Ship Work [Open]

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

Skimmed down just her plantsuit and her hair tied in a ponytail and tucked into the collar, Reimi was laying on a platform that hovered under the nose of the Calnus. While she wasn’t the most incredible mechanic in the world, she knew how to repair her own ship. After all, it had gotten them out of a tight spot.

Adjusting the panel, she wiped her hands and picked up a data pad. The readout scrolled out in front of her and she stuck her tongue out in thought. “Mmm, needs a little more….”

Currently, she was trying to make sure that the auto-repair function was going to be ready for any situation. Picking up a spanner, she adjusted the bolt one last time and entered some code into the machine.

So involved in her work, she didn’t notice that anyone could just come up and talk to her at any given time.

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[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"What are you working on?"

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

Reimi looked down and replied, "I'm working on tightening up the self repair function."

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura floats up from the floor so that she can have a better look at what Reimi is doing. Floating just behind Reimi, she appraises the ship with intrigued eyes. She's been in the hangar before, but she'd never really gotten a good look around. There'd been promising shapes and shadows, but at the time, she'd been too preoccupied to take a peek.

"Sounds interesting."

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

Reimi nodded best she could and made a few calibrations on the padd she held. "The system is still sound, but slightly damaged. It's set to thirty minute repair cycles and I'm trying to turn it off. That way we can have faster or longer cycles defendant on time."

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Longer repair cycles would be best," Nura thinks out loud. "Is it a complicated system to crack?"

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"Not too hard. I'm through most of the code. It's just re-familiarizing myself with Eldarian technology since this is the Calnus II." Reimi pulled herself out from under and looked at Nura fully. "Oh hey, how are you flying?"

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura doesn't know what 'Eldarian technology' is, but perhaps it is similar to the technology she knows. She's about to ask the question on her mind, when Reimi asks a question herself.

She holds up her left hand, and points a finger at the flight ring. "The best 31st century technology that Brainiac 5 and Invisible Kid pooled their minds to create." Well, maybe one of the most useful to the Legion as a whole. Because Querl's planet mover had been quite impressive.

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"How interesting, a compact anti-gravity device," remarked Reimi as she continued to tweak a few things. "Hand me that motivator over there? It's the spear-like thing."

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura finds the tool and hands it to Reimi. "Here you are."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Hey! Where's the Gear Metal Lexes around this damn place?"

The book, carried by his ever-present girl-fighter-minion, has evidently decided to yell this at no one in particular, after a surprisingly short amount of time spent poking around looking for whatever he was looking for. Patience isn't terribly high on the Overlord's list of virtues... that is to say, a list of the Overlord's virtues as seen by an independent observer. Were the Overlord to write a list of his own virtues, it'd start with 'badass', so, yeah.

"I'll settle for a damn Drill Tank! What's with all the mech designs with legs?! That's entirely impractical!"

This is what happens when someone announces that there's a lot of vehicles in the hangar in need of a purpose.

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"This is the ship wing," replied Reimi as she twisted a knob and was pleased with the readouts. "The powered armor are over there."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Ships?"

There's an immediately, almost hopeful change in the book's tone of voice.

"Is there a Super Battleship Yoshitsuna here?! Oh, if I could get my hands on that..."

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"I don't think so," replied Reimi as she adjusted the plating of the ship, pulling a section off to get to the computers. "For one thing, I haven't seen anything bigger than the Calnus on here, with a couple of exceptions."

"How many people does it take to man one of those Super Battleships?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Oh... just one. It's not big." Proportion was... kind of a wacky thing in the Netherworld. "But I guess if it was here, we'd have beaten the Ohm already and been at home knocking back Prinny Juice and enjoying succubus sponge baths." Zetta sighed a little wistfully, then perked right back up.

"So," he continued, having apparently decided this girl was the proper person to harass, "which of these ARE up for grabs? Normally I'd plunder them from a vanquished Netherworld, but those seem to be in short supply right now."

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

Reimi blushed at the thought of a Succubus giving her a sponge bath and rapidly cleared that thought out of her mind. Thanks Zetta.

"As for what's available, um, I'd have to check the roster to see which mechs and ships are being used for it. How come? Building an army faction?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Too bad she was up there and Zetta was down here. He'd have liked to see that.

"Army faction?" Zetta repeated, blissfully unaware. "I suppose. My loyal army of battle-monkeys could use some vehicular firepower to back them up. Levelling's been slow, so I'd love to crank up the pace a bit."

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"I see," remarked Reimi. Leveling, stats, it sounded like he was from a gameverse, just like she was. Although her world wasn't so... obvious about it she supposed. Considering she never heard anyone running around talking about stats and levels.

[kitbashurgundam.livejournal.com]

If there was one thing that would catch Lowe's attention, it was machines. At this point, he was happy to have some sort of distraction. Reimi was a nice little bonus.

"Oi! What's up? Need any help?" he shouted out from the floor.

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"Lowe? Just a second!"

Pressing a button, she floated down to eye level and sat up, grinning a little. "Hey. Are you okay? After everything?"

[kitbashurgundam.livejournal.com]

Lowe let out a sigh, then returned the smile. "Yeah, I'm getting there. It's been kinda rough, but, hey I've been through rough spots before. I think I'll manage. What about you? What you and some of the others went through at the same time..."

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"I could be better. At least I didn't end up in the medbay, but I was sleeping off the action for a while." replied Reimi, blushing just a little.

"I'm glad you're safe though. I'm sure the weeks have been rough for both of us."

[kitbashurgundam.livejournal.com]

Lowe grinned a bit, laying a hand on her shoulder. "Hey, don't worry about it. We should all be thankful we made it through!" He rubbed his head a bit. "Just remind me never to go drinking while half-asleep. Pass out half way to your room and wake up with a massive headache..." He couldn't help but think that it was nice she showed some concern for him.

He shook his head, then focused elsewhere. "Say, what were you doing up there?"

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"I was working on the Calnus, the ship that followed me here." replied Reimi, indicating the blue-white ship that loomed overhead. "It was damaged down on the planet by the aliens, and the auto-repair timer was set to twenty minutes with a thirty-minute countdown."

She rubbed her head. "The problem with stuff from my world is that it's set up so that there's dramatic timing to all of it, so that things work in such a way that it happens at the best time ever."

[kitbashurgundam.livejournal.com]

"Wow... auto repair. Man, that would help out with a LOT of stuff here...!" Lowe mused. "Though, stuff like that makes it sound like a game!" Don't mind him, Reimi. He doesn't that part yet. "...if you want me to, I could give it a go and see if I can rework it."

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"You have NO idea," said Reimi with an exasperated sigh. "When we're done here, I'll show you the weirdness in the media library."

"Sure, I could use some help. Some of this stuff needs two administrators to set up. I've already gotten it set up for two but I need a second pair of hands to input the commands."