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- auggie anderson,
- connor temple,
- data,
- gabriel "chapel hill" sinclair,
- hikaru sulu (xi),
- ianto jones,
- isaac "cambridge" moore,
- james t. kirk (xi),
- jenna sommers,
- john casey,
- josh levison,
- leoben conoy,
- mike ross,
- miles edgeworth,
- nathan petrelli,
- niall o corcoráin,
- spock (xi),
- the doctor (eleventh),
- tony stark,
- tony stark (1610),
- topher brink
VIDEO ☢ OO3。
Hey. [ HELLO, TRANQUILITY. someone appears to have found a razor since their last post. someone also appears to have not slept in the past... well, sleeping's overrated. connor's eyes are droopy and dark, and if the communicator could communicate smell, it'd probably be producing a intense odor of coffee. which is pretty much all he's been drinking lately.
off the side of the feed, there appears to be some kind of shifting, golden light—it's throwing cheerful, twinkly shapes against the walls of his room, lending a pleasant atmosphere to the feed, despite connor's obvious discomfort. the source of this light remains offscreen, but the mask is there nonetheless, sat innocently on connor's bed. despite telling abby he would... he hasn't yet locked it away. he can't seem to make himself do it. (it's got to be there for a reason, right?)
anyway. not the point. ]
Right. Couple of things. I'll try to be quick.
Jenna mentioned a headcount system last month, so Tony and I put our heads together and whipped up something to keep track of what numbers are in use at any given time. It's completely anonymous, so no names associated with the numbers—just that they're being used, which gives us a pretty solid count of how many passengers are onboard and using their comms, which comms are active, that sorta thing. It's obviously not gonna work on life-forms who aren't using the communicators, but this is a pretty good springboard. I heard— [ stalked ] —Communications was working on something a bit more refined?
If you guys need an extra pair of hands on that, I'd be happy to help.
And trust me, if there was some way of knowing what else is lurking on this big hunk of metal with us, I'd be all over it, but right now, this is the best I've got. [ he offers a small shrug, rubbing his hands together. ] We can work on triangulating organic life forms next, I suppose, but that might take a bit more doing.
Anyway, it's been up and running for a while—but I finally hooked up a VDT from the science department in medical to display the actual number, so you can check to see if it's fluctuated at all before or after this jump. No disrespect to the dead or missing, but this might... make it a bit easier to figure out if someone's gone right off the bat. There's also a subnetwork version if you'd rather check in on the go. I'm putting it up now. [ he reaches forward to tap a few keys, and a text link pops up. ]
I've been thinking. [ more like debating various distractions from all the crap that's been happening lately, but: ] If anyone were interested, we could start up a sort of... lecture series. There's a lot of people what are really well-read in their respective fields, and it'd be nice to spread the wealth. So to speak. So—the idea is, pick a topic you're particularly specialised in, and we can set up something in one of the conference rooms, or maybe a rec room. Broadcast it to the network. Myself, I've got experience in computer science, mechanical engineering, physics, and palaeontology, but I know quite a lot of other people've got experience in some of the same stuff—it'd be good to give everyone a chance to present what they'd like. Y'know. Variety.
I've typed up a rudimentary electronic sign-up sheet, so if there's enough interest, maybe we can make it happen. [ or something. ]
Right, that's it from me.
—One last thing, though. Stay safe, everyone, alright? I know weird stuff on this ship's pretty much a given, but... [ he sighs. ] It's been a bit weirder than usual. Let's try to keep our wits about us.
[ connor out. ]
off the side of the feed, there appears to be some kind of shifting, golden light—it's throwing cheerful, twinkly shapes against the walls of his room, lending a pleasant atmosphere to the feed, despite connor's obvious discomfort. the source of this light remains offscreen, but the mask is there nonetheless, sat innocently on connor's bed. despite telling abby he would... he hasn't yet locked it away. he can't seem to make himself do it. (it's got to be there for a reason, right?)
anyway. not the point. ]
Right. Couple of things. I'll try to be quick.
Jenna mentioned a headcount system last month, so Tony and I put our heads together and whipped up something to keep track of what numbers are in use at any given time. It's completely anonymous, so no names associated with the numbers—just that they're being used, which gives us a pretty solid count of how many passengers are onboard and using their comms, which comms are active, that sorta thing. It's obviously not gonna work on life-forms who aren't using the communicators, but this is a pretty good springboard. I heard— [ stalked ] —Communications was working on something a bit more refined?
If you guys need an extra pair of hands on that, I'd be happy to help.
And trust me, if there was some way of knowing what else is lurking on this big hunk of metal with us, I'd be all over it, but right now, this is the best I've got. [ he offers a small shrug, rubbing his hands together. ] We can work on triangulating organic life forms next, I suppose, but that might take a bit more doing.
Anyway, it's been up and running for a while—but I finally hooked up a VDT from the science department in medical to display the actual number, so you can check to see if it's fluctuated at all before or after this jump. No disrespect to the dead or missing, but this might... make it a bit easier to figure out if someone's gone right off the bat. There's also a subnetwork version if you'd rather check in on the go. I'm putting it up now. [ he reaches forward to tap a few keys, and a text link pops up. ]
» HEADCOUNTI've been thinking. [ more like debating various distractions from all the crap that's been happening lately, but: ] If anyone were interested, we could start up a sort of... lecture series. There's a lot of people what are really well-read in their respective fields, and it'd be nice to spread the wealth. So to speak. So—the idea is, pick a topic you're particularly specialised in, and we can set up something in one of the conference rooms, or maybe a rec room. Broadcast it to the network. Myself, I've got experience in computer science, mechanical engineering, physics, and palaeontology, but I know quite a lot of other people've got experience in some of the same stuff—it'd be good to give everyone a chance to present what they'd like. Y'know. Variety.
I've typed up a rudimentary electronic sign-up sheet, so if there's enough interest, maybe we can make it happen. [ or something. ]
(NAME, SUBJECT) 1. Connor Temple, Palaeontology OR Temporal Physics 2. Chapel Hill, Nanotechnology OR Basketball 3. Mike Ross, Literature 4. Topher Brink, Computational Neuroscience 5. Leoben Conoy, Yoga |
Right, that's it from me.
—One last thing, though. Stay safe, everyone, alright? I know weird stuff on this ship's pretty much a given, but... [ he sighs. ] It's been a bit weirder than usual. Let's try to keep our wits about us.
[ connor out. ]
voice;
[ oh my god he might cry. ]
voice;
voice;
Fascinating.
voice;
I would be most curious to know who the individual referred to as 'Shatner' is.
voice;
Sort of.
Not really.
It's complicated.
voice;
[ No not hypocritical at all. ]
voice;
We're fictional. Supposedly. In some of these universes and Shatner is the other... me. Or someone who plays me on TV? Like I said, complicated.
voice;
Time travel is not unheard of. It does not seem entirely unlikely that someone with knowledge of yourself might have returned to Earth to tell such stories. If they have, I am certain that their irrelevance would explain an absence in present records of Earth culture.
voice; 1/2
Hey, maybe that Shatner guy was from our era and then went back in time and told everyone and then acted our story on TV.
voice;
broke his own brain.]
You know what? Nevermind.
voice;
Well that's...one way to use your retirement.
voice;
voice;
[ shatner is pretty goddamn weird lbr ]
voice;
[ the subtext here is why would you do that? but sulu is so alkdjlkgajfds that he actually can't. ]
voice;
[ This gets better and better right? ]
voice;
Is it...?
[ there's a pause. ]
Is it beyond repair?
voice;
[ And yours nyah nyah. If he could feel attachment though he would totally miss the Enterprise D. He had feelings on that ship okay. ]
voice;
I find that hard to believe.
voice;
Hybridised Sovereign class light explorer, Starfleet flagship, capable of sustaining warp 9.9 indefinitely, and 9.95 for a maximum of twelve hours emergency flight, eighteen type XII phaser arrays, six torpedo launchers equipped with both photon and quantum torpedos, shield force rating of 489,000 MW, two computer cores with a combined--
Should I continue?