AUDIENCE 🚀 SHU

[dropoffs]

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[roseoftexas]

Even if we have to use them in the future?

[dropoffs]

Manual operation is a last resort. Automatic mode is primary.

[roseoftexas]

[ bleh. ]

So, no danger on planets. Or are we just on our own if something goes wrong?

[dropoffs]

You will all be supplied with items that will help you on each planet, but the likelihood of anything going wrong during work hours is slim.

Venture out and do something unnecessary will draw consequences, but if they are smart they won't tangle themselves in intergalactic law.

[ Imagine harming little mailmen... Not good. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ that feels like aggressively tempting fate, but-- it's not like he can wrestle a weapon attached to the ship away from callisto and smuggle it somewhere anyway. ]

And if they're not, then we cross that bridge when we come to it.

[dropoffs]

Emergency contact senior crew and we will step in.

[ But the vibe is annoyed at the inconvenience. ]

[roseoftexas]

Helpful if we end up in a "split-second-between-life-and-death" situation.

[dropoffs]

If you're a split second from death, you would be a split second from death but with a gun.

[ That isn't any less dead. ]

Everyone will be equipped with supplies upon landing.

[roseoftexas]

As long as I'm split seconds from death with a gun, rather than without one.

[ this is all he wanted to know. GUN. ]

[dropoffs]

What is so great about guns, anyway?

[ They're disproving... They don't like guns. ]

[roseoftexas]

Nothing much.

[ genuinely. he knows how bad a gun is. ] It's what I was taught though, so it's what I'll seek out if I need one.

[dropoffs]

That sounds like something my brother would say, even though he had more power at his disposal.

[roseoftexas]

Better than grabbing a sword if I've never held one in my life. [ right? ] Although -- how much more power are you talking here?

[dropoffs]

I'm not one for manmade tools.

[ So they don't care about swords, either. ]

He could change the world.

[roseoftexas]

Hand to hand?

[ poor swords. ]

... Literally, or metaphorically? There are people out there with ideas big enough to change the world, but they don't almost manage it.

[dropoffs]

Yes.

[ They believe in their own power. ]

Literally. He has childish ideals and the world does not bend to that.

[roseoftexas]

[ HE’S JUST SQUINTING. ]

You… know someone who can just think something into existence if they try really hard. [ JUST LIKE THAT? ]

[dropoffs]

I meant that he does not have the metaphorical power.

[ Like he is too naive to be a politician or something. He has literal power of mass destruction. ]

[roseoftexas]

No, I get that. You said literally.

[ ….. ]

That’s something.

[dropoffs]

[ They seem annoyed when talking about their brother... But also listless. It's complicated. ]

Why not use the power you were born with...

[ They don't understand. ]

[roseoftexas]

My fists can't hit a target from 50 feet.

[ the... brother topic is paused. he is still curious though. ]

[dropoffs]

Not you.

[ They know you are just a guy who needs a gun. ]

... I've said too much.

[roseoftexas]

... It's not like I have any more context for what you're saying than you have for what I'm saying.

[dropoffs]

[ ... They exhale deeply, or that's what it seems like with the drop of their shoulders.

They're going to abscond now. Goodbye. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ goobbye. ]