voice; backdated to after the jump to Jungle Paradise Planet

[volitaunt]

[ It opens with a few long seconds of silence as Poe thinks over what he wants to say. ]

Should have brought this up sooner, but--things got away from me. Us, I guess, really. Me and Finn and Rey found a relay station about a week out from the city on foot back on the ice planet.

Tinkered around with things, and we found out not only could we track the positions of the Null in real time, we could upload info straight into their hivemind. Didn't mess with that too much. Kind of figured the risk of pulling them down on our heads wasn't worth it.

[ A pause. ] We found maps of three different galaxies. Two are null-infested. The third one's barely touched. Personally, I think running to where things are mostly clear will only delay things. It won't win this fight. It won't save the lives of the sentients who don't see the threat coming yet.

[ A longer pause. ] We're looking for ideas, thoughts on what we could upload into the Null systems. People who could make that kind of thing. Put me in front of something with wings and I can fix it, no problem, but programming isn't my bag.

So. Who's got something useful to say?

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[therewillbeorder]

Entire galaxies? Or just star systems?

[There is a pause as he considers.]

Theoretically, I could possibly help. But then that would mean helping you and you understand why I wouldn't want to do that without incentive.

[volitaunt]

Gee, I'm not sure. I never learned the difference.

[ CAN YOU FEEL THE DISLIKE IN HIS DRAWL, HUX. ]

Is not dying not a good enough incentive?

[therewillbeorder]

I'm honestly amazed you've learned how to walk upright.

[This is him being nice, just go with it.]

I have information about the Null and their technology, you need my help, Poe Dameron. Try asking nicely.

In civilized parts of the galaxy, the word 'please' is used.

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[deploy]

Well, I've always been personally inclined towards a self-destruct mechanism.

Saves on gas.

[volitaunt]

I'm for that.

[ Mercy who. ]

Depends on what the people who can make it happen are willing to do.

[deploy]

I'd hope they're willing to save their own asses. And ours.

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[garbagepilot]

[One or two expletives thrown out of nowhere is, frankly, not a surprising or concerning thing. Poe is a pilot, prone to swearing, and she's certainly heard worse in the junk cleaning stations in Niima Outpost.

But then there's a third, and then more, and louder, and they share a home and it's not like she can just ignore him shouting like that.

Well. She could, and would if it were someone else, but this is Poe. It warrants a check in, and so she goes to find him with her eyebrows raised high, a look more of curiosity than concern on her face.]

What are you yelling about?

[volitaunt]

[ A BROAD, FRUSTRATED GESTURE AT HIS DEVICE. ]

Hux.

audio; sorry he's mad (':

[coyoteking]

"Things got away from you"? I'm sorry, but you had the exact location of the people who are trying to kill us and the potential to send a computer virus straight to their goddamn brains, and you kept that shit to yourselves? Now it's too fucking late. What the hell are we supposed to do?

IT'S OK POE FIGURED THIS WOULD HAPPEN

[volitaunt]

[ With thin, exaggerated patience: ] We get Fear to take a small group back. Which keeps us out of harm's way still.

[video]

[hot_mes]

[mostly with Charles on this one but...]

Do you know anyone with the skills to work with the technology? Particularly the Null hivemind?

[consider it anticipation of what he'll post about. has posted about. willon have hadna posteded...]

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[volitaunt]

That's what we're looking for. We passed all of this on to Tranquility, but any help is good help.

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[substances]

get em high. you don't accomplish shit high.

[Someone is both not taking this seriously and only half joking.]

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[volitaunt]

Should've known people would miss the 'useful' part.

[audio]

[circumitus]

Personally think those with enough tech-skills could get a program whipped up. Virus, antivirus, both, whatever. If we can send information to the hivemind, the threat of going nuclear on it should be leverage.

[She pauses. Yeah, she figures some people will probably be outraged that they didn't share this information sooner, but-]

As for bringing it up now... If we'd publicly disclosed that we had direct access to the Null, the last thing we wanted was for some dumbass to storm the place and fuck with the communications hub just to bring the bastards raining down on us.

Now we have the option to send a few back to the last planet once we've got out shit together without putting everyone in the city in immediate jeopardy. [Is it right to make that decision for everyone? Probably not. But Rey's not sorry one bit.]

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[webshoots]

Sorry, Jeff Goldblum isn't in my contacts list...

[webshoots]

[ okay but wait, peter can be useful. ]

Engineering's more my bag, but do you have any images or anything a bit more concrete on what we'd be working with? Uploading programmes isn't quite one-size-fits-all, regardless of what Roland Emmerich wants us to think.

[Voice]

[prophesiedone]

Uploading rainbows and sunshine into their hivemind won't work? We could sing to them. Maybe some lullabies to put them to sleep?

[He is so not serious. But Poe, darling, this is another man who is better at fixing things than programming.]

Do they have throats we can crush?

[volitaunt]

[ Oh hey it's the guy he called a monster to his face, that guy that could kill him really easily, that guy who is apparently also a friend of Hux's.

Super!

Awkward pause. ]

Apparently that might be an option.

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[madamdirector]

You're right. We have to end this, one way or another. We can't run forever.

[ She's tried. ]

I don't know much about uploading things [ or what the word means shh it's fine ] but this...relay station, it lets us...affect them remotely?

[volitaunt]

That's the idea. It's the 'how we do it' and 'what we do' that's kind of up in the air at the moment.

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[storyseeker]

Holy shit.

[Yes. That contributed to the discussion.]

[volitaunt]

Yeah. And apparently I should talk to your husband about it. Don't know why I didn't think of that before, honestly, him and Lup and Taako--anyway, hopefully we'll be able to translate what we got from it and have a better idea of exactly what we can do.

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[ahsokathegrey]

[ She's a decent mechanic but not, unfortunately, a programmer. ]

As far as I understand--being a recent arrival--they claim to have started doing this because they didn't want to become infested with emotion. If it were possible to overload them with emotion, that might blindside them.

Programming isn't exactly my best skill though.

[ If the hivemind were organic, she might think of drawing on their connection to the Force. But droids are a dead zone, and the hivemind is synthetic, so that seems unlikely. ]

[volitaunt]

There's a couple of people who have suggested that as a possibility.

...Pretty sure one of them was just being an ass, but it's still an idea.