Rodina-Bradford Ship to Ship Transmission Logs 2/3

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From: Rodina

Attention Bradford

This is Watch Commander Pyrite. It has come to my attention that several of our DSI operators have engaged in criminal misconduct during their communications with your ship. I would like to express my deepest regrets and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Rest assured, the perpetrators have been punished. If there is anything we can do to make up for this shameful behavior, I stand ready to serve.

-Commander Pyrite, Acting Head of Rodina DSI control

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From: Bradford

Thank you so much, Commander. It's refreshing to hear kind words from a fellow traveler. We have most of the mess cleaned up, and it's mainly just hurt feelings around here right now. We look forward to working with you in the future to bring our two ships closer.

Besides food, one issue we have right now is fuel: we've been burning diaconium at faster than expected rates, and we're worried that we might have to drop out of full Limnal if we're not able to replenish. We could lose ten or twenty years. Can you help?

-Bradford DSI Control

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From: Rodina

Unfortunately we're in a similar position here. If I can be candid with you, we may need to drop down to partial Limnal engagement for as much as sixty to seventy years.

Our long range scans show a diaconium-rich interstellar asteroid about ten light years behind our position. We're attempting to change course and intercept it, but it looks like you're actually closer. I'm sending the coordinates over now. Our techs think it's hiding in a gravity shadow of a nearby system, so you might not be able to see it from where you are.

When you get there, could you section the asteroid off into halves and leave us our chunk? We'd be eternally grateful. It should be just enough to get both of us there for the last part of the journey. Assuming we share it, of course.

-Commander Pyrite, Acting Head of Rodina DSI control

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From: Bradford

Thanks again Commander. Sounds like the deposit is enough to get both of us there a little late, or one of us there significantly earlier.

Unfortunately, our council has voted to take the full deposit into our own tanks. It's nothing personal. You see, we just feel that we could do a much better job of setting up the initial settlement given our more enlightened attitudes. But I PROMISE you, you all will totally be welcome in the new society we set up. We'll find a corner for you somewhere.

Thanks again for all of your help, and we look forward to seeing the Rodina in the skies of our planets in a few hundred years!

-Bradford DSI Control

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From: Rodina

I understand, and I suppose each of us must tend to our own as best we can. Good luck, Bradford.

-Commander Pyrite, Acting Head of Rodina DSI control