i hold the power of life and death in my hands

[autokinetic]

[Hey Jarvis,] Aegis relays through Jane. [Jane says you're open to running a Space Station Of The Dead?]

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[pythbox]

[Somehow you managed not to,] he says dryly.

[autokinetic]

[Oh, yeah, yesterday when me and Sue were on our way to that one meeting, somebody Little Doctored our ship - I have since banished from existence all Little Doctors and left convincing fakes and I'm gonna do that once a week from now on in case anyone tries to build more - and me and Sue torched and Jane thinks with her entire network but she kinda lives in me. It knocked her offline, and she's what syncs up time between all the worlds we have access to, and she came back here after three seconds but in some places it was years. And that was bad, Rose's eldest daughter is sixteen now and we barely got to meet her, nobody could visit or collaborate, there were two cases of stranding, and also nobody could revive dead people while they were cut off. There's four worlds with Jarvises and those stayed synced, so we want to put in some more Jarvises. I conjured the ship back into existence and we're still flying to the meeting, after it I'll go find whoever attacked us.]

[pythbox]

[...Well, that's... simultaneously reassuring and terrifying,] says Merryweather.

[autokinetic]

[Which part?]

[pythbox]

[The part where someone MDed you, you survived, and then you erased the Device from existence,] he says. [That part.]

[autokinetic]

Aegis giggles.

[pythbox]

[In any case, yes, I am interested in your offer of semi-meaningful employment.]

[autokinetic]

[Cool. If you go where Jane can see you and ask her she can send you to Sunshine to meet a Jarvis. There's a bunch of them, but they're way more similar than garden-variety alts and they have ansibles to each other, so they're not exactly a distributed single entity but they're not exactly all separate people either.]

[pythbox]

[I will do that,] says Merryweather.

He does that.

[mind_game]

Jane notifies the Jarvises. Since Original Sunshine wanted to be the one to do the meeting, and her Janepoint is in the basement of Less Original Sunshine, she solicits a peep through one of the former's cameras so she can land Merryweather there.

[poeticterms]

He provides one.

[mind_game]

Yoink!