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Post by DAxxnNOOBxx on Jul 9, 2014 6:34:04 GMT 10
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(Captains Log Entry: 001 Sir. Renner Chahc IV)\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\| | | | Lunar Cycle: 2266/07/08/1500/45/23.56 | | | | Geocentric celestial coordinates:...................................................................................................................Distance: 0.66405 AU | | ....................................................................................................................................................Right ascension: GY 9.06400000000004e-4 | | ....................................................................................................................................................Declination: +21.866° | | | |/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[LOG START]\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\| | | | | | Major Gebeg has given me the honor of serving as a missionary of balance. | | I am so happy that i was chosen out of my brothers to spread the knowledge of balance, and punish those who do not accept it... | | | | After the ceremony I was gifted with my very own ship. The delta command module looked perfect, not a single dent or scratch on it, and the delta girders glowed a deep red, but the best | | part was the twin foxtrot laser cannons mounted on the front. My fingers twitched, just thinking about pulling the triggers and letting loose a barrage of death upon... | | The unbalanced... | | | | I gave my goodbyes to my brothers and sisters of the order, and climbed into my ship. After siting myself in the cockpit I powered up the ship, the ship greeted me with a deep hum of the | | generators powering up. I smiled, a name, I need a name for this ship, i thought. As per our religion, everything must be balanced, even our own names. So I came to the conclusion to call | | my ship, Eve. Eve, I said to myself, alone in my ship, as the bay doors of our generation ship opened. The communicator flashed, and the ship's bridge gave me the all clear for departure. | | Grabbing hold of the controls I powered up the main thrusters and released the mag-locked landing gear. I could feel the power surge through the ship as she hummed with glee, ready to | | spread her metal wings and fly. I smiled and threw the controls forwards, the ship flew forward, the walls of the docking bay blurred past as I was yanked back into my seat. The exit of | | the bay doors rushed forwards, and at last I plunged into the void of space... | | | | Hundreds of stars filled the display of my cockpit, and the giant gas planet Jupiter gazed at me with it's red eye... | | I set the coordinates of my destination to a outpost which followed my path of balance, to my final destination... Mars | | | | | |\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\[LOG END]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Post by Ozzatron on Jul 9, 2014 8:17:51 GMT 10
I had to widen the browser window to see this, but wow, it's beautiful. XD
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Post by DAxxnNOOBxx on Jul 9, 2014 23:45:32 GMT 10
Thanks Ozzatron! Took me a bit to create the layout of the captains log but I guess it worked out in the end. Maybe i`ll change it a bit so it works on smaller windows. I plan on writing more of these logs in the future so keep an eye on your radar!
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Post by Perez on Jul 10, 2014 7:22:41 GMT 10
Wow, this is great! Are you a novelist? I really like the way you went with the whole the meaning of balance, which all seemed realistic in many ways. Almost like you took our time right now and pushed it all the way to space-age, if that makes sense in any way ...
As you plan to write more, we are very curious to see more! Keep it up!
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Post by DAxxnNOOBxx on Jul 10, 2014 21:56:58 GMT 10
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |///////////////////////////////////////////////////////(Captains Log Entry: 002 Sir. Renner Chahc IV)\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\| | | | Lunar Cycle: 2266/07/10/1300/50/23.56 | | | | Geocentric celestial coordinates:...................................................................................................Distance: 0.66404 AU | | .................................................................................................................Right ascension: GY 9.06400000000005e-4 | | ...................................................................................................................................Declination: +22.097° | | | |///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[LOG START]\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\| | | | | | It has been two days now since my departure from my home "Statera Consumptis", a generation ship | that left earth over 146 years ago. An incredibly | | large ship that holds over 20000 families within its hull. Our ship left earth as a colonizing ship, its goal one of Saturn’s moons, however that was | | before the great cleansing, before balence was restored... | | | | I smiled thinking about how our teacher at the academy spoke of the great cleansing, made me wish that I was born a hundred years earlier so that I | | could have experienced the holy war first hand. | | | | I was pulled away from my thoughts when Eve`s scanners found a signal roughly 250km away and chirped a tone into the cockpit. I leaned forward, and | | while I brought up the ship`s radar onto the screen two more chirps filled the quiet cockpit. I began to become slightly nervous as three signals | | began to converge on my position. | | | | 240… 220… 180km away now, the signals all glowing red as they began to close in... | | | | | |\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\[LOG END]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Post by DAxxnNOOBxx on Jul 10, 2014 22:01:08 GMT 10
"...Almost like you took our time right now and pushed it all the way to space-age, if that makes sense in any way ..." Wow Perez... you have really good eyes!
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Post by Perez on Jul 10, 2014 22:13:45 GMT 10
"...Almost like you took our time right now and pushed it all the way to space-age, if that makes sense in any way ..." Wow Perez... you have really good eyes! Oh, you ...~
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Post by DAxxnNOOBxx on Jul 14, 2014 20:35:25 GMT 10
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |///////////////////////////////////////////////////////(Captains Log Entry: 003 Sir. Renner Chahc IV)\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\| | | | Lunar Cycle: 2266/07/14/1100/55/58.01 | | | | Geocentric celestial coordinates:...................................................................................................Distance: 0.66405 AU | | .................................................................................................................Right ascension: GY 9.06400000000006e-4 | | ...................................................................................................................................Declination: +23.567° | | | |///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[LOG START]\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\| | | | | | | | It has been – days now, since the attack… | | | | It took me a while to finally restore my internal balance, however I cannot say the same for my ship, Eve… | | | | The three pirates hailed me as soon as all three of them came within laser cannon range. Their ships were a mess of scraped parts ranging from Alpha | | to Charlie haphazardly welded in no apparent form, unbalanced. So unbalanced that it sickened me, as I grudgingly answered their calls. The ships screen | | displayed a wild haired man, his green hair formed into a large Mohawk, he seemed to be missing the lower half of his jaw which was replaced by a rusted | | metal attempt of a prosthetic. He smiled, or at least that’s what it looked like with his mechanical iron jaw. “How`d ya doing today mista?” the pirate | | said in a heavily digitized voice, which led me to believe that it wasn’t only the lower half of his jaw he was missing. “Fine”, I said horrified by the | | unbalanced thing that Eve displayed on her monitor, “I am fine”. “Welp, that’s good, Im hapy to be hearing dat” replied the pirate, his smile growing as | | his beady eyes began to twitch. “Wel, ya see here mista theres a… taxing round this here sector. An I don wana ruin ya fine day, so lets us say, you | | hand over say… 100 creds?” retorted the pirate, his smile sending a chill down my spine. The filthy unbalanced thing wanted 100 credits? I was only | | given 50,000 sub credits at the time of ceremony, that wasn’t nearly enough. I hesitated before I spoke, “I’m afraid I don’t have enough to pay you”, as | | soon as the words left my mouth, the pirate`s creepy grin vanished. He then started to laugh, “Welp, Im fraid that your fine day, aint gonna be fine no | | mor mista…”, as soon as he finished he cut the call. I looked up, horrified to see the three pirates forward cannons begin to glow. | | | | Instantly I grabbed at the control stick of the ship, pulling it into a hard turn to the left as the pirates fired. Arrows of light flew past the | | display and the ship leached as a few found there mark along the right side of the ship, warning lights began flashing as the ship cried in pain. I | | brought the ship around, and let my combat flight training take over. I primed the forward guns, as I began to strafe the pirates. One blasphemie of a | | ship, didn’t seem to have much turning power, which I targeted first. I squeezed off one salvo into the Alpha girder that held together the right side | | of his ship. The girder exploded in a plume of fire as the oxygen tank within it was ignited, and the other half of the ship tore free and spun out, | | rotating around it axis uselessly, however it still continued to fire, grazing the left face of my ship. Suddenly I was rocked to the left, as a Charlie | | missile found its mark turning one of my other Charlie girder to a smoldering wreck, red lights bathed the cockpit and further wails of pain came from | | warning notifications, as I turned Eve around to face the other ship. | | | | The other two ships lit the monitor in a furry of red light pumping beams of light into the darkness of space. I threw the ship into a barrel roll, and | | fired everything my twin Foxtrot cannons had to offer. Orange beams, brighter than the other laser salvos, tore the two pirate ships apart. --- were | | reduced to scrap, ramming spikes blew free and thrusters overloaded into brilliant fireworks. I didn’t stop firing until Eve pleaded to stop, as | | overheating warnings flashed across the screen. They were dead, but not all of them, I turned the ship to where the half destroyed pirate ship had been, | | and saw it attempting to escape. I floored the thrusters, the sprint booster launching the ship forward, and tuned to block off the ships escape. I was | | about to pull the firing triggers once more but was stopped by the coms notifying an incoming call. I answered the calls, and a image of a grey bearded | | pirate, tattoos covering his face, came through a static view. “Air!” he gasped “Please! Air!” as he clawed at the monitor, face turning blue. | | “I’m sorry…” I whispered, as I forced myself to pull the trigger. The orange beam shot towards the wounded vessel, and ripped right through the main | | command module, the final overloading explosion of the ship`s main generator filled Eve`s display with a beautiful mix of orange and red. I looked at | | my hands, they wouldn’t stop shaking, I have brought balance to the unbalanced… | | | | I returned Eve to the originally planned route, the next station shouldn’t be far now… | | | | I have attatched the status of the ship for reference history... | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- | | |..............................Ship Status...............................| |..............Ship Inventory.............| | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | Charlie -- Girder #1 -- Weight: 3000kg / Durability: 500J | | -- 50000 sub credits = 50 credits | | | | Charlie -- Girder #2 -- Weight: 3000kg / Durability: 8000J | | -- 7687/11000 Liters of Oxygen: 69.88% | | | | Charlie -- Girder #3 -- ***CONNECTION LOST*** | | -- 42/60 meal rations | | | | Charlie -- Girder #4 -- Weight: 3000kg / Durability: 8000J | | -- 2 emergency med kits | | | | Charlie -- Girder #5 -- ***CONNECTION LOST*** | | -- 50m of towing cable | | | | | | | | | | Charlie -- Booster #1 -- Weight: 3000kg / Durability: 4000J | ------------------------------------------- | | | -- Boost Power: 360,000N | | | | Charlie -- Booster #2 -- Weight: 3000kg / Durability: 3500J | | | | -- Boost Power: 360,000N | | | | Charlie -- Booster #3 -- Weight: 3000kg / Durability: 4000J | | | | -- Boost Power: 360,000N | | | | Charlie -- Booster #4 -- Weight: 3000kg / Durability: 500J | | | | -- Boost Power: 360,000N | | | | | | | | Delta -- Girder #1 -- Weight: 8000kg / Durability: 16000J | | | | Delta -- Girder #2 -- Weight: 8000kg / Durability: 16000J | | | | Delta -- Girder #3 -- Weight: 8000kg / Durability: 16000J | | | | Delta -- Girder #4 -- Weight: 8000kg / Durability: 16000J | | | | Delta -- Girder #5 -- Weight: 8000kg / Durability: 16000J | | | | Delta -- Girder #6 -- Weight: 8000kg / Durability: 15000J | | | | Delta -- Girder #7 -- Weight: 8000kg / Durability: 14500J | | | | Delta -- Girder #8 -- Weight: 8000kg / Durability: 16000J | | | | Delta -- Girder #9 -- Weight: 8000kg / Durability: 12500J | | | | | | | | Delta -- Booster #1 -- Weight: 4000kg / Durability: 8000J | | | | -- Boost Power: 480,000N | | | | Delta -- Booster #2 -- Weight: 4000kg / Durability: 8000J | | | | -- Boost Power: 480,000N | | | | Delta -- Booster #3 -- Weight: 4000kg / Durability: 8000J | | | | -- Boost Power: 480,000N | | | | Delta -- Booster #4 -- Weight: 4000kg / Durability: 8000J | | | | -- Boost Power: 480,000N | | | | | | | | Delta -- Sprint Booster #1 -- Weight: 4000kg / Durability: 8000J | | | | -- Boost Power: 960,000N | | | | -- Durration: 4.00sec | | | | -- Recharge: 1.00sec | | | | | | | | Foxtrot -- Laser Cannon #1 -- Weight: 6000kg / Durability: 14000J | | | | -- Energy Dispersal: 4000J | | | | -- RoF: 4Hz | | | | -- Firing Status: ***OVERHEAT WARNING*** | | | | Foxtrot -- Laser Cannon #2 -- Weight: 6000kg / Durability: 15500J | | | | -- Energy Dispersal: 4000J | | | | -- RoF: 4Hz | | | | -- Firing Status: ***OVERHEAT WARNING*** | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | |\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\[LOG END]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Post by Ozzatron on Jul 15, 2014 2:00:32 GMT 10
So now that I've got all those stats... I'd like to ask what the ship looks like, and why there's only 1 Sprint Booster on a Balancer ship. Those are always supposed to be rotationally symmetric.
Or are you telling the tale of a Balanceist who is falling from grace into unbalanced insanity? Because that'd be awesome too. He was so busy bringing balance to the pirates that he didn't even realize his own ship's asymmetry.
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Post by Perez on Jul 15, 2014 22:52:09 GMT 10
Dis is som good fan-fiction of de Captain Jameson gém. Or is it called fan-fiction in the first place?
No but seriously, great job on your factional log! You manage the to advance in excitement throughout the story, which is absolutely brilliant. Not to mention the layout of your post here; So technical, yet easy to read. Kudos on your novelistic skills!
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Post by DAxxnNOOBxx on Jul 17, 2014 22:17:05 GMT 10
Here is what Captain Renner`s ship looked like before the pirate attack.
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Post by Perez on Jul 18, 2014 1:25:41 GMT 10
In all of honesty, this isn't what a balancer actually looks like, however, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be called a balancer or even be denied as a balancer. It could easily be an earlier state of the whole balance ideology, or as Ozzatron mentioned, a pilot that is slowly turning into unbalanced madness.
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Post by Ozzatron on Jul 18, 2014 2:06:38 GMT 10
I mean, the whole idea of a rotationally symmetric ship is madness. It can't possible move effectively unless it uses Translocators and Transrotators, nor can it really fire effectively either. I like his idea of a half-balanced ship, i.e. his structure is balanced but not the adornments (weapons/boosters). Of course, I still stand by the fact that this guy should eventually go nuts in his quest to restore balance to the world and become significantly unbalanced on his own.
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Post by DAxxnNOOBxx on Jul 18, 2014 17:13:21 GMT 10
Yeah, I see your point on the ship not being a classic balancer Perez, however like Ozzatron said the normal ones don’t travel anywhere, except turn endlessly in circles... speaking of turning... that profile picture... ... ...sorry phased out there for a bit… it’s just so… hypnotizing…
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Post by DAxxnNOOBxx on Jul 18, 2014 19:21:55 GMT 10
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |///////////////////////////////////////////////////////(Captains Log Entry: 004 Sir. Renner Chahc IV)\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\| | | | Lunar Cycle: 2266/07/18/0900/20/19.23 | | | | Geocentric celestial coordinates:...................................................................................................Distance: 0.66403 AU | | .................................................................................................................Right ascension: GY 9.06400000000007e-4 | | ...................................................................................................................................Declination: +23.875° | | | |///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[LOG START]\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\| | | | | | I have made port at the former peacekeeper FOB (forward operating base) the Paladin`s Hammer, I had hailed the docking crew as I came into com range | | of the base, and requested permission to dock. The docking master cleared me for parking after i wired him the 5 credits he asked for. I piloted the | | wounded Eve into hanger bay A023 taking care to position her between the green and red guiding lights on the runway. | | | | I turned on the mag locks on the landing gear, and waited for the docking crew came into the hanger. I began to think about the pirates, and how | | I ripped their unbalanced ships apart, firing volley after volley into their hulls, even long before their crew... expired, making their ships even | | more unbalanced then before... | | | | I was torn from my thoughts, as I heard a knocking at the command module’s exit hatch. I got out of my seat and released the safety lock and opened | | the door. Outside a boy, no older then the age of 16 smiled at me, dressed in a ragged oil smeared engineer’s suit that had seen far better days. | | "Hey there Capt`n", the boy yelled over the noise of refueling tankers, "I cond`t help noticing yer ship got a good few dents in em". | | "I would be happy to fix her up for ya", he said happily as he beaconed me outside. "Fer a price of course", he said after a short pause as we walked | | down the metal ramp, "I’m the best of all em engineers here, guarantied" he said with a smile. I sighed "Is 900 sub credits enough for your services?", | | I asked, the boy turned around, walking backwards as he surveyed the ship`s damage. After about five steps he lost his footing, crashing backwards | | into the metal ramp he yelped, and slid the rest of the way down with his hands wrapped around the back of his head. The man running the refueling | | tanker started to laugh loud enough to be heard clear across the hanger, as I helped hip up to his feet. "Are you ok?" I asked, as he tenderly | | rubbed the back of his head, "Yeah" he said grinning slightly "I’ve had worse things happen, I once fell off a ship I was repairing into a tank of | | grease oil,took them about three hours to pull me out, course everything slipped right out of me hands" he said with a laugh. That explains the suit, | | I though to myself. | | | | "So, your first time here at Paladin`s Hammer?" he asked looking me over, "Yes, this is my first time at this base" I said as I looked around. | | "This used to be a peacekeeper base, correct?", I asked. The boy spit, "Yeah, it was, till those yellow-bellied bastards ran off bout twenty years | | ago", he said angrily, "Good thing they left too, theys nothing but trouble". "Who runs this base now?" I asked curiously. "Oh, uh them mining group | | called the... uhhhm... da uhhhh..." the boy scratched his head. I guess he hit his head harder than I thought, I thought to myself as we walked | | towards the hanger`s exit. | | | | The boy was still lost in thought as we walked down the hallway, the sounds from the hanger muffled as the doors closed | | behind us. "Ah!" the boy cried, "That’s what they’re called" he said pointing to a spot on the wall. In the dimly lit hallway written in neon green | | paint was the name "Chej Doáb", I struggled to comprehend how it would be said. It was by far the most unbalanced name I had ever heard of. | | | | "Yeah, weird name" said the boy noticing me staring at the wall slightly mortified. "Them leader is scary though", his voice suddenly getting a | | bit quieter as we walked down the empty hallway "They call her Admiral Kirana, she a real piece of work, chased off thirty pirates in a mining | | barge, man, a mining barge!". "And that mining barge thing is huge, takes up the largest hanger in the entire base, she calls it the Thanatos", | | he said his eyes growing bigger by the second. | | | | As he finished his ranting about the mining group`s leader, we came to the end of the hallway, the big steel doors covered in graffiti. "So Capt`n | | uhhh..." he started, "Renner", I said sticking out my hand. "Cool name" the boy said smiling as he shook my hand, "My names Slip". | | | | | |\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\[LOG END]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Post by DAxxnNOOBxx on Jul 18, 2014 20:46:33 GMT 10
I was wondering what I would name the engineer... but i think the name slip is relevent, so ill let it slide...
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Post by Ozzatron on Jul 19, 2014 1:59:51 GMT 10
So you just named a crew that Kirana leads? That's awkward, perhaps you should've let her name it. Unless you asked her. In any case, oh jeez, there's canon aboard this thing!On another note, I couldn't help but think of a different Paladin's Hammer.
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Post by DAxxnNOOBxx on Jul 19, 2014 3:53:18 GMT 10
Sorry if you think its awkward... If it's that bad I could change it to something else, I just thought to be cool to use some names from people who are part of the forms.
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Post by Ozzatron on Jul 19, 2014 8:50:11 GMT 10
Ask Kirana herself, not me!
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Post by Perez on Jul 19, 2014 22:00:46 GMT 10
Hehe, sorry for it being so obvious, as I yet didn't realize the actual maneuverability a balancer is capable of.
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