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Date: December 1st
Location: The Observatory.
Characters: Everyone.
Summary: New Transports arrive and are shuffled into the Observatory after their initial briefings.
Warnings: None.

Your arrival here has been very unceremonious. One second you were somewhere else, and now, very suddenly, your feet hit the glowing white of the Transporter pad, and you're here. You aren't alone, either. There's a crowd of others around you, each seeming just as bewildered, angry, or confused as you might feel. At the head of the group is a woman in purple robes, solemn and taciturn. She hurries over a quick overview of your intended purpose here, and gives direct answers when asked for them, but to most things she simply shows you how to access the tablet you've just been given, or tells you that the DITR's greeters will explain everything. On the tablet, you can find the history of this place and a record of what your new cohorts have experienced. Someone stands on hand to give you a weapon, and though the armory is now greatly reduced, you should be able to find something to suit you.

You're shepherded down a walkway tunnel and into the Observatory, where you will find screens mounted on three sides of the wide room; they show multiple variations of satellite images, focused on... somewhere snowy. It's difficult to say more than that, but those that record heat readings seem to suggest there are people there, where ever "there" is. It's night outside the great wide windows, and the lunar landscape isn't much to look at right now. But, hey, at least all the lights are on, right? No more creepy red emergency lighting upon arrival — not that you'd know anything about that.

You're free to explore the base, visit and use any of the VR rooms, or discover your new room and roommates, but try not to step out of any airlocks if oxygen is a requirement for your system.

Welcome to the moon base, and to the remains of Exsilium.

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Yeah, the circumstances. I got it.

[Kate grasps that there isn't exactly a lot of room for music-making in a war, even if she's fairly certain there's a celebrated string of poets and musicians who gained their fame because of their art produced in a war. But that might be seen as useless here.]

We haven't had a lot of time often, no. Or morale.

[The point of "no morale" does make her pause, looking serious. Things are bad here. Bad.

It's not that she's unfamiliar with things being that bad. After Cassie's death, it seemed like there was no point in continuing. Heroes or not, some things are difficult to overcome.

She purses her lips thoughtfully.]

Has anyone tried to work on that?

[The girl raised her hand.]

Set up a bar and everything, get mostly ignored. Sure not the best motivator.

Alcohol helps, but only if that's what they're looking for. Sometimes, people just need a good leader.

... The real goal was just a social space. But maybe you're right.

Leadership... Heh. Don't have that feat. Not even sure how it'd work here.

Leadership works everywhere. Generally.

[But that tells Kate that this place is extremely disorganized. It's something to keep in mind.]

Where I'm from, Leadership is a very specific thing that isn't superbly common.

... Even politically?

[The idea catches her up a little. Maybe it's just not conceptually something they go for. Or maybe there's a dystopia, but aren't those led by someone usually?]

There's aristocracy, there's positions of rule, and then there's Leadership.

The last one's a different thing. It's not just ability to tell people what to do - but to inspire or control them to go beyond their ordinary limits.

My world's the odd one out around here though.

It just sounds particularly ineffective to me.

My world's one where small groups of heroes are the critical measure against most plots, so...