the sky was made of amethyst ( & open )

[willrevile]

Who: James Tiberius Fullname (willrevile) & other excellent individuals
What: a catch-all for june! also some in-betweeny thesa stuff in response to info in the plotting post!
When: june, some backdated may stuff too. time is a flat circle.
Where: various locations / thesa station
Warning(s): tba. i've put a dancing cupcake beneath the cut.

Comments

[motivation]

( nanites are shit and dutch doesn't like them. )

What if I want the coffee, too, though.

( a beat. )

I used to have a ship, you know. I'm just not a nerd. ( it's not derogatory. she can punch her way out of nearly anything, but she knows there's stuff violence can't, doesn't solve. you need nerds for that. )

[willrevile]

[ Jim grunts, hands her the full coffee mug, goes to refill another for himself. She can have the coffee, too. ]

I know, [ he says. ] You've mentioned it.

[ Good memory, this one. ]

[motivation]

( what a good boy. man. friend? )

I miss having Lucy around. She's whip this station into shape in no time.

[willrevile]

[ That sounds very sexy (no it doesn't), Dutch's manfriend. ]

Is Lucy your ship, or an engineer?

[ Jim, personally, would love it if Scotty would wake the fuck up right now. ]

[motivation]

She's the ship. My engineer is Johnny, and he does more than engineering.

( but johnny's in stasis. alive but asleep. far too still for her liking. )

[willrevile]

So Lucy has an AI.

[ Since ships aren't typically sentient. Starfleet's certainly aren't; Jim'll pass on that particular disaster waiting to happen, thanks. ]

My engineer is from Scotland, named Montgomery Scott, and everyone calls him Scotty. [ Serenely, ] He's nuts.

[motivation]

Lucy is the AI. And if she ever tells you that means she doesn't play favourites, she's lying.

( lucy is absolutely sentient, or at least gives a good impression of it. )

How nuts? And I don't know Scotland.

[willrevile]

Artificially intelligences that lie unnerve me, [ Jim says wryly, sipping his coffee. ] Mm, super nuts. Mad genius nuts. Invented a way to beam people to and from ships during warp nuts. It's great.

And if Lucy and Scotty were here, I bet we'd have a better solution than going from spot to spot fixing overloaded wiring, but here we are.

[motivation]

She knows she's lying, too.

( there's no concern there for dutch; she trusts lucy implicitly. and that's after having been subjected to the nanites she so hates not just at the hands of a guy gone insane, but a faulty ai, too.

what's the difference between an ai and a person, anyway, except maybe the body? )

I understood none of what you just said, by the way. Speak grunt with me, not nerd.

[willrevile]

[ The ease of reprogramming, Jim would say. People, at least, take time to be brainwashed.

Anyway - he laughs a little. ]

Fixes the unfixable every time. Fortunately, all we have to do is patch some electricity blowouts. Not anywhere near impossible.

[motivation]

I can win an impossible fight, but I can't fix unfixable shit.

( it takes all kinds to win a war. dutch knows that. the grin she throws in jim's direction is a little impish. )