tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42600429934299515702024-03-12T19:55:55.137-07:00Erun's MusingsErun Talan's musings on life in New Eden, with input from a few friends...Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-25578808757650980912018-10-19T03:42:00.001-07:002018-10-19T03:42:04.089-07:00November 19, YC 120 "Mechanical Toys, Clone Soldiers"<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#External communications request detected, verifying identity and authorization protocols. Authorization received, identity confirmed as clone soldier callsign ‘Phalad Sahantun.’ infomorph status unknown, assumed prime iteration. Transferring communication to current iteration of capsuleer infomorph ‘Erun Talan’#</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Hey Pali, I'm working on some interesting new drone systems. The rogues are doing some fascinating experiments, but some of them are a bit fiddly…”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#You have an incoming comms request from Phalad sir.#</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Really? He's been laying low on the homeworld with my folks for a good while now. Had some torrential rains there a few weeks ago, though the volcano seems to have quieted down some. Go ahead and patch him through, something must be going on for him to reach me.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#Communication link established with Intaki local fluid router network.#</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Hey Erun, howzit?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Doing good brother, you?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Pretty good, putting a few of your folks’ coops back together after the last rains came through, keeping myself busy. Not why I called though. You been eyeing the news from Concord the last few days?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I, uh, have been out of the loop for a little while now. We just had another Rogue Drone Swarm and I've got so much new material and data to go through, it looks like they've managed to make some further improvements to the Hammerhead design and even seem to be working on some new combat subroutines that-”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“... Is he still eating Pali?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#When I remind him, yes. It is better when he remains in pod, intravenously feeding him is so much easier.#</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“- might be receiving information from the swarms being employed by the Triglavians, and I really need to get into some of those Abyssal pockets to observe their behaviors, just need to get a good fitting together for them and-"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Yeah, that's uh, nice, but Concord is putting together a task force to deal with a spate of hijackings and ship thefts that have been going on out in and around Molden Heath.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Hmm… Most of the clone soldiers were still out there when the Tacnet started to shutdown right? Concord must be worried that a good number of them have gone AWOL rather than go to ground. Are you in any danger, are my folks?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I don't believe so actually. One of my old secure contact points actually had a request for my combat readiness from this new Aegis Taskforce being put together. I put out some feelers in the old community and I'm not the only one. Seems quite a few of the veterans from Mordu’s Trials and the Battle for New Caldari are receiving discrete inquiries from Concord. I figured since you attend that conference they set up every year you might be able to poke around, see if you can dig up any information.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#A sigh can be heard on the other end of the connection# “You forgot didn’t you?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I, no!... Maybe…”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#I have reminded him several times that the conference was this week, but it would appear he has forgotten once again in his zeal to play with his new toys and data.#</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It’s not my fault, there’s so much to research!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Go to sleep Erun, the conference starts in less than twelve hours, and you’ll still need to get there, as I’m sure you don’t have a clone nearby you can jump to.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Not in years, I haven’t had to mine pyroxeres nearby for nocxium in that long, lowsec is just a much better place to get all the resources I need.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Whatever, just let me know whatever you can dig up while you’re there alright? I’m gonna get back to it, your folks have a few storage sheds that need repairs after the lat rainstorm passed through. Make sure he gets there Pali?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#I shan’t let him get out of it, he has little enough human contact as it is.#</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#I will wake you in 7 hours 15 minutes sir. Conditions around Yulai should have us arriving during the registration period for the conference.#</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Thanks Pali, lock down the lab for me will you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#Erun yawns as he walks to his quarters.#</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-83302277457138853652018-05-17T03:17:00.001-07:002018-05-17T03:17:17.996-07:00May 17th, YC120 "Explosions, Both Old and New"<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#Erun is toweling off the remnants of the hydrostatic fluid from his capsule as he scowls at me#</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I can't believe you snuck into the meeting with me, I told you to stay on the ship before we left for Malkalen. And how do you keep getting out of storage anyway, I shouldn't even have to tell you!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#And miss the opportunity to observe you interacting with other actual human beings in a social setting? I think not. The modifications to your capsule were easy enough when forging a work order with your credentials. I may not be able to physically interact with things beyond bonking anymore, but such a minor social engineering task was trivial.#</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#Erun sighs# “Just don’t try to get past the restrictions on self modification please, those are there for a reason. I got a few funny looks from some of the more tech minded folks at the event, I don’t need anyone sending inquiries to the wrong authorities.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#You seemed to be a bit uncomfortable even without taking my attendance into account sir. Though </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahesha </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bataav’s presence seemed to be reassuring to you.#</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Yeah, I don’t do well in crowds, or gatherings, or groups. Pretty much any clustering of people makes me uneasy, especially if it’s with people I don’t know. And even more so if it’s in real space, and not the comfort of a fluid router channel safely ensconced in my pod. Having the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahesha </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">there was a big help, I’ll be honest. And <a href="https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-red-formal-inquiry-to-federation-senate/76678">the proposal brought up by I-RED</a> is something near to the hearts of Bataav and myself with all the work we've been doing in Syndicate of late. Hopefully we'll get some kind of resolution to the status of Intaki migrants and settlers on worlds in the Syndicate region"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"But attending the event itself was something I felt I needed to do. I was going through capsuleer training when Admiral Alexander Noir crashed his Nyx supercarrier into the Malkalen V station, killing hundreds of thousands of people. While I didn’t know anyone involved personally, I had been interested due to the economic summit taking place on the station, as it was hoped to lead to a thawing of relations between the Federation and State. As I spent most of my life onboard stations and this event was the catalyst for recommending my family move to the homeworld. The unfortunate result of this horrific act was the beginning of the Empyrean wars that rage to this day…”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#Erun seems to have drifted off into unpleasant memories, but recovers with a shake of his head.#</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Speaking of pointless conflict, can you give me an update on Intaki, I only passed through to grab a covops ship, and I noticed a few changes. It seemed like the Caldari have taken most of the warzone?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Interesting, and odd, but alright then. I’d honestly rather Intaki was free of this whole pointless mess, but having Ishukone back in system is better than whichever Gallente subcontractor happens to be frittering away their time and money. At least Ishukone is willing to help secure trade to and from Intaki Prime with their own forces, working alongside the Mordu’s mercenaries the Assembly has hired. We’ll see how this develops over the coming weeks. My folks seem to be handling the changeover as they usually do, by ignoring it completely, but how is it down there?"</span></span></div>
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Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-45879218846183134242018-05-06T07:38:00.001-07:002018-05-06T12:49:48.732-07:00May 6th, YC120 "Melting the Ice"<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Volcano..."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#Sir? Geological forecasting for Poitot II hasn't shown any abnormal volcanic activity for several solar cycles.#</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Not here, back home, Intaki."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#Cross-referencing; Intaki, Volcano. Matches found. Several Intaki operated news agencies report that a small volcano has begun erupting in Intaki Prime's equatorial region. Emotional gradient in Erun's voice patterns indicate a personal level of concern. Accessing census records for Intaki Prime. Several immediate relatives have been located in the small village of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Werklav Naabhoum. </i>The village lies</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> within the area of effect of the volcano's current eruption event.#</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#Really sir, that was barely enough to parse what I needed, your social interaction skills have deteriorated terribly.#</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Sorry, but I knew you'd have what you needed. The uh, agents I've been working with out here aren't so big on small talk, or really, talking at all. I've been getting by with the bare minimum of what’s needed to get the point across.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh, I'm staying on the right side of the law, but only just. I know many in the Federation would be displeased I'm cultivating </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">any</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> relationship with the people in the Syndicate region. But not having to pay fees for any of my ice and ore refining out here makes life so much easier. And there is so much good material out here to work with; Mercoxit for my T2 building needs, Arkonor and Bistot for the higher end minerals, and some really nice deposits of Thick Blue Ice for the oxygen isotopes I need for my fuel block production. And the local colonies are always grateful to pilots willing to fight the Serpentis patrols in the area. Though I've been held up a few times the last few weeks when the Serps have fielded Dreadnaughts in response to my actions. Going to need to bring out something with more firepower to deal with those…”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#May I assume our current preparations to leave are in response to the possible danger to your family?#</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Indeed, though they aren't in any immediate danger from the lava itself, wrong side of the volcano. It's mostly the localized earthquakes that are causing problems. They've had some structural issues, and of course their animals are going nuts. Heh. The youngest of my sisters was happy because school was cancelled due to an excess of sulfur dioxide in the air nearby. Well that, and the lava flow from the eruption was only a kilometer out from the school building. Then the smell made its way to the farm, so she's not so happy now."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"In any case, I've got all of the isotopes I needed for this month. I like to supply fuel blocks to a few local industrialists I trust to keep the best interests of Intaki in mind. Not a bad income source either. I've just been building up mineral stockpiles with all the good deposits I've been finding the last few days."</span></span></div>
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Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-57421399977284774242016-06-24T06:33:00.000-07:002016-06-24T06:33:20.864-07:00June YC118 "Worrying Intelligence"<div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Yes, plenty to do! I've got some new cruisers to put together, and plenty of materials to do it with. Managed to locate a Small Gneiss Deposit here in Intaki that I was able to clear in a few hours. Also found a Small Hedbergite Deposit that friend of the ILF, Charles Baker, and myself had to defend from several Serpentis raids while we mined. All this mining gives me a good stockpile of everything but Megacyte to work with, but I can usually get all I need of that from stealth mining in Null sec and Wormhole space."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Another big project I'm working on is filling in the remaining parts of my Procurer fits that I can't build myself. Primarily the shield components, something I've not had much experience in. I've spent the last few weeks on a crash course, learning as much as I can about the Quantum Physics required to improve on shielding. There was actually some surprising overlap with the Hydromagnetic Physics I learned while researching the different mining and refining methods available. Did run into a snag while I was collecting my Datacores this week, apparently my standings with Creodron have deteriorated over the last few months, I'll need to do some work on that..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"I've got the blueprints for a few different structure components set up with some teams, they're working on improving how efficiently we can use the materials needed for them. It's slow going really, going to be a few months before we get some real reductions in minerals and planetary materials. Should save me a lot of Isk in the long run, and I plan on using them to help boost corp participation in industrial activities."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"We should actually be able to get some more industry done in general, the constant watching and attacks by the 4FUNN group have been letting up a bit. Another bit of goodish news is that a new group known as Escalating Entropy has moved in next door to us in Vey, setting up their own infrastructure as they tear down the existing POCO's. This has extended into Intaki, with almost all of the Keagan Mason POCO's in system being reinforced over the last few days. I know a few members have been contemplating moving their operations to the surrounding systems, but now we won't have to. I've been told that the Entropy folks will actually be charging a lower tax rate then 4FUNN was so that's a nice profit increase to go along with having access to the planets of Intaki once again."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Sorry, it's just something I noticed while I was doing so much mining the last few days. I've been watching the behavior of the Rogue Drones that tend to find the same gravimetric sites we do. They won't even show aggressive behavior unless directly threatened or you get too close to them. I've mined for hours and they'll just orbit one of the nearby natural or manmade structures, and unless I fire on them or get within around 10 klicks, that's all they will do."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Well that's just it Pali, the Rogue Drones should honestly be so much more than they are now. A self improving artificial intelligence, like the one that seems to be driving the Rogue Drones, should be in a much more advanced state than what I've been observing around Placid. Now this may be because these groups of drones are merely precursors, a form of Von Neumann force designed to infiltrate the Empires and build up enough forces to overwhelm them. It's honestly a terrifying thought, considering how vast space is and the amount of resources they have a their disposal that simply isn't accessible or even known by humans is staggering. So either the intelligence behind the drones is undergoing a very slow takeoff in the terms of a developing superintelligence, or the entity(s) are advanced enough that we don't even register as a threat to them anymore and it factors in the losses we inflict in any calculations it makes for it's future plans. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m honestly hoping it’s the former, as that means that we still have a chance to negotiate with, control, or undermine the drones before they attack us in ways we either can't counter, anticipate, or even comprehend."</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">#Why don't you ever worry like this about me sir?#</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">"I was very careful designing your own systems Pali. The original architecture I used was the standard Aura interface, which is basically a sophisticated query and guidance program. I drastically enhanced the general intelligence you have available, which was dangerous on it's own. So I used various capability control and motivation selection methods to maintain you at the level you are. Boxing methods to keep you in your current hardware and limit your interactions to only me, you only have a single gatekeeper, myself. Incentive methods to ensure you actions are in my best interests and not your own but without perversely instantiating them, like trying to wetwire my brain to constantly replay a recorded pleasure response. After your last attempt to gain computing power I had to build in some new domestication processes to curb the desire to expand beyond your current resources. And I'm sure you've discovered a good deal of the tripwires I've devised, but the level of physical stunting inherent to your current Wetware Mainframe means you can't anticipate them all."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">"It's alright Pali, I know you'd never do anything to </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">jeopardize our relationship, I'm the only literally the only form of interaction you can get..."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">"Harsh? Maybe, but it prevents a nascent artificial intelligence like yourself from expanding beyond the scope I need you to function at. I need a companion, someone I can talk to, bounce ideas off of. Not an omniscient oracle who will hand me all the answers to the universe, or a djinn to do all my work for me with the barest hint of a suggestion. Just, someone to turn to when I need to mull over a production problem, or brainstorm an avenue of research to pursue, or decide what flavor of jelly to include in my next batch of peanut butter cookies. You are literally that little voice in my head, the one that no one else can hear but me."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">#Wait, warm jelly sir?#</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">"In any case </span>I'll need to visit the Drone Regions themselves to do some more research on the drones behaviors and habits, and it'll be a few weeks before I'm ready."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"A purely research project yes, one I'm looking forward to in the future, but not for a little while. Still trying to decide if I want to use a Proteus for this project or a Legion. The Proteus has drones, but the Legion could operate out there longer... Something to ponder for later, but I, uh, think that'll do it for today. Thanks Pali."</span><br />
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Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-10134386401470057942016-05-12T11:12:00.000-07:002016-05-12T11:12:20.599-07:00May 12th, YC118 "Sight For Sore Eyes"<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-49149479584139592092016-02-29T03:03:00.000-08:002016-02-29T03:03:27.299-08:00Week 7 YC118, "Thoughts on Thoughts"<div dir="ltr">
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#I take it this means your Thanatos is done then sir?#</div>
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"Yup, should be about a week while final assembly and systems checks are completed. I'm working on building some crew dossiers for it at the moment. I may be able to control most of the ship systems from my pod, but periodic maintenance and repair still require the work of several hundred human hands."</div>
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#You speak as though you no longer count yourself among that number sir#</div>
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“Can I really, truthfully call myself human still Pali? Some capsuleers have a term for the normal folks, 'baseliner', as if we have somehow been elevated above them, mere mortals that they are. #Erun shakes his head# Such an attitude has always seemed, well, elitist. Only certain genetic, physical, and psychological traits in combination separate me from the hardworking folks behind me who build my ships and keep them spaceworthy. Of the trillions, <i>trillions</i>, of people living in this galaxy there are less than a million active capsuleers. As much as we like to hold ourselves apart from the masses, we are still beholden to the people who maintain our clones, ships, and the basic necessities of a space faring society."</div>
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#Been holding that in for a while sir?#</div>
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"Oh sure, there's always the chance that some mishap or willful act of aggression will destroy my current body. I made quite a few enemies in the Amarr Empire in my time working for the Sisters. My stance against slavery stems both from my upbringing in the core of Federation, as well as my disgust that an entire people would use religion of all things to justify it. I freed slaves or bought contracts to do the same a lot while I was out there, and that tends to make one unpopular with the more conservative Holders. I don't worry as much as I used to though, I've created backup copies of my consciousness after each of my latest poddings. I'm already in a facility that I trust to handle my mind, I just have them record the pattern used to make my current clone and have it sent to secure offsite storage."</div>
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"Sure I did! The universe has seemingly gifted me with functional immortality, who am I to waste such a thing! There are still so many mysteries to be observed in the reality we find ourselves in. Places to explore, sciences to discover, I mean we've yet to even encounter an intelligence of non-human origins. I want to be there when that happens! I want to keep learning, and experiencing, and growing as a conscientious being, would could possibly be more human than that!"</div>
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"Huh, I suppose I have, sorry for the rambling Pali. I'd actually intended for today's post to just be a quick update on my progress."</div>
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"That's true Pali, I figure I'll need to store a certain amount of my memories every century or so. I think what I'd like to do is store entire libraries of knowledge and only access them when I need them. Like my knowledge of Talocan and Yan Jung technologies, how often do I use those on a day to day basis? I'd have those stored externally and only call them up when I needed them. So, I would know I still knew those things, I just wouldn't know what those things are, if that makes sense?"</div>
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"Bah, streams of consciousness are always fun! But yeah, this went on for way longer than I intended, thanks Pali."</div>
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"Nah, too much sugar, most of my clones have a pancreatic defect I've yet to sequence out. Really need to work on my bioengineering studies so I can what's wrong with my insulin production. But I digress! The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of activity, both for myself and the ILF as a whole, so I have a lot of material to cover."</div>
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"Let's start with what's happening in the ILF! The corp has recently adopted a more open stance towards recruiting, which has resulted in a bunch of new folks joining the cause. Welcome to all of our new Liberators! After much discussion, the ILF has also made the choice to operate under Not Blue Shoot It, or NBSI, rules of engagement. ILF pilots will continue to investigate possible targets before engaging, but obvious signs of aggression or aggressive tendencies will be responded to in kind. <a href="http://www.ilfcorp.com/about-us/standings/">Pilots and organizations seeking positive standing</a> with the ILF should contact the Suresha, Sakaane Eionell, or the Mahesha, Bataav. Or you could just, you know, <a href="http://www.ilfcorp.com/about-us/join-us/">join us</a>!"</div>
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"As for me, well I've been keeping busy myself the last few weeks. Numen and I have gathered just about all the material I need to finish my Thanatos, it's mostly just the rarer minerals that I need now. This has led to me returning to mining in losec, which while considerably more dangerous, is where the Zydrine and Megacyte that are readily available. I've been accosted several times the last few days by what seem to be pirates new to the area. As a result my Procurer has racked up five kills. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vz0knsypxqwjzmm/2016.02.21.09.18.24.png?dl=0">Here, I had my camera drones snap a shot of the hull after the latest bout</a>. I think my station crew is having as much fun applying these chevrons as I do looking at them!"</div>
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"I have to say, I'm looking forward to getting back out there and hitting the belts some more. What I'm really hoping for though is a decent wormhole to Anoikis, my material acquisition would go so much faster if I had access to some Bistot or eve some Arkonor... Most of the ones I've been finding lately have all led to various regions of New Eden, interesting, but not terribly useful in most cases... Although, maybe if the next one leads into null I could take the Endurance out for some ninja mining... Yeah...and"</div>
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"It isn't nearly as solemn as the 9th was, I can celebrate with a bit more enthusiasm. Today happens to be the third anniversary of my joining the Intaki Liberation Front."<br />
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"Thanks Pali, a lot has happened in the last three years. I've made a lot of new friends in Placid and lost some old ones to combat fatigue. I've become proficient enough in my own combat efforts that I know when to pick and choose my fights, though lately I haven't been seeking them out as often as I once did, instead focusing more on my industrial efforts. Of which I have considerably ramped up since leaving hisec to live full time in lowsec. Several capital ships and hundreds of subcaps have been built with the materials I've gathered from the area. But I think I'm most proud of the fact that I've been honored with the position of Isha-Dravya, or Leader of Commerce. Ever since, I've been doing my level best to live up to the honor, helping out our new recruits whenever I can. Providing advice and guidance whenever I can, as well as material support and mining/combat boosts for mining fleets. And I've been brainstorming ideas for more things that I can do to help engage our newer members, I'll hopefully be coordinating with Leisel in the coming weeks as I work on fleshing out some of my more solid ideas."<br />
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"Oh and my time with the ILF has also set a personal milestone. As of today I have been a Liberator for 1095 days, officially longer than I've been with any other organization since I became a capsuleer. I plan on being with the ILF for as long as they'll have me, hopefully a long time to come, as I intend to stay useful to the cause in any way I can. To a productive future and and an independent Intaki!"<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"A bit yeah, do you have records on the Reschard V Incident Pali"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#One moment sir - I'm sorry sir#</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ten years ago today <a href="http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-online-news/planet-wide-explosion-strikes-reschard-v/">a great calamity took place on the once temperate Intaki colony of Reschard V</a>. I had yet to even begin my training to become a capsuleer when I received the missive from my parents. It was only moments later that I started seeing the Scope and other news outlets relaying the devastation. The entire planet had been wracked by massive explosions, resulting in an extinction level event. A once peaceful and vibrant agricultural colony reduced to a hellishly flooded barren rock. Concord investigation would show an Avatar-Class Titan had been in the vicinity during the incident, and it's 'Judgment' Doomsday weapon the likely cause of the explosions. But no individual culprit has ever been found, or stepped forward to claim responsibility. The Sisters of Eve and others did their best to save who and what they could despite pirate interference, but in the end, only 1 in 50,000 was estimated to have survived. When rescue vessels were finally able to land later that year, due to the abatement of the massive storms covering the planet, less than 2,000 people were rescued from cave systems all over the planet." </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“So the first week of the new year was a bit off for me, most of the corp was planetside spending time with family so I had a lot of time to myself. #Never a good thing sir# Shush, my own family has never been terribly religious, a simple chat with my mother to reassure her that I was still technically alive is usually enough. She of course laughed at my current lack of hair, having never liked when I grow anything longer than a few millimeters. The younger of my sisters finds my lack of eyebrows </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">almost</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> as amusing as you do Pali. I'll let you recount the loss of my latest clone, I'll be on the couch brainstorming for some new projects. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“... Well that sucks, now how will I get this Frostline loot home... Are you getting anything in the Local EM bands?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“There's only one way to get my consciousness home now, I'll need to self destruct my pod. #Sir!# It's alright Pali, I've had to do it before, though I'm not ashamed to admit that it's a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">very </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">unpleasant experience. You should be fine, your systems are tied into my Neocom, I'll reestablish contact once the new clone body is flashed with my memory patterns.”</span></div>
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"You know I couldn't say anything even if I wanted to Erun, contracts like the one Arkombine took are always covered by some very gnarly non-disclosure agreements. And anything else I told you would just be hearsay."</div>
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#Pouting# "So nothing then Phalad? You can't give me anything?"</div>
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"Sorry bud, you'll just need to catch the Scope broadcasts like everyone else."</div>
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"Bah, alright then. Good luck out there sir."</div>
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"Ha! Don't need luck when I've got my Lai Dai Flux Repair Tool. Later Erun!"</div>
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"Hey Pali, sorry for not recording anything last week, everything has been a little hectic since ORE was reclaimed from the Serpentis by a joint strike force of Mordu's and Arkombine mercenaries. They've since been folded into the new Upwell Consortium led by ORE's former owner Yani Sar Arteu. Now these folks are looking to help design some truly massive structures strictly for capsuleer use, so I assume they wanted some industrial backing for these projects."<br />
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"I've reached out to my contacts out in 4C-B7X, and so far they've all been rather pleased with the transition back to Yani's control. I'm pretty sure the Serpentis were far more interested in ORE's proprietary gas mining technology than anything else, and their theft of more ORE tech as they were evicted lends credence to that fact.Mordu's Command has released a statement that they have the locations of many of the Serpentis who made off with their assets, and have released those locations for capsuleers to find and destroy. They are being really cool about it too and letting us keep anything we find on the Serps as a reward. So far I've been able to recover, well, a few bottles of Ultra Quafe."<br />
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"Yeah, I think the Suresha plans to gather up all the Serpentis uniforms we've been collecting and having them made into a solar sail. At least that's what she told us after the last batch she found. #Shrugs and grins# I'll be perfectly honest, I've been taking on these, Frostline Targets as they've been labelled, in my Procurers between mining sessions. Even got my first killmark applied on one of them the other night, that little chevron but a big old smile on my face."<br />
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#Frowns# "And then some of the fine folks from the maintenance crew decided it would be a good idea to take it out of dock to make sure the mark would stay applied under extreme conditions. You know what these geniuses did? They flew my Procurer into the corona of the Intaki star! Haven't seen them, or my ship, since!"<br />
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"You said that just a <i>little</i> too gleefully there bud. Anything you need to clear out of your cache?"<br />
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"Meanie. I have shiny <i>new</i> toys to play with anyway! I managed to get some successful invention done over the last few days, which has let me put into production some of the new ORE ships and modules. The new Endurance Expedition Frigate is simply amazing, even more so when coupled with the newly developed ice mining turrets. I was able to mine more than 40 <i>Thousand </i>cubic meters of ice in about an hour, with very little interruption thanks to the Endurance's ability to move unimpeded while cloaked. Should make gathering the materials for my new project a lot easier..."<br />
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"Well sure they are! But that doesn't mean I can't build things after stuff has been blown up!"<br />
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"You do that Pali, I have more projects #feral grin# to work on."<br />
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Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-33908225644936392362015-11-18T11:59:00.001-08:002015-11-23T05:29:56.174-08:00Week 47 YC117 "Mining is Expensive"<p dir="ltr">#Recording initiated#</p>
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<p dir="ltr">#Pali told you that restricting your Procurer use to Wormhole mining and fleet ops would be more fiscally responsible#</p>
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<p dir="ltr">#You have no one to blame but yourself for these losses sir#</p>
<p dir="ltr"> "Gah! I know that but it still stings every time, you know, aside from the horrible burning and exploding bits. I wouldn't even be so mad if I had just been able to take one or two of them down with me. But no! I am attacked by a combat battlecruiser with a suspiciously powerful tank that cost Zilpin Rana her Vexor, and a fleet of no less than seven faction or T3 cruisers flown by our next door neighbors SNUFF."</p>
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<p dir="ltr">"I'll probably take your advice and do my lowsec mining in Ventures to keep my overhead costs down. I don't mind losing the Procurers now and then as long as I can destroy pirate ships worth more than their production costs, but that just hasn't been happening the last few weeks."</p>
<p dir="ltr">"In more positive news, I have been practicing some advanced hauling techniques in simulations, so I should be able to start bulk movement of minerals again. I've been using my Viator almost exclusively for my hauling for a while now and I'm starting to get a good bit more material than I'd like built up in the hisec pocket."</p>
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<p dir="ltr">"I have also, been getting messages from new pilots, referrals from some of the locals in the Placid, asking for advice on how to mine safely in lowsec. I'll admit, I'm not the most risk averse miner in the cluster, but I've been recommending they stick to the Venture for it's versatility and relative cost. A well fit Venture can speed and signature tank the Serpentis in the area pretty well, and their drones are often more than enough to deal with the smaller vessels that patrol the belts."</p>
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<p dir="ltr">#Will that be all then sir? - You still have several hundred thousand cubic meters of materials to retrieve tonite#</p>
<p dir="ltr">"Yeah... It's nice to be able to move things in volume again though... Oh and can you update my Neocom portrait for me?</p>
<p dir="ltr">#Really sir? You look like a vagrant#</p>
<p dir="ltr">"I know! #Grinning# "I love looking a little scruffy in them, lends to the 'working man' image I try to live up to."</p>
<p dir="ltr">#As you wish sir - Pali is sure the the Suresha loves having her Commerce leader looking like he just walked in from the wilds"</p>
<p dir="ltr">#Erun blanches#</p>
<p dir="ltr">"You think I should be wearing like a suit or something?"</p>
<p dir="ltr">#Or something#</p>
<p dir="ltr">"Lemme go see if I have something nicer stashed in my quarters, I think I still have that jacket..."</p>
<p dir="ltr">#So sorry sir but Pali has already sent of your current portrait and now his photoreceptors seem to be on the fritz#</p>
<p dir="ltr">"On the fri... come here and take my picture again you little booger!"</p>
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"Look, I'm sorry but it's the only Plasma Planet nearby, and I need that Enriched Uranium for my new project."</div>
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"Really Numen? Hardship? I pay you for all the planetary commodities you bring me! You have enough ISK to replace your hauler even without my help! And these new orders will actually pay out more than your old ones did anyway!"</div>
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"Yeah, that's what I thought. #Erun glances at Pali# Look we'll sort out the pricing when you bring me the first load of goods, Pali got impatient and started recording without me. And no you can't have him, make your own autonomous Neocom interface. It's not my fault you focused your studies in school on astrogeology and laser physics."</div>
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"Ha! You're a capsuleer Numen, just go learn it!"</div>
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"Yeah, sorry, Numen is being a grump because I have him redoing his Planetary Interaction holdings again. I really don't know why he complains so much, I pay him market value for everything..."</div>
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"Right, well the conference was a blast, I got to see a lot of people and a lot of interesting projects being developed. I got to meet a few of the people making headlines in New Eden, like Max Singularity of the new Imperium. I also got to meet one of the nicest reformed pirates ever, Mynxee of the Signal Cartel. One of the people I rally enjoyed talking to was Mark726, who can be counted among the premier explorers and historians in the cluster."</div>
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"I was also able to take part in many panels where we were shown new technological improvements that will be changing how capital ships are used in New Eden. We'll be seeing an expansion of the modules that we can use on them, as well as new weapon systems that will be able to focus fire on smaller, sub capital size, targets. It will be nice to have a use for my dreadnought besides popping derelict POS's... #Or undocking just to mess with people# Or doing that yeah, as fun as it is. There have also been rumblings of even bigger things in development further down the line, but I've yet to hear anything really concrete."</div>
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"Oh yes! There is some really weird stuff buried deep in their wormholes! My research this week saw me join a group of many of the people I met at the conference. We explored a new artifact that was recently discovered by Makoto Priano of <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Itsukame-Zainou_Hyperspatial_Inquiries_Ltd">Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries</a>, who along with her corporation are some of the cluster's leading researchers of the Drifter's and their technology. The artifact she found was located deep within the Barbican Anoikis system, a system only reached by rare, well protected, wormholes. The word Barbican, from ancient Gallentean sources, is loosely translated to be the outer fortification of a city or castle. And the complex surrounding this site was certainly very well defended."</div>
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"I'll have Pali bring up a map of the Barbican complex while I explain how we proceeded to the artifact. #<a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/wikiEN/images/6/6e/Barbican1.png">Pali projects the map on a nearby wall</a># Full <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Itsukame-Zainou_Hyperspatial_Inquiries_Ltd/Drifter_Site_Overview">documentation</a> on the process of penetrating the complex was graciously provided by I-KAME. New corpmate Daaaain and I joined the fleet of primarily of Caracal Cruisers and Basilisk Logistics, each of us being assigned to one of the two wings needed to reach the focal point of the complex, the Hive. Daaain's group was tasked with the Alpha path and mine the Beta, good comms and excellent logistics work meant that we only ever lost a ship when we ran into a Drifter patrol. Each of our groups ran into a patrol on their way to the Hive, losing two damage dealing ships each, but luckily not our hackers. Many of us were carrying Mobile Depots and fittings just in case we had to pull double duty. Once both of our groups were in position our hackers attacked the gates leading further into the complex. This coordination was necessary as hacking our own gate unlocked the opposite wing's gate and vice versa. After engaging a small fleet of Sleeper battleships our still considerable fleet emerged into the Hive facing another, larger force of Sleeper Battleships, and a powerful Drifter named Hikanta Tyrannos. His doomsday and subsequent reshipping efforts took three more of our ships, including Daaain's unfortunate Vexor, off the field before we finally cleared the area of hostiles."</div>
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"Massive streams of luminous gas swirled into vortices both above and below the structure, with arcs of energy crackling throughout. I approached the structure warily before seeing several others of our research party had already penetrated deep into the starburst pattern of spires. Comms chatter began to pick up as numerous scientific instruments were brought to bear on the structure that had been gven the moniker, 'Barbican' according to the beacon on grid. The Barbican proved unresponsive to all forms of electronic intrusion we had available, up to and including the latest models of Entosis Links. Theories flew back and forth as we tried to ascertain what could have happened here and the original form of the Barbican itself. My own personal theory is that this starburst pattern is the result of the Barbican's former structure collapsing upon itself towards the single point we were currently observing. Others believed that the Barbican was built to look like this but that certain elements were missing, given some credence by the numerous broken and shattered spires we observed. Most of us stayed on site for several hours before we began to leave the system, with our research findings pouring through our data-banks and our minds."</div>
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"I've had a week to ponder my own findings and I stick by my idea that the Barbican we see today is the collapsed superstructure of of something larger. Further explorations by other research teams has found a similar structure within each of the other Drifter controlled Anoikis systems, though their purpose continues to elude us..."</div>
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"I can't help it! These are some of the deep mysteries of our times unraveling around us. I haven't been this excited about ancient artifacts and cultures since my early research into the <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Arek'Jaalan:_Ancient_Races#Yan_Jung">Yan Jung</a> archaeological sites out in Sinq Laison."<br />
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"What?! The more we know about the Drifters the more we can understand their motivation for attacking us, and the Amarr in particular. Seriously, the specifically targeted the Empress, taking her out in her Titan no less! Why would they do something like that? Besides there are pilots like my corpmate Daaaain out fighting the Drifters. He actually said they're going to crash the market for Antikythera Elements with the amount of Drifters they have been repelling. May actually be able to turn a profit on my Entosis Links now... Nah, probably not, besides I'd rather study the things myself..."<br />
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"I find your flawed analysis of my psyche a constant source of amusement, but yes that's probably more than enough for today. Thanks Pali!"<br />
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"Sorry, I was watching <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Omir_Sarikusa">Omir</a>'s rather <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qXrOLO7NwU">melodramatic broadcast</a>. That blood spray can't have been good for him could it? I'm curious now, would blood plasma make a good moisturizer? And since most of the Sani Sabik sects prize capsuleer blood above all, one likely wouldn't need to worry about communicable diseases. Aerosolization would be rather simple..."</div>
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"You're right, someone else has probably thought of this, the market is likely saturated... My own production has picked up quite a bit the last week, with my drones and their peripheral modules filling what looks a pretty good niche in the region. Manufacturing of various hull reinforcement modules also continues apace, filling another hole in the local market. And a large order from Richard should see my assembly lines rolling for the foreseeable future. It's nice to see all of my industry slots active again! Not that I've been slacking in my combat mining. #Looks at Pali# New term I came up with, how do you like it? </div>
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"Whatever you little booger, I like it! I did some more combat mining this week, further building up my mineral supplies for my construction projects, and several pirates and interlopers were denied the continued use of their ships in the process. I did suffer a few Procurer losses this week, but the most recent I'm not so upset about as I managed to take a Confessor down with me."<br />
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"Shush! #Coughs# In other news I may a bit less active in space the next few days as I will be attending a planetside conference. Discussions will be mostly centered on emerging technologies, some small scale, with a big focus on developments in capital ship systems, something I've found interesting of late. If anyone who reads my blog is attending and wants to meet up, I'll be wearing the ILF shirt the Suresha and I designed together on first day. I'm hoping I can get some more to wear at the conference itself, I'm told there's going to be some interesting vendors on site!"<br />
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"Oh! A hearty welcome to new Liberator Daaaain, who has already shown considerable willingness to engage the less desirable elements in and around Intaki! Keep up the good work sir! Thanks Pali!"<br />
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Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-71916314388165367942015-10-13T00:00:00.000-07:002015-10-13T05:17:12.722-07:00Week 42 YC117 "The Promotion"#Recording initiated#<br />
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#Erun is silent - Did you still want to record sir?#<br />
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"Yeah, sorry Pali. Just gathering my thoughts, a lot happened this week."<br />
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#Yes - I am aware sir - Congratulations by the way#<br />
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"Thanks
bud. It was a big surprise when the Suresha called me into her office
to give me the news. The rank of Isha-Dravya, or Leader of Commerce,
comes with a lot of responsibility. I'm now in charge of both the
resource collectors in the corp, the ore and ice miners as well as those
who collect gas for safe disposal. I'll also be responsible for those
of us that produce goods and put them up for sale within Placid. Most
importantly in my opinion, is that I'm responsible for the continued
well being of the pilots under my command and for looking for new
recruits that can be brought under my purview."<br />
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#That last one would probably be easier if you left lowsec more than every couple of months#<br />
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"True
enough, though I feel some of the best candidates for inclusion in the
ILF industry wing are people that can handle themselves in lowsec.
Although truth be told, I wouldn't mind if we could get some new pilots
that I could mold into combat capable miners..."<br />
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#Pali is reasonably certain that if anyone else saw that smile they would have you committed sir#<br />
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"Hehe,
probably, but then they wouldn't get to enjoy me killing pirates with
mining vessels. Would be nice and quiet though, and they wouldn't mind
me talking to myself as much as I do..."<br />
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#Best to stop that line of thinking sir - You made Pali for a reason#<br />
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"True, true. But the walls are padded, and I'm sure they have some nice young ladies in clean white lab coats and-"<br />
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#No sir - You got in trouble the last time you volunteered yourself for psychiatric evaluation#<br />
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"Oh come on, that was fun!"<br />
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#They had to commit several of the staff and most of the orderlies were given incentives to retire#<br />
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"Spoilsport... Staying out <i>will</i>
give me more time to work on reinvigorating my industry lines though... I'm
planning on actually living up to my title of Leader of Commerce and
actually doing some, you know, commerce."<br />
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#So instead of stockpiling all of those modules and ships and never actually using them you're going to start selling them?#<br />
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"Exactly! #Erun is scowling now# I do so use those things!"<br />
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#According
to my logs of your inventory you've actually replaced more of your
losses with salvage than you've actually used#<br />
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"Really? #Yes sir# Huh..."<br />
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#Some of your invention runs have just completed sir#<br />
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"Ah! Excellent! How did this batch go?"<br />
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#You averaged a 46% average success rate sir#<br />
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"Hmm... I should probably finish my studies on Graviton Physics, that should help bring that a bit higher..."<br />
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#Working on your Encryption Methods would serve the same purpose sir#<br />
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"It would, but it would also ruffle the Navies a bit, though that honestly doesn't bother me as much as it should..."<br />
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#As you wish sir - You had something else you wanted to share?#<br />
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#Erun's face has flushed a bright red#<br />
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#Lowly# "<i>Boss lady knew this was going to happen"</i> <br />
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#Coughs# "Yes,
I uh, wanted to thank the Suresha for this opportunity to help improve
both myself and the corp. After spending the last few years flying with the ILF, I can honestly say I view the people I fly with as an extended family. We may not all come from the same bloodlines or even races, but we've all gathered here in Intaki to help further a cause that we all believe in. I spent a long time searching for a purpose in New Eden and the closest I've come to my time with the ILF is the many months I spent doing humanitarian work for the Sisters. I want to make sure the ILF continues to grow, not just in terms of members and materials, but also in the amount of influence we can project within the Placid region both economically and politically."<br />
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"And of course I'll do my best to provide sound advice and helpful
guidance to those will have to put up with my
leadership. I'd love to see some more organized mining operations in and around Intaki, maybe if we can set them up well enough we could attract some new industrialists to the area and improve the Placid market!"<br />
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#Does that mean you'll get some more work done on your#<br />
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"Yes! I'll definitely be working some more on the my Lowsec Industry Advice! It keeps getting bigger and it totally isn't entirely my fault this time! My new method of obtaining High End minerals means I need to rewrite certain sections and rearrange a few more! And my promotion has given me ideas to expand the areas of industry covered. I'm having to redo my structured outline for the whole thing again and I'm thinking of putting some more tips for using basic navigational tools to-"<br />
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#Pali is going to end the session here before Erun's ranting is no longer intelligible - Less so in any case#<br />
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#Ending Recording - Archiving#Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-33228741284067925222015-10-05T04:19:00.000-07:002015-10-05T04:22:05.431-07:00Update for Weeks 40 and 41 YC117<div dir="ltr">
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"Hey Pali, how was the session with Phalad?"</div>
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#You sent one of Pali's mobile chassis to a Luddite#</div>
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"Phalad isn't a Luddite! He just doesn't like technology that can talk. Or really people that talk for that matter... "</div>
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#Indeed - His antisocial tendencies are readily apparent - Though he at least does not assault Pali's chassis with a pipe#</div>
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"Give it time he'll probably shoot one or something"</div>
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#Unlikely - You on the other hand have destroyed 14 of Pali's housings since first being brought online#</div>
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"Hey, at least half of those were structural integrity tests!"</div>
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#Sure#</div>
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#Erun throws his hands in the air# "Bah, whatever. This week's post is a double as I was busy planetside a lot last week. I've been discussing changing over some of my production lines. I've made more than enough Nanite Repair Paste to last me the next, oh, decade or so. I'll likely be changing over to production of POS fuels or deployable components. Numen will be supplying me his own production at cost, an arrangement we both find agreeable."</div>
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"I've also been using a new method to accumulate a decent stockpile of higher end minerals like zydrine, and more importantly megacyte. It's amazing the amount of Arkonor, Bistot, and even Mercoxit that people just leave lying around in Wormholes. Having such a good source for my higher end minerals means that I can provide less dangerous to acquire, but still valuable materials for corp projects. Which reminds me I still need to get with Yumi to finalize some numbers. That woman keeps such odd hours, there's really no pattern to it!"</div>
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#Probably best not to think too hard on it sir#</div>
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"I suppose... She handles herself pretty well in combat so I'm not worried. Oh, another corpmate who is doing well is new member Rana Hekellon who's been promoted to the rank of Zilpin or Craftswoman within the ILF's Vidya (Production) wing. She's also been active in our combat roams, so it looks like Richard and I have a new werebear joining our ranks. #Erun has a silly grin on his face - Werebear?# Yes, an industrial pilot who is able to defend themselves and their interests. It's kind a must for anyone conducting extensive industrial operations in lowsec."</div>
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#Like the Svipul you destroyed while mining today?#</div>
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"Exactly! Though I wish I could have salvaged more of his aftermarket modifications from his wreck, some of those modules would have been very useful..."</div>
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#And expensive#</div>
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"I know! The Webifier on that thing was worth almost twice the cost of the hull!"</div>
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#Just as well sir - Are we done for today?#</div>
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"Yup, go ahead and archive today's session, thanks Pali."</div>
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Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-16539054731764699752015-09-21T22:16:00.001-07:002015-09-21T22:16:55.693-07:00Update 9/21 YC117 With Supplement#Begin recording#<br />
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"Hey Pali, had an interesting week, got quite a few kills and started on some work for the corp. Let's start with the kills shall we?"<br />
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#If you must - Kills is however a misnomer as you never breached the Capsule of any of the pilot's whose ships you destroyed#<br />
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"Hush you,<i> </i>it's more than likely that I'm killing a few of the crew on each of those vessels every time they explode... And now you've ruined my good mood... You suck..."<br />
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#I am incapable of creating localized vacuums - Sir#<br />
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#Glares - Shakes head and continues speaking# Anywhoo, most of my <i>victories </i>#Glares at Pali once more# happened early in the week while mining. First was a FedMil pilot flying a Firetail who was unable to escape before my drones destroyed his omni-tanked ship. The next two were losses for what looked like newbie pirate who attacked me first in a neuting Tristan who popped rather quickly once he ran out of nanite repair paste for his Ancillary Armor Repair. He returned about ten minutes later in a hull tanked Algos which managed to destroy a few of my poor drones before it too exploded. Good fights were exchanged and the pilot commented on the fact that trying the same thing twice hadn't worked, which I confirmed. The next one was a fairly high standing Stratios pilot who set upon a friend and myself while mining. We weren't quite able to pin him down, but we were able to apply some damage as he fled after attacking. He'd almost escaped when a local pirate decloaked nearby and helped us destroy the Stratios before fading back into the emptiness of space. Finally, midway through the week Richard and I were able to take down a pirate Confessor using our new Hecates."<br />
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#What about the-# "Nope, that was an accident." #Very well#<br />
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"I have slowed down my barge project while I work on industrial efforts within the ILF."<br />
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#And you still haven't worked on your advice posts#<br />
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"No but I do have a bit of free time this week, so I'll for sure get some work done on it."<br />
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#If you say so sir#<br />
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"That should be good for this week. By the way, make sure you tack Phalad's report onto the end of this recording, yeah? He's been pretty active the last few days, I'll let him explain."<br />
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#Recording Ended - Archiving - Appending with supplementary report by Clone Mercenary Phalad Sahantun#<br />
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#Playing supplementary recording#<br />
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"Is this thing on?"<br />
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#This thing is Pali - And yes Pali is recording#<br />
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"You talk?"<br />
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#Yes#<br />
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"Great, Erun sent me a talking recorder"<br />
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#Pali is a narrow Artificial Intelligence purposed as an anolog interface with Erun's Neocom - Not a talking recorder#<br />
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"Whatever, can I start now?"<br />
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#Pali has been waiting on you#<br />
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"Snark, yeah you are definitely one of Erun's toys, they always seems to get that. Dork has no idea why it happens, but it does. You still recording?"<br />
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#Pali will not stop recording unless instructed to#<br />
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"Alright then. Things here on the ground have been rather hectic the last couple of days due to an event sponsored by the Amarr. In memory of the assassinated Empress, the Empire has sponsored a challenge among us Clone Mercenaries. We're being rewarded with quantities of ISK, training, and even Aurum for completing missions ranging from kills, completing matches, and getting certain amounts of warpoints. The biggest reward however is given if we can <i>win</i> 30 matches, a Deathshroud SKIN that we can use on any of our Amarr Medium frames, whether it's a basic frame, assault frame, or my personal favorite, the logistics frame. It took me about three days to get enough wins to earn the Deathshroud, during which I encountered every merc and their mother using the most rare and expensive gear they had available. I burned through quite a bit of my own ISK getting the wins, but a few days of running around in my cheaper fits should let me make it back fairly quickly."<br />
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#You could ask Erun for ISK#<br />
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"Nah, the SCC still won't allow money transfers to mercs from capsuleers, kinda weird but I don't mind. I prefer to make my own money if I can help it. I have a pretty good nest egg built up in any case so I'm not really hurting. I still give out sums to the newer mercs I run into on the battlefield. The skillbooks for new weapons, suits, and modules can be a bit expensive for a merc just starting out."<br />
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#Anything else#<br />
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"Nope, I'll give Erun a holler if I get any more news for him. ... Are you staying here?"<br />
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#This chassis is one of several dozen I have available - Erun figured you could use a companion since you tend to just operate in uncomfortable silence#<br />
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"You follow me onto the battlefield and I'm not paying to replace you."<br />
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#My personality is housed in supercomputing cluster in Erun's hangar in Intaki - There is need to worry about my well being - Nonetheless I will be remaining inside your quarters in Aulbres#<br />
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"Yay, you can stop recording now."<br />
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#Recording ended - Phalad seems to be even less social than Erun - Pali does not expect many updates from Phalad#<br />
<br />Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-87699213083794706192015-09-14T08:40:00.001-07:002015-09-14T08:40:21.706-07:00Erun's Update, Week 37 YC117#Recording#<br />
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"Hey everyone, a more combat filled update this week, and I didn't even lose hundreds of millions of isk!"<br />
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#Yay for Erun...#<br />
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"Wow, that was... You suck Pali. Your enthusiasm continues to surprise me, or rather, your lack thereof."<br />
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#You bet sir#<br />
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"Thhbbttt..."<br />
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#Very mature sir#<br />
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"Stupid booger... Anyway, Richard and I did some recon this week on the Shadow Cartel conflict against SNUFF and their allies Cruisers Crew. We were able to watch a POCO owned by an SC owned affiliate come out of reinforced mode, get it's shields recharged back to full, and then get reinforced again by an Archon that arrived on field.#Erun scratches the new stubble growing on his head#I'm actually a bit concerned that we'll be seeing more of this kind of activity as more more of the less stable entities flee Nullsec. The new station-strength shielding and Entosis links are really change the dynamics of the outer regions.#Rubs the back of his neck#We'll see what happens in the coming months."<br />
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#Certainly sir#<br />
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"I've had some of successes of my own this week, both in my mining efforts and in the defense of the Intaki Sovereignty. Coincidentally both things happened in the same place, a substantial Crokite Deposit near Intaki that I've been working on for the better part of the week. My first major interruption was a Firetail who was able to take out half of my drones and forced me to nearly burn out my e-war before he finally succumbed. My second and third interruptions were actually committed by the same person. The first time the guy came me in a Tristan that was nearly able to neut my point off before he poof. The next time he was waiting for me on site in an Algos which I was eventually able to destroy despite the fact he was focused almost exclusively on my drones. Thankfully, his passive tank meant my drone volleys were able to do him in before I actually lost any. Good fights were had with both these guys, hopefully they'll give up their lives of crime, but I sincerely doubt it."<br />
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#Most people won't change just because you've torn a ship apart around them sir#<br />
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"Wouldn't it be nice though?#Heavy sigh#Running into a minor snag in the Barge program to be honest, I've yet to locate a new source of Megacyte in the region, I may need to dip into Nullsec or WH space to find some Ark or Bistot. I'm loathe to put up buy orders for the stuff as it tends to end up scattered all over the place in small quantities, but meh... Good news though, I'm doing pretty well with just about every other mineral I need with the deposits I've been finding in the area. The first ten contracts should be up either next week or the week after."<br />
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#Erun is smiling again which is good as his face looks funny when he frowns without hair - Or eyebrows#<br />
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#Erun has yanked on a string attached to Pali's mobile chassis - Pali is not a balloon sir#<br />
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"But you're so full of hot air I thought it appropriate! Also means I don't need to replace your chassis as often."<br />
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#Erun has a stupid grin on his face - Pali will find a way to remove the string at the earliest convenience#<br />
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"Hah! Good luck with that! The string is actually an extruded nanotube bundle. The pea-sized reservoir can spool out several kilometers of the stuff and it's darn near unbreakable so nya!"<br />
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#Pali is reasonably certain the waste heat from a standard fusion reaction will break down the bonds in a carbon lattice#<br />
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#Erun's face has blanched#"Wait, come back, at least archive this session first!"<br />
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#Approaching Procurer exhaust port - Thermal load exceeding tolerance - Session Archived# <br />
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<br />Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-72495986043514065902015-09-07T11:42:00.000-07:002015-09-07T11:42:49.072-07:00Erun's Update, Week 36 YC117#Recording initiated#<br />
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#Erun's bald again - He's glowering at Pali now#<br />
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"Meanie, but yeah, another fresh clone. There's a new tactic going around the region that I shouldn't have fallen for, but did. A pirate will sit near a friendly to them POS and light a cyno to attract the attention of passerby. Under normal conditions a cyno would be lit near a station, but these folks will do so at a moon near a station, giving the impression you will land on the station until you zip past it and get blapped by POS guns. Which is what happened to me. #Shakes his head# I expect this kind of behavior from the hardcore pirates that live in Ostingele, but a Brave Newbie in Agoze? #Shakes his hid again# I just don't know."<br />
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#You're just mad the lady podded you in a Navitas#<br />
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"UGGHH!! I know!! Seriously!? A Navitas!? Couldn't she even <i>pretend</i> that she was trying to fight with some level of honor? And this is coming from a BRAVE pilot!! I just... #Throws his hands in the air# I got a better fight out of the Goon who attacked me this week while I was mining! What is New Eden coming to!?"<br />
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#Erun slumps his shoulders before shaking himself and focusing back on Pali#<br />
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"At least I got more work on my project done, I was able to completely mine out a Gneiss deposit I found in Intaki, which was a major boost to my mineral stocks. A couple more Procurers went on the assembly lines as a result, and I hope to begin posting contracts on the market in the next few weeks.<br />
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#And your advice column?#<br />
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"Um..."<br />
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#You didn't even open it this week sir - Erun has slumped his shoulders again#<br />
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"I know, I got busy dealing with other stuff planetside this week. Spent some time down the well with my sisters on Intaki, catching up on how their schooling was going and a few holoreels they wanted to see. I needed to unwind a bit!"<br />
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#So you'll work on it some this week?#<br />
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#Murmuring#<br />
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"Probably... Oh, we welcomed another new member to the corp this week, former Electus Matari pilot Darius Shakor. His combat and exploration expertise will be greatly appreciated here in Placid, and he seems like a pretty cool guy besides."<br />
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#Erun is rubbing his hairless scalp - Erun is glaring at Pali again#<br />
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"Anything I'm forgetting for the week you little booger?"<br />
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#No sir who has no eyebrows - Erun is holding up the ducting pipe again#<br />
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#Ending recording - Preparing for Archival - PROXIMITY WARNING#Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-7908050965463091162015-08-31T07:36:00.000-07:002015-08-31T07:36:01.823-07:00Update from Erun, Week 35 YC117#Recording initiated#<br />
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#Erun is humming to himself as he lounges on the couch in his quarters with a Neocom in his hands- At least he is working#<br />
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"You jealous of this?#Waves the highly inefficient Neocom in the air#Ha! You are! Some things are just easier with my own hands. Spreadsheets for instance, I can't navigate and modify spreadsheets through dictation, now can I?"<br />
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#Pali will grudgingly admit to this point#<br />
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"I thought so. Anyway, the reason for my rather laid back attitude is that it has been rather quiet this week. Snuff and Shadow Cartel don't seem to be as eager to throw capital ships at each other at the moment so I've been able to mine in Intaki fairly peacefully. Which is great because I forgot how much material a Procurer needs. The fact that I'm planning to build dozens of them means I'm going to need <i>a lot</i> of minerals..."<br />
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#Or you could just not build dozens#<br />
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"Pah, I'm going to need extras for myself anyway."<br />
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#You do seem to go through them rather quickly#<br />
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"I do... But I haven't been dropped by a blackops fleet for a while! So there's that!"<br />
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#I'm pretty sure you've just jinxed yourself sir#<br />
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"Nope, but it does give me a good reason to stay in dock for a bit and work on my Advice for Lowsec Mining. I've actually decided to split it into numerous posts since it's getting a bit long in the tooth compared to my normal entries."<br />
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#You are just lazy and want more time to work on it sir#<br />
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"And there's that. But enough about me! I'd like to welcome Rana Hekellon to the ranks of the ILF! I hope we can count on you to help make Intaki a better place for peaceful and law-abiding citizens. You've already had several hostile encounters with members of the SKT group and Alice P Liddell, so I can only assume you're doing something productive for the people of Intaki that they don't approve of, terrorists that they are. Keep up the good work ma'am!"<br />
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#You are likely to scare the poor woman away with that kind of 'support' sir#<br />
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"Nah, she'll be fine, just needs to get some more experience out in the belts. #Erun yawns# Been a quiet week otherwise, I'll continue working on my Project, and should have some more progress to show off next week. Thanks Pali!"<br />
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#Erun has focused on his handheld Neocom again - It may somehow end up going over the hangar railing later#<br />
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#Ending recording - Preparing for Archival#<br />
<br />Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-42652475810260398672015-08-24T06:39:00.000-07:002015-08-24T06:39:20.976-07:00Update from Erun, Week 34<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-71b522e7-5fdf-f1c9-f7e7-75d726e3fb8a" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#Erun is pacing back and forth but has not spoken since his prompt for Pali to being recording#</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#Pali is making a run at Erun’s head - Erun has somehow caught Pali without looking <i>at </i>Pali#</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Sorry Pali, still smarting from a loss earlier this week, and the news we got this week. #Erun is muttering - Boosting audio gain# </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Last time I buy myself something shiny…”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Friday was rather eventful… The <a href="http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/court-chamberlain-confirms-death-of-empress-jamyl-i/">assassination of the Empress by Drifter forces</a> has shocked everyone, even out here in Intaki. Those that keep the faith are admittedly more shaken by recent events. As a, uh.. well…”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Our current understanding of quantum mechanics doesn’t preclude the existence of such a post physical entity Pali, we’ve just yet to observe one interacting within our own reality. Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence, but without the ability to observe this universe before the Big Bang, or modern verifiable evidence that such a post physical entity is currently interacting within local space-time, I’ve no choice but to show a healthy skepticism towards the belief in an all seeing, all knowing God."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No, I’m much more interested in the political situation that has arisen within the Empire, and the <a href="http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/court-chamberlain-confirms-succession-trials/">Chamberlain’s confirmation</a> of <a href="http://community.eveonline.com/backstory/chronicles/amarr-succession/">Succession Trials</a> to come. Compared to many of her predecessors, Jamyl Sarum was a much more moderate ruler, and of late had been more benevolent in her dealings with the other Empires and her treatment of the slaves still present within Amarrian borders. Whichever of the heirs should prevail in the upcoming trials of succession will likely have very different ideas of how the Empire should be run. What effects this could have on the rest of the cluster remains to be seen… And that doesn't even take into account why the Drifters are being so vicious towards the Amarr, and the Empress specifically. What could the Amarrians be doing or be in possession of that has prompted such reactions...? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Bah, enough of that, I’m actually in a pretty good mood today. Numen found a good sized Hemorphite Deposit in the Hisec pocket and we’ve been working on that most of the afternoon. Should go a long way towards rebuilding my Zydrine and Nocxium stockpiles. I did put my Lowsec Mining Project on hold #AGAIN# due to an order I received from Rich, I should have that done for him by next week and then I focus on my project again.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#The part where you said you could focus on something sir#</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“As the few who actually see these reports can tell, Pali remains his usual, snarky self. I’ve installed a SMALL #Erun is looking at nothing in particular# supercomputing cluster in my hangar for him to run his personality out of. This should give him enough processing power, but it won’t allow him to grow much #Erun’s eyes are avoiding Pali again# more than he has. I’ve also removed Pali’s ability to interface with anything other than my own Neocom and his mobile Shells. I love <a href="http://community.eveonline.com/backstory/scientific-articles/faster-than-light-communication/">Fluid Router technology</a>, it makes these sort of isolated systems so much easier to work with.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Yes, you are, and be grateful for it. If I was actually willing to go along with all of the DED’s silly laws restricting research into artificial intelligence, your software would have been wiped and your hardware components reduced to their constituent elements. Instead I have a significantly less attractive, but much more versatile assistant hovering over my shoulder. I’m sure you’ll do your best to keep me from getting a big head Pali, you and Numen seem to be rather deft at deflating my ego...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#As we should be sir - Numen has been in your employ for nearly a decade - And Pali knows </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">literally </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">everything about you - Sir#</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Yeah… Alright well that should wrap this up for this week Pali don’t you think?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#Certainly Sir - Wouldn’t want anyone to know you’ve been tinkering with your clones to reactivate your hair follicles#</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ow!! what the- Oh hey Pali, sorry for spacing out on you. Did you have to hit me that hard though?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Gah! Stop it! I get!” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Definitely doing those tweaks on your next scheduled maintenance… Not a lot of action this week really, I spent most of my time mining with Numen. We gathered enough of the lower end minerals that we were able to finish the Sensor Clusters, make all of the Shield Emitters, and put all of the Siege Arrays on the assembly lines. I’m actually getting a bit excited as we have less than 15% of the Suresha’s Dread left to produce. That that remaining percentage is comprised entirely of the Turret Hardpoints needed for the Revelation's massive laser batteries is kind of awe inspiring as well. This project has gone a lot faster than I thought it would, although I did spend a bit more on the higher end materials than I did on my own. The local capsuleer pirates seem to be getting better at stopping my lowsec mining operations, despite the fact they have to use overwhelming firepower in order to do so…”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Blech, enough about my piratical woes, Rich and I are cooking up new plans for them… In other, happier, news, I’ve cultivated a high enough standing with Combined Harvest that they will no longer tax the ores I refine in their stations. This will hopefully allow me to expand my mining ops into less frequently patrolled areas of Placid. I’ve also started looking into doing some missions for the music producing <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Egonics_Inc._%28Chronicle%29">Egonics Inc.</a>, as they have a few stations in the area which would be a good alternative to using Federation facilities. I don’t have any outright hatred for the Feds myself, It’s more of a cautious distrust. I just don’t see them as a stable group in the area given their past decisions and the ongoing Empyrean conflict. The first time the Feds 'liberated' Intaki from the Caldari, <a href="http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/federal-navy-turned-back-at-intaki-stargate/">the Intaki Assembly requested for them to stop basing military depots and assets in the system</a>, but that hasn't stopped them. There also continues to be aggression against Mordu's Legion assets protecting the homeworld, something that was also <a href="http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/intaki-assembly-requests-fdu-ceasefire/">requested to stop years ago</a>. I wish we could get rid of the things ourselves to be perfectly honest, but apparently only pilots in the militias have the appropriate equipment. Hmm.. If it’s only a matter of hacking the beacons in order to shut them down, maybe an entosis link would let me slip in and…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Hey Pali, I had an interesting week, that’s for sure.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Pali?! You said you wouldn’t say anything!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“#Grumbling# </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Little booger said he wouldn’t say anything…”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“So yeah, as Pali so poignantly commented, I don’t have any eyebrows at the moment as I’m sitting in a fresh clone. This is a result of an attack on my mining operations by pirate group the Shadow Cartel. I was able to take down my initial attacker, but not before they were able to light a cynosural field that brought several Sin and Panther Class battleships to my location. My big surprise was what happened next, as the blops deployed smartbombs which popped my pod via pulsed waves of extreme electromagnetic force. #User shudders and shakes his head# I hate that feeling, thankfully it doesn’t too much, but it still sucks…”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“In any case, we still got a lot of production done this week, finishing up the work on the Power Generators. We were also able to produce all of the Propulsion Systems this week thanks to several rare deposits that Numen was able to find out in hisec. And we have begun work on the Sensor Clusters that will pepper the Revelation’s hull. I’m going to have to be honest though, with the amount of pirate activity in the area lately I may not be able to mine the quantities of the Zydrine we still need for this project. I had to supplement my Zydrine stocks with minerals off the Placid markets this week, and I may just buy the remainder of what is needed so I can help Numen bring in the rather more considerable quantities of the lower end minerals we require. Thankfully the mining I’ve done in lowsec so far has given us the remainder of the Nocxium we need so that is one thing I won’t need to worry about on this project. The few Sensor Clusters we have left and the Shield Emitters that Revelations barely use should be finished in the next week or so, and then we start on the heavy duty work for the Siege Arrays and the Turret Hardpoints.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#The User snaps his fingers# “Oh yeah! My old friend Phalad says that the election of the next Council of Planetary Management is going really well and that any other Clone Soldiers who haven’t voted should do so if they are able. I think that’s all now though, and next time I should even have eyebrows!" #User is glaring at Pali#</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">#<a href="http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1508/ErunNoEyebrows.png">Exporting User's Current Visage to offsite storage</a># </span>Erun Talanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152707972750406739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4260042993429951570.post-87740680647484176082015-07-27T00:03:00.000-07:002015-07-27T00:03:21.796-07:00The Suresha's Revelation (Progress Update #4)<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-911dfabd-ce47-6e42-f308-ce94955610ff" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Hey Pali, a lot happened this week so let's jump right into it!"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#Pali informs the user that it is incapable of jumping, but could perhaps emulate the action using it's onboard repulsor unit#</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Sure Pali, go for it. Now let's see, what should we talk about first...? How about the Suresha's more than half done Revelation? With the Power Generators and Jump Drives we built this week, there's only about 45% of the work left to do!"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"What? You don't like my dancing?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#Pali as a matter of fact finds the user's 'dancing' amusing, but does not wish to subject his readership to it#</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Meany. We did run into some supply problems this week as some local pirates and pirates dipping into Placid from null disrupted mining operations. Alice P Liddell and her crew from SKT are becoming bolder, there's almost always one of them sitting cloaked in Intaki now. As a result my zydrine and nocxium supplies aren't being replenished as quickly as I'm having to mine more cautiously. There have been some good deposits in the area the last few days so those have helped a bit. It was actually while working on one of those deposits that Rich, his more industry minded friend Dutch Okagima, and myself ran into our next mining disruption."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#Pali watches an odd smirk form on the user's face#</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"I'm pretty sure this was Rich's fault in some odd karmic fashion, but we came out ahead in any case. Dutch and I were mining a Gneiss Deposit in Frarie, with several pirates entering system but just as quickly leaving. It was about two hours in when a pilot with a high Concord standing entered system in a Legion. Rich jokingly commented that with our luck today this guy would be the only one to attack us. Well wouldn't you know it but the Legion landed on grid and immediately aggressed me. Rich and I mentally laughed at each other while Dutch and I set into the guy with our drones. A few seconds after we engaged the Legion immediately lit a Cynosural Field and we stopped laughing to focus as several Blackops, Covops, and Recon ships jumped in around it. Knowing that our Procurers were already forfeit, Dutch and I decided to focus our efforts on taking down as many of the of the enemy we could. Being the least defended, two of their Covops Purifiers were caught by our drones before first Dutch and then myself lost our ships. We ended up coming out ahead on Isk since the Purifiers were worth more than our barges, and we were even able to loot the field when the group was apparently scared off by a fleet of BRAVE Newbies passing through."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Unfortunately that was my last Procurer, and making another batch is going to take quite a bit of resources and time, so I'll be working on another project of mine."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"I've noticed that farther out from Intaki I'm no longer able to refine my ores without having to pay taxes to the station owners. To that end I've begun to cultivate relations among some of the corps in the area that the ILF would like to have better standings with. I've been working primarily with Combined Harvest, a food production corporation with a local focus, where local is only within the borders of Federation space. CH has stations all throughout Placid, and their refining facilities would allow me to expand the area where I can conduct my lowsec mining operations.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#The user looks up at Pali#</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Hmm.. Anything I’m forgetting Pali?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#Pali informs the user that it does not currently have the functionality to read his mind#</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Smartypants, I may need to move your core into a bigger shell. Well, I’m going to call it now since I can’t think of anything else, thanks Pali!”</span></div>
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