Rip-Van-Sokka II: Electric Boogaloo

[alwayscomeback]

Who: Sokka and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Blue Fish
When: Today!

[Sokka's been asleep for about two weeks, and he's certainly been busy in his dreaming state. When he wakes up and finds himself in his own captain bed, there's a brief moment of confusion. He'd only just been home, having a delicious meal, knowing his life, his Tribe faced an uncertain future. And now he's...on the Blue Fish. The name comes back to him with the low hum of the engine. Well, at least he knew what he was getting here, mostly.

He'll be getting up and exploring around, please feed him. He had the BEST food memory-dream.

And later, once he's learned a little more from his crew of the events he's missed, he turns on the network.]

So apparently, Atroma decided to let me sleep though us finally getting any kind of answers. Because that's funny. I'm laughing. I need details, guys, anything you can give me that you found out. Doesn't matter if I've heard it before, different perspectives are important.

[That's his latest Life Lesson He Learned. Yay.]

...And I'm sorry. For people who lost people. Seems there was a lot of that while I was asleep.

Comments

[tempredmental]

[Keith nodded a little.]

The reaction from the Marsiva might make them a bit more cautious going forward... at least for a little while. [Keith wouldn't blame them, to be honest.] But, hopefully, they weren't wiped out.

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I don't blame them for that. Getting shot at would do that to just about anyone. But yeah, I really hope they got out of it.

...Least we know the Marsiva is definitely packing heat now. Yay.

[tempredmental]

Yeah... yay... [Keith was definitely not cheering.] I just hope they don't turn that firepower on one of our ships.

[He was looking over some of the items in the pile, then shuffled a few around a bit before frowning and looking away again.]

Well, this is here if you want to add to it or try studying it. [He got up, not sure he liked the current direction of their chat.] It'll be good for us.

[alwayscomeback]

That's what we have to hope for. Especially considering they could just switch off our shields, our weapons, heck, our steering if they really wanted to. We really need to figure out how to wrench control of the ships from them, or if not, use the Iskualit as a way to get away.

[They absolutely can't just assume Atroma will never turn on them. Not any more. ]

It will. It's good we got this. It's something, at least.

[tempredmental]

The Iskaulit came later, didn't it?

[Keith leaned against the wall, crossing his arms.]

But no one actually controls it?

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Uh huh. We tried to save the original crew. The people it came from gave it us as a gift for at least trying to rescue them.

It just tags along, it's ours, not Atroma's.

[tempredmental]

Has anyone been able to find a control room?

[Because, if that was the case, then it might be a better shot than one of the other ships. Though, they'd have to make sure they could defend against that cannon...]

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Oh yeah, but so far they're unresponsive. It just follows our flight path.

[tempredmental]

[That was disappointing.]

Hm. I'd like to take a look some time.

[He might not be able to figure out how to override the system and get the controls to respond, but it would be worth looking anyway.]

[alwayscomeback]

It wouldn't be a bad idea. You never know if we might be able to do something to make it more of ours. Instead of...I don't know. Neutral party?

[tempredmental]

[Keith nodded.]

There's gotta be someone in the Fleet who's familiar enough with computers to figure out a way to take control.

I'd also like to see if there's a way to disable the Marsiva's cannon before we try anything like running off.

[He'd seen massive shipboard cannons before on Galra battlecruisers, but they were mounted externally with a particle shield around them. Having it inside the ship was a new one for him.]

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You'd think so, right? Or at least spaceships, I guess?

[He sucks in a breath between his teeth. ]

Yeesh, you're right there. The last thing we need is that thing pointed towards us.

[tempredmental]

Well, if anything, I've noticed the ships here are just different enough from the ones I know back home as far as the controls. I'm pretty sure I could have figured it out on my own, but the augment thing definitely got rid of the learning curve.

[Keith frowned a bit, rubbing at the small lump where it was installed. It bothered him that it was there, but the idea of taking it out on his own, or having someone do it for him, bothered him more. Who knew just how integrated these things were in their brains? He wasn't quite ready to risk that, yet.]

I wonder how similar the Iskaulit's systems are to our own ships?

[He was definitely brainstorming something now, but he wasn't ready to completely voice it. Not until he'd seen the control room himself.]

No. Massive cannons like that are definitely not meant to be friendly. [Keith shook his head a little.] I've seen some back home... mounted on battleships. They're designed to make quick work of the enemy.

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Yeah? That's useful. I only had the augments to lean back on, til I got used to the place.

[Sokka's SEEN what happens to people who try to take them out. Nope. No thanks. Not for him. ]

Different, I'd say, not hugely, but it was made by a race of bug-people, so-

[Yippie :| ]

And given the two times we've been actively SHOT at, you'd think they would have used that thing to defend us. But they didn't. Question is, why?

[tempredmental]

They didn't? [Keith frowned at that revelation. The bug people thing he'd worry about later if he got up to the control room.] But, you'd think they want to protect their show, right? Their... assets. [He hated considering the Fleet in that light, but that was essentially what they were, right?]

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Nope! I mean, sure the people who shot at us seem to be on our side, but why not help us out? Our ships got pretty badly damaged. But they didn't seem to care at all.

[tempredmental]

Wait... they were on your side, but they shot at you?

[Tense first meeting, perhaps? Keith knew what that was like thanks the Blade Marmora. His Lion had kind of sort of done some damage to their base... but that was a story for another time. At least they didn't seem too sore about it in the end.]

What happened with that?

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They were the Interceptors. Hence why I don't really trust them all that much.

[Shoot a them twice and all that. ]

The first time they just damaged the ships. The second time, they pushed us into a nebula and we lost power for a while.

[tempredmental]

[Keith flinched slightly.]

Why would they do that? It's not like attacking us is going to get them to the Atroma, right?

[alwayscomeback]

I don't know. I mean, the nebula did disconnect us from Atroma for a while? I was planning to ask them about it if I ever got the chance to, but nooooo I had to sleep through it.

[tempredmental]

[Keith considered that for a moment, leaning on the back of the closest chair now and crossing his arms.]

Without control over the ships, there's no way to get back there, I'm guessing. But... there must have been some kind of interference in the nebula. Did anyone figure out what about it got you disconnected?

[alwayscomeback]

Nope. Electromagnetic disturbance maybe? Whatever it was, it got Atroma rattled. They announced when everything was back in working order and everything.

[tempredmental]

Hm.

[Keith was curious, definitely.]

I wonder if we could figure out a way to replicate it. You know, break the connection ourselves.

Someone with a communications or engineering augment would likely know the most in order to pull that off, but I feel like it would have to be someone who also is familiar with that stuff to begin with. Not just someone who arrived here and didn't know anything about it before.

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Maybe? We'd have to come across another nebula and have the chance to actually study it- work out what makes it tic.

[He smiles, tapping his head. ]

Luckily, I have engineering. I've been here a while, but everything I know about space is what I've learned from being here... [a pause, a smile] but I do know someone who's a major space expert.

[tempredmental]

[Someone else who knew about space? Keith brightened up.]

Yeah? Who's that?