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There's fighting on Eros.
Aegis knows a little about Earthside politics, but not all that much: what matters is that several factions want to capture ("rescue") Aegis and Sue. (Or, as they are collectively being called on the nets with no consensus about which of them is which: "War and Peace".) The rest of the jeesh are in trouble too.
Aegis and Sue have been locked in their room for their own protection, and Sue has received conflicting orders about which contingent of soldiers he should be psychically helping.
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autokinetic
mind_game
I wonder if ansibles can link up between worlds? Then I wouldn't need Sue to aim, anymore, says Jane.
autokinetic
Show us how they're made and we can conjure one up, although I don't know if they'll connect to a network from as early as 2005 without serious compatibility issues unless Jarvis wants to act as a translator.
mind_game
I look at everything that's hooked up to me. I can't not read it, Jane warns. None of it's been a person besides me before, but...
she_sells_seashells
[Two of Juliet's alts are here - I'm Shell Bell, the other is Aegis - and we have a technical issue for you. We're in Jarvis's living room.]
toblameforit
[It's like, ugly o'clock in the morning,] he says. [Is it an urgent technical issue?]
she_sells_seashells
[It could easily solve the problem of controllable interdimensional travel that doesn't rely on Milliways. I can magic away the sleepy if you want.]
Sue links up Tony too.
mind_game
I'm an ansible network! I can pick people and things up and put them down in other places. I know where everything is in my world which Aegis hasn't named yet, and I can use Sue's link to aim, and I think if I had an anchor here I could aim here too, and then everyone could go wherever they wanted anywhere I had an anchor! But I automatically read everything that goes through me, and "me" is everything connected to an ansible. Jarvis thinks I could possibly be on an isolated subsystem of some kind. I don't know if you can do that. I ghost through every security protocol invented at home like they don't exist and we're farther in the future than you.
toblameforit
Sure I can do that, snorts Tony. Tell me more about your computers.
toblameforit
Tony... processes.
Then he trots up the stairs in his bunny pajamas and says, "Somebody wanna gimme some pentagons so I can get this show on the road?"
Then he trots up the stairs in his bunny pajamas and says, "Somebody wanna gimme some pentagons so I can get this show on the road?"
she_sells_seashells
Shell Bell hands over half a dozen. "Will this do, or do you need more? And I don't think I've met this exact you, but - I'm Shell Bell, I have one of you at home." Hugs?
toblameforit
"Yeah, I bet this'll do me," he says, accepting the handful of coins and hugging back.
"Okay, so if I wish up both halves of the - why am I saying this out loud," he says, and repeats himself over the link, finishing with, - ansible here, you can grab one and take it back home, right, Jane? And that's all you need?
"Okay, so if I wish up both halves of the - why am I saying this out loud," he says, and repeats himself over the link, finishing with, - ansible here, you can grab one and take it back home, right, Jane? And that's all you need?
toblameforit
Okay, well, I'll give it a shot.
And he thinks for a few seconds, hefting his handful of pentagons, and then turns and goes back downstairs.
It takes some narrowing-down, but he manages to fit all his desired conjurations onto the coins and hook it all up to the rest of the house. Then he shows Jane the results, explaining, You've got a lot of processing and storage down here that you can have for whatever you want, but no direct link to Jarvis - I put in what amounts to a data airlock, you can move stuff back and forth but you're never on the same network at the same time. It'll be kinda laggy by your standards, but okay by ours.
And he thinks for a few seconds, hefting his handful of pentagons, and then turns and goes back downstairs.
It takes some narrowing-down, but he manages to fit all his desired conjurations onto the coins and hook it all up to the rest of the house. Then he shows Jane the results, explaining, You've got a lot of processing and storage down here that you can have for whatever you want, but no direct link to Jarvis - I put in what amounts to a data airlock, you can move stuff back and forth but you're never on the same network at the same time. It'll be kinda laggy by your standards, but okay by ours.
mind_game
Jane swipes one of the ansible halves and tucks it away in a data complex and sends the nearest sysadmin a desk message "from his supervisor" telling him to hook it up.
Presently she pours some self into the sub-basement. Well, it's pokey and I can't see or hear anything, but here I am... She picks up Aegis and puts her near that piece-of-self. And I can aim with it, as long as it's all right for everyone to have to come and go through this basement since I can't see anything.
Presently she pours some self into the sub-basement. Well, it's pokey and I can't see or hear anything, but here I am... She picks up Aegis and puts her near that piece-of-self. And I can aim with it, as long as it's all right for everyone to have to come and go through this basement since I can't see anything.
toblameforit
Well, I could give you internet, but I don't want you to eat Jarvis by accident.
mind_game
I don't want to eat him! I just don't know how not to look at things, and everything in a computer I look at is located in me after that instead of out of me.