woofmcmoose Posted October 24, 2015 Location: H03 - Kaalin Tags: Building, Spaceship, Spying 22 Octobrinali 3815, Mantis Postal Station B08-3 Moose: "Yes, my Domination for Dummies has finally arrived!” “Postie: Can I help you?” Moose: "Parcel for Henry Moose, Staff Number Alpha-six-one-four-two-nine-three-seven-papa-two-eight-fi…” “OK! I got it! Geez, most people just use their ID tags… Here you go, thumb print here.” Moose: “Sweet, now to open the box. Hmm, it does look awful big for a book. I bet there’s lots of useful information in there.” Moose: “Wait, what the?!?” Moose: “It looks like some kind of fancy suit.” “Come with me if you want to live” Moose: “Isn’t that a bit melodramatic? Or are we about to be hit by a meteor or something?” “No you idiot, it’s a threat!” Moose: “Oh…I see…well, pretty stranger or death? Hmmm… I guess I’ll come with you.” “Good choice. But one more thing, call me pretty again and you won’t live.” 22 Octobrinali 3815, OTS Deuterium, undisclosed location “Welcome on board the OTS Deuterium, now take off your clothes!” Moose: “What? Right here? …. “And wait, you’re Octan?... this is like one of Alvin’s fantasies.” “I’m not trying to seduce you. Put on the suit. I wasn’t to check there hasn’t been a mistake. By which I mean there has been a big mistake.” “And no….I’m not Octan, I just borrowed one of their ships for a little trip we are about to take to examine their progress on Kaalin.” Moose: “Wait, so I’m a spy?” “No Moose, you are not a spy. You do however, due to an administrative error, own a spy suit.” Moose: “Which makes me a spy?” “Gaaah! Look, these things are extremely expensive as they are custom fitted and contain persuadomatic technology. So either you will become a useful spy, or your contract will be terminated and you will enjoy life in the MANTIS forced labour division.” Moose: “We don’t have a forced labour division!” “No we don’t, just like we don’t have a special operations command or spy corps.” Moose: “Oh. Well I guess I could get used to the life of a spy….” Moose: “Fancy bars….” Moose: “Frogma Martini, blended not fried…” “No….” Moose: “Martial Arts….” Moose: “Excuse me Mr Octan business guy, I believe that’s my briefcase. Hi-ya!” Octan Business Guy: “ahhhh!” “No….” Moose: “Witty puns…” Moose: “You’re barred!” “No….” Moose: “Hot women….” Moose: “...Moose, Henry Moose.” Hot girl who looks suspiciously like Katya: “Oh, Henry!” …swooooon… “NO! That’s not what being a spy is about!” “We are going to jump to Anomaly H03, fly casually toward Kaalin and deliver some cargo to the experimental Prometheus Class Orbital Power Station that Octan have built in orbit.” Moose: “That sounds a lot like my normal job of being a pilot…are you sure this is spying?” “Yes! According to the Hitchhikers guide to Andromeda, spying includes ‘gathering information about another faction’ which is exactly what we are going to be doing. If it wasn’t spying we couldn’t even get to Kaalin, especially if we forgot our spy suits!” 25 Octobrinali 3015, Kaalin geostationary orbit “There she is!” Moose: “Wow, that thing is huge. Sensor suite is online and logging.” Computer analysis: The OPS Prometheus is significantly larger than expected. The solar arrays total 2km in width. The majority of the structure appears to contain the power conversion and transmission equipment. The habitat dome on top is shielded from the sunlight keeping internal temperatures close to those of the tropics of Farmolis. There are two smaller domes which appear to contain hydroponic farms. Switching systems for the power beam appear to be located within the primary radiator array. “Excellent. Now let’s get closer; approach just like I briefed and, whatever you do, don’t get between the station and the planet as the microwave link will fry us instantly.” Octan ATC: “Shuttle approaching O.P.S. Prometheus what is your cargo and destination.” Moose: “Prometheus, OTS Deuterium, we are carrying parts and technical crew for the forest moon.” “You idiot!” Octan ATC: “Deuterium, say again? Did you say forest moon?” Moose: “Negative Prometheus; Cargo is parts, a droid technical crew and four mushrooms.” Octan ATC: “Deuterium, you are cleared to approach, we could use those mushrooms, the cafeteria Bolognese has been pretty bland of late. Proceed on approach route Alpha.” Moose: “Wilco, approach via Alpha.” “I can’t believe that worked. Do something like that again and I’ll shoot you myself.” Moose: “Sorry…..” “Now bring us in past the primary radiator array and I’ll get out. You deliver the cargo then pick me up again on the way back.” Moose: “You’re getting out?” “Yes, just fly casual and act like you belong. The droids will handle the cargo so you shouldn't have to talk to anyone long enough to blow our cover.” Where is Moose’s companion going? Will Moose get away, is it all and elaborate Octan trap? Tune in next time to find out! Quite a few builds this week and I simply ran out of time to finish the tale. It was quite fun building in another corporation’s colours for once: Though MANTIS definitely still has the best colour scheme in Andromeda: Except perhaps for the swanky Electric space bar: A shot of the Prometheus and the stand I used to take the photos: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jody Meyer Posted October 24, 2015 Wow, great builds, good story, love the bond feeling to it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EpsilonEta Posted October 24, 2015 (edited) Good looking sceans! I like the bar but think the Mantis post office is best. My media techer told me that THE definition of an action movie is a breaking window or glas table and you nailed that! I would also suggest you treat all your caractars as the nameless woman and not write there names when you have a picture, at least that's my opinion. (myself I replace the "name:" with the image code after writing the story). Good job. Edited October 24, 2015 by EpsilonEta Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goatman461 Posted October 24, 2015 Awesome space station! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vedauwoo Posted October 24, 2015 Great rooms! Awesome space station.... I really like those tubes in the OCTAN walls....Very clever.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mrcp6d Posted October 25, 2015 Nice series of builds! The bar scenes are awesome Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MKJoshA Posted October 25, 2015 Your builds are stunning, but your story is the best! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpacerSteve Posted October 26, 2015 Your build is just plain awesome this week. I love moose's spy fantasies. That octan space station is really cool too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andromedas Gates Posted October 29, 2015 The judges awarded you 5 points. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
