Space

[The_Mather1]

Yes I am.

 

Nex, mobile prisons are useful.

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/join #space38 tavern

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12603519/Space/Logs/%23space38.Tip.It.log

[Leiana]

SI, why the heck can I not accsess classified information? I'm a medic for pete's sake! I want to know why it's being kept from me! If I don't find out I'll have to do something really rediculous: Send a sandwich with a message back to it's origin.....Gern.......Is that a code word I'm not aware of? Or maybe its in Ceaser Shift......Can I know about the classified information OOC? Please, oh please, oh please! PLLLLLEEEAAASSSSEEEEE!!!!!!

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Gern oil....

 

Say it aloud.

[Nexaduro]

It's airtight, Lei, as SI said. I doubt we'll be able to get any info unless we're lucky, bright, or absurd enough to find our own way.

 

EDIT: Pfft, how do you pronounce it? German "gern," GUR-nh, or what?

[Nero]

So what happened with Theros?

 

Oh, and why is Earth's population 0, what happened there?

[Nexaduro]

He turned the malevolent ghost of Jen into a fine particulate mist.

 

Also, why did you earmark resources for classified projects?

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Earth got sucked into a blackhole to stop an armada of alien ships coming in.

[Nero]

Earth got sucked into a blackhole to stop an armada of alien ships coming in.

Yea...WHAT?

[Nexaduro]

More specifically, aliens and Russians. Who used interdimensional heat weaponry. And who I believe created the black hole in the first place.

 

No worries, we still have the Brits, Australians, Americans, and TFed in various places. Though I might've messed up the Americans with my use of the Kinesis Gear...

 

Also, you didn't tell us what your secret projects are and why you made them classified.

[Jehosaphat]

Name: Theros

 

Merit: 2275

Credits: None

 

Inventory:

A Spiderbot following him around

DF Suit Visor (used for robot control, as well as vision change)

Expanding Shield

Ion Cannon (wielded chaingun style)

Two railguns as sidearms

Raptorleg-thing designed by Ross

 

Skills:

Level ? Shooting (whatever I gained from while I was AFK + 1)

Level I Robotics Engineering

 

Capabilities:

Make Level V powered "DF" armorsuit with level III powersource

Make Level III plasma grenades

Make Level IV Small Railguns

Make Level XL Ion Cannons

Make focused plasma charges (Level I)

Spec Ammo (Level II)

UTR (Level II)

Level III Pulse Weaponry

 

Achievements:

Designer of the "Flyin' Nades" robots.

Designer of the "Scout" robots.

Designer of the "Themes" robots.

Designer of the Expanding Shield

Designer of the "Robospider" robots.

Designer of the "Troll" robots.

Vaporized Jen.

[Nero]

Also, you didn't tell us what your secret projects are and why you made them classified.

My secret projects?

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Backstory:

Imagine Hegemony 2091:

Russia has been at war with the Commonwealth of Australia and what not for a while...and throwing wave after wave of troops doesn't seem to be working any more since they have done that the last 90 years.

So they called in the aliens because this is Hegemony and crackpot research is what we do.

Aliens turned out to be just as backstabbing as humans, and were gonna cook Earth...for some nefarious purpose...

Russian leaders were, as with Hegemony, blindly ignorant to the risks, and instead busied themselves building Castles in Space, because it sounded cool.

 

As per normal Russia used their new super weapon, which has obvious risks, against their enemy while everyone watches.

Then, when things go wrong everyone throws whatever research they have at the problem and hope something sticks.

Including the dangerous and stupid 'Blackhole Gun', which solves the problem, creating a much larger problem in the form of a Black Hole...as the name suggests.

 

 

Condensed last...5-10 sessions:

 

Meanwhile the Space Powers, Britian and Unity...basically...go 'Oh noes' and begin evacuating Earth with the general idea that once you have 50 million starving, hungry and disease ridden people, it will be a synch.

Britian then goes hmmm...we can deal with 30 million, and kills off 20 million people.

The evacuees go WTH! And mutiny.

Unity goes 200,000 is easy!

Britian goes W/E, this is a headache.

 

Unity goes what if we created a new planet to feed these people!

Britian goes hey, I want a peice of that!

Unity goes NO! and calls in the mutiny brigade to help them kill the British fleet trying to steal the planet.

Britain goes W/E, this is a headache.

 

Unity realises that 200,000 people on a station, with no public amenities, brown pills for food and no government, is a bad idea.

Unity decides to solve this by putting in some buildings. 200,000 people used the buildings FOR OFF LABEL USES, LIKE BUILDING WEAPONS!

Unity discovers the brown pills are drugs if burned and are being used OFF-LABEL AS WEAPONS!

Unity goes W/E, this is a headache, where is the genocide ray?

 

Drake goes, man, humans suck, and becomes Apep.

Apep goes, wouldn't it be good if Humans were better?

Apep releases virus on Asgard.

200,000 people begin mutating.

Jen goes WTH and declares war on the mutants.

Jen goes, hmm, people are weak, annex!!!!

 

Unity realises something is going on.

Earth charges in, and gets taken over.

Jermiah goes, kill it it with fire.

Jen goes WTH and disables the Unity.

 

Jeremiah goes kill it with fire.

Theros goes yay.

Piriana explodes into the station.

Jen goes WTH and throws psionics at it until it goes away.

 

Earth goes hmm, boring and throws himself at it till it goes away.

Earth weakens Jen.

Jeremiah goes WTH and throws himself at it till it goes away.

Theros goes WEEEEEEEEEE and throws himself at it till it goes away.

Jen goes I have a headache, timeout?

Theros goes NO! and shoots her.

 

Apep goes guise, I was evil!

Jeremiah goes, hey, can I be evil too?

Bonsai goes, yeah, me too!

Apep goes get the hell away from me.

Faust goes whatever happened to Nero?

Chi goes, wouldn't it be better if my arm was a scanner.

 

 

And hilarity continues.

[Jehosaphat]

And hilarity continues.

As usual. :thumbsup:

[Nero]

You people...

[Seraphi]

Yeah, I eventually decided against genociding the 200k people and just decided to see if I could turn them into robots instead.

 

I need Faust to help me kickstart an artificial brain.

 

PS. That condensed version is hilarious.

[Grim_]

I may have to start playing again (most likely at a severe tech disadvantage but then again tech doesn't keep me from stabbing you in your sleep and stealing your designs becoming your friend and borrowing your weapons). In any rate is the research system the same as it was before ( puzzles)?

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Yup Puzzles.

It is changed slightly, so you complete a set of puzzles for a set of points, rather than 1 to 1.

 

 

And, generally speaking, tech gets shared out between the crew.

[Grim_]

So murder and or robbery is not necessary now but merely recreational? Damn.

On a completely un related note how much research into cybernetics/bionics and kilotonnes of material would it take to create a sort of cyborg out of Dmitri? That and could I make a horse shaped hover craft?

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Couple of levels, couple of hundred kT.

 

Horsecraft seems fine.

[Seraphi]

There are already designs for arms, legs and eyes, as well as an artificial brain.

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Following a highly eventful session the station there was a two month interval where various issues were resolved, also Happy New Year, its 2093(Overdue!)

 

Earth, recovering from being Psionicly dominated spent the period finding inner calm. These new, deeper, insights into his mind gives him 5 Technobabble Tokens.

 

Jeremiah, having got incredibly hacked off with the whole colonial governer bit, went hunting on Asgard, becoming feared, and respected, as the man who would have peace and order at any cost. His efforts, combined with work from the Government he now protected, allowed the final peaceful resolution of Asgard's remaining population. Splitting into three provinces, one of which was composed of the new 'Drake' Speices, posthumerously named after a dog he had once had( :thumbup: ), while the other two were made up of the surviving Humans.

 

Bonsai spent the period in the computer, researching, giving him 10 free research points.

 

Faust, who's near death experiance, and final removal and pacification of SUE, took him on a semi-spirital quest. In otherways it was a power trip, fuelled by food pills, PEB and a boatload of drugs of all varities. The overall effect, apart from resolving a resounding feeling of lose without SUE, and from being dead, was to increase his Psionic level by 6.

 

Nero, being awesome, spent the time getting progressive drunker at various bars across the solar system. Wearing his Tricornered Hat, singing songs of old, and generally showing himself as a man's man, he has managed to attract rather a following, drawing out some 300 Terrans who were living in Oceania at the time of the crisis.

 

Apep, being evil, fled into the solar wind after hiding out in one of the mining ships for a week. Whether he shall return remains to be seen.

 

While cleaning out Drake's Room numerous puzzles were found, along with a number of traps, and a board saying:

The Flaws of Chi's Transporter restriction Protocol

1) Transport Robots into room and remote control them

2) have someone else transport you into his room

3) Transport the room full of small objects while its occupied

4) Scan Chi's room

5) Transport all of the contents of Chi's room into the nearest empty room

 

 

Chi, waking up with a scanner in his arm, completed his Space-Life-Long ambition of installing small shield generators in all of the rooms. He also built a computer core, scrap robot and small generator to power his own room independantly. As well as spending a month writing a foolproof anti-transporter protocol, which he then hardwired into the Unity Transporter.

 

 

Theros spent the time writing a series of short stories entitled 'A Guide to being Comatose', which he published in Britian, netting him 1,000,000 EC in royalties.

 

Lee, unfortunately did not find Aiden, she did however practice wielding her ThoughtBowStaff(TBS) allowing her unparalled use of it.

 

The mysterious voice on the Comms spent the period healing the sick in Drake's Province, and easing the transformation for those left half transformed. This gave him an almost encyclopedic knowladge of Medicine, on top of his other specialisation. On top of that he knows almost everyone on Asgard, as both a trusted physician and as a bridge between Drake and Humanity.

 

The SI, seeing all of these things as trivial, spent the period dealing with the far more interesting problems it had been left with...The classified orders that not even Jeremiah could open, a mysterious Swiss telegram and Terraforming Europa.

 

The first of these has resulted in the destruction of a large part of Asgard...With Faust, Nero, Earth, Drake/Apep and Jeremiah all pursuing their own goals and objectives there was no one to shop it until it had been neigh but completed.

The destruction of the North West arm had been mostly completed by Theros and Jeremiah, in their attempt to kill Jen, while the South West, North East and South East arms were destroyed purely by the SI in an attempt to gather the resources required, and then to fix the rest of the station and complete the other two tasks.

 

The mysterious Swiss Telegram exists only as that, a mystery...To be unravelled at the cost of 10 Research Points.

 

The Terraforming of Europa began after the British and Commonwealth finally demanded results from the Unity. With a temporary surplus of resources the SI removed the Food Pill crops, converting the biomass into compost and beginning asteroid bombardment of Europa, using asteroids from the Kuipner Belt, with aid from the British Navy.

The progress has been slow, but fruitful, leading to a mass increase of 200%, a density increase of almost 300%, a temperature increase of 50 degrees Centigrade, and the formation of three continental masses. These masses are, however, submerged, and this is to be maintained, since the costs of boosting the magnetic field of Europa, while offsetting all the effects that will have due to Jupiter, would be astronomical...it is actually considerably cheaper to build the cities underwater, arcology style.

 

While arcologies are still months away from beginning to be built, due to the current problem of the Alliance, resurgent Terran and American Empires, small scale settlement projects are underway. There was considerable doubt as to the stability of Europa, though the skeptics were arrested and now there is total support for the graduated move to Europa.

 

 

Outside of terraforming the Solar Situation has stablised mildly.

Britian, under strong pressure from voters to begin deporting Commonwealth Citizens to the Commonwealth, staged a number of reality TV shows, inviting British Families to live on Commonwealth bases. Despite strong protests by the civil licencing agency the broadcasts proceeded, showing almost daily raids by Alliance forces, with many scenes views described as 'Horrific in the strongest possible terms'.

While the shows were widely condemned as being over hyped and unrealistic...despite being live in some instances...voter pressure has decreased on the issue of deporting Commonwealth Citizens.

Pressure, instead, is mounting for Britian to defend the Commonwealth, though is still considered political suicide.

There is also the matter that the British Fleet is on a par with the Alliance Fleet, so if the battle was joined there is a strong possiblity that the British would only end up drawing fire onto themselves as well.

 

The Commonwealth is, however, just about holding its own, after a pair of destroyers were shot down by ground based cannons, but the situation is far from stable, with constant demands for more ships, more food and more defences...with a constantly dwindling budget.

 

The Alliance goes from strength to strength, having trebled in size, with a booming manufacturing industry for ship parts, largely due to slave labour from captured Commonwealth Asteroids. It is, however, the Officer core of the Alliance which leads the boom. Half a year ago the rag tag bunch of bandits with perhaps a month's experiance between twenty men, now they boast, effectively, several years worth of tours.

Beyond combat a society beyond piracy is forming, taking its cues from 19th Century Britian...Though there are few parralls as of yet.

 

The Terran Federation, with the surface of Mars at their finger tips, have turned their gaze skywards under the leadership of Lord Dusty after a bitter war with the Russian colonists for dominance...and ultimately survival. While the war, the loss of Earth...and Lord Dusty's 'I am not the how guy, thats what I pay you for.' attitude...have left them temporarily stunted, it is only a matter of time before someone capable comes along to act as Adminstrator for the Empire...and then TFed shall surely reassert itself.

 

America, though mildly shaken by its ordeal with the Unity Crew, has only become more miltartistic, developing the first atomspheric divers for use on Venus.

 

The UN, as ever, sits on the sidelines of the system, filing reports and audits, ordering non-existant ships across space to prevent mining, reprimanding non-existant officers for not doing their duties...Commerating the brave, but non-existant, souls who have lost their non-existant lives in the line of duty.

 

Asgard, with provinces:

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Population:

25,000 Drakes

45,000 Humans

[The_Mather1]

I am more than satisfied by the way that turned out.

 

If there will be any efforts ro rebuild the ring of the Asgard, then you can count on my scrap bots to join in.

[Earth]

Jremiah, I have a better Idea for the hatcheries.. How about they generate asteroids, or just kT using the suns energy?

[Seraphi]

What? As far as I know, there is no creature (Theoriatically or otherwise) able to initiate nuclear fusion purely from the energy of the sun.

 

And yes, efforts shall be put into rebuilding the Asgard. We now have the manpower for an army, as well.