Artifact Restoration, Tuesday 2nd Period

[jedigrammarians]

Aphra's class were back in her simulated cave of wonders again, although this week each workbench had a sad little pile of junk on it, and a stack of instruction manuals and boxes of scrap up the front.

"Didn't lose any of you so far, good," Aphra said, waving at them. "Things is, before you can start repairing your artifacts, you need to know what they actually are, otherwise unless you're lucky enough that you should just give up the fixing for gambling at best you're gonna be out of pocket, at worst you're gonna get dead." There wer actually several even worse options, by why give the kiddos nightmares?

"So, pick a desk, use these to figure out what you've good, and if you need anything from those as spare parts," Aphra said, pointing to the instruction manuals and boxes of scarp in turn. "And then let's see if you can get yours finished by the end of the class. Not that it's a competition or anything."

She fully expected someone to turn it into a competition.

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Mystery Junk - AR [02]

[jedigrammarians]

You all have a pile of mystery junk, two dozen random instruction manuals, boxes of assorted junk, and a teacher who put the idea of this being a competition in your heads.

This will surely end well.

Re: Mystery Junk - AR [02]

[justice_undone]

Oh, Breq guessed what Aphra had done by saying it wasn't a competition. She had had captains who had used that a lot.

Which was why she refused to compete, and just tried to get this done as quickly as possible. It took a while. She wasn't familiar with this time of technology, after all. In the end though, her conclusion was:

"Artificial snowball?"

She was so tempted to throw it at someone.

Re: Mystery Junk - AR [02]

[onefootoutthedoor]

Peebee refused to think of it as a competition, but that was because she had a near manic level of drive in wanting to find out what she had here anyway.

"Ooo, whatever this is, I've got a good guess that it's got a knack for destruction," she declared after a few minutes of poking and prodding, then got down to the business of really trying to figure it out.

"Some kind of battle-specific VI platform?" she guessed in the end.

Re: Mystery Junk - AR [02]

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo flipped through her stack of manuals. Some of them were obviously not the right thing. Like, was that a blueprint for a giant stompy robot? And that thing was obviously a portable volleyball, um, arena? How did you get an arena to fold up so small? And, you know, why?

"Is she sure she gave me the right manuals?" Ringo mused, glancing at Aphra real quick before turning her attention back to her desk.