video; un: mccoy & major.yzak.jule - backdate: 4/5

[homeostatic]

( shortly after the dossiers drop, and after a hurried convo, McCoy and Yzak hop on the network and get right to business. Bones takes the lead: )

McCoy here–

Since we have our marching orders, I'd like to remind everyone to refill your first aid kit or, if you're new, to come pick one up in the infirmary. Please refrain from eating anything outta them. ( he looks temporarily haunted. don't ask. there's labels on everything for a reason. )

In addition to the included info sheet, a digital pamphlet is now accessible via your earpieces, with a choice of languages and narration provided by your fellow orbers. Thank you again, to those of you who've added to the available database. If you don't see your native language, come find me or Nurse Cabrera. We'll make sure to add it.

( Your choices of languages and vocals are:

Chinese: Wei Wuxian
Common Speech: Yennefer
English: Rita & Marta
Federation Standard: Jim
Galactic Basic: Finn
Japanese: Yujin & Itachi A Female Option
Korean: Jake
Ravkan & Old Ravkan: Alina
Russian: Natasha
Spanish: Marta )

As we're heading off into the black, I've synthesized an additional stock of single dose Tri-Ox for everyone.

( he holds up a slim silver cylinder the size of a pen, flat on both ends, and mimes delivering it to his own shoulder over his shirt.)

If you're caught in a low-oxygen situation, administer it like so. The needle-less hypospray will go through most fabrics, and it should give you a couple of hours before hypoxia sets in, instead of seconds.

Unless you freak out and panic, so try not to do that,

( McCoy composes himself, looking solemn. )

I've asked Viveca about puttin' together a permanent memorial for the orbers, past and present. While we may ultimately leave the Ximilia behind, I feel that there should be something left to honor everyone, their efforts and sacrifices, and the relationships we've all forged here.

Though I've offered up my own ideas on it what it should be, I don't feel right bein' the only voice of a project that concerns all of us.

Please contact Viveca or Degar with your thoughts and suggestions.

( Good? Good. Bones gestures aside. )

Now, I'd like to cede the floor to Yzak, to share what we've been working on the past couple months for you all.

( Yzak appears on the network, expression all serious business as usual. )

We've been focused on expanding the space program that's available to access in the simulation room. We were fine-tuning some final, minute details just prior to receiving our new briefing, so it's just been uploaded as the information will be essential to know for the upcoming mission.

It contains what you'll need to know about all manners of getting around in space. Moving in as well as adjusting to and from zero-g, specific differences as to how space shuttles are operated and kept safe, the ins and outs of wearing and operating an EVA suit. We also have a variety of emergency procedures programmed in, all with a number of different actions available that one can take in response to them, and much more.

It'll be wisest to familiarize yourself with at least these basics by the time we head out. For active training we have shuttle flights set to get the feel of entering and exiting a planet's atmosphere, zero gravity spacewalks, how EVA suits feel on a foreign planet, and other scenarios where you'll need recall and utilize all of the things you learn. While we cannot guarantee that we will see the same things on the mission, familiarity will go a long way.

Between the three of us – Jim Kirk, the doctor, and myself – we figure that since we're being split up into separate groups, we each focus on the team members we're dispatched with. The first group can come to me for simulation training over the next two days, the second to Doctor McCoy, and the third to Jim.

We're all available at any time between now and our departure.

( OOC: Yzak & McCoy will be around just a bit for questions, so feel free to specify who your character's reaching out to! More info about the space training is here. Due to OOC time constraints, the basic training will be handwaved, just please know it takes roughly 9 hours to complete!

Viv & Degar can be reached out to here for memorial ideas! Lastly, check out the holiday survey below! whew. )

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video; un; mccoy

[homeostatic]

( Moments later he appears again, looking exasperated with himself. )

One last thing and I'll be outta your hair.

In honor of First Contact Day, and in order to better serve and support the spiritual and emotional needs of such a diverse crew, I've put together a small survey for you all, to share about the holidays and celebrations from your homes.

This is purely optional; you need only share what you're comfortable with.

<B>Orber Name:</b> <B>Holiday Name:</b> <B>Date(s) Observed:</b> ((ooc: assume there's a rough explanation of the station calendar, for character ease)) <B>Description:</b> <B>Items Needed:</b> Anything for rituals, particular practices, food, music, or tools used in preparation or during celebration <B>Do you need assistance?</b> In preparation or during observance <B>May others celebrate with you?</b>

text | un: lion cub

[heyciri]

This is for any celebration? Even if we don't feel that people need to celebrate it with us? Or we might not, for whatever reason?

[slapsticks]

Orber Name: Harley Quinn

Holiday Name: 4/20
Date(s) Observed: April 20th
Description: A celebration of marijuana.
Items Needed: Weed and weed paraphernalia.
Do you need assistance? Nope.
May others celebrate with you? Yes, everyone should be getting stoned, let's turn this space station into a hotbox.

Holiday Name: Earth Day
Date(s) Observed: April 22nd
Description: An annual event for conservation and to celebrate the earth and its environment.
Items Needed: Plants! Plants everywhere! Seeds to make more plants and teach appreciation. Also gardening utensils and such.
Do you need assistance? Nope.
May others celebrate with you? Yes! The more the merrier!

text; un: finn

[hatejakku]

Orber Name: Finn
Holiday Name: Life Day
Date(s) Observed: Not sure of the date, sometime in November or December. I think it's meant to be once every three years, but it became once a year for us and lasted a few days.

Description: It's an important Wookiee holiday celebrated mostly on the planet Kashyyyk, but one of my best friends is a Wookiee so we celebrated it with him. It's meant to honor diversity, different forms of life, friends who have died, and the next generation. There's a lot of dancing and food and lights and decorated trees, sometimes alcohol if you've got it. It's just a time to see friends and family and be grateful for what we have while remembering what we've lost.

Items Needed: People. You can have a tree with lights and decorations, that's usually at the parties. Food is pretty important, too, and a lot of it. But the point is getting back to people you care about to celebrate with them.

Do you need assistance? Not unless someone likes to cook or decorate.

May others celebrate with you? Sure, but it's not something I've bothered with since coming here, and the Christmas celebrations were pretty much the same, but someone else from my galaxy may want to someday.

[slapsticks]

Orber Name: Harley Quinn

Holiday Name: Hanukkah
Date(s) Observed: Varies, usually around late November to December. This year: December 7th through December 15th.
Description: Jewish festival of lights. (Also commemorates important historical events in the Jewish faith but trying to keep it simple!)
Items Needed: A menorah and candles.
Do you need assistance? Nope.
May others celebrate with you? Sure!

text. un: knicksfan1961

[bigfootfetish]

Orber Name: Fox Mulder
Holiday Name: Opening Day (Baseball)
Date(s) Observed: First week of April, usually.
Description: In acknowledgment of the changing of the sports seasons and improved weather in general, the first professional baseball game of the year is played.
Items Needed: Access to the MLB Association, peanuts and crackerjacks. An interdimensional video feed of Yankee Stadium is preferred.
Do you need assistance? N/A
May others celebrate with you? If we're here next year and we can find a way to catch a game, sure.

text; UN: Wei Wuxian

[singlelogbridge]

Orber Name: Wei Wuxian but I'm not the only one here who celebrates these
Holiday Name: Mid Autumn Festival
Date(s) Observed: The 15th day of the eight month according to the lunar calendar. I believe that should be something like your September 29th this year.
Description: Mid Autumn festival is one of the largest celebrations where I come from and it celebrates the harvest season! It's also when the moon is at its brightest and most beautiful and of course we celebrate that too.
Items Needed: Good food and good company. It's tradition to decorate with lanterns along walking paths as well and to hang them up. And then there are the mooncakes!
Do you need assistance? Only if anyone would like edible mooncakes. I haven't quite mastered the art...
May others celebrate with you? That's the best way to celebrate!

Holiday Name: New Year
Date(s) Observed: The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. That should be your February 10th next year.
Description: A celebration of the new year. It is traditionally celebrated with family and loved ones and is a huge celebration where I'm from. Good food is a must. We often celebrate by lighting fireworks, decorating with lanterns, and always with a very large feast shared among loved ones.
Items Needed: Last year I requested paper from Viveca to make the lanterns.
Do you need assistance? I enjoy cooking and baking the day before with my friends.
May others celebrate with you? New Years is not a holiday meant to be celebrated alone.

audio; un: naruhodo

[locumstudentesquire]

...W-wait, are we... That is, do you think we'll actually have to go out into space, for this mission...?

[Did he misunderstand something here?]

[homeostatic]

I think, with our luck, it's best to be prepared.

[coordination]

There are three planets the orb could be located on.

So yes, unless we happen to luck out and drop on the right planet, there's a chance we'll be traveling.

audio; un: Sabriel.Abhorsen

[bindsthedead]

Thank you- the first-aid kit and the training will be incredibly useful, since our use of magic and other abilities will be limited.

[homeostatic]

Remind me, Sabriel– was it Vrefesea that locked all of you out of your powers, too?

[coordination]

Good thing you've got a small bit of a leg up on how some of this stuff works.

text — un: kestrel

[realists]

[ all of those languages are foreign to jyn, except one. finn was one of those people cal mentioned but it's not like jyn is jumping to meet anyone on a good day. post-ciraiwei there haven't been any good days. ]

Class isn't mandatory, is it?

[homeostatic]

Lord, if I had that kind of power, I wouldn't be here.

You're full grown. You hold the key to your own destiny, so on and so forth.

un; garma.zabi; video; to either

[gawstruck]

[ Garma's been born and raised in space, so he doesn't feel like he particularly needs to take this class, but hearing the items that will be on the curriculum does make him smile a little.

The mood has been... low, since the last mission ended, but this is lifting his spirits a little. ]

Are you looking forward to going back to space proper? I admit, I'm quite enthralled by the idea of it, myself.

[homeostatic]

( ..................he's just. gonna let Yzak field this, because his answer is no, a thousand times. )

voice | un: kokonose

[asymbiotic]

Do you think we'll have to do spacewalks? I'm really bad at zero gravity stuff...

[homeostatic]

You've experienced it before?

text; un: romanoff

[deaddrop]

Damn. Freak out and panic was plan A.

[homeostatic]

Had to head you off at the pass there, I'm sorry.

text | un: lion cub

[heyciri]

Okay, so who is Jim?

... And thank you both. All? This seems important... and we can train on these now? Even on our own?

[coordination]

Jim Kirk - a Captain that hails from the same universe the doctor is from.

He was here for an extended period of time in the past. But unfortunately he doesn't remember it after returning.

text; un A2

[a2brutus]

What's an EVA?

Also what's in these first aid kits? Stuff for humans and the like? Or can a lucky android find staunching gel?

[coordination]

Extravehicular Activity.

Anything that needs to be done in space itself.

(accidental) audio, un: strange

[rehandle]

[ There is just. A long, heavy sigh, with Stephen Strange's username attached. ]

[softshoes]

[mood, buddy.]

I take it you don't much care for space?

video; un: y.mikotoba

[softshoes]

[He's not going to complain about the space training at all, terrifying and bewildering as the prospect of going into space is, he's just... going to accept his complete ignorance and take it.]

Thank you both for your hard work. The more prepared we are, the better.

By the way, this pamphlet project reminded me: have our translation devices ever broken? Eventually, we may want to develop a contingency for such a situation.

text ↪ un: うちは 🔒 @ bones

[blackfire]

Do you require my presence?

audio — un: ben ;

[ascetical]

[ Welp.

It's not quite a sigh so much as a ... tired exhale that can be heard across his device. ]

Suppose there's always something new to be learned.

Voice: un Wei Wuxian

[singlelogbridge]

[He can't help the blatant wonder in his voice at one particular part of all of this.]

You're saying part of that training is walking in space? Not just inside of a ship?