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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:04 am
Green...another glance. The little bar was slowly creeping toward yellow...adn then it would hit red and she'd hit that big red button. She glanced at the one in her hand just to make absolutely sure and was shocked to see how fast teh bars were climbing.
In no time it would hit red and then they would be in trouble. The other bar seemed to be creeping along and she was afraid it would never hit red. This worried her to an extent. It had to go faster...it just had to.
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:15 am
"Starting powerups initialized. shock jolt in five. four. three. two. one."
A massive surge, quite visible form teh staic electricty and jumped aroudn on his skin, hit the system, spiking him up to nearly red, and then back down, but also jumping the other gauge into the yellows. made him cleched his teeth anf his muscles tighten, but it needed to be done so that the system would get ahead of his body. hurt too.
"Lillia. status."
Hopefully she woudl get that. he wanted to know what the gauges were reading, how well this was going so far.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:38 am
She watched in horror as he had electricity surge through him adn then hastily glanced back down at the monitor. Well it was climbing faster now, on the last leg of yellow...almost into red. One look at the handheld and she gasped. It was steadily climbing into the danger zone.
"Almost there. It's about to hit red but you're hitting the danger zone James. I don't think this is such a good idea..." She was watching the bars fill up way too fast.
Come on...red...red...red...and then it hit red. Maybe it was by sheer force of will but it hit and she slammed the red button the moment she saw it.
"Oh please..."
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:01 am
And there is goes. with loud clunk sounds, emergency lights flooded on, and the oxygenating system came back on as well. no other power, but more than likely at least teh emergency power was up and running again. James was leanign on his attachment, breathing heavily and literally smoking, and looking like he had just gotten out of slightly scalding water. adn that woudl be why when atalyst does that, they put all those coolant feeds through his bioware. well. that was nice to know that he at least didn't cook himself.
"Score one for Catalyst. this arm thing actually works if we really needed it to. but I think next time I'll bring along some of those coolant lines too. I feel like I've been in a sauna for a few days."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:13 am
Lillia had her eyes closed and was thanking god that it had worked and James hadn't exploded before her very eyes or worse, been electrocuted or soemthing like that. Jelly would kil her.
She watched him and said, "You really don't look so good jame.s" He was smoking...that couldn't be good, not to mention how red he was. She knew it had taken quite a bit out of him to do that and he handed the handheld back to him. "Here, why don't you sit down on teh floor for a minute and rest. You've done your part."
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:39 am
"Yeah. we got emergency power until the fix what they fried. so at least we got light, open doors and oxygen. that and most personal comupters will work."
The clamps loosened with a hissing sound, and james pull the appendage out, with some difficulty. thing was heavy, especailly after what he just put his body through. it clanked loudly on teh floor and he detached the wiring to his head and arm, and then the attachment itself. now he had an arm with no hand, but better than that huge thing, and took teh handheld from her and put it back where it belonged on the attachment.
"You did a good job, Lillia. we got ER power back and I didn't get cooked or electrocuted dead."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:52 am
Jelena, Erik, and the little crew they were deeming incompetent looked up as if because of instinct as the red emergency lighting flicked on, followed by the tell tale signs of the vent systems. Well...lights and oxygen that was nice. But a look at still floating things. No gravity...but that's what grav boots were for anyway. Although it did make it a little hard to work.
With a sigh she looked back to the fried power source, ripping out burned out electical wires and the like. Good thing she had a degree in this kind of thing too. "Whatever the hell you all did...don't do it again...."
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:37 pm
She watched him for a few moments in stunned silence and then realized as she let otu her breath that she had been holding it. It had been a moment of panic as those bars were climbing to yellow much too quickly and for a moment she thought he wasn't going to make it. That had been teh scariest moment of her life and she realized how much she'd come to care about everyone on teh Fleet.
Even psycho Fein. Lillia couldn't imagine the Fleet would be the same without the psychotic doctor and it just went to show you that every place had htem. Even outer space. She ran a hand through her hair and grinned, "Thanks James. You put a lot of yourself into that. Are you sure you're alright?"
Then a slight giggle, "I don't think Jelly likes her James extra crispy."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:37 pm
"I do what I can. and nope she prefers me hardboiled, not crispy."
A small chuckle, and a shake of his head and just staying put where he was, and not moving much.
"I think I'll stay here for abit though, and recover. why don't you go find Jelena nad see what she's up to and see if you cna help her out, alright? I'll be along in just a little bit. promise."
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:48 pm
She chuckled softly at his joke and at teh same time rolled her eyes. But he looked much better now that he wasn't still hooked up so she was moer likely to let him stay adn leave him alone.
""alright, if you're sure, I'll head out and leave you here. But if Jelly yells at me it's you I'm coming after." Lillia blew him a kiss adn waggled her fingers then leaned against teh doorway adn watched him. She finally nodded and left heading back to Radiance.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:02 pm
James laid there, breathing heavily, and before getting himself up, picking up the arm attachment, and stumblingly walking forward, before leanign on the doorframe and having to find a seat. damn that took a lot more out of him then he thought.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:40 pm
Five hours. Five freaking hours and they were still replacing things when she had left just now. Still on emergency lighting and air systems...though gravity was still out, as was GODDS. Main focus had been on manually starting generators in essential areas and now it was all focus on getting the main power handling system back to working and unfried state. One thing was for sure...Catalyst's Project Leader would probably get called to Board. Just like she had.
Yes, she had already been called...they had sent an email to her two days before and she just didn't tell anyone. If they wanted to yell at her then she would let them. Worse they could do was hoard all her data, perhaps give her a few restrictions and the like. Didn't mean that Jelena was looking forward to it, but she would deal with it like she did everything else...in a practical scientific way.
She was in her room now...which lacked a lot of floating objects. Only because everything was practically velcroed or bolted down in there. She grabbed the few loose things that were floating around and stuffed them in a drawer. Taking a seat on the edge of her bed she just sat there for a moment...before reaching down and shutting off her grav boots, letting herself float from lack of gravity. She was used to no gravity. A little movement or two and she was horizontal in the air, starign at the ceiling. Was a lot like floating in water...without the wet.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:58 pm
Five hours later by the Radiance main generator, repair crews found James, who apparently during this time period, gotten up, and tried to make it to the doorway, and collapsed on the floor. the arm attachment was rolled over the side, and james was unconcious. what had happened? apparently heat exhaustion. the room wasn't cool, and after nearly deepfrying himself he had just overloaded himself.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:12 pm
Lillia was in with the Echoes. Chances were she wasn't supposed to be there but she felt the need to be around them. She was currently standing by the Fenrir enclosure. She wandered around until she came to an enclosure she hadn't really visited in a while. The peryton that she'd seen come out of the green goo. "Raedon." Hers. She'd understood what Jelena had meant when she'd been in the room and found that he was a variant.
At the sound of his name, Raedon stood and fluttered his wings for a bit. He wandered to the fence warily, ever ready to run. Tossing his head for a moment he watched Lillia unsure.
Lillia whispered soothing words to him and hten reached in her pocket and pulled out a treat for him. "I won't hurt you."
Still unsure he snorted and showed off his wicked looking antlers, pawing at the ground. Why should I trust you?
"I have food." She showed it to him as a bribe.
Hmm...well if you're going to feed me. And he walked over carefully, wariness in him and his wings fluttered a few times before he folded them back a bit. He snapped the treat from Lillia's hand and then stepped back.
She caught her breath, he truly was a majestic creature. A handsome buck with those vicious antlers but he had bluish green feathered wings coming out of his sides and his tail was teh same color. She knew it would take a while for him to trust her but right now she just wanted to watch him.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:02 am
There was a knock on Jelena's door, before FS came in. well, the one that lost the straw draw, as right now they figured all teh project leaders were on a Fein level of hostility.
"Ma'am? We are doing a check, to let people know that gravity should be restored in about an hour. We also found James..he's in Metamorphosis treatment center. and we really apprecitate both your help on getting generators back up and running."
James was laying on the table, looking red as a lobster, while his team of medics was working over him. the attachment had been put back into it's security locked case, and the team were both berating him and trying to fix him at the same time.
"Pass me that gyroscopic aligner, woudl you?"
"I need three cc more of coolant for this section."
"Damn it! I have to completely replace half of these fiberoptic cables and the sensativity cuplinks."
"that's nothing. his secondary system in here need refitting and reformatting to his neural patterns."
"You know, much as I appreciate his help, did he ever once consider that he's giving us a hell of a short notice workload? think we should give him that special upgrade set he had designed?"
"No. that's for an emergency only. and we all know James doesn't consider anything an emergancy unless it's like a neutron bomb."
Back on Earth, at Area 51, the General, now in his army dress uniform, was standing over the shoulder of on of the computer techs while he worked.
"You are sure they didn't know."
"Yes, General. the transmission virus was destroyed in teh power flux, as designed. There was a problem though."
"Such as?"
"Incredibly heightened security. we only got a little information. basic confirmation codes, such as docking. everything else was locked so tight the virus couldn't even scratch the surface on the passcodes and firewalls and I know of at least three seperate instances of nano file protection."
"So we got nothing of real use."
"Yes, sir. But I don't understand. we left backdoors and hidden patches that should have gotten us everything you wanted."
"I already know what happened."
"Sir?"
"James Moria happened."
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