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[detectivewonder]

Who: Tim Drake and you!
Broadcast: Fleet-wide.
Action: Aboard the First Breath.
When: Shortly after the shuffle.

[Text]
JIEYJ XBQXO PYUKO CQZHL TIDPS UKCEJ OVKGW OIDIY CHFQZ YCOIH YYJQF
QOBHJ OPUBP IEFUV EVSHZ RTRFD ZRTMU RGPPH JOOKG KMDIO SIVFO ZWZSV

[Video]

So, when I have missing crew, that just means... what? Their ratings were terrible so they got dropped? It can't be that easy, or people would sabotage their own ratings to get sent home.

Comments

[alwayscomeback]

Sooooo a code?

[detectivewonder]

Just playing around with the idea of having something that can authenticate my transmissions, even if I don't have a comm officer.

[alwayscomeback]

Huh.

That's pretty neat.

[detectivewonder]

Two-factor authentication is pretty basic to security, and since we seem to get screwed with a lot, a verification that isn't controlled by ship's systems could help.

[He's really warming to this line of improvisatory bullshit, seeing as it is in fact a code.]

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka will buy it. Totally.]

It could mean we could break from them. For good.

[detectivewonder]

[I mean, it could work. It's just not what he's actually doing.]

Or at least, secure communications even when our heads or our gear are being messed with.

[alwayscomeback]

Which, let's face it, they're gonna do again.

[detectivewonder]

I guessed that.

[alwayscomeback]

And it's better we're prepared.

[detectivewonder]

Always.