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[kelgrath]

New Help For Old Pilots

Do you need a helping hand?
Did you lose a leg fighting The Code?
Had a frost-bitten arm amputated following cockpit depressurisation dropping mugs into Sagittarius A*?

Introducing Lakon's new "Disabled Systems". We can automate anything to keep you flying. From a simple remapped control to compensate for a missing hand, to the full S-Hawk 42 system, pioneered back in the twenty first century, allowing full control of your ship with just a thought.

Ask your shipyard for options on your new vessel. Special deals for retrofitting existing ships.

Disable Systems by Lakon. Putting the "Able" back into disabled pilots.

 

[MrMogadon]

WHY....That's a Really Good Question. Let me tell you my story...

Too slow for bounty hunting. Too principled for pirating. Too forgetful for trading and too lazy for mining. Exploring for me. Zoom into the big black. Scan some suns, planets and the like. Lots of time for catching up on my holovids and writing fanciful tales of all my adventures. No cargo to spoil, just data to be sold. Simple.

Then I drifted too close to a sun whilst scooping.
Fried my witch drive. Data's worthless out here.

Taken six months just to find YOU.


THAT'S why you need to give me your ship …... and I'm holding this firkin blaster.

 

[Edith_The_Hutt]

Too slow for bounty hunting. Too principled for pirating. Too forgetful for trading and too lazy for mining. Exploring for me. Zoom into the big black. Scan some suns, planets and the like. Lots of time for catching up on my holovids and writing fanciful tales of all my adventures. No cargo to spoil, just data to be sold. Simple.

Then I drifted too close to a sun whilst scooping.
Fried my witch drive. Data's worthless out here.

Taken six months just to get here.


THAT'S why you need to give me your ship …... and I'm holding this firkin blaster.

Well yes, I get that, but why did you have a Firkin Blaster™ with you in the first place?

 

[insanephoton]

Well yes, I get that, but why did you have a Firkin Blaster™ with you in the first place?

Is it called that because it has a small barrel?

 

[Ian Phillips]

Distraction

The problem with SRV's isn't their lack of heavy fire power, it's that Drones recognise them. SRV's don't do stealth as a result. Thats why we are walking to the base.

The weapon turrets AI's are all linked to the drones detection systems and follow their movements. Soon a squad of SRV's will come in to draw attention away from us and we can sneak into the base.

We have to be quick, but speed is a trigger for the sensors, so DO NOT RUN.

Once inside we are to find and disable the drone and weapons turret surveillance systems.

 

[Splendour]

Active Scanning

Sal's hand shook slightly as she fought to keep the battle scarred Cobra lined up with the escape vector, but try as she might the red bar on her hud crept ever higher.
"Repeat. This is an Imperial Navy operation. You are ordered to stop to be searched."
Flight was hopeless. She hit an unlabelled blue button on the dashboard, disabling certain highly illegal ships systems.
Rubbing her Icon of Braben for luck she breathed a swift prayer. "Please let them only look in the cargo bay!"
Sal throttled back letting the Navy patrol haul her back to normal space.

 

[MrMogadon]

Well yes, I get that, but why did you have a Firkin Blaster™ with you in the first place?

Well you don't want dirty firkin waste slopping about in zero g - well do you? That's why I never leave home without my handy, dandy hygienically enhanced Firkin Blaster - to blast those firkins euphemistically clean with my patented neural cyclonic epidermal politetrafluoridic spiral cleaning action and crevice scourer.

Is it called that because it has a small barrel?

It's maybe small, but it's perfectly formed and functions just fine.

 

[Ian Phillips]

What happened to the beer?

 

[Missileman]

Yellow Bellied Pirate....

One of the biggest concerns about being a pirate, how far do you go.
Sure it's much easier when you kill someone.
They don't complain or haggle about the amount of cargo they have to drop, or how much time to leave them before you chase them away.
It just leaves you with a price on your head and that attracts bounty hunters.
I made the mistake of letting my last target go I must have got soft in my old age.
He hadn't though and he came back with his wingmen.
And here I sit disabled floating in space .

 

[Erik Marcaigh]

This week's theme:
Disabled Systems

Current Entries
*word count* (must be 100 words within the story!)
01 *100* - Darkoba - SNAFU : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=561&p=3110609&viewfull=1#post3110609
02 *100* - Simoof - Old age comes for us all... : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=561&p=3111453&viewfull=1#post3111453
03 *100* - Frank - Making Best Use of Available Tools : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=562&p=3112409&viewfull=1#post3112409
04 *100* - moose666 - Imperial Cutter Cooker : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=562&p=3113637&viewfull=1#post3113637
05 *100* - Goose4291 - The Burden of Command : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=562&p=3113924&viewfull=1#post3113924
06 *100* - Alien - Cont ... : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=562&p=3114735&viewfull=1#post3114735
07 *100* - Listeri69 - Voicing your concern... : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=562&p=3116935&viewfull=1#post3116935
08 *100* - kelgrath - New Help For Old Pilots : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=562&p=3118294&viewfull=1#post3118294
09 *100* - MrMogadon - WHY....That's a Really Good Question. Let me tell you my story... : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=562&p=3119578&viewfull=1#post3119578
10 *100* - Ian Phillips - Distraction : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=562&p=3121084&viewfull=1#post3121084
11 *100* - Splendour - Active Scanning : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=562&p=3122250&viewfull=1#post3122250
12 *100* - Missileman - Yellow Bellied Pirate.... : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=563&p=3122503&viewfull=1#post3122503


Drabbles are 100 words, should be clean (so Frank's ears don't bleed), set loosely in the Elite universe, and if you have trouble counting, use our standard word count benchmark here: www.wordcounter.net

Drabble entries will close today at 10pm GMT! We have eight (8) slots remaining! Don't be shy! Post up one!

 

[Erik Marcaigh]

Stall Three Again

Vingtetun was irate. "I thought it was fixed?! Marcaigh said it was working again, then jetted off to the edge of the galaxy. What's it doing now?"

The station's janitor looked sheepish, "It be gurglin' alla time an' foul odors come up from it. Word is we be havin' other issues onna platform like landing pads spinning randomly an' vending machines not droppin' bags of crips. Ops sez it's due to high radiation an' tol' me to git in there an plunge it again, but ain't nothin' stuck."

"Tear it apart and find out what's wrong with Stall Three, Simoof!"

 

[MrMogadon]

What happened to the beer?

Who knows? One minute it was there and then next, it had just vanished AND the ship had mysteriously jumped three days into the future.
*burp*
It's a puzzle and no mistake.

 

[Edith_The_Hutt]

The Lost Colony

Prim’s flashlight cut through the station's dusty atmosphere, the walls glistened with ice crystals and her magboots skidded slightly on frost below. Slowly, she made her way through the dead city; corridors once full of laughter, love and music now echoed faintly with her footsteps.

The control room overlooked the docking bay, Prim booted a backup terminal and accessed the log file:

14-MAY-3248:
...
07:45 COMMUNICATIONS: DISABLED
07:46 LIFE SUPPORT: DISABLED
07:49 REACTOR: SUPER-CRITICAL!
...

Prim’s torch lingered on an eviscerated, mummified figure at the command seat. They’d always known the Thargoids devastated Roanoke Orbital, now they knew how.

 

[Erik Marcaigh]

We've got 14 entries in and have room for 6 more! I'll be closing the entries 2 hours from now (11pm GMT).

You've still got time!

 

[Frank]

Could you please note that I've done a bit of editing to my Drabble. I was fiddling with my grammar.

 

[Darkoba]

There aint nowt wrong with yer grammar, Frank

 

[Erik Marcaigh]

Could you please note that I've done a bit of editing to my Drabble. I was fiddling with my grammar.

Oops. Maybe the mistake will garner you more votes?

 

[Galactic Midden]

The prize

A cacophony of micro asteroids battered the hull as Jalphenurica frantically raced from the mysterious battle force. Into the rocky field evasion was her only hope as the bio-enhanced computer flashed strategies on screen that she couldn't decipher.

Jalphenurica, not one to shy away from cash opportunities hadn't paused before murdering the Alliance science team working on the ship, but she did wonder why it had been so easy.

"Damn you mindless heap of alien junk, just reboot the guns!"

"Affirmative leadermind, fervidfury ready, instruct me to obey"

Jelphenurica squealed in delight and stabbed a finger at the HUD, "Kill!"

 

[Erik Marcaigh]

Y'all throwing all these colors in.... Trying to make me crazy! I don't know if the colors are worse than MrMogadon's extra-long title or not!

 

[Darkoba]

I suspect, unless systems have been disabled, that the "Systems Disabled"drabble competition has now been closed. If not, and if you're wondering if it's worth adding your brilliant drabble to the list, get in now, before Erik closes the tap (faucet)

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Y'all throwing all these colors in.... Trying to make me crazy! I don't know if the colors are worse than MrMogadon's extra-long title or not!

That's "colours" Erik ( from the French 'couleur') Now I am totally confused about spelling and who's right.


I don't know why, but there it is...