keeps_a_cool_head

[In the time since he was released from Zero, Scorpius has been spending the majority of his days in the library. The availability of knowledge from other universes is too irresistable to ignore, and much of his time is spent cataloging facts and figures he feels may be useful to him in the coming time]

The enormous accessibility of resources even to known prisoners on this ship continues to amaze me. I wonder if I might entreat on a warden who would be able to provide a personal databank? It's far easier than writing notes by hand.

Additionally, I would be interested to learn if anyone has bothered to map out the Barge's destinations ahead of schedule, or started to plan for each flood and port we encounter. It seems to be on a rotating cycle.

And there are still concepts I come across every day whose meanings continue to elude me. I have seen...[He pauses to double-check the name he's written down] Abbott and Costello's 'Who's on First' three times and each subsequent viewing leaves me more perplexed.

John, if this data reel is any indication of your species' intelligence, I don't know whether to feel superior or afraid.

[Private to Catra]

Have you tracked Crichton's meal cycles yet?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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keeps_a_cool_head

A simple exchange. My schematics for the Hetch drive. Yours for whatever technology is involved in generating warp speed.

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logistical

I will consider your offer.

Do you have any other interests in the sciences?

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keeps_a_cool_head

Much, yes. I try to learn all I can in order to prepare for every eventuality. However, lately I've begun tailoring my studies to a few narrow fields of interest. Faster-than-light travel being one of them.

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logistical

Might I inquire which fields, specifically?

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keeps_a_cool_head

Wormhole technology is my primary focus at the moment. But in between I have begun to investigate the possibilities of neural interfacing and reading, as well as the behavior of Leviathans in starburst. And there are one or two species I have my eye on that are a sort of side-project.

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logistical

Which species in particular?

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keeps_a_cool_head

Humans and Scarrans. Before arriving on the Barge, I had only met one human before this. But the species is wholly fascinating. I did not know how many were like John.

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logistical

Humans were one of the four founding races of the Federation. Is your interest in biology?

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keeps_a_cool_head

Biology and psychology. Much of their culture still eludes me, but I have time in which to study it more carefully here.

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logistical

[In Spock's experience these aren't the first things one does upon first contact, but his tone remains utterly mild and moderated.]

There are several books in the library. You may wish to begin with Freud, and move on to Clarke.

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keeps_a_cool_head

I'll take your suggestion under advisement.

[And instead go straight for psychological warfare]

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logistical

[you didn't even try at all.jpeg]

There are truly so few humans?

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keeps_a_cool_head

In my part of the galaxy, yes. But it doesn't surprise me: humans in my universe have not yet fully left their atmosphere, if my reading on the situation and the books here is correct.

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logistical

Most curious. The majority of my colleagues are human.

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keeps_a_cool_head

Then you are from a universe where their technology is more advanced, in parts.

Forgive me for observing, but you yourself are both human and...not. Your energy pattern is similar.

Do you have human ancestry?

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logistical

I am not offended; your observation is indeed correct. I am half-human.

[He'd have liked to know Scorpius could do that, but well, he knows now.]

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keeps_a_cool_head

[Sorry, Spock: Scorpius likes to spring awareness on people. It's a sport]

Fascinating. I too am a hybrid.

Humans do not have a purity-of-blood statute in place?

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logistical

[Purity of — EXCUSE YOU you actually manage to shock him, such that the reply is a half-beat too late if he had no emotions on the subject.]

They do not. All attempts in the past have been subverted.

What of your heritage?

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keeps_a_cool_head

[Scorpius takes this knowledge and files it away for safekeeping. He needed to know how closely humans and Sebaceans resemble one another]

I am half Scarran and half Sebacean. You may think of Sebaceans as being very similar physically to humans, at least externally.

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logistical

And culturally extremely different, I suppose?

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keeps_a_cool_head

Extremely. Culturally, and internally. Humans do not suffer the Living Death when the temperatures rise.

From:

logistical

[Cold-blooded. Something he'll note for future reference.]

Scarrans are further removed?

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keeps_a_cool_head

They are wildly different in appearance and all other things. Yes.

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logistical

You identify as one, both, or neither?

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keeps_a_cool_head

I am half Scarran, half Sebacean. I can pass for neither race, and neither race fully accepts me as one of their own. To the Scarrans, I am a failed experiment: to the Sebaceans, I am an impure deformity that must be tolerated in order to achieve a shared objective.

[does this answer your question mr. spock]