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FOUR ( ᴛᴏʙɪᴀs ᴇᴀᴛᴏɴ ) ([personal profile] exponentiate) wrote in [community profile] ataraxion2014-06-08 03:16 am

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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.
]
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[personal profile] cargojet 2014-06-13 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately so. Our routers don't cover the whole ship anyway, it'd have been unsafe to install them any further out than we have. That and the easiest way to stop the signal going out is just to turn off the device. Ward was last seen alive about six months ago, but by a man who's word I don't personally trust; the only person ported in on jump 19, and the only person ever brought in from this universe.
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[personal profile] cargojet 2014-06-14 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
As far as I know he's gone--as much as any of us are ever gone. No sign of him on the map, at least.

[ 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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[personal profile] cargojet 2014-06-16 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hey, it's reassuring to know that all that wonderful information is there, isn't it? It could always be worse. The pirates could have gotten in and taken everything. ]

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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[personal profile] cargojet 2014-06-19 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Nathan has a much smaller suitcase sized collection of storage devices which make it look even more unimpressive, but it is the abridged version--the one without all the chatter about cats and pool parties. He tilts his head up at the question, briefly confused as to what Four is asking about. The paintings have become such a fixture now that he almost forgets they're there. ]

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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[personal profile] cargojet 2014-06-20 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He tips his head. Okay that's weird--knows what a server is, but has no idea what nuclear is. Odd. ]

Radioactive weapons? Fusion? Nuclear power?
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[personal profile] cargojet 2014-06-20 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it's fine. It's just...I can't imagine a world without it. Safe from it. It almost makes me hesitant to fill you in on the details.

[ 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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[personal profile] cargojet 2014-06-23 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Your world is a better place for it.

[ 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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[personal profile] cargojet 2014-06-23 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Can't afford to. All our maintenance work has to be done in house, which means we work for as long as we have to rather than taking shift patterns. We just can't be taking people away from Engineering--they've got their own problems to deal with.

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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[personal profile] cargojet 2014-06-25 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't see it as a joke, but he's good natured about it anyway. ]

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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[personal profile] cargojet 2014-06-25 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's neither, really. The ship is desperate for volunteers, and all a recommendation does it give people a feeling that there's some sort of standards left, when obviously there haven't been for a long time. There is a ten year old girl working in Engineering, after all. It sounds good; sounds a lot better than 'please be on security, we'll take you even if you're a supervillain who hacks people to death'. ]

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.