well..you are part right... Tarja is pushing AI..to have a unit., so far we had a couple wash outs.

the person whi is talkign to  Roy is Annikki..a NPC , that Tarja  went through me to have  for the PG

In reply to Admiral Hack (msg # 195):

Thanks AH,

Without a NPC name in the post it's easy to think otherwise.

yeah? the player  has  3 PCs, that's the limit. so she has to share space.

I think I'd like to push for angel leather outfits personally. lol perfect for a ball or a brawl.

 I guess, when Nikki retires she can go to Paradise, and buy some Angel Cattle, and  figure out  how to make them work like angel silk

In reply to Admiral Hack (msg # 199):

Ahha... So the origins of flying Cows will be Paradise.

where do you think  'hey diddle diddle' came from... and  of course 'holy Cow"

In reply to Admiral Hack (msg # 201):

Exactly.

Guess who will be riding said winged cows?... Rainbow Unicorn Princess Haley! that's who! so the cows will have rainbow feathers on their wings and the bulls will have 1 center horn and be fluffy!

In reply to Nicole Rutledge (msg # 203):

I think they spiked your drink.

or not enough.  It's okay I got some of my papaws best moonshine and we have the Hermes gin. As well I snagged some unopened bottles of Angel champagne and Burian brandy and a few other things in my quarters. as well as I can say aboard ship I have only been drunk once polishing that rum Shadow had us drink becoming aces.

In reply to Nicole Rutledge (msg # 205):

Humm.. If Justin, provided a bottle of Grandfather would he be able to wrangle a sampling invite?

;^)

Okay, I've gotta say it again...our contractors are AWESOME.  We were scheduled to do a fine-tuning light focus tonight (at the lighting designer's suggestion, for the date...)  When I tried to find out earlier today what time to tell the contractors to show up, I got some evasion that ended up being, "Well, I haven't really had a chance to see the lights when it's not full daylight, and I'd like that, and a little time to think about it, before I finalize any focus points."  (Which is fair, and I'd rather go that route than have a 'final' focus and then have him ask to change five or six things a couple of days later...)

So I told the contractors, 'If you get here around 8:30, everyone will be back from dinner.  I'm not sure how much focusing we'll actually do tonight, but I know we need to reconfigure the LED wall display for sure...hopefully, that won't be the only thing we need you to do...'

Well, they were working on something else up in the area earlier in the day, so by the time they got my text, they were already done with that and already in the area...so they came early.  And promptly solved a problem that I'd all but given up on (we had already changed our video wall layout, due to slowly dwindling numbers of operational LED panels...we bought the hardware to change it even more...from a 6 wide by 5 high array to 7 wide by 4 high, but the mounting bars that we had on hand all had eye bolts threaded and then welded to the top, so we couldn't use them.  They cut through the welds and got the eyebolts unscrewed, so we could mount the correct hardware).  Jumped right in without a second of "Well, that's not really what we're here to do" or anything like that.  Got that done, got the seventh 'stick' of LED panels assembled and wired in, and started looking at how to reconfigure the controller to send the signal correctly.  Found out the software we needed only runs on a Windows system--everything there, including all of the laptops people had for whatever they were doing, were all Macs...so I left the park, ran to the theater, grabbed my laptop and headed back, and they got the software downloaded and figured out how to get it to do what we needed it to do, we spent a bunch of time fiddling with settings to get it looking right...

The director had earlier said, "If you can't get that carrier for the LED panels taken care of, let's just skip it for this year and we'll figure it out later."  Now, he's got his seventh column of LED panels, everything checked out okay with the lights (aside from two lights that...well, one randomly reset itself, somehow...one of the contractors helped me wrestle a ladder out into the house and set it up so I could climb up and check them and that light just suddenly started working again after I bumped a couple of controls.  I don't even remember changing any settings on it, but suddenly, it was doing what it was supposed to.  The other light was just plain old dead...I disconnected the power cord from one of his neighbors that was working and hooked that up to the light, and got a whole lotta nuthin'...so, we'll have to take that one down and swap another in its place (I think I actually have one or two of those that didn't get used in the plot...I'll have to check on that tomorrow!)

But they came in, as they always do, and busted their butts to make me look like I can accomplish damn near anything the director puts on my list.  And they never make a big deal about it.  And when I said that we'd likely actually be doing focusing tomorrow night, one guy was like, "Well, I'm booked..." and the other one immediately said, "I'm not..."  Just, truly, great people to work with.  Still remember the first day I found out we'd hired them, specifically--my boss had told me they'd found new contractors (because the guys we used the year before had been a MASSIVE disappointment--they'd hung lights for a couple of things for us, for Halloween, and we had to go back through and do a LOT of clean-up to get things really presentable...), but didn't say who they were.  When I saw their vehicle parked in front of the theater, I recognized the name--they have done a lot of rigging work for various events that I've worked on through the years, and while I never got to know them there, the company name definitely had a reputation for giving you quality work, no matter how large or small the job...and they do some BIG jobs (the head of the company has worked on the Superbowl halftime show for, like, the better part of a decade, now.)  Unlike some guys we've hired in the past, they didn't come in and say, 'Oh, you need to upgrade this, and this, and you should buy a bunch more of these, and that equipment is crap..."  They came in and said, "Okay...what have you got?  Let's figure out how to make it work the best way we can..."

And any time they come lend a hand, I walk away feeling really great about what we've accomplished in the time they were there.

In reply to Justin Kase (msg # 206):

You keep you grandfather in a bottle? lol

Is he a genie? if he finds out in story you could possibly get that invite... only Anteela, Harry, and Lizzy knows she has it and only Anteela has tried it.  Harry almost did but she had gotten shots and if she drank any her stomach would have been ripped free of lining.

In reply to Nicole Rutledge (msg # 208):

It's a Port.

So will the ladies be stepping out to the Nutbush tune.

Shadow's first Ball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...5160EE&index=252

Nutbush is fine.  Nikki does not mind sticking out in a crowd.  She might blush a tad, but she'll take what's tossed her way and come out shining. from podding into a jungle, or singing in public, to even sitting on her but in the tunnel covered in larg handler blood head to toe.

Hey Roy, The OOC reason the AI uses 5mm is that I got it from the Expanse and I think the smaller calibre is intended to avoid punching a hole through the hull of a ship and venting everything into space. Their ships are somewhat smaller and more fragile than the Hermes.

In reply to Tarja Vanska (msg # 213):

Considering.

  yeah 5mm is  for  personnel, maybe  smaller  vehicles , Like Vans  , cars, cycles  ,maybe  some of the  heavy trucks . There isn't much worry about  punching through  Ships  hauls , unless its a sloop..maybe a corvette..Tenders are even armored   , because to  the scrap they pick up.

 Depending on the make up of buildings, 5 MM  could  get through  some walls, and  the   thinner Metaglass.

we use  50 cal MGs on the shuttles, they have  AP  and  HP rounds to  knock  down or  wound  fighters

our Fighters have   heavy Pulse on the wings ( current  fighters) and  Gatling cannons   with 37  MM hard  ammo runs with..whatever mix is loaded  Ap , HP and Thermite ..they Punch trough the armor designed for  Fighter  class Heavy  Pulse... Cap ship class Heavy Pulse will make fighters  vanish

 Metaglass on ships and fighters  are thick, Fighters can only take so much, as do Shuttles.., The Hermes  and  Empire  Cap ships  have  windows , a few  feet thick..Carrier staions have  their 'half  domes'.. Yards  thick.

 anyway..that is the  rundown..  Since this was tarja's develpement  with some oversight from me...I am assuming the   minimissles  are made for damaging , heavier  things

Yeah the mini missiles are used for blowing things up or taking out armoured vehicles depending on whether you use HE or AT.

 Nikki?

https://www.bing.com/search?q=...&bep_csid=158246

Yes??
not all are turning orange.  nut it does gave to do with some areas strip mined 100 or so years ago.  Ores mines and the unwanted sediment blah blah blah. glaciers and water, plus rocks tumbled it all to dirt and it runs down hill.  newbies in the state panic too damn easy.  should panic when its algae green, thats abnormal here.

Ooohhhh hey we are creeping up on 146K folks!!!!