As I waited on the bridge, unseen, I had to intentionally suppress my aura, that feeling that someone was here to help and everything would be ok. Things were
decidedly not going to be ok, that was why I was there, and my mission was merely damage control - saving these already sorely tested souls from having to
shoulder unneccesary guilt.

The moment arrived; as Henry Gloval's eyes widened at the report of enemy ships descending to attack, I whispered two words in his ear. "Collateral
damage."

(more)
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

See BAB's poll/question thread here

While I would miss the massive hunk of stone that Granite is currently.....if they did this and it made Stone Armor NOT "Okay, here's all your armors
till you get Granite, at which point they're useless", I would cheer. Very very much. The current Stone Armor setup makes me cringe every time I look
at my lone Stone tanker. Overlapping armors would be much better, IMO.

Of course, I know that Stone tanks everywhere geared for "Granite-only" would suddenly find themselves potentially inconvenienced, but....
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

See the http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/09/1 ... ces-osaka/]Sankaku Complex story. (It's Sankaku Complex, so no checking at work...)
--
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

I've been doing a bit of research and I've decided that Zeke's Native American background is going to be Sioux. Specifically he'll be of the
Lakota people. He'll be able to speak the Lakota language and have an encyclopedic knowledge of rituals and traditions. His worshiping of Raven rather
than Iktomi can be attributed to his defiant streak. We can say that he thought ravens were cooler than spiders when his Grandfather tried to teach him - this
can make for a fun little tidbit later in the story when we actually meet his Grandpa Bear and he tells embarrassing stories.

Also, Raven, Spider? What difference? They all seem the same to me when I read about them, and aren't they all attributed as shape-shifters anyways?

I know I'm probably a slowpoke getting this listed but...





Enjoy.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

So I'm sorta toying with this as a possible character for when I16 comes out. Picture this costume, but with Stealth or a Stealth IO running all the time for a translucency effect.
Force Fields/Radiation defender, with all powers coloured in blue.

What's the idea? Well, Atlantea and I have always figured...what with the prominent ceiling-mounted computer system with wraparound monitor panels in the Legendary Base...
It'd be pretty cool if the base had, like, an AI majordomo. Picture her, all translucent inside a glowing bubble...floating in the Legendary computer room. Hologram-chan is watching you surf the 'net!
(and download por---er, nevermind.)
Well, no, y'know, like. Having an actual character as the face of the Legendary Base and computer network could be pretty awesome as an RP facilitator and narrative device. We floated this concept some time back, but it never went anywhere. So I'm gonna take a stab at it.
The issue is her name.
Currently I have her rolled under the name Kitbash ...that's a name I've been saving for a while now. It's a good techie sorta name, cute reference and all. Though KIT in this case might stand for 'Kinetic Interface Terminal'.
But is that actually good? If not, any other suggestions?
-- Acyl

Do you know what the difference between a fairy tale and a Fenfic is?

A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time"...

Fenfic, on the other hand invariably start with "No $h*t, There I was..."

Well, no $h*t, there I was, bellied up to the bar in the "Rock Bottom", staring at my drink and trying like HELL to keep from doing what I really
wanted, which was to throw a total screaming, furniture launching destructive as all hell temper tantrum. Which would have only made things worse, seeing as
how I'd just come from the CA's office. Usually Larry is an Okay type, for a surly Belter admin. This time... Well... Lets just say that once AGAIN I
was persona non gratis in Ceres for a while. In fact, I was to catch the next ship going ANYWHERE. As ways to get run out of town on a rail, at least it beats
torches and pitchforks, I guess. The Professor may think they contribute 'atmosphere'... Not me. Not anymore, that's for sure.

That is when the hand on my shoulder drug me out of the festering pit of my self loathing. Not off the bar stool, which at least meant I wouldn't be adding
physical anguish to match my mental state. Or, at least not immediately, anyway. My eyes tracked up from the promised amber numbness of my drink, to the mirror
you seem to find behind the bar in every drinking establishment out here... Well, every place except Callahan's, anyway. And kept tracking up...

"Hello, Rocco. Last I knew I was square with the Don until the end of the week..."

"You are. The Don, he's in town and requests your company for lunch."

"Wonderful. Peachy, bordering on Kean even." No good can come of this, of course, but whatever does at least wont be physically painful. Swallowing
the last shot of Bushmills I can expect for who knows how long, I lever myself up off the stool before Rocco feels the need to 'help' me lest I
disrespect Don Anthony by keeping him waiting. "Lead on, McDuff, and cursed be he who first calls: Hold, Enough!"

""Blah. What is it with you and those Ren-Fen, Murphy?"

Well, the first to cry hold enough turned out, surprise surprise, to be me; just as soon as I caught sight of where it was the Don had chosen to dine.

"Oh no. NO! Not there, Rocco, please, not there..."

"Yes, there, Murph. I thought you liked Tony's?"

"Its not that... Tony ping'd me. You WANT me to disrespect the Don by winding up in a fight?"

"You wanna disrepect the Don by NOT accepting his invitation?"

Hobson's choice then; nothing for it but to hide the fact that my stomach was retreating sunward at 0.99999~ c. If that wasnt bad enough, another
realization crested over me, causing my heart to do a Limit Break. "Rocco, what did the Don order?"

"He hadn't when I left, Murph; but there is only one thing Tony's is really known for."

Oh carp.

You haven't heard of Tony's? Well, I assume that's going to change as word gets out. Well, its like this. Tony is DisFen; so when he setup his
place on Ceres he'd already had his heart set on the decor. You walk in, and its like stepping in to one of the Mousetro's Animated features. I
don't really have to spell out which one, do I? I do? Well, the inside is painted with frescos to look like its OUTSIDE, in a pleasant little Americana
town of around the 1800's , complete with a red and white striped awning to complete the illusion of a sidewalk café. Tony also has a pair of dogs, a
Wirehaired Terrier and a Cocker Spaniel; no one knows if they're real or not, and Tony isn't saying. Get it yet? Ah, good I see that you do. Yeah, I
know they weren't Tony's dogs in the source, but if it doesn't bother him I guess it shouldn't bother us.

Don Antonio was seated at Tony's best table. Eating Spaghetti. He also still looked just like himself, which meant... Nothing, to be honest. For all the
visible extreme Biomods out there, its a sure bet there are at least a half dozen that only their doctor knows for sure. On second look, the spaghetti also
LOOKED perfectly normal. Whew. I guess Tony got himself a replacement pasta maker then. Not like he's going to forgive me any time soon, he LOVED the old
one. Said it had character to it when he brought it to me for a clean and adjust. I suppose now you could say it has CHARACTER in all uppercase now. And its
all my fault, of course. Like just about everyone in 'space I tend to keep a bit of 'wavium on hand, for the occasional time when someone comes in and
needs something waved. Normally I just trade em for it, because it doesn't like me all that much, but sometimes someone wants something simple, like
lubricating their pistol with a bit of black to space-proof it, and that not usually even I can screw up. I didn't think much about that at the time,
because Tony didn't want the pasta maker waved, he just wanted it cleaned up and adjusted. It was late, I was tired, but Tony needed it back the next day.
Well, lets put it like this. I fell asleep, and was woken up by emergency services overriding the door and the entire compartment filled with robin egg blue
pasta. 'WAVED robin egg blue pasta... The damn stuff even got into the air system. Which lead to Larry giving me the ol heave ho. Again.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

There's a whole lot of copycats:

Let's start with a "Morning Musume" video.



And now the Monkees:

more of these out there.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

does anyone have any really cool fics that you like to talk to other about and get them to read.

i have seen bad beng talked about and stuff, how about good things now.....

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/402752/cko2

i will have to talk about my 300 moons fic that came about from a reveiw of someone elses stuff on the fan fic mailing list.....

someone commented on a 300/ sailor moon story....i sorta ran with it...not quite how you think....

My desktop is a 5 year old Dell Dimension 8400, Has run XP since the day I got it, and about three years ago I added a second internal HD to expand its memory.

Recently, its been having trouble finding that second HD. For no particular reason that I can tell, during operations, the HD will vanish from the system, and
I will have to reboot (sometimes several times), to find it again. Once, this happened with my primary HD, but was solved after a friend looked at it. (Just
looked. Didn't mess with the insides at all.)

I've already dug around inside and tried my best to tighten up the connectors in there, but its still recurring.

Any help would be appreciated immensely. I don't have the funding currently to even think about buying/building a new desktop machine, and I have separate
problems with my laptop.