The Butterfly Effect (Formerly Caprica)

[Nelle Kozera]

"Your partially mistaken there. Even though this is a joint SDI-Black Sun laboratory we are outside of any governmental jurisdiction and so outside the bounds of galactic law." He held muzzle for the moment as if collecting his thoughts, "The AI core was taken offline because...because one of the more powerful kinetics had gotten lose after...I don't know why I think the overseer had let him out before locking herself in the AI core. If you want more answers your going to want to get into the AI core. Just don't stay in there to long, the temporal fields tends to make you feel like you don't belong, similar to being in hyperspace for the first time, only it doesn't go away."

"You want to know what happened here, go ask the head mistress herself, as I said she is in the AI core. From what I know, as I said I ran the Kinetics lab so my knowledge is limited. The overseer was using your SCIONs are test beds for the original concept but it proved to be a dead end. I'm guessing she decided to go her own way which as it seems far more effective." He said, "In any case she kept the others around to have as side by side comparisons. Until...13 was it, yeah...poor bastard..." The Dragon shook his head, "One of the Subjects, one of ours decided to test his abilities on your SCION friend. Couldn't even salvage the implants from the guy, I mean...kinetic meat grinder..." He sighed, "In any case, I have a brain tumor and the Beta said you have an medically equipped ship, so thats where i'm going, could help you guys later but i'm no use to when you look like your wearing a dress" He pointed to quanta," there is money climbing on the wall and my mother is talking to me." He frowned, "We done here?"

[Nelle Kozera]

"Your partially mistaken there. Even though this is a joint SDI-Black Sun laboratory we are outside of any governmental jurisdiction and so outside the bounds of galactic law." He held muzzle for the moment as if collecting his thoughts, "The AI core was taken offline because...because one of the more powerful kinetics had gotten lose after...I don't know why I think the overseer had let him out before locking herself in the AI core. If you want more answers your going to want to get into the AI core. Just don't stay in there to long, the temporal fields tends to make you feel like you don't belong, similar to being in hyperspace for the first time, only it doesn't go away."

"You want to know what happened here, go ask the head mistress herself, as I said she is in the AI core. From what I know, as I said I ran the Kinetics lab so my knowledge is limited. The overseer was using your SCIONs are test beds for the original concept but it proved to be a dead end. I'm guessing she decided to go her own way which as it seems far more effective." He said, "In any case she kept the others around to have as side by side comparisons. Until...13 was it, yeah...poor bastard..." The Dragon shook his head, "One of the Subjects, one of ours decided to test his abilities on your SCION friend. Couldn't even salvage the implants from the guy, I mean...kinetic meat grinder..." He sighed, "In any case, I have a brain tumor and the Beta said you have an medically equipped ship, so thats where i'm going, could help you guys later but i'm no use to when you look like your wearing a dress" He pointed to quanta," there is money climbing on the wall and my mother is talking to me." He frowned, "We done here?"

[Arratra]

Arratra snorted angrily, waving his arm.
"Most of us don't even have implants," he said, "SCION 12 was one of the exceptions. Her powers were a bit... unstable. The implants helped keep her abilities under her control. Didn't always work, though... as you undoubtedly found out."
He was looking at a certain pattern of scar tissue that was on the dragon's neck, and nodded.
"Lightning burst," he explained to the others, "SCION 12 was an Elementalist. One of the more... unstable branches of psionic talent. I myself only have the ability to control two types of such energy. Fire and heat, and light. Of course, being able to control heat means I can also... Well, I can generate ice."

[Nelle Kozera]

"Never once did i say they where your implants, why do you think they stay here without use tearing the place in half? Drugs?" He was holding his head while he said it. "Try to keep up."

[BIos_Reaper]

I gave a barely concealed sneer of disgust. It was people like this that I enjoyed busting up or denying assistance to. It was not immoral or sadistic on my behalf on the contrary. It would be immoral and sadistic to even bother giving such men a second thought.

"If the subjects you experimented on were unwilling ones, I'd rather let you erode away than ever help you. I wont bombard you with ineffective moral statements however, all I ask is that you convey the direction which this project was aimed in.

What was it's goal? By how many bodies and by how much damage there is to this facility the end-result seems to disagree with this having been a worthwhile effort."

Impassively running a low-yield photon residence scan on myself after wards to ensure my social holographic clothing projector wasn't malfunctioning I adjusted my pose.

My polarized visor covered face making me look much like a drone than an artificial person. Going through my repertoire of weaponry: Ballistic, laser, nt particle, pulsic and non-lethal I was satisfied to see my weaponry from sidearms to assault rifles to built-in heavy weapons were sufficiently calibrated and ready for deployment at any time.

Shifting my mass from one foot to the other I found myself clenching my fists, my eyes like a pair of ultra-violet lasers behind my visor, half-wanting to burn my way through the dragons skull and see if that pulpy-mass of a tumorous growth was as squishy as it looked, but I refrained from acting on my impulses.

It was sometimes a little irking to be advanced enough to be able to feel the emotions of less-logical beings, good part was though that while I felt them, they could not induce action on my part. Not unless that is, I wanted them to.

[Cobalt3924]

(OOC: I think I’d better shove this thing back into life…)

“Quanta…” Suru’Kai said slowly: noticing that he looked rather irritable before turning back to the Dragon.
“Look: I’ve had enough of the sweet-talk. Tell us where this Project is and I won’t make sure you need the Medical bays for more than just that Tumour. We clear?”
As Suru’Kai said that: his foot long Blades slid out from his wrists in an intimidating fashion.

[Nelle Kozera]

“Well I can tell what I know about the projects goals. About two years ago, as I’m sure you know bomb threat was made on your homeworld of Ra.” He pointed to the Suru'kai. “That threat was made in order for some drifters to be acquired. So if your wondering, the threat was made merely as a diversion we knew when the real missile was going to be launched and we were short on time. We had six months to get a proof of concept test bed platform working. Which we did get just under the razor wire, this project was started to prevent the event from happening on your world. We also did not want to draw attention to ourselves, I’m sure that if this place hadn’t gone dark you would have even been called in and the galaxy would have been none the wiser. In short there is an entire underground to the galaxy that most people are not aware of. As far as I know there is a silent war going on between people of influence shaping events to their wills. Also could be to see who can run the largest puppet show too I guess I’m not sure, my knowledge to this is extremely limited the director knows more. One thing I do know is that each player has different goals, Cartwright, as you know is trying to prevent a galactic war between the Dark Core and the GSA, how the event on Ra ties into this is far beyond me."

“This projects goal was to make a Psionic or Kinetics if you will, based sensor meant to detect stealthed objects. This missile is coated in stealth plating and is using a silent running drive but still is using a small inertia reduction drive, all space borne vessels have one such system aboard so it allows us to use the missiles own inertia fields to detect it, now I won’t bore you with the science aspects of it, plus the equations are all over my lab feel free to look. Aside from the use for the missile I assume SDI plans to use the sensors as leverage in their next bid for ship construction contracts if they can work out the bugs I’m sure they are building a sensor in the Phantom works on Caprica, we did send the plans back to HQ before we lost contact but I assume they couldn’t build a sensor in time, that and its well known that SDI cares for their employees like family.” He shrugged.

“The SCIONS were not willing, why would they help us? The Rakai where though, of course the SCIONS where not experimented on merely studied. Though they were used for benchmark tests…and your Ghost problem. I don’t know, ask the admin once you meet her.”

[Arratra]

"Of course!" Arratra exclaimed in a sarcastic tone, then sighed. He shrugged. "You could have asked for help," he said, "A few of the SCIONs are capable of sensing such things. But we're not allowed to send any signals offworld, and my ship is clear on the other side of GSA space from the Rakai Empire.

[BIos_Reaper]

"Your little research still crossed more boundaries than it was ever meant to. If what you were trying to do down here caused all of this, then I am half tempted to squeeze that fleshy head of yours and see if the stories are true and it actually does feel like squeezing a melonin fruit." (Mind you that's a fruit native to his home planet.)

He virtually growled behind his visor. Tail flicking about irritable, fists clenched. He badly wanted to kill the misbegotten wretch, but his code of conduct prevented him from striking an unarmed civilian. Even if he was a mockery of everything science stood for, he needed help nonetheless.

"So I suggest you marshal your worthless existence over to that damnable bio-ship and get yourself patched up, if I never see you again it will be too soon..."

[Arratra]

"Just so you know," Arratra growled, "You chose entirely the wrong SCION to test. SCION 12 is an Elementalist, not a Kinetic. Both might be branches of Psionics, but they are entirely different. I myself am a Kinetic... I know the general shape of the missile, so you just have to point me to the general area where it is. My range isn't huge, though. And before you ask, the answer is no. As SCION Leader, I must decline on being experimented upon."

He paused for a moment, before he continued, his tone now so icy it could have liquified hydrogen, even in this overly hot environment. "And if you ever experiment on one of my team members ever again," he snarled, clenching his fists, "You can guarantee that you will regret it for the rest of your days."

[Nelle Kozera]

(OOC: Alright over the past mouth or so, i know two people have radically changed their characters and another has left altogether. I was wondering if you guys wanted to go back to square one, this way a new person can jump is they so wish.)