February System Mingle

[thespaceopera]

Who: EVERYONE!!!
Broadcast: Possibly
Action: The Shinda BR-10 System
When: The fleet will be in this system from 1/26 to 2/23



Welcome to the Shinda system! There are three explorable planets here - Duotera, Ebrion, and Philias - each with its own current temperature state. Get out there and see the sights - but do please prepare for the extreme weather as necessary!

→ More system info is here!

Comments

[wolfehawke]

It gets colder during Ferelden winters. That and I've no choice in where the deliveries go.

[He shrugs and grins, leaning against a support beam to take a quick breather before he has to head back out again.]

Really? I thought all this space stuff only worked one way.

[candothat]

Even so, I'm surprised that you aren't miserable. Everyone else from the fleet has complained about how cold it is here.

[He doesn't quite laugh at his assessment of space stuff and how it works, but it's a near thing.]

Not all, no. Think of it like... walking, maybe. The goal and the basic action is always the same, but other things--gait, speed, footwear, the number of feet doing the walking--are variable from one person to another, and even more variable between species.

[wolfehawke]

I'm used to cold. Maker, sometimes I radiate cold. As long as its a natural cold like ice I'm not very concerned by it. It's when it's the cold of the Void that I start to think twice.

[Space sucks and is terrifying, Pavel. It's so bad.]

And that does make a sort of sense. Everyone has their own style of things, I suppose, even shipsmiths.

[candothat]

The void? What void?

[Surely he isn't talking about space. Surely the Void is some awful thing in Adalwolfe's universe.]

Shipsmiths. I have never heard engineers called that. It sounds far more dignified, I think.

[wolfehawke]

[The Void is the absence of creation in Andrastian doctrine and if space doesn't fit the bill, Wolfe will eat his proverbial hat.]

Ah, engineers, right. That's the word.

[He shrugs, trying not to get defensive over his lack of knowledge.]

There's blacksmiths and silversmiths and whatall and ships are made of metal, so I just figured...

[candothat]

[Space is beautiful and wonderful, this is crazy talk!]

No, I like shipsmith. Closer to shipwright, which is also a word for someone who makes ships. Language is baffling.

[He holds up two hand-sized pieces of metal--nearly identical, but one is a bit rounder at the edges--for inspection.]

Which of these do you prefer aesthetically?

[wolfehawke]

Uuhhh probably the sharper one. What's it for?

[candothat]

Selling. One of my jobs today is assembling an attractive display.

[The person who gave him this task probably meant that in a 'display this sale scrap in an attractive way' sort of way and not a 'display attractive pieces of scrap' way, but.]

What are your jobs today? All delivery between the planets?