Hey Jedao, you work the Engine. [It's as much a statement as a blindingly awkward question.] Can I get your opinion on some, like... technical stuff? I think?
Okay so Thrawn gave me this list of like- "ship upgrades" he wants to work on, right?
[The way they explode out suggests she's been sitting on this for a hot minute.]
And they're honestly kind of insane, but I figured since you're, like- you're one of the space guys, right? A-and you're really close to the Barge, since you're in the Engine all the time, so I just- can I show them, to you?
I'm gonna disclose up front that I think Thrawn forfeited the right to, hm, the assumption of good faith for his proposed security suggestions when he tried to break into the engine room and also murdered somebody to test the death toll in his first week.
Oh, no, I'm not doing this in good faith, I think he's a paranoid asshole who's so wound up that stress toys spontaneously combust if they get within ten feet of him.
But, credit where it's due, he is logical, and methodical. That's also just, you know. Separate from rational.
[Jedao skims through it, making little huffing noises of wry amusement.]
Fox and hound, he's so fucking precious. How do you get to be this tactical and this naive? Half of these would be fantastic if they wouldn't end up used by inmates to cause problems five to ten times more often than their intended functions.
[Poor guy. Jedao shakes his head.]
The other half aren't feasible either because the Admiral doesn't allow us to have direct access to those systems, or because the kind of space the barges move through doesn't actually resemble the realspace void in its laws of interaction.
The gravity weapon thing, for example - the barge makes her own gravity field for us. So can all the ships we've encountered. Any weapon powerful enough to disrupt that ability would be powerful enough to destabilize the barge herself.
[Jedao remembers, acutely, the agony of using the shear cannon, which was just such a weapon.]
Teleporting people the fuck away isn't a bad thought - I've tossed an out-of-control overpowered inmate past the nets once or twice. Of course, it can't be a public system or people would kill each other with it, and asphyxiation is a nasty death toll. We haven't spread around the shortcut to zero for exactly this reason - and I'm not sure it works if we don't have a spot in the void to anchor the receiving sigil. I'll ask our experts about it, though. Maybe we could put one on the bottom of the ship's hull on the outside, and let people fall off? Hmmm.
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[The way they explode out suggests she's been sitting on this for a hot minute.]
And they're honestly kind of insane, but I figured since you're, like- you're one of the space guys, right? A-and you're really close to the Barge, since you're in the Engine all the time, so I just- can I show them, to you?
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But I'll take a look.
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But, credit where it's due, he is logical, and methodical. That's also just, you know. Separate from rational.
[Here comes dat file, boi.]
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Fox and hound, he's so fucking precious. How do you get to be this tactical and this naive? Half of these would be fantastic if they wouldn't end up used by inmates to cause problems five to ten times more often than their intended functions.
[Poor guy. Jedao shakes his head.]
The other half aren't feasible either because the Admiral doesn't allow us to have direct access to those systems, or because the kind of space the barges move through doesn't actually resemble the realspace void in its laws of interaction.
The gravity weapon thing, for example - the barge makes her own gravity field for us. So can all the ships we've encountered. Any weapon powerful enough to disrupt that ability would be powerful enough to destabilize the barge herself.
[Jedao remembers, acutely, the agony of using the shear cannon, which was just such a weapon.]
Teleporting people the fuck away isn't a bad thought - I've tossed an out-of-control overpowered inmate past the nets once or twice. Of course, it can't be a public system or people would kill each other with it, and asphyxiation is a nasty death toll. We haven't spread around the shortcut to zero for exactly this reason - and I'm not sure it works if we don't have a spot in the void to anchor the receiving sigil. I'll ask our experts about it, though. Maybe we could put one on the bottom of the ship's hull on the outside, and let people fall off? Hmmm.