Re: *Action* - \"Disposable starships\" pt1

OMG
I even read that paragraph twice, wondering what you were complaining
about.
Gah. Yes I admit it! I am confused by real and fictional people!
--- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com, "Andy Longman"
<sirlagerlot@...> wrote:
>
> "
> The crew were military-trained, and each had oodles of
qualifications
> and experience on top-notch Space Corps battleships, apart from Andy
> Longman, Kara McGellan and a few other ex-Dwarfers who were just
> winging it.
> "
> Idiot.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Onion
> Sent: 15 April 2008 22:19
> To: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] *Action* - "Disposable starships" pt1
>
>
> Who: 1st officer Jay Chrysler
> Where: SCV Dauntless, near the Krylon Gateway
> When: Deep space
>
> The Dauntless was a large shiny battleship, all painted military
> grey. It was polished to perfection, and even had micro turrets
that
> instantly vaporised any dust or space-dirt that decided to cling
to
> the hull.
>
> The crew were military-trained, and each had oodles of
qualifications
> and experience on top-notch Space Corps battleships, apart from
Andy
> Longman, Kara McGellan and a few other ex-Dwarfers who were just
> winging it.
>
> On the bridge, Kara looked at the controls in front of her. Her
> holographic matrix had been programmed to include full knowledge
of
> the complex navigation system on the Dauntless, as well as
approved
> military manouvers and strategies. The Spacecorps were trialing
this
> method with a few holograms, to see if they would be more
efficient
> than living people.
> Sill, her personality remained the same, and she looked over the
> large sea of controls in front of her and said "What the smeg are
all
> these for?"
>
> Stood to her left and her right were more trained military
personnel,
> and behind her stood Jay Chrysler. Jay wasn't yet sure if he would
> adapt to this militaristic lifestyle. Everyone was incredibly
> efficient, and nobody grumbled when you gave them an order, then
only
> executed it after first making a cup of coffee, and checking their
> emails twice. Jay was incredibly impressed earlier when he
ordered a
> course change, that the officer initiated it without checking his
> facebook and changing his status to "At work. Bored".
>
> But even with all this efficiency, Jay missed the nice relaxed
> atmosphere of the Blue Dwarf.
>
> As he thought about the Blue Dwarf, a crimson red wormhole opened
in
> front of them. Jay had seen the same wormhole many times before,
but
> always from the opposite side.
> "Sir, the test ship is coming out of the wormhole it's the JMC..."
> "Blue Dwarf, yes. Thanks Ensign, but I know what it looks like. I
> actually worked and lived on it for the last... seven years?" he
> paused in thought. "Wow, I hadn't realised it had been that long!"
> He looked up, deep in thought. He was sad that a ship that had
been
> his home for so long was now being used as an experiment.
>
> Everyone on the bridge of the Dauntless remained quiet, until a
> science officer spoke.
> "Remote control is operational. The Blue Dwarf is under the
control
> of SC Automated Recon."
>
> Jay nodded. "Send her in."
>
> **One hour Earlier... approaching the Krylon Gateway**
>
> The Krylon gateway was a large tunnel structure in space. The
Space
> Corps hadn't collected much information about the Krylons so far,
> other than they are 100% mechanical, and seemed to be pissed off
with
> the entire galaxy.
>
> But what they did know, was that this is where they came from. The
> gateway was approximately a mile in diameter and several miles
long.
> It was made of intercrossing wires that formed a lattuce, like a
> toilet roll that had several metres of wires wound around, and
then
> the toilet roll removed.
>
> But this was a toilet roll that was heavily armed. Any Spacecorps
> ships that had gone anywhere near had been cut down by it's
powerful
> lasers, powerful to pierce any ship and cut all the way through
it's
> hull.
>
> Most significant about the funnel-shaped gateway was that no ship
> could pass through that had any type of organic life on it
> whatsoever.
>
> This was the gateway to the Krylon realm, a mysterious sub-layer
of
> space that had been given the name "Root Directory". Nobody knows
> anything about this strange dimension, but this gateway was the
only
> way to get there.
> The Krylons seemed to be sticklers for security, so they protected
> this entrance to their realm incredibly well. Any ship that passed
> through was subject to an intense scan that killed all living
> creatures, only after a ship was rid of anything that isn't
> mechanical it was allowed to pass through.
>
> The Krylons seemed to be quite racist against anything organic.
>
> Because of this intense scanning method, the gateway had earned
> itself the nickname "the firewall".
>
> "All stop. Don't get any closer to that thing!" Said Commander
> Chrysler. Normally the Captain would be the one giving the orders,
> but as Jay was new, he was standing back and testing his new first
> officer.
>
> Jay had been through the plan a hundred times already, so knew
what
> had to be done. Actually on his part it was very easy, he just
had to
> watch.
>
> The Blue Dwarf had been stripped of all crew and essential items
> because the Space Corps wanted to see what happens if they could
get
> it through the firewall. It would be flown by remote control into
the
> firewall, where it would be scanned before being transported to
the
> Krylon root directory. Once there it would scan the area and send
the
> data back to them before the Krylons realised it was a blatent big
> blue spy and blow it out of the sky.
>
> Jay had argued with the Admirals until he was blue in the face
that
> they should send a smaller ship, one that nobody cared if it got
> blown up. Like a Starbug.
> But the Admirals had all agreed, none of them cared about the Blue
> Dwarf. It was an out-of-date rustbucket that they didn't want
around
> anymore, and it just happened to be roughly the same size as a
Krylon
> warship they had seen.
>
> "The Blue Dwarf is approaching the firewall." Kara said.
> "Lets hope they don't realise it's a fake before it gets there."
Said
> Jay.
> "How could they not realise? It looks nothing like their own
ships!"
> Said Kara. "It's a big blue brick!"
> "The Krylons seem to identify their own ships by code, rather than
> what they look like. It'll get through." Said Jay optimistically.
> "Then what?" Said Kara. "How do we get it back?"
> Jay was quiet for a moment before answering. "We probably don't."
> "Oh."
>
> <TBC>
>