SUA: Hey there, Moa! Nice day isn't it?

MOA: Not really, I think I'm hearing voices and random commands from the void or something.

SUA: Oh! Me too! It's kinda funny though, cuz you can just ignore 'em.

MOA: Sure.

SUA: Ahem! Ahem! So uhhhh, like, can a captain get a status report or something?

MOA: Aye. The drive has been out for nearly two hours and thirty minutes. At the rate that the exterior's EMPTY SPACE surrounding it will likely cause the ship to implode within another 2 or so hours if it is not repaired.

SUA: That's bad isn't it?

MOA: Yeah. We'd die, if not from implosion, then from the suffocating vacuum on the outside.

SUA: We can breathe in a vacuum though! I did it like last week!

MOA: If it was normal space vacuum, then yes, but the complete emptiness will promptly cause total annihilation to us. However, even if we were to somehow be able to survive, we'd be floating ship-less for likely an indefinite amount of time. So basically...

SUA: Do you have good news?

MOA: We can... likely fix it.

SUA: Oh great! Then let's do that.

MOA: I assume you're familiar with the general formulation, correct?

SUA: Uh...

MOA: We've been over the basic structure of:

MOA: Correct me if I'm wrong.

MOA: You know, where α is the lapse function that gives the interval of proper time between nearby hypersurfaces, βi is the shift vector that relates the spatial coordinate systems on different hypersurfaces, and γij is a positive-definite metric on each of the hypersurfaces.

SUA: Okay listen, I know I should know this stuff but uh...

MOA: Relax, I'm not quizzing you.

MOA: Today, anyways.

MOA: The important part is that in the lapse function of time, our numbers are completely wrong, and if you were to run the drive as is, time dilation would accelerate to absurd values, without any sort of tangible distance gains.

SUA: Okay, that last part I got, our values are off because of the energy imbalances!

MOA: Yeah, but here's the main issue. The drive won't be able to be fixed automatically like normal, it'll need to be manually fixed.

MOA: Likely by Yui, her delicate control over the energies like this would be ideal.

SUA: Hearing you call Yui "delicate" is kind of funny...

MOA: Controlled chaos.

MOA: A calculated cacophony.

MOA: However, this introduces a new problem.

SUA: Oh yeah? What's that then?

MOA: Well, they're missing.

SUA: Yui or the drive?

MOA: Both are applicable. I have not seen Yui, nor the drive.

SUA: The confusion of EMPTY SPACE is probably what's causing that! Yui might be standing right in front of us!