Programmer, Analyst, Learner, Leader, Gamer

TTY31207.12.14

All next week I will be out on “vacation”. Hehe, that’s a funny concept. I’m being given a week of no assignments and being given the freedom to relax a bit, but out here on the fringe of space with bane everywhere there’s no such thing as a real vacation. After spending the last couple of weeks our here on Arieki, the closest thing to a vacation would be to enjoy some of the more peaceful areas of Torden. The Brann mentality is so close to that of old Earth at the height of corruption, war, and other acts of violence. It will be a nice change of pace to spend a while talking with the Foreans about nature and having intellectual discussions about spirituality.  Who knows, maybe I might even visit Gabriel and give him an update on the information I’ve found concerning his counterpart. Oh yeah I don’t think ever even mentioned Gabriel, that’s an entry for another day I suppose.

For now I’ll run around with my festive yule hat, relax, and hope that the other AFS who are fighting in my absence from duty will keep up the good fight. Until I return this Doc signing out. Oh and happy holidays!

TTY31201.12.12

Yesterday the AFS launched the new Military Surplus pretty successfully. Although the software they have in place to manage this giant sales network has it’s bugs, the employees running the thing are working diligently to make sure everyones sales are being processed correctly. The average Joe in the AFS is going nuts about this thing and I have to admit I’m having fun selling a lot of the gear I’ve gathered in the past month or so out here on the fringe of space, but are weapons and armors I’m not certified (or care to) use.

To help some of the less bright recruits out there I even volunteered to help write a 101 course on how to use the military surplus. I guess everyone needs a “dummies book”. I mostly wrote the guide because I think a lot of the price gouging is out of control and in my guide I’m trying to setup what I’m calling a “Military Surplus Recommended Pricing” or MSRP. We’ll see how it goes, I hope the general population of those in ranks of the AFS appreciate my time and effort.

TTY31201.12.10

After completing all my assignments in the plains and incline, I finally received my promotion and certification for training in Exobiology. The art of reanimating corpses, cloning myself, and even immolating corpses into giant fiery balls of doom is my new specialty. I even took the time to help my counterpart catch up to my training level and now he’s received his official Medic training. I guess he and I are even now.

TTY31201.12.07

There have been new reports on the wire of new breakthroughs in medical science. I’m not too sure about them. Some of the advancements include improved ways to reduce resuscitation sickness which is something that will definitely be a help over the simple jump start to the heart that engineers and demolitionists are certified in giving. On the other hand some of the changes are a bit odd and I’m not exactly sure about them.

Particularly there’s been some odd communications on the data network about weird new breakthroughs in mind control. How is this done? Based on initial reading I would guess that some kind of medical nanoprobes are used to control the actions of the victim in question? I naturally ask, should the brain be messed with in this way? I’ve even read about the possibility of the nanoprobes replicating themselves and being able to be spread almost in an infectious kind of manner causing havoc and confusion within the ranks of your target.

Overall I’m looking forward to this training although I’m confused as to why Exobilogists are able to learn a lot of the healing and medical skills that should be reserved for properly trained medics. I wonder what my counterpart thinks of these changes.

TTY31201.12.05

Tonight I went out to test my newly certified mastery training in Hazmat armor. I took it upon myself to thrust myself head on into the nasties of the plains including Flamelashers (I think that was their name) and the electric beasts known as Mantas. I figured what better way to test Hazmat armor than against the beasties it’s designed for. After taking lots of blasts of lightning and firey doom was beathed upon me, my opinion of Hazmat armor wasn’t too impressive.

Frankly I’m thinking that all this time and energy into Hazmat training is not worth it. Sure it’s a little tougher than Biotech armor that my counterpart wears, but not by much. It also self-repairs a LOT slower than Biotech armor. Frankly it’s a lot harder to find good Hazmat armor as well. I’ll find a full set of good Biotech armor in supply crates and by completing my daily assignments before I find one good piece of Hazmat. Overally I think that the re-training we’ve been hearing about in the coming weeks I might not bother with Hazmat, but rather go with Biotech.

TTY31201.12.03

After completing the last bit of assignments given to me in Palisades I headed to Foreas Base for something I’d like to call “Wormhole Surfing”. This wormhole technology is rather interesting because it doesn’t seem like they are all inter-connected directly. In fact it seems like some cases I had to connect from one to another to another establish some kind of internal resonance that allowed me to venture to new places. After surfing through various wormholes hopping from one to another I eventually was able to go directly from Foreas to four different locations. Some of the locations on these planets where the AFS have linked into the wormhole network are INTENSE.

I talked to some of the people at the camp near the wormhole at what’s referred to as the “Abyss” and they say that it’s a virtual bottomless pit. Of course eventually you’ll hit the planetary core, but like they guys said, for all intents and purposes it’s a bottomless pit. I bet if you fell in you’d get crushed at some point by the gravity / air pressure of being so close to the core. Death by implosion sounds almost worse than death by falling. One could only hope to die of a heart attack first.

NOTE TO SELF: Don’t fall into the Abyss. Thankfully I won’t have any missions in that region any time soon.

My first Dolphin Holiday party was on Friday and it was a blast. Sophisticated, but fun and plenty of “family belonging” with the Dolphin team. I think the slideshow was the best part of the whole evening and the awards cerimony. It was VERY well done and I’m really happy with some of the people who got awards.

Overall it was a great weekend topped off with a weather challenging weekend for Kerrie at Saturday market. The weekend ended with me doing apprently horrible on my statistics test. If I really focus hard I can still pull off an A in the class. If I get a B, oh well. I’ll still have a super sexy grade point average. 15 A’s so far and 1 B is not anything to scoff at.