play a jingle, it's a mingle!

[geonomy]

Who: Vanquish crew and visitors
Broadcast: why
Action: Anywhere on board the Vanquish!
When: 11/25 and on!

[The ship is looking classier and cooler now, and what's this? Nice little gifts? Say it ain't so! Surely this must take some investigating!

Or, rather, some mingling! Haha!]

Comments

[techknowlogical]

[Koushirou is silent as he listens, focusing intently on Clay's explanation and on glancing over the paper as he speaks, putting together the information with the data itself. It all makes sense, and it seems like Clay's done almost all the work already anyway.]

I can perform the calculations then, if that's most useful.

[He's also curious--]

Is there a particular reason you chose these four stars?

[geonomy]

[Clay lets out a relieved sigh as he scrubs at his forehead, already handing a pencil over for Koushiro.]

Yeah, good, thanks. I'm way too tired to trust myself with calculations like that.

[He kind of feels like falling asleep in his chair again, except he kind of keeps doing that and he wakes up regretting it horribly later.]

Those four stars were the brightest ones that I saw. If I had the proper equipment and a lot more time, I could probably do more. But the brightest ones are typically the ones that are closest to the planet you're doing the calculations from, so that's... you know, what I'm going for. [Ugh. Tired.]

[techknowlogical]

[Koushirou takes the pencil and chooses a blank sheet of paper to write the calculations on; while he could do it all in his head, writing it out will just make sure he doesn't mess anything up.

It only takes a few seconds per problem, and then he passes the paper and pencil back toward Clay.]

That makes sense, unless they are particularly massive and luminous stars.

[Which will still be incredibly bright despite distance, although those types of stars are somewhat more rare.]

[geonomy]

Yeah, you're right about that. This helps figure out which ones are closest and which ones are just massive - plus they're easier to track when I only have myself and the radar as equipment.

[Clay takes a moment to look at everything Koushiro worked out, impressed by the speed, even though the numbers are just making him go cross-eyed. That tends to happen when he's tired. But still, he gives a half grin as he moves a hand to ruffle Koushiro's hair.]

You did that faster than me when I was your age. [And considering he was on the road to semi-genius already at that age, that's very impressive to him.] Thanks again, you're a life saver.