suddenlycaptain | CONTACT ;; ataraxion

So I was told to contact you about testing some space-vacuum stuff.

"Space-vacuum stuff"?

Yeah. In theory, I can technically survive in the vacuum of space. But I've never tested it.

Anders said you could figure out some way to test it that was relatively safe.

You know, a not 'put me on a leash outside the ship' sort of way.

Anders is still trying to figure out what the vacuum of space even is.

How the hell can you technically survive it?

Well we all have to figure the shit out sometimes.

...look, it's complicated. But it's apparently a secondary power for me.

Does it really matter?

[ Powers oh this grows more fun by the second. ]

Yes.

Look, an alternative universe version of me survives in the vacuum of space after being shot towards the sun.

Knowing if I have the capability to do that? Could prove helpful to people.

[Somehow, someway.]

[ If you could see the face she is making right now... ]

I'm not going to try and create a false vacuum in the ship and I'm not letting you go outside of the ship without a spacesuit because another version of you could do it. There's not a safe way to test that, not for you and not for the rest of the people on this ship.

[ Not one she knows of anyway, and even if she did, she'd need much more of an explanation on his end before even thinking about it. ]

Okay, well let me put it this way. I'm going to fucking figure out a way to do it whether you like it or not. You can help me, or not.

I'm a mutant, I produce plasma from my fucking body. Creating a force field, or realizing I don't need oxygen? Isn't that huge of a step.

Don't fucking threaten me or the safety of this ship and the people on it because you want to prove something.

So other you survived it. That doesn't mean it was pretty. Do you know what the vacuum of space does to the body? Your lungs, sinuses, and eardrums could rupture. Hypoxia. Ebullism -- that's when your bodily fluids boil. And let's not get started on radiation.

Oh yeah, you going to stop me?

[Anders told him to ask Carolyn, and if this was the welcome he got, it was fucking bullshit.]

Yeah, and none of that scares me. Unless you missed what I said, I carry plasma in me. If one of us can do it, I'm sure the other can, too.

[ Carolyn has very little tolerance for stupid, and to her? This screams stupid. ]

Unless I've missed someone who's made entirely out of plasma walking around, you still have internal organs and probably eyes and blood.

If you want to walk out the airlock, that's your choice. Ward and Resnik probably won't be coming back for you. But you're not doing any sort of experiment while on the ship itself. None of us have time to try and make you a vacuum chamber and with the way this ship works, it would probably break and kill you anyway and have wasted everyone's time. Besides, you said "safe". There are still risks even in vacuum chambers and most of the doctors here have never had to deal with exposure like that before.

I'm not going to have your blood on my hands because you wanted to see what you could do.

Fine. I was told to ask you for help, so if you aren't going to give it, I'll sort it out my own way.

CONTACT ;; ataraxion

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