[video] Edge of Solus' quadrant, crystal tree forest

[invisiblepinkboat]

Since the Firstforged are leaving, unknown for how long, I was thinking we might want to patrol more consistently towards the borders of Haven, especially in the direction of the Badlands.

[She needs some distraction and she's been considering bringing this up since she talked to Solus either way.]

Where, and how far, do the police force patrol? Though, anyone who can and feel like it should probably assist, but coordination would probably make it more effective. So far I've kept it mostly around the edge of Solus Prime's outer border.

[Elita walks as she speaks, looking more at the now rather impressively large crystal "trees" around her than the screen, but not just for admiring them - rather looking for something.]

Also, would anyone be capable of making some form of alarms we could put around the edges? Simple motion-detection ones might be useful enough, but I was thinking of something that might be able to detect the type of energy the Badlands contain.

[Nothing she can do, but hopefully someone else would be - or could try to.]

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[0perator]

Leaving? What? Why?

[No this is not a dismayed face whyever would you think that.]

Frag it.. I can help with alarms. Sure. Gotta see what kind of sensors we have to work with, though.

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[invisiblepinkboat]

If you weren't present for it, recently we had an incident with a huge pillar coming down from the Lambda [she angles her helm to vaguely indicate upwards, even if the Lambda can't really be seen from this angle and among the faintly glowing trees] that apparently required more effort from the Firstforged to combat, and they didn't - or couldn't - return until we had disposed of the pillar.

[Frowning, Elita reaches out to run a hand down a crystal tree and then digs her fingers in around a slightly protuding shard and breaks it off.]

Apparently they feel they need to concentrate on fighting Unicron in whatever method they will do it in, which means leaving.

And thank you. [The smile is quick, but genuine.] The scientists or engineers around here... hm, Jetfire, Perceptor... Wheeljack seems more interested in weapons... Blackarachnia, I think? would probably be able to get you up to speed about what we have available and workable.

[Another, drier, smile.]

It's not really my area of expertise.

[0perator]

I was wondering what the catch of all this was. Now we know.

[She scowls a moment and fidgets with the microphone on her headset.]

Sensors and alarms are a bit of a speciality of mine. I'm sure I can rig something. The problems are going to be coverage and sensitivity, followed closely by networking the bleeding things.

I think I'll run by the junk pile myself, too. Thanks for the name-drop. Hopefully we can coordinate something.

[invisiblepinkboat]

Unfortunately yes. Other things has happened before, but this was the first time the Firstforged seemed to be either taken out of commission or waylaid and requiring additional, outside assistance from another angle to allow them to finish what they were doing.

I don't think we can expect perfect, overlapping coverage considering our available resources, so the most practical may simply be a widely-spaced net for now.

[She taps her chin thoughtfully with the shard she broke off as she thinks for a moment.]

As for sensitivity... all creatures we've seen so far has been either partly or fully made of metal, which means heavier than the average organic we have here so far, so they'd not need to be extremely sensitive regarding what weight would set them off, I think.

[raceme]

We have many different routes all around teh Haven, I wanted to try establishing new ones but the recent events had the Police Force really busy handly all the troubles .

I did some exploring on my own when I left, though, but I didn't go too close to the Badlands. [He promised his friends the wouldn't do that after all.] There's a lot of planet to discover and not necessary close to Unicron's land. Why go close to them?

Perhaps one of the scientist will be able to create the alarms?You should ask those in Solus's temple.

Did you lose something?

[invisiblepinkboat]

Not close to the Badlands, just more consistently towards that end, since with the Firstforged leaving, any greater warning about what might come from there would give us a better chance to defend or attack as necessary.

[Shaking her helm as she knelt down by the base of a crystal tree, Elita chuckled.]

Lose something? No, but I thought it might be useful to have even a slightly better chance of warning if something comes from outside the Haven and aims into it. [A shrug as she felt around the tiny crystals that slowly merged into the "trunk" of the tree.]

We can't be everywhere at all times, it'd be an extra line of defense.

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[raceme]

I could assign some of the firelizards Barriace made for the Police Force for that sector of the planet. They have cameras installed.

No I meant in the middle of the crystal forest. Or you are just enjoying the place?

That's true.

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[invisiblepinkboat]

[The lock is taken in stride, so the little flicker to her optics is more for the revelation of the cameras in the firelizards. Tilting her helm, Elita nods.]

... That would give us some protection until the sensors can be placed out, and additional help when they are there. It would be a good idea, since hopefully anything wouldn't register them as more than local mechanimals and leave them alone.

Oh, no. [Chuckling, she shakes her helm and holds up the piece of crystal she's carefully broken off.]

Since I first got the forest to grow by... "planting" a crystal, I'm gathering some more to perhaps take to other locations. Solus Prime expressed some interest in seeing some spread.

[treacherous_widow]

Hm. Coming up with motion detectors like the ones you've specified shouldn't be too hard to create. The problem is, it will take time to make a large amount of them.

[invisiblepinkboat]

They would be the simplest, yes, so I was hoping that wouldn't be an issue. [Nodding, Elita grimaces a little.] Unfortunately, that's true, since the Haven's spread out in regards to how much is actually used.

[Not so strange given that it wasn't as if teh Haven was an actual city or anything, more like a loose community of neighbours who wanted a lot of personal space.]

And resources are limited simply due to the issue of lacking equipment to get the resources that are there. A start would be better than nothing, though.

[treacherous_widow]

Yeah, the size is the issue, but if we just cover the temples and populated area's first, it won't be that big of an issue.

[Sadly, this is something she's grown all to familiar with both here and back home.]

Even with limited resources, it should still be possible with all the scrap in the junkyard. We just need to re-purpose a few things.

[invisiblepinkboat]

Perhaps we should start there, but something further out would give a more advance warning... [She shakes her helm slowly.] That, of course, runs against the problem of how many alarms we could make and how wide we want to make the net.

Too wide and it's ineffective, even if supplemented with patrols, too fine and we probably wouldn't have enough to cover anything but a very small area.

[Probably not even a single quadrant's outer border towards the "wilderness".]

Hopefully. This should probably have been started earlier, but I suppose it's somewhat easy to get... complacent.

[And she's actually never been in a situation quite like this, or engaged in full, actual warfare organisation.]

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[letmefixyou]

i can probably make some motion detectors.

although we'll need a sample of that "energy" from the badlands.

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[invisiblepinkboat]

[Who is this. :| Not that she does more than eye the text message for a moment or two before replying. There's nothing odd in the message itself, after all.]

I would assume someone of the scientists here have such samples, otherwise a short expedition might be needed, yes. And I'd do the motion detectors myself if I was the least bit well-versed in engineering, so any assistance in that would be helful.

[She uses tools, she doesn't make them.]

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[letmefixyou]

yes well, i'm new here

[that should give it away.]

it wouldn't be the first time i've had to make do with sub-par tools

i'm sure i can convince them to share

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[invisiblepinkboat]

[Doing some quick calculation and given who has recently arrived... yes, it does give it away.]

It should be all right, and I'm sure asking would be enough convincing.

[Seriously, even if she hadn't figured it out, the way that had been phrased was... suspicious, at the least.]

There's not much in the way of proper tools here, no, mostly because we lack the equipment to make them.

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[primest]

What, they're-- what?

[DICKS!]

I, uh. I'm sure I can... get you some of the patrol maps. They're hardly classified, after all.

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[invisiblepinkboat]

Due to the pillar and needing to up their efforts to fight Unicron, apparently.

[She shrugs, briefly looking up, but the Lambda can't be seen from under the glowing "branches" of the crystal "trees".]

Or, at least Solus Prime is leaving, but what I understood of it was that they all are, temporarily or not.

That would be useful. [Have a smile, Sentinel.] If nothing else it'll be easier to plan my own routes with something like that.

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[primest]

[screams internally. regretting making it a video oh god]

I doubt she'd go alone. They all left with the Pillar, right?

[IF ROBOTS COULD BLUSH........] I--I'll get on that.

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[heartdive]

I'd like to be able to do something to help.

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[invisiblepinkboat]

[She's... pretty sure he's young, but she doesn't know humans well enough to tell how young, so while Elita tilts her helm, considering for a moment, she nods.]

If you have access to a vehicle or transportation, some sort of patron route could probably be set. Even putting out the sensors, when they're made, would be useful, since that has to be done as well.

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[heartdive]

Transportation is a problem...

[ ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU KNOW. GLIDING. NOT REALLY AN OPTION AT THE MOMENT. ]

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[tearsofsteel]

Somehow I get the feeling our enemies are smarter than a simple motion detector.

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[invisiblepinkboat]

Perhaps. [She dips her helm in a nod and then shrugs.] On the other hand, things like those giant worms, while they surprised us by dint of moving around underground, would undoubtedly have been caught, as well as the first invasion we experienced.

So while I doubt all of the creatures that might be tossed at us would overlook the alarms, motion detectors or energy sensors, and take no precautions, if just one set get caught and we have advance warning...

[She shrugs. It's a lot of work for a chance, but it'll hopefully help.]

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[tearsofsteel]

It's a start...but we should do more.

Like adding surveillance.