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Power Rangers: Crystalizers

@LGI'll get to work on two concept ideas i have. and see which one works and vibes :)

Power Rangers: Crystalizers

If there is spots still available be awesome to join something like this! Sorry if there is an interest check but I couldn't find it so hope you don't mind me stating interest here?

Orion Asunder (Space Opera NRP)

Federated Systems Alliance WIP.

Nation Name:

Federated Systems Alliance.

Government Form:
_{federal Government.}

Map Location:


Demographics:

Midgarian.

The Midgarians are a humanoid simultaneous hermaphrodite species, they have an endoskeleton, lips, teeth which is similar to that of humans. They have two luminescent eyes with glowing irises, eyelids and tear ducts; this means the eyesight of a Midgarian is pretty standard during the daylight, they are able to see normally during extreme darkness or night. This 'night vision' does come at a cost, however, their focus on distant objects can be slower than that of a normal human as their pupils do not dilate. they also have five fingers, one of which is a thumb along with five toes on each foot, The Species reach approximately 5'6 to 5'10 on average and weighting 158 to 170lbs on average.

In appearance, however, the Midgarians are distinctly feminine, at least to other humanoid races. They have a slender feminine build with slight muscular tones and curves, their skin colour is slightly paler than human with a varying purple, blue or pale grey hue which is of a smooth leathery texture. Generally, Midgarians reach maturity around the age of 22 years old with a lifespan approximately 300 years, Midgarian facial structure and hair actually makes them close to humans in physical appearance. Their physical strength is similar to humans within their own natural gravity of their home world, however; Arinar's gravitational pull is many times greater than the planetary average., a Midgarian possess elevated strength and resilience in environments with an Earth-like or similar gravity, with some human's often joking they have super-strength, their skin iss very durable, resilient enough even to stop bullets from piercing vital organs.

Midgarian's have a complex endocrine system, having several more hormones and chemicals than humans. Although internally, Midgarian's have less glands than the human endocrine system, The Midgarian system produces a greater variety of hormones for each gland present. The most notable of these hormones is the calming chemical known as Relaxitin, which is released from the Midgarian equivalent of the adrenal glands when severely stressed. Relaxitin attaches to the areas of the brain that produces stress, causing the cells to calm and release dopamine, creating an effect similar to the effect of THC in humans.

Unlike most other organisms, The Midgarian's have a specialized desalination gland, located about 3 centimetres from the mouth, allowing them to drink both salt water and freshwater. When salt water is ingested, the gland produces several enzymes that remove the salt from the water. The removed salt molecules are then transported by the blood to the skin, where it is then released from the body, much like sweating in humans. While the species has a robust cellular regenerative system, they do not heal faster than other species. Midgarian blood also differs from most other species as it is a blueish purple colour, this is due to the trace amount of Cobalt in their blood instead of Iron.

As a simultaneous hermaphrodite species, as each individual possess both male and female reproductive organs with the latter being a similar internal reproductive biology to a female human. As a result, there are no gender differences, or gender-based issues which could be common to other cultures. Each individual has a smooth scalar prehensile tail hidden away in their body’s lower back, which acts as the male reproductive organ at the tip. This tail on average is about a meter long, sometimes longer. At will, though usually easier when sexually aroused, they may “grow” the tail out of their body but they prefer not to. Although it may seem that a Midgarian may reproduce without a mate having both a male and female reproductive organs, in reality it doesn't work as they have a protective mechanism against self-fertilization.

Terrans

Terrans and Humans are physiologically almost identical since they are exactly the same species, However, there are a couple of physiological difference; Terrans are a bit more sensitive to bright light. Also the development of gene-based therapies significantly extended a Terrans life, the regeneration treatments extends their life by over a century. During the early years of colonization an Ideology was formed. A decision was made to call themselves Terrans, seeing themselves different from the rest of humanity from their past, often witnessing slavery and fascists movements of those times after civil war.

A new better form of humanity had to learn from the lessons of old Terra, Terran descendants of the old world had to not do a repeat of the same human mistakes that were endemic to it. As a society this ideology developed from the issues of Orion War, the civil war and the failing of the hyperlane network and the impact of those events that occurred from them. Terrans view this connection with Terra after the Midgarians help brought a chance of saving this their colony when the hyperlanes had re-opened. This caused a deeper friendship with the Allies, rebuilding the FSA, holding ideals of the federation of old with the chance for a better future where Terrans work hard to learn from the mistakes of the past and do to better of themselves for a brighter future.

Krentasian.

Krentasians are an upright, bipedal beings with manipulative hands descended from a felinoid life form. There are two sexes, male (Krentan) and female (Krentas). The most notable external difference was the slightly increased size of the male, though specimens of both genders tended to be lithe for their size due to a higher volume of muscle than most mammals. Fur covered their bodies, most times a solid colour or shades of a similar tone. While most ranged between grey, sandy and golden, black fur was not uncommon, and white was quite rare but not unheard of. In almost all Krentasians, the eyes were a golden colour and provided excellent night vision. However, in those with black fur, green eyes were observed, and white furred Krentasians tended toward light, almost clear-blue eyes.

Krentasians shed in small amounts throughout the year, since their original world's orbit was less elliptical than most and maintained a near constant season, lacking the winter that would require thicker fur and subsequent shedding. As a result of this temperate to hot climate, Krentasians had a lower tolerance for colder climates. Their feline ancestry showed in their facial structure, the fur covering their bodies, long and agile tails, and their voices, which resembled the purring of Terran felines. When agitated, Krentasian fur 'bristled' in a manner akin to that of a Terran cat. There was very little that a Krentasian could do to control this bristling response, and it took place with nearly all the fur on the body.

Krentasians stand one to two meters tall, similar to, but often lither, than the average humanoid. However, they are more agile and dexterous than their size suggested. There legs could store quite a bit of potential energy in the 'crouch' that was the resting state. This gave the Krentasians the ability to spring quickly into action, granting them a significant ability to accelerate from a rest state. The power of those legs also granted them an impressive leaping ability of up to 7 meters. Due to the way in which steps were taken, a gradual absorbing of the weight, their species has incredibly silent footsteps. Krentasians are excellent sprinters (many able to reach 40 kilometres per hour for short bursts), but left them little endurance for long distance running. They tended to lack the endurance for extended exertion, though this shortcoming could be overcome with an extensive regimen of exercise and a specialized diet.

As a by-product of the Krentasian reliance on a tail to aid in balance, most coped with damage to one inner-ear, though loss of the tail or micro-gravity conditions can lead disorientation and nausea. Their long tails, generally accepted as one of the key features allowing them to achieve a bipedal form. The tail functioned as a minor aid to balance, but Krentasians who lost them seemed capable of physically compensating for the loss. Scientists assumed that the tail was once a key component of communication, but once actual speech developed, it was no longer needed as much (though the tails certainly provided a gauge of emotion, as did the positions of the ears). Krentasians required a minimum of four hours of rest per day; however, whenever possible they tried to get 10 hours.

Krentasian eyes are capable of dilating widely to grant the race expanded vision in lower light. They could see functionally in 20 percent of the light required by a human. The irises contracted in a ‘V’ shape, decreasing ocular response time and allowing them to adapt from low-light to bright light conditions quickly. Additionally, where Humans had visual receptors placed evenly in the inner eye, Krentasian receptors were concentrated on a more defined horizontal axis. This allowed a high degree of visual acuity, enabling them to catch movement and details on their horizontal plane at greater range, and with greater clarity and accuracy than humans.

Krentasian ear structures enabled them to hear in ranges far beyond the human baseline. While they were no better than Humans at hearing in low range bands, their high-end aural sensitivity extended to four times that of Humanity, they could hear tones up to two full octaves higher. In addition, they could rotate their cup-shaped ears for better auditory focus, and in fact could directionally locate sounds to within 20 centimetres in any direction without physically looking.

The Krentasian sense of hearing was incredibly acute, able to hear in a higher pitched range far in excess of humans. Their eyes were geared toward low light levels; as a result, they had slightly less colour acuity than non-nocturnal. They were, however, able to operate in near darkness. Their sense of smell is quite well-developed almost matching a Terran canine.

Artificial Intelligence

The first true, sentient artificial intelligence to be created on Terra Nova. Known as “Aditya,” the Artificial Intelligence adopted a female gender – a novel concept not previously considered in early computational models for her computer core. The new A.I. would go on to revolutionizes theories on artificial intelligence and their characteristics. Despite years of fear from their ancestors that they would be destroyed by the arrival of artificial intelligence, “Aditya’s” genesis had a positive impact on Terran life in the City of Gracemeria. There, the fledgling Artificial Intelligence helped city leaders to improve transportation, solve economic issues, and improve the city’s overall efficiency. “Aditya’s” framework became the baseline for future artificial intelligence in the years to come, and remnants of her matrix are found in almost all artificial intelligence in existence within the FSA. More importantly, her existence paved the way for the explosion of artificial intelligence and the birth of a new species that would take almost a century to earn rights equivalent their Terran creators.

An Android body was soon constructed; it is an advanced technological humanoid construct used to house an artificial intelligence or a limited intelligence. There are a massive number of uses for androids, ranging from industrial to social to military to a combination of all three. Androids are constructed out of a wide range of materials because of the complexity of their construction. The main material used in androids' skeletons are nickel-cobalt-chromium-molybdenum alloys, because of the extremely high tensile strength, low weight, and the relative abundance of the materials needed to make the alloy.

The skeleton is the core of the android, and is what provides androids with their enormous strength and durability. There are also polymers and many exotic alloys used for joints and artificial musculature, as they are very durable and have the flexibility and conductivity that allow for extremely high information transfer rate, and also provide better electrical conductivity. Depending on what use an android is being designed for, the spine is either reinforced or streamlined, to either provide enhanced strength for industrial jobs, or to make an android appear more humanoid.

The skin and hair of an android usually are comprised of, once again, polymers, and nanobots. Polymers are used because they have a wide range of tolerances for stress, temperature, and other extremes, and because of that they are an ideal material for an exterior cover. Nanobots are used to repair the polymer as it slowly ages and degrades over time, and are also for cosmetic uses, helping to create hair and change its colour, and to also make skin appear more lifelike by adding and maintaining details such as follicles, pores, and small imperfections so that the polymers appear like real skin.

As implied by the name, artificial life is typically created through sophisticated computer programming and massive amounts of hardware. Additionally, some higher forms of artificial intelligence are able to reproduce themselves, either through self-replication or by combining their own programming information with data from one or more other artificially intelligent entities to create an entirely new intelligence. Artificial life constitutes a sizeable minority of the population in the Known Worlds. Under Alliance law, all machines and programs that pass a standardized set of intelligence tests are afforded full rights and citizenship. Artificial Intelligence's can feel many human emotions, like love, hate, sadness and joy. It has been said that the rate of insanity among Artificial Intelligences is far less than the organic population.

Terran 35%
Midgarian 30%
Krentasian 21%
A.I 14%
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Planet Name and Description: Arinar is a large Gaia world with several medium land masses, one exceptionally large land mass where the capital of Destera is located and odd islands dotted around vast oceans. The lands mostly sport good forestry but also some arid areas along the usual poles you would see on earth but larger on scale. The lands also have quite a bit of mountainous regions and plenty of beautiful waterfalls; it would be the perfect holiday destinations for tourists if the much heavier gravity of the planet wouldn’t kill you.

Arinar has three moons orbiting her, the large moon of Nefreya which has been colonized and her two smaller sister moons of Nefrane and Oseros.

Arinar

Example of Midgarian structures.

Terra Nova is an Earth-like world with a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere. Active and stable hydrosphere. Great landmasses are separated by oceans, with large climate variations depending on latitude and precipitation. Terra Nova has rings often dubbed ‘The rings of Terra’ around the planet along with a single moon called Prospero. Terrans have been careful with city development making sure to avoid pollutions and noise that could affect the environment, avoiding the mistakes of their ancestors.

Many clean large cities exist along with some rather unique phenomena locations have been left in their natural state. Terrans have made sure to keep these unique terrain locations safe.

Terra Nova

Example of a Terran city.

One of the Natural wonders of Terra Nova.

Culture and Society: Demographics, as with many aspects of the Alliance, are a widely mixed variety. The two colony ships were made of early colonists, coming from a wide range of diversity; Japanese, Americans, British, French, Chinese, Russians, Germans, and Indians cultures are often overrepresented in the Alliance. Many of these cultures stem from the wide variety of original Earth cultures, though nearly every single continent has developed their own unique mix of cultures or new practices entirely stemming from their experiences.

Alliance culture is bounded by capitalism, however. Planets within the nation are prevented from achieving cultures of notable totalitarian or tribal status by the laws that govern the Alliance, though some peoples do choose to live closer to a tribal lifestyle of their own accord. Alliance culture is particularly connected with the Xeno members thanks to open communication, trade, and borders, a wealth of technology, and little censorship. This fuels diversity throughout the regions on the Alliance and the government encourages a “One Humanity” mind-set for Terrans to prevent racial strife.

Krentasians were very a territorial species, and they reacted aggressively against any threats to their homes, which in the past led to the development of truly impressive firefighting and repair technologies. Given their physical capabilities, as well as generally aggressive instincts, their species made for formidable troops, Worthy of note was that the Krentasians were almost completely incapable of swimming unassisted due to their low body fat, a result of their high metabolism and they don’t drink beer, which is quite toxic to them.

There was no real need for a militia force once it was integrated into the Alliances forces. However, early many realized that the training provided a sense of unity, help curb and channel young Krentasian energy and instincts, and formed a foundation of teamwork that could be turned toward tasks such as disaster relief. Every Krentasian underwent basic training, stressing co-operation and constructive tasks. This practice also helped mitigate the predatory instincts of the Krentasians, as well as the 'youthful energy' that could otherwise lead to mischief.

Their culture had developed a deep appreciation for beauty, which was expressed in many ways: study and contemplation of nature, producing works of art that mirrored nature, and, most commonly, surrounding themselves with beauty and comfort. Krentasians were known to find beauty in nearly any aspect of nature, including such destructive ones as lightning storms. Jewellery was also seen as a form of beauty through which they could express themselves well. Given the coloration of their fur, gold was rarely used, though bronze, steel, iron, titanium, and similar metals were in wide use. Mated pairs traditionally wore matching anklets similar in function to the Human wedding ring tradition. Most Krentasian jewellery contained gemstones, with red and blue being the preferred colours.

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Governance and Politics: The Federated Systems Alliance (FSA or SA) is a political and economic alliance comprising of currently three species working together. The Midgarian Confederation, Terra Nova Republics and Krentasian Empire. The Alliance is a federal type of government.

The government of the Federated Systems Alliance is a representative democratic republic with powers centralized in the federal government with member worlds still retaining their form of government and laws unless superseded by those of the federal government. Members of the advisory board and the FSA Council work as groups, individuals, or as part of a committee to write, propose, debate, and ratify legislation. The president, as the head of state and head of government, signs the legislation into law or veto’s the legislation while also having the authority over the military (for short periods) and over executive actions among other duties. Members of the Alliance High Courts serve as the moral compass of the Alliance and often provide interpretations of the Alliance charter or hear cases against the Federal government or high-profile cases referred up to the High Courts.

The central government – or core government – is situated in the government complex in Elysium, Terra Nova. Other major government facilities are located on the central world’s of each region, usually housing the regional government led by that area’s Vice President and the locally elected Governor.

Advisory Board.

The advisory board for the Alliance is made up of senior representatives from each of the major Alliance powers, including the vice president. The council acts as a cabinet to the president advising him on events, supported by functional officials such as Ministers, Within the Alliance there are various ministry posts which take government policy under their jurisdiction and create the framework and infrastructure to make them functional. Their other main role is nominating a new candidate for president when the current President serves for ten years with a three, consecutive term limit and reaches that limit, unfit, dies or decides to leave office after one of the ten year servings.

FSA Council.

The FSA Council is a quorum of one representative from each world within the alliance who permanently reside on Terra Nova (or wherever the government resides). They were conceived of as a wartime insurance policy. Such that in the event that war precluded the recall of the Advisory board, the Alliance had governing representatives to represent their respective world’s. Members of the council are elected for a ten-year term and are provided residences on the Presidio in New Geneva. They serve for a period of ten years with a maximum of two consecutive terms.

The council serves as the upper house of the Alliance. They do not write legislation themselves and vote as regular members during normal sessions. In the event of a voting tie in the advisory board however, laws are voted on independently by the FSA Council. A subsequent tie is broken by a Presidential vote. During the wartime, in the absence of the advisory board, the FSA Council serves to confirm presidential orders for military action, write law and legislation during the period of board absence, and holds all other powers normally possessed by the advisory board.

Intelligence agencies.

Internal Security Bureau (ISB)- is a secret intelligence gathering body for the Federated Systems Alliance. Soon after the formation of the Alliance, it became clear that the Alliance needed an organization to keep track of what the various nations were doing, and to keep track of various external and internal threats including other Alliance members.

Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)- Of the Federated Alliance Navy. (FAN)

Marine Intelligence Division (MID)- of the federated Alliance Marine Corps.(FAMC)

Army Security Bureau (ASB)- of the Federated Alliance army.

Membership.

At its formation, membership in the Alliance was offered to the Midgarians, Terrans (Humans.) and Krentasians. Before becoming a fully-fledged member, each new member must agree to abide by and uphold the Alliance's laws. Each member world or race assigns an ambassador to the Alliance, where they act as a legislative body who may get positions into the FSA Council and Advisory board depending on the availability candidates to take on such roles.

Technology Overview: The Federated Systems Alliance initially started of slow to technological advancements in its previous incarnation as the intersystem alliance until the various races of the nation’s openly shared ideas and technology for the betterment of the Alliance. Although plenty of technological advancements happened, it was also not to ignore and improve upon reliable technologies of the past century. As such the Alliance uses a combination of projectile and energy based weapons systems for the various military branches and navy. The military also has access to crude but effective weapons like flame and cryo based weapons along with electrical based weapons.

Other notable technological breakthroughs were the creation of Smart A.I and of course fully sentient A.I that gained full citizenship and equal rights of their biological equivalents. Nanotechnology was another breakthrough for the Alliance, originally used in limited capacity in the medical field, bringing the eventual creation of the Medical-Nano bed. It was then further used for Nano-suits under armour for troops but is an included element of the Nano-Solaris hull armour used on navy ships and stations. This Trinium element is also used on the hull of combat vehicles in the army.

When the Krentasians joined the Alliance, with it they too brought in some new technology, most notably Tractor beam and Stealth technology, they are also responsible for work on the first generation of actual working cloaking technology. Gene based therapy and regenerative treatments are also a breakthrough and became part of the free healthcare plan for Alliance citizens. Research and development has been ongoing for Anti-gravity technology.

Nano-Solaris Armour.

The Triple-Layer Hull the FSA call Nano-Solaris Hull Armour serves as Armor in addition to its role of making up the entire outer shell of ships in the FSA. The entire outer shell of the ship is comprised of 3 layers of the triple-alloy. Since the systems in between each layer can supply the area with nanites to repair damages whenever the Hull is not taking damage, most blemishes on the surface of the ship can typically be left to repair themselves automatically.

The alloy used here is comprised of 3 distinctly different metallic elements, each added for its own excellent qualities. Kuridium was used because of it being able to absorb impacts and disperse them along large areas of its surface, lessening the overall effect of the impact both to the ship, and to the hull itself. Neutronium, an element discovered on the planet Arinar, is one of the strongest metallic materials ever tested by the Alliance and it also has elastic properties. Able to take damage and even bend with the impacts, then return to its shape afterwards, all the while maintaining strength and solidity most metals are not capable of under such strenuous conditions.

The last element, Tirinium, was primarily added to the mix for its regenerative properties, and its ability to allow uniquely designed nanites to navigate within its structure, to repair it and the other 2 metallic compounds, without causing instability in the overall structure of the hull.

Together, the three make the ship’s hull extremely tough, and hard to penetrate. Those properties however, do have their disadvantages. As a result of the dispersal properties, most impacts directly to the hull can typically be felt as tremors throughout the outer part of the ship.

History: WIP

Military Overview:

Alliance Infantry

Military uniform.


Navy uniform. (without blue bits on faces.)


FSA Army.



FSA Marines.



FSA Krentasian Soldiers.



Centurions

Combat Exosuit.


Reconnasence Exosuit.


Psionic Exosuit.


Heavy Combat Exosuit.

Xeno Auxilleries.

Migdarian Royal Guard are those that serve their empire as Protectors of their queen and are not part of the FSA armed forces. They mostly operate on the Midgarian homeworld unless on duty to protect the royal family that may be away on royal Buisiness.

Midgarian Royal Guard Commando's.

Alliance vehicles.

Light Assault/Recon Vehicle.


Tempest Light attack skimmer.


Sampson Multi-Purpose Armoured Vehicle.




Heavy multipurpose utility vehicle. -Mobile utility platform.


Armoured Cargo Vehicle.


Kodiak Modular armoured Vehicle.

Variations and modules

Predator Main Battle Tanks.





Manticore Artillery support.


Anvil MLRS - artillery/Anti air combat vehicle.


Firestorm Heavy Flame Tank.


Oseros Heavy Crystallizer Tank.


Prometheus Super Heavy Tank.


Achilles Super Heavy Tank.


Challenger Super Heavy Tank.


Cobra Super Heavy Grav Tank


Stormlord Terrestrial Mobile Battlestation.

Alliance craft.

Alliance Drop pod


Combat Drone


Kodiak Class Shuttle


Acamar class combat shuttle


Nefraya class Fighter/intercepter


Lucen Class stealth fighter


Remora Class anti ship Fighter


Polaris Class anti ship Fighter


Vindicator Class stealth Bomber


Mantis class super heavy bomber


Valkyrie Class Gunship


Fenrir class Heavy Gunship


Spectre Class Dropship


Phantom Class heavy Dropship


Thunderhawk Class super-heavy dropship/light Carrier.

Alliance Fleet.

Light Ships.

Lysander Class Stealth Ship.


Santiago Class Corvette.

Known Ships:
A.N.S. Zetec

Jakarta Class Frigate.


Lima Class Frigate.


Tapei Class Frigate.


Taulon Class Frigate.

Medium Ships.

Kiev Class Destroyer.


Vancouver Class Destroyer.


Osaka Class Destroyer.


New Cairo Class Destroyer.


Rio Class Light Cruiser.


Berlin Class Crsuier.

Known Ships:
A.N.S. Prometheus

Madrid Class Heavy Cruiser.


Seattle Class Fleet Carrier.

Heavy Ships.

Johannesburg Class Battlecrsuier.


Perth Class Battlecruiser.


Rome Class Battlecruiser.

Super Heavy Ships.

New York Class Battleship.


London Class Battleship.


Yorktown Class Battlecarrier.


Infinity Class Dreadnaught.

Navy Modular weapons/equipment

New York class battleship modularity example.

Alliance Space Stations.

Civilian Ships

Freighter Mule.


Mining Ship.


Startrader Freighter.


Loadout options.

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Orion Asunder (Space Opera NRP)

This looks interesting indeed :)

Titans Academy

F L A M E B I R D
F L A M E B I R D

_{Location: Midway City, - Michigan}

Episode #3: The War Room

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_{Interactions: @YourNameHere - Apparition | @Birdboy - Shuriken | @Hillan - Accelerate | @Sir Lurksalot - Champ | @PatientBean - Oracle | @Blizz - Shattercrash | @Mistress Dizzy - Origami | @rocketrobie2 - Chemaxzord | @Omega Man - The Shield | @Martian - Legion}

Sleep, something that seemed to eluding the flaming goddess. Sarina had found herself still sore a little from the previous day’s events that had her annoyingly spending some time in the infirmary, of course the nurses were simply doing their jobs but she hated being poked and prodded over a few cuts and bruises, of course they had to check that nothing else was broken or damaged from her fight with Polaris, she was being a little bit of pain to them because she mainly felt they shouldn’t really be fussing over her.

That also had her brooding a lot to, every time she replayed it in her mind, the bottom line was they got their asses kicked and Sarina would be lying to herself if she thought that such a thing playing on her mind was one another reason she struggled to sleep. Adding to the fact that Arsenal had decided to have everyone meet up at this ‘war room’, luckily for her she was able to do some of her usual in the morning, A nice shower to clean up, normally something she would do after a workout of jog, something she skipped and then spent most of the time she had brooding over a Mocha hoping it would help cheer her up a little.

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Soon enough Sarina had made her way down to the war room and behold the rest of the group, some she fought alongside some she knew from either seeing them from time to time around the academy or bumping into them and some appeared to be missing, it seemed their Polaris fight got some unwanted attention and it cost a couple of their team. The ex-villianess was still getting used to the idea of being in a group, before the whole incident working with Cyborg and Arsenal, Sarina had never played well with others, so this was still a learning curve for her and so these war room sessions may actually be helpful in the long run.

The redhead would watch on as members of the group were taking turns getting their suits while Arsenal was explaining the Digitizer gizmo and how the war room works. Her time was spent observing people getting their new suits and watching the first session between Shattercrash and Shuriken, in fact Sarina was very curious how it will play out with a literal ninja taking on a WMD in a bank setting.

Sarina could only watch a little scene play out in front of her, Switchblade was once again making an ass of himself, the guy rubbed her the wrong way and seemed more than happy to give crap to other members of the team for no apparent reason other than to make himself feel good maybe? He certainly seemed to have a beef with Shield, in her mind it was only a matter of time till someone put the dude in his place… And she didn’t have to wait long, she watched the tense encounter between him and Apparition and she could not help but Smirk and nod slightly with approval and the later gave him a literal verbal burn.

The altercation was interrupted however when Oracle had made her way back out in her new suit. Fortunately for the red head she was close enough to the pair to hear what Apparition had to say at the distracted guy and could only let out an audible snort in her attempt to not laugh at him. "He wouldn't know how to handle us anyway." She quietly remarked the pair, Sarina was liking this girl even more. Composing herself Sarina looked over at Oracle and nodded at her. “Looking good” Her Irish accent coming through.

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Mini Collab with: @YourNameHere - Apparition.

When it was time for someone else to go into the digitizer however, the girl was able to not only beat Arsenal for asking who was next but also beat herself to be next in line to go, Sarina didn’t mind like, the girl was obviously on a roll right now after all so why stop? She watched as the girl pretty much demonstrated her power on the way to the machine, an eyebrow raised at the sight before as the girl materialized butt naked in front of the group and didn’t bother to cover herself. In that moment she could swear it was so silent that one would hear a pin drop. Even she was distracted from the screens as she noticed the poor girls’ clothing was bunched up on the floor where she once stood.

Sarina would have noticed that once again Switchblade was gawking at the sight before him, light a deer in headlights. Placing her arm around him which seemed to make him instantly tense up. “Your drooling.” She would say into his ear, which was followed by an audible slap as the poor guy literally and probably not intentionally slapped his own face when checking if he really was drooling. After that bit of amusement Sarina would take the moment while the machine was doing its work to pick up the girls’ clothing and at least fold it up as it was not some pile of mess on the floor. After a moment the girl dispersed her way out and reformed wearing her new suit next to the Shield guy.

Moving up to the side of Apparition and hearing she didn’t like her outfit. “At least it stays with you when you disperse, at least one thing to like.” Soon afterwards she would hold up the girls’ clothing she had picked up. “Believe these are yours, I took the liberty of picking them up.”

“I’d almost rather lose my clothes,” Arina muttered in response, still tugging at the material, “Contrary to the clothes I wear, I’m not a fan of feeling restrained,” Arina turned towards Sarina as she continued speaking, her frown disappearing almost immediately.

Arina’s usual blank expression met the red headed girl as she held out the outfit Arina had just lost and her head tilted her head ever so slightly as her ice blue gaze flickered to the clothes and back to the fire user - almost as if she were cautious.

‘Huh’

The subconscious sound escaped her lips and as she came back to reality, a small closed eyed smile engulfed her features as she reached out and gently took the outfit that Flamebird had so kindly picked up and folded for her. “Nobody has ever gone to the trouble of folding or even collecting my clothes for me,” she mused, tucking them towards her body in her arms. “You’re sweet, thank you,” her voice was sickeningly honeyed and almost anyone who overheard the conversation would have assumed she was perhaps mocking the girl, however, for a change, Arina was genuine.

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Once it was time again, Sarina stepped forward to take her turn in entering the machine, she took of her red shirt however leaving her in a tank top and black jeans and slipping her phone out and put them to one side before entered it, Arsenal did the usual, telling her to envision what she wanted for a suit, ultimately it be similar to what the lab was working on but with finer details and slight improvements. With that in mind she stood inside it and Arsenal went to the controls. “ready? Remember to imagine…” Sarina interrupted him. “I know, Hit it.” She calmly replied with a nod towards him, she was actually looking forward to this. She closed her eyes and let the moments pass as the machine went to work. After a few moments it was finished and Sarina stepped out in her new suit.



Looking over herself, before feeling her face, yep this time she had a mask to cover her identity, a must have for anyone that had a past like hers, what would people say if they clicked on the titans had an ex villain on the team? Either way, she was digging her new suit. “Hmm, I can work with this.” Sarina said with a smile on features, this was to be a new chapter in her life and the suit help represent her alias and what she felt and sometimes feared what she could be truly capable off. Thankfully wear she hadn’t used her powers the suit was all back and so wouldn’t burn her shirt off, so putting it back on she placed her phone in it pocket. It did seem her Domino mask had a tint of flair added to it. Maybe she should ask the class, not that she cared to much if people like her suit or not, she needed to learn on interacting with them. “So, what you guys think?" She aimed at no one in particular.

A cheshire grin appeared on Arina’s features as Flamebird stepped out of the digitizer and asked the group's opinion, “Looking hot,” she mused, once again raising questions to which side her sexuality lay. Her comment gained her a few odd or disapproving looks, namely from Arsenal he raised an eyebrow at her,

”She comes out looking like an actual professional, and the best you can summon is ‘Hot’?” he asked, his tone clearly not amused, and she turned her head towards the mentor, her grin falling into her innocent blank gaze,

”What?” she whined back in her defense, ignoring his blatant dig at her own outfit, ”Hot is the perfect word for it… I mean…” she paused for a moment as a wry smile played on her lips, ”I’d… do her… if you know what I mean,”

”Shut it, apparition,” and she shrugged, shooting quick smile and a wink at Sarina.

GATEWAYS: THE NEXT GENERATION [CLOSED AND CONCLUDED]

S.S Anara. Luxury Liner - Antares System.

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Michael Forsett was taking his personal luxury liner Anara for a cruise, this for a good couple of reasons, firstly he had several dignitaries aboard the ship, the aim to put this larger class of luxury ship to be available on the market… For those wealthy enough to afford it of course, the Anara was his personal ship with a crew of eight, along with several security and his daughter, the latter of which didn’t really get a choice on whether or not she wanted to come along and was hiding out in the ships shuttle. If those viewing the ship were impressed enough, then maybe several sales could be made to go along with the small and medium class luxury liners already available.

The second reason however, was what some would consider more sinister or at least silly ulterior motive. While ships were flying through the system, which normally would not be considered too much out of the ordinary with plenty of civilian traffic going about the inner parts of the Antares system. However, the ship was heading further out from the inner part of the system, more specifically steadily closer to a restricted zone of space to where a certain incident had happened thirty years’ prior, the approximate location of where the gate was. The Alliance had made it clear no civilian traffic unless authorized was to enter an exclusion zone that was set around it days after that historic Incident.

A tall dark haired man had made his way up to the bridge, he was clean shaven and looking sharp in his black suit, he proper looked the business type, exuding confidence, he had just spent an hour or so pretending to be super interested in what his guests had to say, although he did well to do his part in the selling points of the ship. Adjusting his tie, he stepped beside the captain of the ship. “Are things all in order George?” George, a man, dressed in an outfit one would expect for a civilian captain of a ship, similar to those of their ancestral past that sail the Terran oceans in luxury liners of the past. Adjusting his hat, the man did his best not to show intimidation to the man that basically pays to top credits to keep his ship in one piece. “Yes Mr Forsett, everything is running smoothly, But…”

“But what Captain? If there is something on your mind, then please speak up, I am not a mind reader.” George swallowed, he didn’t want to upset his boss but, he felt it he had to say something. “Well considering what it is we are really doing out here, are you sure this is a good idea, we are closing in on the exclusion zone, no doubt we are being monitored, no matter how inconspicuous we try to be. The Alliance would be on us very quickly, if they haven’t already dispatched a ship to intercept us.” The captain placed his hands behind his back as he looked out the window ahead.

‘Hmm’ Michael rubbed his chin for a moment in thought. “You worry too much George, I get the crew might be on edge over it, but something is going on out here, for almost thirty years the Alliance closed of this area of space, yet military ships quite often patrol it, they are hiding something and I intend to find out what is it, weather my board of directors like it or not.” He paused for a moment, “Look it is no secret what happened all those years ago, but seriously what do you think has been going on since?” The conversation was cut off by a female helmsman. “Sir, we have just entered the no exclusion zone, Alliance Navy have ordered us to reverse course and await to be boarded.”

Michael smiled, if anyone knew him well enough, he wasn’t one for doing what he is told when he sets his mind to something. “Well no point hiding it now, set course straight for these coordinates. Ignore them for now.” The bridge crew were set to work, various buttons and noises could be heard. “I can’t Sir, they are already blocking communications, we can’t contact anyone.” That didn’t surprise him at all. “Hmm standard procedure, alright light up scanners, let’s see what’s got their panties in a twist.”

“Sir, We can’t…. An alliance ship has jammed our sensors.”

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Tiberius Station. Alliance installation.

Within Tiberius station, an alliance installation finally built a few years ago in a defensible position from the Antares gateway, Commander Carleton Hurston was sitting in his ready room adjacent to the operations room. Although mostly a military installation, at the insistence of a vote within the council, civilian infrastructure was also built within it. This not only allowed the station to properly defend itself, it could also act as meeting place or outpost for trade and as such was equipped with external and internal docking facilities. This meant the station was always well stocked and had only light traffic really to deal with from the inner part of the system, mostly freighters and other various ship came to and from. Plus, several Alliance naval ships where often docked there or on patrol nearby, this would help cut down response time. It was clear to the higher ups there was always a chance the gateway would reopen.

Over the years it didn’t however and as such things just got quieter, many would say it was a boring assignment but it allowed the good commander to get a good rapport with his fellow officers and others that came to call this home away from home. Today however was just like any other day, everything was running smoothly with the only thing brought to his attention was S.S Anara had deviated of its flight path, despite not being scheduled to arrive at the station.

“Commander Hurston to ops” letting out a sigh under his breath, the commander got up and straighten out his uniform, he wasn’t lazy by any means but it did interrupt him going over station reports. Stepping out through the doors of his ready room the commander made his way towards the centre of ops. “What you got for me Lieutenant Commander?” A female Terran officer acknowledged her superior officer as he walked towards her. “Sir, we have a slight problem with the S.S Anara, she has flown into the exclusion zone and has thus far ignored our communications.” Moment after her reporting a male Krentasian spoke up from his ops station. “I took the liberty of ordering the Zetec to intercept the vessel, Prometheus was still docked.”

This prompted both the commander and lieutenant commander to turn and look at the officer. “I think sending the Prometheus would’ve been a little overboard for a single civilian ship lieutenant don’t you think?” the Krentasian nodded. “Quite sir.” This caused the pair to smile before bringing their attention to the data before them. The Zetec was on patrol nearby and was only a few moments out from intercepting the Anara. The Corvette would easily catch up to the luxury liner. The commander was quite baffled; why would anyone violate a no fly zone? Or even for that matter head to where the gate was? There had been no activity from it in like thirty years.

Carleton let out another audible sigh. “Open a comms channel.” A few brief moments past before it gets a nod from the communications officer he is live. “S.S Anara, this is Commander Hurston of Tiberius station, you are in violation of an exclusion zone set up by the systems alliance advisory board. This is a no fly zone and as such I order you to stand down, you will be escorted to the station, upon your arrival I will most certainly look forward to hear what perfectly good reason you have for this stunt.” The commander waits for a reply but none came. Silencing the channel from their end. “Did they receive that?” His communication officer nodded. “Yes Sir, they most definitely received us, they are simply ignoring us.”

“Hmm, very well….. Signal the Zetec, tell them they are cleared for boarding action, secure the ship safely as possible.” Soon people were hastily getting to work, hearing everything working in synchronisation made the commander proud, despite how it has been since the station came operational, everyone carried out their duties as one would expect. Now why was Forsett being so stupid for?

“Sir! Massive energy spike detected within the exclusion zone!” there was urgency in his second in commands voice as several alarms sounded off. “Now what!” the commander blurts out... “Good god” are the next words uttered from his mouth as they all watch in amazing or more like a reindeer caught in headlights. A new signature was detected at the location of the Anara. First came a small bright light, soon It blossoms suddenly out of black space, with multiple layers of swirling gaseous clouds, miles in diameter, centered with a mushroom dome that irises open to reveal a tunnel pulsing with an energy field of rippling shock wave that explodes from the aperture, literally everything in the system must have detected it.

The gateway had reopened… A historical but concerning moment in history. When scanners returned to normal, The Anara was nowhere to be seen, the Zetec reported light damage from the shockwave where its proximity to the gate compared to the Anara was not as close and being a naval vessel. There was no debris to be found meaning the Anara was not destroyed, the only conclusion was the civilian ship was pulled into the gate, being on top of the gate when it opened must have meant the ship was badly damaged and its location unknown. The Zetec had reported upon closing on the gate that multiple gate addresses had become available when it interacted with the ship while the navy scrambled ships to secure the gate from both Tiberius station and other ships further in system.

Americana
No Man's Land
In proximity of Mojave DMZ.

Not long after its disappearance from the Antares system, a new signature emerged from the gate within the Americana system. The Anara came out ass first into the system amongst garrisoned forces with some hull debris, the ship was heavily damaged and was spiralling out of control, engine systems appeared to be offline as the vessel was in a gradual spin, external lighting dimming from time to time due to some sort of power loss. Much of the crew and guests were unconscious with the ships emergency backup systems keeping what it could online, otherwise the crew would more than likely be thrown around like ragdolls. Some however were conscious with the captain checking on his bridge officers. On other decks, some pf the passengers were in a panic, some cries and screams could be hard among the flickering lights. It was not the best way to enter a system unannounced nor a good first impression, but then again, no one had expected the Antares gate to open, suck in a ship and spew out to god knows where, making it difficult for the Alliance to form a rescue plan.

@Sigma An unscheduled arrival.

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Terra Nova, Elysium.

Within a couple of hours, life was somewhat returning back normal, well as best as it could be considering the historical moment that had occurred. News was still a buzz with the knowledge of the gateway opening for the second time in three centuries, however; unlike thirty years prior where it opening only to destabilise and close, this time it had stayed open and stable. Questions still remained however, such as, who else was out there? Who opened the gateways, was it the Alliance or someone else? Did the home the ancestors of Terra survive? Smaller elements also wondered about the extremists that took off through the gate thirty years ago? Although there was great joy among the populace of both worlds and moons, there was also concern.

For the time being news agencies like the Alliance News Network were gathered outside the alliance government building in the city of Elysium, people were waiting upon the leadership to present official comments of the current situation. A presenter and crew was finishing up setting up, they waited for when they go live, when it was time to do so the camera was rolling. “This Christian Danielson of the Alliance news network, as you can see I am currently standing outside the FSA headquarters where the current leadership of the alliance, including the respected leadership of the three nations are currently in discussions about the historical moment that we all witnessed not so long ago… We are still awaiting any official word or press release from the president, however; we did get a brief statement from an alliance spokesperson.”

Those watching the monitors wherever they are looking at the broadcast would see the screen change to a spokesperson who briefly addressed the media earlier. “The President is currently speaking to all members of the board including leadership of the respected branches of the alliance at this time in regards to todays unexpected events. However; at the moment we can confirm that as witnessed by many earlier today, the gateway has indeed opened, we can assure everyone that the situation is under control, we like to take a moment the thank the Alliance navy for their swift response to the current situation and has since secured the area surrounding the gateway, while investigations are ongoing at this time we cannot speculate as to what caused the gate to open but can assure all our citizens that all precautions are being taken and there is no need for concern, We hope that everyone can celebrate this historic occasion, we are not taking questions at this time, thank you.”

The screen goes back life to the reporter. “As you can see, many are indeed celebrating the opening of the gate, but of course and quite understandably there are those that are concerned. Either way this is a historical moment and that many hope to open up new avenues and opportunities. It is expected at some point today that the president will address the alliance, until then, there are of course many issues to discuss and we will continue to do our best to give you as much up to date news as the situation develops. I am Christian Danielson, of the alliance news network” soon the live feed but of back to the studio that would carry on with other news, just what did the future now hold for everyone, no one truly knew.

The Justice Society

I'm not a knowledgable on the JSA but I am interested in this.

Titans Academy

F L A M E B I R D
F L A M E B I R D

_{Location: Midway City, - Michigan}

Episode #1: Magnetic Madness

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_{Interaction(s): @Hillan - Accelerate | @Damo021 - Flamebird | @Lord Wraith - Blitzkrieg | @PapaOso - Sacrifice}

Post #1.02:Teenage Thermokinetic Warhead Incoming.

As quick as the team had joined forces to take on this mad man, did things literally go to crap. Flamebird despite a couple of fireball attacks didn’t seem to dent the force field Polaris had put up. But it got worse after the Shattercrash impact. The kinetic force was massive and the Pryrokinetic got to watch in awe as her team mate was yeeted out the roof. It was but a very brief distraction and amusement at how that all happened in a blink of an eye ‘Dam Girl’ Sarina thought to herself. Unfortunately, she ended up taking a few more hits herself from debris being flung about by Polaris, few more cuts and bruises on her face meant she wouldn’t be on a front magazine cover anytime soon. Sarina looked like she just came out of a rather violent mosh pit.

Soon enough Flamebird heard of a plan from Blitz, she would provide covering fire... literally in the hopes it would distract their foe long enough for Blitz and Accelerate to double assault him, she nodded to his order in agreement, problem how was the pair even going to get through the force field of his? She had an idea, sure it would still involve giving covering fire, but Flamebird knew she had to do something to overload that field of his. Problem was they were acting like a bunch of misfits as Polaris was right, they had their hands full with just one guy. Just about dodging another piece of god knows what flying around, Sarina blew a few strands of hair out of her face before looking at a scientist, like what is it with these guys? She wiped a bit of blood of her cheek. “What? Super speed, Don’t have it” She grabbed the arm of the cowering scientist that only just spoke to Oracle. “Now, out” She ordered only for him to begin a protest on what he just stated. “We heard! Out, NOW!” she glared at him before shoving him along, he didn’t need telling twice seeing her anger coming through. Hopefully that was the last of them.

This time though, her attention was fully on Polaris, "He is literally ripping the foundations out guys, whatever we have to do, make it end quick" It was around this time another distraction got hold of her, just when she was channelling for her big game plan to provide the all-important cover fire, a bright violet like from above was on its way down. Of course; what comes up must come down, and coming down she was, Shattercrash was coming in like a thermokinetic wrecking ball. Now the red head was in two minds, if her team mate made another contact with the field, would the blast kill them all? Isn’t no way she was going to die doing nothing, she it was either defend or attack. Things were happening fast though, accelerate did god knows what and before she knew it a message and medication appear, it had to be their resident speedster and not of the red kind. Also Sacrifice was doing his thing.

Everything was set in motion and Flamebird decided if she was to go down, then she was going down fighting so now to get Polaris's attention, her focus and anger all on him. it was like the criminal inside her was wanting to take over, but she had to stick to her plan. "Hey! Jackass!" Yep that ought to get his attention. Funnily enough it made her remember a conversation she had with Cyborg about curbing her foul language... It's a work in progress. Flames larger than anything she had shown yet in this battle conjured in both palms, reaching about halfway up both arms.

Channelling it she took a stance to steady herself before pushing out her arms in front of herself, hands touching at the end as a incredibly hot stream of flame streaked out and struck the field of the madman, it was flamethrower like, but this time she kept the pressure up, taking a few steps closer the stream of flame still unrelenting, She would continuous until it either the field failed of she could keep it up no more. "Don't expect me to keep this up forever" She said through gritted teeth, her suit taking a lot of pressure. Truth is, this was kind of new territory in how long she keeps a stream of flame going for against something so tough, it would be only a matter of time before blood would be coming out of her nose, she knew it was coming, signalling the strain it would be putting on her, but she had to try and overload the dam thing or die trying.

Titans Academy

Post almost done sorry was called into work.

Titans Academy

F L A M E B I R D
F L A M E B I R D

_{Location: Midway City, - Michigan}

Episode #1: Magnetic Madness

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_{Interaction(s): @Hillan - Accelerate | @PatientBean - Oracle | @Lord Wraith - Blitzkrieg | @PapaOso - Sacrifice | @Blizz - Shattercrash}

Post #1.01: Expect the unexpected

Sarina had been up early this morning, struggling to sleep because of her new environment, she found herself having a protein shake before going for a morning run, whether or not she was allowed out at that time she didn’t care, she wanted to clear her mind in what has been a bust period for herself and others. Sarina had been helping out somewhat getting things set up, tests and god knows what else, after her morning run and freshning up with a shower, Sarina had found herself wondering aimlessly, one thing she hated was sitting around doing nothing for to long, she had planned to hit the gym but it sounded like world war three was going off in their, instead she opted to go to STAR labs and check up on her suit.

The Ex-villain working to become hero, arrived, all seemed calm considering the place was full off eggheads and made her way over to where her suit is located, the lab working on it had a bunch of engineers working on fine tuning her suit, one of them in particular was probably over excited in showing off a domino mask with some fancy built in tech, although that was not anywhere near ready yet, it was a weird feeling working in a STAR Lab with a bunch of Brainiac’s which were no doubt smarter than herself. In her past this would be a place she would attack herself if it was ordered by her past peers, of which she still wanted revenge on.

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Suddenly out of nowhere alarms had gone off and chaos ensued, a part of labs was under attack, but by whom or what she didn’t know. A call came from Cyborg that the labs was under attack and for several of the students to suit up. ‘Thank you captain obvious’ Sarina thought, it was long before hearing screams and booms or thing being wrecked, all this did think was put a sly grin upon her features. Looking at the frightened engineers she was working with, she went to work immediately. “I’m suiting up, the other add-ons can wait.” Taking the suit, she went off suited up out of sight.

Coming back into view, people where still hanging weather trying to hide under desks or wherever they could find. “The hell you all still here for, Move it!!! Evacuate, and for the love of god don’t follow me, I got an idiot to meet” with that many scientist and engineers began their evacuation efforts as Sarina made her way to the centre of this problem. The sight she saw was one she didn’t expect, was that a scientist using debris for armour? Soon the other titans a teleported in while Sarina was attempting to dodge debris. “Bout bloody time you lot turned up” she quirked, already having a cut on the side of her face with some blood trickling down, to say Flamebird was angry would be stating the obvious.

Before the redhead could make up a new coordinated plan however, Switchblade went in like an idiot, before she could even have a go at the guy she found herself having to dodge his own weapon, this situation was so irritating to her, but she was stopped in her tracks as she bared witness to Cyborg literally being turn to pieces, all his cybernetics ripped out of him, it was so dam brutal. She had seen and done many bad things in her time as a bad, but still the sight of it caused her to pause for a brief moment.

Sarina snapped out of it when Blitzkrieg began barking out orders, it was necessary to get the group to focus if wanted to get out of this alive quite frankly, problem was these titans barely had any time to train, talk about being thrown into the deep end. She nodded in agreement and focus her efforts on the mad scientist while the other did crowd control and rescued cyborg. Looking at sacrifice “Do what you need to do.” She didn’t quite understand his powers but, but from what she had heard it was meant to help boost others? If that was the case it sure be helpful right now, however she had not noticed he had locked up during the chaos.

Watching Shattercrash power up and leap into action against their current enemy. The booming sound was louder than she expected but hopefully that would be more than enough to grab the attention for the mad doctor. It was time for a team up weather it would work she had no idea. Flames flickered to life in both her palms, pretty medium in size, her suit moments later reacted to the heat and area started lighting up, as thus Flamebird had entered the arena. Watching her alley, she times her attack accordingly, swinging her arms one after the other releasing a couple of fireball which curled lightly in the direction of the doctor, she had to make sure she didn’t hit Shattercrash, hopeful one of their attacks would distract while the other hit, only time would tell.