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[thestarspangledman]

[There is the sound of buttons being a bit haphazardly mashed, and some slight shuffling. Eventually, there is a quiet 'oh', and the video flickers to life and reveals a handsome young man, dressed in a tight-fitting t-shirt and sweat pants.]

Sorry, folks, I'm still trying to figure out how things work around here. [He gives a little sheepish smile and ducks his head, before glancing back to the camera.] Uh. Hello, I'm Captain Steve Rogers. Some of you might know me as Captain America. I'm from Brooklyn, New York, and I was told that you could use my help up here.

There's not -- a lot for me to do at home right now, so here I am. [A little pause.] Though if anyone could catch me up on -- current events, back home, it'd be appreciated.

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[umgekehrt]

[Well that looks like some-hundred pounds of earnestness wrapped in one hell of a body. If Stildyne were less of a professional there might be a moment of outright staring. He isn't less of a professional, fortunately, and he looks more like he's receiving a new officer aboard ship.]

Chief Stildyne, formerly Chief Warrant Officer of the Jurisdiction Fleet Ship Ragnarok, currently just 'Chief' out of habit.

I'm not from a time near the majority of the barge and I don't know where Earth is specifically; it's been a few tens of thousands of years, at best guess, and the Core's got quite a few colonized worlds. Can't help there, but if you're lacking help to get settled onto the barge I'm available.

[From the look of the man's communications braid already there's no lack of help, but the offer is polite. He'll pack up his bitter a bit and try to act like he works here. It's his job. And hell but would you look at the man.]

[thestarspangledman]

Pleased to meet you, Chief.

[A little bit of a smile.] That's a little hard to believe, if you'll pardon the saying, but -- I've seen a lot of things that are hard to believe, lately.

[umgekehrt]

I think there's none of us so well-travelled that the barge doesn't give us a shock sooner or later. Certainly Fleet assignment didn't prepare me.

[thestarspangledman]

I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

[umgekehrt]

Count Dracula was mentioning the other day that there's an Earth culture that uses 'may you live in interesting times' as a curse. That largely sums up life aboard.

[thestarspangledman]

I'll be sure to keep that in mind.

[umgekehrt]

[Stildyne raises his one mobile eyebrow. The other one is pinned in place by scar tissue.]

I'd nearly suspect you don't believe me.

[thestarspangledman]

...Surprisingly, sir, there's a lot of things I can believe.

[umgekehrt]

[Being 'sirred' by a captain is the strangest thing that's happened to him all week. Rank discrepancy between home defense infantry and Fleet is always strange.]

It'll help. Though if the barge is kind enough to spare you the worst of it all, the better for it.

[thestarspangledman]

[Or else Steve is just really polite.]

Hopefully it will be.