Active Plots (Alphabetical) - Updated 8/21/2010

Can't I Have Any Time? - (Eruantion Doriath [?], Amonost Doriath [?])

End of Solitude - (Verda Stelo [?])

No More Grape Soda - (Alex Dean [?], Samuel Jorgenson [?], Leon Mecheeto [?])

Questionable Means - (Tawny Black [?], Ishkan Ma'z)

Author	Comment
QuantumTroll Street Fighter/Space Station 5/8/2009 4:37:20 AM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 181	RE: Space Station FREYA Freya noticed that the emergency purge had apparently shut down most of the theory of mind routines, leaving her totally unaware of how Jara and Piet had been thinking and feeling about the events of the last couple of hours.  She booted them back up and set them to run through the memory banks and update in the background. In the meantime, she turned to Mr. Piet.  "Well, I think the highest priority is to resuscitate the broken hyperdrive that I salvaged from your vessel and to continue to mine the wreckage.  With this, I can finally afford to move on the next step of my development, and today's little visit shows that it is definitely high time." "Jara, I would be very grateful if you took the Belladonna and fulfilled your contract as soon as possible.  Bring back a hyperspace engineer, and you'll get 10% of his commission.  I'm loaning you the cost of your ship's upgrades so you're not delayed.  Sound good?" She hadn't addressed the question of Piet's continued stay.  For one, he had no way of leaving, so the question was moot.  But the terms of his stay were unresolved.  She had taken him on as a rescued prisoner, and she had defended him from those who would kill him.  The fact that she took his broken ship for salvage was irrelevant, a simple application of common interplanetary law. He owed her a lot, and she owed him nothing. But he had nothing to give, and she everything.  Freya decided to let the question lie, since the only fair outcome was indentured servitude.  Piet's phrase "my mechanical captain" implied loyalty already, and it was maybe best to avoid making the conditions of his crewmanship explicit. "Piet, you've proven yourself to be resourceful and adaptable and there is no way for you to leave me alive. If you choose to accept, you can be my first crewmember."   Freya wasn't done with her analysis, but she was pretty sure that he'd accept.  The poor man simply did not have many options.
Kapitein Piet (Ethical) Space Pirate 5/8/2009 5:55:20 AM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 60	RE: Space Station FREYA Apparently the AI hadn't caught the sardonic tone in his remark about the "mechanical captain," and her offer was unexpected. Back to being a mere crewmember after decades of life as a captain? Then again, why not? Not like he had anything to lose, anything else to do, or (for that matter) any choice. "Pah, alright; I'm in. What're the terms, then, before I sign away my soul?" he asked her in mock apprehensiveness.
QuantumTroll Street Fighter/Space Station 5/8/2009 7:42:40 AM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 181	RE: Space Station FREYA Freya just caught the sense that something was off in Piet's behavior, but shrugged it off until she had time to think about things more thoroughly.  She was really lagging behind in analysis as it was. "The terms are simple.  You'll make yourself useful, and I will provide you with room and board.  Things being as they are, there's not really anything else on the table right now.  When something comes up that changes the situation, we can discuss a different arrangement then."
Jara Green freelance fighter pilot 5/27/2009 11:51:11 PM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 60	RE: Space Station FREYA Jara left them to their talk of jobs and souls, and prepped Belladonna to leave. "One jaunt home and back again Bella. Hopefully Grien won't be busy and we can drag him back here quickly." the computer and systems finished booting up and she fed the coordinates to the navigational display. "Okay Freya, whenever you're ready open the dock."
QuantumTroll Street Fighter/Space Station 5/28/2009 5:52:06 AM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 181	RE: Space Station FREYA Freya said "Thanks Jara, godspeed" as the air in the small hangar evacuated with a loud shoom.  The doors opened up to the irradiated vacuum of outer space, and Freya lit her hazard lights.
Kapitein Piet (Ethical) Space Pirate 7/10/2009 11:14:59 AM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 60	RE: Space Station FREYA (Sorry for being away for so long. Life has its twists and turns...) Kapitein Piet was still going to have some difficulty taking orders from a ship instead of the reverse, but it sounded like a mutually beneficial agreement. "Alright, Freya. Akkoord. And Jara - Godspeed!" Once Jara had gone, the old man took a seat, and asked into the empty room, "Well, then. What's the first order of business?"
QuantumTroll Street Fighter/Space Station 7/14/2009 6:56:11 AM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 181	RE: Space Station FREYA [ It's certainly been a long time.  Let's just go on as best we can. Jara, you're welcome back any time Anyone else who wants to join this plot can pm me or Kapitein Piet with your idea. ] Freya bid adieu to her friend as she sped off into the cosmic dark, turning out the exterior lights again after the hyperspace jump. To Piet, she said "The most urgent tasks right now are: salvaging your old ship, mounting the broken hyperdrive, designing the interior decor like Jara suggested, and drawing up plans for the future." Silently she noted to herself that she needed to wade through all the recorded human interaction metrics and figure out these new sorts of people. She added, "I think salvage could be speeded up now by cutting the Calamitous' hull into pieces to be attached to my hull until it can be processed more properly." The notion that the human might have his own needs to consider didn't quite enter Freya's mind at the moment. She didn't even remember to have her android waldo speak to Piet as she normally would.  Something else was taking up her mind, and it wasn't just engineering.
Kapitein Piet (Ethical) Space Pirate 7/20/2009 8:00:16 AM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 60	RE: Space Station FREYA The weathered space-lane pirate nodded sagely: "Aye, I agree with you on principle." Hesitated, again, before adding "...capteyn Freya. But I must ask - what's the purpose of this ship? Do you have a charter? What are we planning ... for?"
QuantumTroll Street Fighter/Space Station 7/20/2009 8:58:55 AM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 181	RE: Space Station FREYA There was a moment of silence as Piet's question percolated through Freya's mind. The man still didn't see her as her own person, didn't seem to see that he essentially asked the existential question.  It was one of the reasons she was taking the long way through space instead of traveling a more popular route. She smiled to herself as she turned over the potential answers she could give. "I don't know, Mr. Piet", the android said. "What is the purpose of this vessel?" she said as she poked a finger at the man's less-than-solid midriff.   Everyone inevitably answers this question for themselves, explicitly or not.  The answers are expressed in the countless acts of sentient beings throughout the galaxy.  Freya liked to rephrase the question as "what do you want to do?" What do I want to do?, the mass of logic that comprised Freya's Executive Function echoed.  Find a mate?  See the galaxy?  Create something? Just make sure that I'll live tomorrow? Yes, but who, where, what, and how?
Kapitein Piet (Ethical) Space Pirate 7/21/2009 4:54:27 AM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 60	RE: Space Station FREYA "Well, cap. I'll tell ya: as my ship is currently being welded to your backside, my crew is captured by one of the most cruel, sadistic, and powerful creatures in the galaxy, I was pretty well prepared to perish when the subspace core ruptured, and instead have been saved from oblivion and drafted into service by an unlikely creature such as yourself, I find I don't really have a particular calling at the moment. That said, I think that persons, starships, and space stations that continue purposelessly on their way are a pitiable waste of breath. A ship without a charter should be headed to the scrap heap, whether it's sentient or not, if you pardon my frankness. As worthless and despicable as the homeless drunk without the ambition to leave the gutter. If you don't have any better ideas, perhaps we should - for the time being - direct our efforts to refitting specifically for extending my career a few years, while you figure out what you want to do with yours. I don't have the ability to attach more arms or put rocket boosters in my toes. You do. Perhaps you should figure out what you can do to better the galaxy instead of floating listlessly in interstellar space. Now if you pardon me, cap'n, I'm not accustomed to speeches and I must get some rest. Apologies for the rude address are extended - take'em or leave'em." The embittered captain turned to head to the crew cabins. Apparently Freya had hit a nerve. Kapitein Piet couldn't tell exactly what did it - pointing out his own lack of purpose? Fear of his own mortality, this late in life? The loss of his crew, his ship, his life - finally hitting home? He reached for the only solution that made any sense - the whisky bottle - and drank deeply.

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