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Okay, just did an exploration mission...and the idea behind this one was that we were investigating a meteor impact on a planet. Beamed down, the planet had a lovely blue-ish fog effect going on...very pretty. Found a bit of meteor, scanned it, and my science officer excitedly says that it contains...ferro-magnetic material! Le gasp! You mean...this meteor had iron and nickel and such in it? Gee, go figure. Silly science officer.
But then things got sillier.
The local rubber forehead aliens decided to beam down and interfere, because they wanted the meteor fragments for themselves. My helpful yet ditzy science officer piped up with the fun little factoid that these aliens were known to be attempting to develop a new weapon utilizing ferro-magnetic materials.
At this point, I stopped and stared at her. Literally. I swiveled my toon around and just sort of looked at her there in the away team. To her credit, she did seem to fidget a little.
For those of you who are wondering why I'm so incredulous here, "ferromagnetic" materials are, basically, materials that can be made into magnets. Like, say, iron. Or nickel. Or cobalt. Or any of a number of other fairly common compounds. Oh, sure, they could be looking for some of the more complex compounds, but those would be man-made and referred to as "ferrite".
So, essentially, my poor little science officer was convinced that if we didn't get to these fragments before the aliens did, they would...um...discover iron. Or more likely nickel. Considering that they have their own starships, somehow I doubt this is a major problem for them, really. (Although they did defend the fragments with quite a lot of fervor...) ^_^;;
Anyhoo, after defeating the annoying little buggers, up pops the science officer again, spouting about how it was a good thing we "secured these valuable resources for the war effort" before the aliens could.
So now we have a bunch of meteoric iron and nickel. I guess we could make some really scary fridge magnets, but I wasn't aware that Klingons were vulnerable to magnetism...
Anyway, thought I'd share that fun little bit of mission technobabble failure with you all. I'm not really complaining, as such, it's just that it was so freaking bizarre that I just had to mention it. XD
-Kunou
But then things got sillier.
The local rubber forehead aliens decided to beam down and interfere, because they wanted the meteor fragments for themselves. My helpful yet ditzy science officer piped up with the fun little factoid that these aliens were known to be attempting to develop a new weapon utilizing ferro-magnetic materials.
At this point, I stopped and stared at her. Literally. I swiveled my toon around and just sort of looked at her there in the away team. To her credit, she did seem to fidget a little.
For those of you who are wondering why I'm so incredulous here, "ferromagnetic" materials are, basically, materials that can be made into magnets. Like, say, iron. Or nickel. Or cobalt. Or any of a number of other fairly common compounds. Oh, sure, they could be looking for some of the more complex compounds, but those would be man-made and referred to as "ferrite".
So, essentially, my poor little science officer was convinced that if we didn't get to these fragments before the aliens did, they would...um...discover iron. Or more likely nickel. Considering that they have their own starships, somehow I doubt this is a major problem for them, really. (Although they did defend the fragments with quite a lot of fervor...) ^_^;;
Anyhoo, after defeating the annoying little buggers, up pops the science officer again, spouting about how it was a good thing we "secured these valuable resources for the war effort" before the aliens could.
So now we have a bunch of meteoric iron and nickel. I guess we could make some really scary fridge magnets, but I wasn't aware that Klingons were vulnerable to magnetism...
Anyway, thought I'd share that fun little bit of mission technobabble failure with you all. I'm not really complaining, as such, it's just that it was so freaking bizarre that I just had to mention it. XD
-Kunou
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However perhaps they could make..a mass driver? or PPC oh wait those dont work to well with shields :P
However against a planet, oh uh :cool:
Remember when they had the Enterprise in some kind of "carwash" where she was supposed to be cleaned from barionic matter?
Yeah well, barionic matter is pretty much all the stuff in and around us. So if you take that away, there wouldn't be a ship left.
I'm just waiting to locate a world with 'substantial deposits of dihydrogen monoxide'.:D
Hey that DiHydrogen Monoxide stuff is very corrosive and can kill you.
Only if you're made entirely of flimsy tissue paper. But it takes place in the 25th century, and by that time we may all very well be.
If they honestly think that a lot of players won't know what ferromagnetic means then I think they are sorely underestimating us
When it was relayed back to me why these meteors were so important I stood up walked away shaking my head and sat down 15 feet away... staring at my computer, utterly perplexed.
I eventually returned, my hunger for skillpoints so great that I slaughtered the lot of the funny looking alien dudes to get my hands on the... iron.
What's worse is that this is not the last time ferro-magnetic material gets placed on the alter of importance along side anti-mater and subspace weaponry.
Be fore-warned friend.
You know it's funny, but the science officers to seem to get all giddy and exited over the simplest things.
Just yesterday my officer was telling me about these carnivorous plants that can talk to each other and use EMP to stun their targets. She then said we had to go down there and scan them.
I'm like "what? You mean we're doing down the the carnivorous stump planet to investigate the highly social, man eating plants that shoot lightning?"
I can only hope that she intends to send a lovely bouquet to Quo'nos.
Seriously, it causes more deaths from suffocation than all other chemical compounds combined. It's also known to cause large 3rd degree burns almost instantaneously in it's gaseous state.
Dihydrogen monoxide is just one more dirty secret the environmentally unconcerned companies have pushed to keep unregulated because it's so readily available and "crucial for modern life" - with reckless desregard for the impact it will have on our future. Industrial plants of every sort are releasing more of it than ever into land, water, and even the atmosphere. This must stop!
Had a similar mission earlier today. The premise didn't bother me so much as this:
http://eve-tel.com/stuff/carnivorous%20pillar%202.jpg
Something tells me the random mission thing needs some refinement. I can accept of measure of deviation from reality (this is sci-fi after all), but I do not buy that being a plant.
Yes you are absolutely right. Due to the gross negligence and disregard of powers too mighty to stop as a single person, dihydrogen monoxide is now in abundance everywhere. It very nearly feels like I myself am saturated by it.
It is disgusting and alarming.
don't be fooled!
It's clearly using some kinda psychotopic gas to mess with you perception and appear as a benign piece of neo classical architecture.
I'll bet your Vulcan say a rock and your Andoran say an ice cube.
Too funny! Great post! LOL!
On such a mission, I was heading towards a light blue planet that looked like it was going through some sort of global ice age. There were some strange readings coming from it, so I beamed down with my away team to investigate.
Turns out, those strange readings were coming from the jungle growing there. I suspect those strange artifacts we had to scan. I did wonder how they managed to cloak an entire forest of tropical green.
I never suspected those Klingons were actually eco-terrorists! The war makes sense now. Those dastardly Klingons with their cloaking devices and their hidden jungles...