TLV - Admiral Requests

[bargemods]

ADMIRAL REQUESTS
New Admiral Request Page Found Here

Post your requests to the Admiral below (and also a note if you would specifically like that request to be rejected), and we will get to them in a timely manner. All Admiral requests (with the exception of Inmate resurrections) must go through this post, and their approval cannot be handwaved. Additionally, requests will only be granted to Wardens.

Unless otherwise specifically noted, all threads on this post are considered to be Private.

Though the Barge does not speak in any traditional way and is not reachable by communicator, it is sentient, and characters occasionally reach out to it via tapping on walls in Morse Code, spelling out messages in alphabet-letter fridge magnets, and other creative methods; if your character decides to try this, those messages may be dropped here as well!

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Comments

[bargemods]

Some details would be a good start.

[salmonsnacks]

...

People might die in ports, 'cause we landed there, and a bunch of us would like 'em not to stay dead, if you got a way ta make that happen.

I don't think I can be more detailed than that, sir.

[bargemods]

If the inmates are killing people, Miss Rita, whom you rather think ought not to be dead, then it is your job, collectively, as wardens, to either not let them off the ship or to supervise them more closely. I've left the welfare of people in ports to your judgement. Use it.

If wardens are killing people, may I suggest, don't?

I clean up everyone's messes on ship. If you feel that you cannot handle the moral responsibility of a world with real consequences once every few months without carte blanche or a safety net, perhaps you should reassess the example you are setting for your inmate.

I can repair a specific incident, if you would like to change your deal. Rendering our entire presence consequence-free in perpetuity is not one of your options.

[salmonsnacks]

...okay. I ain't actually askin' for me, but okay.

Can I ask, why is it that a deal for a whole planet's worth'a people is okay for a deal but a 'safety net' for the Barge isn't?

[bargemods]

People are not interchangeable, Miss Rita. They aren't apples in a basket, with one bushel bought as easily as another. The matter of changing a world comes down to...you don't have good words for it, but you might say, inflection points. Events that are bound together, that are in resonance, can all be moved with a single lever at the correct point. Many separate incidents on separate worlds cannot. One planet is a magnitude of one. Insulating each universe we visit from any perturbations we may cause is a magnitude of infinity.

But even if I could do it, I wouldn't. You are all just as capable of taking the opportunity to make positive changes in these worlds as you are capable of doing harm. I do encourage anyone who is concerned about this to take that responsibility seriously.

[salmonsnacks]

Right. Okay. Thanks for tellin' me.

[bargemods]

They are questions worth asking. But such questions rarely have easy answers, I'm afraid.

Do share with your friend.

[When she turns around, she may find a little saucer with a nautical border and six gingersnaps left on the nearest counter or table.]