Goomeister exits the rift, into the system, and starts to go toward council station. He thinks maybe the bar managed to destroy all the black ships, but he doesn't see any debris! He docks at Council station, but before he even opens the air-lock, he knows something has gone horrible, horrible wrong! He gathers his nerve, opens the air-lock, and walks into the Docks area. it looks abandoned. he goes toward the bar, but before he even gets in the door, he hears sirens! He finally enters the bar, and all he sees is chaos! people are panicing! Klaxons are ringing around the system. A loud voice is heard- coming from the emergency alert speakers. "Object detected aproaching station.Eequivalent to 157 trillion gigatons. Object estimated at 967,000,000 degrees. Evacute immediately. Repeat. Evacuate immediately"

"Oh my god!" says Arada Pilot. It's a Blue Shift! A star is coming right at us!"

Right as the sirens were blaring, a new figure enters the bar. He introduces himself as REDchigh, Founder of REDchigh Inc. He walks patiently to the center of the bar......

Gomiester wonders what he can do.... How to get back to his own time? how to save the station from the mysterious black ships?.................

(Have fun with this, guys. I'm starting to like bars...)

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Captian LeGrenadier Is standing in the corner watching the aproaching star. He suddenly has a strong sense of Deja Vu and turns to spot geomister (spelling?) then as he turns back to the window, he notices Geo. standing by the bar. He does a double take and looks at Geo. by the door again. "Okay, what's going on here?!" he asks loudly....

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

"I will fly the ship," says a voice calmly. Everyone looks around, but no obvious source of the voice is found. Then it is realized that the voice is coming out of a computer terminal. The cold, unblinking fisheye lens of the terminal stares at them blankly. "Your ship should have an artificial intelligence, and I can... Oh, wait. Let me introduce myself. I am the Tapeworm, a self-contained artificial intelligence programmed to hunt down and destroy enemy ships' AI's and replace them with myself, taking over the ship. I cannot tell you who programmed me or how I got here, but I will tell you one thing. I will help you."
"In which launchbay is this ship stored?"

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I ask you to look both ways- for the road to the atom leads through the stars, and the road to the stars leads through the atom.

(This message has been edited by Entropy (edited 01-08-2001).)

"None. The ship was removed long ago."
"Can we fit you to a new ship?" the Arada Pilot says.
"Yes"
"I have a Zachit Arada that I 'acquired' at crescent station..."

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Is the answer to this question 'no'?

"How do we know that you're not a computer virus, designed by some bored hacker to take over our ship's computers and use them for your own evil ends. I wont trust you with any ship untill you tell us more of yourself.

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

As forge lays in the hallway a few hundred meters away from the bar where the bouncer dumped him, all he can think is "Damn, that idiot took my pants and that had my flask of brandy in it."

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The never duplicated
Never capitalized
And always puce:
forge

widow takes out his mini boom-box and starts listening to pachebelle cannon in D while pretending to play the trumpet.

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Remember that thou art dust and to dust
thou shalt return. And while your creation is forgoten your death you still spurn

" WHO'S THE HALFWIT WHO MISFIRED THE STABILIZER!?" Roared goomeister. Unfortunately, no one else was aboard. Or so he thought.
"WHO'S THE HALFWIT WHO RIGGED OUR HYPER-" started a quite apparently enraged Azdgari.
"Who are you?" goomeister and the mystery person asked in unison.
"I'm goomeister, Baron Administrator of Council Station and Fleet Commander of all Azdgari forces in the Crescent." They answered. Then it dawned on them.
"You're me!" They exclaimed.
"How'd you get here?" asked the present-goomeister.
"Time rift. I need this ship," answered the future-goomeister.
" We need it. Now. there's a-" present-goomeister started to argue.
"A star coming for you. And you will fly to it, engage the SED, and destroy it. But it will obliterate the ship," future-goomeister finished.
"But if I give you the ship now , we can't stop the star. Then you'll cease to exist because I'll cease to exist," pleaded present-goomeister. Future-goomeister had never thought of that. He couldn't take the ship. But maybe...
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" He asked.
"Probably," present-goomeister said with a meanacing grin.

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"I am a joint Miranu-UE mission to collapse the voinian empire from inside. You see, I can replicate myself, just like a real virus- because I actually AM a computer virus, but was not designed by some 'bored hacker'. If you will not give me a ship, I can not help you," says the Tapeworm. "I repeat- give me a ship." Suddenly, the bardroid stops pouring drinks. "You see," it says in unison with the terminal, sounding exactly like it, "I am not limited to ships."

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I ask you to look both ways- for the road to the atom leads through the stars, and the road to the stars leads through the atom.

A man turns around on his bar stool to face the crowd. He is dressed in simple black shipboard fatigues, and he wears neither government emblems nor any apparent weaponry, but his natural authority and charisma instantly silence the room. Time stops in its tracks and everyone holds their breath. It is no lesser man than Ambassador Torve Merias Ylhander Cinga.

After finishing his cup of darjeeling, he strolls over to the wall-spanning viewport in which the star glows in raging fury. He turns around and faces REDchigh, who gulps dry. "Mister, I recommend you have a look at a science book once in a while. Stars host nuclear fusion, not fission; helium and hydrogen plasma is electrically conductive and therefore opaque to EM radiation; shields are much more likely to survive contact with stellar plasma that armor is; and in order to rip space-time a star would have to become a mass singularity, which would no longer look anything like a star. And finally, why hasn't anybody wondered how a star could have entered the Gadzair system without triggering each and every perimeter alarm here and in half a dozen near systems? In fact, I do not believe that this phenomenon is a star at all."

"What then?" whispered a confused REDchigh.

Cinga stepped to the viewport and wiped the place where the star glowed with his finger. The star now stuck to his finger. "Apparently, someone has spilled a Kitrakese sunset onto the viewport, a drink containing live fluorescent microorganisms which glow extremely bright when dying in an alcoholic solution." He sniffed it and added "It appears to be a rather cheap brand, too."

"Then what about the events that we heard from those brave pilots out there?"

Cinga shrugged. "Delirium. Saalian brandy is known to have side effects that make Tequila look like baby milk. I've heard weirder stories from less drunk men before."

"Now if you'd excuse me, I have a civil war to end." With that, he turns to a stunningly beautiful young lady in similar black fatigues (though more skin-tight :p), who must be the legendary Commander Lari Leandru, the Ambassador's diplomatic attaché and pilot of the Catharsis. They leave the bar for the docking bays, and soon after the Catharsis warps out of the system.

-- Cinga

(To be taken cum grano salis -- I'm much more impressive in real life :rolleyes:)

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Widow looks around wondering what the comotion is about and begins playing Andante and Shertzo.

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thou shalt return. And while your creation is forgoten your death you still spurn

Captian LeGrenadier turns to the bartender (the one possesed by the compuer virus) very well, he says, I'll give you a ship, but I'll be watching you closely. One false move....now here's what I need you to do. There is a ship called the Event Horizon that is caught in the tempral rift in two seprate places. I need you to take over the crews of both forms of the ship and bring the two togther at this point in time. Once that happens, the rift will dissapear and we will be free to deal with our impending doom as we see fit.

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

Tapeworm's voice emenates from the terminal again, aand the barbot goes back to pouring drinks. "I can transfer myself onto both ships, I will position the stations EL-35 transmission array to the ships and transfer myself onto them. Controlling the ships will be harder- I was designed to, after taking over a ship, terminate life supports and open all the airlocks to disperse of any crew, as I have before only been transferred to hostile ships. Ottherwise it is difficult to operate the ship while others also try to control it. However, I can try."
"Beginning transmission..."

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I ask you to look both ways- for the road to the atom leads through the stars, and the road to the stars leads through the atom.

Widow thinks the bar could use a hip cat feel, and starts playing So What along with a holographic image of Miles Davis.

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Remember that thou art dust and to dust
thou shalt return. And while your creation is forgoten your death you still spurn

"Just out of curiosity, what are you thinking?" Inquired present-goomeister.
"Sacrifice my Azdara instead of Event Horizon ," came the reply.
"But the Azdara's power core isn't strong enough to charge the SED!"
"Not if I overload the experimental shield generator and vent the excess energy through the SED."
"There's a term for that: suicide!"
"That's what would happen if Event Horizon went in. But we can't afford to lose it. So we'll use an expendable ship."
"Not a bad idea. What do I do?"
"Bring me within 30 clicks of the star. I'll cover the rest of the way. EMP me when I come in range, so I don't overshoot."
Event Horizon approached the star. At 30 clicks, an Azdara left it's docking bay. Shortly afterward, a pale plue beam left the Event Horizon , striking and imobilizing the little fighter.
"Computer: full systems override. Divert all power into shield generators."
A disembodied voice responded: "Confirmation?"
"Confirrmed!! Do... it... NOW!!!!"
"Shield generator overload."
"Divert energy overflow to SED and fire!" Shortly after this command, goomeister hit a large, red button labeled "Eject." His escape pod barely left before the ship's hull melted.

goomeister was made sure is hyper-dimensional stabilizer was calibrated correctly before activating the pod's thrusters and hurtling into the rift.

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Jim Stephens, a U.E. captian and commanding officer of a Destroyer group, walked into the bar, ordered a drink, and sat down in the corner, so he copuld watch the wohle bar.

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"What makes you think she is a witch?"
"Well, she turned me into a newt!!"
"A newt?"
"I got better..."

widow, furious he doesn't get to emulate the titanic band hurls his imaginary trumpet toward the door.

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(This message has been edited by widowmaker (edited 01-11-2001).)

Titan walks into the bar and waits for something to happen.

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Suddenly, the rift begins to collapse...

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**Titan walks into the bar and waits for something to happen.
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Titan gets hit by imaginary trumpet

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Remember that thou art dust and to dust
thou shalt return. And while your creation is forgoten your death you still spurn