(Before I forget about this again... I've mentioned a few times that Noah's waiting on Rockhounds to deliver a mined-out asteroid to Stellvia. Also, Fenian was wondering what Noah was going to do with two of the Jason's rosebushes. One bush is going into Noah's office, but the other... Well, read for yourselves, and please point out any obvious gaffes.)

====== Wonderland ======

Formerly known as [[gazetteer:companies:Rockhounds]' Space Rock #11, **Wonderland** is the single largest post-[[gazetteer:government:great_justice|OGJ] source of produce for station //[[ships:Stellvia]//.

===== History =====

"Earth is the only place you can get vegetables." - Alice (Arisa) Glennorth, //Uchuu no Stellvia//

As much as Noah Scott likes that particular anime, this one line from it always bothered him. Why not grow vegetables in space? He quickly found out how impractical it was to grow more than a token amount of food crops in the disused nooks and crannies on his station, but he never completely abandoned the idea.

Finally, in October 2013, [[gazetteer:companiestellvia_corporation#stellvia_trading|Stellvia Trading] took possession of Rockhounds' Space Rock #11. It was fully mined-out, with a maze of twisty little passages (all alike) throughout its body - ideal for widening and turning into huge caverns. His staff have enlarged the various chambers to the point that there are over two hundred acres of land available for cultivation, and handwaved the chambers so that they'd have earth-normal gravity and day-night cycles. Stellvia Trading also purchased topsoil from 'Daneside developers who were turning farmland into suburbs, and used it to turn the asteroid's barren rock into farmland.

In recognition of needing to go down "rabbit holes" to get to the farms and in honour of Alice, Noah re-named the asteroid //Wonderland// when he officially opened it on January 1, 2013.

===== What's Down the Rabbit-Hole? =====

Wonderland's largest chambers are usually devoted to grasses and similar plants; wheat, barley, quinoa, amaranth, rye, and maize are all in the collection to a greater or lesser degree. Smaller chambers hold beans, berries, edible flowers, and other vegetables - especially potatoes, tomatoes, cocoa beans, sugar beets, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and roses. (Although the large chambers sometimes grow beans and the smaller ones sometimes grow grasses; Mr. Freedman knows the importance of crop rotation.) And there's clover and beehives in all the farm chambers.

The smallest chambers are for long-term seed storage, short-term harvested food storage, dedicated agricultural experiments, compost and related storage (Wonderland takes most of //Stellvia//'s organic wastes for fertilizer), and residences.

Chambers with handwaved crops are carefully isolated, with independant life-support systems and no internal access to the rest of Wonderland. One of those carefully-isolated chambers holds a single Soul of the Earth rose bush, one beehive, and a selection of clover, grasses, and ornamental roses. Noah is running an experiment to determine whether, and how quickly, handwavium spreads through pollination from 'waved plants to unwaved plants.

Wonderland's chief agronomist, Jerry Freedman, doesn't believe in using GMOs; he can't bank their seeds and use them the next growing cycle, and the controlled climates of Wonderland don't have any unwanted pests. Some of the staff suggested using "heirloom" breeds of vegetables and berries for their subtly different flavours, so there are a variety of breeds for many of the local plants in the asteroid's seed banks.

The farm does its best to not compete directly with //[[ships:Babylon .5];// since that station is known for growing tropical fruits, Wonderland mostly stays out of that business.

===== Noteworthy Inhabitants =====

**Micheline Rouleau** is Wonderland's chief administrator. Hired away from Air France, she spends her time directing traffic and pushing paper, rarely even visiting the farms.

**Jerry Freedman** is the asteroid's chief agronomist. An old Kentucky boy who was happy to move to space permanently, he puts his agriculture degree to good use, ensuring Wonderland's ecosystems don't go off-kilter.

**Lea Meadows** is Wonderland's chief apiarist. This ex-pat Canadian from southern Ontario keeps the bees happy, and the honey and beeswax supply flowing from Wonderland to //Stellvia.// She's obviously biomodded, with short antenna that pick up subtle changes in wind direction and air pressure (and make it impossible for her to wear a mass-produced spacesuit).

**Sergy Gudanov** is the facility's doctor. He makes his services available to the other L5 habitats when he isn't needed on Wonderland. Born and raised in Moscow, Dr. Gudanov didn't realize the folly of putting a half-acre (the entirety of one of the isolated chambers) of [[gazetteer:handwavium:handwavium_and_medical_technology|Blood Oranges] under cultivation; he's now happy to give them away, making Wonderland the largest supplier of Blood Oranges outside of the Jason himself after Operation Great Justice.
--
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

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Quote:The Runspeed cap is already extremely close to the tolerance of what the server can handle.

With the coming of i13, and dual builds, I thought I'd make my lvl 50 into a PvE/PvP toon. One build the concept build, the other for the PvP zones and the arena. As some of you may or may not know, my main lvl 50 toon is a Kat/SR scrapper. Goes by the name of Jelidan, and been seen to interact with some of the Legendary on occassion.
Concept wise, as it stands now, she is a sword fighter... a very fast moving sword fighter - with a 'spirit in the blade' type sword. What good is a sword fighter that can't get out the way of her own blade? She is use to moving faster then normal and dodging attacks, but the skills are actually from the blade itself. She sees the world slightly differently then others, due to the whispering of the blade, and vast amounts of knowledge, but that is merely dependent on when and if her blade chooses to tell her about something that is knows. (Like it knows that there is something weird about Wy'tin when they first crossed paths, but only told Jelidan to be careful) Yes, Jelidan can see Alistair, on occasion, again due to the blade's influence. Jelidan also has the innate ability to be moving so fast standing still to partly phase out of sync with this dimension and appear transparent. Yes, her name is a corruption of Jedi, she's grown much, much more from her original concept.
Budget constraints: well currently I only have 60 mil, but for all intents and purposes there are none. This build as literally cost me over 100 mil. Price is no object. I'll get the money eventually, and know how to work the market.
Now that I've yabbered on, onto the actual build itself.
When I did this, my original plan for Jelidan, I was under the impression that as you exemplared down, you lost the set bonuses from IOs, even if you had access to the IOs. For example if you 6 slotted Brawl and put a full set of lvl 40 Touch of Death in it, I though you would loose the bonuses if you exemplared below level 40. I would really, really like proof that this is not the case, that the level of the IO set does not matter for the Set bonuses to be applied.
Anyway, Terrance says this isn't the case. So one his word it looks like I'm wrong.
With all of the above in mind, here is the build that got me to lvl 50 without a respec. (ok so I switched to generics IOs when IOs came along, and then to sets, but no respec has been used)
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.4006
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Jelidan - Sets: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Katana
Secondary Power Set: Super Reflexes
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Medicine
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Sting of the Wasp

• (A) Touch of Death - Chance of Damage(Negative): Level 25
  
• (3) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage: Level 28
  
• (5) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance: Level 28
  
• (9) Touch of Death - Damage/Recharge: Level 28
  
• (11) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 28
  
• (15) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 28
  

• (A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance: Level 33
  
• (7) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge: Level 33
  
• (17) Red Fortune - Endurance/Recharge: Level 33
  
• (29) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge: Level 33
  
• (43) Red Fortune - Defense: Level 33
  
• (45) Red Fortune - Endurance: Level 33
  

• (A) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage: Level 28
  
• (3) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance: Level 28
  
• (5) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge: Level 28
  
• (9) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 28
  
• (11) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 28
  
• (15) Scirocco's Dervish - Chance of Damage(Lethal): Level 25
  

• (A) Red Fortune - Defense: Level 33
  
• (7) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge: Level 33
  
• (17) Red Fortune - Endurance/Recharge: Level 33
  
• (29) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge: Level 33
  
• (43) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance: Level 32
  
• (45) Red Fortune - Endurance: Level 33
  

• (A) Run Speed IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance: Level 28
  
• (37) Gift of the Ancients - Defense: Level 28
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
  
• (13) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 40
  
• (13) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 30
  

• (A) Celerity - +Stealth: Level 50
  

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery: Level 50
  
• (46) Miracle - +Recovery: Level 40
  
• (46) Miracle - Heal: Level 40
  

• (A) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage: Level 28
  
• (19) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance: Level 28
  
• (19) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge: Level 28
  
• (23) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 28
  
• (23) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 28
  
• (25) Scirocco's Dervish - Chance of Damage(Lethal): Level 25
  

• (A) Endurance Modification IO: Level 30
  
• (21) Endurance Modification IO: Level 30
  
• (21) Endurance Modification IO: Level 30
  

• (A) Run Speed IO: Level 50
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 30
  
• (25) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 30
  
• (27) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 30
  

• (A) Touch of Death - Chance of Damage(Negative): Level 25
  
• (27) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage: Level 28
  
• (31) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance: Level 28
  
• (31) Touch of Death - Damage/Recharge: Level 28
  
• (31) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 28
  
• (40) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 28
  

• (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal: Level 30
  
• (37) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge: Level 30
  

• (A) Healing IO: Level 50
  
• (34) Interrupt Reduction IO: Level 50
  
• (37) Interrupt Reduction IO: Level 50
  

• (A) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage: Level 33
  
• (33) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance: Level 33
  
• (33) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge: Level 33
  
• (33) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 33
  
• (34) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 33
  
• (34) Scirocco's Dervish - Chance of Damage(Lethal): Level 33
  

• (A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance: Level 38
  
• (36) Red Fortune - Defense: Level 38
  
• (36) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge: Level 38
  
• (36) Red Fortune - Endurance/Recharge: Level 38
  
• (45) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge: Level 38
  

• (A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance: Level 39
  
• (39) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge: Level 39
  
• (39) Red Fortune - Endurance/Recharge: Level 39
  
• (39) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge: Level 39
  
• (40) Red Fortune - Defense: Level 39
  
• (40) Red Fortune - Endurance: Level 39
  

• (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up: Level 41
  
• (42) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance: Level 44
  
• (42) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance: Level 44
  
• (42) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge: Level 44
  
• (43) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff: Level 44
  
• (46) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance: Level 44
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
  
• (48) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
  
• (48) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
  

• (A) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50
  
• (48) Hecatomb - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
  
• (50) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 50
  
• (50) Hecatomb - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
  
• (50) Hecatomb - Damage: Level 50
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• 15.5% DamageBuff(Smashing)
  
• 15.5% DamageBuff(Lethal)
  
• 15.5% DamageBuff(Fire)
  
• 15.5% DamageBuff(Cold)
  
• 15.5% DamageBuff(Energy)
  
• 15.5% DamageBuff(Negative)
  
• 15.5% DamageBuff(Toxic)
  
• 15.5% DamageBuff(Psionic)
  
• 9.38% Defense(Psionic)
  
• 8.75% Defense(Melee)
  
• 10% Defense(Ranged)
  
• 11.9% Defense(AoE)
  
• 30% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
  
• 42% Enhancement(Accuracy)
  
• 5% FlySpeed
  
• 65.3 HP (4.87%) HitPoints
  
• 5% JumpHeight
  
• 5% JumpSpeed
  
• MezResist(Held) 5.5%
  
• MezResist(Immobilize) 14.3%
  
• MezResist(Terrorized) 2.2%
  
• 11% (0.18 End/sec) Recovery
  
• 30% (1.68 HP/sec) Regeneration
  
• 7.56% Resistance(Fire)
  
• 7.56% Resistance(Cold)
  
• 9.38% Resistance(Negative)
  
• 5% RunSpeed
  

• Late blooming,
  
• High end
  

• PvP build aka high def the better,
  

• Effectively none, as toon is being rebuilt.
  

Ankhani:-

Well, as I promised, here's some ideas for possible costume designs for Aritisa. At least that's how I think you spell her name.
I'm not actually sure.

If I understand correctly, she only has, what, one costume design currently? \o_O/ This must be rectified! Okay, I wish also my brain were
more in gear, but, this is just random rumination. Pictures thumbnailed and linked for size, yo.

Legacy Chain-inspired Mage



Alright. I'm REALLY not sure about the colour scheme here, but this is a combination of elements I've been toying with. You can use
the Jewel and Ring chest details on a robe, y'see. I don't see that being done very often. With the right shoulder pads, you totally get a sort of
Legacy Chain effect, yeah? You could probably also put a Full Mantle cape on this to increase the stuff on the upper torso. Again, colour probably highly
variable here, I don't actually like the black and gold that much...but I figured something metallic is a good idea.

Another concept here is making the trim of the main robe body the same colour as the primary, so it looks less overtly Asian in appearance,
yeah? More seamless and one-piece. The last conceit is using a pencil skirt with the dagger pattern for the bottoms, which further extends the robe
look.

Figure this isn't a bad way to do a 'mage' sorta outfit.

Techno Fury



I've been kinda fascinated with how the camo stripe pattern melds with the swirl chest detail, and how THAT all goes pretty well with
cyborg gloves. I don't see camo stripe and swirl chest detail used very often, also.

The face piece here is a cyborg 2 detail with elf ears coloured gold - that also creates a rather different look, I think, seems like
it's one continuous piece of gold metal from a distance.

Black and White Assassin



This one a few of you might recognise. I've been messing with this black/white jacket look for some time now. This costume is an obvious
cousin of Battery Acid's disco look, and to a lesser degree Space Mage's party dress, but developed in a totally different direction.

I really like this version. I like the idea of using the Desire pattern under the vest to...totally change how the vest jacket looks, really. High heeled boots
also complete it. The belt is sorta variable. The costume works with a black heavy studded with white studs, or a black heavy leather (the buckles and such
come out white anyway). This is the jewel version, which gives some colour to the costume and adds a focal point. Whether that's good or bad sorta depends;
I think the jewel version would work better if there's also a red eyeglow aura of some kind for visual symmetry. That said, the idea of having uncovered
and piercing eyes over the half-face mask is pretty compelling also.

...

Ari is Ankhani's Elec/Elec Brute, her concept is...I dunno, she's some kind of demon or demigoddess or nether plane thingamijig bound to a physical
vessel in a Thorns ritual gone wrong or somesuch. I think she wanted to evoke the whole Fury feel, if I remember correctly. I'm sure Ankh can elaborate on
it more.
-- Acyl

I cannot decide whether or not it would be a bad thing (ignoring all other considerations) to have a President of the United States who visibly sticks out his tongue whenever he lies.

I mean, sure, we'd know when he was telling us a whopper. But so would other nations...

--Sam

"If you're so evil... EAT THIS KITTEN!"

I kid you not.

-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Here's a little something that occurred to me this morning. It's incomplete, partly because I'd like to see what ideas it spurs in the
collective. Let me know what you all think. Warning: mildly preformatted for the wiki.

Quote:NORTH KANSAS CITY, MO.


 -- 


A North Kansas City couple has been left scratching their heads after they became the victims of a political scam.
Steve
and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their
statement this month -- a $2300 donation to Barack Obama's presidential
campaign. The Larman's say they don't want this to be about their
political affiliation, but they say they're not about to give the Obama
campaign any help from their pocketbook.
They said they notified Chase, their credit card bank, to report the fraud.
"(They) 
said that they had seen-they were familiar with this," said Steve
Larman. "It was fraud, they believe through telemarketing but they were
going to be doing some more investigations."
The Larman's don't
want their politics to enter into what is essentially just a fraudulent
charge. But they say that the charge involves the Obama campaign adds
insult to injury for the registered Republicans.
"They (Chase)
kept on asking me 'are you sure you wouldn't have gone to a site in
support of Obama'," said Rachel Larman. "And I repeatedly said 'Im
voting for McCain - I would not be going to an Obama site'."
Chase
dropped the charge from the Larman's card. The couple is thankful that
they caught the charge on the card, but worried that others may not see
that type of fraud on their own credit cards before it's too late.
"You
always get emails saying be on the lookout," said Rachel. "So I just
wanted to get the word out, that there's someone out there perpetrating
this against people, and to pay attention."
The Obama campaign said they were aware of the Larman's story, but did not have any comment.

I have been dealing with rendering block on the latest issue - more the story than anything else. Today I had an epiphany, which descended from the skies
with the majestic grace of a shovel to the back of the head and a medium sized stomping.

Halloween. Check

Villains. Check

Protagonists... Eva - Check, Jackie - Check, Gil - Check, Alistair - Check (They even have matching costumes.) - Morgan - check.

I needed another.

Halloween.

Candy.

Fae Wree Tale!

And here she is

(Edit - Whoaaah! What happened to Jackie's waist there....)

People with more CoX Fu than I will have to
judge this...

--Sam

"Bad man... hit dog... with STREET!"