TGW-1550
Chapter: 02 High Society
Location: Vino Lounge, Vorpil Blade
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Unexpected events.
Unexpected events.
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LOL…
welcome to Earth.!
i think you just got the wrong.
So Right!
Poodle boy, yip, yip.
Is this time for an “Oh Shit” expression?
this,, is beyond “Oh Shit!”…
since this is Earth, they are just now getting reports of the patrol
fleet behind them.
and at least another 5 ship yards around mars.
also a fleet of core ships,. (that haven’t been converted ,, Yet.!)
[.. the 140 Vulpa mentioned that just disappeared. o.0 ]
oh yeah, an the Demon ships…
and,, i wonder how many Dogshen, an Peteran are here..?
That was the fleet that they sent to Lepordia.
The Buns.
Yeah, although they’ve had time to move them
from the Bun’s orbit to Catia, Dogshen, or Terra.
There aren’t any (yet) shipyards in orbit there.
The Empire is being nice. First contact:
“Welcome to Terra.”
“You guys need anything?”
HAHAhAHahahahaha…. For both!
That wanna-be giga-chad got burned
AND is about to get his ass kicked in Spades!
Darlin’ I’m old but you can keep the money,
I’ll show this twit how we do things down town!
Bronze age? How long ago were they at Earth?!?
Well, you’ve found the home world of the Empire
and get a chance to meet with Teresa after all!
And find out what happened to the first fleet that
came. I’m sure she’ll meet one at the landing pad…
Gads, these types just piss me off. I’m picturing me, sitting at the table near by,
as soon as I hear him call her a bitch I stand up, walk right up to the guy, give
him my death stare. He looks down and says “watta you gonna do old man?”
With that, I grab his shirt/chains in my left hand, yank him to me, My right hand,
still holding the cane, slams into the pit of his stomach. He doubles over with my
left’s help, only to meet my knee. When his head flies up, I push him down,
landing with both knee’s in his chest. When he looks up at me, I say “The ONLY
bitch here is YOU!” and sock him twice in the face. To that I struggle to my feet,
and sit back down to my coffee and Danish. Never discount us old folk, we
KNOW things you’ve yet to discover 😀
And in the morning you realize that you can’t even get out of bed, you groan
as you discover that every joint and muscle is screaming in pain, and say to
yourself “That was SOOoo worth it! Owoooo…”
HA! you got that right, not to mention having to reset my shoulder
and exceed the recommended dosage of aspirin… I keep seeing
the open mouth stares in the room too heh.
And hear my wife say “You promised me!”
(insert the meme of spiderman, crying out
“oooh my back, (grunts) my back!”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqpowkXP_Q8
Been there, done that, worth the pain.
The question is, how long do they think does it take for a civilization to
develop. It’s possible that they are used to a slower rate.
Often Science Fiction shows that humanity has developed faster than
other worlds. How would we react to a planet that develops even
faster than we did?
What is the fastest a civilization can possibly develop if nothing sets
it back and the necessary materials are in one region?
Say you have civilization that is good at solving problems and keeps
doing that to the point others come to them to have their problems
solved? Somehow becoming a global united Empire because of that?
TV show called “The Orvelle” a Seth McFarlin show.
They stopped when they detected a weird signature,
when they were flying a shuttle near to it a planet
suddenly appeared in it’s path. They nearly crashed
into it and landed. After the close call they look around
and it was a bronze age people. The first officer fell
and was knocked out, when she awoke she used a
device to help out an injured local and was spotted.
they went back to their ship and on the way the
planet vanished. Seems it was passing through a
weird portal from another reality. So they waited.
11 days past and the planet returned. So they did
another recon and 700 years had passed. This kept
happening until the population had advanced so
far they were near god-like. Freaky but it depicts
that very idea.
So, since he called them sexy babes last strip, he’s now claiming
to -not- be a “real man”? I think he’s demonstrating that plainly.
Why are you all assuming that Rusty just happened to know of
a primitive world to exploit that turned out to be Terra by sheer
coincidence? I think it’s -far- more likely that there is another
explanation:
1 Rusty was acting under influence, whether mental or monetary.
1a Someone got to him and bribed him to send the Vulpa to the
heart of their new — let’s say adversaries rather than enemies.
1b The Empire’s latest recruits adjusted his memory and impulses,
with the ‘best of intentions’, of course.
2 Our cute little hacker (Yami/Yumi?) put a hidden command in
the Vorpil Blade’s computer to send it to Terra the next time it
entered hyperspace, regardless of where it had been told to go.
Granted, they are used to a culture that basically remains unchanged
for millenia, and may assume that is true for everyone, but that
still ignores the literally astronomical odds against hopping to Terra
out of the literal millions (at least, could be billions) of inhabitable
worlds in the Milky Way on a coincidental impulse.
Rusty said it wasn’t harvested because it too costly to
make the trip often, So it was largely forgotten until
the core begged for help in removing a “problem” that
was the Empire. The Demons detected the system and
decided it was easy pickin’.
Got schooled and in the end joined up. I like a good
conspiracy too, but that’s a bit far out for an easy
“oops” moment. That’s the thing, no one was paying
attention and 2 races have FAFO’d themselves now.
Although, this could be one, I think it was Rusty’s
goof for not looking it up in their computer.
3. She let the telepaths know that they not only wanted to join the Wolf
Empire, but also warn and help with the coming attack. So she gave
the Wolf Ambassadors the access codes to their system through the
telepaths so they could ‘hack’ their system and meddle with their navigation.
Because the Counselor got even more brains than they gave her credit for.
She gave them permission to scan her thoughts, which could indicate she
has some mental defenses against that.
In case the attack gets launched before the Wolf ambassador’s can
make it back. That is, if the ambassador’s even get wind of the coming
attack, something the Counselor can’t be sure of.
Why not tell her people?
Plausible deniability for one and in case one of her people has been paid off.
I’m breaking down my computer now, wifey finally went to sleep
so I’m doing the slow, creepy movement to come and go without
her needing something to interrupt me. I’ll move this system out,
and tomorrow dismantle the desk and get it out. Then setup my
bed so she can move to it Sunday in case then bring her bed Monday.
I setup her porta-potty up in the room by her side of the bed
so I don’t have to help her to the bathroom every hour.
“I’m Freeeeee… Free-fallen!” heh.
It seems odd to me that Admiral Reynard did not spot that the coordinates Rusty was suggesting matched the ones he must have been given by fleet command – assuming that his ship/squadron had been intended to be part of the invasion.
Even if they weren’t, I’d have expected the Navigator to notice they were leaving on the same vector as the fleet. Since they are being hailed as a fleet, I’m not clear whether they are a Fox squadron, or have arrived with the invasion fleet, this risking getting tarred with the same brush.
*thus risking*
It is odd, but it could also be that the attack co-ords and the
quiet spot they wanted were the same, and he didn’t check
them before he punched it in. Careless, but understandable.
It seems to be a comedy off errors more than anything else.
Since the rest of the GC fleets will be coming as well, they
might want to hide behind a gas giant with their fleet while
Foxy talks fast and furiously to the right people. Or just have
her fleet defend? Bad idea, they need to learn that the Empire
is not to be messed with. I still think Wilson mines on
missiles would be a good way to disable ships in a hurry.
target the bridges and let them sweat 5 G’s on the ceiling.
Anyone rushes in to help… well a new face to moan with!
I should say both the engine rooms and the bridges.
And no, the missile doesn’t hit the ship, it’s a
“near-miss” that’s actually deploying the mines.
I see Jerry and Razelflast just finshed eating
in the mess hall when they hear a loud CLANG
on the hull. suddenly they are both pulled to the
wall Jerry pinned to Razelflast’s stomach.
Jerry realizes his buddy had horrible breath
and Razelflast thinks that second desert was
a bad idea when it blasts Jerry in the face heh.
The Council backed the Core in it’s attack on BunnyWorld.
That’s the only Imperial world the Council has the FTL coordinates for.
So that’s where they’re headed.
No one knew that the obscure, primitive world that the Foxes planned to
hide in was actually the much-advanced Wolf Empire.
The Demons were shocked, and now the Foxes, but in a much nicer way.
My first thought was “So, it was just fate that the Foxes rolled
00 five times in a row?” But that suggested to me an explanation
that was better than any of my other ones: Loki. And if that is
the case, odds are slim we will ever know.