un: aximili | voice [forward dated to 12/24 evening]

[canadese]

[For those uninitiated, suddenly experiencing thought-speak is probably pretty strange. It's sort-of-but-not-quite like telepathy, almost, and it's apparently coming out of your communicator. Weird!

The "voice," such as it is, sounds young, male, and somewhat wary.]

<Hello.

Does anyone here know what "protocol S-1704" is?>

Comments

[rumbling]

[ Okay. That name doesn't sound familiar at all. ]

overheard from who?

[canadese]

a transmission received by a staff member they left immediately afterward

[rumbling]

that's all that was said?
nothing else?

[canadese]

no

whatever this protocol is was enough reason to "prepare" the fleet for something he said so into his communicator upon leaving