A ship is a ship is a ship [Backdated]

[wheeljackofalltrades]

WHO: Wheeljack and Friends

WHERE: Ship building site just on the outskirts of Solus's Quadrant

WHEN: Backdated Feb 28th

WHAT: BUILDIN' SUM SHIPS

WARNINGS: N/A

So if you've gotten the coordinates from Wheeljack, you'll find that he's stationed himself just on the outer edge of Solus's Quadrant.  Away from all the rough terrain that seemed to occupy most of the space there.  Surprisingly, it's well pegged and marked off, with supplies piled high and tarps galore.  One would actually think someone COMPETENT made this!  Well, Bulk DID help.  There aren't TOO many people here yet, just Wheeljack (and probably Bulkhead) setting up frames so the metal doesn't fall over.  They seem pretty busy, but you can go converse with them if you need something to do.

There's a large robot-sized table, with plans laid out that show a ship.  Cute, in design, don't you think?

Or, if you happen to be passing by Solus's Quadrant and you didn't get an invite from Wheeljack himself, feel free to see what's up with the Wrecker and his buddy.  Primus knows they could use all the help they can get.

(ooc: there'll be minature posts, one to recieve your 'job', and the each one's respective jobs where you can mingle! Also, feel free to cross over and discuss with other 'jobs'. Anyone who's built anything knows that everything functions TOGETHER instead of separate. So feel free to converse!)
 

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[sciencetank]

[Dammit, there you go talking about engineering again. He sort of... stares for a minute, before shaking his head.]

Everything we could get our hands on. Which made for a logistics nightmare, let me tell you. It was an old freighter, first. Which should give you an idea of what mess I had to work with.

[He gives him a level look.]

Partially, yes. Considering I spent the first portion of the incident kidnapped.

[wheeljackofalltrades]

[Sorry, you're talking engineering back. It's going to keep going.]

Well with little atmosphere in space you don't need anything considerably powerful, just enough to get you goin'. Without gravity or inertia, you'll keep going at the same speed.

I guess it was just getting thrusters IN that was your problem. Freighters aren't meant for speedy climbs into the atmosphere. Or climbs up there at all. Unless we're talking intergalactic.

[Wheeljack stop.]

...

Before you came here, there were Sharkticons, and yes, they are what ya think they are. Monsters tend to swarm at random times. It's kinda their thing.

[sciencetank]

Don't you lecture me on astrophysics. I'm well aware of how spaceflight works, thank you. It was less the issue of atmospheric friction and more the fact we would be running all of our systems on exceptionally limited fuel.

Not to mention the entire thing had been decommissioned before we located and overhauled it.

[Well fine he'll just sass you then.]

... But have there ever been any in the air?

[wheeljackofalltrades]

Bet your aft I will. This is the one area I might totally beat ya on, Perce. You think I won't take advantage of that?

...

[Bring it.]

Do you know why the 'high ground' is so important in a battle?

[sciencetank]

I would prefer it if you didn't.

... do I look as if I know anything about combat?

[wheeljackofalltrades]

[He'll drop the first subject then. His hands gesture down, as if trying to explain.]

In a battle, the higher ground gives ya an advantage. I would know. Was trapped in an Energon Smeltin' pit with Cons surrounding the edges. Wasn't an easy victory. Bein' higher up makes it easier to pick off with little to no fighting back.

Air strike? Very good thing. And if ya think the Cons'll help out bots in one of these fights, you better recalculate.

[sciencetank]

[Oh, he does listen. But as he does, his expression darkens.]

I'm not assisting you in building a weapon, Wheeljack. A tool of warfare.

That wasn't why I came here.

[wheeljackofalltrades]

[And so does the Wrecker's.]

Look. I'm not gonna start fights with it. But if we don't have some kind of defense, and something attacks it, then we just spent all this time building a ship for nothing. It's a sitting duck in the sky if ambushed.

It's how Seaspray was lost. I'm NOT losing men on this ship.

[sciencetank]

That wasn't what I was attempting to say. Nor was that how you made it sound.

[He gestures around him. As if there were some invisible ship to see.]

Protecting itself is one thing, of course. That, I... regrettably... understand. I would have to be stupid not to.

You made it sound as if you intended to use this as a... as a warship. And that, I, morally speaking, cannot involve myself in.

[There's a beat.]

... Who?

[wheeljackofalltrades]

Don't get me wrong, Percy. If scrap's goin' down from outside sources, like centipedes and Sharkticons, I'm usin' this thing to take em out. It's not warfare. It's extermination.

But...I'll behave enough to refrain from attackin' other bots. How's that sound?

[At the 'who' question, he gives a dismissive handwave.]

No one.

[sciencetank]

Extermination still greatly implies catastrophic loss of life. Of which, I am naturally opposed.

... But very well. And I will hold you to that.

[His head tilts. You can bet he'll remember that, as well.]

I see.

[wheeljackofalltrades]

Yeah, and lack of extermination is catastrophic loss of life on our side. Ya can't have an energon cube and drink it too.

[sciencetank]

... Yes you can.

If you have a cube, you can drink it.

[wheeljackofalltrades]

...I don't think ya quite grasped the concept.

Ya can't drink it and still have a cube of Energon afterward.

[sciencetank]

You didn't state it that way. You said you cannot have a cube of energon, and then drink it.

[wheeljackofalltrades]

What I said was just fine, from a certain point of view.

[sciencetank]

From your fundamentally flawed point of view, yes.

[wheeljackofalltrades]

Nothin' flawed about it, Perce. Cept to scientists with one track minds and a rod shoved up their-

[sciencetank]

I was under the assumption we were here to build a ship, not discuss the nature of energon and cubes.

[wheeljackofalltrades]

[He holds his tongue at that, wings flicking.]

Right.

[He walks over to the table, grabbing a datapad with all the internal schematics.]

This should be everything. Let me know if I missed anything important.



I didn't, though.

[sciencetank]

[Perceptor follows, his expression calm and neutral. He reaches for the datapad.]

I'll be certain to inform you if I require more data.

[wheeljackofalltrades]

[And Wheeljack gives it to him, scrolling down on one of his own.]

Yep.


I'll be here.

[sciencetank]

As will I.

[Checking everyone's work.]