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[Toaster]

There was a mention at some point of a ship testing a new kind of FTL disappearing; I've been expecting the mission where we find out what happened with it for a while.

[Lenglon]

TURN ERROR: re-read the end of my action please - I was proceeding on foot to Lars instead of riding the jeep.

[Parisbre56]

There was a mention at some point of a ship testing a new kind of FTL disappearing; I've been expecting the mission where we find out what happened with it for a while.

That and tavik's avatar go surprisingly well together.
But I thought that the report was about a transport ship that went through a jump point and never came through the other side? Since the max recorded timespan for a jump is 2 years, I think, and that ship hasn't come through the other side it is now considered lost. Or was it about a ship loaded with sensors that was going to jump on a jump point near a black hole so that it could find out more about how jump points work? I don't remember.

((Yeah, though I thought that maybe it'd still work well enough to try, what with a +4. I wonder though, if manips can neither do reaction shots nor long term stuff well, what were they better at again than amps? Precision right? Cause there's been a few precision amp uses over the mission, and they didn't seem to have trouble with that.))

And the fact that you don't get an ominous amp counter. And that it's not your mind at risk. And that you can change your minds.

[Nunzillor]

I'm starting to kick myself for not switching to exo.  Even considering those benefits listed in the post above, manipulators seem less useful in many circumstances. 

Maybe, however, it just requires a different way of looking at things.  Finesse instead of force?

[Hapah]

Manips have a bit less risk associated with them, as well, I think. Though I don't plan to use either.

[Parisbre56]

Found it:

Search for news broadcasts that are related to events that Steve might send us on a mission on.

You flip through the channels. There's a documentary on The planet Minos 9, a news story about an outbreak of violence on a colony space station, and a story about the disappearance of an experimental spacecraft.

((Was the magic ball the Mysterious Orb of Medium Awareness?))
Be awoken from my sleep by the apathetic cry for help!
"This looks like a job for magic!"
Timmy, still half-asleep, shambles over to Cloud.
"Whoa, dude, you're all dismembered and stuff. I can help you with that, I think."
As Cloud rushes off, Timmy shrugs.
Sit back down on the couch and watch the shuttle thing.
EDIT: ((I would like to request an update for the armory list. A whole lot of potentially useful equipment is unlisted, even though it's technically available at the armory.))

((I request that the penalties for the technician class be reworked. I say that you should get rid of the penalty to uncon rolls, since techies would have had a hand in making such things.))

Look further into this shuttle story.

Bishop stops on the Channel talking about the experimental craft.

Apparently it was an instrumentation ship, manned by only a few crew members, and stocked with extremely precise instruments. It's mission was to measure radiation levels, gravity fluctuations and other such things during a "jump" between two areas in space. The actual mechanics of what happens when a ship jumps are still almost completely unknown and it's been a long standing goal to discover what makes this "jumping" effect possible. The ship itself actually jumped years ago but it is only now that it has gone beyond the threshold of expected time loss and has been declared missing.

Looks like something doesn't want us figuring out space magic. Or it was just bad luck.

Spoiler: Irrelevant quotes I found (click to show/hide)

The chapter talks about how mankind spread to various planets within the solar system, mostly a lot of moons and the occasional asteroid. For several hundred years they basically were stuck within the solar system until the discovery of something called the Hensbeck effect which allowed ships to move instantaneously from certain places in space to others. This allowed for the colonization of the stars.
...
> The corps itself is roughly 800 years old, along with most of the current military organizations. All left overs from the Altered wars and the creation of the Magistars system. As per how old I am, oh, about 150 years old, objective time. As per how many people survive and die, I can't tell you exactly, but the average survival rate per mission is 20%. So, on average, 1 of the 5 members of a team will survive. Now, extrapolate that up through ten missions and I believe you have a 1.024 chance in 10,000,000 of surviving to the end. A few have beaten the odds but you would have had better odds if you just played the lottery.

"First one is just a gauss shotgun with blackshot. Pretty standard, the civic defenders use em, but in more human sizes."

She puts the shotgun on the counter and grabs the rifle.

"This one is a Gauss Assault rifle. They give em to battlesuits sometimes." She pops open the magazine and looks inside. "With a magazine full of redshot. Thats nasty."

She puts the Rifle back down and takes a look at the sniper rifle, leaving it on the counter this time.

"This one is custom. Energy based." she says as she flips it over and runs her hands along it. "Very high powered. I think it's based on a particle condenser rifle, but those haven't been used in hundreds of years. You can look em up in the vr, but don't be surprised if they're not in there. They're a weird old weapon."
...
>The computer on the lesho rifle is connected to both the scope and to the bullets themselves. Each bullet has a set of maneuvering rockets that the computer controls. Thats how it guides the shots.

1. Look up information on the UWM.
2. Look up information on the Knights of Nil.
3. Troll.
4. Find Thomas and May sex tape online, researching reviews on it.

1.UWM has been around for around 1000 years at this point and have been watching over the diverse worlds of man and protecting them from the dangers that lurk beyond the stars. And no one should question that. Ever.

2.Apparently that entire thing was just the delusion of a particularly insane sex deviant who wanted to give his antics some sort of  "philosophical" backing.

3. You post comments with poor grammar and spelling and then violently verbally assault anyone who tries to correct you.

4. You find it under the title "Brown noser". It has mixed reviews but many requests for "MOAR"

...

The specifics of the magistars vary greatly, thanks to the differences in planets, but in general they are among the most wealthy and usually most highly educated men and women around, if only to keep up appearances. Seeing as the original magistars were some of the greatest strategists and thinkers of their time, their modern iterations often feel the need to "live up" to that image, if only superficially. The other trend is their habit of living in large, heavily fortified homes, for obvious reasons.

There are humans and human worlds that are not part  of the UWM, though not in the ways you'd expect.  Actual dissidents and rebels are rather rare, mostly because they tend to get killed, or only make up a part of the population, like on china-9. However, some places are technically free, though only technically. There are some Tomb worlds that have residents, usually criminals exiled there, plus the "forgotten" worlds; places that have, one way or another, fallen from current technological standings back to some anachronistic system. These are free only in that the UWM's power isn't felt there because there is no magistar or UWM forces there. These worlds are "reintegrated" into the UWM over time, but they often spend decades or centuries wallowing in preindustrial squalor in the mean time.

As per those weapons, well humans have lots. We have ships designed for the sole purpose of destroying planets, the arbiters, Titans, Avatars, half the upper ranks of the specialized military, Ghost ships, you name it.

Alien weapons sort of vary. They tend to use a lot more biological weapons then humans, since they don't have that massive turn of to genetic engineering that humans did via the altered war. They have their share of giant space guns and bombs though, as well as the occasional "super" soldier or the like.

1. The HMRC was formed officially just after the end of the altered wars, but similar units were in existence under other names before hand. It pretty much always followed the form of using prisoners and the occasional volunteer. As per exact records, you can really find anything. It seems like no one knows much about it.

...

I assume you mean the command structure of the UWM, not any individual world, since it varies wildly between them.

The UWM's top echelon is of course the Magistars, who rule over their given systems. Each system and planet has it's own government still, which handles pretty much everything, but the magistar is the one who has the last say. The Magistars are the ones at the head of the UWM's military forces, with various levels of military personnel below them.

The Magistars aren't elected, but are chosen by the previous magistar as a successor. The only rule being that they cannot chose anyone in their direct family. This leads to what you could call "Shared Monarchies" Where the position of Magistar is passed back and forth between 2 or 3 powerful families.  As per how they leave power, death or revolt tends to be the only ways, and usually both coincide.

"Our stuff can't do it as fast as the Altered can. Thats why it was so widely used before everyone they used it on went feral. It rewrites the genes faster then we can change them back. And whats worse is that it has this terrible habit of rewriting itself back to normal if we try and use it as a base."

"Huh, wow, that's... Why did it change itself in the first place, then? I mean, if it rewrites itself back to normal, how'd it freak out to begin with? And why did everyone freak out in the same way? In general, I mean; I know they're all different, but they worked together and displayed the same basic symptoms, right?"

"It happened maybe 10 years after the methods were introduced. As per why...I couldn't tell you. But it happened all at once, regardless of location or age of modification."

Note to self: Put those things in the wiki later if they're not there.

I'm starting to kick myself for not switching to exo.  Even considering those benefits listed in the post above, manipulators seem less useful in many circumstances. 

Maybe, however, it just requires a different way of looking at things.  Finesse instead of force?

Amps might be better for long term effects but they are generally weaker, since their effects are spread out overtime. So if you want power and precision (and more safety), manips are best. If you want large AoE long duration attacks/effects that may or may not be more likely to kill you, go for amps.

[NJW2000]

I got my forearm impaled by a bit of bone when the shuttle got shot at, though everyone else was fine.

Did my -2 in fate affect my roll, or was piecewise finding me annoying? Is there any way I can tell?

Did he roll separately for everyone?

[Hapah]

I imagine it was due to Fate or he just rolls for everyone in the shuttle. I don't think it would be because you were annoying or anything like that.

[spazyak]

can someone give me the link to the char creator so I can quickly make a new one with all med skills, common,  and  uncommon weapon skills.

[Kriellya]

http://parisbre56-phpexperiment.rhcloud.com/character_creation.html

(there's also a link on the wiki. Somewhere)

[Comrade P.]

(there's also a link on the wiki. Somewhere)

On stats and skill page.

[spazyak]

Got my new char done. I will post it soon.

[Radio Controlled]

Got my new char done. I will post it soon.

Yeah, that's the spirit!

[Hapah]

(( Get PW to post a map of where he thinks everyone is and where the crater is. Cause I don't think it's correct right now and I don't know how to fix it XD ))

Might be worth labeling the axes on the map in the future, if we have more missions with grid-like maps.

[spazyak]

Got my new char done. I will post it soon.

Yeah, that's the spirit!

hey can charisma be used to manipulate other players?