I actually planned to have Cody beam aboard now having been monitoring the situation remotely via his link with Lorean and Donnighal. Is that acceptable to you Fox?

Oh and furthermore...

Tremendous blessing to you Fox! You can't hurry love but when it picks up steam, watch out!!!

Mozzeltoff (sp?), Congratulations, Salud, Bon Jour!

thanks. I'm looking forward to it, and to getting it over with.

Beaming aboard is fine.

Also, I'm going to update sometime today with Lorean jumping out near the alien ship so that you and Michael can do your scan.

Cody, I left it open so you can post your entrance and then whatever you intend to do after the jump. I'm assuming you plan to work with Michael and scan the aliens, but I'll wait for your post before going forward.

Understood. I was planning on using Cody's "network" to investigate but Michael is probably much more efficient. Though I thought you posted awhile back that Michael was staying back on Earth in case defenses were needed there. Clarification on that point would help.

Btw Fox, the alien ship reminds me of a Zentradi vessel...cool!

Michael is being sent out on this mission to ascertain the guilt or innocence of the aliens. It would have been you, but you were MIA at the time. Since you are back, you can make the post. Let me know when you start. I'll need to give you the results of some dice rolls and stuff.

Well, I'm off. Be back in a week or perhaps irratically if I get net access.

I can tell by your latest IC post you are bored and fidgety waiting for me Andrew.

To let everyone know, I just sent a massive PM to Fox, detailing Cody's exploits for the last 60 years. Much of that will have bearing on the current situation so I am going to let him respond to that before I post.

It's not a reflection on you, Andrew just doesn't like waiting, it's part of his personality

You could be posting up a storm and Andrew would still be sitting there waiting for something to happen (Watching people use Telepathy is not terribly exciting I would think)

Well that sucked.

I had Cody's post all fleshed out and went back to highlight and color his telepathic speech but when I did so it overwrote everything and I had to start almost from scratch. Oh well. thanks for waiting for me. I hope my post was quality enough to have made it worthwhile...

Glad you made it anyway - and I'm glad you're back - but it seems your speech didn't score high on the popularity scale... :p

Hey Cody - I just wanted you to know that I didn't mean to jump straight into your face. I hope you're taking this ICly. Joani has been quite emotional the last few hours... you can tell that if you probe her mind a little. But I think that was obvious enough. Don't worry, I won't rip your head off... not yet :p

Ditto man, I'm just playing the character, no hard feelings out of game I hope

I'm confused, is Lorean physically on the bridge posing as a crew member? Also are we ignoring the "commander" of the mission? I'd like some clarification on the situation of the mission.

Sorry, that should have been over the link. I'll edit.

No worries Joanie and Andrew. I know its all IC. Im having fun with it. And Andrew...if Cody had snooped in your characters dome, what makes you think he would let you in on that fact? :: (j/k :P)

Hopefully back for a bit.

Who is the shapeshifter in the group? I'm afraid I've forgotten.

Andrew is and good to see you back!

Aye that would be me

Welcome back, hope you are well

we DO NOT want to board their ship - we just want to take a closer look from the OUTSIDE for a couple of minutes and then come back.

Edit - apologies, that was much harsher than I intended

But I was thinking the same there, Andrew. No one ever stated anything about boarding the alien ship. I don't understand why Cody keeps persisting on that. Looks like the misunderstanding is on your side, not on ours. ? (I'm a bit confused here - but maybe you should just go on with the scan, we already said we're fine with it)

Hmm...oh! Sorry. I guess it was my understanding then. People were talking about a scouting mission and then I read Omar's post and I thought you all were planning on porting inside the ship.



Such can be the ambiguity of textual communication. Sorry...

Oh yeah, and Im still waiting for Fox/Michael to reply to my request for a second more in depth (read: specific) scan.

To clarify that...scanning for the officer's, surreptitiously reading them for the history of the ship and it's capabilities, and searching their psychology for ways to help us diffuse the situation and/or adjusting them to facilitate a more peaceful first (second) contact...

This may take over the weekend, since Fox is getting married tomorrow +crossing fingers+

Omar's post was meant specifically in reference to his ability of travelling in the vacuume of space. He mentioned the other as a cautionary 'what if' scenario, should he have only his slow-moving jetpack.

again...my bad. Im not as mega smart or manipulative as my character.

It's all good. Cody is going to love Omar's next little speech though.

Oh the drama...THE DRAMA!!!!

Cody can go ahead with the scan. Michael will follow along and do his part.

I'm back.

wb

I'm hitched. I'll post a link to some pics soon if anyone wants to see.

Things should be getting back to normal in a day or two then I'll be back to my normal rate of posting. Sorry for the delay.

Congradulations!!! :horns tooting:

I'd love some pics, and take your time.

FYI Andrew: The Cruiser has no controls. Only smooth, sleek, angles with no sharp points. The seats are comfortable and padded as well. The whole thing is controlled telepathically from within a sealed compartment. Cody did this intentionally just in case this thing should happen (and because he didnt want the little homonculi to mess around with anything...even if he could...)

Then lets suppose that Andy was looking for controls mumbling to himself what he said. Wouldn't make me look as stupid as it seems right now :p

No worries...

I will only be out for a few days, hopefully. I have enjoyed role-playing with everyone.

Andrew and I posted almost simultanously - mine happens just before we return, ok?

NIce new avvie Fox...who's it? And btw, shouldn't you be on a honeymoon or something??? :P

Thor. Not quite what I'm really looking for yet, but you'd be amazed at just how hard it is to find a good male avvie. I may just have to end up going with something non-human since I'm posting so many different characters under the same account.

Anyway. I'm not sure what you guys are planning to do next so I'm waiting on some direction from you all before I update.

What you know at this point is that the Aliens saw a ship in their atmosphere 8 years ago. It looked like the Enterprise. Unless it is your future selves it wasn't a human ship. And yet the Chromatics seem to be using the exact same technology you helped develop that made Enterprise possible. The aliens definitely did not do this on their own. They didn't steal the technology from you.