Payback meanders over to the hangar, pissed at Shade because he nearly died if not for the meds. He chooses a ship, a lightning blue streaked one. Deciding to fool around with the AI, he renames the ship Grease Monkey. Its voice-activated commands are nice for leisure, but the analog is perfect for combat. The seat even melds to his form, making for a wonderfully comfortable experience while blowing up whatever he decides to. The acceleration is incredible, better than an Azdara of old, but thanks to the advanced inertial dampeners, Payback hardly feels a thing. He may not have the psychic link Shade does, but he's a damn good pilot and connects well with grease monkies anyway.

So, Shade, what do we do with these ships? Monsters seem a bit like small game now. We gonna try to break the blockade?

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I'm game for that!

Shrout1 decides to name his ship Aurora after an old Miranu Heavy Freighter he floated around in for a while. He adjusts his weapons to become two forward facing and one turret mounted contained antimatter blasters. They are just larger versions of his gun. He adds a cloak and has the ship adapt the holo-generator for its use. So, when do we do this thing?

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And so Shrout1 finally arrived
And there was Excessive Cheating™

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Soon there is an enourmous flash in the sky. The previous conversation between Autonav and the AI Battle Platform Diomedes 1 was brief, and now there is just ionized gas and exceedingly hot lumps of titanium.

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Yayyyy, were dooooomed!
-GIR

Quote

Originally posted by Shade:
(B"Welcome aboard, Captain." it says. "I am the AI system Cassandra, installed in Alliance for the Defence Experimental Gunship number seven. Please name the Experimental Gunship number seven."
(/B)

Oh nice one, now we'll all end up sleeping together and someone will get harpooned. It's lucky for you that I happen to be chewing gum, and have spent my youth watching Red Dwarf into the early hours of the morning.

Jess staggers back into the bar 'I caught a, I caught a, um, it's a shrout! oops, sorry' she disentangles shrout from the net, and then dimly percieves that something else seems to be happening now.

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You're damn right, I am the Tooth Fairy.
Can you play the bongoes?

I'm sorry?What on earth are you talking about?

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Originally posted by Jess:
I caught a, I caught a, um, it's a shrout!

:rolleyes: Well, maybe she's drunk right now.

Don't worry, it's not the first time my last name has been made fun of. Let's see, what else tops the list: "Put your hands up and Shrout"; "Shrout, Shrout, let it all out" - gag me with a spoon - no really! Well, let's not get in a flame war, it's just my last name.

Hey, what about busting that blockade?

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And so Shrout1 finally arrived
And there was Excessive Cheating™

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Hey, did anyone even notice that I'm in need of support?! The stinking drones swarm awfully fast...

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Autonav's ship's cannons seemed to propel a beam rather than a blinding 67 blasts a second. the drones semmed to succumb to the missiles easily, but after several shots, they were just absorbing the projectiles.
"Ack! Everybody! The drones are collective! Vary your attack stategy or they'll adapt to your weapo..."

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Yayyyy, were dooooomed!
-GIR

Captian Spanky Pants tries to come to autonav's rescue but finds the drednaught too slow and jumps into a voinian interceptor, and flies up to help automov but since his brain works very slow he relizes to late (after the drednaught had fallen to the ground and exploded) that his ship might not be strong enough... A swarm of drones quickly engulfs the fighter. Then he loads some home cooking into the netron cannon. As autonav had said the drones had absorbed my attack. But with my home cooking in the blast of energy, The drones quickly short circuited and blew up. "see guys gotta use your head" but while he was radioing everyone he stupidly crashes into autonav's ship sending them both tumbuling to the suface. His fuzz steals his parachute and jumps out the window. "so much for a faithful pet" "sorry it had to come to this little buddy" Captian spanky pts sets his lasers on "Barbecue" and fires. The fuzz soon becomes a little black ball of hair. But since "Barbecue" dosen't kill the target the fuzz is fine... just a little overcooked. But captain hasn't even thought about what he will do to save himself. about a 100 feet above the suface he is stumped. But then he looks at his joystick and screen. Every thing is working fine. "oh" he says and pulls up.

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(This message has been edited by Cap'n Spanky Pants (edited 01-18-2002).)

Well, it's gonna be awful hard for the drones to adjust to anti-matter

Shrout1 takes a few pot-shots at a mass of a few thousand drones. There is a brilliant flash and they all disappear. Unfortunately there are many more. Shrout1 decides to take a little break, instead of always solving the problem and not letting anyone else have any fun. So he gets caught in a tractor beam and calls out an SOS.

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And so Shrout1 finally arrived
And there was Excessive Cheating™

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OV waits to find out whats going on as he shoots down a potatoe bird or 2

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As Autonav spirals toward the ground, his brain tells him to press the now obscure key combo:

"Command+E!"
"What?!" he says and remembers to pull up. A sonic boom screams into the ground and crumbles a few buildings.

<Oopsie, it's Command not control.>
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Yayyyy, were dooooomed!
-GIR

(This message has been edited by Autonav 6000 (edited 01-18-2002).)

I get myself a Blue Heavy Carrier (from the present time period).
Fitted with
25 Guardian class fighters that have the abilites of a UE Destroyer,
20 ion turrets(top of the line),
4 rocket launchers and 200 rounds of ammo.(not Voinian mind you),
2 missile racks & 120 anti-matter missiles,
and a Tritanium Hull.
chrisened the G.A.V. Wraith
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Insanity has its advantages

(This message has been edited by U.E. Admiral (edited 01-19-2002).)

ERM we haven't made contact with the last scattered remnants of the great Alliance for the Defence composed of Miranu, Emalgha, Voinians, Humans, and Kayians.
So you can't really have any really up-to-date vessels.
But don't worry, the technological standards of the Alliance for the Defence have actually dropped since their heyday eight hundred years ago, and the Council always thought that they were good enough already, so an Experimental Gunship is much better than the current AftD Frigate or the Council HyperZidara, the comparable contempary ships.
Once in low orbit in the Thanatos , Shade tunes in to ancient comms broadcasts and figures out the current systems of the AftD, which are;
F-25
Helios
Otid
DSN-5495 (In the Proxima Nebula)
DSN-669 (Beyond Voinian space)
Osiris ( A small yet beautiful terracompatible world in the Isis system, which is accessable off Eltor but hard to find. The current HQ of the AftD)
Sharing the knowledge with the other people, Shade begins to attack the blockade drones, but soon realises that not only are they too powerful, they are also too numerous.
He comes up with an alternative plan and sends a hail to everyone in orbit.
"Everyone, get out of low orbit, now! I have a plan " fortunately the drones, although powerful, are too stupid to follow as well.
After warning everyone on-planet to get off-planet and fast, Shade focuses his Kinetic Nexus powers on that ugly, lumpy satellite of Earth, the Moon.
Suddenly the Moon itself disintegrates into millions of asteroids, which are all carefully guided into low Earth orbit.
As previously stated, the drones are really stupid, and run headlong into the rocks and blow up.
Shade then leads the way out of the system to Osiris

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Uh, Shade, have you noticed that all these old buildings are unstable?

With that said Skyfox boarded the "Shining Dawn" and took off. After getting far enough from the city, the "Shining Dawn" turned around. A hellstorm like you have never seen, pored out of the Shining Dawn's cannons. Three seconds later, every building accept the bar had vaporized.
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It's time for a new challenge.
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...And so the human race reached for the stars, unknowing of the dangers that awaited them...

(This message has been edited by Skyfox (edited 01-19-2002).)

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Originally posted by Shade:
**I'm sorry?What on earth are you talking about?

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don't worry, Cassandra was an AI computer off Red Dwarf who could tell the future.

Shrout, I'm sorry if you took that offensivly, I'm no where near intelligent enough to link shrout with shout.

Jess has no idea what's going on, and so decides to hide in the toilets.

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You're damn right, I am the Tooth Fairy.
Can you play the bongoes?

OV fishes Jess out of the tiolets. "There are better places to hide you know"

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Originally posted by Jess:
Shrout, I'm sorry if you took that offensivly, I'm no where near intelligent enough to link shrout with shout.;)

Don't worry, all is forgiven. You didn't know and well... it is fun to rhyme things with my last name. Anyway...

Shrout1 follows behind Shade (wondering how in the world this came out of the monster hunt - but enjoying it).

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And there was Excessive Cheating™

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As Autonav pulls up, he recieves Shade's warning. He tells the computer to go to Maximum Burn and pulls away from the planet. He uses the starlift engine 'residue' from Shade's ship and plots a course with it.

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Yayyyy, were dooooomed!
-GIR

Scrub some grout, Shrout!

Payback flies around in his ship, blowing up stuff that attacks him. However, he is pretty confused. Shade, what the hell is going on?

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-Payback37 (url="http://"http://www.clarkson.edu/~curtislg")Biggles Productions(/url)
Treat all the world as the world deserves,
With love or with hate but never with harm,
--an excerpt from The Seafarer , an Anglo-Saxon poem translation

Payback: What's with all the swearing lately?

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