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Fox gave a light shrug and continued admiring the chip between his nimble fingers. "Although I do kind of miss the feel of fresh summer grass between my toes, this is my home now." Funny how he could remember certain things from his life on Earth like the texture and smell of dirt, but not the colour of currency. Flashbulb memories... He wrote a mental note to himself to look into that. "Hey, anything for the jolly ol' captain right? See you in a bit!" A click terminated the voice conversation and the green light on the com disappeared.

Slipping off the stool, Fox went through another session of treasure hunting before he found what he was looking for. A sleek round gadget with a lens on top, small enough to fit into the palm of his hand. The Holo-Disc, an invention he was proud to call his own, capable of representing light images visually in 3D. Fox looked at it with a grin. Yep, highly effective for 'business' presentations such as the upcoming one, now he only had to find the ship schematics to download onto it. Now where was the nearest jack-in port?

Lillia looked up and shook her head making a cutting motion right near her throat and yelling, "The baby is trying to sleep you idiot!" Then she realized that she'd yelled too adn called James an idiot and she nibbled on her bottom lip for a moment.

"Well...in with us then?" she asked scanning over the enclosure and carefully supporting Jelly while walking forward slowly, keeping her eyes on that sleeping Cerberus. Would not be fun to wake the girl and have her want to play. Those teeth were no doubt sharp. "Her den is over there," Lillia said pointing.

Half an hour later, Fox was out the door and weaving through the air-conditioned corridors of Radiance. He acknowledged people he passed with a mild nod and a polite smile, but most of them seemed to purposefully turn the other way when they saw him approaching. He never let it get to him though. He knew his quirkyness got on nerves, but he wasn't one to change his ways because of disapproving opinions. The light tapping of the Holo-Disc against his thigh was oddly reassuring, probably because he had always been a mechanical type of guy. Science was his pleasure in life and if he could just retire to his workroom forever with the inanimate gadgets he loved, he could care less if the whole world looked down on him. Taking a right into an empty corridor, he soon reached the captain's room. The 'doorbell' type button by the door was duly pressed and he stood, waiting for the hissing swoosh of the opening door to welcome him in.

Lillia was allowing Jelly full control and the ability to direct her whichever way she might want to send her. "It's a little late in the game for genetic alteration isn't it? Or can that still be done now that she's out of stasis?" That would probably be the easiest way, to genetically alter her so that she no longer felt the need to hoard away things. Although that was an instinct that allowed them to find and hoard food and things for shelter away when they were in the wild. Of course they would never have to worry about that with the Echos but still. Some things just shouldn't be messed with. One of those arguments that had been going strong since Project Echo was begun. "I suppose it could be taught although that would take time and patience. How do you intend to do it Jelly?"

Fox was just following the thin etchings in the metal of the door with his eyes when it did slide open with that familiar hiss. Michael's smiling face stared back at him out of the dim room and Fox found himself mirroring his grin. "Yeah, well you know how I am with time. Minutes can mean days, but hours can mean seconds." A look of momentary amusement as he considered his odd puzzling riddle himself. Then with a shake of his head, he followed Michael in and took a seat at the chair in front of his desk.

"Sure thing." With a fluid motion of his hand, the Holo-Disc was procured and placed on the desk between then. A flick of the switch as the entire floor plan schematic of Radiance was projected into the air, bathed in mysterious blue light. A turn on the switch would spin and rotate the diagram 360 degrees and allow for a full view of the ship, along with magnifying features. "Easier to access internally but harder to hack into right? I could do that." He leaned back in the chair and tapped on the arm lightly with his fingers. That was Fox, always antsy... "Talked to FS about it yet?"

A grin on Fox's part at the question. Nothing condescending, probably just pride leaking through. "Button on the right." He watched Michael flip through the options and he too surveyed the schematic, the innovation gears already turning inside his mind. "The thing about the security now, is that it's all linked into separate areas. If we could centralize it, efficiency would be at its best."

Then a frown. "Although with that idea, if someone were actually able to hack in, it would be much easier for them to disable it." The slim fingers drummed more steadily now, as they always did when he thought deeply. "Sounds good. And about the weapons systems, I've actually been developing a few upgrades and I was meaning to talk to you about giving them a much needed tune-up. You planning on reactivating them all?"

Still, the fingers drummed. They never did stop, did they? It was either that or a quick run-though of the blonde hair, but there was gel in it today so that option was out. "It's a delicate balance. That's essentially still centralizing it though... If the hacker got in, no one would have time to split the control manually." The captain's own finger tapping had seemingly made him self-conscious of his, and with a frown, he stopped the drumming and took to rotating the hologram himself as he thought.

"Automatic security triggers are very hard to program, and implementing them would mean a system down for a long time. A new code could work, but you'll have to give me time to work that out. Not to mention security clearances would all have to be reprogrammed, and that could create a lot of hassle for the projects..." Fox thought about the labs for Echo and Metamorphosis. They would kill if they had to go a week without project access, he sighed. Sometimes, he felt like he needed another brain.