Why'd You Kill the Merchant?!

[sansseraph]

Who: ALL O' Y'ALL
Broadcast: If you want
Action: FRICK YEAH PARTY AT THE JUNKYARD...I mean, Waystation. Junkstation.
When: 10/07 - Event End

It looks more like a junk heap than a waystation, but luckily there aren't any math fetishists to add you to the pile (hopefully). Talk to the scavengers and heed their warnings...if you want. Or perhaps you'll approach a shady individual for purchasing or selling stuff.

"Welcome, stranger!"

Comments

[therewillbeorder]

You managed to find parts here to make a floating chair?

[This is he surprised by. He had managed to find some interesting parts around but the power source would be the tricky part.]

I'm curious how you managed that.

[pain_train]

Yeah. We've done a couple of iterations of it now, since the first one wasn't great--got the job done but didn't meet my specs and had shit for battery life--but it's a matter of just hunting for better parts at every stop and making some I guess?

[She shrugs.]

I'm not an engineer. But I tested a lot of float chairs when I was on medical discharge, so I could describe the concepts and specs and do some of the design work. The super smart engineers I got to help me did the real work. And me and Winter came up with all the credits to buy the materials.

[therewillbeorder]

[He supposed he shouldn't be too surprised that she knew Winter- the fleet wasn't that big relatively speaking but he kept his expression neutral.]

What did you use to power the chair?

[pain_train]

I don't know? You'd have to ask Vision or Erik. They were the engineers on it.

[therewillbeorder]

Vision? I don't think I've met them before. Are they an engineer? [Asking Erik was definitely out of the question and a subject best avoided.]

[pain_train]

He's the captain of my ship. And an engineer. And a computer person!

[therewillbeorder]

What ship are you on? It's always refreshing to be able to speak with someone who knows what a computer actually is.

[He's had to lower his expectations a lot when it came to assuming how advanced other people here were though. Anyone who knew how to put things together and who knew what a computer was seemed promising.]

[pain_train]

I'm on the Windrose! Best ship in the fleet.

[She laughs.] Yeah, there are a lot of people who aren't used to tech, but it's not really their fault they come from like dark ages Earth.

[therewillbeorder]

You're from Earth as well? I've heard a lot about that planet, it seems most people here are from that one place.

[And honestly, he didn't see what was so special about a planet which hadn't even advanced far enough to go to their own moon. No one had been able to explain to him in a way that made sense.]

[pain_train]

I'm not. My planet is an Earth colony, but I've never been to the home system. I've just like... Learned about it in school.

I think out of the people who come from some kind of Earth, I'm the furthest in the future?

[therewillbeorder]

Oh? I've heard most people from Earth aren't even familiar with their local star system- how far out is your colony from the Earth system in the galaxy?

I couldn't imagine being confined to one star system, let alone one planet.

[pain_train]

It's like... more than ten gates out. We're really far away. But we've been stuck on our planet for like twenty years because there's an orbital debris cloud we can't launch ships through.

[therewillbeorder]

A pity no one has been able to clear it but those can be tricky for larger ships to deal with more often than not. There have been destroyers taken out by debris fields before.