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Message Incoming...
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Source Melchizedek.0294 Shuttle 001
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Near β Hyi, 3rd Planet
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Ascension 00h 25m 45.07036s
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Declination –77° 15′ 15.2860″
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Distance 24.37ly
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Equinox J2000.0 SOL
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Year 3782, QEC adjusted
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[Relay detected from Shuttle 001]
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[Autotranslator enabled...]
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[Voice recording initialize...ON]
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[Crew autodetection...ON]
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[Narrative mode...ON]
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[Autodisconnect after 5 minute silence...ON]
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:::
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** audio recording mode auto activated due to vocal stress **
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** detection. relaying audio to Melchizedek.0294 base station **
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[Voice detected: Stephanie Janssen, Specialist First-class]
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Janssen:
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and a big butt!
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[Voice detected: Eva Hämäläinen, Navigator]
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Hämäläinen:
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That's not fair. It's genetics.
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Janssen:
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I don't care. It's not right. I'm not doing it.
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Hämäläinen:
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You'll be demoted, or worse. She'll--
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Janssen:
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I don't care! This is her doing, Eva. I'm not letting her get
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away with it. She's going to listen or--
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Hämäläinen:
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Wait--
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Janssen:
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--bash her face with a--
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Hämäläinen:
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Stephanie!
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Janssen:
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--vegetable mush--
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Hämäläinen:
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STEPH! Stop. Look.
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Janssen:
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Wha--shit. How long?
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Hämäläinen:
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I just saw--
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Janssen:
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Shush. Wait a sec. [inaudible]. --should do--
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[System transmission suspended. Standing by.]
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[System encryption enabled. Relaying audio to Melchizedek.0294
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base station in pass-through mode. ]
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Janssen:
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--it. Okay, we're good. How much got through?
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Hämäläinen:
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Only some nonsense and your screaming.
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Janssen:
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Good screaming? No, wait, nevermind.
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Hämäläinen:
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Steph, you can't do this. She's not going to change her mind.
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Seriphs don't do that. You're just going to get hurt and it's
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not going to help anyone. Least of all--
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Janssen:
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I can't do nothing. Please, Eva. It's wrong. It's just wrong and
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horrible. I keep seeing him out there, in the cold dark. You
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remember what that was like on the Melchy when we had each
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other. You remember how he got. And what if he's hurt.
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Hämäläinen:
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Ymmärrän. I know, I know.
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Janssen:
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She can't really stop us. What's she going to do? Hit me?
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Hämäläinen:
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Turn off your access? She can do that, you know.
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Janssen:
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She can do that?
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Hämäläinen:
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I think so. She'll tell the Melchizedek to ignore you, or put
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the locks on you. How is it said?
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Janssen:
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No way. That wouldn't fly. If we were in flight that could cut
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out my air or something. She can't just execute us.
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Hämäläinen:
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I don't know, Steph. I think she can do whatever she needs to
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do. She's Ecclesia. They don't change their minds and they don't
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stop. She'll cut you out and stop you, and then what? You'll be
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locked up and no good to anyone. No good to Jerome or Sandy.
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Janssen:
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No good to you?
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Hämäläinen:
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I'm not leaving you. Don't think like that. If you get locked up
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then I'm locked up.
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Janssen:
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No way. Prezzi won't leave us together.
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Hämäläinen:
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She is Ecclesia and does not stop, but I am not some balloon
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full of eels to be--
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[Moisture detected on control console 01. Disabling display.]
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Janssen:
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Eels? What the--
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Hämäläinen:
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You broke--the terminal is out. Are we still transmitting? Why
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are you looking at me like that? You are the one that spit all
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over the--
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Janssen:
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Eels! That's not a thing.
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Hämäläinen:
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Isn't that the saying for. Oh I don't know anymore. Yksi kieli
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ei ikinä riitä. What was I saying?
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Janssen:
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About eels or how you love me so much you'll fight the Church
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for me?
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[Silence recorded for 4:15]
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[Soto voce] smooth and soft like [unintelligible]
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[Silence recorded for 3:51]
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Hämäläinen:
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--[unintelligible screaming]
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[Silence recorded for 5:00. Automatic disconnect triggered.]
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** audio recording mode auto reactivated **
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[Voice detected: Eva Hämäläinen, Navigator]
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Hämäläinen:
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You know we can't do this.
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[Voice detected: Stephanie Janssen, Specialist First-class]
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Janssen:
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I have physical evidence to the contrary.
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Hämäläinen:
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Oh gross. No, I mean the rescue.
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Janssen:
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[Audible sigh detected from Stephanie Janssen]
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I know. She's going to win and they really are going to die out
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there all alone and in the dark. Whatever that thing is…
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Hämäläinen:
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No.
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Janssen:
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No? You just said--
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Hämäläinen:
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No, we can't do this… alone. We need a plan and we're going to
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need Spinelli or Reed at the least. I think we can count on
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Hendrix too and probably Simms.
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Janssen:
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You don't mean to ask then? You think we should--
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Hämäläinen:
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It's the only chance they have, right? You said it so. I believe
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you. They're out there and they need help. If I let you run
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ahead at Adeyemi then…
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I'm not going to lose you. I just can't. Before this mission
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I never thought this would be mine, that I would find someone
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like you. Perhaps I'd not have agreed if I thought I had
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a chance at it on Earth. But here you are. And these people are
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family to me now. Jerome is your dad.
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Janssen:
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Work-dad. Not, like, my actual dad.
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Hämäläinen:
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Yes, and he is like a little brother to me. A very annoying one
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who doesn't knock, but a brother.
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Janssen:
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Wait, so are you my work-aunt then? Cause that's--
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Hämäläinen:
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You're ruining this.
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Janssen:
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Sorry. [Cough detected] Go on.
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Hämäläinen:
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Uuh! Olet raivostuttava ja mahdoton enkä voi kuvitella enää
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sekuntiakaan sitä ilman.
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Janssen:
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That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard and I don't
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understand a word of it. You won't lose me. This plan will work.
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What is the plan again?
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Hämäläinen:
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You are an impossible creature, my flower.
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Janssen:
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That's what they say about me. Stephanie Janssen, Specialist
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Impossible! Boop!
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Hämäläinen:
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[Squeek detected]. Oh I'm gonna--
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[Laughing detected]
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[Silence recorded for 5:00. Automatic disconnect triggered.]
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[End of encrypted envelope.]
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