Rogues Revenge Ch 6: completed 12/6/03

Gandalf The White · Post by **Gandalf The White** » Fri, 6. Jun 03, 15:41

Lol when we going to see more?

SteveMill · Post by **SteveMill** » Fri, 6. Jun 03, 15:54

The Doctor wrote:Lol when we going to see more?

monday I think.

Gandalf The White · Post by **Gandalf The White** » Fri, 6. Jun 03, 15:57

that weight will be painful#! But, I'll endure. Hope that Max and his girl make a quick clean get away. Or, the fact that they get away would be good!lol.

SteveMill · Post by **SteveMill** » Fri, 6. Jun 03, 16:02

The Doctor wrote:that weight will be painful#! But, I'll endure. Hope that Max and his girl make a quick clean get away. Or, the fact that they get away would be good!lol.

i'd say the chances of a quick clean getaway are pretty thin.

There's Tyre to be rescued and a laser tower screen and fighter patrol to get through, not to mention a jump capable Orca capable of pursuing them anywhere.

Expect a lot of action in the next few sections.

Gandalf The White · Post by **Gandalf The White** » Fri, 6. Jun 03, 16:06

Yeah but if I know Z she will have called for backup, and where is the mamba? That's jump capible. And it has the shaddowskin still doesn't it? So why doesn't it appear as Maxes jump capible Mamouth or something?

SteveMill · Post by **SteveMill** » Fri, 6. Jun 03, 16:13

The Doctor wrote:Yeah but if I know Z she will have called for backup, and where is the mamba? That's jump capible. And it has the shaddowskin still doesn't it? So why doesn't it appear as Maxes jump capible Mamouth or something?

Remember that shadow skin is a sensor effect not a visual one and the shadow skin isn't working because it's used on the antique in the vault.

That's not to say the mamba won't appear but it can't just jump in without a nav sat target and Zee has no way of communicating with potential back-up at the moment.

no doubt though, Corrin et al haven't been sitting on their hands. you'll just have to wait and see, mediocre things come to those who wait.

Gandalf The White · Post by **Gandalf The White** » Fri, 6. Jun 03, 16:15

I new there was something he should have put in that M5! mind you, it would have been scanned and used by now by the enemy I guess.

SteveMill · Post by **SteveMill** » Fri, 6. Jun 03, 16:22

The Doctor wrote:I new there was something he should have put in that M5! mind you, it would have been scanned and used by now by the enemy I guess.

Quite. The reason a pegasus was chosen was it was disposable, fast and contained nothing of interest besides a teleporter. And even if they had a nav-sat they could not just jump in and give away the fact Max has an illegal jump-drive. The whole subterfuge would unravel.

Gandalf The White · Post by **Gandalf The White** » Fri, 6. Jun 03, 16:46

So in jumps the Mumba, with Z pileting it, max manages to get over to it, buz it, teliport over to it and dip back through the gate whilst using the Pegasus as a distraction. But, can it transport 2 people at once? Or will there be complications?

SteveMill · Post by **SteveMill** » Fri, 6. Jun 03, 16:57

The Doctor wrote:So in jumps the Mumba, with Z pileting it, max manages to get over to it, buz it, teliport over to it and dip back through the gate whilst using the Pegasus as a distraction. But, can it transport 2 people at once? Or will there be complications?

Not even close!

Gandalf The White · Post by **Gandalf The White** » Fri, 6. Jun 03, 17:30

Hmmm, am going to have to keep guessing then until Monday

SteveMill · Post by **SteveMill** » Mon, 9. Jun 03, 07:10

Part 2 added.

steve

KiwiNZ · Post by **KiwiNZ** » Mon, 9. Jun 03, 07:31

Excellent part! Good to see some action again. Looks like that tiny laser of the Pegasus can do some damage at last

Will be interesting to see how they get on. Mind you, 4*BPAC are enough firepower to take out a Laser Tower, however, the towers you tend to describe are not quite as domesticated as the ones in the game

Looking forward to the next installment!

SteveMill · Post by **SteveMill** » Mon, 9. Jun 03, 08:11

KiwiNZ wrote:Excellent part! Good to see some action again. Looks like that tiny laser of the Pegasus can do some damage at last

Will be interesting to see how they get on. Mind you, 4*BPAC are enough firepower to take out a Laser Tower, however, the towers you tend to describe are not quite as domesticated as the ones in the game

Looking forward to the next installment!

True, you could take out a couple possibly, but particularly on pulse fire you'd risk getting whacked by the rest, not to mention the fighters. I assume LT's are as effective as ours are in XT, against computer controlled ships rather than the limited effectiveness against the player.

Adamskini · Post by **Adamskini** » Mon, 9. Jun 03, 14:02

Al · Post by Al » Mon, 9. Jun 03, 14:40

great stuff Steve.
I feel some good pay back is on its way

Al

SteveMill · Post by **SteveMill** » Mon, 9. Jun 03, 15:29

Al wrote:great stuff Steve.
I feel some good pay back is on its way

Al

A down payment certainly.

On a different note and addressed to anyone who can help. I was thinking of doing an appendix for the rogue books. Klarix has given permission for me to use material from his site to do a sort of illustrated glossary showing ship types, a selection of stations mentioned (bliss place, dream farms, trading stations)

Does anyone fancy having a crack at this? It might be a good resource for all the novelists with work on the x2 game disk. It's okay to say no, or not reply, it's just a thought.

Aye Capn · Post by **Aye Capn** » Mon, 9. Jun 03, 20:41

Good stuff!

Gandalf The White · Post by **Gandalf The White** » Mon, 9. Jun 03, 22:12

Hi Steve,

Have you worked out Laws demise yet? I am only thinking, because I am guessing that you are thinking as well, of a front cover for this story? You've got 1 for Testament, you will probably want one for this story to? Why not have a picture of Max and Law in the final battle, what ever that will be? Whether it's ship to ship, or man to ???!lol.

Moss · Post by **Moss** » Tue, 10. Jun 03, 03:17

Way to go! three stims and Super Max is born

(where can I get some

) only problem is, (I think) is what happens when he runs out of energy reserves? sleeps for a week! hope he gets out before that happens. Some very nice action in part two, from both Max and Zee, a fair bit more to come too no doubt.

Looking forward to more, cheers Steve.

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Rogues Revenge Ch 6: completed 12/6/03