crew of the ship (i.e. military hierarchy, business enterprise, etc.). Can leadership be challenged?
"The ship was a military organization. As far as we can tell, though, the rest of the military hierarchy did not survive for the three-thousand years of stasis. I suppose this brings the legitimacy of our chain of command into question, but most of the crew hasn't had a chance to really consider this. Without the support structure of the officers, what else do we have? Actually, thinking about who might mutiny, it's possible that we're being woken up in order of greatest loyalty."
What are the plans / intent for your people and this land?
"They outlined the plans last week in an all-hands. We'll spend the next week reviving the crew, experimenting on local fauna, and learning about the world as it is now. Then we send robot armies to conquer the surrounding fifty-mile radius. We should be able to use the resulting labor surplus to live like kings while our techies find a way to search for other survivors of our civilization."
Mendas asks:
How are you controlling the magic environment?
"Oh, we heard that manipulation of what you call magic might be a side-effect of our active transmission and receiving system. We are trying to build an over-the-horizon map of the world without launching a satellite, as well as trawl the branespace for signs of civilization. I suppose the nanowormholes could affect the magic environment. But I'm not a scientist or a magician."
What do the various buttons do and is there any way to shift magic more than once per hour? Is there an 'off' button?
"Fire, Lightning, and Sword should increase magic in different ways."
"Water and Shield should decrease magic in different ways."
"Sun should be passive receiving and low-level transmission only, it shouldn't affect magic at all. Although it still affects the primitive's minds, apparently."
"Skull should shut down magic entirely."
"Moon is a rapid shuffle of various operational modes. You would see any number of effects in your magic."
"From the external consoles, no, you can't increase the hour-long cycle length. More direct control is available through WARDYN inside the ship. WARDYN is also the only way to shut the effect off entirely."
What did the shield icon on the prison cells do, the one with the green air?
"It's Cadec gas, and it would have a healing effect on prisoners. We use the shockers much more often."
What's up with these swords?
"The shape is largely symbolic, although the point and edges focus the pan-brane charges through the osmium gas to power the ship. If you've got that sword, then the ship is at half power."
What's up with the other fallen star, the little one?
"I'm guessing you're talking about our crashed satellite. It blundered on our power-reserve transmission after, we think, 3000 years, then homed in on us. We think it crashed, but our signal interaction started a full warm-up procedure and woke us up. If you're talking about the energy sphere on the cliffside, it might be a random energy discharge from 11th-brane, caused by our transmission array."
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