Post by Ilana Logan on Oct 4, 2022 20:38:41 GMT -5
December 31st, 2517
A.S.T. 6:24 PM
An ad begins for Fruity Oaty Bars. The familiar upbeat jingle plays with the anime influenced imagery.
"FRUITY OATY BARS, POW! HEY! FRUITY BARS, MAKE A MAN OF A MOUSE, MAKE YOU BUST OUT YOUR -"
The ad is abruptly interrupted by a holo of a woman appearing on the screen. It cuts into the ad with the woman in midsentence as though recording did not begin immediately as she believed it to. At this point in the recording, she appears relatively calm, but nasally, as though she's been crying..
"-- just a few of the images we've recorded, and you can see it isn't.. it isn't what we thought. There's been no war here, and no terraforming event. The environment is stable. It's the Pax, the G-32 Paxilon Hydroclorate that we added to the air processors. It's…"
She begins tearing up as she continues.
"Well it works... it was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Make a peaceful... it worked. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, stopped breeding... talking... eating…"
The woman is becoming visibly upset and her speech becomes more rapid. She's clearly fighting to maintain control of herself to continue.
"There's thirty million people here and they all just let themselves die. They didn't even kill themselves. They just... most starved. When they stopped working the power grids, there were overloads, fires -- people burned to death sitting in their V0 chairs. Just sitting."
There is a loud bang somewhere behind her. She jumps, obviously startled. She recovers quickly and forges on.
"I have to be quick. There was no one working the receptors when we landed, so we hit pretty hard. We can't leave. We can't take any of the local transports because…"
There's bang from somewhere to the side again, louder this time. She starts again, then continues, faster now.
"There are people... they're not people... about a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite reaction to the Pax. Their aggressor response increased... beyond madness. They've become... they've killed most of us... Not just killed, they've done… things."
She becomes noticeably more agitated as the banging offscreen increases in intensity. She continues to speak rapidly.
"I won't live to report this, and we haven't got power to... people have to know…"
She begins to lose her composure, nearly sobbing now.
"We meant it for the best... to make people safer... to... God!"
She turns to her right, raises a gun and fires. She then puts the gun to her own temple, but it's too late. A reaver appears on screen, knocks the gun away, and sinks it's teeth into her face. She screams raggedly, horribly, as the reaver knocks her to the ground, biting and tearing at her clothes and flesh.
OOC: All credit for scene belongs to Joss Whedon. Has been included for continuity of story, as Serenity is canon in our story and this holo was broadcast to the entire 'verse.
A.S.T. 6:24 PM
An ad begins for Fruity Oaty Bars. The familiar upbeat jingle plays with the anime influenced imagery.
"FRUITY OATY BARS, POW! HEY! FRUITY BARS, MAKE A MAN OF A MOUSE, MAKE YOU BUST OUT YOUR -"
The ad is abruptly interrupted by a holo of a woman appearing on the screen. It cuts into the ad with the woman in midsentence as though recording did not begin immediately as she believed it to. At this point in the recording, she appears relatively calm, but nasally, as though she's been crying..
"-- just a few of the images we've recorded, and you can see it isn't.. it isn't what we thought. There's been no war here, and no terraforming event. The environment is stable. It's the Pax, the G-32 Paxilon Hydroclorate that we added to the air processors. It's…"
She begins tearing up as she continues.
"Well it works... it was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Make a peaceful... it worked. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, stopped breeding... talking... eating…"
The woman is becoming visibly upset and her speech becomes more rapid. She's clearly fighting to maintain control of herself to continue.
"There's thirty million people here and they all just let themselves die. They didn't even kill themselves. They just... most starved. When they stopped working the power grids, there were overloads, fires -- people burned to death sitting in their V0 chairs. Just sitting."
There is a loud bang somewhere behind her. She jumps, obviously startled. She recovers quickly and forges on.
"I have to be quick. There was no one working the receptors when we landed, so we hit pretty hard. We can't leave. We can't take any of the local transports because…"
There's bang from somewhere to the side again, louder this time. She starts again, then continues, faster now.
"There are people... they're not people... about a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite reaction to the Pax. Their aggressor response increased... beyond madness. They've become... they've killed most of us... Not just killed, they've done… things."
She becomes noticeably more agitated as the banging offscreen increases in intensity. She continues to speak rapidly.
"I won't live to report this, and we haven't got power to... people have to know…"
She begins to lose her composure, nearly sobbing now.
"We meant it for the best... to make people safer... to... God!"
She turns to her right, raises a gun and fires. She then puts the gun to her own temple, but it's too late. A reaver appears on screen, knocks the gun away, and sinks it's teeth into her face. She screams raggedly, horribly, as the reaver knocks her to the ground, biting and tearing at her clothes and flesh.
OOC: All credit for scene belongs to Joss Whedon. Has been included for continuity of story, as Serenity is canon in our story and this holo was broadcast to the entire 'verse.