Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Sharah Fayth (Chief Science Officer) in Construction of a cabin

Posted by Fleet Captain Drudoc Andone (Commanding Officer) in Construction of a cabin
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The door opened and there was EXR-11! It whirred into the room, and its head swiveled around a full 360 degrees to take in the room’s appearance before settling on the two officers. =/\= Greetings sentients, EXR-11 would like to offer our services to hold things in construction of your humble living space, if you like? =/\= It said, clearly again it was Tel’eck, just with her voice disguised and muffled this time with a slight voice filter applied showing the children had tried to make modifications to their robot.

EXR-11

Sharah grinned, the appearance of the children’s robot making her smile. She shrugged. “Certainly EXR-11. This is En Tabris Adam. It will be up to him. En this is EXR-11.” Sharah moved out of the way towards the bedroom. She didn’t want her toes being rolled over.

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Whirring on its treads EXR-11 shifted to focus fully upon Tabris. =/\= Greetings to you Ensign! How might I help if such is desired? =/\= It stated

EXR-11

Tabris looked the robot up and down with a grin on his face as he said, “It’s very good to meet you EXR-11. I would love your help with this project.” He replied, figuring it was created by the kids on-board but wasn’t aware that it was being remote controlled. He started by saying, “How would be best for me to share your duties, verbally or shall I upload the plans?” Tabris asked as he got on one knee to be eye level with the robot’s dome.

Tabris Asam, Eng

Sharah attempted, with her hands, to convey to Tabris that the robot was remote controlled and the voice as well were the ship’s children, but she wasn’t sure how successful she was being. She knew the CO was worried about the children making a disruption but honestly she thought it was Brilliant. The robot would allow the children to go into and see areas of the ship that weren’t safe. If the robot was damaged it was okay, and the children were safe. But she didn’t have to be the CO either.

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=/\= Uh verbal cues would be best for my processing units, sentient.=/\= It replied to Tabris. Then whirring on its treads and raising both arms at once it followed up with as if ‘gesturing about’ =/\= How might I help then? =/\= It asked.

EXR-11

Tabris understood the visual clues that Sharah was using but didn’t let on with the robot, so he had some help from the kids onboard, that would be great! “Alright then EXR-11, what I’m doing now is building the walls. You see I’m modeling it after a 20th century cabin back on Earth, and I’m going to show you how it works, then I’m going to show you how to install it, and then I’m going to let you take charge. How does that sound?”

Tabris Asam, Eng

=/\= I shall proceed by your instruction as best as my frame and programming allows, Ensign. They are pretty walls so far though! =/\= EXR-11 stated.

EXR-11

Sharah shook her head, grabbed a PaDD, and left her quarters. She’d only be in the way and despite Tabris’s heart felt forgiveness and willingness to let her ‘hear’ she was too wary of herself to stay.
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Tabris nodded as Sharah took her leave, understanding that she didn’t want to be in the way even if he didn’t mind and didn’t understand the reasoning for her underlying need to separate. He turned to the robot with a genuine smile and said, “Alright EXR-11 these panels are designed to look like old growth red elm back from earth that have been nailed into place.” He took a panel from the large format replicator and showed it to the robot and said, “You can see from your scans that it is indeed red elm with wrought iron nail heads that aren’t perfectly aligned, an algorithm I programmed to make it seem like a craftsman installed them as opposed to them being all perfectly placed.” He turned the board to the side and showed the robot a small line of faintly glowing lines. “These wraps around on all 4 sides and are a self sealing design that once placed creates a magnetic bond effectively sealing the panels together.” He flipped the board over and showed the back, where the nails would stick through were larger sections that looked like the strips on the side, “And this is what attaches the wall to the bulkhead. To release the magnetic lock you need to press the nail heads on the front in a specific order, top left, bottom right, top right, bottom left, and the system will disengage allowing replacement of a particular plank. If the entire wall needs to be disengaged all you do is take a tricorder and send a radio wave of 32.3 kHz and the system will disengage as one unit.” He stopped and said, “Following so far?”

Afterwards he took a panel and helped position it in EXR-11’s arms and showed the robot how to place them in a 33% offset pattern like the ceiling and said, “When it’s placed properly to your liking, tap the top left nail head and the magnets will engage to their counterparts already installed.” He took a step back and said, “That was a lot, did that make sense? Feel free to ask questions if you have any, I don’t mean to ramble.”

Tabris Asam, Eng