Welcome to the Program

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Good Morning, Champions. In the interest of maintaining healthy sleep patterns, a day/night cycle is in effect. Your presence is expected in the cafeteria in exactly one hour.

[The voice comes through not a large speaker, but through the device that's attached to each Champion's arm. Further investigation of the features of the device will reveal a list of profiles, a mini-map, and a list of rules. The hallways are shiny white and silver, with running lights along the floor and lights on the ceiling, and at the junction of the hallways is a sign with a knife and fork icon and an arrow pointing down the hall.

Welcome to the Excellence Program, Champions. Time to get to know your teammates.]

Comments

[playthedamncard]

[This is the look of someone who has immediately sorted Max into the 'idiot not worth my time' category for that question alone.

In fact, instead of giving a verbal answer, Kaiba will intensify the stare, arms crossed, until Max gets the point of 'no, and that was a stupid question'.]

[theundertaken]

Oooooookay, yeah, but last time I looked you can’t teleport to space overnight either. You could be an alien!

[It was a valid question!]

[playthedamncard]

As flattered as I am that you think I'm responsible for this, [is flattered really the right word?] I have nothing to do with what's going on.

And the probability of alien life looking indistinguishable from humans is incredibly small. [Just wait until he meets the Doctor oh wait...]

[theundertaken]

Sure, but if they wanted to walk among us, they'd have to take on our forms. Maybe with holograms? Or maybe they're shapeshifters.

[oh okay this is a tangent we're going on]

[playthedamncard]

...Are you a conspiracy theorist, or do you just enjoy wasting everyone's time?

[theundertaken]

I mostly just like talking about aliens. But hey, if you've got an idea for getting off a space station, shoot.

[playthedamncard]

We need more information. Not theories about alien life.

[theundertaken]

Okay, so let's look around. We've got a whole creepy space hallway to explore.

[playthedamncard]

Agreed.

Just don't keep asking people who look like they just woke up here as well if they live here.

[theundertaken]

Hey, someone's gotta live here. They don't build space stations for weekend getaways, you know? Takes a lot to get guys up there.

[playthedamncard]

True, there must be some kind of even skeleton crew, even if they rotate out. Unless this has reached the point of being autonomous.

[theundertaken]

I don't think they have stuff like that, buuuut I also didn't think they had artificial gravity. And that sure looks like it's happening.

[He jumps, just to see what happens. It's a normal jump.]

[playthedamncard]

...Just so we're clear, when you say 'they', are you referring to whoever happened to build this station, or do you mean aliens? [sorry you're the alien guy now max]

[theundertaken]

That they was NASA. Or, I don’t know, the Russian space program. I’m pretty sure nobody has artificial gravity invented.

[playthedamncard]

Please, that would require NASA to actually be funded at an adequate level.

[theundertaken]

Yeeeeeeah. Don’t know why any other agencies would bother, though, not super useful for blowing people up.

[playthedamncard]

It doesn't have to be to blow pe--are you just referencing action movies at this point?

[theundertaken]

Action movies...? I’m referencing the military-industrial complex, that’s where the funding goes.

[playthedamncard]

Hm. That's absolutely where the money goes, but I can tell you with certainty that nobody I know of was building a space station specifically to attack another country. Or even building a space station at all. Not any more than the ones already up there.

[theundertaken]

Me neither. Buuuut it’d probably be secret, if you can keep an enormous space station secret. Which I would think you couldn’t do, but also I can’t see Earth from here.

[playthedamncard]

To be fair, this also likely isn't even real. They can make the outside look however they want to.

[theundertaken]

Mmmmm, yeah, I don’t really wanna test it though. That’s an instant party kill if it’s real.

[playthedamncard]

I'd like to test it in other ways that don't involve being stupid enough to crack open a window.

[theundertaken]

Do you know stars? I can recognize a few constellations, but prrrrrobably not from this angle.

[playthedamncard]

Astronomy is, unfortunately, not one of my strong suits.