< out the anomaly, so there's that as well.>> <> (I hit the 'attack it with skill rolls until it falls over' button.) (Yes!) (... which it.) (The hurricane.) (Hitching Post? I thought we got to mars.) (Hitching Post is Mars.) (Also, I'm willing to help Kyle with repairs, given the damage scale.) (It's appreciated.) (... I guess we're just doing the rest of the session OOC?) (I pretty much consider this 'establishing'.) (Until we succeed at a skill roll, we don't have much to talk about. Except who's gonna go get dinner. ^^;) (Oh duh) (I mentally substituted whatsisplace) * Amadeus assumes Thomas is on that dinner thing, so he's looking over the data - though he's no astrophysicist or whatever. * Zeke was totally on the ship when it returned. When they land he turns to Kyle and says, "My drones can assist with repairs. I may as well, depending on the difficulties of the repairs." It's not too hard, but there's a lot of work to be done. And I'm gonna need some info from the Prof if we're gonna find a way to make the ship survive that sort of turbulance more readily. My preferred way is to never go near it again. * Zeke looks to Hestia, holo-face frowning as he pulls up his data pad. "It is an interesting phenomenon that we are being paid to deal with." No, we *inferred* we were being paid to deal with it. I plan on talking to some people at ATC and asking. < ng the height of rolling hills. You just got to see a cliff.>> (Amend that, it's into AND out of) * Amadeus reads the article and mumurs, "He'd love our information... at least that trip's going to help somebody." * Hestia stretches her arms above her head. "Besides, the data we have is still useful data to them, and they might have some suggestions as to how to get around that." She smirks a little bit. "If they're going to use us, why shouldn't we use them?" Got a good point there. (Hey guys, just so you know. I'm feeling pretty awful, so I'm going to go lay down. I think that stress and lack of sleep are catching up to me. See you guys next week.) * Lexi is now known as DreFK * Zeke looks at Hestia. "Is... that not how being hired works?" I'm not referring to the job, Mr. Box. But as a matter of fact, yes, that IS how being hired works. If they want you to accomplish something, it's in their best interest to help you do it. It's not so much a 'We hire you to do something', it's a 'We want to do it, so we're hiring you to go out there and do it. But if you need help, we want this done, so we'll help you with stuff.' Or something. * Zeke is silent a moment, then puts the data pad away and says, "Then you will do that. I will begin repairs." He turns and goes tromping off. <> * Hestia watches him go, then raises an eyebrow. "Wonder what's eating his RAM. Well, other than the Mr. Box crack but he deserved it." * Zeke and Team Drones are on it! (Okay, going to switch loads. Back shortly.) (Is Team Talk to ATC waiting for Todd to come back, or?) (I guess so? Nobody's picked up the phone otherwise.) (I'm staring at data! It's what I do best. D:< Plus, I'm not confronational enough.) (Confrontational rather.) * Kyle goes back to work on teh ship! * Zeke has three drones carrying a beam inside as Kyle goes to work. <> (Back.) (s/Ard/Amadeus. Jesus, brain.) * Hestia is sticking with Amadeus for now. Why? No point in calling ATC without findings as a trade chip. Thus she's looking over the doc's shoulder. "Now what would do *that*..." <> (You cannot fourier transform our ship :|) (I believe i just did.) * Zeke doesn't want a waveform, he wants a functioning beam, so he stacks all the waveformed stuff up as it's pulled out. Maybe it'll all collapse into a beamularity. * Amadeus talks to Tia: "This nullspace concept, I'm guessing. If there's a place that exists outside our reality, more or less, then there's an undetermined amount of space where all of that resistance can form." (I admit, I'm too stupid to make RL sense of this, sorry.) (Apparently, the resistance there is really high? But I have no clue what that means we can do.) (Other than bolt on a supercharger.) (WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO) (But I don't understand how 'resistance to punch through to nullspace' = 'GALACTIC TORNADO') (Me either, but nullspace is also the place where there was a flying jesus and the sun was an anvil.) (I don't get it either, but hey! I'm just playing a biologist. :D) * Hestia pokes at the data a bit herself. "Right, so... does that mean there's some alternate universe gate on the other side or something that's generating all that resistance?" <> Dude, that's some wacky patterns. * Kyle takes some pictures of the stress fractures before Zeke straightens them out. Yay examples! In theory... yes. * Zeke looks to Kyle. "Yes, it is an interesting effect. It may be possible that the imprinted waveforms could provide a secondary source of data." * Hestia shrugs. "Well, I mean... I doubt there's some hole in reality or something, but that's the only reasonable explanation. The 'whirlpool' is something in standard space generating resistance." * Hestia skims the article. What's the guy say causes hills/valleys? <> Yeah, I'm trying to get as much evidence as I can. If we have some material that's beyond repair, we could probably analyze the stress in more detail on those too. That'd probably help with the analysis as well. (Right, but rainstorms are natural and those have a cause.) (I mean, if he doesn't know that's fine.) <> (rrrhksjdhskdjvhsdklvjhsjvkh) (I roll to solve mystery) (It was Mr jenkins the whole time) <> (Maybe we could call him up!) (Zeke's an engineer robotics mechanics guy!) (Give me a few years, I could probably get into it. :P) (With a little space nav and ploting!) (Cham: Do we have anything 'beyond repair' to satisfy Kyle's wreckage lust?) (YES! WRECK!) * Hestia taps her fingers on the desk idly, then picks up the phone. "Right, well, we're not going to get anywhere without PhDs we don't have. I'm calling ATC." <> <> This'll be fun. * Hestia cradles the phone with her shoulder. "For manipulative, market-cornering oligarchial bastards they're decent people." * Tomas returns from the Galley dabbing the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief which he then places in the breast pocket of his jumpsuit, "What have we figured out?" * Kyle checks for any residue or, well, anything that'd be of use that'd normally go to waste. <> "Ms. Richter! Pleasure to hear from you. Are you back already?" * Hestia decides going for the immediate jugular is her best option. "So did you know about the typhoon or were you just guessing?" (On the big viewscreen or do futurephones have little video screens?) (Both but I imagine she used the full room viewscreen so Amadeus can chime in) (or is it just the inflection in his voice?) <> <> "Typhoon?" <> * Tomas closes his mouth and turns and watches the conversation. * Hestia gives him the Evaluating Your Sincerity expression for a moment, before inclining her head at Amadeus. "We have some information for you, but it's not from the planet." * Tomas pipes in, "What'd you expect us to find out there, doc?" * Kyle collects the fragments then and gets'em sealed in some baggies to be sent for testing. <> "Uh.... a habitable planet around a binary star, and some sort of weird fluctuation in the void around the system. Why, what DID you find?" A portal to Hell. dun dun DUNNNNNNN (And Tomas, being a dork, says that out loud.) That would probably be your 'weird fluctuation'. Thanks for the ominous chord, Tomas. (=D) * Tomas nods at Amadeus. You might want to switch to voice only if you have poor impulse control, by the way. "Milton's hell? Or are you being metaphorical?" * Hestia goes all o_-. "You and Zeke aren't related, are you?" (Sadly, Tia doesn't understand why, to someone where he works, that is a totally legitimate question.) ( /me calls over comms. "I don't think Zeke has any known relatives.") "I can tell you no, with 100% certainty." <> "Sorry, I've been talking to some of our special residents here. Kind of hard." * Tomas turns to Tia and Amadues, "Are we being metaphorical?" * Hestia Spock Eyebrows at that, then goes on. "I was being metaphorical. It's a massive phlogiston storm." (I'm going to beat you, Vanquish demo. SOMEDAY.) * Zeke is doing all that work with Kyle, and then all of a sudden he and all his drones stop, and his holoface frowns. "Now that IS interesting. Did it damage your ship when you went through it?" Around it, thanks to Drunken Master, but yes. Hey, what's up Zeke? * Zeke looks over at Kyle, puts his hand to his head a moment, then says, "I'm sorry. I was... momentarily distracted by something." * Zeke's birdsect, who is still in the room with everyone, is just watching the holoscreen at this point, and being very quiet. Hoot hoot moo. <> "Around it? Wait, did it ... displace the interstice?" ("yes. We ported out in Kentucky. It sucked.") Huh. Well... okay. What's on your mind? * Merilan has quit (Ping timeout) * Zeke's drones start working again, and he says, "They have contacted Kevin Corey, and are conversing with him." (I seriously don't even remember if it did. I want to say yes.) (It did.) (Feel free to say so!) (so many words make Tomas' head hurt) Oh? 'bout our turbulance? * Tomas nods at Kevin Corey, "It did." <> "That sounds amazingly ominous. Would you be willing to let us look at the data?" * Zeke replies to Kyle, "Yes." (Ping?) (Ping!) (Hestia had plans for a deal, it appeared.) <> (Life is easy!) (TAKE IT EASY!) <> (WAT) (*returns from getting laundry* ...nobody could have just said 'yes' the whole time I was gone? ._.) (I wasn't there!) (WHAT) (Ard has a kitty. Your arguement is invalid.) (i am currently planning kevin corey's death) (Oh?) * Hestia says "Yes" so this can move on even though she is folding laundry (Dude. A Mogwai AND a tribble! Awesome!) (Not awesome. :|) <> "Great. We'll just transfer over the phone.... and.... done. " <> "Space Jesus, that ... is a hell of a delta-rho..." Delta-rho? So you DO know what it is. You just didn't know it was there. * Amadeus looks at the dude inquisitively. <> "Energy differential. I know what it is, but only in a theoretical sense. It's not something I would ever have expected to find - some structural quirk, or device, or SOMEthing is making it so hard to exit nullspace there that your drive can't do it. The endpoint slides off it until it hits an area it can open an interstice in." * Zeke continues working with Kyle a few more moments, but then says, "The drones will be able to assist from here. I wish to return to the conversation with Kevin Corey." * Kyle thumbs-up. "If they can handle it, I'd like to hear what Corey has to say." * Hestia whistles lowly. "Say what you want about Alexis Calhoun, but apparently she's got the goods, even if she's got to be drunker than a widow on Lost Days to do it." * Zeke walks back to the room, replying, "If you wish." Sweet. Come on, the repairs can wait even if the drones can't handle'm by themselves. * Kyle heads up to the talkey room! <> "I'm kind of amazed you're still alive, yes. The energy coming off that thing must have been incredible. And it landed you two light-years out? That radius... it must take an incredible amount of energy to sustain that." * Hestia glances at the data, once he says that. "But not a star? We had a near miss with one back when..." A pause. "Back when our ship was more lemon than anything else. It looked like an anvil." "Yeah, a gravity well would be different. It could be that the star was in the process of going nova, that ... might..." <> "I'd have to run the math. It might be what we're looking at. It could be something else. But this data was worth the exploration fee for the planet, and then some. We'll make sure you get paid." * Hestia isn't letting that go by. "And what is it you're looking for?" ("The Galactic Leyline. Also we've bought you a new ship.") (awwwww yeah) (PS: my drones are on rails now.) (It'd work, the Outlaw Star was aerodynamic with the grappler arms retracted.) Yeah, what ARE you lookin' for? (Though really it's the ET that's the Outlaw Star. Chako as Gene, Tim as Jim, Taluun as Aisha, Isis as Shizuka... Vernon as Melfina...) (Charlie can be the guns I guess I don't know.) "The category into which my job fits is 'Weird Shit', Ms. Richter. We find weird shit, and we try to make sense of it, and then make money off it. So what we're looking for is weird shit, and this is definitely that." * Zeke's birdsect rejoins him on his shoulder when he's there, and now they're both just staring at the screen. (Translation: We're not telling you.) (Well, Illy is Hilda, and Charlie is, uh... um... FRED!) ( WE ARE ROBOTS WE ARE ROBOTS WE ARE ROBOTS) (beep) "We have a few more planets we had our eye on, if you're looking for a new target. Your expediter has the list." * Zeke speaks up to say, "It is good that you are paying already, because the repairs were extensive." Amazing how extensive repairs stick in the communal memory. As an aside. <> "Do you have any of the damaged materials? We could definitely pay extra for those." * Hestia texts Preston while this is all going on: send name of other planets on atc list please -t (We do! Kyle was there to preserve them!) * Kyle nods. "There wasn't much left, most of what was damaged was disintigrated. But I salvaged what I could of the damaged sections." <> * Hestia is done with Kevin, the others can handle him. To sleythinpedia! <> "I'll send you instructions on where to mail the package." * Zeke replies, "Hopefully that is satisfactory. I am certainly looking forward to our future conversation, Kevin Corey." <> <> "Okay." <> Well, that went surprisingly well. * Hestia is typing away and reading the sleythinpedia still, and doesn't look up to talk. "Does the head of GalReg know about your mancrush?" ("If you are a man.") (Well, we know he is!) (Since when?) (... Actually, ATC. So no we don't.) (I ment Kevin.) (...not Kevin.) * Zeke looks over at Hestia a moment, then replies, "Kevin Corey is hiding something that is... very unsettling." * Hestia smirks a bit but doesn't look up. "Well, charm it out of him on your first date." * Zeke frowns. "He wished to have a conversation with me about another topic. It is convenient." * Hestia NOW looks up, one eyebrow up. "...I was kidding, but hey, go you, stud." * Amadeus cough/chokes at that. * Kyle whistles. * Zeke looks around at everyone, then states, "I doubt it will be that sort of affair." (I'd say use protection, but... the suit.) (Anyhow, just remember, Zeke:) (Xavi loves you. <3) <> (:|) That's what you say... * Zeke looks at Kyle. "Yes, because it is very accurate." <> (MAIL BEAMS) <> (LAUNDRY BEE ARR BEE) (Well, I think a conversation with Corey is warranted before I go drinking his milkshake. Making sure we keep at least some of the evidence just in case seems wise.) (Beyond that, taking off on what will hopefully be a milk run tomorrow seems like a strong choice!) (Other thoughts?) (I'd be fine with GJ!) (I think it's midnight for me, Lexi's not here, and starting a fresh new run would be a great way to kick off next session :x) <>