Try again then head to party.
Well there's nothing new about the situation so your results at attempting to decode the mass of data would be no different. You shrug, close the windows and go get drunk.
[aux:3]
You don't break it, but you don't make it any better either. You just sort of fiddle around, change this part, rewrite this bit of code, edit that one, but the end result is the same as what you ha to begin with in terms of ability.
((I assume that means Anton now has one, but it barely works. Because last time he tried to code it his fingers assaulted him. 
Name: Anton "Blackeye" Chernozorov
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Appearance: 5'2", stout, somewhat overweight man with a mess of short dark brown hair and a faceful of stubble that never seems to want to grow any longer. Left side of body and face thoroughly covered in remnants of poorly healed burns.
Personal information: Anton was mostly an average guy quietly working his way through life. He kept to his books and tools, preferring working with machines to working with people. Always alone, always distanced from others. All his spare time was devoted to working on his magnum opus, an experimental high-energy device of uncertain capabilities that, as he thought, would change his life. He turned out to be right. Upon activation, the device discharged a vast quantity of energy into the superstructure of a nearby apartment building, collapsing the building, and subsequently exploded, leaving Anton with severe burns and buried in debris. He survived. Three hundred seventy four inhabitants of the destroyed building, among them twenty-six children, did not.
Reason assigned to HMRC: Mass Murder
Profession: Technician (Handiwork +1, Exotic Weapons -1)
Stats:
Str: 5(+1/3)
Dex: 1(-1)
End: 4
Cha: 1(-1)
Int: 7(+1/3)
Wil: 2(-1)
Skills:
Speech: 0(-1)
Intuit: 0(-1)
Handi: 2(+1)
ConWep: 1
Uncon: 1
Exotic: 0(-1-1)
AuxSys: 1
Medical: 0(-1)
Equipment:
>MkI Suit
>Red Hand Electrolaser Gauntlet (Melee 0, Short 0, Medium -2, Long+ n/a)
-Adds electric shock to laser pulses if in atmosphere.
-Generator-powered, no reloads
-Shock punches in melee
>Datapad
-Copies of personal VR project schematics
--Beam Spork (tri-prong generator-powered hand laser) (Complete)
--Token of Appreciation (kinetic double-amp demolition device) (Untested)
--Daisycutter (laser-based area denial grenade) (Incomplete, Abandoned)
--Gungnir (tesla saber-based electrolaser rifle) (Complete)
--Modular Combat Suit (MkIII with exchangeable mission packs) (Core and Rocket pack complete)
--Red Hand (generator-powered electrolaser gauntlet) (Complete, Constructed)
-Copies of HMRC standard gear schematics
-Optical tracker/targetter program (beta)
-Parallax scanner program (alpha) <- Added
>Hand laser battery (45/50s)
>Assorted electric and electronic components
>Several yards of wire
You had one that kinda worked before, remember? It's just your attempts to continuously re-roll working on it that resulted in digital harassment.
((Blue glow... well, if it's what I think it is, then he might want to check his atmosphere, because Cerenkov Radiation doesn't work without one, unless he's managed to find an anomaly where the speed of light is slower than the speed of light in a vacuum.
Then again, if there were enough radiation to glow in the atmosphere, then he would be dead already. Without atmosphere and just an anomalous zone, it gets worse.))
Update the master map with the data from the returned drone.
(Ok I tried to host the image here but IMGUR is giving me continuous problems about security errors. I've updated the image on my computer and will upload it when IMGUR stops shitting the bed.)
You update the map. It's fairly boring stuff, just lots of gray rock.
"Well, it seems safe around here. Aside from the crater, there doesn't seem to be any anomalies around here. At least not gravitic ones."
Head back to base.
((My outlook is colored by STALKER SoC.))
You head back into the base and over to the barracks. You prop yourself up against the wall and note the disproportionate number of men to women around here. Does Simus count as a woman? She was barely a woman before she became a robot...
head to the party, eat and stuff then go looking for yellow paint
You head to the party and end up drinking far more then you expected. Eventually you stagger over to a random bunk and pass out. Your pants seem to have somehow separated themselves from your body...
Head to party, join in on the robot dancing.
You and Lukas have a robo-dance off. You've got speed and dexterity, but he's got size...and the fact that he could crush you to death with his bare hands. You decide to let him win this one.
Lars looked at the pad. Huh. Business first, then pleasure.
"Overlord Alvin, scion of Steve, is the blockage clear?"
He then grabbed some food and sat down with the pad. What was this?
Report to Alvin, get food, read pad.
((For the base, Toaster votes Canary Base and Lars votes Algis's Rest. For the planet... Lars votes Steve's Glory and Toaster has no real strong opinion- he'd probably just bandwagon on Wastes of Time for the double meaning.))
THE BLOCKAGE HAS BEEN CLEARED.You grab a handful of fried, microwaved, junk food and sit down on your bunk to read.
The data pad seems to have belonged to the team leader of the last mission. It seems he wasn't with the team when they took a swan dive into that crater. After their deaths he undertakes the exploration of the world personally. He maps the crater, or at least it's boundaries and then talks about going farther to see whats beyond it. The journal ends rather cryptically, pondering what lies beyond the edge of the "designated zones" and exactly what happen to the team that built this base. There's nothing beyond that.
((Algis' Rest sounds decent enough of a base name for me. And I like the deathtrap one for the planetname too.))
Quietly read over Lars' shoulder as he looks at the pad.
You read over lars' shoulder and see what he sees.
((Interesting))
Go back to base after noting the position of this blue stuff then after arriving check my radiation levels and any useful information that was gathered. Make sure to throw pebbles all the way.
You start the long walk back toward the base, your feet aching, your mouth dry and your stomach empty. You can't tell for sure where any of this is, not well enough to mark it exactly on a map at least. It was to the south west, but thats about as exact as you can be.
You make it out of the glowing, radiation soaked land and back onto the bare rock plains with the base at their center. It's a few miles away though.
shake hands with everybody at the party and wish them good luck
You present the robo-shake to everyone.
((4 mph for 16,5 hours means doing 66 miles, or 106.22 kilometers. How could I not have the fuel for that, if I did have enough to rescue flint and Jobasio in the previous mission? How strong is the gravity here?
Also, I am correct that we aren't supposed to map the whole planetoid? Or does that map of yours 'bend' back at itself at the edges, like on a map of the globe?))
Send following to Bishop:
Hey there Bshop, I need to get the technical data on the automapping drones, like their operational range etc. Could you, or one of your technicians, go check them out for me? I will also need the specs on those communication landlines Steve mentioned. Strangly, it seems Alvin doesn't have this info, cause he didn't answer me when i asked him.
Anyway, once you have it, come to the planning room, I'll be preparing our first explorations here.
Then, turning to Simus: "I have been thinking about how we should do this. It would seem prudent if we did a rough scan of the area first, noting points of interest and setting up communication landlines as we go. Then, once we have an idea of the layout of this rock, we investigate important regions in more detail.
Now, the idea would be we, for example, send a team going north from here to the edge of the 'map', after which they go clockwise at the edge untill the get at the most north-east part, after which they go back to the base. While they go north, from time to time they would send mapping drones going clockwise, and they pick them up again on their way back. Once they return, we update the master map here. This would require 4 trips in total, each trip taking roughly 3-5 days at most, barring any alien shenanigans of course.
Any thoughts on this?"
(Well that was in zero g with no resistance, so every bit of fuel was going into the acceleration and, if you remember, it lasted less then 15 minutes or so. Most of the trip was done without the rockets just coasting along on the momentum they gave originally. In planetary gravity you're not gonna get 60 miles, although you could probably get 45. After all, those rockets were designed more for short bursts of flight, not sustained flight over large areas. As per the mapping, thats something you have to ask ALVIN.)
((Hmm, I don't think I actually posted an action yet.))
"Right, enough of this for now. Let's see if the AI coughed anything up."
Go to CCR and see if Alvin made the video logs of the previous team available to me, as Miyamoto requested. If so, watch through them and try to detect abnormalities in behavior or events.
There are roughly 60 hours of footage available for each member of a 10 man team. How you want to handle viewing it?
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