Doing another reread of the entire manga, and I got to trying to figure out what happened when, especially in the Days of Yore.

ETA: Starting another sweep, beginning mark II. As before, any contributions would be appreciated.

The Diarium Ejis is turning out to be a lifesaver here. Thanks, Nodoka-chan!

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15th-16th century?

• Evangeline Athanasia Kitty (?) MacDowell born, turned to a vampire at the age of ten
  

• Evangeline's castle built in the "Dark Lands/Continent" (Mundus Magicus? Africa?). The entire area is later moved into a Resort
  bottle.
  

• Founding of Mahora Academy and Library Island.
  

• Evangeline visits Japan for the first time; learns Aikido from the art's creator Morihei Ueshiba
  

• Aisaka Sayo murdered
  

• Nagi Springfield born? (see 1978)
  

• Nagi Springfield wins the MahoraFEST Tournament at the age of ten? ("twenty-five years before," "the same age as his son")
  

• Bellum Schismaticum ongoing in Mundus Magicus (starting date uncertain). Ala Rubra involved in identifying and exposing the manipulators behind the war,
  "Kosmoentelechia."
  

• Late September?: Ala Rubra rescues Asuna from captivity. Bellum Schismaticum brought to an end; Ostia destroyed. Nagi kills Kosmoentelechia's leader
  in an extremely short fight.
  
  
  

• Nagi Springfield passes through the town of Hecates in Mundus Magicus.
  
  
• Ryomen Sukuna no Kami escapes its prison and is resealed by Nagi and the Elder of the Kansai M.A.
  
  
  

• March 17: Zazie Rainyday born
  
  
• April 4: Kasuga Misora born
  
  
• April 21: Alleged birthdate of Kagurazaka Asuna (aka Asuna Vesperina Theotanasia Entheofushia, Royal Princess of the Dusk)
  
  
• May 10: Miyazaki Nodoka born
  
  
• May 12: Yotsuba Satsuki born
  
  
• May 15: Kakizaki Misa born
  
  
• May 26: Okochi Akira born
  
  
• June 1: Akashi Yuna born
  
  
• June 9: Shiina Sakurako born
  
  
• July 5: Yukihio Ayaka born
  
  
• July 14: Hakase Satomi born
  
  
• August 18: Saotome Haruna born
  
  
• October 21: Murakami Natsumi born
  
  
• November 12: Nagase Kaede born
  
  
• November 16: Ayase Yue born
  
  
• November 17: Tatsumiya Mana (Mana Arcana?) born
  
  
• November 21: Izumi Ako born
  
  
• December 1: Chao Lingshen born (allegedly)
  
  
• December 6: Narutaki twins born
  

• Nagi Springfield (known by this point as the Thousand Master) subdues the Dark Evangel, subjecting her to the Infernus Scholasticus curse
  
  
• January 10: Asakura Kazumi born
  
  
• January 17: Sakurazaki Setsuna born
  
  
• January 29: Naba Chizuru born
  
  
• February 2: Hasegawa Chisame born
  
  
• March 3: Kugimiya Madoka born
  
  
• March 7: Sasaki Makie born
  
  
• March 16: Kuu Fei born
  
  
• March 18: Konoe Konoka born
  

• Nov. 25: Birth of Anna Yurievna Kokolova (Anya)
  
  
  

• In Istanbul, Asuna teaches Takamichi the basics of kanka.
  
  
• Nagi Springfield and Fate Averruncus "defeat each other" in Istanbul. Nagi is presumed dead.
  
  
  
• Gateau Vandenberg is killed.
  
  
• Asuna's memory erased; Asuna, Albireo, and Takamichi move to Mahora Academy
  
  
• Takamichi spends several years practicing kanka and martial arts in Eva's Resort, prematurely aging himself. Albireo, apparently injured, becomes
  Librarian of the Island and has not been seen in the flesh since.
  
  
• Birth of Negi Springfield.
  

• Late winter/early spring (Negi is approx. five): Person or persons unknown (presumably Kosmoentelechia) summons Graf Wilhelm Josef von Herrmann and an
  army of lower-ranked demons to attack Nagi Springfield's hometown. All residents save Negi and Nekane are petrified (Anya is away, boarding at
  Meridiana). Nagi appears and destroys most of the army; Wilhelm and the slime sisters are bottled up by Grandpa Stan. Negi and Anya are permanently moved to
  Meridiana in Wales.
  
  
• Negi enters Meridiana Magic Academy, throws himself into study and practice.
  

• Late in the year?: Lingshen Chao enters Mahora Academy; first record of her existence ("two and a half years" with the class before the 2003
  Festival)
  

• January 3: Karakuri Chachamaru assembled.
  
  
• April 1: Karakuri Chachamaru brought online.
  

• August: Negi graduates valedictorian from Meridiana Magic Academy; manga begins.
  

• February (?): Negi arrives at Mahora Academy and becomes English teacher for Mahora Girls School Class 2-A. Hilarity ensues.
  
  
  
• March 30: Headmaster informs Negi of his "final challenge." Near sunset, Negi seals away his magic for three days to avoid temptation. Late
  that night, the Bakarangers +1 Expedition descends into Library Island, discovers the Book of Melchizedek, and runs afoul of a trap that sends them to the
  Illusionary Reading Room in the depths of the complex.
  
  
• March 31-early April 2: Bakaranger Expedition studies hard.
  
  
  
• April 2: Escape from Library Island. Class 2-A takes first place in the finals. Negi is hired as a regular English teacher.
  
  
• Third year of middle school begins; 2-A becomes 3-A.
  
  
  
• Albert Chamomile arrives at Mahora.
  
  
  
• Evangeline attacks Negi.
  
  
• April 20: Shopping for the class trip.
  
  
  
• April 21: Asuna's birthday.
  
  
• April 23: Class Trip day 1. 3-A takes bullet train to Kyoto, visits Kiyomizu Temple; multiple acts of sabotage by Chigusa Amagasaki. Night: Amagasaki
  attempts to kidnap Konoka, assisted by Fate Averrucus's ministra Tsukuyomi; foiled.
  
  
• April 24: 3-A in Nara; Nodoka confesses to Negi; Kazumi discovers Negi's secret and attempts to expose him, fails, is "recruited" by
  Chamo-kun. Night: Operation Lip Scramble; Nodoka makes a Pactio w/Negi.
  
  
  
• April 25: Free Activity day. Negi and Asuna make a run for the Kansai M.A. headquarters, battle Kotaro with Nodoka's assistance. Tsukuyomi attacks
  Setsuna and Konoka at Cinema Village. Afternoon: both groups converge at KMAHQ. Night: Chigusa assaults the estate with the aid of Kotaro, Tsukuyomi, and
  Fate; final battle ensues. Chigusa and Kotaro captured, others escape.
  
  
• April 26: Final day of the trip; visit to Nagi Springfield's house; rest, relaxation, embarrassing photographs. Return to Mahora.
  
  
• April 27 (Sunday, day after return): Negi asks Evangeline to take him on as a disciple. After altercations, Eva puts off her decision until next
  Saturday. Evening: brief love potion incident.
  
  
• April 28: Negi asks Kuu for training in kung fu. Bowling night.
  
  
• April 30, morning: Makie finds Negi practicing kata. Eva takes exception to Negi training under multiple masters, issues challenge for next Sunday.
  
  
• April 30-May 2: Intense training for both Negi and Makie
  
  
  
• May 3, early morning: Disciple test passed. Makie attends rhythmic gymnastics preliminary match, passes. Afternoon: Library Expedition Club discovers
  clue in Nagi's map of the island.
  
  
• May 4, morning: brief expedition to Library Island ends in dragon encounter.
  
  
• May 5: Evangeline's magic training begins; Negi and Asuna quarrel.
  
  
  
• May 8-9?: Vacation at Ayaka's island resort. (Mahora seems to have a longer Golden Week than the rest of Japan.) Team Negi-bozu begins to coalesce.
  
  
  
• Fate releases Wilhelm and the Slime sisters, ordering them to take Negi Springfield out of action. Kotaro Inugami, being held in the same prison
  facility, overhears some of this and escapes as well, aiding Team Negi-bozu in the ensuing battle.
  
  
• June 3: Negi records a letter to Nekane.
  
  
• June 5: Preparations for MahoraFEST 2003 begin. Kotaro transfers into an unspecified school in Mahora.
  
  
• June ?: 3-A decides (after much dithering and silliness) to put on a haunted house for the festival. Sayo's existence revealed over three goofy
  nights.
  
  
  
• June 14: Asuna and aged-up Negi go on a practice date. Hijinks ensue.
  
  
• June 17: Negi begins to schedule time with his students for the festival. Schedule almost immediately becomes physically impossible to fulfill.
  
  
• June 19: Mahora magic teachers recruit Negi for World Tree patrol. Negi "rescues" Chao from the ninja nun brigade, insists on taking
  responsibility for her. Chao gives Negi the Cassiopeia Mk. I. Nightfall: World Tree begins to glow; MahoraFEST 2003 officially begins.
  
  
  
• June 20: MahoraFEST Day One.
  
  
• June 21: MahoraFEST Day Two.
  
  
• June 22: MahoraFEST Day Three.
  
  
  
• Summer vacation (first half): training from hell in the Resort Complex
  
  
• August 9: the ninja-nun squad arrive in Mundus Magicus
  
  
  
• August 12: Ala Alba travel to England
  
  
• August 14: Ala Alba and accidental stowaways transported to Megalomesembria; Fate Averruncus and allied forces destroy all major worldgate complexes; Ala
  Alba etc. are scattered around Mundus Magicus. Yue lands in Ariadne and is immediately cursed with amnesia.
  
  
  
• August 15: Negi and Chachamaru rescue Chisame
  
  
• August 16: Kotaro finds Negi's group; Yue is admitted to the Mage Knight school in Ariadne
  
  
  
• August 19: Eva is bored; Ayaka demonstrates astonishing communication skills w/Zazie; Negi's group arrives in Hecates
  
  
• August 21: Negi's group reaches Granicus, meets Kazumi and Sayo, attempts to rescue Natsumi, Akira, and Ako from debt-slavery; Negi and Kotaro enter
  the Granicus prize-fights; Takamichi and Mana arrive in Megalomesembria shortly before the worldgate decays completely
  
  
• August 22: Negi and Kotaro's first tournament match; Negi announces himself as "Nagi" to the world
  
  
• August 29 : Yuuna and Makie are working as waitressses in Tempe Terra; Negi and Kotaro have won 13 consecutive victories; Jacobus Lacan arrives in
  Granicus
  
  
• August 30: Kagetarou attacks Negi; Negi's right arm is severed in the fight; Lacan intervenes
  
  
• September 1: Negi awakens after reconstructive surgery; letter from Asuna and Setsuna arrives; Tsukuyomi discovers A&S
  
  
  
• September 2: Kazumi, Chachamaru, and Sayo leave Granicus on a round-the-world search mission; Negi begins training under Lacan; Dark Magic is
  discussed
  
  
• September 3: Lacan demonstrates Eva's darkness magic, nearly killing himself
  
  
• September 4: Negi activates Eva's scroll; Nodoka acquires Comptina Daemonia in partnership with a party of
  adventurers; Kaede and Konoka, dragon hunters, meet up with Setsuna and Asuna, likewise
  
  
• September 5: The search party locates Kuu; Granicus group receives mail from search party, dragon hunters, and waitresses
  
  
• September 6: Negi awakens after two days of mental torture combat; Fate Averruncus and associates
  arrive at the ruins of Ostia
  
  
  
• September 9: Nodoka acquires Auris Lectans, leaves adventurers and heads for Ostia; Kazumi recharges Chachamaru;
  Yue is embarrassed; poor Chamo-kun is freezing
  
  
• September 10 (?): Yue and Colette win the Ariadne 100-km broom race
  
  
• September 14 (?): Yue and Colette depart for Ostia; Asuna's group is 40 km west of Ostia, Asuna catches sight of ruined capital
  
  
  
• September 29 (?): scheduled opening of the Ostia Memorial Tournament
  
  
• September 30: Team Negi-bozu battle Team Fate (?) in Ostia; Fate's real name revealed
  
  
  

When I was writing the first draft of 'Boarding Action' I started wondering just what the squads escorts were, and I remembered something I'd seen on Discovery a while back.  The XCOR EZ Rocket, a prototype rocket powered aircraft.  Thus was born the idea for the F-101-EZ.  There's a lot that isn't nailed down right now, for instance I'm not entirely certain who'd be the best people to make the things (I have at least one idea), or if the model number's even close to being done the 'correct' way, or if the Fen involved even care about that.
She's a small 'fighter' craft built for OGJ and the Boskone War. The basic chassis is 'Waved from modified Rutan Long-EZ kits based on the XCOR EZ rocket mods.
(As an aside, I wonder what happened to XCOR during the 'Wave?)
I've added some pictures of the EZ Rocket at the bottom.

•  belly mounted coil gun
• 2 hard points for missiles, one per wing

•  Wing Span/Area: 26.1 ft (7.9m) / 81.99 ft2 (7.62m2)
•  Canard Span/Area: 11.8 ft (3.6m) / 12.8 ft2 (1.19m2)
•  Total Wing Area: 94.8 ft2 (8.81m2)
•  Length: 201.4 in (5.12m)
•  Height: 94.5 in (2.4m)
•  Cockpit Width: 23 in (0.58m)

•  MINI cooper Mk I    - 1132 kg
•  Fiesta Mk6             - 1096-1178 kg
•  Peugeot 206            - 1025-1145 kg

• Go Speed Racer, Go!  The EZ-Rocket was a racer, and that's how the builders of the F-EZig  thought of her.  The F-EZigs like to go fast and they like to fly, one that's been in the hanger too long will give  every impression of sulking.
• [should there be more class quirks, or should we leave them  for the individual ships?]

• For historical reasons the throttles have specific labels for max thrust and engines off (loud and quiet).  [These are the EZ Rocket's only actual  throttle settings]

It's funny what you'll think about to distract yourself at times like this. I finish my last equipment check, my fifth since we launched from the
Warsie 'blockade runner'. And, after making sure my spare magazines are secure, think back to the argument between the Lieutenant and the quartermaster
when our kit arrived. That was when the Lieutenant found out that certain liberties had been taken when filling out our unit's equipment orders.

Apparently the QM felt that 9mm parabellum was a little anemic and shifted a few letters around on some of the forms. The end result is a logistics headache
for our unit and the H&K MP5/10s most of us are currently carrying. The Lieutenant's still acting a little frosty towards the QM, not that he deigns
to notice. One supposes an AI can install some decent filters when he wants to.

The argument and the decedents it spawned among the military and gun otaku over caliber and chambering really drove home to me just how damn geeky we Fen are.
As aggravating as it can be, I think I like it that way. But then again, I'm just as weird as the rest of us.

The sudden deceleration of the waved ambulance turn LAC we're riding in jolts me against the restraints and back to the present. In the cockpit Auger flips
the door lights to amber, meaning we're almost to our targets. A pair of converted busses hanging in space a million klicks from nowhere.

One of them is a waved tour bus some gondolier had been using to run 'Dane tourists out to Mars. They'd managed to get a mayday off before they were
jammed. The other was a school bus at one point, and is now the reason for the mayday. The Black Hats had jumped the tour bus and were in the process of
looting her of

everything valuable, which was probably her passengers and crew based on the rumours we'd heard.

We slam to a stop, the magnetic grapples on our underside latching onto the Black Hat's bus. The door light switches to green and we pile out of the
doors. Time is against us now. The Black Hats have known we were here since our escorts hit their pickets, but now they know where we're going to be
coming from. Their refusal to

respond to any of our hails is worrying too, either they aren't worried, or they've done something they figure will make us disinclined to take
prisoners.

While Grey and Fosters pack the breaching charge around one of the bus's windows Hammer and I grab the collapsable airlock on the back of the LAC and haul
it down to the hull. I brace myself as Hammer signals that the lock is secured and Grey punches the detonator.

The window blows inwards, and then the pressure equalization sends the shards back into our faces. They bounce off of our armour as we lunge through. Hammer
spins towards the rear of the bus, and I tumble through the shift in AG plains after him turning towards the front. There are two Black Hats there,
un-helmeted and bent over

a computer system.

My momentum spoils my aim somewhat and my first burst mostly shreds electronics. A couple of rounds from my second catch one, the 10mm/Auto punching through
his flight-suit easily. He falls back, blood bubbling from his mouth as his friend turns to face me.

I spot the large pistol in his hand as it comes up and let my momentum carry me across the aisle and into the dubious cover of the seats. A couple of shots
blow large holes in the seat-back in front of me and then Fosters hits the deck. He settles things with his 12 gauge, the FRAG-12 round makes a mess out of
the front of the bus, and the remaining Black Hat.

I lever myself out of the seats, narrowly avoiding getting tangled in the manacles. The Lieutenant and Anders are rushing the door with me hot on their heels.
We storm through the hatch and run straight into the first prepared Black Hats we've met so far. Thankfully there aren't that many of them. Most of
the school bus's space was for prisoners, not troops.

Ten minutes later it's all over. Grey, Hammer and the sole surviving gondolier are in the LAC being rushed to the 'blockade runner' and her
surgical bay. Meanwhile the Lieutenant and I are trying to calm the terrified 'Danes and trying to figure out what happened. From what we can understand
the gondola had had an AI, and he'd managed to get into the Black Hat's systems after he got the mayday off. Probably why they didn't know we were
there 'til we knocked. There wasn't much left

of him if the state of the bus's hardware was anything to go by. The Black Hats hadn't taken his success calmly.

I place my armoured gauntlet on what's left of his housing for a long moment. Then I move to help the Lieutenant coax a young woman out from under her
seat. I unlatch my faceplate and try to smile reassuringly.

"Ma'am, it's over, you're going to be alright," I say.

She looks up, terrified, shrinking back into herself.

This war can't end fast enough.

This is a story that's been knocking about in my hindbrain for a while now & infecting my dreams. Not very long, but it's kind of an interesting character sketch with a little bit of fantasy kicked in for flavor. Enjoy. --Mal

...specifically, the In Nomine forum over on the Steve Jackson Games boards. (It didn't have any new traffic for a few days - somebody had to start something.)

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=40781]Which anime would Superiors watch?

Quote:Here are my thoughts on what anime various Superiors would like.

Some of these shows (marked with asterisks) haven't been licenced for North American distribution yet, so you may need to get a Region 2 DVD player and turn to one of the Japanese DVD-export businesses on the Internet before you can watch them. (I prefer CD Japan, myself; they're pricey, but they don't deal in bootlegs.)

Quote:Blandine: Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar. It doesn't matter who you are, you can still reach your dream... or help someone else reach hers.

Christopher: Aishiteruze Baby.* It's good to have a major child character act the way a child really would act, for a change. (While Aishiteruze Baby isn't licenced in North America yet, the manga has been completely translated.)

David: Any team-sports anime - Eyeshield 21, Princess Nine, and so on. Disparate individuals come together, and they accomplish what none of them could hope to do alone.

Dominic: You're Under Arrest! It may be less than serious at times - in fact, it's downright frivolous at times - but it shows law-enforcement forces in a positive light.

Eli: He's more interested in the creative process than the end result, so shows about making entertainment (such as Animation Runner Kurumi, Comic Party, and Smash Hit!*) are on Eli's watch list. Although he always has a few minutes to look at the shows that put disparate elements together in creative ways nobody's thought of before, like Oh Edo Rocket*...

Gabriel: "Righteous vengenance" is a common anime trope, so Gabriel has quite a few shows to choose from. But Chrono Crusade gets the Christian symbolism mostly right and has demons as the bad guys...

Janus: Lupin III. Lupin and his cohorts blow into town, shake things up by grabbing some valuable trinket out from under watchful eyes, then take off to repeat the process somewhere else before the law can grab them - what a perfect depiction of his Word!

Jean: Appleseed. The amount of effort the story's creator spent on getting every detail of the science right is commendable.

Jordi: If he must watch anime, Jordi finds Wolf's Rain - with its animalistic characterization of the wolves - least objectionable.

Khalid: Sailor Moon. She grows to have faith in herself, and that faith is what lets her win her most important battles.

Laurence: Revolutionary Girl Utena, if only for the swordfights.

Litheroy: Revelation has little time for fiction. Detective Conan isn't too objectionable, though, since the plots involve investigation.

Marc: Kamichu! This is almost a case of Choir trumping Word, but Yurie's solution to the problem of the mere presence of a poverty spirit appeals to both of Marc's major facets.

Michael: There are so many - the "band of warriors fighting together against all odds" is another common anime trope. But Zipang shows that even sound tactical planning backed up by powerful weaponry is only as good as the warroirs who use those tools of War.

Novalis: Legend of the Forest. "Why" should be obvious. (Although she sees a lot of herself in Risky Safety...)

Yves: The protagonist spends the entire series making amends for her own mistake, growing in ability and power while not losing the purity of her soul, and supporting other people as they strive to be the best and brightest that they can - what's not to like about the unedited Card Captor Sakura anime? Shame about the dub, though...

Zadkiel: Aishiteruze Baby.* Protecting someone involves so much more than just keeping her alive, as this anime shows so well.

Alaemon: That's a secret. (But Innocent Venus keeps so many secrets, it's incomprehensible...)

Andrealphus: Far too many to list here, and much of the list would probably be blocked by the forum's anti-profanity filter anyway. (If you're really interested, see the "Hentai Primer" on my website.) But not Legend of the Overfiend and its ilk. Andre can't see any point to killing humans while using them for pleasure; you can't use them again if you do that. Titles like Teacher's Pet are much more to Andre's liking... especially when Andre gets to be the teacher.

Asmodeus: Dominion Tank Police. They set the rules, and everyone else has to live by them.

Baal: Zipang. Massively-overpowering weapons, backed up by good tactics - what's not to like?

Beleth: Jungle wa Itsumo Haré Nochi Guu (released in North America simply as Haré + Guu). Turning the commonplace into horror by adding just one element makes for such a delicious waking nightmare... and it's presented in a way that the talking apes will watch it willingly!

Belial: Grave of the Fireflies. It's about the firebombing of Tokyo, right?

Fleurity: Anything with strong primary colours, which means almost any preschoolers' anime. They look so vivid when you're, like, stoned, man...

Furfur: Legend of Black Heaven. Hard Rock Saves Space! It even says so on the box!

Haagenti: You'd think they eat small meals in Japan, going by anime... -yawn- While Haagenti doesn't have a favourite show, there are a few characters whose appetites impress even Gluttony; Lina Inverse in Slayers and Son Goku in Dragonball are two of the more obvious ones.

Kobal: Princess Tutu. All that striving, and what does the lead character get for it? And just who gets the happy ending? That's one Hell of a punchline! Kobal has no idea why everyone else thinks this show is serious...

Kronos: No anime drives home the inevitability of Fate quite like Gall Force does.

Lilith: Moon Phase. It's all about helping that little girl become and remain Free, right? The prices that other people pay for that character's freedom were their own choices.

Malphas: There's far too much of the Japanese "solidarity" mentality in anime for Malphas' liking. But the second episode of the direct-to-video version of Magical Girl Pretty Sammy has a pleasant "be yourself no matter what" subplot.

Mammon: Neon Genesis Evangelion. Not for the anime itself - Mammon thinks that broadcast television shows interrupt the ads too often - but for the horde of collectables marketed along with the series. Nobody really needs a Rei Ayanami character figure, let alone a set of Rei figures in the dozens of different poses and outfits that have been available over the last decade. But as long as collectors keep buying them, Mammon profits by the Essence they give up in their search for "just the right one" or a complete set.

Nybbas: He loves them all. They're Media, baby!

Saminga: M.D. Geist. Everybody dies. If he must watch something that somebody else likes, then Gunslinger Girl - there's just something attractive to Saminga about brainwashing normal people to become assassins.

Valefor: Lupin III. Lupin and his cohorts blow into town, shake things up by grabbing some valuable trinket out from under watchful eyes, then take off to repeat the process somewhere else before the law can grab them - what a perfect depiction of his Word!

Vapula: Gunbuster. Some real science, some plausable pseudo-science, and some technology that does the job with only a few minor side-effects like destroying a noticeable chunk of the galaxy... and that tech is essential to the story. In Vapula's opinion, the people in Gunbuster are almost incidental.

I've heard about DW on and off again for a while (2003 or so), but I never got around to reading it 'till now.

Doug's an awesome, awesome character.

I've been reading fanfiction since 1995, from Undocumented Features originally, and I kinda went from there.

It's a neat, cozy community here. Though I was wondering if anyone has heard from Darren "Twister" Steffler. I fondly remember Twisted
Path...

Anywhoo, take it easy, guys and gals

Part of it, anyway. The Player's Handbook for the fourth edition of a certain fantasy role-playing game.

While there are some quite good parts, I'm honestly not sure if they outweigh the really ungood parts. I've submitted a review to RPG.net that goes
over my feelings on the matter in a lot more detail; if they don't publish it, I'll post it here.

Chris Davies.

Eh, not much, I know. Was strapped for attention since I just made her.

Riot Force 6.1/Sabres of Paragon

She slowly wiped down the plating of her Armor, the smell of oil and grease heavy in the air of the maintenace bay.

It was a rather new addition to the Riot Force base, much like herself. With seven Sabres, and the number growing nearly every time a raid on Crey took place,
the small bay had been setup for maintenance, storage, and upgrades to their hardsuits.

She hadn't met any of the other Sabres, besides Net Sabre, yet. She was rather fearful of what they would think of her, if her still fragmented memories
were accurate. She did have several processes trying to sort them all out, but Crey had bungled her core systems enough that she was nearly inoperable anyway.

She shook her head, and started to change into her skinsuit. There was enough stalling. Fighting crime, here, was enough to survive.

She'd figure out if she wanted to live, later.

Warning: This gets a bit angsty, but I've been feeling that about Reyshal, anyway.

Tales of the Legendary: Alone among Friends

I sit here in the Admin office, waiting.

Or, more like, brooding. The book that I picked out rests on the small table, but I've turned my chair about to face the globe, watching it restlessly.

Two and a half years.

It's been two and a half years since I was propelled to this world by magics unknown. Two and a half years of fighting, resting, singing, hoping... that
someone that I have spoken to could find some small link back to my homeworld. Even now, that I've just started to curry favor with the people at Portal
Corp, have I entreated them to find my home.

"Perhaps," I whisper in my native Karudo, "I've just burnt out again?"

I'd spent some nine months stuck at Security Level 32, occasionally going out to help the citizens of the City, but mostly brooding my way around the base,
and my small apartment. Then, some two months ago, I had exploded back into heroing, shooting straight through the much dreaded 'Dead Zone' of the
later 30's, and arriving where I was now, just having been awarded my 41st Clearance Level.

My thoughts turned to others, my companions in arms, the members of The Legendary. They I had claimed as my teammates in battle, for they had broken through my
rectitude and befriended me, as those others I had joined could not. However, even then I was distant, perhaps because, even after nigh three years, I was
still too used to being a sole authority? I do not complain of Evangelia, and indeed, believe that she has grown into her place quite suitably. But do I still
see myself in the position of Capitan of my ship? Above all those I work with, unable to fraternize with them?

I sigh, and lean forward, placing my finger upon the globe. North America, United States thereof, Rhode Island, Paragon City. I close my eyes, and with a soft
push and a whisper of Song, I spin the globe on its axis. Even among all the friends I had in The Legendary, all those who tried so hard to include and aid me,
I still felt so alone. I was the only one of my kind on this world, and even free of the Omniscient, I still thought of all those enslaved by them, as I had
once been.

"Yo, Rey."

The interruption to my thoughts springs me to my feet, and I reflexively nod my head to my intruder. "Terrence, how may this One aid you?" I ask,
instinctively reverting to the formal way of speaking I tried so hard to drop around my companions in The Legendary.

Terrence Knight looks at me up and down, then behind me, at the table. "You weren't answering any messages, so I'd thought I'd come down and
see what was up. You okay, Rey?"

I winced guiltily, and looked at the table where my communicator sat, blinking with the light of unheard communique. "My apologies, Terrence. I was...
thinking."

He nods. "'Sokay. Just was wondering if you wanted to help me take out some BP?"

I smile slightly. Everyone in The Legendary knew of Terrence's Banished Pantheon world. And everyone knew that he ran it solo more often than not. "I
shall be pleased to assist you, Terrence." I said, accepting the outreach from my new mentor. "Shall we, then?"

Author's Note: I blame you all. The altitis. It BURNS!

***

The lab was rather silent at the moment. While new Scimitars continued their growth cycles in tubes lining the walls, waiting for programming and arming
sequences the next day, the human employees had long since gone home, grateful to survive another day in what was beginning to be the Countess's primary
love/hate project.

It really wasn't their fault, you see. The code stolen from the extra-dimensional GENOM was something Crey might've made. Triple-encrypted, riddled
with anti-hacker programs, and occasionally having the tendency to literally seize control of the computer analyzing and altering it in a violent attempt to
cause as much property damage as possible to the interlopers. Furthermore, at least three of the Scimitars that had been brought online had gone rogue, taking
with them valuable combat data on their experimental systems. Worse, Crey's intelligence placed them as working alongside the original four rogues to boot.

Further excursions to what had been dubbed "Earth-2B-03G-2C" had secured a variety of technical sources, however. While not really caring if they
made an enemy of this "GENOM", teams sent had been uniformly female and outfitted with armor resembling that of these....Knight Sabers, so as to
avoid any real blame being placed on Crey. Entire mainframes had been copied without any real processing, and this led to a huge bulk of information for Crey
technicians to go through now that it was safely in Crey facilities, away from retribution.

However, on that night, none of that data was really being processed....or shouldn't have been.

A single screen lit up near an assembly line, flickering on and off as the computer's intrusion algorhythms struggled in vain to fight off the viral code
inside it slowly taking over. However, in a moment the blue computer screen turned a deep black, highlighted with bright green letters.

GENOM Systems


Type 481-A-S


Serial Number: J-2073-D-2670-S-1871




Backup files fully recovered.


Host system co-opted


Commencing reconstruction.


The nearby assembly line began to move, but certainly not in its standard configuration. The armatures began working on one another as well, rebuilding their
tools into objects infinitely more precise than what Crey had been using, before the entire structure resembled some bizarre sort of Frankenstein's lab,
with the armatures working at lightning speed around a humanoid figure in the center.

***

The next morning, the large flaming wreckage where the assembly line had been, along with the smashed tubes that had contained various Scimitar armors in
varying stages of completion suggested yet another breakout. The Crey technicians would've sighed and gone on with their work if not for a rather specific
message carved into a nearby wall, looking as if it'd been smashed into it with blunt force wielded like a giant hammer, which got them to resolve to
contact the principal office at once.

YOU CAN'T KILL THE MESSIAH!




***


* Bubblegum Crisis *


"The Ultimate Boomer"


Red Eyes
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."