Kara Thrace "Starbuck" (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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exsilium2013-04-04 09:37 pm
alwaysruns) wrote in exsilium2013-04-04 09:37 pm
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[By now, Kara really ought to know better. She's attempted to throw out the Initiative-provided sniper rifle no less than five times. Trash it, shoot it, an attempt to blow it up, dismantling it, throwing it in the river. It always comes back. And this time when she opens her closet, there it is again.]
Godsdammit!
[This time, she tries reaching out to the community at large for more info. When the feed starts, fury and frustration is written all over face.]
So look, does anyone know how to get rid of the damned toaster weapon? It's like having a stray follow you home. Frak. I've tried shooting it, dismantling it, tossing it in the garbage. Just comes back for more. So what's the secret?
[She pinches the bridge of her nose and looks away, muttering more to herself than anything else:]
Where's an airlock when you need one?
Godsdammit!
[This time, she tries reaching out to the community at large for more info. When the feed starts, fury and frustration is written all over face.]
So look, does anyone know how to get rid of the damned toaster weapon? It's like having a stray follow you home. Frak. I've tried shooting it, dismantling it, tossing it in the garbage. Just comes back for more. So what's the secret?
[She pinches the bridge of her nose and looks away, muttering more to herself than anything else:]
Where's an airlock when you need one?
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Let me make it clear - I don't know who Dee is, I don't know what Galactica is, I don't know what a skinjob is, and I'm not whoever you think I am.
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[Clearly Kara doesn't believe her. Since sleeper agents like Boomer could just switch on and not even know they were machines. Or so she'd claimed. Athena would have known, though.]
Alright then, what is your name?
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[ And going to be very quickly retroactively encrypting this at whatever point she stops going 'what'. ]
Who's Dee?
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Who's Dee? She's the communications officer on Galactica. And Lee's wife.
[That last bit is more than just a little bitter. Up until this conversation, she didn't really have a problem with her, aside from the awkwardness of her own relationship with Lee. And Sam. Frak what a mess.]
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[ Rapidfire, now, trying to learn everything she can about this, looking for any edge she can find to regain her footing. ]
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[And you should know that, sleeper agent or not.]
The colonies had a whole fleet of them before certain toasters decided they needed to wipe out humanity.
[Kara is just seething with the sarcasm now.]
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Of those words, I don't know battlestar, I'm assuming you mean toasters in a way not related to the machines that toast bread, and what colonies?
[ She scrubs one hand over her face in tired frustration, settles it back in front of her. ] Why are you mad at me?
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Cylons showed up after 40 years of silence, and nuke twelve planets. Got an axe to grind with the human race for oh, I don't know, making them? Existing. Frak if I know what goes on in a toaster's head. Circuits don't work like brains, you know. Oh, but it gets better. Because not only do we have the good old fashioned metal versions to deal with, they've put their synthetic fingers into biology and made skinjobs to look just like us. But the real kicker is... we don't know who all of them are.
But looks like I found one.
[And as to the question why Kara's mad?]
Now why would I be mad? Because your kind tried to exterminate us? Because your model is serving on the Galactica like a good little Cylon and no one's any the wiser? [
Because you married Lee?] I've got a whole grab bag of reasons. Pretty sure it's not too much for your programming to process.video;
.... What the fuck. No, really, it stands repeating, and she's pretty sure she just did.
This person actually, legitimately thinks that she's a robot in human form, and one of a set apparently responsible for wiping out twelve planets. ]
You seriously aren't kidding, are you? You really think I'm a -
[ Shaking her head. This - this is definitely something that needs clearing up. She just got used to not constantly having to watch her back. ] We're from different universes. The only planet settled where I'm from is Earth. We haven't gotten really into space yet. This is just some really weird, messed-up coincidence, okay?
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[Frak. This has to mean they beat them there. Starbuck just knows it and godsdammit!]
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This conversation is over.
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[ And that's a hang up without any further ceremony, because wow no. This is not okay. ]