cityship: (Default)
cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92010-04-01 07:06 pm

'Meat' 'n Greet

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home.

Several people are set up near the doors to provide the new people with omnicoms and comm rings. New crew-mates might see a green-skinned alien and snake girl among their number. There are also several authoritative-looking figures ready to introduce themselves.

There's a lot to tell the new people. It's going to be a lot to take in.

[ooc: Only new characters and Command Staff can start new threads for introductions, to limit the number of threads. Everyone else, just tag in and have your guys greet the newbies.]

[identity profile] whitefireshot.livejournal.com 2010-04-06 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"War's all there is, I mean the world isn't too much of a mess. There 're rules and everyone usually follows them, and people my age generally don't see the bigger battles," Aine offered, she herself didn't know how the war began. She didn't know how the war would end either, those sorts of things weren't talked about. The war was how everyone earned themselves a name, who would earn names without it? "I mean I was in a few bigger fights during my deployment, but I've only ever been in the hottest part of the battle once."

[identity profile] voiceofserenity.livejournal.com 2010-04-06 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
There was no mistaking the woman for anyone but Zoe, not with the way she handled the gun now back in her holster.

"Zoe!"

Kaylee pushed her way through the crowd and towards her crewmate, beaming at both the first mate and the girl with her. "Simon's here too, lookin' for River in case, and--oh, Zoe, am I glad to see you!"

The girl couldn't go unnoticed, either, and Kaylee stuck out an excited hand toward her. "Kaylee, part of Zoe's crew."

[identity profile] serenity2ic.livejournal.com 2010-04-08 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't sound like much a surprise, people bein' the way they are." And wasn't the the truth - no matter where you went, people were always going to be narrow-minded, afraid of things they didn't know, and quick to anger. And other people were always going to want things to go according to a different plan. Zoe knew, as a soldier, that war was often inevitable because of it.

She was about to respond to the girl's other statement when a familiar, cheery voice called from just a few yards away. "I was wondering when I'd see a familiar face around here. You seen the Captain too?"

[identity profile] whitefireshot.livejournal.com 2010-04-08 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Aine looked at the newcomer, and was very confused. They were like night and day to each other, they served on the same ship? Although a few people she met were that... bubbly. Aine put her hand over her heart and bowed, "Aine." Thinking the outstretched hand is a very odd greeting, but she did fail to introduce herself to either woman.

It did fill her with a little hope, there were people that weren't alone here. Might give one of those in her unit a chance to be somewhere. Small favors, all that. "So you two are deployed on the same ship?"

[identity profile] voiceofserenity.livejournal.com 2010-04-09 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Kaylee chewed the inside of her lip for a moment. "Ain't seen him yet, no, just you and Simon." Why didn't that sound right?

Right, not everybody here shook hands, did they. Kaylee pulled her hand back and kept on smiling at Aine. "It's nice to meet ya, Aine." With a grin back at Zoe, Kaylee nodded. "Yep! Serenity. 'M mechanic, and Zoe's First Mate."

[identity profile] serenity2ic.livejournal.com 2010-04-09 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Really," Zoe murmured - hell, that didn't sound right at all.

She glanced back Aine. "You've got a crew to look for too, I'm assuming."

[identity profile] whitefireshot.livejournal.com 2010-04-10 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
ImageSerenity was an odd name for a ship, it was so... peaceful. Not a name any ship in her world would carry. Something about all this was missing, something in their history that she wasn't told that would make this all make sense. "It is an honor, as well."

"Yes, my unit," Aine thought a moment, "my people share the same Silver Heart, if you have seen these." She holds out her palm, letting the gems in her palm be examined a moment, "or more specifically this." She tugged at the collar of her plantsuit, pulling it down to best reveal the silver plate on her chest. Complete with a design of gemstones on it. However to those not nearby, it might appear like Aine is showing something else. "All my people have this installed when we are children, have you seen it before?"

[identity profile] voiceofserenity.livejournal.com 2010-04-11 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Kaylee looked carefully at the plate on Aine's chest and shook her head. "Can't say I've seen anythin' like it..." The mechanic glanced over at Zoe to see if she might have recognized it.

"Wait a minute, you have them installed?" What kind of 'verse was that!?

[identity profile] serenity2ic.livejournal.com 2010-04-11 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Zoe rested a hand on her hip as she peered at the plate. The number of glowing stones this girl had around her was strange enough, but this was even more odd. People sometimes had body parts replaced by metal when they lost them in the war, but she gathered this wasn't like those situations.

She shook her head at Kaylee's unasked questions. "Never seen anything like that before. About what age are they installed?"

[identity profile] whitefireshot.livejournal.com 2010-04-12 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes. Eight, start of training," Aine answered. Would all people act like this towards her? "Every child has them installed when we join the military. Wait much later the chances the implants will reject go up. Anything after age 10 the question stops being will the implants fail as it is will the implants kill you."

It was a fact of life, the earlier a Silver Heart is installed, the less complications there are. The body gets accustomed to it, and even though the gems resettle as the structuring changes under them it is more stable than a later installation. And everyone's father and mother, and their fathers and mothers, and THEIR fathers and mothers were implanted at a young age. It had been a long time, about five generations, since the age of installation was discovered. It was an honor, to be sure you would not die before you hit the battlefield.

However, her unit, and her people, not being here did cause her heart to sink a little. It would just be her then, has happened before. She can manage, "Your people do not do such things when you join the military? No signs at all?"

[identity profile] voiceofserenity.livejournal.com 2010-04-12 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
It was...something. Certainly something. Kaylee didn't really know what to make of it, but she couldn't exactly say there was no such need for something to be installed on a person. Ai ya, that sounded like something the Alliance would have thought up.

She shook her head in response to Aine's question. "Not unless you're countin' a uniform..."

[identity profile] serenity2ic.livejournal.com 2010-04-13 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Nothing but training," Zoe replied coolly. "Wouldn't put it past the Alliance to try something like that if they thought it'd help them during a war."

[identity profile] whitefireshot.livejournal.com 2010-04-15 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Aine looked between the two, Zoe was not exactly emotive, however Kaylee certainly shared enough of her heart to be two people. Aine narrowed her eyes, "Do you find something wrong with me and what my people did for me?" There was a cut to her words, disapproving of the way she was being talked to and looked at.