OK ... fair enough

folks go ahead an fast forward to Ashley's camp. Fox - Raider has a long task ahead so I'll just update in time with the others ok?

Sounds good. What he's doing is pretty darned complicated and he wants to make sure he gets it right since they only have one chance.

Incidentally, while he's on the station he will try and find out whatever info he can on the burn itself and any other platforms. Once this is all over with he will want to make sure there are no nukes that Squiddy can use against the earth, plus this is all kinds of cool to him, actual pre-burn high tech.

I suggest you launch one missile and then see what happens, then use the next one, etc. It'd suck for all of them to miss because of something we haven't calculated.

How many missiles were there total?

umm ... you just had to ask eh? ... let's say 5

Feel free to post and chew the scenery as it were, I don't want to keep you from being able to post into the game...

Lily, feel free to use your judgement with the sentries and camp, I'll step in when I think it is needed. Things will go faster if you don't need to wait for me to say "Who goes there" just for effect ...

Hee

Well, do you want input as to the circumstances at the camp? How bad the casualties are?

I don't mind making it up, and I wouldn't soft-pull it, but I don't want to step on toes.

knock yourself out, you're deeper into the PC than I, you'll know how bad to make it I think ...

Hehe, just checking in to say I haven't forgotten this game. Barring explosions, I should be able to post today. Sorry for the delay.

Not a problem.

For me, the next 5 weeks are going to be limited. I have started a work hardening program to get me back to work after my back surgery. It will take up to 10 hours of my day, 5 days a week, for 5 weeks.

I should still be able to make a few posts a week.

I wish you well Gregory. Hopefully you'll recover quickly!

Ouch Gregory. Heal fast.

If it helps, I've found that TaeKwonDo helped strengthen my back a lot... much more so than Yoga.

@Doug - current scene. Anna is alive but you may find out, that she doesn't breath. Maybe she doesn't need to or does differently (remember, she is photosynthetic, more like a plant, less human).

The surgery was in March. I have already completed physical therapy. So far so good. Now I have to get back to the levels of strength needed for my job. Hopefully I can get back to where I was. It has been a long and painful road.

Thanks for the well wishes.

Wow, that's really rough. I have some back problems myself, but nothing that's required surgery yet.

I'm glad to hear you're doing better, and I hope the worst of it's gone past!

Does our room at Squidward's place have access to sunlight? Maybe roof top? For that matter what's the tallest place around here?



EDIT: This is an IC matter so I'll raise it IC.

If Doug would carry me over the the sunny place I could continue - assuming Anna recovers after a few hours.

The scene would be wasted if Bradford just updated, imho. Don't mean to be pushy, though. Just suggesting ;p

Done.

yay, thanks!

Mental note to self ... dock Courier a couple experience

For some reason I keep thinking of it as "New Haven".

Raider, there's no way to boost thefuel capacity of the missiles, they simply were not designed to target anything other than earth, satellites and the moon.

Basically it's all or nothing

Raider's a mega-int, I can suggest this.

Take one of the missiles and take it appart, then take just the warhead up there. And yeah, it'd be a real pain and take a while, days, maybe weeks.

It might be of use in your discussion with Anna, but you have seen Gregory dorm several times.

That's a good idea though I would prefer if you would wait for ingame opportunities that kind of stuff. That said the mass of the warhead would be greater than Raider's ability to attune anyway and thus he would either need to carry it in pieces or just fire and forget ...

Thank you. Last post edited for that.

I would have but Doug is so clueless on nuclear technology that IMHO he wouldn't think of it.

As for it being too heavy, what we need is a suitcase nuke.

a couple dozen of them ... yeah that could work.

Has anyone thought of acually going to the comet and placing the nukes on it. That way, you don't need to worry about hitting it.

I mentioned something like that - Anna offered to give it a try at trying to control the comets integrety if it is made of earthlike material (Rocks, stone, whatever)

I don't think we have the technology to create nukes any more.

depends on the flavor of nuke, though you would need the materials. That said a gun type nuke is fairly easy to design and build if you have the U238

One might do it if we buried it in the center of that thing. It'd shatter it into a cloud, and several months out much of the cloud would miss.

I guess that would depend on how I run things in this game being phased into other matter ...

Well, comets are generally fairly low-density masses. I imagine one could find spaces within it, crevices and gaps, where a warhead could fit in without intersecting other matter.

We wouldn't phase it, we'd build a tunnel or something. Anna could do it for sure. Doug too maybe.

Ah, yeah Doug could I suppose, Anna has no way to get there though

She could grow a tree...a really biiiiiiiig tree...

Raider ports her... oh... right... We'd have to Warp her there and the nuke as well. Actually if one of those missiles is small enough to fit through the gate we could do it that way.