The Butterfly Effect (Formerly Caprica)

[Nelle Kozera]

The dragon smiled a little at the idea of the crew stepping in line. He pulled out a small package from one of his pockets handing it to her. "I was on that little world and i remembered you mentioned having lost your Ear studs a little while back..." Inside the Package was a set of Ivory Ear studs. He had enjoyed her company more than anything else. Those of Corporate elite had few friends, of the people he could truly trust he could count on his fingers. Outside the Thetas that guarded him, Kaythe, and one or two others he couldn't think of anyone else he trusted. Once he had given them to her he motioned for her to follow him.

"Sorry i couldn't bring you with me, I figured you wanted to go, but what have you done to keep yourself busy?" He asked looking at her, "On my way back i heard that you made a Trip to our colonies on Menovara, how did that turn out?"

[WolfyWetFurr]

Kaythe's eyes light up and widened as the small box was placed in her paw and her tail swayed behind her in delight as she opened it to look upon it's contents. Her cheeks darkened and the corners of her lips hinted at a possible smile. Her hefty teeth preventing what most recognized as a smile, "Thank you kindly Dresden. Ive had to use pins in place of those studs since I lost them." she replied as she pocketed the box for now and fell in beside her friend. Her ears splayed back and her hands flexed, the one near her decorative gun, resting on it.

"It would have been nice to go with you for sure but good things did come of the trip to Menovara. It is one thing to see cities float on water but seeing them in thin air is quite a new experience." she raised a heavy hand to touch one of her short horns and then checked her braids before resting her hands near her hips again, "Not the most glamorous of locations but I can understand them having to finish up the main workings of their platforms first." she then looks up at Dresden as her head rested several inches below his own, "How was your travel?" she asked as they began to settle in the shuttle with the four theta she had grown accustomed to seeing.

[BIos_Reaper]

The ride down from the station had been quite a spectacular one. T'Kayans, especially AVI'S were used to seeing space, but few things besides a Jötunheim class Dreadnought compared to being planet side, feeling real ground, steel or stone beneath ones feet.

Though in Seitei's case, beneath his bare soles. Being a biodroid, a specific type of android made to look every bit as organic on the outside and even partially on the inside as another T'Kayan by use of monofilament quad-overlapped bio-synthetic musculature, an interior skeletal support structure that was in many ways similar to an actual bone structure and even certain organs were mimicked with similar looking synthetic systems components.

Still his exterior skin tone held that distinct coloration and his body was showing the necessary exterior components enabling others to clearly see that he wasn't alive at all but rather a most clever if not a totally brilliant imitation of organic life.

He took a deep breath, though in reality he was analyzing the air for contaminant levels and bacterial organisms, surprisingly finding them to be way below the bare minimum, such a species rich environment should have had at least a moderate amount them.

The GSA's bio-medical advances extended much further than biological component integration and organic systems it seemed, they even extended so far as to eliminate most known forms of undesired bacterial life-forms, leaving only the essential and largely harmless ones left. Clearly the GSA was a good choice for initial contact.

Taking steps forward from the orbital elevator he let the sunlight hit him, gathering up sunlight for use in his backup power cells with his fur, poofing it and spiking a little, like he was fluffing himself to cool off, he stretched, rotating his head a full 360° degrees, unnatural it seemed, but his body was designed with frictionless electromagnetic lide-fluid lubed multi-directional jointage in mind, meaning he could bend and twist his body any way necessary should he require so.

Deciding he might as well clothe himself in some way he closed his eyes, the LED lights on his shoulder robotic components, forearms and hips glowed brighter as outlines appeared in mid-air, tracing to enclose his upper body, ending just above his hips, turning white almost entirely, the forearms, shoulders, back and along the twin sections of it at the front lined themselves in electric blue.

LED lights appeared at regular intervals of the same areas while the rest solidified into brilliant metallic white before it fell down, a fully materialized, actual jacket made entirely of nothing more than reinforced photons and carefully managed force-shields. A collar appeared around his neck as well, matching his jacket except a blue-glowing dog-tag hung from it's front, reading clear white letters AVI-009 "Seitei Quanti. "

The latter being in smaller letters beneath the initial insignia, tightening comfortable around his neck Seitei twitched his ears, letting three pairs of studs appear in his left ear, smiling, taking on a much more organic feel he straightened his jacket and took off into the city of New Copenhagen.

He had no money of which to speak, but he did have an electronic credit account and a converter software component should conversion be necessary. Time to go out and mingle, and learn whatever was possible.

[Brome Teks]

Darien stands up and finishes sending his report back to his ship. Once he finishes, he puts his computer back him his bag and stands, stretching out his arms and tail.

He steps out and breaths in the air. .o( Good thing the medical officer prepared a general inoculation for all going to shore...) He walks out slowly, taking in all the sights around him.

[Akhil.WhiteWolf]

"Well, that's simple." He chuckles as he signs the form and prints his thumb on the spot. He freezes, and looks up at the otter slowly. "Wait...There's a fee for this, isn't there?" He smiles again as he realizes why it was so simple.

[Nelle Kozera]

"You got it, i hope you had ten thousand credits..." Was all he said, when one signed in weapons there was a large sir charge, any non law enforcement people had to pay a fee to bring weapons to the Carpican surface. "To late to look back, and hey look your cleared, looks like you had the money after all..." He said one the wolf was through he closed his booth, he was done for the day....

[Akhil.WhiteWolf]

Rashek grabs his permit and case and starts walking toward the Tourist Center. As he arrives, he checks the room as he usually does. Satisfied, he opens the case again and pulls out his decent-size handgun, checking it over one last time before sliding it into the holster. He pulls out a rather large rifle next, holding it out and looking at it from the side, inspecting it as he always does. He nods, smiling, and hooks it onto his armor-mounted webbing, letting it hang barrel-down at the ready. He reseals his helmet and looks around, taking in his surroundings through the visual system inside. He notices that he missed two small, hidden cameras; One in the corner, and one behind a clock. He chuckles again, silent behind the sealed metal.
After a few minutes, a small light comes on above the elevator door, with a light ding. He jerks a bit, having dozed off, and stands up, checking his rifle over. He walks over to the door swiftly, looking into an empty elevator. He steps inside, and looks around behind him. Seeing nothing, he shrugs and sits down. The doors close after a few moments, and he looks through the opposite window as the elevator starts moving.
Soon, the elevator passes out of the station and out into open space. He grins, looking out into the infinite, black vastness that is space. He sighs, content, and looks at the planet he is rapidly approaching. Beautiful. Lots of sea, lots of dark green land. Come to think of it, it reminded him of Ijaat, his homeworld, though most of it was barren. This place looked settled, at least more than his home. He quietly wondered what the people would think when they saw him. How many others of his species ever left the system? He didn't know. Surely, though, they'd seen others rather like him. He doubted they'd seen armor like his, at least. With that, he smiled again, and dozed off reminiscing about his homeworld.

[Cobalt3924]

Kai'Sera gave a little sigh and an unheard moan of longing when she saw the massive ocean on the planet below, as it reminded her of the view she had from Monarch Tower on Ra.

However, when the salty air reached her nose, she started spluttering; she'd never smelled sea water before as the oceans of Ra were Fresh water, and the salty smell irritated her sensitive nose.

[Nelle Kozera]

Two holographic images appeared, one was a large non anthropomorphic white dragon reminiscent of the owner of SDI had just met a few moments earlier. The other was a non anthropomorphic black fox with fleshly tendrils running from the back of his skull with blood dripping from it jaws though it seemed unphased by it. “Adraen, clean yourself up, there is no need to scare the visitors…” The Caprican natives chuckled when they took a look at the Fox, “Quite Paschendale, just because you have been here longer doesn’t mean you can dictate my appearance…” Even though there was resentment in his voice it appeared the fox agreed with the dragon in that they shouldn’t drive away new comers as the blood dripping had stopped for the time being, at least at the Elevator.

Once the two images stopped bickering with one another they turned to the new comers, the natives just nodded to them as they walked by. To the others the one that appeared to be named Adraen spoke up. “Hello, as you may have inferred on your own, my name is Adraen, and this is Paschendale. We are the Alpha level artificial intelligences tasked with running Caprica, should you need any assistance at anytime we may be contacted via the local cortex, should you not have the necessary implants to access it, portable uplink pads maybe be brought at any of the local markets…” The fox gave what looked like a once over, though it was merely a simulated reaction, hundreds of sensors and visual systems. “Does anyone have any questions?”

[Brome Teks]

Darien looks over the huge city at the base of the elevator, and thinks of the elevator that his own race had built on their home world. By comparison to this one, theirs was primitive, yet still functional.

He sighs and looks over to the Holograms. "Hmm... how much do these uplink devices cost?"

[BIos_Reaper]

Stepping over to the twin holographic projections the five foot ten inch tall canine android came to a halt, staring at them with it's twin glowing green pupil-less eyes, brightening and dimming as if though it were zooming in on them. "Pixilated images, holographic projections of world-wide-systems-interlinked artificial intelligences.

Greetings, I wish to ascertain weather or not my bio-mimicing interface is sufficient to link to one of these cortexes, I wish to understand more of this world and it's biology oriented technology."

He spoke with a soft almost boyish tone, belying his actual age, physically he was only 5 years old, mentally about 20 however.

Fluffing up his short but slightly longer than usual canid tail and keeping it still he splayed one ear and erected another, giving him a quizzical look, a small grin coupled with his bright glowing eyes, gave him more than an evil-alien-like look than he would have liked, perhaps glowing eyes wasn't such a good design feature?

[Nelle Kozera]

The fox took a little more interest in the android that the dragon did. “It is highly unlikely from what I can observe of your construction, you’re more apt to just get an interface pad as without some kind of jerry rigged system. Even then you might not get the connection speed necessary for effective use through an improvised system…so don’t get your hopes up for that.” The fox said sitting on his haunches though seeing as he was a hologram he had no reason to do such a thing. “If you wish there is also the contact form of the connection pad it costs about four times that of the pad but it’s discreet and unobtrusive…” Once he had said his spiel he went on to other questions. “Now, I have questions it was to my knowledge that Alpha level artificial intelligences could not exist in an inorganic body. While there have been organic brains build from the ground up with the processing power to allow an alpha to function unhindered, robots has not made such advances so does this mean you are from outside the largest of the four imperial powers of this galaxy?”

While Adraen had his focus on the robot Paschendale had his attention on the otter. “Most uplink pads cost between 20-30 credits…Uplink lens cost between 100 and 400 credits”

[Nelle Kozera]

Dresden took next to friend as the Thetas went to their own compartment. He seemed to relax if only a little. "My travels where blah..." He hold his paws out to express the point. "They would expect our terms when they came to us with the contract...i really should regulate this to my CEO...then again...i don't trust anyone to run my empire and those i do trust i don't want to push that responsibility on to..." He said. He never complained much about his Job so an event like this was rare... "We'll need to take a trip to Menovara sometime, I want to see these floating cites..." It was well known that he had spent hundreds of trillions on colonies for no other reason than he could.

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"Rashek Beradahn....Come with me..." A Theta that had perviously been cloaked in the elevator said, the dock was empty for now it seemed to be a different dock than others and this one, one could see the Black Sun HQ.

[Brome Teks]

"Uplink lens... is that like a contact lens that shows the data directly in front of your Eye? And if so, are there any restrictions an eye structures that can use it?"

Darien is starting to sound really curious again.

[Cobalt3924]

Kai'Sera sneezed from the salty air and rubbed her muzzle with a small handkerchief. She knew that there wasn't any way she could get a contact lens uplink for her eyes because of their ususual shape, but she could get one of these pads and fit it into her helmet if she needed to. It would be more useful than asking everyone for directions she figured.

Before she disturbed everyone further, she pulled a muzzleguard out of her bag and fitted it to her helmet over her nose; filtering out the salty air enough that she stopped spluttering.

[BIos_Reaper]

Quanti simply offered a small smile.

"You are correct in your assumption of my origins. I am not from this galaxy, however you assume that I cannot interface with an organic system, I am able to, though maybe not to it's full efficiency without an understanding of your encoding procedures. I am a representative of VECTOR, a frontier colony coalition force intent on bringing a colony vessel to this galaxy for the purpose of expanding our reach and understanding of this universe. Specifically I adhere to the T'Kayan Autocracy, a monarcy with a form of elected representational council and it is the largest empire in our galaxy. Presently we have 2 million worlds under our control, whereas 0.5% of that number is still in it's final stages of colony development.

I was sent here ahead of the main colony flotilla to ascertain the possibility of an alliance between the GSA and VECTOR seeing as how we wish to ensure the safety of our colonists and the integrity of our technology seeing as how we wish to avoid possible conflicts with the super-powers of this galaxy. Should such a need arise however we are well equipped to defend ourselves from unwarranted aggression. I identify myself as an artificial construct and as a personality, I was not simply programmed, I was given directives, a solid base code and the rest is education and environmental, cultural and sociological influence."

[Nelle Kozera]

“No the shape of the eye itself is irrelevant, a lens is built to the wearer so anyone can get a lens if one chooses, there are standard lens though they are cheaper they will not fit everyone.” The dragon said though he was giving the otter his full attention though it was quite the contrary…
“Well, that may be true for that was naturally evolved…” Adraen gave him that, “An organic brain can be augmented to allow it compete with a machine. But I digress for now…for you to interface you will need to understand GSA computer syntax and chaos coding, so for the moment you will need an pad or lens until you can properly convert codes…” Adraen seemed content for his answer for the moment, even though he was quite busy. “Do you need assistance with anything else?” The Fox’s jaws began to bleed again and this time Paschendale seemed to make no move to stop him, that or he didn’t care anymore…

[WolfyWetFurr]

Seeing as the first topic was not a hot one she moved onto the next, "I am sure Menovara would welcome your visit. I read up on develop on the planet on the way there but it's nothing at all compared to being on a platforms edge looking down." after speaking Kaythe took a seat and rested her paws in her lap, letting herself lean back a rest from her normally ridged posture. Her tail curled over her lap and she retrieves the box from her pouch.

With a smile the Karn removes the ivory studs from the box one buy one and placed them through the tiny slits in her ear that were hidden by the short dark fur. Her tail end twitched now and then as she fiddled with the studs, her head tilted to the side, until she finished and pocket the box once more. The corners of her mouth hint at a smile, both happy and to a small degree proud to wear the studs.

[Brome Teks]

Dairen smiles. "Okay, thanks for the info."

He makes his way towards the nearest shop selling uplink lenses. .oO(I'm certain that they'd approve of me getting a little alien technology for us to look over... but first to test drive it.)

He transfers the credits and purchases one of the more expensive lenses. "Does that come with a manual?"

[Akhil.WhiteWolf]

Rashek, almost spasming, jumps up quickly, swinging his rifle up, crouching and targeting the Theta within seconds, finger on the trigger. "Identify yourself, and how the hell did you hide so good!?"
Before the Theta can say anything, he jumps at it like a lightning bolt, smashing it against the wall and throwing it onto the ground, pinning it. He swings his rifle around on its webbing to sit on his back, and whips out his sidearm, nosing it on the Theta's head roughly. "TALK! Who the hell are you, and what do you want with me?"

[Cobalt3924]

Kai'Sera squealed in fear and took cover behind the android, holding her wings defensively in front of her. She was truly terrified of any and all weapons, despite carrying a Rakai made C-L pistol in her bag and a knife on her hip at all times: both of which she had declared three days ago.

[Arratra]

A rent appeared in space; within, barely visible for a second, was a hangar. A single ship zipped from it, and the rent quickly vanished.
Within the cockpit of the small ship sat Arratra Drakenguard, SCION 1.
"This is the Starlight Dragon," he said, into his mic, "Requesting vector and docking clearance."
"Vector approved, docking bay is open. Deck's yours, Star," came over the communications system, and Arratra guided the tiny ship around the two larger vessels towards a shuttle hangar. The fighter seemed miniscule at only 20 metres long, but its appearance was sharp and lethal, quite different from the squat shuttles.
The fighter set down in one of the slots, actually sliding sideways on its landing jets into the space.
As the engines spun down, Arratra undid his harness and climbed out of the ship, moving towards the customs booth. His weapons were carried obviously at his side and on his back.

(OOC: I like the RP, and I decided to join in. My character is here: Arratra Drakenguard (Character) - SciFiFur.net Community Forums )

[BIos_Reaper]

"I do not know the exchange rate for foreign currency, all I have are digitally stored galactic standard union credits. I do not know how much these would be worth here on this world, thusly I request a comparison of Caprican currency for a value comparison. " He did indeed have money but without checking how much it was worth on an alien world first he had no way of purchasing anything at the moment.

[ChaoticFox]

"Request permission to docking for Fertarren." Permission granted. Docking the large research frigate, Saber began his walk to the customs desk. He had a job to due, he was intent on finding any and all new species of alien in the tourist section, there almost always was. Saber was looking forward to investigating the many genetic variation that he might find. Behind him followed two Thetas both genetically superior to the stations. Saber also was here to meet with his old friend Dresden. He wanted to tell him of the numerous upgrades he had made to the Thetas, with there consent of course, it was sometimes very unfortunate that they had become a sentient species. These Thetas differed from the other in there color, and size, these were smaller, faster with stronger blades, and greater intelligence. It had been about three years since Saber had seen or heard from Dresden so it was likely that his modifications to his bod would be a surprise.

Saber walked towards the customs desk, his left blade swinging slowly back and forth as his right mechanical arm scanned the many persons that he past. Saber had not found a single new species yet, but he was still hope full. Coming up to the customs desk the same irritating otter was there, it seemed that no matter when Saber came to this planet the same damn otter was waiting to antagonize him. This time Saber would win there little dispute.

[Nelle Kozera]

OOC: (Arratra, Bios' post was not directed towards you, you guys are not even in the same station o.o...)

[Arratra]

(OOC: Oops. Fixed that.)

Arratra arrived at the customs booth, and nodded to the otter. "Arratra Drakenguard," he said, holding out his left arm; the correct information almost immediately appeared on the otter's terminal, and Arratra pulled his weapons off his back, as well as the large, powerful-looking pistol he wore in a cross-draw holster. These he placed on the desk, all in line, all barrel-first towards himself, and said, "Semi-automatic, every last one of them. I've got a licence. A military licence."

[Akhil.WhiteWolf]

OOC: (...Bios, Cobalt, you completely misunderstood. Focus on the fact that we were still in the elevator, in a totally different docking station...)

[Cobalt3924]

(OOC: Sorry, My bad.)

[BIos_Reaper]

(OOC: This is getting to be quite annoying, nothing is happening as people are taking way too long to get off the damnable orbital elevators, my entire reason to even post kind of just went up in smokle now. )

[Cobalt3924]

(OOC: I have to agree with Bios there; we're kinda dragging our heels a bit here.)