BSG
Wheee, that was exciting!
Now let's get out of here. Pradmiral, did you say something about helping with jump prep? Should I wait for that or go ahead?
Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
'Serenity'
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-t - Jan 10, 2011 5:27:11 am PST #8931 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
billytea - Jan 10, 2011 9:41:18 am PST #8932 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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Now let's get out of here. Pradmiral, did you say something about helping with jump prep? Should I wait for that or go ahead?
Sadly, I don't think we can wait any longer. Especially with Starbot's turn next, we can't defend the civvies as it stands. Whether you XO the Chief to do it, or decide to go hands-on, I think we need to jump now.
-t - Jan 10, 2011 9:49:57 am PST #8933 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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Right. Well, then I think I will stay here in the Armory and hope my aim improves shortly, and play an XO-1 on Chief Tyrol to fire up FTL.
Liese S. - Jan 10, 2011 9:56:08 am PST #8934 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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Gotcha. I
move to FTL and jump
us the frak out of here, risks be damned.
billytea - Jan 10, 2011 9:59:54 am PST #8935 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
Helo, do you have an SP for this or shall I do the honours?
megan walker - Jan 10, 2011 10:00:26 am PST #8936 of 26134
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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Using the FTL at jump track 3 requires a die roll to see whether or not you lose 3 population. Please post if you want to play interrupts.
-t - Jan 10, 2011 10:01:55 am PST #8937 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
BSG
Sigh. I must leave it up to you. I stand by with my reroll, though, of course.
billytea - Jan 10, 2011 10:04:56 am PST #8938 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
No problems. I play an SP-3 on the die roll.
megan walker - Jan 10, 2011 11:29:23 am PST #8939 of 26134
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
BSG
Well, I forgot to send the updated spreadsheet to work, but I did roll the die this morning in anticipation of a jump and do know what your crisis is and I can honestly say, it's a good thing for both that you 1) jumped now and 2) played a interrupt.
Roll was a 5, meaning a 7 with the SP. So no loss of life there. The board is now clear and you are back at 0 on the Jump Track.
Details on destinations sent to the Pradmiral.
billytea - Jan 10, 2011 11:56:04 am PST #8940 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
Men and women of the fleet, crew of Galactica -- over there -- our next stop is Deep Space. How is this different from regular space, you ask? Has it read the great philosophers, is that what I mean? Ha! Well, yes, but that's not why we call it that. Incidentally, it's a big fan of Wittgenstein. Found Nietzsche uncongenial. As everyone knows, Nietzsche abhors a vacuum.
No, you see, space is defined as the absence of stuff. On every side of the space is stuff, or as we in the military call it, not-space. Descartes had a troubled relationship with space. On the one hand, space reads his "I think, therefore I am", and thinks that it thinks, and therefore it is not-is, and one of them must be awfully confused.
On the other hand, he also gave us Cartesian geometry. We can use this to recognise that this space between not-space has three dimensions - height, width and depth. Deep Space, then, is simply space with unusually deep depth. The height and width of this space are normal enough, but the depth continues beyond all reason. In other words, a tunnel. Here we can be grateful that Deep Space hasn't got up to Freud, or else this discussion could take some unfortunate directions. Instead, we will be heading in the depth direction. I think we can all agree that's best.
So let's all enjoy this sojourn as Galactica and all the other cigar-shaped ships head down this long tunnel, and who knows? Maybe we'll find Kobol at the end of it. Now I'm going to get back to Presidenting, and you all keep doing what you're doing.
Pradmiral out.
Well, Billy, reassuring stuff, huh? I wouldn't be at all surprised if Morale jumped through the roof after that speech.