Space

[Nexaduro]

Earth, everyone onboard the ship is still alive that wasn't killed by zombies or drones...

 

They wouldn't be, though, if I hadn't killed Jeremiah. I deserve a medal. :rolleyes:

[Earth]

Sarcasm? I didn't really pay atention, i'm still looking for core systems.

[The_Mather1]

Haha, Earth!

 

And Volta would not have killed me, a hand-welder has a short (mellee) range and a bullet in the knee and a tranquilizer in the chest would have knocked him out in no time.

[Seraphi]

Actually, Archi does make a lot of sense. You seem to jump to a conclusion and then fill in the blanks afterwards. It happened with the asteroid, it has happened many times with your suit designing, it happened with your not-so-superweapon, and it happened in this ship as well.

 

Why can't you just accept that sometimes you are wrong, and sometimes, listening to people is a good idea. You sent a message throughout a derelict ship which has been missing for 30 years and has been confirmed hostile (There were three corpses in the starting room...) to hide. You removed our element of surprise, and I wouldn't be surprised if Volta has spent the last 30 years developing some sort of bioweapon which is now primed for use on us. As a second point, a lone confrontation is something you do not want, and boasting about the coulds, woulds, and shoulds of said confrontation will get you nowhere except six feet under the ground. Your confidence in your own abilities is fairly well described as "Arrogant" and somewhat accurately described as "sheer, unrestrained hubris", so why don't you just stop for a second. Take a step back, get better judge of the situation, think things through, and listen to people instead of insisting that your own route is correct and closing your mind off to anything else?

[The_Mather1]

I never assumed anything about the asteroid, I only joked about ut beeing the sort of living asteroid from Star Wars after we learned it was organic. And in designing the right thing to do is to start with what you want and then compromise. As for the ship we were about equally correct, I was correct in that they weren't completely dead nor natural, you were correct in that they were changed by a bioloogical factor and that they were braindead.

 

Yes I am prone to jumping to conclusions and overestimating my luck, those are major flaws in my personality, however that is who I am and not changable in any way (at least not over less than a year).

[Seraphi]

You forgot overconfidence.

[The_Mather1]

That goes under luck, since nothing really has a 100% chance of going wrong.

[Seraphi]

I don't know, I think blaming everything on luck is overconfidence in part as well.

 

You do make some truly awful decisions, like running off without backup or teleporting an asteroid into the cargo bay without checking for things like ceasium first.

 

That said, if you just listened once in a while instead of constantly charging ahead, I think it would be easier for both of us.

[The_Mather1]

It's just that whenever I ask on such matters I usually get Earth or Nex threatning me to stay the out.

[Earth]

Dude, It's only because you were DOING the things you were asking about. Potentially volatile materiels, connecting to the airlocks, not paying attention.. You turned that asteroid filled cargo bay into a Sauna, for gods sake.

Edit: Admitidly, my own escapades aren't that much better. (Air filtration failure. was hilarious afterwards, but annoying as hell during it.) And, I do have problems actually stopping myself from going against orders, but usually the blade nutdoesn't get to do much damage.

[Nexaduro]

Okay, let's look at this:

 

Internal dialogue in mildly dangerous situations:

Jeremiah: Dang, okay, I've got this under control.

Faust: Hrm, what's going on? I better prepare for this.

Earth: Damnit, looks like they broke something again.

Chi: Oooh, let's go poke it with a stick. HEY! NO! THAT'S MY STICK!

 

Internal dialogue in critical situations:

Jeremiah: You idiots! Crap, I need a plan B!

Faust: You are beginning to DAMAGE MY CALM.

Earth: [cabbage]! HIT IT HIT IT! GET OUT OF MY WAY!

Chi: I'm obviously the best equipped to deal with this.

[The_Mather1]

Nex, I've never denied use of any of my equipment nor have I ever rushed anything. This is also the only combat situation where I've claimed to hve the advantage, which was later backed up by Archi.

For the first I think you're actually confusing me with Earth.

[Nexaduro]

Mather. You're taking it a bit literally.

 

"Ooh, let's go poke it with a stick" = "I'm going to ignore the captain's orders and this horde of zombies to investigate an imaginary reactor."

"HEY! THAT'S MY STICK!" = "I will do whatever I want, you can't keep me from doing something potentially harmful to myself and you!"

 

Every time you get an order you go against it, acting like it's a violation of rights. Then when the rules are enforced you react violently, whether through actions or words. And stop citing me in comparison to your failures. I tried to control the AI in the beginning because the performance of our command structure is unreliable, at best, and I believed myself the most capable when it comes to dealing with protocols. And AI majorly [bleep]ed up SUE, I take characters too seriously to deal with something like that, which he seemed not to realize until he was about to kill her. Every problem with SUE was because of SUE or AI being inconsistent/blatantly farcical with my actions.

[Retech]

Just because I was unreliable and probaly unstable doesn't mean you can blame the entire command structure, Nex. :)

[Seraphi]

That's because it was supposed to be comical.

 

I mean, why else would the AI put a kill crazy AI in, aside from comedy value.

[Nexaduro]

Doesn't change the fact that it was hurtful to deal with.

 

And Retech, I'm referring to EVERYONE in command save for Theros. He's consistently silly, but practical.

[Seraphi]

Nex, I really doubt you are any better for the position than I am, so please do not imply that you are always the calm and collected one who can fix the command structure of the ship (Which, I might add, there is nothing wrong with. It seems chaotic because of a couple anomolous factors, but everyone knows who is in charge, and people generall know who is in charge when myself or Nero is away.) in seconds and increase our efficiency.

 

I would ask that you stop ranting about the command structure. It's perfectly fine as it is.

[Nexaduro]

Not ranting, and I haven't much before. And if anyone listened to me I would be a fairly good captain (probably not better than you), but I covet the right-hand position much more. And even Archi has acknowledged the inconsistencies of the management.

[Seraphi]

Incostistancies which are nigh impossible to fix with any real amount of ease.

[Retech]

More than half the job of being captain is getting people to listen to you. :)

[Nexaduro]

Yeah, I agree. I just think that I would be useful as a co-captain or something. Even if I don't have AI privileges, I think I could really improve how the ship functions.

[Seraphi]

Well, Nero is captain, I'm co-captain, Drake is second officer, and Theros is third officer...

 

I mean, unless you want a more specialised title, there aren't any leading positions left.

 

You know I trust you and will listen to what advice you have to offer though, so take that as a consolation.

[Icuownage]

Actually after being in my scenario, I have found the ship is rather secure.

[Nexaduro]

Nero is interchangeably dictatorial and ridiculous, and Drake is overly secretive and untrustworthy. Though at least Nero and you always have the good of the ship in mind (probably Theros too, but I've only ever seen him take command once).

[Seraphi]

I assure you that Drake can be (relatively speaking) trusted. He may have secrets, but then again, so do I, and so would you.