Iawa, having joined a poor faction after growing up in a relatively affluent family, has gotten in trouble before for carelessness with physical resources.
The Vidona buy their makers from the Nirai rather than making their own, and the really high quality ones are either low batch makers calibrated for food and medication only, or else larger volume ones that produce a narrow range of items unless you pay to unlock the next tier of recipes.
If you knock over someone's ceremonial calligraphy ink and stain their ritual apron, they have to pay to replace both items, because the Vidona can't afford to just hand them out (they are locked into the Nirai's proprietary matter bricks. btw, most of the hexarchate doesn't use this sort of business model for matter printers, just the regions with really shitty trade agreements.) They will be frantic and angry, and their instructors (whose background is probably closer to theirs than Iawa's, and who have strong feelings about not screwing over your yearmates) will be all kinds of disapproving.
And the Vidona aren't really a faction full of secrets or privacy.
In short, despite being on an Actual Heretical Mission, Iawa had kind of forgotten that allowing the team to be spied on might be more of a problem than damaging a tablet.
Files are not a problem - they have none that weren't downloaded from the Wasp's grid to begin with.
Sasha's story makes their shoulders start hunching up toward their ears. If they're understanding Sasha correctly, where she's from differs from the heptarchate in the details but not the general principles. "They still do that where you come from?" Iawa says. It's a question, but only barely. Of course they do.
"I'm sorry, truly. I'll be more careful next time," they add.
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Re: Naxarat story time!
Date: 2017-11-29 12:31 pm (UTC)The Vidona buy their makers from the Nirai rather than making their own, and the really high quality ones are either low batch makers calibrated for food and medication only, or else larger volume ones that produce a narrow range of items unless you pay to unlock the next tier of recipes.
If you knock over someone's ceremonial calligraphy ink and stain their ritual apron, they have to pay to replace both items, because the Vidona can't afford to just hand them out (they are locked into the Nirai's proprietary matter bricks. btw, most of the hexarchate doesn't use this sort of business model for matter printers, just the regions with really shitty trade agreements.) They will be frantic and angry, and their instructors (whose background is probably closer to theirs than Iawa's, and who have strong feelings about not screwing over your yearmates) will be all kinds of disapproving.
And the Vidona aren't really a faction full of secrets or privacy.
In short, despite being on an Actual Heretical Mission, Iawa had kind of forgotten that allowing the team to be spied on might be more of a problem than damaging a tablet.
Files are not a problem - they have none that weren't downloaded from the Wasp's grid to begin with.
Sasha's story makes their shoulders start hunching up toward their ears. If they're understanding Sasha correctly, where she's from differs from the heptarchate in the details but not the general principles. "They still do that where you come from?" Iawa says. It's a question, but only barely. Of course they do.
"I'm sorry, truly. I'll be more careful next time," they add.