In lab 101
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*sniffles*
Small ficlet that came to mind.
Set at the end of Kindred 2.
Gen.
In lab 101
Lt. Ada Wallouch thinks people who don't want to fly are crazy. But Lt. Ada Wallouch doesn't have the ancient gene, can't operate the puddlejumpers, seems to be immune (three tries and counting) to the gene therapy that someone's always tinkering with. It's possible she'd be better off on Earth, but where there's a will, there's a way. She was an expert in communications, and keeps the radio system up and running; when all is quiet on the wireless front she assists Drs Lo and Hogben in their efforts to find a way of blocking the wraith's culling beams. It's not the highest priority job - nobody's dying of it right now, which is how efforts are distributed, on Atlantis - and they frequently get pulled off the project to work on other things. But when she can, when they're working, she gives them a hand. It's all theoretical, right now, but the possibility that some day they'll find a wraith dart, the possibility that she'll get to fly it so they can test it...
Hadi bin Khalid al-Athari (PhD, although he tends to think 'doctor' sounds a little pretentious) is technically a geologist, but in Atlantis the specialisms find you. On Earth he had had a hobby of building things; it was something he had shared with his father, which he would have liked to find him long enough to tell him. Their media, though, were different - where his father had planed and sanded and varnished, Hadi welded and programmed and designed microscopically fine tools so that the butterfly would not be too ungainly to fly, thin webbed wires holding the coloured wings in place. Now his work is less beautiful, perhaps, but the progress he will eventually make on the nano-technology will help to save lives.
Dr Beatrice Farmer works mostly on the Hoffan immunisation. It's not the most glamorous job in the world, but she's in another galaxy and it's worth it to see the two moons in the sky at night. Sometimes she's summoned away from her work, 'all hands on deck', but senior management worked out reasonably early that she doesn't respond particularly well to crises. Dr Beckett used to come down and check on her progress personally, when he could spare the time; she gave money to Dr Oduya when there was a collection for flowers. Beatrice was a keen gardener, back home, and spends maybe a little more time than she should helping out in the botany labs one level up, but her progress has been measurable: recent projections suggest a mortality rate of 47.5%. On weekends she dips into the secret stash of Georgette Heyer she brought with her on a flashdrive from Earth, and works on her tan.
*
"I've got a whole team on it," Dr Keller says, eyes wide and hand tight on Carson's shoulder. "Best people we have."
Carson nods, and even manages to smile, a little.
What else can he do?
*sniffles*
Small ficlet that came to mind.
Set at the end of Kindred 2.
Gen.
In lab 101
Lt. Ada Wallouch thinks people who don't want to fly are crazy. But Lt. Ada Wallouch doesn't have the ancient gene, can't operate the puddlejumpers, seems to be immune (three tries and counting) to the gene therapy that someone's always tinkering with. It's possible she'd be better off on Earth, but where there's a will, there's a way. She was an expert in communications, and keeps the radio system up and running; when all is quiet on the wireless front she assists Drs Lo and Hogben in their efforts to find a way of blocking the wraith's culling beams. It's not the highest priority job - nobody's dying of it right now, which is how efforts are distributed, on Atlantis - and they frequently get pulled off the project to work on other things. But when she can, when they're working, she gives them a hand. It's all theoretical, right now, but the possibility that some day they'll find a wraith dart, the possibility that she'll get to fly it so they can test it...
Hadi bin Khalid al-Athari (PhD, although he tends to think 'doctor' sounds a little pretentious) is technically a geologist, but in Atlantis the specialisms find you. On Earth he had had a hobby of building things; it was something he had shared with his father, which he would have liked to find him long enough to tell him. Their media, though, were different - where his father had planed and sanded and varnished, Hadi welded and programmed and designed microscopically fine tools so that the butterfly would not be too ungainly to fly, thin webbed wires holding the coloured wings in place. Now his work is less beautiful, perhaps, but the progress he will eventually make on the nano-technology will help to save lives.
Dr Beatrice Farmer works mostly on the Hoffan immunisation. It's not the most glamorous job in the world, but she's in another galaxy and it's worth it to see the two moons in the sky at night. Sometimes she's summoned away from her work, 'all hands on deck', but senior management worked out reasonably early that she doesn't respond particularly well to crises. Dr Beckett used to come down and check on her progress personally, when he could spare the time; she gave money to Dr Oduya when there was a collection for flowers. Beatrice was a keen gardener, back home, and spends maybe a little more time than she should helping out in the botany labs one level up, but her progress has been measurable: recent projections suggest a mortality rate of 47.5%. On weekends she dips into the secret stash of Georgette Heyer she brought with her on a flashdrive from Earth, and works on her tan.
*
"I've got a whole team on it," Dr Keller says, eyes wide and hand tight on Carson's shoulder. "Best people we have."
Carson nods, and even manages to smile, a little.
What else can he do?
