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.

[Dantrag]

Rann Viann, Research Station 413

Rann heard a loud beep from his room, so he ran in and checked the computer. His teacher had replied to his message. It read:

Hello Rann,

I have the test prepared for you, come at your own leisure.

Rann read it and knew what it really meant; come now or forever hold your peace. Rann grabbed his handheld computer and rushed out the door.

"Bye Sis, gotta take a test." He laughed as he was leaving; this time he actually was!

He got there after a long run through the station, and Mrs. Smith was sitting at her desk waiting for him with a smile. "So you want to graduate?" she asked with a smug smile on her face. "You could have done that from the beginning, rather than quitting, you know."

"My sister got close to finding out." Rann replied, taking a seat.

Mrs. Smith laughed. "I figured that you forged that cyber code, but you're too good for me to have any evidence."

"I left it unencrypted." he answered, already staring off into space (literally) oout the window.

"Rann! Focus!" Mrs. Smith said with a light slp to the side of his head.

"Oh, right. I'm ready to take the test now." he said, stratching his fingers.

"One moment." Mrs. Smith said, plugging his datapad into the school's and loading the test onto Rann's while also making every other program on the boy's inaccesible until the test waas finished or terminated.

Rann sat for an hour, solving math problems, answering questions about history, and science. Luckily for him, it was more science and math oriented.

He stood up and handed the computer to Mrs. Smith who then put Rann's answers into her datapad and within moments had it graded.

"Amazing." she said, mouth gaping.

"What'd I get?" he asked, trying to get a glance over her shoulder.

"590."

"Out of...?"

"600."

"Thank you." Rann said happily, taking the disc that contained his scores, and proved he had taken the test. Rann had a certain spring in his step; he had finally proven that he didn't need to go to school. Wait until Satyana found out!

Kildor, I forget

Kildor accepted the datapad from V'rinji and plugged it in to the armory's central computer system. There was a loud *whoosh* sound as all of the items needed were transported through a series of tubes, eventually landing neatly in a pile on the shelf beside them.

"This should be all." he said, "Assign them to your team as necessary, I have to get some things of my own and prep the ship." He explained.

Ral'Ness Gren, His Palace, Ryk

"One moment." he said to the Ryki spy that entered his chambers unannounced; if he wasn't one of his top spies, he would have been killed for his insolence about a dozen times by now. But he was, so the Emperor let the small things slide where he normally wouldn't.

As he dismissed his guests, he waved the spy back into the room. "Hmm...I've had reent reports from your comrades that the humans are researching methods to create their own form of Rithum; this can't be allowed. Find the people currently working on it and eliminate them and all traces of their research."

"As usual, take what you need from the armory." he said, referring to his guard Gild's armory. Gild was an enormous Kran who was father to the troublesome Blood named Kildor.