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[resultofwar]

Does anyone actually know how off-Barge contact yesterday was made possible? Or is that another Barge secret inmates aren't allowed to know about until they have a warden to check in with first?

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[resultofwar]

Why?

[acid_rayne]

'Cause we got hired as wardens.

[resultofwar]

Your point being?

[acid_rayne]

What, they let waiters make the food where you come from?

[resultofwar]

There's an engine room staff. You can't repair something when you don't know how it works.

[acid_rayne]

No, we've got a bunch of folks who assigned themselves to that oh, so thankless mission. What little they've managed to figure out is a whole lot of trial and error.

This place don't exactly come with an instruction manual.

[resultofwar]

And here I thought it did.

[Feel the sarcasm. :\]

[acid_rayne]

And this is why you can't have nice things.

[resultofwar]

Very funny.

[acid_rayne]

No, it's really not...

Rayne + Engine Room staff filter

[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

As it happens, Rayne, that 'trial and error' got the Barge back in working order when we crash-landed on the Master's planet and when most of the systems later failed for no reason. 'What little we've managed to figure out' has saved the lives of everyone on board. The engine has needed care and maintenance since it was exposed in the crash and we've been providing that.

Yes, the Wardens maintaining the engine room are self-appointed - as is every Warden with a job on this ship, I'd like to point out - because we're the most qualified for the job. If it's a thankless task, then it's because of people like you underestimating and undervaluing the contribution we make to keeping everyone safe.

Re: Rayne + Engine Room staff filter

[acid_rayne]

The possibility that I was trying to point all of that out in a veiled sorta' way, just flew you right by, huh?

You guys are the ones who are running around in the dark trying to slap together a Ferrari with sticky tape and wonderglue. Just 'cause I don't get much reason to praise it, don't mean I forget it.

Re: Rayne + Engine Room staff filter

[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

I don't think for a second that's what you were trying to point out. Even privately, you are still making it sound as if we're groping around with little to no concept of what the hell it is we're doing, implying that we put lives at risk whenever we go in that room, when the opposite is true. Talking about us like - like we're just well-meaning amateurs is utterly demeaning.

Re: Rayne + Engine Room staff filter

[acid_rayne]

You can think that if you like, but you'd be wrong. Only thing I've wrote is how difficult I appreciate it is. You could give De Vinci an F-22 and he'd have a time trying to figure it out, too - don't mean he's no genius. Just that being in his shoes would suck.

Re: Rayne + Engine Room staff filter

[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

It's not what you said, it's what you implied and continue to imply in saying it. I don't think you understand that we actually have most of the engine's functionality mapped out by now. Christ, did you think we've spent the last year sitting on our hands? Even Da Vinci would have some ideas about an F-22 given that much time, not that that's an even remotely appropriate comparison.

But never mind. If you didn't want anyone to take offence, I won't. Usually I admire you for being so direct, Rayne, so I'm just asking that you keep in mind that the things you say might not always come out sounding like you meant them to.

Re: Rayne + Engine Room staff filter

[acid_rayne]

Yeah, I realise...