Beyond Alpha Centauri: Discussion Thread

[Sprayber]

I was just wondering. But one thing you have to keep in mind is that this Cyan character represents a threat to the Spartans as well. Everyone will find out why she was put into cryo sleep in the first place. It won't be easy for Kessel to make this decision. Cause in a way, the Spartans are a little afraid of her too.

[Alynzia]

Firstly, I agree with kass, the laser as a mighty weapon is a bit lame really. It's just a stream of photons which would be easy to deflect. Ooh, photons, I'm so scared... (well maybe I'm scared of gamma rays and x rays but not your average photon.)

I am sorry my post was a bit out of context with the rest. Just to clear it up, a significant number of Gaians and Peacekeepers do not live in each other's territory, except they share a planetary base on Chiron. The Gaians are peaceful people and would never advocate war with the Spartans unless their ally/allies were attacked. I mean, SPARTANS ... gaians ... Except a ground occupation of our living worlds would be impossible for troops because of the organic defences, i.e. genetic engineering of things like mindworms. We are also working on semi organic psi ships, but that is a long way off. You didn't hear any of that from me, BTW.

I am glad you liked my post frankychan. The Gaians are very much guests in your territory. The University have no holdings on New Lanark. They do have a shared station elsewhere in Gaian space. The reason there are University trained people on New Lanark, is that the Gaian science minister is half University if that makes sense (born in New Cosmograd Ciy, University homeworld) and is a University sympathiser. I should post some minister biographies... I can't believe no one liked their scary pics... those are real people I know dammit.

Alynzia.

[Sprayber]

I liked your post Alynzia and you are right to say that the Spartans have no interest in attacking the Gaians. What the Spartans are interested in, is finding the Hive homeworld. So Spartan probe teams will be sticking their noses around to find out if anyone may know where it is. If that means sending teams to Chiron or where ever than that is what the Spartans will do. Of course that will be in concert with ships searching as well. After all these years, Spartans still don't like mindworms.



Keep up the good work everyone.

[Sprayber]

another question


Would a picture thread add too much clutter to the forum and make it harder to find things? I hate to add pictures to the story thread. or should we kind of take it easy on the picts.

[History Guy]

Um, I know that this is my 3rd post and all...

But hey! It's going well. 'Nother good post from Sprayber today. It appears that Mr. President, Franky, and Cybergod are close to doing their first posts. I can't say when DarkCloud and Lord MP shall have time to jump in.

As for Empaths, they are an interesting idea, definently. I'm not too sure about Cyan though...of course I'm kinda biased since I didn't like the picture.

Finally, as for pictures, I still can't manage to do it myself. I'm not too good with the computer, so it takes me forever to figure out these things. And so my word about Picture Pages doesn't mean much. It helps to spruce up the story, of course, but it also takes forever for everything to come in when ones has pictures in their post.

[Sprayber]

Yeah. I was thinking the same thing about the pictures. I don't want to clutter things up just for the sake of adding pictures. They are ok when used here and there but not in the thread itself.

[Kassiopeia]

She reports that the Terran Alliance will take no official political position in the InEn-Morganite affair, and wishes to remain neutral.

The official story. We all do, however, know how reliable these "official" stories are. Good guess, History Guy - Elise Drecaille is single (Why did I not add marital status to my bios?)

I'll do a post soon. Time of posting is another thing.

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The idea of humans gaining parapsychologic empathic abilities sounds feasible. After all, it's practically what we do everyday when meeting people - only with such rude tools as gestures and words.

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Originally posted by Sprayber
You and Kass are the pickiest two posters I swear.

- Good grief, I almost broke a rib when reading that (my own rib, naturally, by falling from my chair). Beware, it's contagious.

Sounds like signature material to me. Can I modify it to:
"Kass is one of the most pickiest posters I have ever seen." -- Sprayber

Please?

But when reading the physics or chemistry threads that occasionally surface at the gutter known as Off Topic, I feel kind of sloppy.

Though what LordLMP posted was not too picky IMO. Then again, my opinion might be biased.

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Yeah. I was thinking the same thing about the pictures. I don't want to clutter things up just for the sake of adding pictures. They are ok when used here and there but not in the thread itself.

I also would prefer that the story thread had a clean, sleek text-only appearance.

[History Guy]

The official story. We all do, however, know how reliable these "official" stories are.

Hey! It's time like these when I wish I could use these Planet Busters I have tucked away over here.

Luckily, Kassiopeia, I have the Spartans as allies. So Mr. Tremaine and Miss Drecaille had better keep out, a ha ha ha.

[Frankychan]

my mofo post

ok, there it is...

Please excuse me if sounds kind of weird. Its my first fiction post.......ever. I've been reading the other authors and examining their writing style. I'm trying to have my own writing style and if its not working, I apologize. I just didn't want to imitate anyone else's style.

[History Guy]

Hey! Good post Franky (same to Monsieur President).

[History Guy]

Kassiopeia:

Would you like to do the "Peace Conference" post, or should I? And if you want me to do it, how should it be done?

[Kassiopeia]

History Guy, you spoof! You are again here simultaniously with me!

I think we need to discuss the Conference post a bit. Arrr... I would want an option to post it aswell, or about the afterwake of the conference for the very least.

InEn side:

First of all, the frigates approache the Morgan convoy, and say that they are to "escort" it to Moon. Morganites comply, and convoy lands on Moon.
Then, Morganites come out, and waltz (or whatever) to some Conference Room at the InEn Moonbase Delta-Seven. They talk about the general stuff, what happened, apologies from them. But InEn seems rather annoyed and not happy, consider them as intruders at the entire system.
When the Morganites start to say: "Because you started it anyway", InEn starts to have it. They start fighting, first verbally. Then the InEn tells Morganites to piss off, which they do. When entering their ship's airlock, some InEn (this remains unconfirmed lately, maybe someone other is making things bad) chaps draw out guns and go point-blank at the Morganites. The Morganites, outnumbered, withdraw to their ship and narrowly escape InEn ships.
Or, they are destroyed by the InEn ships. (That part I could do myself, so that you would write until the Morgans decide to leave, and I then carry on from there. Split the work?)
What do you say?

[History Guy]

Sounds ok to me, Kassiopeia. The Morganite ship won't be destroyed, as Morgan-Reilly and Siddiqui, two main characters are aboard, but it shall be a very near thing. We Morganites will, of course, react immediately.

[Cybergod]

Since I see that you lot are preparing for a big war, I have decided to send my diplomatic ship, delivering the new magistrate to Titan and Rhea now, before the situation become more complicated . Hope you like it. I may not have writed as much as frankychan before me ( ), but I hope 'all like it...

Best regards,

Nicholas Popullos
Titan and Rhea Colony Magistrate

[Kassiopeia]

Cybergod: Perfect! Nice to have other Terrans around

Originally posted by History Guy
Sounds ok to me, Kassiopeia. The Morganite ship won't be destroyed, as Morgan-Reilly and Siddiqui, two main characters are aboard, but it shall be a very near thing. We Morganites will, of course, react immediately.

OK. You can post now. I hope that we proceed as I suggested - You write the negotiations and the fact that they leave the conference room. And I will carry on from there. The Morganite ship will not be destroyed. Crippled, but it makes it to FTL speed before it is completely annihilated. InEn pursues, but to no avail (inferior FTL drives, and firing at FTL speed is considered dangerous, at least on Sol).
So, go ahead on my behalf.