Chapter Text
You turn to your fellow navigator and ask “Has this planet always been there? Or is it new?”
The other crewmember, Tujim, looks at you, their fur turning blue in what you were pretty sure was confusion, but hey, you were kind of still getting the hang of Jiofm body language and expression. So you wouldn’t put your money on it, in the impossible chance an opportunity to do so presented itself.
(Plus, there is also the fact that you’re autistic, so you’re not even a hundred percent on the money when it comes to humans.)
Then again, Alex from accounting had been getting increasingly desperate for things to bet about as of late. There’s only so much to do when everyone is keeping their personal drama, you know, personal.
(Which reminds you. You also still needed to figure out what exactly accounting does on a space ship. It’s certainly not obvious to you, but they are here so they must do something.)
“Pretty sure someone would have noticed a planet just off one of the most important trade routes in the sector,” Okana-di, your new favorite co-worker, replies from xeir spot two tables toward your right.
Zuah, somehow the oldest of them in both absolute and relative terms, despite how ze acted at times, excitedly turned towards you, as one of the highest-ranking members currently present. “Let’s request a landing.”
As the majority of the navigators in the room protested, you got curious about it.
“I mean if it’s not marked down on any map, that’s gotta mean that it’s got some sort of secret, right?”
Tujim stops at that, as do the other three crewmates that had been listening. You haven’t been able to remember their names yet, but two of them are new – less than a standard and the third has a name that’s physically impossible for you to pronounce.
“That does sound like exactly the like kind of thing that the Captain would want to know about.”
“So we should tell him?” you ask, because you make it a point to include your subordinates in every decision you can (and explain your reasoning in those you cannot).
“Sure,” Tujim says. “I guess.”