Hey, адмирал, it's B. I hope things are going okay with the clean-up. I've got the goats helping out, as I'm sure you've seen.

I had a couple questions, if you've got time. Feel free to tell me to fuck off if it's not stuff you can really answer or don't have the resources to right now.

First one's the biggest for the short-term. I've been thinking about that alarms project I was working on before the Authority caught us, and before Flotilla, and trying to outfit everyone with a second device is going to take a lot of time and materials, and it was a crude system anyway. So I was wondering if there's a way to add a button or function or something to the current communicators that would act as a panic button. Set off a loud alarm at that location and signal other communicators, maybe from a set list of people signed up to deal with immediate threats like that. Is that something we could do, and if so, what would we need in order to set it up?

Second one's more esoteric, and might be none of my business, but I think it'd help to know. I know we've all kind of considered you and the Barge as separate entities. Is that right? Does she have a life and personality outside of you, or do you basically animate her and any time we're talking to the Barge it's just you?

And lastly, is there anything anybody can do about the Authority? What they're doing, with all those ships, it really doesn't seem right. It looks like it's hurting more than it's helping.

Thanks for your time.