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001 Shot Fired [text; action for Rocket Base]

I'm going to list a series of words.

If they are at all familiar to you please respond otherwise dismiss this.

Cold War
Spetsnaz
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nikita Khrushchev
Tselinoyarsk

[About an hour later on the Rocket frequency:]

My name is Adamska. Code name Ocelot. Call me either. I'm a GRU Major if that means anything to any of you.

I would like to speak with whomever is in charge here.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Snake, your vagueness immediately attracts his attention.]

Curiosity, mostly.

[And he can vague right back.]

Odd thing to be curious about, wouldn't you say?

You could almost call a place like this a nexus, couldn't you?

I wanted to see if it sounded familiar to anyone else. From the same world as opposed to a different one. Or at the very least a version of the world I know.

A nexus? What are you talking about?

It's a biology term. It's a type of membrane that connects two cells together so that they can communicate. Otherwise known as a gap junction.

What I'm saying is I don't think everyone who finds themselves here is from the same world as I know it and my terms were a checklist to see who would know. Four of them are fairly generic; the fifth specifies it down to only my world precisely.

[ Well aren't we a smarty-pants. ]

You must be the calmest of the people who's ever been brought here. Most people spend their time freaking out and wanting to get home.

[Once you realize who this is, Snake, it won't surprise you at all.]

I won't say I don't want to return home because I do, but I've made something of a career out of dealing with bad situations.

Yeah, me too. To an extent.

Good to be resourceful anyway. A cool head is a lot more useful than getting worked up.

Exactly.

Losing your head is a good way to get killed.

Not sure you could get killed here. Maybe if you wanted to, I guess.

I plan on staying alive, fortunately.

There are things to be done if I get back home.

Yeah.

I've got things to do, too.

Don't die, finish what you have to.

How long have you been here?

[ That was a tricky question, since the first time Snake had been here, it had been for over a year. And now it had been about six or seven months since he'd arrived this time around. ]

Almost a year.

[ The safe answer. ]

But you're like me, aren't you?

We live the same sort of life.

The same sort of life?

I know about historical facts, sure, and we both might be resourceful, but that doesn't mean we lead the same sort of life.

You don't know a thing about me.

[...someone's protesting a bit too much.]

My mistake.

[ Snake is always touchy when people compare. Drebin got it, too. ]

So, care to tell me why you're obsessed with specific parts in history, especially a Russian politician?

I'm from the 60s.

As near as I can tell, no one else is.

The 60's? Détente ended in 1979. You're saying you're from before that... Not too long after the Cuban Missile Crisis, right?

That's correct.

Two years after, to be precise.

The world's still paranoid about nuclear strike. Not that the timeline I'm from is much better.

When are you from, then?

I'm not surprised to hear that the world is constantly on the verge of war. It sounds like business as usual to me.

2014. Seems to be the same year here, too.

But the world I know has an economy that is fueled by constant war. Proxy wars fought by mercenaries who have no stakes in it safe for making money.

Not the best place to come from.

It doesn't sound like it.

What the hell happened to cause the world to collapse in fifty years?

[Was it the Philosophers? It was the Philosophers, wasn't it.]

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