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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1520428" data-attributes="member: 633">For this, you deserve the full details. That adventure was very funny. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Orbital Air corporation had experimented with a prototype faster-than-light engine in orbit near the dark side of the Moon. Naturally, the experiment went horribly wrong. A "hole" was opened, a section of space several kilometers wide which was superimposed with another distant area of the galaxy. The incredibly costly and massive spacecraft carrying the engine was nowhere to be found. We went through there with a shuttle and found the spaceship on the other side of the "hole", its crew still alive and well but the engine was busted. Near the site, a planet full of alien life, and its moon.  While we were fixing the spaceship, suddenly an object appears on the radar. A huge starship. Like, a hundred times ours, which was one of the biggest spacecraft ever built by humanity.  Turns out that our "accident" with the drive bathed this moon with radiation, killing untold millions of aliens who lived in a colony there. And whose very large and very angry exploration ship was now addressing us.   It's about at this time that the dialogue about weapons took place.  After some amazing diplomacy stunt, which involved me shouting at a higher-ranking OA officer to shut the hell up and pushing him out of his chair, we persuaded the aliens that it was a horrible accident and please do not exterminate our species. The bastards decided to dump us in yet another point in space, with our drive completely wrecked (actually, it may have even simply vanished, I can't remember). Near our position, another massive alien starship, belonging to another species, and apparently inert.  We enter the starship and do some exploring, trying to figure out how it works so that we may get back to Earth. In the command chamber, a party member which should henceforth be referred to as Bloody Stupid (BS) starts toying with the commands to figure out how they work. Shortly after, two blue projectiles leave the starship, heading towards our ship. Surprisingly enough, nothing blows up. Instead, we get on the screens lots of information about our ship, only in an alien tongue.  BS: "I try to push a few symbols, see what happens" Me: "I don't know if this is a good idea. We should first figure out how to turn this thing away from our science station" GM: "You see a bunch of yellow dots near the top of the screen, and a bunch of red dots near the bottom" BS: "I push the yellow dots" Me: "Don't do it!" BS: "I do it" GM: "Two yellow spheres travel from the ship towards the space station. You see two giant fireballs engulfing it. The station breaks in two pieces. Then, the remains seem to be sucked into themselves and vanish into nothingness, save for some bits of debris". Party: *silence* Me (I was following a software engineering course back at the time): "Bad design, really. It should have asked for a confirmation password, or at least an 'are you sure? yes/no' box". *  BS was quickly booted from the control room and into a monster-infested area of the starship.  We eventually managed to contact a third alien race. They seized the starship and, with some more amazing diplomacy stunts, we convinced them to put us into a capsule and hyperdrive it to Earth space.  OA CEO: "So you have destroyed our shuttle, and our incredibly costly space station, killing everyone inside it?" Me: "Uuh... it was an accident. You see, we met these aliens and saved Earth from certain destruction, then they overloaded our drive and sent us to another alien spaceship, where we fought all these horrible creatures..."    * which was exactly the same sentence I used when I accidentally got an emergency capsule, with us inside, ejected from a space station in a previous campaign. I seem to be using it a lot in Cyberpunk.</blockquote>

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