AUDIENCE 🚀 SHOMA

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[solesuccess]

[ that's fine, shoma's too science-based to think much about it. but he's more interested in the rest of what callisto says even though i, ty, wonder what the fuck and who the fuck this is. ]

...maybe there wasn't time and they grabbed who they could. [ but...this makes him wonder. ] They're usually pretty careful about this kind of thing, right? They gave me that impression.

[ what if adrastea was temporarily possessed too. what if. ]

[dropoffs]

[ i wish you luck guessing ]

They are very careful to almost frustrating degrees, so being uninformed shouldn't be out of the ordinary. Still, it's protocol to alert mission start.

[ What If. There's a pause. ]

You're not jumping on the topic of nanites like I was told to expect.

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[ it's fine i will not.

anyway he just. grins a little sharply. ]

Oh good, so you were warned about this already. [ ... ] Wait a minute, what have you heard?

[dropoffs]

I believe I got to see some of the crew's interest firsthand.

[ Sometimes you guys talk about things in public or in private. ]

Just that you're interested.

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Fair enough. [ he cannot really refute that, he's been talking a lot. ] But yeah. I'm interested. It's...kind of something I've dealt with before and was sort of hoping to never deal with again.

[dropoffs]

So you've had experience in this before?

[ There's curiosity. ]

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With dealing with nanites? Yes. Being in space with nanites? No. [ he tilts his head just as curiously. ]

But there're similarities.

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Many of you don't have experience being in space, for the most part.

[ Land-lubbers... Earth... Lubbers...? ]

What similarities.

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And you do? [ no, wait, that is not the point. ]

The similarities of a nanite that's introduced to the body without warning and then can create protein complexes in the body that can and will rewrite the DNA in the neurons that enter your brain, thus causing your perspective of reality and your behavior to warp entirely.

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I was born on a spaceship.

[ So, yes. They have a permit, but they listen to this and it seems like their snuggie bristles? ]

... That is unsettling.

[solesuccess]

...not...not this spaceship, right? [ please don't be an infant somehow. ]

But yeah. You can kinda see why I'm a little freaked out by what's been happening here. At least back home we were able to stop the plan to spread those nanites to the entire country.

[dropoffs]

[ Shoma is not allowed to think they're a child because Callisto is tall. Anyway, they do understand. They don't answer because they think that first question is stupid. ]

You already know that you cannot check these nanites' program. It's heavily encrypted, but most importantly it's patented.

[ Copyright. ]

[solesuccess]

People are literally being driven to murder other people potentially because of these nanites and you guys care about a stupid patent?

[dropoffs]

I couldn't care less if you all ended up in categorized prisons with other criminals of the galaxy for the rest of your lives, granted it's likelier you'll die faster there than here.

You have to understand and foresee roadblocks and consequences. If, in the case, you cannot decrypt the programming, what more can you do with these nanites? Does your search end there?

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[ he just ignores that first part because whatever, irrelevant right now. ]

Why would my search end there when I don't come up with answers in this particular scenario?

[dropoffs]

I am appraising your ambition.

[ What lengths will you go? Unfortunately, Callisto is an asshole that gauges worthiness and usefulness. ]

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[ listen he had this similar conversation with scien before he died, so callisto is getting the same answer. ]

I plan on going as far as I can go, and when I can't I'll change directions if I still don't have an answer I want. Does that help?

[dropoffs]

[ Callisto wouldn't suffer Scien for a second, honestly. Makes sense if they have similar talks. They look off to the distance, as if considering something. ]

The senior crew is becoming desperate.

[solesuccess]

Too many questions without answers on your end, too? [ he guesses. ]</small What methods are you guys trying right now?

[dropoffs]

We are not that different from the rest of you. [ They turn back to Shoma, looking down at him. ] ... At least you don't have to doubt your memories.

[ But it isn't about that. ]

Io may be open to experiment proposals.

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[ he's staring at them. ]

...I was worried about that being the case, especially after speaking to some of you lately. I don't know what to do about that yet. [ though maybe it's not up to him to fix. ]

Io...seems to handle most of the medical stuff on this ship, right? Have you guys talked much about this amongst yourselves? The memory discrepancies and what might be causing shifts in your own behavior.

[dropoffs]

... Is that something you think you need to shoulder?

[ There's confusion, some surprise. At least it seems for Callisto, they don't hold junior crew to that responsibility. ]

We have meetings. [ They sound tired about that. ] The memory discrepancy, we do not know. At most we know the cause which isn't much progress. Shifts in behavior included... I didn't bring up Io because of this.

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Not necessarily, but I think if I have the means to do something then I should. [ he's not entirely altruistic, but he can at least recognize that it's fucked up that the senior crew may have gotten themselves into something they were unaware of. ]

Not a meetings kind of person? [ hah. ] ...knowing the cause is still some progress in order to decide where to go next. If that's not why, then...what do you mean by proposals?

[dropoffs]

[ They won't be trying to argue Shoma out of it. They think he can make his own choice. ]

No. [ We hate meetings. ] I believe they've been pushed to the point where they will analyze the nanites despite the consequences.

[ So... Proposals on what to test or look for. ]

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Understandable. [ meetings are boring, and also...yeah. understandable to the nanites as well. ]

I don't want this to go badly for anyone either. But I'm trying to study the patterns and see if we can really determine what, exactly, needs to be reviewed before we try to access them. We already know there're some things that happen to you guys that don't happen to us.