Ensign Imril - Holo Pursuits
Chris Taylor
((Main Engineering, Deck 15 - USS Artemis-A))
Imril: No need to walk into a tub or anything like that. I can use the holo-emitters here to create floating flow-channels for everything. Plumbing without the pipes. And you’ll be able to move the joints during the process, which is good because the fluids will need to contact every surface.
Gnai: Perfect!
Gnai’s tendrils and filaments glowed with appreciation, and Imril couldn't help but go a bit red in the cheeks to hear such enthusiastic praise.
Imril: All part of the service. Customer appreciation comment cards are available at the exit.
A bit of rapid-fire programming later, Imril had a wire-frame mockup of their idea up on the big screen. Gnai’s suit centered within a twisting coil of tubes and curves. And then waxed Gnail towards the center of the main ring. Another few taps, and a glittering walk-through forcefield was erected around the Galadoran. It began and ended at the replicator, just ahead of which a pump came into holographic being.
Gnai: This is ready to start, whenever you are.
Imril: Hmm. Raise that left arm up a bit. Yeah. And ready in three… two… one… Engaging.
Imril’s next command sent the first flow of simple acids fresh from the replicator. The pump which animated them was a steady mechanical heartbeat. The tricorder confirmed the neutralization process was proceeding apace. The status bar appeared on the big screen as well, for Gnai’s observation.
As the program ran, washing down the metal parts of its suit with the acid first, Gnai slowly made the joints move, exposing all the surfaces of the metal. For all the reading Imril had done on Gnai’s bioluminescence, the light display it generated was a new one. Ponderous, perhaps?
Gnai: Ensign, this hasn’t had the chance to get to know you much outside of missions. Are you interested in holo-programming outside of the context of engineering? For example, this spent a bit of time at the Academy learning how to holo-program for the purposes of entertainment.
Imril: I’ve never written a holonovel, persay. ::small laugh:: But I helped Lieutenant Silveira set up his holo-arcade. Have you visited it?
Gnai: response
Imril: Thats’s been, no doubt, my biggest purely 'recreational’ build in a while. I had this other running project that’s maybe more educational? I haven't worked on it in a while, though. For lack of content to add to it.
Gnai: response
Imril: See, I kinda like to go holo-touring in recreations of lost cultures. Societies that have come and gone, for whatever reason. Earth Vikings, the original Xindi homeworld, the Hebetians of Cardassia, that sort of thing. The First Klingon Empire, though maybe that one’s not really ‘lost.’ I looked that up after Dr. Sadar took me on an away team to an archaeological site. But that’s usually just asking the computer to scoop up pre-sorted references from history books and spit out an experience. No real work on my part.
It felt odd doing the same thing with living cultures, so they generally didn’t. Because a ship’s database no matter how well stocked could only do so much to capture the real thing. “Arch, show me Frenginar, Stardate: Today!” Something would always be missing, always be slightly off or estimated wrongly. Something that could cause a faux paux or three if they ever saw the real thing.
Gnai: response
Imril hesitated before going any further into this line of conversation. They filled the time of contemplation by looking over to the progress bar. Almost time to switch to the water feed.
They rarely talked about the world they’d left behind. Starfleet was their home. Their culture, for all intents and purposes, so far as they were concerned. But Gnai was a scientist who had shown curiosity towards the Meirashi when Imril had lacked it, and a ready audience. It might appreciate what they had created.
Imril: When I wanted to do the same thing with my own history, at least the part of Bactrica’s past that I care to know more about, the ancient days long buried, I had to largely build the sim myself. Because no one else had done it before. No one had put all the little pieces together in a form that could be holosimmed.
Gnai: response
(OOC: Imril will get around to asking about Gnai’s holo-exploits, promise :) )
Tags/TBC :)
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Ensign Imril
Engineering Officer
USS Artemis-A
A240110I12