I'm catching up on In Which Shadowjack Watches Sailor Moon, and I've reached http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?617 ... st15303262]the post where he discusses what sort of GM and player each of the Senshi is. (Don't worry; he gets to http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?617 ... st15303701]the other two a bit later.)

None of them match me exactly, but Mamoru's pretty close... although I'll admit to a dash of Minako's style, too.

So... Which Senshi-GM are you?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Quote:PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea’s military warned Monday of
imminent “special actions” that would reduce South Korea’s conservative
government to ashes within minutes, sharply escalating the rhetoric
against its southern rival.
The threat from the North’s military leadership comes amid
concerns that North Korea may be plotting another provocation in the
wake of an unsuccessful rocket launch condemned by the U.N. Security
Council as a violation of a ban against missile activity.
North Korea characterized the April 13 rocket launch as a failed bid
to send a satellite into space — not a disguised test of missile
technology — but then followed up two days later by unveiling a new
long-range missile at a military birthday parade for late President Kim
Il Sung.
There are new concerns that North Korea may conduct a
nuclear test as it did after rocket launches in 2006 and 2009. South
Korean intelligence officials say recent satellite images show the North
has been digging a new tunnel in what could be preparation for a third
atomic test.
“Nuclear weapons are not the monopoly of the United
States,” Lt. Col. Nam Dong Ho told The Associated Press on Monday on the
North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone, saying North Korea needs
atomic weapons to defend itself against the threat of attack from the
U.S. “It’s my personal opinion, but I think we’ll continue to conduct
nuclear tests.”
On Monday, the military warned in a statement
carried by state media that it would launch “special actions” soon
against the South Korean government and conservative media.
However,
there was no outward sign of tension on the North Korean side of the
Demilitarized Zone. At Panmunjom, small groups of tourists were touring
the “peace” village and the buildings where the Korean War armistice was
signed in 1953. The South Korean side was quiet.
For days, North
Korea has railed against South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and
conservative South Korean media for criticizing its rocket launch and
the celebrations of the centennial of Kim Il Sung’s birth.
But
Monday’s message, distributed by the state-run Korean Central News
Agency and attributed to the “special operation action group” of the
Korean People’s Army’s Supreme Command, was unusual in its specificity.

“Once the above-said special actions kick off, they will reduce all the
rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or
four minutes, in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and
methods of our own style,” it said.
The threat comes as North
Korea’s new commander in chief, Kim Jong Un, makes a strong show of
support for the “military first” policy championed by his father, late
leader Kim Jong Il. North Korea marks the 80th anniversary of the
founding of its army Wednesday.
Seoul expressed worry that the threats were hurting relations between the countries and increasing animosity.

“We urge North Korea to immediately stop this practice,” Unification
Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk told reporters, according to the
ministry. “We express deep concern that the North’s threats and
accusations have worsened inter-Korean ties and heightened tensions.”
A
South Korean Defense Ministry official, speaking on condition of
anonymity in line with departmental rules, said no special military
movement had been observed in the North.
In November 2010, after
issuing a warning to the South Korean government, North Korean troops
showered artillery on a front-line island in disputed western waters
held by South Korea. The attack killed four people, including two
civilians.
However, it is unlikely that North Korea would launch a
large-scale military attack against Seoul, which is backed by nearly
30,000 U.S. troops stationed in the South, said Kim Young-soo, a
professor at Sogang University in Seoul.

Being somewhat under-the-weather and thus (a) home and (b) not trusting myself with anything really important, I've doodled in the corners of the canvas again... this time, with respect to the http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... s_of_Kobol]Battlestar Galactica Fen.

They now have a home base: Caprica, on asteroid 1862 Apollo. The name seemed appropriate, and we didn't have anybody on any of the Apollo asteroids yet (although The Island and Arisia Station are in the same space). We haven't heard much about them because they're busy building Vipers and a Battlestar... and I decided Caprica was also where the base spaceframe for Colony was built.

Speaking of Colony, that station now has an image. (My copy of Daz Studio crashed three times on my attempts to render this - that's why the quality of the image is lower than usual.)

If anybody else wants to play here, feel free...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Okay. Running First Ward content via Ouro.
Gotten up to the point of having Mister Midnight what'sisface as my contact.
Oh. My. God.
If Dr. Orpheus  and Zaphod Beeblebrox had a love-child, this dude would be the one...
You have to forgive me - but everything in First Ward has been SUPER
SERIOUS up to this point. I JUST watched Serene do a major smack-down of
Diabolique. Mother Mayhem is doing psychic surgery and leaving the
shards of seer psyches to litter First Ward like a Redneck tossing
beer cans out of his truck driving down the highway, and then I get THIS
GUY...
*********RECORD SCRATCH*********

"Sorceress Serene is far too powerful and seductive for any one of us to go up against her alone and not become her slave, a fate that is not entirely dire...  But no, we will have to join forces if I am to capture Serene and rescue an eternally grateful and potentially scantily clad Diabolique... it will be the stuff of legends!"
Wait, wait... WHAT???
"I have a plethora of magical knowledge in my possession, and I am willing to share in order to rescue my Diabolique from the infernal clutches of an equally beautiful and unattainable magical super vixen!
Horrible blood thirsty monster women to fight, a beautiful ghost princess to rescue, and a sinister and psychotic sorceress to overthrow. This is going to be the best adventure ever!"

Dude is supposedly this major traitor to the Midnight Squad and all. Super-Powerful master of magic. And... he's thinkin' with his hormones. Yeah. THAT'LL end well.... >.>;;
I am most amused. WORRIED. But amused. ^.^

To pick up where Jorlem's question left off, yes, they'll still remember Madoka, though vaguely at first. They'll remember there WAS a sixth kid, but that she WASN'T Homura. Madoka's partner remembers her clearly since he was in the Digital World when Madoka changed the universe and thus wasn't affected. The memories come back properly once hey enter the Digital World, since it's in another Universe and Madoka has no influence there... yet.
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I am the LORD OF THE CRACK!
Check out said crack:
Takamachi Nanoha of 2814- Green Lantern Nanoha. To START! Now with a TvTropes page!
FATE/Holy Grail War of 2814- The Fifth Holy Grail War with Magical Girl Prisma Illya, in the DCAU, from the above story.
Magical Girl Magistra Erebea Molly- the world's first Dresden Files/TvTropes Crossover.
VENGEANCE! The Musical! The Story of Uchiha Sasuke

With the recent advacements of private space flight in OTL, especially SpaceX, I have been wondering...
How did companies like SpaceX, Armadillo or Bigelow fare in Fenspace? Did they just end up going up in flames because its easier to pay some fan with a truck go haul their sat into space? Or did they somehow manage to pull through in some way or another?
Okay, Bigelow may be able to get through with inflatable habs.
Virgin Galactic would most likely offer transportation service with a couple of waves ships or planes.
What about any other company?

I spent the last week or two with Dartz working on a concept for the 2020-2025 time period.
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The Frigga Factory Complex

»What do you mean with ‘what do you plan to build there? Everything both you and us want, of course!«
- Lisa asked by Jet about the planned factory

History
The Frigga Factory Complex is housed in one of the old mining excavations on Frigga's surface. Starting towards the end of 2022 Catgirl Industries enclosed the pit with a pressure cap at surface level and began initial structural and framing work for the factory. The final fitting out was completed sometime in early 2025, though the plant had been basically operational for over a year prior.

The complex is Catgirl Industries first attempt to replicate their production techniques outside their own space stations, so that other people can start using them to build and invent on their own.

During normal operation many components are bought from other parts of Fenspace to ease the production of new hardware, but in theory the factory complex can build everything itself if supplied with the necessary raw materials.

Both Cortana and Serina are present in the factory, alongside an ‘emergency operation system', which could run the factory at a lower efficiency without a direct AI control. Replacing all the aware Exocomps with different models may also lead to other problems.

The Factory appears on Frigga's books as a contracted tenant, paying for oxygen, power and defense in raw material and through shared use of the factory itself. Frigga and Survival Shot normally use the factory to save on the cost of spare parts. While the MZ-105 is technically available for sale, only the MZ-23 Judy has sold in anything like numbers.

Structure of the factory

The factory and its support infrastructure are housed in one of Frigga's old mining excavations, a leftover of the time when Frigga was mined for resources. Because of the size of the site, it's still mostly empty.

The cave of the complex is separated from the outside of the asteroid by two 50m doors that form a spaceship sized airlock. Multiple smaller airlocks allow small vehicles, persons or even Exocomps to enter and leave the cave without using the main doors.

The airlock leads into the open space of the factory floor. The factory complex itself is built onto the walls of the cavern, simplifying access The catgirls have installed enough accommodation for 80 people, following a similar -if slightly more spacious - layout to the quarters on Jenga..

The main factory area can accommodate projects up to 100 meters long, with an upper limit on usable volume of about 250,000 cubic meters. This is usually split among smaller projects over multiple removable levels. The first time the whole area was used for a single project was during the building of the Exelion.

It is designed specifically for maximum flexibility, being able to produce everything used in the factory itself, firearm components, parts for Exocomps, Makos, Kodiaks, Judys or even something as large as a full-scale Gundam replica or a Normandy class cruiser. The factory can also produce copies of its own hardware,

The factory is connected with the main living area on Frigga by a 20 kilometer long tunnel left over from the original excavations.

Power and communication

Two separate lines of optical fiber run along the tunnel between Frigga's living space and the factory to keep both areas in contact. One fibre for normal email, voice or video communication and the second one for the Red Telephone between the control centers of both areas.

Frigga's TITANIC system is specifically isolated from the factory, both for safety and security reasons. The two cables are the only direct lines of communication between both sectors, and are specifically islanded from any computer systems in either sector. The only communication that can travel from one network to the other one are some simple chat, voice and video protocols over two specialized proxies on both sides.

Power is provided by Frigga's 4 main reactors (Blackly named after nuclear disasters, considering the plant was left behind by the original owners due to radioactive contamination making it uneconomical to remove); 2012-era Stellarators burning a Deuterium-Tritium mix, generating steam to drive 4 main turbines on a direct cycle. Each turbine outputs a maximum of 1.21 GW of electricity at 60Hz. This power is supplied to the factory by a high-voltage 3-phase line.

The factory itself also has it's own backup fusor generators capable of supplying emergency power (at least the catgirls say its just for backup).

The first product manufactured by the Factory were FR-15 rifles, to replace a few worn AUG's damaged by careless use. The initial ten were built in July 2023, as a test of a composite fabrication printer.

Products Designed by Catgirl Industries on Frigga:

• Exelion-type carrier-frigate (extended length Normandy class)
  
• M-35 Mako all terrain vehicle
  
• UT-47 Kodiak Shuttle
  
• Exocomps with built in mining tools
  

• Survival Shot spare parts.
  
• Frigga 15 rifles for Survival Shot. (The first thing ever produced.)
  
• Structural hardware for Frigga itself.
  
• MZ-23 Judy and derivatives. (Alternatively known as the Bahamode or Pokémech)
  
• MZ-105 custom series. (Flexible production technology demonstrator. Only built)
  
  

• Standard working crew consists of 48 catgirls and more than 500 Exocomps of all sizes
  
• The last parts of the factory were the Eezo creation particle beam system and a factory for holographic circuits.
  
• During the final construction phase of the Exelion nearly 130 catgirls temporarily worked in the factory.
  
• The factory has a dedicated Interwave node connected with Jenga
  

...over how many people will post some expression of envy as a response to this:
Tonight, Peggy and I saw, essentially, MST3K live, on-stage, at McCarter Theatre in Princeton.  Joel, Trace, Frank, Mary Jo Pehl (and a substitute for J. Elvis Weinstein, who couldn't be there that night) went to town on a film called The Astral Factor.  For those who don't know, they comprise Cinematic Titanic, basically MST3K's offpsring, and they both release stuff on DVD and tour live.  They made it clear they would be back next year, and we had such a great time that we will be, too.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

From a full-page advert printed in the Daily Prophet:

Quote:An open letter to the self-styled Lord Voldemort

A few days ago, we faced each other once more in the ongoing disagreement over the state and future of the so-called Wizarding World, and a prophecy concerning the two of us. As I have decided to make every effort to avoid becoming like a certain secret hoarding old man of our mutual acquaintance, I share this now freely:

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches ... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies ... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not ... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can die while the other survives ... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies ..."

I find that the idea of living forever greatly appeals to me.

Therefore, I propose the following agreement between us: That I shall relocate to the southern hemisphere, and we two shall avoid each other for the remainder of our mutually unlimited days. To insure the sanctity of such an agreement, I offer that each swaer to the other the following oath:

Firstly, that not you, nor your sworn followers, nor any who act on your behest or behalf, shall attack myself, or my sworn followers, or those who act on my behest or behalf, save that they have made invasion of your hemisphere of influence.

Secondly, that all those within your hemisphere of influence who are found to be of disagreeable blood status or ideology shall be allowed free passage to my own, with whatever of their goods and chattel as may be rendered portable within a period of reasonable notice not less than seven days and not more than one lunar month.

Thirdly, not you, nor your sworn followers, nor any who act on your behest or behalf shall endeavor to make mischief on the inhabitants of my hemisphere of influence or beset them with disaster or make the land or the water or the sky unpleasant in which to live and go about their affairs.

If you are agreeable to such an oath, your usual methods should suffice to arrange a more private discourse by which to decide a time and place that it may be sworn in mutual safety and convenience.

Most sincerely,
Harry James Potter, Boy-Who's-Had-His-Fill

The much anticipated sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender has begun and it's awesome. Set 70 years in the future from the first series' finale, it follows the adventures of Korra, the headstrong and ripped as hell Avatar as she begins fulfilling her destiny.

Oh yeah, the city she's in is a hodgepodge of 1920's New York, Shanghai, and Vancouver with cars and zepplins and triads.

During a psuedo-Marxist revolution.

Also Polarbear Dogs.

And episode recaps are done in sepia toned news reel style.

And there's this.



The first three episodes (third one came out his morning) are all on Nick.com in their entirety.

Watch this show. It's already looking to be better than its predecessor.
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Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"