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Keep on Rockin' in the Free World! (FUTURE TECH)

Industrial Experiment
20-09-2004, 02:09
Shit shit shit shit shit! thought a tall, yet still young looking, blonde man as he raced around a small room, pushing past similar looking men, though several of them had different colored hair. However, something that was uniform about their hair was the length. In defiance of normal fashion throughout the Republic, these men had grown out their hair, several of them even past their shoulders all the way down to their backs. Unfortunately, hair matter very little to the man currently pushing his way past large stacks of clothes, a man that went by the name of Mike Young. He semi-rudely made his way by one of the other men in the room, a brown-haired man who's face was more rugged looking than most, having not shaved in several days, and he even sported a pair of ancient 'sunglasses'. The brown-haired man, John Scott, only managed to get out a quick, "Hey!" before Young was past.

"Ah! Hey, guys, any of you seen my tuner?", Young yelled from the corner of the room, after having satisfied himself that he wouldn't find it on his own.

"Dude, you put it in your pocket ten minutes ago", replied another brown-head, Matthew Cornal, from across the room.

Mike dug through the pockets of his semi-tight jean-pants, another rarity in this day and age, and eventually fished out a small device with several buttons, "Oh, yeah, there it is. Thanks Matt". He took another step forward, but stopped abruptly as the door to the room they were all in swept up and the strangest looking man of all stepped in, already talking.

"Ok guys, you better as hell be ready, because we're going live in ten minutes and I'm not going to have any group of misfits be late if they're my misfits", he said, idly playing with his chest length, curly, brown and grey hair, while trying to look intimidating despite his ridiculous form-fitting sunglasses and tie-dye T-shirt.

Young rolled his eyes, "We're almost ready George", he answered the man, half-exasperatedly, "and hey, Alex, throw me my axe", he said, turning to another of the men in thr room, this one a bald man with a long, blonde beard and a tribal-tatoo where his hair used to be.

Walking over to the wall near him and picking up a long object; big, semi-rounded, and red at the bottom, but only a length of wood with some metal wires all the way to the top; and walked over to Mike, handing it to him, "There ya go Mike, don't destroy this one", he mocked, and walked away chuckling. Young looked at his back with a sneer before he walked out of the corner and past George, closely followed by the four other men; John with an object similar to Mike's, but with a green bottom instead; Matthew with another similar object, but with a wider bottom and overall thicker neck; Alex with with a pair of sticks; and a fourth man, Tony Ilomi, swishing his black, chest length hair around and with a long, thing, box-like object tucked under his arms.

The group walked down a corrider, and as they did, a roar built up, slowly becoming louder and louder. When they reached a turn in the hallway and walked out into a wide space with three walls and a curtain along one side, it was almost unbearable. The older, hippy looking guy waited at the entrance to the corrider as the others took up their positions and waited. After only a minute or so, the curtain was slowly pulled apart, and as the mass of people from which the roar of earlier, made it clear that what they had been making before was merely a gust of wind in comparison to what they were capable of. The noise was nearly omnipotent, and would indeed seem so if the one that came next didn't make it seem nothing but a child.

Booooong...

The noise died, the crowd now silent.

Booooong...

The entire mass of humanity looked on expectently.

Booooong...

Booooong...

Seemingly from the depths of hell itself, another sound came. Nothing could quite adequetly describe the power of that singular riff, that one brush of an axeman's instrument. The rush of the crowd to the front, and the deafening yell they made, was nothing in comparison to this single sound. It went on for a couple seconds before it was joined by another, similar sound, and then the rythmic beat of a drum.

The music, for that's what it no doubt was, built and built, growing in intensity and power, until the dam that held back the entire thing broke.

Young grabbed the device in front of him, something called a 'microphone' in ancient days, and began his rush.

I'm rollin' thunder, I'm pourin' rain!

I'm comin' on like a hurricane!

My lightinin's flashin' across the sky!

You're only young, but you're gonna die!

That was it, the endless field of men and women went crazy. The security guards in front of the crowd and between them and the stage had trouble holding them all back, power armor or not.

The guitars went insane, the drums beat out a manic tone.

I won't take no prisoners, won't spare no lives!

Nobody's putting up a fight!

I got my bell, I'm gonna take you to hell...

I'm gonna get you, Satan get you!

An anticipation permeated the crowd the likes of had not been seen in millenia.

HELL'S BELLS!

Almost in unison, the people yelled it out just as Mike did, for love of the band, for love of the music, for love of their history.

The song continued for another three or so minutes. Throughout, the listeners were outdoing themselves again and again. Jumping all over, singing along, crowd surfing, it was chaos; Young loved it. As the song finished, and the last sounds of guitar drifted up into the high heavens, Young once more grabbed the microphone, looking out over the crowd.

"HELLO EARTH!"

The crowd screamed its response.

"All you motherfuckin' rockers lovin' the AC/DC?"

Pure joy was Mike's answer.

"YEAH! It's been two thousand years too long since anyone's done this level of hard rock, and we're here to fix that god damned mistake!"

Chants of Reef Monster were heard from all corners as Mike looked up, soaking up the adulation of those around him.

This was truely a monumentous event. No one had tried to revive this music in all the two millenia since it had died, and Young now understood what a mistake that had been. The guys around him, his best friends, his family, his fellow Reef Monsters, all looked at each, smiles on their faces and joy in their heart.

This was it, rock was back, and it was here to stay.

Young himself gave a single shout of, "REEF MONSTERS", into the microphone just as he and Matthew began to once more shred like no other.

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OoC: I figured this'd be a semi-interesting RP for my fellow future-techians. Nothing like this seems to come along very much, and I guess I thought it was a good time. Just for ease's sake, I'll say that I send out a single, broad-range, communication into the galaxy at large at many thousands of times the speed of light, so suffice to say, anyone who had a reciever would know the date, time, and location of the concert. Note, though, that this isn't NS Earth, but a mathematical anomaly that is exactly like the RL Earth in every way, even located in an exactly-the-same star system, but on the other side of the Milky Way. I rule the entire thing under a government called the Human Imperial Republic of Industrial Experiment.
Ruthless Slaughter
20-09-2004, 02:22
Starbase Waypoint on an outer fringe of Dominion space.

Com: Sir, we're getting a signal from a recently charted part of space.

Capt. Sisko: Well, let's hear it.

The com officer pushes a button and the rock begins to play for a minute or two before shorting out the communications sytem, overexceeding its sound capabilities.

Capt. Sisko: It sounds like those people are dying! They might be under attack! Quick, ready a task force! We must help them!

Shortly after a task force of 10 War cruisers, 650 meter long monsters, went into warp towards the location. The War Cruiser is armed with 50 phaserbanks, and four quantum torpedo tubes that fire in three round bursts.

OOC: In RL I'm actually a big AC/DC fan. I just looked at how people in the future might sadly look at rock as noise as oppose to the greatest form of music ever made.
Industrial Experiment
20-09-2004, 02:43
Remote Listening Post, Edge of Imperial Space

Larry Kincaid (Three cookies to whomever knows where the name is from) was bored as hell. It was really quite horrible, but then again, he always was at this point. It was half-way through the resupply cycle, so there really wasn't much to do, and besides the two other techies and the captain, there wasn't anyone to talk to, either.

Oh well he thought to himself, At least we're getting the Reef Monsters concert out here. Out here, of course, meaning a hundred light-years from the concert itself. Ahh, the wonders of modern technology. The thought ran through his head and disappeared into the blissful content of listening to this music. He was told that he was the nth generation decendant of some great rocker from eras past, Jimmy Page or something.

His peace of mind, unfortunately, was interrupted after only a short while by the captain, "Larry! What is this bullcrap you've got on instead of the comms?"

"Well, er, sir, this IS the comms, just a different frequency...", he said, semi-nervously.

"Bah, whatever it is, turn it back to military frequencies!"

"Yes sir...", Larry said, even more timidly, as he reached over and dialed the frequency for standard spooky comm.

The captain looked at him once more, suspciously, before leaving.

And just as he did, Larry once more reached over to turn the rock back on. However, when he brought his hand back, he looked at the GAD sensors, and saw a jump-trail. He moved to send a hail message out, but the trail led right out of sensor and boosted-comm range. He jumped up, shut off the music, and yelled for the captain to come back.

"Sir, we've got some jump-trails coming through. Computer estimates them to be moving at speeds in excess of 100C. Roughly 650 meters long, estimated to be destroyer class or around there, on heading...three-fifty...one...five...seven", he said as the officer returned to the cabin.

The captain did a few calculations in his head, and then stoof aghast, "Earth...LARRY! I want you to sent a message to Earth warning of ten unidentified vessals approaching, ETA unknown due speed factors"

Larry was already on it, but did slip in a "Yes sir!"

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OoC: Expect to come out of warp facing a sizable fleet, considering the Sol system is the most heavily defended of my 25. However, naturally, Young wanted to spite the government by inviting foriegns there instead of somewhere else.
Industrial Experiment
20-09-2004, 03:19
Bump...
Ruthless Slaughter
23-09-2004, 02:45
OOC:Sorry I haven't responded.
IC: The task force came out of warp right in front of a large fleet.

Capt. Taggart: Hail them.

Com: Channel open.

Taggart: This is Captain Maxamillian Taggart of the Dominion starship Nova's Fury We are responding to what we believe is a distress call. If you would please move, we have humanitarian personnel waiting to beam down to the planet.
Industrial Experiment
23-09-2004, 23:02
OoC: Perhaps I should finally make something clear. Not that it matters, but any and all flag officers of mine, when dealing with fleet-size or larger battle groups, get a 'Fleet' prefix before their formal rank.

Fleet Marshall Jane Richards look at her communications officer in confusion, momentarily ignoring the rock coming in over the ship's speakers.

"What the hell? Distress signal? From Earth? How the hell could we not pick it up and an apparently distant taskforce of alien ships did?", she said in disgust, "Mr Utop, I want full scans of those ships from the arrays on Titan. Mr Johnson, I want a direct connection to the ship that just transmitted that message. And turn off that music, I need silence".

As the hardcore sounds of the Reef Monsters faded away into nothingness, the marshall walked over to a nearby indentation in the deck of her bridge. As she stepped into the circular drop-off, she was instantly encased in stream of white light, no invisible from the outside.

When she heard a loud beeping, she stood up to her full, imposing height, and cleared her throat. That unknown ship's captain would most definitely hear this and, if he had the correct projectors, see this, "Good evening, captain", she began in a rather harsh tone, as if admonishing more greens fresh from the academy, "May I ask what 'distress call' you speak of? I assure you that no calls were picked up by any human in the system, and you can be twice assured that something as major as a distress call wouldn't go unnoticed in the Sol system itself. Now, explain why you are really here or I shall be forced to tell you to leave or submit to Imperial capture".

The white beam around her slowly faded out during the entire speech, eventually stablizing as a slight glow visible in her long, vicious black hair. Before her was another indentation in the floor which, if the alien captain had the right equipment, would be able project his image before the marshall.