Ariadne Guardpost Ii: The Evolution

P-Khan · September 2003

My thoughts and ideas are clashing with the ones of the admin. And it's not only one topic, but 2. We argued a lot on the related topics.

P-Khan · September 2003

"Someone slashed the rec room?! OMG! My book with grandma's secret recepies was there!"
*closes fist really tightly*
"I'll get the person who slashed granny's recepie book"

343_guilty_spark · September 2003

He can't ban you for a argument in which you state what you believe.
*Looks around at everyone hoping he brought enough supplies.*
" Rec room ? Must have been some drunk."

Bogglesteinsky · September 2003

"yeah, or some martial arts freak..."

*glances knowingly at darkness, then winks*

"still. they can get nanites to replace them."

*pats p-khan on shoulder*

"dont worry, your recipies will be saved."

xect · September 2003

"As I just said, we have no intel. We don't know how many there is, we can't even tell you the evolution level. Prepare for the worst, hope the best. If this thing spreads, we're in trouble.
And the scientists are unlikely to be on board there, at least they won't be there alive.
You'll get better weapons if you can manage acquiring the resources.

Ok everyone, board the IPs and prepare to be phased."

deaincaelo · September 2003

*boards the ip, lmg at the ready*

Khaim · September 2003

*Mutters something about changing from using ships to using IPs before walking over to a empty infantry portal an preparing to phase.*
"Hope this goes well."
*loads gun and flicks the safety off.*

Jaeger · September 2003

*sheathes his knife while stepping up to the IP*
Suit monitor activated. Life monitoring system activated. Inventory monitor activated. FriendlyFire system engaged.
*motions to a carryall bag lying in the corner of the room*
"Sir, mind if I bring that? Supposing the IP can handle it, my G-suit and neurohelmet is in there. Probably won't be of much use but I'd rather be prepared"

Bogglesteinsky · September 2003

"all in a day's work."

*checks gun one last time, grabs spare clip and steps onto a portal*

Night_Shade · September 2003

"I'll give you day's work, boggles."
*tightens straps on med kit, shoulders LMG and steps on to the gate*

spinviper · September 2003

*Steps on the ip, Modifed LMG in hand*


BAWHAWHAWH! Action finnaly!

P-Khan · September 2003

"You know, I don't understand why they don't just bomb the place. It's infected already....."
*arms LMG and turns safety off from Vladstok. Gets the backpack with electrci gadgets and jumps into the IP, with the LMG ready and waiting for some action*

Seriously, where are those missing guys?! I mean, are we supposing they entered with us into the IP?

Mr_Headcrab · September 2003

*Ed takes Wynona and has her at thr ready. He looks visably nervous.*
"So, this thing takes your body, dissasembles it, and sends it to thier phase..."
*Ed shakes a little as someone kicks him onto the open platform.*
"Thanks, i needed that."

Lord_Darkness · September 2003

"You know, Ed, some people might call you a coward if you had to be kicked onto the IP."
*holsters P229s, clicks off the safety on his CZU and steps onto the IP, turns to boggle*
"[whisper]You tell anyone and you'll be in more pieces than anything in the rec room, got it? I'm starting to regret showing you that katana of mine a few days ago.[/whisper]"

Mr_Headcrab · September 2003

"Coward, Shmaward, bet you were a little intimidated the first time you phased too!"

deaincaelo · September 2003

"everyone gets freaked by the concept of being ripped into atom sized peices and put back togeather. Just be glad you never got a ride on the Sky Godess before her munchousin drive took off into deepspace. unlike the phasegate here, you have a good chance of being dumped back into normal space as, say, a bowl of lime jello with the munchousin.

Mr_Headcrab · September 2003

*gulp* "I Know about the munchousin well, BM- 408's came with em stock."
*Ed grips Wynona tighter, then waits for the phase to vaporize him.*

Bogglesteinsky · September 2003

*turns to darkness*

[whisper]"dont worry, your secret is safe with me"[/whisper]

"did you know that your body doesnt actually get moved. Advanced cloning techniques scan your body's statisticsand the information gets sent across. Your body is then destroyed and a new one is constructed by nanites at the other end. Whenever you respawn at an IP after being brutally mutilated, all that happens is the nanites construct a new body. During the early prototype stages, there where horrible errors in the transfer that meant that test subjects came out with their arms coming out of their knee caps, or even worse, inside out."

*sees Ed's horrified stare*

"dont worry, they have got the system perfect now. They use multi-transmission-verification technology - your body information is sent as many as 10 times, depending on the distance. If there is anything at all different about any of the transmissions, the teleport is aborted and you dont go anywhere. All they do then is put you on a different IP and try again. Unfortunately, they cannot use this technology to creat armies of frontiersmen by not destroying the old body because nobody can break the laws of nature and physics - you can't be in two places at once."

Khaim · September 2003

How about we just avoid talking about how phase gates work, no one realy should know very well here, and it's not explained in any NS texts i've ever seen...
"Well however it is these damn things work they still are scary as heck to me. Crazy stuff."

deaincaelo · September 2003

ditto. this isn't startrak. lets leave the technical stuff to the creators, and not go into how it works. Even though I may be a hippocrate here, making up an unused technology and not really saying how it works or what it does. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Night_Shade · September 2003

"Are we there yet?"
*grins and winks at Ed*
"Don't worry, it only tickles. You know, there's some really nasty horror stories about the old phase systems in some of our medical textbooks. Nasty stuff. Ever seen a pistol clip sticking out of some guy's head?"

deaincaelo · September 2003

ok. here we go. to settle the subject, this is the official marine handbook entry on phase gate technology, straight from the NS website:

When a marine steps into a phase gate, he becomes the anchor for a subject field. A tunnel is then carved through dimensional space, guided by the observatory, till it finds another phase gate. This tunnel is called the "potentiality stream". To put it simply, it makes it more and more likely that the subject will actually be in the new location, until it becomes so likely the probability fulfills itself, and the subject is.

edit: also, the munchousin drive I imagined up is basically the same idea, except it gets the destination fron the pilot and not an observatory. scary to consider.

343_guilty_spark · September 2003

*Steps onto IP, shaking with fear he quickly stands of it and falls over. He gets back up and starts taking deep breaths.*
" God i loathe this.*

zooby · September 2003

"I always get the shakes before a phase. I've had the injections, of course, and hypnotic preparation, and it stands to reason that I can't really be afraid. The ship's psychiatrist has checked my brain waves and asked me silly questions while I was asleep and he tells me that it isn't fear, it isn't anything important -- it's just like the trembling of an eager race horse in the starting gate. I couldn't say about that; I've never been a race horse. But the fact is: I'm scared silly, every time."


cookie to whoever guesses the book that came from.

Night_Shade · September 2003

Starship Troopers. Good book, that.
Is it chocolate chip? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

zooby · September 2003

yes to both

xect · September 2003

In a split second, you're transported to the dropship en route to the infested cruiser. A voice in the speakers tells you that you'll be ready to board the cruiser in 15 minutes.

And Darkness, since I don't recall you attempting to bring a katana (and I certainly don't recall telling you you succeeded), you won't have it for the upcoming battle. It's not like a katana would be worth much anyway.

Night_Shade · September 2003

"They wasted precious energy...to phase us...to a freaking drop ship. What's wrong with the shuttle bays?"
*sighs, and fishes a ration bar out of his med pack, munching on it nervously*
"That wasn't so bad, eh Ed?" *grins*

Jaeger · September 2003

*sets his LMG on his lap and begins to fieldstrip the weapon*
"We've got 15 minutes guys, don't waste it."
*dissassembles the firing group and carefully twists the bolt spring, reassembles and moves over to the fire selector switch, taking his knife and cutting two notches in the selector spring and closing the switch with a metal washer*
"If I did this right, I'll have a three-round burst on this gun."
*performs a function check, clearing the weapon and testing the safe/full auto switch*
[nudges the switch back until the washer clicks, performs a burst fire function check]

Khaim · September 2003

*Stumbles around a bit from the phase de-orientation then falls down.*
"Aagh, those phases are killer."
*Gets back up and checks to make sure his gun and everything else is working correctly*
"Good, all in working order, even that phase didnt cook any of my equipment."

Ariadne Guardpost Ii: The Evolution

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