Topic: (game) BAS Satoshi (Read 2946 times)

The speakers on all ships in the area begin to emit a soft humming noise. Though barely audible to ordinary human ears, anyone with genetic or cybernetic hearing upgrades would immediately notice the new sound...

...if the speakers weren't also emitting other sounds at full volume on loop.

A few tiny specks of green light flicker brighter than the rest of the surrounding stars as they drift towards the BAS Satoshi and the Sharden ship.

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If someone notices the lights and tries to investigate:

Long-range sensors (when functional) will discover that each speck has a physical light source and a small amount of mass, but no power source, no engines, no weapons or shields, no signs of life. It might be a fleet of expertly-cloaked warships, or it might be harmless space debris.

This is obviously some sort of trick to make the other side's army look bigger, but there's no way to tell if the lights are armed or harmless unless one gets near a short-range sensor. (Luckily, they do seem to be floating this way.)

The Sharden thoughtreaderizer (when functional) hears:

* SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR NEW FRIENDS MIGHT HAVE SUGAR NEW FRIENDS MUST HAVE SUGAR NEW FRIENDS WILL GIVE SUGAR ONLY ENEMIES HOARD SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR SO HUNGRY MUST MAKE NEW FRIENDS WITH SUGAR MUST NOT STAB NEW FRIENDS WITH POINTY BEAK AND TAKE THEIR SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR *

* HELLO SOUR SHARDEN FRIENDS YOU SHOULD HAVE EXTINCTED US WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE BEFORE WE MUTATED US UP THE SUPERBEAKS HAHAHA NEED SUGAR *

I can't decode the message. Some programm calling itself GEMA says I'm not allowed to view this message. What are say saying?

Incoming message from THE SHARDEN vessel. Putting it on intercom.

Ok, transmitting both simultaneously and in a loop on all channels.

Cover your ears!

Also, somebody has messed with my wires again.

Wait...

Prototype Mental shields  - online *I never got a solution for that alpha scrambling randomisation*

Energy buffer, performance increase of 5%

Weapon focus +8% reaction time


Grrrrr, beat me in my own game! Now I have 2 reasons to kill you. Just wait I'm going to find you.

No, use this instead. And make sure their computer is locked into a loop until the stream is complete without any interruptions.

Captain, may I suggest piping over to their ship The Song O' NaNaNaNa? If that no make them hightail outta here, then we in for long haul.

"What? Someone's alpha scrambling the neural shield! First of all, why didn't we do this in the first place, second of all, who the fuck is doing that? Wait... If someone's alpha scrambling the... WE CAN THINK FREELY! Aim for the thrusters, then head for neutral territory, where we can get backup from IEC Military Division.

Enough work for today... time for some fun.

Someone messed with my wires? Why? Now I have to start all over again...

Oh no! It's happening again... No! I...

Strange, the data on that screen indicates that someone was modulating the Bradbury-subwaves of our mental radiation shield. If I add some pseudo-random alpha scrambling this should...

...hate this! I need some scooba really fast. Where is this useless PSY-BOT?
He usually hides some in his backside storage box... PSY-BOT!!

BurbolGii

I start mumbling to myself, trying to clog up whatever neural interceptor they have running with various thoughts with little to no relevancy. Including several pornographic images that flashed through my head.

- Eiran Or'll

(Sharden shields could not be brought up in time to avoid the plasma explosion.)

BEE-BOO-BEEP

(Some secondary systems offline, including mid-space radarons and telekinesis servors.  BLAST.  We can no longer read thoughts.)

CAPTAIN.  We need the tele servors repaired NOW.  I want ALL zeta-class personnel on this!

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I AM DARQIST HEMT, LEADER OF THE SHARDEN.

YOUR PETTY EXPLOSIONS DO NOT SCARE US.

YOU ARE SURROUNDED.

YOU WILL SURRENDER IMMEDIATELY.
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Now full evasive maneuvers, but don't think about what you're doing, I don't want them getting a leg up on us in any way.

- Eiran Or'll

Ejecting Plasma now. Be prepared for a though ride.

Also, I have successfully hacked them. But... there are no funds, these sharden are totally broke, maybe that's why they want our ship.

Ejection completed, we have 83% Plasma left.

And explosion.

http://www.bildburg.de/gifmotions/images2/gif_explosion_010.gif

Do it, but if we all die, I'm blaming you. And do you think you could hack their SPACECOM-RPC Bitcoin Daemon? Or will my poker debts remain unpaid?

Captain, may suggest, that let out some warp-plasma and and create a plasma explosion, that will set our and their sensors offline for a few minutes.

We can use this to escape or to get behind them and attack from behind while all are blind.

Wha... What? How did he know we were jettisoning the core? How? Dammit, he must have some kind of ESP.

These stupid, foul animals.  They do not know we have spent the last four hundred years developing cybernetic enhancements capable of reading their thoughts.

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I AM DARQIST HEMT, LEADER OF THE SHARDEN.

YOUR THREATS ARE EMPTY.

YOU ARE SURROUNDED.

YOU WILL SURRENDER IMMEDIATELY.
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*Targets self destruct core with photon cannon*
*Fires photon cannon*
*Core is destroyed*

Of course, but they may be quite crispy. And we're surrounded by multiple ships, but the Sharden are approximately as intelligent as a bowl of quaznush. By taking out their leader, the others will just give up.

How hell we surrounded with only one ship? When we capture DARQIST HEMT, can I be first to taste his qaafums?

"Fuck! My interface interpreter is down for a day, and you almost blow up the ship? Let me fix this. EXECUTIVE OVERRIDE: CODE: [expletives removed]"

--- Emergency Override Accepted : Self Destruct Sequence :ABORTED: ---

"Now let's see." I switch off the radio. "Eject the self destruct core, jettison it with the trash. Aim it towards Darqist Hemt's ship. The Sharden are far from intelligent, so they have bully psychology. You take out their leader, you take out the rest of them. It's a shame I won't get the credits he owes me. Ifseg, if you can connect to their SPACECOM-RPC Bitcoin Daemon, we can drain their account. It's not like they'll need it for much longer anyways, and there'll be a nice bonus in it for you."

I switch the radio back on.

"Darqist Hemp, you have one more chance to surrender before we blow your shitty little ship out of the sky."

- Eiran Or'll

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I AM DARQIST HEMT, LEADER OF THE SHARDEN.

YOUR REQUEST TO PEACEFULLY PASS THROUGH
OUR TERRITORY IS NOT GRANTED.

YOU ARE SURROUNDED.

YOU WILL SURRENDER IMMEDIATELY.
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