Move 7 (Chapter 1.7)
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Place: Station Moongray, at last!
[GM's note: If your characters wanted to make any preparations or do any interactions in between Move 6 and Move 7, that's totally fine--just start a thread here with an appropriate subject header so everyone knows. If it's more in the nature of character RP than plot-related RP, it's also fine to start a separate character RP post.]
The Wasp
The Wasp is securely docked under Kaliyan's guidance in one of Moongray's bays--pretty roomy, but Moongray must be used to receiving shipments of raw materials for any fabrication, plus any specialty equipment they can't make or replace with what they have on-station.
In response to Alaric's last communication with the Wasp [Move 6], it responds with a box containing the Wasp, a bag-of-water human figure, and the Rebellion's logo and a "1." Then it pauses and sends two juxtaposed illustrations, one of a moth inside a box with a specifically Nirai voidmoth logo, and one of three moths outside the box.
The welcome on-station
When anyone who's coming on-station emerges, Andan Bokali and Nirai Pavn lead the way.
The group is greeted by Station Administrator Nirai Paerani Shan--who watches them from behind a translucent partition. Shan is a short, stumpy woman whose every inch of visible skin is covered with tattoos and/or implants. The lenses covering her eyes combined with the colorful, shimmering shawl she's wearing makes her resemble a butterfly. "So what's this I hear about trade goods?" she says through an intercom system that distorts her voice.
A rather harried looking group of security workers appears at another door that is blocked by yet another translucent partition. Interestingly (and this was not mentioned in the briefing materials), their leader appears to be a broad, muscular lieutenant seconded from the Kel--the Nirai uniform looks like it only barely fits him, and the golden Kel ashhawk at his breast gleams in the lights of the docking bay.
"Before we start negotiating," the lieutenant says after an inscrutable look in Shan's direction, as if he's used to her jumping the gun (so to speak), "I will have to ask you all to submit to a security and medical scan, for everyone's safety. It might tickle if you have any implants." He holds up a handheld scanner.
Bokali looks bemused. "I always do love being the guinea pig for any bored diseases, but I don't even feel so much as a sniffle coming on."
Place: Station Moongray, at last!
[GM's note: If your characters wanted to make any preparations or do any interactions in between Move 6 and Move 7, that's totally fine--just start a thread here with an appropriate subject header so everyone knows. If it's more in the nature of character RP than plot-related RP, it's also fine to start a separate character RP post.]
The Wasp
The Wasp is securely docked under Kaliyan's guidance in one of Moongray's bays--pretty roomy, but Moongray must be used to receiving shipments of raw materials for any fabrication, plus any specialty equipment they can't make or replace with what they have on-station.
In response to Alaric's last communication with the Wasp [Move 6], it responds with a box containing the Wasp, a bag-of-water human figure, and the Rebellion's logo and a "1." Then it pauses and sends two juxtaposed illustrations, one of a moth inside a box with a specifically Nirai voidmoth logo, and one of three moths outside the box.
The welcome on-station
When anyone who's coming on-station emerges, Andan Bokali and Nirai Pavn lead the way.
The group is greeted by Station Administrator Nirai Paerani Shan--who watches them from behind a translucent partition. Shan is a short, stumpy woman whose every inch of visible skin is covered with tattoos and/or implants. The lenses covering her eyes combined with the colorful, shimmering shawl she's wearing makes her resemble a butterfly. "So what's this I hear about trade goods?" she says through an intercom system that distorts her voice.
A rather harried looking group of security workers appears at another door that is blocked by yet another translucent partition. Interestingly (and this was not mentioned in the briefing materials), their leader appears to be a broad, muscular lieutenant seconded from the Kel--the Nirai uniform looks like it only barely fits him, and the golden Kel ashhawk at his breast gleams in the lights of the docking bay.
"Before we start negotiating," the lieutenant says after an inscrutable look in Shan's direction, as if he's used to her jumping the gun (so to speak), "I will have to ask you all to submit to a security and medical scan, for everyone's safety. It might tickle if you have any implants." He holds up a handheld scanner.
Bokali looks bemused. "I always do love being the guinea pig for any bored diseases, but I don't even feel so much as a sniffle coming on."
Re: Tech support request: Ammunition Problems
Date: 2017-08-28 03:44 pm (UTC)"As for fitting them in, it should mostly be cosmetic changes to the exterior without altering the internal mechanisms. Really, I think the IDs would be the important part. Very few people pay attention to maintenance constructs."
[DIY drones]
Date: 2017-08-29 02:08 am (UTC)Re: [DIY drones]
Date: 2017-09-01 01:16 am (UTC)Anyway, on Sasha's behalf I am wondering whether Moongray Station's system for recognizing its drones acts more like Air Traffic Control's secondary surveillance radar, in which case there is probably some separation between the detecting computer and other systems for security reasons, or whether it authenticates through the grid. The latter is potentially a security nightmare, but maybe the heptarchate isn't as concerned about terrorism as the hexarchate will be later?
Please let me know how much time Sasha has to work on this, if any, before everyone disembarks-- I like the space opera convention that engineering happens fast and things work the first time, but Sasha already has one heretical power and I don't feel the need to edge into magic on the technical front.
P.S.: In the context of Secondary Surveillance Radar, garbage information is FRUIT.]
Re: [DIY drones]
Date: 2017-09-01 01:40 am (UTC)Let's go with drones and Air Traffic Control with secondary surveillance radar. If I goof on this stuff, please don't hesitate to sort me out--I am very not technical so this stuff is a struggle, which makes it hilarious that I write "science" fiction, albeit fantasy-minded "science" fiction.
How does a couple hours, while people are sorting out boring logistical things, for Sasha sound?]
Re: [DIY drones]
Date: 2017-09-01 02:23 am (UTC)[Oh, I am cheating like mad on the technical front. I married an electrical engineer, and have no shame asking for help with anything involving hardware.
An hour or two sounds good!]
Re: Tech support request: Ammunition Problems
Date: 2017-08-29 02:22 am (UTC)Maybe once we reach the station we can let our own maintenance drones wander a little bit, and do some imaging of the opposition?"
[Yeah, this is a straight line for a Kel joke-- but I'm guessing military grade friend-or-foe protocols are solid.]