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Tags: Science, Flying Vehicle/spaceship Location: G09, Greater Drigo "Log date 409, This is Dr. Danielle Long. Drone inspection of Greater Drigo has uncovered several "Unidentified Anomalies" one of which is clearly a spaceship. The vehicle itself appears to be recently made, but it's design is identical to those used by humans from the 20th, 21st, or 23rd century (I'm not a history buff. I'll leave the dating to the Axle's experts.) Regardless, this is an ancient human vessel, but it's recently made... the object is completely abandoned, and there is no sign of activity in the area for years... drones in the area have also detected bizarre gravity and temporal anomalies in close proximity to the Object. This certainly calls for further investigation. Dr. Long signing out." Flight mode This is the second neo classic space themed MoC I've built, but it won't be the last. You'll see many such MoCs from me the next few weeks as I begin hosting "Blacktron Mafia" (sign ups open in a few days!) I am pretty pleased with this spaceship, but as always, criticism and Critiques are more than welcome! Better pictures are up. It's impressive how much difference a little light can make! Extra picture with a model (who looks suspiciously like Jebediah) in the (finished) cocpit. ~Insectoid Aristocrat
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Location: G06 - Zimunsk Tags: Vehicle, Land Vehicle, Exploration, AG, Octan ++Start transmission++ And so my asparagus tasted like an avocado! Matarilli hrodi qlfuss! HahAhAhaHAhAHa Klik! And who are you again? NOrMal Guy klik. Oh, you're not Ethel's boyfriend? Gamla lombungr, sugandi toti tik madr! Better luck next time, Normal Guy. Maybe try Eshey or Sue? Anyway, Ethel, you have your assignment. Big Z should have your vehicle ready. Alicarl bqllr! Huglausi lqngubak meyla! Um...okay. Please don't hurt me. Your vehicle is over there. We'll drop you off on Zimunsk so you can do your exploration assignment. Skreyja oskilgetinn vitskertr! Lodinkinni fretr braudnefr! Ledrhals daufi galti! Blot gleidr kamphundr! ++End transmission++ Next: More pics under the spoiler tag.
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Tags: Exploration, Land/Water Vehicle Jedadiah Douglass, signing in from Fractor V: Aha, what have we here? Well, looks like a vacation to me! By which, of course, I mean - no ducks! Ha! Oh, and to celebrate Pombe's fleeting first branch... and I like disguises. And explorers suits. Here we go, into the jungle. Figless: Jed's boat: A quick little build for this week (I wasn't able top spend a lot of time on it as I'm currently working on a bigger build for the War Contest). And pardon the slightly below par pics, I really need to get a good indoor setup! Thanks for viewing, C&C are welcome!
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Location: H08 - Sinden's Run Tags: Civil, Vehicle, Spaceship, Exploration --Weekly Explorer's Transmission-- --Log of Eagle-Eye Silver-- --23 Augustali 3815-- I was instructed to head back to Sinden’s Run last week, apparently some other explorers were indicating biomass in the asteroid field. After Dr. Long chewed me out for missing biomass readings (Why was she concerned anyway? sector H08 is known for awesomnium, not biomass!), I went and chewed out the engineers for what were clearly mis-calibrated sensors! After putting around in an exploration pod for a while, the (properly calibrated) sensors picked something strange up. As I came within visual range, these crazy mushrooms appeared in the scope. If I were to guess, I’d say they use the awesomnium veins as a sort of nourishment with the weird neon-green phosphorescent bits converting the awesomnium to fungus food. I picked a few samples and dropped them in the collection basket for the scientists to confirm the food source and to figure out what the odd red things do. --End-- As always, C&C is appreciated.
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Location: F08 Tags: Exploration, Land Vehicle, Airplane Welcome to the beaches of Raudon! Time to do some water harvesting! Good thing I got this nifty new vacuum machine! Hmm... I know they said this thing should never be turned on full blast... but what do they know? *whrrrl bzzzz whoooosssshhhh* Coolio! *bzzzz shhhhggggcktz trrrrroorrrrr* Wonder if it's supposed to make all those weird clanky noises? *whrrrwhooopfrroom meemaameemaa!* *water tank fills up beyond capacity and pre-explosion alarm sounds* Auggg! Get me out of here! Run! *kkkrakkkpow bang!* Roger! This is Guy K. Wynd! Please send the nearest Octan personnel to get me out of here! Roger that, Guy. I'm headed your way! I'm waiting! Hop on! Whew. Thanks, Jed! No problem. I got some good news for you, by the way. And some bad news too. Let's hear the good news first. Okay. I found your camera! Wow! You did! That's awesome! But... what's the bad news? Well... I lost it again on G09. What?! You lost my camera? I'm gonna... No, wait! We're going to craaaash... Oops. More pictures! First, an overview: Now a couple of figless and vehicleless shots: Jedediah's Octan QuikFlyr: Guy's Water Vacuum (which took me about as long as the entire rest of the build! ): And since I spent a good deal of time working on the bottom: By far my largest build for AG, and also my second largest ever. A lot of fun as a matter of fact, I really enjoyed the landscaping part. It's true that the vacuum machine was a bit of a pain though. Comments and criticism are welcome! Thanks for your time!
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Location: H04 - Crofter's Ridge Tags: Civil, Science, Exploration [O-H04] Guard Duty Log of Jebediah O'Reilly, Entry #014 or #015, I lost count: I have been assigned to escort Dr. Short [Everyone calls him Dr. Not-long behind his back, just don't tell him that] and his team to the surface of Crofter's Ridge as they gather field data. There have been reports of heightened alien activity around the core worlds and HQ wants to make sure nothing happens to the doctor and his team. [O-H04] Guard Duty Here is Dr. Not-long himself. (Sorry for the blurry photo ) [O-H04] Guard Duty Unfortunately not all of Dr. Not-long's associates share his same passion for scientific endeavours. [O-H04] Guard Duty They appear to be setting up some sort of science-y device. Whatever it is, it must be important, because it takes two full tanks of awesomenium to power it up. Well, that's all for now. It's been pretty uneventful so far, but I think I spy some scorpions watching us from beyond the waterfall... End log [O-H04] Guard Duty [O-H04] Guard Duty [O-H04] Guard Duty Builder's Notes: This week was a lot of fun to build, as I had a lot of time to play around with this to get it exactly how I wanted it. The waterfall took a bit of fiddling to get right, but I think it turned out well. Well, thanks for looking! Comments and criticisms are welcome!
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Location: F10 Arium Major Tags: Science, Octan, Civil, Land Vehicle // PERSONAL DIARY // After last week's discovery we had our drones looking for other anomalies. As it turns out there was one found in the shallow waters of Arium Major. ED-208 and I grabbed an Octan brand High Speed Dual Occupant Water Craft (OCHSDOWC for short). He wasn't happy about being on the water even though I had coated him in Octan brand High Performance Robot Sealant. When we arrived at the location of the device I asked if he would rather stay in the boat with his Octan brand Personal Floatation Device for Robots, and he said it would be for the best. Given that ED-208 wouldn't be with me I brought along my Octan brand High-Definition Underwater Camera to take pictures with. The new scuba gear and fins I had brought along also helped immensely. This device seemed to be capable of both acoustic listening and water composition analysis. I'm not sure what they were looking for in the water. I'm not even sure who "they" is! Once again all I could do was upload my data to Octan HQ and await further instructions. Having found a second device I'm sure they will be more interested in who is placing these devices and why. Extra pics:
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Location: Ertauq, EO3. One of it's moons. Tags: Octan Mining Facility. The blazing sun cast it's piercing rays over the bleakness that was one of Ertauq's moons. Tsalu's trained eyes stared ahead of him at the two figures moving toward him. They were Octan. The word tasted bitter in his mouth, and felt like spitting on the ground twenty or so feet below him. His hands tightened on the rifle in his hands. He should do it now. He should kill them while they were too far away to harm him. But he would not. He had patience. He had power. He would wait until they were close enough to see their killer. Satisfaction passed sweetly over Tsalu's tongue. He did not smile, but his eyes danced with the sheer joy of his power, and the juiciness of his revenge. Octan would die, and he would be the one to kill them. They were closer now. To them what he was standing on looked like any other robotic-powered mining post. They would learn the truth in due time. Tsalu placed his helmet on his head, and raised his weapon. The sight of the two troopers between the cross-hairs sent a shiver up his spine. If only Octan knew whom they had left alive. Tsalu Ateyok would not be meddled with. The first soldier didn't have a chance. He was down before even the report echoed over the hills. The second might have, if he had had better reflexes. But he didn't. Tsalu hit him in lower torso. Deliberately, of course. The second man was still squirming when Tsalu reached him. Tsalu removed his helmet, staring at his man. The man's eyes were full of an unspeakable fear as they stared at Tsalu, and his hands groped at the ground below him. Tsalu's mouth twisted into a smile. “You heart now knows what it feels like, to be powerless. Remember that feeling. You will go into the void with it.” The last words he spit. His emotions were getting the best of him. But the man was no longer looking at him. In those few moments the fear had left his eyes, and a determination entered his eyes. Tsalu watched him, a feeling of uncertainty starting to move through him. Suddenly the man dove for his weapon, probably inflicting a huge amount of pain on himself in the process. Tsalu's reflexes snapped him into action, and he yanked up his rifle only to see the man point his weapon behind him. That's when Tsalu remembered the carton of uranium that had been left near the facility. His eyes widened. In one last, desperate effort he flung his helmet into what he estimated was the path of the shot. He missed. Next thing he knew a raging heat consumed him. He let out one last, despairing cry, then he was consumed. The fires raged on. To be continued?... Da build. And the main Pic. Thoughts? Yes, he's an alien. But he's dead now. I hope that is exceptionable. :) Can an Admin please change my title to: '[M-EO3] Taste of Death' Thanks! Soli Deo Gloria & Sola Gracia!
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Location: F04 Tags: Water Vehicle (boat), Exploration Oh the whether out here is delightful... ...it's back home that I find frightful... Hi, Guy, this is Dr. Long, incoming. Hi. Aren't you third branch executive? I find references to my executive status highly unnecessary. Just checking! Well, not to fool around, our science equipment is picking up signs of some fairly large creature within a ten yard radius of you. I don't see anything! And don't worry. If anything does happen to show up, I can handle it, you bet! By the way, you should come on down here. Beautiful weather! Really? I've heard tell it's rather cool. I know, that's what's great about it! My ice cream doesn't melt! Your what?! I... um... me? Did I say something? *don't we have some other scientist that I can work with?!* Wait a second, Guy, our screens are picking up something big... right behind you! *whew, saved by the bell!* Oh, don't worry, Dr. There's nothing here! Guy! I'm serious! Right behind you! Oh no. You're kidding me! What on earth is that... thing! My ice cream! My ice cream! Help! Help! Guy, I really need you to calm down. And get a sample. A sample?! A sample?! Are you crazy? That thing just swallowed my entire triple three flavor ice cream cone in ONE BIG GULP!!! Are you insane?! Ice cream? What on earth are you doing with ice cream? Fishing. What do you think? I'm out of here! Wait! My sample! ... And a bonus shot of the big bad orange slab (as I call it). Not built just to use the separator. I used the separator because it is one of my very few orange pieces. C&C welcome! I was really happy with how this turned out!
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Tags: Exploration, Land Vehicle, Science Jedadiah Douglass, signing in from the planet of Greater Drigo... Hmph. I will never understand what those headquaters were thinking when they decided to drop me off on Great DRigo with a boat! Water planet! Ha! Very funny... Oh well, I happen to be an explorer, so let's see what we can find here abouts. Hey look! So maybe there is a tiny bit of water on this planet! I should take a picture of this just to show them how much water is here. Pff. Oppsy. Well, I hope Guy's camera was water-proof... Uh-oh, what's that noise? Ya!! Ok, maybe that's what the boat's for. They could have warned me, ha! Well, well, look there! It's Guy's camera again! And look, a duck! I mean, what, a duck?! Here? Doesn't this boat go a little faster?! Oh no, the camera! Sorry Guy!... The boat by itself: Ha, ha! This build was quite a bit of fun! Credit goes to Kai for taking the video and some of the pics for me - unfortunately I don't have four arms like my name's sake! Ha, ha! Thanks for viewing, C&C are welcome!
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Location: F03- Forring Tags: Civil, Engineering, Science, Spying, Piracy, Land/Water Vehicle Onboard the engineering bay of the OCS Axle, 1400 Hours [O-F03] Training Wheels "Hey, Big Z. Is the equipment I ordered ready?" "Yes, yes it is! I've been working on it for a while. I think you'll quite like it. Show him." [O-F03] Training Wheels [O-F03] Training Wheels "Looks promising, promising indeed..." Log of Jebediah O'Reilly, Entry #12ish or so: I have been dispatched to Forring to scout for further MANTIS activity after my narrow escape a few weeks ago... Big Z designed me a special bike for the mission! Well, technically it's a trike, but oh well. [O-F03] Training Wheels [O-F03] Training Wheels Hmmm... I'm not seeing anything, just A beautiful planet, covered in lush forest and grassy plains. Where the heck did that description come from? Seems to suit the planet though... Anyways, I'm getting off track. Back to the mission! Wait! I think I see something! [O-F03] Training Wheels MANTIS scum! Placing a comms beacon right in the middle of a perfectly good field... tsk tsk tsk. [O-F03] Training Wheels I'll deal with this myself... Good thing I always carry explosives around with me in my massively oversized pockets. [O-F03] Training Wheels Let's get out of here! [O-F03] Training Wheels [O-F03] Training Wheels *muffled explosion sound in the distance* [O-F03] Training Wheels [O-F03] Training Wheels Mission accomplished. Thanks for looking! Comments and criticism welcome!
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Location: G10 - Onix Tags: civil, building Terrain: Lava, Rocks Start of transmission #12. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Not only does Onix offer an unfriendly terrain, but the alien activity marker is stated as "intense" here. The planet is certainly offering challenges to us. Nevertheless, copper has to be mined, and the planet has to be explored. I'm not sure about the exploration part, but will certainly try to do my best in locating these ore deposits. But need to finish my lunch break first. The new version of Octan Terrain Analyzer is much smaller in scale and much easier to handle. And the results are quite interesting as well. The planet seem to contain a huge organics deposit under the nearby copper stratum. As we dig through copper, the biomass will be very easy to extract. Bad news though, are that there's only one such biomass deposit found... yet. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- End of transmission #12.
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Location: F08 - Raduon Tags: Vehicle, Land Vehicle, Spaceship, Exploration, AG, Octan ++Start data transmission++ Any signs, Sue? Negative, sir. Hon madr roman therva Kuaran. Now, now, Ethel. Be nice. There! There's one! Alright, set her down, Sue. Aye, sir. It seems to have noticed, us. KILL KILL KILL!!! That's not our assignment, Eshey. Come now, Hombre, I know you agree with Eshey, but this is not what we're here to do. He didn't say anything! Anyways, let's disembark and take a good look at it. Hombre, you're going the wrong way, turn left! OH, DON'T YOU SASS ME, MISTER! Wait, he said something? NO, MORON, YOUR OTHER LEFT!!! I'M GOING TO SHOVE THOSE WORDS UP YOUR... Meyla krafla mikli thur syr! NOT YOU, TOO! I'm going to stab you with your own helmet if you don't shut up also! Wait, you understood her? CHILDREN! Let's just make our way over to it! That's better. Let's pick it up for a closer look. What does it look like? It looks like it's scared, sir. Excellent! Mission successful! Something about this situation is inappropriate. What are you going on about, Eshey? You never make any sense. Sir, I know this assignment was a psychological test for marketing, which was confidential. But now that we are here, could you let us in on it? Well, as the major corporations here in Andromeda start conflict with each other over planets to dominate, our marketing department wanted to develop a vehicle that would take a form so terrifying that fear itself would be our ally. The idea is that the use of such a vehicle would discourage the other corporations from interfering with our assignments. Eshey and I had our brains scanned so they could find images of the thing that terrified us the most during our exploration assignments. I see. I'm still not sure how I feel about this. You always worry too much, Eshey. Now, let's bring her about and return to the ship. And let's bring the alien back. I'm sure Dr. Long would want to take a look. Aye, sir. No, no, no, Hombre. We'll bring this one back alive. What? I don't even... Alright, sir, we're ready to leave Raduon and return to the Axle. Engage. ++End data transmission++ Next: More pics under the spoiler tag.
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Location: F08 Raduon Tags: Science, Octan, Civil, Land Vehicle // PERSONAL DIARY // My droid from last week found ... something. It had sent back images from an area we had dubbed "the white zone" that our analysts looked over but they weren't sure what they were even seeing. So Dr. Long decided to send me out to have a look at it. It was clearly technology, but from whom and for what purpose? I found ED-208 and told him we had a mission from Dr. Long. I showed him the pictures and he said it looked like a trap of some sort and that we should just blow it up from orbit. I told him that we needed to better understand what it was and who put it there so the two of us were going to check it out. He said: "Just the two of us? To check out some random technological thing in the middle of nowhere? Surely you can't be serious." I told him that I was entirely serious and that I was a bit insulted he would call me Shirley. Before we left Dr. Long sent us a nice message saying: "I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you." Encouragement like that is what makes her clearly one of the best. Filling her people with the confidence to do a good job, knowing she has our best interest at heart. We drove out to the mystery thing and discovered something very odd. It was some sort of small electronics shack made up of parts from Octan, Kawashita, and Mantis. I could recognize bits from all 3 corporations and it seemed to be set up to pull in any signals any of the corporations sent and since it had our equipment it was able to gather even encrypted signals. Since it had parts from all 3 corporations it either was created by someone else or a corporation trying to cover their tracks. ED-208 seemed very nervous and insisted that there were "bad signs". ED-208 scanned the equipment information and we called in to corporate for instructions. They told us to return to the Axle for now and that they would handle things. I'm not sure exactly what that meant but ED-208 commented that those "smug flowers would get what they had coming." I guess the building did look a bit like a flower. Extra pics:
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NOTE: This is a direct continuation of the story begun in Dannylonglegs build Cheknov's Gauntlet Location: F04- Illustria Tags: Spying, Piracy, Spaceship, Civil Onboard the OCS Axle, 1200 Hours. Octan Special Forces Break room. "Attention all Special Forces agents. This is Dr. Danielle Long. There has been a breach and an escaped prisoner has launched an escape pod and is en route to Illustria as we speak. Find him and subdue him with non-lethal force. This is not a drill. It is imperative he is recaptured as soon as possible. I repeat, this is not a drill." "You heard her. Let's move out." "This is Jebediah O'Reilly reporting in from Illustria. We've found the escape pod but there's no sign of the prisoner." "It's empty." "Ambush! Get down!" "Aaaaarrrrrrgggggggg!" "Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh! Sssshhhhoooooooootttttt hhhiiiiiiiimmmmm!" "Fire!" "This is Jebediah O'Reilly. We've subdued the prisoner but I've got two agents down with minor electrical burns. Thank the Lord the Gauntlet was on its non-lethal setting. Requesting immediate extraction and medical attention." "Good work agents. Let's get him back to the Axle." Whew! Thanks for reading through all that! As usual, comments and criticism welcome. Did anyone catch my Jurassic Park reference?
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Planet: Illustria Tags: Science Note: now may be as good a time as any to introduce Dr. Long's Lietmotif: Don't mind the cartoon character... "Log date 394, this is Dr. Danielle Long, recording from testing facility G+ L4D05 on the Axle over F04. Corporate has not yet sanctioned a field test of the Chekhov's Gauntlet, so today we will be performing another controlled test of teh Chekhov's Gauntlet prototype. Unfortunately many of the other other testing facilities capable of hosting this test are in use, so we have to use room G+ L4D05, which was damaged during the testing of the "Aperture Gun" which created a hole in the floor that nearly breached the hull. Fortunately the mishap ended up testing the durability of the Axle's inner shield. She endured marvelously. Test subject 24601 will be arriving shortly. He is a volunteer from Octan's galaxy-famous "work to reduce your prison sentence and learn valuable life-skills" program. Ah, the virtues of Octan's private prison system are too many to list. The subject has attempted to escape several times, but lately he's been on good behavior. Also he was our only choice. He will be arriving momentarily now. Dr. Long signing off in preparation for the experiment." "Ah... Here he comes now. Any potentially static-generating materials, or electricity conducting materials have been removed. That is a hideous plastic belt he is wearing. certainly not regulation." "OK, test subject 24601, today you will be testing the functionality of Octan's newest prototype weapon on the dummy over there. This is called "Chekhov's Gauntlet." Named after it's original designer, one of Octan's most brilliant defense specialists, Dr. Molotov Chekhov, who tragically died of spontaneous combustion before he could finish his final project: this. It is a completely organic glove, meant to resemble a typical vinyl glove, but with a very special property. This glove is capable of generating a massive burst of electricity due to a patented membrane potential generation process. All it needs is to be refreshed in a bath of a patented blend of electrolytes and sugars after extensive use. I perfected it after the good doctor's demise, and now it is in its final stages of testing. Once we have determined it works properly in a variety of environments, it will be mass produced and given to Octan's well trained security force, and those within the Corporation who wish to purchase it." "Umm... Hi." "OK, put this on and proceed to the testing chamber." "Ok. Once you are prepared, please raise your gloved hand. To activate the electricity firing function, please press your thumb to your pinky finger. Once you have done so, flick your middle finger at the target dummy. This will cause an electric arc to fire from your finger and hit the closest object to its trajectory. The arc will last only briefly, but would be lethal to a human. Are you ready to begin? Press A on the console beside you to talk. Not very talkative I see. Nod your head please, when you are ready to begin. Or jump, or something. Any signal will do." Worker: "Any particular reason we chose this room? The one next door was not in use. It doesn't have faulty electricity or a huge gash in the floor..." "I have my reasons. Now silence, I believe he just jumped slightly." "Excellent work! You really knocked that dummy out! Now we're going to lower the room temperature by 20 degrees to begin the "climate differentiation" portion of testing." "I don't think so." "WhAT?" "Oh, sorry... forgot to press A. I said: "I don't think so. I've been a prisoner of Octan for too long! All I did was steal a loaf of bread and kill the bread baker! And now you're telling me I've got Octan's new murder-tool on my hands? That's an opportunity I'm not going to pass up!" "Activate Membrane Potential Neutralizer." *Fzzzzt* "It's not working! Damnit! I knew we should have gone next door!" "Hosta la vista baby! I'm free!" "It works on door controls too! Add that to your report! Hahaha!" "It's been real, but I'm afraid our fun is up! Thanks for the glove, Miss whoever-you-are!" _________________________________________________________________________________________ Later. "This is Dr. Danielle Long. Due to recent concerns focused on the core, Corporate denied my field test request, but they accepted my request for a Spec-Ops training mission featuring novel variables... I needed the escape to appear real to the subject, so I did not inform my lab assistant of the true plan. He was certainly frightened by the prisoner's "escape." Nothing a brief session of corporate mandated counseling cannot fix up. Axle corridors G+ L4D01 through L4D09 were closed-off. Personnel in the immediate vicinity were informed of a possible "event," and were told to "Stay down if you go down, and wait for whatever event may occur to subside, and then immediately report the event." Escape Pod 20072011 has now been reported missing. Everything is going according to plan. There's always more than one way to skin a cat--trust me, I received an 100% before extra-credit in my college Anat&Phys course. I will get my field test, and Corporate will get their Spec-Ops training exercise. All is good and efficient aboard the O.C.S. Axle. Dr. Long Signing off." <<<<CONTINUED HERE>>>> _____________________________ Can you tell I like the Portal series? I was inspired to finally do a lab scene by Big Sal's awesome Labs every week! to contrast his though, everything went according to plan! ~Insectoid Aristocrat
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Location: E09 - Castral Tags: civil, land/water vehicle, exploration Terrain: Grass plains, Mountains Start of transmission #11. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I needed to return to Castral after getting this picture from security cam, so, here I am. Back on this duck-infected world. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- End of transmission #11.
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Location: G02 Tags: Land Vehicle, Spaceship [note that this is reused and thus, if I have things right, qualifies for the job bonus but not the spaceship bonus], Exploration [?] I spy... snow. And more snow. And... wait, what's that? Intriguing. Looks like some sort of wrecked ancient civilization vehicle. Well, it's in luck, because since I'm such an engineering mastermind, I'll have it back on the road in no time! Hmm. Not quite right just yet... Whoops! Let's try this again... Hurray! There it is! Let's take this baby for a ride! Well, a bit Chima-esque, perhaps. It was going to be a motorcycle with a drill on the front, but then Garmadon said it looked like a mammoth... so it went from being Octan to ancient civilization... C&C welcome!
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Location: Jurin II - E02 Tags: Exploration, spaceship Lu's Log - 02 Augustali 3815 I'm finally back on Jurin II. I found an artifact here about a month ago and I've been wanting to return to see what kind of progress the science team has made. The initial news is disappointing: after observing the artifact for several weeks, and watching at least three scorpion creatures pass into the field and slowly disappear, the science team sent in one of Dr Long's probes. Unfortunately, the field around the artifact reacted violently and disappeared, taking the artifact with it and injuring several team members. Not to worry, though; our engineers have upgraded a Mudskipper with an array of powerful sensors and magnetic field detectors. If there are any more artifacts in the area, we should be able to find them. I'm lucky enough to take this ship on it's maiden run and I'm looking forward to a day spent flying over beautiful oceans and islands. The cockpit is a bit cramped - the engineers had to run a lot of the wiring through the wall, but the team assures me that the equipment poses no danger to the pilot... ...despite several warning labels stating otherwise. Still, I'm not too worried about it - the engineering team knows what it's doing. And I - whoa - Note from Octan Administrator: at this point, a loud cracking noise is heard, and Ms Caslaug-Hing's audio log shuts off. The next few minutes have been reconstructed using the "Mudskipper's" cockpit voice recorder. 14:23:22 - Lu: What the [expletive redacted] was that? Did we hit something? CLAPPIE, I've got a ton of alarms going off - can you tell what's going on? 14:23:35 - CLAPPIE: Lu, it appears that the weight from the side-mounted scanning unit is damaging the main power conduit. Power levels are dropping rapidly. 14:23: 51 - Lu: Are you able to fix it? 14:23:56 - CLAPPIE: I'm afraid not. It's a mechanical problem, and I'm not yet able to interact with ordinary matter. 14:24:04 - Lu: Mudskipper 4 to JTC [Jurin Traffic Control] Maianday Maianday Maianday, I am losing power and multiple systems are shutting down, over. 14:24:15 - JTC: Mudskipper 4, JTC. Acknowledge your Maianday. Are you able to return to base, over? 14:24:25 - Lu: Negative, JTC. I think I'm going to have to ditch, over. 14:24:31 - JTC: Copy, Mudskipper. We have a fix on your beacon and - [loss of radio signal] 14:24:36 - Lu: [expletive redacted] We're coming in too fast - 14:24:52 - Onboard computer: Altitude low. Altitude low. 14:25:00 - CLAPPIE: [singing] We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when - 14:25:06 - Lu: Not helping, CLAPPIE. CLAPPIE: [singing] -but I know we'll meet again some sunny day... 14:25:18 - Onboard computer: Pull up! Pull up! CLAPPIE: [singing] KEEP SMILING THROUGH, JUST LIKE YOU ALWAYS DO - Lu: Aaaaaaah 14:25:25 - [sound of impact. Recording ends]
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Location: G06 - Zimunsk Tags: Vehicle, Land Vehicle, Spaceship, Exploration, AG, Octan Next:
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Location: F08 Raduon Tags: Science, Octan, Civil, Land Vehicle // PERSONAL DIARY // After my recent issues with vehicles I decided to let ED-208 select and pilot our vehicle for our latest mission. Dr. Long assigned me to create a drone to explore Raduon and send back data. It was great that I got to have a brief meeting with her about the mission, though she did seem like her mind was elsewhere. Probably still worried about the reports of activity in unexplored space towards the core. During the meeting I updated her on the status of my work with flowers and awesomnium. I wanted to make sure that the work I had done wouldn't be lost while I was gone. She assured me that it would be handled. I guess she must have asked ED-208 to look into it because he mentioned to me that "There won't be any problems with THOSE flowers", so that was good to hear. It was nice having my companion watching my back as always. My original design for the drone was unarmed, in fact I'd never integrated weapons into any drone before. However, Dr. Long was quite insistent that after the numerous robots and drones we had lost lately the drone should be capable of self-defense. Not that I could argue with such a wonderfully smart and strong woman anyway! Being a bit unfamiliar with weapons in general I asked ED-208 to help me with the gun. I wasn't sure we needed one capable of piercing a foot of armor, but ED-208 pointed out that we have no idea what kinds of flora or fauna the drone might come across. It was weird though he was oddly specific about "sneaky white flowers", but he had a point that we don't know what alien species or even other corporations the drone might face. The gun on our vehicle was even more of a surprise. ED-208 said it was merely a precaution, but I'm not sure we needed a gun capable of destroying a heavy assault mech on a purely scientific mission. I guess that is why I'm no weapons expert! The vehicle itself was pretty barebones, but really we just needed it to get the drone out into the field. I had invited Dr. Long to accompany us on this mission to see how the drone performed in the field, but she said she was too busy. I figured that would be the case but wanted her to know that I would be happy to have her along any time. I'm sure the drone will do good work and hopefully with the attached armament it won't be abducted by any of the other corporations. I can't believe they would steal our robots, but then again it seems like most of the other corporations make their employees do lots of the manual labor we've delegated to robots so I can see why they would want to. ED-208 said there was no worry about him being captured. Even if they managed to disarm him, he has a self-destruct that would wipe out a small city. I asked him about what the parameters were around when it would go off though since I'm always with him, but he said while he couldn't discuss the specifics for security reasons that I shouldn't worry. I'm sure Octan did a great job with his programming so I should have nothing to worry about, besides he is here for my safety! Extra pics:
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Location: H08 - Sinden's Run Tags: Vehicle, Land Vehicle, Spaceship, AG, Octan ++Pombe, personal log, start recording++ Eshey had just returned from a successful exploration assignment on Sinden's Run where she managed to capture live aliens during a search for awesomnium (http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=112223) and I had recovered from the debriefing assignment I had with a Kawashita sales and marketing team (http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=111704) when Jebediah and Wick had requested our presence for an important meeting. Two emergency situations had occurred, and Eshey and I had been assigned specific duties to deal with them. The first was that an unknown fleet of spaceships has been detected in the center of the galaxy on a heading towards Farmolis, Octan's corporate headquarters in Andromeda. To address this, Octan has promoted me to supervisor in order to lead a small team and has hired Eshey as a permanent employee under my supervision. Additionally, three new head counts have been requisitioned and I am to fill them immediately, completing my team of four. Because of the nature of the emergency, I was allowed to relax corporate rules for new hires, such as the dress code rule. They were to undergo new employee orientation and our vetting process as soon as possible, while our engineers designed new ships for my team to deal with this unknown fleet. The second emergency situation was that we had lost contact with an experimental Octan spaceship, the O.C.S. Penetrator, while it was on a test flight in Sinden's Run. It was designed for very deep exploration. It was found adrift among asteroids by one of our probes and was not responding to hails. It was operating with a skeleton crew of four, and Eshey and I were to board the vessel and rescue any employees that were alive as well as determine what happened to the ship. As per Octan corporate protocol, any ship found derelict could be assigned a codename. Given how grim and dark the assignment was, I gave the derelict Penetrator the codename The Hundred Thousand Heretical Blasphemies of Final and Eternal Damnation After You Visit Purgatory. Big Z had been tasked to prepare our gear for this assignment. While he was busy doing that, I was to interview the candidates that HR had sent. As it turned out, they had sent three candidates, which was perfect, since I had three openings to fill. Eshey, due to becoming a permanent hire, had to go and take the new employee orientation and visit the veterinarian again, and was unable to help me with the interview process. The first candidate simply had "Hombre" and nothing else written on his application. He was a man of few clothes and no words. I immediately took a liking to him and offered him the position, despite his violations of the Octan dress code. The next candidate was a young woman named Sue Damoness. She was an expert pilot and a decorated combat veteran of Galaxy Squad's Red Team. We would need her piloting skills on my team and I felt that her combat experience would help me deal with Eshey's psychosis and fear of aliens. She was offered the position, as well. The last candidate was a familiar face, Ethel Alkylhal (http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=110681). Unfortunately for her but fortunate for me, she had been unable to find a position as a Mitgardian adventurer, and had reapplied to Octan for this position. I told her that despite the dress code violation, she would be offered the position this time. Because I empathized with her struggle for employment, and as a show of solidarity, I decided to also wear the traditional garments of Mitgardia, where she claimed she was from. My team was complete. They were all hired and sent to new employee orientation and to the veterinarian. Next up was for me to find Eshey and report to Big Z to get our equipment for our grim and dark assignment. ++Pombe, personal log, stop recording++ ++Start data transmission++ Eshey and I walk into an engineering bay aboard the Axle to meet with Big Z. Hey guys, I've got your new dreadnought suits here. Go ahead and try them on! Wait! Where did my hair go?!?!?! Baldness is a side effect of wearing the suit. Don't worry, your hair will return when you take the suit off. That makes sense. NO IT DOESN'T!!! Anyways, we are on approach to The Hundred Thousand Heretical Blasphemies of Final and Eternal Damnation After You Visit Purgatory. Your dreadnought suits are equipped with teleport trackers. Once the Axle is in range, we will teleport you over. There appear to be two groups of lifeforms according to our scans: one group in a corridor and the other on the bridge. From what we can tell, the Octan survivors are trapped in the corridor while the ones on the bridge are unlike any lifeform we have yet encountered. I take it Eshey and I will teleport into the corridor to ascertain the condition of our coworkers and then work our way to the bridge? That's right. Oh, we're in teleport range now. Initiating teleport sequence. Wait! Isn't this dangerous?!?!?! [bright lights surround Eshey and Pombe and they vanish with a loud popping sound] Hello! Don't worry, we are here to rescue you. Are any of you hurt? By the way, I like the way you dress. W-we all ap-appear to be fine. We had j-just investigated an n-nearby asteroid. Each of us br-brought b-back an egg. The n-next thing we kn-new, we wo-woke up tr-trapped here wi-without our p-pants. How awful! How absolutely abominable! I won't let these "jeans stealers" steal Octan garments and get away with it! I don't get angry often, but this act is truly despicable! Sir, there were only four Octan employees, right? Why are there extra minifigure skulls lying around? Because this is a grim, dark situation, Eshey. What? Nevermind that! Sir! The proximity sensor shows the aliens heading our way! They must have detected us when we teleported over! Quickly, take your team and take shelter over there! Eshey and I will handle these vile "jeans stealers". Th-thank you! Here they come! They're opening the bulkhead. Look, sir! They're wearing Octan regulation pants! Eshey. Yes, sir? Terminate them. Yes, sir! But be sure to not damage the pants. WE BRING DEATH!!! SUFFER NOT THE ALIEN TO LIVE!!! FOR THE PRESIDENT!!! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!! Sir! The sensors aren't reporting any more alien life signs aboard the ship. Pombe to Axle. Reporting successful rescue of Octan employees. Also reporting successful recovery of The Hundred Thousand Heretical Blasphemies of Final and Eternal Damnation After You Visit Purgatory. It is safe to send rescue and recovery teams over. Eshey and I will stay on overwatch until our coworkers are safely back aboard the Axle. Pombe out. ++End data transmission++ Next: More pics under the spoiler tag.
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Edit: Sorry I forgot this part! Location: H06 Tags: Exploration, Land Vehicle, Airplane Back on Farmolis... home sweet home! And time for some target practice! Gearing up! Bull's-eye! Beat that, rookie! Sure - if I can use my ORookie Ship. Hey, if you get that... guess what I get? You thought you had a few guns? Haha! Been wanting to use some lime green! Another shot of the flick-fire vehicle: I'll upload a few more vehicle shots next week. C&C welcome!
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Location: F 03 - Forring Tags: Octan, Civil, vehicle When three days ago H3 had gotten to the awesomenium site on F03 he was struck by the beauty of landscape that reminded him so much of happy days on earth long gone. He had taken all his equipment and had thrown it into the river. Ever since then, he had remained at the bank of the river, either standing, laying or sitting, staring at the water and wondering about his situation: What the hell was he, the former environmentalist, doing on an alien planet destroying it for the sake of the Octan corporation. Why was Dr. Long trying to break him down and even threatened him with rehab on an alien planet. Wasn't it his fear of aliens that had gotten him to the bottle in the first place? Why were there no psychologists on board the Axle? Why did his wife and children have to die during an alien attack that he had survived, why, why, why ... Henry had found no answers. Suddenly his brooding was interrupted by the sound of an OEV - 27 (Octan Exploration Vehicle) and the yell of it's crew: "Yo Himmelmann - is that you." "Yessir, it is" Henry mumbled to himself. "Himmelmann, you mind turning around and talking to us?" "I would prefer not to." "Hey H3, come here for god's sake and tell us what happened!" "I would prefer not to." "HIMMELMANN, what the hell is going on? Talk to us now!" "I would prefer to." "HQ - this is OEV 27 - D calling from the surface of Forring! We have found missing engineer without suitable equipment at the site of his deployment." "OEV 27 - D this is HQ: What the hell is going on down there?" "HQ - engineer seems to be in perfect pyhsical health but in strange mental condition. The indiviual is not agressive but is not cooperating at all. What are we supposed to do?" "OEV 27 - D, is the individual responding to you?" "HQ - positive, individual is communicating but not cooperating. He keeps just standing there at the bank of the river!" "OEV 27 - D, we have to think about that one. Remain on standby!" "HQ - copy that" "OEV 27 - D this is HQ are you still there?" "HQ we are still at site. Individual hasn't moved a single cenitmeter in the last hour." "OEV 27 - D: go get him back to the axle, NOW! "HQ - roger that! Individual will be taken back to Axle immedieatly! Additional shots:
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Location: H08 - Sinden's Run Tags: civil --Weekly Explorer's Transmission-- --Log of Eagle-Eye Silver-- -- 26 Julali 3815-- Grunt work today as there is nothing living or growing in this outer rim asteroid field. I guess that’s a good thing, after all the vacationing I’ve done lately but energy beam mining in space is no fun. I’ve got to run my jetpack thrusters to counteract the force of the Octan Corp. D-EB-Mk. 4’s energy flow. At least they sent me out here with some help. The mining drone is some impressive technology with fully computerized station-keeping thrusters (standard propellant, not awesomnium like my jetpack) and a vigorous beam drill. During coffee breaks, I’ve been admiring the view—it’s been a while since I’ve had a true exoatmospheric mission, Sindon’s Run is a beautiful collection of awesomnium-packed space rocks that would make a truly exciting space race. I wonder if Big Z could set up a course…. --End-- I took some LEGO time off, it was good to get back at it this weekend! C&C appreciated! Edit: Crap, I didn't get the rest of the title up there! Can the powers that be change it to read "[O - H08] Asteroid Mining" please?
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