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[suddenlycaptain]

Hello, Tranquility. [ For once, Carolyn's background isn't the shuttle bay. It's medbay instead, though she's not a patient. Simon can occasionally be seen in the background, doing... doctor-things. ] I'm Carolyn Fry. On this ship, I work on the flight crew; back home I was the pilot and captain of another ship. I've got a few things I'd like to talk about today.

First is the flight crew. We're always looking for more members -- we're responsible for the maintenance, repair, and upkeep of the shuttles as well as flying them. We've gotten more members over the last few months but we'd always like more. If you're interested, we just want to know a bit about your skills. If you don't have any experience with spacecraft or aircraft of any time, several of us work together to provide flight training. If you're interested, we have some sign-ups on the subnetwork as follows.

[ FLIGHT CREW SUBNETWORK PAGE ]

Second, I'm aware that many of the people on-board have never been in space before. If this applies to you or you're looking for a better understanding of this ship specifically, I'll be holding one of our semi-monthly [ jumply? ] space training courses in two hours. This jump's focus will be on medical situations and health thanks to Doctor Simon Tam, and as a result, we'll be meeting in the medbay. Dr. Tam will be reviewing space-specific medical concerns as well as general medical concerns, teaching people who to use the automated medical machines, and several other topics.

In addition, I'll be covering what we know about the Tranquility specifically and what's happened here, as well as what we know about this universe. There's a lot of information out there and while the anonymous information page is quite helpful, sometimes it's easier to hear about it from someone else. I haven't been here for all of it but I'll do my best to answer any questions, as will Dr. Tam -- and anyone else is welcome to offer insight as well. This is also a good chance to get to know everyone else stuck here, if that's your thing.

For those of you who've missed any prior sessions and are interested, please see the following subnetwork page. [ SPACE TRAINING SUBNETWORK PAGE ] If you have any suggestions on making these sessions more accessible or anything you'd like to see covered, please let me know.

[ Pausing to run a hand through her hair, there's a barely audible "I'm starting to sound like Kirk" before she continues. Time to fix that. ]

This is new to all of us, even those of us who've been in space before. If you've got sense, there's no reason not to use the resources on board in order to be better prepared to survive. We may have bars and beds but this isn't a pleasure cruise. People have died and if you don't take care of yourself and exercise some caution [ and not break into the shuttle bay, Zaeed ] then it could be you next.

I'll hopefully see all of you in medical in two hours. Try not to disturb anyone working in there.

((ooc: Free-for-all log is here.))

Comments

[enforced]

They're far more helpful than they first may appear to be.

[suddenlycaptain]

Do you know what they're saying, with all the beeps?

[enforced]

I can gather a general idea, although Anakin is much better than I am.

[suddenlycaptain]

Is there some sort of trick to it?

[enforced]

It is a language.

[suddenlycaptain]

One that can be learned like any other language, then?

[enforced]

Learned to be understood, yes.

[suddenlycaptain]

[ There's a thoughtful pause. ]

I might like to try learning it.

[enforced]

Do you like them?

[suddenlycaptain]

They seem useful and they've probably got more sense than most of the people on this ship.

[ That's a yes. ]

[enforced]

I'm just glad you don't find them annoying.

[suddenlycaptain]

I think I like them more than I like most people.

[leaps]

I like them.

[ stellar recommendation here. ]

[enforced]

They haven't stolen your communicator yet?

[leaps]

I let them hold onto it while I worked.

[ whoops? ]

They're good company.

[enforced]

They might start calling others in your name.

But they are. They're useful, too, or at least they should be around the shuttle bay.

[leaps]

[ it probably says something about sulu's mental state that droids are his new bros ]

How easily can they hack a lock?

[ things he probably should have thought of... ]

We can always use a couple extra sets of hands.

[enforced]

I guess that depends on the lock, although it may take some convincing.

[Artoo is probably more on the delinquent side of droidom than Arfour....]

[leaps]

[ artoo is a bad influence. ]

Then at the least it'll give me incentive to work on my locks.

[enforced]

Trying to protect something?

[leaps]

Only trying to improve.

[enforced]

Ask them, although when it comes to locks, you may have more luck with Artoo.

[leaps]

[ casually leaves a message on anakin's voicemail CAN ARTOO COME OUT TO PLAY ]

I'll take you up on that.