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Its ok, we have been stealing, sabotaging and spying on each other from the start (I mean MANTIS and Octan have. Kawashita would never do that ) We haven't had that much piracy yet so I think you win both largest single theft and the first to steel water. I like the way you stole the water. It was very creative. (then I realized that water in a vacuum wouldn't freeze but boil. Still, we have had people breathing on asteroids and compared to Pombe logic this is rock solid science. We could even say Octan had a protective inner layer of the tank. They did start as an oil company after all. Not like we need to explain it at all, I just like too. Most of the time I just don't post it) You got the tags right and did a good job with the story. You don't need to make dialog or battle sequences. You could just taken the last shot and explained in text but it is cool to see the crew dynamics and battle. Good job! oh, and I really like how you made the frozen water blocks from pods and the micro ships are cool too.

As a judge I now look a bit closer to builds and I want to give you some advice. I like this build. It have a nice feel/atmosphere. Esthetically, I think it's one of your best but it could have gotten a higher score if you would have had better photos. A few tips would be: * use a proper background (a roll-down curtain is a simple solution and roll up nicely) * It may need better light or after adjustment in a program. The colurs are a bit dim. Compare the first images which are matte with the last which is brighter. * Brush or rinse off the dust from the base plate and bricks. Hope you don't mind me saying this. It's a good build, It's just a shame it's not presented as good as it could have been.

I agree, it's a cool ship but I'd love to see more pictures (especialy as I will be judging it) I will add the Spaceship tag (as that one is obvius) but in the future (all of) you will need to remember them or you don't get bonuses.

Do you mean E09?

Hostile takeover? Cool build! A lot to like but I think the pod is my favourit (even if you had to take the legs of) Nice dinamic photos too when he's closing it and not even look back. Sorry but I have to nag on your tags. There are some landscape and vegetation but he isn't really there to study them so I can't give you Exploration. Executing spies (without even commenting on it) doesn't really count when it is such a small part of the build. Then that is a “Landing pod” and not a Space ship and that Land Vehicle is just to ohh... Octan to count. I can give you Military but just because I'm nice. No, you get to keap your tags (but I don't think you have use of spying or exploration)

We call those "freebuilds" (I change the title for you) and use the name "weekly builds" for those that get scored (as we can only make one per week) No problem. There is a lot of rules to take in (but few are critical, we are here to have fun) and I will help you fix anything you might have missed. If you have any questions you can PM me as I'm the leader of Kawashita and just became a judge. Now for your build: Wow, you really prepared before coming here. Interesting characters and you had fantastic timing as Kawashita just got in a situation where they would hire an former (or current) pirate. I also like the droids as I'm very nostalgic to Spyrius and use my lego R2-Q5 as avatar on two lego forums. Welcome to Andromeda and Kawashita.

Well "mobile artillery" sound like a ground thing but there have been flying artilery for real and they call the scorpion a "ship" and it have a "pilot" so I guess it's the Ground Land Vehicle tag that should be removed (thanks for keeping me alert, it can't be allowed to be easy to be a judge ) I agree on the light effects but the dark make for grany pictures. The way to solve it would be with a stedy tripod (prefarably with a remote trigger)

Yay, I'm a moderator now! Isundir, do you want me to change the title to "More Training" (with an r ) or maybe it's a referense to the Simpsons

Welcome to Kawashita! We are currently in a little war with Octan so we are extra happy to have you with us and you will be added to our private conversation shortly.

I had to look for a while to even find it in the build. Maybe I'm just tiered and cranky as I did allow a small Octan car before, despite it being partially obstructed and not doing much. Ok, because I like how you made it and it have an openable hatch I'll allow it but next time you do something similar you could show it comming and docking with the platform. I think, and this goes for all of the AG players, that I will be more strict with the tags in the future (unless the other judges vote me down) the taged thing will have to be a significant part of the build.

I don't know if I can allow that spaceship to count but this is sabotage/spying if you would add the tag

I know that feeling I thought the green kind of fitted with MANTIS. Some kind of lights from the base. [Now in judge voice] You have a lot of tags. The micro building is on the edge of being to small but I allow it (I don't think you get anything anyway). I will ignore the Piracy tag as you aren't stealing anything but it's definatly sabotage so you get spying and your job bonus. (you can't get double job bonus anyway even if you would steal some awesomnium )

It might have been your soldiers I saw but I think I seen it before (especially on mechs). I also want to clarify that I personally don't have a problem with this. The suit in your picture look cool (but a shield on the shoulder and cloth from the hips may be overdoing the platemail /knight armor ) I just noticed I use mostly "standard armor" and non-Japanese looking figs so I guess Raven choose to work with this type of people when she have a choice.

The droids she doesn't trust, Guys that have extra accesories to make them look like ancent wariors and speaks about honor or "the true way of a warrior" or something like that she just don't care for. She dousn't like anyone who shoot, stab or kick her in the back, regardles of their culture, dresscode or species.

I'm sorry, but (as much as a would like to) I can't alow the exploration tag. There exist no alien wildlife at all (not even a fish or water for that matter) You get the aircraft tag even if you caled it "Plane" (to bad it doesen't give us anything)

Thank you! It was a tool in photoshop (but I still had to align the pictures) Maybe Kawashita buy armor from Octan Raven is very picy with who she work with (to avoid being shot in the back ) and usuly avoid the to japanease influensed troopers with honor stuff, "samurai" armors and droids (She don't trust droids, or Koro) She have worked with Agent Thorne befor when they tock down the Dust demons. (righ, he was in that explosion too. Well, obviusly he survived ) She did NOT see that coming but it wasn't Octan. Or two

Right, if you want your job bonus you need to put Locaton: F10 Tags: Building at the top of the post

Wedauwoo made a build befor named "hacky, hacky, slice slice..." where people where disapointed on the lack of (physical) hacking and slicing so I guess he wanted to clarefy it this time (sorry if I stole your explanation) I like the battle cry. pombe is influencing MANTIS too

I like the difference in water level. And there is Raven's cusin/evil twin, Jet Those rockraiders figs where the last "space" I had before my dark age so after I started building again (but before I found bricklink) they where the coolest heads/torsos I had. (And now you know where the first sead of Raven came from)

Location: F10 Tags: First a short message: For the first time I decided to make my AG pictures public on flickr so now you can actually click them (not that they are much bigger) I will publich my earlier pictures too sometime. And here is the story: Raven have tracked a Kawashita scout ship that was hijacked by an alien. She is now waiting for a military team to help take back the ship. Backup arrives Agent Raven, Ma'am. Sergeant Derrek Thorne reporting in. My team and I are ready to take down that alien and rescue our scouts. You only brought two soldiers and a medic? Sorry ma'am, I thought that would be enough to take one alien, and we needed the space to get our scouts back. But we have you so I don't see how it would be a problem. And didn't our scouts kill one of them? We don't know that but we have no time to delay now, you and the medic stay back while I and the troopers... Sir! Movement in the ship. The alien is approaching our scouts. On screan. What? We don't h... Patch it in to my helmet. We move out now. You two with me. Sir. One of the scouts is up... Whait! I think he's attacking the alien! I see! Go, go! All of you. Medic, stay close to Sergeant Thorne. Raven and the team enter the scout ship. You, with me. Pin down that alien. Thorne, check him. Medic, tend to the wounded. Is the alien dead? I don't know. It's still warm. Get that weapon away just in case. The soldier reluctantly pic it up. This scout, Thomson, he's dead. I can't see any fatal damage. It was probably that weird alien weapon. Yeah, I can't even tel which end this thing fire from. Hand it to me before you hurt yourself. Doc? Both over here will survive. He is just in chock, she may have a concussion. Summers, help me get the helmet off. Then I need you to hold her head. I'm taking this weapon to our ship. Doc, make sure the wounded... Ohh, shit! The weapon start glowing. What are you doing!? Nothing! I don't know...! Put it down! Yes. Of course -ZZZAAPPHHH- Raven fall down. Her muscles cramping, her suit's systems crash, trying to reboot only to crash again. What the hell Thorne! It was an accident! I saw you! You shot her! The medic rush over to Raven. Despite the headache, Raven watch on the flickering screens what's about to happen. She try to call out but neither her voice nor com unit is working. Then... Agent Ryan fall down dead. The medic turn around in surprise but it's too late. Sergeant Thorne pic up the alien weapon and point it to Raven. You must be really stubborn to not go down on the first one. I like that. But you won't take a second. -ZZZAAPPHHH-

Nice build! Three different texture bricks (the back of those masonry bricks are underestimated) and a cool action shot (to make up for the missing pic of Gattsu jumping up on the Goliath last week? ) Looks like Raven make a lot of guest appearances and mentions this week , maybe people are trying to get higher scores

Agreed on that. (and it give him both spaceship and ground vehicle bonus, no wonder he's the CEO)

Sure sounds like Raven trained her Raven isn't a big fan of honor and stuff either but she is very hard on loyalty. To bad Koro isn't on active duty

Cool spaceship! Are you sure it should be blue You know, red would make it go faster (and why not change the black for DBG)

The three final techs pretty much say "you win the game". As a member of staff, I now know what may happen after this point, but I'm not allowed to tell you