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[beautifulspaceraptor]

[Nihlus looks simultaneously sleep deprived and maniacally cheerful. It's probably a bit of a frightening combination for people who aren't too familiar with Turian facial expressions.]

It's DONE.

[Dramatically angling his MID towards a big boxy metal platform... thing, Nihlus keeps babbling.]

And by 'it', I mean the fabricator. If we ever need spare, obscure parts for repair or something, we can can now make things on the fly. It can also break down scrap and reform it into something more immediately useful or a shape better for storage. It can work with a lot of different materials too, unlike the mini-fabs in our omni-tool.

[Yeah, the people who aren't from the Mass Effect universe will probably be a bit confused by that, but Nihlus is too busy trucking on.]

Heck, we can do replacements parts for a lot of things on the fly now if it turns out conventional repair methods won't work. It's got a 3D scanner. Fabrication limit is uuuuh, 1.5 metric meters cubed and scanner limit is the same.

[Mostly human ship. Gotta remember their measuring system.]

If you need to use it, contact either me or our Chief of Engineering, Tali. Preferably me since she's busier being Chief and all. But both of us and the Captains have the keycards and the passcodes.

If you're in engineering and are interested in using it, we can run you through some training. Keycard and passcode privileges will need to be run through the Captains.

Mostly we just don't want people wasting ship resources and rendering giant steel butts and using them to club people or anything.

[VERY sleep deprived.]

Anyways, this is your announcement from Engineering. Leave any questions here.

Nihlus, out.

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[needsnoface]

[BB has been monitoring this, he has also been a cheating little stalker and using the environmental controls to monitor people and their health. Nihlus, he can now literally count on one hand how many times he's seen you actually use your room.]

As wonderful of a celebration this normally would require, especially from those of us who recall the initial reason such was first thought up...however, perhaps you should acquire actual sleep now.


Before you give some people even more terrible ideas while we still have access to credit cards.

[beautifulspaceraptor]

I have the best terrible ideas when I am sleep deprived, I'll have you know.

[Which is... nearly all the time now after his arrival, but that's besides the point.

Logically, he knows he can't exactly function like this for too long. Logic, unfortunately, has very little bearing on his sleeping habits.]

Hopefully, things should get a bit less hectic after this.

[That was KIND of an agreement about sleeping.]

[squadgoals]

Steel butts.

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Very dangerous.

VIDEO right yes

[squadgoals]

Uh huh. I guess a Turian would know what it's like to have a metallic body.

[t65]

[Far from confused, Luke looks ecstatic.]

Can it make repulsorlift engines?

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Assuming you have the materials in stock and the dimensions of the engine fit in a 1.5 meter cube of space... yes.

Otherwise, you'll have to make parts for it in the fabricator and put it together manually.

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[arcreact]

Holy shit.

I want twelve.

[beautifulspaceraptor]

I mean, you can probably make twelve pretty easily now. You'll have to order more Eezo through the Ingress though.

And there's not exactly a lot of space in the cargo bay for more of them at the moment unless you scale them down...

[arcreact]

This is like a "wish for infinity wishes from the genie" thing. Damn.

Anyway, engineering here. Sign me up for the tour, yesterday.

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Will do!

[OOC: Contact me if you want to play out a thread for that sometime?]

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[gladiumetscutum]

Now that is impressive.

[ Technology like that is amazing, even for Cortana. Nothing like it exists in her universe, so consider her absolutely fascinated with this news. She may have no use for it herself, but that doesn't mean a girl can't be interested. ]

Did you build that yourself?

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Tali and I worked on it together, but yeah. The only part that isn't custom is the containment units for the Eezo.

[gladiumetscutum]

You're quite the engineer.

[ It's possible she may have underestimated him. This is something much more complex than she'd expected out of him. No offence, Nihlus. ]

Eezo? I can't say I'm familiar with that term.

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Well, I had help.

[And if he's honest, Tali is definitely the better engineer out of the two of them. He was bit more specialized in the running solo special military operations. Thing.]

Eezo is shorthand for Element Zero. It's the basis for a lot of the tech in my universe. Basically, it creates a dark energy field if you run a current through it.

[gladiumetscutum]

Still, something like this built between only two of you? I'd say the compliment stands and applies to the both of you.

[ She can't imagine it's an easy thing to build, so who the better engineer is doesn't matter all that much, in her opinion. It's an impressive feat all the same. ]

Fascinating. I hope you don't mind me asking more, but I'm curious. What is it used for, exactly, in the tech in your universe? I've never heard of something like that being used in any sort of technology before.

[beautifulspaceraptor]

I'll relay that to the Chief. Hopefully she doesn't implode from the flattery.

[Nihlus is just a little bashful himself, but he takes it with grace.]

The applications are pretty varied, but it's mostly industrial. Construction, on-demand manufacturing, proto-typing, repair, so on, so forth. More specialized machines can do bio-printing. Just before I was pulled here, I read an article about it being used to make some fancy human bean water.

[gladiumetscutum]

If she does, let me know. That would be a reaction worth studying.

[ Her amusement is very clear in her tone. ]

I see. I've had the idea that our universes are similar on some level, at least in terms of period of time, but it sounds to me as though your technology blows that in my universe out of the water. I'd love to pick your brain about it at a more ideal time.

[ A beat. ]

...Human bean water, though?

[liberaltus]

Technology stuff again, yes? It looks impressive enough...and that's what counts.

[Because damnation if he knows about anything more advanced in technology than a trebuchet.]

[beautifulspaceraptor]

If you'd like some help orienting yourself with it, I'd be happy to assist?

[liberaltus]

I would be hard pressed to say that I wasn't interested...I'm very interested. In looking at it up close if possible, but even I would not leave me unsupervised.

[He has curious sparkle fingers.]

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Tali and I need to be contacted to operate it at any rate, so just say the word and we'll be there for any supervising needs.

[Curious sparkle fingers and tech is certainly going to be an interesting combination.]

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[armsmode]

Does it store information of what it produces within its machinery? Or can it produce an item without the blueprint being memorized?

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[beautifulspaceraptor]

There is onboard memory so we don't have to keep scanning or rendering things we need frequently. I will delete one-off projects for the sake of neatness, though.

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[armsmode]

Is it possible for me to intentionally wipe the memory of my recent use? If I recreate parts for my body, I do not want people to be able to assemble Dr. Kuseno's genius technologies and use them for evil.

[beautifulspaceraptor]

The data won't really be accessible to anyone without the keycard and code, but I will be wiping and one-off projects for the sake of tidiness and I certainly can wipe it for you too.

[armsmode]

I see. Where will it be located?

[beautifulspaceraptor]

It will be down in the cargo bay. Whenever you need to use it, just ping me and I'll unlock it for you. And see about converting whatever file formats you have into something compatible, possibly.