The Starfinder Society building was a strange place. The halls were unremarkable, the rooms unfurnished aside from what was necessary, and even the guest rooms were simple and boring. The building itself was not the only thing that was boring either. Each day in the Starfinder society was highly regulated. Wake up, have breakfast, be asked questions till lunch, be asked more questions, dinner, and then some free time.

This continue for a number of days, with each days questioned becoming more of more precise, and often more strange, asking about things like the shape of the moons of Halkeginia, or the way the stars looked and if there were constellations they could see, to absurd things like if certain words were known to them.

And with each question period and day that passed, the two girls became more and more nervous and anxious for some kind of news, always being told that 'the computers were still working on it'.

Finally what seemed like an age, which was actually just six days, the two girls were brought to a different room than normal, a medical laboratory with a desk in front of it, and two Biopods that looked chunkier than the other ones they had seen. Jarskat and Musashi were present as well, and finally Alexandria entered the room, accompanied by a doctor, a different one than every other time before, and sat down at her desk.

"Our computers have finished their analysis," Alexandria said with a heavy sigh that made Musashi look grim.

"Have you found our world?!" Montmorency asked with glee.

"No." Alexandria said simply, killing any happiness visible on both girls faces as she continued. "Our systems have not been able to pinpoint your worlds location with a match to any known world in our system. We have however manages to figure that your world has to be within one of two different areas of space."

"What areas?" Musashi asked calmly, though his face looked grim.

"The Nephylyn Abyss and the Torun cloud."

"So location that are both in the Vast, Dammit" Musashi swore, making Louise turn to him.

"What is the Vast?"

"The Vast is the term for the area of space that are largely unexplored and do not have many drift beacons in them, while the areas that are well explored are referred to as Near space, due to the amount of Drift beacons and ease of travel in those areas," Jarskat explained.

"Yes," Alexandria agreed. "Though these terms do not take into account the Veskarum or Azlanti Empires. The Vast are areas unexplored, and therefore, very difficult to travel."

"I take it these areas are marked because they are closest to where we encountered the Grey ship?" Musahi asked.

"They are, yes. But also because with the information we have, our systems believe that these area are the most likely. With what little exploration has been done into these regions, we know there are a large number of stars capable of supporting terrestrial life," Alexandria explained before heaving a sigh and leaning forward in her chair. "Which brings us to the real problem."

"Finding our world?" Louise suggested.

"Yes, but not in the way you think," Musashi stated. "Traveling the vast required great stores of supplies and preparation because many pirates skulk there. It is a long, arduous process where anything can go wrong, and even if a exploration ship brings a deployable beacon, it still can be very dangerous."

"Yes. The other problem is that Starfinder society rules dictate that we ourselves cannot send primitives out into space without a guaranteed destination. There are multiple reason for this, but ultimately it means that we in the primitive conservation office cannot get you home in the, normal ways."

"Stop toying with the ladies emotions," Musashi snapped at Alexandria before turning to look at Louise and Montmorency. "Alexandria is alluding to a plan that has been done a few times in the past where the primitives accept becoming pact world citizens temporarily. By doing so they can join a crew, and receive information loads, and can assist that crew as it in turn helps them look for their world," Musashi then glared at Alexandria as he continued to speak. As he is essentially attempting to strong arm and guilt trip me into allowing this to go through with my ship."

"I would not try to guilt trip anyone, I am merely stating the situation, and that I doubt you would be against it in the first place," Alexandria replied with a grin.

Silence filled the room for a full minute before Montmorency broke it. "So, you are saying its going to be a, long time, until we get home. And that we will need to . . . work for it?"

"That is correct," Alexandria said with a smile. "Long distance travel on a ship means that everyone must pull their weight, as a single person not doing so can cause problems during exploration. "But, we have never worked on a ship," Louise stated as calmly as she could. The information that it would be a long time to return home was clearly eating at her to some extent, but instead of panicking she seemed to steady her breathing to speak up "We are Nobles in our land, and have never done things like that, and have no idea how your ships work. How any of your societies things work really."

"That is what the information load is for," Alexandria spoke up. "The cortex translator the greys put in your heads can be used to also give you the information about our culture and technology. This will allow you to do basic work with an understanding our technology to join a crew to look for your homeworld actively. The issue with this is knowing such information and returning to primitive worlds with it can sometimes lead to unexpected consequences.

"How, how long has it taken before?" Louise asked after a moment of silence. "For someone to find their planet I mean."

Alexandria was silent as her fingers tapped on something on the desk, her expression twisting ever so slightly a moment later. "The last time it was successful, it took the primitive in question thirty seven years."

Both Louise and Montmorency gaped in horror, the color leaving their faces over a few seconds before Louise managed to speak. "what, what other options are there?"

"Staying here as a guest while we continue to look for a time," Alexandria said simply.

"We," Louise paused to look at Montmorency, finding she looked abut three words from utterly losing her mind. "We may need some time to think about this."

"Are you sure? We have the Information Pods at the ready behind me and-"

"No, we should give them some time," Musashi said a s he looked to Jarskat. " Can you take them back to their room please?" Jarskat nodded before doing just that. And within a minute of them leaving and the door closing behind them Musashi was railing at Alexandria. " What the hell are you doing!? You cannot just drop something so heavy on them and then try to forcibly push them to an uncertain future they know nothing about! Information loads can seriously hurt peoples minds!"

"You think I do not know that Tinman?" Alexandria said with a venomous tone. " I do not want to send primitives off into the Vast anymore than you or anyone sane should, but it is the only option with the way things are unfolding!"

"What are you talking about?" Musashi asked tensely.

Alexandria scowled as she tapped her tablet and held it up to Musashi.

" . . . .Shit."