#rono kipkibor

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talkarchaeologytome:

Sometimes I forget that this isn't common knowledge but did you guys know that the digsite federation runs youtube livestreams for the broadcast channels of all their digsites?

The livestreams don't really get a lot of views since they tend to be a bit boring, given there's no visual (they just have a blue background with the DSF logo), but sometimes when a rescue or something happens, they upload the highlights as videos on their channels.

I think most people have listened to the Solar 5 rescue at this point, but here's another one that I found really interesting: [link]

Not too long before the Carrington Event, a skyscraper collapsed in New York Main and Rono Kipkibor's Cassandra 2 team were buried.

They were dug out by tag leader Jarra from Asgard 6.

Give it a listen, it's pretty fascinating.

flufflebrainedfreak:

Oh, I saw how friendly she was with Cassandra 2 during the zulu dig but I always thought it was just because her lecturer was friends with them! I didn't realize she'd helped save their lives!

It's so cool hearing how different she was during this event than she is as Commander Tell Morrath. Like, she sounds a little nervous throughout the whole thing?

But you can also tell she really knows what she's doing. I don't know a lot about archaeology, but if Earth 19 let her keep tagleading when they arrived, that must mean she was doing a good job, right?

talkarchaeologytome:

Yeah, she's kind of become a legend in the archaeology circles, and it's not even mostly about her military rank and her involvement in alien contact. Like, the more I hear about her the more wild it gets???

She started going to dig sites when she was eleven?

She learned how to fly from Valeska Orlova's husband????

She became a next of kin when she was 17?

Guys I don't know how to stress to you that Commander Tell Morrath has literally never been normal.

[skygemspeaks]

When you read the C2 rescue do you ever think about how much more we know about the characters now and how they must have all been feeling and wonder if they knew that they were being dug up by a novice team and one of their best friends. Because like we know C2 now and we know how close Playdon was to them and just ouch. Like Rono trapped and not knowing about his team but knowing that the tension was not good just gives me so many feels about the whole mess.

oh shit, you’re so fucking right nonny, i never even considered that actually.

do you think they had stefan on a private channel when it became clear he might die because his legs were being crushed? or did rono and the rest of the team have to hear his screams?

i think it would be really cool to see how jarra’s relationship with C2 evolves over time, especially after she graduates from University Asgard.

in canon, there’s a pretty big power imbalance because she’s a student and they’re all pros, but i think it would be cool to see her become friends with them on equal standing, as well as becoming friends with playdon! there’s obviously a lot of respect there between them already, and if rono and the others are close to playdon’s age, there’s maybe ten years between them and jarra? which is nothing!!

i just want to know so much more about this world, ahhhhhh

[skygemspeaks]

G: I really don't like Fian, the more I read his parts the more meh I get about him. (Somtimes he talks about keeping Jarra under control and I just don't like that? idk exaclty why but it rubs me wrong). I also really wish we had more archeolgy trolling the millitary, just that is always the best. Raven and the laser cutter is a highlight moment for me. Archelogists are the best and I love them all so much. What if Jarra had dug Jaxon out on the fringe once?

God, that’s a mood. I tried so hard to like him. It took me reading the entire series three times before I could admit to myself that I just didn’t like him. And as soon as I was able to say that, I realized just how much I loved the Raven/Jarra ship.

There are a lot of things about the way he acts that piss me off, but I think the ones that annoy me the worst are:

When he finds out Jarra’s handicapped, the literal first words out of his mouth are “What will my family say when they find out I’m twoing with an ape?” and I find that really telling. Like, there are hundreds of Military that are about to die, Jarra literally just told him she’d had a mental breakdown because her parents had just died, and that’s what he’s worried about?

At the beginning of Earth Flight, the newzies break the news that Jarra’s going to join the Tell Clan, and Jarra mentions that Fian should tell his parents. And we find out that Fian’s been putting off telling his parents for weeks, as if he’s ashamed of the fact his girlfriend is Betan??? He’s really obvious all throughout Earth Star about how much he dislikes the fact that she’s Betan.

In Earth Flight, when Jarra shows up at Zulu base after nearly being killed by a maniac with planet first weapons, and she’s tired and her uniform is singed and she’s still starving because she hasn’t eaten in a day, and the first words out of Fian’s mouth are him berating her because “we’ve been worrying about you so much and you’ve been sightseeing?” and i’m like...bitch, can you not SEE the state she’s in???? maybe try asking her first what happened to make her late. she’s been looking forward to this presentation ceremony for weeks now, waiting for the moment she’d finally have a family. do you honestly think she’d voluntarily be late showing up to it????

Okay sorry, rant over. I just get really heated over this. But anyways yeah, the archeologists are amazing and I seriously love them. Any time Rono is there, you know things are gonna be entertaining lmao. I loved everyone’s conversations with each other during the Carrington Event in the first book. The jokes were hilarious, and it was interesting seeing Dig Site Command being so casual.

One of my favourite parts was when Dig Site Command asks if there are any other foundation courses stuck at the dig site aside from Achilles 1, and Rono calls in like “This is Cassandra 2″ and before he can even say anything Dig Site Command cuts him off like “You can’t fool me Rono, we know full well you aren’t a Foundation course.”

I love that all the archeologists are like a super tight-knit family! Off-world archeologists are, like, basically the only norms that are completely unfazed by the Handicapped and look at them as normal humans. I love how absolutely furious the Eden Dig Site teams were in Earth Star when that bigoted scientist insulted Jarra on live television. 

And as for Jarra digging out Jaxon on a dig site, I feel like it would be an interesting thought.

I know military training teams work on the fringe dig sites occasionally, but I feel like Jarra would have been too young to have been tag-leading for one of Jaxon’s teams since there’s such a big age difference between them, but I can see her maybe being there with her school history club and watching from the sidelines. They wouldn’t have seen each other’s faces because they’d both be in impact suits, and Jarra wouldn’t recognize Jaxon’s name because she doesn’t know she has a brother at that point. But just the thought of it happening is really compelling, the fact that they could have been so close, and still were unable to meet. 

Just imagine if Jaxon, after being dug out, is relatively uninjured and is looking around at the team that had saved him, and he sees a really tiny figure in an impact suit standing on the clearway, and he’s surprised. They can’t be more than 10 or 11. Then he looks down at the name that’s displayed on the front of the suit, and it says “Jarra” and he stops breathing. He knows that hospital Earth uses the same database as the Military does to name their wards, so logically it’s far more likely for this to be someone completely different, but this little Jarra is the same age as his baby sister, and it tears at the scab on his heart, because he’s had years now to regret his selfishness, and he wishes desperately that she really was his Jarra, so he could tell her just how loved she is, so he could tell her how many people miss her.