Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-1734134-20190911202955/@comment-32600226-20191104172713

(Assuming Vox functions the way anything that uses radio waves does, Tarkhan has not 'hacked' anything. He is just listening for radio signals from a source, recording them, and decrypting them. There would be no way to tell if he is listening in anymore than you could tell if someone is looking at the same star in the sky as you. Also you seemed to have missed the fact that Tarkhan has aalso moved over to the communications center)

Tarkhan looked over at the Scions, clearly able to hear them from this distance. "I beg your pardon?" he asked. He wondered at why they would be reporting something like this and realized that he might have offended them or something earlier. It was so hard to tell with non-Mechanicus.

He walked closer to the Scions, "I have not done anything that any other loyal Tech-priest would not have done in my place. I apologise if I have offended you, I spend much of my time with servitors so it is not... easy to tell if my comments are appropriate or not." He thought on his conversations with them and what it was that might have offended them, a task only made easy by having not said much to the Scions. He decided that he had probably been too forceful on insisting that his proper title be used.

"I am sorry if my conduct in the woods was offensive, the presence of the abomination put me on edge. I should not have been so insistant on the use of titles. It is just irratating to have worked so hard and studied so much to be refered to like a common enginseer. It is like," Tarkhan had to spend considerable logic cycles to come up with a equivelent metaphor. "Like if someone refered to you as conscripts, despite your superior training and equipment, if that makes any sense."