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So, we have a bit of a decision to make here. I have my preferences, of course, but they may not line up with yours and since they might mean some... dramatic life changes for us, it would be best if I asked you.
Some of you may know many of the security cameras don't work. It's a longstanding problem. Some of you may know why they don't work. (If you don't, the less you know, the better.) I can fix this issue so that the security cameras on the Rig work. All of them. Everywhere. However, with the limited functionality of the computers I'm allowed to use, I can't keep them selectively blind. They'll either work for both Jorgmand and us or not at all. In addition, once I've informed Jorgmund that the problem's been fixed, there's no plausible way for us to go back to enjoying the relative privacy we've had so far.
So, in short, we'd have eyes and could rely both on Security and ourselves to spot anything... amiss, like our attacker moving into action again. But there would be no more blind spots, we'd have to be more careful, or find a way to engineer glitches that won't raise suspicion.
That's option 1.
Option 2 is simple.
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[The image is of Alia's workspace, largely spotless and polished to a near mirror-sheen. For those with lots of hope and a fertile imagination, no, this isn't her attempting the one finger selfie challenge. Repent for your sins. No, instead it's a few small robots. Some mechanical worms about four or five inches long, something that looks like segmented snake, and a metallic spider the size of a large tarantula. Only five total.]
Apologies for the low quality image. Jorgmund's communicators are rather substandard. For the past several weeks, I've been allowed a small budget to build useful machines and advance Jorgmund's scientific knowledge. As you can see in the attached image, this is what I have available so far. The other options are either too loud or too large to fit into the ducts without issue. I could build more, easily, but I've used up my allotted budget and couldn't put cameras inside of them.
We can send these on patrols, inspecting various rooms, point them at specific suspects to track, or set to watch specific areas where an attack or an escape may occur. I can explain their use to the R&D heads as field testing, if need be.
With these active, we would maintain our privacy but, as you can see, we would be limited to only five more sets of eyes in addition to our own.
Personally, Option 1 feels like the best choice, but I'm not going to take such a step without consulting the rest of you.
Some of you may know many of the security cameras don't work. It's a longstanding problem. Some of you may know why they don't work. (If you don't, the less you know, the better.) I can fix this issue so that the security cameras on the Rig work. All of them. Everywhere. However, with the limited functionality of the computers I'm allowed to use, I can't keep them selectively blind. They'll either work for both Jorgmand and us or not at all. In addition, once I've informed Jorgmund that the problem's been fixed, there's no plausible way for us to go back to enjoying the relative privacy we've had so far.
So, in short, we'd have eyes and could rely both on Security and ourselves to spot anything... amiss, like our attacker moving into action again. But there would be no more blind spots, we'd have to be more careful, or find a way to engineer glitches that won't raise suspicion.
That's option 1.
Option 2 is simple.
â•Download aliaworkshop062.gif? y/n╯
[The image is of Alia's workspace, largely spotless and polished to a near mirror-sheen. For those with lots of hope and a fertile imagination, no, this isn't her attempting the one finger selfie challenge. Repent for your sins. No, instead it's a few small robots. Some mechanical worms about four or five inches long, something that looks like segmented snake, and a metallic spider the size of a large tarantula. Only five total.]
Apologies for the low quality image. Jorgmund's communicators are rather substandard. For the past several weeks, I've been allowed a small budget to build useful machines and advance Jorgmund's scientific knowledge. As you can see in the attached image, this is what I have available so far. The other options are either too loud or too large to fit into the ducts without issue. I could build more, easily, but I've used up my allotted budget and couldn't put cameras inside of them.
We can send these on patrols, inspecting various rooms, point them at specific suspects to track, or set to watch specific areas where an attack or an escape may occur. I can explain their use to the R&D heads as field testing, if need be.
With these active, we would maintain our privacy but, as you can see, we would be limited to only five more sets of eyes in addition to our own.
Personally, Option 1 feels like the best choice, but I'm not going to take such a step without consulting the rest of you.
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I’m having a hard time accepting it as some noble Robin Hood thing. All theft is wealth redistribution. If you’re only doing it to benefit yourself, you’re no Robin Hood. Maybe if they’re doing it to feed their kids, there’s a morality to that, but their kids are probably already better off than most.
It just bugs me that they can’t put stuff in their lockers - it’s not the fat cats using the lockers, so you can’t pretend it’s all wealth redistribution. They’re stealing from people just like them. It stinks.
Spock almost works. You do love logic, and science, and there’s the cultural suppression of emotions, but Spock was only green on the pilot episode. The lunch ladies are probably discussing when you’re due for pon farr... I am not calling you Spock.
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and i am totally down for snagging phones and rigging our own security system.
[Just going to pretend he didn't see that last bit, that is none of his business, whatever it means.]
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that does bring up the question though; where are we gonna do this project? can't use the normal labs. they might not be the most eagle-eyed in there, but i'm pretty sure that would be more than a little conspicuous.
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[Not that Jack has any right to judge anyone else for their fashion sense.]
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But I did tell my dad I listened to Guns N Roses so he’d tell me how awful there. If I wasn’t wearing this, it was something pretty close.
It’s not gaudy OR neon. Get your adjectives adjusted.
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guns n roses. wow. you really were hardcore.
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I suppose I can hypothesize well enough. In many universes, your species has held a deep fascination with alien mating rituals that, strangely, developed before you actually met any aliens.
In fact, while I know better, the general Coluan estimation of humanity is not the most generous in that regard. You're seen as overly preoccupied with...congress with other species.
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Colu hates us, I know. Coluans are boring and narrow-minded - present company excluded - so I really don’t care, but at the same time, no, not everything’s about... congress. I haven’t asked a single non-human about bio-romantic practices, so there’s one flaw in their theory.
Another one: it’s not like humans are alone in the congressional race. It takes at least two to tango, so if humans are congressing with entire galaxy, the entire galaxy is doing it.
Uh - the entire galaxy except Colu.
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I can understand our worlds are different enough that you didn't have the Sirian invasion of '39, but World War II feels like it should've stayed the same in most worlds like ours.
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If he had a secret base on Ganymede, why is he bothering with Europe when he has the solar system at his fingertips? Just when you think his role in history couldn’t be worse, surprise! There’s another universe where the hatred and pointlessness can reach this whole other level you can’t even fathom.
You mean Syrian?
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No, the Sirians. Syria was too busy trying to gain independence from France to build a flying saucer. But I'm guessing if you didn't have that either, things were pretty different early on. Next you'll be telling me that the Nazis didn't ally with Atlantis and invade Fairy Land.
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The Nazis didn’t ally with Atlantis. Namor was fighting the Nazis. He’d probably flood your quarters for suggesting it.
I think our worlds have major differences.
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One of the races there eschewed all emotion in favor of pure logic. But they couldn't quash it forever, and they needed to breed, so once every seven years the male of the species would succumb to emotion and have a burning desire to breed, which could only be worked out through chemicals, performing the act, or some other comparable outburst of emotion such as the trauma of believing you've murdered your best friend in a rage. If delayed or ignored, their blood chemistry would go wild and kill them.
The females didn't suffer this (except in one series where it was pure fan service garbage), but the race had mild telepathic abilities, so as the male got nearer to a mate that accepted him, she would begin to mirror his emotions.
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Why is humanity so horny?
[He can't think of another word, and the only reason that one is in his vocabulary is because of Kon-el. The only reason it stayed in his vocabulary was people like Grif.]
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In this instance, it's because the guy who created the series was a notorious horn dog who tried to shove as much sexuality as he was allowed into anything he could. It slid by largely because he painted a utopian vision of the future that his audience felt that they could, one day, strive for and live in.
Of course, this is the same guy who screwed his co-workers out of every cent he could, then later wrote about how mankind had to evolve past the need for currency. And believed that, in his perfect 24th century, criminals wouldn't exist because the authorities would gently take them aside and 'make their minds right.'
One man's utopia is another man's underlying dystopia, I guess.