E I know you mean well, but at least research to see if your stuff is feasible, a satellite descending to 120 meters would fall like a rock, if you're going to try to get cad to quaesitor do it in space, not in atmo. it's much more likely that we have orbit capable transport than a satellite coming down to 120 meters, somehow getting back, and no one noticing that it's there.
You're right, I am quite an aero-illiterate. I actually was aware that this seemed very unrealistic, but I just don't know how am I supposed to put it yet and I hate gaping holes in my drafts.
orbit capable transport
Uh, a 'transport'? Wut?
Agent E-dit: Actually, Halsey, what if QUAESITOR does crash?
Agent E-dit II: What if it managed to fall like a meteor, say, into somewhere remote, managed to survive ('cause it's alien technobabble) and the CI hides it?
Agent E-dit III: Well, I guess 120 meters is wwwaaayyy too low, since the atmosphere ends in about 36,000 kilometers. I'll at least change it higher.
Agent E | "Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.” -Leon Trotsky
- If I direct you to the CI Operations page, and have you look at the Item-0139 "lunar drone" entry, we see that we have orbit capable transport, named Sol-Vac. (by transport I mean a craft, like the space shuttle.)
- Without quaesitor our capacity to find/track stuff would go down the crapper. We have invested tons of resources into it. If we lost it our power would be cut by a reasonable degree.
- Hmmm, this point all depends on how long it's in the air before crashing. How long would it take for the (practically) infinitely funded Foundation to realize something is up, will we have to fight them for quaesitor?
- If by the time we notice something is wrong it's at 120 meters, it's probably hitting the ground at the speed of 'holy-fucking-shit-there-is-no-goddamn-way-that-it-will-ever-function-again' so yeah I second your choice to change it.
HalsEdit: I understand that maybe .. maybe the crash could be explained away with alien tech, but that would be a bit OP dontcha think?
I just thought that if Bert is inside QUAESITOR, then it isn't the typical satellite you would expect. Maybe it is capable of landing not-too-hard with landing gear like rockets?
Agent E | "Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.” -Leon Trotsky
well, considering that bert is an AI, like glados (or was it like bees?). It is not inconcievable that she is stashed on a super efficient bee hard drive.
I guess retrograde bees1 thrusters would work. the idea makes sense even if I've only heard of them in theory and never in practice. That would still take a shite ton of delta V though…
HalsEdit: (energy status: soda sugar high) yea let's stick on some SRB's that'll fix eeeeevvvverrrrythiiinngg.
You guys with me? SRB! SRB! SRB! SRB! SRB! SRB! SRB! It's a can fulla boom! SRB! SRB! SRB! SRB! What could possibly go wrong? SRB! SRB! SRB! SRB! SRB! SRB! SRB! What do you mean KSP is not a good representation of running a space exploration company? SRB! SRB! SRB! SRB! SRB!!!!! WHOO! SRB HYPE!!!!!1!!!
QUAESITOR hovers no matter what. She could breach our troposphere and float amongst our monkey-eating eagles if she wanted to. Authorly-speaking.
Send Message | Know that my bloodstained palms will only ever care for a greater plan.
Agent E | "Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.” -Leon Trotsky
Well, in that case, it makes my tale much easier to write! No crashing!
Agent E | "Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.” -Leon Trotsky
On the If eye stay story, Quaesitor is a little over 600km according to Cad's story where he references Quaesitor being above the exosphere.
again that is upwards of 600 km, just for reference so you don't put in a wrong height value or something…
I don't really know, I just want to feel like I'm helping.
Thanks for helping.
Agent E | "Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.” -Leon Trotsky
I would also suggest using using the actual text in parenthesis after the morse code
I am internally torn on that. If I did write the actual text, people will understand the conversation. But if I do, the…formatting looks strange. It will break the flow of the article. It will look kind of stupid. But then, maybe…what..uh……..
Agent E | "Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.” -Leon Trotsky
Look at what I did. Did it look stupid? No.
Send Message | Know that my bloodstained palms will only ever care for a greater plan.
I did, in fact, acknowledge the non-stupidness of the actual text in your tale. But you see, it depends on the content. Now, excuse me as I try it out and make a comparison with the actual text and without.
Agent E-dit: No parentheses are better. With italics. Just my opinion for this tale.
Agent E-dit II: Holy shit that italics worked out great…
Agent E | "Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.” -Leon Trotsky
Love where IES 2 is going, there are quite a few grammar spelling and even a couple of vocabulary errors. I like it all the same. Some errors that I find a bit glaring are ….
- This is more of a suggestion but… If Quasi came down and we got some in depth samples that had the possibility of reproducing her, I think it is not out of the question to see some of the enigmatic Inteligensia showed up … *wink wink*
- I really dislike your location of Quaesitor in the tale, we have facilities designed to contain some of the most dangerous anomalies on the planet and we decide to stick her in an obscure restroom? This does actually make me dislike the tale, just so you know.
- I know youwant to tie in the AWACS there is no reason for canadian political officials to be transporting in a plane designed as a detyection craft, it's just a waste of money
- What happened to the Stasis nets on about all CI assault operators, why wasn't cad incapacitated as soon as the guards saw him?
- This is also more of a personal thing but I thik that even if the CI decided to hide quasi in a bathroom (still sounds ridiculous by the way.) I think they would at least have a copy of the detrimental disk as an emergency safeguard against escape attempts.
- How did Cad survive crashing through those ceilings, how does he even hold on to quasi if she was going fast enough to break through three floors?
There, I think I'm done. Just read through and address those, fix some of the more minor errors, and I don't see why you won't have my upvote when it hits the main site.
Understood, informed, okay, acknowledged, acknowledged, acknowledged, and acknowledged.
Now:
- Hmm…I can hint this for my future tales Muhahahah
- Fine. Looking back, I didn't like it too.
- Not political officials, but rather maybe Canadian intelligence agencies or government-backed organization into anomalous items and shit. The "officials" aren't using it for transportation, but rather investigation on why was there a random satellite crashing there.
- About all? Stasis nets are anomalous gear, and this is a small minor site in Canada. But then Cad seemed way OP in this tale, I will tone down a bit…I think I found a way.
- Okay.
- He wasn't really on top of QUAESITOR first, and he was wearing combat armor. But then again, I should explain on how he held on to her.
Agent E-dit: Since English isn't my first language, you'll be seeing a lot of grammatical errors in my drafts. I will try my best to correct them, but…I'm notorious for these mistakes…
Agent E | "Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.” -Leon Trotsky
"Wait," Agent Hugh replied. He looked down the dark hole, its long shadowy arm grappled to the sewer ground. "Are you now thinking what I'm thinking?"
Not sure if this is the correct word here, maybe snaking. And I don't think the now is necessary
The radio's buzzing cleared a voice emerged. "The Falchionists have broken our outer defense. Please send reinforcements to Base Number Three."
This base is currently under extensive repair, it is also a mass storage site (2nd largest concentration of items), this could be a chance to reference how it all went to shit, maybe a fatal sitewide breach or a mass of falchion troops. This is more of a idea than a suggestion and is not needed.
"We can give the SCP Foundation this base's location," the strike team member said. "Although this won't gain much benefits towards the Insurgency, but once they are raiding the facility the SCP personnel will surely decimate all the Falchionists' main assault force."
I really like this part of the story, can't really explain it. I just do.
That's all I have for now.