The Ptolemy [Open/Safe Zone]

[indeliblepast]

Sumeragi was glad that despite it's outward appearance as a simple carrier, the Ptolemaios was, in fact, a war ship, and had both the physical and electronic defenses to match. It had taken an hour to dig up the hardcopies of the cryptographic verification scheme, another hour to actually run them and make sure VEDA hadn't been compromised by whatever had taken over everything else, and then another half an hour to get VEDA to verify the rest of the ship's systems. But they were safe.

The first thing she did after this was switch all the systems she could to manual access only, followed by locking down the bridge controls, the MS hangar, and the VEDA chamber. If she was going to invite strangers on board, she was going to be careful about it. But if the ship was clean, it would be safe - if it really came to it, they could try to cut their way out of the Hangar and drift in space until whatever this was cleared.

After a quick announcement on the comms about the ship's availability, she grabbed a rifle and went to go secure one of the airlocks, to let people in.

[Image refs: Exterior, Bridge, corridor 2, viewing room. No set layout to the ship!]

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[dhianeila.livejournal.com]

"When the attacks began, I moved to make sure that those looking for refuge found it. I wish to make sure that there is nobody still in danger, but it is ... difficult to know where the crew members who may be hiding are, like this." She looked to the side. It felt so strange, being unable to sense other near her. While many people might have assumed it was a good thing in some ways, to Dhianeila the bad outweighed the good. Especially in the situation they were in.

[a_mere_human]

Setsuna regarded her in that way of his, like he was still trying to see through all the layers of her personality.

"You'll remain here, for the time being." It wasn't a suggestion, so much as a decision that was made. He had a feeling that, if given the opportunity, she would go back out and look for whomever else she could, something that would get her killed.

"The communications system still works. You can use it to check on everyone else."