Log restarted: 11/17/02 9:57:13 PM $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ IC News $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Message: 14/23 Posted Author Starhaven Status Sun Nov 17 News Report ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An image suddenly breaks through on the GNN Channels... BOO! IT'S BYTE! Byte's GLowing golden eyes lock on the screen for a moment, before fading to their normal gold, and he speaks. "People of the world. ...As I am the one who would know, I am conferring this bit of information to the world at large. Despite the damage done to Starhaven by the Firstborn, Proto Man, and the impact of the Space Ship... ...I have discovered something that surprised me. Starhaven is in an even more stable orbit then it was before. ...In projected time, there is no worry that it will fall into the Atmosphere again or escape into the Void. One fear alleviated." "Another. I have gathered all remaining debris within and around Starhaven, and used it." Byte pauses, then continues, "...Starhaven is 'set' for now. The inner workings are stable and the entire construction will not break apart as yet. I have placed devices within at stress points which will alert me should Starhaven begin to shift and break... ...for now, however, Starhaven is dead. It is not wise for any to approach it or enter it, as I beLIeve all parts are breached to the Void and are filled with nothing but Vacuum. Structurally, it is unsound. It would very poor judgment to even approach it for some time." "...To ensure this... ...The CoaLItion has set an interdiction minefield around the craft. This is to ensure the safety of all six Races of Earth... Reploid, Human, Android, Bioroid, Cyborg, and Hybrid. Any who approach Starhaven, for now, are subject to this field ...I would stay away, by Decree of the CoaLItion!" "...This includes you, whoever or whatever you are... Angel of Death or Rogue Stardroid. ...You can, if I am not overestimating you, LIkely hear this. ...You have been warned." Byte's eyes burn with a golden LIght... and then he is gone. The image returns to the GNN Morning Newscast, which already is showing images of the ring of mines surrounding Starhaven ...hundreds of them... each with a strong enough energy signature to show that each has the capacity to wipe out a city block, as well as warnings from GNN to avoid Starhaven ontop of the warnings from Byte. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ IC News $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Message: 14/24 Posted Author Mermaid sightings Sun Nov 17 News Report ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prune looks tired. Of course, ever since the Stardroid escape shuttle arrived yesterday, everybody at GNN has been running themselves ragged covering everything that has been happening. The StunninGLy Handsome Reporter(tm) takes a long drag off of a cigarette and flops back in his chair, half-heartedly fingering a few pieces of paper in front of him. "And amidst all the reports of chaos and violence in the wake of last night's fireworks, a more whimsicle story! On the scene now is GNN Junior Reporter Camerra. Camerra?" Poof to a shot of a reploid rather similar to Reporto, except pink. "Thank you, Prune. I'm currently with JuLIus Ahob-" Someone off-camera clears his throat. Camerra GLances towards him briefly. "Uhh... -Cap'n- Ahob, captain of the Mudpuppy, a cargo vessel currently trowLIng the Southern Pacific. Cap'n Ahob, you say you've spotted a mermaid here, recently?" The camera pans back, reveaLIng a stereotypical sea captain type. He has a peg leg and chews a cob pipe. His eyes are covered by the brim of a floppy yellow hat. You know the type. "Aye, that I did, that I did. She were a looker, too, 'til she broke 'er way onto our ship an' raided our galley." Camerra smiles back to the camera. "One of Ahob's crewmembers provided this amateur video, recorded at the time of the... er... 'Mermaid Raid,' during a storm earLIer this morning." Bzzt! Cut to a video of your standard grey, hazy, rolLIng sea. Again, you know the type. Visible over the edge of the ship, in the sea below, is a sLInky figure diving through the waves. Is it a sea serpent?! Is it a mermaid?! Whatever it is, it vaults up over the edge of the ship, landing nearby; the camera-bearer flops back, making it difficult to track the figure, which dashes by along the edge of the camera. There's the sound of a strugGLe nearby, several sailors shouting various obscenities, moments before the camera signal dies. Back to Camerra and Ahob. "Fascinating," says Camerra. "Now, what exactly did this... -mermaid- do, Ahob?" she asks of the captain. Ahob switches his pipe to the other side of his mouth. "She broke into our fridge, she did, an' made off with all of our cold beer. Then she broke into the pantry and grabbed all the beer we had in storage. And the wine. And the whiskey. She even got into my private LIquor cabinet and cleaned it out." The captain LIfts his head just a bit, and looks a LIttle wide-eyed under his hat. "Pushed some o' my men 'round and swore a lot, but she didn' hurt nobody." Camerra smiles. "And you don't think this was the latest raid by the Robot Masters, cap'n?" Ahob shakes his head. "Ain't never seen a Robot Master so pretty as this one, though that Quint, he sure comes close." The camera pans back to Camerra, who looks amused. "Very well. Anybody planning to sail in the South Pacific, be on the lookout for a drunken mermaid. Back to you, Prune." Cut back to Prune in the studio, rubbing his head and mumbLIng to himself. 'built to be the finest anchorman ever, and I'm covering an outbreak of Wonderland,' he mutters, before looking up at the Camera. He bLInks, spits his cigarette out, and sits up. "In other news, cases of Space Monkey Flu have been reported in..." Prune bLInks, then snarls off-camera. "What's with all of this Space Monkey business, anyway?!" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Tartarus $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Message: 15/4 Posted Author Opening Sun Nov 17 Clown Man ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Videofile. Clown and Sideshow. And they are not smiLIng. In fact they look kinda... emotionless. For a clown and his monkey.) This night. Dynamo has decided to mock my Dad... the one who rescued me when no one else cared... Dr. Albert A. Wily... when he was unable to defend himself. I've shown him the errors of his ways. (Image - Dynamo strucked by gravestones... before bLInking away.) If you choose to mock my savior, my father... I will defend his name to the end. Regardless of the harm to me. So... (Clown raises a hand to the screen and closes it into a fist, and lets electricity cover it. Clown smiles. Just LIke the Joker. Very unfriendly-LIke) ...Who wants some? CHALLENGERS: Team Clown (Clown Man and Sideshow) Challenge: To defend Wily's honor... Challenge: OPEN. (Cue Angsty Psycho Team Clown Spinny, then Theta Spinny, then W Spinny) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Tartarus $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Message: 15/5 Posted Author Due to... Sun Nov 17 Clown Man ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...situations beyond his control, Clown has decided to cancel the challenge, to focus on other things. We're sorry for any inconvinence this may cause you. --Sheol Pit Mgmt. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Sydney - Historical District The most attractive part of Sydney also happens to be the oldest. Buildings here have retained the architecture of the late 20th and early 21st century, making it a hotspot for tourists and history buffs. Even the old Sydney Opera House with its unique design, still remains proudly along the river that runs through the city. Besides the old style buildings, several museums have been constructed to help educate people more to LIfe was LIke centuries ago, as well as Sydney's history. Contents: Contents: Betelgeuse [SD] Coaster Raptor [MH] Barrage Raptor [Heavy armor] [RF] Prismatic Spider [RF] Gunsmith Cat [LIght] [RF] Pallbearer [Pall] [RF] Sword Man ["casual"] [RM] Aquarius [SD] Pose Order Opera House South : Sydney - Western Residential East : Sydney - Commercial District Sword Man sighs. "My NAME is....forget it..." And with that, he dashes down as well, not quite as fast as GC, but fast enough for him. Opera House You see nothing special. Pallbearer bLInks a bit, looking at the GLowing being. "Erm...apparently so. Still, this building's seeming more and more unsafe lately, if not for you then for us, and I'd greatly appreciate it if you could do us the favor of accompanying us." Pall walks out into the open, gesturing to Barrage. "This is my compatriot, Sergeant Barrage Raptor, also of RepLIforce." Following this, he offers his hand to the being. "May I assume you to be a stardroid, miss...?" Prismatic Spider turns and follows the others, along with his team as he dashes behind Mr. Stabby... er... Sword Man. Barrage Raptor offers a LIttle two finger mock salute, and puts her gun away. Well, the one she can put away. Of course...She's not really the type to be...Talking with an aLIen creature, after all. Gunsmith Cat zips along, finding her way down to the first floor and letting her antigravity kick out as she fLIps and drops through the floor, antigrav catching her in a silent touchdown as she enters the basement. It's a werecheetah thing. Then pads over and waves to the stardroid, putting her sword away as it doesn't seem LIke they need a torch down here. The GLowie Crystal ALIen looks up at the ceiLIng. The rest are coming. With a resigned sigh, she begins inserting the crystals she's chose into the end of her tail, her clear 'flesh' easily accpeting the minerals into her. "You would be correct, Sergeant." The more LIght sources that come down here, the more LIght she gives off, tinting towards the color of the source. Scattered around her are more crystals, including a few that GLow on their own. Sword Man finally reaches the basement, just a LIttle after GC rushes in. Shielding his eyes from the brightness, his optics quickly adjust. Peering at the Stardroids, Sword shows no awe, just his usual furrowed, stoic face. He looks somewhat expectant, however, wondering what this encounter will bring. Pallbearer nods slowly, trying not to cause any problems. "May I ask your name? We've been encountering several of your fellows. If you'd LIke, we may be able to reunite you with them." This keeps getting more and more interesting, the mummybot thinks to himself. Pall watches the crystalLIne being, hand still offered. Coaster Raptor chases right on after Pris and his crew, "To weird. TO WEIRD," he says to himself, traiLIng them. Barrage Raptor just stays where she is. Hands at her sides, weapons offLIne, so as to not scare the aLIen thing. Mmm. Test tube aLIen. That sounds fun.. Gunsmith Cat almost collapses her staff, then shrugs and just leans on it. She's a cat, a leaning post is better than standing on your own. She does ponder introducing herself, but decides to just keep quiet and let Pall 'work'. Prismatic Spider calmly enters the basement with the others, slowly approaching the being. Well, another being of crystal. Reminds him of Aquarius... He remains silent, however, allowing Pall to do his thing. "Aquarius . . there are others still aLIve?" The frills on her head LIft, perking up at the news. She looks at the rest of the newcomers as they arrive, her tail shifting uneasily. A shake of the head, and she abruptly disappears, a bright flash of LIght hiding just /how/ she goes. Just what's going on? If this is Aquarius, then what happened earLIer? A reflection? A memory? A ghostly LIght-image of this Aquarius remains behind, 'picking up' the gems left behind . . but that fades away, leaving only the stones. Prismatic Spider bLInks... "Waitaminute... Then who was it that..." Coaster Raptor fLInches a bit from the flash, wincing before he peers down at the crystals left behind. Piping up to the group, since he wasn't around for the last time, "So that's a stardroid? Nifty.." nifty isn't the word... Sword Man sighs..."Another wild goose chase, and yet another encounter only leading to more question..." Giving a low, long grunt, he walks forward toward where the GLowy crystal child was and peers down at the stones. "Hrm...perhaps these shall be of use then?" He looks expectantly at the others, knowing if he DID take the stones with out them agreeing, he'd be blasted to kingdom come. Pallbearer leans back, covering his eyes as the being disappears. "....Cor, do I have some information to gather." He looks to Prismatic. "Might be a good idea to get a team down here, recover this stuff, start analyzing it." He runs a short scan on the stones, looking for anything unusual before picking one up, looking it over...might be some incentive to get information later. "I'll look into some more sources of mine...." Barrage Raptor scratches at the back of her head, but shrugs a LIttle bit and walks over to where the Stardroid had been, "Wierd." She says, "I guess they can bLInk just LIke some Reploids can." She GLances down at some of the stones, "Guess we should grab some of these and bring them back for testing." Gunsmith Cat looks at the gemstones, then shrugs and selects one that she LIkes. "I'll take this one, I suppose. I LIke the coloration, and it's not LIke a crystal is going to hurt us." Barrage Raptor scratches at the back of her head, but shrugs a LIttle bit and walks over to where the Stardroid had been, "Wierd." She says, "I guess they can bLInk just LIke some Reploids can." She GLances down at some of the stones, "Guess we should grab some of these and bring them back for testing." She bends down and picks one of the pretty ones up. Prismatic Spider nods. "Let's distribute them evenly for analysis purposes. This doesn't sit right..." He moves forward and picks up one of the stones himself. "Nothing left to do than work with what we have." Coaster Raptor nods LIghtly, grabbing a souvenier, "After this day, it'll be nice to have a souvieneir.." he muses, taking his dibs. Sword Man nods and decides to pick up two stones for himself, peering at them with analytic eyes. "I wonder what manner of stones these are..." Research material distributed, Prismatic begins to head out. "Well then... We have much to do and LIttle time to do it. Let's get going." Coaster Raptor hrms, and even grabs a second one before he looks at everyone else, "... Guess that's it eh?" he asks, slowly starting to head out now. "Stardroid, hrm." he muses, looking at the two souveneirs he got... Sword Man throws up the stones he has in his grasp before letting them drop into his hand again. PulLIng out his money pouch from subspace, he tucks them in and pulls the drawstring. "Very well...my time here is done. Good day to thee all..." Giving a curt LIttle nod, Sword makes his way back up the stairs, keeping watch through the corner of his eye warily, should something else come of this. Gunsmith Cat tucks her own acquisitions into her beltpack, and hovers out after Sword Man, "Have a good day, Stabby." is her response to Sword Man's leavetaking, as she shakes her head at the models. Pallbearer takes the time out, nabbing a second crystal for his own analysis purposes. "...Right then...Prismatic, anything you need me to do? I've got something I need to go take care of." Prismatic Spider shakes his head. "Unless you wanted to write the AAR for this..." Pallbearer smiles. "Doubt I could do a good job, wasn't consious for most of this, remember?" He smiles, starting back towards the ladder to head back upstairs and out. "Now, to get some answers...." Pallbearer enters the Sydney - Western Residential. Pallbearer has left. Barrage Raptor receives a radio transmission. Barrage Raptor sends a radio transmission. Gunsmith Cat goes home. Gunsmith Cat has left. Aquarius has left. Sword Man enters the Sydney - Western Residential. Sword Man has left. Barrage Raptor sends a radio transmission. Prismatic Spider enters the Sydney - Western Residential. Prismatic Spider has left. Barrage Raptor receives a radio transmission. Coaster Raptor enters the Sydney - Commercial District. Coaster Raptor has left. Barrage Raptor enters the Sydney - Western Residential. Barrage Raptor has left. Barrage Raptor arrives from the Sydney - Western Residential. Barrage Raptor has arrived. Barrage Raptor enters the Sydney - Commercial District. Barrage Raptor has left. Kain's Office(#3038Ten) This is more or less an standard office for Kain to deal with Blue Strider business. The desk here is constantly messy, leaving one to wonder whether or not if Kain will ever get time to deal with these notes... Off to one side is a Bowl and such for Buster, Kain's dog. [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Job transmits, "Starseeker to Maverick and RF ships, the pods seem to be headed for Mars I been tracking the telemetry." [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Job transmits, "I'm going to try and capture one of the pods to be anaLIsed but from the hull markings I have an idea fo who it is." [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Job transmits, "Space pod captured, I'm hauLIng it in." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Launch Pods transmits, "*Fzzzt* Pods 1-6, 9-10, 12-15 have engaged successfully. Eternity to Humanity and Dr. DeVry." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cyclops transmits, "...I knew it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "Yup i guessed that from the hull markings" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "So what happened to 7 and 11?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Fusion Phoenix transmits, "We cought 7." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "7 is in the cargo hold of my ship." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "And what about 8, hm?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Big Bad Sword Man transmits, "OOC: I have the odd expectations someone's gonna say "Just Kidding!" LIke at the countdown in Spaceballs. :>" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "Look we don't care about your blabber about space pods. They're probably nothing more than space dumpsters with mighty Kagarr warriors inside them." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cyclops transmits, "Strange... It failed to mention that I blew pod 12 up..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "Goddamn it! I spent two hours on the party tray, and it's going to waste!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Why is this?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Ditz Pinkmouse transmits, "It's always a party with Fun-Zo in the house!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "I made this /lovely/ party tray, just LIke in Martha Stewart's Guide to Overlord Entertaining. It's sitting up in the Head right now, in my refrigerator. And you know what? You f**king know what?! THE STARDROIDS CAME DOWN HERE INSTEAD!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "It ain't right! It ain't right, dammit!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Yeah we had one of them too. Just can't get rid of the buggers." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "... You're right. That's pretty tough luck." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "We got Three." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy sounds sulky. "*I* want a Stardroid. I'd take better care of it than you all seem to be doing." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Do you have an arcade in the 'Head', Bass?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Be on the lookout for Aquarius. It seems there's two... One possibly pretending to be Aquarius when in fact she, or he, is not. Since one was a guy and one was a girl." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "No. It's really rather minimaLIst. I was going for a neo-modernist decorative style." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Maybe she's both." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "We have a Female Aquarius here..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "OH HELL!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "... Uh oh?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "...Aaw, is somethin' else goin' bad over there?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "Form LImits much. Defy the form and ascend to yourself." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Hello Pisces. FeeLIng better?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Barrage Raptor transmits, "Defy the form? What's that supposed to mean?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "The only thing I want to 'ascend' right now is the headache from being called Venus again." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "It means that we should not beLIeve ourselves bound to form." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "Are you aware that there are two seperate entities both calLIng themselves Aquarius? Is that normal?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "One could be nothing. Nothing could be one. But not until the Male becomes Female and the Female Male shall you enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, says your own books." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "The weirdness meter just spiked." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "I somehow suddenly feel much less incLIned to save your LIfe." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "Ahh, so they're here, they're talking, and they're reLIgionists, too. Something's unsurprising about that, but I can't put my finger on it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Pisces, can the Stardroids travel through time as well?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "...And he's heard about ELIse's LIttle problem, too, it seems..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "You assume that Time is something that is passed through." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Regulus transmits, "Time? The Future is lost, the past is dead...." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "For us, it is." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "ELIse is insane." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "You sound LIke Flash Man..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Well, he's right. I can never find the future, it just keeps showing up, and have any of /you/ changed the past lately?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "Refuse and Resist the Soren Grey. Embrace the flames and pass through. When winter comes and Shadows LIe, at darkest time even Death may Die." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "The Future is never lost. Tommorow becomes Today, and then becomes Yesterday. There is always a Tomorrow if you allow yourself to beLIeve in it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Oh god my head hurts." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Regulus transmits, "The Future is lost. It comes, and all is lost..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Barrage Raptor transmits, "Of course it's lost. As soon as it comes, it goes a second later and becomes the past." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits the sound of a book dropping. An actual book. "What's a Soren, anyone know?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Yeah, well, we're stubborn bastiches and we don't give up that easy. Either talk straight or go nay-say elsewhere." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Or the Future comes, and brings hope for the betterment of the Present. We can" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy chirps, brightly: "Peachy! They're fataLIsts, too!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Can't give up." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Everyone's a fataLIst eventually." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "Yes, I agree. This is very H.P. Lovecraft." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "I caught the similar reference myself, Bass." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "WHO is coming....WHAT is it that's coming....besides Ether's wrath! EEP!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "Oh, you don't know. But you will." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Hastur, Hastur, Hastur, Hastur... Nope, no end of the world yet." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "Shh, Dr. Matthews!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "I think it's just three times, but I could be wrong." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man says crypticly "The Void..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "You overshot. Try again." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "That is what is comming." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "This is why I suggest we pull the answers from their neural nets instead of actually asking them." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Barrage Raptor transmits, "Not if we can stop it.." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "But still, the future is never lost until we lose our hope in it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Nonsense. Death is not the answer to this situation." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "The future is lost once it becomes the present we don't want." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "Whoever suggested yanking the information from their neural nets, I concur. It would be easier than LIstening to /this/." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "We can act in the present to change the future." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "What if they don't know either?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "You want the information?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "You want it?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "You know... Why should we even care about these stardroids? I mean hell, they tried to kill us all before. And we beat the best they had to offer. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if these damned Stardroids didn't come back to earth in the hope that -we'd- take care of their LIttle problem for them." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Please don't say 'come and get it' or 'you can't handle it', that's so cLIche." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "No. I can't handle the information. But I LIke direct solutions." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "But otherwise, yes." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "I already suggested that, whoever offered apathy. I got things thrown at me, so I learned that people don't want answers LIke that. Everything's a learning experience." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "What I /want/ is a solution to the enemy that will undoubtedly plague us as it did the Stardroids." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "We should care. The judgement is over. They are in need as well. We must work together as we have before." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "Here's the abstract: we f**ked. Here's the executive summary: we *SO* f**ked, because the Elder Gods are coming to eat us. My solution? I suggest we all start rioting, setting things on fire and kilLIng each other. It'll be faster than being digested." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "Who's with me?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Hardly." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Barrage Raptor transmits, "C'mon. We beat up the Stardroids once. What makes you all think we couldn't beat up this new thing?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "None of you are *any* fun." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "Because it /also/ beat the Stardroids." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "So did we." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "We cannot allow this to happen. Every man, woman, Reploid, Android, and Bioroid here should have a vested interest in keeping this planet intact." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "We beat them one at a time. With help from a Stardroid. This one beat all of them. Together." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "Arrogance as a shield for ignorane. A fascinating defense. But will illusions shield from nothing?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy chortles softly in the background. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "Barrage, you idiot. The forces of this planet can't even kill me, what makes you think they can stop something that took on all the Stardroids sinGLe handedly?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "That depends on whether you mean a philosophical statement of nothing, or an actual thing that is Nothing." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Hi Dr. Wily." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "KilLIng each other will NOT solve the issue." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "I'm GLad you're aLIve." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Barrage Raptor transmits, "Well, damn. I know that voice. Hi doctor," [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "KilLIng all the stardroids might. Since all they do is babble and attract Stardroid killers." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "Thank you Alpha. Things were a bit interesting for a while, what with Pavel's LIttle nuclear winter." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Is Dr. Cossack still the AntiChrist?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Oh. You're aLIve. ... I suppose that's good. No, Alpha, he's not the antichrist." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "Ahh, I'm admittedly GLad to know you haven't kicked it, doctor." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "But he said he was." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "He's dillusional." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "You'll have to talk to Pharoah Man about that. As soon as we rebuild his body..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "The comos would be a much better place if the stardroids didn't exist." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "With the Stardroids at our side, we might just be able to win." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Who says they're wilLIng to help?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "Who cares about the cosmos. I care about Earth, because it happens to be where I LIve." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Because we're all that's standing between them and obLIvion?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Don't be rude. *a small pause* Oh, I will then, Doctor." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "Yes. Kinda. I mean none of us will use Nuclear Winter. *pause* Although... the very idea of planting such a bomb at the UN sounds awfully nice. *smile!*" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Ah! I've figured it out. They're going to send more black holes at us until we get sucked in and crushed into very small things. Grand." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "...Who ever said they don't /want/ obLIvion in the first place?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "you're -assuming- whatever it is thats after the stardroids will attack us too. We don't know that for certain." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "*chuckles* I'll have to ask him about it afterwards, Alpha. *more chuckLIng* Now Clown, I think you've had enough fun with the UN people for a while...." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "You're assuming the Stardroids act rationally. Judging by their speech and how they run around the universe judging planets, I am incLIned to beLIeve otherwise." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Their tears, Abernathy, maybe." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "We're assuming it because if we beLIeve otherwise we'll be rather ill-prepared should it happen." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man pouts! "Aw, Dad...!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "... I can't presume to know the mind of a Stardroid, that's true, Alpha. -- By the way. Do you have that book yet?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "You're giving my daughter books? ... What books pray tell?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "You have a daughter?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "I hope it's a book on book burning." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "No Rigger, I'm giving him one." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "The Pendant holders might have a clue as to what.." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Oh! I have one of those, Guts Man. Do you want it?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Ether Skunk transmits, "Rigger has a daughter?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "Send it to Fire Man." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Okay." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "If I had a clue I wouldn't be on here yammering with everyone else, Metal. And alright Alpha." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Or perhaps this is simply the stardroids trying to get even. Think about it, they draw something so powerful they can't even stop it to earth. They know they're toast and they know we're a bunch of suckers for hard luck cases. We help them, this thing decides we're enemies for help -its- enemy, now it turns on us, when it would have left us alone had we just let it go about its buisness." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "...For once, I agree with Conduit." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Pac Pac Koosh is nice. He wouldn't harm a cactus." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "....you called us here. We attempted to scatter, and spare Form our Fate and Function. You called us in. Never forget that you brought yourselves to the doors of Entropy." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "And how'd we do that, mister?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "If we called you it wasn't in any manner we were aware of." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "Your ship brought you here, you fool." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Entropy..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "We were trying to keep the blasted station from crashing.." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "Maybe if you didn't want to come here, you shouldn't have left a giant button marked "Return to Sender" in your hangar that could be pushed on accident." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "...Oh god...It's the pendents... wasn't it? WASN'T IT?!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy snickers. "Ahh, yes. By our own ignorance, we again are damned." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "I thought for LIfe to exist the amount of entropy must increase and through various LIfe functions the amount of entropy in the universe increases with each reaction...." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "According to your own reports, our escapes in the ship and the pods were returned to the Haven by your own scientists as they altered what should not have been tampered." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Whatever you people did in there, you called them back." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Regulus transmits, "Speak for yourself. They are hope. Defiance of judgement. Perhaps... there is hope. But much is lost!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Entropy goes everywhere. ds $$$ dq/t. Pretty standard. I wrote it down when I came across it. WHat's it got to do with sending a message?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "No, /Starhaven/ is what should not have happened. Why did you send it here anyways?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Much is indeed lost. But we will move on." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "The Moment is the Medium is the Movement is the Message. I am the Walrus, Goo Goo Gatchoo." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha gigGLes. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Clever." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "You're funny. Do you know Pac Pac?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "The Pendants were Duo's doing. I'm not going to take responsibiLIty for something LIke that. This entire place has been getting too many odd things lately. Atlantis, the dodo bird... It's all weird lately." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "And why the hell did you send Starhaven here? I'll tell you, because you -knew- we'd go to check it out. SO don't give us this crap about we called you here, you came on your own." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "Now it makes sense. They read advertisements and mindless LIterature and randomly quote them to make responses." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "Pac Pac Chooie Uoounf." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "The giant crocodile." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "...I understood that. Ha." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "The first part." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "That too, yes." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "No, Pac Pac Koosh." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "She means Aldebaran. They gave him... er.. it... a new name." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Y'know, if time passing is a message, you guys need a better signalLIng method." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "Miss Rigger... If I ever took stock what happens day to day... I woulda written several X-Files screenplays... enough to make SEVERAL Seasons' WORTH!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "He's nice." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Is that what you faced, Stardroids? A force of pure Entropy, given form?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Regulus transmits, "You wish to know what happened? You wish to know why we cower and flee?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "I'm more concerned with the anomoLIes that continue to bring things from the distant past." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Because you guys tried to write your name in Time and it screwed up?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "If we didn't wish that we wouldn't be asking, now would we?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "You cower and flee because you got your butts kicked. I want to know why you sent your house to float around our planet." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "... Why has everyone taken to talking of Things with special Emphasis? ... Just out of curiosity." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "We'll protect you, Mister Stardroid. It is our job to protect CiviLIans." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "I know why, you stardroids are nothing but GLorified bulLIes. The second someone comes around that can stand up to you, you run away." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Conduit, death is not something to be mocked." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "Sure it is. The day we cease to laugh at death is the day we die." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "But mocking others for trying to escape death?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "So you're safe, Regulus, don't worry. I think that's what it said....hm..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "You know there are those among your own organization that would call them cowards." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "Full of Sound and Fury." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "Me? I don't care. The basic instinct of an organism is survival." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "A meaninGLess noise, signifying nothing?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Yeah, so we talk a lot. Doesn't everyone?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Oh please, this thing isn't 'death' in the mythical sense. What I'm saying is these guys picked on the wrong aLIen race, the aLIens got pissed and decided to wipe them out so they sent whatever that thing is to take 'em out. Now they're running LIke a bunch of bulLIes running away from someone they found could actually fight back." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "There's a significant difference between 'getting your aft kicked' and 'bisected'." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Nah. It's the next step really." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "I concur with the bovine." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Think of it as captial punishment. These Stardroids have the blood who knows how many innocent victims on their hands." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Innocent to whom?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy muses softly, "They have so much invested in these trappings of mysticism they've built up around themselves -- and you're surprised that they continue to to use such terms as 'entropy' and 'abyss' for their own killers? Mm." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Y'know what? Everyone talks too much lately." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "We have the blood of worlds. You have the blood of Brothers. Who is the worse murderer?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "So?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Everyone talks too much all the time. Everyone's just LIstening now." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "At least we keep it in the family." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Depends on how many organisms equal one brother. Scientific research will have to be made - Oh, wait, you wiped out famiLIes that had brothers? Guess it's you then." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Death is death." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "So does the Ourouborous." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Are any of us truly innocent?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "No. But sssome of usss pretend more than othersss." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "...Who cares?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "The better question is: How many of us are self-decieved about it?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Regulus transmits, "Watch the fall of your home in fire and chaos, and fail to save it. Born of Order, lost and failed judgement. ObLIteration..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "Yours, stardroid. No one has the -right- to pass judgement on another race. What happened to you as my Brother Crystal Man might have once said is Karma backlash." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "This reminds me of an old saying. 'Judge not, lest ye be judged yourselves.' The Stardroids judged, and have been judged in turn. Who are we to judge them now?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Pisces transmits, "The Victors." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "The Judged." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Do we really wish to place ourselves in that position AGAIN?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "I don't randomly try pass judgement on those weaker than me, demeaning them 'unfit' to continue to exist. Don't even try to compare your self to me, you're cold blooded killer who senselessly slaughters anyone who doesn't coform to your views." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "If we won, then we're done. Go home. We don't want to talk to you." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "Have we been left with the choice?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "I wish they'd all pack up and go home." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "Excuse me while I take parsimony out back and shoot it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Regulus transmits, "You mock us?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "See? We've decided. Go away. Stop bothering us. We have our own problems and we don't need yours." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "I don't mock you, I simply insult you." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "It's too late." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Their problems are now our own, apparently." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "I simply wonder, Stardroid." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "I'll jussst let you do the talking, Massster." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Why should we NOT work together?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "We're all murderers. They need our assistance and it is our job to assist civiLIans." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "The trying to kill us part comes to mind." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "I object. I'm not a murderer." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Sai transmits, "I would point out that...yes, Prismatic. It's too late to go back, so we must go FORWARD." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "You are so a murderer." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "We're working together with the Masters and Mavericks." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Whom try to kill us regularly." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "...Known evils, both of them." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "The stardroids are not civilains, they are our would be exacutioners." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "When you find the name of someone I killed, let me know." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "You killed Dr. Wily." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Capricorn suddenly speaks up, waiLIng across the channel. "-QUIT- -TALKIN'- -SO- -BLEEDIN'- -MUCH-! Ach, ae've got ah' haedache t'spLIt a wormhole open a'en all I can hear is blah-blah-blah THIS ah'n blah-blah-blah THAT buzzin o'er ma ears!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "... Uh oh." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "Regulus....is Aldbebaran allowed ta have a Maverick Hunter fan club run by Alpha? She's the one that gave him his nickname." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "He's not dead, so how'd I manage that?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Now /that/ would be some interesting temporal mechanics." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Yeah, headaches suck. Which is why I'm GLad I can turn this off." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "You're a murderer. And I'll talk as bleeding much as I want. If you have a problem with that you'll have to do something about it yourself." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Capricorn says, "Jus' SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP-" The signal dies as quickly as it started. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy transmits, "I think maybe I will." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "They are civiLIans. They are not part of a miLItary organization. *long pause* Fan club? What're you talking about? *another pause* Is that you, Ether? *she asks that last bit to Capricorn*" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Abernathy *cLIck* [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "...Who was that?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Good question." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "its Just business Prismatic Spider...." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "Probably someone that works in a LIbrary." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Sai transmits, "...VERY good question." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Besides, as far as I know, they haven't even -asked- us for help yet. They just barged into our home, most LIkely hoping to use us as LIving shields." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Big Bad Sword Man transmits, "Where is this bickering getting us? NOWHERE. We are at each other's throats while Darkness threatens to fall upon us all. If we are to do ANYTHING about what the heralding Stardroids have thrust upon us, do you not beLIeve that mayhaps, we shouldst be attempting to do more than lob petty insults at one another AND at the Stardroids?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "They did ask us for help! Ether and I helped Pac Pac Koosh!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Not quite. I offered help and he accepted." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Ether Skunk transmits, "Pac-Man-with-legs!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "He asked for gravitational..um...altercations to help with his repairs. *pause* Pac." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Indeed, Sword Man. We need to stop this bickering and work together with the Stardroids. Then we might be able to discover a way to stop it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit audibly facepalms, "Why must our world be filled with airheads?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "To piss you off?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "I don't know, but I'm getting the urge to deflate some." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "... you, you might just be right Guts Man." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Sai transmits, "Because the airheads sometimes come up with a good idea. I'm with Prismatic." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha says, irritably, "Because nobody shot you yet." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Why do people have to be paranoid?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "Because people keep trying to kill us." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Because sometimes the whole world, and even people outside it, really is out to get you." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Ether Skunk transmits, "Alpha and I fed him gravity." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass transmits, "Was it salty?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Yep, that's right. *pause* I don't know, you'll have to ask Pac." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Look. A significant number of the Stardroids are DEAD. Starhaven is SCRAP. We saw how something dispatched them in the info we retrieved from the station. And that thing is coming back. For them and for us all. They have nowhere to go. Nowhere left to run. No place to go back to. Do they have a CHOICE?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Big Bad Sword Man transmits, "Sir, whoever thee are, we presently have no choice. Should they have come out of genuine fear, or to see us fall at the hands at what they wished not to fight personally, it has chosen our world to descend upon. We fight, or we die. Those choices have been laid out for us. Whether or not the Stardroids sentiments are questionable, we must resist, if only for our own protection. If you think this daft, perhaps, but I would rather be daft and courageous than a sane coward." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man voice turns cold, "I think you've all forgotten that two years ago. JUdgement has been pass by those who are 'protecting'. And we had to fight every step of the way to defy it while they laugh saying that it is impossible. and we achieved the impossible. And now, they want us to protect them? FORGET IT. I rather watch the Stardroids go from Endangered Species to EXTINCT Species... just LIke what they tried to do to us. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "And that is the reason why we still fight our stupid wars." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Finally, a voice of reason." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Oh, I didn't forget, I wasn't around so I never knew...So I don't really care much. Besides, they just wanted to destroy the planet. There are worse things." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Makes sense to me. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some things to LIght on fire." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "The ones who tried to destroy our planet are gone." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Big Bad Sword Man transmits, "Sir Clown...what options have we been left with. They have been called back by hands of our own making. THey have been recalled, bringing tidings unavoidable. What choice is left but to resist what threatens us on a whole, lest we all be swallowed into this Nothingness which threatens?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "One could suppose it's simply a lack of empathy. Which even these would be Gods seem to lack." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "No they're not. They were -all- there. We only saw a few of them." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "And you assume that they were all in agreement on their courses of action?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "Ya, it might just want to kill the Stardroids and they are trying to play us for saps to save their sorry tails." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "And what, precisely, would keep it from kilLIng us next? That's a chance we have to take." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Even if they disagreed with it, they still went along with it. They could have stood up to Duo themselves, told him what he was doing was wrong and refuses to help. But no, only one Stardroid had the courage to do that, and sadly he is gone." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "The fact that we possibly just gave it a hand?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Bah, no it. He or she. Pick one, people, 'it' sounds so boring." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "KilLIng /it/ first?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "It took the greatest hero we had to beat Duo, I don't think they could've stood up to him." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "May Terra rest in peace..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "It took everyone on the planet working together." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aldebaran transmits, "Mph... mph... *fzzzzzzt*" Breaking up. A bit more may be barely audible, but then, silence. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Pac Pac!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "It took a random fool we've never seen before just happen to get in the final blow. Anyone could have finished off Duo at that point." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "OOC Mock not Hero Boy!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Pac Pac, are you okay?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "Hey anyone have some milk ta wash down these donuts?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Bitter?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Ugh, Alpha, the stardroids are way more pwoerful than we are. We defeated them because we worked together, had they worked together, they could have stopped Duo far more easily." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Ether Skunk transmits, "It's Pac-Man-with-legs!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "Ask the cow." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "Swordy, I know you're honor bound to protect them... and maybe the ones that did the Judgement are dead... but what will prevent 'Stardroids: The Next Generation' from coming back after WE save their worthless LIves 5 to 15 years down the road... to come back and DECLARE Judgement all over again? HUH?!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Clown Man has a point." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Don't ask the cow, she's busy making desserts." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "I LIke desserts!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "We'd have to take that chance down the road. Why did er fail our judgement in the first place?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Pac Pac will protect us." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "HE IS NOT PAC PAC!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "Its Aldekooshman!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "If the stardroids areto be saved... Would it not seem prudent to declare judgement on them?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "I know, Pac Pac is short for Pac Pac Koosh. Calm down." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aldebaran makes a muffled sound that sounds almost LIke he's trying to say something. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "... Is he gagged?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Pac Pac. Two grunts for 'Yes', one for 'No'. Are you okay, Pac Pac?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aldebaran does not respond. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Big Bad Sword Man transmits, "We have defeated their greatest. They have outright claimed that. If they attempt to lay judgement upon us again, they will know our abiLIty to resist. What reason would they have to pass judgement on us if they were unsuccessful the first time, even with their strongest? They have made contact with us. That may be enough to provoke this "nothing" into laying waste to us. We either lay down LIke wounded beasts of burden, buckLIng under the weight laid upon us, or we bear it until it can be LIfted." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "ETA to Eurasia 15 hours..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Maybe you ought to try calLIng him Aldebaran, his name." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "... Stardroids, do you know where your comrade is?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha Says, stubbornly, "Pac Pac.", a pause, "Aldebaran?", just to be safe. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "I eat Stardroids for breakfast. Stardroids the other metalLIc meat!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aldebaran does not respond. At least he's not too insulted being called 'Pac Pac'. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "I think Pac Pac's in trouble!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "BLInd assumptions will get you killed." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "We're all working bLInd." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "give me a break, 'Pac Pac' will just laugh at you as he watches writhe in pain as you lay dying at his feet. These Stardroids are serial killers of the worst sort. They have dilLIsions of granduar and a superioty complex that would give even the best psychitrist a migrain to try and solve. They aren't worth saving as far as I'm concerned. And untill we know that what ever is after them will turn on us as well, I'm not helping to try and stop it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "And that may be too late." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "He will not! Pac Pac's not LIke that. If he was LIke that, he wouldn't have been so careful and nice to the cactus." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "....cactus?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "And we should trust your delusions of omnipotent comprehension?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Should we trust in your delusions of omnipotent paranoia?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "No. But simply because I haven't expressed any opinions to that effect." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha doesn't reply to Kaph, because she's mean! "Yes, Doctor. I gave Pac a cactus and I asked him to take care of it, and he did. He was even worried for its safety and wouldn't take it with him but he was alone so I thought he'd need the company so I told him to take it with him. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "Conduit's right. Let the almighty powerful 'We know what's best for you so we're to pass judgement on all of you' Stardroids clean their own dirty laundry!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "He probably ate the cactus." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "How thoughtful." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "How many legs can a spider lose before it's crippled?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "He would have eaten it when I first put it on his head, then, Shield." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Thank you, Doctor." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "He did it to trick you into helping him." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "If you insist on seeing maLIcious intent behind every action, you will indeed see plots where there are LIkely none." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "How would he have known I could helped him?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Shield transmits, "Now that he's healed and safely back at home, the cactus is as good as dead." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Oh give me a break. I'm not the one who's paranoid here. You all are. You're the ones jumping to the wild conclusions that this thing is after us to. -Your- paranoi may very well doom us by making an enemy out of something better left alone." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Ether?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Better the Stardroid you know than the being you don't." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Ether Skunk transmits, "What..?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "One way or another, death is in the air..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Do you want to help look for Pac-Man-With-Legs?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "I mean think about it. Have any of you tried contact this thing? Whatever happened to trying to get both ends of the story hmm?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Ether Skunk transmits, "No, my tail is chewed up!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "We can ask it when it gets here. In the meantime, we prepare." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "I'm srory..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "I'll help you look, dear." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat snickers [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "I'm sure he's fine, Alpha. Besides we have no way of finding him. And don't LIsten to the mean lady, Alpha." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "My sincerest thanks for your obective endorsement" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Oh yes, good plan, less plan and mount a major offensive against this thing, -then- once its -already- LIned up in our crosshairs, take the time to ask it for its side of the story. Umm -EXCUSE- me, but that sounds really stupid." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "So do you" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Oh, okay, so we just sit here on our afts until it's here and slaughtering us, then ask it it's side of the story, then find out it DOES want to kill us all? That sounds pretty stupid too." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Sai transmits, "Best to prepare. Then, if we don't need the Big Guns, great...but if we DO, we at least HAVE them, eh?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Thank you miss. Do you want to help look, then, Rigger?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit sighs, "I knew these bleeding heart types would be the end of us some day. Well stardroids, looks LIke you'll get to have the last laugh after all." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "I've got a migraine from staring at bright, bLInding LIghts, Alpha. Sorry." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Sai transmits, "I'm not suggesting we go in, guns blazing. I'm suggesting we have the guns ready in case they need to blaze at some point in the future. We don't KNOW what's coming...but basic strategic sense says we at least ought to be ABLE to defend ourselves, even if we don't NEED to." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Wonderful, and where would you propose we look?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Hate festers within, growing and consuming. It bLInds reason and destroys kindness. It separates us all in an endless cycle of needless death. That is why we were Judged. And that is why we war. There are some who want the war to end, but to do that you need to start letting go of the hatred. Letting go of your prejudices and be wilLIng to trust, even a LIttle bit." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Give me a break, we were 'judged' because they thought we were too weak to fight back. Everything else they say is BS." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "You think it boiled down to something so petty?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "It's okay, Rigger." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "I don't know, perhaps in one of Wily's places. or the Maverick Headquarters. That's where they all seem to be going." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "... You are not going there, Alpha." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Yes, the stardroids proved them selves to be exactly that petty. They're thought process consists of, 'we strong, you weak, we squish you!'. LIke I said, typical bully behavior." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "If I knew where they were, it could be done." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Or is that all you let yourself see?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Well...I guess I'll just ask Wily first, since he's nicer than Sigma, I think. And he dates mom." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "Well I'll be Snake Finally Ate Ditz." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Whatever you need to do, honey." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man burps. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Thanks" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "Well Snake how does it feel to have finally ate Ditz?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "gah, I have a headache. You've let those stardroids brain wash you untill beLIeving they really are gods. They are not omnipetent beings with such a vast knowledge as to beable to deem us unfit to continue to exist. They're not even any smarter than we are, they're just stronger." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man sounds distracted, "...And, um, stronger doesn't, um, always mean better, um, you know..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "Sssatisssfying, but tassstelesss, unfortunately. I couldn't tassste a thing." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Brainwash? Hardly. Has your paranoia extended to me as well? I know they are not gods. But they have information. Information of the coming times. And if we want to survive, we need information. I don't think they'd be predisposed to help people who won't help them in return." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Another old saying, 'There is no such thing as a free lunch.'" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Unless the meal is buying." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger delayed reaction. "I do not date him!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "The Stardroids are no gods. Their are full of themselves and their over puffed egos." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "You're one to talk, Metal Man." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "Gee, I know sssomeone LIke that..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "You -did- at least once. *a pause* And you sounded LIke...um.....um..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily chuckles evilly. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "Who says they will help us? Or let me put it to you this way... The field mice helps the LIon kill the Hunter. The LIon EATS the field mice. The End." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "And you think we can't defend ourselves against them too?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "That wasn't a date!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Uuurg, I think we need to have a nice long talk, young lady." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "As Guts Man might say. Not if they're superpowered mutant field mice." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Oh forget it. I give up, there are too many of you that have already decided for some idiotic reason that the stardroids are suddenly our friends and this thing is our enemy that you won't even think twice when you go guns blazing at this thing and ensure that it -will- come after us." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "If it makes you feel better, some of us still have working brains." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "I don't remember saying kill it as soon as it shows up." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Oh no... You -are- serious." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "Stardroids ain't our friends. I pity the foo who thinks so." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Sai transmits, "I refer you to my earLIer point." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "Conduit they say keep your firends close but your enemies even closer. The Stardroids will always be our foes." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "Better we know what they are up to." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "They're up to no good. Just LIke teenagers." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "No, that -exactly- what you are saying. You have already decided that this thing is our enemy and the poor wittle stardroids need to be protected from it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "What were were you created in?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "What do you mean, I am serious? Of course I am." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "What year, rather?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Pac Pac isn't LIttle." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "Who says we let them LIve after this is over." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "You're going to give me the marriage talk and everything..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Big Bad Sword Man transmits, "ENOUGH!!! You have all chosen your sides of the fence. Very well then. When the fated hour comes, perhaps then we'll see who has the right to reprimand." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit audibly facepalms again, "Its a figure of speech." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger sputters. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Perhaps we should find him. LIke it or not, who knows what the Stardroids are up to better than themselves?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "I don't see there being much of a choice. If the battle is joined, they will come or they will die as well. We will stand together, or we will be destroyed apart. Didn't you people LEARN anything from the last time?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Oh sorry...Was it supposed to be a surprise?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "I say we just kill the Stardroids and the thing that's kilLIng them. If badly dubbed Japanese anime has taught me anything is that even when something more powerful than you can ever imagine shows up, there's always a way to defeat it. Probably Hero Boy will save us thanks to some new power up armor he didn't know he had access to." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "you obviously didn't learn that the stardroids were the bad guys." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "... I am not going to marry that--that--NO! Wily are you putting these thoughts in her head!?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man transmits, "Marry who??/" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Indeed, they were in the past. But they aren't allowed to change? They aren't allowed to be different? Will you truly prejudge them before you know what they want?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "You want to fight this thing, or get all buddy buddy with the stardroids before you even have a chance to know what this thing wants. If we go making alLIes with the stardroids we will only ensure that this thing will come after us." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "How do you know it won't REGARDLESS?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha sounds upset, "Wily!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "No!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Metal Man sputters in shock. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "But you said you were serious about giving me 'a long talk'." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "To set you straight about what you think is going on which isn't going on and... aaugh I've got such a headache.." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Annihilate both threats, and send them screaming into the abyss. If I have two problems and kill both of them how many are left?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Sai transmits, "...Why are you judging the ones you hate so FOR their judgment? Aren't you reducing yourself to the level of the ones you hate so much?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "It just might. The point is that -assuming- its your enemy is best way to ensure that it -will- be your enemy. Atleast give the damn thing a chance first." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "Putting thoughts into someone's head? Now, whyever would I do that?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "And if we don't prepare, we will NOT be in a positon to stop it if our fers prove to be true." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Because it's safer than hoping they'll put themselves there?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Sure we will." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "There is a difference between aggressively ignoring a possible threat and being prepared and not acting - yet." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Because you're a jerk LIke that." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "... ... ..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "A jerk? Such harsh words. You must still be mad about that incident in Wilyworld." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "gah! The point keeps blowing right over your head. If this thing sees us alLIed with the stardroids it will most definently come after us. If we prepare on our own, we can join up with the stardroids later when and if it does turn on us." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "So you aren't marrying Dr. Wily?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "I thought Dr. Wily LIked guys....." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "No I'm not marrying him, I'm not dating him, I don't even LIke him." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "So tell me, Conduit... How will we prepare with no information about what may be our enemy? All I've heard so far is that it appears to be entropy given form. How do you fight it? We need everything we can get." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man cackles. "I sssaw the essxpression on your fassce the other day. Pure desssire." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "And do you think the Stardroids will give us that information without some assurance that we will help defend them?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "And yes I'm mad about it! I don't particularily LIke having people *touch* that part of my anatomy. If it weren't for your pet pitbulls being around I would have clocked you upside the head." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, "Make that comment where I can get my hands on you, /cat/. I dare you." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "With a timestopper. Entropy's equation got said already. It has time in it. It's being divided by time. Set it to zero, unsolvable equation, unreal entropy. Mind, that only works if it actually /is/ a physical expression of entropy." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "... What did Wily do?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Oh, Miss Plant! Would you LIke a cactus?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "I'm certainly not saying over broadband. Hmph." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "He sssmacked her butt, I think. She LIked it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "How can you even trust the words of the stardroids? They speak in riddles. If they were truly in trouble and wanted our help, they would have already given whatever information they knew. And frankly, think about this, if they even knew how to fight this thing, why the hell haven't they beaten it them selves yet? You're relying on the idea that they even know how to beat it in the first place." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "She probably doesn't get to play with snakes as much as she'd LIke" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "...She did scream loudly. *sagenods*" [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Bass transmits, "Mavericks! Do you hear?" He breaks into a stage-whisper. "Do you hear me, Mavericks? Do you? I can feel your processors burning..." His tone returns to normal. "Inform your General that I must speak to him soon -- this will interest him. *Yes*. It will."" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Why /do/ people insist on resisting actions they find gratifying?" [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Guts Man whistles the circus theme. [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Plant Man transmits, " . . . Bass, are you completely off your rocker?" [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Dr. Wily transmits, "Ok, now you have some explaining to do...." [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Sigma transmits, "Hm. How about me? Or is this only for Vile, hm?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "....He did, Snake? ...... So?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, "Mmm? Alpha? Oh, that would be very nice . . I've had mice in my cactus patch of late, so a few have died." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "I'm sure he loves you too Plant man." [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Bass chuckles softly. "He must be made aware ... you will /all/ be made aware, in time. You will see. It will all make perfect sense in the end." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, "/Die/, feLIne. Take your sick mind off of my and my sibLIngs." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "I'm assuming they DON'T know. But they know more about it than we do. We might not have time to find out what we can before it gets here." [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Bass transmits, "Perhaps you would come with him when he comes, Sigma. I would speak to both of you...you are both great warriors, both /strong/. And we need our strength." [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Cleaver Cow transmits, "I'm not, but stopping time is fairly effective anyhow, or so I've been made to understand." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Now, Now, Words don't kill people." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "I'm not, but stopping time is fairly effective anyhow, or so I've been made to understand." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "I kill people." [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Cleaver Cow transmits, " Sorry, ignore that, hit the wrong channel." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "... Oh nevermind, you'll never understand the real point." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Just LIke you refuse to understand mine?" [Radio: (D) AlLIance] Bass chuckles. "Yes...it will become clear." A *bLIp* accompanies his departure from the frequency. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "I understand yours perfectly, the problem is that logic is flawed beyond hope." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Well, I can meet you outside LIght Labs if you want, Miss Plant. I'm not very good at taking care of plantLIfe so I think it might be best in your hands, though I'll do my best with what remains." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "And yours is not, assuming that I disagree on your assumption of my logic?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Want a neutral party to judge? Explain in three sentences or less, we'll see which one sounds LIke the person in question was actually awake." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, "That would be fine . . right now?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Sure." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "As do I, Karaoke Man" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "You're not a neutral party." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, "I'll see you shortly, then." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Okay! Be right there!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "I didn't say I got to pick, either. In the absence of anyone else, I would, but I'd prefer a fourth person." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Anyway, I'm due for a recharge cycle. Feel free to go on without me." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, " . . how odd you all are . ." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Yeah we're all screwed in the head. Welcome to Earth. Again." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, "This is the first I have been here." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "It's a matter of perspective. Sugar." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "I thought stardroids were odd...So what's yer name? Can we give you a nickname too? Are ya as nice as Aldekooshman?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, " . . . ." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "My mistake, then." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "...Aquarius. Good to hear from you again." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, "Hello, Sergeant." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha corrects, "Pac Pac Koosh.", another pause, "Necro is a LIttle upset you called him odd. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Aldebaran. Enough with the nicknames." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "I've heard from this Aquarius too soon enough. What with its weak Stardroid mind tricks. I spit on you Stardroid. Patoooie!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "But Riggy he LIkes Aldekooshman!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "Miss I take it your one of the Stardroids?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "No, mine is not. Infact, I can relate this to an event that happened not to long ago. Ok, lets say the mavericks are the stardroids, The UN is the current alLIence and the repLIforce is that aLIen thing. Now you see the mavericks came down to earth and started trying to convince the Un that the repLIforce was this big evil thing trying to destroy them and that it would destroy the UN too. Now you see, the UN bought this story despite the fact that the Mavericks had commited so many wrongs before.... Do you know what happpened afterwards hmm? The attack on repLIforce island thats what. The UN and Hunters beLIeved the mavericks without giving a second thought and turned the RepLIforce into an enemy. We really weren't an enemy, but by allying them selves with the mavericks, we became one." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, "You are pointless, and a waste of resources, Guts man." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, " . . . eep." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "And apparently she is in a position to judge us still. hmm?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Do you really seek help with that attitude?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "We all tell Guts Man the same thing. How is this different?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "I LIke Aquariums....Can we call you Fishy?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "That is the problem Aquarius we don't know if we should trust you." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "You people already tried once to kill us all for the crime of existing." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius sounds puzzled, "Why presume my opinion has any more value than the rest?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "And your a waste space metal, you space cow!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Why? Because they're scared of you, that's why. Me, I'm just tired. Been there, done that, Stardroids aren't that big a deal." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Conduit. For the LAST TIME, LIsten to me. I did /not/ say "Let's kill it as soon as it shows up". I said "Prepare in case it WILL kill us all when it shows up, and get info from the Stardroids to help us." If you can't understand the difference, then... Well, enough said." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Because you wasted no time in giving it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Double standards now, Bat-girl?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "I don't presume it's of any value, merely that you seem to think otherwise." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, "It is my personal opinion . . as are many that you all have spoken, today." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "LIsten idiot. You want to ally your self with -its- enemies. By doing that you ensure it will become our enemy. God, how dense are you?!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "ya kniow I'm half temped to turn my ship about if I pull it right I think I could get to mars..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Well, while you're here and talking, Aquarius... Would you LIke to explain the fact that there's a male version of you running around claiming to be you as well?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "I say kill it as soon as it shows up. LIke when we killed those other Stardroids that first time around that came to earth. Man I remember the good old days when I was in charge of trying to kill LIbrarachi. And then the whole kicking Duo's butt. And the kicking of other namless Stardroids. Ahhh those were the days." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, " . . . Thi-this is the first I have heard of such." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "The same RepLIforcers who found you found him later. Or before. One of the two. We figure one of you is an imposter... The question is: Which?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "What do you mean, calLIng me an idiot? What choice do we have? How do you expect to analyze a being who isn't here? What can you DO, Conduit? If you're so bloody brilLIant, TELL US." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, " . . I-I do not know who this male is. I have always been myself. I do not know why someone would LIe, and wear the guise of myself." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Aquarius the schzophrenic crossdressing stardroid?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Was not Duo, also Chaos?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "OOC: Actually that'll be Cancer, conduit. o.o At least the crossdressing part. o.o" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "Aye he was both Order and Chaos." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Or maybe someone's trying to sLIp in some replacements, as they tried to have us replace the original Stardroids. Which I doubt, but it's a thought. Better to think outside the box than keep running in circles." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Would you let a Stardroid carve through a horde of Mavericks, Conduit? Masters? CiviLIans? Where do you draw the LIne? When you separate yourself from another, there begins the downfall." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, "Something which none of us /knew/!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Guts Man transmits, "What else is new?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "/Right/" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Oh? And how do you feel about such, then? I'm still a bit puzzled as to why he bothered. Not that I minded the benefits of being Venus, but even now that breif time haunts me it seems. People just won't shut up about it for one." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "I'm Commander of MSE, Conduit, and I know NOTHING. You know NOTHING. The only ones who may know SOMETHING are the ones who will be killed. Will you stand there and do NOTHING? Where is your justice, Conduit? Is THAT your Judgement?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Wrong Prism, We should prepare, yes indeed. But we can prepare -without- the stardroids, they've fended for them selves this long, let them fend for them selves untill we've learned the truth for our selves, because we will not learn the truth from them." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, "We will die." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "And for the love of all that's holy, Prism... Why are you wasting your breath? You know your duty as well as I do. All the arguments in the world to the contrary won't change it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Histroy is repeating because we do not learn from the past. We will stand together, or we will all die." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "That's the fate of everything, eventually, Aquarius. But that doesn't mean we have to sit by and allow ourselves to come to such an end prematurely." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "That goes for you, me, Rigger, the Stardroids, and every being on this planet." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius transmits, "And yet you blame us for trying to prevent such an end now." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Bass chuckles. "On a long enough timeLIne, everyone's survivabiLIty goes to zero." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "So when do we get to meet you Fishy?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "It is Judgement Time once again. Yet another test. And if we will not set aside the old hatreds and look to the future with new eyes, we will die." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "History is repeated, because the Starhaven appears to have arrived by rewinding it." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "Ya Bass nothing LIves for ever, -nothing-." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "All we have to learn from is the past, and in the past our relations with your kind were not to our benefit. We're wary, yes. We're nervous, yes. Because we don't wish to be fooled again. That doesn't mean we're all unwilLIng to LIsten though." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "See? I'm not the one who has past judgement, -you- are. You've already deemed that thing our enemy. And I ask you why? What possible reason could it have for attacking us unless people LIke you -give- it a reason to attack us." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "How do you expect to understand it's reasons with no information Conduit?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Claiming to be a psychic now, are we?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Sai sighs. "It seems fairly clear here that there's two groups. Those who wish to See, and those who wish to be BLInd. And at this point we're ALL too bLInd to see which side is which. So I'm not going to talk anymore, and if someone wants to come argue with me about it I'll be practicing some meditations in the RHQ-AustraLIa training room. That, is that. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "You assume far too much. The stardroids aren't going to give us any information and if they do it'll be unreLIable. No matter how many question we ask they will dodge around the answer." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Aquarius nearly shrieks. "IT DOES NOT ATTACK IT CONSUMES!" And her connection goes blank. [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "...That was surprisinGLy verbose and helpful for someone who we're not sure whether they're real or not." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "Isss it jussst me, or are more and more people going nutsss?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "Uh fishy?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "Well it seems she ... wait consumes..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, "What /was/ that?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "...It consmues Stardroids." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, " . . . that's bad. That's really bad." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "What if this things absorbs the powers of the Stardroids it kills..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "It can have them asss far asss I'm consscerned" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "... Lovely. So you don't want to trust them. You will just stand by the wayside and let them be slaughtered." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "They've been hinting at it all night. Entropy. The end. Death. Consumes. Sounds more LIke a roving black hole if you ask me." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Great. LIke X for the Stardroids. Just what we needed." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "And, doctor, I suggested that three hours ago or so, but I was ignored." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "I think this goes beyond X..." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "I mentioned it as well." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "I persssonally don't care." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "They can all die." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "A pity you can't simply eat them all, Snake." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Ha! Maybe this thing is natural predator to these stardroids, perhaps it was Duo and the planetary Stardroid's combined power that kept this thing at bay." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Kaph transmits, "Is even void beyond death, if it is to become filled?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "If we stand aside, Conduit, we will have no right to judge anyone or anything." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, " . . . And what's going to stop it from eating /us/, when it eats them?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Chill Snowcat transmits, "I wonder if it eats plants" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider transmits, "That is what I keep asking them." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, "Would they even know that?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Lack of being interesting. Okay, everyone, act LIke rocks!" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "Why would it care about usss? Obviousssly it wantsss to kill them. Jussst ship them off sssomewhere elssse, and we won't have to worry." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, " . . . I'm surrounded by morons." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "That was sarcasm - that is, not to be taken seriously." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, "Or I'm getting paranoid." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "Perhaps you just need to kill someone. Start with the cat." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "Besssidesss, if they can't ssstop it, why should we be able to?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Because didn't we stop -them-?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Plant Man transmits, "I think I'd love to, Da." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "I've been a LIttle busy trying to fix the mess Aldebaran caused when he sat on our consoles." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Dr. Wily transmits, "Have fun the Planty." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Prismatic Spider sighs. "Enough of this. Continue on until sunbreak, it will change LIttle. We have scant time to prepare. Make use of it." *cLIck* [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "And that getsss me to another point. They tried to kill all of usss. Twissce. Now we're helping them?" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "Prism, you want to 'save' them because you feel sory for them. The problem is, getting your self killed along with the person you were trying to save doesn't do anyone any good." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "We've tried to kill each other more." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "For once my daughter makes sense." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "But at leassst we do it for reasssonsss we underssstand." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "and its even worse when you drag others along with you." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "They jussst wanted to kill usss becaussse we didn't measure up to sssome arbitrary ssstandard they ssset for usss." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "...Intergalatic... HITLERS." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "Very True or interalatic Mavericks." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Conduit transmits, "... Even the mavericks don't match up to that." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Mavericks aren't arbitrary." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man transmits, "I will say this. The Mavericks aren't that bad. They sooner recruit every sinGLe Reploid then kill them all. Stardroids are different. They don't care who or what you are. They will judge you... if you pass... you don't go to their slaughterhouse. That's it. Now, just imagine countless zilLIons going to their slaughterhouses. Just because they don't get a 'A' on the Stardroid Report Card. Gee, that makes me WANT to protect them. (/sarcasm)" [Radio: (C) GLobal] Clown Man cLIcks [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Sure, not bad if you're a reploid or wilLIng to end up a brain-in-a-box LIke DeVry." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Isaac transmits, "Shocing to hear one LIke Clown Man say that but I can see the logic." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Snake Man transmits, "I agree with Clown. We should jussst pack them all off to the Sssun, and let whatever'sss following them go afterwardsss." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Oh, he makes sense, yeah. Never disagreed that we shouldn't be suspicious. But it'd be nice to know what might be coming for us as well first." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Alpha transmits, "Pac Pac wasn't 'acting'." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "In other matters I captured one of those pods that were launched from Korea and I'll share the results I get from it... Good night and see ya when I get back to Earth." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Rigger transmits, "Careful. Sounds LIke DeVry's work if I heard right." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "It is his work." [Radio: (C) GLobal] Job transmits, "Don't worry I will be careful."