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Who: Oscar Mike and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva [video]
When: 6/27

[Video]

[There's a slight crackle as the transmission begins, but it's almost immediately interrupted by a horrendous banging noise, and the screen is momentarily invaded by an out of of focus blob of colour again and again. Beyond the noise, it's possible to make out a voice that seems to be both very far away as well as muffled by something or someone.]

Hey, hey computer. Computer person, you there?

[Thankfully the banging stops after only a few moments; someone's been tapping at the camera, but has since figured out that it isn't doing anything helpful. Without the finger to focus on, the camera is finally able to come into focus, revealing a- well, someone fully decked out in regulation power armor. Someone that sounds very confused and just a little annoyed.]

Okay, cool, guess you're taking a nap or something. Not like a guy's stuck here, no clue where he is, nah go on and take your computer nap and-look get me the hell out of here.

Montana? Cap'n Galt? Galilea? [There's an exasperated noise.] Benedict? Look haha, funny. Come pick me up from where ever this is. The computer is taking a lame-ass nap or something.

(ooc: Oscar Mike is actually semiliterate, so any characters responding in text are likely to have their messages at least somewhat misinterpreted. I'm so sorry)

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Perhaps one of them can come along to teach you how to use a camera properly.

Uh, I'm using it just fine bro. Not-bro. Yeah, not-bro. Someone's just taking a nap or something.

Really. The awful setup seems to suggest otherwise.

All of them? At the same time?

Hey, I'm not the one that put all the computers to sleep. That's like, totally a design flaw.

No. Your friends. The ones you names.

There are no computer people here to be asleep.

[Except for that bizarre human iteration of the Tenno's Cephalon, but the Stalker is staying far, far away from that...thing.]

Hey, soon as someone comes and picks me up we're good. Bros don't leave bros behind. And what sort of computer doesn't have an AI. Sounds like a crappy computer.

The computers here are not so fortunate as to have AIs.

Well they're kinda shitty computers then?

Yes. Well. I won't argue with that.

Well then why the hell are you usin' em?

They're the only ones we have.

Huh. Sounds stupid. Someone should look into that or something.

Are you volunteering?

Whut? No, 'course not I'm not a nerd. Only nerds know that kind of stuff.

[A what now?]

Well, unless you can produce someone with that...unique qualification, I'm afraid we are at the mercy of the Atroma to deliver us one of these..."computer-people."

To hell with that! Oscar Mike isn't at the mercy of anyone! How about I go down there and put a boot in this Atromuh's ass?

By all means. Once you have figured out where to find them, I would gladly join you.

Well, like they're somewhere here, right? What do they look like? Gonna friggin' pulverize them.

Nobody knows, though you would not be the first to ask.

Look, faceless horrifying wonders that haunt your dreams every time you close your eyes? I've killed 'em. Can't be too different.

Perhaps the Atroma should fear you. What is your name?

They totally should! The name's Oscar Mike, member of the United Peacekeeping Republic and certified badass Battleborn.

Battleborn, you say? What does that signify?

[Precisely the wrong question to ask if a short resolution is what anyone had in mind. Mike visibly perks, and though he may be wearing his helmet it's impossible to miss the shit-eating grin in his tones.]

Uh, well duh, it means I'm one of the best of the best of the best, a protector of a dying star, and a certified badass. Yeah, I'm awesome.

A dying star? Why is that worth protecting?

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