----- Original Message ----- From: "James Craig" <jmcraig@sbcglobal.net> To: <Chimera@ucip.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:07 PM Subject: RE: [USS Chimera] SD240406.29 Alien Log Sh'min & L'pah <<ooc sorry left a bit out of the subject line. Must be sleepy :) >> -----Original Message----- From: owner-chimera@ucip.org [mailto:owner-chimera@ucip.org]On Behalf Of James Craig Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:02 PM To: Chimera@ucip.org Subject: [USS Chimera] SD240406.29 ===Subspace== SH'min moved about the laboratory impatiently. They had lost their chance of completing their task ahead of schedule and now had to rely on the only source they had left. It was a slow and tedious process, extracting every last drop of the particle form the foreigners place. HE turned and snapped at L'pah, "SO what have the teams reported!" L'pah did not even look up form his console. He was busy refining the particles they had mined already, preparing it for the device. "The extraction team says it is taking twice as long to retrieve the particles." He looked up from his console for a moment. "They have found out the harder they try ar extracting it, the lower the particle count goes. We just have to be patient." He said sounding annoyed. SH'min growled." And the aliens? What is the latest on them?" L'pah continued with his work. " The scout teams have met little resistance, though a few of them have returned with injuries to there limbs. Ore doctors are checking in to it now. Not sure why this place seems to have a way to hurt us, the other only stung, but these ones are actually burning our people. " He looked up from his console again, "I guess you were right, they are barbarians, intent on destroying us." SH'min continued to pace about the lab. "And how many of them are there? Have we neutralized them all?" L'pah reached back at tapped a button urgently demanding attention. He then stepped forward a bit and responded. " We know of 4 so far. Our patrols are searching every area they can, but there appear to be a few places they cannot access with out suffering major side effects. SH'min stopped in front of L'pah." And the particle count? Can we spare any to increase the portal? We cannot afford any of them from stopping us form getting what we need?" L'pah turned and looked back at his console. "Well, I could increase the portal by 15 percent. That would only cost us about 5 percent of what we have collected so far." He looked back at SH'min, "But that will add 4 more hours on the collection time. SH'min looked up and thought for a moment and then back at L'pah. "well we have control of the source, and they have not killed any of us so far. I think we can afford to wait a little longer. Do it!" he commanded. L'pah nodded in compliance and then turned back to his console. SH'min turned and headed off. Before leaving the room he shouted back, "Mobilize the reserves, I want 20 soldiers over there to help the scouts. They all need to pay for what they have done, every last one of them." L'pah did not even look back, he simply nodded his head. He then tapped on his console. "Activate 20 soldiers and have them report to the lab. We have a task for them!" Someone acknowledged the request. L'pah then looked to his right. He slid his tentacle up a brightly colored panel. Through a window a blue-green pulsating circle grew in intensity. It was their portal, their door way to the attackers realm. L'pah checked his reading, quickly manipulating the controls to intensify the portal as he had told SH'min he could do. He then waited for the soldiers to arrive. ==End log== SH'min & L'pah (NPC) Aliens