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Ship : Lantashi Dance
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Log : 004
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Date : 2496-10-20-10
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Status : He Broke the Bloody Ship!
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/* TRANSMISSION START */
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Sarah West's Report:
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#### Help!
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This is Sarah West. I am making this report with the
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permission of Captain Lantashi, though she didn't tell me
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what I had to say. She basically said, "You fixed it.
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Have fun!"
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I am an engineer on the exploration vessel Lantashi Dance.
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The ship is limping around in an unexplored section of
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space. The crew seems... unstable, having spent way too
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much time in statis. There is some strange entity on board
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that has now endangered all our lives!
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And we now have a moron who is put in charge of landing
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teams. More on that below.
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#### New Landing Team Lead
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Thane Biomax, yes that's his real name... he's cute. Very
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cute. From southern Missouri, he is tall, well over 2
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meters, and strong as an ox, even after having spent
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eternity in stasis!
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But he shouldn't be put in charge of anything! He
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definitely should never touch anything electrical,
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mechanical, edible, or, well... he should just not do
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anything at all!
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#### What Happened
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Mr. Biomax cannot wire his way out of a paper-bag! What
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was he *thinking*?? He nearly killed us all with his
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bright idea of how to restore full power to the ship! "Oh,
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all I have to do is create a feedback loop in the fusion
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reactor, disable a few outdated safety protocols, power
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the ship, and feed the excess energy out into space!"
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I told him no! Yonas told him no! Bearth told him no! Even
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Captain Lantashi got out of her tree in The Garden and
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said it was a bad idea. Everyone told him no!
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But he claimed he got the idea from a sentient life-form
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that materialized to him, just *HIM* mind you, and gave
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him the schematics. And this... *thing*... appeared to
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him in the form of a cute blonde girl, and says she is a
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higher life form. It said its name was Rachel, which just
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happened to be the name of one of his college sweethearts.
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I'll "higher life-form" *her* if I ever get my hands on
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her. I tell you that.
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What Mr. Bio-NoBrain managed to do is fry the life-support
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systems, completely knocked out the fusion drive, sent our
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AI into pyscho-mode, brought down navigation, and blew a
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huge hole in the back of our ship. Oh, and knocked out the
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QEC system for *months*.
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#### Repairs
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We lost two crewmen from the blast. And it took the entire
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engineering staff three days, *THREE DAYS*, to get life
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support back online! We nearly all froze and sufficated to
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death while bringing life-support back online. Most of the
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garden perished, putting everyone on emergency rations for
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over a month until it recovered. And the fusion reactor is
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now being held together with duct tape and super-glue.
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(No, really, duct tape is involved)
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#### Back on Course
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The ship wandered off course, due to the strong solar
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winds in the nebula. It would not have been good for us
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to try to enter orbit anyways, or even the Kelev 01-072
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system, when we couldn't "see" anything.
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Finally, the hull-breach is repaired the best it is going
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to be. I have half the ship systems wired up to a pair of
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Amigas. We passed 072, and had to slow down and circle
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back to it, all the while hoping our repairs held.
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#### Preparing to Land
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We've now entered orbit around 01-072.4, and the sensors,
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such as they are, seem to indicate plant-life similar to
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what is now growing in the garden. The planets in the area
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must be affected by the radiation of the nebula.
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Our ship is equipped with a small shuttle to land on
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planets. The ship itself supposedly can as well, but until
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we know exactly what is down there, that might be
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imprudent.
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And the person being put in charge of the landing team?
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Thane Biomax. Yonas wanted to throw him in the brig, but
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we don't have a brig.
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Yonas was dragging Biomax to the airlock for an early ship
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departure, but two things prevented that. First, Chief
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Security Officer Dothmer wanted to go with Thane, out the
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airlock, without a suit! What is up with that Elephant
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Man? I would have been happy to see them both spaced, but
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the Captain was having none of it.
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Captain Lantashi said that Thane showed "initiative"...
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that was her word. She said he had the qualities of a
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"leader". Uh huh.
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And I have been asked to go down to the planet surface
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with the team as well! "Keep the shuttle running, Sarah,"
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Yonas said to me. "And keep an eye on wonder-boy."
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My only consolation is that he is going down on the planet
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with a red shirt. That should stand out, and if there are
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any monsters down there, maybe they'll go after him first.
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~Sarah West, Engineer
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/* TRANSMISSION END */
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Wiki System
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Missouri - Independent country in the middle of the north
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American continent. Used to be part of something called the
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"United States". Main exports - grains such as corn, and
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propusion systems for ship.
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Red Shirt - Rumor has it, from the 20th century, that red
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shirts are dangerous to wear on planet surfaces. But for
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some strange reason they were popular in the 20th-century,
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and causes a lot of people to die while exploring outer
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space.
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