Test Drive Meme

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Did you want to test your characters? Do you want something that you can use for an RP sample without digging up an old thread? Well, here you have it. Pick one or multiple prompts below or, if you want, make a prompt of your own. Just be sure to tag around so that everyone gets plenty of exposure.

1: Explosions in space! Space Bandits attacked the space colony everyone was visiting! Dozens of fighters and mobile armors fly through space, locked in deadly combat. Are you among those battling to save lives? Or are you watching from the windows, praying everything will be safe?

2: Explosions underground! You were part of a trading party, exchanging supplies with an underground penal colony when alien animals burrowed through the walls and started assaulting convict and Confederation member alike! What are you going to do?

3: Explosions over the city! The Colosseum is shooting off fireworks as part of a concert or a sporting event! Are you watching in the crowd, a main attraction, or watching the bright colors from the city?

4: Explosions on an asteroid! You're either observing, guarding, or mining an asteroid! It's rather dull, save for the explosions that rock the ground under your feet. It looks like it'll continue to be just as slow, but... was that something moving in the shadows there?

5: Explosions on a space station! As you approached a research station, you receive a distress signal! Fire's broken out and their systems aren't up to spec! Can you do anything? Are you a part of a scouting crew or out for a joyride in your new yacht? And is this an accident, or something more sinister?

6: Explosions at the gym! Explosive competition! Swimming, weightlifting, running, boxing, someone has just challenged you! Whether they know it or not, you're going to do your best to show them up.

7: Explosions in the past! A star has died! The Fleet is flying through the nebula it left behind, with swirls of beauty as far as the eye can see. If you're the type, you can watch it all you like.

8: Explosions on the road! Most of the traffic on the Teuberg is computer controlled, but some young showoff took his off the grid and promptly caused a wreck! Traffic has been backed up for almost half an hour now, with no way out for you and the people in your vehicle. Are you close enough to see if anyone needs help? Or are you just stuck with people who are as late for their appointments as you are?

9: Explosions in the marketplace! Explosive bargains! You're in a trading hub, surrounded by stalls of all kinds selling every type of merchandise you can imagine! Luckily, you've got enough money to handle a few purchases here. Will you buy one of those daggers on display? An incense burner? Some alien fruit? Or maybe you're on the run from the corrupt guards? Or perhaps you're the one doing the chasing, did someone just steal your wallet?

10: Explosions in your mind! The explosive inspiration that drives this world! Make up your own prompt!

Comments

[17thangel]

"Yeah, use my interface and neurally link to it. I mean its not my Seibzehn, but the process is simple enough. That and my flight gloves are fine for hot reactors, but whatever you know engineering better than me I'd guess."

She peers over it and hrms, pulling her goggles back over her eyes as she moves in closer.

"Well, is the power feed coming into it damaged? Or the data lines that go out of it? Best to see if the console itself overloaded or something external did it first."

[blindlygo]

Geordi's left processing the description of interfaces and neural links for several moments. Definitely sounds like something Data would way. Which is why his next question is once again diverted from the matter of the console.

He'll get back to it eventually, because it's too big a mystery not to want to investigate, but for now, Maria has his full attention. "Are you an android, by any chance?"

[17thangel]

Maria shrugs and looks over, not a lot of places seem to have the same terrible genetic engineering that Solaris had so eh.

"No, I'm just a girl who's been through some terrible genetic experiments and a pilot. My best friend back home was a nanomachine colony, why?"

[blindlygo]

Well. What can he even say in response to an admission like that? Geordi's no Counselor Troi, able to sense a person's emotions and steer them toward a healthier mental state.

In the end, he decides it best to pull the conversation away from the worst part of it. There has to be someone out there better qualified to discuss terrible genetic experiments than him. "Well, one of my best friends is an android, and he sometimes does that too."

[17thangel]

Maria looks back at the device again and shrugs. She doesn't really sound too upset about it other than when she spat out the word Solaris but is also distracted by the problem at hand.

"Ah, I've never met a full android back home, but I don't think the computer is intact enough to try and hooking up to it. Probably best to check the systems going into it and out of it while its cooling."

[blindlygo]

"If the consoles are all connected to the same system, we might be able to use a less damaged one to get a look at the information stored here. But if the outside's any indication, I don't have much hope for the servers in here."

Geordi sighs. "Pretty inconvenient. All that research lost just because of a fire... Whatever it is they're working on here, this will set them back months."

[17thangel]

"Maybe they have a backup somewhere? Its not a biological data core, so it probably wasn't that hard to keep weekly or daily backups somewhere, right?"

She starts looking over the datafeeds, "I mean I wouldn't let any of the pilots that came back from maneuvers without putting their flight data into the backups."

[blindlygo]

"Wouldn't hurt to check," Geordi says, glancing around for any mostly intact stations in the nearby area. The smoke managed to get everywhere, but there seem to be a few that didn't get any damage beyond that. "But without ships coming and going, there's a good chance that most of this place's research was contained only within the station. Especially if they wanted to keep it discrete."

[17thangel]

She lets out an exasperated sigh and starts looking to see if the parts are hot swapable.

"Yeah, but you keep backups somewhere secure, that way if your main core takes a hit you have something to replace it with. I mean redundancy is a thing, right?"

[blindlygo]

"I would assume so, but I'm no expert on Confederation regulations." Starfleet, yes, but Starfleet and this Fleet weren't connected, no matter how many similarities he might notice between the technology.

"The station's still running, so if the consoles don't work, it's not a problem with a lack of power supply," he comments, as he tests out one of the nearby stations.

[17thangel]

"Well, if the design was sane and some redundancy was planned, then all we need to do is find the backup tapes or whatever they use and the data can be salvaged. This main console though who knows."

With that she puts on her gloves and starts unscrewing the panels despite the heat, not seeming to care any more than a the ambient heat makes her sweat.

[blindlygo]

She'd mentioned the gloves before, so Geordi doesn't automatically reach to pull her away from the hot panels. Instead, he just keeps an eye on the temperatures she's dealing with through the VISOR, and starts poking around at one of the nearby panels, muttering a little "Yes!" when one responds to his tap on the screen.

[17thangel]

She pulls off the panel and wipes her forehead with her sleeve before looking over.

"You find something because I don't think these boards are going to be safe to work with for a few hours. Well, not without cooling them and that's dangerous unless you have some nano repair goop."