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Rathtar: Don’t you run from me now!
[SFX]: krackle
Beckett: Wait, wait, wait. How can we hear the Rathtar? Sound can't travel through space.
Jim: The gas density of the nebula was high enough to support acoustic waves.
Beckett: Okay.
{beat}
Beckett: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. If it moves backwards in time, how can it speak intelligibly?
GM: It hears words in reverse, so it pronounces them backwards. And it’s learnt backwards grammar, so constructs sentences and contextual paragraphs in reverse order. So in your forwards time-frame, everything it says sounds normal.
Beckett: That...
Beckett: Hang on...
[SFX]: Krackle
Beckett: That actually makes perfect sense.
GM: It does?
GM: I mean... thank you.