Show them your butt, and when you do, slap it so it creates a sound akin to a chorus of screaming spider monkeys flogging a chime with cacti. Only then can you find your destiny at the tip of the shaft.
"It's pretty sexy except for when it burns because we're dumb and we put wood, and we've had bad... bad times with that."
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"It was up to me now. After the hours of sweat and practice. The weeks of training. The long nights at the diner tossing waffles. It all came down to this one catch." - Daniel Louis Castellaneta
Essentially the larger story will be the war between the Earth domain and the Alpha Centauri colonies. There will be twist to this with involvement of space pirates as well as internal rivalry between China and the US. <s>The ships travel at near speed of light but not faster than light.</s> Most technology has reached a limit where improvements are impractical. This ensures that ships that have been traveling in space for 100s of years are not outdated before they fulfill some useful purpose. Most people still live in poverty, but the top 1% has access to biomechanical cybernetic treatments that extend their life indefinitely. <s>Infinite source of energy has been discovered.</s>
Some of the characters are based on people I've met, as long as 13 years ago.
The main character is Saki who single-handedly commands the Earth ship, <s>Kamikaze</s> Sakura, which has a supercomputer onboard named Sen no Rikyu. She also has a little brother, Taka, under her custody. They are both 30 years old, although originally their age difference was 10 years.
Master Josh is the leader of the pirate group that captures Taka while he is secretly traveling around the colonies without his sister's permission. Master Josh has supernatural powers.
Spencer is a deserter of the Earth fleet. His ship, Corning, serves as the mothership for the pirates. He has insider knowledge of the Earth fleet and aids greatly in the capture of Saki's ship by using Taka as hostage.
All the armed ships are on long-term missions and carry mini colonies with about 500 civilians onboard. In case of catastrophe, people are evacuated in life boats that are picked up by allied or enemy search vessels. Both are immune to attack by enemy as long as they are checked and their locations are constantly broadcasted.
I made all this up just now as I was potsing here.
Feel free to make suggestions.
Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Apr 6 2011, 2:35 am by SiberianTiger.
Vrael shouted: I almost had a heart attack just thinking about calculating all the offsets it would take to do that kind of stuff
With the modern EUD editors, I don't think they're calculating nearly as many offsets as you might imagine. Still some fancy ass work that I'm sure took a ton of effort