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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:18 am
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"To the good doctor." Jas replied with a smile as she lifted her glass in response. "Who is brave enough to stand up to Jaden."
"It shouldn't make you blind, doc." Jaden quipped before raising hir own glass of moonshine. "To the doc. No offense, doc, but hopefully you won't have to do much work, eh?"
Jin-Li, on the other hand had - in the few seconds that it had taken to propose the toast - slipped under the table briefly before her head popped up between Fayra and Jaden. Anticipating what the mechanic was about to do, Jaden reached down and caught Jin-Li's shoulder before she could hug Fayra.
"No hugs for the doc, mei-mei" Jaden murmured. "Remember that you just met her."
In response, Jin-li shrank a little in disappointment before deciding to swipe Jaden's beer to toast Fayra with. One moment the little mechanic was under the table and the next she was in Jaden's lap, holding hir beer up. Then, once she deemed the toast was over (and having stolen a swig of Jaden's beer), Jin-Li raised the bottle again.
"To the ship!" she chimed.
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:28 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:40 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:54 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:13 am
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Jaden, with hir face practically buried in the large rice bowl ze used for a plate, completely missed Aria's scrutiny. As did Jin-Li, but the mechanic had been in the process of what looked like an attempt to inhale a large bao. Despite that fact, she perked up when addressed by Fayra and, still chewing, tilted her head slightly to the side in thought. Then she swallowed and perked up again, having remembered what the project was.
"Redundancy, redundancy backup!" the mechanic announced in her usual sing-song. "I wanted more space and so wires needed moving and then I decided that if once set of redundancy backup wiring was important, a second set would be good."
For a moment it looked like Jas was going to protest to the useless addition to her ship. Instead, the captain sighed and took another sip of her moonshine before returning to her dinner. If they had been a combat ship it would have made perfect sense. But they weren't. However, Jin-Li usually was right about things. Like the emergency air evacuation system she had installed in the engine room.
Theoretically the ship's designers had a way to deal with potential explosions in the engine room, but Jin-Li had decided to run a vent from the engine room to the outside and re-program the doors to the room. It had forced them to stay on planet longer than Jas would have liked, but when Jin-Li was done the system had been set to automatically slam the engine room doors shut on detecting an explosion there and to blow the cover off of the vent. Which had in turn been designed to vent forward to slow the ship down so they wouldn't crash into anything.
Three months later, Jin-Li had hopped ship again temporarily and shortly after there had been an engine fire because her replacement had turned out to be an incompetent idiot. They had been drifting for a few days, but they had the air to do so because of Jin-Li's improved system.
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:33 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:42 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:55 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:04 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:14 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:22 am
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:38 am
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:55 am
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:15 am
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:24 am
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