driftfleet | video/optional action

Who: Arthur
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Red fish if you want
When: Today

[Arthur turns on the video, and it appears he's hanging out in his bunk on the Red fish. He holds up a small moleskine notebook, turning the page to the camera and letting it adjust. On the page is a very neat, realistic sketch of a woman's face, delicate with big eyes and long dark hair. He flips it to the next page, where he sketched a man's face, with bigger lips and scruff around his mouth. He takes the notebook away so the camera can focus on his own face.]

Those are just some sketches of people I know. I was thinking maybe I could try and draw things for people. I can even try for some portraits of people from your home, if you'll describe them to me.

[ooc: The drawings are of Ariadne and Eames from Inception. I really like the idea of Arthur sketching people in his notebook, and I imagine his style of art like sin_repent's version. ANYWAY, feel free to have facetwin confusion with the drawings if you'd like.]

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Or amused that he looks like some dirty asshole.

[Sorry Max.]

What would you normally use a holo for?

Anything you might need an image for. Videos, portraits. It just has to have the right data to be projected if you've got the right device around.

Is it just a projected image that doesn't move, or can you set it up to interact with you?

[Whoops Arthur's in learning mode.]

[Well, she seems eager to discuss it. Jaina loves this stuff.]

Both, depending on how you set it up. It's easiest to set up a specific recording -- it's just a video that can be projected in three dimensions. Watch the news, maybe a holodrama. Then you could set it up for communications. Not that different from this call.

If you want a hologram that interacts with you on its own, you'd probably need to cook up an AI like you'd see in a droid.

That's fascinating. Is that sort of technology possible here?

It's just a matter of getting the rights. That's the nice thing about tech, it's not dealing in uncertainties. If you have this set up correctly, it will perform that function.

The fleet's pretty advanced. I'd say they're able to develop holos if they want it.

[She bites her lip as a thought occurs.]

Actually, has anyone seen how they broadcast us for their show? It'd be easy to assume they do it the way our communication does, but what if they're broadcasting for people with holoprojecters?

Right, [he says with a smile. That's why he's always loved working with the PASIV device better than with people.]

I don't know. I'm so new, I haven't even thought to ask that. [What an interesting thought, though. He hasn't really thought about the show much, but it skeeves him out. He frowns.] How do they get the video of us?

I'm not too sure how. I've mostly been getting used to how to take care of my maintenance duties on the ship -- it works a bit differently than any of the systems on the ships back in my galaxy.

So you worked on ships back home? I can't even imagine... It's so different from my world.

[She nods, enthusiastic.]

My dad has an old YT freighter that needs plenty of maintenance, and I've been getting experience on shuttles while I've been at the Jedi Academy. It's just a matter of getting to know how all the parts fit together.

[She says it like that's the simplest thing in the world.]

[Daww that's awesome.]

Maintaining devices and machines makes sense to me. More than people.

What do they teach at the Jedi Academy?