I would love to have Cam explore a Gorgon-class ship like the one she was on while a prisoner of war between GTN and showing back up in HTN. We don't get a VERY good explanation of what it looks like, except that it's a little bit weird and presumably a little clunkier than a lightcraft should be. According to Judith, our expert on Empire-side military equipment:
(My father) always called the Gorgon neither fat nor flesh nor good dry bone: it was the last time they had tried to design a light craft that still had room for a stele.
What's a stele? Well, it's:
eight feet tall, covered in [what to them are] dead languages [may or may not be dead to us] (...) and continually bathed in oxygenated blood, (...) the type of thing where, if there is one on board, you say quite soon, Oh look, a stele!"
The blood is supplied fresh from some unfortunate necromancer who's also making sure it's running, and it keeps the blood fresh by passing it through two huge organic chambers at the bottom of what is otherwise I presume kind of a monolith since, eight feet tall and "stele". "Half open-work heart, half fountain."
(....and as I'm quoting this it sounds like a stele looks like a giant dick, and I've just never thought about the structure of where the chambers are. I would say I'm being a perv but honestly I don't discount Tamsyn Muir from doing it quietly and seeing if someone notices.)
Anyway, it's gross! Even if it's not that specific ship, the thing will probably be shooting death energy everywhere (...ew?) and also give John Gaius specifically the migraine of his life.
MOVING ON:
Cam: is not specifically skilled at exploration, but she's pragmatic, tends to prepare for all eventualities, and has physical training in acrobatics and fighting, which although she'll be in Pal's lanky and not-good-with-strenuousness musculature at the time, she can still probably apply to not like, spraining an ankle, climbing on top of turned over things, etc. She's also extremely detail oriented and so is Pal, so that's good for ship exploring too.
She would want to: just find out ANYTHING; but would be fascinated by anything that links it to where she's from (pretty easy, since she remembers watching herself fight Marta with Judith watching, both of whom would've been in Cohort uniform, so insignia or colors or idk, a corpse of the pilot or people who died on board (fun!) who are still in uniform would all tip that off); any interesting history or, for that matter, conflicting history that she could pick up with Pal's psychometry; any knives or swords or useful bladed weapons (knives would be more likely to come from BOE unless they were a cavalier's offhand, so unless it's THE actual ship, they'd be rare and probably daggers; however a ship transporting Cohort personnel would have cavaliers and they'd all carry rapiers).
That said, she'd be INTERESTED in anything she finds, especially if there's anything particularly to link it to how it got there. She's most familiar with kind of weirdly old technology, so if not a spacecraft I'm almost tempted to want her to find like -- a pirate ship or something in the same age bracket AS rapiers, since John apparently decided he was going for not-even-quite-steampunk: they have spacecraft, but they don't have cameras or digital media or computers.
She'll be going out with Ariane and Pal, so it's possible to explore several ships.
Sorry for the novel! I should make that my signature lol.
Re: Exploration
I would love to have Cam explore a Gorgon-class ship like the one she was on while a prisoner of war between GTN and showing back up in HTN. We don't get a VERY good explanation of what it looks like, except that it's a little bit weird and presumably a little clunkier than a lightcraft should be. According to Judith, our expert on Empire-side military equipment:
What's a stele? Well, it's:
The blood is supplied fresh from some unfortunate necromancer who's also making sure it's running, and it keeps the blood fresh by passing it through two huge organic chambers at the bottom of what is otherwise I presume kind of a monolith since, eight feet tall and "stele". "Half open-work heart, half fountain."
(....and as I'm quoting this it sounds like a stele looks like a giant dick, and I've just never thought about the structure of where the chambers are. I would say I'm being a perv but honestly I don't discount Tamsyn Muir from doing it quietly and seeing if someone notices.)
Anyway, it's gross! Even if it's not that specific ship, the thing will probably be shooting death energy everywhere (...ew?) and also give John Gaius specifically the migraine of his life.
MOVING ON: Cam: is not specifically skilled at exploration, but she's pragmatic, tends to prepare for all eventualities, and has physical training in acrobatics and fighting, which although she'll be in Pal's lanky and not-good-with-strenuousness musculature at the time, she can still probably apply to not like, spraining an ankle, climbing on top of turned over things, etc. She's also extremely detail oriented and so is Pal, so that's good for ship exploring too.
She would want to: just find out ANYTHING; but would be fascinated by anything that links it to where she's from (pretty easy, since she remembers watching herself fight Marta with Judith watching, both of whom would've been in Cohort uniform, so insignia or colors or idk, a corpse of the pilot or people who died on board (fun!) who are still in uniform would all tip that off); any interesting history or, for that matter, conflicting history that she could pick up with Pal's psychometry; any knives or swords or useful bladed weapons (knives would be more likely to come from BOE unless they were a cavalier's offhand, so unless it's THE actual ship, they'd be rare and probably daggers; however a ship transporting Cohort personnel would have cavaliers and they'd all carry rapiers).
That said, she'd be INTERESTED in anything she finds, especially if there's anything particularly to link it to how it got there. She's most familiar with kind of weirdly old technology, so if not a spacecraft I'm almost tempted to want her to find like -- a pirate ship or something in the same age bracket AS rapiers, since John apparently decided he was going for not-even-quite-steampunk: they have spacecraft, but they don't have cameras or digital media or computers.
She'll be going out with Ariane and Pal, so it's possible to explore several ships.
Sorry for the novel! I should make that my signature lol.