driftfleet | #002 [Video]

Who: Hiro Hamada and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: SS Bishop!
When: 3/8, in the afternoon

[What's that sound? The sound of an alarm going off. What's that video feed? Well, right now the camera is set on a bobblehead that is rattling like crazy. Its base has been elongated, and from under said base flashes (slowly) a red light. Then it turns blue after two buzzer sounds from the alarm. Then yellow. Then orange. Then green. Then purple. Back to red. It continues to cycle as Hiro turns the camera to face him, and he's bobbing his head with the beat of the buzzer while standing at a control panel of different metal than the ship that has been welded onto the wall by the door to the main deck. Every time he presses a button on said panel, the light changes color. Then he hits a small green button above a large red button on the side, and the whole thing stops.

[Yes, the entire Bishop was just subjected to that without warning.]

Pretty cool, huh?

[Hiro looks like a cat who just caught his very first bird.]

It's all hooked up to our control panels, but I can't program it to do everything I need it to until we have a pilot and a communications officer. Right now, we have fire, gas, and the latter half of the collision alarms. I still need to program one for docking and to hook up another to the radar so we can know when we're headed dangerously close to something that could damage the ship. Right now, we've only got one that tells us we've been hit.

[SHRUG.]

But since, for some reason, everything under the control panel looks like gibberish to me... [he takes a moment to look into the camera like he's on the office] ... we get to wait until we have someone more "competent" [airquotes!] than I am.

[VOICE EDITED IN LATER]

P.S., if there are any communications officers who wanna hop ship over to the Bishop for keeps, let me know. It'll work out best if you're one of two on your current ship.

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You call it whatever you want, Captain.

[i am such a kiss-ass]

[Biggest kiss ass ever. ]

I'll do just that.

Anyway, the alarm is a really cool idea. Pity the consoles don't make any sense. I've tried to get our ship off autopilot and nothing works.

Same here. I don't know if my pilot friends can help, but one of them is gonna come over and help me hook up the alarms for docking and on-course collision. Once we finally get a communications array here, I can hook up the last one to send a distress signal to the other ships.

And that's what we really need. Especially with that weird empty ship floating along with us. Something weird has to be up with that.

Yeah. If it's pointed out, and not explained, it's a plot device. Plain and simple. They're gonna mix things up for ratings, no doubt about it.

And I bet some people are crazy enough to try and get onto it.

Are you one of those people?

[I'm kind of one of those people.]

Not by myself. Because, hey, I like not being dead.

But I was thinking about sending a drone, or something. See if we could scan it. Maybe we can tell if it's really empty, then.

Has anyone tried hailing it?

I don't know. Maybe someone with a comms system has given it a try?

Well, that's out of the question over here. As much as I'm trying to fix that.

Same here, man. It really sucks, being stuck on autopilot, not being able to hail anyone.

I know. I can't even finish my alarms until we get a communications officer.

I mean, why give us a ship that's only half capable of doing anything? And then put like...two people with the same augment on the same ship? It doesn't make sense.

That's why I'm trying to get one of them to transfer over here. There are multiple ships with two, maybe you should put out an ad, too?

Maybe. We got one more space, after all.

Then I'd go looking for one. My ship has fewer people on it than any other one right now, so we've got more than enough room. I'm hoping I can snag us a pilot and a new lab tech, too.

Man, think about what you could accomplish with a full crew like that.

A fully-functioning alarm system.

[B(]

Well, yeah, there's that, but there's more. You might even be able to navigate away from Atroma's control.

[UGHHHHHHHH]

That sounds like a dream. You have no idea how hard it is to not explore space.

All I want is to find a way to get these things headed home.

It might not be that simple. A lot of us are from the same world in different times, or from different versions of the same world. That means we could be from different universes entirely.

...That is a frighteningly good point. We'd need a way to cross universes. Dimensions. Everything.

... I bet that's something we could figure out with enough time.

[Now that I know it's possible you better believe I am going to bust my ass trying to get a way to cross dimensions going.]

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