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Tell the bros that the "little egg robot" is a semi-autonomous owlbot that Annie named Kilroy, just to clear things up. Then they can at least call it what it is instead of a "egg."
...Oh, dear. Here's a troubling thought. The cameras and their recording systems are undoubtedly hooked into the ship's internal network and viewable from any connected computer, right? Which would mean there's a very solid chance whoever picked up the microphone earlier has been flipping through the external cameras and reviewing the recordings, looking for a ship. If they haven't spotted where the Starlette is yet, they're going to real soon and you don't know how they're going to react. But worse, they'll have seen you and Annie enter through the airlock as well. There could be a group heading here right now with the intent of capturing you two, with the Bridge remotely locking down the airlock and maintenance bay exit after the group enters to trap you two. Or they might react differently. You just don't know how the people on board in charge would react. But thankfully, you have Robin and Baxter to ask.
Move Kilroy near to the door so it can listen for footfalls and urgently ask Robin and Baxter if there are any internal cameras or microphones in this control room or the hangar bay below that can be accessed remotely. Explain that you ask because when your ship was approaching you hailed the Sunfish, telling them the odd exchange you had over the radio. Ask them who would have been listening on the ship's radio and how do they think they'd react to hearing another ship, and how would who they report to react to that news. You ask because you'd bet good money they've been remotely looking over the external camera feeds and recordings since then for your ship and probably found it by now. Probably along with footage of you two spacewalking over. So you want to know if we're about to have more company down here, and how friendly or not they're going to be. Is this a situation where they're going to have to scramble to get spacesuits on and out the airlock?
As for spacesuits to get the guys across, if there are two safely working ones available, or ones that could be patched to spaceworthy-ness with Sam's space tape, then great. Use those when the time comes. Otherwise, Robin and Baxter are going to have to borrow suits from the Starlette crew. If Sam and Annie head back to the Starlette, then whichever of the three of the crews' suits that would fit Robin and Baxter best could be placed in the Starlette's airlock. Then the Starlette could be maneuvered around to face its airlock close to the Sunfish's, then depressurize, de-grav, and open it and bump the suits out into the Sunfish's airlock. Once in, Robin and Baxter just have to cycle the Sunfish's airlock to get the suits.
However, Robin and Baxter taking off could be premature, depending on what they say of the situation and the possibility that someone has been listening in to this conversation remotely. If they're reasonably sure nobody is listening in, then they could remain on-board for a bit and help get more genetic samples from the cryo'd crew. Possibly recruit one more who they know desperately wants to get off this tub into the cause, though they have to be sure they won't blab.
There might be a easier way to get the DNA samples you need, although not as good. The ship's medical database archives might contain complete sequenced genomes for the cryo crew and the passengers who originally came on board, and possibly for some of the following generations. A copy of that data won't be as good as tissue samples from everyone on board, but it'll be better than nothing and probably a heck of a lot easier to get. Ask Robin and Baxter if they know if the ship's medical records would contain this data.
Ask Robin and Baxter what their expertise is in, given that they're presumably part of the original cryo'd crew who launched with the ship; They might have knowledge and skills that could help you out here. Or are you being presumptuous and they aren't, instead being born on this ship and stuck in cryo for reasons you don't know?
And if there's nobody else coming and no immediate rush, tell them this ship is quite the mystery. Tell them what little the ship registry database had for the Sunfish, along with the current date, that they definitely aren't in the Pallisade System, and that the pinch FTL drive was successfully tested three months before the Sunfish launched. Which raises the big questions of why the Sunfish wasn't refitted with a pinch drive, why the ship ended up here, and why in the holy fuck did all those people stay on the Sunfish instead of waiting around for a FTL colony ship to be built. Seriously, the news of the pinch drive would have totally saturated the Sol system for months after the successful test, so they had to have known, right?
...Wait a second. Didn't Sam say it took centuries for a generation ship to reach its destination? And the Sunfish was one of the last generation ships to launch, if not the last one, in the year 2259? And the pinch drive was successfully tested three months before. So, depending on when generation ships first started launching, wouldn't that mean that only a few of the earliest launched generation ships would have reached their destinations by the time pinch drive colony ships were heading out? That would leave a lot of generation ships reaching their destinations and finding them already colonized, wouldn't it? And wouldn't there be pinch drive ships jumping out into the interstellar void roughly where generation ships are projected to be on their courses, trying to find them for a genetic sample payday?
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