audio;

[shiro2hero]

[Deep breaths. This is fine. This is all going to be fine. They can do this.]

[But if he broadens the search pool, the better the chances of this working out. As much as he hates to think about what he'd learned, as much as he wants to pretend it's all okay...]

[His voice is steady as ever, over the TAB. Despite the late hour.]

I'm looking for someone good with data extraction and compilation. Especially someone who can do that for alien or unfamiliar tech.

Maybe even translating unknown languages. I can't say for sure.

I'll take any help you can offer.

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[audio]

[ryuuzaki]

I've done this in the past, but it depends on how alien, for one thing.

[audio]

[shiro2hero]

Very, very alien. And I don't have a sample or anything to work off of as a way of translation.

[No Rosetta Stone here, whoops.]

[ryuuzaki]

What sort of culture is it from? How did you acquire it?

audio

[brokencode]

Shiro?

Um. We met at a store a couple of weeks ago. I don't have nearly the capabilities that I used to but technology and myself go hand-in-hand. Alien technology especially.

I... might be able to help, if you need it. Let me know.

audio

[shiro2hero]

Yeah, I remember. Angel, right?

[He almost says it's funny that she mentions "hand in hand". But then she probably didn't do it on purpose.]

I won't say no to help. I've honestly got no idea what I'm doing. All I know is, I've got data that needs to get extracted, and probably translated.

[brokencode]

[JFC, Shiro.....]

Yes, that's me. [She smiled, before realizing that he couldn't see her.]

I make no promises when it comes to translation, but extracting the data shouldn't be difficult by any stretch. My abilities allow me to hack into and navigate most technology. This place is probably just as alien to me as whatever it is you need me to look at, and I am able to integrate with them just as efficiently.

video

[indoctrinated]

I have committed to extensive research with alien tech before. Tech I was familiar with and tech I was not.

I am less familiar with translating languages, but I am patient.

What are you offering in return?

video

[shiro2hero]

Offering in return? I don't have anything but currency.

[He's got sencs, and that's about it.]

If that works for you, we can talk more details. But I know that's not for everyone.

[indoctrinated]

That'll do, provided that the pay is decent.

[Given Saren's lack of resources, he's not really picky as long as there's something to gain. He's not about to help a human for free.]

What are you working with?

audio, private

[businessinfront]

[ Because Keith doesn't keep normal sleeping hours, he's awake to see this... and immediately concerned. ]

Shiro? ... Is this about what I think it's about?

audio, private

[shiro2hero]

[They're basically related like that.]

What do you think it's about, first?

[No sense in worrying him if it's not.]

audio, private

[businessinfront]

Did... someone tell you about your arm?

[VIDEO]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Data extraction?

What are you working on?

[VIDEO]

[shiro2hero]

A little hand-to-hand work.

[He says that with a 100% straight face, too.]

Also, why are you awake?

Re: [VIDEO]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

I've been fiddling with this pad that Lucio gave me. Lets me put together all kinds of schematics and designs and interact with them with my hands as opposed to sketching everything out piece by piece.

When inspiration strikes, I have a hard time sleeping until I get the idea down and pieced together.

I'd ask what you're doing awake, but the only time I've ever seen you asleep is when you were nearly dead. So, you know, I won't even bother with the stupid question.

[a_perfect_end]

Greetings!

...Quantify: alien.

[We're kinda. In outer space.]

I'm better with declarative or procedural taxonomy, but there's nothing that complex about the current object paradigm.

[Pause.]

...You meant spoken languages, didn't you.

[shiro2hero]

Alien as in, nonhuman? Nothing that's spoken here?

And yeah. Yeah, I did.

[a_perfect_end]

[Anything not human is automatically alien?

...Anything not human is automatically alien.

He's outed himself previously as a synthetic, but no way is he offering it up now.]

...That does narrow the subset, but ah. I was hoping for a general neighborhood--what do they call themselves, have they contacted you before, do you know where they're from--

If you will tell me more about the circumstances, I can go very fast.

And if you were to tell me what the data is for.

Can't work miracles without a sample, though.

[text/private]

[cifrado]

Not to brag, but I'm a little bit of an expert.

What do you have?

[text/private]

[shiro2hero]

Even with something that isn't human? Or spoken on Earth?

... data in an arm.

[text/private]

[cifrado]

Be silly to think I could still work on stuff from Earth in a place like this, no?

Let me take a look.

PRIVATE; VOICE

[squadgoals]

[He's already had an influx of offers — from literally across the spectrum of her trust. Ask a syntactical question, get a bunch of bored techies looking for a challenge, even if they were racist misanthropes in their day-to-day.

But hey, finding and (accidentally) acquiring and compiling alien tech. That was in her wheelhouse]

You find something interesting?

PRIVATE; video

[shiro2hero]

So to speak.

... I guess the better phrasing would be, it found me.

[He switches to video, to better show her his arm. Lucio trusted her. Good enough for him.]

.audio

[ultravires]

I cannot be of any service, sadly, though I am interested in what such individual can provide the service you need! I become curious in that deciphering language foreign to us without a basis of comparison to reference would be quite the feat indeed!

.audio

[shiro2hero]

Definitely isn't going to be easy. I don't have any sort of translation samples to go off of...

One of my teammates might, but I don't want to pile this all on her.