>>6029381>2/6You then decided to enlist the help of your friends and fellow bridge training crew help to solve the mystery. You surreptitiously brought the guys up to speed over breakfast, but couldn’t prevent your impatiently eager Science officer — EoN — from skipping the explanation and running off to study your collected sample. While your Engineering and Tactical officers (FoZ and Coen) treated your revelations with caution, your ever loyal Operations officer (self styled future XO™/adopted kid brother) Kiro decided to tag along as you hurried off to prevent your overzealous Science officer from triggering the ship’s Guardian AI with her investigations. You and your brother arrived at her lab just in time to find the sample being attacked by out of control nanites, but together the three of you managed to save the majority of the mysterious material with surgical precision.
You instructed EoN to continue scanning the sample but to keep the lab and results disconnected from any prying digital eyes. Without your implant active, you were unable to detect if the attack on the undoubtedly secret substance was an automatic response from your ship’s nanites, or if Guard had already traced the meddling back to you and was actively fighting to hinder your progress. Either way you feared that your efforts may not have gone unnoticed, and now you have even more explaining to do…
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<span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">Authors Note:</span></span>
Welcome back to Voidship Bridge Simulator — feat. the other half of the cast this time, I promise. This is thread #3.5 just because I don’t feel like enough plot has progressed for me to call it thread #4 yet. In hindsight, it probably would have been a lot smoother had I taken only a week’s break between threads instead of like two months but family stuff came up and… you know how it goes.
If you’d like to refresh your memory or you’re a newcomer to VBS then I encourage you to read the archives; it’s only three threads long and there's plenty of gifs to keep you occupied if you have the attention span of a zoomer when reading:
<span class="mu-s">Thread #1:</span> https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5521410/
<span class="mu-s">Thread #2:</span> https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5572653/
<span class="mu-s">Thread #3:</span> https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2024/5940353/
Once again, I’ll aim for 3-4 updates a week to give me time to write, make gifs, sleep (maybe) and let (you) people get your votes in without my timezone causing drama. Might speed up or slow down depending on life and/or size of updates - but I’ll let you know of any schedule changes.
