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Kalos: ```After several days of much needed R&R, resupply, and readjustment. The date is April 10th, 6 days before the Spectrum line is set up and allowing for safe landings onto the planet of Crozovis. The Chimera hangs in orbit around the planet with its Motley crew waiting
To recap in-game, we had just had a wholesome morning SOL right after being brought up to date from Runi & Pals regarding the events of the Spectrum line, were we are still trying to figure out wtf the 'big bad' (as I have coined it) exactly is and how we can stop it from effecting the galaxy.
What new information we got, the Spectrum line skipped a race... for some reason. By passing the Orange line and going into the Red line. Whether the cause of this is from the 'big bad' being or becoming time sensitive, or the Spectrum line is starting to get suspicious that one of the plethora of organization trying to stop it is getting close to figuring out what this 'big bad' actually is, is ultimately undetermined.(edited)
As for Runis assistants, here's a reminder of who they are and there names
Varen, goes by She/Her/They/Them:(edited)
Varen is on after Runi, so 'evening shift' you could put it.
And Clairox, goes by He/Him/They/Them:(edited)
Clairox is on before Runi, so 'morning shift'.```
Kalos: The players are about to head out. No one made any significant purchased while they could it seems
Amoni Steeltower: (well, aside from a new robo arm)
Adem Nineball: Oh god, Rhino Prime AHahahaha
Kalos: (?)
Amoni Steeltower: (aaah, cat poop problems)
Amoni Steeltower: (brb)
Adem Nineball: ((OH GOD IM SORRY))
Kalos: Indeed. Question is, any last minute things to deal with before its off to space for a week? taking the shiny new ship for a spin and all?
Amoni Steeltower: (Back, gat decided to drop one in the living room for some reason! And the litter was done as well! gah)
Amoni Steeltower: (Adem never found a better replacement for his vibrosword)
Adem Nineball: (yes he did)
Amoni Steeltower: (uuuh, Keith got some surgery done)
Adem Nineball: (a LASER sword)
Kalos: (which one?
Kalos: (and what stats?)
Adem Nineball: (did you even check the sheet? >.>)
Amoni Steeltower: (You already bought it?)
Kalos: So it was
Cyril: (Me too what?)
Cyril: (I didn't get a laser sword or anything)
Kalos: (done with all equipmenting and stuff. once you leave you might not)
Cyril: (Yeah)
Amoni Steeltower: ( <@!Miri> You got anything fancy/resupplied while having R&R on the station?)
Cyril: (Oh wait, the replacement robot bugs, but that's it)
Miri: (yeah, i don't think i got anything)
Kalos: The planet is 3 days journey away traveling inward into the galactic core. Nothing stops you from going earlky and preparing things or the like
Miri: (most of Miri's necessary upgrades are skill-related anyway)
Amoni Steeltower: Amoni meanders around the planet orbiting vessel, locating the crews whereabouts
Amoni Steeltower: She checks the Rec room first
Amoni Steeltower: (reminder, map of ship is in Calendar)
Amoni Steeltower: Helloooo?
She peaks in, checking to see if anyones watching the Holo-vid
Amoni Steeltower: She walks in to get a better look around
Amoni Steeltower: (guys ur killing me here)
Amoni Steeltower: ( <@&348237371705131009> )
Adem Nineball: (I Forgot what the rec room was for >.<)
Kalos: Rylex is in fact there, giving a casual wave over, watching a parody news channel
Amoni Steeltower: (Again, refer to map. But its the Kitchen and well, recreational room)
Kalos: its hard to distinguish from the real stuff
Kalos: especially now that you're a knight
Adem Nineball: (Ah!)
Adem is drinking the coffee rather faster than usual, burning himself with each sip, he seems excited for once.
Amoni Steeltower: "Ah! Well theres two of you."
Amoni Steeltower: "Where is everyone? I want to discuss plans for the Spectrum Line."
Kalos: Rylex shrugs- "Don't know.. I think keith's VERY busy, you know, sleeping."
Kalos: "Do you want me to be here for this?"
Amoni Steeltower: "I don't see why not"
Amoni Steeltower: "May as well keep yourself informed"
Amoni Steeltower: She eyes the caffeinated Psion
Adem Nineball: "Eh? Oh right, what we gonna do next." he takes another sip and puts the coffee away "Ow, fuck, its hot."
Kalos: Rylex eyes too
Amoni Steeltower: "Well, first I'd like to get at least a gathering of more than three crew members"
Amoni Steeltower: she rolls her eyes, then activates a radio link to the ships speaksers
Amoni Steeltower: She speaks through the sub vocally, lips partially moving
Adem Nineball: "But anyways, how much time are you gonna take? I want to check the hangars for my things....at least I suppose my new things are there!"
Amoni Steeltower: <@&348237371705131009> <Hello Crew! Please arrive to the Rec room so we may discuss what exactly our plan will be once we land on Crozovis.>
Miri: stretches. She's still in bed. Slowly, a little groggily, she makes her way to the Rec Room as instructed.
Cyril: goes to the rec room. Has no plan. :B
Amoni Steeltower: "Shouldn't be to long I imagine, I've been considering we land on the planet sooner rather than later. With it being a core world we shouldn't have..."
Amoni Steeltower: She spots Cyril trot in
Kalos: Rylex turns off the video screen
Amoni Steeltower: "Ah, welcome, have you seen Miri by chance Cyril?"
Kalos: Miri walks around the corner/up the elevator, whichever
Miri: "Mrrrrgrbl." She sits down, eyes half-shut.
Amoni Steeltower: "Ah, great. So as I was saying I think we should consider landing at the location the Spectrum Line plans to set up before anyone arrives. I'll admit this idea only just started forming so the most I have is set up some sort of surveillance around and inside there parameter."
Amoni Steeltower: "I'm honestly not sure how practical this will be to set up, but I imagine it could be useful if we need to track anyone down"
Amoni Steeltower: "But uh, really this is now brainstorming"
Amoni Steeltower: "If anyone has another idea, pitch in. Or we could just hang in space for the next while till they arrive and enter when safe passage has been made for us to land"
Kalos: there are cities- big ones, too, on Crozovis. The specrum line will be taking place in a big patch of wilderness, however.
Miri: "Mrgr." Miri raps against the side of her head a couple times, as if trying to wake her brain (which is still in her chest) up. "Surveillance. What's keeping the actual merc company from finding however we bug the site?"
Miri: "I don't have any better ideas but I'm just curious if you'd thought about that."
Amoni Steeltower: Amoni considers this, and returns with a sheepish smile
Amoni Steeltower: "Ah-haaa"
Amoni Steeltower: "Nooo, I didn't."
Cyril: "They probably wouldn't care. Most of the area last time was public outdoor space."
Amoni Steeltower: "yeah... But that may have been because they had they had the area under control prior the arrival of people"
Adem Nineball: "I would be worried if they keep an eye on us "
Amoni Steeltower: "Hrmm, well we could set up remote toggleable jammers"
Miri: "It's the Spectrum Line, not a family picnic. I'm totally for this idea, I just..." She rubs her forehead. "...we need to make sure it doesn't backfire."
Amoni Steeltower: "yeah, make sure it doesn't become traceable to us for one..."
Adem Nineball: "I'm not scared of Slashing a few cyber idiots with my new toys, but that's still more than a squad of them..."
Cyril: "They're probably already watching the area, it'd be weird for them to not have some kind of surveillance in case people try things like this."
Amoni Steeltower: "Small army."
Amoni Steeltower: "Ahh, yeah that would make sense as well"
Amoni Steeltower: "hrm, well if we decide to land early to set something up in favor of us, Jammers may be better then a surveillance system"
Amoni Steeltower: "Anyways, anyone got other ideas to give us an advantage?"
Amoni Steeltower: "To give us an advantage"
Amoni Steeltower: "Could be done on they day they arrive even."
Miri: "We have an advantage we didn't have the last time." She tilts her head back and forth. "We can totally exploit this if we're smart. Just so long as we don't scare them off."
Amoni Steeltower: (You're refering to the dreams right?)
Miri: (I'm referring to "getting here before anyone else")
Amoni Steeltower: (Ah)
Amoni Steeltower: "Hmmm, theres also the planets inhabitants to consider"
Amoni Steeltower: "They'll likely want to stop this race as much as anyone else"
Amoni Steeltower: "We may want to consider this as a variable that could take place closer to the start of the race"
Amoni Steeltower: "Whats the type of environment we are going into again?"
Amoni Steeltower: "Jungle right?"
Cyril: "Sort of a forest, yeah."
Kalos: Jungle indeed. at leas the racing area is
Kalos: again there are cities
Miri: "Hey, hey, hey." Miri raises a finger, pauses a moment as if trying to remember what she was going to say, then continues:
Kalos: not a homeworld though
Miri: "We could use the locals."
Amoni Steeltower: "Hrm, well with a ship that big they'll likely either just land in the trees, or perhaps find a more open area..."
Miri: "Get the locals to do our snooping for us. Or piggyback on their efforts."
Miri: "Like...maybe there's a protest group. Or we could start up a protest group."
Amoni Steeltower: "That could work, we can get in contact with one of the governments of the area."
Miri: "We could bug them and have them do our snooping and the Line folks will never realize the Spaceknights are snooping on them."
Amoni Steeltower: "I'm sure they'd be interested in co-operating with the knights."
Cyril: "We should probably not tell them we're knights."
Miri: "Even if they do find the bugs, they'll be like, 'they're doing this for the local government, or some other local interest.'"
Miri: "Ha, yeah. We're not the A-Team, we're Section 9. People don't need to know we're involved."
Amoni Steeltower: Amoni bites her tongue back
Amoni Steeltower: "Nng, yeah"
Amoni Steeltower: "I didn't consider what our relations with them may be..."
Adem Nineball: Adem was too busy sipping his coffee, crying in pain, and then sipping it again while hearing Amoni, Miri and Cyril all discuss their espionage plan
Amoni Steeltower: "But I do like the idea still..."
Amoni Steeltower: "Best direction we could take, and they'll have more resources for us to use. Well I'd hope."
Miri: "Yeah. So what do the rest of you think? We hijack - or generate - some grassroots anti-Spectrum Line support, trick them out with surveillance devices, and let them picket the occasion whilst neither them nor the Line realizes they're feeding us intel?"
Cyril: "Sounds like a plan."
Cyril: "...Do we have surveillance devices to trick them out with?"
Cyril: "I've got two surveillance devices, that's probably not enough."
Amoni Steeltower: "Well, if we don't they may?"
Miri: smiles and shrugs. "That's even better. On-site procurement."
Amoni Steeltower: "Worst case we might be able to get something from Runi"
Miri: "If the bugs they find are local hardware, that's even less reason for them to suspect us."
Cyril: "Ohh, true. There's probably some spy-shop around here... Even if they're cheap toys, cameras are cameras."
Amoni Steeltower: "We could also procure some tech to make Jammers"
Adem Nineball: in between sips, he adds "Should probably add a self-destruction sequence to those, just in case." he goes back to his loop of slowly destroying his tongue with hot coffee ad-infinitum
Kalos: One note which may or may not be important:
Miri: "That's a fun idea. We could use cheap cameras but have them feed a signal to something that's secretly sending the signal to us."
Miri: "Like...they find the bugs, they trace them to the decoy, and they assume that's the end of the line."
Kalos: Crozovis isn't part of Narirela
Amoni Steeltower: (even more reason now to NOT tell them we are Knights)
Amoni Steeltower: (derp me)
Kalos: unlike taflurn, which was
Cyril: (lmao yeah we could get in a little bit of trouble but it's for a good cause)
Miri: "So I guess we need one more thing, then."
Miri: "An 'in.'"
Miri: "Who do we pretend to be in order to get the locals to start picketing the occasion?"
Cyril: "We could pretend to be part of Crozovis's special task force or something and hope nobody asks too many questions"
Amoni Steeltower: "We will want to be someone of high enough authority to request the Government to send people out to protest the race at its location."
Amoni Steeltower: "So that role may be a bit to risky and ineffective"
Adem Nineball: "I hope we don't meet actual Crozovis Undercovers there, unlike Miri's misfortune last time" Sip sip
Amoni Steeltower: "Who are these people aligned with?"
Cyril: "...How good do you think their employee database's security is?"
Kalos: speaking of Miri's misfortune, you do have Dora's number still...
Amoni Steeltower: "And where the race takes place... is this world a relatively politically congealed one? Or are there mulitple Gov's?"
Miri: "Yeah, uh, we probably don't want to masquerade as anybody local. Anyone whose identity they could check."
Miri: "...Actually. We could pretend to be criminals."
Amoni Steeltower: "MMMM?"
Miri: "I know what you're gonna say: 'we did that the last time and it blew up in our face.' This time, we just...don't hijack anyone's identity."
Miri: "Like. We play like we're planning to expand our...business to this planet, and the Spectrum Line's arrival runs counter to those interests. So we offer to supply resources and capital to a local group that'll be our..." She raises a hand mischievously. "Catspaw!"
Adem Nineball: "....that can still blast back at our face if there is competition."
Cyril: "Or get us very arrested."
Adem Nineball: "That, too." sip sip ow sip
Amoni Steeltower: "Agreed on both accounts"
Miri: "Well, what's the local government's stance on the Spectrum Line? If they don't like the Line showing up either, they might look the other way."
Miri: "Pretending to be criminals with interests that align with the locals seems like a good way to mask our identities, get in the good graces of the locals, and keep them from looking too closely into us."
Amoni Steeltower: "And we could simply ask the crime syndicate to lay down surveillance, jammers, cameras, etcetera, for us"
Miri: "No, no, no, you don't get it. We're the crime syndicate. And we'll be backing the locals who don't like the Spectrum Line so they'll help us."
Amoni Steeltower: "Ah!, yeah."
Miri: "The people laying down the surveillance are gonna be locals."
Amoni Steeltower: "Also, whatever they lay down we'll want them to be hidden well"
Miri: "We pretend to be crooks but we're recruiting ordinary citizens to our cause. Again, it'd help if there's an actual organization already interested in protesting against the Line. Then we just have to offer them our support - we don't need to assemble anything on our own."
Miri: "They don't need to be that well hidden. Again, if we use a decoy server, we can keep them thinking the 'threat' is purely local."
Cyril: "I'm not sure people who don't like the spectrum line bringing crime to the planet would want to help someone else bring crime to the planet."
Miri: looks as though Cyril just cut her legs out from under her.
Adem Nineball: "....That's probably the very reason they wouldn't like it"
Cyril: thought it was only her head that came off! Oops.
Miri: (you didn't actually, you just gave her a "deer in the headlights" moment XD)
Cyril: (lmao i know I'm just being silly)
Adem Nineball: "Really, can't we just ask the locals for help to botch the line and have them help us? Do we really need some overengineered plan?"
Cyril: "We could probably just ask for help and refuse to tell them who we are if they ask. It'll be much more mysterious and interesting that way, you know?"
Amoni Steeltower: "Well, governments often are... not straight forward"
Kalos: (the government's stance is the usual of course.)
Amoni Steeltower: "Politicians and that"
Kalos: ('we condem... yada yada entering into it is banned yada yada...)
Cyril: ""That's classified" and everything."
Kalos: ('military will crack down'...) etc;. it's the same every time
Adem Nineball: "We are with the goddam government! Can't we ask our bosses to see about it?!" he takes another sip, the coffee is cooling down.
Amoni Steeltower: Amoni points a casual finger at adem
Amoni Steeltower: "Well, we aren't allied with these guys so I'm not sure how well that'll go over."
Amoni Steeltower: "I suppose they could pretend to be some other gov., but thats just as risky"
Miri: "Well, hell. We could totally just be the Men in Black or something."
Amoni Steeltower: "Mmm, stranger things do exist."
Miri: "Some unspecified organization with deep pockets and a vested interest in making sure the Spectrum Line organizers have a bad time..."
Adem Nineball: "...Wait, Narirela isn't in good terms with Crozovis?" He was surprised, he didn't factor politics and International relationships into the mix
Amoni Steeltower: "Well, Narirela isn't apart of Crozovis"
Amoni Steeltower: "Or, I should say the other way around"
Kalos: (crozovis is part of some other nation that has no particular relation to narirela)
Amoni Steeltower: "Now, as for relations..."
Kalos: (again these are all politics that formed like. a year ago
Miri: (yeah, though, that's kind of a question mark here)
Miri: (how are things between Narirela and Crozovis?)
Amoni Steeltower: "... Maybe we should ring up our boss(s)?"
Amoni Steeltower: "unless someone knows off hand..."
Kalos: (Narirela and As I'll now dub, Horminis aren't direct neighbors, and have another nation in between them. But obstensibly alright relation, with space traders going there and back just fine)
Amoni Steeltower: (wait hold on)
Kalos: (but its not like they do military drills together)
Adem Nineball: (So we can't get discovered unless we want to have that nice "mistrust" counter in there, nice to know.)
Amoni Steeltower: Amoni starts recalling Political stuff
Kalos: Old politics: everyone was part of the galactic council and sorta-kinda get along
Amoni Steeltower: (old-ish)
Kalos: (by force if necessary)
Kalos: The old space knights did as much work to depose unstable/'unsuitable' leaders as to fight slavery
Amoni Steeltower: (know what, she just recalls Politics relating to this in general)
Amoni Steeltower: "Isn't Narirela actually..."
Amoni Steeltower: Insert Kalos explaination
Amoni Steeltower: (Unless roles would be better suited?)
Kalos: (narirela, like every nation, is a quickly squabbled together network of planets from old half-made plans of 'what if the council is overthrown'
Amoni Steeltower: "... So if that's the case having Narirela as itself ask this would be in a rather neutral standing with Crozovis."
Amoni Steeltower: "So it would go either way really"
Miri: "So basically we definitely can't let anyone figure out who we are and who gives us our marching orders."
Amoni Steeltower: "But our bosses asking directly can"
Amoni Steeltower: "Albeit maybe not with the most favourable of odds"
Amoni Steeltower: "We could try to falsely represent another gov, but that's risky in of itself"
Amoni Steeltower: "Regardless of our intentions"
Amoni Steeltower: Amoni harrumphs as she leans against the wall
Amoni Steeltower: "honestly the best bet in my mind is having Narirela ask directly"
Cyril: "We probably shouldn't get our leaders involved."
Cyril: "Asking for civilian help with a potentially dangerous task is iffy at best."
Amoni Steeltower: "No, but our boss(es) represent Narirela"
Amoni Steeltower: "If our representatives of Narirela comes to them with the offer of trying to stop the Spectrum Line, that would probably give us the safest option?"
Amoni Steeltower: "Granted, Crozovis could be assholes about it"
Amoni Steeltower: "I doubt it, but its possible."
Amoni Steeltower: "They may ask to arrange some deal with Narirela or some such, in order to give us access to rig the landing area in out favor.
Amoni shrugs
"I don't know, I don't do Governmental Politics, just business."
Amoni Steeltower: "I don't know, I don't do Governmental Politics, just business."
Adem Nineball: "Then why don't we just call?"
Amoni Steeltower: "To clairfy, you're refering to out boss(es) right?"
Amoni Steeltower: "Not Crozovis?"
Adem Nineball: "Who else would I mean? Its not like we didn't call Runi before for matters like this."
Amoni Steeltower: "Just wanted to make sure"
Amoni Steeltower: Amoni grabs the brick and calls for Runi'n Pals
Amoni Steeltower: She sets up the Holo-vid to project the call
Amoni Steeltower: As she does so:
Amoni Steeltower: "So, we're asking to get Narirela to talk to Crozovis and ask them to assist us in setting up survalance at the landing site"
Kalos: On the other side is Clairox! https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/404405245532307466/465209294145454080/3b41c89ab3e2bfcce6c639e64b846247.png
Kalos: Sitting in a bland looking office, not yet customized
Amoni Steeltower: "To caliri.. ah there we go!"
Kalos: "When you say 'narirela' who specifically are you talking about?, and to whom?"
Amoni Steeltower: (I was gonna let Miri do the talking, seeing that you are already typing)
Miri: "Amoni's asking if we can make use of some kind of official governmental channel on this op. Like, the local government probably doesn't care for the Spectrum Line, so she wants to know if we can make Narirela's assistance in this matter official."
Miri: "She's got a point. If we do this under the table and something goes south, it might strain relations. I mean, we still might strain relations if this goes bad, but at least we won't need to fool the local authorities to get our job done."
Kalos: "I'll look into it. This won't be overnight. But we might get you in touch with their own intelligence agencies."
Kalos: "this also means playing by their rules, whatever they are."
Miri: looks at Amoni. "Sounds workable to me. What about you?"
Kalos: "they'll also know for sure we're interested."
Amoni Steeltower: "Simply put, we're looking to set up Survalince and Jammers to assits us in being descreet while we do our job. Heck hands on assistance from there side would also be welcome if we ever need it."
"So as long as there willing to give us a helping hand in gathering intel and keeping us obscure to the Line, I'm all for there hopfully reasonable requests."
Miri: "They'll probably want us to keep them abreast of everything. And...probably to know everything we know about it. Including the dream data."
Amoni Steeltower: "Yeah, I was already figuring that much"
Kalos: "I think we can just give that away. I don't know how useful it actually is even if a lab's still on it."
Amoni Steeltower: "With somthing this big, the more influence to get stuff done the better"
Amoni Steeltower: "Heh, right. Well how long should it take for us to hear back?"
Kalos: ".. 2 or 3 days is my guess, unless they're less or more organized than we are."
Amoni Steeltower: "Alright, well we'll be waiting here until then."
Amoni Steeltower: She looks to the crew
Amoni Steeltower: "Anything anyone wants to add or?..."
Amoni Steeltower: After the moment of pause, she goes back to the Holo-vid
Amoni Steeltower: "seems not, seya then."
Amoni Steeltower: (brb)
Miri: "We have a plan," Miri says with a smirk. "Now all we need is the preparations."
Miri: A weird, mischievous look crosses her face. "Jeez, now I don't have to feel bad about manipulating the locals to do our dirty work. Their own government will do it for us."
Miri: She shrugs. "Business as usual for 'em, I guess!"
Kalos: "better you start going, or at least get near."
Kalos: "I'll keep in touch. hang up if you don't have anything else to add."
Amoni Steeltower: Amoni hangs up the call
Miri: smirks. "I hope this doesn't backfire on us."
Amoni Steeltower: "Right, well I guess we can set commands close our orbit some in the next three days..."
Amoni Steeltower: "Heh, well this is likely are most stable plan yet I'd imagine"
Kalos: (still 3 days away~)
Amoni Steeltower: "Albiet, it'll be one of our mor restrictive ones as well."
Amoni Steeltower: "Anyways, I guess we can go back to enjoying our freetime on the ship, I'm gonna do some laps around the upper hanger if anyone needs me~"
Amoni Steeltower: As Amoni says this her Biosuit shifts to something more practicale for running/jogging
Amoni Steeltower: (Feel free to add some breif SOL before we jump the next 3 days)
Amoni Steeltower: (Or does anyone have any extensive SOL they'd like to do?)
Kalos: (what is SOL?)
Kalos: (OH)
Amoni Steeltower: (Slice Of Life)
Kalos: important question:
Kalos: what do you mark your ship transponder as?
Amoni Steeltower: (The Chimera)
Kalos: for like, 'ship name' 'port of origin' 'purpose of travel' (typically includes destination)
Amoni Steeltower: (POT I'm not sure about)
Amoni Steeltower: (Port of Origin we could say the station we go back to?)
Amoni Steeltower: (That would likely be it actually)
Kalos: (this mainly matters for traveling through borders. And each planet already has its own border control if it can)
Kalos: (unless nobody lives on it like taflurn)
Amoni Steeltower: (Name: Chimera
Port: The station this all started on
Purpose of travel: ???)
Cyril: (lmao that would be suspicious)
Amoni Steeltower: (I have no idea)
Cyril: (What would we call "going to a cool race")
Cyril: ("Vacation"?)
Amoni Steeltower: (pfft)
Miri: (Tourists :P)
Miri: (we're a tour ship/cruise ship)
Cyril: (It's generic and un-alarming, yeah :B )
Amoni Steeltower: (lame ass crusie ship)
Amoni Steeltower: (Lol)
Miri: ("This is the Montalban, from Tattoo port, and we are the fucking Space Love Boat.")
Amoni Steeltower: (PFFFT)
Miri: (no but seriously i'm proposing Montalban as the name)
Miri: (because "Chimera" just screams "we are a military ship")
Amoni Steeltower: (but her name is Chimera)
Miri: (oh, oh)
Miri: (mb)
Amoni Steeltower: (But, we
Amoni Steeltower: (Thats the name she was given)
Adem Nineball: "Oh Right, I have to check my things on the hangar!" he gulps the rest of the coffee (Very Big Ouch) and dashes from the kitchen to the hangar, he was specifically looking for a set of armour and a small device alongside it, things he managed to buy with his fuel reward.
Kalos: day one of travel: You crossed the border into your neighbor state of Vresto... and you get a directed hyperspace comm from 'V.N.S. galactia' "Please identify yourselves."
Kalos: just in text.
Amoni Steeltower: (back in time?)
Amoni Steeltower: (This is in the past?)
Amoni Steeltower: ( <@Kalos> )
Kalos: (what do you mean past)
Kalos: (you never left)
Amoni Steeltower: (Ookkkaaay)
Amoni Steeltower: (Hold on)
Amoni Steeltower: (I thought we we're orbiting around the planet)
Amoni Steeltower: (I thought we already traveled out of the station)
Kalos: (no. you never left.)
Amoni Steeltower: (?????)
Amoni Steeltower: (But my texts?)
Kalos: (as far as I know, at no point did you ever say you guys actually left.)
Amoni Steeltower: (In the Calender?)
Amoni Steeltower: ``(After several days of much needed R&R, resupply, and readjustment. The date is April 10th, 6 days before the Spectrum line is set up and allowing for safe landings onto the planet of Crozovis. The Chimera hangs in orbit around the planet with its Motley crew waiting
To recap in-game, we had just had a wholesome morning SOL right after being brought up to date from Runi & Pals regarding the events of the Spectrum line, were we are still trying to figure out wtf the 'big bad' (as I have coined it) exactly is and how we can stop it from effecting the galaxy.
What new information we got, the Spectrum line skipped a race... for some reason. By passing the Orange line and going into the Red line. Whether the cause of this is from the 'big bad' being or becoming time sensitive, or the Spectrum line is starting to get suspicious that one of the plethora of organization trying to stop it is getting close to figuring out what this 'big bad' actually is, is ultimately undetermined) Amoni Steeltower: ((The Chimera hangs in orbit around the planet with its Motley crew waiting``))
Kalos: (maybe in orbit of your space station)
Amoni Steeltower: (Around the planet)
Kalos: (There's a reason I constantly asked if you guys wanted to head out yet.)
Amoni Steeltower: (I thought it was clear from waht i posted?)
Kalos: (cause you've been on a narirellan space station the entire time)
Kalos: (nope.)
Amoni Steeltower: (uhggg)
Amoni Steeltower: (Okay, well that is most certainly not the case)
Amoni Steeltower: (I WANTED to make it obvious we're Orbiting the planet)
Amoni Steeltower: (NOT the station)
Kalos: (well, you never traveled. things happen during travel you know!)
Amoni Steeltower: (Fine)
Amoni Steeltower: (Well we travel after this call)
Amoni Steeltower: (SO, as the message asks)
Kalos: (in my version of events , you guys spent like a week on the space station... for some reason)
Amoni Steeltower: (Recouperation I figured)
Miri: (Yeah I thought we were en route at the very least)
Cyril: (Teleporting across the galaxy? That's the whole thing the hyperdrive is for! :B )
Amoni Steeltower: *After receiving the message, the we responds with:
Chimera, traveling from (the station name, forgot it) to Crozovis. Purpose of travel, for Tourism/Vacation
Kalos: A few moments pass- "Please pay a passage fee of 5$ per ton of your ship."
Amoni Steeltower: (gimme a sec...)
Amoni Steeltower: (files opening...)
Cyril: (pffff why does the tonnage matter we're not damaging roads or anything)
Kalos: (feel free to ask them if you find it strange!)
Amoni Steeltower: "Why in tonnage?..."
Amoni Steeltower: (also, where in the Excel file do i find tonnage listed...)
Kalos: "That's what Vresto ordinance Ca. 25234 demands."
Kalos: (mass)
Cyril: (Can I use Space Law skill to find out why :B )
Amoni Steeltower: (I think this is where I wana look.)
Kalos: (1000)
Kalos: (cyril: yes.)
Kalos: whats your space law at?
Amoni Steeltower: (5000 SpaceBucks, sweet)
Cyril: (13)
Kalos: Cyril: because they don't want a flat fee for tiny ships and huge ones.
Cyril: (Ohh that makes sense)
Kalos: "Welcome to Vresto."
Kalos: (once transferred)
Amoni Steeltower: Pays the amount
Amoni Steeltower: Travel continues?
Kalos: INdeed. contract drops
Kalos: a day later, you now enter into Horminis, nearer here the core worlds
Kalos: There's no ship coming to demand payment this time as travel continues without issue....
Kalos: navigation roll please.
Kalos: (hyperspace)
Amoni Steeltower: locating
Cyril: (I have 14 but I'm pretty sure someone was the actual navigator)
Amoni Steeltower: (oh! You actually beat me by 1)
Amoni Steeltower: (Hyperspace Navigation)
Cyril: enters the warp void
Cyril: .ra 14
Pseudobot: <@!Cyril> Rolled against 14. Result: [6,1,2] = 9. Margin of Success: 5. Success
Amoni Steeltower:
Amoni Steeltower: (I think I'm better suited for Aerospace)
Cyril: (Yeah, I only have piloting at 12 but both navigations at 14, good team :B )
Amoni Steeltower: Low fives Cyril
Kalos: as you're nearing the planet... your computer shows something really odd on the hyperspace display
Cyril: poff with forepaw
Cyril: uh oh
Amoni Steeltower: 👀
Kalos: a good several parsecs out it seems like there's a big hyperdynamic web...?
Kalos: IE: if you cross into it it'l force drop you out of hyperspace
Kalos: and something is making said array.
Cyril: Would I know about like, an artificial interdiction sphere or anything? :B
Cyril: Ah, yep
Amoni Steeltower: "... is that... waht is that?"
Cyril: "A net. Someone doesn't want us to pass."
Cyril: "Or maybe anyone to pass. This could be spectrum security, or the government's attempt to stop them."
Amoni Steeltower: "... do you think its the Ship itself?"
Kalos: so as it is now you're what would be only minutes away
Cyril: (Do warp drives have brakes, I don't wanna fly into it :B )
Amoni Steeltower: (Or swerve around?)
Kalos: you can just stop yea)
Kalos: (that's not the concerning part)
Miri: "Well. This is an interesting complication. Who set up intergalactic tire spikes here?"
Kalos: you can sit and start scanning with your FTL sensors, but that would also make you obvious
Amoni Steeltower: "Oh! Hey... welcome to the Strange Zone"
Cyril: What information do we have on it? If it's already showing up on some kind of hyperspace sensor
Amoni Steeltower: "We can't be the only ones picking this up"
Miri: "Is it blocking transmissions with the planet, too?"
Kalos: Your navigation computer normally shows you what hyperspace looks like in a big area around you... mainly for situations like this
Cyril: Hmmm
Kalos: though usually they're not good enough to see hyperdynamic fields until you already crashed into them
Kalos: this one's gigantic.
Cyril: Oh dang
Amoni Steeltower: (So, even if we enter it we may not see whats causing it?)_
Amoni Steeltower: (We'll be on pulse to get to the centre)
Cyril: So, is this something we'd know is a crazy artificial structure? Or are we not sure?
Kalos: Miri: they don't necessarily like, stop transmissions
Kalos: but they make TONS of noise
Kalos: and make encruption based stuff bad to work with
Miri: "So...someone's cut off the planet, or at least done their damnedest to put the brakes on anyone coming in or out of the system. Could it be the Spectrum Line guys?"
Kalos: you can still morse code out messages for example, but it'd be speed constrained.
Amoni Steeltower: "Can we scroll the screen? wheres this things centre?"
Kalos: right now whoever is running the fields shouldn't be able to sense you- stealth hull and all that (IIRC?)
Cyril: So, short messages, like 'hey wtf' :B
Kalos: (or did amoni not grab stealth hull)
Amoni Steeltower: (I got Chameleon)
Cyril: (oh god we don't look like tourists at all lmao)
Amoni Steeltower: (Not Stealth Hull)
Kalos: Oh.
Kalos: Then they probably can tell you're where you are
Amoni Steeltower: (So, still a big'ol bulky ship. WE can just go clear)
Kalos: having stopped upon trying to approach Crozovis
Cyril: So we won't reveal ourselves if we stop to scan, already revealed :B
Amoni Steeltower: (So we are a dot on a screen rn)
Kalos: (mhm)
Amoni Steeltower: (they don't know our ships model or name)
Kalos: (probably not.)
Amoni Steeltower: (Just, we exist)
Amoni Steeltower: (gotit)
Amoni Steeltower: "Well, if we're already a sore thumb lets make the best of it"
Kalos: you might not be the only sore thumb- however
Kalos: to actively scan makes you see TONS more but also be tons more obvious
Cyril: Hey, we're not doing anything illegal, just checking out this crazy space bubble
Kalos: passive scans just read the disturbances you leave in hyperspace
Cyril: (It's probably legal to scan weird things in space right? :B )
Amoni Steeltower: (Depends on wahts being scaned I figure, but generally I imagine we should be fine)
Kalos: (yea its legal to scan weird things in space)
Cyril: (Okay I'll do that then. Sensor operation?)
Kalos: Mhm.)
Amoni Steeltower: "No one gave us warnings, lets see whats going on here..."
Cyril: .ra 16
Pseudobot: <@!Cyril> Rolled against 16. Result: [6,3,3] = 12. Margin of Success: 4. Success
Cyril: turns on the cool sonar pinging sound effect.
Amoni Steeltower: pong
Amoni Steeltower: pong
Amoni Steeltower: pong
Kalos: you ping out. Half a second later you get back literally couple hundred or so contacts all drawing in hyperspace to lay down fields. big ones, too. These are either all huge ships, all devices specifically made for this sort of purpose.
Kalos: (they're also useful for some other things)
Kalos: (like slowing down big asteroids)
Cyril: "ah. spiders."
Cyril: (They don't like, suddenly start moving towards us or anything do they? :B )
Amoni Steeltower: "Huh..."
Kalos: Nope. They don't.
Cyril: (whew.)
Cyril: (Any clue as to whether these are government devices or sketchier things the spectrum line people would use?)
Kalos: You even got some names back out of them- the nearby ones at least. H S F S Fiora, HS FS Ariete, HDF Buoy-2523...
Amoni Steeltower: ( Is H S F S the most frequent?)]
Amoni Steeltower: (of the bunch?)
Kalos: Actually, HDF buoey #### is
Kalos: about 3/4ths
Amoni Steeltower: (Are they the most noisy?)
Kalos: Indeed.
Amoni Steeltower: (Would I need to roll to know what HDF stands for?)
Kalos: probably Hyperdynamic Field. It's not very secretive.
Kalos: but it could be a number of other things that are less likely
Kalos: Hydaria Forces, a navy at the other side of the core
Amoni Steeltower: (mmm, I see)
Miri: (So basically we got names of these things but the names don't tell us anything concrete)
Cyril: Can I... try to contact one...
Adem Nineball: Go for it!
Amoni Steeltower: (Would getting closer or flying by one to do some space exploration to check them out get us further information?)
Kalos: HSFS is pretty clear- Horminis Security Forces Ship
Cyril: Ohh
Kalos: you can fly close... they probably won't shoot at you without talking first, if this is a navy
Kalos: to do so would probably cause huge problems for them afterall.
Amoni Steeltower: (Refering to HDF correct?)
Amoni Steeltower: (Not HSFS)
Kalos: both
Kalos: HDF buoys are just big hyperspace devices
Kalos: and don't necessarily even have crew
Amoni Steeltower: (Well, I suppose it won't hurt to go pass by, if we get shot at we just hightail it outta there)
Amoni Steeltower: (Or cloak)
Amoni Steeltower: (If lack of physical visual assits at all)
Amoni Steeltower: (Also, would it make sense for this web to be created by multiple probes?)
Amoni Steeltower: (Or is it possible for just one to do this)
Kalos: it can only be create for multiple probes.
Kalos: this thing is -gigantic-
Cyril: It's like, bubbling a planet, right?
Kalos: seems to be, yea
Kalos: or at least this entire cross section facing you is a bubble
Amoni Steeltower: (May not be a perfect circle)
Kalos: can't be. mathematical perfect spheres are impossible
Kalos: but it can be close...
Amoni Steeltower: ('perfect')
Amoni Steeltower: "... I say we go in."
Cyril: maybe they're possible in hyperspace
Cyril: "We should probably ask them what's up first. This looks like the navy, probably attempting to keep the spectrum line out. Either or job is one or there's gonna be some fireworks in a few days."
Amoni Steeltower: "We want to orbit the planet regardless, why not make a quick pit-stop, say hi, see what the tone of these probes are?"
Amoni Steeltower: "The HDF specifically"
Amoni Steeltower: (How far out is the net from the centre of the planet?)
Kalos: 5 parsecs
Kalos: aka 5 minutes of hyperspace time
Amoni Steeltower: (Out of Hyperspace?)
Kalos: huh?
Amoni Steeltower: (If its 5 minutes in Hyperspace, whats that time to cross this distance out of Hyperspace?)
Cyril: Years, probably
Amoni Steeltower: (Cuz this Net is stopping us from continuing)
Cyril: No, we just can't go through the net
Miri: _looks at Amoni. "We're officially a tourist ship," she says, sticking her tongue out. "We shouldn't have any issue hailing one of these ships and just asking."_
Amoni Steeltower: Dropping brackets
Kalos: https://i.gyazo.com/0dc172e324e750fedad31cb5606bcf6d.png
Amoni Steeltower: Oof
Cyril: lmao
Amoni Steeltower: "Yeah! Lets just go and ask..."
Kalos: in theory the net is a mostly 2d feature
Kalos: and not filled all the way through
Amoni Steeltower: So we could go under then up?
Amoni Steeltower: In hyperspace
Miri: (yeah, to be clear, is there any way around the net?)
Kalos: I mean its a spherical surface- or so it appears
Kalos: rather than a ball of stuff
Cyril: A thin shell
Amoni Steeltower: 'thin'
Kalos: it has some depth, but usually measured in thickness of like
Kalos: tens of hundreds of kilometers
Kalos: not lightyears
Miri: (okay so let me rephrase, so we're absolutely clear here)
Miri: (there is nothing stopping us from just flying through and reentering hyperspace on the other side)
Miri: (this isn't us being forced to get out of the car and walk; this is a speed bump where we have to slow down to cross)
Miri: (right?)
Cyril: (Slow down and potentially be shot down :B )
Kalos: pretty much
Kalos: and what ^ cyril said
Miri: (still worth hailing)
Amoni Steeltower: (yeah)
Miri: (unless anyone thinks that would be a spectacularly dumb idea)
Amoni Steeltower: (nah?)
Amoni Steeltower: (We could out manuver them I feel)
Amoni Steeltower: (Also we have visual cloak)
Cyril: Yeah we should just try talking
Amoni Steeltower: (Mhhhm)
Amoni Steeltower: We pilot the ship into the net, getting as close to one of the HDF signals before entering
Cyril: (no we dont need to enter the net lmao)
Cyril: (thatll get us shot)
Kalos: as you start to approach, you get a hailing
Cyril: (we can ask from out here yeah)
Kalos: from the Ariette
Amoni Steeltower: (Ah okay)
Amoni Steeltower: Answer Hail
Amoni Steeltower: "Hail!"
Cyril: (if you see a military blockade, "flying into it to see what's up" isn't a good course of action lol)
Amoni Steeltower: (Well, retcon the enter part...)
Kalos: On the other side, a brown red and gold avali sitting in a captain's chair, nice snazzy uniform and all
Kalos: "This planet is being currently in quarantine. Unless you are medical professionals, we cannot let you approach."
Amoni Steeltower: (Can I roll to see if they're lying?)
Cyril: "I mean I'm technically a medical professional but"
Kalos: clatters dice
Kalos: whats your detect lies?
Amoni Steeltower: (derp)
Amoni Steeltower: (Uh, miri?)
Amoni Steeltower: (heh?)
Amoni Steeltower: Amoni quickly slides up to Miri
Amoni Steeltower: Descreatly asks
Kalos: This is the truthiest thing you done ever heard, amoni
Amoni Steeltower: (Okay)
Amoni Steeltower: She glances at whos here, and thinks who has a biological medical degree
Amoni Steeltower: "Oh! Whats the quarentine of?"
Kalos: (asked out loud?)
Amoni Steeltower: (oops, ya)
Miri: (hang on)
Miri: (can i check too?)
Miri: !g 18
DiscoDude: <@Miri> rolled 14 (degree 4; success)
Kalos: you get the same reading, Miri
Kalos: "A terrible sickness as of yet largely unidentified. Since you haven't heard of it, you really shouldn't be here. If you need a quick stop, I suggest a detour to this space station."- you get sent a bunch of coordinates to a nearby space station
Miri: shares a look with the others.
Cyril: (While they're talking, I'll just do some space-googling to find any information on this, can I roll research? :B )
Amoni Steeltower: Words "keith?"...
Miri: silently radios the others: "Pretty damn suspicious if you ask me."
Keith: "Someone called me?"
Amoni Steeltower: <Medical degree?>
Kalos: cyril: you get some news releases by the Horminis government, and some scientific papers all out in the last 2-4 days.
Kalos: (lol keith never got to space college)
Kalos: (he spent the money on biomods)
Cyril: <it smells fake but this guy might believe whatever orders he's been given>
Amoni Steeltower: <Maybe they're trying to scare off the Line?>
Keith: <I was a paramedic once, didn't last>
Amoni Steeltower: <A net, a quarentine...>
Keith: <I didn't exactly had a degree>
Amoni Steeltower: Amoni nods
Amoni Steeltower: Uh, thank you officer.
Miri: <If nothing else we might find out more info at the station. Unless that's some kind of trap...>
Amoni Steeltower: <doubtful>
Cyril: <To be honest, we can't do much by getting there early, maybe we should just wait and see how the spectrum people deal with this.>
Amoni Steeltower: <If this is offical as it seems>
Amoni Steeltower: <WAIT A SECOND>
Keith: <We have means to check, right?>
Amoni Steeltower: <wait wait>
Amoni Steeltower: (hold on)
Keith: <Also, did I miss something>
Amoni Steeltower: (We just talked about this)
Amoni Steeltower: (The whole convo with Clairox)
Amoni Steeltower: (To get in good regards with the gov)
Amoni Steeltower: (And ahve them help us?)
Amoni Steeltower: (Assuming they even allow our guys to talk to them, we may just get the real story in three days time)
Amoni Steeltower: (Give or take)
Cyril: (Ohh, yeah)
Amoni Steeltower: (That whole Plan stage we had at the start)
Amoni Steeltower: "Come on, lets turn this around and go to the coordinates..."
Amoni Steeltower: <Guys, we might get in anyways>
Amoni Steeltower: <Out whole conversation with Clairox>
Cyril: <I might actually be able to get in there on "medical professional" grounds...>
Amoni Steeltower: <You were alseep Keith>
Cyril: (I don't think cyril has any kind of degree but does have 14-15 in skills lmao, that probably doesn't qualify him)
Keith: <Yeah, Cyril has a big brain...>
Kalos: (hang up?)
Amoni Steeltower: <We basically asked our guys to talk to the Crozovis gov and assist us with making survalence>
Amoni Steeltower: (Yeah)
Amoni Steeltower: Hangs up
Kalos: Just in time:
Amoni Steeltower: "We'd be playing by there rules if they agreed, but in this case..."
Kalos: Runi rings up
Amoni Steeltower: "Ah, Runi!"
Amoni Steeltower: "Hows it going with Crozovis?"
Amoni Steeltower: "We just ran into a snag you may be able to help us with..."
Keith: "Hi, mom..."
Kalos: <Still waiting on a call back, THis is another surprise- So, remember those dream images? turns out Varms is a bit of a botanist with eidetic memory.>
Miri: "Oh?"
Keith: "Oooh..."
Amoni Steeltower: "Alright..."
Cyril: :D
Kalos: "The temple, overgrown and all-"
Kalos: "it's all crozovis native plants, except for a couple of invasive species we also know are on that planet."
Kalos: "we confirmed at least 7 different vines and flowering trees."
Amoni Steeltower: "Good, so we're confident that this* image is accurate"
Amoni Steeltower: "There is something on Crozovis?"
Amoni Steeltower: "Which may be this Quarentine..."
Amoni Steeltower: "Have you heard at all?"
Amoni Steeltower: "Or is this still new?"
Amoni Steeltower: "Crozovis has this gigantic net set up around the planet, and we just got hailed from an officer."
Kalos: "Quarantine? Its on the news but I didn't get word on if its real or not, no."
Amoni Steeltower: "I'm still inclined to belive this 'Quarantine' is malarky"
Miri: ..."HOLD THE PHONE!!!"
Amoni Steeltower: "You think the 'Quarantine' is related to the Line?"
Amoni Steeltower: asks towards Miri
Miri: "Are you saying...the location that the dream data pointed at...the place that the Fuchsia Line is supposed to happen at...could be CROZOVIS?!?"
Cyril: "Probably just means Varmarna's been here before."
Miri: looks at Amoni.
Kalos: "Well- What I'm saying is the one temple photo dragged out of varmarna's mind is on Crozovis."
Kalos: "what this means I guess is up to you to say, you're the experts here."
Miri: "Just think about it, though! A quarantine of some unknown biological agent? A dangerous plague sounds like just the kind of thing that might be revealed by the Fuchsia Line finale!"
Kalos: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ag1150a/images/4/48/17875-ancient-temple-1920x1200-fantasy-wallpaper.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150305150713 (this one)
Amoni Steeltower: "But Crozovis is where the Red Line is supposed to be held..."
Amoni Steeltower: "Unless the Line is changing up how they do things?"
Kalos: "That's the news. Nothing great on the black hole or other stuff yet."
Amoni Steeltower: "Well, if we get in favor of Crozovis let us know. It may be our only ticket in"
Keith: "Maybe this is what varmana remembered of the race itself?"
Amoni Steeltower: "Going to dock at a station the officer gave us coordinates to"
Amoni Steeltower: "A race through a plague ridden world?"
Amoni Steeltower: "Not exactly the most hair raising of threats for a viewing audiance"
Cyril: (lmao I hope the spectrum line people didn't intentionally start the plague so they could go like "hey if you drop the blockade and let us hold the race we'll give u the cure")
Amoni Steeltower: (That wouldn't surprise me...)
Miri: (i think you have the cause-and-effect relationship reversed methinks)
Amoni Steeltower: (brb)
Kalos: "Can't say. But that temple might be real afterall, if the plants were so on right."
Keith: "It might be the root of this disease..."
Keith: "you know..."
Keith: "Cyril did search for 'vaemor' didn't he?"
Keith: <:go_go:279152078750875651> <:go_go:279152078750875651> <:go_go:279152078750875651>
Cyril: "yes"
Kalos: "... well then."
Kalos: "if you find anything we can't exactly call in a fleet without it being an international incident..."
Kalos: "I'll get back to you on the assistance as soon as I can."
Cyril: "I'm sure if we find anything like that, Horminis would want to know too anyway."
Kalos: "call me if you need anything."
Keith: "They may be glad if we help their problem."
Cyril: (I think we'll need to find some way to get in there and see what's up with the disease. How hard would it be to pose as expert epidemiologists? :B )
Cyril: (Or even just, doctor lackeys)
Amoni Steeltower: (coming back, still brb)
Amoni Steeltower: (Also, We're chatting with them about helping with preventing the Race)
Amoni Steeltower: (So this could double as our in)
Amoni Steeltower: (brb)
Keith: (correction)
Keith: (nobody can stop the race)
Keith: (but we can find out the fuschia line location and just... Catch whatever bad that is going on there)
Kalos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M
Miri: sighs. "It never gets any less complicated, doesn't it? With this wrinkle in the proceedings, I almost feel like we wasted our time planning..."
Amoni Steeltower: naah
Amoni Steeltower: Again, the orginal reason for us to have Narinea (is forgot the names sry) ask if they can assist us in placing survalence
Amoni Steeltower: But we may be able to use this to our advantage
Kalos: (waiting to !end)
Amoni Steeltower: And perhaps allow us to get in
Keith: Narirela
Miri: (yeah i'm good)
Keith: "Let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes..."
Kalos: !end
