Another year, another place to corral stray fic and fragments. Some of them may make it to AO3 eventually, some of them may not. Series, pairing, rating, and any relevant warnings in the subject of each comment.
The duty of the Librarians is to preserve all information passed through them. Librarians are not to to alter, destroy, or otherwise modify any data that passes through their possession. The Librarians treat all data equally without any sort of value judgement.
So Orion Pax had been trained, and so he tried to act during the time he spent on duty. Receive transmissions from the wavelengths to which he was assigned, attach the appropriate metadata to the record, and hand it off for further processing and storage. It was not his place to judge anything he might come across. In fact, in the interest of efficiency, he should not even play back the transmissions, except if he suspected they might be corrupted. His job, as a Librarian at the bottom of the ladder, was simply to pass information forward in a usable form.
He tried to follow the mandates of his job. He had no trouble in the beginning.
Then, his assignment shifted to the transmissions originating from a distant mining operation. In theory, there shouldn't have been much coming from the site. Transports to and from were infrequent, and the rest of the time, the location was silent.
At least, that was what the summary he had been given said. It never mentioned the transmissions he stumbled across on a little-used frequency that shouldn't have been transmitting at all. He received them, filed them, and passed them on, but he also listened. Five minutes in, and he was certain the transmission should be flagged for further review. Ten minutes, and he was doubting his earlier certainty. Thirty minutes in, and he was certain both that it should be flagged, and that he would not be the one to do so. He set the usual, nondescript identifiers on the file and shuffled it on into the system.
He assigned himself to an extra shift in accession processing at the time of the next transmission.
Several light years away, a relatively unknown miner continued the broadcasts that would bring them together before tearing them apart.
Re: From the Archives: Transformers, Orion Pax/Megatron, G
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From the Archives: Transformers, Orion Pax/Megatron, G
So Orion Pax had been trained, and so he tried to act during the time he spent on duty. Receive transmissions from the wavelengths to which he was assigned, attach the appropriate metadata to the record, and hand it off for further processing and storage. It was not his place to judge anything he might come across. In fact, in the interest of efficiency, he should not even play back the transmissions, except if he suspected they might be corrupted. His job, as a Librarian at the bottom of the ladder, was simply to pass information forward in a usable form.
He tried to follow the mandates of his job. He had no trouble in the beginning.
Then, his assignment shifted to the transmissions originating from a distant mining operation. In theory, there shouldn't have been much coming from the site. Transports to and from were infrequent, and the rest of the time, the location was silent.
At least, that was what the summary he had been given said. It never mentioned the transmissions he stumbled across on a little-used frequency that shouldn't have been transmitting at all. He received them, filed them, and passed them on, but he also listened. Five minutes in, and he was certain the transmission should be flagged for further review. Ten minutes, and he was doubting his earlier certainty. Thirty minutes in, and he was certain both that it should be flagged, and that he would not be the one to do so. He set the usual, nondescript identifiers on the file and shuffled it on into the system.
He assigned himself to an extra shift in accession processing at the time of the next transmission.
Several light years away, a relatively unknown miner continued the broadcasts that would bring them together before tearing them apart.
Re: From the Archives: Transformers, Orion Pax/Megatron, G