BSG

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.

BSG
 
Gotcha. I move to FTL and jump us the frak out of here, risks be damned.

BSG

Helo, do you have an SP for this or shall I do the honours?

BSG

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.

BSG

Sigh. I must leave it up to you. I stand by with my reroll, though, of course.

BSG

No problems. I play an SP-3 on the die roll.

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.

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.

BSG

Oh good lord Great speech El Hippo, but let me translate for the others: You lose 1 fuel and 1 morale. But, you have reached the magic distance of 8! So, one more jump and you are golden. Of course, you have to get there first and the next crisis is not going to help you.

And that crisis is Jump Computer Failure (7 PB). Details to follow in email.

BSG

OK chaps, what do you think? Should we try to pass this or not? With the jump track at start it's only the Population at risk. I'm afraid I can't help at all. I think Destiny, however, will have at least one and possibly two positive cards.