meadowlark | @leo.fitz ― 4 NOVEMBER 2511

@leo.fitz ― 4 NOVEMBER 2511

Hi everyone,

If you don't already know me from the safehouse or the guide, I'm Fitz, one of the arrivals from the first transport. Prior to being here, I was a weapons and technology expert at SHIELD. Now, I’m a Pulsar engineer and, more importantly, an agent of Morningstar.

Recently, @ojiro.juniper approached me with the clever idea to kickstart some research and development efforts. We’re working on a way to bankroll this, and we’ll let you know how that develops in due course. For now, regardless of where discussions have evolved on the nature of organisation and leadership, we need your assistance with some big endeavors, both for the Displaced and Morningstar.

1. As some of you may know from the raids, Morningstar has a cache of unidentified weapons in its local store. We don’t know what they do, how they work, how dangerous they are, and so on, but I want to find out. So, let's discuss a plan: Any thoughts or ideas for how to approach the cache and suss everything out safely would be welcome.

Reckon we’ll need at least one colour-coded spreadsheet. [ ***NOT JOKING ]

2. We could use a team of engineers for ad hoc projects. Presently, I’m exploring tech that could counter both the UNA and the creatures that keep popping up, as well as give us more freedom to act whenever trouble comes our way — all by my lonesome.

If this sounds like something you’re interested in, whether or not you have the technical know-how to get to work immediately, or you want to learn on the job, let me know. Can’t pay you in anything except snacks, but I can assure you they’ll be bug free.

3. Hi, this is Ojiro. In addition to the above, I also need an engineer for personal reasons, and I will pay you. I need someone with a lot of experience with tech as advanced as the standard here, preferably lots of hands-on engine work. Message me if you're interested!

Cheers.

― Fitz

[ Check out here for more deets on the cache and here for some OOC knowledge of what Fitz is working on personally. He’ll share details of the latter strand of work with any individuals wanting to form a geek squad c: For #3, interested applicants can just private message Ojiro on this post! I'll be throwing together a plot engagement incorporating what characters ICly suggest in the coming weeks! ]

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I'm no engineer, but I'd be interested to hear about your findings.

[helpful. let him see your spreadsheets fitz!!!]

dunno if anyone's ballsy enough to let someone shoot them but if they are, i'm apparently decent with healing wounds.

[ is that considered safe? probably not but look, he's being helpful. ]

some people have had an up close look at that the last few weeks.

Hello Fitz, if you need help I've got plenty of time to give.

[Experimenting with untested tech? He's your boy.]

And [Bad username or site: ojiro @ juniper], I have quite a bit of experience with engines if you still needed a hand with whatever you're working on.

I can offer my services in weapons development and data analysis.

If we join the team do we have to go to meetings?

[ kidding?? maybe. ]

And define safely.

if you think i could help, i'd be glad to.

[He might not have any degrees as a technicality- but he'd certainly been building his own gear and weaponry on his own for quite some time, and has helped Fitz with some of his things before. With a grander knowledge of the tech that exists here in the future, he figures he'd have a fair assessment of whether or not his assistance would actually help, or be more of a hindrance]

you know i'm usually more software than hardware, but if you give me an idea and some scrap, we can probably make it work

[ let her lego master build for good ]

[ Of course it's the talk of experimental and untested weapons that catches 76's eye. While there are selfish reasons for that, he does actually have experience with overseeing weapons development and testing. While he hadn't been the one doing the actual work, he'd organized safe environments in order to carry out test runs. How many different iterations of his turrets had Torbjörn gone through during Overwatch's life cycle? ]

For the weapons, it would make sense to try and find a large open area to test them out, with a limited number of people involved to cut down on possible injuries and also attract less attention. I have a lot of experience with firearms specifically; I could help.

I'm no engineer, but I might be able to help with some of your vehicles, or general mechanical work to get them running.

[ rey counting the hours in the day and sweating profusely. ]

Err, how often?

[#yikes @ all this.]

What surrounds the area?

[Please don't say buildings.]

Have you narrowed down a test-site?

I could likely assist with transport, but we'd have to consider containment particularly if anything is explosive.

[His name’s already come up a handful of times, but just to make it official—]

If there’s a need for my shielding, assuming testing starts to skew that way, you know you have my help.

Ojiro promised I could see the guns.

[Not technically true! But you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.]

[Ugh, working together. What she's primarily interested in are those weapons.]

Once you have a plan and location, I'm willing to test any of the cache's weaponry.

I think if we're looking to avoid input from the UNA, we should avoid any talk of a testing site right now.

I see you're asking for engineers. It would be a good idea to see if you can dismantle these weapons and put them back together, figuring out what powers them. It may be that they can't be powered.

I know you're mindful of this, but we need to keep in mind the impact on this world.

As well as this fact: that cache may be a trap in and of itself, a means to wipe out Morningstar if they had gotten away with it at the time. We don't want to arm it and kill ourselves in the process.

mechanical, chemical, or otherwise?

you've got my help regardless.
snacks or no snacks.

There are a lot of ways to classify weapons, even just by observation of the shape and materials. May be a decent place to start
After that, it sounds like a place to dismantle and test weapons is something that should maybe be looked into. No idea where we could find a place like that, but...

In any case, you can put my name down as an engineer/mechanic with experience with this kind of tech interested in helping with whatever I can

I touched on it briefly above, but as preliminary research and trials progress, we ought to give serious consideration towards containment. I'm sure the majority of the cache's contents will be useful and I look forward to hearing your team's findings on the matter. But regardless of volatility, it would be in everyone's best interests — especially the city locals — that these are secured in a vault of some kind if possible.

[ That's what she did with all the confiscated HYDRA tech during the war. And Fitz would know: many of those items, as well as the rest collected during her lifetime as SHIELD's director, have been buried and secured in warehouses around the world. ]

Oh, I want to shoot something! Can you sign me up for the test-y, shooting part?

I am hardly an expert, but I am a qualified mechanic if that should also become a necessity.

i've got some experience with both, if you can use the extra set of hands. the tech in my time's less advanced than it is here, but if the basics are similar we can still probably work with it.

[ it had been easy enough to work with when it came to the hoverbikes, but weapons are a different story. ]

ojiro, what type of engine?

Hello Fitz,

I can help both you and [Bad username or site: ojiro @ junipe]. I have a long...long history with weapon technology, and while I am still adjusting to the differences in this universe, they are not so large that I cannot understand what I am looking at with a little time.

to Ojiro specifically, the technology in my universe was more advanced then that of this one. My experience with hands on work depends on your definition, but my knowledge of machinery and robotics is vast.

you know you've got me for any transporting you need done and blowing things up if you wanna do some less than safe testing 😉

I'll help.

[ and here's his detailed resume

no jk there's nothing. that's it. except, ]

And here's an approach: aim at a wall and shoot.

[ like are the weapons locked or?? why is this complicated. ]

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