She's so heavy

[aphelion-mod.livejournal.com]

A little after 11:30 there is a brief period of high g, much like the previous three.

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[ises-ui.livejournal.com]

"The default setting for the rotational thrusters is 'off'. Rotational thrusters currently exhibit the status and orientation they exhibited at the moment controls were switched from automatic to manual."

[boy-wondering.livejournal.com]

Robin nodded, kneeling down next to the Master. "What do you need me to do?"

[lord-and.livejournal.com]

"Default orientation," he muttered, silently swearing to rewrite this arse of a computer if he had to sit down with craft paper and safety scissors and illustrate every last line of code to everyone else on the colony. It had given him the answer he needed, however.

"Here," he said, and handed the sonic screwdriver to Robin, indicating its controls and a spot on the underside of the console. "Hold down that bit there and aim it here. That'll enable a quick uplink between ISES and the portable drive. Got that?"

[boy-wondering.livejournal.com]

"Got it." Robin took the screwdriver from the Master, briefly glancing over it curiously before following his instructions. "What is this device? I've never seen anything like it."

[lord-and.livejournal.com]

"It's a sonic screwdriver," he said, standing back up to look at the controls. "The Doctor was kind enough to bring it here. ISES, you'll find you have access to the drive in portable 16. There are algorithms and coordinates saved in the file 'qrhf.rk', use them to augment the current thruster control program." He stood back and waited for the computer to confirm.

[ises-ui.livejournal.com]

"Acknowledged. Incorporating new data."

[boy-wondering.livejournal.com]

"Sonic screwdriver? ...Huh." Once the computer had completed its data transfer, he straightened up a bit, giving the device a more thorough looking-over.

[lord-and.livejournal.com]

"There are better tools, but here I'll take what I can get." After a quick glance over at Robin to make sure he wasn't doing anything dangerous with the screwdriver, he made the changes he expected manually, then asked "ISES, can you update the thruster orientation display to reflect the new parameters?"

[ises-ui.livejournal.com]

"Complying." The display window changed appropriately.

[boy-wondering.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, tell me about it," Robin agreed, idly turning the screwdriver over in his hands. "...So what are you doing here, exactly? Are you able to predict the rate and magnitude of the mass fluctuations to some extent?"

[lord-and.livejournal.com]

Satisfied with the changes, the Master said "ISES, you may resume automatic control of the thrusters."

"In a limited sense, yes." In truth, he'd had to limit the program to basic TARDIS growth theorems, wary of integrating some element of physics from his universe that would change the computer's understanding of the improbable balance of the two asteroids. "It should stabilize things until we finish the mass cancellation device."

[ises-ui.livejournal.com]

"Complying. Automatic control resumed."

[boy-wondering.livejournal.com]

"...Is that it then?" Robin spun the screwdriver in his hands one more time, paused, then offered it back to the Master.

[lord-and.livejournal.com]

"That is that," he said with some small amount of satisfaction, taking the screwdriver back from Robin. "For now, at least."

[boy-wondering.livejournal.com]

((Ffff, see any reason to continue this thread?))

[walkingmyfish.livejournal.com]

((I don't think it's going anywhere else at this point. Unless something explodes.))