I woke up to a message from an unknown sender that was just a time and place.

No way do I trust this.

My friend Marles and I are on a spacewalk, and we take a break. We're in the shuttle and I pull out the usual spacewalk snacks, some scop and granola bars.

She pulls out a whole dang sandwich. Bread, lettuce, everything. I just look at her and say why don't people usually bring sandwiches, that's genius.

She looks at me suspiciously asks oh you like sandwiches? I'm like yeah sure. Again she's suspicious as if to say sure everyone says that.

So I wriggle my arm out of the suit and show my sandwich tattoo. No, I LIKE sandwiches. She seemed satisfied by that for some reason.

But dang, why have this dry snack when I could have a whole sandwich. Inspired.

The Silent Helper robot came just as the communication array came back online, as if they knew a space station that could now be heard would work better with more habitats for more people drawn to it.

I don't know how that happens.

I'd like to commission an artist to draw an avatar for this account.

I've never commissioned an artist for anything, so if anyone knows someone I could work with let me know. Thanks.

Oh, as the de facto communications guy (the one annoyed enough to reconnect the network), I should probably put out a station greeting.

Greetings from Gravity's Lament! We're a space station/colony/settlement that started out as derelict and decommissioned ships glommed together, then anyone else that wanted to attach their ship to all the others.

All we ask is if you dock (regardless of how long), please TURN OFF YOUR GRAVITY FIELD.

No other ships have theirs on to counteract yours if they're in range. We can't have that many ships with gravity fields this close together, it would wreak havoc (hence our name).

The other side of being the one to take on work in a leaderless group, you're now "that person" that does that thing.

I know nothing about communications, now I'm the communications guy.

Until someone else gets annoyed enough at my patch job.

Having done this myself, I can now see the main driver behind someone taking initiative to start something on this station is to be annoyed enough to to do it.

People marvel at what we accomplished with a bunch of space junk that was coaxed into a space station, but it's done by a bunch of entities twitching with rage.

Now the real reason I got Gravity's Lament onto the intergalactic network.

Anyone have social transmission protocols for Silent Helper robots? One ended up floating by and decided to keep building habitats and I need to know how to nicely ask them to stop.

I keep getting lost in all the new tunnels and corridors someone please help me.