Office Hours, Monday, 11/10

[tyler_gone]

Sir Tyler of Narnia -- and yes, he was totally that in his head today -- was at his desk, physically going through the motions of preparing for class this week. Mentally, he was in a different world.

Somehow he, the guy who wanted to blow up cities, had become sworn to protect the powerless. Being trusted with something like that ... it was cheesy. But it mattered.

Life took odd turns. And that was without considering ... whatever the hell was going on with Tony or with Parker.

He was glad he'd gone to the wedding.

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[the_merriest]

"Thanks," she said, blushing. "Something Reno suggested -- remote-access control for the droids? We could put weapons onto the droids, so long as they're only accessible to whoever is at the troopers' station. That way they won't attack someone who's just tripped an alarm by accident, but the troopers could step in if they had to, with a weapon handy right there. But I haven't added that to the schematics yet because I'm not sure how to make it tamper-proof. And I'm still not sure how to have the droids detect violence, exactly. I'm working on that. So it's ... really not finished? But it's a start, yeah?"

She thought for a couple of seconds. "Do you know when Constable Fraser has office hours?" she asked. "I'm still kinda shocked that I went for an alarm system and not a huge gun. I could have totally gotten away with designing a huge gun, for class."

[tyler_gone]

"It's a really good start," Tyler reassured her. "Violence detector would have to be some kind of sophisticated motion detector. And sorry, I don't track Fraser's schedule. You could give him a call and ask."

He flashed a grin. "You could still ditch this and do the gun instead."

[the_merriest]

"Yeah," she said, nodding. "Not just motion, you'd need some kind of ... way of tracking kinetic energy. Like. Forces and impacts. There would have to be a way to do it, I'm just not sure how."

She laughed. "Nah, I can make a gun any time. I add flamestrike and stuff like that while I'm at work, you know? This is ... different. It's neat. I like it."

[tyler_gone]

"Well, if you wait for there to be impacts you might be pretty far into the fight before the droids kicked in," Tyler said, getting drawn into this. "You'd need chemical sniffers too, to look for bombs."

"What's flamestrike?"