I'm talking to Dan about the 00023 vessel, the nature of the artificial black hole, and the ramifications of the loss of Genus and the stolen flesh virus technology. Haven't got anything solid enough yet.
Something to keep in mind: What was taken from the Pioneer, and moved onto the 00023? How the eff are they going to escape a black hole? How long does it take for Pizza Hut to deliver a pizza to my house this time of night?
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:08 pm
posse
zeighy wrote:
Anyone has checked updates on the phone lines??
Currently all the private messaging line (619) 722-3245 says is:
Quote:
Announcement of the day. System currently under maintenance. Please call back again once maintenance completes.
and then it automatically hangs up.
Nox Ordo systems line 250-800-2669 is still the same, asks for a 6-digit ID which I don't have.
I'm going under the assumption that the Central Communication numbers (on the FAILTECH website) are the same -- they're just kind of an voicemail messaging service.
** All primary maintenance procedures completed. Some individual services still under maintenance
09/09/2012-07:16:32GMT :: Emergency transfer initiated from unknown remote client.
09/09/2012-07:16:32GMT :: Remote client authenticated with correct emergency authentication.
09/09/2012-07:17:01GMT :: Emergency data transfer STARTED
10/09/2012-05:21:16GMT :: Transfer completed. Data will be processed and archived.
the AIs haven't reported anything regarding content of said transmission...
aaaaaannnd,
noxordosystems.net
Code:
//TRANSMISSION INTERCEPTED, COPYING DATA TO ARCHIVE
hmmmmmm, apart from that, I don't see any updates on the other websites...
Anyone has checked updates on the phone lines??
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:16 pm
punxtr
New update on ship 00023.
Quote:
LAINSY: The ship being tracked has started moving. Current destination or trajectory still unknown. Analysis indicates it might be moving to escape the blackhole's gravity well. Coincidentally, I have lost track of the unknown signal source named "Pioneer". It has stopped broadcasting any signal and have lost tracking. Scans can't track it down due to the extreme interference of the blackhole.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:47 pm
punxtr
Me wrote:
Jesus, my guess was right. Man, maybe this black hole isn't actually a real black hole. That's all I can think of right now.
Dan Miller wrote:
Hopefully, it is not. At least something not as dangerous as we think it is. We still can't verify, but the blackhole theory is still considered. the DSN satelites have reported observable occurance of gravitational lensing.
LAINSY has been denying any request to send any probe to confirm it, and she is fairly reasonable. The probe would be a "lost" once it reaches the location, or close it, and the only goal we would get is to confirm if the anomaly is indeed a blackhole and chances are, its signal back to the DSN might not work due to the extreme forces at work in there. So it is fairly pointless to send one out. However, science can't move forward if we don't take risks. I have called in the guys at the EGS to manually release a probe and program it. It should arrive at the location in two days and be able to report back shortly. Until then, we'll have to wait.
On the other hand, to keep ourselves entertained, we have some new intel, thanks to Patrice, that they have confirmed that Cliffside's version of the HTR Agent is indeed stolen. Not just any ordinary kind of version, apparently it is a version that has mutated to a much more hazardous state. We still have to confirm the details, since Cliffside isn't cooperating and is denying the incident.
Me wrote:
My god. Cliffside really messed up there. We haven't had such a loss as that in a while, right? I'll contact Pat, and see if I can get anymore info about it.
Dan Miller wrote:
I agree... Remember those days when we had a near-meltdown on the antarctica facility? That's one thing... It can explode and spew biohazard and kill all the penguins... But that's pretty much it. But this incident with Cliffside is a much serious case. We don't know where the biohazard is and if released could kill humans ina huge area, or in the worst case scenarios, wipe us all.
Me wrote:
Yeah, back then I felt sort of safe watching FAILTECH facilities meltdown--no offense--even with an angry LAINSY. But now, Genus might be gone, and a very dangerous biological weapon is in the wrong hands.
Dan Miller wrote:
Exactly the reason why we moved nearly all of the most hazardous experiments to the Antarctica facility. So that even if anything goes wrong, it is pretty much isolated and we can have some peace of mind that there are natural failsafes that can contain them. Now that we have something out in the wild in the wrong hands, it's just unsettling to think of when and where it might happen. I know school has just started, but I've asked my wife and daughter to agree with me to temporarily relocate at a safer place.
Well, Genus just might be dead. He may not, also. We'll see. Also, I don't think I ever got around to contacting Pat... did anyone get any info from her?
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 1:43 am
zeighy
Well, that doesn't sound good.... I wonder if we could tell lainsy to send some probes over there to investigate and help out? She has those capabilities, right? I remember she can do probes, like how she can fetch things scattered in space if she finds something of interest like that child in a pod... which I wonder what happened to that child?
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 1:13 am
punxtr
Daniel Miller wrote:
Hi, it appears we have some MAJOR problem. Thanks to the most recent data we have acquired, we have determined what has been disturbing the location near or around the wrecked ship named Pioneer. And it seems it is also cloase to the location where Genus has been lost and where the stolen ship is. Guess what that anomaly is....
If you guessed Black Hole, then you are right. Yes, it appears the anomaly which has been observed is a newly spawned Black Hole. We haven't determined the origin of the blackhole, but the changes from an electromagnetic cloud, to some magnetic cloud, and what not, and then a huge gravimetric anomaly are tell tale signs of the Black Hole being born. Not so much the kind that spawns from stars with all the super nova kind of thing, which is why it boggles even the scientists that reviewed our data.
Now, it is highly probable that both the Pioneer and the stolen ship is within it's gravity well and has prevent them to escape. That means, there is also a possibility that Genus Orein's ship might have been caught first and has perishied in this blackhole. We hold off from that idea, since that is just sad. I know Genus, he will find a way.
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:00 am
Akiva
posse wrote:
Also, what happened to LAINSY? From[urlhttp://lainsy.net] lainsy.net:[/url]
Code:
>> PROCESS LOOP TERMINATED. SYSTEM HALTED. AI PROCESS CHOKED : HUGE DATA PROCESSED
SYSTEM HALTED DUE TO SYSTEM ERROR. PROCESS LOAD
EXCEEDED EXTENDED RANGE. LAST KNOWN COMMAND:
#LAINSY\REMOTE COMMAND\: Proceed
Did one of us happen to process a huge query or something? Yikes!
Um... Oops... that may be my fault... I asked for the full contact information for the FAILTech company... Um.... I don't think I should have done that... Sorry guys!!! :doh:
ETA: Also sent a request for one of the engineers on Ajax's ship to be awakened for the manual override to try to get more power to communications and make power last longer.
ETA2: I was so tempted to have Ajax warn the engineer of possible Necromorph dangers in the vicinity. I didn't but I was tempted.
ETA3: I asked LAINSY about ships within 12 light years of Earth and she came back with:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
LAINSY: Two ships within specified range. One is the unknown signal source and has been manually defined as a ship named "Pioneer" and has been declared of FAILTECH origin. The other is the Alexander class hull code 00023 ship that has been marked stolen. No available information for both regarding status and actions. Crew information not available.
ETA4: Did this thread die or something? *lol* Here's why LAINSY won't help Ajax:
Quote:
LAINSY: Negative. New information has been entered into the system based from recent data. Previously avoided location for probes has been determined to have been a newly spawned blackhole. Current location of the Alexander Class Hull Code 00023 is within close proximity of this location and has now been declated a permanently avoided location. The ship named "Pioneer" also lies close this location and is therefore inaccessible.
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:36 pm
punxtr
If I remember correctly, the two Afyg factions were the Byruniuku and the Orkudosu. I'm going off of memory for that spelling. I forget which one was the more 'benevolent' group over the other, too.
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:08 pm
zeighy
Just a short "orientation" post from me to the new people and new lurkers...
(copied, expanded, and added new info from recent events from the pm I sent phantom321)
We are now on season 2, as officially announced, and the start of it seems that the Nox Ordo (an ancient group of people who claim they are destined to go to the stars) have stolen a ship manufactured by FAILTECH.
Ok, a little history lesson... FAILTECH, as they claim themselves, is an international company that has branches in several industries but primarily is a scientific research company. They claim to hold roughly 60% of global market influence (directly from them, or through partnerships with other companies, institutions, organizations, and even governments). We encountered FAILTECH last year roughly this time of the year (summer) when an ad over google lead to their website... Which was on lockdown. The site that previously had some info on the beginnings of of FAILTECH through the ads is gone.
We came in contact with an employee named Genus. From there, we met Daniel Miller, Alexander Sword, and other FAILTECH directors. We also came to know the Afyg... Which are humans from the future who are bound to get revenge to humanity by getting their revenge to the past humans (us, present time)... Meanwhile, a small subfaction of the Afyg we working on helping humanity rise up faster and be able to defend ourselves from the Afyg and lead to the creation of FAILTECH. (I don't remember what each of those factions are called, too lazy to go through all the pages in this thread)
Then later on a far future organization named Oriru Serku came along and helped put the Afyg back into the future and thwart the inbound invasion of the Afyg.
Ok, that wasn't so "little" as I wanted to, but that's as short as I could get it to. So now, this new faction Nox Ordo appears to be Oriru Serku from the future and was sent into way in the past for some reason we still have to know. However, the Nox Ordo has lost their initial objective and has moved into simply "going into the stars" whatever they want to do with the stars.
Then, this Cliffside Labs came along which has been mentioned to us by Inno Ellis who has been doing some practice activities for us with Althea Rosso. From the Cliffside website, we found the ItAllStarted.com website which seems to be putting up logs from a dying ship somewhere out there in space. We then came in contact with it's captain, where we were actually talking to a virtual copy of the captain since the captain seems to be in stasis along with the rest of it's crew (and in the verge of death due to lack of power). Additionally, this ship is a future failtech ship. How it got here to the past is still unknown. It seems this ship was heading towards a planet and possibly the first planet humans will colonize (since the captain reports the planet is called "alpha")
Somewhere along the way, Genus who was in pursuit of the stolen ship disappeared along with the stolen ship. Later on, the stolen ship has re-appeared and has possibly met with the dying failtech ship from the future. Genus and his ship are still missing.
Now, an intel fro Patrice (thanks to Posse) tells us about a biohazard being stolen from Cliffside.
Here's the breakdown of what we are still trying to figure out:
1. What is the stolen ship (hull number 00023) doing with the future failtech ship (named Pioneer)? If 00023 indeed had rendezvous with the Pioneer.
2. We are still investigating Nox Ordo's objectives. We have the Rifter (named Kaido) work for us by impersonating a Nox Ordo member.
3. We are investigating the mysterious person who intercepted the package sent to a couple of players. So far, the person has sent us an SSTV image and we found out that he/she is possibly from the Intelligence Department (and possibly works for Fred Don, FAILTECH's founder and big boss)
4. A way to get into Nox Ordo's archives. We have the phone number, but no access code. Website seems to be running, but we don't know how to query from it.
5.Any other relevant concerns?
I might have missed some, so I hope I got most. I'm still looking at this carefully and will barge in anytime I find out something.
EDIT: I also edited the wikia wiki to add some stuff and refine a couple of things I had added previously. http://failtech-arg.wikia.com
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 1:15 am
punxtr
Crap, maybe that data link connection with the space vessel fried her up.
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:33 pm
posse
Hey all, I got an email from Patrice Heinz aka Netspec (netspecSPLATtechnologist.com)! As if we don't have ENOUGH to deal with, there seems to have been a security breach at Cliffside Labs that her spy network has picked up about:
Quote:
Anyway, I have some news for you. We have one agent pick up an urgent information regarding Cliffside Labs... Our agent has told us that there has been a biohazard leak from Cliffside's Hawaii facility. It is still unknown what has leaked out of the facility, but so far there has been no records of anything suspicious. Reports indicate that a Cliffside employee, or someone from another organization masquerading as a Cliffside employee, has taken samples of certain biohazards from the facility. The report has not mentioned what biohazards, but if it is (or one of those was) FAILTECH's HTR agent you have mentioned, I hope FAILTECH would want to join in and get this biohazard under control.
It is still unknown if to what faction the thief belongs to. We do hope they're not terrorists of some sort or else we might be in BIG trouble.
I don't know how long the Cliffside Labs site has been like this, but right now it says the following:
Code:
Scheduled Maintenance
We will be back shortly.
I'm going to try to fill in Dan Miller about this and maybe he can send someone out there to investigate.
Also, what happened to LAINSY? From[urlhttp://lainsy.net] lainsy.net:[/url]
Code:
>> PROCESS LOOP TERMINATED. SYSTEM HALTED. AI PROCESS CHOKED : HUGE DATA PROCESSED
SYSTEM HALTED DUE TO SYSTEM ERROR. PROCESS LOAD
EXCEEDED EXTENDED RANGE. LAST KNOWN COMMAND:
#LAINSY\REMOTE COMMAND\: Proceed
Did one of us happen to process a huge query or something? Yikes!
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:09 pm
punxtr
Quote:
LAINSY: Tracked ship Alexander class hull number 00023 has reached the approximate location of the unknown signal source. No available information on what activity is being performed by the ship being tracked.
Me wrote:
Is the signal still transmitting, has it changed in any way?
Quote:
LAINSY: Signal still transmitting. It has degraded and no longer comprehensible since two weeks ago.
Me wrote:
Is there any way you can establish a data link with this source? It must be transmitting something under your radar, since I feel the source of that signal is sending out data to this website: http://itallstarted.com/ask/index.php?page=1
I may be wrong, but the coincidences are high.
Quote:
LAINSY: Attempt was successful. I was able to establish communications with the other end of the indicated link. I have received automated responses and managed to acquire information. I wasn't able to match certain information but I have derived that the other end of the communications link I have established is a ship by FAILTECH and 99.92% possible to be the ship who has sent a distress signal in the past.
I'm going to ask if any further information can be gleaned.
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 12:34 am
zeighy
Woohoo! I'm back, partly...
Exciting discoveries guys! Maybe if we find more 5 digit numbers, we could enter it into the phone line? How about a 6 digit one for the Nox Ordo line?
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:50 pm