[QM] Round up the usual suspects
Mar. 6th, 2008 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
worsttraitoreverForty thousand samples. To be exact, forty-seven thousand, nine hundred five.
A little over eleven hours to test each sample.
That, for anyone paying close attention, equals a little over sixty years to complete the Cylon testing that Adama and Madam President want done.
Not including sleeping, eating… time to myself.
When you throw in those that want their samples done right frakking now, you end up with more problems than you could possibly imagine. Believe me.
You have the President wanting to test the Commander without his knowledge and the Commander wanting to test the Colonel’s long lost wife without the good Colonel’s knowledge. All in all, quite the fascinating time, especially when it all comes to a boil and the showdown erupts in your lab.
I can’t decide if sarcasm becomes me.
Needless to say, none of that was a good time for me. I mean, none of that was a good time for THEM. Of course. And since our main concern has to be for the good of the Colonial government and the Fleet as a whole, one does what they can to lighten the load of those higher up.
You round up the usual suspects.
With the higher-ups out of the way, the people could feel at ease with their leaders and really, that was all that mattered. What was one little Cylon model compared to the comfort of all involved?
PS: If you need more on THAT, please see my previous entry and any others that I may have written (or will write in the future) that center around my self-preservation. Honestly, I had no desire to see her Cylon programming hit ‘on’ early. And frankly, that was best for ME. And between you and me? That’s what I’m concerned about.
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Gaius Baltar
Battlestar Galactica
Word Count: 296
A little over eleven hours to test each sample.
That, for anyone paying close attention, equals a little over sixty years to complete the Cylon testing that Adama and Madam President want done.
Not including sleeping, eating… time to myself.
When you throw in those that want their samples done right frakking now, you end up with more problems than you could possibly imagine. Believe me.
You have the President wanting to test the Commander without his knowledge and the Commander wanting to test the Colonel’s long lost wife without the good Colonel’s knowledge. All in all, quite the fascinating time, especially when it all comes to a boil and the showdown erupts in your lab.
I can’t decide if sarcasm becomes me.
Needless to say, none of that was a good time for me. I mean, none of that was a good time for THEM. Of course. And since our main concern has to be for the good of the Colonial government and the Fleet as a whole, one does what they can to lighten the load of those higher up.
You round up the usual suspects.
With the higher-ups out of the way, the people could feel at ease with their leaders and really, that was all that mattered. What was one little Cylon model compared to the comfort of all involved?
PS: If you need more on THAT, please see my previous entry and any others that I may have written (or will write in the future) that center around my self-preservation. Honestly, I had no desire to see her Cylon programming hit ‘on’ early. And frankly, that was best for ME. And between you and me? That’s what I’m concerned about.
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Gaius Baltar
Battlestar Galactica
Word Count: 296
