The Line in the Stars (OOC) [PG/14] - Closed

[Azlan]

Abuse it on my behalf? I can provide a shipping address... ;-]

I used up my latitude for abuse for a little while.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

s'ok, I can wait. ;-] Why not, I've waited three years already...

(And that's probably enough from me, so I'll just drop back into lurk mode)

[Prof B Hunnydew]

Mmm... Great update, but what to write when ones is asleep....    to Loki or Mother?

something short.. hopefully It will go with the story.
PBH

[Azlan]

So what do you intend for this bobble of Nova's?

[Prof B Hunnydew]

The white crystal is a memory chip from the older fox ship.  The one she used as a kitten as a master key .   What is on it, is up to you.

1) it can have a simple SOS message
2) the data for the dimensional trap/prison for the enemy.
3)  a key to a lost memory in Nova....
4) a soul link.....

anything...

PBH

edit for inglash

[Azlan]

With Shades having posted, I shall have something up soon.  I'm down to my laptop as I am having problems with my main desktop, so my response times will be a bit slow. 

[ShadesFox]

You too eh?  My laptop works intermittently, and the desktop is dead as dead can be.

[Azlan]

well, my desktop is 100% new... but I'm having an issue with the PSU where it will only briefly power on from a cold boot and then drop power completely.  This is apparently a known issue with the 1200W Thermaltake unit.  I just need to purchase a new, different PSU and RMA this one back.

[Azlan]

Her military training had her jumping  up and her snapping to attention for the Major, only to find that Major Kanzoria was more interested in looking up and down Mother. 

Wrong major PBH...  Shades is playing major Brown not Kanzoria...

[ShadesFox]

That and I wasn't lewdly staring at mother either.  It was more of a, "Okay, there is  new person, on a navy ship, in the middle of space, WTF?" type of staring.

[Prof B Hunnydew]

That and I wasn't lewdly staring at mother either.  It was more of a, "Okay, there is  new person, on a navy ship, in the middle of space, WTF?" type of staring.

Sorry..... Major Brown...Okay, I tried to check, but the first post on this thread doesn't have the active players in it

"and Nova is a little prejudice against the Major... He just rubs her fur the wrong way, but she won't say anything, if he doesn't." 

PBH

[Azlan]

Sorry..... Major Brown...Okay, I tried to check, but the first post on this thread doesn't have the active players in it

It's because I'm lazy... I'll probably put them up at some point.

[techmaster-glitch]

Active Players
Daimien (Sergeant Romulus Darkcloud)
Prof B Hunnydew (Lieutenant Nova Hunnydew)
ShadesFox (Major Aaron Brown)
techmaster-glitch (Crusading Scales)

Inactive Players
Ink ( Morgan Summers)
Paladin Sheppard (Kal Jieco)
Poofyspikes (Lee Cohen)
Supercheese (Robert MacDuff)
bill (Vaughn Tomczyk Conrad Tomczyk)
Eibbor_N (Absalom Thomas)
lucas marcone (Lucas Marcone)
Valynth (Valynth Cernial)
Metal Juggernaut (Sean "Boom" Davis)
Catffeinated (Joshua "Longshot" Dile)
Rammenstein (Ghost Hounds)

[Prof B Hunnydew]

ah thanks...Azlan can just cut and paste now...


PBH

[Azlan]

Active Players
Daimien (Sergeant Romulus Darkcloud)
Prof B Hunnydew (Lieutenant Nova Hunnydew)
ShadesFox (Major Aaron Brown)
techmaster-glitch (Crusading Scales)

Inactive Players
Ink ( Morgan Summers)
Paladin Sheppard (Kal Jieco)
Poofyspikes (Lee Cohen)
Supercheese (Robert MacDuff)
bill (Vaughn Tomczyk Conrad Tomczyk)
Eibbor_N (Absalom Thomas)
lucas marcone (Lucas Marcone)
Valynth (Valynth Cernial)
Metal Juggernaut (Sean "Boom" Davis)
Catffeinated (Joshua "Longshot" Dile)
Rammenstein (Ghost Hounds)

Thank you, I have definitely desired to do it... but I have been too lazy to gather the links.  Actually, I'm generally too tired after a long 10 to 12 hour work day.

[Azlan]

PBH, you really have got to practice the english language more... it is getting harder and harder to understand you as time goes on.

[Prof B Hunnydew]

Yea, I Have to spof read more and Try not post on the fly..... Now I got to go to mork....... PBH

[Prof B Hunnydew]

 LT NOVA HUNNYDEW Supplemental

     The Hunnydew's expedition was looking for sites of ancient alien ships and artifacts, hoping to find maybe a city or an outpost colony of aliens.  They found an ancient ship by chance in a small arid planet around an orange star.  The planet had atmosphere with enough free oxygen to be breathable, so they landed and set up camp near the crash site.

Dr Sarah Hunnydew, thought it would cruel to separate her daughter/pilot from her granddaughter for the standard year of the planned trip.  So, the little kitten Nova was allow on the expedition.  Yet, once on the planet of the orange sun, she began to play with "imaginary" fairy friends, which worried her mother.  The kitten would say that they taught her the ancient Acadian language.  With the little kitten's help, her grandmother and her crew are able to make some small repairs to the alien ship, Matron.  They connected power to the ship's computer core and some of minor ship systems, but entry into the main control room proved impossible.  Until one day, the chief engineering found the main control with its door opened , and inside, the remains of two fox-like race were found at the controls with an unconscious Nova on the floor.

Yet, There is little time for this victory.  The Hunnydew's expedition was on the outer reaches of known space, and the danger of space pirates was very real.  The expedition had been at the crash site for only five weeks, when a raider set off a passive alarm in the outer system, and this just days after the main control door was opened..  Before the raider could find them on the surface, the Hunnydews had to quickly pack up their site and achieve orbit, if they had any hope of escape.  In the rush, they left their spare power supplies and a solar array connected to Matron, the ship.  The ancient ship, itself, seems to know the danger and hides itself and the new power sources from normal scans as Hunnydew's ship reaches orbit.  After a fire fight with the raider during the race to jump speed, the Hunnydew's ship is damaged but it makes it home.  Because of the cost of the expedition and Dr Hunnydew's unwillingness,which some think on her part, to share the location of the crash site, the university would disapprove of any new expeditions for her.  Which was fine for Dr Sara Hunnydew, as she would dedicating the rest of her life to translating what she had been able to copied from the Matron's memory core.  The royalties from these discoveries would keep them in credits for quite a while, but it was never enough for they own expedition and she would to repaid the university for their ship's repairs

Nova the adult...
What does Nova, the adult, remembers of  the Hunnydew Expedition or of her imaginary fairy friends from her six old mind?   Nova had grown to believe that her "fairy" friend, Xaoc and Gaea were imaginary.  That as a lonely kitten, she made them up.  That Loki has confirmed that they existed is still a shock, but that they may still be alive, she has not accepted, yet.  Maybe the bodies of Xaoc and Gaea were only there for the benefit of the Hunnydew Expedition, but six year old Nova didn't think that the bodies were Xaoc and Gaea at the time.

Nova came to believe her Grandma's explanations for her abilities with the Acadian language, that she can guess or figure out anything, given enough time and thought.  Her intuition has been right more times than not, throughout her life, about many other things, like people, her studies, mechanics, and situations.  At present, she thinks the crystal around her neck is only a souvenir from the expedition, but she keeps it around her neck, very religiously for love of her grandmother.

PBH

With approval from GM, this will be added to Nova's character post

[Azlan]

I think I can work with that... I love when someone adds to the story and expands it.

I will approve that, though some things may be a slight bit different than she remembers it.

[Prof B Hunnydew]

I am going with what was in our PMs,  This is general knowledge known to the Fleet and to public databases for readers and other player info.



PBH

[Prof B Hunnydew]

OK  Did Mother just disappear with Major Brown?  or Am I seeing thing? 

As she spoke, the entire ship's systems came online and the rhythmic hum of the core was audible in the background.  She placed her hands on the grey fox, "let me show you where I am from."  Both glowed white before disappearing without a trace.  Mother appeared to have missed Romulus's question.

It will matter how Nova responds.

PBH

[ShadesFox]

That is my impression.  Romulus seems to have taken the event in stride.

[Azlan]

Indeed, the major appears to be absent... I'm sure he'll turn up eventually.

[Azlan]

Looks like the major returned.

[techmaster-glitch]

   Just popping in to say that, from what I've been reading, you peeps sound like you are going to try to requisition some equipment, personnel, and fighters. Now, my name showing up in the 'active' players slot when I whipped up the Character Index wasn't a mistake; I never actually 'left'. Just went for a temporary bus ride Anyway, if you guys are needing a fighter escort, one of you might think to request the same squad that gave you cover in your last sortie

   On a side note, during my absence I've gotten a little older and a wee bit wiser too, so my RPing might not be the same as it was when I originally got here (In fact, I read up a few BattleTech novels recently, and realized that my playing style would have been perfectly suited to a squad of powered armor than a squad of fighters, if not straight up mechs themselves. In fact, from what I read, fighters are almost the antithesis of my style and my characters. I had random thoughts of just my characters having their occupations retconned, but not only would that require everyone [mainly the GM] to mentally void my previous posts so I could reuse the same characters as powered armor, but it sounds like you need fighters more anyway, so I won't even request it. Which makes this whole bit irrelevant anyway, but meh).

   Like I said, I've been following along best I can, and from what I can tell, Nova's crystal thing gave the location of another alien ship, which you guys are planning to go and retrieve. But if someone could give me a better summary of events, that would be much appreciated.

[Azlan]

Indeed, that is convenient no?  One would think I was planning such a thing.

[techmaster-glitch]

Ah. Sorry and thank you, then

[Prof B Hunnydew]

Azlan You really want Loki to know about Nova's personal crystal, don't you?

Okay Okay... Just a minute...or a day.

PBH

[Azlan]

Azlan You really want Loki to know about Nova's personal crystal, don't you?

Okay Okay... Just a minute...or a day.

PBH

Well, it would be interesting, but he is just being nosy.



Link to an old thread:

Tech thread

[techmaster-glitch]

Just a notice, I made two small edits to my profile; added a Miscellaneous section to Nazareth, and reversed a small detail on Satch Nestor.

Since, personality/profile-wise, these are pretty much the flattest characters I've made to date, and that I haven't roleplayed them enough to settle into a comfortable groove, I'll probably be making further edits of this kind in the future as I change it to reflect how I end up playing them.

EDIT: Oh yeah, since I went through the pages a little bit ago to refresh myself on how everything went, I found that the Crusading Scales are currently under the direct command of Colonel Nexx and Major Shannon. Even though it's probably not an important detail at the moment, seeing as it's Captain Morgan who's calling Nazareth, I just thought I'd mention this