chris_w_marshall

Amazon.co.uk are apparently selling UCAWA (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000E5SRR/qid=1125567948/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-0063091-7027619), distributed by Mindscape. On closer inspection what they are actually selling is UC, but with the wrong name. Odd.

The UK Government (those lovers of democracy and free speech!) are trying to have this site shut down despite its obvious presentation as a parody. As background the UK Government are sending out leaflets to every household with advice on what to do/how to prevent terrorist attacks... http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk/

If only it were the chicks! I found out that they'd read Cmdr Shingen's hideous post about how he routinely slaughters his pilots so as to progressively save their AI! Hellraiser already has personal confidence issues that we try to deal with in the weekly 'get to know your Captain' sessions. Now I have the lot of them freaking out over highly dubious medical pratices... You gotta love it!

While rummaging in the Centris system yesterday my cc (BC MkIII) became badly irratiated. I fled back to Pluto, treated everyone in Medibay and fixed the ship with the Radpacks I'd forgotten to stock up on before. Tsk. Once everything had calmed down I went to deploy my pilots back to their fighters. Now the two chaps assigned to FC2 were fine - in they jumped and were ready to go. Everyone else made it to the FC bay and then just stood there lurking around the coffee machines chatting idly. No amount of re-ordering made any difference. All the fighters were prepped and ready to go with the system engineers even holding the steps for them. Eventually I lost my patience and ordered every one of them to their quarters and off-duty. Ten minutes later I sent them a pair at a time, back to the crafts. This time they took the hint and clambered aboard. An worrying portent of a future mutiny, or a wonderful example of low AI newbie pilots just wanting some downtime to talk about sts tactics? It was great watching Perscan track them around! btw - it's great to be back in the bc3k world with a so far totally stable UC (on a laptop too). Thanks Pugwash for helping me sort out the irc yesterday. Wood