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[cadiastands]

[Did it take Mira like 20 minutes to enter a username because she expected the system to assign her one and then froze up in fear of doing it wrong when she had to choose it herself? Maybe.]

If someone is qualified to teach me the proper rituals for the use of these devices, I would appreciate it.

[tl;dr Mira, despite being from a space empire in the 401st century, thinks there are animist spirits inside her phone and terminal that will get mad and refuse to work if she does the wrong thing.]

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Text | UN: RankA

[skyward_eyes]

I don't know that there are?

[cadiastands]

I'd settle for a field manual.

[skyward_eyes]

Well the dualnet should have that!

[cadiastands]

I'm no Lexmechanic.

[Whatever the hell that is.]

[skyward_eyes]

What the actual fuck is that?

[cadiastands]

[There's no call to be rude, gosh.]

A tech-priest concerned with reports and statistics and that sort of thing.

[Basically a cross between a librarian and a computer programmer, but Mira doesn't know that.]

[skyward_eyes]

Sooooo a statistician?

[cadiastands]

A what?

[The translation tried valiantly to render the word and failed in the face the Imperium's absolutely pathetic science and math education.]

[skyward_eyes]

That's the term for someone who studies statistics.

[cadiastands]

I can't believe there's a word for that.

[skyward_eyes]

There's a word for everything, right?

[cadiastands]

You're right, I suppose. I don't imagine that one gets much use outside the Mechanicus.

[skyward_eyes]

I've never heard of Mechanicus. But there are a lot of places where it gets a lot of work. I wouldn't be surprised if there were people like that here.

[cadiastands]

You haven't got tech-priests? Who maintains your technology?

[skyward_eyes]

Uh, the IT department?

[cadiastands]

I'm sorry, which department?

[Stop making up words, Nida.]

[skyward_eyes]

I don't know what it means. Information Technology or something?

[cadiastands]

Oh, that's the tech-priests' concern.

[You can tell from the "technology" part.]

[skyward_eyes]

Yeah, sometimes I feel like Xu prays to things to make them work. I usually kick them if they're really bad.

[cadiastands]

From what I understand, they're praying to the Machine-God, not the device itself, but I'm no theologian.

[She doesn't comment on the kicking because, well, that's just standard.]

[skyward_eyes]

Where I'm from, there is only one god. And we killed him. Thank him.