FOUR ( ᴛᴏʙɪᴀs ᴇᴀᴛᴏɴ ) (
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Two questions:
What are the expectations here?
What positions are available for those who can work?
[ an exit is what tobias really wants but a perfunctory search could have told him escape is impossible — and he scoured every relevant link, every post about the ship's life he could find.
he'll settle for knowing where the needs of the ship lie. ]
What are the expectations here?
What positions are available for those who can work?
[ an exit is what tobias really wants but a perfunctory search could have told him escape is impossible — and he scoured every relevant link, every post about the ship's life he could find.
he'll settle for knowing where the needs of the ship lie. ]
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[ the technology he worked with may not be this advanced, but there were cameras everywhere. where virtual information is concerned, computer defenses, like real ones, are never as unbreachable as one would hope.
he taps the screen again. ]
What about former crew? Too smart to be tracked?
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[ And to highlight that Nathan tapped in the number, which told him that Joseph Davies has last posted to the network seven months ago. He brought up the conversation with another tap of his finger on the keyboard. ]
Useful guy in other ways. You wanna see where all this is kept?
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Show me.
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Alright, well if you'll follow me.
[ Nathan guides the way down the stairs that are suspended against the back wall, down into the bull pen where comms officers usually worked and sometimes - for instance in the case of Nathan and Ryuzaki - occasionally seemed to live. The pods were all divided up behind makeshift walls constructed of sheets of whatever could be found welded together, predominately the extra parts used when they'd ripped everything useful out of the Scylla's consoles, giving Comms a different, almost futuristic feel to the rest of the ship. In fact, since the Scylla had been built decades later, that wasn't surprising at all, but it was at least refreshingly different. A painting hung behind one of the pods, and a cool breeze seemed to ooze from a doorway under the stairs. Beyond it, lines of servers were stacked up, generating heat, and dozens of fans and several refrigerator units filched from the top floor kitchens served to cool it down. ]
The network lives in there.
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strangely, perhaps, it's the painting that draws his attention. the skyline, the buildings, this city bears some similarities to his own. he nods toward it. ]
That anywhere in particular?
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New York City, from a rooftop in Brooklyn. That's it after a nuclear explosion--one I prevented from happening.
[ Not bragging at all, just stating a fact. He looks at Four rather than at the painting. ]
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Nuclear?
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Radioactive weapons? Fusion? Nuclear power?
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Can't say I've heard of any.
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[ But he's not an unreasonable man, and memories don't keep when people are returned to their worlds. ]
Atomic power is what it says on the tin, harnessing the power in atoms themselves, splitting them apart. Atomic bombs use that power explosively, to devastating effect.
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Guess I should be glad we don't have it.
[ though perhaps an explosion like it explains the level of ruination of the city's abandoned sector. of many of those buildings, only the shell is left when they have not collapsed entirely. ]
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[ Welp. They'll work it out at some point. Right now Nathan will go along thinking Four's from a world with flowers and puppies and rainbows on every street corner.
Well maybe not every street corner.
Alright, so you got any questions about the rest of this?
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You mentioned everything was undermanned. You have any people who can do repairs and run maintenance?
[ tobias looks to nathan. ]
You pull people from Engineering for that?
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Fortunately after two years here and overseeing the installation of most of this myself, I'm pretty good at keeping it running, and instructing whatever poor saps I can recruit into doing the same.
If you want to know how to really play with this technology, I'd be happy to offer you the same.
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[ a joke. even if nathan hadn't been the one to repeat what hew already knew — the problem regarding understaffing has been a constant one — in such circumstances no one can afford to be stingy with resources. ]
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Even if you opt for gunnery--or anything else for that matter. I can send a recommendation to Anderson and Teller if you want one.
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I'll save that for later. [ he adds evenly, ] I'm still trying to figure out which way is up. I haven't figured out yet where I could be of the most use.
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Of course. Getting the lay of the land first--that's wise. Well if you want to take a tour of any of the other departments, then.