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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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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.
no subject
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.]
no subject
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.