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Astrid tuned out the Party Puppet’s voice in case ‘asshole’ was transmissible by sound. He reminded her all too much of her previous job. Well, except the ridiculous getup, that was new. As they ventured deeper into the docks, Astrid started to recognize some ship classes, and even two or three specific ships she’s worked on in the past, getting lost in memories of the past.

"Meet your A.I...cake…”

Those words somehow penetrated her consciousness, and were enough to tear her away from her trip down memory lane and actually get her a little excited. She’s worked with shipboard AIs before whenever she felt too lazy to scour a ship’s logs for damage reports, which if she were to be honest was all the time, and so looked forward to having her workload somewhat lessened. In ideal conditions, of course. There was always the small chance they were given this particular unit because of some defect, and either way it would probably place the value of the ship above that of its crew. She certainly wouldn’t put that past the Party.

Much to Astrid’s dismay, they weren’t given much, or rather any information at all, about the ships they were choosing from. Even she expected more of the Party. Then again, at least there was a choice. “So what’s the hidden reason seemingly good ships like the Lucy and the Harpoon are being offered to us and what exactly doesn’t work on the Angel Dust? Insufficient power core shielding? Faulty maneuvering gyros? Maybe it got hit by a solar flare?” she racked her brain for the worst scenarios she’s seen. She didn’t expect the Puppet to answer, probably because he knew less about ships than she knew about microbiology, but it was worth a try. Maybe the AI would know, if it had time to properly wake up.
I was just checking, misclicks are a pain.
...are you sure this was supposed to go here?
I don't see a problem with it.
”There were once good people on this ship, too, weren’t there? Take Anderson, for example. I mean, I only ever spent about five hours in total in the same room as he, but he didn’t seem bad. And now he’s gone, while the pirate, the actual pirate, and the terrorist are still here.” she pointed at Yas and Dev, ”So the bastards clearly don’t care about other people, then why should I? If they want me to be a criminal, might as well...”

”Aye, I noticed.” the engineer deadpanned, or the next best thing given her state, at Josk’s ‘Dumbies everywhere.’ comment, while looking straight at her. As she spoke, she found herself pulling away from the pilot, first just to keep her cards hidden, then to stay away from the pink, breathing booze barrel. Normally, she would’ve realized why she suddenly disliked the pilot less than she did twenty seconds ago, but at that point her brain hadn’t been firing on all cylinders for a few hours. ”We tried to blow someone up in self defense after they attacked us…” Astrid raised an authoritative finger, ”...and we got blown up in the process.” she downed another glass, ”Damn Warden-class missile destroyers with their Swarmer launchers, lining every edge of the ship like fucking chickenpox.” the engineer grumbled. ”But the worst thing we’ve done was dodging import tax, but that’s not something you get a death sentence like this for.” she gestured around them to make a point that the ship itself was the death sentence.

”How much do you actually know... about spaceflight, Josk?” Astrid inquired, suddenly curious what Yas found wrong with her plan on the theoretical level, ignoring the seven different ways it was fucked up in the morality area, ”Do you know how... this... all works, or do you just slam your head on the controls and the magic sorta happens by itself? Is it… just me or is… is the Satasi witch doing her thing again?” she looked around the room, visibly confused. ”This is the reason the old cap always wore an EVA suit for meetings with Satasi. Because they have no honor, no respect… no beer.”
Connection is being spotty (only my PC, rest of the devices in the house work fine). Not sure if my NIC is dying or if the black wizzard that is my ISP is trying on a new staff, but if I suddenly go silent then it's happened again.
Connection is being spotty (only my PC, rest of the devices in the house work fine). Not sure if my NIC is dying or if the black wizzard that is my ISP is trying on a new staff, but if I suddenly go silent then it's happened again.
All goes "well", you won't have to just imagine it for long.
*Astrid running around the ship with a magnet*
"WHO LEFT THIS NEAR THE MAGNETIC DRIVES?! Look what you've done!"
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