Drift Science

The main page for Team Drift Science, as well as Drift Science! (for the time being, anyway.)
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==Gestalt==
(via "Gestalt" by confabulatrix, part of two of "Apocalyspe Vocabulary"), with added details from "Domestic!AU". 
===Characters===
Helena Sheehan
* female, white, American, MIT legacy post-grad, rabid Bruins fan
** when and where is she born? 
* She and Parker got along better at the beginning
* Was to pilot Gamma Garou with Parker
* owns a 'BRASS RAT OR BUST' hoodie, 
* Uses a variety of colourful insults, such as "ya cockmuppet" 
** "Caitlin considered Helena's use of language thus far in their association and decided she didn't need to know what Helena wanted to call her baby."
* Bestows Nicknames: "Hot Lips Harlowe (Sufjan)", "Dr. and Mr. Stepford Fuckers" (Caitlin and Sergio), Big Poppa (Garrett; he loves it), "Dr. Who's-Your-Robot-Daddy" (Jasper), "Dr. Roller Derby" (Juno), "nugget" (baby)
* Stanley Cup: was spotted drinking Darjeeling in the lab.
* "Straightening up to her full, surprisingly-commanding height"
* Allergic to peanuts but craves peanut butter sandwiches while pregnant
* Parents live in Boston
Garrett Parker
* male, black, Welsh, psychology autodidact, college footballer turned Year 5 maths teacher
** Still has his uniform: (Caitlin doesn't recognize the team name), bright green jersey shirt, 
** 'black' of what ancestry?
** when and where was he born? 
* He and Sheehan got along better at the beginning
* Was to pilot Gamma Garou with Sheehan
* Stanley Cup: traded in his iPad for one of the ruggedized PPDC FortrOS tablets. 
* Called "Big Poppa" by Helena and loves it when she calls him that
* Mom isn't in the picture
Sufjan Harlowe 
* male, Indian-Canadian, engineering undergrad, Linux snob, tea addict
** when and where was he born? 
* Schoenfeld's research assistant 
* indexed Sheehan and Parker's files and found their CORO profiles an exact match for his.
* Stanley Cup: ? 
* Garett's jersey: hangs too loosely on Sufjan's lean frame to even be something someone had bought him oversized intentionally.
* Called "Hot Lips Harlowe" by Helena
* 2015 Q3 Saturday: Sufjan submits his resignation
* 2015 July W2: Sufjan quietly returns to DriftSci >from where?< 
* "nominally Muslim"
* Has a thing for putting spice in food where it doesn't belong
Sohail
* born March 4th, 2016
** where was he born? 
* They couldn't decide what to do for their nugget's last name so they compromised. His full name is Sohail Laurent Harlowe-Parker Sheehan
** why the hyphen? 
Drift Mafia
* All signed up for the short-lived J-Sci, they'd never interacted in any kind of meaningful way beyond Garrett asking Sufjan to pass the salt in the cafeteria, once. They didn't dislike each other, they hadn't specifically avoided each other, they simply had nothing in common beyond a shared language, an interest in psychology, and a particular desire not to see the world overrun by Godzillas.
* All three called out ill, independently of each other, to watch the Stanley Cup Finals.
* "If we keep losing Drift pairs like we have been, it'll be a miracle if we don't lose Sheehan and Parker, too, and if you had the impresstion that we already had after this morning, I think if we can bring Harlowe back in, even if just on the J-Tech and R&D side, Sheehan will stay, and Parker will follow her anywhere." -- Juno
* A very loud break down in polyamory negotiations, then "the uproar resulting from Helena announcing her pregnancy takes hours to properly calm down, and even after someone brought a resentful Sufjan in and they shut down the lab for the day, the sniping and accusations continued" to "For a few tense days, they locked into a tidal orbit around each other and Sufjan." to "The Drift mafia takes over the couch again, with laptops and manila folders and seems to communicate wholly via instant message and winks. 
** It was an abrupt change, and for all that the occasional joke about interventions skipped around the lab, Caitlin didn't think anyone found their new harmony unwelcome.
** The email thing was a little weird, though. It was one thing to Ghost Drift like she and Sergio did; they'd rubbed off on each other, yes, but outside Brawler Yukon they'd never had a problem distinguishing which line of thought was hers and which one was his. Some mornings, Helena, Sufjan and Garrett seemed to function as a singular mind, spamming Caitlin's inbox from their separate accounts with emails that couldn't be parsed without each other. 
Juno Keeler
* "She unbuttoned her shirtsleeves at their stark white cuffs, and rolled them up and over her bright sleeve tattoos of pinup girls and Sailor Jerry-styled floral arrays."
* wears glasses
* Psychologist of some sort? "Juno flicked her eyes heavenward briefly. "Thank you for sharing, Tamsin. Now get your arse in here for your psych screening.""
** " ... because he was screaming behind the closed door to Juno Keeler's CogSci lab when Caitlin came [into DriftSci(?)]" and "[(Tamsin) ...] sauntered into CogSci behind Juno."
* Drinks 'Snowshoes'
* Friends with Caitlin
* Called "Dr. Roller Derby" by Helena >for any particular reason?<
Team Brawler Yukon
* Caitlin Regina Lightcap
** "Lightcap-Lightweight"; doesn't drink dark beers (but Sergio does)
** Friends with Juno
** Favourite bar = ? 
*** "Glasses 4 Girls With Glasses"
** partied in university: "...a major drunk-on like back in undergrad" ("Gestalt")
** 2014 November: Caitin's last bipolar episode
* Commander Sevier "and thus Juno, the [older/Scott] Hansen, and half of J-Tech) had taken to calling her and Sergio the Stepford Fuckers" (ALC doesn't get it)
* " ... To ghost drift like she and Sergio did; they'd rubbed off on each other, yes, (and shut up Sergio, what would your mother say about that?) but outside Brawler Yukon they'd never had a problem distinguishing which line of thought was hers and which one was his." 
* One of Sergio's insults is 'goober'
* Sergio has better eyesight with which to see cellphone screens (not surprising)
* Sergio's Sicilian-born mother had taught him to cook, he pronounced ricotta with a long 'o' sound
* Sergio requests to never be called "Big Poppa" to which Caitlin agrees, "Signed, sealed and notarized" 
Kaidanovskaya
"[Kaidanovskaya] and Kaidanovsky won't drift with anyone else. I threw Sasha and Duc Jessop in a sim together, their COROs are so close it's not even funny, and Jessop said it was like trying to talk to a concrete wall. They can drift, the connection was good, but she won't."
Duc Jessop
* "[Kaidanovskaya] and Duc in a sim; their COROs are so close it's not even funny, the connection was good, and they /can Drift, but Kaidanovskaya won't 
** Jessop: it was like trying to talk to a concrete wall
* "Afflicted by bad blood": Duc Jessop showed off his left hook. (to whom over what?)
Dr. Rosza
* Any other details?
* On the Ethics Committee (for what? PPDC?)
* Security Council = UN security council, correct? 
Katja Vogt
* Wants a transfer back to downstairs to K-Sci because she doesn't want to put up with, quote, 'Justin Wentworth's big gay crisis'
** Apparently /did transfer
** How would a JTech person be useful for KSci? 
* Any other details? 
* "Afflicted by bad blood": Attempted to stab Justin Wentworth with a drafting compass when Juno called her back up to CogSci
Justin Wentworth
* is apparently having a "big gay crisis" 
* Katja Vogt, Durant, and Kavanaugh want nothing to do with him
* He and 'Burns' were in the running for "Ursa Beta"
* Vogt nearly stabbed him with a drafting compass upon her return to CogSci
Durant
* Any other details? 
* Had that massive breakup fight with his girlfriend 
** is she PPDC?
* is now trading regular hand jobs with Corey Kavanaugh (as of 2015 
* He and Kavanaugh were in the running for "Delta Century"
Corey Kavanaugh
* Any other details? 
* trading regular hand jobs with Durant
* Was in the running for "Delta Century" with Durant
Team Coyote Tango
* Tamsin has a psyche eval Q3 Monday possibly at 8am
* Tamsin is "Commander"
* "She tried to bribe me to bump her CORO profile when it came out as a sixty-eight," Juno said. Caitlin frowned for a second before she caught Juno's meaning and laughed. 
* "We don't have anyone in that range within twenty points either way. I'm not sure we want to. Don't get me wrong, I find her delightful, but she watched Trespasser kill her partner and that shit leaves scars. The humor comes from a place of pain."
* "I'm getting emails from the Security Council about a pair of identical twins the USAF dredged up, both fighter pilots, and I got a call today about Herc Hansen's younger brother. And Sevier and Pentecost want to have a go together--not like that, of course--and if we keep losing drift pairs like we have been, they're going to get the chance." >so the people Juno mentioned have dropped out? I didn't think any pair had dropped out yet--but Katja /was angry earlier ... but her name was on the T-90 list.< 
Dustin Krieger
* at the head of the table when the UN security council convenes
===Worldbuilding===
* They were still ironing out all the rules, but so far they had it that on-duty Jaeger pilots were limited to one alcoholic beverage per twenty-four-hours. 
* Strip of Anchorage townhouses designated for pilots, hopefuls, and science staff while the facility on Kodiak Island was under construction. Caitlin watched to make sure Juno was safely into her own apartment before returning to the theoretical two-bedroom she shared with Sergio.
DriftSci
* Juno's office
* a large room everyone called the Hub
** possibly also the 'foyer' of DriftSci>?< to the rest of the facility: "Sufjan's back in by Monday and's screaming behind the closed door to Juno Keeler's CogSci lab when Caitlin came in at eight. She froze in the door frame to the large room everyone called the Hub"
** "Across the Hub, on the side closest to Jasper's labs, Tamsin Sevier raised her hand."
** "the whiteboard that took up the long wall of the Hub"
** a loveseat
* Hub and Cogsci
** Tamsin [in the Hub] sauntered into CogSci behind Juno
** "He led her through the Hub to CogSci"
** "stepped out of CogSci into the Hub"
* the empty LAB-2B across and down the hall from Caitlin's office
** "Caitlin waved at Sufjan, Helena and Garrett as she passed 2B on her way out"
** 2B's incongruously-closed door. The windows framing the doorframe had all been covered over with newspaper comic strips, and on the door itself hung a copy of Gamma Garou's schematics, with BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS scrawled across the bottom in green highlighter.
* The curving corner >where? do you have a floorplan?< seemed to be giving them problems
** The angle of the couch where it was wedged in the doorframe of 2B needs negotiating
* Security
** All entrances and exits record personnel keybadge swipes and are on an auxiliary
*** Someone wouldn't be able to get in unrecorded when the cameras are down because the doors and their keybadge recording are on a different system, to do so shouldn't be possible
** "looked up at the ceiling to study the layout of cameras"
* The Pons
** Jasper goes to pieces over how much their missing equipment had cost them and would cost them once the Security Council found out. ** Eighty million dollars was a lot of money no matter how one looked at it 
* It would be horrifying to lose it
* The simulator Pons was huge. 
** Exquisitely heavy 
** Would take more than thirty minutes to disassemble it enough to get it out of the building. [Caitlin] knew; she'd been part of the team to put it together.
The Drift
* Only one in ten of the first round of pilot volunteers had the cortical and neuronal configurations necessary to form a neural handshake in simulations; once the field broadened to include every volunteer in the program, the global average rose to one in three.
* General trends: women were better at holding sustained drifts, shared experiences and values often overrode dissimilar CORO patterns, and similar COROs were enough to form stable drifts regardless of whether the participants had anything in common.
* First group of Cadets: "every single one of the drift pairings we've run through successful sims is either fucking, wants to be fucking, or has thought strongly about it, completely disregarding gender or previous sexual preference."
** "I'm getting emails from the Security Council about a pair of identical twins the USAF dredged up, both fighter pilots, and I got a call today >from whom?< about Herc Hansen's [older] brother." OMG are these the Gage twins? but they have US army uniforms, drat .... What's Scott gotten up to? 
* " ... [If] the worst thing that happens is I turn into your giant robot forever-boy and we don't need cellphones anymore, fine. It's fine." --Sergio
* One person's mind in the wrong body
** [Bleedover like] [not taking the Pill because 'I'm a guy and I don't have to, said the lady'(?)], though? Sergio's expression and posture said even more than the echo of his thoughts in the back of her mind. How did we not notice >what?<, Caitlin translated from the fidgeting cross of his arms and slant of his shoulders.
** “It means I have some weirdly specific memories of using body parts I don't have and I dunno what shade of brown my kid's gonna be.”
* The email thing was a little weird, though. It was one thing to ghost drift like she and Sergio did; they'd rubbed off on each other, yes, (and shut up Sergio, what would your mother say about that?) but outside Brawler Yukon they'd never had a problem distinguishing which line of thought was hers and which one was his. Some mornings, Helena, Sufjan and Garrett seemed to function as a singular mind, spamming Caitlin's inbox from their separate accounts with emails that couldn't be parsed without each other.
* Drift calibration proceeds sequentially: Pilot A and Pilot B plug in, pilot-to-pilot sequence initiates, neural handshake stabilizes," explains Helena as Garrett draws a line between the two hemispheres on the board. "Brain A and Brain B are in full cloudshare mode now, we rev our engines and the neural load drops down and we walk around in our giant metal skin, fun times are had by all.
===Timeline===
* 2014 November: Caitin's last bipolar episode
* 2015 May: Lab-based Drift simulations begin with pilot hopefuls for the T-90s
** Why 'T-90s'? 
** JTech includes DriftSci? Why are CogSci people Cadets? (I feel the two require a different skill set, plus there's no mention of them being in any sort of shape--I'm thinking of the 'running for 14 hours' kinda thing or is it still too early for that, they're throwing anyone Compatible at a Jaeger and hoping a pair sticks?))
* 2015 June: Beginning of Conn-pod sims ("in the second month")
* 2015 June: Juno's getting inundated with messages about people not being able to stand each other or are sleeping with people whom they wouldn't regularly
* 2015 Q3 Saturday: Sufjan submits his resignation
* 2015 Q3 Monday (before 8am): Someone manages to bring Sufjan back in by Monday; Caitlin and Sergio bring coffee for everyone (Sergio carries); the Drift mafia's polyamory negotiations break down; Tamsin's psyche eval (and Stacker's?); a mid-afternoon Drift calibration for Team Brawler Yukon >with Brawler or without?< she felt Sergio echo her laughter, and flipped him the mental bird when he called her a goober. "Glasses for Girls with Glasses" night at Juno and Caitlin's favourite bar; Caitlin takes Juno out for drinks; Juno and Caitlin worry about the effects of the Drift and Juno worries about Caitlin; Sergio makes lasagna 
* 2015 July W2: Sufjan quietly returns to DriftSci >from where?<; finalized names for the T-90 series were released along with the first list of pilots: Chernobog Alpha ([Kaidanovskaya] and Kaidanovsky), Ursa Beta (Wentworth and Burns), Delta Century (Durant and Kavanaugh), and Gamma Garou (Sheehan and Parker)
* 2015 July W3: Helena announces she's pregnant 
** Jasper is confused--"I've seen the budget we've been given for prophylactics and birth control," Jasper said to the three of them, "I know it's not that we ran out, and I have all of your signatures on multiple forms and waivers, so what happened?"
** "The resulting uproar took hours to properly calm down, and even after someone brought a resentful Sufjan in and they shut down the lab for the day, the sniping and accusations continued."
* 2015 July W3: Jasper makes the final call to suspend all drift testing until further notice. Caitlin co-signed Juno's memo recalling all pilot candidates once it became clear Sheehan, Harlowe and Parker weren't a unique case after all; Helena asks to transfer back to JTech >from where?< and Garret follows; for a few tense days, Helena and Garret lock into a tidal orbit around each other and Sufjan. 
* 2015 July W3 (weekend): >'long' because of friday and monday or because it was tense and lasted forever?< They spend a long weekend on red alert over sea floor movement that ended up being wholly terrestrial in origin
* 2015 July W4: The Drift mafia takes over the sectional couch in the lounge in a full-blown puppy pile >where is the lounge w/r/t the rest of the lab, if it's even in the lab?<
* 2015 July W4 +1: The Drift mafia takes over the couch again, with laptops and manila folders and seems to communicate wholly via instant message and winks.
* 2015 July (late): The Drift mafia claims the empty LAB-2B across and down the hall from her office at the end of July.
* 2015 July 30: Caitlin comes in early to work on her report for the upcoming teleconference with the UN Security Council to find Garret and Sufjan abducting the sectional; 
* 2015 July W4 (Thursday?): Jasper agrees it'd be a good idea to shut the lab down early for the weekend, to give everyone the extra time off before Tuesday's call to the UN. 
* 2015 July W4 (Friday): Sergio puts together a tiramisu (morning); surveillance for the whole building failed at 1900 hours and returned at 1930 hours; the Drift mafia steal the Pons
* 2015 July W4 (weekend): Caitlin spends a lovely weekend commuting between her laptop, the tiramisu, and their bedroom (aside from the parts that involved looking over the simulator programming and editing her notes which weren't so lovely); periodic outages afflict the PPDC building all weekend; the Drift mafia run simulations all weekend trying to prove themselves wrong
* 2015 August 3: Jasper discovers the Pons is missing, Caitlin discovers "the disassembled corpse of the Pons" in 2B
* 2015 August 4: Talk with the UN security council
==Drift mafia==
Helena, Garrent, Sufjan, and Sohail.
===2018===
(correspondence with confabulatrix)
They're mainly commuting back and forth between Baltimore (Helena's going for her doctorate at Johns Hopkins) and Boston (because her family's from Boston and her parents are fairly supportive, which is to say they're way more supportive than Sufjan's parents, and Garrett's dad doesn't have the money to fly over regularly), with the occasional side jaunt out to Anchorage and Kodiak Island. They're also tripping over a singularly ridiculous amount of toys and disassembled science projects and Drift tech, and making a go at group-parenting a two-year-old.
* Do both Garret and Helena's parents live in Boston? 
(Said two-year-old is a temperamental ball of energy.)
They're all still nominally employed by the PPDC while they engage in further education and child-rearing, and they still have ID badges and current access codes and emails, they regularly correspond with the Academy and Lightcap's Drift lab, and when they jaunt out to Anchorage they stay at the 'dome, presumably in civilian quarters, because they probably aren't (scratch that, they're DEFINITELY NOT) PPDC officers because they came into the program before there was a Jaeger Academy.
They totally keep up with what's going on at the Academy and with active Jaeger teams, and also that around Admissions time at the Academy they spent a lot of time helping with testing incoming recruits for Drift Compatibility (because imagine the incredible headache that'd be hundreds of brain scans and cognitive tests, they'd need a small army just to do that). 
===Domestic Bliss===
(via Domestic!AU)
1.) Dinner is a nightly struggle. They traded food preferences in the Drift but their tastebuds didn’t recalibrate, so they get involved in strange confused culinary power struggles, wherein Sufjan sneaks cardamom into foods it does not belong and Garrett's bacon problem is super inconvenient because Sufjan is at least nominally Muslim (surprise! SUFJAN'S MUSLIM, S' PART OF WHY HIS FAM IS NOT SUPPORTIVE), and Helena is so angry because now she craves peanut butter sandwiches constantly and she's allergic to peanuts.
2.) They had to buy a backup generator for their house because their electrical bills were absurd and they kept blowing the transformer across the street because they have, to put it lightly, a lot of energy-inefficient appliances.
3.) Sohail is a horrifyingly cute child, and they're all shocked that he's rather sweet because they were none of them particularly well-behaved as children. It takes them a while to realize it's a front and he's devious. (Sohail is the reason all the Shatterdomes serve kaiju-blue-colored Jello all the time.)
4. To keep Sohail occupied while Mama was working on her doctoral thesis, Garrett and Sufjan created an elaborate ongoing almost-The Thousand and One Nights narrative bedtime adventure story, and it got to be such a big deal that it continued even across distances and timezones via evening Skype sessions when all of them had to jaunt across the country to Kodiak without Sohail to help with Academy admissions. (Grandma's bedtime stories were inadequate.)
* Which Grandma?
5.) Their neighbors are all very nice, but they completely misread the Drift mafia's situation. Prevailing theory is that Garrett and Sufjan are together, Sohail's their kid, and Helena is the friend who played surrogate for them, or, conversely, Helena's a single mom and the guys are honorary uncles who live in the same house a la Full House.
6.) Show-and-tell got canceled at Sohail's preschool because his having action!scientist/superhero parents was considered unfair to the other children, even considering that his bestie Izzy's dog had puppies.
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