ataraxion | 007. text.

Raven Reyes reporting from Engineering.

re: THE HALLWAY ODDITIES - Nothing new to report since Fitz's update, and in this case no news is good news. Looks like we're just getting a little more space, lights and vital systems booting up a few yards farther out each day. When the other shoe drops, we'll be the first to know and we'll make sure you're the second.

re: SUITS & SHUTTLES 101 - I'm still ready and willing to dish out lessons on how to use the suits and shuttles down in the Bay, in case (worst case scenario) part of the ship loses pressure or needs to evacuate. Better safe than sorry, etc. Just let me know. As for gunnery, that's all Jax.

re: ENGINEERING - We're a little more comfortable with the recruits we pulled in just before the last jump, but I'm looking to sign on a few more so my engineers can get more than six hours of sleep between shifts.

If any of the above listed things interest you and you're not already in a department, consider throwing your lot in with Engineering. We've even got a mascot.

Which reminds me.

re: THE TICKLISH CUBE OF FLESH - Couple of months ago, I got an unnerving flesh cube in my locker. Some of you have asked about it since. Yeah, I've still got it. It's Engineering's resident freak of nature. Sits at my desk whenever I'm on the monitors.

That's it.

[ now for the real reason this post is a thing: all current members of engineering and/or individuals who might want to be a member of engineering should definitely take a look at this page. it has information on the department from a technical standpoint and a daily-life standpoint, plus there's a little thing at the bottom to fill out so we can all handwave like motherfuckers.

EDIT: I'm so sorry for the unanimous wait re: tagbacks on this, I got two group presentations sprung on me this week ahaha weeps. ]

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[ she does shake it, then: ] You too. [ finally. dean's been dropping comments about his brother for ages now.

and she'll nod back toward the doors she emerged from, a sort of 'let's go'. ] If you know computers, that's honestly half the battle here. These systems aren't like anything you've ever seen, but the learning curve's only a bitch if you're starting from 'medieval'.

[Mostly good things, he'd hope. He had a rough last month.]

I'm no expert coder or anything, but I've hacked into some systems in the past. I'm pretty sure I can pick it up quickly enough.

[ pretty much exclusively good things, through some miracle.

anyway, by the time he's done reassuring her, they've arrived at a set of a half-dozen lit consoles and a few more idle ones. a few chairs sit scattered along the row of consoles, each with two monitors within reach. ]

This is the home base, I guess you could say. From these screens, we can monitor and even adjust damn near any part of the known ship. Electrical, temperature, gravity, the lifts and doors, you name it. Most of the time, if you're settled in here, you're just keeping an eye out for anything going screwy. These - [ she's leaning in, touching a few places on the screen to pull up different sets of real-time read-outs, ] - let you check the ship's vitals at any given time. Hardest part's remembering which ranges are 'normal', but unless someone took off with it we've got a cheat sheet floating around here somewhere anyway.

[ she glances at sam over her shoulder, to make sure he looks like he's following so far. to be sure: ] Any questions so far?

[He seems to be following along just fine, with no confusion on his face. Seems pretty simple, for the most part.]

Does that happen often? Things going screwy?

More often than we'd like. [ bi-monthly, approximately, but she's not positive enough on that to pass it off as fact. ] And the good news doesn't end there: When shit does go wrong, there's only about a 50% chance it'll show up on the monitors anyway. [ she gives a nod off toward one of the corridors leading out into the rest of engineering's vast hike of a complex, a sort of 'this way' as she sets off a moment later in that direction. ] That's why we've got - well, people like Dean actually. His job's about 10% fix-it, 90% making sure nothing needs fixed. Because even if the scans say we're in the clear, a manual check with your own two hands is never gonna lie to you.

[Well that's...disconcerting.]

No wonder you were asking for extra help.

[Considering if stuff around here fails, that spells bad news for everything. He takes in his surroundings as he follows after her.]

As long as it isn't vastly more complicated than a car engine, I should be good to go. Dean saw to that, too.

Sounds like you'll be fine. [ after all, dean's been fine, and he's even got the whole 'shitty attention span' thing going for him. ]

Glad to hear it.

[And he'll be a perfect student for the rest of the tour. Yay!]

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action; the rest of the tour is pretty boring, would you like to handwave and thread again soon? c:

sounds good to me! :3