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[2leftfeet]

This is Shepard, formerly Commander of the SSV Normandy. On the topic of signing up to do work, we've got huge unexplored sectors of this ship and that should be remedied. The ship changes at the jump [--or hell, mid-month--] but if we don't try to map it, we can't know if there's any kind of pattern to the changes. [And somewhere out there, there has to be a secondary control central for the ship seeing as no one was on the bridge when they took it.] As far as I see it: the more intel we can get, the better. And I don't know about the rest of you but I'm sick of either running blind or just waiting for something to happen.

I also realize I'm talking about dangerous work. I'm not here to tell anyone what to do, but if you're looking to help and want to volunteer then I'm all for building small scouting teams with mandatory check ins, written reports and posted communication lines. [With the unspoken message being: look, you're only cannon fodder if you don't write about it first.] I'm planning to go off the last known schematic we have of the ship. I've attached it to this message in case you haven't seen it as well as well as a short survey for anyone interested in volunteering. I'm looking to build at least five groups of three to four with a contact for each running and recording communications from a secure location.

Experience with field-ops is a bonus, but not a requirement. Weapons training is mandatory for anyone on a scouting team. If you don't have it, get it. If you don't know where to go, talk to Gunnery. For anyone looking to help with comms, technical skill is a bonus. Additionally if anyone out there has workable ideas about how to boost the network signal to deal with the ship's dead zones, I'll personally buy you a drink.

I'd appreciate cooperation with Security and Ops, but I won't argue with anyone who doesn't feel like backing this. Again: the is strictly on a volunteer basis only.

[As promised, attached to this message is a partial map of the ship and a short text document since everyone on the TQ loves surveys:]

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Comments

[2leftfeet]

I don't feel like arguing semantics on this. The bottom line is I'm not forcing anyone to do anything. If someone wants to lend a hand on this, that's their prerogative. I'm not promising any results to you or anyone on this and if someone volunteers and wants to drop out later, they're free to.

Don't waste my time and I won't waste yours.

[puppydogeyes]

Saying shit like that doesn't divorce you from everything here. Something goes wrong with you and the people you take out there, it'll be my team going out after you.

[2leftfeet]

If it's pointless for us to go out into the halls, then it's doubly so for your team to come after. If something goes wrong, this is strictly DNR.

[puppydogeyes]

You don't get to make that decision. My team's priority is the safety of passengers, even if they've been stupid enough to get themselves into whatever shit they're in.

It's pointless for you to go out. We'd have reason.

[2leftfeet]

[Abruptly, some measure of her already thin patience dissolving:]

I'm not going to tell you what to do, just like you're not going to change my mind. If something goes wrong and you opt to send more people in, that's your prerogative.

[puppydogeyes]

No, it's my duty. Keep it understood.

[Everything stated plainly and clearly, with no impression of anything left to discuss, she disconnects.]