Sunday, January 28, 2007



Note: A Faraday cage is an enclosure made of conductive materials which serves to prevent electrical charges on the outside from frying things on the inside. A Teraport Cage is similar in principle, in that it mitigates the effect of Teraport Area-Denial (TAD) fields within the cage, allowing reasonably safe teraporting from within the cage to any point outside an unfriendly TAD field.

The Touch and Go has been maintaining a TAD field on the entire area for the duration of the current operation, per standard operating procedure. The existence of a teraport cage or cages aboard Commodore Shufgar's vessel suggests that Shufgar and his men can move to and from their ship freely.

This is Not Good News.


Transcript for Sunday, January 28, 2007
Narrator: Aboard the abandoned enemy warship. . .
Elf: Here's the first of those active hyper-nodes.
Kevyn: Hmmm. . . Not much to see, small room.
Kevyn: The sniffer says that the node is up there in the ceiling, but I don't see any console gear in here.
Elf: Is that bad?
Kevyn: No. . . Just kind of weird.
Schlock: Can I slag it with my plasgun now?
Kevyn: Sergeant, "kind of weird" is not the same thing as "terminate with extreme prejudice."
Kevyn: Besides, this should burn that node out just fine.
Schlock: I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are weird.
Kevyn: Ummm. . . I"m getting node resonance in all the walls. Did one of you touch something?
Schlock: In fact, I think all my friends are weird.
Kevyn: Why would it resonate? Backup nodes? Some kind of shielding? Like a Faraday. . . Ooh. . .
Schlock: And bony. Weird and bony.
Kevyn: It's a teraport cage.
Kevyn: SLAG THE ROOM, SERGEANT! WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE!
Schlock: I told you, I'm not prejudiced. Weren't you listening?


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