Ariadne Guardpost Ii: The Evolution

deaincaelo · September 2003

*Dials up a 93X- sunsurfer*
warning: noncombat model selected... modifying.....new paramiters set. good flying
"c'mon boys. I need a some pratice. catch me if you can!"
*heads into an asteroid feild surounding the 4th planet, a gas giant*
*notices Ed on Sensors*
"hey ed. the suicidal stuff is my job! lol."

Bogglesteinsky · September 2003

"ok, i dont know much about flying, but isnt that a little stupid? you lose concentration for just a second and you explode. tbh, i'd rather stay in the open with some decent manouvering room."

Mr_Headcrab · September 2003

"Oh? you want a peice, eh?" *Ed thnrows a switch on the console, a bubble appears around Ed's ship, electricity seems to crackle around the bubble as it solidifies, Ed's ship seems to be partially transparent* "Transphasic field, holding. It's time to blow this scene, get everybody and their stuff together. Ok, 3, 2, 1, LET's JAM!" *Ed slams on the accelerator, the ship takes off like a bat out of hell, far faster then anyone expected.*


Well, more explaination time. By having a stable transphasic field at a lower setting then required to phase the whole ship out, Ed effectively pushes a percentage of the total mass of the Ferrin outside of "normal" space. And since the engines are pushing a reduced weight, speed, manuvering and load capacity are increased. Normally, the speed factor is negated by the increased loads Ed normally carries, but since this is in a real-to-life simulator, Ed is going out with an empty cargo bay.

343_guilty_spark · September 2003

*Watching Ed, Boggle and deaincaelo from his tv screen, he get's some popcorn out of the popcorn maker, sit's down and watches them on the cameras.*

Jaeger · September 2003

"That's why you don't lose your concentration. In terms of space flight, the most minor course or velocity errors can mean the difference between you making it back to Port Control, or you becoming a nice splat mark on some planetoid in the a**-end of nowhere.
*engages the Raytheon 228GT afterburner system and is jolted in his seat at the simulated acceleration of 230,000 pounds of thrust*
Anomalous contact detected on flight vector. Evasive action advised.
*dives his Thunderhawk into the asteroid field, weaving between the asteroids and narrowly missing two frigate-sized space rocks by a few meters*
"I'm impressed. Even without an optimized neurohelmet interface, this simulator handles almost like the real thing."
*rolls his craft 'upside-down' next to deaincaelo*
"Tag, you're it." <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

deaincaelo · September 2003

"good one jaeger."
*brings craft around in a slow roll straight at Ed. selectivly pulls up parts of the soler surfing rutine. picks up speed. Passes through ed's 'bubble' and right through eds ship without touching.*
" Tag Ed, your it!"
*dives through an asteroid with a convieniantly large hole to dissapear * 

 Wanna know how i did that? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> as you know, the transphasic generator shifts mass outside of normal space. Also, my ship has several similer systems to allow for 'solar surfing' in a stars atmosphere. The net effect is that when his generators on i can set my sytems out of phase with his, so we pass right through each other, even if he's not quite phased out (my ship never actually can phase out). <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Lord_Darkness · September 2003

*walks into lounge with 343, sees Dea's last stunt where she passes right through Ed's ship*
"Holy sh!t, that looks like something out of...."
*tries to think of a movie with something like that in it*
"I don't know what! Damn, she's a good pilot, I'll give her that."

P-Khan · September 2003

*goes through door opening course, and succesfully finishes it*
"I need to stop chosing Hard and go to HOLY ****"
*heads to room where Darkness and 343*
"Humm.... I can smell popcorn"
*jumps beside 343 and steals some popcorn*
"Hope you don't mind. Only had a carbohydrate bar for breakfast"
*notices the simulator training*
"Oh, they're in a simulator? Cool."
*grabs a handful of popcorn and eats the popcorn one by one, out of the hand. eyes are fixed on TV*

Mr_Headcrab · September 2003

"Scared the crap out of me" *Ed guns it in presuit of Jaeger, keeping close presuit of the nimble fighter in the massive freighter. All of a sudden, Ed bursts past Jaeger*
"Tag!"

deaincaelo · September 2003

*bursts out of nowhere straight tword the panet. Dives in a tight corkscrew down the cyclonic eye of the largest of the storms raging on the jovian behemouth.*

Mr_Headcrab · September 2003

"My god, She's nuts! I think im in love..." *Ed notices Jaeger gaining on his tail. He points the nose of the ship towards the center of the storm. The nose of Ferrin begins to glow intensely. Ed jams on the RCS thrusters in the nose, preforming a 180, Ed floors it, slowing his descent into the storm. "Heh... Almost as bad as the Olympus binary system."

Jaeger · September 2003

"Hah Ed. Almost, but not quite."
*grunts as the feedback from his neurohelmet translates his own sense of balance to the ship's gyrostabilizers. His Raytheon engines scream in protest as the side-mounted secondary boosters flail his ship into an accellerating Shandel turn, followed by a sliding double Cuban before dropping in front of Ed's flight path.*
"That's raw power, friend. 233 megaton-equivalent S3 NERVA core and the power to break escape velocity from just about any body imaginable, save a black hole of course."
*touches on his braking thrusters, narrowing the distance from the Ferrin to inches, tapping the tail empennage with his dorsal roll thruster*
"Tag, catch me if you can!"
*rotates once more, clearing the Ferrin and making a 12G burn toward the gas giant*
"Haven't done this since my Academy days."

SilentMurderer · September 2003

*Falls to the floor, screaming, and holding my chest*
"Aaaaaahahhhhhh!!!!!"

deaincaelo · September 2003

*Disappears into the swirling chaos at the bottom of the cyclone. Which doesnt make sense, scince my craft shouldn't be able to make escape velocity in these conditions*
"chortle" 
 And for those who are wondering why a ship designed to ride solar flares out of a sun would have trouble with a mere gas giant, consider this: how many solar flares does a gas giant produce?

Night_Shade · September 2003

*grumbles about forum waiting for about two dozen posts before emailing me*
"Heh. I'll stick to medicine. That's some crazy antics there."
*starts at Silent's scream*
"Hey! Silent, you OK? What's happening?"

343_guilty_spark · September 2003

Prehaps Xect is killing Silent with his powers o_0

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"If she flys like that when i'm on board i'll eject myself out."
*Watches them fly round. reaches into bowl for popcorn, notices it's empty.*
" I'll get some more, want some toffe or butter on it this time ?"

Night_Shade · September 2003

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They don't produce solar flares. Which is why Dea's ship is going to have trouble getting out - it was (i think, anyway) designed to ride a solar flare out of the sun's corona.
*kneels down and starts checking Silent over*

Bogglesteinsky · September 2003

"yup, i knew it. she's nuts. What use is a solar yacht in a dog fight? Its like a windsurfer vs jet skis. They are fine for long distance space cruising, but try to turn one and if your sail collapses, you will find yourself in serious trouble, like she is in now."

*turns to Ed*

"you gonna go rescue her?"

zooby · September 2003

i'm the other electronics guy

*Stands at the target range, unloading rounds at the moving alien targets.*
"This is getting boring. I'm going off to where everyone else is."

where is everyone else. anyway?

Bogglesteinsky · September 2003

most of them are wathing the streaming broadcast of Dea, Jaeger and Ed battle it out in the flight simulator. I, on the other hand am in the flight simulator trying to pick up some flying tips

P-Khan · September 2003

"Hey, 343, put butter this time. Lots of butter. If I die, at least I'll die of butter intoxication"
*notices Silent and Shade*
"What's the problem man?"

Khaim · September 2003

*Continues watching the three crazy pilots go nuts in the sim*
"These guys... er guys and girl, are crazy, at least this is only a sim, we might be losing a pilot and maybe even a few squadmembers if it was the real thing."
"Hey darkness... you ok man? you just yelled like someone had stabbed you then fell over..."

P-Khan · September 2003

Is it just me, or did Terran disapear?? I mean, I don't remember he dieing, or leaving, or anything like that. Of course, I might be mistaken.

Jaeger · September 2003

I haven't seen Cyberoptic, Vragnor, of Foxtrot Uniform here either.
*dives his fighter deeper into the gas giant's lower atmosphere*
External pressure 1200psi. Compensating gyrostabilizers.
"Storm's beginning to interfere with my comms. I'm getting nothing but white noise on the low-band."
*pushes farther into the swirling vortex*
"I've got a salvage grappler if you need help getting out, dea, assuming you can't slingshot your way out of the atmosphere. Do you see Ed anywhere?"

zooby · September 2003

psi? who uses those......i should stop caviling...

343_guilty_spark · September 2003

Wondering where Terran was and Spinviper. also is Silent in the lounge ?


*Puts lots of butter in until it's drenched in it. Sits down with the overs.*

deaincaelo · September 2003

"do.(static)..orry. I (staitic)..er control. justs make sh(static) oose any parts in this mailstrom (static)...emmed.... ll shields"
*wait for it*

*wait for it*

*Bursts out of the cloud cover with an angular momentum equil to the cyclone's wall. sans one solar sail*
"Easy as riding a sail boat through a calidinian hurricane <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>. cost me the sail I used, though. And I think i may have overloaded the inertial dampeners."
*slingshots past the nearest of the planets moons, and takes off at relitivistic speeds twords the spacial anomoly a little farther in the system* 

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Bingo. Although the computer did do some modifications to make it fit the simulation, My ship is almost entirely manuvering power, and the toys that let it dive into a sun without frying instantly. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> 

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psychics and psyonicists, mainly.

zooby · September 2003

pounds per square inch? what i meant was who would use pounds in the future, and who would use inches?

Jaeger · September 2003

"Holy ****! Impressive."
*bucks his craft on its side, narrowly missing the electrostatic discharge from a lightning strike igniting a nearby hydrogen pocket*
"Two can play at that game."
*performs a half Cuban tail slide, punching his throttle forward and riding the edge of the cyclone eye to the outer rarefied atmosphere*
Current speed 16.76 km/s. This course of action is not advised
*ignites afterburners, finally breaking away from the planet's gravity well and feeling the weightlessness flood back*
"Ed, where you at?"

Bogglesteinsky · September 2003

The intelligent patriotic people. seriously though, what other measurements are there? Kg per sq cm? please. PSI or KSC? i know who gets my vote.

"well, whadya know, she made it. She's either very crazy or a very good pilot. personally, im going with crazy."

Ariadne Guardpost Ii: The Evolution

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