(OOC: One scene I can't believe I didn't post much earlier in the thread, then back to the emails...)
Main Operations
Stellvia
00:03 19 November 2016
"Report."
The shift duty officer swiveled her display so that Noah could see it. "Three minutes ago, the DQS sensor went off."
"Damn. Where in the station is the incursion?"
"It isn't in the station at all, sir. It appears to be on Earth."
Noah went pale. "For that sensor to pick up an event that far away... how big an incursion was it? Get Miyuri and Takami in here - I need our best observer and our best traffic analyst in here, looking at everything 'Daneside." He sat down and unlocked his private workstation. "Safety, set up a conference call. I need to talk to the Federation President, General Solo, Queen Serenity, Mal, the Jason, and A.C. all at once..."
From: Noah Scott (bigcheese@stellvia.lib)
To: Operation FIREFALL Mailing List (firefall@sovietairforce.fen)
Date: November 24, 2016
Subj: [FIREFALL] Re: Operational Planning
> So on that note, who wants to go meet the neighbors?
Not me. General Solo, Queen Serenity, and I are staying up here, out of the reach of the CSA. Just in case. (Besides, nothing the three of us have available right now is as intimidating as even a Gagarin-class bird, let alone one of the really big Fenships. While we all know what the Epsilon Blade can do, Featherston doesn't. If we really want an intimidating flyover, though, Yggdrasil is the ship to use. Is it airworthy, or is it just confined to space operations?)
I strongly suggest that anybody who heads Down takes a bodyguard team along. There's no way the CSA is going to ignore our presence, and they don't sound like they follow the Geneva Conventions.
I also suggest (not as strongly) a visit to the replacement US by the Miranda, showing that we have the resources to build a big ship for purely peaceful scientific purposes.
>> She can't be the entirety of the FIREFALL operational staff, though;
>> we're going to need more experts working alongside her.
> What else do they need in the way of experts, Noah? We've got folks who want to contribute
> something outside of our research and development efforts.
Mal will know better than I would, Bob.
Now if you'll excuse me, Yayoi, Leda, and I have a Convention to organize on a moment's notice - we have to keep everyone else Up here at least partly in the loop. Please route all further communications to me through Takami for the next few days.
--
Noah Scott, of station Stellvia
"In any confrontation, your goal must be to win. There is no sense in pursuing a confrontation in a way that will leave you or your cause worse off than when it began." - J.D Salinger, March 1999
Subject: Re: Information which may be useful in the current situation
To: Bob Schroeck (rms@ourtown.fen)
From: Noah Scott (bigcheese@stellvia.lib)
Date: November 26, 2016
> Something to consider -- an AI coupled with a body capable of detecting, tapping
> and controlling mana may well be able to use its greater processing speed to
> shortcut that. I had once started to write a story, oh, twenty-five years or so ago,
> about an AI mainframe that learned how to do magic; the gendankenexperiments
> I did to work out what it might be capable of both impressed and frightened me.
> You've had amazing luck with AIs in the past -- maybe with a sample of mage-
> active DNA you can quicken one who won't need the lengthy training time a
> meat-person would.
Excellent idea, and what I'm hearing at this Convention makes me want to try it. I'm going to try something unusual that, if it works, will get us a mage prodigy quickly - I've hired the character's seiyuu to help with the job. (And if it works incredibly well, that prodigy might even be StrikerS class because of another of that actress' roles... but I'm not holding my breath for that.)
> Noah, something that occurred to me which might be useful. Did the girls
> include the engineering details for Mirai's Mol unit in their gift
> package? If so, get it to your researchers *now*, if you haven't already
> beaten me to the idea. That thing is 50% of a dimensional gate all by
> itself, and it's hardtech. For all we know, it just needs more than a
> watch battery to power it in order to go past forming a pocket dimension
> and into punching a hole into a different one altogether.
It's there, and so is Legion's ship tech. Unfortunately, Kohran says the tech is so far beyond what we have now that it'll be faster training the mages. (One would think a Burroughs drive would be simple to build. One would be wrong.)
But if I can get every single Mad in Fenspace together and working in the same direction, I'll release the plans to them. Maybe we can get something useful inside of a decade.
--
Noah Scott, of station Stellvia
"In any confrontation, your goal must be to win. There is no sense in pursuing a confrontation in a way that will leave you or your cause worse off than when it began." - J.D Salinger, March 1999
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Main Operations
Stellvia
00:03 19 November 2016
"Report."
The shift duty officer swiveled her display so that Noah could see it. "Three minutes ago, the DQS sensor went off."
"Damn. Where in the station is the incursion?"
"It isn't in the station at all, sir. It appears to be on Earth."
Noah went pale. "For that sensor to pick up an event that far away... how big an incursion was it? Get Miyuri and Takami in here - I need our best observer and our best traffic analyst in here, looking at everything 'Daneside." He sat down and unlocked his private workstation. "Safety, set up a conference call. I need to talk to the Federation President, General Solo, Queen Serenity, Mal, the Jason, and A.C. all at once..."
From: Noah Scott (bigcheese@stellvia.lib)
To: Operation FIREFALL Mailing List (firefall@sovietairforce.fen)
Date: November 24, 2016
Subj: [FIREFALL] Re: Operational Planning
> So on that note, who wants to go meet the neighbors?
Not me. General Solo, Queen Serenity, and I are staying up here, out of the reach of the CSA. Just in case. (Besides, nothing the three of us have available right now is as intimidating as even a Gagarin-class bird, let alone one of the really big Fenships. While we all know what the Epsilon Blade can do, Featherston doesn't. If we really want an intimidating flyover, though, Yggdrasil is the ship to use. Is it airworthy, or is it just confined to space operations?)
I strongly suggest that anybody who heads Down takes a bodyguard team along. There's no way the CSA is going to ignore our presence, and they don't sound like they follow the Geneva Conventions.
I also suggest (not as strongly) a visit to the replacement US by the Miranda, showing that we have the resources to build a big ship for purely peaceful scientific purposes.
>> She can't be the entirety of the FIREFALL operational staff, though;
>> we're going to need more experts working alongside her.
> What else do they need in the way of experts, Noah? We've got folks who want to contribute
> something outside of our research and development efforts.
Mal will know better than I would, Bob.
Now if you'll excuse me, Yayoi, Leda, and I have a Convention to organize on a moment's notice - we have to keep everyone else Up here at least partly in the loop. Please route all further communications to me through Takami for the next few days.
--
Noah Scott, of station Stellvia
"In any confrontation, your goal must be to win. There is no sense in pursuing a confrontation in a way that will leave you or your cause worse off than when it began." - J.D Salinger, March 1999
Subject: Re: Information which may be useful in the current situation
To: Bob Schroeck (rms@ourtown.fen)
From: Noah Scott (bigcheese@stellvia.lib)
Date: November 26, 2016
> Something to consider -- an AI coupled with a body capable of detecting, tapping
> and controlling mana may well be able to use its greater processing speed to
> shortcut that. I had once started to write a story, oh, twenty-five years or so ago,
> about an AI mainframe that learned how to do magic; the gendankenexperiments
> I did to work out what it might be capable of both impressed and frightened me.
> You've had amazing luck with AIs in the past -- maybe with a sample of mage-
> active DNA you can quicken one who won't need the lengthy training time a
> meat-person would.
Excellent idea, and what I'm hearing at this Convention makes me want to try it. I'm going to try something unusual that, if it works, will get us a mage prodigy quickly - I've hired the character's seiyuu to help with the job. (And if it works incredibly well, that prodigy might even be StrikerS class because of another of that actress' roles... but I'm not holding my breath for that.)
> Noah, something that occurred to me which might be useful. Did the girls
> include the engineering details for Mirai's Mol unit in their gift
> package? If so, get it to your researchers *now*, if you haven't already
> beaten me to the idea. That thing is 50% of a dimensional gate all by
> itself, and it's hardtech. For all we know, it just needs more than a
> watch battery to power it in order to go past forming a pocket dimension
> and into punching a hole into a different one altogether.
It's there, and so is Legion's ship tech. Unfortunately, Kohran says the tech is so far beyond what we have now that it'll be faster training the mages. (One would think a Burroughs drive would be simple to build. One would be wrong.)
But if I can get every single Mad in Fenspace together and working in the same direction, I'll release the plans to them. Maybe we can get something useful inside of a decade.
--
Noah Scott, of station Stellvia
"In any confrontation, your goal must be to win. There is no sense in pursuing a confrontation in a way that will leave you or your cause worse off than when it began." - J.D Salinger, March 1999
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012