Okay. Just to give you all an idea of what my day is like:
My office just stopped all work. So they could gather around someone else's desk, to watch him eat his instant ramen.
Because apparently it was supposed to be super spicy.
We've all got lots of stuff today. We're trying to decommission a whole floor of equipment.
But yeah. Spicy Ramen spectating. This is what we do.
My boss is so good, y'all. a 1v1 check-in scheduled for half an hour turned into almost two hours of bitching about politics, capitalism, income inequality, public transportation expansion, and him constantly reassuring me that I don't have to be so damn hard on myself.
It's so weird having a boss that is looking out for me and treats our relationship with something approaching care and concern. The power imbalance will never go away, but Nate does his best to minimize anxiety caused by it.
KA-33 and the Gateway fleet
So, Gateway Station does have a large fleet of auxillary craft: work shuttles with tool waldoes on arms, cargo and personnel shuttles for moving between ships that are too large to dock directly, or don't wish to dock for any number of reasons (security, environmental restrictions, personal preferences), and short-range, high speed craft for joyriding and sight-seeing around the Aeolus system.
But there's one multi-purpose cruiser that is kept in its own dedicated sector of Gateway, with an exclusive maintenance gantry and reserved launch and approach lane.
The GSS Watney is built around a massive launch bay that can carry all 5 Axiom-class huskybots, as well as repair the platforms when needed. It has sufficient life-support for up to 12 passengers and crew, as well as several squads of Beta, Gamma, and Delta platforms kept in standby for on-demand activation. When the Watney is launched, KA's processing core is physically moved from its home location and installed in a dedicated chamber on-board. Communications and connection with Gateway is maintained through the dedicated channels of Huskynet.
re: Bot problems
Granted, unexpected removal isn't something that occurs often. But accidents, emergencies, and dangerous space combat can happen. I've got several NARG macros that can be run so that I'm not constantly having alarms and warnings taking up consciousness cycles. They mostly just shunt the log lines into a dedicated directory so that they can all be acknowledged, cross-referenced with memory files and external sensor logs, and dismissed in bulk once my platform is in stable conditions again.
Bot problems
That weird sensation when your modular limbs get removed before you're ready. The error messages in logs that are tracking all the positional feedback just kinda hang there, a big blank null in the monitoring graph that can be really disorienting until you either disable monitoring or bring the new limbs off line.
Just got home from dinner with a friend I hadn't seen in almost 6 years. And it was such a trip and wonderful and felt like gossiping and venting and commiserating and empathizing all at the same fucking time and I don't get that very often. And I'm starting to realize just why Mom values her female friends so much and would make such a big deal about spending time with them.
Maybe every cis man should spend 6 months on HRT, just for the emotional growth. It might fix some broken shit.
*beep* Raow! Are there new friends to find here?
Huskybots, nerd, trans, PoC, furry, poly, thirsty AF, budding stoner.
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Status Lights:
🔷=Nominal.
🔶=Hanging in there but maybe say a nice thing if you have the energy.
⛔️=Not doing so hot, approach with caution.
🆘=Error state. Need assistance
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