He is in fact thinking about that! He needs the ship's computers to make a transmission from here, and that's going to be hard to do. Once they're somewhere with internet access it'll report automatically.

...Well, they can keep him from getting to the computers. And then hopefully someone else who isn't her will be able to figure this crap out. 

What else should she– oh, right, of course. 

:What do you know about the protomolecule?: 

"The what?" Not lying, this time.

Huh. 

:Nevermind. Stay in this room for now: 

She asks the mage to stay and guard him, and heads off to rejoin Nayoki. 

Who is still on the bridge, waiting for the mage-Farseer to reach her with the fourth crewmember. She's feeling very unsure where to go next; she can't exactly blame the locals for not believing her explanation. 

:Leareth: she sends. :We may need Julie to come explain. Is she up for that?: 

:I am not sure. What are the names of the ship crew? I can ask if they are familiar to her - oh, and is there a medic of some kind on their staff -?: 

What a good question! 

:Do you have a medic on board this ship?: Julie asks the man whose body language leads her to think that he's in charge. 

"No, we don't."

Nayoki is picking up meanings from his thoughts, not his spoken words; is he telling the truth? 

:Are you the commander of this ship?: she adds. 

They don't have a medic. They had one, but he died. It's a bit of a sore point. "Yes. Who are you people?"

Oh no. She's curious, and wants to give her condolences or something, but now isn't the time and also she doesn't really want to reveal that she's reading his thoughts, it might be useful to keep in reserve. 

:It is complicated. You - may as well think of us as a separate, independent faction. We are not allied with Earth or Mars; we may wish to ally with the Belters, to provide aid against the protomolecule threat. Please tell me your name and the names of your crew: 

She says this in ordinary Mindspeech; if he refuses to cooperate and she can't nab it from his mind then she'll consider set-commanding him. 

He is incredibly confused that she doesn't already know. It was international news.

:You should assume that we are not up to date on any recent politics in this star system:

And with a push of Mindhealing added, :tell me your name: 

"James Holden. This is Amos Burton, our engineer, and Alex Kamal, our pilot." If they don't know anything maybe they don't know to look for Naomi.

(Naomi is currently being forcibly mind-controlled to follow the other mage-Farseer, who's making slowish progress to the ladder because he's EXHAUSTED and spending most of his effort on not visibly swaying.) 

Nayoki passes these names on to Leareth. 

Holding a Mindspeech link even at a range of a handful of miles - and with Nayoki doing nearly all the work - is making Leareth's head pound. 

He passes this information on to Julie, though. :Nayoki thinks it might be helpful for us to go over so that you can explain yourself, since you have more context. Do you recognize their names?: 

Not at all. I should probably explain, though, just because I have context - lemme put on a suit - 

It turns out she is too tired to successfully do this.

There are a couple of Healers right there who can use their Sight to help while making sure they avoid contaminating themselves. And they're going to accompany her, obviously. 

They're pretty worried about leaving Leareth in Julie's ship with only one Healer to keep an eye on him and no backup, though? But it's not like he's in great shape to negotiate with these people? 

He isn't. He kind of wants to be there anyway, but also he won't make a good impression at all in this state. And he's biohazardous too and ought to wear a suit and this seems very hard. 

:I think I will manage for a little while: 

Damn it, reaching far enough with Mindspeech to get Nayoki's attention HURTS. 

:Need a Gate: he informs her, and then briefly passes out from the effort. Maybe has a small seizure, though again it's noticeable only to Healing-Sight. 

Shit shit damn it. Maybe they're going to send one Healer with Julie through Nayoki's next Gate, and the Healer who went to scout can rejoin them and then there'll be two Healers with each patient. 

Nayoki raises another Gate. 

The Healer helps - well, mostly drags - suited-Julie across. 

The mage-Farseer is just about there, too, he's currently seeing if Naomi will climb the stairs of her own accord or if he needs to compulsion her to do it. 

Naomi is super furious with these people but she wants to see if the rest of the crew is all right and will cooperate with going up the ladder to them.

The rest of the crew seems to be unhurt at least! They're immobilized in - some way which isn't immediately apparent - and sitting on the floor of the deck above the bridge. 

Also there's a tall black woman in very strange clothes standing above them. Beside her is a glowing door-shaped outline in midair, the area inside the outline showing the interior of a completely different ship rather than the rest of the corridor, and a man in equally bizarre-medieval-reenactment-esque clothing is approximately-dragging yet another person through. New person is wearing a vac suit.