Submitted By Pat Willis#224534
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
For the Last Time... by David McCallum #701548
For the last time...
NO I DON'T WANT TO BUILD
A SODDING SNOWMAN!!!
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Hiding In Plain Sight By Pat Willis#224534
Knowledge is power, or so goes the old saying. Fact of the matter is, it is a true saying. I learned this once I joined the Brotherhood. It was then I found out just how much knowledge they had. The clan family had an in depth knowledge of Forerunner technology / artifacts, an instinctive comprehension of mecha build / design, and an intricate knowledge of enemy clan movements as well as politics. They have thousands of paid informants across the galaxy in every clan faction reporting in on a very strict schedule, informing them of new designs, technologies, ancient artifact finds, governmental working across the factions, and even early release weapons or mecha.
It is in this vast web of knowledge that I found my place in the Brotherhood. I used to be a reporter and editor for the A.N.N. (the other major galactic network), but have since broken off from them to start my own network here at Galaxy Gathering. It was during this transition period I got orders from Brotherhood command. I can't go into the full details but the basics were.... "Use your influence as a member of the press to gain access to areas we can not reach. Report back what you find, destroy what may threaten."
So my career as a Brotherhood spy began. At first I was doubtful that it would ever work, after all I am a known member of the Brotherhood, and my Frigis mecha Frozen Dream has marked me with legendary pilot status. Pull all those things up on a I.D. scan in the wrong sector with the wrong faction, well the only way you are going home is in a casket. But to my surprise, as well as vast relief it worked. Again and again all my I.D. pulls up is that I am the founder/creator of Galaxy Gathering, so I register as V.I.P. press. No clan affiliation, no mecha to be tied to, just a member of the press.
Now why would I bother to blow my cover in releasing this information across the galaxy? Because it doesn't matter if you know. I'm there at major happenings in all the territories. I am gaining access to secret information, through my own network of sources. I am gaining access to technology by simply being there for a new release of a mecha, weapon, or equipment piece. No one notices when things get misplaced, or turn up missing at such events. They are too intent on the unveiling or demonstration at hand.
I am always there, always in the background, the guy holding the camera you see the galaxy through. I bring you the information you need and want. In return for this need of yours I take my toll in information, technology, and on occasion sabotage. I am the press, I am something you can not live without. I walk among you unseen, hiding in plain site, through me the Brotherhood grows a little more. So you know who I am, it doesn't matter.
Submitted by Pat Willis#224534
It is in this vast web of knowledge that I found my place in the Brotherhood. I used to be a reporter and editor for the A.N.N. (the other major galactic network), but have since broken off from them to start my own network here at Galaxy Gathering. It was during this transition period I got orders from Brotherhood command. I can't go into the full details but the basics were.... "Use your influence as a member of the press to gain access to areas we can not reach. Report back what you find, destroy what may threaten."
So my career as a Brotherhood spy began. At first I was doubtful that it would ever work, after all I am a known member of the Brotherhood, and my Frigis mecha Frozen Dream has marked me with legendary pilot status. Pull all those things up on a I.D. scan in the wrong sector with the wrong faction, well the only way you are going home is in a casket. But to my surprise, as well as vast relief it worked. Again and again all my I.D. pulls up is that I am the founder/creator of Galaxy Gathering, so I register as V.I.P. press. No clan affiliation, no mecha to be tied to, just a member of the press.
Now why would I bother to blow my cover in releasing this information across the galaxy? Because it doesn't matter if you know. I'm there at major happenings in all the territories. I am gaining access to secret information, through my own network of sources. I am gaining access to technology by simply being there for a new release of a mecha, weapon, or equipment piece. No one notices when things get misplaced, or turn up missing at such events. They are too intent on the unveiling or demonstration at hand.
I am always there, always in the background, the guy holding the camera you see the galaxy through. I bring you the information you need and want. In return for this need of yours I take my toll in information, technology, and on occasion sabotage. I am the press, I am something you can not live without. I walk among you unseen, hiding in plain site, through me the Brotherhood grows a little more. So you know who I am, it doesn't matter.
Submitted by Pat Willis#224534
Friday, December 18, 2015
Having A Chat With Windy Mcclendon#888305
I was making sure the line up for the next day's postings were all lined up when I got an unexpected visitor looking for an interview. So please join me in welcoming Windy Mcclendon#888305 of clan Shadowed Suns to our studios. Seeing as it was just before clan wars I figured I would start off there.
Pat - Alright, so how many clan wars do you have under your belt?
Windy - 7 or so the medals tell me.
Pat - How are you finding the specialist positions? A blessing or a curse?
Windy - Kind of both. I have played as a specialist and as a normal beater. I kind of prefer the specialist work but not to fight it.
Pat - Yeah I run 1100 tons myself just about every war, got to say it makes the wars easier. Any specialist position you have or had trouble with?
Windy - Single rainbow. I'm more excited about the new techs and how they will affect the new cw.
Pat - New techs, like what are you eyeing up?
Windy - I have a hard time choosing which mechs I love the most to use in it. I had noticed a few but at my level they are getting kinda lost behind the new stuff i am unlocking.
Pat - Yeah unlocks are great when you finally get to that level you need, only to see the next tier up piece and start drooling all over again. So how do you predict your clan will do in this upcoming war? anyone to look out for as an enemy clan or players in particular?
Windy - Actually we are too small to get in. But I have a feeling after the drama lama hit MMI that they wont be too serious a threat for a minute.
Pat - I saw that over on the game board. A lot of splits going on the AFF fractured, Fusion was formed by a bunch of ex Brotherhood, and now this. Any theory as to why so many top gun clans are breaking apart?
Windy - Christmas? Actually I do. I think that as we level and grow as players we tend to start wanting to branch out and then we end up splitting off. Or I could say it the rude way... ((you can edit off if you want: sticks... forcefully inserted up their butts?)) What do you think?
Pat - Well I saw some of the aftermath firsthand when the Fusion boys made a dash for it in the Brotherhood. Word was they were more about the gimmie, gimmie, prizes for Div 1, and not wanting to form up and back the rest of the clan who was supporting lower levels in the clan family. Least that was how it was told.
Windy - Wow, I was in a clan like that. They didn't even believe in point stealing or making sure that even the little guys had a shot at a mech in the raids...I left real fast.
Pat - Yeah it can get messy fast, never know who is going to pull what. You currently happy in your clan or are you looking to the future with possibly other clans/larger ones?
Windy - iI is pretty quiet in shadowed suns but I like that. I was never really wanting to move around originally but eventually I got to be in the same clan-family as my bro and fight along side of him sort of. Sadly I didn't level fast enough for rnd and was kicked. Now I am quite happy in Shadowed Suns and we are actually more than willing to take on a lower level or lonely player. We are just enjoying the game though.
Pat - Good way to be so many take it too seriously and then egos get in the way it gets messy fast, see it on the game page almost daily. Got any particular goal or medal you are going to pursue in game?
Windy - Catch up with my bro... he is way up there and being his equal so we can spar would be fun.
Pat - Nice, well the family that blows stuff up together and so on.. Alright cool that's about it for this little Q&A I turn in the names and ID#s to Molly next Monday and you should see niodes from her no later than Thurs of the same week I suspect. She usually isn't that late in paying though.
Windy - Thanks. If you ever want another interview let me know. It's Christmas time. .
Pat - Works for me I haven't done one in a while got to get back in the swing of it. Thanks for dropping in, talk to you later.
Windy - Okay. happy holiday!
Submitted by Pat Willis#224534
Pat - Alright, so how many clan wars do you have under your belt?
Windy - 7 or so the medals tell me.
Pat - How are you finding the specialist positions? A blessing or a curse?
Windy - Kind of both. I have played as a specialist and as a normal beater. I kind of prefer the specialist work but not to fight it.
Pat - Yeah I run 1100 tons myself just about every war, got to say it makes the wars easier. Any specialist position you have or had trouble with?
Windy - Single rainbow. I'm more excited about the new techs and how they will affect the new cw.
Pat - New techs, like what are you eyeing up?
Windy - I have a hard time choosing which mechs I love the most to use in it. I had noticed a few but at my level they are getting kinda lost behind the new stuff i am unlocking.
Pat - Yeah unlocks are great when you finally get to that level you need, only to see the next tier up piece and start drooling all over again. So how do you predict your clan will do in this upcoming war? anyone to look out for as an enemy clan or players in particular?
Windy - Actually we are too small to get in. But I have a feeling after the drama lama hit MMI that they wont be too serious a threat for a minute.
Pat - I saw that over on the game board. A lot of splits going on the AFF fractured, Fusion was formed by a bunch of ex Brotherhood, and now this. Any theory as to why so many top gun clans are breaking apart?
Windy - Christmas? Actually I do. I think that as we level and grow as players we tend to start wanting to branch out and then we end up splitting off. Or I could say it the rude way... ((you can edit off if you want: sticks... forcefully inserted up their butts?)) What do you think?
Pat - Well I saw some of the aftermath firsthand when the Fusion boys made a dash for it in the Brotherhood. Word was they were more about the gimmie, gimmie, prizes for Div 1, and not wanting to form up and back the rest of the clan who was supporting lower levels in the clan family. Least that was how it was told.
Windy - Wow, I was in a clan like that. They didn't even believe in point stealing or making sure that even the little guys had a shot at a mech in the raids...I left real fast.
Pat - Yeah it can get messy fast, never know who is going to pull what. You currently happy in your clan or are you looking to the future with possibly other clans/larger ones?
Windy - iI is pretty quiet in shadowed suns but I like that. I was never really wanting to move around originally but eventually I got to be in the same clan-family as my bro and fight along side of him sort of. Sadly I didn't level fast enough for rnd and was kicked. Now I am quite happy in Shadowed Suns and we are actually more than willing to take on a lower level or lonely player. We are just enjoying the game though.
Pat - Good way to be so many take it too seriously and then egos get in the way it gets messy fast, see it on the game page almost daily. Got any particular goal or medal you are going to pursue in game?
Windy - Catch up with my bro... he is way up there and being his equal so we can spar would be fun.
Pat - Nice, well the family that blows stuff up together and so on.. Alright cool that's about it for this little Q&A I turn in the names and ID#s to Molly next Monday and you should see niodes from her no later than Thurs of the same week I suspect. She usually isn't that late in paying though.
Windy - Thanks. If you ever want another interview let me know. It's Christmas time. .
Pat - Works for me I haven't done one in a while got to get back in the swing of it. Thanks for dropping in, talk to you later.
Windy - Okay. happy holiday!
Submitted by Pat Willis#224534
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Fine August Morning/Salvage Prices Plummet By FJ Bros#885020
It was fine August morning on an uncharted planet in the outer rim. Too fine a morning to be locked inside a hangar performing repairs or upgrading systems. It was a fine morning for an old fashioned drive, not in the cockpit of a mecha, but a wheeled vehicle where you could set the windows down and feel the wind through your hair and the bumps in the road as you rode over them.
Surveying my surrounding, there were not many wheeled vehicles in the hangar that I couldn't outpace on foot. No glory in crawling through the canyons in a MagGrappler Crane that would not produce enough speed to move a single hair on my head. Slowly, the MGC completed its task and move onto it next mission, revealing the beauty I had been searching for... A 16-wheeled, all-terrain cargo hauler freshly loaded with the most recent scrap from the battlefields. Now, as they say, "Beauty is in eye of the beholder", and this was quite simply the object of my current desires. I quickly commandeered the trash hauler and relieved the driver of his responsibilities.
Now 50 KPH isn’t exactly racing speeds, but it was enough to satisfy my urges. I am sure the chief mechanic is not going to be happy knowing that I red-lined the fully loaded hauler just about the entire journal to the scrap recycler yards, but that is something he’ll just need to worry about later. Clan Wars 3304 was on the horizon, and he’ll have his hands full with repairing mechs.
It’s been a long time since I was a rookie pilot relying on the scrap of battles to make ends meet. Oh the joy of fighting a few battles, win or lose, to be able to afford that new piece of kit or new weapon. Those were the days, I even recalled fighting a losing battle, just so I could get enough scrap ferrite to be able to enter the mid-day Pilot Development Lottery. Been a long time since those days, once my pilot license was sufficient enough to be able to buy the heavier weapons, most of my ferrite and bioptic supplies have come from buying huge quantities of Fury Lasers while on sale in the Core Planets and reselling them to the markets in the outer rim territories. Sure, I lost out on some Crystal, but I had generous friends tending to my crystal farms, and doing a much better job than myself. Never been able to find a Crystal Seed in my own farm, but friends seem to find them all the time.
Coming out of the last canyon before the flat plains to the salvage facility, I had to come to a sudden stop. There was a long line of haulers waiting to delivery their scrap to the facility. Getting onto the short-band communicator, I flip to an open channel and inquire as to “what’s the hold up?”
“Thieves are taking our money!”, “It’s a damned outrage…”, “I’m coming back with my mecha squadron to get what I am due…”, “They can’t do this…”, “…not going to be to compete this time around…”, “…barely covering the cost of repairs…”, “…at least it should deter mecha pirates…” and other voices speaking over each other in rage. What the heck was going on? I flip through a few other channels and more of the same.
Finally, I flip to the facility’s private channel and caught the middle of a looped automated message, “… to the surplus of scrap and the mecha industry’s new higher standards on recycled materials, scrap prices have been reduced by more than half. We understand that this decrease is unprecedented in the last decade; however, the market standards and demands for reprocessed materials completely out of our hands. We will continue to buy scrap from our loyal customers and hope that you understand the necessities of the scrap price drop.”
Damn, now I understand all the outrage. Most of the higher rated pilots and clans don’t even blink at the scrap they leave behind, but for the younger less established pilots on the rim, it is serious hit to their income. Some were saying that the decrease was 60% or more for scrap prices from just a month or two ago.
Well, one thing was for sure, I wasn’t going to wait in line for those types of prices. Spying a rather dejected looking young pilot heading to the bar across the street, I waved him over and offered a deal. He could wait in line, sell the scrap, refuel and bring the hauler back to my base and he could keep the difference between the scrap and the fuel. He eagerly accepted of course, after all, it was easy money and materials for a new pilot who to just got shafted.
Me on the other hand, now I was stuck on the out-skirts of town without a ride. I guess, I’ll go check out that new skimmer shop… now an open-topped skimmer would be a fine ride for this fine August morning out on the rim…
Submitted by FJ Bros#885020
Surveying my surrounding, there were not many wheeled vehicles in the hangar that I couldn't outpace on foot. No glory in crawling through the canyons in a MagGrappler Crane that would not produce enough speed to move a single hair on my head. Slowly, the MGC completed its task and move onto it next mission, revealing the beauty I had been searching for... A 16-wheeled, all-terrain cargo hauler freshly loaded with the most recent scrap from the battlefields. Now, as they say, "Beauty is in eye of the beholder", and this was quite simply the object of my current desires. I quickly commandeered the trash hauler and relieved the driver of his responsibilities.
Now 50 KPH isn’t exactly racing speeds, but it was enough to satisfy my urges. I am sure the chief mechanic is not going to be happy knowing that I red-lined the fully loaded hauler just about the entire journal to the scrap recycler yards, but that is something he’ll just need to worry about later. Clan Wars 3304 was on the horizon, and he’ll have his hands full with repairing mechs.
It’s been a long time since I was a rookie pilot relying on the scrap of battles to make ends meet. Oh the joy of fighting a few battles, win or lose, to be able to afford that new piece of kit or new weapon. Those were the days, I even recalled fighting a losing battle, just so I could get enough scrap ferrite to be able to enter the mid-day Pilot Development Lottery. Been a long time since those days, once my pilot license was sufficient enough to be able to buy the heavier weapons, most of my ferrite and bioptic supplies have come from buying huge quantities of Fury Lasers while on sale in the Core Planets and reselling them to the markets in the outer rim territories. Sure, I lost out on some Crystal, but I had generous friends tending to my crystal farms, and doing a much better job than myself. Never been able to find a Crystal Seed in my own farm, but friends seem to find them all the time.
Coming out of the last canyon before the flat plains to the salvage facility, I had to come to a sudden stop. There was a long line of haulers waiting to delivery their scrap to the facility. Getting onto the short-band communicator, I flip to an open channel and inquire as to “what’s the hold up?”
“Thieves are taking our money!”, “It’s a damned outrage…”, “I’m coming back with my mecha squadron to get what I am due…”, “They can’t do this…”, “…not going to be to compete this time around…”, “…barely covering the cost of repairs…”, “…at least it should deter mecha pirates…” and other voices speaking over each other in rage. What the heck was going on? I flip through a few other channels and more of the same.
Finally, I flip to the facility’s private channel and caught the middle of a looped automated message, “… to the surplus of scrap and the mecha industry’s new higher standards on recycled materials, scrap prices have been reduced by more than half. We understand that this decrease is unprecedented in the last decade; however, the market standards and demands for reprocessed materials completely out of our hands. We will continue to buy scrap from our loyal customers and hope that you understand the necessities of the scrap price drop.”
Damn, now I understand all the outrage. Most of the higher rated pilots and clans don’t even blink at the scrap they leave behind, but for the younger less established pilots on the rim, it is serious hit to their income. Some were saying that the decrease was 60% or more for scrap prices from just a month or two ago.
Well, one thing was for sure, I wasn’t going to wait in line for those types of prices. Spying a rather dejected looking young pilot heading to the bar across the street, I waved him over and offered a deal. He could wait in line, sell the scrap, refuel and bring the hauler back to my base and he could keep the difference between the scrap and the fuel. He eagerly accepted of course, after all, it was easy money and materials for a new pilot who to just got shafted.
Me on the other hand, now I was stuck on the out-skirts of town without a ride. I guess, I’ll go check out that new skimmer shop… now an open-topped skimmer would be a fine ride for this fine August morning out on the rim…
Submitted by FJ Bros#885020
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Red Ant Empire XI By Germán Jaramillo Pulido ID # 685605.
Submitted By Germán Jaramillo Pulido ID # 685605.
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
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