Archive for August, 2009
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Ooh, this is exciting. Investigating a magnetometric site in w-space, our engineering fleet reveals not only the usual Sleepers and abandoned artefacts but, off in the distance, a deserted Talocan cruiser hull! The thrill of finding something so unusual almost makes me forget to question how the artefacts ...
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
In our rich little w-space system another radar site crops up on the scanner, waiting to be plundered. Again, a host of Sleeper ships are alert enough turn up to attack, showing that we really ought to have thought of a better name to give them. Even facing ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Unlike learning a foreign language or playing the guitar I am not disheartened when the task of learning to drum becomes difficult, but challenged. I want to push myself to accomplish more complex patterns and achieve increasing levels of competence. I think this is partly because of the ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Before I leave the current w-space system behind me I have one last task. There is a Rokh that needs to be piloted out of w-space and its owner is not available for a few days. I may have postponed active training in battleship skills many months ago ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Maybe I like the film TRON too much, but I am filled with existential musings, primarily angst, as Kinless descibes how one character of his met his end as he finally, and cleanly, sat down, logged out, and got deleted. I wonder if the character thought it was merely ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
There is a spot of luck when a wormhole opens from the corporation's claimed w-space system in to Minmatar known-space. Admittedly, it is many jumps to the corporation's base, and to my stubbornly situated manufacturing base in the opposite direction, but the wormhole exit is only a few jumps ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
When it comes to replacing my Sleeper-destroyed Drake battlecruiser my instinct is simply to get a new Drake. After all, I've been piloting a Drake for months now, and it is comfortable, reliable and manageable. I like to think I know what I am doing in a Drake. ...
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Oh My Goddess: First End is the first novel based on the Oh! My Goddess! Japanese manga creations of Kosuke Fujishima. The novel is written by Yumi Tohma, the actress who voices the character of Urd in the animated series and who has enjoyed an affinity with the characters ...
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