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After Earth
- Thread starter Blackrat
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After pacing for a few minutes, Mel gets a bit bored guarding the apparently dead android and pokes at it cautiously with the barrel of her pistol. When it doesn't respond, she pokes it with a hand, then feels its face to see how lifelike it is. Then she pries the torn covering of its knee so she can see the inner structure...assuming the damage is that extensive.
(Basically, Mel checks out the android to see if the tech involved is possibly human in origin.)
(Basically, Mel checks out the android to see if the tech involved is possibly human in origin.)
Blackrat
He Who Lurks Beyond The Veil
Michael: The vials are all intact but none of them has a stopper. Whatever was in them has evaporated. You find the science-console and easily pull up the notes. They had been doing many different researches here for the last five years. Mostly creation of new weapons techs and genetic engineering. You find the notes of the latest project. They had created a virus that was supposed to force evolution on living creatures. They had tested it on Griikhas (a small alien animal that are used as lab-rats by humans since rats are extinct) and had had good results. It had increased their physical strenght to ten times that of normal and given them extraordinary regenerative abilities. One test subject had actully regrown a severed limb but they were unable to reproduce this result in other subjects. The last entry tells that the head scientist was going to try the virus on earth-originated organism and inject it to a pair of scorpions that was saved from the destruction of Earth. He was going to do it in the side-lab C. (You spot a door on one wall of the room that has a big letter C painted on it. There are also doors A, B, D and E on the other walls.)
Faris and Cnosos: You find Michael in the main-lab reading a console.
Mel: It is very organic-like in appearance and is almost impossible to identify as a machine just by looking at it. But the synthetic skin it has is completely dry and feels like rubber. The best spot to get a looksee inside would perhaps be the shoulder which is hanging from the joint with only few wires. You peel some of the skin and plating off to see better. The technology used to build it looks like something humans might have invented but you doubt humans could have build such a sophisticated robot, at least not without help from some more advanced race.
Damon: You enter a search by describing the android and get a result. The computer give an entry of a race called Segdiiri. The picture is exactly the same looking as the android you found. They are technologically in about the same phase as humans are with fusion energy and Ion-engined space-ships. They are a member world of the Republic. What's strange is that you find no mention of their home-world except for it's location and a warning that no outsider is welcome on the planet.
The search for the strange ship yelds very little. There are few reports of same kind of sightings in the Rim-side space of human area (The left-most column in the starmap on the second page).
Of the secret base you find nothing but of the Way-station you find much information. The gate itself was built to make jumps between Unity and Jap 3 safer about a year after the Unity was built and few months later the station was completed to give the travelers a place to relax between jumps. It is manned by a military personnel of 20-30 and has about 50 civilians onboad at all times. There is a cantina where one can find nourishment and entertainment. You find a map of the station.
Faris and Cnosos: You find Michael in the main-lab reading a console.
Mel: It is very organic-like in appearance and is almost impossible to identify as a machine just by looking at it. But the synthetic skin it has is completely dry and feels like rubber. The best spot to get a looksee inside would perhaps be the shoulder which is hanging from the joint with only few wires. You peel some of the skin and plating off to see better. The technology used to build it looks like something humans might have invented but you doubt humans could have build such a sophisticated robot, at least not without help from some more advanced race.
Damon: You enter a search by describing the android and get a result. The computer give an entry of a race called Segdiiri. The picture is exactly the same looking as the android you found. They are technologically in about the same phase as humans are with fusion energy and Ion-engined space-ships. They are a member world of the Republic. What's strange is that you find no mention of their home-world except for it's location and a warning that no outsider is welcome on the planet.
The search for the strange ship yelds very little. There are few reports of same kind of sightings in the Rim-side space of human area (The left-most column in the starmap on the second page).
Of the secret base you find nothing but of the Way-station you find much information. The gate itself was built to make jumps between Unity and Jap 3 safer about a year after the Unity was built and few months later the station was completed to give the travelers a place to relax between jumps. It is manned by a military personnel of 20-30 and has about 50 civilians onboad at all times. There is a cantina where one can find nourishment and entertainment. You find a map of the station.
Voda Vosa
First Post
"My friend, we got some problems... uh science stuff... what were this people investigating?" Cnosos says intrigued, then shakes his head. "First the first, theres still a scientist around. We think its the first one, from what we saw in the tape, he was working with some bugs and suddenly he jumped and rip the camera. And then smashed this globebox, releasing what it was in there, and the vapors seem to morph the other scientist into this walking dead. He flee to the side labs when the 'party' began."
Raylis
First Post
"Arachnids; while they appear to be insects with their multiple legs and exoskeleton, Scorpions are of the class arachnea, shared by mites and spiders" Michael says absently re-reading the data.
"It appears that they were working on a virus designed to increase the rate of cell adaptation and change, in layman's terms, evolution, on living creatures. Apparently they had success on several Griikhas, increasing both muscle mass, density and greatly increasing the iokane levels their bodies produced.
He pauses again looking at Cnosos and Faris, "The increase in iokane gave them cellular reconstruction abilities-one such creature even managed to regrow a leg. They were unsuccesful in repeating the limb regeneration in other subjects, however.
"Their lead scientest intended to try the virus on a pair of scorpions he had; how he managed to keep the creatures alive is unknown to me, but the oppertunity to study a pair of earth creatures would be fascinating. He was going to conduct his experiment in laboratory "C"."
He taps the control panel a few times, "If possible I want to see if I can download their formulas and whatever other information they have to possibly recreate their work. or a pause "If the scientest you saw is alive and lucid then he might have a sample on him. Though what you said gives evidence that he decided to inject himself with the virus rather then the aracnids. According to these notes the muscular enhancements offered by this virus would have enabled him to break the glovebox...and anyone that can do that should only be interrogated while heavilly sedadted; enough to anwser questions but not enough to move.
"It appears that they were working on a virus designed to increase the rate of cell adaptation and change, in layman's terms, evolution, on living creatures. Apparently they had success on several Griikhas, increasing both muscle mass, density and greatly increasing the iokane levels their bodies produced.
He pauses again looking at Cnosos and Faris, "The increase in iokane gave them cellular reconstruction abilities-one such creature even managed to regrow a leg. They were unsuccesful in repeating the limb regeneration in other subjects, however.
"Their lead scientest intended to try the virus on a pair of scorpions he had; how he managed to keep the creatures alive is unknown to me, but the oppertunity to study a pair of earth creatures would be fascinating. He was going to conduct his experiment in laboratory "C"."
He taps the control panel a few times, "If possible I want to see if I can download their formulas and whatever other information they have to possibly recreate their work. or a pause "If the scientest you saw is alive and lucid then he might have a sample on him. Though what you said gives evidence that he decided to inject himself with the virus rather then the aracnids. According to these notes the muscular enhancements offered by this virus would have enabled him to break the glovebox...and anyone that can do that should only be interrogated while heavilly sedadted; enough to anwser questions but not enough to move.
"Huh," Melara muses as she pushes wires aside to peer at the shoulder's internal joint.
"Whoever made you only cared how you looked, and sounded maybe. But you obviously weren't meant to be touched, or scanned either probably. Weird...why go to all that bother for such a flawed disguise..."
Then something else occurs to her, and she comms Damon.
"Hey, Damon. Did you cause any damage to this thing before I saw it? Hit it or...anything?"
Because someone, or something, sure as hell did...and if it just ripped this thing's arm almost off, it must have been -strong-.
"Whoever made you only cared how you looked, and sounded maybe. But you obviously weren't meant to be touched, or scanned either probably. Weird...why go to all that bother for such a flawed disguise..."
Then something else occurs to her, and she comms Damon.
"Hey, Damon. Did you cause any damage to this thing before I saw it? Hit it or...anything?"
Because someone, or something, sure as hell did...and if it just ripped this thing's arm almost off, it must have been -strong-.
Rhun
First Post
Damon shakes his head, even though there is nobody around to see the motion. "Negative," he responds over the comm. "The thing was like that when I found it. The database indicates it is meant to resemble a species known as the Segdiiri. The computer doesn't really have much about them, though."
Blackrat
He Who Lurks Beyond The Veil
[sblock=OOC]http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=3877960[/sblock]
Blackrat
He Who Lurks Beyond The Veil
Michael does get his hands on the research data and given enough time and a capable research crew someone could probably recreate their work from those notes. The question is whether that is a good idea or not. It seemed to have quite unpleasant results on humans. If you want, you can download that data to your pad.
Raylis
First Post
With a smug grin Michael downloads the notes onto his datapad, "I have their research" he says unable to hide the elation in his voice, "There still seems to be the matter of our resident head researcher who is holed up in Lab C. Perhaps we should pay him a visit and abscond with his aracnids.
