The Long Journey Home

['Ghost']

@Universal_narration

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Ghost salutes

Understood ma'am, I'll report to the medbay and leave them to make the choice.

He turns and heads off the bridge towards the medbay. He walks over to what looks like a reception (I'm assuming there is one)

Afternoon, I'm looking to book an appointment with one of the psychologists on board.

He waits patiently for the response.

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Ghost enters the armoury with Sarah. Nodding to Meia as he wanders through paying particular attention to his MDA. After which he walks over to his weapon, again checking it, before returning back to Meia.

Have you checked the MDAs yet? Whilst I was out on that previous mission some debris managed to get through my filters. Not sure how that happened, but obviously thats a concern. If you havn't yet would you be able to run some diagnostics on it to see if you can find the problem?

 

[Ray_Ray]

Rey smiles back passively "Yes but being able to have both a long range and close quarters option is both stylish and useful, your knife work could probably cut me to ribbons but at any long range you would be at a disadvantage right, even a thrown knife has a limited range and can be quite easily misdirected by wind or water? Even a fast moving MDA still has to close the cap, the most durable can be kept at arms length while a weak point is found"

She turns to Jean "I will have to agree with your friend in part though, our job is to eradicate opposition as efficiently as possible, style doesn't always have to get in the way of function, or simply style for the sake of art or practice I am sure Ayla your training regimen has some strikes that are not meant to be used on the battlefield"

 

[Arthur Campbell]

Arthur turned to Jean-Michelle Interesting, I may have to point my captain your way at some point, he certainly appreciates the finer points of close quarters combat.

			Hopefully they can distract him if the captain takes it upon himself to "share" his training regimen with us.

Arthur laughed slightly at Aylas' last comment an interesting point, and oddly enough one I might agree with.

He carried on eating laughing slightly mouthing the word "useless" from time to time.

 

[Alexander Bauhdric]

Alexander nods, and does what the Navigator asked him to do, linking his comms up with ghost's for him.

There we go! I'm sure he'd be very pleased to see your candidate.

Saluting Ghost as he left, he decided to stroll down to the mess hall, radio'ing his squad as he did.

"Echo Squad, we will be mustering in the Armoury for a debrief at XXXXhours. I'm heading down to the Mess hall, so if anyone wants to dine, I'll be there."

 

[J. D. Tsuba]

'Naturally I'm right, I'm a genius.' Said with no hint of humility or sarcasm, a simple statement of fact for him.


'Now then if we just...'
J.D. Sets to work, pushing wires aside, and focusing his entire being on solving the mystery of the lifeless automaton. It will be a struggle to get his attention now, without telekinetic abilities that is.

OOC: seeing as how this is completely alien to me but still robots, I reckon science and intuition Science : 5 degrees success Intuition: 4 degrees success (this is what I am made for baby! yeah!!)

 

[Universal_narration]

Engineer Bay

Sarah turns directly at you with her mega phone still blaring "Ohhh snowdrop driver!! What project would that be?!" You then hear someone shouting from below the platform. "Sarah stop using that damn thing for normal conversation!"

Sarah turns the megaphone down and says "Then how will they hear me?!"
A reply comes back on her comms "Audible volume is far lower than that!"

Mess hall

Ayla scoffs a bit "Your point being? I assume your work in a team no? If there is a complimentary foil to your job then there is no need to carry useless options for a job you are not specialised in. So rare is the time I will need to make a long range shot that it will be an encumbrance to all the times I don't use it." She just shrugs at Rey "and no I don't practice pointlessly flashy maneuvers, what's the point. You are wasting energy on a movement you will never actually perform."

She then eyes the man wolfing down lots of food and says in French "The food is not going to run anywhere...."

Armory

Meia speaks up "Sir if there were debris in your filters you'd have been in a lot more danger than you were. Your MDA is fine, barely looks used."

'Ghost's weapon looks in working order with nothing notable wrong with it. After searching around for a while you don't notice any markings anywhere around the armory except the normal foot fall. Except for when inspecting your MDA you see what looks like a tuft of red fur in the suit. When looking inside for a closer look you can't find it. Moments later you hear a scampering noise when turning to face it you come face to face with Meia with your nose almost touching.

"Woaw.. er...you okay there? Trust me your MDA is fine you have my word on it."

Research Lab
After a good deal of work J.D Tsuba is able to take non-vital systems away for the researches to take a look at as you think they won't be the 'big find'. Scanning through bits and pieces you finally reach something that looks important, not just to the motor functions but possibly the CPU of this whole thing. Reaching in you try to dislodge it using a set of tools and there is a small spark of electricity to your hand, nothing that would hurt. Though you suddenly get this intense feeling that it doesn't want you there. Taking a closer look you can see that portion of the robot has a mechanical structure similar though not exact to some A.I. used on the ship.

 

[Ray_Ray]

"Then what do you do for fun?" she asked the girl "I mean I try to ensure my Paksis systems are at peak efficiency but sometimes when not in combat I do like a little flair, keeps things varied" she pressed a finger to her lips as if thinking "As to your comment on teamwork, situations can force you to fight alone or the member of your squad with a given speciality could be otherwise occupied, even if you focus yourselves in such a way to act as specialised individuals, wouldn't it be apt to be able to at least have a grasp of another combat methodology? For example I am primarily support and Control but with a different Paksis core I could assist in a fire support role, I am not going to be anything Like my dear brother but still variety is the spice of life as they say"

 

['Ghost']

Taking a step backwards so there's a little more distance between them.

That's reassuring, yes I'm fine miss Hoffman, the rifle needed it's sights tweaked slightly, and you yourself have confirmed that the debris must have come from somewhere else, possibly from when they underwent their changes.

He then returns to the suit and looks once more inside it. Though only what appears to be briefly, however, during that short moment he scanned the entire of the interior, taking note that all did appear to be normal. Afterwards, he stood up and moved away from the suit.

I'll leave you to return to your duties then, I've taken up enough of your time already.

He turns and heads for the exit, knowing full well his next destination.

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Returning to Dr serano

Did you notice anything unusual when I inspected the MDA? I could have sworn I saw something, that looked like red fur, but like before it vanished right before my eyes. Though I heard scampering as well at the time, from behind me, and again nothing was there. Even miss Hoffman, the armourer, didn't notice anything otherwise I'm sure she would have yelled out.

 

[Arthur Campbell]

Arthur responded to his captains latest message slightly quizzically We're all currently in the mess hall sir, as I believe was the plan.

In between eating he said to Rey Some people focus on having fun outside of their jobs He finished his meal and deposited his tray returning to the table he sat down next to Jean.
So Jean, why did you volunteer for this scheme?

 

[Universal_narration]

Mess Hall

Ayla shrugs "Fighting and preparing to fight is not all there is to do. I don't fight because I enjoy it, I actually hate it but I'm good at it so that's what I will continue to do."

Ayla then tilts her head a bit. "If I find myself alone and outside of my element I improvise or force the situation back into my favor. If I've been cornered by an opponent in their field of specialisation why would me knowing how to fight a little like them help at all? I'll just be horrendously outmatched, waste of time and effort. I'd rather use what I'm good and to tilt the scales back. After all, you should never be in a fair fight" She chuckles.

Jean ignores most of Ayla's angry banter and talks to Arthur. "To see space! We know so much on Earth and have explored everywhere on that little blue ball. You never hear of new exploration stories anymore, that past move than 200 years ago until now. When we make it back I'm sure we'll have a story to tell and bring back details of uncharted areas. It'll be wonderful." He laughs a little worried. "Provided we survive ... and you? Why have you come?"

@ 'Ghost'

Spoiler

Dr Serano places his hand on your head again.

"Calm down, I haven't even seen the footage yet. It's still in your head after all, let me retrieve it." A flash from his hands passes over your eyes again. You feel that your head is somehow lighter for a brief moment. Dr Serano sits down at a desk and brings up a monitor, he plugs a cable from his sleeve into it. The screen starts to show a recollection of what you saw.

"Ah I think I just saw something...That is a very close shot of the quartermaster. Is she..? Unimportant. Rewinding." He rewinds back to when you saw the MDA. You can clearly see a small bit of red fur sticking out from it.

"That almost looks like, fur? What would that be doing there. Know anything about that [real name]?"

(I personally do not know your characters real name, but he does.)