We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1 - "Eight Bells, All's Well"

[laughing_tree]

What we're attempting to touch here is a kind of cosmic awe. The inspiration came out of some of the threads I've been following in my mainstream work: ideas of cosmic entities, gods, death, religion, and so on. There's only so much you can do with that inside a shared fictional universe, though, since you have to leave the idea-space reasonably tidy for others. So in this, I can follow thoughts wherever they take me. -- Al Ewing

Comments

[shadur]

Maybe it's my devops cynicism or my Shadowrun-player paranoia talking, but I feel deeply suspicious about the "authorities can't monitor us during warp, everyone knows that" fact.

If I were the kind of "authority" that feels the need to obsessively monitor everything that's discussed on every ship in my domain, I'd absolutely have a secret R&D tank working on fixing obvious known blind spots like that.

[erikred]

That's a really good suspicion to have in any scenario with espionage and surveillance.

A common trope of Cold War Era spy craft stories is where one side discovers a thing but has to pretend they haven't because revealing that they know it would reveal the mole or method of detection. Not that I'm saying Ewing *is* going there, but he's savvy enough to know it's an option.

[cainofdreaming]

So, "Vihaan" means "I hate" in Finnish. That's not where it's from, is it?