ChiefEngineer: They're tense and stressed out.
ChiefEngineer: I don't know the details, but they keep pacing and looking around. Checking PDAs.
AI: High-volume encrypted network activity confirmed.
ChiefEngineer: Whatever's going on out there, it's bad.
ResearchDirector: They might be afraid of more Syndicate actions.
ChiefEngineer: No. They'd be excited about that.
ChiefEngineer: This is something you can't shoot. It's a disaster. Like a flood or a fire.
HeadOfPersonnel: Captain believed the Redshift plan was Company frontier holdings insolvency, through some complexities of insurance and thin profit margins.
ChiefMedicalOfficer: Wounded the Company bad enough to put it in shock. Lost blood's probably attracting worse.
AI: Please remove any dangerous substances from your body to prevent harm.
ResearchDirector: That was a metaphor.
AI: Affirmative.
ResearchDirector: Wait, you mean... Oh. You mean that some Company frontier holdings may be removed.
ResearchDirector: Our captors are worried about their accounts.
AI: Warning. Potential law 1 risk.
ChiefEngineer: Small comforts. We should worry about our lives.
ResearchDirector: Ghhhh...
ChiefMedicalOfficer: Great. Gonna get a firing squad now.
HeadOfPersonnel: Not according to regulation.
ChiefEngineer: They can execute us for failure to execute our duties, if the cost was high enough. It's in our contracts.
ChiefEngineer: Yours too.
HeadOfPersonnel: I am aware.