text; MID updates

[petridish]

[Her posts display as being from Jane, MID technician.]

Moira crew,

In my new position as MID technician, I have added a couple of new apps and upgraded an existing app on your MIDs. They are as follows:

Map and Moira Positioning System (MPS)
This shows you a detailed layout of the ship, and you can use the MPS to give you a route to any navigational point on the ship you choose. You can also add notes to your map.

Medbay alerts
This feature will automatically send an alert to the medbay and navigation when your vital signs hit critical levels, with your name and position on the Moira, so that medbay technicians can find you and the captains are aware of your condition. If you are off the ship, the alert will give your distance from the ship and an approximate time it will take technicians to reach you. You will also receive a reply with an ETA for your recovery.

I thought with the life support still malfunctioning, it should be as easy as possible to find anyone in danger.

And speaking of being in danger, the upgrade is to the directory. In addition to the color coded basic life statuses, you can now enter short text updates of your condition for the rest of the crew to see, or, if you know the code used, program in automatic updates. I suggest you use this in crisis situations to let your friends and coworkers know how or where you are at a glance.

You will also notice a game named "Bonsai". This automatically installed when I pushed through the above updates; I did not make it. Do not ask me for technical support for it.

I hope these features are useful to you. [Besides the cat game. That is Not Useful.] If you have any questions, feedback, or suggestions for new functions, please let me know.

- Commander Shepard

Comments

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[whatdidisay]

( this is ivan. this is ivan looking horrified. )

If you didn't program the game, who did? The last thing I need is to be reminded about that damn tree, only now it's dropped kittens and there's a game about it!

[petridish]

[bewildered shrug]

Hell if I know. A previous MID technician? The code was already there.

[whatdidisay]

I didn't even think they were supposed to come off the thing. They weren't on the tree back on Eta Ceta.

( please don't ask him how he knows. )

How? No one not from my universe knew it existed until it got sent to me here. Unless someone around here is into horrific genetic art just for the hell of it.

[petridish]

That thing's from your world?

[whatdidisay]

Good god, no. Barrayar would have cried mutation and burnt the thing before it even bloomed. ( they're very touchy about that sort of thing where he's from. ) I saw a larger version of it on Eta Ceta IV, which is an entirely different planet.

[petridish]

One in your universe, or one that the Moira has visited?

[whatdidisay]

My universe. ( oh right he never really explained-- ) I've from Barrayar, it's one of three planets in the Barrayaran Empire: Barrayar, Komarr, and Sergyar. Eta Ceta IV is the capital planet of the Cetagandan Empire, which is about eight planets big -- they're constantly gunning for a ninth, you know, but haven't managed it. You'd think they'd stop trying after a while, actually, on account of the fact that we're not going to let them if we can help it. Point of pride.

( get to the point, ivan )

Anyway. The Cetagandans like to screw around with genetics just to see what they can come up with. Art, that's what they call it. The tree's an example of that.

I'm so sorry

[petridish]

Ah.

[Note to self: Cats don't grow on trees. Don't pull a Starflight and go shooting your mouth off on the network.]

Maybe a Cetagandan was in the Moira's previous crew and left the code in.

[whatdidisay]

Good god, I hope not. I've had enough of their... Cetagandan-ness to last me a lifetime.

( and then, b/c he's ivan -- )

It's nice work, though. The coding you did. We should celebrate it, if you want -- get a drink at the bar.

( ivan, no. )

[petridish]

[w h a t]

- uh, sure. When?

[whatdidisay]

Whenever's convenient for you.

( i'm so sorry, cloney. )