NationStates Jolt Archive


The UTF Upgrades its intelligence service (FT open need test subject)

The Fedral Union
03-05-2008, 10:46
New platforms secret ic memo chief FIA office:
To the chief director of the federal intelligence agency from President mike Logan and the senate.
You have been mandated and given the green light to begin construction of mobile and fixed installations, around our borders hidden, to observe foreign powers and movement as well as several DOS, Deep observation stations, you will be given all the cash you need to improve security systems and intelligence gathering
Thank you And sincerely president mike Logan

EITS:
(Semi IC: the Eye in the Sky is a specially devised ship that’s 50 meters in length it is quick stealthy and able to penetrate in to enemy territory when on low power virtually undetected, its apparatus includes 4 antennas for receiving and monitoring FTL communications in a 500 light year radius , it is equipped with several probes that are able to jump in to enemy systems undetected next to the sun and or planets, while small and only able to optically observe small amounts of what’s going on, they are able to monitor signals form the source, deduce were they are coming from, send a meteorite like object down filled with wasp Intel gathering bugs (IE fly shaped little bots) Working in tandem these probes may compile a picture of the enemy home system it is hard to detect these merely several feet large probes against the sun or planet. They are fed power and are controlled via quantum entanglement, the minds of the probes are housed in EITS unit or other fixed installations thus processing power is never an issue. The flies are meant to interface directly with hardware, and zap information from them be it command codes or encryption keys. The Eye in the sky is able to house 3 officers, or able to house just an uploaded mind in to the central computer, able to increase its monitoring tenfold without life support. The wasps may also provide a good indication of a systems infrastructure, and architecture, providing the UTF will invaluable assistance in making a polymorphic computer virus tailored to military command systems
Ic:
“Researcher’s log, year four, the start of our new budget year has been rocky, yet stable for now, we are nearing completion of the EITS; we have proposed many theories and applied them to the probes contained within the ship, well for now we have several of these ships built, they are in need of testing in live battlefields, and we have recommended this to high command So we can test these units. So far no targets have been chosen”
The man looked outside his hands rolling over the holographic console shutting off the message; he saw the 50 meter ship ready to go, its sleek body shimmering with the light of the stations spotting on its smooth grey hull. Suddenly a frosty like appearance began to form over it as its advanced cloaking system engaged over the craft it disappeared slightly in to space itself, this was the first test of things to come. So far High command didn’t have a target for it, so it would just go out in to space crewed by 3 people until such a target was given.

The craft silently and without even such a blip on the most advanced federation sensor systems cleared dock moving out in to space, like nothing was there, the men inside looked around the well light craft placing their hands on the holographic consoles, all instruments checked… ready to go.., micro FTL drive for the probes ready to go….

They looked at each other and just sat back, the commander wrapped his arms around himself with a slight hum, one was hooked in wirelessly to the crafts mainframe, the ship was lightly armed with 2 light pulse emitters, hardly enough to take on another ship by itself however enough to ward off small attackers. The commander just signed sitting back down as watched the monitor blip, the sensors were scanning in to chronosian space, peering as deep as they could without sending probes in to their systems.

The commander tapped the button slightly shifting the scans to several other directions wondering what their allies in the UGF were up to, the high powered sensors and transmission interceptors powered up scanning like mad, the highly efficient systems processing as much as they could..

Dreamscape 2:

Mean while at black nova a new system was undergoing testing, an advanced militarized Dreamscape layer, this new dreamscape was under development for several years it still had not neared completion but was at the half way mark by this point. Researchers wandered through the massive lab, holographic panels floating by the walls lights flickering as numerous devices were charged up idle yells and curses due to mistakes and sparks flying due to overloads.

The chief researcher was an Indian looking man with odd grayish black frizzy hair looking like he had just gone through an electrified blender he said with a few coughs.

“Hello there” to a test subject who was sitting on a chair, the subject was John Freeman he smiled abit and responded.
“Hey doc”

The Chief just said “we’ll begin shortly uhmm don’t worry this is safe.. At least simulations show..“

John arced a brow and said “what?!”
“Nothing!” the brown skinned man said.
He gently pushed a holographic console that was floating by them; suddenly John was thrown in to something like a trance, his eyes glazed over with data like electrical arcs..

His view:
I was thrown in to a trance, I felt as if I was floating in this eternal space, my body shivered gently my emotions trailing off, my subconscious energy and AI focused into such a state as if I could kill someone I could see New Sol, Torm.. Even the farthest reaches of the Federation just with a simple thought, I heard the researchers voices come through my mind, he was saying.

“Go to… the planet Soh jin, we have something for you to move over there”

I promptly listened, my mind and literal body felt like I was transported to The desert, utter wastelands of Soh jin, inside of a musty dirty room, I felt as if I had arms and hands, I reached out feeling dry air, My eyes spotted a cup several feet away from me on a table I looked over… With a smile coming over my face I reached my hand out, my smooth hand and started to grab at the black silky smooth metallic cup.

As I picked it up I was amazed, never before had anyone been able to do this using dreamscape, to actually touch something from a real world inside of a virtual land, I felt the cup in my hand I moved around able to walk with it, the cup was suddenly jerked from my hand as I walked through a wall and it fell behind I walked outside to the deserts of the planet standing as I breathed in hot searing air in to my lungs. I was suddenly jolted back awake..

I stood up looked around and said “what the hell happened?” I was back in the mundane high tech looking lab with this I researcher who had an Indian accent and crazy hair. I sighed again looking at my hand, then at my feet, I saw grains of sand on them like I was there but I wasn’t how was this possible I through my naive mind, not yet understanding what this meant or what would happen when this went full power…

I stood up shaking off, and took a metal cup of water drinking it gently, I was parched obviously and a little sweaty from the event that just happened I asked with a soft tone my voice reverberating through the blip filled room.

“What happened sir?”

The researcher responded with a slight sure of himself grin like what he created was just another toy..

“You went through our new dreamscape; it will be used for intelligence gathering. You can be projected like a hologram if there is a dreamscape pylon nearby, preferably in a small probe invisible to the naked eye … but you can touch and feel things.. And be places”

I said to myself why in the world they would make something like this, and of course this would have disadvantages, I just hope not to the user. I scratched my short black hair as I sat down drinking more water, the researcher promptly said to me looking down.

“You can take a break my friend; it’s been a long day we will continue tomorrow”
I looked up and nodded standing up I walked out of the main lab, my eyes looking over the smooth anesthetically pleasing marble like metal plated blue lit halls of the outside of the lab, I started to walk down, hell at that time I didn’t think anything of what happened or what it meant. But there was this feeling, an inkling creeping feeling through my heart that it would mean more than anything in this universe..
I smiled a bit making my way to my quarters on deck 08 watching as the young ladies passed me by my eyes obviously on them at times , one turned over and said.

“Heya cutie” and continued to walk on. I responded with a prompt “HI” but it was unheeded.

I was never much a man with the ladies back then but who was at my age of 22, just out of the academy as a second lieutenant in the Star Navy. I idly opened my door, its metal shimmered as if it dematerialized and nothing was there, and shimmered back in to existence as I wandered in to the well lit room, I Promptly sat down at the edge of an oddly triangle shaped bed, people said it was best for our biodroid backs, but who know Bio droid humans like us could have back problems eh..

Mean while I just thought looking up at the grey metal ceiling, my windows shimmering open to let in the luminous light of billions of stars and a nearby nebula all emphasizing, the shaped objects in my room, even a few holographic pictures of New Earth and home..

I started to doze off falling asleep as usual around the same time, as I did so a dream unfolded in to me, I was back in that scape looking around this time staring down some strange world looking at what was going on, my mind was troubled as shockwaves of images poured through my body and consciousness, I nearly screamed as I saw death unfold, things being destroyed thousands of lives being lost, a ship battle and a ground battle, possibly from thousands of light years away. Or even another time I couldn’t understand the feelings were so overwhelming I almost forced myself awake, yet it changed.

Back in to a soft image of a tropical world, filled with green grass pouring shifting and shimmering In the wind, I was at the center of this plain looking around at dense tropical forests, the wind shifting through me and my body, I could smell fresh air rain, and flowers, the smells of forest wafted in to my nostrils as I made my way in to what was a cave at the side of a hill, my feet crunching upon the ground the soft grassy ground. I looked in to the cave and felt around the walls making my way in to it, it light up gently there where thousands of symbols, obviously ancient symbols, I was taken aback as I was pushed against a wall by an energy pulse, an angel of some sort, a young female with long white hair, pale blue skin, and a shimmering aurora around her.

She just said “Beware, this may be used for good and evil alike, this may wreak havoc and destroy or may create and maintain, just.. Be aware.. My son...”

She disappeared in a flash of light I was thrust awake I looked around the room the computer had woke me up automatically, it was time for another day at work.. I made my way through the bacon and egg and pancake smell filled hall down to the lab, the researcher was there holding a cup of coffee the smell wafted in to my nostrils.. He said to me
“Up and early ehh time to begin another fun day of testing”

I rolled my eyes and responded “sure thing sir...”

I was obviously not thrilled to hear this, my normal duties were mainly security and patrol duties in fighter, I wanted an assignment on a Warrington but postings are limited on those babies, I sighed mumbling curses to myself about being prodded and injected and examined.. For now I had to take it…
Kewen
07-05-2008, 13:30
ooc: i have taken the position of test subject :P
IC:

a large mostly rocky system dubbed thor by the kewen was one of realativly high value, the system comprised of a white dwarf and 3 gas giants surrounding the system was a dense and large asteriod field which was hell for things to navigate

"facility manager this is tug 02 material retirval completed moving back to station" said a drone abord one of the small mining tugs as it detacted from a barely visible automated mining plant on a asteriod its engines giving of a deep green glow as it adeptly and quickly moved through the asteriod feild the 98m tug easily avioding the medium speed rocks its dull brown color disgusing it from visuall but not sensor veiw

"tug 02 this is facilty manager 2F maintinece reports that MF354 is report a failure in its dock as you are the closest please move in and commence repairs" said yet another drone as a small dish on the asteriod base swivled to regain transmission lock, the base in question was inside a hollowed out asteriod being 1km high and 234m wide in all directions looking almost completely natural except for the hanager bay cleary visible on its side

"this is tug 02 we are acknolodging orders and moving to check it out" the tug changed its course narrowly missing a speeding asteriod moving towards the small mining facility it was essentually a mirrion of the main station except down scaled small botss would dig away inside the asteriod leaving a empty shell which would later be collected a small pronged thing jut out where the hanger bay would be these were magniticclamps and transfer pads where the materials would be transfered to the tugs bay.

As the tug swung around it saw what was wrong PIRATES small bands of pirates had taken to infesting this asteriod belt and were stealing materials from the kewen empire as per protocal the tug sped away and activated the thermonuclear deivce vapourising the few lowly pirate ships their crew and the asteriod

what the tug failed tonotice was a medium sized pirate crusier was lurking behind a very large asteriod not very far away, the ship moved futher away from the kewen occupied part of the belt to where it would be safe from the kewen mines' as it sped away letters in english could clearly be seen plainted in dull red "Blood hound"
The Fedral Union
10-05-2008, 03:21
The UTS Darwin, had dropped out of void drive at the edge of the system, its small form shimmering In the light from the star, as it moved slowly in to the system, it was sent their by Terran Naval command to investigate and scout the area out, after a recent energy spike ...

Its form maneuvered in to the system ever so slightly scanners going on the fritz to scan an thing around the ship, it was making sure it was alone, however the small destroyer ‘s scanners were being interfered with by radiation in the system and some other strange energies around it.

The commander of the Darwin was 28 year old Malcolm Berns, several years ago he was just a cadet rising through the ranks quickly, finally after saving his ship after his captain was dead, he was given a commission as a commander and given charge of the Darwin. However he has not seen much combat action, but knows his tactics. He looked over to the holographic console his eyes peering over the map of scans, nothing.
His blue eyes looked over to the tactical officer who hooked in with the AI obviously, beams of light flashing back and forth between data receivers and transceivers , he said with a few huffs out of himself.
“Send a message to whoever left in the system; let them know we’ve come to help”

The tactical officer responded through the AI, who had a soft female metallic like voice that reverberated throughout the rather noise filled bridge.
“Yes commander”

A message was quickly tendered as the ship moved in to the center of the system its engines glowing white and blue streams of energy behind the small craft.


This is the UTS Darwin, we have come in peace and to assist if any catastrophic events had happened in this system. Please respond

The ship while small was well armed, it was meant to hold its own against some larger ships of the galaxy, it was 250 meters long, had 2 main Fire storm spinal mounts several 5 inch dual graviton drivers, several firestorm beam arrays, pulse emitters and Gatling torpedo tube systems, it was fast, yet moderately shielded and lightly armored, it relied on its maneuverability and high rate of fire rather than punch and general durability to win in a fight.

It carried only 10 fighter craft onboard and several probes, but it was armed with high yield torpedoes in addition to rapid fire, firestorm pulse emitters, and multi fire arrays…
Kewen
10-05-2008, 04:09
The pirate leader onbord the Iron monger smirked gfreedily as the new ship arrived in system when its two sister ships the blood hond and stoner arrived the began plooting a course of action... their blacked hulls blending into the asteriod

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2F easied back into his chair as he studied the drop in material excavation following the recent attack
"still on schedule" he muttered
"2F1" said a alarmed drone
"incoming alien vessel its hailed us"
"hostile?"
"not sure we dont understand the message"
"hmmm lets leave them alone but mining operations must continue lets see if they notice us.. they might not like us" 2F said a bit dejectedly

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"So, we good on the plan" said the pirate leader as he had a small conferance on his ship
"yes but i dont under...."
"shaadup you laszy mongrel" said the pirate leader hitting the other captain with his fist
"ow.... that hurt"
"stop ya blubbering or i'll give you something to cry about and you better not tell mom or i'll tell her you've been smuggle Ch06g1ox meion phene again..."

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As one of the tugs disengaged from a asteriod minethe piolet spud the tug around and took the slightly longer route back to base running along the inside of the asteriod ring it gave him a decnt veiw of the aline ship
"Magnification 1.5x" 9087P said looking through the screen
"wow.. its alien" he said as the small tug enegaged its engines a brightgreen glow eminating cleary visibly agaisnt the dull brown backgroun of the asteriods
The Fedral Union
16-05-2008, 07:23
That ship there! Said Malcolm as he poured over the holographic indicators and monitors he smiled move the Darwin close to it and send another message..

The ship maneuvered towards the ship , its graviton engines pushing the small destroyer at high speeds, the stars light glimmering over its smooth hull as it moved forward
The message it sent was

“This is the UTS Darwin please identify yourselves”
Kewen
16-05-2008, 07:32
9087P was shocked when he was hailded by the aliens when his computer played the message he could not make head nor throax of it....

panicing he sent a hastily thought out reply in kewen the only languge he knew
"Alien vessel approching in what appears to be a hostile manuver this is the mining tug KSS Forward Unto Dawn in the name of the kewen empire in this Asteriod belt what is your intent and purpose can you understand me? i cannot under stand you" he hastily gave his tug a name.... heh he thought it was a good name too bad he thought its not real.
The Fedral Union
17-05-2008, 04:47
James sighed he noticed the problem with translation, he said to his officer who was hooked up to the large tactical AI, as he looked out upon the ship in front of the destroyer, he idly waved his hand.

“Send them another message, same one only put more translation in to it, tell them we can’t understand and to resend”

The ship did so sending another message, and also sending a message that they could not understand the new race they apparently had contacted in this space.
Kewen
17-05-2008, 09:17
This time when the gut recived its message it could translate a bit..
"ZZZ is ZZZTFU ZZZ IdentZZZ selves"
9087P decided to take this up with the mining facility chaging its course it moved out into the open near the alien vessel then turned taking a shortcut to the facility it sent this message

"Follow me? can you under stand me? We are the kewen owners of this system"
Xiscapia
17-05-2008, 16:06
Analyzing...
Analysis complete.
Five vessels visible.
Ship One: Most probable class: Destroyer
Threat Level: High
Ship Two: Most probable class: Mining/Tug
Threat Level: Minimal
Ship Three: Most probable class: Unknown
Threat Level: Estimated moderate
Ship Four: Most probable class: Unknown
Threat Level: Estimated moderate
Ship Five: Most probable class: Unknown
Threat Level: Estimated moderate
Query: First Contact viable?
Affirmative.
Threat analysis complete: Await new developments

The scout vessel was hovering inside the asteroid field at the appropriate vantage point to have a clear view of all five ships. The A.I. mind plugged into the ship via an android mainframe noted vessels Three, Four and Five appeared conspicuous, and did not seem to have been noticed by either vessels One or Two. The most probable explanation was that they were smugglers, pirates or so other form of criminal element. There was an off chance they were security vessels for the mining operations, but logically they should have approached Ship One upon notification it was in the area. Perhaps they did not know? The A.I. mulled this over as the Xiscapian ship sat cloaked, still and using no power except the hidden generators used to power the sensors and scanners, watching and waiting.