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Heron May mingle

Who: Heron crew and visitors
Broadcast: nope
Action: the Heron
When: all May!

[Birds of a feather mingle together.]

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I'm going to put myself first and ask if you and Hank can't put your collective brains together and make me a retractable seat for my chair. Something I can raise and lower with a lever or some other device.

Secondly, I might need your help trying to repurpose Alex's suit. There's someone here with a similar problem. The metal work for that needs to be fine and inlaid into the device needed.

[ He hesitates. ] Someone brought up making Cerebro here, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea.

[Erik nods through Charles's explanation of the first job. It shouldn't be too difficult in terms of materials, just the mechanism. As the one with the engineering augment, he knows he'll have a better time of making that work. Having spent so much time assembling Kitty's claws has also given him a firmer understanding of levers, switches and spring-loading, which he can apply to other things.

The second takes him slightly by surprise, with the mention of Alex.] So you want a conduit like he had? I'm assuming Hank came up with the original, and could explain the design needed. Who would be using it?

...hmm. [Cerebro, in a space like this. It's hard to conceptualise, given the sheer size of the room back home.] That would be incredibly hard to fit anywhere, you realise. Before even getting into the other things.

Another mutant I've met. He can control his powers, but he needs to burn through all that energy. Maybe if I adjusted it for gloves, it would be easier . . . [ Charles' thoughts wander before he shakes himself out of it. ]

He pointed out that because we have access to other technology here, it could be downsized. I'm still not sold on its practicality in the Fleet though.

Whatever shape it is, I can still make it work. I don't think it's someone I've met, though. [Rogue is the only one he's met whose powers he doesn't know, and Charles said it was a man.]

What would you even use it for?

I believe his name is Gambit. He has similar powers.

I'm not sure. To ferret out the Atroma? The idea came from Kurt, and he didn't know much about Cerebro anyway.

[He's still unfamiliar, so just shakes his head once. It doesn't matter much.

He decides not to ask which Kurt he means.] I suppose it could do that. We wouldn't know until we'd spent the time building it, however. Also... do we know how telepathy works in space? [Not that he thinks airborne thoughts work differently to those in a vacuum, but he knows very little about the physics of outer space.]