audio

[ancillary]

Who: MIRANDA and OPEN
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Saturday (edited pre-shuffle)

AUDIO:

This is Miranda Lawson and it must be [ There was a rustling sound as she toyed with her ersonal communicators to check the time and found the task not really worth exhausting what little energy she had regained since her arrival. ] damned if I know. I'll keep this brief - airing my grievances about Atroma to any of you is one more voice preaching to the choir.

Before I'm randomly assigned a ship I would like to know now which if any vessel in the fleet is in dire need of lab support. Even without these...unfortunate augmentations [ Even without the video feed the word could be heard thinly pressed through her teeth. ] I'm hilariously overqualified for the position. Still, I would like to know where I stand and make myself useful.

Comments

audio:

[ancillary]

Not all aspects. Biochemistry and a few experimental sciences with applications that would be eyes only in any century are where I shine but primarily in the role of project oversight. Even still I'm more comfortable in field work.

[ With a decent budget she can raise the dead. ]

Believe me, even I find myself incongruous.

audio:

[intelligently]

At least you've been placed in an appropriate role, although you could probably learn anything else that came to you.

( Maybe she'd be decent at engineering, being so smart )

What century did you learn it all?

audio:

[ancillary]

No, I suppose that could be considered a silver lining.[ Not that she believes she needs to expand her repertoire but it couldn't hurt. ]

Twenty-second century.

audio:

[intelligently]

Then I suppose you're probably more suited to all of this, too. Space?

( It's a lot closer to one space universe she knows of than her own )

audio:

[ancillary]

Yes, actually. Though never outside the Sol system so there's a first.

[ Color her begrudgingly impressed. ]

audio:

[intelligently]

Has no one explored past the Sol system or did you just not have a reason to go anywhere else?

[ancillary]

The galaxy is very large - people tend to forget that when looking at universe as a whole. A single system contains sometimes upwards of hundreds of garden planets but like with anything else making them actually inhabitable is costly in both time and resources.

In a galaxy of dreamers and stargazers you need someone who sees the trees along with the forest.

[intelligently]

I didn't know you could make a planet inhabitable if it already wasn't. Is that part of what you do?

[ancillary]

Terra-forming is a complicated and not a sure thing. For example, we've only partially terraformed Mars and that took years. Anything can make a garden world uninhabitable dangerous from fauna to an unpredictable atmosphere the conditions to support human life is a delicate balance. I've personally been involved in although I have a solid understanding of the process.

You're a curious one, aren't you?

[intelligently]

You never know what could be important to know. Terra-forming could be something relevant to our situation. If we came to a planet.

[ancillary]

In the unlikely event we come across a planet that meets garden world criteria then - yes, I suppose I would be inclined to offer my expertise.

[intelligently]

Hopefully we'd be stopped long enough to let it finish.

[ancillary]

That's certainly one thing to hold out for.