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Okay, is this thing worki--yeah, it's... I'm in the frame? I... yeah. Right.

[The cowboy straightens, clears his throat, hooks his thumb in his belt, and gives the communicator his most calm and collected scowl. All a matter of looking like none of this bothers you, even when it's a hideous mess. Which this is looking like it is. Business as usual.]

All right, folks, this is Marshall Sparks Nevada, representative of the Mars-Earth coalition. I know this place likely ain't on either planet, but this whole business jumped up to the top of my priority list. Mostly on account've all my other business is in another dimension, so you know, whatever.

Point is, here, I'm gonna hafta ask all've you to provide a list of your name, your home planet... the planet you were last on, if'n those two ain't the same... what space-year you're from, and your dimensional zip code.

Reckon I may have a ways afore we're gettin' out of here proper, but more I can know about how far-spread a problem this is, the more appropriate charges can be put on the culprits for this nonsense once I wrap it all up.

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What, they grabbed you out of an engaged Temporal Adjustment Realignment Dual Integration Stabilizer? Didn't reckon any tech's got the power to pull that off...

Temporal Adjust... no, that's not it all. It's Time and Relative Dimension in Space.

What? That ain't even a noun, it's a concept.

Of course it is! She's my ship. And it's a better name than the alternative.

Well, it's you science-types that get the whole weird naming done, not me, so. All overly complex if you ask me, but. Point is, mindnapping in a temporally sealed ship mid-transport ain't an easy feat.

It's most certainly not complex! It's a perfectly functional name!

Look, all I'm saying is, I get a time machine, I'm gonna name it a time machine, it's not like... you know, this ain't the point of the conversation at hand.

And you'd be free to. But mine isn't, and it's a name that works. Even if it wasn't me who came up with it.

That's great, Doc. Which temporal direction were you headed when you dropped in here, do you know?

You can't just measure time like that! It's always relative, you see. But I suppose you'd say it was into the past.

Yeah, relative to most non-time traveling folks, is what the forms are going to want to know. Outside the perspective of reality rending, tends to keep mostly simple, direction-wise.

Call it the past then. It's not precisely accurate - different planets measure it differently - but it'll do for the time.