Shuttle/Docking Bay [1]

[deep_space_final]

This is your standard shuttlebay and/or docking station. Going somewhere? Coming from somewhere? Here's where you can come and go, leave your ships, and the like.

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[csm_101]

Year Prime-7. That does not register with anything uploaded into his data banks. He takes it, logs it, and continues his queries. No, what time is it elsewhere is not important to him. He needs to know the situation right now, right here, not anywhere else. First.

"Do you know John Connor?"

[finefinefinefinefine]

People -- the newly-arrived, the ones who just wake up here rather than landing -- often ask about their friends and loved ones. Having been one of them once upon a time, Martin has more sympathy for that question than most. But the cyborg is still standing over him with all that jaw and with no sort of inflection in his tone. Harder to say what the intent is behind the question under the circumstances.

"Is... he on the crew roster?" No, probably not, stupid. Take Two: "Is he your maintenance operator?"

[csm_101]

If you want someone dead or want to ensure someone doesn't die, he's your borg. If you want an engaging conversation, well... it will get awkward fast. It gets more awkward now that his CPU has been turned to from read-only to write. Now his programming wants him to learn and with a structure like him and a voice that barely passes as human, well.

But there is no mistaking that he isn't human and that he has no clue how to react like a human should or would react. Work in progress. Safe to say, though, that if he meant harm it would have been done by now.

"A maintenance operator is not required. I am fully automated and programmed for self repair," he clarifies. "John Connor is the leader of the Resistance in the war against the Machines and is the last hope for mankind. I must ensure his survival. I require data to re-adjust my mission parameters."

[finefinefinefinefine]

"Oh!" Ooooh. Now it's falling into place. New arrival, definitely. Martin adjusts his stance, becoming instinctively more relaxed as he also adjusts the binder and electronic clipboard in his arms. "Data. Data I can do. What d'you need to know?"

[csm_101]

"General information pertaining to time and place of current coordinates. The time-sphere is only capable of one way travel. I cannot determine the method of my appearance."