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Even though I've kinda just barely started, I figure I better write my VO life story now before I forget it. It's not very exciting or such, but feel free to read it. So without further ado, the boring story of Panis Onar:
Panis grew up in a poor family on Divinia, somewhat of a rebel to traditional Itani ways. His father, who wanted to fly a ship since he was only a boy but never got the chance, always told him to "learn the mind-link, buy one of those little crafts, and go be a true pilot!"
Panis wanted to be an engineer though, which his mother was always supportive of. At age 10, he even stole a little bit of steel wiring (with his mother's help of course, she was always a little bit of a rogue) and made a small space probe. He could never really find a way to get it up past Divinia's thick atmosphere though.
So he tried looking outside the local automated market for something someone might have dropped, maybe if he was lucky, he would find a small thruster. It was a long shot, though, as thrusters were bigger than a typical cred-stick, and no one ever dropped those.
looking on the ground and scanning with the metal detector he made out of some market-droid (belonging to a rich person most likely) which he somehow managed to shut down and scavenge, Panis didn't see that he was getting closer and closer to a xithricite liquidator.
Do you know how hot a xithricite liquidator is? it compares to the heat of Divinia's own sun. However, it's hard to tell if you're near one, as it works by bending space to that the heat stays contained, so it just keeps getting hotter and hotter. Unfortunately, Panis happened to by looking down at the time, and got a bit too close.
Just before he was vaporized, a man stuck a stick in his way, and the stick vanished before Panis's eyes, turning to smoke. Panis looked up and to his side. There before him was a old space soldier, wearing multiple badges of valor from the Itani council itself.
"You know," he said, "Someone as stupid as you would make a great mechanic."
Panis blushed, looking up to the tower-of-a-man before him. "I always wanted to be an engineer, sir."
The man smiled and said, "Tell you what, fella, if you ask your parents' permission, I might just take you up to Divine Duty station. It doesn't take too long at 225 meters per second."
Panis knew that parents are, as it's their nature to be, quite a bit more protective than you're counting on. So he did a very foolish thing right then and there. He ran off, pretending to go tell his parents the news, but instead went to the town square (actually an indoor garden with automated plant-care), looked around for a bit, went back to the soldier, and told him that his parents had agreed.
While walking to the launch site, the old soldier told Panis that there wasn't much room in his Valkarie for two, but it would have to do. Panis could almost see the twin launch bays over the horizon. He had studied the specs from the LCD pamphlets that came in the mail every so often. He didn't know why he hadn't ever gone to see them himself. They just seemed so big and scary before.
After a long walk, they got there. The soldier opened the door and said, "After you". Panis stepped inside. He knew the building was big by looking at it from the outside, but it almost seemed larger inside. He saw numerous EC-class ships, a Vulture or two, and sitting near the end, a magnificent, blue-striped Itani Valkyrie. the old man offered his hand and said, "Ready?"
Panis gripped his hand firmly and they walked past the other ships. Panis was in awe with every ship, even the ECs, as they were only offered free to tax-payers. Several times, the soldier had to tug him in order to get him to look where he was going, not at the numerous ships behind them.
They got there, and Panis crashed into the side of the ship. "Awe, you scratched the paint!" the old man said jokingly. Panis wasn't sure whether to take it seriously or not. The man stepped up onto the ship, opened the cockpit window, and squeezed inside. It almost looked painful. Panis tried and tried, but couldn't get up onto the ship. The soldier opened the door again, climbed out onto the Valk, and reached his hand out to Panis. Panis stood on his tippy-toes, reached the man's hand, and hoisted himself up. He had much less trouble squeezing into the cockpit, even though it was already occupied by one person already.
The soldier started the engines, and the automated security clearance voice came on. "Clearance?" it asked.
"Vadek Rostras, clearance Gamma Omega 3-6-25-0." He turned to Panis. "You can forget that, right... umm... what's your name again?"
"Onar, sir. Panis Onar."
"Right, well, Onar sir Panis Onar, time to get going." He accelerated hard and turned up towards the exit. Panis's stomach churned, but it was the most fun he had ever had in his life. He realized that his eyes were closed, and he opened them. All he could see were stars. He looked back. He saw his town, then his country, then his continent. Weightlessness kicked in for a second, but the gravimetric force-distributors balanced that out. He looked ahead of him again. Just as a little speck in the distance, almost like a star, was the station. That speck quickly grew to a small outline, then a real station. It might have actually been an hour to get up there, but it seemed like a minute.
Uh oh... it might have been an hour. That was bad. His parents must have been looking for him for a while. He watched as the planet Divinia turned so that his town was in the darkness.
(end part of story, continued tomorrow maybe)
So, how was that so far? I know, I kinda suck at writing, and the probe that I made out of scrap steel is kinda irrelevant so far, but it'll all tie in in the end.
Unless I forget what was supposed to happen anyway. Oh dear.
Panis grew up in a poor family on Divinia, somewhat of a rebel to traditional Itani ways. His father, who wanted to fly a ship since he was only a boy but never got the chance, always told him to "learn the mind-link, buy one of those little crafts, and go be a true pilot!"
Panis wanted to be an engineer though, which his mother was always supportive of. At age 10, he even stole a little bit of steel wiring (with his mother's help of course, she was always a little bit of a rogue) and made a small space probe. He could never really find a way to get it up past Divinia's thick atmosphere though.
So he tried looking outside the local automated market for something someone might have dropped, maybe if he was lucky, he would find a small thruster. It was a long shot, though, as thrusters were bigger than a typical cred-stick, and no one ever dropped those.
looking on the ground and scanning with the metal detector he made out of some market-droid (belonging to a rich person most likely) which he somehow managed to shut down and scavenge, Panis didn't see that he was getting closer and closer to a xithricite liquidator.
Do you know how hot a xithricite liquidator is? it compares to the heat of Divinia's own sun. However, it's hard to tell if you're near one, as it works by bending space to that the heat stays contained, so it just keeps getting hotter and hotter. Unfortunately, Panis happened to by looking down at the time, and got a bit too close.
Just before he was vaporized, a man stuck a stick in his way, and the stick vanished before Panis's eyes, turning to smoke. Panis looked up and to his side. There before him was a old space soldier, wearing multiple badges of valor from the Itani council itself.
"You know," he said, "Someone as stupid as you would make a great mechanic."
Panis blushed, looking up to the tower-of-a-man before him. "I always wanted to be an engineer, sir."
The man smiled and said, "Tell you what, fella, if you ask your parents' permission, I might just take you up to Divine Duty station. It doesn't take too long at 225 meters per second."
Panis knew that parents are, as it's their nature to be, quite a bit more protective than you're counting on. So he did a very foolish thing right then and there. He ran off, pretending to go tell his parents the news, but instead went to the town square (actually an indoor garden with automated plant-care), looked around for a bit, went back to the soldier, and told him that his parents had agreed.
While walking to the launch site, the old soldier told Panis that there wasn't much room in his Valkarie for two, but it would have to do. Panis could almost see the twin launch bays over the horizon. He had studied the specs from the LCD pamphlets that came in the mail every so often. He didn't know why he hadn't ever gone to see them himself. They just seemed so big and scary before.
After a long walk, they got there. The soldier opened the door and said, "After you". Panis stepped inside. He knew the building was big by looking at it from the outside, but it almost seemed larger inside. He saw numerous EC-class ships, a Vulture or two, and sitting near the end, a magnificent, blue-striped Itani Valkyrie. the old man offered his hand and said, "Ready?"
Panis gripped his hand firmly and they walked past the other ships. Panis was in awe with every ship, even the ECs, as they were only offered free to tax-payers. Several times, the soldier had to tug him in order to get him to look where he was going, not at the numerous ships behind them.
They got there, and Panis crashed into the side of the ship. "Awe, you scratched the paint!" the old man said jokingly. Panis wasn't sure whether to take it seriously or not. The man stepped up onto the ship, opened the cockpit window, and squeezed inside. It almost looked painful. Panis tried and tried, but couldn't get up onto the ship. The soldier opened the door again, climbed out onto the Valk, and reached his hand out to Panis. Panis stood on his tippy-toes, reached the man's hand, and hoisted himself up. He had much less trouble squeezing into the cockpit, even though it was already occupied by one person already.
The soldier started the engines, and the automated security clearance voice came on. "Clearance?" it asked.
"Vadek Rostras, clearance Gamma Omega 3-6-25-0." He turned to Panis. "You can forget that, right... umm... what's your name again?"
"Onar, sir. Panis Onar."
"Right, well, Onar sir Panis Onar, time to get going." He accelerated hard and turned up towards the exit. Panis's stomach churned, but it was the most fun he had ever had in his life. He realized that his eyes were closed, and he opened them. All he could see were stars. He looked back. He saw his town, then his country, then his continent. Weightlessness kicked in for a second, but the gravimetric force-distributors balanced that out. He looked ahead of him again. Just as a little speck in the distance, almost like a star, was the station. That speck quickly grew to a small outline, then a real station. It might have actually been an hour to get up there, but it seemed like a minute.
Uh oh... it might have been an hour. That was bad. His parents must have been looking for him for a while. He watched as the planet Divinia turned so that his town was in the darkness.
(end part of story, continued tomorrow maybe)
So, how was that so far? I know, I kinda suck at writing, and the probe that I made out of scrap steel is kinda irrelevant so far, but it'll all tie in in the end.
Unless I forget what was supposed to happen anyway. Oh dear.
Hmmm...so when you were 10, this weird old stranger(probably a monk) said he was going to take you to a cool place and told you to get in his valk, and you agreed?!?
Im not sure i wanna read the second part. These itanis are sick to t'e bone. Kill 'em all a say! Yarr!
Im not sure i wanna read the second part. These itanis are sick to t'e bone. Kill 'em all a say! Yarr!
No, when he was 10, Panis made the probe. Hh4M doesn't say how old his character is at the time of the flight. But, I agree... smurf monks give me the willies!!
Good going so far, Hh4M. Keep it up.
Good going so far, Hh4M. Keep it up.
aye , nice read
I figured being spiritual and everything, they had gotten rid of about 99% of crime or so, and besides, if you were poor and starving and such and a rich person invited you into their house for a feast, and you were too young to know better, would you go in?
Update! Yay! Here it is:
Vadek entered the dock to the station, following the blue holographic arrows. The docking doors opened, and an arm reached out, grabbing the Valkyrie and dragging it in, a spooky sight to see from the cockpit.
They exited the ship, Panis first. It was much easier than getting in, it was almost like falling, but more controlled. The gravity was half what it was in Divinia, which helped, as Divinia didn't have that much gravity in the first place.
Being in a space station is much stranger than you might think. You feel the artificial gravity, but you also feel the natural gravity coming from the super-dense station computer core. Panis fell forward. His brain wasn't used to having gravity behave so strangely. He bumped his nose on the wall, only to have the air filters suck in blood from his bloody nose. This was weird, indeed.
Vadek guided Panis to the circular door. Twisting it, Vadek was able to remove the rusty old plate. inside it was a screen asking which department you wanted to go to. Vadek pressed a button reading "Observatory" and the screen slid to the side, revealing a long tube with other tubes connecting to it. He said, "You might want to go in headfirst" and dove in.
Panis watched as Vadek was pushed down the corridor by the artificial gravity and turned down another corridor. Panis took a deep breath and dove down into the tube. It was like he imagined it would be like to be a bird, a mythical creature supposedly originating in Sol. Then the turn came, and he felt his stomach churn, but it wasn't really any worse than turning in the Valkyrie. He saw a closed door come up and closed his eyes, still zooming ahead.
There was a sound of the door opening, and Panis was shot out the other end, only to be cushioned by grav-waves in the opposite direction. "Cushioned", however, was hardly a way to describe it. It was like getting your head ripped off by an angry... something. He felt himself turning, then his feet touching the ground. He heard Vadek talking.
"You know, you can open your eyes now."
Panis opened his eyes slowly. What he saw was amazing. There was one Vismetal window all the way around the ceiling, from the floor to the ceiling. He went up to it and touched the window in awe. It was just space, he had seen it thousands of times before, but he somehow felt more attached to it.
"You know," said Vadek, "if you wait half an hour or so, you can see Divinia".
The word "Divinia" triggered a chain of thoughts in Panis' brain: Divinia, home, house, parents. Parents, the kind that wouldn't be so happy and were probably about to call up the station, just in case he happened to be where he was.
Speak of the devil. Right then and there, the station comm went up, speaking in a tinny, machine-like voice. "There is a general alert on Divinia. Panis Onar, a Divinian, Eleven years old with short, brown hair, is missing, If anyone has seen him, please return him to the Eo's Mercy housing complex in the town of Horizon. Thank You!"
Vadek looked at Panis. Panis looked at Vadek. It stayed that way for a minute or so, but then Vadek said, "That better not be Panis Onar as in you."
Panis was unsure whether to tell the truth or to lie again. So he did neither. He started crying, a very embarrassing thing to do for a boy of Eleven, even in this situation. Vadek held Panis' hand and sqatted down to Panis' eye level, something that was uncharacteristic of him. He tapped his communications ring (standard equipment for members of the Itani pilot program) and said, "I have him right here. He wants to apologize right now."
There was a small pause then something came in from the other end. "Roger that. Channel open with Eo's Mercy. Go ahead Mr. Onar."
Panis wasn't sure what to say. He thought for a bit, still crying, then said, "Dad, I'm on a station. At the wrong time and without permission, but I'm here."
Through the static of a third-party communication through a ring, he heard a voice, clearly his father's, saying, "I'll forgive you if you got a ship."
Vadek said into the ring, "I'm sure we can work something out, Mr. Onar, thank you."
Panis hung his head. He thought the consequences would be more dire, and he almost hoped they would be. He felt so ashamed, even though things turned out for the best.
Vadek Rostras opened the hatch, this one bright and shiny, and pressed "Trade and Commerce". They jumped in and flew through the shaft.
They got out into a brightly-coloured room with an android sitting at a desk next to the wall. The android "said", "Hello, this is the trading and commerce section of the station, I am QV-7.4-B, how can I help you today?"
"Purchase one EC-class ship, model: 89. One Government issued plasma cannon, fitted into the ship's small port, and one free power cell, fitted to the ship." stated Vadek, in perfect android-speak.
The android cocked its head and said, "Please state your credentials."
Vadek tried seeing if it would give it to Panis. "Non-taxpayer, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero. Loyal citizen of the Itani Nation, status: admire."
The computer didn't seem to like that. "Non-taxpayers cannot buy any spacecraft."
Vadek decided to give his own stats a go: "Soldier of state, Eight, eight, six, five, two. Loyal citizen of the Itani Nation, status: pillar of society."
The AI wasn't so sure. "State reason for buying class of ship greater than five license levels under an alternative in which you are authorized to buy."
Vadek was getting impatient. "I'm poor, I can't afford anything more."
The android wouldn't have any of it. "The internal computer of this station records your number of credits as: fifteen million, two hundred forty-six thousand, three hundred five credits. You could afford the following ships: Itani Valkyrie, Ragnarok Mark Three, Ragnarok Mark Two..."
Vadek interrupted. "Well, too bad!" he yelled at it, and shot it with his handgun. he turned to Panis, who was shocked. "Standard procedure, I assure you."
Vadek and Panis walked into the vault-room. There were giant padlocked doors with names over each door, including one that said, "EC-89". Naturally, it was unlocked.
That's it for today. I may update it again in the next month.
Vadek entered the dock to the station, following the blue holographic arrows. The docking doors opened, and an arm reached out, grabbing the Valkyrie and dragging it in, a spooky sight to see from the cockpit.
They exited the ship, Panis first. It was much easier than getting in, it was almost like falling, but more controlled. The gravity was half what it was in Divinia, which helped, as Divinia didn't have that much gravity in the first place.
Being in a space station is much stranger than you might think. You feel the artificial gravity, but you also feel the natural gravity coming from the super-dense station computer core. Panis fell forward. His brain wasn't used to having gravity behave so strangely. He bumped his nose on the wall, only to have the air filters suck in blood from his bloody nose. This was weird, indeed.
Vadek guided Panis to the circular door. Twisting it, Vadek was able to remove the rusty old plate. inside it was a screen asking which department you wanted to go to. Vadek pressed a button reading "Observatory" and the screen slid to the side, revealing a long tube with other tubes connecting to it. He said, "You might want to go in headfirst" and dove in.
Panis watched as Vadek was pushed down the corridor by the artificial gravity and turned down another corridor. Panis took a deep breath and dove down into the tube. It was like he imagined it would be like to be a bird, a mythical creature supposedly originating in Sol. Then the turn came, and he felt his stomach churn, but it wasn't really any worse than turning in the Valkyrie. He saw a closed door come up and closed his eyes, still zooming ahead.
There was a sound of the door opening, and Panis was shot out the other end, only to be cushioned by grav-waves in the opposite direction. "Cushioned", however, was hardly a way to describe it. It was like getting your head ripped off by an angry... something. He felt himself turning, then his feet touching the ground. He heard Vadek talking.
"You know, you can open your eyes now."
Panis opened his eyes slowly. What he saw was amazing. There was one Vismetal window all the way around the ceiling, from the floor to the ceiling. He went up to it and touched the window in awe. It was just space, he had seen it thousands of times before, but he somehow felt more attached to it.
"You know," said Vadek, "if you wait half an hour or so, you can see Divinia".
The word "Divinia" triggered a chain of thoughts in Panis' brain: Divinia, home, house, parents. Parents, the kind that wouldn't be so happy and were probably about to call up the station, just in case he happened to be where he was.
Speak of the devil. Right then and there, the station comm went up, speaking in a tinny, machine-like voice. "There is a general alert on Divinia. Panis Onar, a Divinian, Eleven years old with short, brown hair, is missing, If anyone has seen him, please return him to the Eo's Mercy housing complex in the town of Horizon. Thank You!"
Vadek looked at Panis. Panis looked at Vadek. It stayed that way for a minute or so, but then Vadek said, "That better not be Panis Onar as in you."
Panis was unsure whether to tell the truth or to lie again. So he did neither. He started crying, a very embarrassing thing to do for a boy of Eleven, even in this situation. Vadek held Panis' hand and sqatted down to Panis' eye level, something that was uncharacteristic of him. He tapped his communications ring (standard equipment for members of the Itani pilot program) and said, "I have him right here. He wants to apologize right now."
There was a small pause then something came in from the other end. "Roger that. Channel open with Eo's Mercy. Go ahead Mr. Onar."
Panis wasn't sure what to say. He thought for a bit, still crying, then said, "Dad, I'm on a station. At the wrong time and without permission, but I'm here."
Through the static of a third-party communication through a ring, he heard a voice, clearly his father's, saying, "I'll forgive you if you got a ship."
Vadek said into the ring, "I'm sure we can work something out, Mr. Onar, thank you."
Panis hung his head. He thought the consequences would be more dire, and he almost hoped they would be. He felt so ashamed, even though things turned out for the best.
Vadek Rostras opened the hatch, this one bright and shiny, and pressed "Trade and Commerce". They jumped in and flew through the shaft.
They got out into a brightly-coloured room with an android sitting at a desk next to the wall. The android "said", "Hello, this is the trading and commerce section of the station, I am QV-7.4-B, how can I help you today?"
"Purchase one EC-class ship, model: 89. One Government issued plasma cannon, fitted into the ship's small port, and one free power cell, fitted to the ship." stated Vadek, in perfect android-speak.
The android cocked its head and said, "Please state your credentials."
Vadek tried seeing if it would give it to Panis. "Non-taxpayer, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero. Loyal citizen of the Itani Nation, status: admire."
The computer didn't seem to like that. "Non-taxpayers cannot buy any spacecraft."
Vadek decided to give his own stats a go: "Soldier of state, Eight, eight, six, five, two. Loyal citizen of the Itani Nation, status: pillar of society."
The AI wasn't so sure. "State reason for buying class of ship greater than five license levels under an alternative in which you are authorized to buy."
Vadek was getting impatient. "I'm poor, I can't afford anything more."
The android wouldn't have any of it. "The internal computer of this station records your number of credits as: fifteen million, two hundred forty-six thousand, three hundred five credits. You could afford the following ships: Itani Valkyrie, Ragnarok Mark Three, Ragnarok Mark Two..."
Vadek interrupted. "Well, too bad!" he yelled at it, and shot it with his handgun. he turned to Panis, who was shocked. "Standard procedure, I assure you."
Vadek and Panis walked into the vault-room. There were giant padlocked doors with names over each door, including one that said, "EC-89". Naturally, it was unlocked.
That's it for today. I may update it again in the next month.
Okay... then be that way. DON'T comment on the second part for all I care.
Kidding. Seriously, COMMENT PEOPLE!!!
Panis = attention hog. GIMME!!
/me hides from all the hate mail he's about to receive.
Kidding. Seriously, COMMENT PEOPLE!!!
Panis = attention hog. GIMME!!
/me hides from all the hate mail he's about to receive.
hehe it was a good read you piglet :P More more! Better?
*winks at Panis
*winks at Panis
JahelaJ: "Hey, chill, ya little scalawag! We reads when we cans!"
Keep it up!
Keep it up!
Greedy Boys Get No Candy.
I really have been having some mental issues with your name. I don't know why but I almost always misread your name the 1st time is see each day. So I wasn't interested in reading about the boring story of a penis.....
However, Panis is a bit more intriguing.
I really have been having some mental issues with your name. I don't know why but I almost always misread your name the 1st time is see each day. So I wasn't interested in reading about the boring story of a penis.....
However, Panis is a bit more intriguing.
dirty dirty obs
3rd installment (semi-mini-installment):
Panis rushed over to the EC-89 vault door and opened it, not an easy task with an 5-meter-high XiRite door. Vadek, who just caught up, pressed the "move ship to docking bay" button. It didn't work.
"Darn," he said, "looks like we have a broken mover-arm. Either that, or it's an auto-jamming system."
Panis was ready to give up, but Vadek was more determined. He grabbed the 4-tonne ship and starting pulling it in the direction of the door. Panis was amazed when it actually started moving. Slowly, albeit, but moving.
Vadek ushered Panis to help out, and he started pulling too. The ship barely fit through the door, but it went through. When they finished the hauling job, They both were exhausted, but there was still a long way to go. Vadek explained how it was possible to Panis.
"I mind-linked to the computer and used it to decrease the gravity around the ship, but not around us, as I assumed that the extra grip to the floor that comes along with the gravity was needed to pull the ship so we wouldn't just pull ourselves towards it."
Panis was in awe. It was incredible to be able to control the station to do that precise a task. He asked the question that he knew would change his life: "Can you teach me the mind-link?"
Vadek seemed to assume the question wasn't even necessary, however. "If I didn't do that, how would you fly the ship?"
Panis was excited. He had never thought that he would get to this point, teaching someone to mind-link was like inviting them to a better life. The poor pilots were the ones who used standard controls.
Of course, as Vadek explained, it couldn't just be then and there. "First, though, let's find a way to get this beast-of-a-thing down the grav-tube."
[le fin pour le moment]
There. That's a good-sized semi-mini-installment! Can I get your autograph now RelayeR?
Panis rushed over to the EC-89 vault door and opened it, not an easy task with an 5-meter-high XiRite door. Vadek, who just caught up, pressed the "move ship to docking bay" button. It didn't work.
"Darn," he said, "looks like we have a broken mover-arm. Either that, or it's an auto-jamming system."
Panis was ready to give up, but Vadek was more determined. He grabbed the 4-tonne ship and starting pulling it in the direction of the door. Panis was amazed when it actually started moving. Slowly, albeit, but moving.
Vadek ushered Panis to help out, and he started pulling too. The ship barely fit through the door, but it went through. When they finished the hauling job, They both were exhausted, but there was still a long way to go. Vadek explained how it was possible to Panis.
"I mind-linked to the computer and used it to decrease the gravity around the ship, but not around us, as I assumed that the extra grip to the floor that comes along with the gravity was needed to pull the ship so we wouldn't just pull ourselves towards it."
Panis was in awe. It was incredible to be able to control the station to do that precise a task. He asked the question that he knew would change his life: "Can you teach me the mind-link?"
Vadek seemed to assume the question wasn't even necessary, however. "If I didn't do that, how would you fly the ship?"
Panis was excited. He had never thought that he would get to this point, teaching someone to mind-link was like inviting them to a better life. The poor pilots were the ones who used standard controls.
Of course, as Vadek explained, it couldn't just be then and there. "First, though, let's find a way to get this beast-of-a-thing down the grav-tube."
[le fin pour le moment]
There. That's a good-sized semi-mini-installment! Can I get your autograph now RelayeR?
Yes I may have dirty mind however I'm going to file a workman's comp claim. I blame the 7.5 hours a day I spend working with 9th grade boys. They are sooooooooo not mature. Today, during final exams mind you, I was treated to a flatulence display. I'm not sure how, nor do I really want to know how, but four of my boys demonstrated a coordinated effort. It was really hard to keep the class under control in the classroom after that....
One of the few perks of teaching I guess:)
Go on Panis
Hort
Go on Panis
Hort
Alright, this is while I wait for Crello to respond to another so I can get a weird situation sorted out.
another mini-installment:
Just then, Panis had a wild idea. It had never been done before, and it would change how people thought of life, but it just might work.
"Why can't we just build one outside the station using an interface? The station has docking arms, surely we could fix those to build something."
Vadek thought. "If you can do it, go ahead. I wouldn't even know where to begin, and I wouldn't be able to do it through the mind-link either, it would need some serious manual hacking."
Panis reached for the nearest control panel. Vadek was right, it's hard to even know how to start. First, he looked up the necessary materials on the computer-interface screen. He had to wipe the dust off it first, but that he did. The touch-screen was dead in various places. Panis could reach the design to the EC-88, seemed like it would be close enough. Nope, definitely not. He decided to do it the easy way.
"Sir, could you bring the design schematics for the EC-89 up on the screen please?"
Vadek closed his eyes, made a few strange facial expressions as if sifting through food rations to find the one left marked "hamburger". After a few moments, the schematics opened on the screen.
"Thanks," said Panis. He scrolled down and found the building materials. He ejected all of the materials from the station through a in-dock. An out-dock would be safer, but that button was broken.
He quickly programmed the grabbing-arm to outfit the melding-arm with a xithricite-liquidator. The heat from the melder would heat the liquidator enough to meld the xi-rite into suitabale body panels.
And the work began.
another mini-installment:
Just then, Panis had a wild idea. It had never been done before, and it would change how people thought of life, but it just might work.
"Why can't we just build one outside the station using an interface? The station has docking arms, surely we could fix those to build something."
Vadek thought. "If you can do it, go ahead. I wouldn't even know where to begin, and I wouldn't be able to do it through the mind-link either, it would need some serious manual hacking."
Panis reached for the nearest control panel. Vadek was right, it's hard to even know how to start. First, he looked up the necessary materials on the computer-interface screen. He had to wipe the dust off it first, but that he did. The touch-screen was dead in various places. Panis could reach the design to the EC-88, seemed like it would be close enough. Nope, definitely not. He decided to do it the easy way.
"Sir, could you bring the design schematics for the EC-89 up on the screen please?"
Vadek closed his eyes, made a few strange facial expressions as if sifting through food rations to find the one left marked "hamburger". After a few moments, the schematics opened on the screen.
"Thanks," said Panis. He scrolled down and found the building materials. He ejected all of the materials from the station through a in-dock. An out-dock would be safer, but that button was broken.
He quickly programmed the grabbing-arm to outfit the melding-arm with a xithricite-liquidator. The heat from the melder would heat the liquidator enough to meld the xi-rite into suitabale body panels.
And the work began.
DOUBLE-POST MINI-INSTALLMENT!!!!!!!!EXCLAMATIONMARKS!!!!!!!!
Panis rotated the welding arm to touch the xi-rite. Liquid xi-rite started to slowly spew out into space. Panis tapped the keys, and the grabbing arm moved over to sculpt the body panel. It hadn't been very hard to instruct the arm on how to construct an EC-class ship, the data required was just lying around. While it was sculpting, Panis stepped into the EC-89 that was just lying on the floor sideways. The gravity adjusted so that Panis could stand on the bottom of the ship, shich was parallel with the station's side walls and perpendicular to the station's floor. It was an odd experience, but Panis was used to odd experiences by now.
He looked at the parts needed for the inside of the ship and recognized them immediately from he hours upon hours of looking at the electronic ads. He stepped out again and entered the figures into the computer, and the parts were jettisoned from the station, only to be handled by another grabbing arm and placed inside the ship. The ship was finished, and Panis remotely piloted it into the dock. Kind of.
"Not bad," stated Vadek with a smirk. "Still 80 percent of hull structural integrity left after docking."
Panis rotated the welding arm to touch the xi-rite. Liquid xi-rite started to slowly spew out into space. Panis tapped the keys, and the grabbing arm moved over to sculpt the body panel. It hadn't been very hard to instruct the arm on how to construct an EC-class ship, the data required was just lying around. While it was sculpting, Panis stepped into the EC-89 that was just lying on the floor sideways. The gravity adjusted so that Panis could stand on the bottom of the ship, shich was parallel with the station's side walls and perpendicular to the station's floor. It was an odd experience, but Panis was used to odd experiences by now.
He looked at the parts needed for the inside of the ship and recognized them immediately from he hours upon hours of looking at the electronic ads. He stepped out again and entered the figures into the computer, and the parts were jettisoned from the station, only to be handled by another grabbing arm and placed inside the ship. The ship was finished, and Panis remotely piloted it into the dock. Kind of.
"Not bad," stated Vadek with a smirk. "Still 80 percent of hull structural integrity left after docking."
Sweet! mini-installments!!
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Alright, I'm gonna start wrapping this up now.
Vadek and Panis went to the docking bay. Panis didn't find it so bad anymore, but it still made his head spin. Vadek went to his Valkyrie and Panis went to his EC-89. Vadek launched, but Panis, well, didn't.
"Vadek Rostras to Panis Onar, do you read me?"
"Ya, ya, I do." Panis thought a bit, then said, "I mean, yes sir."
Vadek mentally head-desk-ed, then spoke into the radio again. "Do you need assistance launching your vessel?"
Panis' brain reacted off instinct. "No, sir, not at all." He looked around for the controls. There weren't any controls. He tried just thinking about launching, but that didn't work. He gave up. "Alright, I need help."
Vadek explained. "Try relaxing. The mind-link works off manipulation of the brain's beta waves; meditation waves if you will. This was to stop the Serco from putting it to use. You see, the Serco were bred for fighting, and have mechanical implants to exaggerate the effect. This makes their brain emit more alpha waves, which are the brain's 'awake' waves, and less beta waves. This made them have less control over the mind-link. The Itani are the opposite, they don't produce as many alpha waves, but more beta waves, giving them amazing control over the mind-link."
"So... I just relax and think peaceful thoughts and the ship will start moving? Sounds kinda corny."
"Well, think about moving, too. You should also probably think about what you want to see, such as your speed, radar, cargo, addons, distance away from gravitational objects, radio transmissions, and other such useful things to have on the heads-up display."
"I think I'll just stick with moving and seeing where I'm going for now."
"Suit yourself."
Panis tried accelerating. Slowly, he passed through the one-way force field. He started thinking about why the field didn't effect the molecular vibration, making the ship warp forwards instead of just pass through it. Thinking that, he accidentally engaged the turbo. He zoomed ahead, past Vadek, and towards an asteroid.
"Vadek Rostras to Panis Onar, slow down. I repeat slow down."
Thinking about what Vadek said, he started to slow down, and shortly came to a complete stop.
"Vadek Rostras to Panis Onar, change your course to one-zero-zero-four-mark-eight-alpha-two."
Panis, subconsciously thinking about that course, changed his course and accelerated to 150 meters per second. After a few hours, they were approaching the gravitational pull of Divinia. Vadek decided that this would be a good time to message Panis again.
"Vadek Rostras to Panis Onar, come in please."
"Panis Onar here, just about falling asleep. What's happen... WHOA!"
"Ya, I'd slow down if I were you," he stated, and waited for Panis to slow down. "Okay, this is what you do now. Straffe so you're right on top of the docking building, the one we came from in the first place.
Panis lined himself up with it. He was sure he was still, but he was moving forwards at an amazing speed.
"Rostras to Onar, switch to physics mode and back up. I repeat..."
Panis was panicked, he didn't know what to do. Physics mode? He saw the ground approaching, and he saw his speedometer go up from fifty meters per second, fifty-five, sixty...
He awoke in a hospital bed. He immediately sat up. One of the nurses a green uniform stopped. She spoke into her comm ring, which looked different to Panis somehow. "Patient VRAODSETK-RAS is awake."
Many other medics rushed to him. Several of them had Serco implants. Panis backed away in fear. He had seen films about the war. One of the strange medics spoke up. "Please don't be alarmed, we're all allies now under the colour green. This is the fifty-first century."
That last statement stopped Panis on his tracks. That would mean that 600 years had gone by. Everyone he knew was gone. Vadek was probably about 550 years gone, his parents 400 years gone. His cousin's great-great-great-grandchildren about 100 years gone. His life seemed pointless. He looked at himself. Still as he remembered. "So... what happened since I was gone?"
"Well, the UIT cut off supplies to the Itani and Serco in 4601 to try to put an end to the war on the 2050th anniversary of its beginning. They lost their source of ships and weapons, so the war stopped. However, the UIT took advantage of the loss of weapons and ships to invade. They took every system from Dantia to Pherona before the nation capitals stopped them. The Serco and Itani became the United Galactic Nation, UGN. Their capital became Eo, with four systems between it and UIT territory on either side. Currently, they're losing the war. We have one more hope, and it's you."
"Me?"
[cont'd on next post]
Vadek and Panis went to the docking bay. Panis didn't find it so bad anymore, but it still made his head spin. Vadek went to his Valkyrie and Panis went to his EC-89. Vadek launched, but Panis, well, didn't.
"Vadek Rostras to Panis Onar, do you read me?"
"Ya, ya, I do." Panis thought a bit, then said, "I mean, yes sir."
Vadek mentally head-desk-ed, then spoke into the radio again. "Do you need assistance launching your vessel?"
Panis' brain reacted off instinct. "No, sir, not at all." He looked around for the controls. There weren't any controls. He tried just thinking about launching, but that didn't work. He gave up. "Alright, I need help."
Vadek explained. "Try relaxing. The mind-link works off manipulation of the brain's beta waves; meditation waves if you will. This was to stop the Serco from putting it to use. You see, the Serco were bred for fighting, and have mechanical implants to exaggerate the effect. This makes their brain emit more alpha waves, which are the brain's 'awake' waves, and less beta waves. This made them have less control over the mind-link. The Itani are the opposite, they don't produce as many alpha waves, but more beta waves, giving them amazing control over the mind-link."
"So... I just relax and think peaceful thoughts and the ship will start moving? Sounds kinda corny."
"Well, think about moving, too. You should also probably think about what you want to see, such as your speed, radar, cargo, addons, distance away from gravitational objects, radio transmissions, and other such useful things to have on the heads-up display."
"I think I'll just stick with moving and seeing where I'm going for now."
"Suit yourself."
Panis tried accelerating. Slowly, he passed through the one-way force field. He started thinking about why the field didn't effect the molecular vibration, making the ship warp forwards instead of just pass through it. Thinking that, he accidentally engaged the turbo. He zoomed ahead, past Vadek, and towards an asteroid.
"Vadek Rostras to Panis Onar, slow down. I repeat slow down."
Thinking about what Vadek said, he started to slow down, and shortly came to a complete stop.
"Vadek Rostras to Panis Onar, change your course to one-zero-zero-four-mark-eight-alpha-two."
Panis, subconsciously thinking about that course, changed his course and accelerated to 150 meters per second. After a few hours, they were approaching the gravitational pull of Divinia. Vadek decided that this would be a good time to message Panis again.
"Vadek Rostras to Panis Onar, come in please."
"Panis Onar here, just about falling asleep. What's happen... WHOA!"
"Ya, I'd slow down if I were you," he stated, and waited for Panis to slow down. "Okay, this is what you do now. Straffe so you're right on top of the docking building, the one we came from in the first place.
Panis lined himself up with it. He was sure he was still, but he was moving forwards at an amazing speed.
"Rostras to Onar, switch to physics mode and back up. I repeat..."
Panis was panicked, he didn't know what to do. Physics mode? He saw the ground approaching, and he saw his speedometer go up from fifty meters per second, fifty-five, sixty...
He awoke in a hospital bed. He immediately sat up. One of the nurses a green uniform stopped. She spoke into her comm ring, which looked different to Panis somehow. "Patient VRAODSETK-RAS is awake."
Many other medics rushed to him. Several of them had Serco implants. Panis backed away in fear. He had seen films about the war. One of the strange medics spoke up. "Please don't be alarmed, we're all allies now under the colour green. This is the fifty-first century."
That last statement stopped Panis on his tracks. That would mean that 600 years had gone by. Everyone he knew was gone. Vadek was probably about 550 years gone, his parents 400 years gone. His cousin's great-great-great-grandchildren about 100 years gone. His life seemed pointless. He looked at himself. Still as he remembered. "So... what happened since I was gone?"
"Well, the UIT cut off supplies to the Itani and Serco in 4601 to try to put an end to the war on the 2050th anniversary of its beginning. They lost their source of ships and weapons, so the war stopped. However, the UIT took advantage of the loss of weapons and ships to invade. They took every system from Dantia to Pherona before the nation capitals stopped them. The Serco and Itani became the United Galactic Nation, UGN. Their capital became Eo, with four systems between it and UIT territory on either side. Currently, they're losing the war. We have one more hope, and it's you."
"Me?"
[cont'd on next post]
"We have found a way of traveling through time, with help from stolen UIT research. You're the only one with a familiarity of the past. If you want, you could stay here in this time until you become of such age that no one would recognize you as being Panis Onar."
Pans was still dazed, but he decided to try to talk to these people like he wasn't. "Sure, and could you give me training with flying too?"
"I think we could arrange that, but only with technology and environments suited to your time period."
Panis got up off the bed. "So where do I go?"
"I'll tell you in a second, but there's one more thing you should know."
"Alright, I'm listening."
"We've tried this before, and you jumped into a xithricite-melter after watching yourself crash so the Itani officials wouldn't perform a routine DNA check before interrogating you about the injury about yourself."
Panis nodded. It sounded like what he would probably do.
"In other words, you might recognize yourself as someone in your past."
Panis nodded, although he didn't know what the medic meant.
Another one of them spoke. "You should really get some rest, you've been through a lot."
Year 4432
Panis watched as a younger version of himself scanned the ground for metal parts. He watched as the younger him got closer and closer to the xithricite-melter. Mr. Rostras would come some time to save him. Wait for it, wait for it...
He wasn't going to come, Panis realized. He WAS Vadek Rostras. That's what VRAODSETK-RAS meant, Vadek Rostras. He grabbed a stick and ran towards himself. He threw the stick into the melter, the stick vaporized, and the two Panises looked at each other, face to face.
Using the UGN-supplied Valkyrie and the UGN-supplied clearance codes, they eventually got up to the station, and eventually got out of the station in their two ships. Suddenly, "Vadek" realized that the end was near. He messaged his other self. "Vadek Rostras to Panis Onar, come in please."
"Panis here"
"Listen to me, and listen to me very carefully. Everything I'm saying is true." A temporal shockwave approached from each ship at infinate speed. He was changing time, and the ships were drowned in timelessness. "I am you, from the fifty-fourth century. An accident is about to happen, and I going back is the cause of it. I've replaced myself to try to fix the future."
The younger Panis was shocked, but the fact that something drastic happened outside their ships the moment Vadek started telling about the future seemed proof for someone only eleven years old.
"I know this must be strange, but you have to listen to me. Do not approach the planet. You would get caught in the gravity and fall to the surface, almost killing you. They would have to keep you in stasis for treatment, and you would wake in the fifty-first century, only to go back in time from the fifty-fourth to the forty-fifth, replacing me."
UIT from the future started to attack "Vadek". That means they hadn't changed history yet, and being trapped in time, they experienced all times. They had a future version of the Avalon Nuclear Torpedo, and "Vadek" could barely dodge them. They didn't seem interested in the younger Panis, as he was only in a EC-89 from a millennium ago.
Suddenly, a ship that seemed too big to be real started attacking the UIT with a beam weapon that wasn't identifiable. It was a hive ship from perhaps as far as millions of years into the future. The Avalons didn't even scratch it. One of the shots hit the older Panis, killing him. The temporal blending stopped.
The younger Panis returned to 4432, next to the station. He stopped his EC-89 and waited for the ignorant station guards to notice. Eventually, they did. They asked him if he needed assistance, and Panis answered a plain and simple "Yes". that was all the answer they needed, and called a towing team to guide him back to the planet Divinia, his home.
When he got there, he saw something sitting in his room. It was a thruster for his probe.
4435, Present day
Panis landed on the planet Divinia in his Corvus Vulturious, which the officials didn't even bother asking about. The first place he went was to his parents' house. It was still there, same as ever. They weren't poor anymore, though, thanks to Panis. He hugged them both, had a meal, then went to the local graveyard carrying real flowers, straight from a Corvus cloning laboratory. He searched until he found the grave he was looking for.
Vadek Rostras
?-4432
Missing on the job
The nation thanks you
for the services you
provided to us all.
Rest in Peace
Pans was still dazed, but he decided to try to talk to these people like he wasn't. "Sure, and could you give me training with flying too?"
"I think we could arrange that, but only with technology and environments suited to your time period."
Panis got up off the bed. "So where do I go?"
"I'll tell you in a second, but there's one more thing you should know."
"Alright, I'm listening."
"We've tried this before, and you jumped into a xithricite-melter after watching yourself crash so the Itani officials wouldn't perform a routine DNA check before interrogating you about the injury about yourself."
Panis nodded. It sounded like what he would probably do.
"In other words, you might recognize yourself as someone in your past."
Panis nodded, although he didn't know what the medic meant.
Another one of them spoke. "You should really get some rest, you've been through a lot."
Year 4432
Panis watched as a younger version of himself scanned the ground for metal parts. He watched as the younger him got closer and closer to the xithricite-melter. Mr. Rostras would come some time to save him. Wait for it, wait for it...
He wasn't going to come, Panis realized. He WAS Vadek Rostras. That's what VRAODSETK-RAS meant, Vadek Rostras. He grabbed a stick and ran towards himself. He threw the stick into the melter, the stick vaporized, and the two Panises looked at each other, face to face.
Using the UGN-supplied Valkyrie and the UGN-supplied clearance codes, they eventually got up to the station, and eventually got out of the station in their two ships. Suddenly, "Vadek" realized that the end was near. He messaged his other self. "Vadek Rostras to Panis Onar, come in please."
"Panis here"
"Listen to me, and listen to me very carefully. Everything I'm saying is true." A temporal shockwave approached from each ship at infinate speed. He was changing time, and the ships were drowned in timelessness. "I am you, from the fifty-fourth century. An accident is about to happen, and I going back is the cause of it. I've replaced myself to try to fix the future."
The younger Panis was shocked, but the fact that something drastic happened outside their ships the moment Vadek started telling about the future seemed proof for someone only eleven years old.
"I know this must be strange, but you have to listen to me. Do not approach the planet. You would get caught in the gravity and fall to the surface, almost killing you. They would have to keep you in stasis for treatment, and you would wake in the fifty-first century, only to go back in time from the fifty-fourth to the forty-fifth, replacing me."
UIT from the future started to attack "Vadek". That means they hadn't changed history yet, and being trapped in time, they experienced all times. They had a future version of the Avalon Nuclear Torpedo, and "Vadek" could barely dodge them. They didn't seem interested in the younger Panis, as he was only in a EC-89 from a millennium ago.
Suddenly, a ship that seemed too big to be real started attacking the UIT with a beam weapon that wasn't identifiable. It was a hive ship from perhaps as far as millions of years into the future. The Avalons didn't even scratch it. One of the shots hit the older Panis, killing him. The temporal blending stopped.
The younger Panis returned to 4432, next to the station. He stopped his EC-89 and waited for the ignorant station guards to notice. Eventually, they did. They asked him if he needed assistance, and Panis answered a plain and simple "Yes". that was all the answer they needed, and called a towing team to guide him back to the planet Divinia, his home.
When he got there, he saw something sitting in his room. It was a thruster for his probe.
4435, Present day
Panis landed on the planet Divinia in his Corvus Vulturious, which the officials didn't even bother asking about. The first place he went was to his parents' house. It was still there, same as ever. They weren't poor anymore, though, thanks to Panis. He hugged them both, had a meal, then went to the local graveyard carrying real flowers, straight from a Corvus cloning laboratory. He searched until he found the grave he was looking for.
Vadek Rostras
?-4432
Missing on the job
The nation thanks you
for the services you
provided to us all.
Rest in Peace