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[passingthrough]

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: Open
Action: Tourist, or find her later on the Twin Roses or Iskaulit
When: March 2

[Kitty's morning on the Tourist did not go as planned. It's another hour or so before she makes this announcement. She doesn't even know what happened to the minutes in between. But she's all business when she looks into the communicator. No hiding behind text.]

Winn Schott is in a coma. [Blunt. Direct. Maybe she should have called a few people individually first like Kara, but she wasn't going to make it through this if she did that.] He always has projects going, so they're going to be late. If something is important let me know and I'll see if it's something I can work on in his place.

I already fed his slug today, but someone on the Tourist should take care of that until lazy wakes up. [The mild insult to cover feelings is so classic Kitty, circa home it may not even fit with what people of the fleet know of her. That Kitty had walls around her walls, but those are gone now.]

He's always checking on ship systems on the Twin Roses since we managed to merge and still not get an engineer out of the deal, so if anyone else can help us out with that in the meantime let me know. I'll also be working on the new dance studio later today if anyone wants to help. [Because this mission is almost complete and she needs another one so she can hold it together. Can't fall apart if she's sanding down floors.]

Comments

[scanninggaydis]

I wouldn't take it that far.

[No way, no how. Never going to happen.]

Maybe I'm just bored.

[passingthrough]

Bored works for me.

What have you been up to in the fleet? What are your days? [Distract her with your boredom.]

[scanninggaydis]

[Isn't that an oxymoronic request? He raises an eyebrow.]

My days are too long, for one thing. [But then he shrugs.] I spend time in the library, I mess around with the nav computers...

[Wow his life sounds really sad when he's asked to spell it out.]

Talk to my crewmates, I guess. Though I do more when we're actually within range of a planetary system.

[passingthrough]

[Eh, he still had an answer, even if it's not an exciting or productive one.] Exploring the systems is most of what I enjoy except... [Time with Winn.]

[scanninggaydis]

[He can guess what the rest of that answer was. Doesn't react, though, just keeps talking in an attempt to keep the conversation flowing past it.]

It's not an experience I thought I'd get, actually. Back home, we never came across any inhabited systems.

[passingthrough]

[This is probably wise.] ...Never? What about non-sentient life?

[scanninggaydis]

We did find non-sentient life. We also found two planets that had previously been inhabited but weren't anymore.

Our galaxy is a pretty lonely place, I guess.

[passingthrough]

Any idea what happened to the prior occupants or what kind of people they were?

[scanninggaydis]

Actually, yes. One of the planets was the birthplace of our civilization.

The other one was our version of Earth. Settled by the ancestors of those robots I mentioned.

[passingthrough]

Robots with ancestors, huh? You don't hear about that much.

[scanninggaydis]

[He makes a kind of dismissive gesture with one hand.]

Well. Ancestors, kind of. Earlier models.

But some of them can actually have children anyway. They're barely distinguishable from human.

[passingthrough]

...Wow. That's... I don't even know what that is. Are they making the children or are you telling me they can reproduce like us?

[scanninggaydis]

The second one. Though apparently it's really hard for them to reproduce with each other.

[passingthrough]

Sooo...they use you?

[scanninggaydis]

They tried, once.

[His face definitely darkens when he answers with that. He'd only heard vague reports of the facility they'd set up, but by all accounts...

After a few seconds, he shakes his head, sighs, lets that go.]

But the only child actually born to a Cylon and human was - is - actually the product of a marriage. And the mother is a Cylon.

[passingthrough]

[Alarming. But she listens, trying to understand the nuances of an entirely different people. Two entirely different peoples even.]

So, not always so contentious then?

[scanninggaydis]

I'd say their child was still a pretty contentious subject.

[The humans were scared of her, the Cylons wanted to study her....]

But at least it was consensual.

[There's a pause, and then he looks around the room a little pointedly.]

I'm supposed to be doing something, right?

[passingthrough]

Yeah, that sounds like a tough environment for a kid. [Feeling for her even without the details.]

Right. [Snapping out of the thought.] I'll put you to work. Thanks.

[scanninggaydis]

Not that I mind chatting. But I could probably be a little more useful.

[passingthrough]

Definitely. [The chatting might be more useful in some ways, but baby steps. She's not sure how much she's up for right now. She wants to live with her misery a little too. So she sets him up with a project and then attends the next person who comes in looking to be supportive. She does glance back at Felix. There's a look of gratitude.]