TLV IC Contact

[junoit]

Hi, this is Hera, formerly of the U.S.S. Hephaestus. If you start to leave a message and I don’t reply immediately it’s probably because I’m asleep.

Which is apparently a thing now.

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Comments

Re: audio;

[deuceoftears]

Obviously the first step in the contingency plan is just to check that you're still here and not in a barge coma or transformed into a penguin or somehow otherwise prevented from sending the normal signal by unrelated means - oh, and I should build in a subroutine for other people to alert if I'm incapacitated, Eiffel obviously, and I recommend Hakkai, but you can re-prioritize a list of names any time.

Do you want to use the communicators, or not? Communicators are a little more traceable but less vulnerable - they can be stolen, but not hacked. Thoughts?

[He's already starting to jot down the rough logic outlines of the code for his grid.]

[junoit]

...Transformed into a penguin? That can happen? That's... weird and specific-ic. Definitely want to loop Eiffel in, he'll probably be happy about this existing, and Hakkai seems like a good backup as well.

[A pause to ponder.] Communicators, I think? What's the alternative?

[deuceoftears]

It's usually about that disorienting but less light-hearted.

Radio signals propagate extremely weird and badly on the ship, but Hakkai lives here and Eiffel has to walk past level 5 to get to his maintenance shift, so a signal from my room grid to any electronics he's carrying should go through within 24 hours. Or we could build something into his version of Hephaestus to be a specific receiver for this. Or explore magic options.

[junoit]

This is the moment where I wish I had much greater processing capabilities in this chassis, body, frame, whatever. I think communicators for the primary set up, just to get something in operation, and then we can consider our options for backups and alterations.

[deuceoftears]

That makes sense.

Then there's the issue of...if the system trips, what are the first and second line responses. I don't know if there's anyone on board you'd trust to, ah, debug you. Although I suppose there must be a way to do it if someone's managed to implant a problematic clause in the first place.