Turns of ADB002 (Aldebaran MP)

[Arima]

2306 to JohnD

"...And we shall call it Mount Smack", Sarita proudly exclaimed, "after the great Peacemaker leader Commissioner Smack from the Chiron era. It is fitting this dormant volcano is named for one of the great leaders for the Peacemaker era, and without his guidance, I feel that we wouldn't be here."

-Lady Sarita Kakani
The Founding of Neo-Pacificism

[johndmuller]

(I like having the turn order handy)

Syndicate: Scipio
Planetlovers: Qantaga
Syndicate: Arima
Nauticon: JohnD
Outlaws: Smack
Universality: AI
Galactics: AI

(not sure about the order of the AIs)

Turn 2306 to Smack/Outlaws

[Avenoct]

And the Gods looked upon their creation and dubbed it Aldebaran and it was good.... But the God named Bob had been hasty and named everything according to famous people in some imagined world called Apolyton. In fact, Bob wasn't a God at all, but a temp worker from Omaha who really couldn't care less. Bob had been pious in his worldbuilding and hence was hired to carry out all the little details that supreme beings just can't be bothered with, like taxes, and vegetables, and Placenames....

Still, it would be good if you emailed the turn...

-S-

[johndmuller]

Turn resent.

Let me know when you have enough copies.

[Avenoct]

Turn to Scipio this morning..ah, thanks, that's enough copies

[Scipio Centaurus]

2307 to Qantaga

[johndmuller]

Turn 2307 to Smack/Outlaws

"Row, Row, Row your Boat,
Strongly Down the Stream;
Angrilly, Angrily, Angrily, Angrily,
Life is such as Scream."

-------Chief Engineer Ivrille da Ferra
"Songs from the Blue Seas, as our Fathers taught us"

[Avenoct]

Turn to the Syndicate

[Scipio Centaurus]

Return of serve back to the Outlaws. Came up as Outlaws turn

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2308 to Qantaga

[Qantaga]

Hi guys,

I sent 2308 on to Arima late last night (Thursday night).

I was stuck working in a very small town this past week, so my internet access during the week was very sporadic. Sorry for any delays.

[Arima]

2308 to JohnD.

[johndmuller]

Turn 2308 to Smack/Outlaws

[Avenoct]

2109 to the Syndicate

[Scipio Centaurus]

Matsumura coveted information more than anything. Like a great bulbuous spider sitting motionless in the center of its web... sensing and interpreting the vibrations coming in along the radial anchor webstrands... hungering... planning... steaming venom dribbling from its mandibles...

SLAP! SLAP! uhhhh... sorry

In a moment of weakness, Matsumura had allowed the colonists to democratically choose the site of Syndication - the second faction base. Naturally, the idiots had decided to colonise near the top of the volcano - face it - they settled inside the cinder cone! The geologists had assured him that the volcano (Yang's Grave) was dormant - but the all too frequent rumblings from deep within the earth... errr... aldebaran, quickly put the lie to that nonsense.

Luckily the higher volcanic slopes supported an abundant supply of the olive-like fruits [vegetables (?)] that possessed those incredible aphrodisiac-like characteristics. In the last few years fully half of the settlement's females of child-bearing age had become pregnant. At least the inhabitants of Pompei... err... Syndication, might launch several colonies before they met their doom.

Those Aldebbie Olives (as they had come to be known) could be pickled in a brine solution just like their counterparts from Earth - for extended storage. Children seemed to love them too - especially on bread covered with that synthetic peanut spread that the Hive had acquired in bulk from Morgan during the years prior to their departure from Chiron. Matsumura, felt the bile rising in his throat at the thought.

Already a thriving market had sprung to life between Daimyo Hub and Syndication, with Syndication trading Aldebbie Olives for Daimyo Hub's prized Witless Rapierfish and seasonal Fingermauler Crab harvested from the sea by Daimyo Hub's experienced fishermen.

Matsumura pondered the future of the Syndicate. The engineers with the State run Limited Liability Naval Construction Group planned to lay down the keel of the first exploratory naval vessel this year. That design - under the State authorized Series 17xx Naval Construction Contract (NCC) - would be known as the Ubiquitous Sea Ship or USS Franchise and as the lead ship of the class, would bear the NCC-1701 series identifier.

Construction was also underway on the canals linking the northern and southern oceans. Matsumura expected a sizeable settlement to grow around that project.

The future looked bright.

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2309 to Qantaga

[johndmuller]

Turn 2309 to Smack/Outlaws

Sometimes the going is tough (that's when the tough ....)