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Post by Al-pocalypse on Jul 5, 2016 9:00:24 GMT
<Open FTL Comms Channel> <Ping Cmdr Souvarine> <Ping Reply> <Channel open> Whoa, that worked surprisingly easily! Hello Sub, where are you? I've been searching for you for weeks now. |
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Post by Souvarine on Jul 5, 2016 12:19:51 GMT
[muffled rustling]
Trigger! God, it's good to hear your voice. Outgoing comms are down, I couldn't reach you.
I'm in the Formidine Rift. Where are you?
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Jul 5, 2016 12:27:55 GMT
What are you doing over there? I'm in a monkey's head, I searched for you for a while then got a bit lost I'm afraid!
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Post by Souvarine on Jul 5, 2016 15:30:12 GMT
Well you're in the right place - that's where the new Barnacle sites are.
I was following a lead. But look, I've had a crash.
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Jul 5, 2016 15:34:16 GMT
Oh no, what happened? Are the stores you were holding for me ok?
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Post by Souvarine on Jul 5, 2016 17:44:37 GMT
Bugger... That all depends on which hold they were in. Let's say 'yes'.
I was surveying one of the near moons of a blue gas giant in the Rift, right on the edge of the black region where the stars end. I misjudged the gravitational pull on this leviathan. Couldn't pull up fast enough, smashed side-on into an ice wall. Tore holes across four or five bulkheads. Depressurised half the ship.
I've had to close the blast doors on two decks. I think I've got the remaining decks pressurised - but hull integrity is shot to shit and it took me several hours to get the reactor core to talk to the power coupling.
I can fly - just. But everything non-essential is broken or off. I've lost access to the mess so I'm living on emergency rations, and half the ship is torn open. The nanobots can only fix so much.
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Jul 6, 2016 6:56:08 GMT
Maybe if you land on a low G moon, get out in the Scarab and pressure suit and access the damaged parts of your ship from the outside. You should be able to salvage enough supplies to keep you going quite happily, maybe even see if you can make good any of the damage.
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Post by Souvarine on Jul 6, 2016 7:05:48 GMT
Good idea... I'm not much of a mechanic, though. Still, it's worth a shot.
The real bastard is that I'm so close! Just a few more days and I'd be across the Rift. I should probably cut my losses - do the essential repairs, get the FTL spooling and get back to the Bubble. But I'm so close...
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Jul 6, 2016 8:07:06 GMT
Keep trying, to be so close and never try is a far deeper regret than to try and fail in the attempt... At least so I've been told.
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Post by Souvarine on Jul 6, 2016 8:23:23 GMT
True. But to be so close and dead is possibly the greatest regret of all (albeit a short-lived one).
How are you doing over there? Any news?
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Jul 6, 2016 10:04:02 GMT
Some would think that death is better than certain regrets...
I'm doing very well, I admit I was a tad annoyed when I couldn't get to Spirograph or Bernard's nebula, some local authority blighter intercepted me and told me that a load of space is shut off for "health and safety" reasons... But then I thought I'd follow you out via some other nebula, I then landed on a planet in a jellyfish and had a few, since then I got a bit lost and am now somewhere near a monkey's head.
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Post by Souvarine on Jul 6, 2016 11:25:15 GMT
...Right. Well, that sounds excellent. Good work.
Both the Spirograph and Barnard's Loop are cordoned off? Would the navigational computer let you jump to them?
(Say no)
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Jul 6, 2016 11:54:08 GMT
It wouldn't even entertain the chance of letting me anywhere near! Also suggested that I shouldn't drink and fly, that shows what it knows.
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Post by Souvarine on Jul 6, 2016 17:01:08 GMT
Hmmmm. Just like Polaris.
(Mulls this over)
Right, well I'm going to try that moon idea of yours. Let's keep this hoot open on standby - it's good to hear another voice, and I'm not sure I can make outbound transmissions.
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Jul 7, 2016 6:22:21 GMT
I'll drink to that.
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Jul 7, 2016 6:22:42 GMT
[Close this one here as just a short convo extract?]
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Post by Souvarine on Jul 7, 2016 12:19:51 GMT
Righto.
(Pause)
Oh, before you go Trigster - (muses innocently) what kind of regrets, would you say, are worse than death...?
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Jul 7, 2016 13:31:22 GMT
Huh? What? Sorry I was just pouring a drink. What were you asking?
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Post by Souvarine on Jul 7, 2016 17:59:58 GMT
Never mind.
Time to get on. Over and out, Trig.
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