Non-Verbal Space
Apr12
on 2018-04-12
at 00:01
I could swear the felt privacy was important a minute ago…
↓ Transcript
Narration
Back to “Classic Orion”.
K’Aya
[ What? They invoked privacy already? Bring up our concealed pickup. ]
na-B’Lili
[ It seems to be offline. I know I charged them all at the beginning of the Centi, but we had to use Terran lithium-ion cells to avoid detection. Maybe it went bad. ]
K’Aya
[ Aya’s blood! What about the one in the Med Bay? They were going there next. ]
na-B’Lili
[ It’s recording. Shall I bring it back up on the main screen? ]
K’Aya
[ Keep recording. We’ll review it in our quarters. We’ve already gotten lucky with it. ]
na-B’Lili
[ Do you mean the imagery of their Miss Yi? ]
K’Aya
[ Ah, no. But keep that for future reference. ]
[ I mean Dirt Boy’s nanos. If anyone gets a sniff that nanos caused the transporters to atomize the ship, we’ll make sure that he’s blamed as the source. ]
Back to “Classic Orion”.
K’Aya
[ What? They invoked privacy already? Bring up our concealed pickup. ]
na-B’Lili
[ It seems to be offline. I know I charged them all at the beginning of the Centi, but we had to use Terran lithium-ion cells to avoid detection. Maybe it went bad. ]
K’Aya
[ Aya’s blood! What about the one in the Med Bay? They were going there next. ]
na-B’Lili
[ It’s recording. Shall I bring it back up on the main screen? ]
K’Aya
[ Keep recording. We’ll review it in our quarters. We’ve already gotten lucky with it. ]
na-B’Lili
[ Do you mean the imagery of their Miss Yi? ]
K’Aya
[ Ah, no. But keep that for future reference. ]
[ I mean Dirt Boy’s nanos. If anyone gets a sniff that nanos caused the transporters to atomize the ship, we’ll make sure that he’s blamed as the source. ]
Something is telling me, they are not a sneaky as they think they are…
And something is also telling me, they were allowed to spy on the full group
I was under the impression that the entire meeting in the briefing room was broadcast, and recorded. Not private or confidential.
And the pickup comes online just in time for them to hear Ace say, “two geese, a roll of duct tape, twenty-three toothpicks and some sodium benzoate.”
I like this idea a lot. It fits with the way things happen in this strip
Odds that Rusty (or other Awakened) has already relocated their “concealed” pickups to places where these two thought they had privacy?
Ah, yes, the Hallmark of the Hypocrite: “The Rules Don’t Apply To Me!”
Ace’s nanos are worth discussing here. If Trey is to be believed, might those nanos explain how Ace lives another 150 years or how his science experiment backfires into a time loop?
if so, this arc might be the event that causes ace’s immortality, they might have to active his nanos to stop the ones that are gonna destroy the ship.(assuming aces are from his last encounter with Ba Si, Dilmun nanos beat Orion nanos.)
Deuce was outside time for at least 100 years, make it 120 and living to 50 (he’s about 19 now) and you have over 150 without breaking a a a sweat.
I suspect that Ace has had the nanos for a long period of time. His doctor once mentioned as a throwaway comment that he was healing with his usual fast speed. “Must be all that practice you got as a child.” Perhaps when he was 16? We still don’t know what happened to cause him to end up in NK with no memory of the last three days.
I suspect that Ace has had the nanos in him for a lot longer, since he was little. I believe the nanos are the reason he’s able to eat such hot food and not get the burn other people get. Of course this could mean that Luna and Bruno has them as well, and I’m thinking maybe Maggie has them too since she was able to pick out flavors and tell that Ace used concentrate lemon juice in the breakfast he made.
Tolerance for heat varies from person to person. Hot pepper eating contest are not uncommon in my birth family, and while I can’t tolerate much capsaicin, I am known to eat large quantities of spicy mustards and horseradish. As for tasting food, that is partly an attention to detail, but a strong sense of smell also contributes. My mother can taste a dish and identify the various spices used in it. She has replicated more than one dish. Nor does hot or spicy food block the ability to taste other flavors, at least not in my personal experience.