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Re: Masters of Andromeda IV (New Horizons - Out of the Ashes)

Marcus Adcobravatus, Captain of the 8th Company of the Shogun's Angel Guard and Retainer of the Asanawa Clan, sped down the corridor of the Devoran Concordat, making use of his wings in combination with his legs to move at speeds many times that which the normal human was capable of, as he had been taught long ago in the guard academy - siutated on Arkon, the ancient planet of the Angels. Momentarily, he blocked out the irregular footsteps of his comrades following behind him, moving in the same away, in order to allow his acute sense of hearing to come into play. He could hear military boots pounding the steel floor of the deck above as the vessel's commander furiously attempted to orchestrate the crewmen into a cohesive response force, but those Devorans would soon be too far behind the Angels to do any good. A plethora of other sounds soon drowned out that of the crewmen on the deck above him; the discharge of heavy weaponry firing, the gentle hum of electricity conduits, the ship's commander screaming orders down the ship's intercom - the sounds of a ship at war. Suddenly, the Captain's keen eyes picked out movement far ahead down the corridor - a door opening. Several Devoran crewmen, armed and armoured with proper boarding equipment, burst out of the doorway and into the corridor. It was not hard to see that they were not trained as marines, for they failed to establish a base of fire at the doorway before their charge. Captain Adcobravatus lifted his assault rifle, bringing it to bear on the crewmens' leader, easily distinguished from his different-coloured body armour, and almost nonchalantly fired a burst of three shots at the alien's face. The Angel's eyes picked out every detail of the impact. The first bullet slammed into the creature's visor, stopped dead by the durable material, but causing it to fracture in several places. The subsequent two bullets smashed clean through the visor, burying themselves in the Devoran's face in an explosion of brightly-coloured gore. The Captain heard gunfire form behind him, as three other members of his squad opened fire with their own weapons. Three more Devorans fell, either dead, wounded or merely knocked down, it did not matter. With a fierce battle cry, the squad's seargent threw back his outstretched golden wings and leapt forward, propelling himself twenty metres down the corridor with immense speed, bringing his sword in a vicious horizontal slash straight through the chest of another Devoran, killing him outright, before flooring the last standing crewman with a powerful spinning kick and running him through on the deckplates with a downward strike of the sword's razor sharp point. If any of the three crewmen hit by assault rifle fire were alive, they wisely decided to remain on the ground. Sergeant Comelius sheathed his sword - a finely-made Clan katana - and glanced further down the corridor before turning to the Captain and nodding. The Captain ejected the now nearly-spent magasine from his assault rifle and slammed a replacement home, pulling on the latch to lock the new ammunition in place as he bellowed orders to the squad.

"Keep moving! Reload as you go, keep an eye out for gun batteries batteries or ammunition stores!" And, with that, he hefted his wings, proppelling himself forward down the corridor. The others followed. The sergeant dropped behind breifly as, having forced the sliding door through which the armed crewmen had attacked open with the blade of his sword, he took a satchel charge from the strap around his shoulder and briefly set the timer before throwing it inside, then bounding on after the rest of the squad. Two seconds later a massive explosion ripped through the unseen room, followed closely by a larger still secondary explosion - the room must have been an armoury of sorts. The immense force of the two detonations blew out a section of the corridor's wall on either side of the door, sending pieces of jagged metal shrapnel clattering across the deck. Marcus let the muzzle of his assault rifle fall as he pressed his left hand against the radio set resting in his ear, but kept hold of the pistol grip with his right hand. Keeping his eyes open, hespoke into the microphone built into his helmet. "This is Captain Adcobravatus, my squad and I are continuing down the corridor, we are encountering sporadic light resistance. The enemy continues to be too incohesive to pose a serious threat. How far are we from the engine room?" He released pressure from the button on the radio headset, awaiting the response from the Yudachi's sensor officers. It was not long in coming.

"Continue along the present corridor for around two hundred metres, sir. You will find a four-way intersection with a door on your left leading to a heavy fusion battery. The Shingen orders that you disable it. Once down, continue down the corridor ahead of you as you exit the battery. The only door on this corridor is halfway down it, leading left to the engine rooms. You should meet the other squads along the way. The Commander orders you to cripple the engines. Apart from a few with which to breach exit points, use all of your remaining satchel charges, give yourselves enough time to get out; Engineering and Tactical both anticipate a large secondary explosion from the engines." Hisses of static occasionally disrupted the human woman's instructions as the masses of radiation released from energy weapons fire striking the Yudachi's shields interfered with the coms signal, but Adcobravatus understood most of it at any rate. The message continued. "Be advised that the ship is taking damage and that we can no longer maintain full power to the sensors; information in the future may be sketchy. Good luck, Yudachi out." The Captain nodded to himself. He could see the intersection that the sensors officer had spoke of looming up ahead. Indeed, a heavy blast door led off to the left, indicating that the room beyond was one deemed to be at risk from weapons fire. Marcus turned, still moving rapidly with the run-jumping technique, to face his squad of 19 other Angels, following close behind him.

"Juventus, Kiryk, blow through the blast door at the intersection up ahead. The rest of you, storm through the doorway as soon as it's open and clear out the inside. As soon as we are done, leave the battery and follow me. Vindicis, you will set another charge to destroy the battery, then follow after us." He halted on his last word, stopping either metres short of the heavy blast door, before nodding at privates Juventus and Kiryk. Both of the soldiers obligingly bounded forward, landing lightly on either side of the doorway, before setting one satchel charge each down next to it. Both primed the timer, before jumping back to the opposite side of the doorway. Seconds later, a brilliant flash of white light, and a gaping hole twice the width of the doorway replaced the thick steel barrier. Sensing that close quarters combat was imminent, Adcobravatus let his assault rifle hang loose from its strap, unsheathed his sword and, holding it high above his head, roared the signal. "Attack! Leave not one of them alive! For the Shogun!" He leapt forward, his jump carrying him clean through the jagged makeshift doorway, through the billowing smoke and dust and into the battery, hearing his comrades take up the cry behind him, before following their Captain through the sight-obscuring swarm. The Captain could not see the enemy, for the dust and smoke were thick in the air within the battery as well as without, but he could hear the Devorans coughing and wretching in the unclean air. He rounded on the nearest source of the noise, bringing his sword down vertically, rewarded by a scream and the dull thud of something heavy hitting the floor. Pausing briefly from the combat, he blinked three times in quick succession. His helmet, detecting the motion, activated the infra-red mode of his visor. Instantly, the room was thrown into a mix of unwordly colours. He could see the barrel of the heavy fusion cannon outside of the ship, glowing a brilliant white with the tremendous heat generated by prolonged firing, but more importantly he could see the shapes of the gunners and technicians - ten of them remaining, two of them dead on the floor. Shouting their own personal battle cries, the Angels of his squad engaged the remaining enemies, having followed their Captain's example of the infra-red imaging. The Angels outnumbered the Devorans two to one, and ir practically would have been a frgone victory had there been one Angel against all ten of them, dazed and blind as they were. One of them, the one who had been further from the blast, was drawing a weapon of some kind. With all of the other Devorans already locked in futile conmbat with the other Angels, Adcobravatus saw no harm in earning himself a few style points. Bringing his katana back over his shoulder, holding it right handed, the Captain threw the weapon forward, point first, at the pistol-bearing enemy. The sword ran him straight through, pinning him to the wall behind. The Devoran died instantly. Adcobravatus paced over to the wall and pulled his sword from it, flcking his wrist to clear the blase of the blood covering it. He turned on his heel, and when his gaze came to rest on the room behind him, the remaining gunners were dead. He nodded, before leaping forward out through the doorway. The squad knew its orders already. The Captain sheathed his sword, before once more bringing up his assault rifle, and began once more to leap and stride down the corridor. He could see more Angels up ahead, and two more Angels from his own company moving down the corridor on his left. The technicians in the engine room had now been given ample time to prepare, but nonetheless, they didn't have a chance...

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Just as Dr Roshuan pulled the medical mask down over his nose and mouth, the sliding door to the medical bay of the Yudachi opened. A pair of medic-qualified crewmen rushed through it, pushing one of their fallen comrades in front of them on a stretcher-trolley. Greiner watched with satisfaction as a doctor immediately appeared beside the wounded man, quickly identifying the cause of the wound and helping the two other crewmen lift the stretched, with the casualty still lying on it, up off the trolley and onto the flat gunmetal slab that served both as a ward bed and an operating table. The Yudachi's advanced medical hospital provided more room to treat the wounded than did most warships, but space was still tight. The ship's Chief Medical Officer placed a presicion surgery headset on his head above the mask and quickly tapped a few buttons on the number keypad on the visor's side, entering the code to activate the headset. Immediately, the visor descended over his eyes, its transparency flawless. The vital signs of the unfortunate crewwoman lying on the operating table in front of him flickered into life before his eyes a moment later, fed to the headset by the various scanning equipment contained within the table. He paused briefly before nodding to the junior surgeon and nurse standing opposite the casualty, dressed in a similar fashion to himself, before finally pulling on a pair of mint green sterilised plastic gloves. Finally, he picked up a laser scalpel. In his mind, he ran over the account of the injury given by the two medics. The girl - she was young, he realised, no older than twenty - was an ensign, her post being junior technician. She had been in charge of maintaining the lateral sensor array on the forward hull section. The array had been hit by a blast of radiation released from Devoran weapons fire hitting the front shield arc, so the two medics had told them, and several of the tertiary mainframes had blown out. The luckless junior technician had been caught by a large piece of shrapnel that had torn straight through her right kidney. She was bleeding badly, and had lost consciousness before arrival at the medical bay. Although Roshuan had not told the two medics at the time, he had serious doubts that she would survive. Many of the medic-qualified crewmen knew little of surgery; they were trained to be able to stop a casualty from dying for long enough to speed them to the medbay and to the trained proffessional doctors, little more. They had indeed applied anti-bleeding salve, but the flow was still welling up from somewhere. Roshuan had immediately recognised that there was still shrapnel in there somewhere, still working its way further into her flesh with every slightest movement, still preventing the halt of the bleeding. He had given her priority and, weary of standing by while others performed his calling of earlier years, had elected to perform the surgery himself. Now to begin...

"Enable X-ray imaging," He said, flatly and with the minimum number of words. Time was of the essence. The nurse complied silently, reaching down with her right hand to press down on the touchscreen of a small computer console set into the bed at its foot. Immediately, the bed, the gunmetal deck beneath it, the woman, everything faded rapidly to a dull near-darkness, then, suddenly, from its midsts came the technician's skeleton, every bone picked out in brilliant white relief, supremely detailed. He bent forward, peering toward the abdomen. Sure enough, he could see three metal fragments embedded in the flesh between her kidneys. One was fair-sized, and looked jagged, it was likely the cause of the problem. Needless to say the other two had been moved anyway. Suddenly, a dull rumbling from the far-off ship's bow. Another weapons impact. The lights dimmed momentarily before flickering back to full intensity again, but the master surgeon barely even noticed; he was too preoccupied with watching the piece of jagged metal burrow further into the vital flesh around it. The medical bay was equipped with shock dampeners, but even the slightest touch could be critical. He had to get the shrapnel out as soon as possible. He looked up at the junior surgeon. He could see nothing, as there was no X-ray source positioned behind the man, but nonetheless Roshuan was confident that he wouldn't have moved.

"I am about to make the primary insicion. Brace it in position as soon as it is open." With this said, the surgeon set to work immediately, pressing his thumb down on the side button of the laser scalpel to activate it, before looking up again, this time at the nurse. "X-ray off." He said, again briefly, and in a few moments it was indeed off. He blinked twice, and with a gentle whirr of electornics the headset magnified the point just beneath the scalpel to two times normal size. Offering up a silent prayer to whatever divine entities might be watching the ultimately insignificent procedings down in the field hospital of the Yudachi, Greiner Roshuan made the insicion, the scalpel cutting through the skin effortlessly. Roshuan had performed surgery with metal implements before - all Clan military surgeons were required to be able to, for in some situations, such as total loss of power, they were the only things that could be used - and once more he praised the inventor of the laser scalpel. It not only cauterised the flesh around the insicion as it was made, preventing extra blood loss through necessary cuts, but also did not require sterilising. With the initial cut made, he released pressure from the button, and the brilliant flame of the laser flickered and died. Immediately, the junior surgeon had the magnetic clamps in place, forcing the flesh around the cut open. Greiner nodded in approval before continueing. He had already identified the position of the three pieces of shrapnel, and with his extensive experience of treating shrapnel wounds - the most common, even on starships - he knew the anatomy of the body almost off by heart. Bypassing the healthy kidney, he delved into the flesh beyond - the wound still held open by the clamps. After what seemed like hours more of cutting through the body, layer by layer and piece by piece, he was finally rewarded by the glimmer of metal, stained as it was by blood. "Bullet-remover." He said, again keeping talk to the minimum. The nurse, efficient as trained, immediately procured the powerful electromagnets designed for the removal of bullets or other metal items from wounds. Greiner took the magnet - it was small, no bigger than a pen - and inserted it down into the excavation shaft of sorts that he had created, turning it on where it neared the shrapnel. With a gentle hum of flowing electricity, the magnet flared into life. Immediately, the shrapnel dislodged from its precarious position and attached itself to the surface of the magnet. The surgeon lifted the magnet, still activated, up and out of the open wound, before deactivating it over a small, white ceramic bowl. The piece of shrapnel fell into it, clattering to a halt. At this moment the sliding doors to the medical bay again burst open, and through them was wheeled another casualty, this one screaming at the top of his lungs, his chest a torn and twisted mass of bleeding flesh. Roshuan did not allow himself to be distracted by it, but instead picked up the laser scalpel again, checked his patient's vital signs briefly, and once again leapt into the breach, searching for the other two pieces of shrapnel.

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Outside, the clash of cruiser and concordat continued. The Yudachi was outgunned, but as yet its shields had managed to protect the ship and its crew from the tremendous firepower of the mighty Devoran guns. The two ships were engaged in a traditional toe-to-toe duel, with the Yudachi attempting to use its superior manouevrability to maximum effect, circling around the Concordat rather than simply pummelling it from a stationary position. The Battlestar contented itself to pnderously turn after the smaller and more nimble vessel, firing as it went. Most of its weapons were hitting their mark, but every now and again a shot would go wide, coursing off into the depths of space beyond. Neither vessel was firing its main guns, rather a steady, continuous stream of light Devoran weapons fire, glowing brightly in the void with the energy they contained, flowed from the larger vessel to throw themselves against the front shield arc of the Yudachi. The main guns of both vessels were between shots - reloading, recharging; the effect was ultimately the same, down time. Time for the crew of both ships to anticipated the next hit, to prepare for it, to dread it. Technicians working frantically to try and keep their rapidly overheating systems in order while the gunners made adjustments to their aim, trying to hit that critical spot identified and wired to them by the sensor operators. Engineers locked deep in the bowels of the ships' engines furiously attempt to squeeze those few kilowatts of extra power out of the generators to strengthen the shields. Sensors operators rooted through the incoming data, looking for damage, looking for loss of system capability, reporting their findings to their officers. A warship at war was a hive of activity, almost a living entity, with the crewmen rushing about within its veins and arteries and organs performing their various, pre-defined functions. And, as with everything in nature, war at space was a case of survivial of the fittest. The ship whose crew functioned according to its pre-set tasks survived. A ship whose crew functioned innefficiently, who did not perform their tasks properly, died, and its crew with it.

The Clan Asanawa ships were ready to begin another exchange of primary gun fire first; there was no warning for the Devorans, other than in a biref energy spike visible on the sensors, then a flash of brilliant light signalling the initial weapons discharge. Immediately, two brilliant red ion beams lance out from the two long, raised firing tubes running along the attack cruiser's topside, searing through the empty darkness toward the enemy ship, seemingly unstoppable, before being halted by the invisible protective sphere of the Devoran vessel's shields. Where struck by the ion beam, the shields flare a brilliant red-white colour, briefly rendering them visible, describing a shining hemisphere of thunder, fire and light. This brilliant display of pyrotechnics throws the battlestar into sharp relief, the various protrusions sticking up from the topside of its hull lighting up, with long, pitch black shadows thrown out across the gunmetal armour plating behind them. Presently, the Yudachi's mighty Particle Array was also fully charged. The massive cannon, positioned on the cruiser's underside, running down its centre, flashed silently into life, throwing out the radiant white beam of deadly energy that surged forward, through the gap between the still dimly-illuminated ion beam tracers, before also smashing against the Concordat's shields. The effect is different to that of the ion beams. Rather than an energy "spider's web" formed by the ion beams striking the shields, the Particle Array created a single, intense, sudden and short-lived flash of light and radiation, thrown outwards from the point of impact toward the stars with yearning arms, only to die once more within seconds. Eight seconds after the Yudachi's ion cannons had opened up, the Devoran shields are once more invisible; unseen, but still there. The Concordat has weathered out another round of fire from the undergunned cruiser, and soon its own cannons would come into play...

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No Dachi watched all of this via the viewscreens, the images once again fed through to the bridge by the mindless camera drones circling the cruiser - two had been lost already, their circuits incinerated by the intense streams of radiation released by the clash of weapon energy upon shield energy. He sighed wearily, peering at another viewscreen showing a wireframe schematic of the Yudachi. The wires were white - standing out on the black background, but here and there were patches of the diagram where the wires were showing red, with these patches having dark, crimson epicentres. The schematic was showing the stress being experienced by the ship's superstructure frame. The red wires denoted damage; hull integrity was falling, and in several places integrity was approaching critical, particularly on the bow topside of the vessel. He began to run through the ship's capabilities, scratching some of them from the 'functionality certain' list to the 'functionality uncertain' list. That list was, from his point of view, a list of inoperable systems. He could not plan according to a potentially unresponsive system being in a useable state, and so the only option was to plan according to the system being useless. Luckily, judging from the position of the structural weak points according to the diagram, none of the systems were out, per se, as of yet. However, his intuition wasn't good enough. He rose from his command chair, walking to the front of the circle of raised deck plating on which the seat stood, before turning to face the Sensor Officer, seated as she was in front and to the right of the low-lying podium.

"Sensors, damage and systems functionality report." He said, before once more afixing his gaze to the viewscreen, watching the lumbering shape of the Devoran Concordat, anticipating the glow of charging weapons, the flash of light and energy that could score true and annihalate the Yudachi completely...

"Front shield arcs are down to 70% across the board, sir, the lateral sensor array is down 10% in strength. The Master Engineer reports that we have lost 5% power to the shields and 5% power to the engines." The Sensor Officer replied, giving the report cleanly and efficiently, the way it should be done. No Dachi turned his head to face her again before nodding.

"Very well. Concentrate our remaining sensor power on the dogfight to give our fighters ample guidance, and on the Concordat's interior. I don't want any of the Guards getting lost in there." He said, not waiting for a response, before pacing back over to the command chair and slumping back into it, hammering out a quick sequence of control imputs on the right armrest's number pad. He began speaking immediately.

"Engineering, I want those shields operating at full power. Take energy away from the engines if you must; we're going nowhere fast at present. Keep the engines charged, though, I want us able to make a quick getaway if our shield strength drops much further." He ordered, speaking to nothing in particular, but rather confident that the microphones concealed at various points in the chair's upholstery would pick the commands up. Sure enough...

"Aye My Lord, forwarding power from the engines to the shields. I'll be sure to keep a good head of steam pent up in the drives." No Dachi wasn't exactly sure of how his ship's engineers would manage to achieve the latter, but he was fully confident they would be able to if the Chief Engineer said they could; No Dachi had repeatedly shown himself to be at best poor and at worse abysmal and physics, but the engineers were all intimately aware of how their part of the ship - the engines and the generators and the fuel lines and the gigantic air pumps that formed the basis of the life support machine - worked. The shields and sensors were both taken care of, untill the next energy salvo hit home at least, and so No Dachi turned next to the Master Gunner, standing stiffly behind his console, his fingertips at the controls of some of the most powerful weapons ever to have existed. No Dachi turned back to the viewscreen, briefly, trying to think of possible ways around the problem of the Concordat's tremendous shield strength - a problem compounded by the ship's shield regeneration capabiulity - but found none. The Yudachi's best bet was still to try and keep the crew of the Concordat centred as far as possible on their battle with it, in order to prevent them from getting organised and locking-down the Angel Guards currently blasting their way toward the engine room.

"Master Gunner, concentrate all of our firepower on that front shield arc. Order all batteries to fire as fast as is humanely possible - the more damage we do to that beast, the more they concentrate on us and the less they concentrate on their little...ah, internal difficulties..." He said, before trailing off, absorbed by the merry dance of the fighters on screen, visible only as flickering silver specks swirling and circling eachother, with the occasional brightly coloured spark of weapon energy jumping between them. As he watched, an explosion, seeming miniscule due to the distance between them, winked briefly into life before fading out again...he blinked, suddenly, realising that he'd yet again allowed his mind to wander, before turning again to the Sensor Officer. "Give me a report on the progress of the dogfight out there - I want to know the enemy fighter contingent's strength-" He said, before pausing and turning to the Coms Officer, "Coms, get Commander Yoritomo on the line and ask them the same question; I daresay he's been keeping better track of it all than us."

"At once, sir, it will take a moment to gather the data..." Said the Sensor Officer.

"Aye, sir." Replied the Coms Officer, already hammering the message to the Hatsuhara into his console. No Dachi, meanwhile, waited for the results of the scan. He did not have to wait long.

"Sir," Began the Sensor Officer, looking up from her console, "we have lost four fighters at a loss of eight pilots. Sensors indicate that the strength of the enemy fighter contingent has been reduced to between twenty and twenty-five percent." No Dachi nodded, before turning expectantly to the Coms Officer. Within two seconds, the man looked up from his own console, ready to report.

"My Lord, the Hatsuhara's sensor screens show the enemy fighter contingent to be at twenty-four percent of its original strength. They confirm the loss of four of our own fighters. The Hatsuhara's Flight Controller informs me that the Wing Leaders report an advantageous position over the enemy." Again, No Dachi nodded, time to act.

"Coms, relay the following orders to the Hatsuhara: half of our remaining fighters are to break engagement with the enemy strike craft immediately and commence fusion bombing of the Concordat's front shield arc. The other half are to destroy the remaining enemy fighter force before joining their comrades. End orders, transmit that immediately. Sensors, watch the inside of that ship carefully and as soon as you see the Angels get into the engine room, inform me. Coms, as soon as we get told of the engines' imminent destruction, order the fighters to cease bombing. Master Gunner, order all batteries to cease fire at the same instant."

"Aye My Lord." Replied the Sensors Officer.

"Yes sir." Acknowledged the Coms Officer in turn.

"Aye, Commander, sir." Came the Master Gunner's reply. No Dachi nodded, before finally looking forward to the Helmsman.

"Helm, keep us circling the Concordat. The moment Sensors gives that report, you are to pull us back and away from the Concordat. You all saw what happened to those ships in the middle that strayed too close to their quarries and got caught in the blast. Now I'm hoping the Concordat's reactors won't go critical on us, but there's always the chance they will. Regardless, go back in after a few minutes to pick the Angels up."

"Yes sir, I'll take us out the moment it happens." Said the Helmsman, keeping his eyes on his controls like any good pilot would. No Dachi nodded before continuing his watch of the viewscreen, continuing to watch the Concordat's heavy guns...

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Re-posted in full for LH's benefit. It's only 5,000 words long, but then I'll bide my time before bowing head to the likes of Inspectre in order to see if he can consistently manage posts of that calibre...
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Unread 24 Jun 2004, 23:33   #552
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Re: Masters of Andromeda IV (New Horizons - Out of the Ashes)

A question to the stat Nazis : The Dreadnought apparently has 2 superweapon mounts. Does that mean it has two mounts specifically set aside for holding the two superweapons that it is allowed to carry, or is that just a note to remind people that the dreadnought can carry up to a maximum of 2 superweapons, and those weapons still take up turret slots?

(In other words, are the superweapon mounts used for superweapons, or do the superweapons take up regular turret mounts as well?)
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Unread 24 Jun 2004, 23:45   #553
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It's a mount set asside for a superweapon, or at least it was when superweapons were all in the range 6-10 or 15... that there is a 30 turret weapon I'm not sure this entirely holds up?
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Unread 25 Jun 2004, 01:19   #554
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I don't see why not. This just makes a superweapon mount more valuable.
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Re: Masters of Andromeda IV (New Horizons - Out of the Ashes)

*Jumps in from the MILLIONMANLAN.*

WOOHOO!!!!! So much fun here.

Anyways, while working on the design for my ship that you all are bitching about (don't you know what the hell STFU means?!?), LH said that the superweapon mounts replace regular turret mounts that are needed to house the superweapons. Thus, no slots are needed to house a superweapon, but the limit total on superweapons is still 2. Of course LH reserves the right to change that, so :P. WHEEEEEEE!!!!!

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Re: Masters of Andromeda IV (New Horizons - Out of the Ashes)

The sudden explosions on the bridge of The Frivolous Rainbow were so fierce and bright that Bogg needed to close his eyes and cover his head with both his arms. There were several brief screams that quickly died away and when he finally dared to look up again, it was as if time stood still. As by some miracle he was completely unharmed himself. The bridge however, was totally wrecked; consoles had molten completely, debris lay everywhere and bodies and torn off limbs lay scattered about. Instinctively, he turned his gaze towards his No1 and then, for the very first time in his life, his adrenaline levels surpassed his testosteron levels for his No1 was lying face down on the floor in front of her seat. "Alison!", he screamed as he jumped out of his seat and dropped on his knees next to her. "Alison! No!", he yelled again as he gently rolled her over. She groaned and appeared to have difficuly breathing, but much to Bogg's relief she was at least still alive. "Alison, you're hurt!" She looked up at him and with a soft voice said: "'fraid so." "But I need you!" "I know." "No you don't understand! I NEED you!" She looked into his eyes and saw they were wet with tears and a faint smile adorned her face as she said: "I know." Tears rolled down Bogg's cheeks as he stroked Alison's hair. "I-I can't see anymore. Are-are you still there?" Bogg took her hand in his own and then he kissed her fingers: "I'm still here." "So cold. I'm so cold..." and then her voice trailed off and she passed out. "ALISON! NO! WAKE UP DAMMIT! ALISON!" Bogg crawled back to his command chair and rammed a button and yelled: "Dr. Vorkian! Kim! Help! It's Alison! Get to the bridge this instant! Quickly! You have to help her NOW!"

MD: "Yes captain! I'm on my way now!"
Bogg: "Please! Be quick! It's bad!"
MD: "I'm going as fast as I can. Have you turned on the EMH?"
Bogg: "'EMH'?"
MD: "The emergency medical hologram. It can help her until my team and I arrive. There should be a big green square button somewhere on your command chair."
* Bogg feverishly sought for said button and pressed it as he found it and immediately an holographic image of a green caterpillarlike lifeform with many eyes and arms appeared.
EMH: "I am the EMH. How may I be of service?"
Bogg: "It's Alison! You must help her!"
* The EMH hovered towards Alison and immediately began to work on her with several instruments that appeared and disappeared in his tentacles. As Bogg watched it do it's work, something moved behind the tactical console. Bogg turned around and saw that it was the WO that was crawling out from under some debris.

Bogg: "Sarah! I thought you were dead!"
WO: "I had a close one, captain, but apart from these cuts and bruises I'm fine and still fit for duty."
Bogg: "Duty? Look around you! This place is a mess! We cannot operate a ship from here!"
[i]* The WO smiled. "Oh, you're right about that, captain, but that's why we have a secondary bridge."
Bogg: "Secondary bridge?"
WO: "Yes captain, it is very common among ships as big as ours. Most ship operations can be done from there as well as here. It's located in the aft section of the ship, so it's bound to be still intact."

* Bogg pondered this for a moment and after he appeared to have reached a conclusion he said: "If what you say is true, then we may still have a chance. I want you to assemble a new bridgecrew and go to the secondary bridge from where you will conduct ship operations. I'll stay here with Alison for a while before I join you there. Those bastards need to pay for what they did to Alison. Until that time, I'm making you acting captain of this ship." The WO nodded and quickly tapped a few buttons on her console. "There are hullbreaches on decks 1 to 9. I've put forcefields in place, but I'm not sure how they long they will hold, so I've given the order to evacuate those decks. The shields on the starboard section have been drained of nearly all power. I'm compensating for that by rerouting power from the port shields and I've set the particle array to AFD. Just in case some of those enemy fighters decide to come back and have another shot at us. Now, with your permission I must go and make the necessary arrangements." Bogg nodded and as his WO left the bridge, Dr. Vorkian and her team entered the bridge.

Bogg: "Kim! Finally! What kept you so long? Never mind, just make sure Alsion gets better."
* The MD moved a scanner over Alison's body. She had a worried expression on her face. "Oh dear, that doesn't look too good at all. Several cracked ribs. Some organs have been damaged. No internal bleedings, but she's lost a lot of blood. It's a good thing you enabled the EMH or she'd have been dead by now."
Bogg: "So she's gonna be alright then?"
MD: "I don't know, it's too early to tell. She needs blood and she needs it fast too. Please remove your jacket captain. Don't worry, you may get dizzy, but it won't hurt. Not much."
Bogg: "What? Why me? Why can't someone else do it?"
MD: "You and her happen to have the same bloodtype. It's very rare and if I have to go back to my office to get some, she won't survive for sure. Now, will you take off your jacket or do you want her to die?"

* Meanwhile, on the secondary bridge, Weapons Officer Sarah Muller and some other people set up bridge operations.
WO: "McQuirk, report! What's the status on our fighters?"
WC: "We've taken some casualties on the Nials, but the Hawks are still fine. We're doing what we can, but we're heavily outnumbered."
WO: "Very well, break off the attack and order all fighters to dock with the ship. We're heavily damaged and may need to retreat."
WC: "Aye Ma'am. I'll report back to you as soon as we're all back in. McQuirk out."
WO: "Engineering? Mr. l'Oven are you there?"
EO: "l'Oven here, Ma'am. Where's the captain? Is he alright?"
WO: "He's fine, but he needed to take care of other things. Anyway, I need you to do some things for me. First of all, we're leaking fuel, I want that to stop IMMEDIATELY."
EO: "I had noticed that and I've already set a team on it. It should be repaired any minute now."
WO: "Good work. Then I want you to take all non-essential systems offline and completely shut down the power on decks that have been evacuated, that includes life support. The forcefields that compensate for the hullbreaches are the only exception to this. Then I want you to disconnect any ship components that are too badly damaged for immediate repair from the main power supply to reduce the risk of damaging other systems. Power down all weapons, except for the particle array, AFD, AMD and tractorbeams. Disconnect the fusion drives from the PPP8's and connect them to the main power supply to compensate for powerlosses and to enhance the structural integrity of the hull. Once all this has been done, I want you and your team to begin repairing the damaged systems. Start with life support and then the engines; I like to have full power back. If you need any help, ask commander Redbock and his men to give you a hand."
EO: "Yes Ma'am, I'll get to work on it right away."
WO: "Muller to Redbock, come in, commander."
MC: "Redbock here Ma'am. How're we holding up?"
WO: "We're still in one piece and regrouping. I want you take command of the ADCT and MASH teams. Let the other troops help out the ADCT and MASH teams for the time being. I want you to coordinate repairs with l'Oven in engineering. Any men he doesn't need, are to begin repairs on the hull on decks 1 to 9. The MASH teams are to treat the wounded and get them back to their jobs as soon as possible."
MC: "Understood!"

* At that moment, the doors to the secondary bridge slid open and a rather pale Bogg staggered into the room. "Captain! Are you alright? What about...?" Bogg waved her into silence as he shuffled across the room towards a chair in the middle of the room and sat down in it before looking up to his weapons officer.
Bogg: "I've just donated nearly half of my own blood to Alison. I just couldn't let her die. Dr. Vorkian is now performing surgery on her. She informs me that Alison is probably going to be alright again."
WO: "That is good news then."
Bogg: "I see you've managed to find some replacements for the people we lost on the bridge. Introduce me to them, will you?"
* Bogg at the various in the room but when he came to the SO who was smiling at him, his mouth fell open in astonishment and his face grew even paler. "Hello captain! Bet you didn't expect to see me again, did you?" "Laura? Bubbubuh but that that that's im-impossible, you you're dead!" "Actually that was the body of my stunt double that you saw on the bridge. I was actually off duty, having a drink with Sarah's stunt double, but then there was this big explosion and she happened to be too close to the blast." Bogg turned his gaze towards Sarah. "Stunt? Double? You both have stunt doubles? Why?"
SO: "It was part of an experiment designed by Alison to find new ways of deceiving the enemy.
Bogg: "But I'm.."
Bogg: "No, but we had to test it first and you were obviously the best suited candidate."
Bogg: "Does she.."
WO: "No she didn't want to have a stunt double herself."
Bogg: "What about.."
SO: "No, you don't have one either. We were the only two."
Bogg: "Right, I'm glad that's sorted then. Now who are those other two?"
WO: "Well, at the helm, we have Yvonne Anderson, she's a first class pilot and can fly just about any ship. She's an expert in evasive manoeuvres and has a few other tricks up her sleeve as well."
Helm: "Hello captain, pleased to meet you, Sir"
WO: "And at the comms we have a very resourceful young man called Frymuch Leetdude."
Comms: "Heya!"
* The WO leaned closer to Bogg's ear and whispered: "He's a bit weird; claims to be haunted by an evil demon pirate that calls himself 'The Duck', but he's all I could find on such short notice."
Bogg: "Ahh, one of those."

WO: "What're your orders, captain?"
Bogg: "Just continue with the plans you had made. I'm still feeling a bit lightheaded."
WO: "Yes Sir, as you wish. "
WC: "Commander McQuirk to the bridge. All fighters have returned to the hangarbays."
WO: "Very good. Now, as you can see we have suffered some major damage. I want you and your pilots to begin a deck by deck search for wounded crewmen that haven't been able to make it to sickbay for whatever reason and then bring them there."
WC: "Right away, Ma'am."
EO: "Engineering to the bridge. We've finished pumping all the fuel into the spare fuel tanks. We're no longer losing any fuel. Other repairs have started and are well underway."
WO: "Well done, George."
EO: "Thank you Ma'am. l'Oven out."
WO: "Laura, could you scan the debris from those enemy concordats as well as the debris left by any allied ships. There might be some useful equipment left that isn't too badly damaged. If you find any, use the tractorbeams to get it on board."
SO: "Sure thing, Sarah."
WO: "Helm, that allied concordat looks like it's gonna ram that concordat leftover into the other one. Get us out of the blast radius and then out of the battlefield to a relatively safe area. We've sustained enough damage as it is.
Helm: "Yes Ma'am."
WO: "Right then. I'm engaging the cloak... Cloak has been activated."
Bogg: "You think I should say something to the crew?"
WO: "That might be a good idea."
Bogg: "Very well, Mr. Leetdude, broadcast this message to all parts of the ship. "Attention to all hands, this is your captain speaking. We've sustained some heavy damage and taken a lot of casualties, but we're still here, and as soon as repairs have been completed. So the faster you work, the sooner we'll make them regret having crossed us. Bogg out."

Actions:
-Activate EMH to provide medical attention to No1.
-Transfer power from port shields to starboard shields to compensate for losses.
-Set PA to AFD.
-Use Security Station forcefields to temporarily seal the hullbreaches.
-Evacuate the breached sections.
-Transfer ship operations to secondary bridge.
-Bogg donates blood to No1 and MD performs surgery on her.
-Return all fighters to the ship.
-Stop leaking fuel.
-All non-essential systems are going offline and power on evacuated decks is completely shut down (forcefields are the only exception).
-Ship components that are too badly damaged for immediate repair are disconnected from the main power supply to reduce the risk of damaging other systems.
-All weapons, except for the particle array, AFD, AMD and tractorbeams, are powered down.
-PA and AFD take care of any fighters that come too close. AMD takes care of any incoming projectiles.
-All 3 Fusion Drives are disconnected from the PPP8's and attached to the main power supply to compensate for powerlosses and to enhance the structural integrity of the hull. Once completed, damaged systems are to be repaired; priority is given to life support and engine power.
-MC is in control of MASH and ADCT and works together with engineering to speed up repairs. ADCT that are not used in engineering, are to seal the hullbreaches. MASH teams take care of injured people and get them back to work as soon as possible. Normal (combat) troops help out ADCT and MASH teams to speed up their jobs.
-WC and returned pilots search the ship for wounded that haven't ben able to get to a MASH unit.
-SO is to scan both enemy and allied debris for not too badly damaged, but still functioning equipment.
-Helm is to move the ship out of the immediate battlezone (and blast radius caused by Fluffie's action) to a relatively safe position.
-Engage the cloaking device to hide the ship until repairs have sufficiently progressed.
-Bogg speaks to crew in an attempt to lift their spirits and motivate them into working harder.
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Re: Masters of Andromeda IV (New Horizons - Out of the Ashes)

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Re: Masters of Andromeda IV (New Horizons - Out of the Ashes)

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Alright you ****tards, you want to know something. I post in this thread cause originally it was something fun for me to do to kill some time, to work on some writing skills, etc etc. Woohoo, how nice. Then due to things that are of NO ****ING BUSINESS of yours, I get a ship, the cruiser. Woohoo, you all go right ahead and bitch. Thanks, way to make a chap feel welcomed here. Next, in a conversation I made a joke to LH about the Dreadnaught (creating my own), and she approved, so I did. I choose to kill my ships when I got approval for that, and for the intro I decided to make one hell of a post. And what did you assholes do, bitch bitch bitch and bitch even more. I spent over 6 hours in one day at the behast of LH to get that post DONE before I left on vacation (which I'm on now, and have a few minutes thus this post), and the only thing you all have said to me either publically or privately was complaints upon complaints about something that is of truely no ****ing business of yours. So how about you ****ers grab your head and shove it into the orrific that you shit out of (since for many of you that is your mouth, that will be interesting). As of this point I see no reason to continue in this thread if all you will do is bitch and whine, along with never acknoledge the time/effort some of us put here.
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Well folks, what Bakan has said is true enough, and I'd like to apologize for my part in the quiet fiasco that has occured over the past few days. Although I'm still not sure on the matter of the dreadnought, the fact is what's done is done, and it's only one ship. (Plus, it's not like we have to fight him or anything: I'm happy to have a nice big ship to blow things up for me. )
Plus, I would say between his old ships, all the bonuses we've been getting, and the fact that he made one kick*ss intro post, Bakan earned his ship.

While I may have made a few snide comments about the sheer number of quantum torps on Bakan's new dreadnought, or other such things, my real role in this fiasco is the dissing of Bakan's post. Although I didn't post any reply to Bakan's monster of a post (which is, perhaps what I should have done), I did b*tch to him privately. At the time I was upset about my own monster intro post begin trumped, and so I whined and complained to him several times on MSN. This is, obviously, the exact opposite of what I should have done (i.e. congratulating him), and I wish I had the foresight then to realize what an *ss I was being and stop. Unfortunately I didn't, and so all I can do now is apologize. So . . .

BAKAN, I AM SORRY!!!

And now, we return you to your regularly scheduled insanity.
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Well folks, what Bakan has said is true enough, and I'd like to apologize for my part in the quiet fiasco that has occured over the past few days. Although I'm still not sure on the matter of the dreadnought, the fact is what's done is done, and it's only one ship. (Plus, it's not like we have to fight him or anything: I'm happy to have a nice big ship to blow things up for me. )
Plus, I would say between his old ships, all the bonuses we've been getting, and the fact that he made one kick*ss intro post, Bakan earned his ship.

While I may have made a few snide comments about the sheer number of quantum torps on Bakan's new dreadnought, or other such things, my real role in this fiasco is the dissing of Bakan's post. Although I didn't post any reply to Bakan's monster of a post (which is, perhaps what I should have done), I did b*tch to him privately. At the time I was upset about my own monster intro post begin trumped, and so I whined and complained to him several times on MSN. This is, obviously, the exact opposite of what I should have done (i.e. congratulating him), and I wish I had the foresight then to realize what an *ss I was being and stop. Unfortunately I didn't, and so all I can do now is apologize. So . . .

BAKAN, I AM SORRY!!!

And now, we return you to your regularly scheduled insanity.
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Apology accepted Inspectre.
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ye all take the intraweb too serious d00ds

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bitching is all in good fun, i have the right to feel and possibly even say what i feel.. and i know i can bitch like a true little bitchy person, but that doesn't mean don't i love you.

just don't take it too serious d00d
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I'll apologise for the offense caused, but implying that this has no effect on us is incorrect. How are we meant to get kills when you're running around in the starship equivelant of a rhinocerous on steroids with miniguns strapped to its back? LH is going to have to make the enemies bigger in order to keep you people challenged, so what am I to do with my single Attack Cruiser and single carrier? You see what I'm getting at here? I suppose it's a fairly minor thing in reality, so once again I re-state my apology for whatever offense has been caused. Although I wouldn't have done the same thing you did, I suppose you were perfectly within your rights to do it having been told that you were recieving a free ship of your design.
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i'm going to rephrase myself

take me less serious. that's what most people do
no offence still, though.
but i think in your curret mood (slight referral to msn here) you'd better just go and drink something
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Hell I'd be thanking you, Bakan, if I didn't have the suspicion here that Inspectre is eventually going to talk me out of taking my 1 million C...
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*Gets an ice cold beer out of the bar fridge for fluffie.*

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*ND watches his squadron-to-be vanish with a little whisp of smoke*

Damn :/

Ah well, time to cut the arguementative crap and get back to the ness.

Of course, we all know how we can stop all these accusations, right? Total restart, 50,000 C per char like in the original thread, no freebies, just total, hardcore 1337
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No takers? But I just brought a case of Millers...

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Okay, you MIGHT notice that some messages were deleted. It's 4AM here, Wednesday I drove 11 hours and got about 4-5 hours of sleep, and was up since 9AM till now. Thus I was not in the right frame of mind to really be saying some of these things, but others need to be said.

Things to get in the open finally.

Do NOT use me as a ****ing scrapegoat. This applies particulary to LH there. Yes, YOU! You got a shitload of questions from me about my ship I was making. You even got a few drafts that were 90% completed. Yet during all that time you never spoke up ONCE before you left on vacation. And as for when you got back, and told me I needed to have something posted that evening, I spent 6 hours that night typing up that post, and what do I get. The RP'er crowed pissed at me and bitching, and you setting me up as a goddamn scrapegoat. That's what I'm really pissed about here. I don't give a rat's ass anymore about other's opinions, cause except for a few of you, it's no longer worth it. I'm debating about staying in this thread now, I'll make up my mind later. But for now, I sleep, but LH, I really am pissed off at you there.
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Damn :/

Ah well, time to cut the arguementative crap and get back to the ness.

Of course, we all know how we can stop all these accusations, right? Total restart, 50,000 C per char like in the original thread, no freebies, just total, hardcore 1337
I agree with this whole-heartedly. There's just been a general price-inflation, ship size inflation, and freebie inflation over the past couple of threads. I'll freely admit that I'm a hypocrite, as I've certainly gotten quite a few freebies upon my return, and in the past.

However, part of the reason I accepted those freebies was so that I could keep up with everyone else. And everyone takes their freebies in order to ensure they keep up with the others and don't look un-1337. It's a vicious cycle, and after the recent events, one that seems to be spiraling out of control.

So, Bakan has a really 1337 ship at the moment. Part of that, no doubt, was due to the fact that a lot of people have some really nice ships at the moment (Ur_Quan, fluffie, I'm looking at you. ). Whether everyone has earned their ships up to this point or not, everyone does have a decision to make. Right now, everyone's gotten a 1,000,000c blank check in an attempt by LH to placate all of us who are upset at Bakan's ship. And everyone's going to take that check, and cash it in, out of fear that Bakan will outdo them with his one ship.

Since when has Rommy ever been about comparing ships that we didn't even earn? The Rommy I remember was slowly saving up money from missions to buy that new ship, and meanwhile making due against ever increasing odds and somehow managing, through sheer 1337-ness, to win. I want to return to those days.

I am all for a complete and total restart of the Rommy series. As a sacrifice to the pyre, I am willing to offer my character, Julian Pierce, the same one I've used in every single Rommy since the first one a number of years ago. That's how serious I am about this.

If a restart is not possibly/not wanted, then that's alright too. I'd be perfectly happy completing the current story, but not if we continue to have these constant freebie fights and having to listen to everyone whine about the latest "freebie" ship that someone gets, and then everyone getting some free money/stuff from "Momma LH" to keep all us babies quiet. Getting some free stuff is part of the thread (such as the money for rankings), and while I've gotten a few things that may be considered 'cheap" during this current restart, there are some lines that even I am not willing to cross. This 1 milllion c gift (which is essentially a bounty on Bakan's head, the payment already signed and delivered), is one such line. This whole affair has left a bad taste in my mouth, and so I'm spitting it all out. I'm not going to touch one penny of the 1 million c gift LH just gave each of us. If you want, consider my recent upgrades and purchases with the Kronos to be that 1 million c, already pre-spent.

I urge each of you to do the same, in not touching the 1 million c. If none of us accepts it, there certainly isn't going to be a worry about someone having a bigger ship and hogging all the glory, will there? And if you take the 1 million c gag, then I'm certainly 1337er than you for making do without the prop, and isn't that the whole point of taking the money anyway? Getting a bigger ship to do more damage to look more 1337?
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"someone having a bigger ship and hogging all the glory"

that's not the point. to me. i think.

and you are l33ter than me already. in a way. at times

it was just this about the massive-ness of the freebie that disturbed my being. a bit.

other than that. i'm fine with a lot.

i think.

right?

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A 50,000 C restart is in my view the best idea. I miss the good old days were you had players running round with a destroyer and two frigates and you were trying to squeeze the most effective design possible out of a narrow budget.

Bakan, you should stay in the thread and that's all I've got to say regarding that matter. I don't think any of us meant anything personal by complaining.

A total restart would be for plot as well, like Inspectre said. It would give the newer players a chance to build themselves a lasting legacy like us older players have got now. The universe could be completely different to the current one within just four threads if we were all using different characters; I think it would be pretty interesting to see the results. However, I can appreciate that a lot of people are going to be attached to their characters and those characters legacies, and that LH won't want to see dozens of in-game years of plot flushed away, but nonetheless I think this could do good things for the thread if it happened.
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Heh, I don't expect much success in that, logistically individual DMings required for legacy work probably won't happen, which is why we're all on the same mission now. Which inherintly is the problem if someone takes the opportunity to add their bells and whistles and miniguns. Take the last two restarts though, I had attempted to distance myself from the galaxy shaping roots, specifically the last refresh was a total blank slate, save the anime plot swiping, but now I've ended up right back in the eye of the Empire, which if nothing else helped further the story I was going for the first place.

I don't know the obvious solution being attaching consequences, which does happen of course at least in most cases... it's just, "get new character" requires "delete old character", seems prerequisite, rather than a cost...
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Empire? Talk sense fool, we are the Kipire.

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Yeah :/

Still, it'd be to be rebel pirate outlaw types again rather than servants of the legitimate galactic government...
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Are you calling the Kipire a "legitimate galactic government"?!

Damnit!

You heathens fail to see the difference between the Kipire (and partially the Clan) and all other factions. Damn you!

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Legitimate isn't quite the right word...you know what I mean :/
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Still there's a distinct difference between the Kipire and everything else.

But I'm probably just stubborn, st00pid and biased
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Inspectre's still triyng to convince me not to take the 1 million C. I still don't see what the point of doing so would be/
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So whats going to happen?

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we're probably going to wait for a DM to post a DMing now
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In the mean time, I'll have a beer.

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Part of that, no doubt, was due to the fact that a lot of people have some really nice ships at the moment (Ur_Quan, fluffie, I'm looking at you. ).
I can assure you that I got no freebies whatsoever. The reason I got that dreadnaught, is that I went for only 1 ship, instead of 2 or 3 like some other people did, so that I could get myself a bigger ship.

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And everyone's going to take that check, and cash it in, out of fear that Bakan will outdo them with his one ship.
I have no problems with Bakan's ship. As I said before, the only reason I would accept the cash, is because everyone else does, resulting in enemies getting even tougher and me being unable to do so much as scratch them. However, since you're being such a sport, can I have your 1 million credits? Umm no wait, that's not right, I meant that I won't allow you to be 1337er than I am (frankly I can't see how such a thing would ever be possible ), so I will NOT take that 1 million credits either. So there. Who's 1337 now, eh? Eh? Eh?

On a different note. I would NOT want to a restart. There may have been some inflation in shipdesigns, but I started playing this thread only recently. I have been doing exactly what most of you have done in the previous threads; acquiring resources, getting a better ship, trying to make a name for myself. And I'm having fun. I'm also particularly fond of my characters that are only just beginning to develop themselves. I'd hate to see all of that go lost. Besides, without a restart it's a much greater challenge to see all of the Kipire, Federation and Clan Asanawa crushed beneath my feet. Why don't we just get on with the thread as it is and have fun playing?
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*Passes ND a cold ice beer from the fridge, all the while keeping an eye out for any attempts to take over this makeshift bar... (Yes I'm on the watch for Acidk )*

Hmm... I'll be right back.

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I can assure you that I got no freebies whatsoever. The reason I got that dreadnaught, is that I went for only 1 ship, instead of 2 or 3 like some other people did, so that I could get myself a bigger ship.
Did I ever say that you got that ship for free? Perhaps I may have hinted it, but my point was that Bakan wanted a 1337 ship because he probably felt that he couldn't compete with your ship. (Generalizing here).


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I have no problems with Bakan's ship. As I said before, the only reason I would accept the cash, is because everyone else does, resulting in enemies getting even tougher and me being unable to do so much as scratch them. However, since you're being such a sport, can I have your 1 million credits? Umm no wait, that's not right, I meant that I won't allow you to be 1337er than I am (frankly I can't see how such a thing would ever be possible ), so I will NOT take that 1 million credits either. So there. Who's 1337 now, eh? Eh? Eh?
Ur_Quan? I win.

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Why don't we just get on with the thread as it is and have fun playing?
That's acceptable for me too, but I'd rather not play if this is going to turn into a whine and b*tch-fest, which sadly it's rapidly descending into.
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*Runs back with a dusty soap box, blows off the dust then places it upon the ground and process to stand upon it.*

Ok peeps, the next person to say something in favour of a restart approve of a restart or make a suggestion for a restart is personnally gonna get there f*cking heads bitten off by yours truly.

Look at the title of this thread - Masters of Andromeda IV

Before that it went all the way up to Andromeda Pirates VIII

That's TWELVE BLOODY RESTARTS!

Now before anyone makes the comment that most of them are due to the thread reaching the 1000 post mark I'll say yes, that is true... for the "Pirate" series. However I've noticed with MoA that in fact only one of the threads ever made it that far.

I was in each one of those threads. I made what I thought was spiffy intros and not only that tried to come up with some backstory for my characters which never really took part much to keep some kind of continunity - not that it friggin mattered much.

I'm sick to f*cking death of doing this.

As for the 'freebie' thing I hardly get a bone thrown my way while practically everyone else has all these "House bonuses". I have a house, it's only one planet but it's still a house to me. I don't get any friggin bonuses but do you hear me bitching about any of this?

NO! OF COURSE YOU ****ING DON'T BECAUSE IT'S BLOODY STUPID!!!!!!!!!
This is an internet forum for ffs!

I couldn't give a rats ass if Fluffie cruises around in a concordat or if ND has super-troopers or that Inspectre has a groovy timeship and I especially don't care if Bakan rocks up in a suped up dreadnaught (Give the guy a break, he only came up with the storyline that this episode is based on - remember that thread with MAC cannons?) because it all adds a new dimension to the thread, a new twist if you will. I don't care if this brings down several squads of SSD's upon us I don't care about any bloody competiton between RP'ers and I don't care about any pilick who wants to cry his (or her) eyes out because the big bad man over there is trying to steal the glory.

*Notices the nearby surroundings are on fire.*

Ok... cool down... count to ten... 1, 2, 3, 4, erm f*ck it.

*Grabs an ice cold beer out of the fridge and hammers it down.*

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is none of this really matters (hell we're all supposed to be on the same side in this mission). At the end of the day (or night) I log off from the computer and walk away to do things that actually matter - like live life. I'm pretty damn sure LH does as well and probably doesn't give a rats ass about your rantings Bakan, or anyone elses for that matter.

Btw, I'm taking the million. Why? because I actually enjoy designing those ships - I'll confess, it did hurt when I managed to blow up Pandora but I after those few nanoseconds I was thinking how to progress in the story.

But I still like putting ships together, sometimes more than actual posting. Don't ask why, it's probably because I'm weird.

Every new ship freebie or no, friend or foe is a new twist. I like new things - it' makes everything that much more interesting.



In any case most of you are probably scratching their heads by now thinking "Wtf is he on?" so I'll just step down quietly and go drink more beer. But before I do that I'll like to end this disjointed statement of fruststrations by saying:

If it's true that people actually pressed this matter to Bakan further than this forum those people should be doing more than making a few half-hearted appologies. I hope they are doing or are going to do so.

And - Bakan. I can understand why your pissed, same thing happened to me in one of AK's arena threads. I spent ages on a post, expected many wows and praise and such, but ended up with some punk-assed kid telling me it was shit because he couldn't be bothered to read beyond the first paragraph. But at the end of the day like you said, no one's opinion here matters so suck it up and get over it.

Don't let it get to you, none of it is worth it.

*Gets off his soap box and grabs another ice cold beer.*

So...

Who else up for a beer? Anyone?
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Bailey's or a Malibu cola if you got it.

And I don't think you really should 'want' "wows" etc for posts.
I think.
There was some sense in that post btw.

But whyyyy are we alllll taking thiiiisss sooooo seriously.

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Looking from my propective the concept of freebies and credit handouts does not intrest me, nor do I want any to begin with. One main reasons am in this thread is to see the limits one can achive, hence how I am putting a smalll vessel agaisnt a large vessel to see the results regardless. The only modifcation I have had are ones that came from stolen technolgy in the previous thread, i dont work for any house being a rouge and I am fine with my small lightly armed ship. I suppose in a twisted sense taht aprt of the challenge of the thread for me as it allows me to try and think around sneaky and unusal methods around things.
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When I spend two to three days on a post, I want wows damn it

*Pulls out a bottle of Bailey's.*

You want ice with that?
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I didn't bother reading the OOC post there Hewitt because from the first few lines it was apparent that you either hadn't understood me correctly or were choosing not to for whatever reason...

You are correct, simply restarting the thread as it is now would be pointless
Restarting the thread with all our ships and money gone and 50,000 C to spend on a new ship given to us, however, would put us all on even terms

*Knocks back his beer*

Anyway, anyone's fully within their rights to oppose my restart sentiment here, I just wanted to make sure-

*Takes another gulp*

...That you'd understood me correctly, is all.
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Ice, yes please. And a v. big glass, por favor. With lots of ice, filled to the top. Eh? Be a darling
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Oh that's ok...

*SNAP!*

*Bites ND's head off.*

*munch* munch* *munch*

...although you probably should have.

If you did you would've realised I don't give a shit about any friggin 'terms'.

Let me put it to you this way - When I buy a book, I read into it a bit at the beginning and if I like it, I keep on reading it until I reach the end.

I like this thread. I like this storyline. I want to follow it to the end.
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which is fine and well, provided an 'end' has been planned for...
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Re: Masters of Andromeda IV (New Horizons - Out of the Ashes)

Hang on a tick...

*Opens up the soapbox and pulls out a two litre german stein (Did I spell that correctly?)*

I knew I brought this in for a reason...

*Hewitt fills the stein with ice then proceeds to pour in the Bailey's until no more will go in the oversized mug.*

There ye go fluff. Drink hearty
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which is fine and well, provided an 'end' has been planned for...
You're missing the point. Restarting the thread will kill the story. You might as well have a new thread with a different title because it would no longer be rommey.
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It's all to do with the structure and the style of play rather than the story.

Edit: But then the story has been rolling out pretty well so far, and I do see your point...
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I spent ages on a post, expected many wows and praise and such, but ended up with some punk-assed kid telling me it was shit because he couldn't be bothered to read beyond the first paragraph
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Let me put it to you this way - When I buy a book, I read into it a bit at the beginning and if I like it, I keep on reading it until I reach the end.
For me, I have no interest in buy most of the autobiographies on the previous page, but maybe I should give the second paragraph a go some time? In any case, the summary should be all I need :-p
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For me, I have no interest in buyING most of the autobiographies on the previous page, but maybe I should give the second paragraph a go some time? In any case, the summary should be all I need :-p
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"FIRE!" bellowed the Tactical Officer as he gave the order to the gunners.

Captain Andrew Blake winced visibly at the loud voice of his Tactical Officer.

Blake: "Please commander, not so loud."

The Tactical Officer nodded once and stood silence while the crew carried out the orders.

In the deep of space the lumbering battleship continued its fight. Its weapons batteries continued to hammer at the Devoran Destroyers, only to be deflected by the shields. As the destroyers returned fire, the Victor's shields held steady, its battle scarred hull not sustaining any more damage.

Tactical: "Seems we have quite a stalemate on our hands, Captain."

Blake: "Well at least we only have to hold them off, not destroy them."

Tactical: "Indeed, Captain."

Officer: "Captain, several ships just dropped into the system. One came out of a anomoly I have never heard or seen of before."

Blake: "What do you mean?"

Officer: "Sir, it just appeared!"

Blake: "Please tell me they are friendly."

The officer nodded.

Officer: "I believe they are."

Blake: "Well lets just hope so, we have enough hostiles here to deal with. How long on the Phased Particle Phaser?"

Officer: "Nearly charged Captain."

Blake: "Continue firing standard weaponry, im not wasting valuable projectiles on these thugs."

Tactical: "Yes Captain!" In his usual loud voice.

Blake: "Commander.."
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