At 03:00 last night, I woke up in a cloning vat.
A softclone. With absolutely no memory of what I had done that day.
I wonder if this is what it feels like to wake up in after a hard-scan in a substandard clone?
Fortunately, I only lost one day, but constructing what I'd done was still...
Judging from the locations of my ships, I spent some time moving ship around Providence - reconcentrating them at strongpoints.
My wallet indicates I spent some time hunting the Sansha battleships in Providence, and at some point bought some modules for one of my ships.
I also brought some more drones for In Justice Bound - either that, or eight flights of sentries mysteriously appeared in her dronebay.
What happened after that is unclear: I went to the Skyhook, and must have walked out right as Scynnis was walking in - she mailed me asking "who the woman I walked out with was," but I, of course, do not know who it was... I will have to see if she saved my reply. But if I left Skyhook, what happened between then and my quarters in Goram VIII - Moon IV Kaalakiota station, where traces of my blood were found on furniture...
Was it whoever doesn't want me to get the Insorum? Or something relating to my defence of Providence? Had I found something critical in the Skyhook that night, or am I missing the point completely...
I do hope Scynnis saved that reply. It may be the only lead I have.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
All ahead full
So much has happened, so long since I last recorded here...
Eh, where to start?
How 'bout with the good: Amaterasu is back. Dunno who recovered her, but she's coherent enough to talk and hold a meaningful conversation. Suppose when you are talking about coming out of a Blooder camp, that's coming out two steps ahead.
It did destroy everything I'd worked toward, though. Everything...
Then there was the HED raid. Getting bored of constantly being on the defensive, we made an unusual large-scale raid into the triple-A chokepoint of HED-GP. We fully expected to have to deal with hostile Titans - there are no less than four Titan-class vessels in that system, dedicated purely to defending it - and sure enough, after the first few haulers went down an Avatar-class warped in at range and fired its 'Judgement' weapon.
Here's where things get fun: -A- had attempted to drag us off the gate using a battleship at range as bait, so we could not jump through. The volume of fire, however, forced the battleship pilot to warp off sooner than he had expected, and so when the Avatar warped in, all but the lightest ships were still on the gate. We simply jumped through, avoiding the doomsday device, and then quickly returned - in time to join the battle against the -A- subcapital fleet warping in on the gate. The hostile fleet, however, had evidently been put together with the idea that we would have lost several core ships and those remaining would have taken severe damage from the doomsday - not so. Our logistics were running, 'dictors dropping bubbles, and the battle quickly turned in our favor. Spoils weren't bad, but the real prize was the pride we could take in this victory.
Going on, In Justice Bound is finally fully operational. I know, the launch celebration was so many weeks ago, but it was missing many critical items - three full flights of fighters, capital-class remote repair systems, assorted back-up and secondary drones - that it could only be used for long-range support.
And then there is Star Fraction. Apparently the 24th and associated corps have finally gotten tired of SF fighting them, and have handed out a series of large-scale defeats to the Fraction, including an unusually high number of capital kills. The latest one was no different, although the total loss values were a little closer thanks to a suprising number of previously-neutral reinforcements showing up to engage the 24th. I won't claim I'm a fan of this silly little "war," but the sooner SF is ripped to shreds and their pilots scattered among the stars, the better.
Now, the bad...
The Ordo Magna is apparently seeing some internal troubles - one of its members fell the vices of heresy, and now they are on a massive internal witch-hunt. I would warn them about the dangers of such a hunt - God knows, I've seen what it can lead to - but I doubt my voice would be taken with much consideration. I, after all, am an outsider. It still seems sad, however, to see such good people torn apart by one man's vices.
Then I went to the Skyhook to try and relax, and got there in time to see Ms. Ciarente Roth go through a nervous breakdown as Vikarion arrived to return one of her previous bodies he had recovered - while inside that body. Poor woman didn't take it to well, seemed to think that because the body was still capable of supporting life (and thus not 'dead') it was actually her, and the body she currently inhabited was... I don't know, not her?
I did get to meet a nice woman named Cruenta in the 24th - I asked her about the big fight, but she had apparently literally just joined, and hadn't even been around for the battle.
Other than all that, what can I say? My wallet is full, my ships are ready, and the fights keep coming. There is nothing else I can do but keep on working...
Eh, where to start?
How 'bout with the good: Amaterasu is back. Dunno who recovered her, but she's coherent enough to talk and hold a meaningful conversation. Suppose when you are talking about coming out of a Blooder camp, that's coming out two steps ahead.
It did destroy everything I'd worked toward, though. Everything...
Then there was the HED raid. Getting bored of constantly being on the defensive, we made an unusual large-scale raid into the triple-A chokepoint of HED-GP. We fully expected to have to deal with hostile Titans - there are no less than four Titan-class vessels in that system, dedicated purely to defending it - and sure enough, after the first few haulers went down an Avatar-class warped in at range and fired its 'Judgement' weapon.
Here's where things get fun: -A- had attempted to drag us off the gate using a battleship at range as bait, so we could not jump through. The volume of fire, however, forced the battleship pilot to warp off sooner than he had expected, and so when the Avatar warped in, all but the lightest ships were still on the gate. We simply jumped through, avoiding the doomsday device, and then quickly returned - in time to join the battle against the -A- subcapital fleet warping in on the gate. The hostile fleet, however, had evidently been put together with the idea that we would have lost several core ships and those remaining would have taken severe damage from the doomsday - not so. Our logistics were running, 'dictors dropping bubbles, and the battle quickly turned in our favor. Spoils weren't bad, but the real prize was the pride we could take in this victory.
Going on, In Justice Bound is finally fully operational. I know, the launch celebration was so many weeks ago, but it was missing many critical items - three full flights of fighters, capital-class remote repair systems, assorted back-up and secondary drones - that it could only be used for long-range support.
And then there is Star Fraction. Apparently the 24th and associated corps have finally gotten tired of SF fighting them, and have handed out a series of large-scale defeats to the Fraction, including an unusually high number of capital kills. The latest one was no different, although the total loss values were a little closer thanks to a suprising number of previously-neutral reinforcements showing up to engage the 24th. I won't claim I'm a fan of this silly little "war," but the sooner SF is ripped to shreds and their pilots scattered among the stars, the better.
Now, the bad...
The Ordo Magna is apparently seeing some internal troubles - one of its members fell the vices of heresy, and now they are on a massive internal witch-hunt. I would warn them about the dangers of such a hunt - God knows, I've seen what it can lead to - but I doubt my voice would be taken with much consideration. I, after all, am an outsider. It still seems sad, however, to see such good people torn apart by one man's vices.
Then I went to the Skyhook to try and relax, and got there in time to see Ms. Ciarente Roth go through a nervous breakdown as Vikarion arrived to return one of her previous bodies he had recovered - while inside that body. Poor woman didn't take it to well, seemed to think that because the body was still capable of supporting life (and thus not 'dead') it was actually her, and the body she currently inhabited was... I don't know, not her?
I did get to meet a nice woman named Cruenta in the 24th - I asked her about the big fight, but she had apparently literally just joined, and hadn't even been around for the battle.
Other than all that, what can I say? My wallet is full, my ships are ready, and the fights keep coming. There is nothing else I can do but keep on working...
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