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[Sean Mirrsen]

Anton Chernozorov

Aresteve, I want eyes on the impact zone as quickly as you can get them - if it's not dead now, we need to know before what's left of it has a chance to escape.

"Control Center reporting: I have a great view of the ceiling. Ow."

Anton pushes the chair off himself, and stands up.

"Hold on a sec, XO, let me make sure none of this equipment is going to collapse and I'll see if enough of the Party Wagon survived to give us a birds-eye view."

Give the monitors a quick once-over. If the damage isn't threatening to cause the entire thing to fall down, leave them be and check on the Party Wagon. If it's still flying, start slowing it down and turning it back, but don't descend yet - if the craft had time to go supersonic, that pressure wave is still behind it, so the thinner air will help. Get as close to ground zero as seems safe, find a camera that's not burned out, and point it at the impact zone.

And don't forget to watch out.

Spoiler: For this. (click to show/hide)

[tryrar]

((Is that pic from the movie or the series? )

[Sean Mirrsen]

((The pic has alt text, and yes it's from the movie. The second movie, specifically. It's surprisingly hard to find a good "rain of guts" screencap, so had to make my own.))

[piecewise]

((Haha, I was just about to post, and PW ninja'd me.))

"ARESTEVE, is it possible to hook up a sod brain to a robot body that is already occupied and have the user switch control of the body over to the sod brain when in a combat situation?"

"As ARESTEVE said, yes, it is possible.  I wrote a program that can do it for you, quite easily.  Would you like me to send it to you?"

1.Try and get any scout eyes or mobile cameras of any form that may have survived over to the crater, and get a view.  If there's no cameras at all, pilot one of my auxiliary bodies to check it out.

2.Try and survey the general damage- how much infrastructure was destroyed?

3.Ask ARESTEVE if there's any undestroyed caches of infantry weapons that are accessible from the robosod storage area.  If there are some nearby, send as many robosods as I can to get weapons.

4.If any do, please tell me exactly how many robosods are equipped with weapons.  Please?  We currently have 300 robosods.

5.I'd assume he already has access, but just to make sure, send Charles a copy of my remote-body program, along with instructions on it's use.

1. You get a scout eye over there.
2.The damage is hard to see; the surface is obscured by a thick haze of fine red dust thats been thrown up into the air. However, you can see what looks like a great pit of bright yellowish white light-molten stone no doubt- over toward where the foot hills used to be. You can't tell anything about it yet, not till the dust settles, but ARESTEVE isn't reporting anything damaged directly by the impact.
3.You send sods to get some weapons.
4. There were 250 yesterday you goose. Consider time to have stopped since this event began. Lets say 50 of them get weapons.

5. I'm assuming everyone has access unless specifically locked out.

"ARESTEVE, is it possible to hook up a sod brain to a robot body that is already occupied and have the user switch control of the body over to the sod brain when in a combat situation?"

"As ARESTEVE said, yes, it is possible.  I wrote a program that can do it for you, quite easily.  Would you like me to send it to you?"

"Yes please, that would be quite useful for the idea I am currently exploring."
"How large are the brain containment,  life-support systems and external connections required for a sod brain?"
Inquire

Same for a normal brain case. About the size of a bowling ball, though thats the most basic part.

Aresteve, I want eyes on the impact zone as quickly as you can get them - if it's not dead now, we need to know before what's left of it has a chance to escape.

Let's find out whether many tons of hypervelocity metal and ceramic was enough to kill a living overload, shall we?

((Odd to see a Sunday update.

Then again, nobody can complain about a bombardment update. Nobody.))

Judging from the feed from the aforementioned Cameye, Many tones of hypervelocity metal and ceramic IS enough to kill a living overload. Scratch that off the bucket list.

Anton Chernozorov

Aresteve, I want eyes on the impact zone as quickly as you can get them - if it's not dead now, we need to know before what's left of it has a chance to escape.

"Control Center reporting: I have a great view of the ceiling. Ow."

Anton pushes the chair off himself, and stands up.

"Hold on a sec, XO, let me make sure none of this equipment is going to collapse and I'll see if enough of the Party Wagon survived to give us a birds-eye view."

Give the monitors a quick once-over. If the damage isn't threatening to cause the entire thing to fall down, leave them be and check on the Party Wagon. If it's still flying, start slowing it down and turning it back, but don't descend yet - if the craft had time to go supersonic, that pressure wave is still behind it, so the thinner air will help. Get as close to ground zero as seems safe, find a camera that's not burned out, and point it at the impact zone.

And don't forget to watch out.

Spoiler: For this. (click to show/hide)

The party wagon is...well there's still a feed from it, so thats a good thing. The feed however, is static and is showing a landscape, turned on its side. Huh...Thats not good. You check the diagnostic. It looks like it got slapped by the pressure wave pretty hard and went down. Seems like it probably managed a reasonably good crash landing though, since the majority of systems are still on line.  It's probably just laying on it's side and not able to take off.

Sigh. Time to call AAA.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Anton Chernozorov

Anton blinks a few times, then slowly and exaggeratedly wipes both his hands across his face.

*sigh*  Какого чёрта, экс-о?

He opens the comms.

"XO, while, as an engineer, I can handle you shooting down my projects, I would really, really appreciate if you didn't do it so literally.

I'm going out to see if I can get the Party Wagon airborne again, or airlift it back. You should probably get a facility-wide checkup started in the meantime. If it hit me this hard here, I don't want to know what it could have done to the labs. I'll be back and join you as soon as I can."

Anton gets up and leaves the control room, chair on the floor, broken monitors and all.

"Aresteve, do we still have any shuttles here? Actually, just give me a list of all available vehicles we've got here, land, air, space, underground, anything."

Get a list of available vehicles from Aresteve. If there's a shuttle or some other personal flying vehicle available, load it with some repair equipment and general shuttle spares and take off for the Party Wagon's crashsite. Once there, visually assess the damage.

Go to the meeting with Simus. Detour to my personal quarters on the way there, and pick up my datapad.

[Empiricist]

"In that case, how much modification is required for a robot body to allow its occupant to temporarily divert control over their body to an external, detachable sod brain?"

[syvarris]

"Simus, since I really don't have anything better to do while the VRMs are down, I am going to have the sods round up the civilians, and then I will give them shock implants.  They've been without a leash for too long, in my opinion. 

That is, of course, unless you object."

1.Can I tinker again yet?

2.Are sods in production again yet?

3.Organize the robosods into groups of five, with one armed sod each.

4.Send the fifty groups out patrolling the entire complex to round up the civvies, then bring them back to the medical area.  Don't tell them why, just tell them they have to come.  If they resist or run, try to non-lethally disable them and bring them to the medical area, but don't hesitate about shooting them if they damage a sod, or would get away.

5.Possess the auxiliary body in the medbay, and check if we have the appropriate equipment for implanting implants.  Only if we have the proper stuff, implant the civvies with shock implants.

6.Possess one of the auxiliary bodies, and test that fighting program I made long ago.  NOT on a sod or civvie.  Does it break the body?

7.Join the boardroom meeting Simus is setting up with Anton, while possesing an auxiliary body.  If they teleconference, join, and if they lock me out... I am the AUX specialist.

[PyroDesu]

Saint, please wait for proper equipment before starting implantations. Aresteve, please make what the medical bay needs for it.

Anton, you may not go quite yet. We need to talk first. Let Aresteve and the repair drones bring the damaged ship in. Come to the boardroom.

And Aresteve - sweep the area where the flesh horror was, see if you can find the amp that made the thing in the first place - hopefully it's been destroyed already, but I want to be absolutely sure.

Simus leaves the VR console and heads to the boardroom, awaiting both Anton and further report from Aresteve.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Anton, you may not go quite yet. We need to talk first. Let Aresteve and the repair drones bring the damaged ship in. Come to the boardroom.

"If it's all the same to you XO, I'll just teleconference. Neither you nor me have anything physical to show, I can work and talk at the same time, and this way my hands are too occupied and too far away to do what they want to do."

[PyroDesu]

No, Anton. I wish for you to meet with me in person for this, and hopefully it will be for the last time. There is nothing critical enough for you to be doing for you not to come.

[Sean Mirrsen]

"...fine. I'll go get my datapad. Aresteve, I still want that list of available vehicles, and leave the Party Wagon where it is for now. I want to check on it myself."

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Anton Chernozorov

Anton blinks a few times, then slowly and exaggeratedly wipes both his hands across his face.

*sigh*  Какого чёрта, экс-о?

He opens the comms.

"XO, while, as an engineer, I can handle you shooting down my projects, I would really, really appreciate if you didn't do it so literally.

I'm going out to see if I can get the Party Wagon airborne again, or airlift it back. You should probably get a facility-wide checkup started in the meantime. If it hit me this hard here, I don't want to know what it could have done to the labs. I'll be back and join you as soon as I can."

Anton gets up and leaves the control room, chair on the floor, broken monitors and all.

"Aresteve, do we still have any shuttles here? Actually, just give me a list of all available vehicles we've got here, land, air, space, underground, anything."

Get a list of available vehicles from Aresteve. If there's a shuttle or some other personal flying vehicle available, load it with some repair equipment and general shuttle spares and take off for the Party Wagon's crashsite. Once there, visually assess the damage.

Teleconference with Simus and Saint (and anyone else who shows up), keeping the video feed off as needed while performing the inspection.

You head outside, squint in the still brightly glowing direction of the impact site, which is a dull orange false sunrise in the distance, and head to the impromptu shipyard, where you find a shuttle waiting.  You step into the rear section and sit down in one of the seats as the ship rises and roars off into the distance, at a diagonal to the impact site. A few minutes later it lands and you hop out and walk around to the side. The party bus is laying in the dirt on its side. The left engine, the one it fell on, is damaged, are some of the maneuvering thrusters and the cockpit, from what you can tell with a quick check. It's annoying, but nothing horrible.

You sigh and start drawing up a list of what you'll need to fix it, including a few strong robosods.

"Simus, since I really don't have anything better to do while the VRMs are down, I am going to have the sods round up the civilians, and then I will give them shock implants.  They've been without a leash for too long, in my opinion. 

That is, of course, unless you object."

1.Can I tinker again yet?

2.Are sods in production again yet?

3.Organize the robosods into groups of five, with one armed sod each.

4.Send the fifty groups out patrolling the entire complex to round up the civvies, then bring them back to the medical area.  Don't tell them why, just tell them they have to come.  If they resist or run, try to non-lethally disable them and bring them to the medical area, but don't hesitate about shooting them if they damage a sod, or would get away.

5.Possess the auxiliary body in the medbay, and check if we have the appropriate equipment for implanting implants.  Only if we have the proper stuff, implant the civvies with shock implants.

6.Possess one of the auxiliary bodies, and test that fighting program I made long ago.  NOT on a sod or civvie.  Does it break the body?

7.Join the boardroom meeting Simus is setting up with Anton, while possesing an auxiliary body.  If they teleconference, join, and if they lock me out... I am the AUX specialist.

yes
Yes
Ok
You send your Sod Stormtroopers out and start rounding up the humans and bringing them to your Human death camps Reeducation centers Mechanical slave conversion plants Sealed Computer God Robot operating Cabinet Medical area.
You're going to do rather major surgery on a lot of people here. It's gonna keep you busy for a while.

Saint, please wait for proper equipment before starting implantations. Aresteve, please make what the medical bay needs for it.

Anton, you may not go quite yet. We need to talk first. Let Aresteve and the repair drones bring the damaged ship in. Come to the boardroom.

And Aresteve - sweep the area where the flesh horror was, see if you can find the amp that made the thing in the first place - hopefully it's been destroyed already, but I want to be absolutely sure.

Simus leaves the VR console and heads to the boardroom, awaiting both Anton and further report from Aresteve.

You head for the boardroom and wait for your other workers. After a few minutes, a robotic body wanders into the room and stands behind you and slightly to your side, at the head of the table.

>There are no signs of surviving organic matter, or of the source, so to speak, Ma'am.

"...fine. I'll go get my datapad. Aresteve, I still want that list of available vehicles, and leave the Party Wagon where it is for now. I want to check on it myself."

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And then suddenly Anton materialized in the room as if by MAAAAAAGIC! WOOOOOO!

[Sean Mirrsen]

Anton Chernozorov

"...I was sure I was someplace else just now. Probably residual Hawking radiation. What's the topic for today, XO?"

[syvarris]

((Odd that transplanting brains is automatic, while just giving people implants requires personal involvement.))

1.Finish up with the surgery.  How much longer will it take?

2.While I'm doing so, count exactly how many living workers we have.

3.Keep a small window, or just the audio, open to S&A's conference.  If that would be too distracting, just record it for future reference.

[PyroDesu]

Saint, you weren't called for and I think that this would best be left between myself and Anton, unless he doesn't mind you listening in.

Simus, with her unsettling cameyes trained on Anton's, and in a calm, albeit more clipped than usual tone, starts talking.

The topic is responsibility, Anton. Namely mine, but you factor into it. Steve left me here with one purpose - arming and assisting his revolution. But as I allowed others to stay alongside me, there is another, higher priority. I am responsible for you, and for all of the other ARM personnel on this planet. Not just for work, much as Steve might prefer it, but for security, for safety.

Now, I know that you can handle yourself - I've seen as much. But on the bottom line, it's my neck on the chopping block, and not yours. Neither of us is irreplaceable, but I am the one in a position of authority, I am the one responsible. I take this responsibility extremely seriously. But this responsibility is not mine alone - you, and Saint, and other ARM personnel have your own responsibility to me, to inform me and keep me up-to-date on the activities I assign you - we'll discuss that in a moment - so that I can make the decisions my responsibility entails.

So tell me, in the context of this responsibility, both of mine and yours - was what you did involving the destruction of the flesh horror, specifically, the unreported 'initiation' of a plan you told no-one about, a responsible act?