[ Seeing her look at him, Korol lets out a low, rumbling growl at
the back of his throat. Sturmhond raises a hand to shush him. ]
Not well. Though a friend of mine used to live with one of them. They were
both part of the crew.
[ And now they're in the past tense. ]
If you're Orange, you're reconnaissance. You ought to report to
Warriorhead, or meet with one of Orange's unit leaders. If anyone's going
to be investigating this, I'd hazard a guess it'll be your team.
[The low, rumbling noise makes her jump, take a flighty step away from it - but at least it seems like it's under control. Not that that's going to make her any less wary of the thing.
After a moment, though, her gaze is drawn back to the bodies - both of them, mangled and still. She's been around death - she's caused death, though only ever when they were trying to kill her to begin with - but this is something else. Battles don't make her antsy - cold murder, though...]
I've met one of Orange's unit leaders already - Pilot. I haven't reported in officially, though - definitely not to Warriorhead.
[A short pause that verges on the awkward, and then:] Shouldn't there be an external investigator? I mean, if there was a murder on the ship I live on - lived on, the military police from another ship would investigate it. Just in case.
[There's a certain amount of meaning in the last three words - having the ship internally investigate means possibly making the murderer investigate the crime.]
[ So she's quicker to assume the murder is within the crew than without. Interesting. Not so long ago, she wouldn't have been wrong. He shakes his head, though. ]
The CDC is far larger than this ship, that is true, but we've never come in contact with another crew.
[ Not quite true. Some of their number had come across another ship's captain, though never his crew. And there had been the incident with the Almina, but that had all been by video. ]
Besides which, the CDC have their own regulations. I wouldn't expect those to be the same as they are in your home, if I were you.
[It's not something she would rule out - not in a large disparate group of people she knows nothing about, working for an organisation she doesn't know if she trusts. At the moment, she sort of sees this as a mercenary group, and not everybody in a mercenary group is trustworthy.]
Not the same, maybe, but... Doesn't it make sense not to have people who knew the victims investigating the murder? Everyone here might be too...
[She stops. Quibbling over logistics when the bodies are right there isn't a good idea.] Sorry, this really isn't the right time.
Anyway, I'm an engineer - I don't know much about dealing with crime scenes.
If someone or something is killing people on board this ship, I would like to catch them, and stop them.
[ Where he's from, that would be the Captain's responsibility, so he wouldn't have expected anyone from outside to come in. He's just told Tali not to judge this organisation by her standards, though, so he's not going to judge it by his own in the next breath. ]
That's my priority, and until I'm told differently, that's what I'll be acting on.
Regardless of how they would do it - in what organisation, did you say?
Right. If we're investigating this internally, I'll do whatever I can to help.
[She says it as if reporting to a superior - which she's not sure whether or not this man is, but since she just got here, it's easy to assume everybody is superior.]
The Quarian Migrant Fleet. If there was a murder on a quarian ship, military police from another ship would handle the whole investigation. Even the marines on board wouldn't handle it.
[The extra information - the stuff he didn't ask for - is mostly just Tali filling in the silence with talk. It's her dealing with the nerves.]
[ Quarian. That must be the name of her species, then. He'll file that away to investigate later. Much as he'd like to now, the presence of the bodies has to be a priority. ]
That rather assumes there's another ship close by, able to step in. I'm not sure we'd have that luxury. What would you do if people were killed on a ship when no other was in range?
[ He actually has no idea how far away the other CDC vessels are, or how quickly one ship can even travel towards another. Most of space travel still exists in a vacuum of knowledge for him. The concept of instantaneous travel would be unheard of. ]
Ghost will know those procedures better than I could. I'll talk to him and see what we have to work with.
We travel in a fleet - fifty thousand ships, and none of them go anywhere alone. Even if one's away from the fleet, it's never more than a couple of days' travel. That situation just... wouldn't come up.
[It's a small galaxy, where Tali's from. She's going to assume until proven otherwise that there's no such thing as 'out of range'.]
[ Well, no wonder this is strange for her. By contrast, what she’s describing is strange for him. Even in his days on the seas, his fleet would not have travelled together. Not all the time, at least; each ship would be out working a different job, each flying his banner, and meeting at the appointed time and place. The migrant fleet is a different proposition altogether. ]
The CDC has a fleet as well, as I understand it, but we’ve not had contact with other ships during my time here. The closest there’s been to that is the time we were called to help with the situation on another planet. I don’t believe the volunteers had contact with another crew even then.
[ Though, there’d been a time when some people did. His knowledge of that is limited, so he doesn’t mention it. ]
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[ Seeing her look at him, Korol lets out a low, rumbling growl at the back of his throat. Sturmhond raises a hand to shush him. ]
Not well. Though a friend of mine used to live with one of them. They were both part of the crew.
[ And now they're in the past tense. ]
If you're Orange, you're reconnaissance. You ought to report to Warriorhead, or meet with one of Orange's unit leaders. If anyone's going to be investigating this, I'd hazard a guess it'll be your team.
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After a moment, though, her gaze is drawn back to the bodies - both of them, mangled and still. She's been around death - she's caused death, though only ever when they were trying to kill her to begin with - but this is something else. Battles don't make her antsy - cold murder, though...]
I've met one of Orange's unit leaders already - Pilot. I haven't reported in officially, though - definitely not to Warriorhead.
[A short pause that verges on the awkward, and then:] Shouldn't there be an external investigator? I mean, if there was a murder on the ship I live on - lived on, the military police from another ship would investigate it. Just in case.
[There's a certain amount of meaning in the last three words - having the ship internally investigate means possibly making the murderer investigate the crime.]
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The CDC is far larger than this ship, that is true, but we've never come in contact with another crew.
[ Not quite true. Some of their number had come across another ship's captain, though never his crew. And there had been the incident with the Almina, but that had all been by video. ]
Besides which, the CDC have their own regulations. I wouldn't expect those to be the same as they are in your home, if I were you.
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Not the same, maybe, but... Doesn't it make sense not to have people who knew the victims investigating the murder? Everyone here might be too...
[She stops. Quibbling over logistics when the bodies are right there isn't a good idea.] Sorry, this really isn't the right time.
Anyway, I'm an engineer - I don't know much about dealing with crime scenes.
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[ Where he's from, that would be the Captain's responsibility, so he wouldn't have expected anyone from outside to come in. He's just told Tali not to judge this organisation by her standards, though, so he's not going to judge it by his own in the next breath. ]
That's my priority, and until I'm told differently, that's what I'll be acting on.
Regardless of how they would do it - in what organisation, did you say?
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[She says it as if reporting to a superior - which she's not sure whether or not this man is, but since she just got here, it's easy to assume everybody is superior.]
The Quarian Migrant Fleet. If there was a murder on a quarian ship, military police from another ship would handle the whole investigation. Even the marines on board wouldn't handle it.
[The extra information - the stuff he didn't ask for - is mostly just Tali filling in the silence with talk. It's her dealing with the nerves.]
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That rather assumes there's another ship close by, able to step in. I'm not sure we'd have that luxury. What would you do if people were killed on a ship when no other was in range?
[ He actually has no idea how far away the other CDC vessels are, or how quickly one ship can even travel towards another. Most of space travel still exists in a vacuum of knowledge for him. The concept of instantaneous travel would be unheard of. ]
Ghost will know those procedures better than I could. I'll talk to him and see what we have to work with.
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[It's a small galaxy, where Tali's from. She's going to assume until proven otherwise that there's no such thing as 'out of range'.]
Ghost is... one of the instructors, right?
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The CDC has a fleet as well, as I understand it, but we’ve not had contact with other ships during my time here. The closest there’s been to that is the time we were called to help with the situation on another planet. I don’t believe the volunteers had contact with another crew even then.
[ Though, there’d been a time when some people did. His knowledge of that is limited, so he doesn’t mention it. ]
Ghost is Blue Team’s Instructor, yes.