Canonn boffin aboard The Gnosis speaks out - Scoop!
30 Aug 2018Gosht
"I'm alive"First thing I did was run a scan. As usual I'd slept through the jump with only a forgotten nightmare in damage. Rehydrating myself with some coffee, I ran a wrist scan and confirmed that we were somewhere, not nowhere. It sunk in that I'd better do something or I might as well be sleeping so I squeezed into my black shipsuit and headed out into the corridor with the intention of trying to find someone who called The Gnosis their home. I knew this might be a big task because the ship is big. My ASPx was a good 20 minutes away via corridors, walkways and lifts. There were distractions everywhere, but I could scan no one who was obviously Canonn crew. The gravity fluctuation through the last corridor made me nauseous so I took the next exit-way towards The Chatsubo, one of The Gnosis's bar's where the pod was manned by a single ancient bartender surrounded by video inputs who grinned with half a face and said; “Hi Doc. Been expecting ya”, in gruff low basic over an external speaker. He’d obviously seen combat or some space disaster because he had more shiny pieces than a character from an ancient Judge Dredd movie.
"Thanks, but I'm not Doc"
"You look like Doc. Not many pilots with grey hair here. Just greybeards buried in their science, you know"
"Yeh, well I'm not Doc, I'm a combat pilot on recon for The Hive, and I'm also doing the Hive Radio broadcasts to let people know what's happening out here. You been with The Gnosis long?"
"It's a good time to rattle my cage", he replied cryptically, while looking at something on a monitor that I couldn't see.
"You been with the ship long?" I repeated
"Ask him. He's been with it longer. Nothing I want to talk about"
His gaze ended at a big bearded guy consulting a tablet and seated by himself in a booth near the back. He didn't look like he wanted company.
"Go on, he's friendly enough", encouraged the bartender. "Let's see if he'll talk to you. Your hair is grey enough."
I was getting pxssed with his continued 'grey hair' shxt so I just nodded.
"You make a Fleet Mary here?"
"Got the finest spinach in the sector. Brass insists on it," he replied meaningfully, nodding towards the shady figure with the glowing tablet.
"OK, make it two, I'm a billionaire"
"Coming up Commander"
The drinks steamed with ice. Green tomatoes with a double shot of Russian Vodka, infused spinach and spice to taste. I sipped mine. It was perfect!
Imbued with confidence, I approached the strangers pod.
"Greets. Bartender told me you drink these too."
He looked over at the bartender who shrugged his shoulders and called out; "Billionaire"
Looking me over properly for the first time, he assessed no threat and I got invited to sit down and chat.
We finished the Mary's and moved on to Splashes, akin to old world shooters but much more dangerous.
It was in the above fashion that I never made it to my ship, but ended up in the Canonn Research Laboratory on board The Gnosis interviewing their Chief Scientist. Commander DMehaffy.
The full interview with Canonn scientist, Cmdr DMehaffy Head of Research and Development, will be broadcast tomorrow evening on Hive Radio.
Cmdr DMehaffy is permanent crew aboard The Gnosis. Questions posed by various commanders of note, icluding Lag-Red, Silicon_Assasin, Yoshi, Obsidian Ant and Gluttony Fang were also answered.
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