kg isn't even a weight measure... dunno what one would use kg/cm^2 for. We're looking at Pascals (N/m^2) and atm (atmospheres. This unit gets my vote) (atm = pressure at sea level, on earth) everything else is inferior!!
[/B][B]Isn't kg a measurement for mass? N (newtons) is for weight. And I don't understand y ppl use pounds, really. I even stared a topic on this. <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=10&t=48073&st=0&#entry666524' target='_blank'>Here</a>.
SI is used primarily in physics, metric is used by everyone else (except for the US, part of the time, Britain, and certain islands in the Caribbean.
here is a comparison: SI (which is actually a subset of the metric system) uses meter, kilogram, newton, pascal, joule, kelvin. and certain others. The metric system is a mess, going from grams to kilograms to meters, kilometers, centimeters, ergs, liters, milliliters, celsius, etc.
There is a big difference, one is used by people who want to look smarter than normal Americans, the other by people who <i>are</i> smarter than the normal American. (i use the term very loosely, in no way is the word smart to be taken literally.)</b>
<b>ppl use pounds because only 3 english speaking people in the world know what a slug is, and slugs are the only alternative measure of weight in the english system. Also, as long as a person in on earth, pounds are an accurate and much easyer unit of measurement to use. The english conversion factors are a pain in the a**. the metric system is Insanely Logical, by comparison. I know, being american and using both the english and metric systems frequently. and did no one get my psi/psy pun? Perhaps i should have deleted that. kg/cm^2 is a 2 demensional density measure. </b>
<b>Khaim, Silent was the one who screamed, not me, my text is orange, his is yellow, there's a bit of a difference there. Also, will people stop about psi or whatever you're going on about! You're gonna turn the rest of the thread into a discussion about weight measures!</b>
<span style='color:orange'>"She's nuts. Hey, where's the remote?" *finds it stuffed down the back of the chair he was sitting in* "Here it is." *activates picture-in-picture, the smaller picture showing another sim game being played by people from another shift, the game is a standard infantry sim, the two teams are moving causiuosly through the maze of pillars* "Hey, that's the map we were using when Ed killed himself."</span>
<b>i don't know! It's not my fault, really! I tried to tell them to ignore me! kg/cm^2...two dimensional density...which really doesn't make much sense. there probably is some application for it in theoretical physics or something, but i got no clue. I know what a slug is! dunno what the equivs are to pounds, tho <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Also, will people stop about psi or whatever you're going on about! You're gonna turn the rest of the thread into a discussion about weight measures!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> <b>If u guys wanna talk about how the American and British measuring system is better, or how the SI is better, go to my other thread. Use this only for the role-play</b>
<span style='color:white'> *Ed watches as Dea's ship comes shooting out of the planet.* "Damn! Mental note: let Dea use Zero Two." *Ed acclerates towards the center of the planet.* "Gotta love these gas giants, if i time this right..." *Ed's hand reaches over to a control knob, Ferrin soldifies entirely as she acclerates at terminal velocity towards the core.*
"Hey Boggles, ever wonder why your not suppose to phasejump in a planet's magnetic field?" *Ed turns the knob all the way to the right, the Ferrin disappears, the gasses of the planet swilr around, a whitish streak jets out of the side of the planet, the Ferrin phases into existence at the top of the stream.* "Chance of destablization of the phase field. And Jaeg, there may be a chance you'll be riding thisship or one of her Sister's into combat."
<span style='color:green'>"That's quite an interesting toy. Maybe some time I'll hitch a ride with you and get to know the cockpit subsystems." *mutters to himself again as his wide-band X-ray search mode fails to display on his JTIDS* "So we gonna spawn some craft in this program? I'm just itching to try out my UD-10B Kayser II on something that'll shoot back." *eases into dea's engine wash, watching the high-energy ionized plasma ripple over the cockpit viewshield* "Is there anything these simulators can't recreate?"</span>
<span style='color:yellow'><b> "zero 2? whats that ed?" "and I thought I was just going to lead us all in a merry chase until you lost me or all our ships exploded <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> . ok, some drone ships. I hope you dont mind me using Daddys' models. its the only ones i can think to pull up." * pulls up 8 simulated omni^2 corperation motherships, situated around the white dwarf* *enters the spacial folds, and immidiately my flightpath becomes physically improbable to the outside observer*</b> </span> <b>and jaeger, most of my current velocity is from the sails and the slingshot manuver. So i should have minimal engine wash from my manuvering thrusters, not that i have much engine power anyway.</b>
<b>From where I am it wouldn't take much to produce a faint rippling effect over the EM field which protects the cockpit from cosmic radiation. It's basically a very miniature aurora. Now, if you had a larger powerplant, I would be in a very bad situation, as the drive plasma would cook me alive. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> </b> <span style='color:green'>"Well now, here we go." <i>Initiating maneuver attack profile. Stage 2 fire control systems online. Automated target designation system online. No interlink established, disabling TAG radar. Entering active range mode.</i> *toggles his intercept radar as the neurohelmet's long-range targeting interface slides into position over his eye* <i>Stage 3 fire control systems online. Opening capacitor grid to primary weapons.</i> *hits his thrust reversers, slowing the ship as the secondary boosters extend to their maneuver position. Lines up a gold circle-dot over one of the vessels' command stations, pausing for a moment as the targeting computer chews on a path-delay vector, and fires*</span>
<span style='color:purple'>*Contemplates hacking the sim to make it a little more 'challenging' for these crazy fools* "You guys are nuts in there, 8 mothership class vessels against the 3 of you? Heh if you guys win this we might have to turn it up a notch, assuming we arn't called out to duty first."</span>
<span style='color:white'> *Ed chuckles* "Funniest thing is this thing has no weapons, but i do have..." *Ed hits a few controls and guns it for the second nearest Mothership.* "Boggles, Ever hear of "Bear-Baiting" before?" *Ed smiles devilishly* </span>
<b> Silent, what's up? Our shift keeps dropping like flies. you ok? trying to kill youself off? It's hard trying not to Metagame as another member tries to kill himself off. What's wrong?</b>
<span style='color:yellow'><b> " oh boys, i forgot to tell you. Despite the griping about cost, my Daddys decides to install partical cannons and transphasic quantom torpedos, as well as argon poit defense lasers. lol, i remeber they slept in seperate bedrooms for almost a week over that little fight. So watch your six, and dont rely on your missles not exploding before they reach thier target. They did decide to leave out the fighters, though, cause the AI couldnt get out of the way of the PDL's." *pops out of folded space at a vector nearly impossible by coventional physics, scoring two minor hits on a mother ship that sends it lumbering after me as i head tword the sun. It chases me in a rather standerd sundive. with the exception that when the solar flare hits I was sent back into orbit while the mothership was left in the stars atmosphere* " Hmmm, a little out of date. daddy had that navcom error fixed last month when we almost lost the <i>artimus</i> </b> </span>
<b>and that is what good a solar yacht is in a dog fight.</b>
"pretty fancy move Dea. I still think you are crazy though" </span></span></span>
<b> dea diving into the suns atmosphere in a solar yacht is like someone trying to sail a conventional boat the wrong way around a hurricane vortex. it just doesnt happen, no matter how fast you are going, which is why she got spit out like a watermelon seed.</b>
<b>Grr...want to join in...but character is a medic...</b> <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"These guys sure are crazy." *looks over at empty simulator pod* "Hmm... I wonder... I used to be a hot shot at an old corvette combat sim, I-War 2, back before I started my med degree. Wonder if the ship's got the data files from the game..." [calls up the ship's database and looks for the I-War 2 data files] </span></span> <b>If I can use one of the ships from the game, xect, would you PM me please?</b>
<b>don't worry about that shade, you'll get it all back if you ever have to fight aliens again. I doubt you're gonna be dispatched on missions that involve flying into solar flares or anything like that</b>
<span style='color:white'><b>"Well, makes you wonder why those people ever got to the frontiersmen. I know why E'ds here, but what makes the other freaks choose to fight on their feet?"
"Well, guess I'm gonna have to turn the sim to realistic settings, just for the fun of it. I know they enjoy acting like they can cheat physical laws over and over, but I'd guess it'll be more fun for the rest of us to watch them crash or just disappear. After all, we wouldnt want them to try flying like that in the real world if we're on board the ship."
*turns up reality setting* </span>
And now, just to avoid you still playing super-heroes, I guess it's time to start using brackets when you attempt to commit suicide</b>
<span style='color:yellow'><b> *notices the spacial anomolies I programed in disappear* "oh cr**. Watch out boys. Someone messed with my settings. Its gunna get a whole lot tougher out there in a sec." [sends my personal security override code to the nearest mothership] [tries to hide in the em field around the star to confuse the tracking sensors]</b></span>
<b>and this is a sundiver Im flying. the point of the ship is to be able to dive into a star and get back out alive. I think they had them in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. btw exact, i was planning on getting fragged without more then two or three kills, tops (and only those because I know the ships, being they are my daddys and all). But this gives us some rpg combat experiance, so its all good.</b>
<span style='color:green'>"Why thank you xect, you are an officer and a gentleman. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> " *pushes forward the throttle to maximum detente, flaring his ventral thrusters, still training on the mothership's command station while rising behind a cluster of small asteroids* 'Now let's get to the real flying" [barrel rolls to the right while still climbing upward relative to the system axis, firing three more rounds at the mothership, pausing a moment for the 2-ton plasma-loaded shells to cross the 9000 kilometer range-to-target at relativistic speed]</span>
<span style='color:white'> "Hold on, Boggles, time to see if this holographic rustbucket is as tough as the real one." *Ed tightens his own harness and acclerates* [crosses directly in front of the first cruiser's sensor array, slows enough so the mothership could lock on, then fly between the nearest and second nearest mothership, trying to get the first one's fire to miss the Ferrin and impact the other mothership.]</span>
<b>Uhm, guys... I don't want to be a party pooper, or to be an ****, but how about you guys stop the simulation? I mean, it is getting kinda boring, 3 pgs only of a simulation....</b>
<span style='color:gray'><u>*quietly enters the training room, to see how it is like when people are training* "Hum.... just a bunch of metal boxes moving? I thought it would be better...." *notices electronic pannel* "Humm......"</u></span>
<b>If anyone wants to stop the simulator, I'll overide the circuit. Is it OK with you xect, and you other guys? I'll only do it if I have your permision</b>
<b>Heh. I want to join in, he wants to do something else. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--></b> <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*after a few minutes searching* "Bingo! One of <a href='http://www.i-war2.com/ships_db2.htm' target='_blank'>these</a> should do quite nicely." (the one at the top) *starts trying to copy the ship specifications into the simulation, unsuccessfully* "Gah. Where's a tech when you need one?"</span></span>
<span style='color:purple'>*Notices night shade's problems* "Need a hand over there man?" *Without waiting for a response, walks over to nightShade's terminal* [Hooks his PDA and couple cords to a slot in the terminal and beggins a transfer of the schematics and other information on the ship night specified.]</span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Ah. Thanks Khaim, you're a legend." *peers intently over Khaim's shoulder at his PDA* "Ah, I see now. The sim was getting confused over the LDA and capsule jump system - everything else was straightforward." *gets a blank look from someone* "The ship's basically one big fusion ring, with minor accessories like shields, engines and guns. The LDA drive used what the game called capsule space to propel the ship forward at near-light speed. From the looks of things, you've made the sim think it's like Ed's transphasic generator, right?"</span></span> <b>The LDA system should function like Ed's transphasic generator, only more efficiently, and the capsule jump system should function like a built-in phase jump system, if that's ok with you xect. You could only capsule jump from LaGrange points, because gravitational fields cancel there, and I think it's safe to make the phase system work the same here. Xect, in case you're worried about the energy consumption, the capsule system took the entire output of the reactor and dumped it into capacitors for about 15 secs before you could actually make the jump.</b>
<b> I only started this sim to have something to do until the action starts, then itll get dropped. Is it any worse then 30 pages of chat? If you want to do anything else, you can. even if you need a sim unit you can start that without booting us from ours. if you want to chat, you can chat even in the sim. I know its boring for you to watch us play, but the thing to do is to start your own game to pass the time or pm exect for something else to do.</b>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>" I heard that com. I'm here cause I ruined a few too many of Daddys' ships, so I'm more or less planetbound. At least this way i get to maybe do some good and avoid all my insufferably rich peers mocking me for flying through so many spacial anomolies."</b> </span>
<span style='color:orange'>*heads to quarters, opens footlocker, takes out a slightly curved object, heads to rec room, finds a fairly open area of the room, turns on TV to Dea and Co's sim, takes off helmet and picks up object from quarters* "Pity they won't let me take this on a mission." *grabs one end of the object and pulls, a faint grinding sound is heard as the katana is drawn from its scabbard and begins practicing, pulling off moves that would put even Morpheus to shame (well, as far as real-life moves are concerned)*</span>
<b>My character specialises with a katana and staff so it's no surprise that he's that good. And it won't be with me during our next mission, unfortunatly.</b>
<b>sorry about taking some time to get back, power decided to go away for most of today here :/ Hard to post when there's no power for the comp.
<span style='color:yellow'>[Hides reasonably, pretty much gone ;)]</span>
</b><span style='color:green'>[only one of the plasma bullets hit the second cruiser]</span>
<span style='color:white'>[one of the shots from the first mothership impacts the second, four continue into space, added to jaegers bullet, the ship is starting to look damaged] [the second ship launches another volley of 5 shots. One of them impacts the first ship for non-critical damage, but one hits your ship dead-on, dealing pretty heavy damage to the navigation system. Controls are failing]</span>
<span style='color:purple'>[The PDA starts transferring the data]</span>
<i>The third cruiser aims the guns to finish off Eds craft. With a huge explosion, 3 projectiles impact the ship, leaving only splinters. The last two continue into space. Ed's out.</i>
<span style='color:white'><b>"Could've guessed that. Anyone want to bet on how long the last two survive that little battle they started? Don't think it was very smart of them to confront 3 cruisers with 3 fighters. But then again, guess they did no calculate with the reality settings going back up"
*smiles and greets Ed exiting the simulator*</b></span>
<span style='color:white'> "Lucky Shot, I really got to get a rail driver for her." *Ed looks over at the rest of the group* "I do well for a unarmed freighter?" *Ed wipes some sweat from his brow and smiles.*</span>
<span style='color:purple'>"Pretty good ed, lets see how shade does in that fancy ship of his." *Pulls up the information and a 3d diagram of shade's ship* "This is what he chose, wasn't too hard to tell the computer what it was, doesnt seem like they'll kill the enemy ships still though."</span>
Comments
SI is used primarily in physics, metric is used by everyone else (except for the US, part of the time, Britain, and certain islands in the Caribbean.
here is a comparison:
SI (which is actually a subset of the metric system) uses meter, kilogram, newton, pascal, joule, kelvin. and certain others.
The metric system is a mess, going from grams to kilograms to meters, kilometers, centimeters, ergs, liters, milliliters, celsius, etc.
There is a big difference, one is used by people who want to look smarter than normal Americans, the other by people who <i>are</i> smarter than the normal American. (i use the term very loosely, in no way is the word smart to be taken literally.)</b>
and did no one get my psi/psy pun? Perhaps i should have deleted that.
kg/cm^2 is a 2 demensional density measure. </b>
<span style='color:orange'>"She's nuts. Hey, where's the remote?"
*finds it stuffed down the back of the chair he was sitting in*
"Here it is."
*activates picture-in-picture, the smaller picture showing another sim game being played by people from another shift, the game is a standard infantry sim, the two teams are moving causiuosly through the maze of pillars*
"Hey, that's the map we were using when Ed killed himself."</span>
<b>If u guys wanna talk about how the American and British measuring system is better, or how the SI is better, go to my other thread. Use this only for the role-play</b>
<span style='color:white'> *Ed watches as Dea's ship comes shooting out of the planet.*
"Damn! Mental note: let Dea use Zero Two."
*Ed acclerates towards the center of the planet.*
"Gotta love these gas giants, if i time this right..."
*Ed's hand reaches over to a control knob, Ferrin soldifies entirely as she acclerates at terminal velocity towards the core.*
"Hey Boggles, ever wonder why your not suppose to phasejump in a planet's magnetic field?"
*Ed turns the knob all the way to the right, the Ferrin disappears, the gasses of the planet swilr around, a whitish streak jets out of the side of the planet, the Ferrin phases into existence at the top of the stream.*
"Chance of destablization of the phase field. And Jaeg, there may be a chance you'll be riding thisship or one of her Sister's into combat."
*Ed chases after Dea.*
</span>
*mutters to himself again as his wide-band X-ray search mode fails to display on his JTIDS*
"So we gonna spawn some craft in this program? I'm just itching to try out my UD-10B Kayser II on something that'll shoot back."
*eases into dea's engine wash, watching the high-energy ionized plasma ripple over the cockpit viewshield*
"Is there anything these simulators can't recreate?"</span>
"and I thought I was just going to lead us all in a merry chase until you lost me or all our ships exploded <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> . ok, some drone ships. I hope you dont mind me using Daddys' models. its the only ones i can think to pull up."
* pulls up 8 simulated omni^2 corperation motherships, situated around the white dwarf*
*enters the spacial folds, and immidiately my flightpath becomes physically improbable to the outside observer*</b> </span>
<b>and jaeger, most of my current velocity is from the sails and the slingshot manuver. So i should have minimal engine wash from my manuvering thrusters, not that i have much engine power anyway.</b>
<span style='color:green'>"Well now, here we go."
<i>Initiating maneuver attack profile. Stage 2 fire control systems online. Automated target designation system online. No interlink established, disabling TAG radar. Entering active range mode.</i>
*toggles his intercept radar as the neurohelmet's long-range targeting interface slides into position over his eye*
<i>Stage 3 fire control systems online. Opening capacitor grid to primary weapons.</i>
*hits his thrust reversers, slowing the ship as the secondary boosters extend to their maneuver position. Lines up a gold circle-dot over one of the vessels' command stations, pausing for a moment as the targeting computer chews on a path-delay vector, and fires*</span>
"You guys are nuts in there, 8 mothership class vessels against the 3 of you? Heh if you guys win this we might have to turn it up a notch, assuming we arn't called out to duty first."</span>
*Ed hits a few controls and guns it for the second nearest Mothership.*
"Boggles, Ever hear of "Bear-Baiting" before?"
*Ed smiles devilishly*
</span>
<b> Silent, what's up? Our shift keeps dropping like flies. you ok? trying to kill youself off? It's hard trying not to Metagame as another member tries to kill himself off. What's wrong?</b>
*pops out of folded space at a vector nearly impossible by coventional physics, scoring two minor hits on a mother ship that sends it lumbering after me as i head tword the sun. It chases me in a rather standerd sundive. with the exception that when the solar flare hits I was sent back into orbit while the mothership was left in the stars atmosphere*
" Hmmm, a little out of date. daddy had that navcom error fixed last month when we almost lost the <i>artimus</i> </b> </span>
<b>and that is what good a solar yacht is in a dog fight.</b>
*tightens harness by a couple of hotches*
"pretty fancy move Dea. I still think you are crazy though"
</span></span></span>
<b> dea diving into the suns atmosphere in a solar yacht is like someone trying to sail a conventional boat the wrong way around a hurricane vortex. it just doesnt happen, no matter how fast you are going, which is why she got spit out like a watermelon seed.</b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"These guys sure are crazy."
*looks over at empty simulator pod*
"Hmm... I wonder... I used to be a hot shot at an old corvette combat sim, I-War 2, back before I started my med degree. Wonder if the ship's got the data files from the game..."
[calls up the ship's database and looks for the I-War 2 data files]
</span></span>
<b>If I can use one of the ships from the game, xect, would you PM me please?</b>
<span style='color:white'><b>"Well, makes you wonder why those people ever got to the frontiersmen. I know why E'ds here, but what makes the other freaks choose to fight on their feet?"
"Well, guess I'm gonna have to turn the sim to realistic settings, just for the fun of it. I know they enjoy acting like they can cheat physical laws over and over, but I'd guess it'll be more fun for the rest of us to watch them crash or just disappear. After all, we wouldnt want them to try flying like that in the real world if we're on board the ship."
*turns up reality setting*
</span>
And now, just to avoid you still playing super-heroes, I guess it's time to start using brackets when you attempt to commit suicide</b>
"oh cr**. Watch out boys. Someone messed with my settings. Its gunna get a whole lot tougher out there in a sec."
[sends my personal security override code to the nearest mothership]
[tries to hide in the em field around the star to confuse the tracking sensors]</b></span>
<b>and this is a sundiver Im flying. the point of the ship is to be able to dive into a star and get back out alive. I think they had them in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
btw exact, i was planning on getting fragged without more then two or three kills, tops (and only those because I know the ships, being they are my daddys and all). But this gives us some rpg combat experiance, so its all good.</b>
*pushes forward the throttle to maximum detente, flaring his ventral thrusters, still training on the mothership's command station while rising behind a cluster of small asteroids*
'Now let's get to the real flying"
[barrel rolls to the right while still climbing upward relative to the system axis, firing three more rounds at the mothership, pausing a moment for the 2-ton plasma-loaded shells to cross the 9000 kilometer range-to-target at relativistic speed]</span>
*Ed tightens his own harness and acclerates*
[crosses directly in front of the first cruiser's sensor array, slows enough so the mothership could lock on, then fly between the nearest and second nearest mothership, trying to get the first one's fire to miss the Ferrin and impact the other mothership.]</span>
<span style='color:gray'><u>*quietly enters the training room, to see how it is like when people are training*
"Hum.... just a bunch of metal boxes moving? I thought it would be better...."
*notices electronic pannel*
"Humm......"</u></span>
<b>If anyone wants to stop the simulator, I'll overide the circuit. Is it OK with you xect, and you other guys? I'll only do it if I have your permision</b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*after a few minutes searching*
"Bingo! One of <a href='http://www.i-war2.com/ships_db2.htm' target='_blank'>these</a> should do quite nicely." (the one at the top)
*starts trying to copy the ship specifications into the simulation, unsuccessfully*
"Gah. Where's a tech when you need one?"</span></span>
"Need a hand over there man?"
*Without waiting for a response, walks over to nightShade's terminal*
[Hooks his PDA and couple cords to a slot in the terminal and beggins a transfer of the schematics and other information on the ship night specified.]</span>
*peers intently over Khaim's shoulder at his PDA*
"Ah, I see now. The sim was getting confused over the LDA and capsule jump system - everything else was straightforward."
*gets a blank look from someone*
"The ship's basically one big fusion ring, with minor accessories like shields, engines and guns. The LDA drive used what the game called capsule space to propel the ship forward at near-light speed. From the looks of things, you've made the sim think it's like Ed's transphasic generator, right?"</span></span>
<b>The LDA system should function like Ed's transphasic generator, only more efficiently, and the capsule jump system should function like a built-in phase jump system, if that's ok with you xect. You could only capsule jump from LaGrange points, because gravitational fields cancel there, and I think it's safe to make the phase system work the same here.
Xect, in case you're worried about the energy consumption, the capsule system took the entire output of the reactor and dumped it into capacitors for about 15 secs before you could actually make the jump.</b>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>" I heard that com. I'm here cause I ruined a few too many of Daddys' ships, so I'm more or less planetbound. At least this way i get to maybe do some good and avoid all my insufferably rich peers mocking me for flying through so many spacial anomolies."</b> </span>
"Pity they won't let me take this on a mission."
*grabs one end of the object and pulls, a faint grinding sound is heard as the katana is drawn from its scabbard and begins practicing, pulling off moves that would put even Morpheus to shame (well, as far as real-life moves are concerned)*</span>
<b>My character specialises with a katana and staff so it's no surprise that he's that good. And it won't be with me during our next mission, unfortunatly.</b>
*Loosing interest in the Sim, he leaves giving the popcorn to Khan and heads back to his room.*</b></span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[Hides reasonably, pretty much gone ;)]</span>
</b><span style='color:green'>[only one of the plasma bullets hit the second cruiser]</span>
<span style='color:white'>[one of the shots from the first mothership impacts the second, four continue into space, added to jaegers bullet, the ship is starting to look damaged]
[the second ship launches another volley of 5 shots. One of them impacts the first ship for non-critical damage, but one hits your ship dead-on, dealing pretty heavy damage to the navigation system. Controls are failing]</span>
<span style='color:purple'>[The PDA starts transferring the data]</span>
<i>The third cruiser aims the guns to finish off Eds craft. With a huge explosion, 3 projectiles impact the ship, leaving only splinters. The last two continue into space. Ed's out.</i>
<span style='color:white'><b>"Could've guessed that. Anyone want to bet on how long the last two survive that little battle they started? Don't think it was very smart of them to confront 3 cruisers with 3 fighters. But then again, guess they did no calculate with the reality settings going back up"
*smiles and greets Ed exiting the simulator*</b></span>
"I do well for a unarmed freighter?" *Ed wipes some sweat from his brow and smiles.*</span>
*Pulls up the information and a 3d diagram of shade's ship*
"This is what he chose, wasn't too hard to tell the computer what it was, doesnt seem like they'll kill the enemy ships still though."</span>