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[metallonkardia]

My name is John Connor. I've been recruited to be a Warden on this ship, and I've been here for a week

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Private:

[t_x_unit]

> UNAUTHORISED ACCESS
> STATE IDENTITY

Private:

[metallonkardia]

[ He switches to video, knowing full well his face and voice are on file - Skynet has them in 2018, they're certainly going to have them when this thing's from. ]

What is your mission?

Private - video:

[t_x_unit]

[There's a definite pause before any sort of response is given. This was not anticipated as anything more than a vague possibility. Sarah showing up was already against the odds.

Then the image changes from text to video. Presumably, the familiar appearance of the T-X looking into a mirror.]

John Connor...?

Private - video:

[metallonkardia]

I asked you a question.

[Text | Warden Filtered]

[most_feared]

Known criteria for the warden position is accepting a deal with the Admiral and having the assumed capacity to redeem an inmate. Employment seems solely based on capacity for redemption and not moral character, especially since so many varying concepts of morality are available.

Known criteria for inmate status is causing destruction or psychological harm through negligence, disregard, or purposeful effort. Wardens may also possess these traits and are occasionally demoted for excessive behavior.

[Text | Warden Filtered sans T-X]

[metallonkardia]

Thanks.

So it's function vs anything else, on the warden side.

[Text | Warden Filtered sans T-X] ^filter that I meant but autofill hates me

[most_feared]

A warden has to be able to protect, serve as representation, provide therapy, distribute responsibilities and allowances, dispense appropriate punishment, protect other inmates and wardens from their inmate, and their ability to achieve their deal is completely reliant on their capacity to redeem an inmate.

It's very complicated civil service.

[ that forever ] it's all good

[metallonkardia]

Seems like it.

[ Arbitrary morality makes a bit more sense. Still, goddamn Terminators. ]

Does it work?

[Video]

[aboutpower]

The network and communicators messing up like this? Big first for me. I haven't been here long, but I've been here long enough to know it's not of the normal. [Insert static here, in which Buffy taps her communicator a few times with her fingers.]

Welcome to the Barge. I'm Buffy. [Not very enthusiastic because of the creepy happenings, but sincere all the same.] What did you want to know about Wardens versus Inmates?

[ voice ]

[metallonkardia]

[ He'll switch from text to voice, but he's still playing a bit paranoid out of habit. ]

It's annoying, but livable. And thanks.

Just wondering if there was any hard and fast logic behind who gets put where.

[Video / Voice]

[aboutpower]

[Smart, John. Buffy would freak over the resemblance to Bruce anyway. :|

Have a half-shrug.] Not so much hard and fast. Or really, logical. The lines are a little blurry. [...] Generally the inmates? They did something not-good at some point and deserve a second chance.

Well. Most of them do. [Deserve a second chance. :|] I don't think I'm answering this right. [Slight grimace.]

[Video / Voice]

[metallonkardia]

[ The freaking out can happen at a later date... hopefully after someone explains Barge Twins to him so he doesn't think the T-X is impersonating him. :( ]

Don't worry about it. I'm staring to get an idea. [ It's just that he's highly skeptical of abrupt and mysteriously arbitrary imprisonment, even if he's on the other team. ]

[sixthanimorph]

John Connor, huh? Long shot, but any relation to a lady named Sarah?

[He's expecting brother or something. Maybe cousin.]

[metallonkardia]

That's my mom.

[ SURPRISE. ]

[sixthanimorph]

Are you from her future or something?

[Because, c'mon, she had to have you at like, two otherwise. Unless she's twenty years older than she looks.]

[metallonkardia]

[ Or this could just be the most jaded sounding toddler in the world... okay, no. ]

Yeah, there's more than 20 years between us.

[voice] [private]

[young_idealist]

I think Kay has it explained adequately. [Armand is speaking carefully, his French accent even more obvious when he does, as if that will keep the communicator from acting up.] I'd like to welcome you aboard. Your mother... is an impressive lady, Monsieur Conner.

Do you have any of the same difficulty using your family name? She was most insistent that I forgo politeness for [And here is an annoying long rattle of static.] safety reasons.

Did you hear that? I miss my book.

[voice] [private]

[metallonkardia]

Thanks. I know she is. Who're you? [ This does not actually sound as rude as it could, just flat, like that's how he's used to communicating. ]

No. She's right to be concerned, but the thing here that would try to murder us based on our identities already knows we're here.

What book?

[voice] [private] Welcome to the TMI of the tecnically challenged!

[young_idealist]

My name is Armand St. Just. I'm another one of the wardens on board here. I met Ma--Sarah very shortly after she arrived. The Admiral was less than kind to her.

Oh, some of who weren't-- [Another snarl of static and the video from Armand's end pops on showing him briefly frowning at the device and poking buttons. Then both are gone.]

As I was saying... some of us weren't as familiar with devices like these so we had books that included text and descriptions of the pictures. I could write in it with a pen.

This here--I tend to record only my voice or send videos--unless it is necessary. Writing with it is too hard.

[voice] [private] haha <3

[metallonkardia]

Nobody likes being confined. [ Particularly Sarah. ]

[ He waits the interference out patiently. ]

These kinds of devices are easy to control on a wide scale. I imagine that'd be the motivation.