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Jaina Solo ([personal profile] two_jedi_sticks) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-02-05 10:48 pm

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Who: Jaina
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: There's a new engineer joining the Bishop.
When: She might manage to wait five minutes after the latest shuffling.

The layout of these controls don't make any kind of sense. Not by any scheme I've seen on a ship, anyway.

[Yep, there is a teenager with her device propped on a nearby console, leaning elbows on another while she peers at it, intent. As she goes, she nearly taps buttons and levers, behaving enough not to actually muck with anything.]

It's not like snubfighter controls. Believe me, I know. But if this were anything like a Corellian YT-series I'd expect this to handle pitch, and...that should be yaw. Are the thrusters strictly forward? Maybe there's a z-axis control.

[These are all incorrect, and she seems to understand that. She chews her bottom lip, distracted with thought, before she finally turns her head to look directly into the camera again.]

How universal are the designs on these ships? I'm on Bishop, and there's a few things I can peg as customizations, but not too much. I've got a feeling I should try to learn as much as I can. Especially if I'm going to have to open a few of these panels up after a while to make sure it keeps working correctly.

[Admittedly, part of that feeling is the simple fact that regardless of the circumstances surrounding her presence in this fleet, she is stoked about learning the intricacies of a new style of ship.]
resnipstance: angry, annoyed, irritated (164)

[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-02-19 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
The Atroma did.

And our accounts are already frozen. Unloading the cargo won't unfreeze them. We may as well keep them and get to the bottom of what the Atroma are up to.

It's infuriating, but if there's one thing I've learned here, it's that you get more by pretending to go along with them than outright rebellion.
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-02-19 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
I'll save you the hassle. They're ... gumballs.
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-02-19 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Let's be real: they're probably screwing us around for their own sick amusement.