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Number5Alive, Golddigger, BurtBacharach, CrazyCelt, Blaze, DoYouEvenLyft?, MarcoPolo, MightMakesRight, l44tpally, Bennie, SEA-TAC_Sweetie, Lord_Kickass, Requiesce-in-Pace, MacD, HaveGunsWillTravel, Guardian, GunKitty, Chummer, Inquisitor, SemiSolidSnake, ElfMama, Not_the_Face!, Anonymous3, Anonymous4, Anonymous9, AggregatorOfSorrows, WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot, Dolcett, Backlog, DarkAvariel, Knocker, Hullu_Kapteeni, GrimDark, BloodForTheBloodGod, Queen’s_Bitch, BackDat@55Up, DoYouEvenDPS?, MajorTom, Parca, and DarkAngel are in the chat.
Inquisitor: Holy drek, did you see the footage of the battles in Sol?
CrazyCelt: Of course I have. Everyone has!
SemiSolidSnake: That’s just pieced together footage, though. Space battles move too slow for the vids they’ve been putting out.
Parca: Well, as someone who was there, I can tell you that it depends on the battle. The fleet action by Luna got hot and heavy, from what I heard.
Dolcett: If you were there, how come you only heard about it?
Parca: Because I was flying out by Venus at the time. There were literally four simultaneous assaults on the system, to break up the imperial forces and keep them from responding in time.
DoYouEvenLyft?: Fuck, without computers it is hell to do a simultaneous strike on one ship. How’d they do it for the whole system?
Guardian: Well, it helps when you have stealth ships check things out beforehand so you know where best to send your ships. Then it is just math, making sure the ships all drop out of warp at the same time. Pop the tarpits, and then you’re set.
Backlog: Tarpits?
Hullu_Kapteeni: Slang for a little trick that navies and pirates use, to kick ships out of warp.
Golddigger: I heard about that one! You basically trick their computer into thinking there’s an invisible planet in front of them, so the hardware safeties kick in, and keep you from smashing yourself, right?
Guardian: Basically. And no one removes those safeties, because hitting anything while going FTL is BAD.
GunKitty: So, did your boss respawn yet?
HaveGunsWillTravel: He’ll be up shortly.
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Lord_Kickass: Wait, someone finally killed that bastard?
MajorTom: Only after he unleashed the end of the world on Earth.
AggregatorOfSorrows: Wait, end of the world? Is Earth like Jagloth now?
M.Mollen has entered the chat.
Parca: How ya feeling, boss?
M.Mollen: Like someone shot my damn head off.
Number5Alive: How’d they get you? From what I know, other than that arena death, you’re the only player who hadn’t had a respawn yet.
M.Mollen: Really? Didn’t know I was the last one. Anyways, it was a nice, professional hit. Sniper shot while I was leaving the Senate building after setting off my part of the world-ending nastiness. Single shot to the head.
Requiesce-in-Pace: I do try to be professional about things.
M.Mollen: The ‘Notice of Termination’ mail just before taking the shot was a nice touch.
Backlog: You’re not pissed at getting ganked?
M.Mollen: By a professional hitman, who managed to predict where I was going to be and got in the right place at the right time to take the shot? Nah. He did a job, didn’t make it personal, and didn’t draw my people into it. Sucks having to make up the levels, but any anger I have is going out to the guy that ordered the hit. Worst part was looking down the wrong end of what looked like a cousin to GunKitty’s prize lady.
GunKitty: Well, I’ve sold a few of those over the last year, and a lot of smaller guns. But yeah, it was about six months ago that RIP bought one of my babies.
Requiesce-in-Pace: Quality workmanship, and the gun has great stats, too.
M.Mollen: I’ll say, it did about 3000 damage on that one shot!
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot: WTF????
Requiesce-in-Pace: Take a gun designed to shoot vehicles, and use it on a person. Then add in multipliers for shot placement, sneak attack, bonus damage from ammunition type, and so on.
M.Mollen: Yeah, all I saw was a flash, and then ‘you died’.
BloodForTheBloodGod: Wait a minute, he told you who ordered the hit?
Requiesce-in-Pace: It was part of the contract. He was to know who ordered the hit and why.
ElfMama: Well, don’t keep us in suspense! Who was it?
M.Mollen: Well, lets just say that it was a poor bastard that got caught in the Legion’s path on Jagloth, and had to reroll, losing possession on all his former property.
DarkAngel: But you were just there at the end for Jagloth, right? What’s that got to do with anything?
M.Mollen: Because I purchased a mostly-completed ship from the yards that had been defaulted on by the owner becoming part of the legion, so I picked up the ship, and the patents to some proprietary tech that the player had developed. When he tried to reroll, and reinvent his tech, he found I already had the patents.
DarkAngel: That sucks, but there wasn’t an easier way to get your attention?
M.Mollen: You know how many messages I got in game about Jagloth, and how I certainly owe this person or that person something since blah, blah, blah? And how many scammers have tried the same thing out of game? Suffice to say he didn’t get through the spam filters.
DarkAvariel: Well, I can see how that would piss someone off.
MightMakesRight: Hey, what was this ‘end of the world’ thing, they were talking about, if Earth isn’t getting burnt to a cinder? And why do it?
GunKitty: Well, the why is simple. The AI was doing mass conversions, just like Jagloth, but without the hivemind. As for the what…
M.Mollen: Lets just say that outside of safe zones, Earth is going technology free for the next few decades. Anything post-industrial is going to be eaten by the end of the month.
Blaze: Daaaamn. Where’d you find that?
M.Mollen: I have marines, and I’m not afraid to use them in the name of causing mayhem and grabbing useful stuff.
MajorTom: Oorah.