Rp starter for @ask-nosignificantharassment !!
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To say Grace was getting a bit bored while drifting through space towards Erid would be an understatement. Sure, he had Rocky and an almost endless amount of digital media to look through, but being in a small space gets to you after some time.
But really, Mary detecting an odd signal from some part of space made hum way more excited than it should have.
Grace had been lazing about at the window while Rocky slept, though he should be close to waking, when Mary cut through the dead air in the ship with a loud announcement.
“Incoming transmission. Language unknown. Attempting to decipher…”
Grace shot up, nearly falling out of the little indent for the window as he scrambled up to his feet. “Wh— a transmission? What do you mean?”
“Unknown transmission.”
Climbing the ladder up to the control room, Grace huffed, “Yes, Mary. I caught that. Where is it coming from? Can you display the message?”
“Message coming sixty two degrees from the top of the Hail Mary. Displaying message.”
Grace pulled himself up into the room, grabbing the sides of the display screen and squinting at hit as he tried to fix his glasses. All that was displayed was a bunch of boxes with question marks in them. Like when someone puts in an emoji your phone doesn’t know or something.
“…right. Very helpful,” he grumbled. “Uh— Mary, expand blip detection radius and prioritize the north to west sections of the ship. Let’s find this transmission source, shall we?”