[voice] - let hope burn in your eyes

[ryuuzaki]

[Locked to all characters remaining on the ship; backdated to the 18th.]

I'd like to speak with anyone who's interested in coordinating a structured response to the recent disappearances. If we pool our resources in terms of anything technical that needs to be done, and in terms of things like creating small teams and scheduling the usage of rescue vehicles, things will probably run more smoothly. Retrieving as many people as possible is of paramount importance.

Those of you who have experience in search and rescue, on-the-ground stealth, investigation, intelligence work, and programming and electronics would probably be the most useful… but if that doesn't include you, and you're interested, there should certainly still be a way for you to help. I realize that many of you probably already have ideas about how to proceed, but it couldn't hurt to discuss them so that we don't interfere with each other.

To begin with: if you're able to make contact with anyone who's missing, see if they can capture and send some images of their general surroundings -- but only if they can do so without being seen and can preferably send the results privately. Having that kind of information ahead of time could be overwhelmingly valuable.

Let's do whatever we can.

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audio;

[alan_1]

I can start working on a tracking program to help find the people who went missing, but without any sort of mapping data, it’s going to be pretty rudimentary. The best I could do is a program that can show the relative position of a missing person’s MID in relation to the user, but they’d have to be in range for it to work.

I could do a lot more with even basic maps of these places.

[ryuuzaki]

It sounds like coming and going from there shouldn't draw too much attention. What if someone flew in close enough to get some kind of aerial map?

[alan_1]

That could work. If we have multiple pilots to spare, the more we can get out mapping the area, the better. [Time's of the essence; if this place is as bad as the captains say, they need to work quickly.] Especially if we’re dealing with more than one planet.

[ryuuzaki]

Aside from their vulnerability, that's another reason why it would be better to accomplish this as soon as possible. If this is a way station, and some of the people who have been lost are enslaved, it's hard to say how long we have to help any of them. If someone is especially unlucky, they could be taken away in a matter of hours or days.

How long would it take you to work on the preliminary aspects of your program? Everything up to the maps.

[alan_1]

[L’s words are sobering; Alan knew they didn’t have much time, but if they could lose people for good in a matter of hours... He thinks it over, trying to come up with ways to expedite the process. Obviously they wouldn’t have time for a testing period. Better to get the program to people as soon as possible and patch out observed issues from there. And there’s the matter of making a program that would only route to the MIDs of those missing rather than sending their rescuers after each other...]

I need a list of everyone who’s gone missing. Once I have that, I’ll try and get it done as soon as possible. [He considers what exactly "as soon as possible" means. it’s not like he’ll be starting from scratch. The MIDs already come with basic tracking and routing programs for crewmembers on the ship. He’ll just need to integrate them into something that can track crewmember locations relative to the MIDs themselves.] A day, at most. [It's a chancy estimate, but he plans to hold himself to it all the same.]

[voice]

[highlyintuitive]

I have a ship. It's not registered to the Moira, can't be connected to the crew if things go bad. If anyone wants transport I'm willing.

They took my brother.

[ryuuzaki]

Understood.

Your brother?

[To his knowledge, Simon Tam is not currently on the Moira... but there are any number of reasons not to specifically mention him to River.]

[highlyintuitive]

Peter Maximoff. He's family.

[ Or the closest she has on board besides Wanda. She's not too pleased with the thought that someone might be treating him as a slave. It's uncivilized. ]

[ryuuzaki]

I see.

How many people can your ship hold?

voice;

[sketchycharacter]

I'm game for helping out with this bullshit.

[ryuuzaki]

What can you do?

You mentioned languages that might help if you were air-dropped into a country. I don't think the languages will be a factor here, but the ability to blend in might be.

[sketchycharacter]

I'm not some kind of ninja, but I get by all right at blending. Pretty good at recon, too.

[As a thief, he kinda needs to be, but like hell he's saying that out loud.]

[private]

[ryuuzaki]

If you get down there and you aren't dressed the right way, are you willing to incapacitate someone for their clothing?

video:

[that_cost]

Count me in for whatever.

[ryuuzaki]

What are your skills?

[that_cost]

Pyrokinesis, telekinesis, and getting into places I shouldn't be.

all voice on his end, btw! whoops!

[ryuuzaki]

That certainly sounds useful.

[That's an understatement, but his tone remains smooth and businesslike.]

How do you get into places you shouldn't be? Some people can pick locks, some can walk through solid objects... tell me privately, if you need to.

voice

[springlocking]

I don't know if there's anything I can contribute, but I'd like to help.

[ryuuzaki]

What are your skills?

[springlocking]

[Charlie was really hoping this guy wouldn't ask that question. After all, what is she good at, really?

She doesn't have what it takes to follow in her father's footsteps. She doesn't really seem to have any gifts of any kind - she doesn't even have a goal to work toward. The technology here is way beyond her, so she can't help with that. She's a rank newbie when it comes to fighting, as the incident earlier in the month proved.

What is she good at?]

...I don't know, but I want to help anyway.

[That's the best she's got. Hopefully it's enough.]

[ryuuzaki]

I understand.

[There's a pause before he continues, as he tries to think of something for someone to do whose strengths he doesn't know. The obvious solution is to attempt to assess them himself, if he can.]

Will you meet me for coffee? I may be able to suggest something.

[vengeance_driven]

I got people to look out for, so I'm going down.

I'm really good with vehicles. You want off that planet, I can be one of the guys that help. We can handle the transports and ah... I'm not afraid of borrowing a few rides from down there.

[Those thief skills gotta come in handy at some point.]

[ryuuzaki]

Niko Bellic.

[It's an acknowledgement, and L's voice is a little warmer than the businesslike tone he's been using in most other conversations so far. He's pleased that Niko is available and interested: everything he's seen so far suggests that the other man might be a valuable connection.]

That's an excellent idea. Anything borrowed... temporarily or permanently... will have to be checked from top to bottom for trackers, however. We wouldn't want to lead their owners here.

[If the area is as bad as the captains claim, it seems likely that the "owners" may have acquired vehicles in exactly the same way.]

Who are you planning to retrieve?

[vengeance_driven]

I know Tali is down there, but I am planning on getting whoever else. I know Solid Snake should be going, too, so I will probably get his back.

[ryuuzaki]

Do you think you'd be willing to fly a preliminary transporter mission for reconnaissance? Alan Bradley needs maps. Several of us can go along to capture images.