ataraxion | 008

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.))

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The network was down, so nothing with this. [ Beat. ] You did miss some people try and steal a shuttle, though.

That might've crossed my mind too, back when I heard you talk about this whole flight crew business the first time. [ but can you blame him? who wouldn't want to escape with a shuttle. ] But... something tells me whatever ended up goin' down here would make me glad I didn't.

[ Pinching the bridge of her nose for a moment. You're going to give her a heart attack, Dean. ] Well, you were at least smart enough not to try it. There's not enough fuel to get much of anywhere in those things.

Besides, you would have had to go through the entire flight crew, including me.

[ APPRECIATE THE HONESTY?? it's the second point that has him nodding. ] Yeah, I figured as much. I don't know what kinda laser gun wielding aliens you might have workin' for you, anyway. [ not a fight he'd want to be a part of, thanks.

anyway. ]

So if there's no fuel, what's the point in all of this?

Swords, actually. [ She has Jedi working for her, Dean. Be jealous, she has no idea what a Jedi is so she can't be proud of it at all. ]

There's fuel. Just not enough to try to get to Earth, which is where they wanted to go [ :| idiots ] or anywhere we've been before.

If we have to abandon ship, we take the shuttles. We had for whatever's closest -- a shipping lane, a space station, maybe a planet. If nothing else, we buy ourselves time.

[ his jealousy would know no boundaries............ ]

Ain't abandoning the ship kinda what most of us wanna do, anyway? [ not all, he knows, he knows. that was drilled into his head thanks to the very loud, opinionated people of this ship during his first network feed.

but some people don't wanna stay. ]

I mean, some of us might wanna take the chance and all. Would you let 'em go?

Most people want to go home. That's different. This ship is the only way people have gone home -- just vanishing right out of their gravity couches during the jumps.

[ She sighs a little, settles down on a chair in the medbay. ]

Home isn't out there unless you're going to make one. And if people want to do that, I'd let them -- but not with the shuttles people here might need to survive. If we get that close to a space station, we should be stopping to resupply anyway, and they can leave. I know I've considered it.

If people can just step off the ship at a space station, why yank us here to begin with? [ it seems...too easy. ]

And why didn't you? You said you're a captain, right? Should be easier for you to find a ship to pilot and maybe even find a way back home.

Well, the last space station tried to brainwash everyone. [ So there's that. ]

There's no going home from out there. This isn't my universe. These aren't my stars, or the stars of anyone else who knows them who isn't from here. [ She shrugs a little. ] There's nothing left for me back home.

Right, fair enough. [ fair enough on both points, actually.

there's a beat of silence before he smirks slightly. ] Bet you rained hell on whoever tried to steal the shuttle. [ come on, come on, tell him some details!! ]

[ She's happy enough to let that conversation go and laughs a little. ] Yeah, we did. We've got some hard hitters in the shuttle bay. They sure made a mess of things, though; I think Casey's still getting over his broken arm, we've got a lot to clean up, and all of us were black-and-blue for weeks.

But they ended up in the brig and were lucky their injuries weren't worse, in my opinion.

[ reminder to self: don't mess with the flight crew. ]

How many were there? Y'know, tryin' to take off.

[ And don't you forget it. ]

Three. Two men, one of them with arms the size of my waist -- I punched him in the face -- and one with some sort of armor, and a woman who was throwing things around with her mind.

[ ah- ]

That sounds like one damn party. [ or one massive shit storm. ] Well, if anything, you won't have to worry about me sneakin' there to steal a shuttle or anything -- not if that's the kinda shit it'll land me in.

[ Yeah, better go with shit storm. ]

Like I said, there's no real point in stealing them. Either way, we would still like to know before people come in and mess around with our hard work.

Sounds like you guys need a sign-up sheet if there're so many people ready to take a shot at the shuttles.

... A sign-up sheet for what?

Signin' up to mess with your department. [ IT'S A JOKE. a very bad one! 8D ]

[ Wow. ] Only if it means we can lock them out first.

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