keelahselai: (You fake fraudulent motherfucker)
Tali'Zorah vas whatever ([personal profile] keelahselai) wrote in [community profile] 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.
beautifulspaceraptor: (>:c ?)

[personal profile] beautifulspaceraptor 2016-05-15 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Another ship, then. Not the Moira. Nihlus debates asking about it, but there's a certain edge to Tali's voice that makes him pause and he lets the topic pass for the time being.]

Most of the AI I've dealt with were early projects that needed to be shut down.

[Most of them. The rest weren't... quite so early and Nihlus had never really let himself think about those. Most hadn't been self aware. Some were monstrous. Some were not. It's been a long eight years.]

I honestly don't mind not understanding as long as I'm not dead. [This is his motto for dealing with Saren and pretty much most weird and whacky situations like this.] Although with the way things have been the past few days, some understanding would be nice.

[The whole deal with Rinzler was... he's not sure how to feel about it.]