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Arilanna Tayrey ([info]astrogator) wrote in [info]compass_network,
@ 2022-04-14 03:14:00

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Entry tags:blackbeard, finn collins, newt scamander, rawdon crawley, ~bardock

I understand more about this station now and it's amazing how well it's thriving given the circumstances. There are some things I think I can help with. It would be easier if I had some assistance, but I know only a couple of you are spacers and none of you chose to be here, so it doesn't matter if I end up doing it myself. Take it as a spacer needing to feel comfortable on a station this big. As far as I can tell you have no station captain, for good reasons, but you do have an administrative department?

First problem thing is orientation. My plan, starting with your third wheel, is to number the levels and add directional markings and symbols at all major junctions. I won't paint over the markings in the other languages or anyone's strange art, but life is going to be easier here if we can find our way around outside of familiar areas. As this is going to be a big project, especially if I'm working alone, I may as well throw in a station survey. Excepting private quarters, obviously, and if you have a business you don't want to appear on the public listing, tell me. Again, not trying to make anyone's life difficult.

Second, how many of you can fly a ship? I don't mean L-space astrogation or fancy flying, I mean if there were a catastrophic system failure, how many of you could run an evacuation? You need a lot more than you think on a station this size, because relying on only a few people who can fly is going to get you into trouble if you have initial casualties. Nobody likes thinking about it, but you have to prepare for the worst out here, and I'd like to teach people the basics if they're willing. The more the better. It doesn't matter if you're completely unfamiliar with space shuttles - even if you're from Earth sometime before the Breakaway War and you've never been aboard one before - but you do need the ability to think clearly under pressure.

Third, I've heard that you have a very well-run infirmary, but what emergency provision do you have on the other wheels? This is a big station and you don't want to be miles off from help. At the very least you need emergency kits with wound patches and portable stasis generators and all that at regular intervals, signposted so that everyone here knows exactly where to go if they need it. Can the medical staff tell me if there's something like that already in place? If there is, I can put in the directional markings, and if not, we can work on it.

This is more of a personal question but have you established any - station protocol sounds much too formal, but what if you read the listings and you see a name you recognise well, but they don't know who you are? Is it too much to try to get in contact?

Lt. Tayrey, Astrogator, Tradelines Starship Prosperity

[Dean]

If that offer of a tour is still open, I'm free now!

[Finn Collins]

Colonel Crawley told me that you were the person to talk to about repairing long range transmitters? It's not going to be as useful to me as I first thought, but I'd still like to try to help, if I can.



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[info]astrogator
2022-04-14 05:14 pm UTC (link)
What can I say, spacers don't waste time! This is just safety, mostly. There's a lot more to work on later.

I'd be delighted to show you, and if you can fly one, the others won't be so difficult to get used to.

It's my turn to apologise for not knowing, I'm sorry to say. What's a fiancee?

- Tayrey

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[info]cpt_crawley
2022-04-16 12:01 am UTC (link)
Great, I'll be glad to learn some more.

Oh, I didn't expect that to be a confusing word. It means someone that I have promised to marry.

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[info]astrogator
2022-04-16 12:18 am UTC (link)
I'll let you know when I've got everything prepared for it.

So you don't have a marriage contract yet, but there's contract to carry out that contract? It's unusual, but not unheard of. I don't think there's a lot of language drift, if I avoid the spacer slang, but there's some.

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[info]cpt_crawley
2022-04-16 09:58 am UTC (link)
Yes, we call that pre-marriage contract 'engagement'. Where I am from, we do not normally have such a long period of engagement, but it's complicated. Space travel, time travel, I can't divorce (break the contract with) my first wife from here.

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[info]astrogator
2022-04-16 10:15 am UTC (link)
I think they do things that way on some of the colonies. Not the one I was born on, but some. It's much more complicated for you, I see it. Worse than being contracted to someone all the way down the other end of the Tradelines. Spacer custom is to only take contract with someone on your own ship, to avoid that. You didn't choose to come here on purpose, though. I guess your first contract didn't allow for having two wives?

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[info]cpt_crawley
2022-04-16 11:01 am UTC (link)
No, it didn't. I was separated from her, for a good while, but we hadn't taken it to parliament. It's a technicality, I suppose, but an annoyingly sticky one.

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[info]astrogator
2022-04-16 03:08 pm UTC (link)
I'm sorry. It's a real snarl of a thing to have standing in your way. I hope you both find a way through it someday.

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[info]cpt_crawley
2022-04-17 02:45 pm UTC (link)
Thank you.

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