Mmmm. Scans of Drake's AI core have revealed instabilities, similar to SUE, though less intense, more focused. While the Drake AI has withdrawn entirely from the ship's onboard network, I have erected additional firewalls to prevent his access of any and all systems. If the problem is not resolved before instability grows out of hand.(3 sessions, currently, may go up, may go down) Please be advised that the Drake is unaware of all goings on, and thus is not aware of this. In other news, the British have engaged in a face saving genocide of 6 million Commonwealth individuals and the rest (approximately 20 million) were in the process of mental reconditioning as slaves. The Commonwealth has been appalled at this, but the British have been quick to point out that Commonwealth trade contacts brought the 6 million dead for use in the replicators. The Commonwealth has denied this, though it is an open secret that it is true and began calling for the Commonwealth Citizens and 'Every decent minded Brition to rise up against the Government before this atrocity could be completed in [its] fullest.' The British, wary that the cabinet have become practically cut off from the common people, with already indoctrinated Commonwealth Slaves fulfilling all their needs, staged a minor coup, with the British Police from the Eden Halo storming the Houses of Parliment and arresting every member of the 'Britain First' coalition. The British public is still deeply divided over the legality of this, with a dozen asteroid colonies declaring independance, forming the British Alliance. The Alliance looked quite strong on paper, taking five Destroyers and thirteen Escorts, however the five Destroyers were cut down to three Destroyers following ship mutinies against their Captains. Further issue occured during a raiding party against the supposedily undefended Wessex Colony, which, infact had one of the Heavy Destroyers with two Destroyers as escorts. The battle ended in pyrric victory for he Alliance, losing three Destroyers and six Escorts, gaining one colony. The British lost all three vessels. The British themselves are in the process of a three month long election, in the meantime the Hardy Doctrine has been adopted: Britian restricts activities to its own space for the present while. Commonwealth Individuals are treated as second class citzens, but are allowed to keep their culture and heritage. 4D storage must be emptied at the earliest possible time. The Commonwealth have made tacit agreement with the Hardy Doctrine. Both sides now see Europa as the last salvation of Humanity, but after shocking reports (and partly fabricated) from the SI aboard the ISS Unity about the radioactive downspill of the battle that raged this month; and the potential long term effects of such, both sides have agreed to a six month truce with the Unity. The British Alliance has wholy rejected the Hardy Doctrine. Current strengths: British: 1 Heavy Destroyers, 6 Destroyers and 22 Escorts. Population: 212.8 Million (9.3% Commonwealth(20 Million), 85% British(180.9 Million), 5.7% Other(11.9 Million)) Commonwealth: 0 Heavy Destroyer, 2 Destroyers and 0 Escorts. Population: 21.4 Million (87% Commonwealth(18.6 Million), 10% British (2.1 Million), 3% Other(0.6 Million)) British Alliance: 0 Heavy Destroyer, 0 Destroyers and 7 Escorts. Population: 0.12 Million (100% British(0.12 Million) Unity: 1 Heavy Destroyer, 2 Destroyers, 0 Escorts, 2 Pirahnas. Population: 0.2125 Million (99.8% Commonwealth(0.212 Million) 0.2% Other (0.0005 Million) In other other news: The American Alpha Base has begun transmitting again. The base was thought to have been destroyed by the Russians during their invasion of the USA, however it now appears it was merely sterilised and abandoned. An American ship, dispatched after the Russians gave back Cape Canaveral, arrived recently and got in back online. The Terra Blackhole has finally consumed the entire planet and has begun to evapourate. Luna and Cruisneth will both be thrown off into space when this occurs, their locations and trajectories will determine their new resting place. Projections show that Cruisneth has a 20% chance of entering orbit of Uranus in thirty years, 40% chance of being smashed into an astroid and 40% chance of being flung into space, leaving the solar system in forty years. Projections show that Luna has a 10% chance of being torn apart over the next century by Mars, 20% chance of join Mars' orbit, destablising its orbit(with a 90% chance of restablishment) 20% chance of impacting on Mars, shattering both planets and a 50% chance of being flung into space, leaving the solar system in forty years. The British Solar Survey has been completed, results are as follows:(populations of 10,000 or over are included, since their are literally hundreds of 1-10,000 asteroids of little consequence(These are also not included in the population figures)) [hide]Sol System Sol -Mercury -Venus --*Station Alpha (America) -Terra Blackhole --Luna --Cruisneth -Mars -*Mars Base(???) -Asteroid Belt --Eden Halo (British) Population: 13,000,000 --New London Space Station (Britain) Population 500,000 --Kent Shipyard (British) Population 100,000 --Ceres --*Ceres Base (Britian) Population: 149,000,000 --*Mercia Base (Britain) Population: 40,000,000 --Elizebeth --*Elizebeth Base (Britian) Population: 5,900,000 --Nomad --*Nomad Base (Britian) Population: 4,320,000 --Wessex --*Wessex Base (Alliance) Population: 120,000 --Rutland/Haven --*Rutland/Haven Base (Commonwealth) Population: 2,300,000 --Sandring --*Boomer Base (Commonwealth) Population: 9,400,000 --*Plymouth Base (Commonwealth) Population: 3,600,000 --Angel --*Gable (Commonwealth) Popluation: 6,100,000 --Asgard (Unity) Population: 212,500 -Jupiter --Europa -Saturn -Uranus -Neptune -Argus Array (UN) [/hide] Following additional study of the Alien technology the Jelly Gun's power source has been defined as a tear between dimensions, contained with an extremely high powered Thermomagnet (Which seems to be stablised by the tear, since the concept is flawed in our universe). The device seems to be extremely inefficent, firing once an hour, with the majority of the energy being used to keep the Thermomagnet stable, and electrical energy leaking into the surrounding space. This leaking makes Cloaking far less effective. The electrical energy poses no significant risk to humans, though static discharge may annoy them. Robot/Androids should be careful when handling the weapon as it may cause degradation of key systems. Designs have also been scaled for ship-sized weapons, however these massive weapons let off considerable amounts of electrical energy and obviously pose the risk of unifying into one massive tear. Designs for an electrical generator have also been drawn up. The effective power of the generator depends on its size, with larger generators, hence larger or more tears, producing a better efficency than singular tears. There are obvious risks of fused tears and unknown risks since we have no strong basis for understanding the mechanisms involved. Additional study of Russian data files has also revealed that the Russian fleet may have withdrawn to the Blue Super Giant system to the South East of Sol(Hyperspace barings). This has been marked on the Universal Map. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12603519/Space%20Online/index.html Additional study of the area formerly occupied by the Swiss has turned up nothing useful. Europa has been seeded and, despite minor radiation and a temperature drop of 1 Degree, due to the battle and core mining, seems to be progressing well. Current resource levels are 645 kT and ship fund is 333,000.
