9th Command; Voice - backdated to Thursday the 12th

[aggravating]

[Compared to his last little blow-up to the network? Today's message is nice and short and sweet and to the point. Well, as to-the-point as Tony Stark can ever be.]

Are there any teleportation pads on this space-tionwagon or am I just missing something here?

Why the hell do we have simulated environments, dimensional jumps, and aliens that would make George Lucas wet himself... but we don't have floor to floor transportation pads?

And for the record, everything I've ever said about stairs I am redacting and revising. They suck.

[Filtered to Maintenance/The labs]
Who wants to be my babysitter or just let me in to do my thing? I need to outfit a wheelchair with a jet-pack in the next two hours or else I cannot and will not be held responsible for whatever homicidal, frustration-based rage I go into.

[Spam For the Deck]
[Because every new invention needs a road test, right? And Tony is kind of known for his need for speed.

So uh, if you ever wanted to see one Tony Stark zoom past you in a repulsor powered wheelchair? This would kind of be your chance.]

Comments

[aggravating]

[Finally someone not just assuming he doesn't know what elevators are.]

My alma mater, century wise. Which is awesome if you're like Rogers and trying to adjust to a wild and crazy future as well as suddenly being on a space ship but uh. My bathroom is more high tech than some of this place, and I'm from 2010.

[timesbureaucrat]

Not my favourite Earth era, I'm afraid. [Although it's been growing on him.]

On Gallifrey we have transmats, although we only use them for long distances. Within the Capitol, stairs are the norm. [Fancy alien robes swish so nicely and dignified on stairs. And Time Lords are rarely in a hurry.]

[aggravating]

You a crossbow or spaceship man?

[His eyebrows arch up, interested now]

Transmats I could get behind. You have no idea. Any travel time I can shave off is another piece of tech I can get off the ground.

[Yeah, Tony's always in some sort of hurry. Always moving, always pushing his limits. His mindset is set towards speed and efficiency. Multitasking and constant movement. There's nothing worse than having to endure fifteen hour plane rides.]

[timesbureaucrat]

Neither. But I'd prefer spaceships to crossbows if I had to choose.

[Narvin is restless and impatient by traditional Time Lord standards. But compared to even a normal human he still tends to act a bit like he has all the time in the universe.]

They're more useful for transporting materials than people, as far as speeding up technological production goes.

[aggravating]

Not an Earth fan, then?

[He's pretty much used to this whole alien visitors, creepy powers, and past-future thing, by now at least.]

Still saying, you could get a lot more accomplished if you could just teleport everywhere instead of having to walk.

[Or wheel yourself in a chair with sub-par handling.]

[timesbureaucrat]

It's not a bad planet, just a little more primitive than I'm used to. And dangerous and unstable in the 21st century, with some factions of humans fighting other factions, threats of nuclear annihilation...it's a bit of a mess. [But it's his planet-in-law now, so he'd learned to like it and is even starting to feel a bit protective of it.]

[aggravating]

I would sell every one of my vacation homes to get my feet on an alien world. An honest to god, man-eating plants, different atmosphere alien world.

[His lips twist in an almost... bitter expression]

Yeah, we're pretty messed up. I'll give you that.

[timesbureaucrat]

You might just get your wish. Although the Admiral has a preference for Earth, the Barge has occasionally made port in stranger places. I rather hope that some day it might find its way to my home planet. No man-eating plants, I'm afraid, but we do have an orange sky, two suns, and multiple moons.

[aggravating]

See that is more like it. What is it- binary suns?

That's what I expected with space travel and planet jumping.

[timesbureaucrat]

Indeed. A binary star system whose development has been frozen through some careful stellar engineering. [Time Lords hate change. Other races might go and terraform new planets for when their home star inevitably burns out, but not Time Lords. They stay where they are and prevent their star from burning out.]

[aggravating]

[You just said the magic word, sir]

Alright, I'll bite. How do you freeze the development of suns?

[Talk engineering to him, Narvin.]

[timesbureaucrat]

By using a stellar manipulator, of course. It alters the life cycle of stars. More commonly they're used to cause stars to go supernova, but they can keep a star fusing hydrogen in its core beyond its natural main sequence life span, too.

That and a bit of careful temporal manipulation, and our star system can remain as it is for a very very long time. A necessity for a civilization as old as ours.