Dumpster World Mingle

[passingthrough]

Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: Always possible one will sneak in
Action: TRASH PLANET! aka The Baruut System
When: October 2018

[When life gives you garbage, make projects of varying scopes and sizes! Site see in the lovely trash-covered vistas. Make a racing pod thing or go gambling. And remember the first rule of arena fighting is... not the face? Actually, I'm not sure if there are rules, but you can talk about it. It's pretty public anyway.

Enjoy your landfill of a system!]

Comments

[outstandingbalance]

Not especially long. For the most part, the drifts haven't been especially notable. [Which doesn't mean there hasn't been some action or drama, just that they haven't seemed pivotal or abnormally long.] At least not that I've noticed.

[unbearablynaive]

[He nods and then lets out a rueful huff.]

We must be traveling in some sort of faster-than-light bubble during a Drift, I think. Otherwise it would take us entirely too long to get to another system, even in the densest part of the galaxy. And yet even as an engineer, I couldn't tell you for certain how it works. I know how to repair the engines, should they go on the fritz, and I can tell if they're working properly or not. But as for the mechanism I'm completely befuddled.

[He gestures to the pile of junk he's gathered up.]

Hence, the drive to make something I do understand completely, which is under our direct control.

[outstandingbalance]

It's comforting to have something to work on that plays by the rules you're used to.

[Natasha can sympathize with that. She felt like that sometimes facing off against spies and politicians—nice break from aliens.]

Well, there's plenty here to fix.

[unbearablynaive]

Precisely. I'll take whatever control I can get.

[Natasha's skillset isn't one that comes into play terribly much here, is it? They may encounter alien spies and politicians from time to time, but it's not the same.]

Do you miss it? Having rules you're used to.

[outstandingbalance]

All the time. But I try not to dwell on it too much.

[unbearablynaive]

[As expected.]

No, you're very good at taking the situation as it is rather than as you wish it were.

[It's one of her qualities he admires most, actually.]

[outstandingbalance]

You miss a lot if you do it the other way. I don't have enough time to waste it wishing for things I can't have.

[unbearablynaive]

[He looks a wee bit rueful at that.]

Yes, well, I think I have that covered for the team most of the time.

[Says mister hey-wouldn't-it-be-cool-if-I-were-human.]

Though I'd like to think I have it better managed here than I do at home.

[outstandingbalance]

Honestly, I don't have any complaints. Here or at home.

[unbearablynaive]

I'm glad to hear it.

[And he's damnably sincere about it, too.]