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Allan was back on his ship rummaging through piles of junk again as he had set on a work bench his tuner and all the other pieces of junk he had grabbed earlier. As he shifted through piece after piece of metal, plastic and glass his mind kept on going over what he wanted to build, sometimes omitting things and sometimes even adding things as he came across objects he could use. "Oh sweet, tubes!" And said glass tubes were carried over to his work bench where he placed them down carefully before heading back to the pile.

One of the workers there happened to take note on Allan's mood and smiled, it was nice to see people who were always interested in such small things, it added to the overall atmosphere of the ship. "So, what are you building?" She asked as she leaned forward a bit from where she sat.

Allan raised his head and looked around quietly, as if the voice spoke to him in his head before he caught sight of the woman sitting at a work bench and smiled a little. "Oh you know...just a little project I wanted to make for awhile, but when I was on earth I just never had the chance or the equipment to do so."

"Ah you're one of those types." The lady stretched a bit and Allan could hear her back break; her ebony skin seem to shine in the high light of the room. After stretching she got up and walked over to him. "Not wanting to talk of your work because you're afraid someone might steal it from you right?" She smiled when Allan nodded. "Don't worry, up here that never happens, now let me see what you are working on hm?"

Allan grinned a bit before standing up and walking back over to his work bench, there he explained what he was trying to do and even showed some of the equations he wrote that could work. After that they went to work.

"Waist deep mess James. Waist deep." Jelena shrugged. "I never try to plan breeding really. If they do they do, if they don't they don't. I dabble in nature but I try not to too much." Shrugging again she nudged Lilia with an elbow. "Does he do that when he's alone?"

"Says you. But her 'heat' isn't nearly as common as you think it is. Her genetic sequence doesn't allow for it the way it does normal dogs. We aren't even sure yet if she can breed. The creature in mythology was neither cited male or female, nor did they ever need another. And so far I have seen no evidence of ovulation or symptoms assigned with gestational preparation. That doesn't' mean it's not possible, simply that it hasn't yet happened."

It was an interesting question to consider, whether or not the heads would react in unison since they had begun to reveal different personalities in each. Lillia would personally love to get a closer look inside the animal's brain. It was clear that each had their own motor and sensory areas but not clear how the animal moved it's lower body. Was one head more dominant than the others and therefore had control? Could the other two brains override one's command? There was some kind of trigger or trap or something that allowed the Echo one unified path of movement. And that was far more fascinating than watching it choose to accept or reject a pup.

"I haven't watched the videos from the last few weeks to discover the answer to that yet. He senses whenever someone is in the room so hiding from him would do no good. The surveillance would be the only way to tell for sure."

"We'll see in due time with her. I'm looking forward to both possibilities..either parent ro breeding material. But for now I need to get going, I have appointments in Meta to attend to with some post bionic depressions and some counseling to those interested in the program."

shaking his head lightly.

"Some people just don't want to admit that a bionic replacement is a good thing. I must get a lteast a dozen people a month that claim they feel 'less then human' after an operation. like they'd rather not be able to walk freely or have two hands."

grumbling to himself lightly before giving a nod to the rest of them, and alook to Eric.

"And you owe me alaskan king crab legs fresh from earth."

"Those kinds of people are exactly why Jessica and I slave away over things to make them feel more human about themselves. We can fix the feeling part but I suppose if you're not in the positive mindset then it doesn't matter." Shrugging. "They expect to have their cake and eat it too."

"I seem to owe everyone somethings today." He gave a sigh at that and turned a look to Lillia again. "Oh fine, I'll watch the tapes with you. Only for the inapproprate comments. Watching hours of video is supposed to be the second assisstant's job." Tugging her off with him.

"I'm sure he'll use me as an example or something. Besides, I need to grab a test schedule that I'm sure Jess has set up by now. One of my friends was going to get one of those bionic skin graft things too. I wanna see how that goes." Thusly trotting off after James.

Jelena blinked, realizing that she was quite alone as they all wandered off to there usual things. For a moment she was quiet before she smiled rather girlishly. "All alone...to the room and to cutting gravity!" Ha. She won.

"Probably a whole week is for the best. THen you can see if you need to go back farther too. All depends on when he picked it up." He gave an amused look and noise though as she started to try to do things the easy way. "Actually, this is one of those times where you just have to sit and watch and watch and watch. It's video survelliance. No keywords or anything. Shouldn't you be happy we're doing it the old way?" Teasing her just because.

"...you can still feel, even if the limb is metallic. which is a far cry from the way artificial limbs used to be. I know it feels strange to feel through a metal part. but you are no less a person. there used to be shows on television, old, ancient shows depicting with wonder what you have right now. shows like the bionic man."

pacing back and forth lightly in front of the group of various ages all sporting bionic parts...asnd then gesturing to Rennell who was with him.

"Take Rennell for example. by all rights, if I so much as cut his finger, he should bleed to death. yet here his is, sporting metallic wings. He can tell you all about the wonders that bionics can bring about more so then I can, since I'm just an old dog with very few new tricks. I'll let Mr' Sunshine answer questions and try to aid you to the best of his ability for a moment."

Before going back in the back labs.

"Any progress?"


Jessica looked up and rubbed her eyes lightly.

"Only some. Dr. Camp is helping me with these since they are going to be genetic sequencers and after all the varying work with Dr. Trevale, he knows more about making nanites that mess with the building blocks of important systems like nervous systems. this one is going to mess with an immunity system."

That got a raise of an eyebrow as his mind took that phrase in entirely the wrong direction, due to all teh talk before of the breeding potential of Cerebus, before putting two and two together to make four.

"I'd best not. I'm liable to be more harmful the helpful in that situation. I got rennell handling the PR with the recent bioware appendages you've done. I wish people would think beyond the immediate sometimes. then we wouldn't have no many with post replacement depression."

leaning over and taking a look at thier work not that he really understood much of it.

"I got jelena working some today. started on a male cerebus. I was hoping this idea might spur her more into her work and less likely to think on things she shouldn't. It seemed to work for a little bit but who knows what she's up to now."