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thisavrou2016-04-01 10:02 pm
keelahselai) wrote in thisavrou2016-04-01 10:02 pm
video; 01/04
[It's basically the middle of the night cycle when you might notice - or be woken up by - the sound of the engines starting to fade down to almost nothing. Machinery usually powerful enough to reverberate - albeit very softly - throughout the ship goes still. It's just about completely silent when the MID broadcast goes out.
Tali's isn't a face - or mask, right now - that's seen on the network much, but here she is anyway. There's a slight air to her of having prepared this in her head.]
If you just noticed the engines shutting down, don't be alarmed. They're just in standby so I can do some maintenance. [Her eyes are only just visible as glowing points behind the opaque visor, but her whole head moves to pay attention to something below the MID - and there's the sound of her keying in commands one-handed.] I'd like to tell you it's routine maintenance, but tiny bots eating into the manifolds isn't routine in most places I've been.
It'll be done in a couple of hours. [...Pause.] I don't think I need to tell you that life support's still running... Do I?
[Well, she just did. She's about to sign off when--] Oh! Almost forgot.
I asked the captains a while back if I could start doing some research into the Ingress. How it works, what's wrong with it... Anything we can use, anything that might help us repair it, or...or something. [This is clearly not rehearsed.]
It'll be slower work on my own, so I'd really appreciate some help looking into it - and anybody who works with the Ingress probably knows it better than I do right now, too.
Let me know.
Tali's isn't a face - or mask, right now - that's seen on the network much, but here she is anyway. There's a slight air to her of having prepared this in her head.]
If you just noticed the engines shutting down, don't be alarmed. They're just in standby so I can do some maintenance. [Her eyes are only just visible as glowing points behind the opaque visor, but her whole head moves to pay attention to something below the MID - and there's the sound of her keying in commands one-handed.] I'd like to tell you it's routine maintenance, but tiny bots eating into the manifolds isn't routine in most places I've been.
It'll be done in a couple of hours. [...Pause.] I don't think I need to tell you that life support's still running... Do I?
[Well, she just did. She's about to sign off when--] Oh! Almost forgot.
I asked the captains a while back if I could start doing some research into the Ingress. How it works, what's wrong with it... Anything we can use, anything that might help us repair it, or...or something. [This is clearly not rehearsed.]
It'll be slower work on my own, so I'd really appreciate some help looking into it - and anybody who works with the Ingress probably knows it better than I do right now, too.
Let me know.
no subject
Only that constant threat, the fact that she too has difficulty sleeping and staying asleep even now, makes her wonder at all if the two of them share similar problems. She nods - but it doesn't stop her feeling a little bad all the same.]
You might have to ask the captains about some of the Ingress data. As far as I know they're only letting authorised people work on it, so they might think anything we find out from that is sensitive. [It's something that wouldn't even have occurred to her back home, but she's never going to stop being just a little nervous around authority figures - and of angering them - now.] But anything I find out from other research is fine - and I don't mind making it available.
Do you have any tech experience at all, or would you need it in layman's terms? [She's trying to get used to not technobabbling at people who would have no idea what she's talking about, but even Tali's idea of layman's terms is probably...dense.]
post-hiatus tag, totally okay if you drop!
When she asks about his experience, Snake exhales and shrugs. ] Definitely not an expert. It's one of my weaker areas, but a friend of mine back home was a whiz with it, so I've picked up a little. [ Granted, Otacon tended to hold his hand through a lot of the overly technical stuff, so Snake has had that crutch for a while.
Except that he doesn't have it here. ]
Layman's terms might be best. Space travel wasn't really a developed thing where I come from. [ If it was for Tali, then they would be on entirely different wavelengths when it comes to technical complexity. ]