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Location: C10 - Marden. Tags: MANTIS, Science, Vehicle "Log 2.345. I brought Malcolm with med to Marden to improve the rate of terraforming. As annoying as that old bastard might be he is still a good sparring partner when it comes to certain fields." "Have you prepared the beacons properly now you smug insectoid severed membrane of a....." "Yes it's prepared, I sure hope you know what you are doing..." "Just order the satellite to commence the operation and we'll be good to go!" "Yes I've entered the command in now we better move away..." "Initial waves doing impact now, calibrating frequences..." "A bit tricky not to melt the rocky surface to much, we have to secure the main body of water and prevent it from vaporize..." "That's it! It's pooling, it's seems to be working! Now for the critical part..." "Kinetic amplifiers online, spores at the target! Amplifying growth rate..." "Inserting angiosperms to the mix..." "And voila! A terraformed Eco-system to go! Malcom, we did it!"
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Dan is currently traveling as a passenger aboard a MANTIS cargo frigate headed to A06. The ship is empty right now,and without cargo it just looks like a large metal frame. When the cargo is loaded it is put in large, vacuum proof containers which are then magnetically secured to the metal beams that make up the frame of the ship. Heres a close up shot of the command module and the secondary engines. I didn't have much time this week, so this is all that I managed to come up with. C and C are appreciated
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Location: Workshop 01, MSS Titan, In orbit around Marden Tags: Building (Spaceship Interior), Military, Land Vehicle 20 Septembrinali 3815 Moose: "So what have you brought me down here to see?" Thorne: "Some very special designs of my own, that will help me, erm, I mean MANTIS, rule the galaxy." Moose: "But this workshop is for the basic maintenance of basic maintenance and janitorial droids?” Thorne: "Indeed it is. In fact we are currently working on obsolete JanDroid100TM models." Thorne: "Good work Simon!" Moose: "I still don’t get it? Why old droids, and why is he spraying the droid white instead of black and lime?” Thorne: "It’s Octan white of course. Did you not hear about Jurin II? Octan are susceptible to explosive devices hidden inside cleaning apparatus! And since these jumps though Kawashita dominated regions are taking us closer to Octan’s area of operations we need to be ready!" Moose: "Erm…" Thorne: "And here is the finished product, looks like the latest JanDroid300TM, the vacuum even works. We send it into the local Octan resource extraction facility and then, BOOM!" Moose: "Erm…isn’t the dynamite strapped to the back a bit of a giveaway?" Thorne: "Chief Accountant Long wouldn’t approve funding for anything more sophisticated. She called the work ‘pointless’ but I’ll show her! Just wait ‘til she sees the JanDroid500 in action." Moose: "But they don’t make a model 500?" Thorne: "They will when they see my designs! Here, take a look at this holo-disc." Moose: "What the…?" Thorne: "I’ve doubled the size of the design to permit operations over more rugged terrain. On top are twin plasma cannons and it can carry equipment for our ground combat forces. To top it all off it can be controlled through the same neural interface as our aerospace combat drones." Moose: "You want me, to ‘pilot’ this?" Thorne: "Well, only if we don’t have time to train our drivers on the neural interface control system." Moose: "…okay…but…erm…why does it still have the vacuum attachment?" Thorne: "Ah…hmm…for clearing the battlefield of the remains of our enemies of course…?"
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Location: C10 Tags: Science And so it seems that only the purple beans are any use for laser enhancement – the red and green ones Starstriker's been bringing in all week are nowhere near as good. Unfortunately, we’ve only found two plants on the entire planet that produce the purple ones… …and someone destroyed one of them, so this is the only one we have. I see it still hasn’t grown any more beans. No sir. It may be an annual crop. That’s not good enough! Inject some awesomnium serum to speed things up. I’ll be back tomorrow. The next day: What…? Yeah, when we woke up this morning all these new bushes had grown. No sign of beans though sir. Well, it’s a start I guess. I’ll come back tomorrow. The next day: How…? The serum’s definitely accelerated the growth of more plant, but… No beans? No sir, sorry. There better be some tomorrow, or you will be sorry. The next day: What the…?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! --- Thanks for reading! Pics of the lab exterior below because I forgot to work it into the story C&C welcome!
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Location: A08 Tags: None Identifier: Chief Accountant Long Date: 11 Oktobrinali 3915 Location: M.A.N.T.I.S. Fleet, Crentium. Log No: A675A08 Log type: Personal Another evening of paperwork ahead of me. I’m still not caught up on all the extra work generated by Sal’s disappearance in that asteroid… Damn him! I’ve told him so many times that he can’t keep running off all over the place doing science when he’s supposed to be running the company. Or at least… looking like he’s running it. Ugh, I can’t concentrate… all these late nights are taking their toll… maybe I could… rest my eyes… just for a second… zzzzzz… …and I must say Miss Long, with these grades you’ll be able to take your pick of companies. They’re all desperate for brilliant young accountants like yourself. Thanks Professor! Have you had any thoughts about which company you’d like to work for? Oh yes Professor, Explorien Science. You mean Octan Corporation, Miss Long? What?? Of course not! Oh, but… you haven’t heard? I suppose you must have been on your way here when it was announced? When what was announced? Explorien has been bought out by Octan. WHAT?! About time too if you ask me, they’ve been struggling for- I have to go, sorry Professor! But… I wish you’d stay a little longer Abigail. With your mother gone too it’s going to be very lonely here. I know Dad. But I have to go live my life! I can't just end up as some cog in the machine. That's not what I want any more. Not after all that's happened with Mom and... Well, promise you’ll stay in touch, at least. Of course I will. Don’t worry, I won’t be like her. Not ever. Hey sweetheart, what’s a beautiful little thing like you doing in a place like this? Mostly getting hit on by Octan slime like you. Hey now… Is this how you deal with the fact you work for the worst corporation in the galaxy? You drink yourself stupid until you can forget you’re just a drone in a soulless machine, hoping you can sleep with someone who still has a spark of life since yours was drained into the Octan cesspit years ago. Wha…? You don’t… I… Best run off home now drone. Bye bye! Heh heh heh, nicely done. Yeah? You want the same treatment? Easy there. Just wanted to let you know that we’re currently looking for people with your kind of spirit in M.A.N.T.I.S. And if you hate Octan as much you seem to, there’s no better company to work for. I’m listening… Thanks for reading! Something a little different this week. C&C welcome!
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Location: Mynderis - A04 Mission: Detection of pockets of gas and terraforming through establishment of viable ecosystems. "Log 2.3. 0930 hrs. We have landed safely on Mynderis and I'm testing my new creation: the B.E.G.P. ; the Biologically Enhanced Gas-searching Plant. It is modified to withstand extreme temperatures and drought. The enhanced vacoules contains hydrogen and makes the plant light and it can propel itself cushioned on its front mandibles. Testing indicates that it can identify even small pockets of natural gas within a radius of a mile." "Log. 2.4. 11.00 hrs. While the B.E.G.P. is searching for viable sources of gas I have landed the E.T.P. The Ecosystem Transport Platform has been developed to transport delicate ecosystems that due to microbial mutualistic relations can't be isolated in transportation. The platform is designed to work on all terrains and has a defense-system inspired from the terran anthropods: the scorpions. It's is well suited to give MANTIS a foothold on this hostile planet." Note: Short on time and bricks, had to skip the terrain this time but I had fun!
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Tags: Piloting Location: D10 Hamilton's Belt So i'm out testing my newest fighter design in the Hamilton Belt when MHD-72, sorry Sergeant C.R.A.P. as he's become after he rebuilt himself and created a squad of pilots from a Kawashita scrap metal pile, radios me. Captain, you have received an encrypted audio message from the Council. Please return to you secure viewing room on board the flagship. *Sigh* Copy that Sergeant. Is it that urgent? Very funny, Captain. So i head back to the ship and find this message waiting. It's actually from the Council of Five, not the Andromedan Council Against Robot Pilots. They tell me they've appointed an Admiral to lead the fleet. Then, they mention the fact that he's not even a pilot. I'm to meet the "Admiral" Spacer Steve aboard his flagship soon. This calls for celebration. (Not) Weekly build! Thanks for looking!
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***Bridge of the MSS Marauder, somewhere in the Hamilton Belt*** Gosh this patrol mission is boring. I spy with my little eye, something black. Is it the vast, endless, black expanse of space? Yup. Could you get them to send up a bit more coffee? They're all out. This is going to be a long, long day. Not so fast, looks like we've got a bogey coming in on the radar. Looks like the Kawas have sent one of their interceptors over. The gunnery station's got him. He's going down. Poor bloke. So, still no more coffee?
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Tags: Exploration, Science, Vehicle Location: D10 - The Hamilton Belt This week we're being led by the M.C.F. Scythe Exploration ship on a space expedition through The Hamilton Belt. My mission is to accompany a small Science crew to the surface of one large asteroid aboard the Pod Surface Explorer. Due to the unknown hazards I will be aboard the Pod to handle any mechanical issues that may occur to ensure that the mission is a success. We landed on the cluster without incident, but several hours in to the mission one of the landing supports was damaged by a small rock cluster that broke free. I suited up, tethered myself and repaired the damage. Hopefully these scientists get the drilling done soon, I'm ready to get back to the fleet and get some rest. - D
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Location: D10 - the Hamilton Belt Tags: Vehicle, Spaceship Our next stop appears to be The *Hamilton Belt* .....sounds like a real winner...."Computer, what are we here for anyway?" "Oooooh, A challenge!" [[Awesomnium]] appears in Gold on the display, along with a rotating purple rock... "Oh, boy....purple rocks...." "So, our mission, is to find some rocks with purple Awesome bits.....How hard can it be?" Just a bunch of junk here...let's adjust course for that Small rock.... Our craft today is the MANTIS GK-143 GFMS. The "GFMS" stands for "Gravity Free Mech Suit" as it does most of the functions of a normal Mech suit.....but with thrusters instead of legs.... And a mighty "sensor package" up front for sniffing out valuable rocks.... She's got a grappling arm on the port side.... And a light and gun arm on the starboard.... The Real Thrill is the 8-pack of Ghirhil V-77 Ion thrusters......"POWER!!!!!!!!!" ....And, Even though I have to wear a space suit to stay alive....the cockpit is suprisingly comfortable and refined, although the Display on the floor ahead of the foot pedals seems very Citroen-like, like it was designed by a french madman......... Overall, a Very satisfying ride....Very "Swooshable indeed......" Oh......., and we found a rock..... ....and on that note, back to the studio.....
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Location: D10 Tags: Science, Vehicle, Land Vehicle Well, it wasn’t me who forgot to charge the batteries! Yes it was! I specifically remember you saying “I’m going to charge the batteries”. What?! I definitely remember telling you to charge them! You don’t get to tell me to do anything! Ah, so you admit that I did tell you to do it! No, I’m just saying… Will you two please shut up. We're stuck here until they rescue us, so just be quiet. … … … … This is all your fault. Is not. Is too! Shut up! … … … … Well, this whole experiment was a waste of time anyway. We drilled for hours and didn’t find any awesomnium. Might have found some if someone had charged the batteries. Someone like you? When they find us, you two are both walking back. But we’re on an asteroid… Yes. … … Just a quick one this week! Thanks for reading, C&C welcome
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Location: A08 Crentium Tags: Vehicle Land, Building, Research M.A.N.T.I.S. outpost, Crentium. We've found it difficult at best to locate natural resources on this planet. Engineers have been dispatched to build several outposts for resource scouting, drilling and soil testing. I am returning from another trip with unsuccessful results. And of course Caro is lounging as usual. - D
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Open Log #39282.04 I got sent to Crentium without any sort of explanation or chance to file my report on the terror was recorded at the end of my last log. At least I got a new Ship though. //End Log. I had guests this weekend, so I didn't have time for very good photos or a complex story.
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Location: A08 Crentium Tags: MANTIS, land vehicle AG: The Chase Continues by David FNJ, on Flickr Double D's log 15: My plan to chase the Kawashitan commander off the ship worked! I managed to follow him through another gate, and eventually we crash landed in a remote place of startling colors. Each ship had its own X1-P1 Land Speeder, so the chase continued. A few moments ago I shot down the commander's speeder, and now he (hopefully) won't escape again... These X1-P1 Land Speeders are pretty nifty! I think I'll keep it if I can find a MANTIS base on this planet. ~ DD out ----------------------------------------------------------------- Some of you might remember seeing this a few weeks ago on Flickr. When I built this I knew I wouldn't have much time to build for AG week August 30th - September 6th, so I did a bit of building ahead. It was either this weekly build or a Category B entry. I opted to make a weekly build (because domination ).
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Location: A08 - Crentium Tags: Ground Vehicle, Exploration -Explorer SpacerSteve is scouting the surface of Crentium in search of suitable locations for future MANTIS operations. - -There appears to be a large quantity of water below the rocky surface. The water seeps through the cracks seasonally. This location will be suitable for resource mining - -The beacon is in place. I had better recall the recon robot and head back to camp. - - - - - -Connecting to the robot's neural interface. I'll drive us back. - -This rock has different characteristics than the surrounding terrain. I'll take it back to camp. for further study Time for food. Hope they are serving "laser beans" for dinner tonight. - - Some more pics of the build. - - - Thanks for looking C&C is welcome. I'm always trying to build better so suggestions are always welcome.
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Location: A08 Tags: Science, Vehicle, Land Vehicle So all you need to do is head towards any signs of life. Smaller creatures can be collected by the arms and brought aboard for study. If you come any plants or larger creatures, just drive straight into them. The M.A.N.T.I.S. Death RollerTM will cut them up and send the pieces through the scanning bed where they’ll be automatically analysed. And if we come across any Kawas, sir? Well, we had to cut some corners building this thing. It’s entirely possible that the brakes could fail and lead to a ‘tragic’ ‘accident’. Understand? Heh heh heh, yes sir! Sir, I’m picking up a small life form nearby. Excellent, let’s go get it. Got it! Good. Bring it into the containment area. It doesn’t look particularly promising. No. But it’s clearly an infant. Run the life cycle simulator to see what it’ll look like fully grown. Simulating… I don’t think this is what we’re looking for sir. It doesn’t seem to be dangerous at all. But it is giving off an intense low frequency sound wave. Maybe a distress call? Maybe. But I hardly think we need to worry if more show up, they’re clearly harmless. Ah, this is the life, eh Schmidt? No CEO nonsense to worry about, just driving across an alien planet doing science! There’s nothing that can stand in our way! Uh, sir? What? You might want to see this… Damn it! Sir? We’d better stop. Although… Uh, sir? *Sigh* Yes, stop the engines. Sal, what the hell is this monstrosity? It’s my new mobile lab. You authorised it, remember? But you cut the budget in half. That’s why it looks so ugly and doesn’t even have a roof. Roofs are expensive Sal. Anyway, what are you doing with it? We’re looking for dangerous creatures we can harness to drive Kawashita off the planet. And the reason you have to be here is, what, precisely? Uh… Damn it Sal! You’re CEO now, you can’t keep wandering off all over the place. Especially not to planets we don’t even control! Oh, but it’s fine for you to come here chasing after me?? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! --- Thanks for reading! Apologies for the picture quality, I'm still wrapping my head around a new camera and lighting setup. C&C welcome, and there are some more pics in the spoiler.
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Location: A08 - Crentium Tags: Spaceship, Military Aboard the MSS Titan inbound from Anomaly A08 to Crentium. Henry Moose Personal Log ...so the intel was all wrong; the unknown menace didn't hit Terrial Minor at all, all those jumps for nothing! Rumour is that the aliens showed up in Kawashita space. Command moved the whole fleet back to Torresta for maintenance and replenishment, though some elements have been sent straight back out again; Lucky us! The Titan is inbound for Crentium, the plan is to skirt Kawashita space and see if we can triangulate the location of the Alien fleet. Whilst the titan can do the job by herself we've picked up an Aquarius Class transport and a Stinger Class Battlecruiser at Mynderis on the way. After all we might as well pick up some resources and cause some mayhem whilst we're here! I've no idea when we picked up the light Cargo Ship; those guys are not particularly talkative. I'm guessing must be Spec Ops here to have some fun too. End Log. OOC and lots of pics below:
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MANTIS invasion forces launch a full on assault against Kawashita forces. The Kawashitan soldiers fight bravely despite being outnumbered and outgunned, but it is only a matter of time before they are overrun. The MANTIS forces utilize many new weapons developed by a certain engineer, including robots... next generation tanks ( armed with a variety of weapons including a super charged MANTIS Death RayTM) and a new atmospheric fighter known as the Bug( piloted by Dan) Extra pics: The bug-side view The tank- hidden weapons C & C appreciated.
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Note: This post continues directly from here. Well, it all makes sense now. You were a pilot, then you fell in love. I've heard this story a thousand times. Well, maybe not exactly like this... You see, it wasn't Sue I feel in love with. The Squadron Leader then? I've heard that one before too. Nope. So it was the guy, Rex? Yup. And? And what..? Is that supposed to be the interesting part? It's 3815 AD friend, and that would barely have counted as interesting in 2015. Let me finish! It was against the rules for any squad mates to be romantically involved, obviously, so we had to meet in the power core of our carrier ship, where there was way too much interference for any cameras to work. It was all going fine until one time I brought up the subject of our future together. What happened? He didn't think we had one. Said we were bomber pilots and one or both of us would bite it soon enough that there wasn't any point planning for the future. Said we were both too blind to risk to even think about raising kids, or anything like that. Ouch. Yeah, I got upset and ran off. But looking back, he was right: we just didn't think about risks back then. I mean, there were danger signs all over the entrance to the power core, but we went in there without a second thought. Who knows what all the radiation blasting about in there did to us? So he said you didn't have a future and you stormed off? Then what? To be continued! --- Thanks for reading! I didn't do any editing on those photos, I just used some angled lamps for the lighting. Evenly lit photos below, C&C welcome as always
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Aboard M.A.N.T.I.S. deep space pioneers, we engineers spend our day hanging out in the maintenance bay. Sure there's plenty of work to be done but we do have some down time. -D
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Open Log #852.93 I was finally picked up from Sorn. That was a few of the longest weeks i've had in a while. Now i'm making some repairs to my ship in the hangar of a Small Cruiser. End Log. Empty hangar. My Cat C entry. Thanks for looking!
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Location: D04 - Terrial Minor Tags: Building, Vehicle, Land Vehicle, After our Equipment Malifunction in the desert, we were stranded without communications. Luckily the emergency beacon on the sand buggy automatically actived when the tire went up in flames. The MANTIS base camp dispatched a drone to rescue us and return us to safety. A few of the bugs decided to follow us to camp. The Drone
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My entry to Challenge 2, Cat. C. Just a quick little entry, though I'm pretty pleased with it. C&C welcome
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Spacer Steve aboard the exploration vessel "Scythe" attends a weekly meeting with fellow MANTIS explorers. Spacer Steve and Kosmic Kevan discuss to progression of project "Mega Core " In the center of the room is a "Dynamic Galaxy Map" showing the corporations influence in Andromeda. Chogg checks the secret communications for the weekly strategy Spacer Steve checks the Holo Globe for topographical information on next weeks target. The viewing station offers a view of Barker's Folley. The current location of the Scythe. Some more pics with flash to see the details Thanks for looking. C&C welcome! I know its kind of dark :)
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Location: C10 Marden Tags: Land Vehicle Double D's Log 16: Well, the Kawashitan Commander got away because I didn't realize we were so close to a Kawashitan military base. I narrowly escaped on the X-P1 speeder. In fact, the entire last week was a close one as MANTIS barely got the upper hand. The good news though is that A08 was in MANTIS hands. I guess I'll have to find that commander some other time, though we did find out why Kawashita was trying to go through D04. Anyway, I am now on Marden - a cold, snowy, rocky planet. It's just me and a prototype speeder that's supposed to be able to hover very close to the ground when needed and skip across the ice and snow. It even has a transformation function if I ever feel like going really fast...which is most of the time for me. Though while recording this log I'm in the default mode. My mission this week is pretty much cover as much ground as I can. MANTIS installed some M.A.P. device that basically draws a map on where I've been and does a rough scan for non-natural materials within 100 meters. Basically, I drive and it creates a map and locates things like Kawashita bases, drones, and the like. Since I can go so fast, even if Kawashita spots me, they won't be able to catch me (or track me). It is quite the fun ride. Even though the speeder reaches high speeds, it is equipped with a auto-stabilizer system that keeps the driver balanced even if doing a steep banking turn. It's awesome! I'm also supposed to be reading this domination for dummies book. I don't get how it is supposed to help me, because the first chapter is all about taking vacations, drinking milkshakes, and having supposedly reliable robots do all the work! How could any corporation gain an advantage by doing that! Perhaps driving around counts as a "vacation?" I guess I'll see. ~ DD out ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm really pleased with how the speeder turned out! I think it's neat that it slightly resembles a dogsled in its second mode since it's designed for snow. It is fun to swoosh too!
