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jyn ✧ (ง •̀_•́)ง ✧ erso ([personal profile] realists) wrote in [community profile] ximilia2022-12-26 01:17 pm

video — un: kestrel

[ ugh talking to people, but needs must. ]

Oi, listen up.

[ she knows the network isn't like talking in front of a crowd and yet, she looks like she is containing the restless energy of a lioness but her voice is clear and strong like she is used to arguing her point. ]

I've spoken to Olivia. Apparently when whatever happened to the last crew happened, she was damaged but as the station was fixed so was she. All the glitches and malfunctions this week are because she was trying to settle herself back in. She's very sorry.

[ is she, jyn? olivia is free to correct jyn but she has a feeling that isn't going to happen. ]

Olivia's sole purpose as an AI is to protect the crew aboard the Ximilia and to help us get the orbs. She's already been doing her job, tracking the crew who were flagged as being so dangerous they specifically have devices to punish them in case their violence turns on us. [ her lips purse, but she doesn't linger there. ]

This is Olivia's home and she doesn't want to be pushed out now and since she knows trust has to be earned, she's given us this. [ jyn holds up a small silvery disc between two fingers. ] It's a containment protocol for the orbs. The Ximilia was specifically built to contain the orbs, but the protocol to contain them was erased and the station isn't the one restraining the orbs anymore. She wrote us a new protocol.

If you want to look at it, go for it. [ she's already had cassian peruse the code and she doesn't care about other people's opinions but she has to at least pretend she does for the sake of olivia's continued existence. ]

We really need to know exactly what happened to the last crew and Olivia couldn't tell me that, she was too damaged at the time. [ so if someone could illuminate them. that would be swell. all they were even told was that olivia was corrupted and needs to be gotten rid of, not a lot to go with and jyn is used to missions where the parameters are "we're winging it" but now that more information has presented itself, they need to reassess. ] Usually if an entire crew dies, they tell the replacements why. Cautionary tale and all.

[ she gestures expansively, losing some of the polish she'd dressed her words up with. ] That's it.

[ talk amongst yourselves. ]
essenceofdeadlybeasts: (012)

audio; un: mafioso

[personal profile] essenceofdeadlybeasts 2022-12-28 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I saw something similar to that when I was in there one day.

The way Olivia spoke at the end and what happened next did not inspire a whole lot of confidence in her. I don't really like not being able to breath, ya know?
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[personal profile] bindsthedead 2022-12-28 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
I don't like it either. There might be an explanation, but I say we keep Degar's containment measures in place, rather than using hers.
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[personal profile] essenceofdeadlybeasts 2022-12-28 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's probably a safer bet at this point. Even if she means well, who knows if that containment measure of hers would really work anymore. What if that's part of the reason the orbs got away again last time? Or how she got corrupted if it was the orb that did it back then, ne? Too much risk, not enough reward. We already got what we have in place and it's a lot more powerful now.

[Or is gonna be. Whenever this takes place. Who knows. But either way. Zhao seems to have confidence what they did/are doing is gonna hold for now. And that's good enough for him to keep it.]
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[personal profile] bindsthedead 2022-12-29 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Technological containment has already failed once. Magic seems to have a better record of dealing with the orbs.
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[personal profile] essenceofdeadlybeasts 2022-12-29 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, maybe. I guess? I don't really know about all that. I don't know anything about magic. [Or if the containment was actually even working beyond what he was told. Or if tech would be a better option for the future. He understood tech better at least but he doesn't know about this.]