NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: I really want as many nations as possible to participate in this. Everyone is welcome, but please, don't mess around. IMPORTANT: Changed it for near future tech levels ONLY. No uber spacecraft with ultra damage particle beams blowing it up.

IC:
Jay Hawkins looked up at the starfilled sky in SR. He walked back to his high-powered telescope, typed in a few numbers, and waitied for it to position. Gazing through the eyepiece, he saw the one thing he feared.

"Oh my god."

Soldant, Commander of SR, awoke to the sound of a telephone ringing.
"What the hell do you want?"
"SIR! We are a SERIOUS PROBLEM on our hands!"
"What? Lapse is attacking?"
"No, sir, much worse! Tracking station A12 has found a collosal comet heading straight toward our planet! Ground zero is just to the left of SR Control!"
"Dear god. What the hell do we do?"
"I don't know sir. We need to hold a meeting with our adivsors."
Soldant hung up, a cold sweat gripping him. For once, he did not know what to do, even if he could do anything. He dressed quickly, and raced to the senate hall.

(Later, at the senate hall).

Jay Hawkins sat at the head of the table, next to Soldant.
"Ok people. Listen up. We have a huge, and I mean HUGE comet heading straight for the planet."
Everyone murmered their worries to the person next to them.
"Settle, settle. The major problem is, the trajectory lands it right - " (a computer screen zoomed next to SR Control) " - here."
Everyone yelled different suggestions at one.
"NUKE IT!" "No, lets hold operation exodus!" "NUKE IT! NUKE IT NOW!" "No no no! We're doomed! Noo!" "I really think we should nuke it!" "Yeah, NUKE!" "Nukes wont do anything you fool!" "Shut up, it'll blow it to pieces" "No it won't" "Yes it will!"

"ORDER! ORDER!" Shouted Soldant, struggling for control. "Look, this isn't just a threat to SR Control, it's a threat to every nation on this planet. It just whipes us out instantly and leaves a slower, more painful death for everyone else. This is truly an INTERNATIONAL incident. This could whipe the planet out, hell, whipe ALL of us out. Operation Exodus doesn't work, we can't launch a region into space this easily. We COULD nuke it, but that might create more problems than it solves. It is obvious that we cannot fix this problem by ourselves. We will call on other nations to band together to defeat this menace. I only hope we can save ourselves before it's too late."

Jay interruped.
"What?"
"Uh sir... we need to act fast."
Soldant raised his eyebrows. "How fast?"
"The comet will be entering our atmosphere in approximately one month."
"One month? How the hell did we miss that?"
"Some... some of the logs have been missing. Like they had been deleted or something. And I can't find the original scope operators."
"What... the hell... how the hell?"
"I don't know sir."
"Dear god. I must go, alert other nations, and find out why we're missing logs and scientists."

Soldant left the building, leaving everyone to squabble over nuking the thing out of the sky. He looked up at the night sky, wondering which flicking point out there was our planet's doom. Sighing, he returned, awaiting the press announcments. Arriving home, he picked up the phone, made a hurried phone call, and went back to sleep.
"We'll win," he thought. "Otherwise, it's game over... and there's no retry."

OOC: Uh if we fail to blow it up, we kinda die, so try to make it so we win. :lol:

well... if EVERYONE is welcome...

*A cc ship pulls up, vaporizes it, yay!*

:)

OOC: well this didn't take long... no seriosly, please have SOME sort of seriousness with this.

OOC: well this didn't take long... no seriosly, please have SOME sort of seriousness with this.OOC: Well then you should limit it to modern tech only, cuz certainly future tech space nations could handle ths easily.

((OOC: I would participate, but I can't for the same reason that Capsule so kindly demonstrated.))

OOC: Ok i'll limit it to current tech.

OOC: You might actually want near-future tech; modern space capibilities are no where near up to meeting the one month window or opertunity.

If this RP is still going, I suggest we send up a crew of astronauts to drilll, drop a nuke and blow it in two pieces. We will need a nation with current (modern) space technology powerful enough to carry this out. Credonian scientists estimate that the comet will impact in no less than 2 months (NS time). But first, we should send up a satellite to investigate the state of the comet as if it is frozen, we could most likely just send up a few nukes and vaporize it (as thats what comets are, icy balls of gas or particles or w/e- You could call me a scientist ;-) http://www.vussp.org). These are our only two options against this. Either melt it, or find a way to get a shuttle crew up there, but Credonian scientists are more eager to use the nukes to ensure that it melts completely, however, a third option is presented to us as well. We could use a spread focus laser generator to and heat the object to the point of fracture, presented we have the right modern technology for this.


Kaimoni .A. Sutton
President of the United States of Credonia
President of the NEWLY Annexed United States of Stapestry

ooc: ffs i cant get this right. OK, NEAR FUTURE TECH!

take a look at my post up above ;-)

Crownguard is willing to stand by you in this matter...for it is somethat that concerns the whole human race. A suggestion perhaps....instead of nuking it to blow it up...nuking it off to the side a bit to "push" it away from Earth. Otherwise, we honestly dont know. We will work as best we can to help.

*A common scientist bursts into President Cassel's office, followed by persuing guards*

Scientist: President Cassel! I need to speak with you!

*The guards point their guns at the scientist*

Cassel: Stand down, men. If he's willing to risk his life busting in here, I think we should here him out.

*The guards draw their guns back, but don't release the trigger, just in case*

Scientist: We're in big trouble, Mr. President! The nation of SR has found something out in space.

Cassel: In space? Is it a foreign missile or spy sattilite?

Scientist: Far worse. A gigantic meteor.

Cassel: A meteor?! How bad would an impact be?

Scientist: It would devestate everything.

Cassel: You mean in range of the impact zone?

Scientist: No. Everything. Anything left standing on this world would succumb to the sulfur clouds that will bring the new Ice Age. Everything is in danger.

*Cassel sits back into his chair in deep thought*

Cassel: Dear God. What can a small nation like Sniplidia do?

Scientist: They are in dire need of scientists. Their scientific team dissapeared.

Cassel: What do you mean "dissapeared"?

Scientist: No one knows. Their logs have also dissapeared.

Cassel: I want you to send every scientist we have to SR. That'll be around 10,000. You'll be in charge of the Sniplidia scientific team. I also want you to make sure that SR keeps close watch on our men. I don't want any dissapearences. Got it?

Scientist: Yes, Mr. President.

Cassel: God speed, Mr....

Scientist: Ivan. Ivan I. Dea.

Cassel: Hurry, Ivan. Time is of the essence!

*Ivan charges out of the room as Cassel looks down*

Cassel: GOd have mercy on us all.

Crownguard is willing to stand by you in this matter...for it is somethat that concerns the whole human race. A suggestion perhaps....instead of nuking it to blow it up...nuking it off to the side a bit to "push" it away from Earth. Otherwise, we honestly dont know. We will work as best we can to help.

Just a quick lesson in "Astronomy 101", Comets and meteors are two different things. Meteors are solid pieces of rock that are the remains of matter that didnot form a planet. Comets are giant balls of frozen gas or cosmic particles. You cant knock a comet of to the side, you could however melt it (comets melt as they get closer to the sun). Meteors however can be "knocked off to the side" as they are completely solid with little to no atmospheres, therefore Credonia remains with its options to nuke it to melt it, fracture/melt it with a laser, or send a astronaut team up (probability of getting a team up there with sucess to destryig the comet- MINIMAL 10%-20%)


Kaimoni .A. Sutton

Sorry...I know that, but someone else said "meteor", which is another thign ENTIRELY. I knwo you cant knock a comet off course, but by melting off part of it..you reduce the density and hence it may melt on its own in the atmosphere.

yep, i think we should stick with Comet since thats what SR scientists say it is (Credonia confirms and acknowledges their report of it being a Comet. It shows all signs of being a comet including its "tail" which is currently pointig away from the sun (only a comet has these characteristics). Credonia awaits any other suggestions before we give out final recomendation to the international community.

Perhpas the use of concentrated lasers? Or else the use of a parctile accelerator to slam into the object?

Give me a month or so and I can have one of my colonies evacuated and converted into a colony lazer. It should be able to tale it out.

Perhpas the use of concentrated lasers? Or else the use of a parctile accelerator to slam into the object?

Concentrated lasers is a good idea, however, im a bit edgy about how well the lasers would work. And slamming a particle accelrator into a Comet, i highly doubt that will work at all. I stand by lasers (with nukes as a last resort should the laser attempt fail)

Actually, there is exactly no reason why you can't knock it off course; you just have to be a little more careful if you want to make sure it doesn't break up. Also, melting it is probally a bad idea, as it'll break up and you're bound to miss something(and possibly a fairly large something at that).

What I'd sugest doing, is launching a series of missiles at it, carring the largest nuclear warheads avalible(say 45-100 megatons). Have them aproach head-on, one at a time, and when they are a few hundred away, detonate(nukes not having anywhere near the power in space, what without an atmosphere. Vacume's actually a very good insulator). The blast will flash-vaporise the front of the comet, providing a good kick from the expanding gas that will slow it down. Repete as many times as necessary.

Remember, space is huge, and even a small change in it's speed will radicly effect the chance that it will miss Earth.

Actually, there is exactly no reason why you can't knock it off course; you just have to be a little more careful if you want to make sure it doesn't break up. Also, melting it is probally a bad idea, as it'll break up and you're bound to miss something(and possibly a fairly large something at that).

What I'd sugest doing, is launching a series of missiles at it, carring the largest nuclear warheads avalible(say 45-100 megatons). Have them aproach head-on, one at a time, and when they are a few hundred away, detonate(nukes not having anywhere near the power in space, what without an atmosphere. Vacume's actually a very good insulator). The blast will flash-vaporise the front of the comet, providing a good kick from the expanding gas that will slow it down. Repete as many times as necessary.

Remember, space is huge, and even a small change in it's speed will radicly effect the chance that it will miss Earth.


That is the reason why i keep reiterating the use of nukes. It will DESTROY the comet completely, and if it doesnt, it would have at least melted it to somethng that wont harm very many people. Remember, if we cant take it out completely, we should at least try to MINIMIZE the damage it will do by damaging the object itself.

Headquarters of SIR PAUL

Maxx Power, CEO of the Senior Industrial Regents of Pizza, Automotive, Uranium and Liquor, addresses the board.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, as you are fully aware, a large comet is heading for the earth. While it is the position of our company and the government to not interfere with international affairs, the destruction of earth would be bad for business."

*murmurs of agreement*

"Now, it is time for our great company to come forward and aid the international effort to save the planet, and reap a hefty profit at the same time!”

Lower Parliament House of Sir Paul

President Rembrandt Q. Einstein addresses the nation during a joint session of Congress

"Now our nation faces its greatest challenge yet, something that will bring an end to our isolationist policies, something that will test our bravery, our resolve, and our pocketbooks. I am asking congress to appropriate 87 billion fatwahs to be allocated to contractors that will help the international effort, spearheaded by SR, to destroy this threat."

*applause*

"We choose to go to the meteor. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard. We will go to the meteor before the end of the month, destroy it, and safely return!"

*applause*

The bill quickly passes the lower house by a vote of 695 to 305, and it clears the upper house by a vote of 79 to 21. Oddly enough, nearly all of the contracts were awarded to the Senior Industrial Regents of Pizza, Automotive, Uranium, and Liquor. The logistics contract went to the Pizza division, construction of the spacecraft fell to Automotive division, the device that will destroy the meteor fell to the uranium division, and international coordination fell to liquor. All parties are encouraged to get behind the international effort to solve the meteor problem.

SPNN: Sir Paul News Network

Hank Scorpio, CEO of Clean and Green, Inc. accused SIR PAUL of war profiteering and using bought politicians to have government contracts awarded to them. While it is true that the vote was along party lines, and that SIR PAUL is a large contributor to the ruling party, most people chalk this attack up to bitter partisanship. Hank Scorpio's patriotism is in question, along with all those that voted against LH 385, the Save the Earth Act.

Blowing it up may or may not reduce the damage; the only thing that can be garunteed is that you won't stop all of it, and than millions will probally still die.

Melting it with a laser, well, you'd need massive power(probally in the neighbourhood of multi-exajoules), a laser that can actually hangle that, the ability to actually hit the thing(so it'll probally have to be fired from orbit), and extreamly advanced optics in order to focus more than a tiny fraction of the laser's energy on the comet.

What you want to do, is either blow it into itty bitty bits(unlikly with the avalible technology and windor of opertunity, and such would still take out pretty much anything in orbit), or nudge it off course(and if that fails, you can still nuke it to hell and back befor it gets here).

In order to destroy an enemy, one must know your enemy. Sir Paul proposes that first we do a fact-finding mission to learn the following things.

1) How big is the comet? The size of Texas or the size of Texas A&M?
2) Using force vectors (Nukes) can we over-ride Kepler's laws to knock the comet off course?
3) Do we need to send a spacecraft to orbit the comet to learn composition, weak points, etc?
4) Are there any other particles traveling with the comet that could also harm earth?

The mission to Mars set to launch in three days was cancelled during these events, so Sir Paul has one rocket ready for launch. If the international community decides what type of payload needs to be sent, Sir Paul is ready, willing, and able to send it to the comet.

Lenny Lenerdson
Chief Operations Manager, SIR PAUL Production Facility
2543 Main Street, Shelbyville
Sir Paul

Soldant leaned back in his chair, listening to all the suggestions of the internetional community. He studies the image of the comet. The scales and numbers and interesting symbols mean nothing to him, and he looks back at Jay Hawkins.

"You don't have a clue what to do, do you?"
"No sir."
"How big is it?"
"Um..." Jay fumbles with a pile of papers on Soldant's desk. he knocks over a can of coke, making Soldant displeased.
"It could be about the size of texas, like one person suggested. Yeah, around that size."
"Do you know for sure?"
"Not really. Sir."
Soldant looks straight at Jay hawkins.
"What do we do. We need to find out more."
"I propose we launch an unmanned vehicle into space. To find out more."
"Why not a manned?"
"Chances of surviving it would be pretty slim."
"Fine. I will put forward your proposal to the international community. May god have mercy on us all."

OOC: it is a comet, (the big chunk of ice).

Like I said, a colony lazer would work.

Think of it this way; An Island-3 (http://www.dyarstraights.com/msgundam/opentype.html) colony that's had the interior of all three islands and the end that the three mirror arms are attatched to are covered in millions of mirrors, and the end opposite the three mirror arms is removed and replaced with a lense 6.4km in diameter.

This would give us light from the sun reflected and intensified with 325km² of mirrors. After the light is focused through the massive lense, it would create a beam of intense light powerful enough to vaporize the comet.

Like I said, a colony lazer would work.

Think of it this way; An Island-3 (http://www.dyarstraights.com/msgundam/opentype.html) colony that's had the interior of all three islands and the end that the three mirror arms are attatched to are covered in millions of mirrors, and the end opposite the three mirror arms is removed and replaced with a lense 6.4km in diameter.

This would give us light from the sun reflected and intensified with 325km² of mirrors. After the light is focused through the massive lense, it would create a beam of intense light powerful enough to vaporize the comet.


Credonia suggests taht we go with this method, but if this fails, we should have nukes on standby and ready to fire at the comet. As for accompanying particles that are coming with it, they arent really of much concern.

"Sir!!!" an economist called out to Lord time Lapse early in the morning.

"Yes. What the hell is it you want?" he replied in a somewhat grumpy mood.

Enonomist:"The sales of longterm loans have gone through the roof"

Time Lapse:"Why would that happen? We people of Lapse pride ourselves on saving money."

Enonomist:"Well sir, You know those millions of dollars of debt you owe other countries"

Time Lapse:"Yes"

Enonomist:"I doubt you will have to pay them"

Time Lapse:"Thats good news right?"

Enonomist:"Yes, but there is also bad news."

Time Lapse:"What is it?"

Enonomist:"Well in approximately one month a comet the size of Texas-"

Time Lapse:"Thats bloody huge"

Enonomist:"-is going to crash into the Earth"

Time Lapse:"Oh is that all?"

Enonomist:"Yes sir. The thing is that it will wipr out the human race"

Time Lapse:"Oh SH-T!! Get my best scientists here at once. And the military leaders. We finally have ralised a threat worse than having to put up wit SR"

Enonomist:"Well sir, It was actually SR who discovered it."

Time Lapse:"Oh, just great, we have to work with them. I guess we have no choice though"

If a colony lazer fails, a Solar System can be constructed as a last ditch effort, but as demonstrated in 0083, it's not always effective.

OOC: *A Solar System is a huge collection of mirriors placed in space and used to focus the sun's light into a destructive force. It was used once in 0079 during the battle of A Baoa Qu, destroying the Federation fleet and much of the Zeon fleet, and again in 0083 to attempt to stop the colony dropped during Operation Stardust. The colony was only slightly effected and struck the great plains of North America. (Though causing far less damage than the colony drop of Operation British in the first weeks of the One Year War. Though that colony broke up in the atmosphere and missed it's target, the Federation headquarters at Jaburo, South America, the largest chunk hit Sidney, Austrailia, where it creates an impact equivalent to a 60,000 megaton blast. The Sydney impact creates destroys one-sixth of the Australian continent, creating a 500-kilometer crater and killing 200 million people.)

The soldier raced through the office of SR, searching for Commander Soldant. He kocked over several people, including a bum yelling "THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH!"

Finally, he found Soldant, talking to some scientists from Sniplidia.
"Thank you for your input."
Soldant spots the soldier, waving a white piece of paper at him.
"I have to attend to something else, why not go and sight see here in SR. I'll check on you later."
The scientists leave, and Soldant races over to the soldier.
"What the hell do you want? We were going to the pub!"
"Sir, message from Lapse"
"Bloody hell, I told you to IGNORE LAPSE!"
"No, sir, listen."
Soldant starts to walk away.
"They wish to help."
Soldant stops.
"Help? Us?"
"Well... more the world I guess. Sir."
Soldant turns back toward the soldier.
"What's that you've got?"
"Just a press release sir."
"May I see it?"

The soldier reluctantly hands it over. Soldant looks throuhg the press release. Several phrases jump out at him "end of the world" "scientists unsure" "side of texas" "that's bloody huge" "Soldant clueless" "weather predictions stormy".

"Clueless? What the hell?"
"Uh sir, I need to get it to the press outside."
"No. Send this to the media department. Have them censor it, make it look like we know what we're doing."
"With all due respect sir... you don't."
"We have ideas, as do other nations. We're just on standby to nuke it if all else fails... though I fear that we won't be able to do damage to it."
The soldier shifts on his feet for a minute. Soldant can see he's nervous.
"Go deliver it to the department, then come straight back here. I have another job for you."
"Yes sir."

Soldant returns to his desk, and stares out the window. He looks at SR, the people going about their daily lives, probably still unaware exactly what kind of danger they're in. Soldant then returns to look at Jay's latest report. He scans through it, noticing that they still can't find their missing scientists, the logs still can't be found, that SR was practically blind.

The soldier races back in.
"Sir?"
"Soldier, go get a friend and get me out to the observatory A12. I'll explain more on the way."
"Yes sir!"
Soldant follows the soldier out to the car. "Something is definately wrong here... and I intend to find out what."

OOC: I just saw Sydney australia getting blasted. :( i'm australian... and that means brisbane got whiped out too! noooo!

A bulletproof Maybach 62, adorned with the Presidential Crest of Ancient Terra, zoomed along the coast through the pouring rain. A large motorcade of armored trucks and motorcycles both led and preceded the luxury vehicle, while a helicopter trundled alongside the collection of vehicles. Outside, the cacophony of the sirens was deafening.

However, inside the Maybach, it was perfectly quiet. Emperor El' Jonson reclined in the back seat, sipping some wine and playing videogames...er, doing work...on the flatscreen monitor ahead of him. In the passenger seat, his bodyguard shifted uncomfortably, trying to sleep.

A few minutes later, the Emperor's cell-phone rang. Pausing his game in annoyance, he answered the phone.

"Emperor El' Jonson here. What is it, Prime Minister Karn?"

The Prime Minister, Talus Karn, had a personality that was usually smooth as ice. It thereforce came as a surprise when his voice was revealed to be much more edged and anxious than normal.

"Emperor, we've got a problem."

And by the time Talus was done explaining, Emperor El' Jonson agreed. He leaned forward and tapped the Major driving lightly on the shoulder. The car stopped, the motorcade slowing with the Maybach.

"Major, it looks like my trip to the Orange Islands has been cancelled. Take me back to Tellerus. We've got a serious problem. And wait for Karn."

A second later, the door was flung open and a wet and anxious looking Prime Minister Karn got in, closed the door, and the Maybach sped off once again, returning to the capital of Ancient Terra, while the Prime Minister outlined the situation to a now equally anxious Emperor.

President Antiga kneels at his desk trying despritly to open his desk draw with a key.

"Dammit, why do we use keys it the first place? They're really annoying."

Emergency Intercom clicks on.
"Sir, this is General Itamus, we have a problem"
"Hey cool, this thing actullay works!"
"Listen Mr President, we have an extremly dangerous situation on our hands!"
"Can you bother me later?"
"SIR, we have a comet landing practicly right on top of SR!"
"WHAT!?!"

Antiga collapses into his chair and put key into his pocket.
"Can't we just shoot some sort of death star laser thingy at it?"
"ummm, Sir, we don't have a death star laser thingy"
"Well put some scientists into that!, we need one of them! They're so cool!"
"Yes sir, back to the comet... what shall we do?"
"Has Sr requested help?"
"The requesting help from just about anyone"
"Hey, lets send them some of those asteroid, comet movies to really rack their nerves!"
"SIR, this is a serious issue, more important then the feather bellied scorpion!"
"Alright, send our best 30 scientists, and.... prepare our cities for evacuation. Hopefully some of us will survive"
"Yes sir"

Intercom switches off, President starts packing his belongings for a long trip to SR's capital to meet with Commander Soldant.

"This is going to be hell"

Soldant sits in tracking station A12's rec room, watching Armageddon.
"Wow... this movie is soo cool. Remind me to thank Antiga for sending it to me. BOOM! Hahahahaaa!"

A soldier knocks on the door, and enters. He instantly starts looking at the TV screen. 'Cool, what is this? Sir?"

Soldant looks up cheerfully. "Armageddon, sit down, sit down."
They watch the movie for a bit. Suddenly, the power goes out.
"What the..."
Soldant proedes to hit the TV.
"Um sir, that won't work."
"Oh." Soldant sits down again.

Jay comes running in, trips over a cord, and yells at Soldant.
"Sir! Sir! Um.. i found the logs, cept I accidently killed the power!"
"Cool, no wait, bad, we were watching a movie. Anyway, what do the logs say?"
Jay fumbles with papers again. The soldier rolls his eyes.
"Um.. umm... oh here it is, no wait, sorry, here. Uh A12 reported that there was an object. Then the connection breaks to SR HQ. A12 continues monitoring, and finds the comet the size of texas. Then... um..." Jay keeps fumbling with the papers, dropping all of them. A security camera photo slips out.
"What's this?" asked Soldant, picking it from the floor.
Armed soldiers are seen dragging away a scientist, with someone tapping away on a computer.
"What the hell? Bloody hell! You know what this means?"
"Uh, sir, that's a counter terrorism training photo. Look at the next photo."
The next one had masked men attacking, but it was darker and the clock was dated a few days ago.
"This isn't good." The soldier looked nervous again.
"What else did the logs say?" asked Soldant to cover the silence.
"That's just the thing. After that, it saw nothing."
"It doesn't just dissapear."
"Exactly. The logs were OVERWRITTEN. Someone didn't want us to find it."
"But who?"
"I don't know." Jay looked at the ground.
"Get the power back on, I want to see the end of my movie. Then call the military commander. Put the entire of SR Control on alert, and, um... get an emergency confrence with every nation that has an idea. Time is running out, and we need to act fast."
"And the people who overwrote the logs?"
"Stuff them for the moment, worry about the comet."

Jay hurried off, while Soldant sat back down again.
"Sir," said the soldier.
"What is it?"
"I'm scared."
"Me too soldier. Me too."

Later that same day in the Lapsian headquarters:

Time Lapse: Everybody, we have a problem. Our associates, SR have noticed a large comit heading directly towards Earth on a collision course. This Comit is the size of Texas. If that hits our planet, we can say godbye to human civilisation for the next trillion or so years before we re-evolve. I have no idea what to do in a crisis like this, so I am asking you our high council of Lapse to help me.

Military advisor: Cat we just nuke the hell out of it?

Spiritual Advisor: I told you all... Kraken will kill us all, mighty god, release us from our suffering....

Time Lapse: order everybody. First off our nation has no nukes since we made an agreement with SR after the first cold war. Second off, Mr spiritual advisor. only 0.01% of people in Lapse believe in Kraken. You are merely here to fill numbers and your doing a lousy job at that so go and clean our urinals.

science advisor: Sir, if you would allow me. My top scientits have recently being researching new compounds. With this w yhave found one that even a small amount is enough to boil the water out of a medium sized lake. It is a highly toxic, Highly flammable liquid that under normal conditions on earth sits at around 200 degrees celsius purely because of the reacting ,materials. We believe that in vacuum this could get up to temperatures of 1000 degrees. Using around 500 tonnes of this compound shipoped up to the comet we plan to melt the comet.

Time Lapse: And how did you plan to transport this matter. It sounds highly volitile and with those quantities...

Science Advisor: The thing is, that it can be stored in pressure at room temperature and is perfectly safe. I will let our military advisor fill you in on transport.

Military advisor: that is true. Our military scientists have recently been a work producing a new rocket system which could easily propel this equipment into orbit. They are fully computerised and could carry around 25 tonnes per rocket. More if we dont plan on a reentry. Infact if we were not worried about bringing it back we could store as much as 50 tonnes of this liquid in there.

Time Lapse: So how much would all of this cost?

Science advisor: It would cost approximately 3 trillion dollars to produce enough of the chemical. Then we would need another trillion dollars for the storage devices

Military advisor: It would probaly cost another 200 billion per rocket and we need 10 rockets so we need another 2 trillion dollars.

Time Lapse:6 trillion dollars. Our nation doesnt make that much in a long time. We will have to put this plan forward to the other nations trying to avoid the destruction of earth. I believe it will take alot more than these arguments to convince any nation to hand over one trillion dollars. Thank you for coming people, and i am being told now that the urinal is clean and ready for you to use Kraken free

Later in the day.
Lapse sends this message to all members of the anti comet destroying the earth group."Could we all meet to discuss the future of this planet, We alone cannot stop this thing but if we join forces our nations may be able to stop this threat."

Soldant gives up on Armageddon, and sits down to play scrabble with the soldier. "Ah! CAT!" says soldant triumphantly, putting that.
"Hmmm" says the soldier, surveying the board carefully. "Alphanumeric."
"What the? Oh that's crap, I don't want to play this anymore!" Jay comes in to break the fight up.

"what?" yell Soldant and the soldier in unison.
"Message from lapse and a plan."
"Stuff the message, what's the plan?"
"They found some new compound that could melt the comet."
"But..."
"They need money and a ship."
The soldier turns to soldant.
"Don't we have a ship we never used?"
"True, we do. But we should fit it with a computer so no-one dies."
"Good idea. Then it melts it."
"Why not just make the rocket collide and blow it to pieces?"
Jay interrupts. "I'd really like to nuke it. Boom! He..he..."
Soldant and the soldier look at him in silence.
"Ok, ok, dumb idea, I know."
"Moving along," said Soldant, "tell lapse we'll give him a ship with the most advanced AI we can produce. From there... we cross our fingers."
"Very well then."
Everyone looks at each other for a bit.
"Wanna play monopoly?"
"Ok."
Soldant fished the canon out of the monopoly set. He looked at it. "I hope to god this plan works. Otherwise, that's it. Ice age. And I don't have any warm clothes."

"sir, laspe has found a way to destroe the comet"
ok...
"but...theres one problem,he doesnt have enough money to fund the project"
we can help,we just dug up a mine deposit send 1 billion to him
"yes sir"
money wired

The lapse scientists and surely the world thank you for your donation to this effort.

Our entire scientific force is now either mixing the compound and putting it in pressurized containers or making a method to either spray the compound on or insert it into the comet. If anyone has any deas it may saves days of building time.

we can expec all of the compound to be ready within a week and all of the other equipment soon after.

we are still asking for more money for this. There is a limit to how far we can stretch our money.

OOC: Ok we need a time scale, I was thinking 1 day = 1 week but I dunno, what does everyone think?

Ive heard everything from 1day=1year -1 day=1 week. I just pick whichever is useful at the time. :lol:

In the head offices of Suraksha, chaos was about. News had arrived much earlier, but till now nobody had had the courage to go upto the office itself and inform the Prime Minister officially.

No doubt he had heard about it earlier and was now either thinking about the news or.....nobody wanted to know the alternative.

Finally, one of the staff mustered up the guts to go in. When the clerk arrived at the doors of the office however, the buzzer on the secretarie's desk sounded, and the PM's voice came through.
The tone was polite and matter-of-factly, but it had a cold undercurrent in it.
"Assemble all department heads for a meeting in 2 Hours in Briefing room 3. After everyone has assembled, lock the doors from the outside till I tell you to open them again."

2 Hours later, Briefing room 3:

Everyone was seated around the table, waiting only for the Prime minister to stop staring outside the Window and do something to start it off.
Finally, after several minutes, he spoke.

"For want of a nail....." The PM whispered to himself, laughing softly to himself.
Before anyone could respond, the chair twirled around and revealed thce face of Prime Minister Raj Singh to the group. He continued.

"The Problem: We have a comet headed our way.
Possible Solutions and problems with solutions:
1.) Nukes to destroy- not possible. Radiation may cause harm to the atmosphere, not to mention might just make things worse in general
2.) Nukes to push it off course: again, not exactly possible for the reaons listed above.
3.) Nukes to melt it: Possible, but again highly risky."

He stopped to take a quick breath.
"Nukes are out of the question here, but I dont think it matters since we don't have any. You have any ideas?"

The group was in silence for a few moments, till the science department representative raised his hand.

"Maybe. The nation of Lapse has suggested a plan using -"
"a new compound that they developed, I know. Problem is, it costs a lot and they have no containers in which to hold it."

"Yes. We've been working with this new compound as well, and may know some tricks with which to contain it. So far, we've managed to do it using a triple layered material, totally 4 inches thick, consisting of Lead in the inner surface, Light-weight Silicon, Germanium and Silver compounds in the outside and a thin strip of superconductor material in the middle. Using the super conductor, we've managed to create a magnetic field that prevents the fluid from ever making contact with the lead, which absorbs most of the heat.
We don't have to worry about temperature problems in this case, so we can hold upto 10-20% more than regular pressure containers.
The Silicon-Germanium-Silver compound further re-enforces the magnetic field, strengthening it and removing outside inteference.
Although highly affective and a bit cheaper compared to the high-pressure storage devices Lapse has been working on. The only problems we have had with the device is that we have little material to work with, since 95% of our Germanium-Silicon alloys have gone into Solar cells and such applications. The R&D department has only been able to move the technology so far with the funds we have."

What the minister spoke was quite true. Being such a tiny nation, the annual budget was equally tiny when it came to spending. Aquisition of materials was equally hard with mostly hostile neighbours around.

"All fine and good. Send the information to the others; and inform that with additional funds and resources, more of these containers can be created in a short amount of time.
But also give them a warning- we are quite literally putting all our eggs in one basket. Melting the comet from its front may seem like a good idea, but maybe we need another approach."
The PM paused for a second, considering carefully what he would say next.
"After much research, i have found out some things about Near Earth Objects and atmospheric re-entry. Half the time comets, small meteors and what-not burn inside the atmosphere due to the steep angle of approach. This is a common problem for some satellites and even our space shuttles. If the angle is too shallow and the speed too low, they skip past the atmosphere and go forever into space. If the angle is too high and the speed also high, they will burn up inside the atmosphere.

What I am suggesting is to once again use Nukes- but not as one would use them ordinarily. If a spaceship can be piloted behind the Comet rather than in front, and then sent on a collision course with a nuke on board, the minute it rammed the comet, its going to speed it up quite a bit-not to mention further heat up the temperature at the rear. When the comet comes in at the increased speed, its going to hit the atmosphere with a higher friction constant, increasing the possibility of it burning out and causing that much less damage to the rest of the world. If we combine this with Lapse's strategy of heating it from the front, then melting it will take place faster. Much less of the compound will need to be used, since the temperature at the rear of the Comet will already be raised to a certain extent.
Any suggestions?"

The room was quite; perhaps a little too quite. The silence was broken when someone spoke up however.
"It might just work. But the ship that's going behind the comet is going to have to be manned...its too complicated a job for a Machine or AI to do."
"we'll have to see about that later, lets just send this in for the moment and see the reaction." the PM replied. With no further comments from anyone else, he nodded and the meeting ended.

OOC:
Hope this is acceptable.

Credonia raises alert of Nuclear forces to DEFCON 3 (elevated alert) in preparation for a possible launch of nukes to destroy the incoming comet

*Religious zealots take to the streets, waving banners that tell tales of the end of the world. Rebellion is sparked within Redia, as resistance groups opposed to the Emperor see their chance to take the nation for democracy. Redian Special Forces garrison the inner sectors of the capitol city of Zenith, preparing themselves for an invasion.*

Emperor Zeno I: What is happening out there, Ynnes? Release any sort of notice, release any statement that may end this panic, before something happens that we will truly regret! You must, Ynnes! Prepare a speech for me, or prepare to serve the rest of your life in the outer regions of Badisk (A wasteland). We have to assure the people that everything is fine.. We have to remind them that our region would never let anything happen to them-- that I would never let anything happen to them.

Gen. Isaac Ynnes: Yes, my Emperor. I'll begin right away.

*General Ynnes left the room, as Zeno turned to look out a window. He saw the meteor now, it was very obvious in the dark night sky.*

Zeno I: It really is beautiful.. So hard to believe that something so enchanting can be so dreaded..

To: The Nation of SR
From: Howard Greer, Prime Minister of Aiera

To whom it may concern,

In an effort to defeat this threat to our global community, the Commonwealth of Aiera is prepared to donate the use of our entire fleet of I4 exo-atmospheric fighters. Though their range is limited to approximately 500,000 kilometres, they can be equipped with a variety of weapon payloads, including nuclear-tipped missiles.

For further information on the capabilities of the I4, I would direct you to the sumamry of our military capabilities, which appears on our national website under the "Government" section:
http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~kkully/aiera/

We estimate that our fleet of 144 I4 fighters should be sufficient to launch an assault on the comet. If plans are already in motion to detonate the comet by other means, we will offer the use of the I4 fleets as interceptors, to prevent large debris from striking the planet.

Sincerely,
Howard Greer
Prime Minister of Aiera

Writing on behalf of Her Highness,
Andrea Morgan,
Queen of Aiera

The Dominion of Kanuckistan officially declares it's intentions to follow through with it's plan of action.

The mass-launcher Big Honk'n Space Gun MK1 is currently undergoing final-stage calibration, while nuclear assets are being transported to the facility where they will be fitted with interplanetary comms packages and loaded into individual EMP-hardened launch sleds.

Aforementioned nuclear assets are as follows:
-144x 50 Megaton Warheads for detonation at ranges of 250-50 meters from the comet's surface, to push it off course.
-5x 2'250 Megaton yeild warheads for detonation at ranges of 100 meters, should the first volly fail. This will melt, fragment, and deflect most of the debris.
-40'000 1.8 Kiloton yeild tactical subnuclear warheads for the destruction of rouge fragments and any unknown objects that may be following in the wake of the comet itself.

The first launches are expected to occur... *the speaker glances at his watch* five minutes ago, with warheads reaching their objectives within 48 hours(NS time) after launch. Intercept times will naturally lessen as the comet nears the planet, atleast at first.

OOC:
Radiation from a nuke in space isn't going to be a threat to Earth; not only have countless been detonated on the surface iRL, but the planet's magnetic field and atmosphere would provide more than adiquate protection, just as they do for the constant bombardment of infinitly more intense radiation from space.

Newscaster: Breaking news, citizens. Moments ago, militant zealots that go by the name of "The Corleonis Liberation Front" surfaced. This CLF has engaged the Emperor's Special Forces, and has, for the most part, been slaughtered. All in the name of martyrdom. The Emperor has decided that a civil war is not desirable at this time, and has designated the outer lands of Badisk to be the CLF's new home. They have formally separated from Redia, and no longer wish to be affiliated.

The Emperor has decided not to take action against them yet.

That's all for now, we'll keep you posted.

**The 1st Imperial Infantry has been stationed on the outskirts of Redia. Checkpoints have been established.**

*Zeno I turns stares out the window for a couple of hours, when suddenly, Ynnes comes running back in.*

Ynnes: My emperor, I trust you know what has happened..

Zeno I: Yes, that cult.. I'm glad to be rid of them.

Ynnes: Please, sir.. They are still undeveloped, we can annihilate them and take back Badisk. They'll never know what hit them. We can--

Zeno I: No. Ynnes, sit down. Understand this: I have a plan. We must first focus on this meteor. *Zeno I presses a button on his phone, calling his assistant.*

*Maria Redfang runs in, holding a planner under her arm.*

Maria: Yessir?

Zeno I: Tell the Intelligence agency to hurry up. We need a solution. *Zeno I turns back to Ynnes.* Isaac, contact Soldant(OOC: Spelling?) of SR, ask him what he plans to do.

Ynnes: Yessir! *Ynnes stands and takes off, running at full speed.*

Zeno I: Maria, bring me some coffee, it's going to be a long night.

*Maria acknowledges him as she exits the room.*

A message from The First Emperor of Redia, Emperor Zeno I:

Soldant, how are things coming with this meteor situation? I don't trust this foreign interest, I think it is just an excuse, in some cases, to get close to SR Control. Redia is in a stand-off with Corleonis, a cult from within our own nation. They will be dealt with ASAP, but for now, our entire region looks to you for leadership.

Redia stands behind your decisions, and we are awaiting your commands.

Emperor Zeno I,
First Emperor of Redia

(OOC) Ok I think that 1 day = 1 week is a good scale. So, one week has left. Lets assume this is a 31 days month. so we'll make it 4 or 5 weeks.

One week down, four to go.

IC:
Soldant still sits at the A12 tracking station, looking over all the reports from other nations. He has given up on playing monopoly (keeps losing), got sick of playing Half Life 3 Beta Code and has nothing else to do. The military commander for the nation SR walks in.

"Yes?"
"Sir, a new plan has surfaced. It's mostly exo-atmosphereic fighters. But one thing concerns me."
'That is?"
"Loss of human life. We can't really expect people to give up their life."
"Yes we can, psychotic dictatorship, but I see your point. Perhapse is we combine our AI with one of these fighters or craft with the new compound we could take it down?"
"Sounds like a plan. There is worse news."
"bloody hell!"
"Redia is having problems with a religious group. And our police force are for once having trouble keeping these religious zealots under control."
"Um."
"SR Control looks to you, what do we do?"
Soldant looks at the floor for a minute.
"Um."
"Um what, sir?"
"Um I don't know. Ok, ok, declare martial law in SR Control. Either round these religious zealots up and lock them up, or kill them. Either way, it will keep them under control. The other nations in SR Control can decide, but you can lock them away here in SR unless they're really cultists, then they'll be executed."
"Ok. Next issue, the nation of Redia has raised concerns that international aid is just so other nations can get close to SR Control. What do you think?"
"I see where Redia is coming from, and I know how independant we try to be, but lets all face facts, we can't do this by ourselves, and this really is an international threat. If we can't produce teamwork, then this planet just enters nuclear winter. To make matters worse, either way, SR Control goes bye bye and we don't leave any trace of our region which we're working so hard to create. Not to mention drastic effects on the climate of the world, pain and suffering, blah blah blah."
"Ok, I'll tell Emperor Zeno I of your decision."
"Very well. Now, please, leave me in peace."

The military commander of SR walks away, while Soldant returns to his now flat Coke and the depressing press announcments and the exciting new measures to destroy the comet.
"Time is running out" thinks Soldant, looking at the countdown to armageddon. "We've only got 4 weeks left..."

In Lapse

On national television

Time lapse: Citizens of Lapse. Our associate nation, SR, has recently discovered a large comet heading towards our planet. We are assisting SR in an endevour to destroy this comet. We know this is a scary thought that a comet may smash into the earth and kill us alll but thta is why our grand nation is stopping this menace. Our top Scientists have finally finished mixing a super hot chemical to melt this comet. We will be launching this mixture to melt the comet in approximately 10 days. It may seem like we are leaving alot to chance considering if it fails that we will only have 18 days to live. Broadcast finished

After this was over:

Time Lapse: We are screwed. We will never get this material up into space. We need atleast double the number of rockets we have.

trade minister: Maybe this is a time when we have to step out and beg for the equipment. All we need are spacecraft now.

Time Lapse: Your right

In a message to all national leaders

Time Lapse: Good day honourable nations of the planet Earth. As most of you would already know the Earth only has 28 days to live. In this time, if we do not destroy this comet heading towards our planet, we will all die. It is with this in your mind taht i must ask for spacecraft with large carrying capacities. Our nation has developed a compound that will melt this comet. Our current problem is that we will need at least 250 tonnes more of the compound shipped up there. We would prefer ai controlled ships but any will do. We are sending a small squad up in a space shuttle to control the 'fertilising' of the comet. The fertilising involves spraying the compound onto the comet in a liquid form. The gravity of the comet will pull the liquid towards it. Within 48 hours this amount of the =compound will have completely melted the comet.
transmision ended

Jay starts running up to Soldant, who is desperately trying to fix a Coke dispenser out in the hall of A12. Several staff who have traveled up from the SR senate are standing around, watching has he swears at the machine.

"lousy piece of crap! YOU TOOK MY SR CREDIT! I WANT IT BACK!"

"Um, sir?" Jay timidly asked.
"WHAT?!'
"Lapse needs more rockets."
Soldant kicks the machine. Out comes a bottle of Coke.
"horrah! Soldier, break this machine and liberate the coke inside!"
"Yes Sir!"

as the soldier smashes the machine and starts handing out coke, Soldant turns to Jay.

"Well sir, we do have a lot of those, ah, experimental rockets."
"Yes, from the part of the space program we never launched because we got bored, correct?"
"Yes sir. Why not fit them with the AI, and see what happens?"
"Yeah, get a test one and attach the AI to it, and we'll see what happens. If it works, I think our problem is solved!'

Somewhere else, at an SR military facility
The rocket, shaped like a Pepsi bottle, slowly had the AI placed into the computer of the ship. Its mission: fly to the comet and see what was going on. Mission control sat nervous, with Soldant staring out from a laptop; the webcam was turned on so he could see.

"Ground crew, are we clear?"
"Affirmative mission control, we're ready to lift off."
"All crew to stations. T-5 minutes."

crewmen run around, looking for cover

"5... 4... 3... 2... 1... this is mission control, we have lift off!"

Everyone watches as the rocket, shaped like a huge pepsi bottle, flies off into space.

The AI starts piloting out toward the comet. The world is waiting on this AI, hoping that SR's programmers didn't mess with it, and hope to GOD it wasn't built on a computer running Windows Longhorn.

a few days later

"Sir! The AI has made it!"
Everyone cheers, throwing stuff into the air, hugging each other, the mission controler whipes a tear from his eye.
"And?"
"The AI worked! Except, it couldn't land. There is still a bug with that. but it got out there, looked for suitable landing position, but the search was too generic, it still looks for rocky terrain. Make it more sensitive, and it'll work"
'What are the findings?"
"Well, it is indeed the size of about texas, but actually a litle smaller. Now, it is definately a comet, and it looks like Lapse's plan will work. There is a small area, here - "
A map appears, showing the comets surface.
"That's so cool."
"Yes sir, it is, but there is an area here where we can land a craft, and maybe use ROBOTS to transport the material to melt it!"
"Robots?"
"Robots are very strong."
Everyone looks at the technician.
"Ok sounds like a plan. Now get this off to Lapse, see what he thinks. And get this AI back to the lab!"
"Yes sir!"
"we might just win this..."

Emperor El' Jonson stepped out of his conference room, Prime Minister Karn and Lord Admiral Ishida walking alongside him. They'd just endured yet another 8-hour long meeting, which was jam packed with ideas such as atmospheric fighters and strange melting compounds. It had all been such useless babble to the Emperor that he'd booted up his computer and started playing Team Fortress 2, repeatedly screaming in caps that he'd have the Heavy Weapons guy thrown in prison.

However, they'd finally left the meeting, tired, bored, and fidgity. The Emperor turned to Lord Admiral Ishida, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of Defense, and asked him a question.

"So, Yamato...how much of that blabber actually penetrated your mind?" he asked, jokingly.

The Admiral turned towards him and gave him a sarcastic smile.

"Not much more than the first 20 minutes, I'm afraid, sir. However, what do you plan on doing about Redia's little problem?"

Lion started, trying to think what he had planned to do.

"I dunno. I suppose SR's a bit busy right now, and we don't have any spare launch vehicles with the capacity they require. Think we should help?" asked the Emperor, thoughtfully.

Admiral Ishida nodded.

"I think we should. The 12th fleet is within striking distance already, and I could have two Terran Marine Expeditionary Units in Redia within two days. A couple Army divisions could follow them in later...and I think we should devote a few billion credits to the united anti-Comet effort."

Lion agreed, and a message was sent to the nation of Redia.

To the sovereign nation of Redia...

Many in Ancient Terra have heard of your predicament involving a rebellion. As our SR Control allies are currently busy dealing with a large Comet that you've no doubt heard of, we've decided to assist you instead. We have several strategic forces based close to your nation, and they could be there within 3 days of your recieving this message. If you wish for our assistance, please reply to this message with a compiled list of enemy targets. We hope you will comply.

Sincerely,

~The Republic of Ancient Terra~

Newscaster: The 1st Imperial Infantry could be seen standing down, today. The Emperor has ordered that all religious fanatics found worshipping the god 'Regelus' be rounded up for.. exile. We have heard news of a rebellion within a rebellion, the wasteland of Badisk has torn away from the demonic cult of Corleonis, evidently, they aren't all insane. We have welcomed the Nation of Badisk with open arms, but it's obvious that we haven't got their support. Emperor Zeno I would now like to say a few things to his public. Your majesty..?

Emperor Zeno I: Citizens.. Things have been less than normal lately. I want you to know that Redia will protect you from every threat, with everything it has. Hopefully, my words have inspired you to do something great, such as stop this rioting in the streets. As of today, I am setting a curfew of 2200. SR has been in constant communications with all in the region, be assured.. You are safe.

*Later, in a private transmission to Ancient and Holy Terra*

Emperor Zeno I: We wish not to start a conflict at this time. Thank you for your support, but we'd like to finish the Nation of Badisk and the Demonic Cult of Corleonis on our own. Once again, thank you.

Emperor Zeno I,
First Emperor of Redia

Indeed, Emperor Zeno, you show wisdom. We wish you luck in whatever endeavours you may make. If ever you need our help, please contact us.

Sincerely,

Emperor Lion El' Jonson

OOC: Another week passes, 3 to go!

The entire of SR's senate is crowded around a small screen, looking at how well the AI had gone. They quite liked the way that the Ai managed to fly to the object and almost land on it.

"What else is there to go?" asked the military commander.
"Just needs to be more selective about a landing position, may take a few days yet."
"We don't have the time to test, if you need to, make it crash into the comet!"
"Shhh! The AI can hear you.... it might take over all the systems in SR!"
The programmer is mostly ignored for the rest of the session.

"This is it. Three weeks. Three weeks till armageddon!"

IC:
Meanwhile, Kanuckistan's first volly of nuclear warheads nears the comet; an aparent typo being responsible for the descrepency between the anounced time of intercept, and the actual one. A letter containing the revised timeline is sent to involved nations and international news media.

OOC: My plan as detailed above; it's SR's snow ball, so he'll have to dictate the results of the opening volly(the series of 144 fifty megaton nukes intended to push it off course).

OOC: snowball, lol, i like that one.

IC
The nukes near their target, the huge chunk of ice threatening the existance of the planet. About 3/4ths strike the comet, but the comet does not get knocked off course...

instead, a chunk is blasted away, sent flying off into space. The rest doesn't even seem to notice it, it keeps on coming.

Back at tracking station A12

"Crap! I was hoping that'd work!" says an angry Soldant. "Nuke it again!"
"No sir, it's obviously not going to stop it."
"Yes it will! We'll blow it into smaller chunks!"
"No sir, I think it's best to wait for Lapse's compound."
"It still worked good, right?"
"Yes, its not only three quarters the size of texas."
"Well, that's a start, that's a start."

OOC: I didnt want the entire thing getting blown to bits, but i didnt want to say "didnt do anything, next" so I reduced its size. hope everyone is happy.

OOC: Well, my plan is multi-redundent(most are); each of the five followup warheads is around the combined yeild of the world's nuclear stockpile at it's hight during the cold war iRL, and rather than trying to nudge it off course, are flying headlong in, hell-bend of blowing it apart.

Also, uh, missiles don't miss large objects of unchanging ballistic trajectories; atleast not when you Orbital Mechanics is a high school course in the country that's launching them :wink:

IC:
One hundred and fourty four bombs, each powerful enough to reduce the entirity of New York city to a glassy crater, and all they did was 'chip it'? Well, atleast that sugested that it was more fragile than first thought.

The second volly was already ready for launch, the word was given, and a much more telling blow would be struck this time around. Four were targeted upon the comet itself; the fifth would vaporise the cometary shard that had broken off.

And even as they set off on their mission of self-immolation, fourty thousand smaller loads were prepared; only time would tell if they'd be working clean-up duty, or stand as a last line of defence...


OOC: ...befor I run off and hide under my nation's planetary-grade unbrella shield. Playing a multi-genra nation has some advantages :wink:

OOC: i'm going to let Lapse decide what happens, caus i've got another issue that really needs my attention asap. btw, i was hoping we'd nuke it :D

Headlines Today in Lapse:

Mass suicides as Many Cult Members decided to kill themselves claiming "THE MIGHTY KRAKEN WILL KILL ALL OF YOU SINFUL B*ST*RDS"

Steven Spielburg was signed to produce a billion dollar movie if he survives the impact

Government money dries up as people file extensions for their tax payments

Everyone has atleast a 1,000,000 loan

Attendances at places of worship increase dramatically causing many structures to collapse killing thousands

Nobody gives a F___ where they park anymore



Current odds on who will survive the impact
Humans.........................100:1
Fish...............................75:1
Cockoroaches................10:1
Horses...........................2000:1
snakes...........................50:1
leeches...........................2:1
mosquitos.......................10:1
Other land mammals........500:1
Water mammals...............200:1
Water reptiles...................300:1
Land reptiles....................800:1
insects.............................100:1
Birds...............................1000:1

Amidst the chaos, Ancient Terra is rather calm. Its government and people have absolute faith in both of the plans being carried out right now, so the rioting was kept to a minimum.

However, some of the higher-ups are wishing that they'd gotten started on that terraforming project earlier...

In the meantime, a small fleet of ships equipped with guided missiles gathers in Terra's waters, prepared to blast apart any chunks of the comet that enter the atmosphere.

Today, the small, backwater boardgame known to NationStates as Andurian, prepared its giant (hidden) missile launchers to blast the asteroid out of the sky.

"We are not sure whether it will blow apart on impact," says General Carl Trynor, "but it damn well won't kill us first. We're going to be selfish."

In other news, Andurian has leaped to (insert country here)'s defense against accusations that it was too big.

OOC: Um, its not an asteroid, it's a comet:

A comet is a huge chunk of ice, an asteroid is a chuck of rock, metal, or the other one I can't remember (help me).

And, there's two weeks to go.

IC

Everyone huddled around and watched the nukes heading toward their target. They were all tense, nervous. The military commander sat up front, starting at the screen.

"Hey, you're blocking my view!"
"Go have a cry!"

The nukes were just about a minute from their target.

"God speed."

The nukes head straight for their target, but then suddenly some of them
blow up.

"What the f-"

The screen was dotted with the nukes exploding in mid air.

"This doesn't make sense!"

Then it became apparent that smaller chunks of the comet were flying off toward our planet, the nukes just got unlucky enough to get hit in it.

"Why didn't we know about this?"
"They were too small to be picked up by our crappy equpiment. If the GOVERNMENT would start FUNDING us more..."

"Calm down, everyone!" yelled Soldant, sensing a fight. "Ok, so we've got smaller rocks out there, so the nukes got them, what's the problem?"

"Those nukes could've ended this problem NOW! Instead, we have to wait for the next cluster to launch, or lapse to get this compound to us so we can get our AI to launch it to space."

"Did any hit the comet?"

"Not this time, they were all intercepted in the debris. I have no idea how the hell that happened. But another launch should finish it off."

"I hope so. But we don't want debris flying around up there; it might caus even more problems."

"I agree sir."

As everyone turned away from the screen, they knew that with only two weeks left, they were running out of options. Fast.

OOC: where the hell is lapse now? how long is it taking for you to make this?

Just recently at Lapse the first of of 20 rockets holding the compound was launched into space. All rockets are expected to be launched in the next 1 hour when a manned spacecraft will be sent up to control the ships via remote.

The Launches so far have gone without glitch, the one minor error was when a Kraken supporter tied himslef to one of the rockets. He imploded when the rocket reached space.

More updates will come

OOC: And the other ones a meteorite, its just an asteroid in the Earths asteroid (Cant you even remember yesterdays science lesson?)

Meanwhile, Bryn Shander's scientists and engineers are done placing 70% of the interior mirrors in their soon-to-be colony lazer. Some time within the next week, the hard part will begin when they remove the foreward spaceport and replace it with a giant lense.

If all went well, the comet would be destroyed. If it didn't, Bryn Shander city would be evacuated to the colonies. Regardless, Bryn Shander will have a powerful new weapon after this ordeal is over.

"Sweet fuck," Kevin Robertson, leader of Aiera's I4 squadrons, raged at the blackness of space. "Don't any of these people have the first fucking clue what the hell they're doing?"

"Easy, baby," Dara Robertson advised, massaging her husband's shoulders from the rear seat of the I4's two-man cockpit. "They're facing the death of the planet...not the sort of thing to make someone rational at the best of times, is it?"

"No," Kevin remarked, smiling at her, "I don't suppose so."

"We'll just have to do it for them," Dara told him, smiling back.

"We will," Kevin agreed. He glanced out at the comet again and frowned at it. "If I could do this my way, I'd just race in there and cut it to ribbons with the Z-lasers."

"Not powerful enough," Dara told him. "They're only level 7, the artillery grade. Not powerful enough to crack that ball of ice."

"The laser is focused through a crystal, right?" Kevin asked her. She nodded back at him, and he glanced out at the missiles stored between the fighter's twinned wings. "We use a class-eight laser for the Z-laser fusion engines in those missiles. I wonder if I could get it into the barrel of the laser cannons."

"Don't see why not," Dara remarked. "They'd be the same size, just with more facets. You'd have to go EVA, though."

"Well, shit," Kevin said, "that'll still be faster than waiting for them to get off their asses sometime next week. Get yourself airtight - I'm going to be opening the canopy right away." He paused, just for a second, then continued: "But first, let's get the rest of the squadrons doing the same thing."

* * *

Dara Robertson watched anxiously as her husband slid back towards the cockpit from the laser mounting in the fighter's nose. He grabbed hold of the cockpit's edge and pulled himself into his seat. He closed the canopy, repressurized the cockpit, and took the EVA mask off of his helmet as he turned to face Dara.

"Ready?" she asked?

"Yeah, it fit perfectly," he said, nodding. "How's the rest of the squad doing?"

"You're a slowpoke," Dara told him. "They've all reported in."

"Good," Kevin said, nodding. He turned back to the comet, grabbed the fighter's control stick, and oriented the fighter's nose towards a nearby piece of debris. "Let's see how this works," he muttered, squeezing the flightstick's trigger. A bright beam of light lanced out from the I4, immolating the rock-and-ice fragment entirely.

"That worked," Dara remarked. "The housing will get hot a lot faster if you keep that up, but it might still take an hour. The cooling unit is rated for six hours continuous fire, after all."

"Good," Kevin said. "Now I just need to get some permission from ground control, and the other nations, to go in on this one."

* * *

OOC: Pretend you all just got messages from Kevin asking for permission to engage the asteroid directly with class-9 Z-lasers. In brief, these lasers are tech I got from Ziobia, and the class-8 description that I was given was:


Class 8: *Blast Grade*
For demolition of bunkers, buildings, dams, bridges, etc. Also for oil drilling, blasting of tunnels
in mountainsides, etc.


So, Kevin's proposal is to engage the asteriod directly with the I4's, carve it up nicely, and then come back and pick off the debris.

Takers?

:D Aiera

OOC: idiot, a meteroite is when it enters earths atmosphere! there are three different types, metalic, rock and something else. i was paying attention, and thats what i was getting at.

IC:
Soldant looks at his nation's huge rocked shaped like a pepsi bottle, and at the computer components now being placed in the ships computer to upload the AI.

he turns to a man on his left.
"You're sure this will work?"

"Yes. I'm sure. So long as the AI pilots it, it will work."

"Good. Very good. so, this will kock a fair bit off into space, away from the planet, and save us?"

"Perhaps. Maybe not save us, but it will kock some of it away. Provided the nuke is set in the right location, the force should be enough to make it crack and knock a piece away. The AI just needs to land the ship, start the drill, and drop the nuke. Then, its boom. If it works, chuck goes flying off into space, hopefully to be picked up by some other place."

"In which direction will it fly?"

"Over near Bristle's way. Shoudn't pose a threat provided that it works properly."

"Ok then. When will it be ready for launch?"
"Another 24 hours."
"Very well then."

24 hours later

The rocket launches into space, with the AI preparing to land on the asteroid. It finds the location that was plotted, and lands on the comet.
Then, all hell breaks loose.

"Um.. sir! The AI isn't responding."
"what do you mean?"
"The AI, it won't report back. It's just not talking to us."
"Is the ship gone?"
"No sir its still there.. wait... the AI is transmitting back. No wait, the drill is... it's drilling sir, but all wrong... what the hell?"

The AI begins drilling a little way toward the back of the comet.

"Sir, if that thing detonates the nuke, it'll knock that piece straight toward the planet, just a stone's throw away from Bristle!"
"What kind of crappy AI is this?"
"It's become self aware sir. It's the worst case scenario... I don't know what else to do."
"We can't shut it down?"
"No sir. It's... independant."
"Dear god. Why isn't the nuke detonating?"

The Drill state indercates it has finished. The nuke is in position, but not detonating.

"I don't know. It's like its waiting for something."
"But what?"

The AI screen suddenly springs text.

"Nuke detonantion holding. Initiating directive 22A."

The technicans look at each other.
"22A? what the hell is that?"

A programmer bursts through the door.

"DON'T LET IT DRILL! THE CODE HAS BEEN TAMPERED WITH!"
Everyone stares.
"Oh sh-"
"Did it drill?"

"Yes."

"Look, some sort of terrorist group broke into our programming lab last night, and they found a loophole that was supposed to allow us direct control is something when wrong. I don't know how they did it, but they've got the world hostage through our AI! They were responsible for the removal of the logs in A12, they were responsible for rendering us blind to this!"

"So, they're preparing to whipe out the place anyway?"

"yes sir, they are."

"Dear god. What can we do about it?"

"I don't know sir, if something gets close to it there's a good chance it'll just detonate the nuke and knock the half off into the planet."

"It's a catch 22. This is serious. We can't launch a nuke at it, because then they detonate the nuke and accellerate the impact another week, which means we have one week to do whatever and die. We can't send a rocket up there, same reason. What can we do?"

"Sir!"
Everyone looks at the timid technican over in the corner of the room
"What?"

"I might just have an idea..."

OOC: This is also going to lead up to another RP that will be invite only.

EDIT: I just saw your post. somehow this doesn't really sound near-future-tech... correct me if im wrong through.

EDIT: I just saw your post. somehow this doesn't really sound near-future-tech... correct me if im wrong through.

OOC:
"Near", yes, I think it is. Keep in mind, carving that thing up is a lengthy process. These are just lasers, focused through a specially-cut crystal. We have lasers and crystals nowadays. This is some tech I got from a non-spacefaring nation, Ziobia, when we entered negotiations some months back.

The basic process is this: carve rock up into small rocks. Carve small rocks up into smaller rocks. Repeat until rocks are small enough to not strike the planet's surface.

That'll still take days, and I'll probably need to refuel my I4s before it gets done.

Still, it'll work a little better than the other plans, like the megalaser that Bryn is planning to build. And we're terrorist-free. The I4's are up there and waiting. Say the word, and I'll give your nukes many small targets, not one big target...which works out in your favour. The comet's momentum alone defeats the practicality of nukes, not to mention debris (which my fighters can get around).

;) Aiera

The government of Kanuckistan was becoming a bit worried now; every nuclear weapon across the country was being scrounged up and sent to the BHSG launch facility, even as brown-outs rolled across surrounding cities as they began the continuous launch of over foutry thousand tactical warheads.

Meanwhile, in orbit, new targeting soloutions were uploaded to one hundred fifty defence satalites; a twenty gigawatte laser from each lancing into the comet ahead of the third volly from the planet's surface, while their own nuclear weapon were launched, adding to the onslaught.

OOC: Each of those satalites carries two 45 megaton and sixteen 1.5 megaton yeild warheads. They'll arrive after the volly from the surface.

Also, the lasers probally won't do a whole lot; we're just using them because they're there and we're getting nervous. Might take out that hijacked AI. The volly of 5 2.25 gigaton warheads will have vaporised and debris in from of the comet; if there's anything left, have the lasers vape it.

Nuke-pumped X-ray laser-heads are being prepared for the next volly, in addition to a plethora of smaller warheads.

EDIT: The decsription of the class 8 gives it around the power of, maybe, a few kilos of C4; a few dozen at the absoloute most. Even if it's a few orders of magnitude more powerful, a class 9's not going to be much compared to even a small nuke of a couple kilotons; I'm pelting it with a couple gigatons of nuclear fire.

OOC: You do all realize that lasers are the way to go, I hope. Firing nukes at this thing won't move it any - it'll be like shooting out the tires on the semi-trailer headed straight for you (i.e. it'll still be coming for you).

Nukes won't work, plain and simple. Go lasers.

;) Aiera

OOC: Dead wrong; it'd be like shooting out the tires of a semi that will just barely hit a moving target on the far horizon, befor it gets out of the way.

Right now I'm trying to blow the bugger apart anyway and flash-vaporise anything that's left, using the kind of firepower that would have trouble not blowing something with the consistance of a comet apart.

And lasers might work, but you'd need a buttload of power. Do you know how much power a nuke releases? IIRC, four thousand trillion joules, per single megaton. That's the entire power output for the province of Ontario, at max, for two and a half days, and they're a major power exporter. And that'll only get you the equivilent of a 1 megaton nuke.

OOC: Fair enough. Debris is mine, though.

;) Aiera

OOC: i'm voting on the lasers since i said in my RP that the AI will detonate the nuke and destroy bristle if anything else like a missile comes near it. I didn' say anything about a laser though :wink:

"Fifty-nine lead, you are not authorized to proceed on the comet," ground control told Kevin Robertson. "There has been a malfunction in the AI probe that has been sent to the asteroid - if you get too near it, it will detonate its nuclear device prematurely, resulting in an acceleration of the comet."

"Does anything fucking work?" Kevin wondered at the cockpit canopy. "I mean...fuck...Hollywood couldn't write this and sound original if they tried!"

"Easy, dear," Dara Robertson cautioned her husband. "There's another solution to this problem." She reached for her communications panel. "Ground control, can someone get us the coordinates for that AI probe on the surface of the asteroid. I'm hoping someone had the foresight to include a beacon of some kind, something independent of the computer system. Get us the location, and we can take it out from this range with the lasers."

"Will that work?" Kevin asked. Dara shrugged.

"Don't see why not...as long as we don't laser the nuke...but even then, that wouldn't detonate it, just disable it," she said. "It's hard to imagine any nation being stupid enough to not build its nukes with puncture-impact failsafes, after all."

"True enough," Kevin said, nodding. "So, we wait on coordinates?"

"Let's move in a bit closer and take a look for ourselves, too...just in case they somehow don't know where this thing is," Dara suggested.

* * *

OOC: Day's last post for me. Ball's in your court now.

;) Aiera

the AI sits silent on the comet. Ground crews work tapping at computers to enact SR's plan

"You're sure this will work?"
"Yes. If the AI probe hasn't taken that system, it would allow a ship to get just close enough to fire a laser or something similar at it. Then, boom! AI gone, we are happy."
"Do it."

The AI suddenly loses control of its sensors. The area is now open to attack from a laser and a craft.

"So long as they don't get close, we're fine"
"Good. God speed."

OOC: There ya go almost solved it.

OOC: i'm voting on the lasers since i said in my RP that the AI will detonate the nuke and destroy bristle if anything else like a missile comes near it. I didn' say anything about a laser though :wink:

is that a threat against my region.

After this i think ill just doom the entire human race to extinction

goodbye

OOC: it's not a threat against your region. The AI went psycho and that's what happened. if i wanted you dead, i'l just purposely ram the thing into you, or just invade you, or something. geez, touchy. And it doesn't matter if you choose not to play, we'll just go with the lasers.

On one of Moontian's many SBR platforms orbiting Earth.

"Sir, there's a large comet heading straight for Earth."
"What's its ETA?"
"About two weeks."
"How big is it?"
"Going by the radar, it's about 30 km wide. More than enough to wipe out all life on the planet."
"Damn, that doesn't give us much time. I'll need to call home to check what's going to happen."

"...Yes, sir. A large comet, 30 km in diameter... Okay, thanks." "It's the wrong side of the planet to use our SBL platforms against it, and the other nations are saying that nukes aren't allowed for some reason, so they're sending in an Orion to drill a few holes in it."
"I didn't think an Orion would do enough damage to wreck it."
"They think that one Orion will be enough. The order came from on high. We're simply to watch it and check for any changes."
"When's the Orion going to get there?"
"ETA three hours."

OOC: The Orion has a SBAM cannon (space based anti-matter.) The annihilation of the ice by anti-matter should create enough energy to melt a large portion of the comet, while also drilling a hole through it.

OOC: it's not a threat against your region. The AI went psycho and that's what happened. if i wanted you dead, i'l just purposely ram the thing into you, or just invade you, or something. geez, touchy. And it doesn't matter if you choose not to play, we'll just go with the lasers.
ooc:
okay then, im back


IC
The final launch of the day was going to be the manned space shuttle. It had a crew of 15 and was to control the dumping of the compound.

The BRSS DEFENDER was a fine ship, the pride of the bristilian space fleet and the newest aquerssition. She could survive 2 months in space if it was needed and could travel faster than all of the other space ships Lapse had aquired.

The coundown started:
10......9.......8......7......6.......5......4.......3.......2.......1......0

The rocket took of perfectly aerodynamically, showing the true workmanship of the Lapsian scientists. Then Suddenly, at an altitude of 1,500 metres the shuttle exploded. The explosion happened aproximatly 1/4 of the way down the fuselage and enflamed the rest of the ship. Debris rained down upon the startled spectators who realised there fate when this happened. Lapse had no more shuttles and all of the crew had beng killed in the explosion of the Defender.

The Overlord Lapse was behind his desk when he heard the news playing battle ships against some horny 13 year old kid on the internet when he heard the news. HE was frightened. He had no idea what to do... The planet was doomed unless someone could think of something or another nation was able to get a rocket up there. The nation had no more nfunds to expend on another shuttle.

The inspectors of the crash later foiund that the rocket had being attacked. Someone had planted a small explosive device inside it, poissibly smuggled on with one of the technicians gear and detonated it remotly. It was a dark day for mankind.

Soldant was sitting behind his computer, playing Day of Defeat with bots and someone he saw downstairs. Suddenly, someone burst in through the door.

"Huh?" sais a stunned Soldant.
"Sir! Bristle's shuttle BLEW UP!"
"HOLY SHIT!"
"Sir, wait, the terrorsits attacked!"
"It's a plot! They're hitting everything that they can get their hands on! Obviously they want this place gone! Get the Strikers out asap! We are going on a hunt."
"Very well sir."

OOC: The Strikers are my elite forces, kinda like Australia's SAS.

With the mirrors in place, a team of mobile suits began running a giant tarp over each of the colony's "sky" panels as to keep the light from focusing through the lense during installation. "Team-One to control, all systems go." Within a few hours, the tarps were in place and secure. The interior of the colony was dark now, with just the light from the workers' flood lights reflecting throughout the colony.

Work on removing the space docks was into it's third day by now, and was nearly done. If reports were correct, the lense was completed and in transit. If nothing went wrong, installation would begin tomorrow...

"Fifty-nine lead, you have permission to proceed on the AI and the comet - they have disabled the AI sensors. God speed," ground control told Kevin Robertson.

"Hot damn," Kevin said, smiling a thin, wolfish smile. He looked out through space towards the comet once more, and nodded. That, he told himself, is the enemy. And the enemy goes no further.

"I4 Wing, this is Wild Angel lead...we are open season on this motherfucker," Kevin announced over the general Aieran communications channel. "The AI is blind as a bat, so the comet is wide open. I don't want one chunk of this thing left."

The Aieran fighter wings launched into action. Kevin and Dara Robertson isolated the AI within minutes, and a well-placed laser blast sent it into whatever oblivion machines went to upon their 'death'. The rest of the Aieran fighters descended on the comet like angry hornets, clearing all space around it of debris. Then, withdrawing to a safe distance, each fighter emptied its entire payloads of 12 (11, technically, given that each fighter had sacrificed one Kelpie missile in order to boost its laser output power) Kelpie missiles into the giant ball of ice.

Each Kelpie missile carried three 15 kT (nominal yield) nuclear warheads. With each Aieran fighter releasing 11 missiles, a grand total of 1584 missiles lanced out through space towards the comet. Three missed entirely - the rest found their mark. 1581 pinpricks of brilliant light erupted from the comet's surface, and the massive chunk of ice seemed almost to groan under the combined power of the missile detonations, an amazing 71.145 megatons of destructive force.

"Right," Kevin said, after the blasts had cleared. "Until they start launching missiles at this bastard, we hit it with lasers and jigsaw it like no tomorrow."

OOC: Thanks, SR...that opened up a hole quite nicely. My boys (and girls) will keep this thing tied down until someone feels like nuking it/lasering it/whatever else.

;) Aiera

OOC: I think i was starting to make it a bit impossible, and since there's only two days (two weeks game time) left, I'd better start allowing people to wrap it up. That was pretty integral to another RP that's going to happen soon though, so it had to happen.

The lapse government says its plan may still work. All that needs to be done is a program to be put onto someone elses shuttle. The nation can supply personnel to crew the shuttle and they will control teh drone rockets with the compound in it. Just to clarify the compound is already up in space waiting for a command which would make them shower the comet with the compound.

We need a shuttle or else human race will be DOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMEEEEEEDDDDDD. Any shuttle will do but one with armor, speed, and a radio broadcaster would be beneficial.

OOC: w00t! one week left!

Soldant saw Lapse's reply, and looked at the last shuttle they hed. In the shape of a giant Coke can, it was the only thing that SR had left, the last glimer of hope riddled with advertising.

"Does it work?"

"Probably not. But it's worth a shot."

"How much is probably not?"

"Dunno, bout a 1 in 100 chance that it's going to explode."

"Give it to lapse. And for god's sake, strip it of advertising!"

At the great news the Lapsian scientists were imediatly shipped over to SR in a modified miltary grade jet. Surrounding this plane was a squadron of harrier fightere jets, this would probably be the biggest thing any of these people would ever have to escort.

The plan touched down in SR with no problems, and the crew boarded the shuttle and put the program into the computer. All that was left for them now was to launch. Then they could get tom saving the planet

OOCly waits for his next batch of nukes to arrive on-target and hammer the comet; any time now should be good, SR.


--Kanuckistan "what else did you think we'd do with the results of three hundred years of uranium mining? :twisted: "

**With one week left to live, and the recent capture of many religious zealots, Zeno found time in his schedule to sit back and relax.**

Zeno, glancing out a window: Well, Redia, I think that we might not make it. [Zeno speaks to Ynnes, who is standing to his left.] Ynnes, release a notice to the public. Maria--

Maria: Yessir?

Zeno: You have served me well these many years.. I will miss you.

Ynnes: Sir, don't talk like this.. Commandant Soldant will surely come up with a plan. Have faith, sir..

Zeno: Ynnes.. Now is not the time for a pep talk. You have work to do. Inform the people that nothing is wrong.. Contact our satellites, and order them to shut down all satellite feeds that may be interuptting any military guidance systems. Order all three of our Fixed-Wing Fighter Squadrons onto high-alert. Call in the Aegis Cruiser groups, get them as close to Zenith as possible. Do you understand what I'm getting at, Ynnes?

Ynnes: I believe so, sir.. I think I understand.

Zeno: My plan.. is to give it everything we have, in the event that our more advanced allies can't come up with a plan.. You know the teachings of Regelus, don't you?

Ynnes, shocked: SIR! YOU KNEW?!

Zeno: I know all, Ynnes.. Anyway, what I was getting at-- Don't give in just yet, Ynnes. That's what you were raised on, correct? Don't let this seemingly impossible situation scare you. We'll make it.. we have to.

**Ynnes and Maria exit the room as Zeno turns his attention back to the night sky.**

Zeno: ..We have to.

OOC: Things don't look good for me.. I am, however, still a developing nation. Things haven't been the greatest in real life, so I decided to make a rather.. crybaby post. Ahh, I feel cleansed. Ha ha. As soon as I draw up the plans for my Fixed-Wing Fighters, I'll try to post them somewhere. (I know, 'Fixed-Wings! Ha ha! And he only has 33 planes!' They aren't the obvious F-16 or F-18.. I actually took time to think these out. Now, if only I had artistic skill.. Ha. Alright, I'm done for tonight. Be back tomorrow!)

At long last, the colony lazer was complete. With the lense finally in place, it would be ready for it's first test firing.

-----

Ensign Sam Brazier: "Admiral Xiloscient, the dummy fleet is in place."

Admiral Aseroth Xiloscient: "Thank you, Ensign. Return to Gryps II."

Brazier: "Aye aye, Sir."

-----

On board the colony lazer, Gryps II, Admiral Aseroth Xiloscient orders his men to aim the converted colony at the dummy fleet of captured and outdated ships. About 10,000km away, the large fleet of 104 stripped cruisers captured during Bryn Shander's war of independance sits, silently awaiting it's imminent destruction.

-----

Xiloscient: "Lieutennant, target the fleet."

Lieutenant Wayne Ralston: "Targeting. We have a lock."

Xiloscient: "Ensign, charge the lazer."

Ensign Dexter Argus: "Yes sir, charge at 12%."

Admiral Aseroth Xiloscient: "Lieutenant, compensate for drift."

Ralston: "Adjusting now, Sir."

Argus: "Admiral, charge at 100%."

Xiloscient: "All right, prepare for firing. Open the shutters."

Argus: "Shutters open."

Xiloscient: "Fire"

-----

The half second seemed like an eternity as the huge beam traveled to the fleet. After only three seconds, the entire fleet became a world of flames. The colony lazer fired for a good 30 seconds more before it finally used the last of it's charge. When scouts were eventually sent to investigate the remains of the fleet, they found nothing but a cloud of vaporized metals.

-----

Xiloscient: Excelent, send a global broadcast describing the test firing and completion of the lazer.

Argus: "Yes sir"

LAZER DECIMATES DUMMY FLEET

Andurian's citizenry watched as Bryn Shander's colony lazer blasted the fleet out of the sky. Our new minister for defense, Jack Howitzer, commented "we're insignificant compared to that. However, we plan on using our giant bomb balloons to attempt to claim the glory for the destruction of the comet."

Critics pondered whether they had elected a sensible minister of defense, and questioned what the point of glory was.

The armmeggedon preperations are stepping up, with only 12 days left.

OOC: uh oh, we're on the last week. noooo!

A press report is issued across SR and all of SR Control. Soldant appears on the TV

'Greetings to all the people of SR Control, and if anyone else is watching, the world. It's been 4 long weeks of preperation, work, argument, terrorist attacks, and generally everything going wrong at the worst possible minute. We're losing everything here, but we haven't yet lost the entire battle. We are ready to destroy the comet; Lapse has had his crew board the old-tech rocket and they are up in space, waiting to send the little rockets containing the compound to the comet. This is our last week. We are nearing the countdown to armageddon. We can only hope that the comet will be destroyed, and we pray that SR Control pilots and Bristle scientists can melt this thing, before we lose everyone and everything we love."

The screen cuts to a view from inside the old tech rocket, showing SR and Bristilian scientists and pilots trying to get the rockets to crash into the huge comet. Soldant is also watching.

Someone from the senate walked over to Soldant.
"That was beautiful sir."
"Thanks, I stole it from a movie."
"Oh."
"I hope that Lapse's people know what they're doing. This is it. Last week. Then it's all over, either for good or bad."
"They know what they're doing. They must."

OOC: I'll let lapse determine how many rockets/how well they get there. And this is the FINAL DAY.

OOCly pokes SR "I'm trying to nuke it again; it's your snowball, so you should decide how the attack turns out. That's how things usually work in freeform RP"

OOC: sorry when are we nuking it now? I missed something?
EDIT: wait a sec, i'm with you now! lets get back on track. Since i can't figure out how to get those nukes back there in the past lets just assume they're just launched ok? Sorry I can't tell that good a story :oops:

IC:
The SR pilot looked at the little tiny nukes as they launched.
"Oohh! Pretty!"
Everyone came over to see what was so nice.
"Uh oh."

The nukes were heading straight for the little rockets with the compound!

"Damnit! Damnit! Crap! Hell! Sh-"
"Calm down! The rockets will survive... I hope!"

The nukes amazingly don't hit the rockets for a bit. Then, boom.

"Sir! we've lost two rockets! Wait, three! Uh oh! HELP!"
"Wait... the nukes have gone. Get the scientists, find out how much we lost!"
"Yes sir!"

The nukes continue onto the comet, smashing into it. They put a fairly large dent in it, blasting a few pieces off into space, harmless for the moment.

OOC: Covered that one up nicely.

OOC: How far is it from Earth now?

Hmmm few hours now.

the shuttle launched speeds towards the rendezvous with teh compound rockets where a last check was to be made of them. When they all turned out fine the small fleet of rockets, under remote control from the ship set out for a meeting with a particularly large comet.

Back on Earth the whole bristilian government was in turmoil. They were panicing. They had approximatly 1 day left and the compound was in position. all they needeed to do now was to press the big blue button and the AI would take over whilst the scientists in the rocket overlooked all that was happening.

It would be an interesting 24 hours.

The leaders of bristle also sent their navy out to shoot down any fragments of the rocket that may escape into the atmosphere.

Soon, the comet will be eclipsing the sun, before it makes its final approach. but hopefully it will be melted it gets to its final approach

With the comet just an hour away from impact, Gryps II moves into position.

-----

Xiloscient: All right, everyone, this is not a drill. I want this comet destroyed. If the first shot doesn't kill it, I want a second. If the second fails, a third. If the third fails, keep firing until it's destroyed or it impacts.
Ralston: We have a lock.
Argus: Charge at 100%.
Xiloscient: Fire!
Argus: Firing now.

-----

As before, the colony lazer fires for about 35 seconds before needing to recharge. This time, however, it recharges, should the comet survive and need a second shot.

"They're roasting the fucker," Kevin Robertson noted as the beam of light lanced out from high-Earth orbit. "That is one powerful laser."

"It is," Dara Robertson agreed. "What's happening?"

Kevin Robertson exhaled sharply as the colony laser beam tore through empty space on the far side of the comet from its impact site. "They just blew right through!" he all but exclaimed.

The comet shattered. Pieces as large as a kilometre across broke off, accompanied by thousands of tiny shards. As the colony laser flickered and died, Kevin Robertson surveyed the wreckage of the comet, and began issuing orders.

"Alright, we have four threat-sized comet remnants left, the largest being about a kilometre across. That colony laser has a cycle time - while we're waiting, let's carve up these birds. Three squadrons per chunk - lasers full auto."

The Aieran fighters charged.

OOC: You can't determine what happens to the comet, that's my job. No offense intended, but please withdraw your comment. EDIT: I'm waiting for lapse to launch the compound and then determine what happens.

The entire scientific crew were in an observation room now. The last month of working and experimenting was finally able to pay off. All that was needed to do now was the big blue button to be pressed.

For the occasion the ruler of Lapse was invited. He was to pressed the button. He stepped up to the podium. Said a few bad jokes and pressed the button.

At the signal, the compound rockets sped towards the comet. After a few minutes they reached the lump of ice and spread into strategically placed areas around the comet. The valves opened spraying their liquid chemical over the surface. Within 20 minutes all of the compound had being used. Now all they could do was wait.

The rockets were ramed into the comet, whilst the space shuttle stayed up above the atmosphere to photograph the comets hopeful destruction from space...

The compund rockets race directly toward the comet, just as the laser fires and smashes through the chunk of ice. The compound rockets hit dead centre, spilling the compound all over the comet! Slowly, it starts to break apart.

Finally, there is very little left, just enough to create a rather spactacular night sky's display over SR Control and most of the rest of the world. With the comet destroyed, all that's left now is to pay everyone for their work.

"So that's it?" Asked Soldant, watching the rest of the comet burn in the atmosphere, and several tiny "shooting stars" later.

"Yes, that's it. It's over sir."

"We're safe, but we can't rest yet. We've got to find out what happened to the logs, and the rockets, and why the AI lost it. But for now, lets take a little break. We escaped death. For now."

They return to watch the nights sky.

OOC: Thanks for playing in this RP. I can't believe for my first real RP i managed to get 6 pages. Again, thanks for playing!

OOC:

No problem, thanks for the RP! It was fun, and a chance to break in the new planes!

;) Aiera

OOC: My pleasure. I needed an excuse to make a colony lazer anyways. Though I preferred Aiera's description of the lazer's shot. :(

OOC: sorry, but i know lapse outside of NS and if i didnt let him have some major part i'd be either dead or he'd scream discrimination here on the forums :lol:

OOC: Damn. Aiera's was so much cooler. :P

OOC: I like to write, plain and simple. It looked damn cool in the mind's eye!

;) Aiera

OOC: Nice RP, SR! Sorry Terra couldn't do more, but we don't like wasting nukes and all the money set aside for a space program was chanelled into the BLUE Fle...er, that thing. :D. Once again, good job everyone, awesome RP.

OOC: Thanks everyone, glad you all enjoyed it :D

OOC: I still can't belive I launched around five times the worlds combined nuclear stockpile, at it's height, at that comet, and it did jack-squat. That final volly alone, including the sat missiles(well, especially the sat missiles; the tacs were just launched because they were at hand; they'd've been pinpricks in comparison), was well over a gigaton. :shock:

Next time, I cut right to the nuke-pumped X-ray laserheads; just remember to wear your eye-protection 8) :twisted: :wink:


But not bad overall.

OOC: sorry, but i know lapse outside of NS and if i didnt let him have some major part i'd be either dead or he'd scream discrimination here on the forums :lol:

no i wouldnt have. you forced me to post as i remember....

anyways, it was fun. And the Earth was alomst destroyed :D