jaegeracademy | Group Log : Q&A Session 001

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Location: The Meeting Hall
Date/Time: Sunday afternoon
Summary: Q&A with a Ranger. All Rangers and staff welcome to answer Q&A. All cadets are invited to the session, but attendance is not mandatory.
Additional Notes: Start your own threads, jack some of mine, go nuts. This is just another mingle post but it's also meant to be informative ICly. Other staff and Rangers showing up for interactions with the cadets is wholeheartedly encouraged.

The meeting hall, like every other area of the Shatterdome, has the feel of an industrial environment. The walls are lined with bleachers on three sides, while the forth side has a platform and podium. In the middle are rows of chairs, desks, and tables. It's clear that a large audience can be accommodated by the room when there's need, though the group that gathers there today isn't nearly enough to fill it.

Cadets will be directed to sit at some of the tables closer to the podium when they arrive, and given scratch paper to take notes on. Staff will be directed to the large table on the podium, which has a row of conference microphones, lamps, and water pitchers already set up. Everything is neat, cool, and professional. The fluorescent lighting and stern expressions of the support staff encourage a sombre attitude, but if anyone is looking up toward the podium they might catch at least one of the Rangers smiling as he peeks out from behind the curtains during the initial set up. He's wearing something like a wetsuit at the moment, though it won't be fully visible until he emerges for the demonstration.

Sharpen your pencils and have a seat, guys. You might even learn something.

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After the Drivesuit demonstrations, Rangers and staff will hold an informal Q&A session for the Cadets to ask any questions they may have of the program. Questions can be directed towards staff, K-Science, Fight masters, Rangers, etc.

Perhaps a bit counter to the general mood on the stage, Hanji has had a warm smile on her face the entire time she's been up there. When the demonstration is finally finished, she opens herself up to questions.

"So, aren't any of you curious about the kaiju?"

Unbeknownst to Hanji, a Ranger walks casually behind her to exit the platform now that his role is over here -buffet time!- and makes a sort of gesture with his hand across his throat.

Don't ask, guys. You'll never shut Officer Hanji up once you get her started on kaiju.

Is that a challenge Yancy. Even if it isn't Eren's going to rise to it, because that's just the kind of borderline suicidal bastard he is. He sort of frowns past Hanji as Yancy exits the stage and mimes the warning. When his attention snaps back to the Officer in question and the long silence that follows, it becomes clear that she's still waiting for one of them to answer.

And if anyone's going to have the nerve to temp fate—

"Ma'am—" a pause, just long enough for the honorific to catch her attention and for him to settle on what he'd meant to ask, "What do you mean by curious?"

Everyone here knows what a kaiju is. That's why they're here.

Your funeral, kid.

He can do this ok he's a soldier.

Okay see ya when you're 30.

Fortunately, Hanji doesn't seem to notice the way attention shifts just past her and then back. Instead, she's tapping her fingers against the podium she's leaning against, "Well, that's a good question, actually. Fortunately, I have an answer."

She straightens and sweeps her arm to encompass the room, voice picking up in volume as she goes on, "You're all here because you want to fight the kaiju! To serve humanity! Eventually, it might even be your job to kill kaiju using a jaeger. That's fantastic! But-"

She leans forward again, a spark of fanaticism in her eyes, "-what do you really know about the kaiju, besides what they put all over the news? Can you tell me about their DNA? About their anatomy? The best way to disable one? Whether or not pain incapacitates them or if they absolutely havewe don't know about them. As Sun Tzu said, 'Know your enemy'!"

"I'm very curious about the kaiju!"

... Wait a second. Hadn't this man up on the stage, too?

"How do you think they manage to function in a hive mind without going absolutely insane? Do they have a pre-programmed favorite color, for example?"

Whether he had been or not, he'd be putting himself - smile and all - right in front of the woman, everything about him absolutely earnest.

Edited (apologies) 2014-02-27 06:24 (UTC)

"As far as we know, they don't have a hive mind!" Hanji responds in a rather chipper tone, "So far, all kaiju have appeared alone and gone after individual targets and made individual choices. If they were hive creatures, we'd probably see them acting more like bees or ants."

There's a pause while Hanji considers the idea, "They're more... Well, they're not really like anything on Earth, frankly!"

Her face splits in a grin. Apparently she likes that idea.

Grin for grin, though his ends up being taken in by a distracted quality, as though his mind managed to wander away mid-sentence. It'd be impressive if it weren't something so foolish.

"I've heard it's a popular theory in Eastern Asia's coastal regions, though a bit superstitious-- if they're things from Heaven, they can't have minds of their own, you know, that sort of thing. In a sense, their destruction's with the single-mindedness of insects, isn't it?"

A pause and blink. A little wondering - more prompting than argumentative, honestly -,

"Sure, they're like nothing on Earth physiologically and so, probably, mentally, but if we don't put them on any basis, we may as well pack up the lab coats, eh?"

"Oh, absolutely! If we just throw up our hands and act like we can't understand them, then what's the point? We might as well just give up!" Hanji's getting into the discussion, gesturing to try and emphasize her points.

"I mean, we know some things about them, but there's so much that we simply don't because of their massive size and the way they tend to decompose. We know they're silicon-based, that their bodily fluids are toxic, but we have virtually no idea about their brain structure or how such a gigantic creature came about. We don't even know if they're sentient or not, because we can't communicate with them! Yet."

Group Log : Q&A Session 001

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K-Science Q&A

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moves on over here

not here I just like to mess up Stefan's things

very serious rp

Trust me I'm a pro

B, pls go.

I'm gone! Pointless spam accomplished.

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major mess up with timelines whooops mega apologies.

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