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 Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 7:48 am
A small planet that is bigger and farther away than Pluto. There are no domes on this planet, but it is a place where some secrets are hidden.
The Heart of Strife: is a Series of old ships which had been cobbled together on the surface of Eris by the Pirates loyal to Noah and his old mentor and infamous Io Crime Lord, Tubal Cain. It served as a habitiable area where pirates could trade and live, paying rent to Noah and Tubal, Tubal staying behind and manning the Heart of Strife at all times, running his Syndicate, his Pirate's Guild and his Bar all at once.
They have made quite a market out of the place and many things of interest have passed through there in the last little while. As well, much of the complex was moved into underground areas which were slightly terraformed and made out of old ship parts and one OLD Habi-dome, where Noah, his crew and Tubal live...
As well, there is a long-range comm station located on the surface of Eris, which allows for communication right to Jupiter..
Eris's moon however is known to have been made into a large defensive platform by Tubal.
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:12 pm
Tubal sat at his desk deep within the Heart of Strife. He had let Spatha, Gimel and Elisa go off on their own while he waited to hear from his men about his newest shipment...
The old man chuckled. "Garvas said this was something important... He better be right."
A man then burst through his door. "I'm sorry... Don Tubal. But this couldn't wait..." It was Garvas, followed by some Scientist-looking type.
"We found it...On an Asteroid that was floating out in the Belt. It was creating some kind of minor pulse.." said Garvas, gasping for air.
"Found what?! You blumbering fool..." yelled Tubal with distain.
"Excuse me Tubal, sir. But..." The Scientist spoke coolly and placed a LARGE Machine on Tubal's desk."We believe it's somekind of Generator..."
Tubal glanced at the Machine, noting the letters written along it's side:
C-H-A-R-Y-B-D-I-S.
"What the hell does it generate, Nerd." said the crimelord gruffly.
"We think it generates some kind of Inverse Matter Pulse.. which could be utilized as a weapon or..." said the Scientist.
"Inverse Matter Pulse?!? Aw who cares! Whats this about a weapon!" said a now excited Tubal.
"Uh... It's experiemental theory sir..." muttered the Scientist.
"Well, MAKE IT HAPPEN!" yelled Tubal. After this the Scientist and Garvas ran out of the room, taking the generator... Tubal merely smiled..
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:58 pm
Constantine lowered the ship down into one of the subterranean caverns. as he touched down a slim man ran at him yelling in a language he did not understand. He reached into his coat and tossed the man a small heavy leather bag, as the man looked inside he glanced at Constantine, then his ship. He grinned and slid away as though he was a ghost.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:29 pm
As Constantine was heading through the tunnels, he would hear a most... unsettling sound and a bright yet momentary flash.
"God damn it! My lunch was in there!" yelled a technician.
"Forget your lunch..." said the Scientist from before. "Concider it... a gift to science."
"But it was.." whined the Techie.
"Shut up! It's gone now into a slight region of spacial flux... Now keep your eyes on those meters or your going to get us all killed!" said the Scientist gruffly.
"Yes sir..." muttered the Techie with distane.
For you see... the Scientist and his co-workers had actually got the generator working, figuring out it could create small tears in space-time. However, their shoddy containment field was... less than safe or secure, thus the Techie lost his lunch, which was in a mini-fridge that was sucked up into the flux durring a moment of field weakness.
Suddenly, as the power in Eris was less than stable, the generator and it's shielding began to lose power. "God blast it!" yelled the Scientist. "The Power's failing... Shut off the Charybdis before the Shielding dies. You know it usually gives out first." He sighed then grabbed the generator once it had cooled down, placing it in a container and heading towards the elevator which led down to Tubal's dome.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:55 am
Now curious, Constantine followed him, he walked straight towards the scientist and stepped into the elevator next to him pretending that he had the faintest idea what he was doing, he looked at the skeptical scientist.
"Don't worry, we're heading to the same place... I think"
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:13 am
Genesis entered Eris' atmosphere and hurdled towards the surface. "Come on....pull back!!!" he managed to get the ship straight, but it went off balance and leaned to the right as scrapped a rock formation and headed straight towards a cliff wall. "I can do this, I can do this!!" Bade began pushing forward on the controls so that they sped up towards the wall, then suddenly pulled back to make the entire ship do a backflip. "Now!" He activated the landing gear and bottom thrusters now that they ship was facing straight up. "That was....close."
They had managed to get the ship away from the military, but in their hurry, he could barely slow the ship down enough to safely enter Eris' atmosphere. The ship had started to burn up, but once that stopped, he was surprised by the canyon-like surface that he almost crashed them many times. He was able to get land them, somewhat safely, but unfortunately they were parked on the side of a completely vertical wall an the ship was facing the sky with its landing gear stuck in the rock wall.
Bade sighed as he sat in the pilot seat, staring at the sky in front of him. "That was fun, but I'm not doing it again." He would start to unbuckle himself when he started hearing girders bending and saw small rocks rapidly falling from above. "That can't be good." Bade looked over the controls once more before focusing the ship's remaining power to the nose. Seconds later, large boulders that probably would have dented the hull came crashing down and sliding off to the side.
"Whew..." After the rockslide, the ship started coming loose from its position and eventually plummetted to the ground below. When Genesis hit the ground, everything shook and started to bury it. "Damn it!!" Bade made his way out of his seat and walked on the ceiling since the ship was now upside down on solid ground. "Noah, you alive?" he questioned.
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:42 pm
After recieving no answer, Bade made his way to the main hatch on Genesis. Bade had to step over fallen furniture and other miscellaneous things just to get near the door and was so relieved when he finally found it. "Here it is," he said to himself as he reached his hand over to the button to open it. The door would stay as is and only make a slight whirring sound. "No power...guess my only remaining options are breaking this hatch open, staying here, or trying to find another way out."
Bade paced back and forth for a minute before hearing a small voice. "Captain. In the ship's current condition, there are no traditional exits." Soon, Bade would see that same girl from when he and Noah first entered Genesis. He'd forgotten about her in all of the confusion.
"Oh, it's you...the little android girl. Um, well if there is no 'traditional way' then what are some of the 'untraditional ways'?" he questioned.
The girl turned her head and faced another way, then limped down the hall. "Right this way." She took him into mess hall and into the freezer. She then kneeled down onto the floor and breaking the solid ice with her bare hands, then revealed a trap door. "Go down and follow this route out of the engines in back."
"Hm...interesting." He would duck down into the hole, then stop briefly. "I'll be back. I'm going to go look for some help. I want you to perform any repairs you can while I'm gone and I'll try to get someone to repair that leg of yours." He smiled at the dull expressioned machine before going down into the secret compartment.
Bade would emerge from the still steaming engines of the ship and leap down onto the ground wearing his white Enviro-Suit. "Okay now...I need to find some life...somewhere...," he trailed off as he made his way across the surface.
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:46 pm
a few minutes Later Constantine found himself mid flight thinking, "what did I do wrong?", as he flew out of a second story window into a well placed rubbish heap... he landed with a crash his mechanical arm lodged deep in something filled with a foul smelling viscous slime
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