Quazar

This is entirely normal in BC3K. Simply halt the CC and deploy a full load of mines (the type that explode; in BC3K, that's the leech mine) as fast as you can. They will detonate and can send you into null-space in just a few seconds. The CC lurches backwards at a speed as high as 99999km/h. To lower the speed, move your craft's nose upward (this works in any direction but pointing the nose up works fastest). Because the CC only moves forward or backward apart from VTOL, the direction change, coupled with momentum, will slow you down faster than using any type of thrust. This can be annoying if it happens to you when you don't expect it. But it's great fun watching pairs of NPC transports. They auto-generate 3km apart, hyperjump to the same target, and emerge in the exact same place at the same time. They bounce about half way back to their starting positions, wondering what hit them. After about a minute and a half, these two NPC transports recharge there engines and jump again. Often the same two craft perform this process three or four times! They usually take damage and sometimes get destroyed. Moral? Choose your Flight Officer wisely.

Welcome to the BATTLECRUISER Community, Kurtm! quote:Originally posted by Kurtm: After looking for a long time i finally found Battlecruiser Millenium in a shop, i had to buy it and rushed home to install it.The best way to buy any 3000ad game (that is currently for sale) is this: Go to the site home: http://3000ad.com/ In the table of links on the right, click on sales. You should see five (eventually six) images. Click the one that you want. (Note: The first two titles, though still listed, are no longer for sale.) This will take you either (1) to a different site where you can order the game directly, or (2) to a list of such sites. Fill out one of the various order forms and your game should arrive within a few weeks. International customers may experience difficulties ordering from www.amazon.com or some other sites. I live in the United States have never had this problem. quote:Originally posted by Kurtm: I'm running a intel 2.8gig cpu, 1500MB memory, Radeon 9200 video.This and additional information belongs in your system profile. Derek, Kurtm claims to have a copy of Battlecruiser Millennium. The welcome page says "Qualifying games include Battlecruiser Millennium released in 2000 and all games following this one." Yet at http://3000ad.com/register/, BCMG, UC, and UCHTL appear to be the only listed options. I must be missing something here. Anyway, Kurtm, be sure to Read This NOW! If you have a game that you can register, please do so. Then follow this procedure to add your system profile to your forum signature. After you do this, Kurtm, we can help you to get your game working properly.

Bernard's and Isaac's timelines are now synchronized. [rp] 8:54 10/02/2467 Mars/Sol Vice Administrator's Office The three men were in Bernard's office, waiting for Isaac. Kurt sat at the desk twiddling his thumbs. Frank stood by the bookshelf reading Galactic Derelict by Andre Norton. Bernard slumped behind his desk with his forhead resting on his arm. The black leather chair was so comfortable that snores soon reached Kurt's ears. "You know Frank, it's amazing that this guy can fret and worry so much and still catch up on Zzz." "Well, remember when he usually works: from 1800 to 0400 hours. Plus they called him in three hours early yesterday." Kurt looked down and folded his hands in his lap. "Wow...." The door opened and Issac burst in! "What'd I miss?" Bernard lifted his head off his arm and sat up with a yawn. "Nothing. What did WE miss?" Isaac Forbes laughed. "Well, I don't know about these guys. But you got the same garbage last night that I received today!" He motioned for Bernard to stand up. "You BET I did!" Bernard rolled his eyes and stood up. "Just because we're in charge doesn't mean we have control over everything all the time." "Exactly." Isaac sat down in Bernard's chair with a plop. "So what's the situation?" Frank put down his book, grabbed the last remaining chair, sat down and put his palm on the desk. "A'right. Here's what we've been able to piece together: This morning at 7:36, a nearly round space rock in the Asteroid Belt broke apart into roughly 21 fragments. 19 of them have left Sol but the 2 bigest are headed toward the sun at a speed of around 3 million kph." Isaac raised his hand. "Wait a minute. Two?" he said closing his eyes, and trying to recall what now seemed like distant memory. Kurt nodded. "When Bernard got to Viewing Room 9, the live radar view displayed three objects heading out of the Belt. Visual footage captured by Probe S18 in the vicinity of the asteroid indicated only two objects passing by it and heading deeper into the system." Bernard, who was left standing without a chair in his own office, now leaned against the corner of the room. "When we looked back up at the radar after viewing the S18 footage, there were only two asteroid fragments headed for the sun!" Frank continued, "Detailed scans of the third object in the radar recording indicate an unusually high metal/plastic content." "All asteroids have metallic composition. But plastic?" This was completely new to Isaac. "That's what it looks like." Kurt sighed. "You realize what this means!" Isaac asserted, leaning back in Bernard's chair. "Radar and visual censors, together, have rarely been fooled in the 450+ years they've been around." Bernard sneezed, grasped a tissue from the dispenser on the desk and blew his nose. He cleared his throat, "Excuse me! ...Yeah but the resolution, particularly at the range of the Radio V probe, is at best too poor to properly identify the object." "Well the radar would sooner miss a target than display one that's not there! And S18 indicates only two fragments." Kurt's expertise was unquestionable in this area. "By the way, that vibration in the visual footage was caused by the impact of microfragments and the subsequent corrections from the probe's thrusters." Isaac sat up and slapped his own thigh. "OK! So we're back to the question of how the asteroid split appart in the first place." No one spoke for nearly two minutes.... "The thing is," Frank said with a sigh, "that large of an energy discharge could only come from an explosion!" "And when's the last time an asteroid simply blew up?" Kurt asked. Frank grabbed a networked datapad from the desk and brought up his own geological database. "Well, a chemical explosion from these molecular structures has never been observed." "What about on the nuclear level?" Bernard asked, folding his arms. Frank slowly shook his head as he read silently. "Its possible, but again, we've never seen it happen." "Well, it happened!" Bernard snapped. "And we've got to figure what we are going to do about it." Isaac smiled. "All right, we'll take it from here, Bernard. Go get some sleep!" 9:05 [/rp]

quote:Originally posted by ShoHashi: quote:Originally posted by Quazar: Insurgency (Officially: The Insurgents)Please just list us at The Insurgents, Quazar. The SC does not condone it being called The Insurgency. I read that some place else too! Will do, Sho; thanks. Remo, please edit my post accordingly: Original: Insurgency (Officially: The Insurgents) Correction: The Insurgents Original: Gammula (Officially: Gammulan Military) Correction: Gammulan Military Thanks for your help, gentlemen.

quote:Originally posted by Remo Williams: The player stats board is up.I like your page layout, Remo. Good work! However, you left out four Fleets in the Fleet/Alliance section. Here's a list of all Battlecruiser Fleets (organized by Alliance) along with the designated Fleet Leaders: Galactic Command (Galcom) Prime - Remo Williams Orion - Greg Miller ISS (InSystem Support) - Ben Zwycky Wraith - Dreada Earth Command (Earthcom) S.C.I.D. (fleet name pending on structure revision) - Quazar Insurgency (Officially: The Insurgents) Spectre - Gallion (inactive) Bishamon - ShoHashi Balor - Chavik Eversor - Andergum (inactive) Gammula (Officially: Gammulan Military) Diplomacy - Jaguar Patrol - LordDavid (inactive) Terran Raider Alliance The The Devil's Hand - Shingen A total of five Alliances and twelve Fleets.

[rp] 8:31 10/02/2467 Marsz/Sol Starpath Starstation in orbit of Mars Deck 8/Conference Room B The doors opened and Isaac walked in shaking. Despite years of experience confronting invasive media, the 76 year old was always nervous. But here it was: the moment of truth.... "Ah, there he is!" The Starpath spokeswoman stepped away from the podium after hearing the opening doors. Issac stepped up to the podium. The atmosphere was formal and friendly on the surface. But underneath the polite smiles, firm hand shakes, and exchanged courtesies, suspicion plagued the room. And now was Isaac's chance to satisfy them. "Ladies and gentlemen of the press, representatives of the United Free Nations: We at Jenson Astronomical Observatory are pleased to announce that the Galactic Cartography Chart of The Milky Way Galaxy for the year 2468 has been" - (there was a hint of anticipatory applause at the words 'has been') - "scheduled for release this comming January." His smile and enthusiastic tone were met with blank stares and low murmering.... "Our Cartography Chart of The Known Universe is due out the following year." Before the words even left his mouth, Isaac knew they would only worsen the situation. His mind now begged for any possible interuption! "I, I will take questions now." The conference room erupted into a storm of hollering and yelling as Isaac searched for the reporter with the easiest question. Just as he was about to point to a bright and surprisingly calm young man, the Starpath spokeswoman lifted her hand in the air, signaling an interuption. The deafening silence returned with the exception of a faint beeping. She walked over to the door and activated a communicator on its right side. "... It's for you, Dr. Forbes. You're wanted back at JAO right away!" Isaac raised his hand, stepped down from the podium and walked toward the door as the press mobilized in pursuit! In the corridor, as Isaac walked the 700 meters to the docking port, media personnel surrounded him and shouted unrelenting questions. After about 4 minutes of repeating "I have no further comment," he finally stopped in his tracks, held up his hands and firmly said, "Ladies and gentlemen, please! I promise, you WILL get answers to your questions!" The echo of raised voices in the huge PR lobby partially subsided as the group descended the escalator to Deck 9. Isaac chuckled. Apparently the egotistic media could be embarrassed as well. Another 50 meters to go, then he could relax for 10 minutes as the three-man capsule* returned the Chief Admin. to the red surface.... 8:34 -------------------- 8:29 JAO Viewing Building/Corridor 2 Bernard staggered through the corridor rubbing his eyes. Fatigue was setting in. After a few seconds, Frank and Kurt were right behind him. "Hey wait a minute, Bernard. Isn't this a little past your shift?" Bernard threw his arms down, lifted his head and started walking faster. "There was no third fragment, guys! Check the radar - only two objects passed S18 and are headed toward the sun." "But we all saw THREE objects, that were right together!" Kurt asserted. "I'm going to the galley to try and get a sugar high. Have Isaac meet us in my office. I'm dead tired and must stay awake!" The two men stopped as Bernard continued down the corridor. "... I did only see two bleeps on the big screen as we went out." Kurt reminisced. Frank sighed and whispered, "We may have a UFO on our hands...." 8:31 [/rp] *This story takes place 431 years before in-game spacecraft were first developed in 2899. If Terrans could transport hundreds of people over millions of miles between Earth and Mars without jumpgates or hyperdrive, then a surface to orbit operation using a Saturn-V type spacecraft is perfectly logical.

Thanks, Laracuente! All comments (even constructive criticism) are welcome in this thread, so long as they pertain to this story. For a future story, I may start a sparate thread specifically for comments.

Note: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the same, all year, as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). quote:Originally posted by Dreada: quote:Originally posted by Marvin: TeamSpeak until 2100 hours Greenwich local time (GLT) beforeGLT?? Never heard of it, Marvin, what is GLT's offset to GMT/UTC? quote:Originally posted by Dreada: ...and yes I am winding you up! Blasted timezones!

[rp] 8:25 10/02/2467 Mars/Sol Jenson Astronomical Observatory Viewing Building/Display Room 9 Frank frowned, slowly nodded at Bernard and turned around. "Right, whatever! Go ahead and play it...." The view on the three terminal screens started with the original asteroid partially out of sight. It slowly ripped apart indicating the explosion. Two of the three fragments moved into view, one above the other. The bottom fragment turned clockwise (relative to the camera) and the top one turned counter-clockwise. In the background, several other fragments moved away from Probe S18, heading out of Sol. "Where's the third?" Bernard wondered aloud. "I thought there were three fragments headed toward the sun." Frank speculated, rubbing his chin with his index knuckle. "It must have gone away from the probe's view... to its left." Kurt sighed with frustration. "If only S18 had panned its camera left just a bit sooner or quicker we could have seen where the third fragment went." "You can't expect it to do that." Frank shook his head. "With only a handfull of probes scattered across Sol, it's practically impossible to keep visual track of 200,000+ objects." "Yeah, you're right." Kurt conceded. "Continue." The view shook slightly and the fragments were gone. Uncertainty crowded into Bernard's mind. "Pause!" he said suddenly. Puzzled Frank and Kurt looked at him.... "What is it?" Kurt finally asked. The live radar view on the big screen now showed 2 objects. "No it didn't...." The whisper from Bernard over the intercom was hardly audible to the other two men. "What's that?" "Get Issac back here immediately!" Bernard stood up removed his headset and walked quickly to the nearest door, bumping 3 people along the way. "Why? Where are you going?" Kurt yelled. Bernard only gestured to them to follow as he reached the door. 8:28 [/rp]

[rp] 8:18 10/02/2467 Mars/Sol Jenson Astronomical Observatory Viewing Building/Display Room 9 There was a long silence after Kurt finished talking. Of the three remaining asteroid fragments, only one was likely to hit the sun. The others traveled side by side in a possible elliptical solar orbit. But because they had not completed their first revolution, the exact path could only be guessed. The main view screen currently displayed the active radar scans of Radio V, a probe looking down on Sol from the north segment of its polar orbit of the Sol system (with an average 2.8 Billion kilometer orbital radius). "... OK people, switch your headsets to the preset intercom channels and let's get to the bottom of this. Remember, none of this information leaves this room without administrative permission." Bernard said. Conversations started up as personnel split into smaller groups of specialty without leaving their seats. Bernard established an isolated link with Frank Walsh (the chief geologist) and Kurt. He then leaned back in his seat, looked around at the terminals and thought about the underlying computing system. "Why don't we just simulate the plane of travel and estimate where the asteroids will go?" Kurt sighed impatiently, "We already did that six times!" "... And?" Frank said tilting his head toward Kurt. "And the ending paths are too eratic, alright!?" Kurt snapped, clearly frustrated. "There are just too many variables. As the objects get closer to the sun, the computer changes its prediction each time we run the program!" Bernard sat up, resting his elbows on the desk. "Play back the break-up again on the big screen." The view on the screen changed to that of a satellite in solar orbit. The green ticker read: [Recorded - 10/02/2467 7:38 - Asteroid Belt/Sol - Probe S18....] Random space rocks of all shapes and sizes doted the screen as the camera slowly panned left. Suddenly the view violently shook for a moment and a nearly round asteroid in the top left corner was gone. "Freeze it!" Frank said. "Kurt play back the same visual footage starting one-quarter of a second before you paused it and mark the two points. Display it on our three terminal screens at 2% recording speed." "Good idea, Frank." Bernard agreed. Why should three people hog the big screen when 258 other researchers may need to use it? "I'm returning the main screen to the live radar view." Bernard then turned his attention to his own terminal. code:Visual footage viewing program. Processing request.... Data obtained on 10/02/2467 at 7:38 GMT.... Location: Asteroid Belt/Sol Footage captured by: Probe S18 Playback speed: 2% of live recording Elapsed Time between breaking points (at playback speed): 1 minute(s), 40 second(s)"You know Kurt, it's funny to watch these geologists try and sort through all this code," Bernard said, covering the mouth piece of his headset. From the next row back, Kurt laughed. Frank (who was down in the front right corner of the room) turned around in his seat, casting a suspicious gaze their way. 8:24 [/rp]

In this story, Marsz is the name of the space region in the Sol system while Mars designates the planetary region. Mars (without the z) also denotes the planetary object that resides within the space region. [rp] 8:27 10/02/2467 Marsz/Sol Starpath Starstation in orbit of Mars Deck 8/Corridor 26 Isaac Forbes could see the doors 600 meters head of him. Those doors led to a conference room and a group of media personnel that possessed understandable suspicion of the Administrator. Because Forbes was put in charge of Jenson, he was apparently held responsible when a publication deadline was missed. But this time, it wasn't anyone's fault. The press hated that! Lack of information cost them viewership and, in turn, sponsorship. They had to blame someone! After years of only minor inter-stellar discoveries, the media needed a story. And if they didn't get one, propaganda would stir the people to action. Isaac would be out of a job. On the other hand, he thought as the doors drew closer, it wasn't like nothing was happening. Many years ago, seven nuclear power plants on Earth imploded or melted down within a period of 3 weeks! The UFN was accused of abandoning the care of its homeworld in search of intelligent life only to let this happen. Following the last two of these incidents in April of 2415, 17 million people organized a planetwide strike, demanding that the government take action. The UFN Congress was sharply divided and no majority emerged to change the existing policy. After 52 years, and several legislative elections, the public mostly forgot about the problem when no more melt-downs occurred. Today, the few protesters remaining (and their children) were intensifying their political tactics. But the public had grown increasingly impatient with these 'Insurgents' and the media was gradually following suit. Now the press needed someting new - a different story that would captivate their viewers! Isaac stopped suddenly, almost running into a janitorial drone 2 meters from the doors. "And they have to pick on me, huh?" 8:31 -------------------- 8:13 10/02/2467 Mars/Sol Jenson Astronomical Observatory Viewing Building/Display Room 9 The room was shaped like a movie theater but with 300 fully functional consoles instead of the usual cramped seats. On each horizontal border of the main view-screen was a white line. Beyond this was a pair of tickers, each in turn bordered by a white line against a black backround. From top to bottom, the 4 tickers were colored: light green, light blue, yellow and bright red. Currently, 261 of the consoles were occupied by geologists, astronomical engineers and other JAO staff members. Kurt Starr sat at his terminal viewing a replay of the exploding asteroid. More than 90 satelites and probes across the system were now tracking the 3 asteroid fragments. Bernard Sullivan entered the room and immediately heard a sharp whistle. Turning, he saw Kurt looking at him and pointing to a vacant terminal that was four spaces to the left and one row forward from his own. Bernard quickly made his way to the terminal, sat down, logged in and slipped on his head set. Sitting back in his chair Kurt activated the room's intercom system. "All right, ladies and gentlemen. We've got ONE of the admins here. Let's get this briefing started!" The conversation in the room quickly died down as everyone heard Kurt's voice in their head sets. "OK here's the situation: ...." 8:17 [/rp] Starting here, the story alternates between two time frames: (1) Bernard's at Jenson, and (2) Isaac's at Starpath. This approach has worked well in stories such as Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings. Also, different perspectives and time frames may be required in any complex RP that has multiple authors. We will rejoin Isaac and his press conference once the Jenson timeline caches up.

[rp] 7:58 10/02/2467 Mars/Sol Jenson Astronomical Observatory (JAO) Operations Center Level -4 (bellow ground)/Corridor 3 Personnel walked to and fro in the corridor, recording data and filling reports. Chief Administrator Isaac Forbes stood impatiently looking at a much-simplified and out-dated map of the known universe, his back facing Turbolift 7. "Come on, Sullivan. This is what you've been waiting for!" he mumbled, glancing at his watch for the sixth time. "Good morning, Isaac!" came the friendly holler of an all too familiar voice from his left, passing swiftly by to his right. Recognizing the 'nothing's wrong' joke, Isaac grunted and ran after the Vice Admin. "Bernard WAIT!" he said catching up. Bernard stopped, turned around and held out his hand expectantly. Isaac continued by, slipping a datapad into his hand before catching closing doors of Turbolift 5. "Take that to the front desk." he yelled over his shoulder before dissapearing behind the doors. This procedure was well rehearsed. For all any onlookers knew, nothing was wrong. Bernard found out later that Issac had purposely delayed his appearance at an 8 o'clock press conference to provide a perfect cover for this brief exchange. He looked at the datapad in his hand. code:E-mail messaging service: 2 unread messages Command Prompt> _Bernard hesitated. Only one message was for him. The other was most likely a memo to the PR Office on the status of the latest Cartography Chart. Inhaling slightly.... code:Command Prompt> view message 2 [Enter] Processing.... Date/Time: 10/02/2467 7:42 From: Chief Admin. Forbes To: Vice Admin. Sullivan SUBJ: Elliptical Orbit A team, headed by Kurt Starr, has just spotted a large asteroid breaking up, sending fragments flying from the Belt. Most left the system but 3 are headed toward the sun with an average velocity of .34c (just over one third of light-speed). Meet Kurt and myself in Display Room 9 ASAP! This message will auto delete in 4 seconds....8:07 [/rp]

quote:Originally posted by DREADA: LOL, are you being sarcastic?LOL! No, Dreada. I seriously had a productive time. quote:Originally posted by Remo Williams: No I think he could hear some of what we were discussing. Actually, Remo, I didn't hear a thing the whole time - not even the sound of switching channels or sending/receiving text. However, Dreada and Marvin sent many text messages to me (especially Marvin). He taught me how to sent private text messages. When there was about an hour and a half period without any contact at all, I read some captivating RP. Near the end of the meeting, Marvin informed me of a few details and asked of my opinion. Despite my system difficulties, I felt accepted, wanted, and had a positive time. Thanks for the info, Remo! The comming MP season, though short, will be a blast. BTW, triple digit posting for me! Edit: Chavik, Sho, we missed you guys.

The meeting (my first on TS) went well.

PDT = GMT -7 The meeting will start at 20:00hrs GMT. Use the GMT Time Converter at http://greenwichmeantime.com/ to find the start time in your zone. Dreada, you are correct. 22:00 CEST for Jamont, 21:00 BST/WEST for you. Hope to see you all there.

Here we go! [rp] 7:43 10/02/2467 Mars/Sol Colonist Settlement 2 Building C Loud snoring of much deserved sleep was drowned out and then cut off by the louder beeping of a home communicator. Bernard moaned in protest before reaching up and pressing the [answer] button. "Dr. Sullivan?" came the voice of Forbes' perky secretary. "Yeah?" he said in a cracked and muffled voice. "You're wanted at Display Room 3 immediately!" Isaac Forbes, the boss, obviously had forgotten that Bernard worked night-shifts - not 24 hours per day! Bernard looked up, squinting hard at the readout on the communicator. code:time of day: 7:43 elapsed time: 16 seconds [...3 lines of other info....] encryption code: d8Gb5-2724t"Uh.... OK thanks! I'll be there at 0800 hours." He pressed the [end] button and sprang out of his bed, uncharacteristically awake and alert. The encoding format told Bernard everything. That frequency and signal packaging were developed and used exclusively by the JAO (Jenson Astronomical Observatory) staff only for bypassing the media and UFN surveillance. Something had gone critical! As Bernard prepared to leave, best and worst case scenarios began flashing through his mind. Had there been a confirmed observation of trans-light-speed radiation? Voyager 2, launched in 1977, was closing in on its 500th operational year. It was confirmed in 2664 to be at least 278 billion miles from the sun and 80% functional. Had the probe found something? Then he stopped. Looking amusingly at himself in the mirror Bernard chuckled, "You know? Why don't you just go find out what happened?" 7:46 [/rp]

Today!

Great news, boss!

Prologue [rp] 4:01 10/02/2467 Mars/Sol Jenson Astronomical Observatory Vice Administrator's Office Bernard Sullivan walked slowly through the door to his desk and set a datapad onto its shiny surface. Moving to the opposite side of the desk, he paused and collapsed into his chair. "At least my workspace hasn't changed," he half whispered after a long sigh. As an Astronomic Observer, Bernard loved his job. In this day and age, stargazing was a rapidly advancing field of study. But 13 straight hours of briefing and press conferences was about all the 62 year old could take. No new starstations had been built in nearly 60 years. With only government funded scientific facilities established on Mars within the last century, private research organizations were still restricted to Earth and its moon. Rumors had begun to spread that public resources were being utilized to conduct inhumane experiments to human and animal subjects on the Red Planet. Opposition to the government's Martian Plan was mounting. "And after half a career of government-sponsored research," Bernard said wearily, "my work is never done." Inhaling deeply, he sat up and grabbed the datapad. Among the most vocal opponents to this and many other UFN policies were those labeled as the 'Insurgents' in the press release that the tired scientist now read. The group of politicians, lawyers and other dissatisfied citizens were gaining numbers and momentum. What lessons could history teach? Capitalism and communism hid under the guise of countless terminologies and factions, stretching across much of society and religion. This and other conflicts of interest had led to World War III, 130 million casualties and 18 million deaths in the late 21st century. Would this happen again? 4:04 [/rp]

Tac, you are the man. I might link to this (in addition to Read This Now) when assisting a new player in Game Discussions. Good stuff!

quote:Originally posted by Jamont: im looking in to hosting a team speak server.No need, Jamont. There is currently a Teamspeak Server For All Fleets at primefleet.com. PM Remo for the password and admin access to the ISS section of the TeamSpeak server. BTW, I need to do the same for the Earthcom section. Thanks for reminding me. quote:Originally posted by Jamont: What i need for you to do is to post times that you are most online. We need as much information as we can.A good place to start with is time zones. I use http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/ and http://greenwichmeantime.com/ Note: To clarify the info in the following links, UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time and is exactly the same as GMT. Also DST stands for Daylight Saving Time. The Netherlands (Nick Jamont) and Czech Republic (Ben Zwycky) both alternate between CET (standard) and CEST (daylight saving). This makes it convenient for the two of you to meet on TeamSpeak or in MP. Here are five more ISS members with their locations and time zones (Standard and DST): [*]Jerold Keenan - Queensland, Australia (+10 GMT) (no DST observed in Queensland) [*]Zane Marlowe - Chicago, Illinois - CST/CDT [*]CedricB - Las Vegas, Nevada - PST/PDT [*]Rip - Lafayette, Louisiana - CST/CDT [*]Medivh747 - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - CST/CDT I don't know about the other six players listed in the DB. Hope that helps.

The story posted here in the comming weeks will be unlike anything I have read in this forum. For this reason, I recommend that the audience review the history section of the manual to familiarize themselves with this largely overlooked period of Battlecruiser history. Contrary to my intentions, this narrative won't be perfect. However, it is important to understand that RP is extends beyond the limitations of SinglePlayer and MultiPlayer. Narrative-based RolePlaying enters a world of emotions, real-time tactical command of one unit by multiple leaders, and other obscure aspects of the Battlecruiser universe. Feel free to PM me with any questions or comments you may have. This story is pre-written (as in, finished right now). Therefore, it will be posted to this thread in full. So don't panic if more than a week goes by without a new post - it will be finished. Thanks for reading, and enjoy! [rp] Terrans have always been fascinated by space exploration - shining stars, glowing nebulae, menacing black holes, the prospect of extera-terrestrial life, and the movements of commets and asteroids. While all of these aspects pose some level of potential danger, the last of these hazards is about to be realized.... [/rp]

quote:Originally posted by DREADA: I'm not sure what the situation is with Gammulans, Earthcom etc...Here is the status of Earthcom.

Done.

Good to see you Jaguar.