driftfleet | video broadcast

Who: The Vision
Broadcast: Fleetwide, open
Action: The abandoned bug ship
When: 6/27 late in the day

[The video opens up to show what sure is a red-skinned guy in a skin-tight blue suit with a bright yellow jewel on his forehead. Someone isn't going for subtlety with his look. When he speaks, it's with a cultured voice and a light British accent.]

Good evening. For those of you I have not yet met, my name is the Vision and yes, this is my normal appearance. I am an engineer aboard the SS Windrose. Like many of you I have been exploring the derelict ship and I believe it is possible to cleanse it of the fungal infection using a process known as vacuum sterilization. Essentially this means moving the air to one half the ship and opening airlocks on the other half, allowing anything not securely bolted to be swept into space - including infectious spores. We would then close the doors, filter the air, move it to the disinfected side and repeat the process. Once it is clean, we may investigate further without fear of infection to ourselves and determine if the ship is capable of being used by us, either for our own purposes or to return to its original owners.

[His expression softens to one of sorrow.] However, in order to be fully confident this cleansing would be effective, it would be necessary to release the infected bodies of the fallen life-forms into space as well. They were once fully sapient individuals, before the infection took hold, and such an action should not be undertaken lightly. Is this a course of action the Fleet would support? If there are any of you who are conversant in such things, would you consider holding a funeral or memorial ceremony for those who have been our enemies?

I welcome your input. Thank you for listening.

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[ Bucky laughs at that. He almost wishes Tony was, imagining the smug look on his face when he says he built something like the Vision. This Ultron fella though — ]

Do you know a Miss Wanda Maximoff?

She is a good friend and a teammate. Her heart is in the right place.

[Yeah, no Ultron's a crazy person. As much as the Vision respects his creators, there was a line. Ultron crossed that line, and then he was no more.]

[ Good that someone has that opinion of Wanda. It might just convince her it's true. ]

And Steve? [ a beat, as he realises the familiar address ] Captain Rogers?

[ He's learnt there's other universes out there, and Vision didn't recognise him. So it's Steve who lived, or someone else entirely. ]

[Familiar address, indeed. Well, that does confirm that one James Barnes may be related to another James Barnes, doesn't it? His expression doesn't outwardly change, though.]

Captain Rogers is our leader.

[ He almost sags with relief. He'd been so ready to hear — something else. Just as terrible as he's dead. Bucky takes a soft breath. ]

He's a dear friend. Any teammate of his is good people by me. It's nice to meet you proper, Vision.

I do consider him 'good people', and I'd treat his friends likewise. I'm glad to meet you as well.

[ he claps his hands. ]

Right. Now we're sorted, just put me where you need me.

[The Vision nods and sends Jim the map he's made of the ship so far over the communicators. One section is highlighted in yellow, another in red.]

The red represents the largest concentration of the alien life-forms. The yellow are unsecured areas which still need to be analyzed for information and secured against incursion. Please head toward whichever you prefer.

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