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[piecewise]

Ok, I'm writing this in a rather busy environment so lets dispense with the pageantry. This is the Vet mission so if you're a vet and you're on a mission, this is where you belong.

We're porting you onto an asteroid base. It has no name, just a number. Name it whatever you'd like, if you'd like. The base has the basic amenities; living quarters, food, entertainment, etc. But the big thing here is that it has an EUE, a stash of shuttles with EUE anchors to allow them to be ported in and out, and the construction area for the weapon. There's a shuttle bay which looks a lot like the one on the sword but smaller and strangely lacking any  large door out. Mostly because the shuttles were never made to fly out of that bay, but rather to simply be teleported out of it to different universes. The construction bay is a large, dome shaped structure with mechanical construction limb tracts and about 100 more scientists than is necessary. This is where you'll be bringing the stuff we need so it can be installed. The weapon is gonna grow over the course of the expeditions until it is finally complete. Or we fail.


My question is this: Do you want me to hand you a bunch of little mission summaries and let you guys choose among yourself who goes where? Or do you want me to dictate the expeditions leaving and ask for volunteers?

[syvarris]

((Question: While I assume I do not have command here, do I have any involvement with this mission?  It's based in Heph territory, which would imply it's of equal interest to Saint as M26.))

[Radio Controlled]

PW, this is the latest list of M28 volunteers:

Christopher Pseudos (NJW 2000)
Cthunkan (Harry Baldman)
Trier Cirurgian (MidnightJaguar)
Lyra Arden (Lenglon)
Auron Kell (Unholy Pariah)

That's just 5 people, in case this influences people's strategy for how to tackle this. Also, if more vets show up, can they just hop into this mission like the newbie one, or not?

[Lenglon]

I want Steve to assemble the teams for the missions as he sees fit, without consulting us.

I do want to know what the missions are so that we can try to cordinate and make sure all objectives are acomplished. and I do want missions to be able to finish at different times from each other, and if players that aren't on-mission at the moment want to join a mission in progress as reinforcements, then once they get a minimum size group to realistically make it to the others and make an impact (i'd guess at a bare minimum 3 at once, probably 4 or 5 would be better) then they can go and attempt to regroup. the regrouping process shouldn't be automatic, things might have moved in between the original team and the entry point.

I'm fine with doing a mission solo or in a pair, considering the spread of missions and objectives and low playercount. Lyra is pretty self-sufficient anyway, at least in an environment that allows her to go without her suit.

[renegadelobster]

(("Unjust jail". That's...an odd name for this mission.

Edit: Actually, maybe not. Depends on what's being gathered I guess.))

[Egan_BW]

((I say it refers to our universe, which is the joint we're blowing in this mission.))

[Harry Baldman]

((Give us the missions we can go to so we can plan accordingly. What order we do things in is likely going to be important.))

[NJW2000]

((Yeah, it'd be useful to know which missions will involve which challenges, especially as a lot of my ammo is kinda specialised and limited.))

[Dorsidwarf]

Eddie signing up, since I cant find anywhere else to do so

[MidnightJaguar]

((Give us the missions we can go to so we can plan accordingly. What order we do things in is likely going to be important.))

+1

[piecewise]

((Question: While I assume I do not have command here, do I have any involvement with this mission?  It's based in Heph territory, which would imply it's of equal interest to Saint as M26.))

Nah

It's also based a billion million miles away, geographically.

PW, this is the latest list of M28 volunteers:

Christopher Pseudos (NJW 2000)
Cthunkan (Harry Baldman)
Trier Cirurgian (MidnightJaguar)
Lyra Arden (Lenglon)
Auron Kell (Unholy Pariah)

That's just 5 people, in case this influences people's strategy for how to tackle this. Also, if more vets show up, can they just hop into this mission like the newbie one, or not?

Yeah, our portal tech makes getting from sword to here easier.

(("Unjust jail". That's...an odd name for this mission.

Edit: Actually, maybe not. Depends on what's being gathered I guess.))

I was actually going for the " likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others" meaning.


The first thing this weapon needs is a shell material capable of containing the reactions until it is ready to be released. If this fails, we'll either only destroy part of the universe or we'll basically just start it on a slow collapse rather than the nearly instantaneous ceasing to exist we want.  There are three likely places for this material:

1. Fractalverse appears to exhibit certain dampening qualities among some materials. With samples of the right materials, we may be able to synthesize a material usable for this. This will involve hunting around and gathering materials until the right mix is satisfied.  Fractalverse is very low G and seems to be inhabited by semi-biological semi-mechanical creatures.

2. The teleporting plant-thorn universe has odd qualities to many of the organic components. We believe that some part, root or seed, of these plants may contain the materials we're looking for.  This will be more of a straight shot towards the different parts of the plant without much in the way of hunting around.

3. An alternative non-extrauniversal option is to be ported deep into a quiet world and look for materials there that satisfy the need. We don't really know what we'll find down there, but it will at least be in our own universe.

[MidnightJaguar]

Fractal vese for me.

[Lenglon]

M26 on the wiki said of fractalverse: "The atmosphere seems to be an extremely thin but ubiquitous nitrogen-argon mix. Humans from phase four return unnaffected."
Um, is it safe to breathe or no? does it require being suited or not?
what about the thorn verse, is that breatheable or not?
((I feel that the most important stat for going to thorn-verse would be Fate.))
Um, Quiet Worlds also have breathable atmosphere, right?

[syvarris]

((Humans from Phase 4 were in an oxygenated ship--that step just ensures being in th universe doesn't cause people to go insane.  It's surprising how often that's important.

There's no oxygen, so you probably need some sort of oxygen mask.  I'm unsure if the atmospere's high enough pressure to allow you to remain otherwise naked, but I imagine it is.

Quiet worlds... vary.  They typically do have breathable atmosphere--players of Crossroads have to buy a space suit, and otherwise go out in winter clothes--but there's a lot of chemicals and other dangerous atmospheric things which you might run into.))

[Corsair]

((Humans from Phase 4 were in an oxygenated ship--that step just ensures being in th universe doesn't cause people to go insane.  It's surprising how often that's important.

There's no oxygen, so you probably need some sort of oxygen mask.  I'm unsure if the atmospere's high enough pressure to allow you to remain otherwise naked, but I imagine it is.

Quiet worlds... vary.  They typically do have breathable atmosphere--players of Crossroads have to buy a space suit, and otherwise go out in winter clothes--but there's a lot of chemicals and other dangerous atmospheric things which you might run into.))

Don't forget murderous space robots. Also I'll be joining here once the next onship post is done.