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[Twinwolf]

Well, you know what you're working on in Tinker after getting back to the ship. One way or the other.

[Nikitian]

Okay then, my finalized crazy backup plan in case the "shoot things" plan fails:
Use monoatomic blade (or Dubley's handiwork) to remove kinamps from fists.
Duct tape them to automated mapping drone along with claymores.
Fly them up the hole.
Shoot at claymores to detonate, thus sending the kinamp upwards at high speed.
Kin-amp enhanced shock-wave hopefully makes a big hole and we can hopefully dodge the debris.

If we have too little time and Xan revives Lyra, this can be shortened to:
Cut off hands. (Duct tape some claymores on them if there is time.)
Have Lyra tenekinetically shoot them at the hole. (Detonate claymores if possible.)

And if we have too little time... Well, I can always find out how well people outside a battlesuit can survive a shockwave...

This would be so much easier if battlesuits had detachable rocket powered fists...

I should mention that thanks to the magic of force-squaring (not kin. energy, though; that would indeed give velocity a hand over mass, whereas with force they are equal), powerfisting with all the mass of a battlesuit behind it should still be far more powerful than just using space magic and explosions to accelerate the fists. That's the reason they are not detachable.
(I think.)

Now, though, there is a question of whether a kin-amp sandwich would be more efficient than separate punches, or not...

[Harry Baldman]

That treatment's already worth it! Shame I managed to miss out on talking limbs, but the visions are certainly very interesting, and bring to mind several things I had not yet considered.

[Twinwolf]

NJW, I think Piecewise meant that making the stim into a pill would have the same effect as just a stim.

[NJW2000]

Ah, thanks. You can still sell stuff back to the armoury, right, for the same price if its unused?

[spazyak]

Ah, thanks. You can still sell stuff back to the armoury, right, for the same price if its unused?

yas!

[NJW2000]

Thanks.

[AoshimaMichio]

Hmm, that could be interpreted as Altered were trying to find something. The red star? The white planetoid?

The Coordinates?

[Sean Mirrsen]

You adjust your cameras, but it's not possible to watch all the feeds at the same time. You have to keep shifting your gaze from one to another.

Check if you can do the mechwarrior thing! Get all camera feeds combined into one panoramic view, and squished into a single screen's feed - it's terrible for seeing details, and it's hard to get used to, but it allows to see movement around you quickly, and that's what's important.

[AoshimaMichio]

You adjust your cameras, but it's not possible to watch all the feeds at the same time. You have to keep shifting your gaze from one to another.

Check if you can do the mechwarrior thing! Get all camera feeds combined into one panoramic view, and squished into a single screen's feed - it's terrible for seeing details, and it's hard to get used to, but it allows to see movement around you quickly, and that's what's important.

Good idea, but with potential to fuck up my cameras altogether. Might break the suit with bad roll too.

[Nikitian]

You adjust your cameras, but it's not possible to watch all the feeds at the same time. You have to keep shifting your gaze from one to another.

Check if you can do the mechwarrior thing! Get all camera feeds combined into one panoramic view, and squished into a single screen's feed - it's terrible for seeing details, and it's hard to get used to, but it allows to see movement around you quickly, and that's what's important.

Good idea, but with potential to fuck up my cameras altogether. Might break the suit with bad roll too.

Note that this is exactly why we have a designated tech-support auxiliary programmer on the mission team. Unless Pancaek needs his help (which I doubt), Konrad could be contacted to remotely help with setting the video feeds.

[AoshimaMichio]

I'll try to do it on next turn if nothing else requires my attention, but I'm not sure if Ulrich knows Konrad's skills.

[piecewise]

Took my TEAS today.

Scored in the 99th percentile for my program and 98th for the nation.

The questions in the practice booklet seem to be written much more poorly  then the actual test.  I think there might be some sort of conspiracy here; make the practice test harder so that people get worried and buy extra practice materials. Clever.

[Kedly]

That's awesome dude! Congrats! =D

[DoctorMcTaalik]

Congrats! I googled TEAS, and the first result was a sponsored ad for practice materials. You might be on to something there.