Programming Needs You!

[vision_ya]

[OOC: Bendytimed to shortly after Podpop, before Survivalist ends and before Mother Knows Best begins]

Jonas finished typing on his omnicom and published the invitation to the channel, then switched to a new window and resumed fiddling with the program he had been working on.

It was an open-ended invitation, but should something come up that needed his undivided attention (like an attack, Brainiac 5 making contact again, or Cassie wanting to do something with him) he could always edit the post with the new information.

Some of the people coming in might be surprised to discover that the head of Programming looked as though he had been programmed himself in the past. Jonas had considered giving them a heads up on that subject in the invitation, but had ultimately decided against it. If they could not cope the surprise of a synthetic person, they would likely have problems coping during a fight; and he would like to know that ahead of time so he could place them most effectively.

So he sat at his workstation and waited for his first arrival.

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[sawedoffgenius]

Artoo was actually somewhat reassured by Jonas' appearance - if the department was headed by another android, perhaps that meant that he wouldn't be overlooked. He entered, greeting the mechanoid seated at the workstation with a curious whistle.

[vision_ya]

Jonas glanced up at the whistle and actually smiled.

"[You,]" he said, rising to his feet, "[definitely woke up recently.]" He would certainly have remembered seeing R2-D2 around!

If Artoo was hoping for something familiar from home, though, he would be disappointed. Jonas moved with the same fluidity as a human would as he kicked a couple chairs aside to clear an easier path from the door.

"[I am Jonas,]" he said. "[Though I imagine that you gathered that from the announcement on the com channel. Does the ship's translation system work for you, or are we going to need to create a work-around?]"

[sawedoffgenius]

The little droid rolled closer, beeping cheerfully in response to Jonas' remarks. He had to admit to being pretty impressed with the other android's fluidity of movement, but he kept any comments about that to himself. What he did say was something along the lines that he didn't think the ship was automatically translating his speech, but since this was in fact true and he was utterly incomprehensible at the moment his actual words were somewhat superfluous.

[vision_ya]

"[Work-around it is then,]" Jonas said. It seemed as though it ought to be possible to figure something out. He paused a moment. "[My apologies, you are here about joining Programming, yes? If you are not, we can still find you a work-around, of course.]"

He assumed that Artoo was here to join the department, but it was possible that he was here for another reason entirely. Probable, but not completely certain.