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As a celebration of the 'new year', Tristam brings a recovering [[Roshanara Rahman]] to a clearing on [[Limbo]]. He shows her the {{USS|Veritas}}, frozen in time in the sky. He believes its hull is intact, a reminder that though they've been stuck on Limbo for over two months, they will eventually return. | |||
Tristam makes "basic mechanical adjustments" to [[Jhalib Ekal]]'s [[CRI brace]] in preparation for an escape attempt. Despite technically being it's original inventor according to Ekal, the vulcanoid man is extremely hesitant about his time-travel equipment being strewn across a workbench. Tristam tells him to leave in order to continue working undisturbed. | |||
During their temporal escape attempt, Tristam works with Roshanara, [[Sky Blake]] and [[Jansen Orrey]] when a storm hits. As works to jumper-start an escape pod in order to move it and save crewmembers trapped inside, he picks up on Blake's internalized pessimism and becomes frustrated with her. Blake realises it's because he's listening to her thoughts, and scolds him for it. But as time goes on, the thoughts of his crew become more intolerable for the Rodulan. He admits to Roshanara how he's become a "walking lock-box of information about other people", privy to inner-most thoughts and motives becoming increasingly difficult to untangle from his own. Understanding Tristam's disillusionment, Roshanara promises to figure the problem out beside him. | |||
When they return to the timeline, and ''Veritas'' is under repair at [[Star Station Esperance]], Tristam and Roshanara celebrate the proper new year at a rooftop bar. They discuss Tristam's sudden telepathic sensitivities. When Roshanara suggests contacting his family for information, Tristam informs her they're no longer on speaking terms. She doesn't pry into the issue further, though suggests taking shore leave on Earth to see her family instead. He whole-heartedly agrees with the idea, but their conversation is cut short when Tristam sees [[Geoffrey Teller]]. | |||
Tristam pulls Teller from his small gathering with [[G'var]] and [[Wil Ukinix]]. The Rodulan bluntly informs Teller he knows about the human's tattoo caricature of a naked Roshanara on his arm (which he implies to know about from Teller's thoughts). Tristam refuses to tell Roshanara directly, though expects Teller to take responsibility and be more mature as ''Veritas'' Chief Engineer. Teller informs Roshanara himself, then goes to Tristam with a peace-offering, discussing Tristam's telepathic knowledge in a little more depth. | |||
Though hesitant about the project, Tristam works with ''Veritas'' engineers when upgrading the ship to a Warp XV engine. | |||
While in Main Engineering, Tristam is among the engineers caught in inverted gravity, and works with [[Buyisiwe Mncedisi]] to fix the problem. They both manage to walk away from the incident with minor injuries, having dropped almost two stories in the open-plan Main Engineering. | |||
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