Crux Fleet NPCs ([personal profile] crux_npcs) wrote in [community profile] crux_fleet2014-02-15 04:37 pm

0003: NEW ARRIVALS

Who: New Arrivals, Captain Jack Hollis, Science Captain Urist McEngineer, Graham Baker
Where: Briefing Room
When: Late afternoon
Warnings: None

When awakening, you'll find the area you're in to be very busy. The people in the medical ward are polite and understanding, but firmly refuse to answer questions until the briefing. The same goes for the robots in the hangars. Either given hospital outfits resembling very comfortable pajamas, drone bodies, or their own bodies, they are escorted by polite, unyielding people in red and black uniforms to the briefing room.

The room is large, but not quite large enough for some of the bigger Cybertronians. They've been given drone bodies at least, skinny little things with no real features beyond primitive masks made of paper plates. There's seats for everyone, at least, well-cushioned and comfortable, and the room is pleasantly lit.

A few Security personnel, dressed in their red and black uniforms, stand at ease in the rooms in strategic areas. Three men stand at the head. One is Graham Baker, a slightly nervous-seeming middle-aged man wearing a multi-layered business suit that seems rumpled and oversized. The other two men are dressed in military uniforms, one with the blue undershirt and piping of Command, while the other wears the gold of Science.

[Questions to the NPCs will go in the briefing thread. The rest of the post is there for people to mill about and do whatever with.]
arnhaid: (Ratchet what are you doing?)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-02-17 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
"I didn't--"

He paused. And looked the -- what he assumed was -- organic up and down. Repeatedly. He probably should have been listening to the description of capabilities and whatnot, but he was too busy trying to figure out what he was looking at.

"An AI?"
zouichi: (Default)

[personal profile] zouichi 2014-02-17 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Zouichi was rather used to getting that look at this point. But he figured it was best to be forthright with this sort of thing, if only to avoid future misunderstandings. Wouldn't want people ascribing him rights he wasn't party to and all that.

"I'm a Synthetic Human. An artificial life form created to resemble a human being. It's kind of a long story."
arnhaid: (B[    my default face.)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-02-17 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Uh huh. Right then."

Okay, not the weirdest thing he'd heard today. He could deal with this. If it was a long story then... it probably wasn't going to be helpful in getting them out of here.

"So this thing of yours. The changin' ship. Can it get us off this brig?"
zouichi: (Zouichi: ?)

[personal profile] zouichi 2014-02-17 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Off this ship? Sure. It can even put some interstellar distance between us and the fleet. But if you're talking about hopping dimensions, then no, it's not equipped for that. And even if it was..."

Zouichi looked a little dubiously at his new acquaintance. "You're a little big to be piggybacking on a fighter, aren't you? I don't know how you'd do with planetary reentry, either."
arnhaid: (B[    my default face.)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-02-17 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, so much for that. He lifted a hand, rubbing at the back of his neck, not bothering to hide his disappointment. "Eh, great."

Too big?

He blinked, looking down at himself. "Never been a problem before, I don't think."
zouichi: (Default)

[personal profile] zouichi 2014-02-18 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, you'd have to fit in the cockpit anyway, since Valkyries aren't really designed to carry things long-distance. It'd interfere with any transformations."

Come to think of it, he didn't think he'd ever used the Lucifer to carry anything. Humans couldn't withstand the gravitational forces that the plane pulled off. A robot might be all right in that regard, depending on spec...

"But supposedly they're working on a way to get us all back home anyway."
arnhaid: (B[    my default face.)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-02-18 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Eh, right."

That idea was getting shot full of holes faster than a slow moving target on a firing range. He was just concerned. He didn't want to leave Sunstreaker all alone at the mercy of the Swarm, after all.

"Then they need to pick up the pace."
zouichi: (Zouichi: ?)

[personal profile] zouichi 2014-02-18 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Speaking of which, how long have they been trying to reverse what happened during the accident?"

It sounded like it had only been a few weeks and to be quite honest, that was still a lot better than the conditions of the last dimensional mishap he'd had to deal with.