Episode 16

[Bynw]

Jul 01 21:34:30 <Bynw> *the flight out of Alliance space, past the frontier and into previously unknown space, will take but 3 jumps using the jumpdrives based on Klade designs and using the stellar data provided by the Klade. the pilot does explain using conventional jumpdrives and using conventional stellar data and gathering it would take 100's of jumps due to the short hops to gather navigational data.*
Jul 01 21:34:42 * papaganoush (~papaganoush@OWIRCN-8ec41ed5.abhsia.telus.net) has joined #teara-adan
Jul 01 21:35:46 <Bynw> *and the time it would take to scan down a section of space prior to jumping could take hours*
Jul 01 21:37:21 <Bynw> *but with the Klade engine design and data ... it will take about a half an hour only .... it is frightening a little to know that this alien race has such knowledge and technology at their fingertips ... and they the are just 'giving' it away*
Jul 01 21:38:33 <Sathara> "Does this strike anybody else as being a little too good to be true?  I mean, they're just giving us all this?  What the seventh hell?"
Jul 01 21:39:48 <Ken> ::over comms:: "My thoughts as well."
Jul 01 21:40:25 <Sathara> "I mean, I'm a combat grunt.  I really don't know frak about technology unless it's weapons-related, but this just... man."
Jul 01 21:41:39 <Raith> ::Puts his feet up on a inactive part of the flight console and shrugs:: "Your thinking as a human. The Klade aren't human. Maybe they think we make no sense."
Jul 01 21:42:08 <Sathara> "Maybe so.  It just puts my hackles up when things feel too good to be true."
Jul 01 21:42:56 <Ken> ::over comms:: "Maybe... and I agree if something looks too good to be true than iot likely isn't."
Jul 01 21:43:47 * papaganoush has quit (Connection closed)
Jul 01 21:44:29 <Raith> ::Sighs and gazes out the window:: "Just feels good to be flying."
Jul 01 21:44:37 <Bynw> *Dyunt* "This simplest answer is the best answer. The Klade's claims are true. They are a dying ancient race and have chosen us to be their heirs for whatever reasons they have."
Jul 01 21:44:46 * Ken goes back to analyzing the datapad, leaving the comms channel open
Jul 01 21:47:04 <Bynw> *Dyunt* "Drives are almost spunup ... first jump in about 10 minutes."
Jul 01 21:50:26 <Bynw> "FTL is so boring ... its just the waiting on drives and plotting coordinates into a computer. Needs more excitement like a misjump"
Jul 01 21:50:34 * Ken fires up his redundant sensor logs
Jul 01 21:50:55 <Bynw> *Dyunt mumbles while waiting for the green light on the jumpdrives*
Jul 01 21:51:02 <Raith> "Ummm that's not even funny Dyunt."
Jul 01 21:52:37 <Ken> roll 4df
Jul 01 21:52:45 <Bynw> !roll 4df
Jul 01 21:52:45 -GameServ/#teara-adan- (Bynw) 1 == 1
Jul 01 21:53:13 <Bynw> (that didnt do it either ... need to get my bot back up and running at some point but other priorities)
Jul 01 21:53:25 <Ken> !roll 4dF
Jul 01 21:53:25 -GameServ/#teara-adan- (Ken) 1 == 1
Jul 01 21:53:41 * Sathara is now known as DR_away
Jul 01 21:54:51 * DR_away is now known as Sathara
Jul 01 21:55:17 <Bynw> *Dyunt* "Jumping now everyone ... "
Jul 01 21:55:29 <Ken> *roff 4dF
Jul 01 21:55:36 <Ken> *roll 4df
Jul 01 21:55:39 <The_Powers_That_Be> Ken: Poor <-2> (0, -1, 0, -1) [4df]
Jul 01 21:56:42 <Bynw> *the Lady Luck vanishes from Alliance space and is transported across the void to the very edge of the frontier ... there next jump will put them were none of their people have ever been before*
Jul 01 21:58:04 <Sathara> "Cap'n, this unarmed business has me even more nervous, especially since we really don't know what the Klade are up to.  Mind if I unlock the storage locker at least so I can *get* to my stuff if need be?"
Jul 01 21:58:33 <Bynw> *Dyunt* "Jump compleat we are now spinning up for our second jump. DRADIS is clear."
Jul 01 21:58:41 <Raith> ::Checks the nav computer:: "The next jump will take us where no man has gone before."
Jul 01 21:58:58 <Sathara> ::a little nervously:: "Or woman."
Jul 01 21:59:14 <Raith> "Sathara, if it makes you feel better unlock it."
Jul 01 21:59:49 <Sathara> "Thankee, Cap'n."  ::unlocks the storage locker and rummages around so that her favorite weapons are at the top of the collection::
Jul 01 22:01:45 * Ken muttering "wha tha.. that goes to there"
Jul 01 22:03:31 <Bynw> *Dyunt* "Standby for our second jump guys ... engines will be showing green in about a minute"
Jul 01 22:04:51 * Sathara closes the storage locker so it's secure for the jump and returns to her chair.
Jul 01 22:05:13 <Bynw> *Dynut* "Here we go ... Jumping now"
Jul 01 22:06:47 <Ken> *roll 4df
Jul 01 22:06:52 <The_Powers_That_Be> Ken: Fair <0> (0, 0, 1, -1) [4df]
Jul 01 22:06:56 <Bynw> *the Lady Luck again vanishes from the edge of known space .... leaping a great distance across the stars that are very small when viewed from the Alliance homeworld.
Jul 01 22:08:43 <Bynw> *and again in a heartbeat the ship emerges into unknown space. well outside of the Alliance frontier. no one has been here before ... at least not from the Alliance.*
Jul 01 22:09:28 * Sathara is visibly nervous and keeps looking back and forth from the front window to her storage locker.
Jul 01 22:10:00 <Raith> ::Smiles:: "This is it gentlemen. We are now outside of alliance space. We are the first humans to go this deep in to space."
Jul 01 22:10:32 <Bynw> *Dyunt* ::curses as her pilots panel lights up with a warning alarm which is quickly silenced. although the alarm clearly indicates on multiple panels on the ship that the navigation computer is having a hard time adjusting to jumping into the near unknown.* "It might take more than 5 minutes for are last jump."
Jul 01 22:10:36 <Raith> ::Corrects himself:: "And leadies::
Jul 01 22:11:08 <Raith> ((Ladies))
Jul 01 22:11:39 * Sathara laughs nervously.  "A lady I'm not.  Ladies don't truck around with this many weapons, and the first time I need them, you'll hear some distinctly unladylike language.
Jul 01 22:11:42 <Sathara> "
Jul 01 22:12:08 <Ken> ::rouses himself from some sort of trance:: "huh wha?"
Jul 01 22:12:30 * Sathara laughs nervously again.
Jul 01 22:13:06 <Bynw> *Dyunt pushes back out of the pilots seat and over to the engineering console that's on the bridge and hit's its comm button. "Ken come up to the bridge I might need you where I can actually see you instead of hiding in the bowels of the ship"
Jul 01 22:13:09 <Sathara> "Ken, Cap'n called me and Dyunt 'ladies.'  I won't speak for her but I told him I'm hardly a lady."
Jul 01 22:13:12 * Ken runs a diagnostic and switches off the redundant log
Jul 01 22:13:30 <Ken> ::over comms:: "Ok"
Jul 01 22:13:39 <Raith> ::Over the inter-ship comm:: "We are now outside Alliance space. And outside the alliance comm buoy system. That means we are on our own from here."
Jul 01 22:16:07 * Ken disconnects the datapad from the ship's systems and leaves it behind in engineering, safely stowed.
Jul 01 22:16:17 * Ken heads for the bridge
Jul 01 22:17:39 <Ken> ::enterng the bridge:: "Cap we are not out of communication range of the Klade I think or at the least they may know where we are."
Jul 01 22:18:27 <Raith> "What!? How?"
Jul 01 22:19:41 <Ken> "That datapad has some extra circuitry in it that is some sort of FTL communication. Not sure if it is a commuicator, bug, or just a beacon just yet."
Jul 01 22:20:34 <Bynw> *Dyunt smiles as Ken comes up on the bridge* "Ah good you are here now. The nav comp is having issues with the stellar data. It thinks we are frakking lost right now. And refuses to spin up the drives for the next jump. Giving us a redline of about 100 AUs. Plug that datapad into the navcomp here so it realizes we aren't lost will ya." *she says totally not listening to the conversation taking place*
Jul 01 22:21:12 <Raith> "Interesting. Belay that Ken."
Jul 01 22:21:46 <Ken> ::nods:: "I already disconnected it before coming up here in case it is a bug."
Jul 01 22:22:22 <Ken> "What do you want me to do Cap?"
Jul 01 22:22:27 <Raith> "But what was it transmitting?"
Jul 01 22:23:45 <Ken> "I just discovered the extra circuitry, it may have been. I neeed to do more tests."
Jul 01 22:24:07 <Ken> The circuit appearred to be inactive while we were jumping."
Jul 01 22:24:42 * Sathara turns to Dyunt.  "What the seventh hell?"
Jul 01 22:25:57 <Raith> "Can you keep it from transmitting or receiving anything?"
Jul 01 22:26:13 <Bynw> *Dyunt* "What? We are gonna be sitting here a very long time without that datapad Captain. That frakking navcomp data is being rejected that we downloaded. Maybe data corruption or something I don't know. We need to get it fresh again or we are gonna be jumping the rest of the way in short jumps with long scanning times inbetween."
Jul 01 22:26:38 <Sathara> "Oh frakking hell."
Jul 01 22:26:51 <Ken> "I do not know Cap, it is extremely intricate, I almost missed it."
Jul 01 22:28:33 <Raith> "Did you use you psionics to find it?"
Jul 01 22:28:57 <Ken> "I need to study it some more. The possibilty is that it deliberately scrambled the nav comp so we would have to use it, or the system was not designed for use this far out of alliance space."
Jul 01 22:29:03 <Ken> "Aye cap I did"
Jul 01 22:29:10 <Sathara> "Guys, we're frakking lost without that frakking data pad, and with it the Klade at least know where we are.  What the frakking hell?"
Jul 01 22:30:33 <Raith> "Which means the Klade didn't think we'd find it and designed it so we'd have to use it once we got here. I don't like this."
Jul 01 22:30:49 <Sathara> "I don't frakking well like it either, Cap'n."
Jul 01 22:31:49 <Raith> "I'm not worried so much about the Klade knowing where we are so much as that datapad reprogramming out nav-comp to jump us who knows where."
Jul 01 22:31:53 * Sathara starts nervously patting her trousers looking for various weapons that are presently in the storage locker.
Jul 01 22:31:57 <Ken> "I suggest we use it for now as we have little choice, unless we want to slow boat for awhile."
Jul 01 22:32:59 <Sathara> "What d'you think, Dyunt?  You're the one as has to fly this sucker, with whatever navcomp data we end up with."
Jul 01 22:33:14 <Raith> "Ken how long do you think you'll have to study this thing till you can tell me something useful about it?"
Jul 01 22:34:52 <Bynw> *Dyunt looks momentarily confused ... catching up to the conversation other than her own.* "We can't even do a jump back to the frontier right now without the data. It's corrupted and the navcomp is having a hardtime reading it. We need to wipe it and redownload the new data. Or we are gonna be out here for months."
Jul 01 22:34:58 <Ken> ::looks thoughtful:: "A few days I think, right now all I know is that there is at least one extra component in that pad which uses FTL communication in some manner."
Jul 01 22:35:36 * Sathara looks extremely discouraged at Dyunt's comment.  "Oh FRAKKING hell."
Jul 01 22:36:52 <Bynw> "With short 100 AU jumps with a few jumps of several 1000 at a time. But nothing like we can jump at home or out where without the data."
Jul 01 22:37:54 * Ken looks at Raith waiting for his decision
Jul 01 22:38:46 <Raith> ::Thinks for a moment in silence:: "Looks like we don't have a choice. Load it up and lets make the jump. Raise shields and power up the turret before the jump."
Jul 01 22:39:28 * Sathara seems a little less upset and goes to the turret to do a little pre-warm-up checking.
Jul 01 22:39:42 <Ken> ::as he leaves the bridge:: "Aye Cap"
Jul 01 22:40:07 * Ken returns to engineering and reconnects the pad to the ship's systems.
Jul 01 22:40:51 * Ken starts a diagnostic and then disconnects the pad.
Jul 01 22:40:58 <Bynw> (( you have to bring it to the bridge for a direct connection to the navcomp per Dyunt ))
Jul 01 22:41:28 <Ken> ::over comms:: "Cap I bringing it to the bridge, there is a text for you on it."
Jul 01 22:41:41 * Ken runs to the bridge
Jul 01 22:42:00 <Raith> ::Looks to Dyunt in surprise::
Jul 01 22:42:53 <Raith> ::Takes the pad from Kens hand as he bursts onto the tiny bridge and reads it::
Jul 01 22:43:00 * Ken hands the pad over to Raith.
Jul 01 22:43:01 <Bynw> *the following text displayed on it "Please bring to Captain E. Raith"*
Jul 01 22:44:15 <Raith> "How the Frag would the Klade know the initial to my first name..."