playing with matches [video] [set during time ripples and before Mind Slayer]
[Klaxons suddenly start blaring through Legion World, due to certain alarms set in the lab complex. Something has exploded. Somethings, plural, judging from what's visible on the screen when Brainy's message broadcasts. Half the lab is trashed and smoking. Fortunately for Brainy's labmates, anything that isn't Brainy's experiments is apparently shielded, but he has no problems with destroying his adult self's work.]
[It's not really that he's doing it on purpose so much as he's reverted to a time where blowing up labs was part of his standard methodology.]
[He's ten, and even the small amount of self-control and restraint he had as a teenager is now gone. What isn't gone is his intellect, which means his capacity for destruction is...extensive.]
Ignore the alarms. My idiotic adult self seems to have developed a more limiting view regarding lab safety. Philistine.
[His voice is colder now, almost robotic.]
There's only a 1.4563 % chance this experiment will destroy Legion World. So all of you little people can simply carry on with your mundane existence.
[The experiment he's working on is glowing ominously and throbbing, making a strange WOMMM noise that keeps increasing in volume and frequency. He doesn't seem to be alarmed by it, though he does pull goggles down over his eyes.]
[ooc: Anyone can respond to this but the action thread to stop it has already been promised to Wash and York.]
[It's not really that he's doing it on purpose so much as he's reverted to a time where blowing up labs was part of his standard methodology.]
[He's ten, and even the small amount of self-control and restraint he had as a teenager is now gone. What isn't gone is his intellect, which means his capacity for destruction is...extensive.]
Ignore the alarms. My idiotic adult self seems to have developed a more limiting view regarding lab safety. Philistine.
[His voice is colder now, almost robotic.]
There's only a 1.4563 % chance this experiment will destroy Legion World. So all of you little people can simply carry on with your mundane existence.
[The experiment he's working on is glowing ominously and throbbing, making a strange WOMMM noise that keeps increasing in volume and frequency. He doesn't seem to be alarmed by it, though he does pull goggles down over his eyes.]
[ooc: Anyone can respond to this but the action thread to stop it has already been promised to Wash and York.]
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[He really did.]
If Legion World is destroyed by my experiment, the wreckage would cluster enough to allow its mass to continue keeping the Lunar debris field in orbit.
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I was asking what the chances of my ship suffering a localized containment breach that forces us out of orbit were.
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The chance of a containment breach forcing us out of orbit is 0%. As I said, if Legion World explodes, the debris will remain in orbit in the same position.
The chance of a containment breach in general is the 1.4563% I already mentioned.
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Yeah, no. Shut it down Querl.
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It would be impractical to shut it down. It's highly doubtful that there are many other facilities that are as advanced as this, for me to run my experiment in.
[That's all he cares about, of course. The experiment. The science. The results. Other people are, as always, an afterthought.]
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Any available Legionnaires, please go to Brainy's lab and shut down his experiment immediately. I'll see what I can do to stop it from my end.
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I can see my own fingerprints all over its operating systems, and I can subvert them however I wish.
[If it sounds threatening...it is. It isn't that he's evil, or that he wants to hurt anyone, but he's certainly amoral. He doesn't care about right or wrong, he just cares about getting what he wants.]
[It's very childish, and normally it wouldn't be that much of a problem, but he's no normal child.]
You can't stop me. Especially now that you have no security clearance.
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[Yes, antagonize him further, Cortana. That will definitely help.]
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[Future you is terrified of her, look it up.]
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[He really is an amoral lil' shit.]
My work presents minimal chances of danger or complications. Purposefully obstructing my efforts would require a concerted effort on my part to remove the obstruction, one that you'll likely find...trying. It would be prudent to stay out of my way.
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You're threatening me. Ha. Regular you is going to be so embarrassed when this is all over.
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[Of course he's robo-racist on top of just being admoral and bratty.]
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[She's totally keeping a copy for blackmail purposes.]
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That certainly is reassuring.
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S8 Wash because everybody is happy in this conversation, right
[He is having exactly none of this.]
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[And he's on his way. He has zero time for this bullshit.]
Re: S8 Wash because everybody is happy in this conversation, right
I'm trying to turn it off remotely, but someone's probably going to need to physically shut it down.
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[Trying so hard not to be terse at the guy who's actually trying to help.]
Re: Private
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There are children on board.
[And him being that quiet doesn't usually bode well.]
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[Yes, he is just that cold.]
Isn't it the United Planets' usual philosophy that all sentient lives are equal? Why then would the lives of children be more valuable than the lives of adults?
It's worth the risk -- which is minimal anyway. I'm onto something.