posted 01-07-99 06:17 PM ET            

I have not gotten up to speed yet for the AFC. However, I do know that I will start including elements from the demo, i.e. Supply Pods, Alien Obelisks, and some to the other Unity characters, in my segments. I am also going to introduce a regular shower of Unity debris as Chiron's orbit intersects the ship's wreckage. Maybe some bonus pods will fall out of the sky (just the sort of thing the Believers will love).
What would be a good name for it? Garland's Tears? The Unity Shower? Lost Souls Homecoming (referring to the crew in Cryobay 7)?

posted 01-12-99 02:01 PM ET            

I have a Believer resource exploration crew out toward UoP territory. Is it north, east or south? There is an ocean to the west of New Jerusalem. Maybe we should agree on a rough map of Chiron with approximate landing sites for the different factions? Borodino, what do you think?

posted 01-12-99 02:19 PM ET            

Or we could make it up.

posted 01-12-99 02:31 PM ET            

We have received a request from MikeH to consolidate the AFC into one thread.

"Please can the AFC story go in only one thread at a time to make it easy to read? I got really lost with the last one and I liked reading your stuff but couldn't follow where all the stories fitted in."

Since there are so few of us I think that this could work (at least we could try it).
How say you?
We would still maintain our own "AFC Comments" thread and I would also like to keep the "AFC: People" thread.

posted 01-13-99 06:48 PM ET            

Nice touch with the Rebel Yell, it gave me a shiver down the back just thinking about it. What kind of weapons / ammo did we salvage from the pod? That is fortunate because one of the things I was negotiating with UoP for were shredder pistol rechargers. :-)

Zorloc,

Will you take over The DirectorGeneral's characters too? Maybe we can get Brother Rahjiv and Abernathy together on something (reminiscing about the good old days on Tycho Base at the I Club?).

BTW, I warned The DG and Borodino about dealing with the godless, hedonistic, amoral Morganites. Those people will steal the filings out of your teeth and then sue you for exposing them to a biohazard. But did they listen to me? No way!

Just a word to the wise. ;-)

posted 01-14-99 02:48 PM ET            

I modestly suggest that the peninsula on which I have place New Jerusalem be called the "Greater Jutland Peninsula" cuz it kinda looks like it, only bigger, ah, sorta, right? And the large bay to the west of it, Hudson's Bay.

posted 01-14-99 08:03 PM ET            

Have fun with your new rover . I like playing with the new Gieger counter. Makes neet beebing sounds near Urnanium.

posted 01-16-99 07:45 AM ET            

Dear jsorense

posted 01-16-99 05:31 PM ET            

Sure, you can borrow Brother Rahjiv, he is your characters superior after all. I sent you his bio and if you take the time to read through the old episode Borodino posted in the Pre Crash Chronicles thread, then you will know how he should act.

Gotta go and take Glory I out for a spin now. VROOOOOOOM Cool! Maybe I'll just call her Gloria (Glory A). VROOOOOOOM

posted 01-16-99 09:49 PM ET            

The Globe, [my free home page provider, is upgrading their servers. Hopefully both of us will be able to access it soon.

Brother jsorense,

"The Mistsquid - a jelly-fish like creature which floats in the air like a blimp.
7 species of misties [not yet intoduced as such in the storyline]:
San Martin's, Greater, Lesser, Fisher, Mariner, Pearly, Rainbow" -- from the old ecology thread.

I'm not surprised that you didn't remember [I didn't either and I created them .]

Species by species [there could always be more]:

San Martin's: the species discovered by the Narmonov Expedition

Greater: Largest species

Lesser: Smallest species

Fisher: coastal version, has special "spear" tentacles used to catch marine life

Mariner: Deep ocean version, rarely seen within a kilometer of land [still an air creature]

Rainbow: most colorful, dwells primarily in jungle-type enviroments

Pearly: Iridescently colored; most common in arctic regions.

The PKs have only encountered San Martin's and the Fisher Misties. Which ones other factions have encounter [if any] is up to the discretion of the respective writers. Also, the PKs have informed the Believers about them in routine exploratory/ecological information exchanges.

posted 01-18-99 10:11 PM ET            

The large question-marked shaped penisula to the west of the central sea: Greater Jutland; it is the location of the Believers

The large bay to the west of Greater Jutland: New Hudson

The small bay about one-quarter of the world east of the western edge of the map which looks a little like a Michigan flipped east-west: Michigan Bay; the Peacekeepers are located north and east of it.

The large land-locked sea to the north and west of Michigan Bay = the Freshwater Sea.

posted 01-19-99 12:20 PM ET            

Welcome to the AFC! Thank you for joining us. We really needed a Spartan to keep thing interesting.
I hope you don't mind a few comments about your initial contribution. It seems to me that we do not have any political/economic/military context for your Spartan's actions. Could you outline for us the motivations behind the sabotage and assassination attempts? Remember that this is only a year and a half from planet fall. Why so aggressive so early? I am not saying they shouldn't be, just that there should be a reason for it, such as revenge from an incident aboard Unity, for example.
Another question: Where on Brenda's map are you going to place Spartan Headquarters?
Finally, could you post short biographies of your characters on the AFC: The People thread (its down on the 10 day show topic pull down menu)? I find it helpful to flesh them out in this manner. It will also help if someone else wants to write something with them as characters in it too.

Hi Borodino,

No, the Believers are not going to broadcast the discovery of the obelisk yet. They haven't been able to insure their absolute right to it yet. I want to get Sister Sara out there to do some digging and other assorted archaeological poking around. It seems the mind worms are acting up around New Jerusalem too. :-(

posted 01-19-99 03:07 PM ET            

Due to the ice storm in Maryland USA I have not have power for 3 days (NO SMAC, Noooooooooooooooooooooooo...)

I was trying to give the idea that the mind worms are related the the obelisk.

jsorense can you make a post with Brother Rajiv, brother legoean, and sister Sara with the info from above, to get her to the obelisk.

P.S. Right now I'm working on a skermish with the unknowen militia forces and the alpha squad, to protect the obelisk.

posted 01-19-99 03:44 PM ET            

I will get things going at the `Hand of God' in my next episode. Keep your head down out there. Could be some hostile forces out there snooping around.

posted 01-20-99 01:57 PM ET            

I was wondering if you could write an "After Action Report" concerning the incident at the Hand of God. It should be sent to Brother Rahjiv and include the number of Believer casualties (wounded/killed), number of raider casualties (including prisoners) and types/condition of captured equipment. Finally it should include your analysis of the probable identify of the raiders.

For your information, this is the first fire fight for the Believers. It will cause a major stir among the faction leaders. Do you watch Westerns by any chance? The battle reminded me of circled wagons with Indians riding around and around.

posted 01-21-99 03:56 PM ET            

Each faction has three shuttles [kind of like passenger needlejets] available for its use. You my wish to use one of those instead of a rover. [especially if you claim that island! ]

Also, there is an established non-factional outpost used for diplomatic encounters if the Spartans would feel safer on nuetral ground.

I can send you the post with references to the diplo-dome, if you like.

posted 01-21-99 07:05 PM ET            

BTW how do you like the lay out of the outpost?

I have exams so don't suppries if i don't write as much as i normaly do.

Brother Legoean

posted 01-21-99 07:49 PM ET            

Please include your new character, Tandi Sands. I am looking forward to her bio. It looks like your character, Brother L. is moving in to Hand of God for good.

posted 01-21-99 09:15 PM ET            

BTW, There was no microfilm. My great-grandnephew six times removed would have nothing to do with that!

I'm working on a couple of stories, but birthday stuff [I'm now eighteen] has me pretty busy. I should have them posted tommorow. In the meantime, I have a question. I know that we have established time to be YYY/WW.D with YYY be years since planetfall, WW being decurns, and D being day [0 through 9]. I've run into a consistent problem with this though. How does one refer to a day in the future, as "next week Tuesday"?

A couple of proposals:

Day names based on number: zeroday, firstday, seconday, thirday, fouthday, fifthday, sixthday, seventhday, eightday, ninethday. Or perhaps since "thd" is a bit hard to pronounce we could drop the either the "th" or the "d": fourday or fourthay?

Based on the Sol system: solday, mercuryday, venusday, lunaday, [Earthday already being taken], marsday, jupiterday, saturnday, uranusday, neptuneday, plutoday; or [from Greek instead] heliosday, hermesday, aphroditeday, seleneday?, aresday, zuesday, cronosday, ????, poseidonday, hadesday. Or simplified versions of these [ex. mercurday]

Comments? Suggestions? Rebuttals? Etc.? Etc.? Etc.?

posted 01-22-99 12:20 PM ET            

do you take some sort of halusinagetic drug in order to come up with thous names. that or ginsig.

Brother legoean

posted 01-22-99 02:53 PM ET            

18 years old! I can just remember when I was that old. As I told you before, it was my best year in high school (not saying much), but college was soo much better.
Don't forget to register to vote. Do you guys still have to register for the draft too?
BTW, I agree with Legoean about the day-names.
What do you think about the obelisk?

Legoean,

I hope Tandi Sands' wound isn't permanently crippling, or she couldn't remain with Alpha Squad.

Kyuden,

posted 01-22-99 09:25 PM ET            

I resent that comment! I guess it's a good thing that I didn't put down some of the names I was thinking of [I had a couple of thoughts of one based on the Muses or the Minor Prophets...]

jsorense,

Yes, I should be getting the Selective Services notice pretty soon. And I will register to vote, but there's no election until next November, and I'll be in college then and I'm not sure where yet. [That was a horrible run-on]

posted 01-24-99 08:44 AM ET            

Borodino,

with the days, maybe you could just take the first three letters of the planet and add day to the end. if you think about it, it makes the names a lot easier to say. you would have to admit that satday is a lot easier to say than saturnday in conversation.

also congrats on the birthday.

Legoean

don't really want the raiders. i think that it could be interesting to have an unknown group of raiders wandering around. also the raiders are a little far from spartan territory for it to be possible.

jsorense

posted 01-24-99 05:55 PM ET            

The tattoos are mentioned in Part 2 of Episode 22.
In terms of Spartan R&D I would like to know what sort of industrial / military research programs you have been able to establish so soon after planet fall. Brian Reynolds himself suggested that initially the technology should stay very much at the Unity level and progress slowly and incrementally, not by huge breakthroughs. For example, did it derive from your own obelisk encounter?
Borodino and I have been able to keep this from a "everyone fighting everyone all the time" and a "my gun, bomb, space station, etc, is bigger, faster, more stealth and more destructive than yours" sort of story. I personally would like to see more of your ideas of Spartan culture and politics as it developed on Planet.
BTW, where are you located? I wouldn't want to stumble across you by accident.

Borodino,

I like Kyuden's suggestion for day names.

Brother Legoean,

Since Kyuden does not want to take responsibility for the raiders, that narrows it down to UoP, Morgan, and Yang. The Gaian's are too far away and too pacifist, and we have pretty good relations with Lal. Do you have a prime suspect yet? Remember that Zorloc may write for the UoP, so we shouldn't mess with his people too much yet.

posted 01-24-99 06:30 PM ET            

We would be glad to have you on board.
At this time there are active writers for 3 Factions:
Borodino = Peacekeepers
jsorense & Legoean = Lord's Believers
Kyuden = Spartans.
Zorloc said he was interested in picking up on the UoP.
I have written a couple of stories involving the Gaian's but from the Believers point of view. I claim no rights to them accept that they are good surfers. :-)

posted 01-24-99 06:36 PM ET            

Kyuden,

Thanks.

jsorense,

Since the motion is seconded, the days of the decurn are solday, merday, venday, lunday, marday, jupday, satday, uraday, nepday, and pluday, days 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the decurn, respectively. I offer this up to the Chroniclers for unamimous consent....

Giant Squid,

PKs are written for by me, Beleivers by jsorense and Legoean, and Spartans by Kyuden. I'm going to contact SupremePaco about the UoP [he hasn't posted since this forum was re-established] and Zorloc is a possible UoPer. All other factions have no active writer. You could write for any faction you please, although it might be fun to be the only one writing for a faction.

Also, not having kept up on the CPUB, I'm not sure that we'd be any faster.

posted 01-24-99 06:45 PM ET         

Sincerely,

posted 01-24-99 06:48 PM ET            

The weather here is ok. Kinda mild [its above freezing!] and all of the previous weeks snow is melting.

I got a satchel [maybe calling it a briefcase or ... something else would be better?] for my computer, a couple of books [Feynman's Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces and a history of the Boer War], and fifty dollars cash.

posted 01-24-99 06:54 PM ET            

Yes, I have followed the development of your innovation. I have the sad duty to tell you, though, that the use of too many smileys is classed as an atrocity here, ranking just under the seriousness of playing the sound track of "The Sound of Music."

We'll let you off with a warning this time.

posted 01-24-99 10:14 PM ET         

U.N. Charter revoked.

Hooray! Now we can all use smileys. Suggestions (not original)

:> Person who is happy

:< Person who is sad

:-< Person who is sad because he or she has a big nose

: D Person laughing

: D* Person laughing so hard he or she does not notice a five-legged spider on his or her lips.

>8-O-(&) Person just realizing he or she has a tapeworm.

(Source-Dave Barry in Cyberspace)

Firaxis should make a new forum: Smiley Art

Sincerely,

posted 01-25-99 01:28 PM ET            

Giant Squid,
I currently have one Believer, Sister Tammy Burbank, among the Gaians. Do you want me to withdraw her or would you like an opportunity to interact with her. I have a bio if you are interested. BTW you are free to scrap what ever you want about the Gaians from my last story. It could all have been a set up to confuse the Believer spy. (And please keep your 8-track tape of "The Sound of Music" to yourself. Pretty please)

Kyuden,
Am I reading you correctly in that the Spartan Headquarters is near the base of the Greater Jutland Peninsula? Rats! I hate it when that happens during the Demo.

posted 01-25-99 02:54 PM ET            

Oh well I will try to post something.

BTW, Raiders are the faction *Cough* *sniffel*

posted 01-25-99 09:43 PM ET         

However, I'd kind of like to know more. Where are the Gaians? How many cities? What tech level? What are international relations? Etc?

posted 01-26-99 12:51 PM ET            

I can answer your questions from the Believers POV.
Level of technology is essentially whatever you were able to take off the Unity. No major advances above that yet.
Inter Factional Relationships: The Gaians have provided the Believers with some advanced filtration/pumping systems for their aguaculture project. I think the Believers gave them 1000 leatherette bound copies of Sister Miriam's inspirational quotes sermons. (-:
They have remained fairly secretive and isolationist up to this point, however.
I placed the Gaian's main base somewhere in the southern hemisphere (using Brenda's map of Planet). The Believers only know of this one base.
Does that help? I don't know about the Peacekeepers.

posted 01-26-99 01:35 PM ET            

Nitro Glierine residue found in remaines of raider's base. (Nitro Gliserine is used in tunel drilling) *hint*
No other domes in the area. *hint*
Very expencive military *hint*

Who could it be???

Brother legoean

posted 01-26-99 08:16 PM ET         

YOU ATE CALAMARI? MURDERER! THIS MEANS WAR.
*708 probability hovercrafts come out of the woodwork.*

posted 01-28-99 03:13 PM ET            

I think I got Legoean's cold. Whatever it is, it is keeping me from thinking clear enough to write a story.

posted 01-29-99 12:37 AM ET            

i hate to do this but i will no longer be able to post for the spartans. work and other complications mean i don't reall y have enough time.

apologies,

posted 01-29-99 12:55 AM ET         

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posted 01-29-99 05:51 AM ET            

I think jsorense was joking [or are you too?.

posted 01-29-99 12:23 PM ET            

Thanks for stopping by. No need to apologize to us. Too bad it hasn't worked out for you here yet. Remember that this is suppose to be fun so come back anytime you can. I promise I won't have the Believer's convert the Spartan's into a commune of pacifist hippies in your absence. :-)

Giant Squid,

I have seen some small squids in the wild while snorkeling in the Caribbean. They were very cool. It is kind of weird to have those big eyes staring at you, though. Your squid pictures sure are cute and kind of disarming. Speaking of disarming, my favorite parts to eat are the delicate and tender little tentacles. Yum, yum.

Legoean,

How did your last exam go? Will we be hearing more from Yang's mysterious raiders?

Borodino,

posted 01-29-99 04:02 PM ET            

Well, officially, you're the only ones we've contacted. I've never written another contact, mostly because DG got to busy for the UoP-PK MOU to go into effect. I'd like to try to set up a Morgan-PK MOU, though. Any Morganites out there????

On a personal level, Minister Borodino is considered a personal enemy of Yang's. [This is what the flashback may be leading to]. Borodino views Santiago as a traitor, but recent developements in the story between Lal and Santiago may overcome that. He finds parts of the ideologies of each the remaining four factions [including yours] distasteful, but also finds much to admire in them as well. But there is bad blood between Borodino and Zakhorov [did you ever read that post? It was in the Old Test Forum; if you don't remember it, I could post it in the Before the Great Collapse Archives thread.]

I think that covers PK foreign relations.

Next, I'm planning to write about alien artifacts of a larger scale than an obelisk. [I don't want to give specifics, but something on the scale of, say, the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. It would be evidence of a previous advanced civilization, and the PKs would derive a practical benefit from it. Is this acceptable? I know that this is vary vague, but...]

posted 01-29-99 06:15 PM ET            

I've given up on the Globe. [My former free webspace provider.] It's been three weeks now since I could reliably count on being able to access my site [it's gone again!] and from the looks of their tech/support forum, I'm not the only person who is a bit annoyed

Anyway, my new AFC site will be at http://www.homestead.com/borodino/index.html.

posted 01-30-99 01:17 PM ET            

As for turning the obelisk into experince for the militia. How about haveing it emite a high pitched sound (like in 2001: A Space oddesy).

posted 01-30-99 08:00 PM ET            

Well, after having given some thought to what jsorense said a few days after I began writing for CWAL HV, I've decided to try my hand at the AFC. But looking thru this comments thread, I notice that it's really complicated and organized. I was just wondering what I should do if I want to write while remaining within the parameters and not shooting continuity or anything to hell. Thnx.

posted 01-30-99 09:46 PM ET            

I'll see you over in AFC Comments Continued.