The Mess Tent

[Dis]

I'm trying to resist the temptation to post in markg's ignore thread

We should attack someone. Sure we haven't met up with anyone, but we could verbally attcack them

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
That, or they have nothing like our superior and well-organised system that allows one to get all the important information without actually opening the save.

Props to Googlie, Maniac and others on the team. We set this up well.

[Kassiopeia]

Our ranks are also swelling, welcome Primus Pilius.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Dissident
I'm trying to resist the temptation to post in markg's ignore thread

Should we include an article in the next Phalanx about PlanetMarkGVoice having talked to us?

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Dissident
I'm trying to resist the temptation to post in markg's ignore thread

We should attack someone. Sure we haven't met up with anyone, but we could verbally attcack them

What good boys we all are. I'm really impressed. Must be quite tough.

[Andemagne]

I was weekend away(in a gaming con ) but now I'm back in line.

Originally posted by Maniac
The arrow: Strength. Persistence. Knowing which direction you want to go and effectively going that direction.

The hexagon: Curvy or circle-ly forms would indicate softness and emotionality. The corners and straight lines of for example a hexagon would indicate strictness, discipline and rationality.

It's also a rather plain and simple symbol. No needless extra's, like in the Gaian or Peacekeeper faction icons, that divert you from your goal.

after a another tought, how about Hammer Of Thor? Vikings used miniature hammers as necklases(which looked like a T upside down). this thing came to my mind when watching Command Nexus SP-moovie.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Andemagne
after a another tought, how about Hammer Of Thor? Vikings used miniature hammers as necklases(which looked like a T upside down). this thing came to my mind when watching Command Nexus SP-moovie.

Also a great explanation.
And it'd be cool if every Spartan citizen had a Spartan-icon shaped necklace.

[Googlie]

Hmm - just like we all had in the Spartan Chronicles

Avishnu Testing Range

Anastasia cradled the lifeless body in her arms, and wondered what to do with it. In all her planning this was one that she hadn’t foreseen.

She reached down with her fingers to wipe the blood from his face, and noticed for the first time the pendant that he wore, spilled out from under the hood when she had pulled it off.

She looked at it.

One side had an embedded microchip that she assumed held the bio-details of Allardyce.

The reverse simply had an etched commlink frequency.

On an impulse, she pulled out her commlink and dialed.

“Ossenton here,” came the voice. Anastasia recognized the Sparta Command surgeon’s face.

“Kendra – It’s Anastasia here.”

“Anastasia. How nice. How is Googlie? Does he want to talk to me?”

Anastasia’s self control snapped, and she sobbed into the commlink:

“Oh, Kendra, he’s dead. Cut down with a shredder.”

“Back up, Anastasia. How did he die? You mentioned a shredder. Where was he hit?”

“Through the chest. He was wearing a very light camouflage suit that gave him no protection at all.”

“Anastasia. This is important. Is his head intact?”

“Yes. Why?”

“Anastasia. Where exactly are you right now?”

“Just north of Temple of Sol, in Peacekeeping territory.”

“Anastasia. You’ve got to get him to a Spartan biolab as quickly as possible. I understand from Slats Miller that his commlink alert was picked up earlier and they’ve dispatched a helo for him. Now Anastasia, has he his microchip?”

“You mean this dogtag thing?”

“That’s it. Now reach behind his left ear – there’s a small ridge like a bone spur. Press on it. Done it?”

“Yes, what now?”

“Good. Now peel back the small flap of synthskin, and expose the node receptor, then insert the chip. Remove the cord of the “dogtag” as you call it. It really is a fine filament thread. Insert one end into the exposed chip and the other into the commlink you are holding. This will relay his stasis condition to me.”

“Stasis condition? You mean he’s not dead?”

“Well, clinically he is dead, but like in cryosleep.”

Anastasia inserted the chip and connected the leads.

**************************************************

A continent away Kendra looked at her console as the data scrolled:

…program activating…..numerous integrity breaches detected…..releasing analgesic blockers…….releasing coagulents…….commencing shut down…..disengaging neural synapses…….releasing endomorphines………………..
….override detected……..manual override………………

Stazi, I love you

…….program refresh……continuing shut down……depowering implants…..switching off optical augmentation…..switching off aural augmentation…..compressing memory files……suspending aortal pacemaker…..switching off optic overrides…..closing neural links…..powering down musclature enhancers…..commencing countdown to stasis……releasing pulmonary serratins…..cycling off….stasis commencing…..flatlining……reverting to safe mode…..awaiting activation…………………… ………………………………………..

Kendra sank back. “Good,” she thought. “Salvageable.”

[Maniac]

Ah I didn't know that anymore. Great!

[Googlie]

Recruiting Posters

[Kassiopeia]

Is the birth of our navy classified information, or could we mention that in the Phalanx too? We could add a mention of the Spartan Air Force to throw them furriners off a bit. (Of course we can have an air force, it's just that we won't have any noodles or choppers just yet.)

[Googlie]

Unless we popped the Chopper at the unity crash site

(We can't pop one from a pod until someone discovers SFF - our Department of Misinformation, of course, could surmise that Yang had SFF and that would set the kitten among the pigeons)

[Kassiopeia]

You can get a Unity Chopper from a regular pod? I didn't know that.

But yeah, we could let the others believe that we have the wreckage chopper. Tee hee.

[Zeiter]

That's really good, Googlie. Hopefully that poster will do a better job of promoting than my starship troopers semi-joke recruiting poster.

[Snowflake]

I can't see Maniac's great pictures for the units.