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[tennohno]

Who: SS Windrose crew and visitors
Broadcast: Le nope
Action: SS Windrose
When: April

[For the usage to mingle on the best ship in the fleet. Get your mingle on ladies, gents, and others!]

Comments

[ecclesiophobic]

Pass phrases that change on a regular basis. Codes are too easy to memorize. There should also be a record of innocuous events in our past that we can be questioned about should our behavior raise suspicion. Mystique cannot copy the memories of another person, but she is extremely observant and skilled at choosing forms that would go unnoticed. The memories chosen should be ones we're unlikely to talk about otherwise; the color of the towels in a childhood home, for example.

[He delivers all the information with the precision and lack of emotion inherent to delivering any other briefing. The pause in between those words and his next are decidedly atypical, though his voice is steady when he continues.] In her natural form, Mystique has red hair, skin the same shade blue as my fur, and eyes the same although the version here has visible pupils. Shape-shifting is her only mutant ability, though it carries with it a resistance to psychic intrusion, and whatever purely physical abilities the form she takes possesses. She is skilled at holding her form in the face of intense physical pain, less so in emotional distress. The version Kitty and I knew in our home was a member of the X-Men; however her true alliances were always to herself, and other version of her have allied with genocidal mutants in order to achieve her goals.

[unbearablynaive]

[The Vision nods, expression serious. He doesn't exactly have many memories...but then, he's also perfectly capable of just telling the electronics what to do. Especially since he'd be the one implementing security anyway.]

Can she mask her scent as well? If not, Officer Snuggles may be able to keep guard while he's on the ship. And while I'm fully aware retinal scans can be duplicated, brain patterns are much harder.

[ecclesiophobic]

[Its a credit to his training that the name only makes him blink briefly before continuing, with a straight face.] Scent, yes. Brain patterns, probably not. She's powerful, but she does have limits to the extent she can change herself.

I should also note that I will likely be in her presence on multiple occasions. Until I can determine her threat level beyond a doubt, if I come back to the Windrose in her company I shouldn't be allowed past the cargo bay until she leaves, regardless of what I might say at the time or what physical state I'm in. I'm also the crew member she's most likely to imitate, as she's likely familiar with another world's version of myself.

[unbearablynaive]

Then I propose facial recognition for the Stalker and a brainwave scan pattern for Mystique. Either database can be added to in the future, though in most cases the facial recognition should suffice. Both can be added to a simple security "camera" in the airlocks and cargo bay, and would require only a "knock" to allow entry.

[Of course, that means they'd have to obtain a branwave scan of Mystique, not to mention building the scan device for an airlock in the first place. But there are many technological components here on the moon, so it shouldn't be too hard to find parts.]

[pain_train]

[All of this sounds good, but...] How are you gonna get a brainwave scan for her?

[Glance at Kurt.] I'm guessing you're not from somewhere that uses neural ports. [Since then it's easy. You just hold them down and jam a scanner in their top port, takes about ten seconds.]

[Back to eyeing Kurt.] I'm not really a fan of regardless of physical state I'm in. I've made too many of those calls already in my life. Is she particularly resistant to less lethal techniques such as the application of gas suppression?

[Basically, she'd rather just gas the cargo hold and sort out the bodies than, you know, face watching one of her crew bleed out.]

[unbearablynaive]

I'm not sure, though it should be a matter of a handheld device in her vicinity rather than getting her into an MRI machine.

[He nods over to Kurt to continue his part of the discussion.]