Darkraven

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

Hi Keyguy, I've posted. Enjoy! :)

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

Kraikiran-Rissan Event Update #1 @Keyguyperson

AI Nestmother data packet: Probe Bioharvest 1

Location: System Evak-312, Outerplanets

Biomatter Harvested: 512 Specimens harvested | 351 Plant Specimens | 161 Animal Specimens | Scans and sampling complete: Specimens carbon-based, derives energy from saccharides. Oxygen-based life-forms. Requires huge volumes of water. Data from native environment used to formulate holding cell environment.

!Specimen Data!
Plant species, fern, chlorophyll pigmentation, low genetic similarity to Niven locals, standard fern configuraton, spores present. Toxic substance possible. Biohazard level 2 safety protocol initiated. Plant species Evak-312-PF1 to be sealed in isolation and await examination by bioscientists.

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Animal species, mammal, low genetic similarity to Niven locals, bipedal configuration, flightless standard upper body configuration. Age, possibly 10. Gender, possibly female. Tool-user. Specimen covered in unidentified artificial and plant substance. Specimen in possession artificial object resembling small humanoid. Unknown substances. Biohazard level 4 safety protocol intitiated. Animal species Evak-312-AM1A to be freed from unidentified artificial and plant substance. Artificial object resembling small humanoid confiscated. Specimen placed in isolated steel-glass cage. Water fountain and nutritious cube dispensers activated. Chew toys released. Animal waste disposal apparatus activated. Awaiting input from bioscientists.

Animal species, mammal, low genetic similarity to Niven locals, bipedal configuration, flightless standard upper body configuration. Age, possibly 25. Gender, possibly male. Tool-user. Specimen covered in unidentified artificial and plant substance. Specimen covered in hard shell. Specimen in possession of potentially dangerous objects. Unknown substances. !Warning! !Warning! Containment breach possible. Specimen possesses ballistic defensive mechanism. Biohazard level 8 safety protocol initiated. Animal species Evak-312-AM1B freed from hard shell, unidentified artificial and plant substance. Androids dispatched to render specimen ballistic defensive mechanism ineffective; mechanisms discovered to be detachable. Multiple mechanisms removed. 2 Androids sent for repair. Specimen sedated. Specimen placed in isolated steel-glass cage with sized collar, chain-leash and upper body restraints. Water fountain and nutritious cube dispensers activated. Animal waste disposal apparatus activated. Awaiting input from bioscientists.

!Warning: Removed objects placed in biohazard storage rooms for analysis!

!Animal species Evak-312-AM1 dataset!

Number of specimens: 105
Age sample variation: 1-61
Age sample Breakdown:
1- 2 specimens
2- 1 specimen
3- 3 specimens
4- 3 specimens
5- 1 specimen
6- 0 specimens
7- 0 specimens
8- 3 specimens
9- 2 specimens
10- 2 specimens
11- 0 specimens
12- 1 specimen
13- 3 specimens
14- 1 specimen
15- 1 specimen
16- 2 specimens
17- 1 specimen
18- 2 specimens (1-18: 28)
19- 2 specimens
20- 4 specimens
21- 3 specimens
22- 4 specimens
23- 3 specimens
24- 3 specimens
25- 4 specimens
26- 3 specimens
27- 2 specimens
28- 3 specimens
29- 1 specimen
30- 3 specimens
31- 2 specimens
32- 3 specimens
33- 4 specimens
34- 2 specimens
35- 2 specimens
36- 2 specimens
37- 1 specimen
38- 2 specimens
39- 1 specimen
40- 2 specimens
41- 1 specimen
42- 2 specimens
43- 1 specimen
44- 2 specimens
45- 0 specimens
46- 0 specimens
47- 2 specimens
48- 1 specimen
49- 1 specimen
50- 2 specimens
51- 0 specimens
52- 1 specimen
53- 1 specimen
54- 1 specimen
55- 2 specimens
56- 0 specimens
57- 0 specimens
58- 1 specimen
59- 1 specimen
60- 1 specimen
61- 1 specimen

Gender sample variation: 3?
Gender sample breakdown:
Female- 46
Male- 58
Unidentified- 1 (Specimen is possibly wounded)

Number of observable subspecies: 4
Subspecies Evak-312-AM1A dataset
- Specimen covered in low to moderate amounts of unidentified artificial and plant substance.
- 56% chance specimen in possession of artificial objects.
- Requires Biohazard level 4 containment.
- Most common, accounting for 40/105 of specimens

Subspecies Evak-312-AM1B dataset
- Specimen covered in heavy amounts of unidentified artificial and plant substance.
- 95% chance specimen in possession of artificial objects.
- 90% chance specimen covered in hard shell
- 100% chance specimen possesses multiple adaptations of ballistic defensive mechanism.
- 1 specimen spontaneously exploded resulting in damage of several androids and surroundings. Awaiting bioscientist input on cause.
- Requires Biozhard level 8 containment.
- Uncommon, accounting for 22/105 of specimens

Subspecies Evak-312-AM1C dataset
- Specimen covered in moderate to heavy amounts of unidentified artificial and plant substance.
- 80% chance specimen in possession of artificial objects.
- 30% chance specimen covered in hard shell
- 100% chance specimen possesses 1-2 adaptations of ballistic defensive mechanism.
- Requires Biozhard level 7 containment.
- Rare, accounting for 13/105 of specimens

Subspecies Evak-312-AM1D dataset
- Specimen covered in moderate to heavy amounts of unidentified artificial and plant substance.
- 95% chance specimen in possession of artificial objects.
- 10% chance specimen covered in hard shell
- 10% chance specimen possesses a ballistic defensive mechanism.
- Requires Biozhard level 4-6 containment.
- Common, accounting for 30/105 of specimens

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The massive nestship continues its course to the habitable planet in the system, cold and emotionless and unassuming, unaware of what 'specimens' it had just taken. The massive lab complex meant for analysis of the biological and geologic contents of the planet at its destination now resembled a slave owner's palace (and a rather sleazy one as all captives are liberated of all their possessions, right down to the clothes on their back and the unmentionables underneath), with dozens of captives held and isolated from one another in the multiple laboratories constituting the complex.

For the first time in almost 170 years, the interior of the ship hummed to life, particularly the science section. Androids (primitive as they were, resembling only in shape their creators) were dispatched to watch the science section for biohzard breaches and animal misbehaviour.

The crew and passenger of about 2800 Kraikirans (and 3000 eggs) remained fast asleep, too cryogenically frozen to realise how bad their AI was misbehaving in the absence of their attention. Even the extremist saboteurs who perpetrated this disaster would have been horrified.

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

Hi Keyguy, the probes were supposed to deploy on the planet, but I guess a little bit of AI unpredictability shouldn't hurt would it? I'll come up with a reply soon. I already know what to write.

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

Kraikiran-Rissan Event @Keyguyperson

From the coldness of space, a massive nestship floated by a gas giant; for more than a century it had been lonely, and the inhabitants within dreaming of a better tomorrow, though unbeknownst to them it was overdue by 140 odd Earth years. As the nestship travels by the ring of the gas giant, ambling along with only auxiliary thrusters, explaining its sluggish pace, asteroids on a collision course were immediately shot down by the ancient Asteroid Defense System batteries still in operation. The ship was built to last and last it did, for even after floating in the hazardous void of space for much longer than anticipated, it was still relatively intact.

Out of the 16 ADS batteries, only 3 had been knocked out, two by asteroid impact while the last one seemingly by energy discharge. Had a Kraikiran Krii xenobiology professor examined it, he would have flown around Niven and back again, for it was definite proof of life outside of the Kraikiran system. That said, whatever that tried to approach the massive nestship did not make it on board, fought back and... Their fate and face was unknown. Their only chance was that the mass drivers were, by now, outdated, if their technology was up to par. Since the Kraikirans had never met aliens before and the general consensus on intelligent alien life around the time the sleeper colony ship was built was that such life was rare and probably never to be found outside of Kraikira, the ADS batteries were programmed to fire at anything but shapes recognised as Kraikiran spacecrafts.

The hull of the ancient sleep ship was scratched, dented and scarred. The symbols denoting its name, the UAUKASCSP Kraig Ukasen (as would have been translated) was barely legible. The ship was silent, for the racist separatist rebels who sabotaged it had done a thorough job in disabling all shipboard communications systems and hacking the crisis management AI, preventing it from taking action to repair the damage. The distress beacon that would have started broadcasting in the event of such a problem was nonexistent. What was worse was that the computer governing the cryogenics pods housing the colonists to be released at their destination was disabled, and so they will sleep forever, and dream until the end of time, or when the systems keeping them in their hibernation breaks down... which the most talented Kraikiran engineers believe would happen five centuries and fifty two Earth years later.

Should the colonists wake up and discover that numerous Kraikiran lifetimes had passed since they froze, they could at least rejoice in the fact that the team of radical saboteurs who precipitated their time travel were dead; the plan was for them to live out the rest of their lives on the ship itself, their final act of sabotage was to eat through as much supplies as they could. But upon receiving a communique that their comrades back on Trigen were cornered and forced to dissolve, they had lost their only line of communication to their home system. They had years to stew in their forlorn, go insane and depressed, and finally, to commit suicide. For more than a century, their bones lie on the bridge, like ancient fossils.

However, the colonists weren't without hope, for the very aliens they denied was possible were at their destination. Should they get past the probes to be sent out, the ADS batteries, the Kraikiran alien constructions and language, should they find it in themselves to open their mind, yes, there would be hope, yet.

Ah yes, the probes. The sleeper ship was programmed to go into orbit around the prospective planet on its own. There, it would deploy flocks of ground and air probes that would survey the planet and send useful data back to the crew when they wake up, though in this case they may not. What would be a shame, however, was the fact that these probes were programmed to collect organic samples. The scientists, engineers and programmers in charge of them, however, did not program them to account for intelligent life that wasn't Kraikiran. Under supervision from the crew, the probes could easily be instructed to cease and desist. However, without a crew, these probes would simply collect as many samples as possible, large or small, before scanning them and bringing them to the sleeper ship for the scientists on board... Who in this case would remain in cryogenic suspension due to the sabotages.

Kraikiran-Irodien Event @eemmtt

The same test awaits the empire of the Irodiens. Perhaps through luck or strange design of this coalition of saboteurs, another sleeper ship, the UAUKASCSP Vchika Kris was heading in the direction of the Irodien homeworld.

Kraikiran System, Niven, University of Scheki

"Therefore, based on our latest scans of the stars surrounding these distant planets lightyears away from our exoplanet colonies, I suspect that the odds are higher than previously anticipated that intelligent life is to be found. It is only a matter of when." A prominent Kraikiran Krii professor chirped his song. He was standing on an anti-gravity platform and facing another professor on another anti-gravity platform facing him. He and his rival was surrounded by thousands of audience. "And I believe, based on our rate of development and the FTL drive available to us decades ago, the time is now!"

"Let me remind you that the first recorded instance of astronomical observation was 7500 cycles ago. What we have achieved in the past century or so is but another droplet of water in an ocean. So what if we have the FTL drive, and ships that travel a few light-years away? So what if we now have cities built on planets other than Niven and Trigen? Our distant ancestors were probably just as elated and excited as we are now that life like us are sure to exist in the stars." A rather large and menacing Kraikiran Eii countered, but the Kraikiran Krii was not cowed, "You are optimistic and hopeful; a rare gift indeed, but plenty say that it is a curse, from those primitives who were just as elated and excited as us when they realised what those points in the sky were, to many today."

The debate continues unabated. The balance of power had wavered from time to time; for the past few centuries, the school that thought that intelligence was nowhere else to be found held sway, but in recent years, the opposite was slightly more true. Little did they know that what would happen from this point on, from systems very far away, would change the course of Kraikiran history forever.

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

@Klomster I do like the concept. I find it interesting. It's so outlandish and I wouldn't have thought of it myself, and certainly no one here did XD.

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

<Snipped quote by Darkraven>

The best part is that their sci-fi is currently 90% generic alien invasions. I can just imagine first contact.

"NO! WE'LL GIVE YOU OUR WATER! WE'LL BE YKUR SLAVES! JUST DON'T EAT US!"
"Oops this one had people on it."
"DON'T TURN US INTO LIVING BATTERIES TO SERVE YOUR ROBOT OVERLORDS! PLEASE!"
"Dude, calm down. We didn't know you were here."
"EAT RICHARD FIRST! NOBODY LIKE RICHARD!"

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As for posts, you'll hopefully be meeting Commander Fuckdisciplineillcookbreakfastformycrewwheneveriwant tomorrow.

@Keyguyperson

@Darkraven That would make for one hell of a alien movie

Trooper: Command, we have made contact with the alien vessel
Command: What do you se-
T: AAAAHHHH They're everywhere! AAAAHHHHH
C: Come in Jenkins! Come in! Whose there?!
T: Aliens! They're all around!
C: What do they look like?
T: I don't f*cking know! There all in pods!
C: ...Jenkins... you're a moron...

@ClocktowerEchos

lol. I have some interesting things lined up. I'm not so sure if things will go down peacefully though; anything could go wrong :) especially considering the nature of the sabotages and the alien communication barrier and everything...

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

@duck55223 Yeah well, give it days and weeks, and you'll see your troubles evaporating. It happens all the time. All the time. It's only a matter of time. In the meantime, watch a movie, hang out with your friends or play games. Have a vacation. The older you grow, the easier it gets. Most people would venture you say that everything gets tougher the older you are. They're mostly right, but when it comes to certain things like crisis management, they're wrong.

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

The first draft of my CS is done. It's not my best work yet, but it'd do. I'm just no good at grand sci-fi stuff like this haha.

@duck55223 I don't know what happened to you, but just remember that things are not as bad as they seemed.

I was severely late for an exam (one of my last exams before graduation, I might add!) two days ago, and whatever I managed to squeeze into my answer book (in the hour and 5 minutes that I have) may not even be graded because the rules state that I can be no later than 30 minutes.

I'm still smiling, still standing and still writing. Because there's always a solution to every problem.

The worse that could happen is that I get retained for one more semester. It's not even a year, and I'd have 6 days in a week to go to work; nothing has changed even in the worse case scenario. Can't get my dream job without my degree? Fine, then I'll work in some other place that I'd always wanted; I'm lucky I live in a country with endless employment prospects.

Then there're those stories of even worse mistakes... Such as one girl who put to sleep the wrong dog while working as a technician in a vet's, or people dropping out of university. Or even people who are way into their career ending up in court over $50 million dollars because their church might have spent it wrongly. Or just a student who decided to stab a professor over a fit of rage - you can forget about even getting retained if that happens.

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

@Keyguyperson That's on the way to your homeworld, I might add. Cue what would look like the end of the world for your people while the alien 'invaders' are actually snoozing in their sarcophagus.

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

@eemmtt Sure :)

I could always have multiple sleeper ships if anyone else is generated. It would be interesting how each civilisation would react to a giant colony ship that came out of nowhere filled with aliens they have never seen before.