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Feed Group: All Students
Zuri: Can someone who’s good at opening jars come to Kitchen 1? I brought some spices from home but I can’t get the jar open [amusement sigil: self-conscious laughter]
Lisbet: on my way!
Lisbet: i can’t get it open either
Ademir: Hang on, your hero is coming to the rescue!
Ademir: I have been vanquished by this fucking jar
Zuri: Please someone help. I will share deliciously spiced food with you if you can get the delicious spices open [amusement sigil: pleading]
Lisbet: update: five people have tried to get this jar open and all have failed. zuri’s grains are on the verge of overcooked. the situation is dire.
Feed log: 50657269 [Designation: “ART”] - 4D626F74 [Designation: “SecUnit”]
ART: cameraview_kitchen1.live
SecUnit: I can’t tell whether you expect me to be amused or to go help them.
ART: Why not both?
SecUnit: Opening jars for students is not part of my job.
50657269 emotion bleed [“wheedling”? [73% similarity with IrisPuppyEyes.image]]
SecUnit: Fine.
Feed Group: All Students
Lisbet: update: secunit opened the jar!! thank you everyone for following this riveting saga!
Zuri: And it didn’t even accept the offered food so more for us!
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Feed log: 50657269 [Designation: “ART”] - 4D626F74 [Designation: “SecUnit”]
ART: A student is currently watching media during class. Ordinarily, I would send him a disciplinary warning; however, the show he is watching is not in your media archives.
ART: Your drones should be able to get an unobstructed view of his portable display surface. Classroom C5, back row.
SecUnit: [Acknowledged]
Private feed message
SecUnit: What show were you watching during class?
Jou: i wasn’t watching anything i was taking notes
SecUnit: video_drone16_WatchingMediaInClass
Jou: shit i’m so sorry!!
Jou: please don’t tell my professor
SecUnit: Send me the media.
Jou: of course!!
Jou: NebulaOfSecretsS1-6.compressed
SecUnit: Thank you. I will not report you to your professor this time.
Jou: thank you so much!!! [amusement sigil: relief]
Jou: also let me know what you think of the show! i’m near the end of season 5 and i'm obsessed
SecUnit: [Acknowledged]
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Private feed message
Zuri: The weirdest thing just happened to me
Tris: [amusement sigil: interested eyes]
Zuri: After the alarms shut off SecUnit was grumbling about how we can't follow instructions and if this had actually been an emergency we could have died
Tris: Pretty normal so far
Zuri: It was like “Humans can't even remember which direction is left or right”
Zuri: and I kind of snapped back
Reaction: [amusement sigil: shocked face]
Zuri: like “sorry New Tideland Standard is my fourth language and its word for left kind of sounds like Southwest Mihiran’s word for right”
Tris: What did it do??
Zuri: It said something like “Art why didn't you tell me that” [amusement sigil: confusion]
Zuri: and then it apologized to me and said in the future it will give emergency directions in multiple languages!
Tris: Woah that's actually pretty cool!
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Private feed message
SecUnit: I have watched Nebula of Secrets
Jou: wow already?? it's been like 3 days you must be binging it even more than me
Jou: what did you think??
SecUnit: The plotline with the espionage mission in season 3 was highly unrealistic. A corporation would not allow such an obvious spy into their headquarters. However, the mission significantly contributed to Eliot’s character arc and allowed xem to use xer skills to help others and work in a team. Mera’s betrayal was a well-executed plot twist and Eliot’s reaction shows xer growth. Perihelion believes that the plot twist was too obvious and it could see Mera’s betrayal coming since season 1, but it is also a liar so [...message clipped; open full message]
Jou: i can't believe you and the ship are watching my favorite show!!!!
Jou: you're so right about eliot’s character arc and how arlo is like xer opposite
Jou: tell perihelion i agree with it about mera, she was so suspicious from the start
Perihelion: SEE, JOU AGREES WITH ME. PERHAPS YOU SIMPLY LACK THE MENTAL CAPACITY TO CATCH THE OBVIOUS FORESHADOWING
Jou: oh hello
SecUnit: The point of a plot twist isn't to be unpredictable! I did catch the foreshadowing, which was intentional on the part of the creators! Mera’s betrayal wouldn't have the same weight if it came out of nowhere!
Perihelion: It also does not have the same weight if it was so obvious the other characters should have seen it coming.
Jou: eliot used to be a corporate spy and xe didn't even notice mera sending coded comms??
Perihelion: EXACTLY.
SecUnit: Eliot was drugged and unable to use xer augments at that time. Ordinarily xe would have noticed.
Perihelion: MeraBeingObviouslySuspiciousThroughoutS1-3.compilation
SecUnit: ReasonsCrewDidntNotice.compilation
Perihelion: Your reasoning at 04:27 is incorrect; Arlo had already left the councilor's shuttle as seen in S2E9 12:03.
SecUnit: TimelineS2E9.file The scenes in that episode are not shown in exact chronological order, so your evidence is irrelevant.
Perihelion: Your timeline lacks justification for the order of several scenes.
SecUnit: You can't prove that Mera talked with the captain before Arlo and Eliot took the shuttle.
Perihelion: Jou, please tell SecUnit that I am right.
Jou: im still only 30 sec into the first vid u sent!
Jou: having u guys debating in my feed is awesome but i dont have the processing speed to keep up!! [amusement sigil: exhaustion]
Perihelion: My apologies.
Perihelion has created a new feed group: “Nebula of Secrets discussion” with members: Perihelion, SecUnit, Jou. Mute notifications for this group?
Feed Group: “Nebula of Secrets discussion”
Perihelion: As I was saying, the timeline in S2E9 is inconclusive [...]
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PSUMNT Student Post-Voyage Evaluation: Perihelion
Did the crew of the Perihelion support you in your studies and extracurricular experiences?
Strongly agree [41%]
Agree [43%]
Neither agree nor disagree [15%]
Disagree [1%]
Strongly disagree [0%]
If you feel a certain crew member or members especially contributed to your positive experience, please acknowledge them here:
Seth [59 responses]
Iris [52 responses]
Martyn [45 responses]
SecUnit [29 responses]
Karime [26 responses]
Secunit [21 responses]
Turi [17 responses]
Kaede [16 responses]
Tarik [9 responses]
can i say perihelion itself? and of course secunit! [1 response]
Thank you for choosing Perihelion for your PSUMNT Study Voyage.