Session Start: Tue Aug 25 00:51:38 1998
<Waitstate> Any word from Artifice?
* Stardrive looks at Lil.
<Stardrive> I don't know, I just got back.
<Admiral-Lilwall> None as yet
<Waitstate> hmm... we've almost overstayed our welcome here. We may have to move on without them
<Admiral-Lilwall> Only thing I've heard recently is that planet security has Format not allowed to go anywhere near a comp terminal anywhere on the planet
* Junky_LaFord walks through carrying a pile of assorted parts.
<Waitstate> Heh... Poor Format
<Stardrive> Which is just about everywhere on the planet.
<Waitstate> Hi Junky
* Admiral-Lilwall chuckles, "Poor Format?  Poor planet is more like it"
<Junky_LaFord> Hidey-ho, neighbor.
<Waitstate> How go the shipyards?
* Junky_LaFord balances the pile of parts.
<Junky_LaFord> Mission complete, yippey yo ki yay.
* Junky_LaFord carries the parts down to engineering.
<Admiral-Lilwall> *turning to look out a window*  On another note, we've actually spent funds rather than gain them
<Waitstate> oh have we?
<Waitstate> what did you buy?
* Junky_LaFord pulls out a credit reader.
<Admiral-Lilwall> Oh, not me
* Junky_LaFord shows it to Wait.
<Junky_LaFord> Not anymore.
<Waitstate> geez... who's been spending all this?!
<Admiral-Lilwall> Restore took on a few medical gadgets, and I'm sure Scamp or Ruse had a round of gambling before they left
<Admiral-Lilwall> I suppose though with Junky's payment we should pretty much be back to where started....
<Waitstate> hmm...
<Stardrive> I believe the money from Junky's work should cover all that.
* Stardrive looks at the pad.
<Admiral-Lilwall> above broke, but not by much
<Waitstate> well, so much for profit I guess
<Stardrive> Hmmm... we made 15 credits.
<Stardrive> Well, think of the stuff we got now.
<Admiral-Lilwall> *not turning from the window* *sarcastic* woo hoo.
<Stardrive> Speaking of which...
<Waitstate> oh well, at least we got restocked and overhauled. I finally was able to put in some of the "marketplace" stuff I wanted on deck 5
<Stardrive> Stardrive to Trilana.
<Stardrive> Did the creds come in yet?
<Trilana> [over comm]  Yep.
<Admiral-Lilwall> Oh and btw, no response to the ads to join lonac we posted here or on the station
<Trilana> [over comm]  We got 1500.  But I spent 100.
* Stardrive shrugs.
<Waitstate> damn... we really need new people
<Stardrive> That's still better than I thought.
<Stardrive> Stardrive out.
<Admiral-Lilwall> However, I did recieve this  *pulls out a small data pad*
* Waitstate looks
<Admiral-Lilwall> a communique, -someone- out there wants to join
<Admiral-Lilwall> no names or locations
<Waitstate> hmm... not much help
* Stardrive peers over their shoulders.
<Admiral-Lilwall> no means for us to contact him or her were left either
<Admiral-Lilwall> just says " I'll join your merry group, I'll find you"
<Waitstate> that's a bit... eerie
<Stardrive> Must be Little John.
<Admiral-Lilwall> quite.
* Admiral-Lilwall sits down and stares the ceiling
* Junky_LaFord walks in.
<Admiral-Lilwall> I think it's time we gathered the folk and went back to the ship
<Junky_LaFord> Oh Little John, have you seen Maid Marion?
<Waitstate> good idea
<Stardrive> Where IS Autumn, anyway?
<Admiral-Lilwall> Hm...last I knew she's hung out at the botanical gardens since we got here
<Stardrive> Well, don't forget her.
<Waitstate> Actually, she left the gardens. She somehow got the nerves to go with Shadowpaw on a tour of some rainforests on the southern contenent.
<Admiral-Lilwall> Heh, Shadow will end up talking her down into a quivering mess
<Stardrive> That or she'll rust.
<Waitstate> quite possibly
<Waitstate> still, it COULD do her some good
<Stardrive> Rusting?
<Waitstate> no :P
* Admiral-Lilwall stands up holds his arms out to the sides  "Well I'm packed, let's pay the check and go, if we can afford to"
<Stardrive> Actually, they deducted it already.
<Waitstate> I already took care of the expenses
* Stardrive chacks the pad.
<Stardrive> yeah.
<Waitstate> we're just waiting for everyone to show up
<Admiral-Lilwall> why wait? comm them and tell 'em to meet us back on the ship, give a time that we'll be leaving and they'll show
<Junky_LaFord> Any day now... any day... any day...
<Waitstate> Well, SP turned HER comm off, and Autumn never got one.
<Waitstate> I think everyone else is covered though
<Stardrive> So someone has to go look for them.
<Admiral-Lilwall> ugh, well, I ain't waiting no more, I'm gonna go find 'em and let them know
<Waitstate> *turns to Stardrive* Get a hold of Cirrus and tell him to find SP and Autumn.
<Admiral-Lilwall> or you could get Cirrus to do it for me :)
<Stardrive> Stardrive to Cirrus.
<Waitstate> heh... he LIVES for that sort of thing. Sorry Lil :)
<Stardrive> Stardrive to Cirrus.
<Cirrus> Yeah?
<Admiral-Lilwall> hey, no problems from me, if he can do it quicker then the sooner we're outta here
<Stardrive> We need to locate Shadowpaw and Autumn so we can get going.
<Cirrus> Hey, recon mission. Alright. :) Got any location data?
<Stardrive> So... can you find them? They're probably in the rainforest...
<Cirrus> Which one?
<Admiral-Lilwall> heh, who knows, search 'em all till ya find em
<Stardrive> Um.. on the southern continent...
<Stardrive> I think.
* Admiral-Lilwall wonders how many plants AB will be bringing back with her
<Cirrus> Gotcha. I'll find em. Cirrus out.
<Stardrive> Well, Cirrus is on the move.
<Waitstate> good... If anyone can find 'em, he probly can.
<Admiral-Lilwall> Speaking of finding lost souls, where has Bit been hiding out during this holiday?
<Stardrive> I think he's in the closet.
<Admiral-Lilwall> I wouldn't be surprised
<Waitstate> I don't think he actually left the ship
* Stardrive looks in the closet.
<Admiral-Lilwall> I wouldn't be surprised about that either
<Admiral-Lilwall> let's go
<Waitstate> He likes to stay integrated with the computers
* Admiral-Lilwall heads out the door
<Admiral-Lilwall> yeah?  well he'll turn into one if he's not careful, HA HA H......let's go fellas
<Waitstate> oh, HA HA... *follows Lil*
* Stardrive closes the closet door.
* Stardrive goes to the bridge.
* Stardrive sits in The Chair(tm) untill someone else arrives.
* Waitstate arrives on the bridge
<Stardrive> :/
* Waitstate stares at Stardrive till he gets up
* Stardrive goes back to his recliner.
* Waitstate sits
<Stardrive> My chair's more comfortable anyway
<Waitstate> *to SD* I guess we ought to start gathering the rest. Lessee... I'm fairly sure Recoil has been hanging around Lightning.
<Stardrive> Orbiting him like a moon.
<Stardrive> While Lightning tries to knock him out of orbit.
* Stardrive pushes buttons.
* Admiral-Lilwall arrives on bridge after a while
<Waitstate> Hey... all settled in?
<Admiral-Lilwall> eh, never am.  who's still to climb aboard?
<Waitstate> most everyone
* Admiral-Lilwall checks a panel "The Disks and Bit are back, boarding now."
* Stardrive pushes more buttons.
<Stardrive> 15000 H-mails argh!
<Waitstate> good... Overwrite shoulda been here two hours ago
<Admiral-Lilwall> a popular bot ain't ya, don't suppose there's any submissions to the cause in there?
<Waitstate> *to SD* ouch... you really ought to check that more often :)
* Stardrive routs all the mail to the proper quarters.
<Stardrive> That was everyone's mail.
<Waitstate> heh... not mine :)
<Stardrive> I think at least 14900 of them are ads.
<Admiral-Lilwall> junk mail
* Waitstate handles all his e-mail internally
<Admiral-Lilwall> never escape it
<Stardrive> 403 for Recoil, 401 for Lil, 1 for Vanadis... too bad she's gone.  Shall I send it back?
<Waitstate> hmm... no, open it
<Admiral-Lilwall> whoa... I actually *got* mail?
* Stardrive opens the mail.
<Admiral-Lilwall> tsk tsk commander......opening other bots mail, baaaad bot *heavy sarcasm*
<Stardrive> It says "131213157837202-4846522==484622085-0473359703=4215"
<Admiral-Lilwall> coded hmail?
<Stardrive> Let me send it through that algorithm I was working on before.
<Waitstate> run it through the code processor. And forward a copy to Format.
<Stardrive> Hmm... interesting....
* Stardrive transfers it to a pad and hands it to Bit.
<Waitstate> what?
<Stardrive> Look at this.
<Stardrive> He went back into the closet with it... come back here!
* Stardrive looks in the closet.
<Stardrive> Wow, he's got a whole Cray system in there.
<Admiral-Lilwall> fascinating...now what did you find about the hmail?
<Waitstate> we all have our vices, I suppose ;)
<Bit> This is a fascinating cryptogram. Where did you locate it?
<Stardrive> Ah, SP's back.  Where's Autumn?
<Admiral-Lilwall> It came through Hmail Bit
<Admiral-Lilwall> AB most likly went back to her quarters
<Stardrive> Bit, you have it upside down, I already decoded it... nevermind.
* Stardrive takes it back.
<Shadowpaw> Yeah, she said she was going straight back to her quarters.
<Bit> that explains the odd results.
* Admiral-Lilwall glances a panel..."We're just waiting on Lightning, Blacknife and Recoil, sensors show them approaching the upper atmosphere of the planet now, they'll be here soon"
<Stardrive> All it says is "Evacuate. Replacement immenent."  But that's not the interesting thing.
<Bit> after running the apparently grabled message through my processors, and then extrapolating the results through a language interpreter, I came up with: "For Free XXX, call..."
<Stardrive> No Bit, that was one of the adds.
<Admiral-Lilwall> Replacement?
* Admiral-Lilwall pulls out his data pad again... "think this guy could be that replacement?"
<Waitstate> hmm... Replacement... I wonder what exactly she was involved with...
<Stardrive> Look at the path... this H-mail hit one of the servers right on a systems check.
<Stardrive> It's been bouncing around like a superball in a wooden box.
<Admiral-Lilwall> so it's been here for sometime
<Stardrive> No, it was sent about three weeks ago, but it got bounced back and forth across known space and back before it got here.
<Waitstate> This is VERY interesting... I wish I had been concious at the time....
<Stardrive> It just got here a few days ago.
<Stardrive> Oh wait... it just got here again...
<Admiral-Lilwall> *to Wait* We should consider the possibility that Vanadis was the cause of the "system failures" a while ago
<Admiral-Lilwall> again?
<Stardrive> I wonder how many copies got made when it hit the check...
<Waitstate> Lil, an excellent possibility
<Admiral-Lilwall> hm well I NEVER get hmail
<Admiral-Lilwall> and yet I got some 400 today
<Stardrive> So Vanadis presumably got the message... then we did as well...
<Admiral-Lilwall> and Vanadis mysteriously left lonac just after the apparent failures
<Stardrive> Yeah well, the Hypernet isn't as relaiable as it could be...
<Waitstate> very suspicious
<Stardrive> And anyway, about 395 are ads, Lil.
<Admiral-Lilwall> and the holo at the terminal....it was of Vanadis
<Waitstate> THAT I remember.... *shudders*
<Admiral-Lilwall> and there's only one reason someone would try to frame themself
<Admiral-Lilwall> cover their tracks
<Admiral-Lilwall> Ok, so assuming Vanadis was an infiltrator....*what* would someone want with lonac?
<Waitstate> You make an excellent, if somewhat sad on our part, point
<Stardrive> I'll bet they're after my recipe for energon jerkey.
<Admiral-Lilwall> I think we should search her quarters
<Admiral-Lilwall> see if there's something...*anything* we forgot to forward to her
<Waitstate> We have one, admittedly rather nice, ship. No political ties or large amounts of cash. We aren't a threat to anyone -I- know of...
<Admiral-Lilwall> or something she herself could have left behind
<Waitstate> good idea
<Admiral-Lilwall> Maybe it's the ship they are after? there is some advanced stuff here someone could use
<Admiral-Lilwall> this ship could easily be converted into a war cruiser
<Stardrive> I hate to be the one to make sense, but we're new, we're accepting members, and no one knows why.
<Admiral-Lilwall> true enough point
<Stardrive> Maybe someone thinks that we could be a new threat... with this ship
<Waitstate> You make a good point too. Still, I think we've made our intentions fairly clear
<Admiral-Lilwall> a new faction in the war perhaphs?
* Stardrive shrugs.
<Stardrive> Maybe they don't believe us.
<Waitstate> besides, we have reason enough to have a grudge against both the Bots AND the Cons.
<Admiral-Lilwall> anyway, I'll get onto searching Vanadis' quarters....perhaphs Junky would be of some use in this department
<Waitstate> Why would either side go after us, if it is one of them?
<Admiral-Lilwall> I don't believe the Autobots would
<Shadowpaw> I agree with Admiral, I don't think the Autobots would
<Admiral-Lilwall> they may plant a spy in to see what we are up to...but if they had...or have done that...they would *know* what we are really like
<Stardrive> The Decepticons might... but they'd probably just attack us openly.
<Admiral-Lilwall> they did try once
<Admiral-Lilwall> "we want Lightning back"
<Admiral-Lilwall> then there was those quintessons
<Waitstate> I just can't undersatand why no one is able to trust anymore...
<Stardrive> When a war has gone on for aeons... well...
* Admiral-Lilwall to Junky
* Junky_LaFord walks up behind Lil.
<Junky_LaFord> Yeah?
<Admiral-Lilwall> ah...don't do that.....eh, how would you like to help me take something apart rather than put it back together
<Junky_LaFord> Awesome, dude.
<Admiral-Lilwall> meet me in Vanadis' old quarters, I'll be there soon
<Junky_LaFord> Gnarly.
* Junky_LaFord leaves.
<Admiral-Lilwall> Yeah.... party on
<Shadowpaw> excellent :D
<Admiral-Lilwall> I'd keep options open for this 'new application' I got too
<Admiral-Lilwall> he or she may be the replacment that was mentioned
<Stardrive> Maybe, but why be so mysterious...
<Waitstate> I guess we must be suspicious...
<Stardrive> It's not good spy protocol.
<Admiral-Lilwall> exactly Stardrive
<Admiral-Lilwall> throw us off possibly
<Stardrive> It would attract attention from me... not dispel.
<Admiral-Lilwall> each spy to his own I guess, I'm off to dismantle a room
<Stardrive> Have fun.
<Stardrive> And there they go.
<Stardrive> Well, while they're working on the room, what about the rest of LONAC?
<Waitstate> we have everyone but Cirrus... I dont think he realized I wanted HIM to come back too
<Stardrive> Stardrive to Cirrus.
<Cirrus> What NOW?
<Stardrive> Well, how's the room, Lil?
<Stardrive> We needed you back too.
<Stardrive> So... get back to the ship please.
<Cirrus> *as if away from the mike* Slaggit... everytime I start to enjoy myself...
<Cirrus> Alright, alright... on my way
<Stardrive> Ok.  Stardrive out.
<Stardrive> Well.  We might as well start up the engines... we're still running off the umbilicals.
<Waitstate> *nods*
<Waitstate> I'll go help Junky with that in Engineering
<Waitstate> [over comm] Do we have clearence for ignition sequece start from Arianis Station?
* Stardrive presses buttons.
<Stardrive> Yep.
<Stardrive> Ready to sever umbilicals.
<Waitstate> [over ship-wide comm] All personell, there will be a 15 minute shutdown of all non-essential systems as we re-start the engines. We apologise for the inconvenience.
* ship powers down, lights dim, neat whooshing powerdown sound is heard
<Waitstate> [comm] Primary ignition engaged. Sever the umbilicals
<Stardrive> [to station] sever umbilicals
<Stardrive> Severed.
<Waitstate> [comm] Initiating Matter/antimatter intermix
* lights return to normal, though most systems are still offline
<Junky_LaFord> Successful.
* exterior view: deck by deck, we see lights coming on. Running lights snap on. Then, the various nacelles begin to start glowing, starting faint, then over a couse of minutes, returning to normal brightness
* Waitstate stares proudly at the M/AM Intermix chamber
<Waitstate> M/AM Intermix: check
<Waitstate> energon Coversion Systems: check
<Waitstate> Containment systems: check
<Junky_LaFord> Injectors functioning with full precision.
<Waitstate> Power Transport Systems: check
<Waitstate> Inertial Dampeners: On-Line
<Waitstate> SIF Field: Check, 100%
<Waitstate> Booting main computer
<Computer> On-Line, and Ready
<Computer> Performing auto-diagnostic
<Computer> No errors found
<Waitstate> Booting terminal interface
* 12,1CLAS Version 7.3 on-line
<Waitstate> Initiate sub-systems restart
<Stardrive> Oh, shoot, almost forgot.
* Stardrive runs to engineering.
* Stardrive hands Wait version 7.7
<Waitstate> geez...
<Waitstate> deactivating terminal interface
<Stardrive> They left it on the bridge.
* Waitstate pops out the program modual and replaces it
<Waitstate> booting terminal interface... AGAIN
* Stardrive shrugs.
* 12,1CLAS Version 7.7 on-line. Where do you want to go today?
<Waitstate> NOW can we re-init the sub-systems?
* Junky_LaFord pushes buttons.
<Junky_LaFord> All systems are good to go.
<Waitstate> alright... Power UP!
* Junky_LaFord pushes buttons.
* whooooozh 
* Admiral-Lilwall sees something barely visible, hidden *inside* framework of the room..."well well...."
<Stardrive> The Freedom sails again.
* Shadowpaw cheers
<Waitstate> ok... is everything go?
<Junky_LaFord> A-ok, skipper.
<Waitstate> [ship wide comm] Ok everyone, we are back on-line. We blow this joint tomorrow. That is all.
* Junky_LaFord goes back to helping lil
<Waitstate> Well, I guess that is that. Rest period anyone?
<Shadowpaw> Yes, please. 
* Admiral-Lilwall exits the room *which is rather nicely in scores of pieces* with the object he found
Session Close: Tue Aug 25 04:46:08 1998