june intro log overflow

[hohnkai]

This is an overflow for the intro post.

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[arcreact]

No.

[ It comes out very sharply, possibly sharper than intended. He falters for a second after that, like he caught his own slip, but then he's barreling onward with the same blasé bravado as earlier. ]

Biggest tech company in the world, and pretty much the only name in clean energy.

[squadgoals]

[There's something about the sharpness of the response, the quickness, and the half-second of pause while he re-gathers himself — like the briefest glimpse into an abyss. It's gone in a second, though, and she doesn't chase it. Rather than rebuked, there's a twinge of kinship at the near-flawless cover.]

Tech and energy? Do you ever find time to sleep?

[It's only half a joke — who keeps a healthy work/life balance? Nobody successful.]

[arcreact]

[ Sane people, probably. He doesn't qualify. ]

Please. Do I look like a man who sleeps?

[ This might be a rhetorical question. ]

[squadgoals]

C'mon. Wouldn't be the biggest in the world if you did. Time zones wait for no man, and Earth's day is sort of short, considering.

You've got me curious about your clean energy, though. Buy you another drink if you'll tell me about it.

[arcreact]

[ He can't help it; he smirks. ]

Why? Looking for trade secrets to take back to some alien colony or fuel-inefficient space vessel?

[ If she's comparing things to an 'Earth' day, it's the only assumption he can make. ]

[squadgoals]

Ha! Not unless you've got a better concept for FTL engines than Helium-3 fusion torches. [She shrugs her shoulders, then quirks an eyebrow at Tony in mock-slyness.] Do you? Asking for a friend.

[arcreact]

The latter, yes, the former - gimme like, three hours.

[ It's braggy, but he's not even lying. ]

So that pretty much confirms that you're, what? Captain Janeway of the USS Somethingorother?

[squadgoals]

[She scoffs, but it's good-humored, filing the cocksure inventive science away with the rest of his quirks.]

No rush — we've got all the way to the next working Ingress. As for Captain, no. Never got the promotion. Just 'Commander' Shepard, and it's the SSV Normandy.

[beat;]

Who's Janeway?

[arcreact]

Somebody who outranks you, apparently.

[ WHAT AN ASS. ]

But she's fictional - as far as I know - so I wouldn't worry about the competition too much.

[squadgoals]

You'd be surprised how little it matters when the current meets the eezo. Hell, some of my crew outrank me. I'm not too worried.

So — a Commander and a CEO, each with unlimited expense accounts, walk into a bar. What's our punchline?

[arcreact]

Buy the bar, price out the competition, make a killing with access to unlimited booze?

I mean, that'd be my ideal punchline.

[squadgoals]

Nice. [She nods appreciatively — business strategy even in a storm. Tony could probably sell popsicles on Noveria.] But I was thinking a rainbow of the most expensive shots we can afford until one or both of us gives.

Game?

[arcreact]

[ That earns a smirk. Like he'd say no to the party punchline. ]

I like the cut of your jib, commander. Sounds like a party.