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( cw: body horror and discussions of such )

Good afternoon, ladies, gentlemen, and others of the Moira.

[ The voice over the network is pleasant, an attempt to keep things light despite what she's here to discuss. After the happenings so far this month, keeping things as light as possible seems like the best idea. ]

For those of you who haven't met me, and I know there are a lot of you, I'm Cortana. I'm one of the two AIs within the Moira's systems at the moment.

[ She'd do a video feed rather than audio, but audio or text is easier when you don't have a physical form. Video isn't impossible for her, but again, a base audio post is easiest. Should anyone reply with video, she'll happily respond in kind. ]

Now, with that introduction out of the way, I can focus on what I'm actually looking to discuss today. I've been focusing on the ship for the last few days--all of the changes that have occurred and the structural integrity of it now that it's been merged with the Caducan ship and has thus become glass in some areas--but now I want to focus on you, the crew.

It's difficult to not take notice of the way the merge has affected some of you. Like the ship, parts of some of you have turned to glass, and I'm looking to take inventory on what. I'm not certain that knowing what body parts of who became glass will be terribly beneficial, but you never know. It'll at least be useful to keep track of so we can observe any changes that might occur.

[ Maybe there's a connection somewhere. Maybe there are body parts more likely affected than others. Maybe they can find a way to fix it. She hates that it's all so uncertain, but anything that can possibly be helpful somewhere, somehow, she wants to make sure they have it. It's better than sitting in the systems doing nothing, at the very least. ]

So! Assuming you don't mind, if you've experienced the effect of the ships merging and now find part of yourself glass, tell me about it here? What part or parts of the body are affected, how strong the glass is, if you know, and how you're handling it are all answers that could prove useful. Of course, you're welcome to share more than that, should you wish to.

Thank you all for your time. I do hope that the rest of this month is less eventful than it has been so far.

Cortana, over and out.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Of course. One of my intentions was to send a copy of the list to those of you in Medical.

[ If anyone can make use of the intel she gathers through the post, she's certain it's the medbay staff. ]

I had a feeling you might want the information, particularly for any cases that haven't bothered to get themselves looked at.

[ There comes an audible sigh and then a pause, as if he's shaking his head. He was shaking his head but then remembers she can't see him, so he speaks up. ]

I imagine there are more than a few of our crew who are trying to stoic it out. As a coping mechanism if nothing else.

[ If prior experience with his previous crew had taught him anything, it was that people would seek to focus on anything except the personal, in an effort to avoid the harsh reality of a situation. They would insist they were fine and throw themselves into trying to work on the problem, just to avoid thinking.

Yes, he may be intimately familiar with these sorts of coping mechanisms as well as a monumental hypocrite. But that wasn't important right now. ]

Can you interface directly with the other information streams being worked on? Engineering as well as Medbay? I have to imagine you could run pattern recognition algorithms faster than we could identify any patterns with the naked eye?

I'm certain there are. Hopefully a simple census request will draw information from those. I'm suggesting to anyone who seems as though they haven't to visit the medbay, so here's hoping you hear from some of them.

[ Not that she's naive enough to expect some of them to change their minds. No doubt some of them have reasons for avoiding doctors, and surely some of them are simply stubborn or, as Adrien mentioned, trying to cope. However, if she can convince even one or two to get themselves checked out, that's certainly better than nothing. ]

Yes, of course. One of the perks of being directly within the system. Do you suspect there's a pattern to all of this somewhere? [ A possibility she's considered, of course. ] I've yet to see any show of one, but I can be sure to keep an eye out.

[ Every little bit helps, especially if it brings more information to the table. Also helping people, yes it is important to help people. Adrien can sometimes get lost for the forest instead of the individual trees. ]

Honestly, I have no idea. [ He said in a quiet tone. ] But experience has taught me to pluck at every possible thread until you can confirm it's a dead end.

Experience also suggests that no one area is going to provide an answer. It'll come from bits and pieces and if that is the case, someone needs to be looking at all the pieces coming in, yes?

Fair enough. I can't say you don't make a good point.

[ And if there's anyone qualified to be watching all the incoming pieces of the puzzle, it's her. Her and, perhaps, a small handful of others, though it seems to her as though they have yet to step up to help out. ]

I'll be sure to keep a close watch on everything that I can. If there's anything to gain from any of the data streams, I'll get it. I suspect that what we really need to solve any of this is more information on the Ingress, however.

Still, whatever we can get our hands on, we will. If there's a possibility of any of us being able to right this mess, we'll find it.

[ And this was the point where he needed to get his nose out of it and let the experts in the field do that voodoo that they did so well.

Adrien nodded, paused and eventually realized that she couldn't actually see the action. He cleared his throat a little self consciously and used his words. ]

Good. I'll, ah ... shut up and let you get to it then.