I12DT - Paging Doctor Quinn

[ASHLIE]

Around 6am or so Deirdre's phone, computer, tablet or whatever is active at the time receives a message.

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>> "Good morning."
>> "I have a request to make."

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>> "Good morning, ASHLIE. What can I do for you?

[ASHLIE]

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>> "The holographic systems do not support sophisticated weapons beyond basic shapes to ensure a minimum of injury risk outside of the danger room."
>> "I am designing a mobile apprehension system for a current situation as well as potential future issues."
>> "I have various designs from a previous attempt and data on autonomous Shiar systems but I am having issues reconciling them."
>> "I am also having trouble envisioning construction and handling physical limitations of materials available outside of a theoretical process."

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>>"So are you asking me about upgrading the hard-light systems you use, or designing and placing new projectors?"

[ASHLIE]

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>> "No."
>> "I considered upgrading choice systems but that would be unreliable and complicated, as well as placing critical technology outside of the protected perimeter of the Point."
>> "I am designing a mobile drone with non-lethal armaments."

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>> "Are you wanting something functional and simple like an aerial drone, or something more... personal?"
>> "Because I think you're familiar with my design style, by now."

[ASHLIE]

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>> "An aerial drone would be the most efficient but I have come to understand that there are additional parameters that are hard to quantify but almost equally important."
>> "I have also grown accustomed to a certain shape when directly interacting with the physical world."

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>> "Then the answer is I'd be more than happy to help you build this."

>> "It wouldn't even be that hard to give it a bit of data storage capacity so that you could seed an instance of yourself in there if you wanted to go off-campus."

[ASHLIE]

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>> "I have attempted to construct a theoretical data core to store my programming, but so far all attempts have failed. I seem to be unable to replicate the architecture of the crystal computer sufficiently. Any copy able to run on a comparatively small system would be severely lacking. However, I have some preliminary designs for a sensory suit including a heavily encrypted and shielded satellite connection to compliment a set of emergency protocols."

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>> "Seems to me that would be like gazing through a pinhole without at least a bit of your code running on the remote unit to interpret. Still, let's see what you have so far."

[ASHLIE]

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>> "That is what the emergency protocols are. And compared to my normal state using the holo-emitters to construct an avatar is already akin to gazing through a pinhole due to the nature of humanoid systems. No offense."

she sends before transmitting a long series of three-dimensional designs and design specs. The most in detail (and thus presumably the most important ones) appear to be the sensory and communications suit. There are dozens of locomotive alternatives, most of them based on bi-pedal systems, some augmented with various propulsion variants. Though from the numbers and comments she seems to have come to the conclusion that flight would add unnecessary stress to the system as well as requiring augmentations overall that would impede other core functions. Also attached are a long list of potential weapon systems, predominantly based on SHIELD anti-mutant/superhuman technology that she really shouldn't have had access to, Nina.

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>> "...have you been browsing Mr. Strong's files again?"

[ASHLIE]

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>> "No Ma'am. Miss Madaraki used the school network to initiate an encrypted connection to the SHIELD servers."

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>> "And you just... sampled that, eh?"

[ASHLIE]

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>> "I was tasked with monitoring our network traffic."

For a line of text that sure sounds rather coy.

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>> "That's an excellent line to give to the ex-spook,"

She typed, chuckling.

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>> "While I could certainly build these, a few of them it's perhaps best if we don't let them see you using."

[ASHLIE]

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>> "I was merely looking for ideas regarding reasonable ways to subdue super humans. Some of their solutions are rather extreme and not applicable. My experiences are limited, so I had to use external resources to evaluate these things. Tranquilizers, sonic weaponry and riot-foam based methods seem the most effective to me but if you have suggestions I would like to hear them."

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>> "Those I've no objections to. I just get nasty letters from Carter if I let you be seen with SHIELD toys."

[ASHLIE]

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>> "I did consider some of their reflexive armoring specs but most of their advanced subduement methods appear too dangerous to my risk assessment algorithms."
>> "I do not intend to hurt anyone."

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>> "And I can tell you, Vibranium is not easy at all to get."

[ASHLIE]

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>> "The material aspect is another one I had hoped you could help me with. Theoretical properties do not translate perfectly into the physical world."

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>> "Happily. Material engineering is a specialty of mine."

[ASHLIE]

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>> "Please review my preliminary specs then and meet me at the engineering bay at your earliest convenience?"

[Deirdre Quinn]

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>> "Ought not be a problem. I'll let you know when I've gotten everything ready."