Traders Tale II - Chapter 18 completed (11/09/03)

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KiwiNZ wrote:Ooops :o I almost missed the third part :D

Very good setting up of the scenery again, Merc. So, apart from analysing the boxes, destroying them does not actually have any negative effects, right? Well, then lets see what they are about and then blow them to bits. :D
OR, even better, if they can re-route them, that could be fun, like straight back to the entrance. This way their ships would collide with their own :twisted:

Looking forward to finding out how that all turns out!


found a couple of things:

"many of the Crystal Fabs" - Fab's?
"and even then would he want to" - comma after 'then' and a question mark?

In the second part I remember you using , I think, 'analyze', or another word in American spelling.
Yeah sorry about that, normally bump it to the top when I add the next bit... but the damn intermittent fault on the line kicked in and dropped the connection and couldn't reconnect.

Cheers for the spots will go and edit text in a minute...
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Lord Souron wrote:Excellent merc. Just cheered my day up, considering I haven't long broken up with my gf. Keep it coming, I need something to read.
Sorry to hear that... Will try and finish the chapter by Thursday...
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Good stuff merc :)

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Shoot the boxes! if Sweety is correct then there seems little to lose and it maybe that the Khaak will have to realign the X4 gates before they can get back here!

I can't quite recall if it's been covered, but do all the X sector gates that Tor has seen have these boxes? if so how come is it that only Tor has spotted them?

Looking forward to more Merc, cheers.
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I guess because they are black and nobody usually approaches a gate from the back. This time Tor kind of knew what he was looking for, the first encounter was by chance. :?
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Moss wrote:Shoot the boxes! if Sweety is correct then there seems little to lose and it maybe that the Khaak will have to realign the X4 gates before they can get back here!

I can't quite recall if it's been covered, but do all the X sector gates that Tor has seen have these boxes? if so how come is it that only Tor has spotted them?

Looking forward to more Merc, cheers.
But the boxes might be useful... :o :roll:

Good questions, and the first answer is "yes they do have the boxes, all except one", ahh yes a fine point, perhaps they have been noticed, just no-one considered them important enough to mention... or maybe no one takes much interest in looking at gates anymore, seen one, seen them all, with the boxes being on the back how many people would even consider going to have a look ... just in case... :wink:
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Mercenary wrote: But the boxes might be useful... :o :roll:
Lets hope so, i feel sure that Sweety would possibly have recognised any Mohrabas code in the scans (maybe :wink: ) , and why would the Ancients need em, got to be Khaak tech.
Good questions, and the first answer is "yes they do have the boxes, all except one", ahh yes a fine point, perhaps they have been noticed, just no-one considered them important enough to mention... or maybe no one takes much interest in looking at gates anymore, seen one, seen them all, with the boxes being on the back how many people would even consider going to have a look ... just in case... :wink:
Creeds gate = no boxes? Cheers Merc, that all makes sense, may also be that the Khaak have used these particular sectors many times before, seeing as once gates are aligned thier position in the galaxy is unimportant. Have we stumbled into the Khaaks regular hunting grounds :) , and once decoded who knows what Sweety will come up with, hehe, not me thats for sure, but that'll not stop me trying to guess.
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bump
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A touch of recklessness to finish the chapter under the .............


Merc
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note: Part 3 has had some of the chat reworded, having read through it a few times it didn't really flow and sounded too "wooden"....
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sweeet..... :o
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EARTH! he made it to EARTH!! ;)
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Post by Moss »

Oops!!! Silly Tor.

Adamskini wrote:EARTH! he made it to EARTH!! ;)
:lol: More likely made it to the Khaak home sector!

Looking forward to finding out, hope it's not to long coming Merc :wink:
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Excellent read. And I really do NOT want to know what he saw! Well, that was a lie, I DO want to know! Not sure if I had been silly enough to jump through that gate ... hopefully he purchased a Salvage Insurance :lol:
So what are they going to do? Did he see a huge fleet and now they will have to destroy the gate in order to prevent them from getting into their sector? Or did he see a huge graveyard of yet another race? I guess that depends on how many boxes are required to make the system work at all as opposed to work properly.

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Yeah I've been considering a few possibilities...

Like Tor suddenly finding himself in say Argon Prime, or in the Creeds Gate Sector, only it now has Khaak ships in it, or in Khaak Space facing a huge battle fleet, or in X-two as there are still enough boxes to control the gate, or back at the gate to X-five facing his own people...

hmmm...
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Sounds like Tor might have made a wee mistake there :)

Good stuff Merc and get writing the next chapter so we can find out whats there... :D

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Excellent stuff merc.
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Wow!Im realley surprised about your long...long text :o
i've already beginn to read it but its very hard to read the whole story for only a 15 years old pupil/student :D (a german pupil understands itself)
and you(sorry i dont know the plural of you) know that i dont understand all the words.i've only a avergae in english :wink:
can someone summarize the capter for me? :)

Edit.:it hands if it is in English summarized :wink:
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id guess that it takes 6 digits/boxes to set the detination of a gate ... therefore destroying a box meant only 5 digits ... sent him to a wierd and wonderfull alternate dimension with fluid instead of vacumn ... and he's just seen a big giant Cube ship getting its arsed kiked about by what appears to be many small living ships ...........................................


or that would be Star Trek Voyager :roll: :)
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Cube[BS] wrote:Wow!Im realley surprised about your long...long text :o
i've already beginn to read it but its very hard to read the whole story for only a 15 years old pupil/student :D (a german pupil understands itself)
and you(sorry i dont know the plural of you) know that i dont understand all the words.i've only a avergae in english :wink:
can someone summarize the capter for me? :)

Edit.:it hands if it is in English summarized :wink:
Hi Cube[BS]

This thread is one of many that makes a story. So it will be difficult to summarize just this chapter. All the other chapters are linked but it will be a lot of reading over 107,000 words. :wink:

The Traders Tale is simply a piece of fan fiction that has used the Xuniverse and mostly the XT game as its base. The Traders Tale II follows the fortunes (or mis-fortunes) of the main character from the first story and brings him into contact with the Khaak (taken from the soon to be released X2). However the Khaak mentioned in the story are based only on small amounts of news given on this site.

Also the use of the X-sectors mentioned in the story is my way of avoiding the inevitable, "But the layout of the X-universe looks nothing like the ones in the story."

p.s. there is no plural for "you"
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OMG 8)
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