Sorry for the delayed answer.  Been a really busy week with overtime, lots of new customers to process, and temps to deal with.

Oh, and the answer is "yes", the comms are working better than your ears.  Shard's message is coming through clear enough, but between the white noise in your ears and the sounds in the building, you are mostly guessing at what she's saying for the moment.

Sorry for the delay, myself!  Got back from vacation, tons of stuff piled up, and we had Thanksgiving and my cousin promptly gave me a cold.  Bleah.  :D

"Daddy, how did the apocalypse begin?"

To borrow a line from a popular film...

"And here...we....go."  *laugh*

It seemed like the Star Wars thing to do.

I don't know if it was the Star Wars thing to do...but it fits this group perfectly.  *laugh*

It's totally a Star Wars thing to do.  Original Star Wars, that is.

Remember: Han shot first.

^_^

Han shot.  Period.  There was no second shot...*grin*

This group shot first, second, third, and fourth.  :)

Meanwhile...

Friday, 08:30: worst start to the day evah...



My life is an endless round of misery and torment.

And all those puppies! Alack and alas for the Tribulations of Ron!

See?  He gets it!

Hee...

I'll wait and see if Haarmon gets through, so to speak.  :D  But Shard is going to be deleriously happy either way, knowing that everyone is alive!  :D

In reply to Shard (msg # 965):

Yes, he got through.  So did the comms.  :)

Thank you!

I would write longer, but there's not much else to say...  :D  This part is all Haarmon and Rhijans!

So...I'm almost afraid to ask this, but...does Shard's commlink reply arrive before we get close enough for the Clades (either side) to hear it?

I thought they were earbuds with a mouthpiece.  :(

...you're just LOOKING for trouble.  ^_^

Well...I had assumed that I left my commlink open so you could hear everything that was being said, but that apparently wasn't the case, so I'm not assuming anything about the commlinks, at this point...

In reply to Rhijans Thanus (msg # 968):

Yes.  Comm links are quiet.  Even the hand held ones.  Remember Episode IV?  R2 and 3PO hide in a closet, the room fills with stormtroopers, and none of them notice the comm laying on the table (even though Luke is talking through it, allowing 3PO to pick it up as he passes.

Now, admittedly, stormtroopers aren't too bright, but even so...

*grin*  Now, see, I had a totally different take on that scene, because you could hear Luke calling for Threepio, until the stormtroopers forced the door.  But I'm not going to argue.  If you say the bad guys didn't hear my commlink, I am more than content with that answer...*grin*

Apologies again for my lack of responses...I'm still working out a new schedule.

I know how it goes.  We'll keep plugging along as you get it sorted.

I'd be the last one to complain!  Hang in, you. :)

Quick check: we haven't actually taken on any cargo yet, is that correct?

Nothing beyond what we had when we landed...a captured Imperial tech, a 'liberated' Imperial droid, and a fugitive Alliance command officer...