Engineers Assemble!

[funnythingsare]

Okay, I've been musing about this on plurk, but let's do this here:

Tony is a genius. And a lot of our candidates are. Tony used to run a mutli-national corporation that made shit. He's also really good with his hands. So in this situation, Tony would go Engineering bro with anyone else so inclined.

Here's my proposal:

Tony will be inventorying the available supplies in their new home. His goal is to get them up and running as soon as possible. And you know, Tony's always gonna be better at power sources and running water than cute architecture. It's been suggested that magic users could speed up the process when it comes to starting from somewhere other than the absolute bottom. I would like to be in on whatever the group comes up with, IC, for ordering their technology. So if you're cool with Tony approaching your character and working with him, let me know! I will put a log up soon to facilitate this. But Tony, as a CEO and engineer himself, would certainly be moved to take charge of part of this effort.

Comments

[brains_before_bullets]

Jax has self-taught mechanics skills. He wouldn't call himself brilliant, but he knows his way around a wrench and an impact driver.

If you need anyone to help build, Tony could certainly recognise the biker attire and put one and one together!

[funnythingsare]

Awesome! I'll have Tony approach him, thank you.

[brains_before_bullets]

If you want me to set something up, I can puzzle something out. Whatever you'd like/would find easiest.

[funnythingsare]

I was thinking of having an open log, with a thread for Tony approaching Jax!

[brains_before_bullets]

Sounds fine to me.

[didnotwant]

Marion has two sets of basic carpentry tools. She will offer to do heavy lifting too because well, werewolf.

All she wants is for someone to take a look at her drawings for a basic green house she wants to build on her own. She wants to be sure they can grow food to eat.

She also will totally be prepared to do whatever needs doing.

Erin (notsharkbait) may ask for Tony with help for her pool. She would want to be sure the water can get filtered and recycled so it doesn't get gross. She doesn't know how to do that and will offer free labor as well as her skills as a secretary since she DID help a Prime Minister stay on task back in her home dimension.

[funnythingsare]

These are both awesome. I love it! Tony will be down for both.

[didnotwant]

Marion will be excited. Her green house won't fall down.

And Erin will just be so pleased she can have a place to sleep that won't become disgusting very quickly.

[feellikeibelong]

Helena is an engineer, veering more towards mechanical engineering, though she also has a hand in electrical engineering. Most of her understanding of both of these is rooted in where technology stood at the end of the 19th Century, but she's updated some of her understanding to modern standards. If there's enough parts, she could potentially build a generator or two for electricity and such.

She has a few electronic devices she bought in Gebo that she can pull apart and use for parts elsewhere. So if anyone else has anything of the sort to add, she'd be more than happy to work on getting generators assembled. She can also build some other devices for people if they want her to. She's open to any and all challenges/work, she simply needs to have the necessary parts for them.

[funnythingsare]

So here's an idea--what if Tony's advanced knowledge, plus Helena's old school tactics, combine to make the perfect solution? It strikes me we could *use* the fact Helena's a little behind. Tony's very used to having anything he wants at his fingertips.

[feellikeibelong]

I'm totally down for that! Helena no doubt has an easier time manipulating raw materials into what she wants them to do. So definitely! I'm sure they can combine their skills and get something up and working for everyone!

[hisonlygirl]

Science!

The Enterprise brought a lot of various tools along with her. Along with enough parts to make a food replicator. If someone with magic wants to duplicate these parts, she'd be glad to share them with the rest of the people.

However, it is lacking a power source that will make it last a long period of time. They'll have to hobble something together unless Tony wants to offer his skills.

She also has blueprints to various futuristic technology drawn up so she can contribute in that way too.

[funnythingsare]

Dude.

Tony needs to be apprised of this. He would LOVE to come up with a power source for a replicator.

[hisonlygirl]

She will probably bring it up once they get the basics of what they need around the place. Unless someone else decides to have a science meeting again.

[your_logic_is_impeccable]

Can I just jump in here and ask really quick -- since Spock and the Enterprise haven't actually finished playing out talking about this.

I asked the mods when I first had Spock ask the Enterprise about food replicators. Basically I'm assuming the two of them have already built the replicator at this point (Xae if you're cool with that), but we won't actually be able to find a power source until a few weeks later.

[hisonlygirl]

yes yes you can jump in here.

I wasn't sure if they'd have built it yet but I'm down for it. They could always disassemble if someone can duplicate parts for other things since a power source isn't available anyway.

[funnythingsare]

Sounds like we've got a couple folks here capable of coming up with a power source--eventually. Great!

[hero_with_no_fear]

Anakin would love to be a part of whatever engineering group is organized. It would give him something to do that gets him out of Padme's hair during the day.

[funnythingsare]

Sweet. And maybe it would give me a way to get Luke in on this without barbie-smashing.

[hero_with_no_fear]

Barbie smashing?

Also - Tony should totz pic Anakin's brain just for fun cuz Anakin def knows the equations for sub-space travel. They can't make any ships, but boy could they write equations in the dirt. and then someone walks up to them, to get their attention, no knowing what they are working and and their foot prints scrub out their hard work...

[funnythingsare]

Sorry, it's a term from my old cohort of RPers--like, when you take your dolls and play with them, meaning, playing two characters at once.

Also that sounds adorable.

[born_nameless]

Sparrow would be in on this. Sparrow is very knowledgeable about electronics (more on a practical level than theoretical, with a specialty alternative energy sources--basically if you need someone to build a wind turbine, that's Sparrow. Ze's mentioned this to Cuthbert so far.

[funnythingsare]

Cool, because Tony could also do that sort of thing! So they should team up.

[your_logic_is_impeccable]

On a totally separate note from the food replicator stuff, Spock and Tony should hang.

We can handwave that they did something at the science party if you want. Spock's speciality is in programming, but he's pretty good at engineering. He'll still be interested in setting up a network that's JUST theirs.

[funnythingsare]

Somehow I totally missed the post for the party, or something? /cries

[your_logic_is_impeccable]

Waaah. Well. Now it is way old anyways.

[demolitions]

Would Tony have any interest in helping Boyd build a still?

[funnythingsare]

Yes, yes he would.

[demolitions]

Putting those MIT skills to good use, lol.

Boyd will probably be asking for help/materials in a week or so.

[demolitions]

Post is finally up, here, if you're still interested!

[tenuefarfalla]

Always up for Tony stuff, and Cho put together a list of things that they might need in a new and unknown place at the science party, and then got all that stuff together, and now has it. So there's that.

[funnythingsare]

Awesome, thank you!

[cuckoocachoo]

Sarah isn't an engineer specifically, but she's good with math and building things - essentially she's an extra set of hands if Tony needs them and would probably understand what he's talking about most of the time.

[funnythingsare]

That sounds great! Because we'll need people who aren't also trying to one-up each other.

[cuckoocachoo]

o7 I'll have to have her poke him once I get a sec.

[fivethreestrawberryblonde]

Most of Lydia's knowledge is theoretical, but she's got a genius-level IQ and a fabulous interest in math (and astrophysics, though that's mostly a hobby), and would love to get more involved with some of the more scientific people around here. She could be a pair of knowledgeable hands, perhaps?

[funnythingsare]

That sounds awesome! Also potentially horrid in the best way.

[fivethreestrawberryblonde]

Horrifically fantastic.