The Butterfly Effect (Formerly Caprica)

[Nelle Kozera]

The market clerk that had sold him the Lens nodded. “It’ll appear the moment it’s activated, oh when you put it on, seeing as you’re a first timer it’s going to sting abit as it buries sensors into the optic nerve …” She said leaning back in her chair, she seemed to have a pair of contacts in herself, or something else entirely as she seemed to the flipping through an invisible book while she was sitting there.

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The Theta laughed at the wolf that was on top of him, all four of the large blades where positioned so that if the theta wanted to it cut him into four neat pieces, which it was thinking of doing just to make this Endeavour easier but dismissed as unnecessary. “I’m here to collect you, my boss has a job for you and it needs to be done in a timely fashion, if you don’t think you can pull off a ten million credit hit I can always go the next hit man.” He said being right to the point, “And as I’m sure you know, it’s going take longer for you to kill me that for me to kill you…” It smiled, “But what do you say?”

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“Well, I have yet to encounter this type of credit, and that means it works on a different unlinked economic system then ours therefore it is worthless here, you would be better off taking a loan are asking some of the others around you for the credits necessary.” Adraen with a flick of his head, he now addressed the both of the people on the docks that had been left. “Seeing as you are foreigners you may be interested in Central Square.” He said pointing towards the center of the city….

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“Well, I am sorry to inform you that your military license is invalid here, and seeing as you are a foreign military entity you will be required to tag you pistol.” He said with a frown, he had to pull an extra shift because one of the bastards that was supposed to be here decided to turn himself into a Pandora level. “Ok..” on the other side a small canister with a small piece of film inside it. “Attach that to smooth part of your pistol, you going to need to leave any larger weapons you have on you ship as it is forbidden for you to carry them on Caprica.”

[Nelle Kozera]

The shuttle that carried the dragon and his friend landed at the main SDI building on the nearly separate artificial island on which Sky Dragon Innovations' head quarters rested on. The shuttle landed with the light thud entering VTOL mode before landing fully. "Well, it time we get back to work i guess..." He said stepping down the ramp into the light of Caprican sun. He was followed by his thetas but they quickly left him to return to the building, he was in no danger at the HQ. "We have something to check on before you start though..." Dresden said motioning for the Karn to follow him as he began to walk towards one of the farther back buildings of SDI head Quarters.

[ChaoticFox]

Saber walked right up to the customs desk set down his .44 magnum, saying "Hear is my weapon, and yes I have the money, and no I don't care that I'm not supposed to have a weapon with total metal jacket rounds, so you can keep your snide remarks to yourself, otter boy." That was more of a hopeful plea then any kind of order. The two of them had always had a love, hate kind of relationship, which was mostly due to there moods on the days they meet. Therefore Saber knew better then to expect anything from the otter, even after years of continued visits. "And whatever you have to say about my arms I really don't want to hear any of it." In an attempt to get a sample of the otters DNA he began to act a little nicer, "So, have you given my offer any thought, I mean 250 thousand for a simple pin prick, that is kind of an outrages offer, for some simple DNA, is it not."

[Brome Teks]

Darien nods and places the lenses in his eyes. He winces as he feels the sting, but soon enough it stops.

"Oh, coool..." He says as he looks around, seemingly looking at nothing to a passerby. He begins to read through the instruction manual that boots up before his eyes.

[BIos_Reaper]

"That ought to be an unnecessary action. I will try my hand at the cortex bio-interface system using my bio-synthetic adaptive decoding software. I will be right back. "

Stepping up to the nearest organic cortex interface the canid android placed his palm on it, his fingers skin seemed to slide back a bit, revealing internal mechanics resembling segmented metallic armor covering up a black musculature with silvery lines running over it, the muscles appeared covered in some form of alien kevlic material.

All five of his fingers knuckle armor parts slid back, extending a tendril each which linked with a glowing tip to the organic interface system, spreading a few circuit-like lines as the nanotech established a translation matrice within the organic material, translating the syntax through reference material provided in basic program code by the cortex, establishing a link capable of 4/5th the regular speed, the speed of thought as opposed to the normal halved that time.

"There, nothing to it. " After which he proceeded to read up on New Copehagen and Caprica as well as the GSA in general, from tech to social structure to civilization to whatever tiny filtered and censored bits of military detail there was, finishing it up in a matter of moments, disconnecting, the circuits retreating as what had been build was rapidly disassembled and moved back into his nanite capsule reserves, the tendrils retracting and his knuckles sliding back, the skin covering his fingers again.

"Looks like I should find something to do on this world. " With that he wandered about, thinking it might be advisable to look for a widely populated space, though he doubted new comers were permitted access, perhaps he should visit this SDI facility?

[Akhil.WhiteWolf]

Rashek holsters his sidearm, releasing him and standing. He grabs the Theta by the arm and pulls him up. "My apologies. I get very irritated when things jump out at me when they shouldn't. A job offer, eh...Well, let's see what they've got."

[Nelle Kozera]

"Alright follow me..." The Theta said, it was impossible to tell weather the theta was male or female at this point. They landed at an unused dock, the Theta handed him a set of cortex contacts. "Put these on it will speed this up, one you put them on and they connect you will see the target, you must make sure that this craft is destroyed near the Caprican Maglev train as it passed between the market and industrial sectors...You are to go about it of your own design, next you will see a location there you will find hot dust, once you find that you will have forty five minutes to make it to the craft and the plant the Hot Dust. Also in the case you will find a RF detonator, the technology is ancient so there is no worries of tracking. You have one hour..."

[Cobalt3924]

Kai'Sera walked up to one of the stands selling the Uplink Pads, just where Darien had just purchased one of the lenses.

"Umm, would I be allowed to purchase one of these Connection Pads?"

[Nelle Kozera]

"I really don't see why not miss, is there a reason why you think you can't, if you have the credits i have the goods..." The women at the market said she continued to flip through her inviso book. "You can also get implants if you desire, that goes for both of you..." She said, "Though you will need to go to a clinic for them to be implanted..."

[Cobalt3924]

"I've never been this far into the galaxy before, and I wasn't sure."

Kai'Sera picked up one of the Pads.

"I don't have many credits becuase I wasn't planning on staying here for long; maybe 150 at most. I do have three thousand Rakai Kri if it's any help."

She pulled a few tiny Gemstones out of her pocket and showed them to the woman. Each one of the stones had a tiny silver marking on the side, showing her that these were Rakai Currency. Because the Empire was so small and the planets in the empire were so rich with gemstones, the Rakai adapted them as currency instead of Paper or more conventional Money.

[Brome Teks]

"Eh no, I think I'll stick with the lenses for now." He says. He looks around as he finishes the quick-start.

"Damn, this is cool..."

[Nelle Kozera]

"Yeah, hang on a moment....lets see what the conversion is..." She said, her fingers moved through the air playing with an invisible interface. "Well, that would about 2 credits of the total cost, and a uplink pad cost 20 credits." She said leaning forward, "If your wondering, its because the Credit carries far more weight on the galactic market than those gems do..." She said, "So, what color would you like?" She said going to take a back off the back wall...

A message flashes on screen, 'Otter boy this the market clerk are those lens working? The lens have a thought to text converter if you haven't gotten to there yet, send back a message if you get this...'

[Cobalt3924]

"Umm... I'll have that pretty silver one there." Kai'Sera said, handing over a small card with her Credits on it, deciding to save her Kri.

"I hope I can get this to work with my visor. I'm not as technologically smart as my older brother."

[Brome Teks]

Darien blinks when he sees the message scroll across his vision. "...Woah." He concentrates, and sends back a message.

[Confirmed. I have access to this feature.]

[Arolan]

A giant Frigate known as the SCC Advent slow docks into the spacestation. A jackle like figure walks out from the Frigate, fully armed, like usual. He takes his time, looking around the station and heads for the custom's booth. He walks up, remaining quiet and looks to the person inside the booth. Without a word he holds out his files and slips them under the glass for the person to see. He also displays a unique passport and only removes his melee weapons and dispatches them. The jackle waits for the man to speak.

[Akhil.WhiteWolf]

Rashek looks around quietly as the Theta explains the job. He nods a couple times, then grins, accepting the offered lenses. "I could always just program it into my helmet, but whatever." He puts them in, and puts his helmet on, sealing it again. He finishes the conversation, gives the Theta a mock salute, and activates the lenses. Used to the vast array of information that appears already, he quickly becomes accustomed to the unnecessary information, focusing on what he needs, as usual. He nods to the Theta. "One hour. Anything else I need to know?"

[Arratra]

Arratra sighed, shaking his head. "So I walked all the way from my ship just to be told my license to carry a rifle is invalid... Listen, bud," he said, looking at the otter, "I've given you the identity data. I'm in a hurry, so get someone to put these," he indicated the weapons he wasn't allowed to carry, "back to my ship. The AI can handle the rest... and no tampering with them. I can and will bring the full weight of the law down on those that try."
He picked up his pistol, a heavy, large-calibre weapon, and attached the pod to the back, where it wouldn't interfere with functions. Without hesitating, he pricked his own neck, and provided a blood sample; the tiny wound healed almost instantly.
"Am I free to go?" he asked, his tone irritable, as he holstered the pistol in the familiar cross-draw holster, "I'm in rather a hurry."

[Nelle Kozera]

"Yeah, get it done..." The theta said as it walked away, "And don't kill your self..."

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"Go on..." He said, typed in a commanded and the pod was taken away from the terminal but some kind of critter that could not be identified."Nex....oh its you..." The otter said looking at the disfigured man that kept asking him to give him samples. "Saber, you see this..." He tapped the Star diamond plate that was between him and the man. "Its three thick, so you can't force it out of me, and you can't bribe me either, now..." He checked in his 'friend...' "Get out of here before i call law enforcement..." He said as the door opened to enter the tourist center...

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The women that was checking in the Jackal nodded, "Everything is in order...." she said opening the door for him. "Have a nice day..."

[Brome Teks]

Darien looks around, trying out some of the applications of the lenses while he waits for the plot to arrive. He looks like he's poking at thin air.

[Arratra]

Arratra nodded, and walked through, heading immediately for the orbital elevator, stepping into one that was just about to leave. People gasped as they caught sight of him, and whispers quickly started around him.
"That's Arratra Drakenguard! What's he doing this far into the Alliance?" someone asked, having noticed that Arratra seemed irritated.
"Business," Arratra said, "Urgent business."
"Ummm... OK."

[Cobalt3924]

“Thank you.” Kai’Sera said as she took the Silver Uplink Pad. She pulled off her helmet and attached it to the back. A few silver wires grew from the helmet into the pad; assimilating it into its systems.

“I hope this works.” She murmured to herself before putting the helmet on.

[Akhil.WhiteWolf]

Rashek nods curtly to the Theta, turns sharply, and sprints off, swinging up his rifle. He runs quite a distance, and ducks behind a piece of debris, scanning the area around him. He peeks his head over the large metal object, looking for the case.
After a few seconds, he spots it, inconspicuous to the untrained eye. He breaks cover and runs to it, snatching it up and hiding behind another piece of rubbish. He opens it swiftly, looking at it. Content, he nods and pulls out the needle. He carefully slips it up his sleeve, and sets the lens to spot the parking lot. He walks to it slowly, as to not attract unnecessary attention.
He quickly spots the target car, and makes his way to it, randomly. He goes between many cars, seemingly lost, and goes up to it quietly. He looks around, as if looking for his own vehicle, standing a few feet away from the target. He sighs, shrugging, and starts walking in the space next to the target car. He briefly touches the windshield with his right paw as if pushing off it, slipping out the needle onto the edge of the windshield, where it would be secure.
Satisfied, he acts as if he gives up, and walks away, still seeing nobody around. He heads to the metro, sitting on a bench near the entrance. He sits, and looks around, spotting a few civvies. He smiles inside the safety of his helmet, and watches the target car in his peripheral vision, watching other bystanders pass by. He fakes sleep, sitting on the bench for quite some time, trigger in hand.
After a little thought, he stretches, and stands, heading for a nearby alley. He gets back out of sight, and starts climbing the wall of one building quickly, scaling it and rolling over onto it. He goes to a crouch, walking carefully across the roof, trying not to be seen. He goes prone, barely looking over the edge enough to see the target vehicle. He turns on his IR layer, watching for heat. He spots a few civvies, and ignores them.
After getting quite bored, he finally spots a couple heat signatures going into the lot. He quickly zooms, and gets a positive ID on the target. He grins, slipping the trigger out of his pocket, waiting patiently. "Your time's up, you son of a bitch..." He watches the vehicle start and pull out, heading into the street. He watches it carefully. It passes the metro, and he grins, flicking the trigger.

[Nelle Kozera]

The car detonates near one of the support pillars of the Metro. It was at this moment that the maglev train had been passing over head. With the weakened support pillar the train crashed in the street front end first. Even though the power to the train was cut off almost instantly the train still had enough momentum for fifteen cars to slide off into the central square of New Copenhagen. Within seconds an urgent message had wide band board casted to anyone with a Cortex uplink.
It Read

‘Maglev metro track thirty four has been shut down due to damages.’ Images of the still burning train and the car that was blown to pieces was shown. ‘It is unknown at this time who is responsible. Though causalities are estimated to be at forty and raising.’ This time a recording of the detonation and the subsequent train crash was shown on the uplinks. ‘As of this moment medical crews are in route to help the wounded and those that can be brought back from death.’

With that the urgent message was blanked and communication returned to normal for the time being. For those nearby people could be seen crawling out of the destroyed train, those that could still move, cries for help could be heard for those that couldn’t move or where pinned.

(Ok, This was witnessed by Kai’Sera, Darien, and Seitei, everyone else saw the message.)

[Arratra]

Arratra swore when he was the message, slamming his fist into the doors.
"Dammit!" he exclaimed, "I have to get there!"
A few minutes later, the elevator arrived, and Arratra shoved his way out, drawing a few exclamations. He sprinted towards the crashed train, and to the front carriage. He growled in anger when he discovered that it was still sealed, and he fitted his claws into the seam. The door resisted his efforts at first, before something inside the mechanism snapped, and the doors shot open, sending Arratra toppling inside.

[Cobalt3924]

“Oh my god!” Kai’Sera squealed when the Maglev train smashed into the ground. Without even thinking and letting her Rakai Instincts take over, she sprinted over to the wreakage.
She saw another creature rip open one of the doors to another compartment as she spat a mouthful of acid onto another door; dissolving the opening mechanism and letting her simply pull the door off. As she went inside, she looked over her shoulder and locked eyes with what she recognised was a Gratiir for a second before turning back and helping some of the struggling occupants get free from the burning wreakage: her visor prioritising who was in the most dire need of help.

[Akhil.WhiteWolf]

Rashek crawled back slowly, jumping off the side of the building into the alley. He looks back at the wreckage, faking concern, and studies the wreckage. He catches the eye of a rather tall Rakai, locking eyes momentarily. She then breaks contact and starts pulling at the wreckage. He walks away calmly, heading back the way he came, swinging his rifle back in front of him. He quickly comes up to the island he started on again.

[Brome Teks]

Darien blinks as the emergency message scrolls across his vision. He blinks, then sees the Other parton of the store run out. He follows shortly after, and stares at the wreckage before him. "Oh... Oh gods..."

He stares dumbstruck for a moment before he runs to the train and goes to climb into the crashed train and begins to help pull any survivors out.

[Arratra]

Arratra was getting to his feet, and he looked up at the otter. "Just in time," he said, "Help me get the survivors out of here!"
Without waiting for an answer, he knelt and lifted a wounded Arctic Fox, passing the vixen up towards Darien.
"This definitely takes precidence over an appointment, even if it is with the government," he muttered.
The moment his hands were free again, he pressed a button on his wrist interface, which caused the device to open a link directly to Muukhuz, the AI aboard the stealth carrier, Shadow Dragon.
"What is it, sir?" she asked, her image appearing over his hand.
"Prep the sickbay. There's been a bombing down here, and you may have to bring the ship into atmosphere to render first-aid to the wounded."
"Understood, sir."

A medium-sized ship suddenly seemed to appear in high orbit, although traffic control had already noted its presence on the radar screens... that and the AI had informed them that the ship's ID was highly classified.
"This is Muukhuz, shipboard AI of the Shadow Dragon. We are performing a de-orbit burn in order to render assistance groundside. Please inform the authorities that we are rendering assistance."
Without waiting for clearance, the ship went past the orbital docking station, a medivac shuttle launching from the left launch bay. The shuttle looked vaguely like a cockroach, and was of a fairly standard design; it was nicknamed the Medi-Roach by many troopers because of its durability and appearance.

OOC* The shuttle looks a lot like the one in Mass Effect 2, but with much larger rear engines. This one has had some minor modifications done, mainly to the autopilot, so that it can fly entirely on its own if need be. XD couldn't resist

[BIos_Reaper]

"Alert! Alert! Alert! Civilians in danger! Civilians in danger!" Flashed across Quanti's vision. Prompting him to rotate his head towards the wreckage and the burning corpses littered about it...

Springing towards the flaming debris he took a stand, braching himself he tore the maglev trains front door right off of it's hinges, staring around, the temperature was enormus, prompting him to release built-up internal heat frequently...

A few people were still inside, but they were close to choking or suffocating...

"Don't move! Hold your breath!!" He called over the roaring flames, assembling a strange looking disk in his right hand he extended his left above his head, folding open the bionic component on his arm he extended three glowing purple barrels, blasting a hole through the roof before throwing the device up.

Extending several strange devices on his body a massive spray of particles emitted, stabalizing into multiple force-shields above the victims as the device exploded with tremendus force except...

It created a preasure point, a firebomb, an implosion device which sucked at the flames, draining the area of O2 and sucking in nearly all the fire from outside and inside of the cars, himself standing, electromagnetically anchored, not minding as the flames seared his flesh and exposed his true synthetic nature from underneath a gleaming metallic white skeleton overlapping black musculature and glowing red-eye spheres appeared, he stood his ground, not budging until the bomb had done it's job and the flames had largely been extinguished.

Turning around he dropped the particle fields and using his optical lasers carved a huge chunk out of the busted car, letting the people escape out as O2 gradually returned to the area.

"Maglevs don't just explode... " He analyzed the area, his ears pricking... A remnant transmission not in key with the rest of the area, a transmission signal!? "Someone did this on purpose... "

[Brome Teks]

Darien Pulls the vixen out just as the ship materialized in the lower atmosphere. He looks up. .oO(Damn it, I need to get our ship down here too...) He ponders. .oO(... Actually, that'd be a bad Idea. I'm sure this planet has all kinds of emergency response vehicles...)

He lays the vixen down a short distance away and hears the bang of Quanti doing his stuff. "Woah..." Her stares at it in awe.