<span style='color:blue'>"thats pretty much what happened. There are a few other thing that were kept hush-hush, but nodoby is allowed to talk about them, so its just rumours. keep ya guessing. some of the rumours have more truth in them than others, but its virtually impossible to tell which ones."</span>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>"yeah, one of my daddy's corperations, omni-science, lost most of a science outpost to nanites, once. they somehow thought that bulkhead seals were supposed to be wielded open. very scary. and who knows, maybe khraa arn't bad, but thier bad for buisness so its all the same."</b> </span>
<b>Nano-Gridlock, the alien bacteria prevents nano-machines from messing with them, also why the comm cant see everything, cuz the nano-machines can't operate that far in the bacterium.</b> <span style='color:purple'>*Gets up off the turret* "Good to have some more guns here, nice to see ya Terran <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->." *Goes over to the armory and grabs a few extra clips* "Hopefully those skulks were the worst we'll see, but who knows."</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *listens in on the conversation* "You know, you all make my moral soar though the roof...really. Nanites course through all of us, and one day...great 3v1l could happen, instantely killing us because of defective nanites..." *me smirks a bit and lets it sink in, hopefully getting the desired effect* </span></span>
<span style='color:green'>"Barreling through hard vacuum at 700 kilometers a second through one of the largest asteroid fields in known space, sitting in a tin can 40 feet in front of a 233 gigaton-equivalent fusion furnace can have a similar effect." *flexes his hand* "And I'd still trust my flying more than these nanites." *picks up his LMG off the deck and stretches* "So dea, how's the situation on the nanogrid? We might as well take the time now to gather some intel on what the bacterium may be doing." </span>
<b>well, scince no one said i cant be temp com, i'll pretend im in the cc till exact gets back. If you dont want me to comm, just say "vote eject dea" just like in game. also, if i end up doing anything too messed up, feel free to smack me. esp. exact.</b> <span style='color:yellow'><b>"I'm getting complete nano-gridlock. the engines are in minimum life support. i cant tell where the hives are, but there is a double res node a few corridors to the north. I dont see too much structural damage, but we better be ready to do some structural repairs and seal the vents." [drops wielder]</b> </span>
<span style='color:purple'><b> "Well i've been planning to create a weapon that fires bolts, like that of a crossbow bolt, inside the bolt it's full of nanites that'll destory the target, then hopefully they can be programmed to shut down after so many minutes so they don't on us, can anyone create evil nanites ?"</b></span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"I'd advise against it, you'd violate about eight laws, two of which are life sentences." *starts cleaning his LMG*</span></span>
<span style='color:orange'>"Probably not Sparks, and even if that was possible I think it's illegal in most systems. Hey, Dea, just who is your father, you've mentioned him a lot since you joined up with us?" *grabs some P229 clips, test-firing a few bullets from the first one* "Well these seem to work fine, thanks Terran."</span>
<span style='color:purple'><b> " He a legitimate business man ?" "Well depends really, would you rather have a efficent weapon to use on the onos or pop guns and your life was on the line ? Besides what the law don't know won't hurt them, hmmm." *Eats more of his bar while thinking.* "Shouldn't we be doing something ? Like building turrets or a radar, where would the kitchen be on this ship, i could whip up some food, unless the smell would attract them things."</b></span>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"I don't think you'd get very far with that idea sparks... I heard this one guy tried to make a custom knife with laser sights, a bayonet, a silencer, and can opener attached... After command was through with him he was reduced to insanity, becoming obsessed with some sort of historic counter-terrorism simulation, and some teenage female singer from way back in the turn of the 21st century..." *Picks up the welder, fumbling over the controls slightly as he gives it a quick test fire* "Double-res huh? Doesn't sound so bad..." *Checks his minimap* "Holy crap Dea, the soft cushions in the comm chair getting to you already? That node is miles away! There are a couple of closer single res nodes, why don't we pick one of them instead? They'd be easier to get back to should they come under attack."</span>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>" ok, i got you. I'll drop the closest node, just down the hall some. *looks at the res node, sees no khraa, drops rt* as for the crossbow idea, why dont you make it secrete poison or something? that would get around some of the laws, particularly the life sentances. do you really want to hear about my folks? well, one of my daddys the head of omni-science. the others the head of omni-presence. I love them a lot, and they buy me all sortsa nice ships. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> </b> </span> <b> and yes, i have more background on this char, if your interested.</b>
<b>1 quick thing, let's try and keep the commanding down to a bare minimum untill xect is back, a number of previous rp topics got silly from just that.</b>
<span style='color:purple'><b> "Deaincaelo why do you have 2 dads dudette ? They make you or something from a test tube or something ? Anyway the poison might be good, some of my herbs are quite dangerous but if i prepare them right then they are a great source of healing, Shade wanna help me ?"</b></span>
<b>You read my mind Khaim, my thoughts exactly.</b>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"Hmm I don't know what good poision will do you against these kharaa... Weren't we taught that the real aliens were tiny little bacteria spreading out through the ship and fighting the nanos? And that all the big organisms we can see are merely the bacteria reacting to human presence and defending itself accordingly by grouping up and massing into bigger shapes?"
*Looks at the pile of skulk bodies in the corner, slowly melting away into the ground as the nanites furiously attempt recycle every last drop of bacterium into even more nanites*
"We know that those things don't breathe or eat, and so I doubt they'd have an actual beating heart, or that the blood would flow around their body enough for the poison to actually spread... I was under the impression that all the green goo that splattered all over the walls when we shot them was us merely chipping away chunks of bacteria, not actual blood..."
*Starts walking towards the hall leading towards his waypoint at the resource node*
"You know, we are only half the battle here. The real war is happening between the alien bacteria and our nanites as we speak. All around us billions of tiny robots are duking it out with just as many tiny single-celled organisms... Each skulk body over there would be releasing billions of live bacterium each... Just be thankful that there are so many nanites still functioning normally on this ship that all traces of the bacterium will be gone within a few more minutes, with what little the nanites can recycle going straight into our resource pool...
*Gets to the entrance of the hallway and realises that nobody is following him, so he stops and waits*
"Uh... There is NO way in hell I'm going out there on my own... You guys coming or what?"</span>
<i><span style='font-family:Optima'><span style='color:orange'> "Can I venture my opinion? A bunch of college friends decided they wanted to make something, so they yankee doodled into a cup and amalgamated their DNA, which was put into a surrogate, thus borning dea. How close am I?"
"Also, The Kharaa would have to have some kind of veins. If they're entirely made of bacteria and the nanosludge is giving them energy, some type of organ would have to make sure the nanosludge is being equally distributed among the bacteria, otherwise, the organism would die. Anyhow, i'm not too sure conventional poison would work against them. Their pysiology must be quite different. What's poisonous to us may not be poisonous to them. I wonder how large the bacterium is compared to a terran bacterium. It would be interesting if it resembled a general eukaryote...whatever, thinking about this isn't going to keep me alive."
<span style='color:purple'><b> "Do we have too ?" "Hmmm what else don't bacterium like ? What about the hives aswell ? If we are fighting giant alviolee then surly it......" *He stops and starts thinking.* "Yeah let's get going, prehaps we can find food... and some other items."</b></span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Alright, I'll take the right flank." *removes magazine, pulls bolt, slams in a new one* "You know..what would happen if the nanites...you know...lost? Would that mean that we'd all become like infested zombie things that would like eat each other or soemthing <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->." *smirks a bit then pulls down helmet and activates it* "God...I am just brimming with good ideas today." </span></span>
<b>Well, we could perhaps get some RTs. Just some of 'em close by. But don't make anything crazy happen, like we go all rambo elite and take down a WoL and a few horde of oni with sharp sticks.</b>
<span style='color:purple'>*Moves to take the left flank* "Got ya' covered on the left." *Pokes a few buttons on a PDA to switch it over to a copy of the minimap displaying the squad's location and a small resouce counter and waypoint* "All set to go here, whenever you're ready."</span>
<span style='color:purple'><b> " I'll take the middle." *Turns saftey off, his ammo clip falls out, he curses and puts it back in, but it falls out again.* " Help ?"</b></span>
<b>Woo! Story time! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"Ok... Hives... They were a bit brief about that during lectures... But if I remember the the story being told during the lecture correctly... Not so long ago a ship's away team found and killed a skulk, and brought the body back onto their ship. The skulk was definately dead, but everything it touched became infected by a mass of bacteria."
*Notices the 5 people moving towards him, and decides it's safe enough to venture out, knowing that the others could easily follow using the minimap, and that everybody would still hear him over the voice comms*
"Unfortunately the nanites did very little at that point, because they are programmed only to react when these single-celled invaders spread beyond a certain point. If they didn't do that then not only would you find ships running out of power a few hours after leaving port, but you'd find that the nanos would climb all over you and start eating all the healthy bacteria that lives in your armpits, eye lashes, intestines and then moving onto "fighting off" every single cell in your body, basically killing every living thing on the ship. Unfortunately this at the same time allows the kharaa bacteria to slowly spread out through the ship, creating a very thin film over all nearly every part of the ship."
*Starts walking down the corridor. Holsters his welder and brings up his LMG, keeping it held in a ready position. Staying slightly behind Boggle, up along the opposite wall. He checks around for vents and hallways as he moves.*
"In a similar fashion to how termites build their 20 feet tall nests in the sand, this bacteria instinctively concentrates in 3 different areas of the ship. Usually because either water or heat is abundant in those areas. It's at around this time that things really begin to pick up their pace. The nanite defensive grid kicks in, alerting the ships crew to the unusually high levels of some strange for of bacteria it's never encountered before, and it starts going about attempting to cleanse the ship of the infection."
*Slows his breathing and tries to keep his mind on the conversation to distract him from how afraid he is right about now*
"The kharaa responds to the hostile human threat by channeling as much energy as it can through the bacterium networks into one of the 3 concentrated areas in order to produce a hive, so that warrior lifeforms may also be produced. The unprepared crew gets ripped apart by an army of skulks, and as soon as the bacterium realises that hostile humans are gone, the spawned warriors dissolve back single-celled organisms so to maximise the amount of bacteria actively fighting off the nanites. Should more humans come, like us, a new hive is spawned somewhere, and the bacterium is once again forced to divide its efforts between fighting nanites and fighting humans..."</span>
<i><span style='font-family:Optima'><span style='color:orange'> *looks at revenge* "oooooookay...did you really have to tell us that? C'mon man did you really have to tell us that? Jeez, look at you. You're a shivering mess. And that's an understand for the rest of us first-timers." *Looks at him and shakes head.* "343, lemme see that." *Inspects magazine* "You overloaded the number of bullets that can be placed in it. Thus, the springs are pushing the bullets out, which don't allow the magazine to be firmly secured in your weapon. There were cases of this happening before, and the weapon just wouldn't fire. Consider yourself lucky to be living in this day and age, everything's user-friendly..." "By the way, reevenge, thanks, I'm getting a major case of the squiggies." </span></span></i>
<span style='color:purple'><b> "Thanx Zooby." "So these Kharaa evolve into these lifeforms because the bacterium is feeling threatened right ? So if you could make a stimulant to make it feel secure or drouzy, almost drunk, then it won't feel threatned and will have no need to be it's current lifeform and de-evovle ?" </span> Who is ment to say skulks attack us or stuff ? </b>
<b>Nobody, because we're not gonna get attacked while xect is away. I know it's very poor form to script world events in a roleplay around the characters playing, but considering that xect is the DM I think it'd be okay to make an exception here</b>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"Well sparks wanted to know Zooby, I was only answering him. And I suppose that could work in theory sparks, but I'm not quite sure how you could stop the bacterium from feeling threatened when billions upon billions of angry nanites are slowly consuming it..."
*Thinks about it for a few moments*
"Actually... You may be on to something... If we can somehow reprogram the nanites to some how sedate a bacterium cell before consuming it, it should effectively stop the bacteria from not only attack our nanites but from spawning any of the larger lifeforms..."</span>
<b>i had thought someone was acting as dm, saying what works and how much opposition we encounter. I dont expect to see more then a few skulks... maybe one chomping on the unbuilt rt right now! (hint hint)</b> <span style='color:yellow'><b>"if all the nanites in the ship...and all the nanites in our bodies suddely shut down...we'ld be consumed by the bactirium...and become one of the things we're fighting. be absorbed and become part of the hive... i don't want to think about it." "on a lighter note my fathers marrage was part of the merger between omni-sci and omni-pres. My brother is engaged to the head of omni-potence's daughter. I'm the lucky one that doesn't have to marry that harriden <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->. as for how i came to be, when a very rich mega-conglomerate loves anouther very rich mega-conglomerate very much they hire a very expensive team of scientists with a very expensive reserch lab..." </b> </span>
<b>Yipe! That'll teach me to sleep in! For brevity's sake, assume I moved out with the rest of you. Dea, xect's not here, and nobody else has volunteered to DM.</b> <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Well, just good old-fashioned bonking here." *chuckles* "If I recall correctly, there was something in the last microbiology bulletin about massive funding being poured into researching what makes the Kharaa tick, and how to stop em ticking. They were working along much the same lines as you're thinking of, Revenge, but they'd kill about two million bacteria - bugger all - before the rest in the vicinity evolved an immunity to the poison they were using. I think right now they're working on having the nanites release a small burst of radiation. Seems to be effective so far, but they haven't worked out how to do it without building nanites around radioactives that last for about eight seconds." *ejects LMG clip, checks it over and re-seats it*</span></span>
<b>We basically agreed right after xect left that we wouldn't find any aliens, and we wouldn't build anything (or should I say, nobody disagreed). Combat is a BIG no no without an active level-headed DM, and honestly I wanna keep things as low key as possible till xect gets back.
That's why I had my character shoot down the double res node idea. I just didn't want to use OOC text to do it, and I had hoped the hints would be enough. That's also why we're taking so long to get the node, the longer we take doing something, the less it seems like we've been standing around doing nothing. But then again, we all JUST left the base, so we haven't been walking for long at all...</b>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"So Dea... You have two parents, both of which are heads of mega-conglomerates? " *Long pause* "Both male?"</span>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>*smile* "yes"</b> </span> edit: what i've been basing my actions on: exact: <!--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--> go on as you think is best, be that temp DM, casual chatter or just a break from the roleplay<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> p-kahn: <!--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-->Gonna act a bit like DM now.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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and who knows, maybe khraa arn't bad, but thier bad for buisness so its all the same."</b> </span>
<span style='color:purple'>*Gets up off the turret*
"Good to have some more guns here, nice to see ya Terran <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->."
*Goes over to the armory and grabs a few extra clips*
"Hopefully those skulks were the worst we'll see, but who knows."</span>
*listens in on the conversation*
"You know, you all make my moral soar though the roof...really. Nanites course through all of us, and one day...great 3v1l could happen, instantely killing us because of defective nanites..."
*me smirks a bit and lets it sink in, hopefully getting the desired effect*
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<b>I'm feeling evil today...very evil...</b>
*flexes his hand*
"And I'd still trust my flying more than these nanites."
*picks up his LMG off the deck and stretches*
"So dea, how's the situation on the nanogrid? We might as well take the time now to gather some intel on what the bacterium may be doing."
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<span style='color:yellow'><b>"I'm getting complete nano-gridlock. the engines are in minimum life support. i cant tell where the hives are, but there is a double res node a few corridors to the north. I dont see too much structural damage, but we better be ready to do some structural repairs and seal the vents."
[drops wielder]</b> </span>
"Well i've been planning to create a weapon that fires bolts, like that of a crossbow bolt, inside the bolt it's full of nanites that'll destory the target, then hopefully they can be programmed to shut down after so many minutes so they don't on us, can anyone create evil nanites ?"</b></span>
*starts cleaning his LMG*</span></span>
*grabs some P229 clips, test-firing a few bullets from the first one*
"Well these seem to work fine, thanks Terran."</span>
" He a legitimate business man ?"
"Well depends really, would you rather have a efficent weapon to use on the onos or pop guns and your life was on the line ? Besides what the law don't know won't hurt them, hmmm."
*Eats more of his bar while thinking.*
"Shouldn't we be doing something ? Like building turrets or a radar, where would the kitchen be on this ship, i could whip up some food, unless the smell would attract them things."</b></span>
*Picks up the welder, fumbling over the controls slightly as he gives it a quick test fire*
"Double-res huh? Doesn't sound so bad..."
*Checks his minimap*
"Holy crap Dea, the soft cushions in the comm chair getting to you already? That node is miles away! There are a couple of closer single res nodes, why don't we pick one of them instead? They'd be easier to get back to should they come under attack."</span>
*looks at the res node, sees no khraa, drops rt*
as for the crossbow idea, why dont you make it secrete poison or something? that would get around some of the laws, particularly the life sentances.
do you really want to hear about my folks? well, one of my daddys the head of omni-science. the others the head of omni-presence. I love them a lot, and they buy me all sortsa nice ships. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> </b> </span>
<b> and yes, i have more background on this char, if your interested.</b>
"Deaincaelo why do you have 2 dads dudette ? They make you or something from a test tube or something ? Anyway the poison might be good, some of my herbs are quite dangerous but if i prepare them right then they are a great source of healing, Shade wanna help me ?"</b></span>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"Hmm I don't know what good poision will do you against these kharaa... Weren't we taught that the real aliens were tiny little bacteria spreading out through the ship and fighting the nanos? And that all the big organisms we can see are merely the bacteria reacting to human presence and defending itself accordingly by grouping up and massing into bigger shapes?"
*Looks at the pile of skulk bodies in the corner, slowly melting away into the ground as the nanites furiously attempt recycle every last drop of bacterium into even more nanites*
"We know that those things don't breathe or eat, and so I doubt they'd have an actual beating heart, or that the blood would flow around their body enough for the poison to actually spread... I was under the impression that all the green goo that splattered all over the walls when we shot them was us merely chipping away chunks of bacteria, not actual blood..."
*Starts walking towards the hall leading towards his waypoint at the resource node*
"You know, we are only half the battle here. The real war is happening between the alien bacteria and our nanites as we speak. All around us billions of tiny robots are duking it out with just as many tiny single-celled organisms... Each skulk body over there would be releasing billions of live bacterium each... Just be thankful that there are so many nanites still functioning normally on this ship that all traces of the bacterium will be gone within a few more minutes, with what little the nanites can recycle going straight into our resource pool...
*Gets to the entrance of the hallway and realises that nobody is following him, so he stops and waits*
"Uh... There is NO way in hell I'm going out there on my own... You guys coming or what?"</span>
"Can I venture my opinion? A bunch of college friends decided they wanted to make something, so they yankee doodled into a cup and amalgamated their DNA, which was put into a surrogate, thus borning dea. How close am I?"
"Also, The Kharaa would have to have some kind of veins. If they're entirely made of bacteria and the nanosludge is giving them energy, some type of organ would have to make sure the nanosludge is being equally distributed among the bacteria, otherwise, the organism would die. Anyhow, i'm not too sure conventional poison would work against them. Their pysiology must be quite different. What's poisonous to us may not be poisonous to them. I wonder how large the bacterium is compared to a terran bacterium. It would be interesting if it resembled a general eukaryote...whatever, thinking about this isn't going to keep me alive."
*motions to revenge.*
"I'll go with you"</span></span></i>
<b>yay. school is SO FUN</b>
"Do we have too ?"
"Hmmm what else don't bacterium like ? What about the hives aswell ? If we are fighting giant alviolee then surly it......"
*He stops and starts thinking.*
"Yeah let's get going, prehaps we can find food... and some other items."</b></span>
"Alright, I'll take the right flank."
*removes magazine, pulls bolt, slams in a new one*
"You know..what would happen if the nanites...you know...lost? Would that mean that we'd all become like infested zombie things that would like eat each other or soemthing <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->."
*smirks a bit then pulls down helmet and activates it*
"God...I am just brimming with good ideas today."
</span></span>
<b>Well, we could perhaps get some RTs. Just some of 'em close by. But don't make anything crazy happen, like we go all rambo elite and take down a WoL and a few horde of oni with sharp sticks.</b>
"Got ya' covered on the left."
*Pokes a few buttons on a PDA to switch it over to a copy of the minimap displaying the squad's location and a small resouce counter and waypoint*
"All set to go here, whenever you're ready."</span>
" I'll take the middle."
*Turns saftey off, his ammo clip falls out, he curses and puts it back in, but it falls out again.*
" Help ?"</b></span>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"Ok... Hives... They were a bit brief about that during lectures... But if I remember the the story being told during the lecture correctly... Not so long ago a ship's away team found and killed a skulk, and brought the body back onto their ship. The skulk was definately dead, but everything it touched became infected by a mass of bacteria."
*Notices the 5 people moving towards him, and decides it's safe enough to venture out, knowing that the others could easily follow using the minimap, and that everybody would still hear him over the voice comms*
"Unfortunately the nanites did very little at that point, because they are programmed only to react when these single-celled invaders spread beyond a certain point. If they didn't do that then not only would you find ships running out of power a few hours after leaving port, but you'd find that the nanos would climb all over you and start eating all the healthy bacteria that lives in your armpits, eye lashes, intestines and then moving onto "fighting off" every single cell in your body, basically killing every living thing on the ship. Unfortunately this at the same time allows the kharaa bacteria to slowly spread out through the ship, creating a very thin film over all nearly every part of the ship."
*Starts walking down the corridor. Holsters his welder and brings up his LMG, keeping it held in a ready position. Staying slightly behind Boggle, up along the opposite wall. He checks around for vents and hallways as he moves.*
"In a similar fashion to how termites build their 20 feet tall nests in the sand, this bacteria instinctively concentrates in 3 different areas of the ship. Usually because either water or heat is abundant in those areas. It's at around this time that things really begin to pick up their pace. The nanite defensive grid kicks in, alerting the ships crew to the unusually high levels of some strange for of bacteria it's never encountered before, and it starts going about attempting to cleanse the ship of the infection."
*Slows his breathing and tries to keep his mind on the conversation to distract him from how afraid he is right about now*
"The kharaa responds to the hostile human threat by channeling as much energy as it can through the bacterium networks into one of the 3 concentrated areas in order to produce a hive, so that warrior lifeforms may also be produced. The unprepared crew gets ripped apart by an army of skulks, and as soon as the bacterium realises that hostile humans are gone, the spawned warriors dissolve back single-celled organisms so to maximise the amount of bacteria actively fighting off the nanites. Should more humans come, like us, a new hive is spawned somewhere, and the bacterium is once again forced to divide its efforts between fighting nanites and fighting humans..."</span>
*looks at revenge*
"oooooookay...did you really have to tell us that? C'mon man did you really have to tell us that? Jeez, look at you. You're a shivering mess. And that's an understand for the rest of us first-timers."
*Looks at him and shakes head.*
"343, lemme see that."
*Inspects magazine*
"You overloaded the number of bullets that can be placed in it. Thus, the springs are pushing the bullets out, which don't allow the magazine to be firmly secured in your weapon. There were cases of this happening before, and the weapon just wouldn't fire. Consider yourself lucky to be living in this day and age, everything's user-friendly..."
"By the way, reevenge, thanks, I'm getting a major case of the squiggies."
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"Thanx Zooby."
"So these Kharaa evolve into these lifeforms because the bacterium is feeling threatened right ? So if you could make a stimulant to make it feel secure or drouzy, almost drunk, then it won't feel threatned and will have no need to be it's current lifeform and de-evovle ?"
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Who is ment to say skulks attack us or stuff ?
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<span style='color:00FF00'>"Well sparks wanted to know Zooby, I was only answering him. And I suppose that could work in theory sparks, but I'm not quite sure how you could stop the bacterium from feeling threatened when billions upon billions of angry nanites are slowly consuming it..."
*Thinks about it for a few moments*
"Actually... You may be on to something... If we can somehow reprogram the nanites to some how sedate a bacterium cell before consuming it, it should effectively stop the bacteria from not only attack our nanites but from spawning any of the larger lifeforms..."</span>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>"if all the nanites in the ship...and all the nanites in our bodies suddely shut down...we'ld be consumed by the bactirium...and become one of the things we're fighting. be absorbed and become part of the hive... i don't want to think about it."
"on a lighter note my fathers marrage was part of the merger between omni-sci and omni-pres. My brother is engaged to the head of omni-potence's daughter. I'm the lucky one that doesn't have to marry that harriden <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->. as for how i came to be, when a very rich mega-conglomerate loves anouther very rich mega-conglomerate very much they hire a very expensive team of scientists with a very expensive reserch lab..."
</b> </span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Well, just good old-fashioned bonking here."
*chuckles*
"If I recall correctly, there was something in the last microbiology bulletin about massive funding being poured into researching what makes the Kharaa tick, and how to stop em ticking. They were working along much the same lines as you're thinking of, Revenge, but they'd kill about two million bacteria - bugger all - before the rest in the vicinity evolved an immunity to the poison they were using. I think right now they're working on having the nanites release a small burst of radiation. Seems to be effective so far, but they haven't worked out how to do it without building nanites around radioactives that last for about eight seconds."
*ejects LMG clip, checks it over and re-seats it*</span></span>
That's why I had my character shoot down the double res node idea. I just didn't want to use OOC text to do it, and I had hoped the hints would be enough. That's also why we're taking so long to get the node, the longer we take doing something, the less it seems like we've been standing around doing nothing. But then again, we all JUST left the base, so we haven't been walking for long at all...</b>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"So Dea... You have two parents, both of which are heads of mega-conglomerates? "
*Long pause*
"Both male?"</span>
"yes"</b> </span>
edit: what i've been basing my actions on:
exact:
<!--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--> go on as you think is best, be that temp DM, casual chatter or just a break from the roleplay<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
p-kahn:
<!--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-->Gonna act a bit like DM now.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->