driftfleet | Soooo, where are the space monsters?

Who: Newt & You!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: RIGHT NOW.

[ Awareness comes with a jerky start, Newt flinging himself upright with a very undignified noise. He brings his hands up to his face, trying to physically scrub awareness into his head. He's very much not a morning person. ~~Though what can really be considered morning anymore? It's all just 'waking up after sleep'.~~ He's not sure what it is exactly, but he slides his fingers open to venture a look around.

Color him surprised that he's not only not in his cluttered and tiny quarters, but he's also not on the ratty and very much used sofa thrown in the only amnesty space in his shared lab with Hermann. In fact, his surroundings aren't familiar in the least. It's been a long time since he's been able to admit that he's woken up in some place unfamiliar. Throwing his legs over the side of the cot, he jostles the communicator he hasn't discovered until now.

There is a collection of loud noises being broadcast as he shuffles around, drops the communicator on the ground, and picks it up again. Somehow, it's still broadcasting as audio.. Newt favors a look around, green eyes looking for one particular thing to focus on, though seemingly having trouble. That is until--]

Heilige Scheiße!!

[ The broadcast finally switches over to video as Newt all but runs to the observation deck, mouth agape and eyes absolutely sparkling. He's living the anime dream.

Curling his hand into a fist, he raps his knuckles on the window and decides this is very much real, though he still can't wrap his mind around it. Giant monsters invading earth through a rift in the middle of the ocean? Sure. Just-as giant robots in order to fight the giant monsters invading earth through a right in the middle of the ocean? Absolutely.
But space? Being in freaking space? He can't deal with the boyish glee and he lets out a whooping holler, punching the air like he's ten years old. ]

Hey, Hermann!! You've got to check this ou-- ….right. Uh. Herm? You there, dude? Or am I just.. talking to myself again? Please let there be Kaiju...

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Starfleet? Man, that's so Battlestar Galactica. I guess with so many professions surrounding it, you wouldn't really need to classify yourself as astronauts. More like Interstellar Explorers! I know NASA! I used to love watching really old recordings of takeoffs.

[ He grins broadly at her. ]

Well, I do have a few other PhD's under my belt, but my main love is biology. There's just something about how creatures work. From their behaviors to their molecular makeup-- Just. It's amazing. You wouldn't believe what we can figure out about the environment, shit, even what sort of evolutionary adaptations a species has taken, just by looking at them! [ He can go on forever and he's not sorry. ]

Battlest--?

[But she doesn't get her question in, because he's just plowing on. It's alright though, she's quite enjoying the scientific enthusiasm.]

I believe I have a little bit of idea, yes.

[ Leave it to Newt to hold the conversation on his own. ]

I'm so glad someone finally understands!!

[She laughs.]

Oh trust me, I know plenty of scientists who would love to chat with you all day about this sort of thing.

Any of them here? I'd definitely be up for some round table discussion. Especially if there are snacks involved.

Ah... Not here, no. At home. There aren't too many scientists in the Drift Fleet, and most of us who are here are engineers and doctors.

That's a bummer-- but I guess some is better than none.

[ His face falls in a way that looks like a child having a tantrum. ]

I got some sort of cooking thing. Those sound way more up my alley. I'm the worst at cooking.

Well, your augment should help some when it comes to the cooking but just because that's what you've been assigned by Atroma doesn't mean you can't help out in the labs or give the engineers a hand at keeping the ships in running order. Most of us fulfill more than one role here.

Soooo, where are the space monsters?

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