List of Leviathan episodes

== Leviathan Season 1 ==
Num 	Title 	Air Date 	Summary 	Link
0Uploaded on Feb 4, 2018. 	 	 	 	YouTube
1 	The First Job. 	Sep 20, 2017 	The crew of the Bat'leth takes 3 scientists to a mysterious space object. An easy mission for young ICA Guardian Lt. Conrad Carls Jr.'s first assignment? Maybe... 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
2Cheryl was not present for this episode. She was on a speaking tour in Europe that week. 	The Wreck. 	Sep 27, 2017 	After the untimely deaths of their Brains charges, the crew of the Bat'leth find that going home won't be easy. Help comes in the form of a friendly female alien, Ary, who offers to ward off the infection that sealed the fate of the scientists by making them part of her crew. Ary also shows them how to shut down the monstrous forces they unwittingly unleashed. 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
3 	Title of ep. 3. 	Oct 04, 2017 	Our five heroes navigate the maze of the Raze and cheat death along the way. Owing to the efforts of all, including Kika's creative infiltration, they manage to kill the brain of the ship and in so doing free their ships. They take the body of an infecting Hollow on Tsarin and load the heavily damaged Bat'leth in Tsarin's cargo bay where it will need to stay until it is fixed. 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
4 	Full-body Kegels.Courtesy of Dan. Working title? 	Oct 11, 2017 	Where the intrepid crew of the Bat’leth, after learning everything about Ary’s species, the Leviathans, and the threat of the Raze, thread home posthaste only to be met by an unexpected welcome committee. There they find they are on their own to help Ary and close the first chapter of their adventures with a brief eulogy for the dead scientists. 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
5Cheryl was in Oslo, so there was no Hexie Kate in this episode. Due to a power outage in town right before the show, the episode started with a noticeable delay.	Title of ep. 5. 	Oct 18, 2017 	Theea has time to find the name of Conrad (now Kenny)'s longtime rival before the Bat'leth sets off for the coordinates left by Ary. It takes the skills of all to succeed in this new mission. When they find Tsarin, the ship has engaged in a space battle with spirates. The Bat'leth enters the fray. An ex...hilarating episode. 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
6Sarah announced after the show that she would not be here for the next 3 weeks. 	Stranded in Gennus.Working title. 	Oct 25, 2017 	Rest, recuperation & reparations are in order for Tsarin, the Bat'leth and their crews. Also a paint job with racing stripes. A trip to a planet that does not exist but does exist where their weird ship could be repaired is also in the cards.Shoutouts to @Ozai75's Seven Stars card game, which the crew played at the beginning and to @bpphantom, whose song was sung at the start of the break. 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
7 	Usvedi.Working title. I went for the obvious. 	Nov 1, 2017 	The crew of the Bat'leth, having reached the Erzati System, see through perfect randomness and land on the hidden planet, Usvedi. Immediately upon arriving, they are greeted by a group of Resistance Terrorists with advanced weaponry and soon start planning a joint heist that, through a subtle mix of discretion and distraction, shall help the ones with the heavy lifting of revolution and the others with the lifting of heavy thread engine parts. 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
8 	Engine Room Rock.Waiting for an official title. 	Nov 8, 2017 	Kika, high on rock music and the Dew, fixing an engine for a needle, a bobbin case and a stabilizer; Conrad's drone filming it all; Xe'anna leaving the shadows and punching her way to Kika; Hexie Kate piloting the Bat'leth while also dewing, Conrad helping the ladies help themselves; ... and songs: a fine plan coming together, distraction dovetailing into distraction. 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
9 	Poor Stanley at Gennus Landing.Waiting for an official title.	Nov 15, 2017 	The Bat'leth has reunited with Tsarin in quieter space. Ary catches up with the crew, ships of all kinds get talked about and fixed, until Tsarin threads back to Gennus Landing only to see it grappled and being consumed by a Raze scout ship. Xe'anna and her crew resolve to dock the Bat'leth to the station. She intends to rescue an Iratos and others trapped on the station. She also sets out to look for a way of sending the station and the ship attached to it toward the system's sun.	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
10 	Unexpected Encounters.Waiting for an official title. 	Nov 29, 2017There was no episode on Thanksgiving week. Sarah was back for this episode. It was also announced that there would only be one more episode this year / season.	The crew of the Bat'leth are unexpectedly joined by Theea. Hexie conveys the meaning of their through elaborate gestures, until they hear screams and find themselves face to face with a group of 5 hollows who've just disemboweled a victim. A long, protracted battle ensues, where new, unconventional tactics are tried and dice are tested (and occasionally caged)... 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
11 	Of Loyalty and Parting Ships.Waiting for an official title. 	Dec 6, 2017Season finale. 	An already hopeless mission becomes even more difficult after a sudden betrayal exacts blood from all and an even more painful sacrifice from Xe'anna, who has to send both Oxana and HexieNftE: In other words: her two ships. away.
Running after a green shark trying to steal her ship; leading a dozen survivors to the Bat’leth; getting her own crew back on the ship in time to prevent Conrad from turning blue; blowing Gennus Landing to kill the Raze ship and prevent the spread of the Hollow: Xe'anna has a full plate in this harrowing season finale.	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
== Leviathan Season 2 ==
Num 	Title 	Air Date 	Summary 	Link
12 /1
Markus and Andy had a live special viewing party of this episode.	On to Cupertino. 	Jan 17, 2018	Conrad's longtime enemy, Lt. Wendy Santiago, having chosen to stick to the tale of his friends, he is now dead as far as ICA is concerned. Lt. Santiago has gained a sworn enemy in the person of Theea. Then it's time to drop off Klaariskees and her group of refugees in a suitable system. Hexie goes with them, on a mission to gain alliesIRL, Cheryl is still recovering and can't return to the show for now. She was in chat during the episode, though. <3.. Only then can they resume the mission that was interrupted by the Raze assault on Gennus Landing: convince a former teacher of Conrad's and researcher at the cutting edge of neurobiology to follow them and fit Tsarin with the cyberware weapons they will afterwards promptly retrieve on Duranga. 	YouTube - Part 1
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13 /2
Read here Dan's announcement about his upcoming departure from the show. This tweet came a little after the show.	Leave the bag, take the cannoli. 	Jan 24, 2018	On their way to planet Maera in the Aneste System, the cyberpunk spring break planet where they want to find and hire cyberware expert Chalean Anio, the crew of the Bat'leth exercise while waiting for sp'email, study, study, and build a hanging room in the cargo bay. After a little palm greasing, one minute of making out for Theea and Conrad, and a trip on a flying taxi, the perfectly dressed and discreetly armed crew meet Anio, a.k.a. Cha Cha, at Maera's Starlight Lounge. They find that this peculiar character is ready to follow them, on the condition of being freed from their obligations to their current employer and retrieving money, which involves a raid on Starlight Entertainment Industries's systems that looks like a Shadowrun on the Sunshine planet.	YouTube - Part 1
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14 /3
See this clip.	I'll miss you too. 	Jan 31, 2018	The crew of the Bat'leth have time to kill before Cha Cha returns with information. Kika and Theea enjoy room service, Conrad enjoys a space simulator ride and attempts reconnaissance, and Xe'anna gets bruised at a local fight club.
Cha Cha comes back, and a plan emerges: They'll arrange an early meeting with an exec at the Starlight Pavilion and implant Theea with a data phase tap to ease her hacking. The rest is up to the crew.
The rest? The impatient crew kill their Anguilin chaperone after placing one of two line shunts, then dispose of two more guards in the security room where Kika places the second line shunt they need. Theea retrieves the data, and they almost all make their way to the top of the building from which they flee on the CEO's party barge. Xe'anna renounces saving Conrad, who earlier chose to stay behind and confront the three guards that had intercepted them.	YouTube - Part 1
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15 /4 	The Cortex Cantina. 	Fev 7, 2018 	The crew of the Bat'leth mourn Conrad, each in their own way, until they arrive at Duranga and Theea leads them to the Cortex Cantina. After hapless local gang member Keer dies in an attempt to kill Theea, Theea's contact, Rachel Lucas takes the crew to her husband Deckard.
As there is no way Xe'anna & al can pay Deckard's price for the two weapons they're seeking, he lays out an alternative: they can go and fetch them for themselves nearby at the Graveyard, at their own risk. Rachel will lead them there for a reasonable fee.
Rachel will also find them a pilot, because Xe'anna feels compelled to go rescue Hexie, who has sent her a message from the other planet in Duranga's systemIRL, Lizzie wouldn't be able to be on the next episode.. 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
16 /5 	That was an experience.See this clip. 	Feb 14, 2018	Theea, Kika, Rachel and their Robot AI Pilot, Shiny Metal Ass Ashley, head for the Graveyard. After picking up the signatures of two suitable weapons on two separate ships, the Bat'leth heads for the smaller gun first.
Two small, now empty, fighters have reached the wreck of the frigate with the gun before them. Rachel takes charge, has a plan for all, Theea just goes shopping on her own, lands in trouble after failing to bluff in the cargo bay, and gets saved by Ashley and Rachel.
After Rachel makes a deal with their competitors,
Ashley and Kika safely finish extracting the gun. Docking the phallic-shaped gun in the Bat'leth's relatively tight cargo bay leads to no innuendo at all.
One down, one to go. 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
17 /6 	Morva. 	Feb 21, 2018	Theea starts a list of enemies: the guy who shot her joins Wendy Santiago on it.
The crew make their way to the second, larger ship. It has been split into three, and the gun they are there to retrieve has three parts.
There is only one major incident while retrieving the exterior piece of the gun: Kika almost gets crushed by it and is left making her way alone through the ceiling until she meets the others inside.
After securing the first piece, they all jump together onto the second, still powered, part of the ship. There they meet a cracked and broken AI which Theea and Ashley get to cooperate, while Rachel and Kika get shot at by turrets on their way to the the second piece of the weapon, a converter.
The four of them get back together to retrieve the AI's donut-shaped core, which action wakes up four hostile droids that unsuccessfully chase them until they lose power, one by one.
The crew leaves the graveyard, missing a piece of the gun they can do without, but with Morva, the AI they have named after her ship and Ashley wants to bring to Echo.	YouTube
18 /7 	From Duranga to Echo. 	Feb 28, 2018	After defeating four fighters from the Durangan Sharktooth Sherpent gang eager to steal their conspicuous loot and reuniting with Xe'anna, the Bat'leth heads for Tsarin to unload the weapons and have Anio install them before dropping off Rachel and Ashley on Duranga.
Rachel and Ashley meet Tsarin and Ary. Ashley meets Xe'anna.
On Duranga, Rachel gets paid but returns after learning that her beloved husband Deckard has to go to the only place where she would not follow hime, her home world, for a lucrative job.
Ashley, who has declined his paycheck, is also onboard for the next part of the journey: delivering Morva to Echo and advancing Oxana's risky request to be upgraded.
Meanwhile, Xe'anna has briefed the new recruits on the Raze threat and briefly updated Hexie's status for Theea.There is also a treasure trove of information for this wiki in the conversation the crew has at the end of the show. Stay tuned.	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - part 2
19 /8 	Do AI dream of psionic ships? 	Mar 7, 2018 	The Bat'leth docks at Echo spot, a hollowed-out asteroid, where they meet Blue, a representative of the AI hive mind known as the Collective.
After Blue assesses Morva's status as beyond repair, next-of-kin Ashley decides to keep her in a painless dreamlike state, rather than let Blue euthanize her.
On Ashley's controversial request, Blue also investigates Oxana and finds that the virus that had given her a personality had evolved into a Virtual Intelligence, meaning that she was no longer be claimed as property in the Collective's eye. When alone with Xe'anna, Oxana reveals that she has got access to previously hidden parts of her system, including the name of her coder, a Caret, who signed their work as the stupid ^D4T3 (read: Update), which incidentally was also the way to get rid of it. Confronted with a choice regarding her future, Oxana is now left to ponder: Am I alive?
Rachel is also told by Blue that she seems to be psionic, which Rachel has a hard time acknowledging, let alone accepting.
The crew locate ^D4T3 and get to meet Oxana's father in their remote dwelling. There, they discuss everything from the scientific and funny experiment in virus-design that Oxana was, to the options for dealing with Morva and the best way to put Echo's communications network to use to broadcast a message about the Raze through the galaxy, with or without their agreement.
Theea also seizes the opportunity to make a quick GUC at Rachel's expense.	YouTube - Part 1- Part 2
20 /9 	The one where Theea steals a drone.Thanks, @AnnaGeeks 	Mar 14, 2018	Xe'anna and her crew devise, then execute, a plan to split into two groups so as to create a distraction by sabotaging a communications relay at the same time they release ^D4T3's virus into Echo's communication systems.
They all escape unscathed, even Theea who has to stay behind in order to retrieve a line shunt on a hacked R.O.O.M.B.A droneAnd also scrap said drone for parts, despite Xe'annna's strict orders.. As a bonus, they successfully foil the Collective into faulting a glitch in old infrastructure. They all return first to ^D4T3's place, then to the Bat'leth. Decisions are made regarding both Morva and Oxana. It is also a time for moving goodbyes. 	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
21 /10	Feeling GUCky.Lauren confirmed the spelling of GUCky. 	Mar 21, 2018	It is a day of reckoning for Theea who has breached Xe'anna's trust once too many about Oxana. The crew reconvenes on Tsarin, where they meet representatives of the coalition assembled by Hexie. Before they can proceed to the next step of their war to save the Universe, namely stealing maps from a Raze ship in good enough condition, they need to retrieve an artifact stolen from one of their new allied faction, the Leonis Gynocracy.
The thieves are going to meet buyers in a bar named Feeling GUCky on Duranga. Theea, who doesn't want to let her captain down this time, infiltrates the place in a solo mission to hack its cameras and later serve four doses of Quiet drug in drinks, while the rest of the crew, along with Ludwig Van Pelt, dispatched by the Leonis leader, wait for her signal. They then force their way into an empty second-floor room across the hall from the room where the deal is going to take place.
Meanwhile, a group of Chartreuse Sherpents enter the bar. They are soon followed by a box-carrying pairNftE: I changed this paragraph to account for the correction Lauren made during the recap at the start of .: an Iratos with a Treeko in tow.	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
22 /11	Et tu, Brute?Lauren confirmed this was season 2's next-to-last episode.	Mar 28, 2018	Theea successfully administers the Quiet doses. 
There is still a fight, Kika's son Tylo shoots her, but the crew retrieve the Helm, leaving the baddies known as Scaly, Furry and the Human unconscious but stable; the Iratos a.k.a. Chicken, also stable and slightly plucked; the no-longer plucky Tylo firmly tucked under Xe'anna's arm; the bejeweled Helm looking huge on Ludwig's tiny face. 
Theea retrieves on Scaly the guck-stick that was meant to pay for the Helm. With Rachel's help, she pockets her G5000. Back on the ship, Kika locks Tylo in the Cube, hoping to drop him off at the ICA Academy. Xe'anna will leave him on Tsarin instead.
Back on Tsarin, an expedition is being set up against a Raze scout ship. Xe'anna plugs in Morva's former core, now Oxana's. Oxana, is still mostly herself, but What remained of Morva is still here. I'm not just Oxana. 
Meanwhile, Ludwig frees Tylo from the Cube and lets him loose on Tsarin, because I know what it is to be told what to do by your mother.
Rachel then declines to bond with Tsarin, despite being described what the Raze can do. Ludwig cannot bond with Tsarin, lest it interfere with his ability to read the Raze's mind.	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
23 /12	Raze Anatomy. 	Apr 4, 2018 	Back on Tsarin, the crew of the Bat'leth have a day to spend before they reach the Sinoso System. Ary brings them to a meeting with their allies to combine their assault on a Raze scout heading for this system. They have brought several ships to provide distraction and help the Bat'leth infiltrate the Raze ship.
The Raze ship arrives, Xe'anna meanders her way casually from one cluster of allies to the next and Theea helping by disguising their signals. The Bat'leth destroys three drones sent by the Raze, then drifts into its docking bay without further incidents. They all suit up and exit the Bat'leth.
Theea uses her glove to open several doors. At an intersection, they confront and vanquish a group of five Hollow led by a converted AndartanSee the dedicated paragraph in Hollow.. Xe'anna allows her sister to rest now.
The crew reach their destination without further incidents. The ship's VoiceSee the dedicated paragraph in The Raze. invites them in, starts talking. Meanwhile, Ludwig connects with the helmet and retrieves the maps he was afterSee the dedicated paragraph in Ludwig Van Pelt.. The conversation with the Voice grows tenser, until two crawlers approach, the Voice says You are ours and fighting starts. 
Using his Sense the Need ability, Ludwig pulls out a grenade that he conveniently had on him. The explosion it causes allows them to flee and return to the Bat'leth. Oxana takes control, the ship pilots itself away, tearing through the battlefield while their remaining allies their the Raze scout ship apart.	YouTube - Part 1YouTube - Part 2
== Leviathan Season 3 ==
Num 	Title 	Air Date 	Summary	Link
24 /1 	Xe'anna the warrior sprincess	May 16, 2018	Xe'anna pilots the Bat'leth away from the destroyed Raze, back to Tsarin. Roughly 90 days have passed since they encountered their first Raze ship. Ary had time to try and make Rachel more comfortable on Tsarin.
Xe'anna's new priority is to go find her people—the Andartan Fleet—, tell them about the sister she had to kill, and warn them to keep away of the Raze. She has to do that before starting on the possibly one-way trip to the Pramissan sector.
Ludwig doesn't return to his people. Kika has a last conversation with Tylo after she arranges for him to join the Embers DawnTentative spelling. vigilantes, who are justice in this sector.
Xe'anna calls a meeting in which she gives details about the Andartan Fleet and her plans. Rachel, who misses her husband Deckard, is told she has to stay with the crew until they can drop her off on Duranga. Oxana later hints that Xe'anna omitted an important detail.
Eventually, they come into coms range of the fleet of cobbled-together ships which have only one thing in common: the symbol of the Ancient Andartan Empire on their side. Xe'anna, as an exile, is not welcome but she and her crew are still greeted and led by her sister to their mother the queen. Xe'anna gets across the message that the Empire shall not face the Raze, at least not on their own.
Before she leaves, Xe'anna is given a message from a certain Bad Boy. It contains energy signatures that the Bat'leth can trace. After loading the course, Theea talks about Conrad with Xe'anna, who assures her that we're going to get him back. She visibly hides her feelings, and ultimately switches the conversation to Xe'anna's family. It turns out that Xe'anna chose exile rather than fighting, and most certainly defeating, her younger sister. This conversation ends with Theea admitting that you do a good ... job and an appreciative Oxana reminding them to do their job.
In the engine room, Kika tells Best Boy's story to Rachel and their conversation later turns to marriages.
Back on the bridge, Xe'anna opens a channel to the ship they have successfully tracked, a transport ship slightly bigger than the Bat'leth, withe more people on it than the normal crew size: could these be slavers maybe? A man looking very much like Conrad answers, and introduces himself as the most famous pirate scourge Jeremiah Bisquick Heinz. Heinz keeps threatening them until Rachel starts shooting and a space battle ensues. Heinz's ship launches and escape pod. Xe'anna orders him to surrender; he seizes that opportunity to wrestle control of the ship from the pilot, who then shoots him.
When the Bat'leth disables the engines of Heinz's ship, Xe'anna demands to speak to the Captain whom, she has gathered, Conrad/Heinz is not.	360 - Part 1
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25 /2 	What took you so long? 	May 23, 2018	The Spirate captain announces she will negotiate in person on the Bat'leth to retrieve her. She will come with Heinz and another officer. 
The retrieved escape pod contains eight slaves. They confirm that Conrad/Jeremiah has been friendly and that the Anguilin messed with his head.
Kika booby-traps the pod so that it seem to contain eight people and cause a mild explosion when opened. 
The pirates are granted access, the airlock opens up for the spirates. Everybody is armed. Conrad doesn't answer to meep-meeps.
The negotation sours as Xe'anna demands surrender. Jeremiah opens fire on Xe'anna then gets hit by Rachel. The intense pain makes Conrad resurface. By the time Xe'anna kills the other captain, Conrad has shown his true self.
Meanwhile, Kika has made her way to the other ship and set out to create a fake malfunction in the spirate ship's life support system that would get them to jettison from the ship. Unfortunately, she is grabbed by the spirate in the room and her Toolie is confiscated.
After the death of the spirates, Conrad deadpans: What took you so long? and asks Xe'anna if she realized she is a princess. For his part, he wasn't infiltrated: He was the one doing the infiltration. 
Xe'anna then realizes that Kika is missing. Theea meep-meeps her as she is being locked up with other peopleNftE: my notes say 8, the number is more like 4 in the following episode.. Xe'anna leads the way to the airlock. She uses the body to intimidate the spirate crew into surrendering. The show ends with one of Kika's abductor telling her: You don't look very good in that hat. Besides, captain's dead: I'm the new captain then.
Xe'anna's answer: You are the next to die!	YouTube - Part 1 YouTube - Part 2
26 /3 	Ω sweet Ω 	May 30, 2018	The party, still on board spirate ship Bounty's Grace is split: Xe'anna and Rachel confront Conrad who, as Jeremiah Bisquick, has joined newly promoted Captain Liang Yuen Heinz and redshirt goon Bob; Kika locked up in a smelly, dimly lit 3m x 3m cell with four slaves, two metal spring beds and very little else; and Theea starting towards Engineering on her trail, crossing her fingers to Be invisible.
Xe'anna lets Conrad "flee" toward Liang, so that he may foil her plan to vent the atmosphere in the area then returns to the Bat'leth, carrying Rachel over her shoulder.
Theea follows Kika in the engine room. Heeding Xe'anna's warning, she uses her Toolie 2 to seal the hole behind her.
Kika takes stock of her dire situation. The slaves have no possessions left and there but a few objects in the cell. She explains that You're being rescued almost. How she is actually going to rescue them is Unclear! She becomes exasperated because of Too many questions, not enough results.
Conrad and the two spirates run toward the bridge of the Bounty's Grace.
The rattle from the explosion of a pistol-grenade tossed by Rachel reveals to Kika the cell's door could be opened by electrical discharges.
The Bounty's Grace starts detaching from the Bat'leth, leaving Rachel and Xe'anna in a coupling tube from which the atmosphere starts venting fast. 
Xe'anna, with a psionic boost from Rachel, jumps back onto the Bat'leth. Once safe, she recaps the situation for Oxana and Rachel finally gets to know who that Conrad, who didn't always talk like a pirate, isRachel was introduced in the episode that followed Conrad's capture.. Rachel proceeds to the gun closet. 
Kika harangues her companions with her plan to dismantle the lighting fixture and open the cell's door with an electrical discharge. Having checked their sentiments, Kika says she'll fight with them to free the other slaves. 
Rachel fires a warning shot that goes wide and fails to impress the Bounty's Grace. She also fails to get an audio-only channel to the ship.
Xe'anna then addresses the former slaves onboard and ejects their empty pod. The Bounty's Grace still detects eight signatures and Captain Liang brings it aboard. Xe'anna is under the mistaken belief that she will have a way to trigger the bomb, when Kika actually rigged it to set off on opening the door. 
Theea three-point lands in the engine room. She sneaks behind a spirate and strikes him with her rifle. Theea's humanity takes over a little bit here, the humanity that she would never admit exists, and she doesn't slice his throat. She goes to the console instead and hacks into the system. She loads up a map, locates five groups of 4 to 5 people, and sends hastily crafted commandsSuccess with consequence. to open all of the doors before the system boots her out and an alert is displayed to Conrad and Liang. Jeremiah Bisquick Heinz has it under control, and starts humming his song. Liang dispatches him to deal with the intruder while she retrieves the slaves from the pod. 
This is when Kika finally tells Xe'anna about the real trigger for the explosion. The worried slaves around her prepare to leave, gathering wires as weapons. There are 3 non-trapped escape pods. 22 slaves are still on the spirate ship, as well as 3 Bat'leth crew. 
Kika reckons the explosion could cause a chain reaction to the engines and the fuel that would take down the whole ship. Meanwhile, Liang is going towards the trapped pod. 
Kika sets the slaves on their way. Rachel buys them some time by blowing a hole in the hull of the Bounty's Grace on Liang's way to the pod with the Bat'leth's Multi-Focal Laser. 
Theea leaves the room as the spirate gets up, on her way to meet Kika at the closest escape pod: she forgot to go through the guy's pockets. She sees six slaves approaching, while beating the crap out of one of the overwhelmed spirates who has clotheslined Kika. Theea shoots at, and misses the spirate. 
Conrad reckons it's Time to get vertical!, and injects himself with supercharged DewDan's comment: I've been away. through a patch on his arm before leaving the bridge, filled with confidence, if not hit points. On his way to the nearest pod, he shoots at fellow spirates, thus allowing three slaves to reach that pod, near the helm. 
Kika and Theea seal their pod, at full capacity with eight slaves; and eject. Another pod jettisons. 
Conrad gets shot again. His pod is the last still on the ship; the last slave finally gets on board. He can get on board too, with this comment: Pizza to go!
Captain Liang finishes repairing the damage and announces she's going to the trapped escape pod. Xe'anna has just enough time to position the Bat'leth to shield the pods from the upcoming blast before the eruption of a beautiful22,000 Ω, in Kika's estimate. explosion. The ensuing chain reaction would catch on an engine, ignite fuel and blast the back half of the Bounty's Grace. The Bat'leth itself loses half of its 20 hit points as the explosion rips the exterior of its hull. Oxana likens the experience to losing a sizable portion of her flesh. 
Xe'anna picks up the pods. Rachel takes charge of the slaves, commandeering all the rooms for them, Xe'anna's and Hexie's included. 
The Bat'leth makes its way to Duranga to drop off the slaves and Rachel. Rachel calls in favors and Xe'anna donates G5000. Rachel also uses her psionic healing during the trip. She also reckons they'll have to restock everything supplies on Duranga. 
Kika and Theea have one of their talks. 
Conrad has to deal with a lot of system strain and spends most of the time asleep. Theea checks up on him regularly, but doesn't want to be seen caring. Xe'anna catches up on her in one of these moments, and the two exchange nice words. Theea mentions Xe'anna's Good captaining and shit.
On Duranga, Rachel is greeted by Deckard, there is a lot of smooching going on, hormones go crazy, but after two days Rachel is back: she has a bag, and a very dog-penguin, and her eyes are bloodshot and she doesn't say a word and she goes back to her room and she shuts the door.
Conrad, feeling better, is sitting in the Cube, his legs dangling when Rachel passes by. Xe'anna introduces her to him.	YouTube - Part 1 YouTube - Part 2
27 /4 	Taming the Hive Mind. 	Jun 27, 2018	On Duranga, Rachel gets a new armor and a false tooth with poison. Back on the Bat'leth, she evades questions she doesn't like. She also heals Conrad.
Kika needs a new Toolie. Theea (as Neea, disguised) creates distraction in a Toolie store owner and steals a Toolie 3Pronounced Toolie Trois, at the GM's insistence. NftE: Which makes this Frenchman happy. in the ensuing chaos. Beside that, Theea practices throwing Kika. 
Back on the Bat'leth, Theea gets Hexie's room.
Kika uses the pretence to have a conversation with Conrad about his behavior on Maera: they are all happy he is back but he acted selfishly to save them. Kika also gives him a course on human pheromones, and dubious advice on his relationship with Theea. 
Conrad privately apologizes for Maera in Theea's room. He justifies his choice there. 
Conrad explains what it's like to grow up in the military, that we're all just pawns in this, on this chessboard.
Theea: So, why play the game?
Conrad: Because I care about the other pawns.
Conrad then confirms Theea's suspicion that he would die in a second if that's what it took to save the galaxy from these creatures; he would die a hundred times over.
After Xe'anna broadcasts a message about getting ready to depart, Theea adds: I'm glad you're back and not dead, even if honestly that's what you deserve after pulling a stunt like that.
Conrad reveals that he was not sure they would ever be reunited, after sending a dozen messages in total. 
Finally, Conrad accepts to sit down and ... Lauren fades to black. 
After this scene, Rachel asks Theea to send a delayed message. She will, for a price: Come on, you gotta know by now. Then Theea remembers Rachel gave her a laser pistol she had no use for. 
Conrad asks Kika about his stuff, which leads to a discussion about what he calls a pretty standard-dimensioned Copulation CubeAnd, yes, the GM made it official that ICA has regimental copulation cubes. NftE: Right, Lauren?, and to Conrad giving Kika a G2 model train set he had bought on Maera for her. 
Before they leave, they receive a recording from the surface: Lt. Wendy Santiago congratulates them for their viral transmission which has split ICA over sending a force against the Raze or withdrawing. Lt. Santiago will support Xe'anna if she can get anything to her. 
Theea is upset by Santiago's change of mind toward them, because she was really looking forward to tearing her apart. Conrad defends his ICA rival in the face of Theea's wrath. 
Theea also explains Conrad that Rachel is staying: She basically took over my room and she's definitely staying with us for a little while. She has a good head on her shoulders but she's really bossy, so watch out for that.
Nothing else happens until Ary calls a group meeting on Tsarin. Ary is not optimistic about their upcoming trip. That's the moment Conrad chooses to formally introduce himself to Rachel by reminding her that You shot me.
Ary proceeds to explain that Tsarin will need to refuel en route to the lab where Tsarin was created, in the Pramissan sector. 
Conrad congratulates Rachel for choosing to not surrender her individuality to the hive mind. Ary is so upset she storms out. Conrad always knew who I was before I underwent this process. In response. Xe'anna blurts out Kenny! Conrad could sever his bound with Tsarin by staying far enough for long enough. 
Kika proposes to fix Conrad's spirate arm.
Rachel finds an unused section on Tsarin where she can try her hand at gardening. She grows mushrooms there. 
Meanwhile, Kika starts on her secret project in the hallway of the Bat'leth she strips poles off, rearranges them to create a frame at the end nearest Engineering. 
Kika doesn't abandon her other project: fixing Conrad's spirate arm. She is wholly unqualified to work on cyberware that connects with organic material, but can find its . She has little success beyond that: so much for her plan to fix (read: remove) this arm. 
Conrad apologizes to Ary about his hive mind comment. Their 
conversation about psionics, free will and connection ends with Ary explaining: We are not a hive mind; the ship doesn't subjugate you to its will. That is what the Hollow do; that is what the Hollow are. The Raze will take you and destroy every ounce of who you are and I watched my entire people destroyed by that. So, when you call me a hive mind, that's what you have just called me. She thanks him for the apology nonetheless. 
Rachel showing Ary an edible mushroom she grew leads to a discussion of the various creatures living on Tsarin and performing various functions.
Conrad starts "befriending" Slurpee, one of the skittering living Roombas that do the cleaning. This Slurpee just does its job and slurps away all the thrash Conrad throws at it. Conrad justifies his behavior to Theea, as readjusting after a rough time. 
Conrad thinks Theea is still mad at him, starts talking about their relationship and how All that time, we never really talked at all. 
Conrad feels he was using her; Theea retorts: I was using you; Conrad accepts that they were using each other. 
This is when Tsarin abruptly falls out of thread space with a deep rumble. This takes place about one week into the first leg of their journey, before any scheduled refuelling stop. A shaken Ary explains: We were thrown out. There was some sort of dimensional spike [...] Our life-support system has gone down, it's going haywire. They should all be OK if they can get life-support back online but unfortunately that seems to be somewhat randomizing the activation of [...] purge protocols, which have to be convinced the crew aren't foreign entities that need to be purged. 
Two damaged areas need repairs; vacsuits will come handy. Kika and Rachel can help fix or heal them, each in their own way. Rachel starts power-walking toward the area that's further inward and closer to her hydroponic garden,followed by Conrad. 
Meanwhile, Theea is gonna take care of Kika. 
Rachel and Conrad find themselves blocked by a door Rachel opens but can't prevent from shutting behind themThat was a success with complication after a failed roll.. 
On Mechanical Team, Theea has a lot to tell Kika about Slurpee and piña-coladaPronounced pina-colada.-flavored meat-o-stik'kos. The two are blocked by a door; choose to go further down through small tunnels and are blocked by something in the way. Kika makes herself into a missile and has Theea push her down, which turns into a kick in Kika's face. Kika lands one and a half level below on whatever tentacle-y thing was below her. The critter twitches and then curls up on top of Kika, like bugs when they're a little dead.
Theea frantically shimmies down, and lands next to Kika, who then smears her bloody nose on her wing in front of the guilty-looking Theea. 
With Rachel and Conrad trapped between two doors in a corridor that starts getting warmer and Kika and Rachel hearing the loud, deep rumble of the docking bay doors opening, Ary lets out a brief warning: Uh oh, I think they've activated.	YouTube
28 /5 	Fixing a ship and a meal. 	Jul 4, 2018 	Tsarin's docking bay's doors are opening. Xe'anna finds it odd, puts on her vacsuit and prepares to grapple Kika and Theea. The maneuver ends with Xe'anna and Kika landing on Theea, who has to restThis was, incidentally, a way to minimize Theea's role in an episode Sarah was not on.: Xe'anna ties her upside down, by the ankles, to the Salmon Ladder, with her vacsuit on.
Meanwhile, Conrad and Rachel find themselves in a hot , facing two threatening, faceless creatures looking like large versions of Slurpee. Conrad fails to catch their attention with a meat-o-stik'ko stick, and shoots at one's head. While he is keeping the creatures occupied, Rachel opens the closed door in front of them. Conrad kills one creatures, hurts the second one, then gets it to run after a piece of meat-o-stik'ko.
Rachel shoots the door open. A rush of cold air enters, the pair leave and the door shuts behind them. 
The docking bay's doors are still open, Xe'anna helps Kika put on her vacsuit. Someone turns off the gravity in the cargo bay: Theea is no longer upside down. 
Xe'anna won't fit through the vents Theaa and Kika used. She'll take the long walk through empty, silent corridors instead. 
Kika mentions that Xe'anna has been eating alone, in her quarters. Xe'anna just misses Hexie. Kika compares Hexie to her own husband Tarko: It's part of being a being, talks hormones and procreation. 
They reach the end of the sealed-off area that leads to the docking bay. Kika seals the door behind them shut, and opens the door in front. The rush of air throws them backward. Xe'anna lands belly first, Kika catches the air in her wings, hits the back door. The atmosphere comes back to normal, they resume normal progress. 
The injured section Conrad and Rachel were looking for smells like burnt flesh and there is a massive scorch mark. Rachel's face softens and she starts mumbling ... I need to help you right now ... Oh, poor thing ... You're gonna be OK. Conrad senses her healing field: does it has something to do with her psionics? New tissue starts growing. While a slurpee starts cleaning up the area, Conrad talks about his efforts to surmount his distrust of psionics. Rachel is not interested in Conrad's growth as a person, she's hungry. Conrad gets her mushrooms and water from her own hydroponic garden nearby. 
Xe'anna and Kika are still progressing toward their own objective, until a sparking cable smacks Kika on the face. Cables that connect biological and mechanical sections have overloaded. Kika's repairs involve growling that's necessary before the purr. 
Kika and Xe'anna have another talk about Hexie: once they save the galaxy, they'll pick her up. Right now, what Hexie is doing is very important and Xe'anna IS TOTALLY FINE WITH IT! Kika just wants Xe'anna to be happy, and she misses her. 
They make their way back. Tsarin can take over from there and Rachel can finally just fall asleep on the floor. Conrad carries her back to the Bat'leth. Oxana says she is the one who turned off gravity earlier for Theea's sake. Xe'anna is not proud and pulls Theea down. 
Later, Conrad, sitting in a corner, tries to figure out what his pirate arm does, until his fingers turn into hands with their own fingers: that's we he stops fiddling with it. 
Rachel has a very vivid dream in which she is Tsarin. But is it just a dream? 
Tsarin refuels. Kika's secret project has made progress. 
Kika gathers everyone from their room to the Bat'leth's galley kitchen. She tempts Xe'anna with space umbrellas. Ary will come, too. Oxana will watch them eat food. 
Rachel picks the ripest mushrooms from her garden for the meal. Ary is glad she's staying. 
Conrad gets to pilot after three days of increasing tension with Ary. Conrad is sorry, he is loyal to making sure that they get to the lab: he'll take the shift after the dinner. 
Conrad removes the eye-patch he put on after a procedure for astigmatism. 
The dinner starts in the galley kitchen. Kika brings mango cider from her wedding. 
Rachel tries to prevent Kika from touching her plate and from climbing on the counter. 
Xe'anna cooks real meat and vegetables on a makeshift grill. 
This is real food, a meal. Theea is there too. Her eyes are still wrong. She and Kika put things in each other's plates. 
Nobody misses the usual meat-o-stik'kosNftE: this last sentence is a bit of an interpretation. I wanted to finish the recap on that note..	YouTube
29 /6 	I Can Show You the World. 	Jul 11, 2018	The meal is the opportunity for the crew to bond together in space. Oxana makes sure that Theea both sees all of the embarrassingFor Kika and Xe'anna, at least. logs related to her bout with unconsciousness and understands how she, Oxana, saved her. Xe'anna justifies her behavior: I was trying to help you [...] It sounded logical when youThat is, Kika. said it. Theea's take on this situation: Kika, next time I'm unconscious, put a pillow under my head and call a doctor. But Hexie used to be their doctor.
Rachel acknowledges for the first time in front of the crew that she herself can help with healing. Conrad, who is not part of the conversation, is also a trained medic. In the background, one of Hexie's songs starts playing, and Oxana is singing alongNftE: thanks for this nice touch. Feelz..
Back on the bridge of Tsarin, Ary shows Conrad the ropes of piloting Tsarin at a blank console, with no interface. Conrad translates that as: You need to become one with the ship and the Universe, just as ICA taught him. Except that Ary was not metaphorical.
Conrad is ready to sacrifice himself for the mission. He feels a tingle, the KFC logo on his shoulder grows brighter, and so do Ary's tendrils. He hears Tsarin's sound: a whole orchestra in which the other crew members are distinct instruments, and Hexie is there too. Conrad inhabits Tsarin, and dives into thread space from the emptiness of space. Tsarin now permanently inhabits a corner of his mind. After a shift of smooth sailing, he sleepwalks off the bridge, has barely enough functionality to pick up Slurpee, and returns zombielike to the Bat'leth's Copulation Cube, where he falls asleep. With the piloting always in a corner of his mind, he'll find any difficult task, such as making a meal, harder. A week (or 1,5 Tritium Day) passes before they arrive.
Rachel plays pokerDan mentioned 7 Stars in that scene. with Oxana, and teaches the game to the rest of the crewAny resemblance with a Star Trek: TNG scene is exactly what Bluejay had in mind.. She abuses her pupils, making up rules on the fly. Theea lies, feigns to ignore the rules. Xe'anna, stone-faced, intimidates and flips the table often.
For entertainment they also have tapes of The Galaxy's Next Top Model and the best season of As the Galaxy Turns. 
Rachel opens up about her story to Xe'anna: her family didn't approve of her marriage with Deckard, they had intended an arranged marriage for her; Deckard had a wife and a kid before Rachel, the kid was a psionic, remained untrained and eventually torched: Deckard had to stop him; when Rachel returned and Deckard found out that she was a psionic too ... Rachel breaks down, crying on Xe'anna's shoulder. When she stops, she just says: I'm sorry. She's sorry because Any second, I could just go off [...] I could kill all of you.
Xe'anna sees a solution: When we get out of this, we'll find someone to train you. She is sorry it wasn't Deckard's first suggestion and adds: There is a lot of future in front of us. Xe'anna herself, as a fighter, wasn't used to thinking too far into the future until she found something to hold on to. 
Conrad brings several slurpees, which Theea proceeds to throw off the ship. These slurps still manage to clean the Bat'leth.
Kika works on the next stage of her project; she puts a hydraulic system in the walls. When Xe'anna confronts her, she describes her contraption as a defense system. The KikaShot 5000 is an air cannon to fly Kika through the hallway, a Kika delivery system. Having her nest on the bridge, it's normal for her to want to go from one end of the ship to the other fast.
Conrad still seems confused to his crewmates who still don't know how piloting Tsarin changes him: Space is really big, you guys. [...] Think of the biggest thing you can off. He may have tasted hallucinogenic mushrooms from Rachel's garden. 
Kika respects Xe'anna leadership, she will put all the parts back into the engine if it is what Xe'anna wants. The first part of Kika's sentence makes Xe'anna feel good, the second part ... not so much. But, Kika only took parts of the quarter of the engines that never worked. She had not realized Xe'anna wanted all of the engines to work. Problem: Kika and Theea will have to move their secret stash. Conrad helps them move the stash, especially an eggAlso, in Lauren's notes, EGG, as in: Thank you for this gift that you've given me. Bluejay has her own idea: there is a facehugger in it. with spikes aimed one direction. It is Theea's egg, but only in that she owns it. They make an incubator for it in the .
Kika also stashed several dolls: a rabbit, a princess with red wires for hairIt's a princess who you've put red wires on for hair since you heard out that Xe'anna was a princes. NftE: Thanks for that, Bluejay., and Sp'eanie Kids. There are also a clan of murdering birds, a white bat, like her husbandThis useful precision, by Bluejay, after Lizzie asked about its size and Claudia showed it was small: It's not a sex toy!, that Kika made herself ... and possible surprises for later.
Conrad, still spaced out, discusses noises in space with Kika, and realizes: Isn't it weird though? There is, like, beauty in the static. [...] The chaos doesn't want to be chaos, the chaos wants to find order. He realizes he has a place with this crew. 
Ary comes, tells the crew they are about to leave thread space and thanks Conrad for piloting. Lauren explains how Conrad feels after all that time piloting: You're kind of loopy, but really in the zone; like you understand how Tsarin flies. '
They emerge in a solar system with one sun, rocky planets and solar giants. This is whence the Raze left the sector. Cuthra! The lab is not there, but there are six ships in the distance. Conrad tells her to open her mind, feel the data. Ary corrects that to seeing through Tsarin's sensors. She also says that, as a Voice, she is less good a pilot than Conrad and Theea could see more information than her through Tsarin. Helped by Ary, Theea becomes one with Tsarin. Theea understands what Conrad was saying earlier: Holy shit! Is Theea alright? I am everything. Pramissans handle this kind of experience better than humans. The six ships are small drone-like Raze fighters and they are closer than they first thought. 
Xe'anna has her own experience of perceiving space through Tsarin.
Conrad recognizes the patterns of the ships' motion as scanning a region, specifically the outer regions, because incoming ships would exit from thread space there. Ary keeps trying to find a course. Conrad goes vertical: he injects himself with a new stimulant, Tsunami, which is more intense than the Dew. Conrad is hyper-focused but there is something weird and artificial about it. Nevertheless, he misses his piloting roll: the ship lurches, they make a handbrake turn and drift in space around a gas giant; Oxana detects that There was a sudden movement.
So much for hiding: three fighters come toward Tsarin. Rachel goes to the gun console. Conrad will try to buy time by moving Tsarin away from them. Rachel realizes she will never be effective as Xe'anna, Conrad and Theea are now, as long as she is not bonded with Tsarin: It's like [...] trying to navigate Linux in Russian if you've been using Windows in English. She turns to Ary, says I'm gonna be next to useless like this [...] Just do the thing. Ary takes Rachel's hand; Rachel squints; the glowing line that transfers from Ary, directed by Rachel, becomes a cool tattoo on the sides of Rachel's head. Rachel could reach out to the others. She definitely shuts down the doors with iron bars instead. The neural interface of the guns now makes sense to her and Conrad remarks that: A new instrument joins our orchestra. The cosmic ballet goes on.
Ary is too busy to lead, Xe'anna will have to be the captain. Kika leaves the engine of the Bat'leth and joins the others to make it work.
The fighters are autonomous scouts, drones controlled from another ship: they are very good at flying and sensoring, not at fighting. As Theea realizes that these three fighters may be able to report back to their presumably Raze pilot, she proposes crashing their systems. Rachel will control Tsarin's two weapons: a flak emitter and a charged particle caster. 
Ary, plotting a course during the whole fight, yells about a planet and a star system that wasn't on the map.
Rachel blasts the three ships, one after the other, while the others assist each in their own way.	YouTube
30 /7 	This Is Just The Beginnings. 	Jul 18, 2018	Ary is still looking for the lab on a map of thread space. Xe'anna carries Tiny Best Boy Conrad, who is in a slight coma to the Copulation Cube. Theea randomly checks on him. Back on the bridge, she detects more ships on sensors. Rachel explores her new connections to Tsarin and their crew.
Kika feels a deep pit of hunger from Tsarin. Ary will look for a suitable nebula after she finds the lab. Kika, who thinks Ary needs to take a moment and also eat, finds less meat-o-stik'ko in the kitchen than she expected. After checking Oxana's calendarWhich, it turns out, Oxana has not updated since Xe'anna got the Bat'leth. to make sure they haven't been asleep for a long time, she finds more life signs on the Bat'leth than expected: seven, and then eight, wherea Kika is only aware of fiveThe Egg in the Cube not included.. Kika figures out from Oxana's description that the hungry stowaways are actually who dispose of meat-o-stik'ko as organic trash.
Kika, who is also worried about Tsarin, a pup that needs food to grow, insists that Ary get some sleep. At any rate, they'll have to jump to find a source of tritium for Tsarin.
Kika, tries to assuage Ary's worries about Conrad's health but gets Ary to reckon that Humans are strange and to wonder how they have survived. It doesn't help that Kika's own opinion of humans sprang from hanging out with spirates, Theea and the Bat'leth's crew.
The slurpee crisis reaches its apex when Theea realizes how thoroughly they have ravaged her stash of piña-colada-flavored meat-o-stik'kos. Xe'anna to keep just one of the three slurpees on board, for random ship cleaning.
Meanwhile, Tsarin's sensory sensors have found that the best tritium source in the system is another gas giant, but it comes with caveats: the risk of being detected by the Raze on the way and blooms. A swarm of these tritium-loving aliens could trap overwhelm Tsarin.
The crew discusses two strategies to reach the tritium-rich planet while avoiding confrontation with the three Raze ships currently in the system, which are one scout and two slightly larger than Tsarin frigate-class ships: distract or disappear. 
Theea thinks they can send the Cuthra farther out and make it look like the signal Tsarin bounces back to the Razes' sensor comes from that place rather than the real one. Kika won't let Xe'anna go alone on that mission.
Ary will move Tsarin once the CuthraA word she can't say without chuckling. is in place. Theea creates the program that mimics the signal and improve it by using Tsarin's Burst EMC Generator to create a signal that confuses things.
On the Cuthra, Kika, who squeezes into the tight cockpit by perching on her shoulders, dashes Xe'anna's hopes of having a quiet time. Xe'anna struggles with the controls, which Theea changed for her own convenience. Xe'anna eventually manages a little bit of a stuttering start, not elegant, nor graceful, nor necessarily direct, like a car lurching a few times. But in the end: Everything is fine.
Meanwhile, Kika savors her time on the Cuthra because I never get to go on a spaceship.
Theea connects the Cuthra's computer to Tsarin's, and her program is telling her which direction the signal is coming from. Theea sees the two drones most likely to pick up their signal and communicates to Xe'anna the path she needs to follow to foil them. Xe'anna gets the Cuthra to the right place but also discharges fuel. Kika reckons that We did a good job of hiding their signal but we made a signal.
Xe'anna puts Kika on her lap. She immediately puts her hand on the wheel, and so does Xe'anna, who still won't teach Kika how to pilot.
Theea gives Xe'anna a step by step tutorial to collect the signal they need. In so doing, she substitutes for the program there was no time to install on the Cuthra. Theea doesn't do wellShe rolled an 8. Even re-rolling a 1 (as a Diplomat) didn't help.Lauren's pro tip: Teaching is hard.. Kika, who speaks Theea, assists by serving as a conduit between her friend and the boss she cares about so muchKika's first roll didn't go well, as shown by this die-logue: Do well ... You tried. Fortunately, the re-roll yielded a 15.: she successfully offsets Theea's inability to clearly explain thingsLauren asked, and got, her own payoff: I want the full experience here.. Theea's tutorial ends with: I'm going to need you to, and this is a really difficult one, press the Record buttonXe'anna knows it's the button with the red dot on it.. Xe'anna manages to execute the stepsBarely, probably, with just a 10. Said Lauren: That will do. Make the not dying happen.. 
The next step, replicating the signal, is all on Theea. Not exactly exuding confidence, Rachel is sitting by the guns. Theea performs well enough to be confident that the replicated signal signal will confuse the Raze long enough. Theea is secretly relieved. From the Cuthra, Xe'anna and Kika see Tsarin peel out from behind the system and dart as fast as they can across the open gap, leaving bioluminescent sparks behind. 
Theea can now safely boast. Rachel concurs. Ary concludes the sequence: We're alive, everything is fine. 
The next challenge is to enter the planet's atmosphere to feed the ship. Xe'anna brings the Cuthra back. 
Theea's coding and hacking have impressed Ary by getting them to the planet largely unnoticed. 
Theea now has to figure out how to get past the Nideria, jellyfish- or plankton-like life formsNftE: Here I'll briefly mention the aside about sunfish and how Nature just rolled luck on that. that move around at random, hoping to bump into something. The issue is to navigate them on the way to and back from the tritium-rich lower atmosphere, as their Cuthra-sized blooms expand and contract. 
Theea's plan to find an area with fewer Nideria and punch a hole through that will require quick and precise piloting of Tsarin. Ary defers to Xe'annaWho feels up to it, because if Conrad did it, it can't be that hard. for this task. Xe'anna closes her eyes, focuses on the whale sounds, and connects to Tsarin again. 
Xe'anna feels Ary, this note within the orchestra, and becomes more acutely aware of Tsarin's motion within spaceLauren proceeded to describe Xe'anna's experience in details, summing it up with: Your senses occupy a space that is well beyond your physical form.. Xe'anna, who is pretty singularly focused on the task at first, can multitask, but will be less effective at anything else. 
Ary and Rachel go to the stores on the Bat'leth. Seeing how tired Ary is, Rachel tries to get her to sleep. 
Xe'anna pilots Tsarin through a patch relatively free of Nideria. Tsarin is slower than the Bat'leth and feels like an Andartan battleship to Xe'anna. As they dive into the second layer of the atmosphere, Tsarin recognizes her environment and starts feeding: There is like a sigh, like when you finally eat after waiting a long time, or chugging a glass of water when super thirsty. They gently drift through this layer of the atmosphere, refueling.
Xe'anna lets her mind drift into the sensors. It's like being underwater: there is nothing to be seen inside the storm of a gas giant. There is massive amounts of energy bouncing around, there is radiation changing and fluctuating. With nothing around, there is a sense of calm that is relaxing and satisfying. To Xe'anna, it's very beautiful. 
Theea notices Nideria gathering in the region directly above. The trade-off is: either they exit right here, where the Nideria may make it harder; or they pop up somewhere else, where the Raze may be more likely to spot them: nothing can currently see them from outside, and they can't see anything either. 
Tsarin eventually wraps up the fin on their back. 
In the meantime, Ary has fallen asleep and Rachel has returned to the bridge. She suggests that they shoot through the Nideria, rather than wait until their purposeless floating drives them away. 
Xe'anna, more zen than she's ever been, agrees to push off the Nideria with what Rachel calls a little flak. After making sure that Xe'anna is ready to take them them away from the blast fast enough so that it doesn't catch up with them, Rachel shoots in the vicinity of the Nideria. The bursts of the flak cannon hit and ignite small portions of the atmosphere. There is not enough oxidizers to cause a chain reaction, but the Nideria still dart away from them, creating some of a hole. 
Xe'anna doesn't pilot out as fast as on the way in, and a couple of blooms graze against Tsarin's hull. There is a crackle over the exterior, and the crew feel Tsarin's pain. Xe'anna winces and says, quietly, Sorry. Tsarin emerges from the gas giant, largely unscathed. Rachel instinctively starts healing the minor damage Tsarin suffered. Ary's pain, in contrast, is more psychological than physical. 
The Raze have not moved much. With Ary still asleepBecause the crew let her sleep after Tsarin's databases revealed how much sleep Pramissans actually need., Kika opines that Xe'anna should be piloting, because Theea is actually doing work. Theea now detects four ships sticking around: three are scouts, one is much larger. Xe'anna realizes Tsarin has been back-tracing the steps the Raze took to Gennus Landing. To continue their journey to the lab, they need to go to a sector familiar to Ary on the way. 
As Rachel goes check on Ary, she meets Kika in the cargo bay. Kika is excited because I got to fly a ship today! and modifications that allow Treeko to fly will allow her son Tylo to go to pilot school, join ICA as their first Treeko and he's the first one that's ever gonna do it; that's what he told me.Except the GM doesn't agree with this career plan.
Rachel politely changes the subject, gets Kika to explain what she is going to do with the fourth turbine and follows her toward the Bat'leth. 
Rachel finds Ary still asleep on her bed. She leaves and sits nearby. Then she goes to the canteen, to watch the least ridiculous thing they have to watch. Oxana turns off Queer Eyes for the Space Guy. Rachel is fine with Oxana's justification: I get lonely sometimes, it's strange. Oxana can't help Rachel find how long Ary needs to sleep, Rachel has to check with Tsarin. 
Rachel picks Tritium Days of Our Lives from the list Oxana shows her and makes sure nobody is comingOxana agrees to not tell anyone. She won't, Lauren clarified, until it's fun for her (that is, Oxana and Lauren). Indeed, when they have to leave and Rachel asks Oxana to Turn it off!, the volume goes up briefly and Oxana "apologizes": Sorry, you said off, not up. . When Rachel interrupts her watching to check up on Tsarin, she sees Ary's tendrils randomly color-wave as she's dreaming, like a communication signal. Rachel finds out she can control her own tattoo and move the glow into her irises. 
Meanwhile, Kika begins repairs on the engine. 
After six hours or so, a new cruiser-size Raze ship arrives. Xe'anna sees it, or rather knows that it's here and that the fleet is gathering: We have to go. They wake up Ary, who feels better, more alive, and is ready to go. 
The crew don't know when the Raze will leave. Ary suggests that they go back home and return later, hopefully with a weapon. Xe'anna concurs, Rachel suggests they send a signal home buta message would take longer to go through in normal space than they will in thread space. 
Xe'anna remarks that this is just the beginnings, Ary heads to the helm and begins the journey to the lab.	YouTube
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