As the female android charged into Engineering, she startled the stillness and sent it scurrying into dark corners, broke the silence and left it shattered all about.

She noticed, in an anecdotal way, that it felt comforting to make noise. This seemed inexplicable although she posited a theory that the presence of meaningless noise created an artificial normal, allowing one to feel as though all is as it should be.

It also masked other noises that, while common, were not always easy to explain. Making noise allows one to take no notice of unexplained bumps and rattles and forego categorizing them as threatening or pernicious.

N-XS was only moderately comforted. So she cued up some of Jericho's music on ship-wide Comms.