Chaotic System - Playground 1, *triumphant music* Options

[Dantrag]

OOC: I expect that you have read the background in the planning thread and have a character listed on the character thread. If not, please do both. . Also, do as we do in the other RP, and list character name and location above each post.

Let the games begin!

IC

Rann and Syke Viann, Research Space Station, in orbit around Mars

Rann stood by his workbench, creating some unkown object that might make it to the coveted spot in his 'used' pile, meaning that someday, he just may find a use for the invention. But more than likely, this, as over half of his other creations, will go into the scrap pile to be made into something else.

"What are you doing?" Syke asked Rann, coming to a halt beside his younger brother. He picked up a black metal object and inspected it. "What is this?"

Rann slapped his broter's hand without looking up from his work. "No touching!" he scolded, accepting the object back from Syke and putting it back down; still not looking up.

"What are you making?" Syke asked again, more insistently.

"Nothing." Rann answered as he put on a proctective mask, not to protect his eyes, because they couldn't be hurt, but just his face in general. He began welding two pieces of the black metal together, drowning out any conversation for the next minute or two.

Syke was getting extremely frustrated with his brother. "What are you making?" he asked through gritted teeth.

"It's for the ship." he answered, holding up the finished product. It was black and sleek, obviously to match the metal interior of the engine room of their ship.

"What does it do?" he asked. The object had a series of pipes protruding from a box, which had a pump inside. He scratched his head, utterly confused.

"Look." Rann said, pointing to the pipe on the top. "Here is where our engine coolant is going to go; because it leaks anyway. Anyways, it goes down through this box, where it's pumped back out into the main hold where it belongs."

"Why didn't you just patch the leak?"

Rann blinked a few times; Syke couldn't tell if he was turning on the record option or the zoom. "Because that isn't as fun, and it wouldn't allow us to do this." he replied, pointing to a smaller pipe that Syke hadn't noticed before. He turned a valve on the end and smiled. "It will also make the coolant drinkable; I put in a series of filters and lined the inside with some toxin-neutralizing chemicals."

"That's useless." Syke said with a scowl.

"We'll see how useless it is when we get stuck in space with no water." Rann answered as he pushed by his brother with the invention in hand; all that was left was installation.

Syke sighed and followed.

When the installation was complete, and Rann had a sip of coolant, they went into the Research Area to look for their sister.

[DoomedOne]

Nicholas Archer
Archer II

Archer stood at the head of the Council seat, meeting his men.

"I suppose you want an explanantion," his embassador said sheepishly.

Archer stared at him harshly. "Yes, please dance for me."

"Well, there was a little economic break down with the Rykar empire..." he offered. "They called us over for a contribution they wanted to give, but when we got there it was a trap and they demanded money from us for accepting payment for our work on the Dresh restoration."

"Why would you trust the Empire to send a donation? We've been on bad terms with them ever since we notified the Milky Way Forces of their incoming attack. In fact, they called me a traitor."

"Well, I sort of reopened terms about a month ago."

"And I was not informed?" Archer pished.

"No, you were too busy for such a small thing..." the embassador excused.

"Yes, what a small thing it is to form an alliance with the most powerful Empire known to man."

"Well I pulled a few strings."

"You gave them information on the Milky Way Defenses," Archer corrected. "Madison, at this point you're going to prison for treason, all I want to know now is the full story, why were we ambushed by a Rykar fleet?"

"Treason? I thought the Peace-Fighters had it's own justice. I thought I was in my own state, aren't we trying to prevent this war?"

"We're trying to stop as much bloodshed as we can. Remember this started as a nonviolent movement. When I realized in today's Galaxy that was impossible, I moved on. However, I will tell you now, we are not trying to trick anybody into causing more war. I betrayed their attack plans for a reason, millions of people would have died. You, however, invite violence, treason. Now tell me exactly what happened, and don't lie, and maybe I'll turn you into the Milky Way Police. You don't want to know the alternative."

"Okay," Madison said, "Okay, it's simple. They wanted us to give the money back that the Rykar Outpost on Dresh gave us for our restoration work on Dresh. Naturally I refused, because we invested it. We laundered it, we invested it, it wasn't their money anymore. So I left, and they tracked down your fleet while you were setting up a defense parameter to step in on the Police action against those rioters on Mars. That's what I know, you experienced the rest."

"Okay," Archer thought, "I need to get ahold of the Intergalactic Milky Way Defense. Tell them the fleet is still in the area. As a gesture we'll turn in their criminal. We can't let the Rykar assault force that struck us get away. From what I remember it was about the size of an eighth of a small fleet, the biggest vessel was a Battleship," Archer ordered. There was no response, "GO!" he yelled.