"—we don't need to go there, we can find elsewhere—"

Everyone to station immediately, a voice sounds in their heads.

Adam is the first to react. He stands up and is soon followed by many others.

—well then. To station.

This is your Captain speaking. The planet is currently surrounded by Fed ships. We do not know how they managed to bypass the magic fields—we do know we've been infiltrated, and the culprit has been captured. If you desire to flee, the option is open to you. We are all going somewhere they cannot reach us—even if they try. And they will try.

Temperance freezes - for just a moment, then runs back to her room to get all her notes.

Any and all earthists and waterists and airists willing to come are wanted. We are waiting at—and she sends the mental impression of the loading bay.

Isra reports there at once.

"You, pretty boy, go over there—"

Sadde also helps direct people this way and that where they'll be most needed. They have several submarines and even though this particular eventuality was highly unlikely they had a lot of time to plan.

Which also means there is no need to panic and that everyone can embark in a timely manner. No pushing please.

There is no need for pushing, there is enough space and they can all embark.

...Albeit some people get Captain authorization to go before everyone else. Since their role is going to be essential.

Yes it is. Her sub is the first to go down.

She is going to spend the entire trip calculating, except when she asks for updates on the surface situation. Assuming there are any.

People organising and mobilising—

—ships landing—

- Temperance crunches down the numbers. Very nervously.

She makes a different kind of calculation... given how much she knows about how many people they can evacuate.

Temperance resumes crunching down numbers. This needs to work.

Soon they reach the underwater structure.

Temperance collects all her notes and dashes through the complex searching for the proper chamber.

People start arriving.

Is the Captain one of them? Someone with authority or who knows star-charts?

Where is Isra?

Still topside. The Captain is one of the first to arrive after her, though.

Okay. Does the Captain have time for a private-and-brief but tactically important conversation?

Yes. What is it?

"Given how fast the Feds are advancing on us, I doubt I have the time to finish the calculations that could take us to anywhere habitable and distant. I am certain I don't have the time to do that and wreck things here well enough that the Feds can't follow us- I was thinking of taking us to Isra's home station."

"Then we need to—"