Speaking of fascinating reactions, Med'an jumps backwards when he realizes that there's a blue holographic box walking next to him. He's seem holograms before – his uncle owns a few of their relatives, and every now and then Med'an spends the day with the one of his deceased grandmother, pretending that she's almost there with him – but he's clueless about how they work and, well, why one of a cube would be hanging out with him right now. Uncertainly, he glances around for someone who might be making it appear, or who would at least know what it was.

“Um....” No one's around, though. Is it part of the ship? He reaches a hand out cautiously, going to wave it underneath the box. The holograms he's seen have bases that they project from, that you can disrupt by blocking...