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[2leftfeet]

[Text isn't usually her bag, but as she's currently lying in a dark room nursing a headache and trying not to puke her guts out-- needs must.]

GENERAL PRIORITY:
I need at least three people willing to run communications and record data for a recon mission in the ship. Technical experience preferred but not required. You won't be in the field, meaning there's little to no danger of missing the jump. See this archived post for additional details.

Any additional volunteers with technical skill willing to work with me [see: anyone she delegates the job to] to find workarounds for the ship's comm dead zones would be appreciated. If you can crack the problem, I'll personally barter my spare change of clothes away for something you want.



Unrelated side note:
Incident report re: medbay pre-jump would be great.


[locked to anyone currently signed up for recon mission]
Requesting a status report from all team leaders and anyone running environmental tests on their equipment. [...or magical abilities...]


((ooc: see this ooc comm post for more details on recon miniplot stuff!))

Comments

[2leftfeet]

Have any measures been taken to try to combat the dead zones? We've got a lot of people here with an eye for tech and you're telling me no one's tried to set up a secondary network or install terminals?

I don't exactly know the answer to that question but I'm going to try anyway! :D

[ryuuzaki]

Tried is the operative word. I suppose we'll continue to try again when there are significantly more than three of us. The changing layout doesn't help. Neither does the danger of going out in small groups.

Petrelli can give you more updates on that. As far as I'm aware, most of what can be done has been done... but the situation here is always changing.

[Although, as far as L is concerned, it's barely anyone else's business: this ship has about ten aspiring captains too many, any of whom may be gone at a moment's notice, none of whom has won his loyalty yet. His lot is thrown in with Nathan and they've developed a camaraderie, he has some grudging respect for Tyke, and he's noticed that Organa is content to take a background role -- a hard worker, a genuine public servant. Others? That's up in the air.

The concern with triangulation should be finding people who are lost, mostly as a search-and-rescue matter, but on occasions when they didn't get themselves lost of their own accord, the network is rarely helpful... specifically unhelpful, in fact, in a way that seems pointed. He's gone missing in that way himself, more than once.

If they've picked up anything that was suspected of being Ward or Resnik, he doesn't know about it. That means either they know exactly where the dead zones are and have made sure to leave their devices in a place that mimics a complete disappearance, or they aren't exactly here anymore, or both, or something he hasn't considered yet. It's hard to say.]

What I can do is help with the matter at hand. Maybe. I'm not a wizard in the literal sense.

story of my life tbh

[2leftfeet]

I won't say no to any kind of assistance. This is dangerous work and we all know it. Anything I can do to stack the odds in my people's favor is a plus.

[ryuuzaki]

All right, it's settled. Contact me with details as necessary.

This is for the mission itself, by the way. I doubt there's much we'll be able to do about the dead zones beforehand without a separate expedition just for the purpose, although it's possible that your teams can set up more equipment as they go. That would be the most expedient way to handle that kind of attempt at a solution, but it would only be an attempt.

[He doubts there will be a next time... not because of the work he'll do, but because by his own estimate, this mission's chance of success is low. He could be wrong. People have been known to get lucky before, or to be released when it seems that the lesson has been taught. He hates being wrong, but in this case, if he were right and the consequences were as bad as they could possibly be, being wrong might be acceptable.]

[2leftfeet]

[She's got her fingers crossed for consecutive runs out into the ship - but even she knows that doesn't usually amount to shit. The idea is a nice one though, and if she ship decides to give her a chance to repeat the foray into it then they might as well do their best to be prepared.]

They can set up equipment as they go. If we can do anything to make the ship safer or more accessible, I'd consider it progress.