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Okay. Just got some quick info for everyone.
I know folks have been focusing on ... uh, gettin' info on what the big uglies have been doing, but took some time to check stuff Starquake side. Had a ... bit of a hunch.

So yeah... For anyone who remembers the Gehenna Jaunt? The spaceships? Part of the ... well, the data there, the signals in the noise - it's hard to describe. But it sounds and feels a hell of a lot like the tachyon song - uh, storm. Or the thing that was on the ship singing back in time at us.

There's a lotta other data in there too that I'm still tryin' to process. Ain't got the whole picture. But with all the time ...whatever it is... that's going on anyway... yeah, this is gonna take some work. Any thoughts?

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Shit, that's my actual area of expertise.

What kind of equipment are we working with? Just show me where things are, and I'm in.

Hey, no kidding? What sorta things do ya do?

As for the kit... most of it's ... uh, in my brain. Sorry, man. Or it's archetypes. Everything else has been Interface and dreamcatchers. But ... you got any skills or tools on you? And if you wanna meet up, I can show ya what I've got.

Codes, mostly. Codebreaking and code making.

As for skills, I don't have anything from here, but I'm damn good at it back home, and from what I've seen here so far, what I'm used to is further along in the tech stream than what we've got.

Pidge might be able to help with making at least something to show the readouts. I swear she can make anything out of a box of scraps.

All else fails, I might borrow my boyfriend's arm.

Damn. Man, we seriously have to talk about this, 'n all the stuff from my last time through this world. And if there's anythin' she can cook up, with all this dream stuff, I'd be glad to see it.

... uh, still stuck on the rest of him or not?

Oh, absolutely! I'm always up for a good code chat. Next time we're not in the middle of falling apart. Or a Jaunt. Or... something.

[There's a bit of a laugh across the network.]

As far as I know, it doesn't actually come off. It seems hard-wired to the rest of him.

... it's mostly a joke though. But, well, Pidge did say that she could hack his arm, and it does work as a weapon....

My brain kinda ... cracks codes on its own. Might be cool to know how it's doin' what it's doing. Get the expert view on this stuff.

Right. ...man. And not just the punchin' people way, I guess.

Ok, that's freaking awesome. I'm not that good, but sometimes I don't think the steps through. It just... happens. However, if you want to know why things are what they are, I'm totally up for that.

No. While he is quite good at that, it's got some plasma-generator-thing. It's like... lightsabre hand. Slices, dices, makes julienne fries, etc.

Hell, I dunno how much of it I'm gonna get. Most of the time, anyway. I ain't great at technical bits. Usually. But ... worth talkin' about?

Don't you dare put yourself down like that. Seriously, you are a lot sharper than you give yourself credit for. So it isn't the 'typical' way people know things, but you know a lot of things.

You can get it. I know you can. We might just have to take it a bit sideways.

I ... getcha. It's more the ... numbers and frequencies and calculations ... that's the bit that worries me.

But. Heh. Thanks, man.

So we take it slow. Numbers aren't everyone's thing.

Trust me. I have worked with some Actually Stupid people and gotten them to at least decent grades.

Besides, if you like it, that makes it all so much easier.

[Dry as a bone, Shiro's voice.]

It does not, in fact, come off, and it does not, in fact, have any holodisplays. There's some storage capacity for data, but as far as we know, that's it. But it's a weapon first and foremost.

Lighten up, you.

I was mostly teasing.

Although, I'm kinda sad about the holodisplays. It would make a fantastic portable vid screen.

[Yeah, yeah, okay, he's slightly mollified. You're lucky he's a marshmallow around you, Holt.]

If you want one of those you could always see if you could get back into liminal space and grab one of my gauntlets. The right-hand one has comms, homing beacon, and holoscreens in it, just like Pidge's does. I just need it back in working order when you're done.

Nah. I'm not that bored that I'd need to find someone to let me back to Liminal Space.

Mostly I'm just trying to tease you into relaxing a bit, grumpy.

....Sorry, Matt. I guess I'm antsy. And the arm really isn't a good way to get me to lighten up, for future reference. It tends to get my back up more than anything. I'm trying to work on that, but for now, it might be a good idea to leave it out of the jokes.

Sorry. I didn't mean to.

I know I shouldn't joke as much as I do. I think it's become the World's Shittiest Coping Mechanism.

I know you didn't mean to... I'm not angry, Starshine. Promise. I like your jokes. Heck, sometimes it even gets me joking right back. Which I'm told I need to do more often. Just keep it in mind in the future for me? Please?

Of course.

No more jokes about the arm. Promise.

Thanks.

....Hey. I love you.

I love you too... but what brought that on?

I uh. [Sheepish laugh.] I don't know. It felt important to say. And it's true, so. Mental post it.

You are such a dork, 'Kashi. Such a big teddy bear.

Yeah, maybe a little. What can I say. You bring it out in me.

As Matt said, I'll definitely help out. It's been a while since I've make things from scratch so I'm kind of excited too.

Team Holt to the rescue, basically.

Hah, awesome! Was Programming, right? Figure if anyone can computer at dream stuff, that should do it.

Unless we're countin' Jules.

Yep. I've already analyzed and figured most of my skills, so I should be set for coding and figuring anything.

Jules... I think Claudia mentioned he and she built the Intranet? I would like to talk to him sometime.

Unless he breaks my mental eardrums first.

Heck yeah. We are on this.

It has been way too long since we've made something together.

Yeah, it really has been. Glad to be working with you again.

Oh yeah. Let's see what we can amaze people with now, eh?

Definitely. We can bring out our best work.

You don't mind if we have a third member though, right? It's still teamwork between us and getting to know someone new who also knows this stuff.

Not at all! The more the merrier in this case.

Although, one of these days, we need to make something just us. Show everyone what the Holts can do when unsupervised.

Definitely. If not already during the Jaunt then at least once we get back to Liminal.

Excellent.

I might actually let up on your bedtime too.

[Matt, tease his sister? Never!]

[overdramatic groan.]

I think I'm past bedtimes by several deca-phoebes.

Several what now?

[Seems someone hasn't absorbed different time measurements.]

Oh? Mind a third member of the group? Coding and hacking is my specialty.

I sure don't mind. I'm sure Matt doesn't either.

Well if it's data you need help with, I can certainly help with that. Just let me look at it and I can almost definitely pull information out of it, if there's any to be had. It's not exactly bragging to say that I'm one of the best coders and hackers around where I'm from.

[It's not like anyone else is making a Demon Summoning Program. ~~Stephen who?~~]

Heh. Be glad for the help.

Mosta the information's still up in my brain - got a bunch of hardware up there. I mean, I don't think this stuff is gonna knock anyone out over interface [hint hint don't think he didn't hear] but ... could dump it into something to make it easier to look at for other folks?

If you can transfer it, then yes, it would.

... Also I was fine eventually. I don't regret what I did.

If I recall the discussions about the Space Jaunt...the "thing that was on the ship" was a living being comprised of energy, correct?

Pretty much, yeah. It'd just been ... growing in the engine.

Well, who doesn't like a warm nest?

That said...could it be that one of those beings is dreaming?

...damn. Worth lookin' into, ain't it? Not seen any dreamers that look like 'em but... a lot of the data I've been picking up is ... everything out there dreaming.

Something like that's gonna have a hell of a dream, huh.

I would expect so, yes. The Starquake portion of the dream world seems especially shaped by impersonal forces, doesn't it? Maybe it's the isolation of space, or maybe it's something very, very large rumbling in its bed?

Yeah. And there's all those big holes in stuff. But if everythin' you've ever seen is 'sorta on fire' or 'space'...

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