"What!? You knew this would happen?"
"Well yeah, but not this fast!"
"The n-lateral bridge I'm using requires unlight on both ends to function. Not a lot, but enough to hold the connection open. Any unlight in the moment will make it destabilize. There should be documents about that in Seven's -"
"Yeah, we got those," says Kendra. "How do we stop it?"
"You can't! Not once it gets advanced enough to become visible. How bad are the oscillations?"
"Uhh…"
"It looks like a strong heat haze," says Kendra. "Maybe… ten percent visual distortion?"
"Then you're well beyond fixing it from where you are."
Now-Bina: "Aren't there some dials and switches you can manipulate? You're the one who majored in Mad Science, apparently."
"Well what were you planning on doing about it then!?" asks Bina. "If you knew this was going to happen, you have to have a plan!"
"I do but - Dammit!"
"It wasn't supposed to start happening for another forty minutes! By then I was planning on having showed you how to reboot the Moment and run a basic debug routine! It must be damaged, or something else is putting stress on the mechanism."
"You don't know?"
"I already told you! The whole point of this exercise is that I haven't been watching your loop!"
"Well yeah, but not this fast!"
"The n-lateral bridge I'm using requires unlight on both ends to function. Not a lot, but enough to hold the connection open. Any unlight in the moment will make it destabilize. There should be documents about that in Seven's -"
"Yeah, we got those," says Kendra. "How do we stop it?"
"You can't! Not once it gets advanced enough to become visible. How bad are the oscillations?"
"Uhh…"
"It looks like a strong heat haze," says Kendra. "Maybe… ten percent visual distortion?"
"Then you're well beyond fixing it from where you are."
Now-Bina: "Aren't there some dials and switches you can manipulate? You're the one who majored in Mad Science, apparently."
"Well what were you planning on doing about it then!?" asks Bina. "If you knew this was going to happen, you have to have a plan!"
"I do but - Dammit!"
"It wasn't supposed to start happening for another forty minutes! By then I was planning on having showed you how to reboot the Moment and run a basic debug routine! It must be damaged, or something else is putting stress on the mechanism."
"You don't know?"
"I already told you! The whole point of this exercise is that I haven't been watching your loop!"