(This picks up from our break)
Tiana heads off to find Ragistan again **
Felix is probably just stepping out of the com center and trying to figure out something **
Bishop: Ok .. Rage, tiana has come looking for you, ..she wants to give you some information, and see if she can use the ships long range communication gear to contact the earth tribe
Ragistan looks to Tiana as she comes over. "Hello little one, what can I do for you?" **
Tiana: "Hi Ragistan."
Wraith is ensuring the new weapon system and ammo is setup properly **
Tiana: "I met Marge."
Bishop: Tiana, the Earth tribe head consulate,.. being your connections with your cities leadership, you can just about remember the codes... and of course you give the digital recognition sequence of your mecha as your own recognition code.
Ragistan nods his head/. "Interesting case that one..." **
Tiana: "Yep. She's been wanting to talk to you about things but hasn't been able to because of an oath she swore"
Ragistan tilts his head. "Oath? What sort?" He asks, intrigued **
Tiana: "Well, first I need to talk to you about me. You know how there's a big battle coming, and we'll likely have to fight with all our old enemies? I've a lot of past grievances with the fire tribe"
Ragistan nods his head. "I see, I would hope you could put them aside for the coming battle, or perhaps find a way to work them out with a local fire tribe leader." **
Tiana: "So, we shouldn't take revenge for those things that happened in the past? Even though they're pretty serious."
Ragistan leans against the wall, looking down at her. "Would you like to share with me what happened? There is a leader of the fire tribe nearby, if you wish to express your grievances and perhaps find a way to make amends." **
Tiana: "I just want to make sure I'm clear where you stand with this. I mean we've all done a lot of bad things that these Pantheon tricked us in to doing. Wouldn't you want to take revenge if I'd been tricked in to attacking you?"
Ragistan shakes his head. "No, I would be more interested in the person who had tricked you. I would be no more angry at you than I would be at the weapon you attacked me with." **
Tiana: "Great! Marge is the leader of the water tribe and she led the attack on your base or some thing like that, but only because they'd been tricked in to doing it because they thought you had her brother."
Ragistan nods his head slowly listening to her. "And her oath prevented her from telling me this? And...would she want you to be telling me her secret?" **
Tiana: "Yep. She nudge nudge winked me to not to not tell you"
Tiana: "I just wanted to make sure you wouldn't be all wrathful over it"
Ragistan nods his head. "I hold no ill will toward her, I will go to talk to her after we are done here, what about you and the fire tribe though?" **
Tiana: "Oh, that’s fine. You're right, forgive and forget and all that."
Ragistan nods his head. "Alright, I just want to make sure that you wont go into battle and have hard feelings about them in the midst of combat." **
Tiana: "There's only one man I've got hard feelings against, and I hope to meet him before any combat starts"
Ragistan: "If possible I can try to arrange it, do you know his name?"
Tiana: "He's the leader of my group. And is currently at the Orphan Star base."
Wraith: (Bishop: Status on the serix refit?)
Ragistan: "Ah I see, I thought you meant fire tribe." He nods toward the com center. "Feel free to use long range coms."
Bishop: arm refit about done, inline wit the repairs, the cannon will be done by morning.
Wraith goes to where the interrogation is going down with the orphan star weapons officer. **
Tiana: "I don't want to speak with him yet. I'd like the chance to go ahead with the plan I discussed previously. At least to the point where we lure them out of the orphan star base. If it works, we'll have some of my people on our side and able to get back in to the based unopposed"
Ragistan: "No problem." He says and pats her on the head. "Is there anything else you need me for?"
Tiana shakes her head "Not at the moment. I think you should probably go and speak with Marge anyway?" **
Ragistan nods his head. "That was my next stop." He says and heads off to find the woman **
Tiana follows after him, wanting to go back to the mech bay herself **
Bishop: In the mecha bay a one armed princess is discussing cyberware with Brandt who is now in the goo tank
Bishop: Ardith, what are you up to!
Ragistan will walk over, remove the Starfish's crown and drop it into the tank while he nods to Brandt. "How are things today?" He asks then smiles at Marge, making sure not to show his teeth **
Bishop: Ardith is Wraith,.. in the full bloom of her youth, obviously fertile etc..
Brandt (D) nods quietly to Ragistan, multiple pieces of what appear to be fragile pieces of plating and other components float at the surface of the tank **
Bishop: Wraith, the captured pilot is looking a little rough, but she brushes up pretty nice your long years of experience tell you
Bishop: Marge: nods to Rage
Bishop: Doctor: you can go in and see the prisoner now Wraith.
Ragistan: "How are you feeling?" He asks her and leans against the tank while the starfish does...whatever it does in the goo
Wraith: "Thank you."
Tiana climbs in to her mecha for a rest and a chat **
Bishop: Inside the room is the woman sat up in bed, and next to her taking feverish notes is Damein
Bishop: Marge: Im comfortable, although knitting is very difficult, *she says waving her stump with a smile*
Bishop: Tianas mecha: oh god, there goes my nap.
Wraith: (How’s the woman's condition look?)
Bishop: right, as in looks hung over, but coming out of it
Wraith: "You look just how I feel"
Wraith says to the pilot as he enters the room **
Ragistan: He smiles back and he nods his head. "After all of this is over if possible I would offer my family’s cyberneticists work with you." He says showing her his own cybernetic arm and flexing the fist. "It is better than the original, some times I forget it’s even a replacement."
Bishop: Yuna: what, your on your period?
Tiana gives the console of her mecha a little kick "Shush you. You've done nothing but sleep since we got here" **
Damien (C): "Was there anything else of note with the defenses?"
Bishop: Marge: *chuckles* Im sure I would have problems carting something like that around!.. but I am very grateful.. Thank you
Wraith: "Maybe, I seem to be irritable enough and moody enough."
Bishop: Tianas mecha: Im old, and I finally get a few days off in comfort, of course I'm gonna sleep, now what can I do for you youngling?
Ragistan nods his head. "I might too if it wasn’t for the grav systems in it." He winks. "How are the mech repairs coming?" He asks and looks to Brandt. **
Bishop: Yuna: *looks to Damien* I think I have given you the major parts, if anything comes up I will make sure you hear about it.
Tiana: "Do you know what’s been going on at all? About the whole Pantheon and these Orphan Star people?"
Wraith: "I came to make sure they treated you decent."
Wraith: "Decent enough at least. "
Bishop: Yuna: well the foods great and I can sleep knowing someone’s not going to stick a knife in my back for failure..
Damien (C): "Take care, Yuna. I'll check back when I get a chance."
Bishop: Hama: the. .Pantheon?
Brandt (D): "There are a few remaining matters. Without a proper reactor I'm having trouble restoring its original equipment to working order. Or there's just not enough of the original equipment remaining to fix..."
Wraith: "With friends like that who needs enemies?"
Damien (C) stands and heads out shortly after Wraith enters. **
Wraith: "Let me see the notes later. If you don't mind damien?"
Ragistan gives a frown to that. "With access to all of my funds you cant purchase a new reactor or buy the parts to put one together?" **
Wraith says without turning away from Yuna as he goes to grab a seat in the room and stretches out **
Damien (C): "Sure, Wraith."
Brandt (D): "It's not quite like that. It's not a normal reactor, and my people have never used systems which utilize Viridian crystals in the same manner."
Brandt (D): "I understand the basics, but I'm still trying to find help to build one from scratch."
Damien (C) leaves the room, stops to get his pistol, requests the doctor to make sure Yuna is kept comfortable, then heads out in search of Rage. **
Brandt (D): "It would be like...Damien building a gravitic sled."
Ragistan considers it for a moment, then he tilts his head. "Your shuttle is fast right? Send Sirius in a shuttle with a crate full of money and have him bring back the best engine tech he can hire with the parts he needs." **
Ragistan is in the mechbay with Marge and Brandt **
Bishop: Marge: what are you looking for Brandt?
Brandt (D): "There's a problem with that, that reactor I purchased for the shuttle, for our trip to the moon... biggest one I could fit in there. I have two, maybe three jumps before it's worthless."
Damien (C) approaches Rage once he finds him in the mechbay. **
Ragistan: "It can fly normally cant it?" He asks then looks to Damien. "Yes?"
Damien (C): "I got some information from our new prisoner."
Wraith: "So..."
Ragistan: "Anything interesting?"
Damien (C) hands the notes to him. **
Ragistan takes them and reads them over **
Wraith: "Tell me....about orphan star."
Bishop: Tianas mecha *wakes up again* a what’s that youngling?
Wraith: "Your life with them that is."
Wraith: "That’s what I'm interested in. You had your interrogation that was business. I'm more curious about the personal
Brandt (D): "Well, that's why I wanted to see Desilena. My kin on this world are undoubtedly its best technicians..." *Turns his gaze down to Marge* "In your mech, there is an interface between the reactor and the crystals." *Gestures to the crystals in the tank.* "Which these are replacing... Truth be told, it's beyond me. There's not enough left of the reactors to repair and refit."
Bishop: Pleasant, rich pampered, secular and hard.
Bishop: Marge: you didn’t answer my question though Brandt.. what do you need?
Tiana: "I don't know really. But from what I can figure out, they're saying that they're a group who have been turning the tribes against each other, as a distraction while they get stuff to allow them to operate the moon"
Bishop: Tianas mecha: Makes sense, you think that’s what happened to your father?
Damien (C) waits while Rage reads over the notes. **
Wraith: "Knife in someone’s back every evening?"
Brandt (D): "Well...I have an idea of how I could build a working reactor, but it requires a pure crystal. Very pure."
Wraith: "No seriously I'm not here to be patronizing or to fuck with you...I really would like to know."
Tiana: "No, I still think Ishida happened to my father."
Ragistan considers everything then nods and looks to Damien. "Do my a favor, find out how many submersibles this ship has and how large they are, as well as talk to your family if you would be so kind. Any allies and forces we can get to assist us in this fight will be invaluable." **
Bishop: Yuna: yeah you got it, although it was called 'weeding out the careless'
Wraith: "Sounds like a terrible life"
Bishop: mecha: and now ishida is at this Orphan star base where the Pantheon are?.. coincidence?
Tiana: "Maybe. If they're paying right or promising something he wants. But maybe not."
Brandt (D) puts down a part and looks over the tank to Marge "I'm sure they're rare even on this world...would you have access to such treasures?" **
Bishop: Mecha: still a coincidence nonetheless, right?
Tiana: "I'm not sure what we can do about it. But I'm thinking of helping these people stop this Pantheon, from what I've seen they at least seem to be trying to stop them from getting hold of the moon"
Tiana: "Yes"
Bishop: yuna: yes, well, when you grow up there you don’t really know any other.
Damien (C): To Rage: "This is your ship, isn't it? Shouldn't you already know how many submersibles it has?"
Bishop: Marge: well, the purest crystals I know come from the Amaranth caves in the Polar north, really north, to the extent of my own tribes boundaries, inside the wastelands.. virtually nothing living there to taint the crystals
Wraith gives yuna a moment to talk a bit more **
Ragistan shakes his head. "This is my family’s ship, and I am not its captain, I don’t bother myself with memorizing inventory." **
Damien (C): "As for checking with my brother, that's too easy. I believe Brandt needed to go up there anyway and wanted me along."
Bishop: Tianas mecha: so, what do you intend to do?
Brandt (D): "Go into my shuttle. In a secure box on the workbench in the back of the bay is a large crystal sphere. Do you think we could get one just like it...anywhere? If we could get two or more...I would take it as a personal favor."
Damien (C): "Alright, I'll check with the captain and comm with the info. As soon as I do,.." *Looks over at Brandt in the tank, then back to Rage.* "..please have him get ready to go. I have the feeling it will take a while."
Ragistan nods his head. "The more troops we can get the easier the assault will be, I already have thousands of siege marines but we are low on mechs and heavy vehicles. "He says, loud enough the Marge would be able to overhear the conversation **
Tiana: "I don't know. They seem to be planning some big battle. We might fight in it, but we need to sort out what Ishida did first."
Ragistan glances to Brandt. "I will see what I can do, I'll get him ready when you com me with the info." **
Damien (C) turns and goes off in search of the captain. **
Bishop: Marge: 8tilts her head* ahem: and if possible I would like some time to contact my family and let them know I am ok, if I could please? *Said loud enough for Rage to hear*
Bishop: Mecha: yes, you o its important to have your own ghosts to rest first...
Bishop: I take it the.. message has been sent out luring them to a location?
Tiana types in the co-ordinates of the Orphan star base "How long would it take us to get to there from our current position?" **
Ragistan looks to Marge and he nods his head. "Of course, all of the facilities of the ship will be made available to you." He smiles reassuringly. "If need be I can arrange for a shuttle to take you back to your family as well if you so desire." He assures her. **
Brandt (D): *When Marge goes to look in the shuttle, inside to the right of the bench is a frame very similar to Sirius, but heavier; It seems about 80% complete (the parts Brandt is working on now would finish the outer shell), though the inside seems mostly hollow
Bishop: Marge: perhaps not just.. yet.. *She looks at her stump* they might take some things the wrong way...
Wraith sighs "No you don't" **
Ragistan nods his head. "We are doing our best to fix that, I am truly sorry for the pain and suffering that has been caused." **
Wraith: "Though you might dream of something better."
Wraith: "Can't remember is membership in that group for life?"
Wraith: "Or do they at least give you the chance of getting out after a time?"
Bishop: Marge: not you fault, but thank you for trying to fix it. *She comes out of the shuttle* Im not sure on those crystals, but I would recommend a trip to the Ameranth caves to see the crystals there to see if they match.
Bishop: Membership is until the end of life
Wraith: "No its not"
Bishop: Yuna: well, I'm happy with them thinking Im dead still Ok?
Wraith: "No you missed the point"
Wraith: "And got it slightly at the same time"
Bishop: Tiana's mecha: a day or so.. why?
Wraith: "You always have a choice"
Bishop: Yuna: yes, and my choice is to have nothing to do with them any more.
Tiana: "Because if we wait around here I'll be as old as you before these people decide to act"
Wraith: "The consequences others may impose on your choice...you might not be able to do anything about. But no one can force you to do anything."
Wraith: "You sure you don't want anything to do with them?"
Ragistan nods his head and gives a smile. "If anyone needs anything else, I will be on my coms." he look to Brandt. "Oh, and you and Damien are going to visit his brother soon, would you please make yourself presentable and less gooey?" he asks as he fishes the starfish from the goo **
Wraith: "Sure you don't want to give them a piece of your mind?"
Bishop: Tianas mecha: I thought we had sent a message out to lead them to a place there was something they could se for bargaining a higher wage with the orphans?
Wraith: "Or do you still have friends in that hellhole you maybe care for. There has to be at least one."
Bishop: yuna: I just want to see them destroyed and.. take up fishing or something
Wraith looks thoughtful..."hmmm if you weren't a soldier I wouldn't figure you for the outdoorsy type **
Tiana: "That was the plan, but we don't appear to be doing it. I can't blame them, they're busy with other things. Why don't we go now? This way we wont be getting them in to any danger with it anyway."
Brandt (D) nods, mentally checking the schedule and comming to one of the Psi-able crewmembers to take his place **
Bishop: Tianas mecha: well, the message HAS been sent and they should be due to arrive at that island tomorrow.
Wraith: "That fight"
Tiana: "Really? Did I miss that? Well that’s good. Lets go to the island then"
Wraith: "Tell me about it from your perspective"
Wraith: "Were you the pilot?"
Wraith: "I know that model was a two seater but I know you have backup controls. I did put in major hits. Maybe the pilot could have been possibly wounded. Did you assist in anyway?"
Bishop: yuna: no, I was the weapons officer.
Bishop: yuna: look, I saw my friend and partner hosed out of the sky, OK?
Brandt (D) will get out of the tank, gather the parts and clean off; with the remaining time before Damien is ready, he'll finish pre-assembly on Ulfr's body and see Marge and Ulfr back to their quarters (or medbay) after donning his armor **
Wraith: "No shit you're looking at the devil who did it."
Wraith: "I know how you feel."
Bishop: yuna: what are you doing, bragging or something?
Wraith: "But I'm not asking this question lightly"
Wraith: "Answer it please."
Bishop: Brandt and Damein meet at the dock next to the ships aircar
Wraith: "Tell me about the fight as you remember it. Tell me about our firefight."
Bishop: Yuna: why?
Wraith: "I wanted to feel you out because I thought you were the pilot who nearly took me out."
Brandt (D): "Thanks for coming along."
Wraith: "That was some of the best flying I've ever seen and I've been in the field against the Concordat's elite"
Bishop: Yuna: Im not surprised, we were Poltergeist, the elite of a mercenary group that trains Orphans from almost birth to be the best fighters around.
Damien (C): "Its not a problem. What are you going for? You never told me."
Tiana pokes her mecha's console to wake him again **
Wraith: "I'd almost say I could relate to you"
Bishop: Tianas mecha: the islands only 6 hours flight time away!!!
Wraith: "Except being a noble, I was trained from birth...for other things."
Brandt (D): "I need to speak with Desilena... She knows how to contact the other Wolfen tribes of this world."
Tiana: "We can't fly"
Wraith: "I can relate to you as a warrior though. I can relate to your experience in that realm."
Bishop: Tianas mecha: why not?
Damien (C): "Ah, yes. That would make sense."
Tiana: "Because we don't have wings! How can you forget that?"
Wraith: "And if you want to bring down the orphan star...either on this world or in the galaxy. Your level of involvement is your choice."
Brandt (D): "You should speak to your brother...I think any help we can find will be good to have."
Wraith: "You aren’t going to do it alone."
Wraith: "I'm offering you a chance to be on the side that has resources and the clout to make it happen. As the scion of the Plantagent Mercenary Family."
Damien (C): "Yea. Rage is a step ahead of you on that note."
Bishop: Tianas mecha: oh, right. . I'm not a battleship any more..
Damien (C) gets into the aircar. **
Bishop: Yuna: my level of involvement is giving you guys details on the Orphan Stars base defenses..
Wraith: "And then you are going to go relax."
Tiana rolls her eyes "You were never a battleship." **
Tiana: "You're a mecha."
Wraith: "Maybe go fishing, more likely I figure you'll try to forget your life"
Brandt (D) gets into the car with Damien **
Wraith: "Drown it out with booze, drugs, sex, in the underground of a thousand worlds if need be."
Damien (C) gives our driver the directions and sits back, enjoying the relaxing ride. **
Bishop: Tianas mecha:... yes, Ok ,I was.. er.. *The great cats head looks about the bay for Brandt, sighs * Ok, Im just a mecha,..
Wraith: "Why not, who the fuck can imagine the pain you've felt since birth."
Wraith: "Who the fuck knows what it takes to erase it but you right?"
Bishop: Yuna: really, all I want to do is rebuild it
Wraith: "Ok fair enough. Lets look at the brighter side."
Wraith: "You...leave here do whatever you want to do."
Wraith: "Find success at something, and peace."
Bishop: it takes an hour or so before Brandt and Damien are driving through the pleasant grounds of the family’s estate.
Brandt (D) monitors their flight, given what happened /last/ time Damien's brother was involved in..anything.. **
Bishop: Yuna: I intend to do, but only when I know Im safe to do so
Tiana: "What is going on with you? Brandt said there was something odd"
Wraith: "Well sister it won't be after this hit"
Wraith: "You are the elite of their cadre"
Bishop: Tianas Mecha: um, well, Im a little older than you might think..
Wraith: "They'll kill you before they let you go if they have to run you down to get you"
Tiana: "Oh god, you're not fifty are you?"
Bishop: Yuna: and that’s the reason I have given you the details for the base defenses, so you can destroy them
Wraith: "You telling me the entirety of the orphan star is in one location?"
Bishop: Tianas mecha: no, a little older.
Wraith: "Every single soldier, every single operative."
Bishop: and soon Brandt and Damien are at the family estate, the butler comes down to open the door for them and Damien's brother is there to meet them "Brother! How goes it! Come on inside for dinner
Tiana: "Fifty five?" she says sympathetically
Bishop: Yuna: yes, they are now, they have to be for this one big operation
Bishop: Tianas mecha: *there is a grumble and it settles on its haunches* No, older.
Wraith looks thoughtful **
Tiana: "I don't know. A million?"
Brandt (D): "I appreciate the offer, but I need to speak with Desilena, if she is available. It's somewhat urgent."
Bishop: Tianas mecha: What! I don’t seem THAT old to you do I?
Bishop: Lord Flasheart: certainly I will have her summoned, you to brother?...
Damien (C): "I need to talk to you about something important."
Wraith: "Anyone you want to bring out of that group"
Wraith: "I think you noticed I tend to disdain taking prisoners."
Damien (C) starts walking to the study. **
Bishop: Lord Flasheart: I say you do brother! What’s the girls name and does she go like steam piston through glass!?
Wraith: "You are probably the first in 2 years."
Tiana: "No, not that old. Why don't you just tell me already?"
Wraith: "That I haven't been specifically ordered to take"
Bishop: Yuna: kill them, kill them all *and she rolls over her back to you, blanket over her shoulder
Bishop: Tiana.. I'm.. very old.. You know the ship that goes through he middle of your city?
Tiana: "Yep"
Wraith: "You Fucking Rat!"
Damien (C): "There is no girl this time."
Bishop: Lord Flasheart: Come on brother, never mind, plenty more fillies for you round up into your paddock, right?..*Follows you to the study*
Brandt (D) will wait patiently **
Bishop: Tianas mecha: well, that was me
Tiana: "You crashed the ship?"
Bishop: Lord Flasheart: what, is it a boy? You raving Poof? do I need to go out and buy you some dresses?
Bishop: meanwhile Marge tip toes into the comms chamber
Damien (C) frowns. "Jarent, this is no time for jokes." *He takes a seat in a chair and looks to his brother. "This is about eliminating a threat to the planet." **
Bishop: Tianas mecha: I did not crash the ship that was Pilot Yasando, and he gave his life bravely, making sure it happened cleanly and with maximum chance of the colonists surviving! .. I was the ships computer core.
Tiana: "You... were the core? Why? What? Are you pulling my leg? Is this because of the chewing gum incident because I did get most of that cleaned up off the back of the pilot seat"
Bishop: Lord Flasheart: eliminating a threat to the planet? Got to have more balls than an epileptics bowling bag, to do that kind of thing,.. So what kind of violent heroic action are you looking at here? *Pours out a brandy*
Wraith: "You're gonna sit here in this fucking bed and wallow in your pity and let your buddies burn by our hand. I mean your buddies not the Orphan Star, the ones you lived with and trained with who watched your back. Surely you had more than one friend...please tell me that even in such a mindfuck of a institution there existed some degree of camaraderie and honor amongst your troops."
Bishop: Desilena: *walks up the stairs and nods to Brandt* you wanted me?
Wraith: "Answer Me!"
Brandt (D) greets her politely, giving a light sniff before stepping back "I know I am early... you said to contact you on the full moon, but we do not have that much time. I need aid, both of knowledge and of might." **
Bishop: Yuna: no, I am going to sit here in this bed, because I am tired I feel crap and I’m trying not to spit on the man that killed my lover, because I know that’s war, and I am giving you all the information I can to possibly, and I mean possibly, stop this crap happening to another generation of children, and am I bothered about the ones trained with? The ones trained to hate us because we were elite, because having them hate us made us sharper?.. The only friend, the only consolation I had died last night I his cockpit in front of my eyes, the only place we could actually show care for one another because to do it in the Orphan Star is to show weakness? You tell me.. how do you think I feel?
Bishop: Desilena: well I gather its for a good reason, so what can I do for you?
Bishop: Tianas mecha: no.. Tiana I was the core of that colony ship.. I promise you that.. Didn’t you ever wonder as to my size?
Tiana: "I just thought you'd put on weight."
Tiana says with a grin **
Bishop: Tianas Mecha: No Tiana, I was the computer core for the colony ship before that was the battle ship..
Tiana: "So, how come you didn't tell me? And how did you end up in Huntress?"
Brandt (D): "We are preparing an assault on the Orphan Star site. Damien is discussing this with his brother, as well. They are working in league with another organization intending to collapse the societies of this world, turning them against each other.."
Wraith: "Like dying"
Wraith: "Maybe you should have."
Wraith: "I'll leave you to your misfortune and wish you peace."
Bishop: Tianas mecha: I ended up in the huntress because you were taking your first mecha, and my primary program is to protect you.
Bishop: Desilena *her lips compress and her ears flick with irritation* hmm, orphan Star again...
Bishop: Brandt I think she was a member of the zealots?
Bishop: Yuna: thank you for the peace.
Tiana: "Why'd you do that?"
Tiana: "Who programmed that?"
Wraith: "And for what its worth, I'm sorry for your friend. It never gets easier."
Bishop: Tianas mecha: what..protect you?
Bishop: Tianas mecha: well, your mother did of course, when she built me.
Brandt (D): "The intention is to drive them from this world... But there are more ships enroute..they'll arrive in about four days."
Bishop: Desilena: d we know what the ships en route are?
Wraith: "Let me know if you aren't taken care of while you are staying with us on this ship. And maybe when you feel better we can toast to the death of the Orphan Star..before we all leave your lives forever."
Wraith: *your life
Wraith bids Yuna adieu and leaves **
Tiana: "My mother bu- that's not right. You just said you were super old. So how did she build you?"
Bishop: yuna: I look forward to that
Bishop: Tiana’s mecha: The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea, In a beautiful pea green boat,
Brandt (D): "We have information that they are expecting reinforcements. Wolfen ships do not use their method of travel, and the Cartel are not expecting arrivals."
Bishop: tianas mecha *starts humming and mumbling inaudibly*
Bishop: Desilena: very well, what can I do?
Tiana: "Hey, wake up. Don't you go all senile on me. Answer the question."
Bishop: Tianas mecha: what what?
Bishop: Tianas mecha: what? Where was I? Oh yes.. They took some honey, and plenty of money
Brandt (D): "Simply get the word out. Any and all aid is welcome... I will use my ship to gather any who need transport."
Bishop: Rage, what you up to?
Tiana: "Not that. What you were saying about my mother"
Tiana: "How did she program you?"
Bishop: Tianas mecha: you mother? Which one?
Bishop: Tianas mecha: Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
Wraith leaves a card tossed onto the bed..his personal card. It’s the corporate card for Wraith as a pilot and on the back is written, "This is a get out of hell card. Anywhere in the galaxy, contact us. We'll come for you" **
Brandt (D): "I can use the aid of any engineers you know of, anyone familiar with the mecha put into use by the Tribes."
Tiana: "If you don't start paying attention then I'll repair your circuits again. And you know how bad that turned out last time"
Wraith heads back to meet with ragistran and gets the notes from Damien wherever he's left them for him **
Bishop: Desilena: you want me to contact the nearby packs and ask them to come out of hiding to help?
Bishop: tianas mecha: what do you mean?
Tiana: "Look, just give me a straight answer. What was the name of the person who programmed you to protect me?"
Brandt (D) nods "If you could send word, as well... excavation of the ship of their ancestors' arrival is underway." **
Bishop: Tianas Mecha:... Oracle
Bishop: Desilena: an ancestral ship?
Bishop: Rage, what you up to?
Ragistan: thinking on who I know that belongs to the air tribe
Tiana: "ok. So not my mother then. That wasn't her name"
Tiana: "So, who was Oracle?"
Bishop: Tianas mecha: which one?
Bishop: Well Gee rage,.. and guess what the comms room has a do not disturb sign on it..
Ragistan sits outside and waits for whoever was inside to come out **
Brandt (D): "Among my kin, our kin, little history is lost. We have record of the Council choosing our own exile over war. We found a habitable system and fled our old homeworld. The peace was not easy, and long the way one ship, a small collection of tribes, is said to have lost their way. If this is their home, then they are welcome to stay, but my purpose here is to find them, and I am certain if they choose, they would be welcome at our new home."
Tiana: "The one who programmed you."
Bishop: Tianas mecha: your mother
Brandt (D): "It seems only suiting they arrive on the ship they were intended to."
Bishop: Marge comes out, seems surprised to see Rage there, offers a soft 'hello' before making an 'ahem' then moving off down the corridor
Tiana: "Oh you are so going to be taking a long bath in magnetized water..."
Bishop: Tianas Mecha: please if it's going to stop this headache then go ahead!
Tiana: "You're bringing it on yourself."
Ragistan smiles at her. "Is your family glad that you’re safe?" he asks her to make small talk before she leaves **
Bishop: Desilena, I will have to prepare, how long do you have?
Tiana: "Explain to me how my mother programmed you, while you're older than her."
Bishop: Marge: yes, yes they are, they are.. anxious to see that I stay safe as well.
Bishop: tianas Mecha *develops a twitch* which mother?
Tiana: "My mother, the one who gave birth to me. What other mothers can I have?"
Ragistan nods his head. "You are perfectly safe here, I am glad they know you are well." he says then waves as she leaves **
Brandt (D): "I am not a tactician, but I recall when our worlds were assaulted, our countermeasures were most effective when ships were entering the atmosphere... It may be best if we begin our attack then. If so, then 4 days."
Bishop: Tianas Mecha: Smeeeeeg,.. Heeeead.!
Brandt (D): "If you mean here, now... I have means of returning whenever I need." *He's in his armor, after all*
Bishop: Desilena: true. Can we get any more actual details on the vessels before they arrive though?
Bishop: Tianas mecha: *so wishes Brandt was there right now*
Bishop: Desilena: I would like to know more about the vessels before measures are committed against them
Tiana: "Right... fine. Clearly you're nuts. I'm seriously doubtful anything you just told me is true"
Brandt (D): "I can transmit you the sensor data that I have now, though it is...somewhat uncertain."
Bishop: Tianas Mecha: I wish what I told you want true..
Tiana: "Why?"
Bishop: Desilena, please do! I will include it with my transmission tonight
Brandt (D) nods and burst-transmits the data to any storage device nearby **
Bishop: Tianas mecha: because I wouldn’t have this massive CPU pain, and be stumbling around program blocks!
Brandt (D): "I will head back now, if you are satisfied. There is still much work to do, and limited time to prepare."
Tiana: "Fine. We'll get Brandt to look at you. Maybe he can fix your memory leaks or something."
Bishop: Desilena: ok, I will let you know when things are ready..
Bishop: Tianas Mecha: it’s not a memory leak! My memory is just fine!
Brandt (D) nods "It was a pleasure seeing you again, and thank you. I'll leave message for Damien that I've returned." **
Wraith approaches ragistran after he's done with...whomever **
Wraith: "So...when do we hit the orphan star?'
Wraith: "or do I have more dance lessons to hold me up from this drop?
Ragistan looks to Wraith, looking to see what the pilot wore. "Three days **
Bishop: And Brandt goes home...
Wraith: "I'm gonna send a message to mommy."
Ragistan: "Wine tasting maybe, but not more dancing, speaking of how did they go? I see you aren’t dead so you must not have stepped on Ardiths feet too much."
Wraith: "She's a nice girl...but her dress pissed me off.... and dancing is so awkward anyway"
Bishop: Brandt you arrive back at the ship, what are you doing?
Brandt (D): Report to Ragistan
Bishop: Brandt you see Rage talking to Wraith
Wraith: "Talked to the prisoner"
Wraith: "She really wants to see everyone die."
Ragistan laughs a bit. "Most women folk wear dresses like that, if you prefer I can try to find you a Ktorn dance partner next time?" He jokes **
Brandt (D) approaches quietly and waits for the verbal onslaught to cease **
Wraith: "I still prefer soldier girls."
Wraith: ""Speaking of yeah..."
Tiana: "Sure its fine. Anyway. If you were a big space ship. How did you crash? Can you tell me that? Why did we fall out of the sky?"
Ragistan looks at Brandt and nods. "You can use the coms first Wraith." He says then heads over to Brandt. "Yes?" **
Wraith: "I'm gonna put in a request for...something that can blow up the base...Yield like a tac nuke but without the nuclear part"
Wraith: "And mecha portable"
Ragistan looks to Wraith. "Lets try not to nuke the place, we may need the key that’s down there." **
Wraith: "I want to exterminate the orphan star organization while they are on Pacifica"
Bishop: Tianas Mecha: the colony ship got clipped by something.. bizarre, when we approached the planet.. It was just as the moon was rising over the planets zenith.. Barely held together coming through the atmosphere..
Brandt (D): "I've spoken with Desilena; I can't guarantee any numbers, but she will speak with the tribes and gather those willing. I told her we have four days until the ships arrive. And I think we should launch our attack then."
Tiana: "Could it have been the moon? I just found out that its some sort of super weapon"
Wraith: "I think I can acquire other types of munitions"
Bishop: Tianas mecha:.. it could have been
Ragistan looks to Brandt. "I told the fire tribe three days, better to attack before any possible reinforcements show up." **
Tiana: "I wouldn't be surprised if you just clipped the moon while parking and that’s what caused the crash"
Bishop: tianas mecha: don’t get lippy with young girly! I carried you..... oh happy days are here again, ti
Wraith: "That will leave the base intact but...personnel....will be SOL"
Wraith: "Would that be more acceptable to the mission?"
Tiana gives him another gentle kick "Wake up" **
Bishop: Tianas mecha: what?
Brandt (D): "That is actually my concern... Depending on the ships enroute, they /could/ be capable of attack from orbit... And the weapons which were recently delivered notwithstanding, few on this planet have the capability to respond...or even protect themselves..from that threat."
Ragistan considers then nods his head. "It would be, but highly destructive pin point weapons like bunker busters and the like would be more preferable still." **
Wraith: "I'll put in a request for those. As well as for some nerve agents."
Tiana: "Your primary function is to protect me, right?"
Ragistan looks to Brandt. "All the more reason to attack a day before they arrive, there’s no reason to open ourselves up for orbital bombardment, can you contact the person you spoke to and move the timetable up a day?" **
Bishop: Tianas Mecha: yes it is..
Wraith: "Brandt, I recall you had a special weapon… or something special"
Wraith: "That might be suited to this discussion
Tiana: "Then what if I told you I was going to hurt myself if you don't tell me why you think I have multiple mothers?"
Brandt (D): "While I was speaking with Desilena, I recalled some of our countermeasures to attack when our worlds were threatened by Pantheon before... when a ship is in orbit, it is a threat... they, fortunately, seemed to have a distaste for simply razing the planet, perhaps there was something more they were interested in, but as the ship transitions from orbit into atmosphere, its sensors, maneuverability, defenses, and weapons are compromised."
Brandt (D): "I do, Wraith. It's prepared."
Bishop: Tianas Mecha: that’s self inflicted, I am also programmed not to interfere with self choice
Tiana: "What if I told you that me not knowing would lead to me been in danger?"
Ragistan nods his head. "And we don’t have time to bring all of the planetary defense batteries online, so can you talk to her and move things up a day?" **
Bishop: Tianas mecha: I have final judge on that and it would not break through the blocks in my programming
Wraith: "Tell me about its capabilities"
Brandt (D): "I don't know its capabilities, other than it is the weapon prepared to destroy the entire underwater base should it be necessary."
Tiana sighs, "Ok, I give up. You'd of thought a computer the size of a spaceship would be less stubborn" **
Brandt (D): "I will send her message, though I think it wiser to wait until the ships are in a compromised attack position."
Bishop: Tianas mecha: Im also old and extremely cantankerous
Brandt (D) nods to Ragistan and heads down to the hangar, preparing and sending an audio message for Desilena on the way **
Wraith: "Ok.."
Wraith: "I'm still gonna request nerve agents"
Tiana: "No? Really? I wouldn't have guessed"
Wraith: "Let me go make the request for that and other specialized ordinance for fighter bombers
Tiana grins "How long was it until the meeting with the other members of my group?" **
Bishop: as you enter the hanger Brandt, a large lion like mecha gently rests its paws on your shoulder, and does a very credible impression of sobbing*
Ragistan shrugs his shoulders. "I would rather attack and know their reinforcements are a day out rather than let them get to where they can help then hope the planet will take care of them for us. If they show up a day later and decide to start trouble the planet, if it does something, can still knock them around." He looks to Wraith and nods. "Go ahead." **
Bishop: Tianas mecha *to Brandt* make it stop maaaking it stooop...
Brandt (D) stops at the hangar's entrance at the 'groaning' from Hama, and turns to approach the mecha inquisitively **
Bishop: Gouron coming up " we already have three of the capitol vessels carrying siege marines on site.. but having a day would at least allow us to better coordinate things
Wraith goes to comms to send a encrypted weapons request **
Bishop: Ok Wraith
Wraith: (Request is for Special weapons involved in sterilizing an underwater base. Request for nuclear and chemical class weapons requested. Also request a star (of 7 units) of aerospace support fighters to provide CAS for the mission
Bishop: (from?)
Brandt (D): "Hama?"
Bishop: Hama: she keps asking questions I cannot answer....
Brandt (D): "A morsel of truth isn't enough... Tiana, can you come out, please?"
Bishop: Tiana: your mecha is, well sobbing no Brandt’s shoulder
Tiana hops down **
Tiana: "Hi Brandt"
Wraith: (Request is from me with command authorization to Plantagenant Ascendant Strategic Services)
Wraith: (With the family name involved)
Bishop: Hama settles into a prone position, his tail covering his nose
Bishop: Wraith, it will take at least three weeks for that stuff to get to your location!
Brandt (D): "Let's give Hama a rest... I was curious as to the extent of your ability.."
Tiana nods "I guess he could do with a break. And my ability to annoy him goes much further beyond this" **
Wraith frowns **
Wraith tries to run a back channel to mum "Mom I kinda need to wipe out an entire mercenary organization. Give me a nuke or alot of nerve gas. This is to remove competition. Your loving son, Wraith" **
Bishop: its not about the red tape its about the actual transit time, ships can only fly so fast
Wraith: What about wares the cartel can acquire
Bishop: ask Rage!
Brandt (D) reaches to his back and draws out a crystalline bolt before handing it to Tiana "Could you grow something on this?" **
Wraith: I'll take hiring a bunch of goons in second line mecha with flame weaponry to go into the base with us
Tiana: "Sure, what do you want?"
Bishop: the bolt grows, it’s a layered rainbow color
Brandt (D): "Anything, just do what you feel like."
Tiana grows away then **
Brandt (D) will give her a variety of bolts with various enhancements **
Tiana: "What are these things?"
Brandt (D): "These are a special form of Viridian crystal which grows rapidly on exposure to Neutrinos...it's, a very small particle
Bishop: nope both of them become rainbow hued... well it keeps them, kind of..
Bishop: Anything she touches with that Brandt is transformed to a rainbow hue...
Tiana: "Well. I can make it pretty colors for you if you like?"
Brandt (D): "One more thing I'd like to try..." *Hops into Corona briefly and brings out a more dense armor plate, a discarded piece from his work on Ulfr* "try with this.."
Tiana tries with that as well **
Brandt (D) is less concerned with the color, and more the composition
**
Bishop: it does... go rainbow...
Bishop: Hama: tell her will you? It might be used against her...
Wraith sends out a back channel to the old man at the merc bar...for very specific needs. **
Brandt (D) turns and looks up from studying the piece of iridescent armor "I think it best if you tell her. If you are capable of such.." **
Bishop: Old Man: you want men? Love you long time, give massage with happy ending?))
Bishop: Hama: I cannot.. I have blocks in my programming
Bishop: Old Man: oh, you want dangerous men in black rubber?
Brandt (D) nods and gestures Hama over toward one of the outward facing hangar doors, and sets aside the crystal constructs before leading Tiana over to look out across the water "Do you remember what I said before?" **
Tiana: "I think it best someone tell me before I grow a crystal into someone where the sun doesn't shine"
Tiana follows Brandt "Yes" (she lies) **
Brandt (D) gestures again to the rim and sits on the edge, himself.. Despite her 'agreement', he repeats it anyway "We were sent here, without knowing the true purpose, but it wasn't what we thought." **
Wraith: "Basically"
Brandt (D): "What could Hama tell you?"
Wraith: "Loyal enough to the contract if paid right, no scruples and very well skilled. They need to be able to hang with me as its gonna be heavy shit"
Wraith: "And they have to bring their own machine"
Tiana: "That he was the Cashama colony ship. That he clipped the moon and crashed in to the planet."
Bishop: Hama: I did not! The moon shot me!
Tiana: "And something weird about my mother programming him to protect me, but my mother wasn't born when he was programmed. And they wouldn't program a computer to protect me when he was built, which was like... I don't know how long ago"
Brandt (D) reaches back to gesture Hama to quiet down "There's more. He's old. Thousands of years, at least." **
Brandt (D): "I don't doubt that the parents you know love you very much, but they are only your caretakers."
Tiana: "What?"
Brandt (D): "You were stored on-board the colony ship, in stasis, until several years ago."
Tiana: "What?"
Brandt (D): "You weren't born to the father and mother you know."
Tiana: "That's not true. That's impossible"
Brandt (D): "It's true. You were meant for a purpose. To be here, now."
Tiana: "Why? What purpose? And how come Hama can't tell me this if its true?"
Brandt (D): "I don't have all the information.. There is only so much he's told me, but sometimes it is best to /not/ know."
Brandt (D): "If I had been sent to this world and told to unite the tribes, I may never have become involved with Ragistan and the others."
Brandt (D): "Instead, I arrived, sought a source of information and found someone who could help me, in exchange for my help in return. And here I am."
Tiana: "Ok. But what’s my purpose then? And that seems like a weak reason not to tell someone that they aren't my real parents."
Brandt (D): "I could only speculate that, Tiana. Suffice to say, if what Hama says is true, this Oracle planned far more than any of us know, to send you here, to wait until now."
Tiana: "Well she could have just asked..."
Tiana says, sounding a bit petulant and put out **
Brandt (D): "Perhaps you were needed for a purpose...but you still had to make your own decision.. To chose that purpose, when it became apparent."
Tiana shakes her head "I don't like the idea of purposes. Planned or not." **
Brandt (D): "Why?"
Tiana: "Because I don't like the idea of someone pulling my strings like I'm some sort of prawn in a game of water tribe chess"
Tiana: "Especially not after finding out why all the fighting between the tribes started"
Brandt (D) considers "If all this is true... then your mother believed you important to stopping this, perhaps even re-uniting the tribes in the peace I hear they experienced decades ago." **
Tiana: "No, it couldn't be that. The ship arrived before the tribes didn't it? We weren't tribes off world were we?"
Brandt (D): "No, you're right. But, if the tribes had not been here, the Pantheon would have been able to come, and take whatever they are here for..."
Tiana: "I'm finding this very hard to believe..."
Brandt (D): "Hama's concern is...your friend, who we will meet soon, knows this. Hama believes if he is a threat, he will use this information to make you hesitate, and gain an advantage."
Tiana: "Well, Hama would be right about that. I'd certainly be thrown off balance... though I doubt I'd believe him if he had told me."
Brandt (D): "I feel there is at least a measure of sensibility in Hama's story, so I hope you do not outright discount it, but if you choose not to believe, I do not know if it is anyone's place to fault you."
Tiana: "I don't know, about the only thing I'd believe is that he might be the ships computer core. I mean he is incredibly big and bulky. Other than that it’s all very far fetched... "
Tiana shakes her head "Lets talk about something else. How are your repairs going?" **
Brandt (D) taps on his forearm (which has a data console) and after a moment reaches back and draws another bolt "This time don't change it, but think.. twenty seconds." **
Tiana: "Think twenty seconds? You want me to count?"
Brandt (D): "No, just think of how long twenty seconds is.."
Tiana shrugs and thinks about it **
Brandt (D) lifts the arrow as her hand draws away and 'draws' it to launch into the air... after (presumably) about 20s, it explodes, shattering into hundreds of fragments which ignite in small flares (per Bish's claim of what you were doing to the samples earlier
) **
Brandt (D): "Repairs... Corona is in fine condition. The drive wasn't damaged, only affected by the moon."
Tiana: "So, do you know what the next step is?"
Brandt (D): "Marge's mecha and Ulfr's body are progressing, though I need crystals to engineer my prototype reactor.."
Brandt (D): "We are traveling to meet your companions tomorrow, or is it later today?"
Tiana: "I think Hama said they'd be a day away"
Brandt (D) nods "I'll check the reports again. And according to Marge, the crystals I may need for the reactors are far to the north." **
Tiana: "How long would it take us to get all the way up there and back? In time before those reinforcements arrive?"
Tiana: "And which reactors are you planning to power?"
Brandt (D): "I'll have to get the coordinates for the location from Marge to be sure... I should be able to risk a jump in Corona for a return, but it should not be necessary.
Brandt (D): "I'm more concerned that Ragistan plans to attack before the ships arrive."
Tiana: "Isn't it a good thing to attack before? So that we hit them before their reinforcements get here?"
Brandt (D): "If they are capable of attacking from orbit, there is little we can do to defend, even if we have routed their base."
Tiana: "So you want to wait for them to land, and then attack?"
Brandt (D): "Yes.. A grounded ship is vulnerable, and even more-so, a /landing/ ship, as it enters orbit, loses significant maneuverability."
Brandt (D): "They will still be a threat, however much less of one than if they arrive after the battle is over...or worse, before. Such large assaults rarely last a few hours before they are complete."
Tiana: "But if we leave it too late, they might get whatever it is they need to get the moon working"
Brandt (D) nods **
Brandt (D): "I'm not a tactician, and will leave such matters to Ragistan, but...I do believe his choice is ill-advised."
Tiana: "Oh well, I guess we'll have to wait and see then."
Brandt (D) nods "At best, it leaves us three days to gather forces of all the tribes, the cartel, colonies and free pilots." **
Brandt (D): "I will travel with you to meet your tribemates, if you like, then go to the North in search of the crystals I need."
Tiana: "Thanks, I'd like some back up there."
Tiana: "We already seem to have delayed for a long while."
Brandt (D) nods in understanding. **
Brandt (D): "So much seems to have happened in so few days. Life on Ranue (It almost sounds like a dog's sneeze) seems so simple compared to this."
Tiana nods her head "It has been hectic. Though going in to space was fun." **
Brandt (D): "I'm glad that was enjoyable for someone." *Grins slightly*
Tiana: "Well, there were some bits I could have lived without"
Brandt (D): "You were right though, the moon was responsible. You can detect things like that, too, can't you?"
Tiana: "Not with any degree of accuracy. But something that powerfully psionic you can't help but feel."
Brandt (D): "You, perhaps... I doubt anyone else was aware of it.."
Brandt (D): "That's rather impressive, and helpful."
Tiana: "I'm not sure the others have psionic abilities do they?"
Brandt (D): "Most do, I believe. They may not often make use of them."
Tiana: "Maybe I just practice mine more then or something."
Brandt (D) nods **
Tiana: "I don't think it was all that unique a thing to be able to sense, and was partly deduction anyway."
Brandt (D): "Among my people, my abilities are...somewhat common. To be able to shape and mend material is a great advantage to a mechanic."
Tiana: "I can imagine it would be"
Brandt (D): "Sirius, though...And Ulfr... I've never been able to explain that."
Tiana: "That is pretty odd"
Brandt (D): "How so?"
Tiana: "Well, I've not seen a machine like it before"
Brandt (D): "Sirius wasn't always a machine.."
Brandt (D): "He was an actual wolf, a companion given to my family shortly after my birth."
Tiana nods "And that’s what so odd about him. Though not in a bad way" **
Brandt (D) considers "I suppose I can understand that." **
