Oh, so close to a proper answer. What a tease. [He paces, thinking.]
So. Prototype interstellar drive and all that. But this thing's reaching its stringy little arms across dimensions to snatch people up and drag them here. No relay on the other end, no sign it's gonna happen at all until you're just suddenly here and stuck.
[He paces faster, gesticulating more as he talks.] And that dimensional stuff! Grineer can travel through the Void, we've got another dimension to poke at, but it's not like this. Can't mine it, can't live in it, you just sneak through it and try not to get split open. There's no other Earth waiting there, no hordes of more humans scuttling about. If there were, we'd find them! We'd be mining their planets, building colonies. Always need more, and we haven't run out of anything in our system, even. This thing can reach to better Earths and they never thought to just send their little military teams through to take what they needed? No.
[No, this is more mysterious chicanery going on.
He finally turns his attention back to Cirsta.]
So! How's the drive supposed to work? Did something about it change since its crew used it? And could it always just... pick up things, people, transport people to it?
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Date: 2018-09-28 02:11 pm (UTC)So. Prototype interstellar drive and all that. But this thing's reaching its stringy little arms across dimensions to snatch people up and drag them here. No relay on the other end, no sign it's gonna happen at all until you're just suddenly here and stuck.
[He paces faster, gesticulating more as he talks.] And that dimensional stuff! Grineer can travel through the Void, we've got another dimension to poke at, but it's not like this. Can't mine it, can't live in it, you just sneak through it and try not to get split open. There's no other Earth waiting there, no hordes of more humans scuttling about. If there were, we'd find them! We'd be mining their planets, building colonies. Always need more, and we haven't run out of anything in our system, even. This thing can reach to better Earths and they never thought to just send their little military teams through to take what they needed? No.
[No, this is more mysterious chicanery going on.
He finally turns his attention back to Cirsta.]
So! How's the drive supposed to work? Did something about it change since its crew used it? And could it always just... pick up things, people, transport people to it?