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Kaidan Alenko ([personal profile] not_a_whiner) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2013-05-14 01:01 pm
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Combat Tech, Tuesday Morning (1st Period)

"Morning," Kaidan said as soon as everyone was seated. "Welcome to Combat Tech. For those of you who haven't been in any of my classes - I'm Lieutenant Commander Kaidan Alenko. You can call me Commander or Professor Alenko, I don't care which."

That was a real range of options there, Kaidan.

"Over the next couple of weeks, we're going to be looking into the combat application of various forms of technology. Obviously Fandom isn't always the safest place to be, so if you haven't been acquainted with this kind of tech before, this is going to be a useful starter. For those of you who are, we're going to be building on your knowledge with some safer tech."

He looked around the classroom.

"This," he said, his fingers sliding over his arm and calling up a device that fit along his wrist and hand - it looked a lot like it was made of solid yellow light. "Is my omni-tool. It has a lot of non-combat applications. It's chiefly a communications and manufacturing tool. However, that means it's got its combat applications. For example, I can manufacture chilled or heated metal that can then be deployed at an enemy."

He dropped his hand away from it. "Since this is introductions week," and he was a complete, boring traditionalist, "I'd like to know your names, your classes, and your familiarity with this kind of technology. I'd also like to know what you'd like to learn to defend yourself from, if anything."

Re: Introduce Yourself

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-05-14 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"I have done it," Anakin clarified. "Just once, and it was a lot trickier than I expected."

Re: Introduce Yourself

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-05-14 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"My lightsaber depends on having a focusing crystal to help generate the blade," Anakin began. "I managed to blow mine out dealing with a gravitic anomaly -- that's how they propel their ships, using creatures that produce them, but it fused the crystal in my lightsaber. And I really needed to repair it, but I was stuck in an enemy camp, pretending to be a slave."

He grinned slightly. "A slave who just happened to be assigned to work harvesting plants that produce living crystals. Lambents are useful; they generate light, and they'll actually respond to mental prompts, but only if someone's attuned to them. That was a bit tricky to learn."