reach the residents

[ximilian]

● ● ● REACH THE RESIDENTS

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// VIVECA

Hi, what can I help you with?

// DEGAR

Today was gonna be the day, but they'll never throw it back to you. And by now, you should've somehow realized what you're not to do.

▶ NAV

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[vivecai]

It was, [ she breathes a laugh, ] but I thought it'd be better to tell you that your friend volunteered your help, instead of implying it's just me, digging around your background and skills.

[ which... it is, too, and it's likely she'd have asked even without jyn telling her to ask cassian. ]

Thank you, Cassian. Take as long as you need — it'll still be quicker with the two of us working on it, than just me alone.

[evasives]

[ he only has one friend here, and it surprises him that he calls jyn a friend, perhaps moreso than the fact that she volunteered him. ]

Can I ask how these files are compiled? How is it possible to gather this much about such a wide variety of people?

[ he pauses, not really sure how to approach the gratitude, so he won't. ] If the code is similar to what I have already seen with this incident, I will be able to assist sooner rather than later.

apologies for the delay!

[vivecai]

I compile them. [ wryly: ] It's my job to know everything there is to know about you, everything that can affect our missions. I do my best with it.

[ he can't see it, of course, but his assurance makes her smile. ]

I will count on you for that. And maybe, sooner rather than later, we'll be able to turn Olivia back to what she used to be.

no worries!

[evasives]

Yes, but how? Is it a component of your being a former AI? I know a lot of us seem to be from Earth, but most galaxies are quite large. It is a wide net.

[ he can't see it, but he can hear it in her tone. ]

We can only hope and do the work towards that wish in the same breath.

[vivecai]

Somewhat, yes. It's something to do with when you're brought in here. That gives me access to your files, so to speak.

[ he is right, of course — otherwise, being able to find all the details on her own would be a gargantuan task, far too much for even someone who functions as an ai. ]

[evasives]

Do you think it was something started by Olivia before the corruption?

[ perhaps another thing they could understand better, if they could fix her. ]

[vivecai]

Yes, I believe so. It was something already in place when I took over — that she was the one managing it before is just logical.

[ but how, and what had happened to make the recruitment of these teams at all necessary, how the orbs came to be and what happened with them to make them scatter in the first place... olivia holds the answers to all of that. of that, she's sure. ]

[evasives]

Another question to confirm if - or when - we fix up her coding.

If you know anything else about Olivia and her original purposes. her capabilities or origins, especially if it might help with scoping through her coding, I ask it be shared as well as we progress. It will help me to decipher what is corruption and what is original.

[vivecai]

All I know is she was built to contain and manage the orbs. I believe she was built by the one who made this station... whether she was there before the orbs, or the other way around, I don't know. When we got here, there were no living people here at all. Just Olivia.

[ so whatever had happened before, who created her and why... even she doesn't know. ]

[evasives]

[ he sighs - very much on purpose, but it's meant to be a sort of commiserative sound. ]

More questions to file away for when she is fixed.

Thank you for sharing what you have so far.