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Establishing the Animator vs Animation Cosmology
2024.06.02 01:24 ARandomAccount246 Establishing the Animator vs Animation Cosmology
Yes, it's there, and it's unironically bigger than I'd ever expect it to be. It feels kinda weird introducing myself to this sub this way, but I just couldn't come up with a good MU to start off with, and I really wanted to get this out of the way, so let's get started!
Some people claim that AvA caps at 2D due to the characters existing inside a computer. However, this argument doesn't work because it ignores the fact that if they were truly 2D beings, they would not be able to interact with other verses like Mario, Pokemon, Minecraft, League of Legends, Kirby, and many, many more.
All of these aforementioned verses are at least 3D, even without taking into consideration their own cosmologies.
So with that out of the way, let's get to the actual interesting part.
Basically, The Dark Lord's computer identifies the websites he was going to invade as "dimensions" and "subspaces".
I originally didn't want to take this at face value, given how there's nothing i've seen that gives theses said websites an actual official size. However, something that should be taken note of is that these dimensions aren't accessible through normal means.
Stick Figures that live in the Outernet can only ever enter the websites by going through what looks like some kind of wormhole, (aka a connection between seperated space-times) that is more thoroughly explained here.
This applies to computers as well, since we get the same "wormhole" depiction when TCO travels to Alan's PC.
If you already live inside a computer (like the main gang) than you can access the websites pretty easily (I mean how else would Animation vs YouTube have happened?) but you still can't access other computers without taking either a portal or mailing yourself.
So at the end of the day, what is actually the purpose of me pointing all of this stuff out? Well, it's pretty simple: It's evidence that the entire Internet shown in AvA is likely, essentially, it's own multiverse, with each computer and website being their own respective universes due to how they work.
Of course, this is all mostly speculation, we still don't have anything that can actually set a confirmed size for all of them outside of the fact they are obviously way bigger than the figures who enter them, but it's shown to work this way so much that I just couldn't make this post without throwing out this info.
Every world has at least 3 separate dimensions: The Overworld, Nether, and The End, and this is just the standard case for "canon" Minecraft cosmology.
AvM adds a little bit more to this:
The Monster School world is likely a separate universe due to the events of it not lining up with the events that happened in every other world. For Example: The time changing during Herobrine's 1st lesson did not affect the time in every other place during AvM Season 3, despite the fact that time in the overworld is always the same regardless of your location, implying they aren't part of the same space-time continuum.
The Note Block Universe is most definitely another dimension altogether though, because it's literally called a universe in the video title, and it's uniquely, fundamentally different from every other world because it's the only place where EVERY mob can both fly and sing.
You can argue that every single world seen after AvM 25 are different universes, but excluding the Monster School and Note Block Universe I don't see why they can't be interpreted as just different locations in the overworld, infinite space gives you a lot of room after all.
The Math Dimension: High Hyperversal due to Euler making an ♾️D portal, as well as there being sentient Aleph sets.
I've heard arguments for both of these being higher, but I don't remember what they are and imo only Euler and Aleph can scale to them.
I can go ahead and point out that this isn't true for AvA and AvM, and Purple's existence in AvLOL alone proves that all the other episodes not apart of the 2 main series' are still canon.
As for AvE, it's still ambiguous on where it's placement is supposed to be for the main series, some interpret it as a dream, some assume that it's non-canon, and some do think it's 100% canon.
There's nothing so far that actually confirms when the events of those videos actually happened, if at all, but luckily enough I did find at least something interesting that tilts in my favor.
During episode 33 of AvM, we see Green BFR a cow to space.
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Debunking 2D claims:
So...this is the most common argument against verse's scaling that I have to tackle right out of the gate.Some people claim that AvA caps at 2D due to the characters existing inside a computer. However, this argument doesn't work because it ignores the fact that if they were truly 2D beings, they would not be able to interact with other verses like Mario, Pokemon, Minecraft, League of Legends, Kirby, and many, many more.
All of these aforementioned verses are at least 3D, even without taking into consideration their own cosmologies.
So with that out of the way, let's get to the actual interesting part.
The Internet is possibly a multiverse:
When I looked deep into this, I found something that has some intriguing info about how the universe of Animator vs Animation works.Basically, The Dark Lord's computer identifies the websites he was going to invade as "dimensions" and "subspaces".
I originally didn't want to take this at face value, given how there's nothing i've seen that gives theses said websites an actual official size. However, something that should be taken note of is that these dimensions aren't accessible through normal means.
Stick Figures that live in the Outernet can only ever enter the websites by going through what looks like some kind of wormhole, (aka a connection between seperated space-times) that is more thoroughly explained here.
This applies to computers as well, since we get the same "wormhole" depiction when TCO travels to Alan's PC.
If you already live inside a computer (like the main gang) than you can access the websites pretty easily (I mean how else would Animation vs YouTube have happened?) but you still can't access other computers without taking either a portal or mailing yourself.
So at the end of the day, what is actually the purpose of me pointing all of this stuff out? Well, it's pretty simple: It's evidence that the entire Internet shown in AvA is likely, essentially, it's own multiverse, with each computer and website being their own respective universes due to how they work.
Of course, this is all mostly speculation, we still don't have anything that can actually set a confirmed size for all of them outside of the fact they are obviously way bigger than the figures who enter them, but it's shown to work this way so much that I just couldn't make this post without throwing out this info.
Minecraft:
This should be easier to go over so let's get the basic stuff out of the way, we know that minecraft worlds are high universal due to having infinite size, and that the overworld is obviously it's own space-time continuum, which would be universal+.Every world has at least 3 separate dimensions: The Overworld, Nether, and The End, and this is just the standard case for "canon" Minecraft cosmology.
AvM adds a little bit more to this:
The Monster School world is likely a separate universe due to the events of it not lining up with the events that happened in every other world. For Example: The time changing during Herobrine's 1st lesson did not affect the time in every other place during AvM Season 3, despite the fact that time in the overworld is always the same regardless of your location, implying they aren't part of the same space-time continuum.
The Note Block Universe is most definitely another dimension altogether though, because it's literally called a universe in the video title, and it's uniquely, fundamentally different from every other world because it's the only place where EVERY mob can both fly and sing.
You can argue that every single world seen after AvM 25 are different universes, but excluding the Monster School and Note Block Universe I don't see why they can't be interpreted as just different locations in the overworld, infinite space gives you a lot of room after all.
Animation vs Education:
The Universe in AvPhysics: It's at least 5D due to TSC entering Anti-De Sitter space which is directly called 5-Dimensional on screen. TSC was also given a 6D object.The Math Dimension: High Hyperversal due to Euler making an ♾️D portal, as well as there being sentient Aleph sets.
I've heard arguments for both of these being higher, but I don't remember what they are and imo only Euler and Aleph can scale to them.
Regarding what's canon and what isn't:
Some people apparently have some misconceptions that these are all different timelines or that one isn't canon to another.I can go ahead and point out that this isn't true for AvA and AvM, and Purple's existence in AvLOL alone proves that all the other episodes not apart of the 2 main series' are still canon.
As for AvE, it's still ambiguous on where it's placement is supposed to be for the main series, some interpret it as a dream, some assume that it's non-canon, and some do think it's 100% canon.
There's nothing so far that actually confirms when the events of those videos actually happened, if at all, but luckily enough I did find at least something interesting that tilts in my favor.
During episode 33 of AvM, we see Green BFR a cow to space.
- This is specifically just outer space, not the end, the nether, and obviously not the overworld despite the weapon in question being an End-Portal-Frame-Staff.
- It's possible that this is the same space TSC was flying around in his rocket during Animation vs Physics.
- If that's true, it would automatically prove that AvE is canon to AvM, and thus, canon to AvA.
So....with all that said, who actually scales to this?:
- TCO and TDL should at least scale to websites and computers due to completely destroying the interior of Alan's PC, wrecking multiple games and websites after they left it, and the fact TCO killed a Virabot which on it's own was gonna destroy Alans computer....again..... TDL can potentially get even higher via his Virabot army since he was planning to destroy the entire Internet with them (which could include literally every website in existence) and Awakened TSC upscales from that due to slaughtering both of them with ease.
- The King scales to the aforementioned worlds due to the black hole reaching and destroying all of them, and Herobrine should also scale to The King due to giving him the most extreme-diff fight of his life. (This is lowballing really, as King Orange was planning and also implied to be destroying the entire Minecraft verse, as in the entire game, which would include all of the 18 quintillion seeds as well#:~:text=hashCode()%20function%20is%20used,264%2C%20or%2018%2C446%2C744%2C073%2C709%2C551%2C616).)
- Assuming AvE is canon, TSC gets to 5D due to entering a higher dimension and manipulating the universe right afterwards, You can argue TCO and TDL also upscale from this since this feat was only done in his base form.
Conclusion:
- The Internet is possibly, if not outright a multiverse of it's own.
- A single Minecraft seed is at least low multiversal with the combined amount of seeds being WAAAAY above baseline multiversal, but not necessarily 2-A.
- Animation vs Physics is 5-6D.
- Animation vs Math is High Hyperversal, but I don't think TSC (At least not his base form) can scale to it because Euler didn't use that kind of power against him in their fight.
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2024.06.01 21:41 Heavy-Strike6814 How can I control two 12v fans using an Arduino?
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2024.06.01 21:31 Billy_NoMate List of every time more than 4 words fit a category
To clear up a common misconception that this is something that only happens extremely rarely, here's a list of every time more than 4 words have fit one of the categories and what number puzzle it occurred in. The first 4 words are the answers and every word after that in parenthesis are words that fit that category but were part of another group. Also, category names might not be exactly the same as the ones used.
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#4 Cleaning Verbs
Possible answers: DUST, MOP, SWEEP, VACUUM, (IRON)
#5 Condiments
Possible answers: KETCHUP, MAYO, RELISH, TARTAR, (MUSTARD)
#5 Clue Characters
Possible answers: GREEN, MUSTARD, PLUM, SCARLET, (PEACOCK)
#6 Shades of Blue
Possible answers: BABY, MIDNIGHT, POWDER, ROYAL, (SEA)
#6 Rappers
Possible answers: COMMON, FUTURE, ICE CUBE, Q-TIP, (CHANCE)
#9 Shirts
Possible answers: CAMI, HALTER, TANK, TEE, (POLO)
#9 Vegetables
Possible answers: BEET, CARROT, CORN, ONION, (SQUASH)
#9 Insects
Possible answers: ANT, BEETLE, MANTIS, TERMITE, (CRICKET)
#10 Countries
Possible answers: CHAD, GEORGIA, JORDAN, TOGO, (TURKEY)
#10 Birds
Possible answers: CRANE, JAY, TURKEY, SWALLOW, (KIWI)
#11 Spices
Possible answers: CARDAMOM, CLOVE, CORIANDER, CUMIN, (GINGER)
#11 Terms of Endearment
Possible answers: BOO, HONEY, SUGAR, SWEETIE, (BABY)
#12 Animal Group Names
Possible answers: FLOCK, PACK, POD, SCHOOL, (PRIDE)
#12 Deadly Sins
Possible answers: ENVY, GREED, LUST, PRIDE, (SLOTH)
#13 Airlines
Possible answers: FRONTIER, SPIRIT, UNITED, VIRGIN, (DELTA)
#13 Greek Letters
Possible answers: BETA, CHI, DELTA, IOTA, (NU)
#13 Silent G's
Possible answers: GNAT, GNAW, GNOCCHI, GNOME, (GNU)
#14 Famous Brothers
Possible answers: JONAS, MARX, WARNER, WRIGHT, (MARIO)
#14 Honda Vehicles
Possible answers: ACCORD, CIVIC, PASSPORT, PILOT, (CANOPY)
#15 Colors
Possible answers: BROWN, PINK, TURQUOISE, VIOLET, (SILVER)
#15 Fishing Equipment
Possible answers: LURE, REEL, ROD, TACKLE, (HOOK)
#16 Nuts
Possible answers: ALMOND, CASHEW, PECAN, WALNUT (PEANUT)
#17 Neck Accessories
Possible answers: ASCOT, BOLO, TIE, SCARF, (BOW)
#19 Disagreement
Possible answers: QUARREL, ROW, SPAT, TIFF, QUARREL, (BEEF)
#20 Grains
Possible answers: BARLEY, OAT, RYE, SPELT, (RICE)
#20 Royal Titles
Possible answers: BARON, EARL, KING, PRINCE, (DUKE)
#23 60's Band Member
Possible answers: BEACH BOY, BEATLE, BYRD, MONKEE, (ROLLING STONE)
#23 Dance Fads
Possible answers: DOUGIE, MACARENA, MASHED POTATO, TWIST, (VOGUE)
#25 Desserts
Possible answers: CHEESECAKE, FLAN, MOUSSE, TIRAMISU, (FUDGE)
#25 Animals with Tusks
Possible answers: ELEPHANT, HIPPO, NARWHAL, WARTHOG, (WALRUS)
#26 Countries (Holland is technically a region but it's often used as an informal name for the Netherlands)
Possible answers: DENMARK, GREECE, POLAND, PORTUGAL, (HOLLAND)
#26 Spelled with Roman Numerals
Possible answers: DILL, LIVID, MILD, MIX, (MIMIC)
#27 Body Parts
Possible answers: HEART, LIVER, LUNG, KIDNEY, (SPINE)
#28 File Extensions
Possible answers: GIF, PDF, TIFF, ZIP, (DOC)
#28 Fruits
Possible answers: BANANA, COCONUT, MANGO, PINEAPPLE, (KIWI)
#30 Joints
Possible answers: HIP, KNEE, SHOULDER, WRIST, (ELBOW)
#33 Boats
Possible answers: FERRY, JUNK, TUG, YACHT, (SUB)
#33 Cuts of Beef
Possible answers: FLANK, LOIN, ROUND, SHANK, (CHUCK)
#34 Smell
Possible answers: AROMA, BOUQUET, FRAGRANCE, SCENT, (FUNK)
#34 Music Genres
Possible answers: BLUES, COUNTRY, FUNK, SOUL, (ROCK)
#35 Metals
Possible answers: IRON, LEAD, TIN, ZINC, (NICKEL)
#36 Animals
Possible answers: KANGAROO, KOALA, WALLABY, WOMBAT, (MOLE RAT)
#38 Trees
Possible answers: ASH, CEDAR, MAPLE, PINE, (ELM)
#38 Land Formation
Possible answers: HILL, MOUNTAIN, PLATEAU, VALLEY, (PLAIN)
#38 Bagel Flavors
Possible answers: EVERYTHING, ONION, PLAIN, POPPY, (SESAME)
#41 Islands
Possible answers: CUBA, JAPAN, MALTA, PALAU, (FIJI), (JAVA)
#42 Punctuation Marks
Possible answers: COLON, COMMA, HYPHEN, PERIOD, (DASH)
#43 Birds
Possible answers: BOOBY, GULL, PELICAN, PUFFIN, (CANARY)
#45 Modes of Transportation
Possible answers: BOAT, CAR, PLANE, TRAIN, (SUBWAY)
#46 Cities
Possible answers: CHICAGO, MUNICH, PHILADELPHIA, RIO, (MANHATTAN)
#46 Fashion Magazines
Possible answers: ALLURE, ELLE, GLAMOUR, W, (COSMOPOLITAN)
#46 Storms
Possible answers: BLIZZARD, CYCLONE, SQUALL, TORNADO, (HURRICANE)
#48 Apparitions
Possible answers: GHOST, PHANTOM, SPECTER, SPIRIT, (GENIE)
#49 Relatives
Possible answers: AUNT, COUSIN, MOTHER, NEPHEW, (GRANDFATHER)
#49 Offbeat
Possible answers: DAFFY, KOOKY, QUIRKY, WACKY, (CUCKOO)
#49 Fictional Ducks
Possible answers: DAISY, DEWEY, DONALD, SCROOGE, (DAFFY)
#50 Imperial Measurements
Possible answers: FOOT, INCH, MILE, YARD, (QUART)
#52 Rodents
Possible answers: GERBIL, HAMSTER, RAT, VOLE, (MOUSE)
#52 Musical Instruments
Possible answers: HARP, HORN, ORGAN, TRIANGLE, (KEYBOARD)
#52 Complain
Possible answers: CARP, GRIPE, GROUSE, MOAN, (HARP)
#53 Animal Group Names
Possible answers: COLONY, HERD, PRIDE, SWARM, (FAMILY)
#53 AP Classes
Possible answers: BIO, CHEM, GOV, STATS, (LIT)
#54 Places for Worship
Possible answers: ALTAR, RELIQUARY, SHRINE, TEMPLE, (ABBEY)
#54 Presidents
Possible answers: CALVIN, CHESTER, GROVER, HARRY, (GARFIELD)
#56 Dances
Possible answers: HUSTLE, SALSA, SWING, TANGO, (TAP)
#57 Patterns
Possible answers: HOUNDSTOOTH, PAISLEY, PLAID, STRIPES, (DOT)
#58 Arachnids
Possible answers: MITE, SCORPION, SPIDER, TICK, (BLACK WIDOW)
#58 Fish
Possible answers: CHAR, EEL, PERCH, SHARK, (CATFISH)
#58 Superheroes
Possible answers: BLACK WIDOW, BLADE, FLASH, STORM, (TICK)
#59 Quantity
Possible answers: FEW, HANDFUL, SEVERAL, SOME, (PAIR)
#59 Celestial Objects
Possible answers: ASTEROID, COMET, MOON, PLANET, (SUN)
#60 Sports Venues
Possible answers: COURT, DIAMOND, FIELD, RINK, (RING)
#60 Jewelry
Possible answers: ANKLET, BANGLE, BROOCH, PENDANT, (RING), (CHARM)
#62 State Abbreviations
Possible answers: CO, MA, ME, PA, (LA)
#62 Period Table Symbols
Possible answers: FE, HE, NA, NI, (CO), (PA), (LA), (TI)
#63 Slang for Zero
Possible answers: JACK, NADA, NOTHING, SQUAT, (ZIP)
#63 Exercises
Possible answers: CURL, LUNGE, PLANK, PRESS, (SQUAT), (CRUNCH)
#63 Captains
Possible answers: CRUNCH, KANGAROO, OBVIOUS, PLANET, (JACK)
#64 Dog Names
Possible answers: FIDO, LUCKY, ROVER, SPOT, (REX)
#64 Perceive
Possible answers: CATCH, NOTICE, OBSERVE, SEE, (SPOT)
#64 Fishing Terms
Possible answers: BAIT, CHUM, FLY, SINKER, (CATCH)
#65 Energy
Possible answers: JUICE, SPIRIT, STEAM, VIGOR, (GAS), (FIRE)
#66 Time Periods
Possible answers: CENTURY, DECADE, MILLENNIUM, YEAR, (MONTH)
#66 Breakfast Foods
Possible answers: CEREAL, OMELET, PANCAKE, WAFFLE, (BACON), (EGG)
#67 Desserts
Possible answers: CAKE, COBBLER, PIE, TART, (FUDGE)
#67 Occupations
Possible answers: FISHER, MASON, MILLER, SMITH, (DOCTOR)
#68 Extremely
Possible answers: AWFUL, QUITE, SUPER, VERY, (REAL)
#68 Currencies
Possible answers: RAND, REAL, STERLING, WON, (POUND)
#68 _____Cake
Possible answers: CARROT, COFFEE, POUND, SPONGE, (CUP)
#69 Shoes
Possible answers: CLOG, PUMP, SLIDE, WEDGE, (MARY JANE)
#69 Slang for Marijuana
Possible answers: GRASS, HERB, MARY JANE, WEED, (BUD), (POT)
#70 Camping Supplies
Possible answers: COOLER, LANTERN, SLEEPING BAG, TENT, (CAMPER)
#70 Insult
Possible answers: BARB, DIG, DISS, JAB, (SLIGHT)
#71 States
Possible answers: ARIZONA, COLORADO, NEVADA, UTAH, (KANSAS), (MONTANA)
#72 Santa's Reindeer
Possible answers: COMET, CUPID, DASHER, VIXEN, (DANCER)
#72 Seen on Valentine's Day
Possible answers: CARD, HEART, CHOCOLATE, ROSE, (CUPID)
#73 Facial Hair
Possible answers: BEARD, GOATEE, MUSTACHE, STUBBLE, (HANDLEBAR)
#73 Pursue
Possible answers: DOG, FOLLOW, TAIL, TRACK, (SHADOW)
#74 Failures
Possible answers: BUSTS, FLOPS, MISSES, TURKEYS, (DUDS)
#75 Social Gathering
Possible answers: BASH, BLOWOUT, PARTY, SHINDIG, (MIXER)
#75 Found in a Kitchen
Possible answers: COUNTER, MIXER, RANGE, SINK, (ISLAND)
#79 Depart Quickly
Possible answers: BOOK, BOUNCE, RUN, SPLIT, (JET)
#79 Shades of Black
Possible answers: EBONY, JET, ONYX, RAVEN, (BLACK)
#80 Influence
Possible answers: CLOUT, PULL, WEIGHT, SWAY, (IMPACT)
#81 Appetizer Unit
Possible answers: FRY, NACHO, POPPER, WING, (CHIP), (CRACKER)
#81 Response to a Correct Answer
Possible answers: BINGO, CORRECT, RIGHT, YES, (DING)
#82 Drink Vessels
Possible answers: GOBLET, SNIFTER, TUMBLER, STEIN, (FLUTE)
#82 Woodwinds
Possible answers: CLARINET, FLUTE, OBOE, SAXOPHONE, (BASSOON)
#82 American Poets
Possible answers: BISHOP, FROST, OLDS, POUND, (STEIN)
#83 Unclothed
Possible answers: BARE, NAKED, NUDE, UNCLAD, (BUFF)
#83 Football Actions
Possible answers: FUMBLE, PUNT, SACK, SNAP, (TURNOVER)
#83 Finger Actions
Possible answers: BUFF, CLIP, FILE, POLISH, (SNAP)
#84 Female Animals
Possible answers: COW, DOE, HEN, MARE, (EWE)
#84 Pronouns
Possible answers: I, IT, THEY, WE, (YOU)
#84 Roman Numerals
Possible answers: D, L, M, V, (I)
#86 Information Displays
Possible answers: CHART, DIAGRAM, GRAPH, MAP, (PIE)
#86 Additional Benefit
Possible answers: BONUS, EXTRA, ICING, PERK, (GRAVY)
#86 Creatures in Folklore
Possible answers: GNOME, GOBLIN, OGRE, TROLL, (DRAGON)
#89 Alcohol
Possible answers: CIDER, PORT, SAKE, STOUT, (SPIRIT), (SCOTCH)
#89 Pixar Movies
Possible answers: BRAVE, CARS, COCO, UP, (SOUL)
#90 Baseball Calls
Possible answers: BALL, OUT, SAFE, STRIKE, (WALK)
#90 Fish
Possible answers: CARP, CATFISH, FLOUNDER, SMELT, (SALMON)
#91 Jungle Animals
Possible answers: ANACONDA, CAPYBARA, JAGUAR, TOUCAN, (LION)
#91 Lowest Point
Possible answers: BASE, BOTTOM, FOOT, FOUNDATION, (LEGS)
#92 Halloween Decorations
Possible answers: BAT, COBWEB, PUMPKIN, TOMBSTONE, (BONES)
#93 Animal Sounds
Possible answers: BUZZ, CLUCK, MEOW, OINK, (BARK)
#93 Inside Info
Possible answers: DIRT, DISH, SCOOP, SKINNY, (TEA)
#95 Songs that are Names
Possible answers: ALEJANDRO, LOLA, MICHELLE, STAN, (IRIS)
#96 Animals
Possible answers: BUFFALO, COW, GOAT, SHEEP, (HORSE)
#96 Gymnastics Apparatus
Possible answers: FLOOR, HORSE, RINGS, VAULT, (BEAM)
#97 Fairy Tale Figures
Possible answers: GIANT, PRINCESS, WITCH, WOLF, (QUEEN)
#97 "Peanuts" Characters
Possible answers: CHARLIE, PEPPERMINT PATTY, PIGPEN, WOODSTOCK, (LUCY)
#98 Fruits
Possible answers: APRICOT, FIG, GRAPE, LIME, (BERRY)
#98 Luxurious
Possible answers: DELUXE, GRAND, LAVISH, OPULENT, (SWANK)
#99 Intelligent
Possible answers: BRIGHT, CLEVER, QUICK, SHARP, (SMART)
#100 Web Browser-Related
Possible answers: BOOKMARK, HISTORY, TAB, WINDOW, (LINK), (POCKET)
#100 Dirty_____
Possible answers: DOZEN, JOKE, LAUNDRY, MARTINI, (WINDOW)
#101 Bowling Terms
Possible answers: ALLEY, BALL, LANE, PIN, (SPARE)
#101 Common Merch Items
Possible answers: MUG, PEN, TEE, TOTE, (PIN)
#102 Vehicles
Possible answers: BUS, CAR, MOTORCYCLE, TRUCK, (SCOOTER)
#102 Muppets
Possible answers: ANIMAL, BEAKER, GONZO, SCOOTER, (CHEF), (PIGGY)
#103 Soda Fountain Orders (Concrete can mean a type of milkshake or frozen custard)
Possible answers: FLOAT, MALT, SHAKE, SUNDAE, (CONCRETE), (SPLIT)
#104 Robust
Possible answers: FIT, HEALTHY, SOUND, STRONG, (WELL)
#104 Water Sources
Possible answers: FOUNTAIN, SPRING, TAP, WELL, (SINK)
#105 Kitchen Utensils
Possible answers: GRATER, LADLE, PEELER, WHISK, (CLEAVER)
#106 Wedding Items
Possible answers: BOUQUET, RING, TRAIN, VEIL, (CAKE)
#106 Encase
Possible answers: CAKE, COAT, COVER, CRUST, (VEIL)
#107 Snakes
Possible answers: BOA, MAMBA, PYTHON, VIPER, (GARTER)
#108 Produced by Trees
Possible answers: ACORN, CONE, POLLEN, SAP, (GUM), (NEEDLE)
#108 Candy
Possible answers: CHOCOLATE, GUM, LICORICE, LOLLIPOP, (SUCKER)
#108 Target of a Scheme
Possible answers: CHUMP, FOOL, MARK, SUCKER, (SAP)
#109 Rap Subgenres
Possible answers: BOUNCE, CRUNK, DRILL, GRIME, (TRAP)
#110 Golf Clubs
Possible answers: IRON, PUTTER, WEDGE, WOOD, (CLUB)
#112 Coffee Counter Items
Possible answers: CUP, LID, STIRRER, STRAW, (STICK)
#114 Talk
Possible answers: BLATHER, CHAT, GAB, JABBER, (YAK)
#115 Christmas-Related
Possible answers: MISTLETOE, REINDEER, SNOWMAN, STOCKING, (PRESENT), (CANDY CANE)
#116 MLB Teams
Possible answers: ANGEL, CUB, MET, RED, (NAT)
#119 Celebratory Occasion
Possible answers: ANNIVERSARY, BIRTHDAY, SHOWER, WEDDING, (RECEPTION), (SERVICE)
#120 Crops
Possible answers: CORN, CUCUMBER, PEPPER, TOMATO, (MELON)
#121 Bible Books
Possible answers: ACTS, JOB, KINGS, MARK, (GENESIS)
#121 NHL Teams
Possible answers: FLAMES, KRAKEN, STARS, WILD, (KINGS), (RANGER)
#123 Conceal
Possible answers: BLOCK, COVER, HIDE, MASK, (SHIELD)
#124 "L" Cities
Possible answers: LAGOS, LIMERICK, LINCOLN, LUXOR, (LIMA)
#124 Poetry Terms
Possible answers: LINE, METER, RHYME, VERSE, (LIMERICK)
#125 Butt
Possible answers: BOTTOM, BUNS, SEAT, TAIL, (BOOTY)
#126 Tools
Possible answers: HAMMER, FILE, LEVEL, SAW, (WRENCH)
#126 Keyboard Shortcuts
Possible answers: COPY, FIND, PRINT, SAVE, (FILE)
#127 Days of the Week
Possible answers: FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, THURSDAY, (WEDNESDAY), (TUESDAY)
#127 Go Bad
Possible answers: ROT, SOUR, SPOIL, TURN, (FESTER)
#129 Bit of Air
Possible answers: BREEZE, DRAFT, GUST, PUFF, (PANT)
#130 Falsify
Possible answers: FABRICATE, FAKE, FIX, FORGE, (FUDGE)
#130 TV Shows
Possible answers: FARGO, FIREFLY, FLEABAG, FLIPPER, (FRIENDS)
#131 Animal Homes
Possible answers: DEN, LAIR, HIVE, NEST, (WEB), (WARREN)
#131 Equitable
Possible answers: EQUAL, EVEN, FAIR, JUST, (GOOD)
#132 Tableware
Possible answers: BOWL, DISH, PLATE, SAUCER, (CROCK), (CUP)
#133 British Food
Possible answers: MASH, ROAST, SCONE, TRIFLE, (BANGER)
#133 Predicament
Possible answers: BIND, PICKLE, SCRAPE, SPOT, (JAM)
#134 Impel
Possible answers: DRIVE, INSPIRE, MOTIVATE, SPUR, (SPARK)
#135 Compound Words
Possible answers: BACKPACK, BIGWIG, DOWNTOWN, RAGTAG, (TEXTBOOK)
#136 Grammar Tenses
Possible answers: FUTURE, PAST, PERFECT, PRESENT, (SIMPLE)
#136 The 12 Days of Christmas
Possible answers: DRUMMER, LADY, RING, SWAN, (LORD)
#137 Excellent
Possible answers: ACES, KEEN, NEATO, NIFTY, (SWELL)
#137 Bubbles
Possible answers: FOAM, FROTH, HEAD, LATHER, (BUBBLE)
#138 Metals
Possible answers: COPPER, GOLD, NICKEL, SILVER, (BRASS), (MERCURY)
#139 Aesthetics
Possible answers: DRESS, LOOK, MANNER, STYLE, (TASTE)
#140 Mishmash
Possible answers: HASH, JUMBLE, MEDLEY, STEW, (LITTER)
#143 Filler Words
Possible answers: ERM, UH, UM, WELL, (LIKE), (ER)
#146 Clue Weapons
Possible answers: CANDLESTICK, KNIFE, ROPE, WRENCH, (PIPE)
#147 Unchanging
Possible answers: EVEN, LEVEL, STABLE, STEADY, (UNIFORM)
#147 Long, Sharp Objects
Possible answers: LANCE, PIN, SKEWER, SPIT, (PITCHFORK)
#148 Musical Format
Possible answers: LP, PLATTER, VINYL, WAX, (CD)
#148 Cube-Shaped
Possible answers: BOUILLON, DIE, ICE, SUGAR, (STOCK)
#150 Equivocate
Possible answers: HEDGE, SEE-SAW, WAVER, YO-YO, (FLIP-FLOP), (WAFFLE)
#151 Podcasts
Possible answers: RADIOLAB, SERIAL, UP FIRST, WTF, (FRESH AIR), (REPLY ALL)
#152 Intelligent
Possible answers: BRIGHT, QUICK, SHARP, SMART, (SAGE)
#152 Medieval Weapons
Possible answers: CLUB, MACE, SPEAR, SWORD, (AXE)
#153 Filmmaking Equipment
Possible answers: BOOM, DOLLY, LENS, TRIPOD, (GRIP)
#154 Sports Professionals
Possible answers: COACH, GM, PLAYER, SCOUT, (SUB)
#154 Car Companies
Possible answers: BMW, HONDA, JAGUAR, SUBARU, (FORD), (GM)
#156 Vocal Fanfare
Possible answers: BEHOLD, PRESTO, TADA, VOILA, (SURPRISE)
#157 Magazines
Possible answers: O, OK, US, W, (EW), (SI)
#157 Yes
Possible answers: HAI, JA, SI, DA, (OK), (OUI)
#158 Animals
Possible answers: BUFFALO, DEER, FISH, MOOSE, (BULL), (STEER), (SEAL)
#160 Quick Observation
Possible answers: GANDER, GLANCE, GLIMPSE, LOOK, (PEEK)
#160 Parts of a Mountain
Possible answers: CLIFF, CRAG, LEDGE, RIDGE, (BLUFF), (PEAK)
#161 _____Day
Possible answers: EARTH, GROUNDHOG, LABOR, MAY, (BIRTH)
#162 Primates
Possible answers: BABOON, BONOBO, GIBBON, GORILLA, (APE)
#162 Fashionable
Possible answers: CHIC, HIP, HOT, IN, (VOGUE)
#164 Area Between Mountains
Possible answers: CANYON, GULCH, PASS, RAVINE, (GORGE)
#165 Food
Possible answers: PASTY, PIE, TART, TURNOVER, (PARFAIT), (RAGOUT), (CURRY)
#165 Countries
Possible answers: JAPAN, POLAND, TUNISIA, TURKEY, (JORDAN)
#166 Reality Shows
Possible answers: ALONE, CATFISH, CHOPPED, SURVIVOR, (BACHELOR)
#168 Municipalities
Possible answers: CITY, TOWN, COUNTY, VILLAGE, (CAPITAL)
#171 Parts of the Foot
Possible answers: ARCH, BALL, SOLE, TOE, (HEEL)
#171 Dog Commands
Possible answers: COME, DOWN, SIT, STAY, (HEEL)
#173 Ways to Remove Hair
Possible answers: SHAVE, THREAD, TWEEZE, WAX, (CUT)
#174 Hold Back
Possible answers: CAP, CHECK, CURB, LIMIT, (HAMPER)
#175 Excite, with "Up"
Possible answers: AMP, FIRE, HYPE, PUMP, (GAS)
#177 TV Shows
Possible answers: CHEERS, EUPHORIA, FELICITY, GLEE, (FRASIER)
#178 Found on Sheet Music
Possible answers: CLEF, NOTE, REST, STAFF, (SCALES)
#178 Zodiac Symbols
Possible answers: BULL, CRAB, SCALES, TWINS, (VIRGIN)
#180 Absolute
Possible answers: PURE, SHEER, TOTAL, UTTER, (STARK)
#180 Express
Possible answers: AIR, SPEAK, STATE, VOICE, (UTTER)
#181 Cooking Oils
Possible answers: CORN, OLIVE, PALM, PEANUT, (RICE)
#183 Luxurious Fabrics
Possible answers: CHIFFON, SILK, SATIN, VELVET, (LACE)
#185 -ough
Possible answers: BOUGH, COUGH, DOUGH, TOUGH, (ROUGH), (ENOUGH)
#189 Used to Build a Snowman
Possible answers: CARROT, COAL, SNOW, STICKS, (STONES)
#190 NYC Avenues
Possible answers: BROADWAY, FIFTH, MADISON, PARK, (SECOND), (FIRST), (ELEVENTH)
#191 Accessories
Possible answers: BELT, BRACELET, TIE, WATCH, (CHARM)
#199 Name Prefixes
Possible answers: GEN, MS, PROF, REV, (DR)
#200 Parts of a Car
Possible answers: BUMPER, HOOD, TIRE, TRUNK, (DASH)
#201 Single Letter Homophones
Possible answers: BEE, EX, GEE, JAY, (TEE)
#203 New Years-Related
Possible answers: BALL, COUNTDOWN, FIREWORKS, KISS, (PARTY), (RESOLUTION), (CHAMPAGNE)
#207 Gift-Giving Accessories
Possible answers: BOW, BOX, CARD, WRAPPING, (MESSAGE)
#210 Kinds of Exams
Possible answers: BAR, FINAL, ORAL, PHYSICAL, (EYE)
#211 Long, Skinny Objects
Possible answers: POLE, ROD, STAFF, STICK, (CLUB)
#212 Cooking Elements
Possible answers: ACID, FAT, HEAT, SALT, (PEPPER), (SMOKE)
#213 Seen at a Casino
Possible answers: CARDS, CHIPS, DICE, SLOTS, (POKER)
#213 Ways to Prepare Cheese
Possible answers: CRUMBLE, MELT, SHRED, SLICE, (GRATE)
#217 Thieve
Possible answers: PINCH, ROB, STEAL, SWIPE, (JACK)
#218 Medicine Formats
Possible answers: CAPSULE, CREAM, SYRUP, TABLET, (POD)
#221 Colors
Possible answers: BLUE, GREEN, WHITE, YELLOW, (SCARLET)
#222 Minced Oaths
Possible answers: CURSES, DARN, RATS, SHOOT, (FUDGE), (NUTS)
#224 Contains Wax
Possible answers: CANDLE, CRAYON, HONEYCOMB, SEAL, (EAR)
#229 Baseball-Related
Possible answers: BALL, BASE, BAT, GLOVE, (STRIKE)
#233 Mario Power-ups
Possible answers: FEATHER, STAR, MUSHROOM, FLOWER, (HAMMER)
#234 _____Pit
Possible answers: BARBECUE, ORCHESTRA, SNAKE, TAR, (FIRE)
#235 Make Shorter
Possible answers: CLIP, CUT, PARE, TRIM, (PRUNE)
#235 Muscular
Possible answers: BUILT, JACKED, RIPPED, SWOLE, (TRIM), (BUFF)
#237 Farm Fixtures
Possible answers: COOP, PEN, STABLE, STY, (RANGE)
#238 Unexciting
Possible answers: BORING, DULL, MUNDANE, VANILLA, (ROUTINE), (DRY)
#239 Ecclesiastical Titles
Possible answers: BISHOP, CARDINAL, PASTOR, PRIOR, (BROTHER), (LORD)
#251 Media Attention
Possible answers: COVERAGE, EXPOSURE, PRESS, PUBLICITY, (MEDIA)
#254 Little Bit of Liquid
Possible answers: BEAD, GLOB, DROP, TEAR, (DRIP)
#257 Shades of Green
Possible answers: OLIVE, FOREST, LIME, MINT, (CACTUS)
#260 Ilk
Possible answers: KIND, SORT, TYPE, VARIETY, (MANNER)
#263 Propel into the Air
Possible answers: HOP, JUMP, LEAP, SPRING, (VAULT)
#266 Large Amount
Possible answers: MASS, SEA, SLEW, TON, (WAVE)
#266 Fall under Pressure
Possible answers: BUCKLE, CAVE, COLLAPSE, GIVE, (FLOP)
#268 Pop Stars
Possible answers: GRANDE, MARS, STYLES, SWIFT, (LEGEND)
#269 Found at an Airport
Possible answers: HANGAR, RUNWAY, TARMAC, TERMINAL, (WINDSOCK)
#269 Ends in an Article of Clothing (A Mac is a raincoat)
Possible answers: FOXGLOVE, GUMSHOE, TURNCOAT, WINDSOCK, (TARMAC), (LAWSUIT)
#271 Food Preservation Techniques
Possible answers: CAN, CURE, DRY, FREEZE, (SPICE)
#272 Space_____
Possible answers: BAR, CADET, HEATER, STATION, (BLANKET)
#273 Keyboard Keys
Possible answers: COMMAND, CONTROL, OPTION, SHIFT, (SPACE)
#283 Seen at a Sports Stadium
Possible answers: ASTROTURF, JUMBOTRON, SCOREBOARD, SKYBOX, (KISSCAM), (JOURNEYMAN)
#284 Animals
Possible answers: COW, DOE, HEN, EWE, (YAK)
#284 Palindromes
Possible answers: BIB, EYE, GAG, POP, (EWE)
#285 Olympic Sports
Possible answers: BREAKING, HOCKEY, TRAMPOLINE, SKELETON, (CRICKET), (SQUASH), (VOLLEYBALL)
#289 Plant Growths
Possible answers: BLOOM, BUD, SHOOT, SPROUT, (CORONA)
#290 Quarrel
Possible answers: FIGHT, ROW, SCRAP, TIFF, (WAR)
#290 Games of Chance (Poker is technically a game of skill but it's still highly associated with chance)
Possible answers: BINGO, LOTTERY, ROULETTE, WAR, (POKER)
#291 Whale Species
Possible answers: BLUE, FIN, GRAY, RIGHT, (PILOT)
#293 Food Preservation Techniques
Possible answers: CANS, CURES, SALTS, SMOKES, (JAMS), (PICKLES)
#296 Thrust
Possible answers: JAB, POKE, PROD, STICK, (ELBOW)
#301 _____Horse
Possible answers: CHARLEY, CRAZY, DARK, GIFT, (PRIZE)
#302 Brief Moment
Possible answers: FLASH, HEARTBEAT, JIFF, WINK, (ZIP)
#302 Dispute
Possible answers: CLASH, TANGLE, SCRAP, TIFF, (SPAT)
#303 Hair Care Items
Possible answers: BRUSH, COMB, DRYER, IRON, (OIL)
#307 Seen at the Circus
Possible answers: CLOWN, RING, TENT, TRAPEZE, (LION)
#310 Parts of a Theatre
Possible answers: BALCONY, BOX, ORCHESTRA, STAGE, (FLOOR)
#312 Golden_____
Possible answers: FLEECE, GIRLS, PARACHUTE, RULE, (MEAN)
#315 Starting with the Same Sound
Possible answers: CYMBAL, SCIMITAR, SIMMER, SYMPHONY, (SYMBOL)
#318 Mexican Food-Related
Possible answers: CILANTRO, LIME, ONION, SALSA, (PICO), (WRAP), (MOLE)
#328 _____Sale
Possible answers: BAKE, CLEARANCE, GARAGE, SAMPLE, (YARD)
#329 Enjoy
Possible answers: FANCY, LOVE, RELISH, SAVOR, (LIKE)
#330 Quantity
Possible answers: FEW, MANY, SEVERAL, SOME, (COUPLE), (HANDFUL)
#333 Restrict
Possible answers: CHECK, CONTAIN, CURB, LIMIT, (CAP)
#339 Forthright
Possible answers: DIRECT, FRANK, OPEN, STRAIGHT, (PLAIN)
#342 Games
Possible answers: CATEGORIES, CHARADES, FISHBOWL, WEREWOLF, (MOUSETRAP)
#345 Billiards-Related
Possible answers: BALL, CHALK, CUE, RACK, (POCKET)
#348 Things You can Crack
Possible answers: EGG, KNUCKLES, SMILE, WINDOW, (CORN)
#351 _____Iron
Possible answers: PUMP, STEAM, TIRE, WAFFLE, (FLAT)
#355 Things People Shake
Possible answers: HANDS, MARACA, POLAROID, SNOWGLOBE, (BODY)
2024.06.01 17:20 TJesterTV W: Melee’s/Misc From Top List, H: Bottom List to Pick/Bundle From.
Stuff I Want:
Weapons:
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- —/SS/1S Shovels with the the following 1st Stars: Assassin’s/Furious/Gourmand’s/Hunter’s/Nocturnal’s/TroubleShooter’s/Vampire’s/Medic’s (Biggest Priority)
- Med/40PA/-90W RippeDrill
- AA/40PA/-90W RippeDrill
- Med/40PA/-90W Death Tambo/War Drum
- Mega Dispenser Test Token Misc (Not a priority)
- Trench Mask Misc (Not a Priority)
Weapons:
- AA/50/25 Bow
- Instigating/50/-90RW Bow
- AA/VHC/-90 Cryolator
- Q/VHC/25 Cryolator
- AA/E/-90RW Combat Rifle
- AA/50/15R Pipe Rifle
- AA/SS/1S Multi-Purpose Axe
- AA/E/15R Radium Rifle
- AA/50/15R Laser Rifle
- AA/SS/1S The Tenderizer
- B/E/25 Bolt-Action Pipe Pistol
- B/E/15R Pipe Revolver
- -/SS/1S Legacy Bone Club
- Q/25/15R EPR Best Mods
- V/25/-90RW The Fixer
- Q/50/50BS The Fixer
- Bol/+1L/FDCW Metal Left Leg
- Bol/1S/WWR Heavy Combat Left Leg
- Bol/+1C/WWR Sturdy Metal Right Leg
- Chameleon/+1S/FDCW CA Right Arm
- Uny/10HTS/WWR Robo Left Leg
- Uny/5AP/FDCW Wood Right Leg
- Van/1E/FDCW Marine Chest Piece
- Forceful Stock x1
- Reflex Sight x0
- Calibrated Capacitor x1
- Aligned Automatic Barrel x2
- Severe Beta Wave Tuner x8
- Stabilized Stock x3
- Comfort Stock x2
- Precise Stock x3
- Bruising Grip x2
- Ultracite Calibrated Shocks x1
- Pepper Shaker x2
- Alien Blaster x16
- Alien Blaster Zenith x7
- Alien Disintegrator x6
- Vintage Water Cooler x2
- Honeycomb Paper Holiday Tree B x2
- Plastiform Candle x1
- Plastiform Nutcracker x4
- Plastiform Santa x5
- Plastiform Santa Sleigh x1
- Weenie Wagon x1
- Rib Plushie x1
- Bobblehead Leaders x80
- Bobblehead Energy Weapon x100
2024.06.01 15:05 WhovianTrekkie_6366 My Star Trek Ranking Part 2: 900-876
Hello; really loved the interaction with my first post, so thanks so much for that! I'll just reiterate: spoilers for all Star Trek, and everything is just my opinion.
900) Unnatural Selection (1989)
TNG 2x7
Writer: John Mason & Mike Gray
Director: Paul Lynch
We've seen this idea done before and better. Yeah, it's a little bit different this time: it centres around children genetically engineered to be free of disease (isn't that illegal in the Federation?). But the actual plot of the episode is little different from TOS' The Deadly Years, with Doctor Pulaski aging and trying to find a cure for the condition. An uninspired repeat of a TOS episode that wasn't even that good in the first place.
899) We'll Always Have Paris (1988)
TNG 1x23
Writer: Deborah Dean Davis & Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Robert Becker
Bored me stiff. I'm not always a huge fan of time travel stuff in general, and this is one of the least dynamic uses of that story type I've ever seen. Picard also has some weak character development, in his reminiscence about the girlfriend he left behind to join Starfleet, after he runs into her in this episode. The resolution with Data is fine, though, and I do like that they used him, as somebody less affected by the Maddox Effect, to solve the problem. Functional, just really dull.
898) Angel One (1988)
TNG 1x13
Writer: Patrick Barry
Director: Michael Rhodes
I will say that, as a teenage boy and as a young man now, this episode did give me empathy for what women go through in real life: being dismissed as weak and soft and barred from meaningful work. Beyond that, however, this episode really says nothing. It feels like it wants to be a deep and compelling exploration of gender roles, but apart from that feeling of empathy it gave me it doesn't accomplish anything of the kind. It's just a rote story about an oppressed section of society trying to combat their oppressors, and Riker saves the dissidents from being executed with a dull speech.
897) Silicon Avatar (1991)
TNG 5x4
Writer: Jeri Taylor, story by Lawrence V Conley
Director: Cliff Bole
Oh, just what I always wanted: the return of the Crystalline Entity from Datalore! Most anticipated villain return ever! But seriously, this could have been an interesting episode exploring a decent creature, but all that ends up happening is the Enterprise chasing the Crystalline Entity while Data has conversations with the mother of one of the victims of its attack on his colony. I will say that her hatred of Data got some genuine emotion out of me, as I raise my hackles against anyone who dares attack that loveable android, and seeing her come round to him was reasonably satisfying. But I still wasn't intrigued by their conversations, or the story of her seeking revenge for her son's death. The actual murder of the Crystalline Entity was done with a decent weight, but the episode takes forever to get there, through a slog of boring conversations and virtually no emotional investment for me.
896) The Outrageous Okona (1988)
TNG 2x4
Writer: Burton Armus, story by Les Menchen, Lance Dickson & David Landsberg
Director: Robert Becker
An aimless, artless story of a rogue caught between two fathers hounding him for his misdeeds. I don't find Okona amusing or charming, so his heavy presence in the episode doesn't do anything for me, and the story surrounding him is weak too. Data's stand-up comedy stuff is quite funny; Brent Spiner plays it brilliantly. I particularly enjoy the scene where he's trying out his act on Guinan, and it's just so bad. Also love Whoopi Goldberg's delivery of 'No' after Data asks her if his act was good. But this B-plot has only a flimsy connection to the main story, and therefore its presence leaves the end product feeling messy as well as weak.
895) Bounty (2003)
ENT 2x25
Writer: Hans Tobeason, Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong, story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
Director: Roxann Dawson
An A-plot and B-plot that are both very bad. The story of Archer getting kidnapped by a bounty hunter is rote and uninspired, and definitely feels like it was one of the last ideas the writers came up with for the season. They were just filling time with a poor sequel to the earlier episode Judgement. His interactions with the Tellarite do not interest me at all, and I do not care about the Tellarite's lost ship. The B-plot with T'Pol prematurely going through the Pon Farr sees some of the worst sexualisation of the character, plus some cringey dialogue between her and Phlox. Archer's ending escape from the Klingons, with the Tellarite's secret help, is solid, though.
894) The Omega Glory (1968)
TOS 2x23
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Vincent McEveety
Goes from mundane to insane. For much of its runtime I would give this my label of dull but functional: there's a rogue Starfleet Captain trying to discover the secret to eternal youth on a pre-warp planet, and there's a lot of fighting with some of the savage natives. It's all very boring... until the last quarter.
It gets revealed that this is (yet another) TOS Season 2 Earth parallel, with the savages representing the US and the village people the Communists. There is no explanation given for how the aliens ended up with all the exact paraphernalia of that time on Earth, from the US flag to the American Constitution; it's all just ludicrous.
The crowning weirdness of the episode is Kirk's lauding of the American Constitution as the greatest thing ever invented. Now, I don't just not like this because I'm English; I would feel the same if the British (unwritten) Constitution was being lauded like this. I consider myself a pretty patriotic person, and I believe that every country has equal reason to celebrate themselves, but I feel it is utterly inappropriate in Star Trek for any one country or group to be held up as the ultimate shining example of civilisation. This is because Trek is meant to represent a future where everybody's come together under one banner. There's a lot to praise about the American Constitution, but it's inappropriate for it to be held up as the 'One True Way', if you will. Kirk's final admiring look at the US flag is so cringeworthily saccharine. So, yeah, this episode is boring for most of its runtime, and it certainly isn't in the end... it's much worse.
893) The Muse (1996)
DS9 4x21
Writer: Rene Echevarria, story by Rene Echevarria & Majel Barrett-Roddenberry
Director: David Livingston
The DS9 Lwaxana Troi episodes are largely not a good time, and this is the absolute worst of them. The story of her pregnancy feels so hammy and forced, and the drama with her and Odo doesn't interest me at all. She also doesn't feel like she has much of a presence in the episode, which is shocking given how she came on so wonderfully strong in TNG. The other plotline with Jake is also uninteresting. It's at least not as bad as the Lwaxana storyline, but it's still so very uninspired (you see what I did there?). Annoyingly our last Lwaxana appearance; they really should have stopped her episodes after TNG's Dark Page; that was the perfect ending for her character.
892) When the Bough Breaks (1988)
TNG 1x16
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Kim Manners
Gene Roddenberry did like his kiddie episodes, didn't he? The idea of 'Atlantis-but-a-planet' is interesting, but the episode wastes the concept on a tiresome kidnapping story. The kids are fine I guess, but I'd also rather not be watching them. Wesley feels kinda out-of-place among them, to be honest, considering how noticeably older he is. I will say that Picard's reaction to the abduction: 'You have just committed an act of utter barbarity!' is a superb bit of acting from Stewart, but other than that there's nothing else I'll praise about this outing.
891) Pen Pals (1989)
TNG 2x15
Writer: Melinda M Snodgrass, story by Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Winrich Kolbe
This always feels like a short to me, despite its forty-five minute length. No time is spent building up Data and the alien kid's relationship; we just see the kid's first communication, then jump into Data confessing to Picard he's been in contact with a pre-warp individual. So I have no investment in this relationship, which is a shame because Data-plus-kid had the potential to be really sweet. They just didn't put the legwork into it. The resolution is fine.
890) Unforgettable (1998)
VOY 4x22
Writer: Greg Elliot & Michael Perricone
Director: Andrew Robinson
Got to be the most ironic title in Trek history, since this episode is extremely forgettable. It's also mind-numbingly boring: Trek does not have a good track record with single-episode romances, and this has got to be one of the worst. I feel zero connection to the guest character and zero investment in her relationship with Chakotay. The idea of a species that you forget after they've been gone for a while is intriguing, but it is wasted on this insipid romance. This was one of the longest forty-five minutes I've ever sat through.
889) Transfigurations (1990)
TNG 3x25
Writer: Rene Echevarria
Director: Tom Benko
Speaking of dull one-episode romances, here's another one. The idea of a species going through a butterfly-like transformation, that is feared and suppressed by the authorities, is again intriguing. It reminds me of the Jon Pertwee Doctor Who story The Mutants, if anyone's watched that, except it's done less well. Again, the good concept is wasted on a boring romance, this time between Beverly and her patient. This is another one that feels much longer than forty-five minutes.
888) Bread and Circuses (1968)
TOS 2x25
Writer: Gene Roddenberry & Gene L Coon
Director: Ralph Senensky
At this point in TOS Season 2, I just thought: 'Really, Mr Roddenberry? Another Earth parallel? I know you like them, but this is getting ridiculous!' Not only is this a tired repeat of an already done idea, but no explanation is given for why this planet parallels the Roman Empire. In A Piece of the Action and Patterns of Force clever reasons were given, but in this it's just presented as a weird fact. That doesn't fly with me.
And even if they had come up with another clever explanation, they have done this idea, which I don't like very much anyway, way too many times this season. I did have some minor interest in the concept of a Rome that never fell, but not enough to sustain me for fifty minutes. Boring and uninspired to the highest degree. I will say there's one really great scene between Spock and Bones in a prison cell, though, when Bones confronts Spock about how he keeps all his emotions carefully concealed.
887) How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth (1974)
TAS 2x5
Writer: Russell Bates & David Wise
Director: Bill Reed
Similar to Who Mourns for Adonais?, in that it gives us an omnipotent alien, who was once worshipped as a God on Earth, and has returned to take charge of his wayward children, only to ultimately discover they don't need him anymore. This is a much weaker version of that story, however, with a less sympathetic godlike character and less runtime to flesh out the idea.
The episode also takes a weird swerve halfway through, from the setting of Kukulkan's city (a nice location, I must say) to his zoo, which I find much less appealing. This episode had an idea, but it wasn't quite sure how to tell the story. Kukulkan genuinely scared me a little, though, and I did feel sorry for him when he flew off, knowing that his former worshippers had outgrown him. But again, that was done better in TOS.
886) Resurrection (1997)
DS9 6x8
Writer: Michael Taylor
Director: LeVar Burton
Michael Taylor is a curious writer for me. He has written both some of my favourite and some of my least favourite episodes, with little middle ground. This falls hard into the latter category. It's interesting to have someone from the Mirror Universe cross into the Prime Universe, rather than the other way around as normally happens, and it's doubly interesting to have that someone be Mirror Bareil. But the episode falls flat on its face: every scene is just so interminably dull, and, unlike his Prime Universe counterpart, this Bareil has no chemistry with Kira. So boring, so pedestrian, and the absolute worst of the DS9 Mirror Universe episodes.
885) The Paradise Syndrome (1968)
TOS 3x3
Writer: Margaret Armen
Director: Jud Taylor
I think this is the epitome of functional but dull. The story makes sense, the characters' motivations make sense, but that doesn't mean the episode is interesting. I do like the idea of the Preservers, beings who transplanted members of endangered peoples, here the Native Americans, to other planets, but the episode flops. Kirk's memory loss leads to a yawnworthy stay among the Native Americans, filled with predictable tensions and conflicts, and a bland romance. The Spock and Bones B-plot is also boring. I feel a little something for Miramanee's death, but only a little something.
884) Assignment: Earth (1968)
TOS 2x26
Writer: Art Wallace, story by Gene Roddenberry & Art Wallace
Director: Marc Daniels
Star Trek without the Star Trek. Deciding not to focus on the main characters for an episode isn't a bad idea in and of itself, but the characters put in their stead hold little interest for me. The same is true of the plot they work within. This was of course a backdoor pilot for a spin-off that never manifested, and maybe if it had come about I would like this episode much more, but as it stands I find the characters unintriguing and the plot uninspired. The climax is particularly poor, with about seventy different shots of the rocket going into orbit, while the characters mill about and do very little. I want me my Kirk, Spock and Bones back.
883) The Red Angel (2019)
DSC 2x10
Writer: Chris Silvestri & Anthony Maranville
Director: Hanelle M Culpepper
Down here for the same reasons as previous DSC Season 2 episodes I've put on this list. It engages heavily in the twin foul-ups of the Spock's sister storyline and the Section 31 portrayal. I hate the base concept of Burnham being Spock's sister, for reasons I've explained in my previous post, so I despise all their scenes together, that build out this relationship that I wish had never been. And Section 31 continues to be portrayed as a public wing of the Federation, with ships and resources provided by Starfleet, which is godawful.
I will say, however, that I do kinda like the sequence where Burnham has to strap herself to a chair and bare herself to the planet's toxic atmosphere in order to summon the Red Angel. And the reveal that the Angel is not herself but in fact her mother is cool. But this is still a really bad episode.
882) The Storyteller (1993)
DS9 1x13
Writer: Kurt Michael Bensmiller & Ira Steven Behr, story by Kurt Michael Bensmiller
Director: David Livingston
A really messy, weak outing. The A- and B-plots have nothing to do with each other, which isn't automatically bad, but here it just makes the episode feel untidy. Of the two, I prefer the Jake and Nog subplot; it's funny seeing them mooning over the female teenage leader of a settlement who comes to the station. Their getting in trouble to impress her is charming. The A-plot sucks, though: the whole business of O'Brien having to become the protector of this village, from an amorphous cloud villain, is just lame, and the resolution is whatever. It is funny to see O'Brien and Julian in their first episode together, though, and witnessing how much O'Brien doesn't care for the good Doctor at this point. Oh, how times will change.
881) The Arsenal of Freedom (1988)
TNG 1x20
Writer: Richard Manning & Hans Beimler, story by Maurice Hurley & Robert Lewin
Director: Les Landau
A ramshackle adventure with a medley of different storylines, all of which are underwhelming. The best is Geordi's plotline, where he asserts himself as commander of the Enterprise over the *rsehole Chief Engineer of the week, but the other two don't really have any redeeming qualities. The Riker and co storyline is repetitive and the Picard and Beverly storyline is dull. I do like that the threat is resolved when Picard agrees to make a purchase from this dead civilisation, though.
880) Move Along Home (1993)
DS9 1x9
Writer: Frederick Rappaport, Lisa Rich & Jeanne Carrigan-Fauci, story by Michael Piller
Director: David Carson
OK, so I said this wasn't the worst of DS9, but it's still really bad. Though I have to say that, after I watched this with my siblings last year, and had such fun doing so, I've never been able to see it quite so badly. It's bad, yeah, but it's so, so much fun. The best-worst bit is of course the alien hopscotch scene, and I also really have to give credit to Alexander Siddig for playing some brilliant cringey comedy with Julian. The scene where he's trying to wake himself up from a nightmare by screaming? So funny. These (sort of) praises made, this is still a stinker of an episode, with a messy plot, too-silly events, and some serious overacting from Armin Shimerman at the end. Definitely something best watched with friends or family.
Allamaraine, count to four,
Allamaraine, then three more,
Allamaraine, if you can see,
Allamaraine, you'll come with me!
879) Justice (1987)
TNG 1x7
Writer: Worley Thorne, story by Ralph Wills & Worley Thorne
Director: James L Conway
I love the basic idea of this episode: Wesley runs afoul of a law on another planet and is sentenced to death by their draconian justice system. Then Picard has to struggle with whether to obey the Prime Directive or save his life. But the episode is dragged down by some weird costuming choices and, most of all, the addition of an omnipotent entity that watches over the planet's people. This should have just been an episode about Picard struggling between duty and conscience; the addition of a mega-powerful being steals screentime from this fine idea.
878) A Simple Investigation (1997)
DS9 5x17
Writer: Rene Echevarria
Director: John T Kretchmer
Uuuuugh; another boring single-episode romance. It's an interminable chore to sit through, from beginning to end, with tired, uninspired romantic scenes and an unexciting criminalistic plot surrounding the Orion Syndicate. I also don't like how the Changelings' linking is equated with sex in that one scene. There are a few fun scenes with O'Brien, Julian and Jadzia when they're playing the spy holosuite program (Jadzia's 'Ooh, somebody stop me!', or O'Brien's 'Hi, Odo!'), but that's about it.
877) Such Sweet Sorrow Part Two (2019)
DSC 2x14
Writer: Michelle Paradise, Junny Lumet, & Alex Kurtzman
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
DSC wasn't merely content to introduce a sister for Spock who weakened the story of his childhood and family life. They had to make that sister so important in his life that he'd be willing to go with her into the future and leave his life behind. I hate that Kurtzman and co made this decision, as it makes everything in TOS, SNW etc feel like Spock settling for second-best, when in reality he is fulfilling his life's purpose in those series.
I also never connected with any of the DSC original characters, except for Saru, and even with him I don't feel any emotion at their grand final 23rd Century adventure to stop Control. As I've said before, this evil sentient AI story is a tired, repeated idea, and its connection to the terrible portrayal of Section 31 makes it worse. As a result of all this don't give a single crap about any of the grand-scale action in this episode, and I feel nothing for the loss of the Discovery crew to the far future. I will say that this episode did at least propel DSC into the 32nd Century, which would end up saving the series from being irredeemably awful, and it sets up the phenomenal SNW (although we didn't strictly need all this for SNW to work).
876) Vis a Vis (1998)
VOY 4x20
Writer: Robert Doherty
Director: Jesus Salvador Trevino
A vapid story about Tom feeling dissatisfied with his life on Voyager, and getting replaced by a shape-stealing alien. The concept for the alien is solid, but the execution doesn't fly. It ends up being a limp episode that drags quite a bit, with a bland character arc for Tom at its centre. Shoutout for the appearance of Dan Butler as the alien's main form, though; he played the testosterone-fuelled Bulldog Briscoe in my favourite comedy, Frasier.
That's it for now. Thank you very much for reading, and Live Long and Prosper!
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900) Unnatural Selection (1989)
TNG 2x7
Writer: John Mason & Mike Gray
Director: Paul Lynch
We've seen this idea done before and better. Yeah, it's a little bit different this time: it centres around children genetically engineered to be free of disease (isn't that illegal in the Federation?). But the actual plot of the episode is little different from TOS' The Deadly Years, with Doctor Pulaski aging and trying to find a cure for the condition. An uninspired repeat of a TOS episode that wasn't even that good in the first place.
899) We'll Always Have Paris (1988)
TNG 1x23
Writer: Deborah Dean Davis & Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Robert Becker
Bored me stiff. I'm not always a huge fan of time travel stuff in general, and this is one of the least dynamic uses of that story type I've ever seen. Picard also has some weak character development, in his reminiscence about the girlfriend he left behind to join Starfleet, after he runs into her in this episode. The resolution with Data is fine, though, and I do like that they used him, as somebody less affected by the Maddox Effect, to solve the problem. Functional, just really dull.
898) Angel One (1988)
TNG 1x13
Writer: Patrick Barry
Director: Michael Rhodes
I will say that, as a teenage boy and as a young man now, this episode did give me empathy for what women go through in real life: being dismissed as weak and soft and barred from meaningful work. Beyond that, however, this episode really says nothing. It feels like it wants to be a deep and compelling exploration of gender roles, but apart from that feeling of empathy it gave me it doesn't accomplish anything of the kind. It's just a rote story about an oppressed section of society trying to combat their oppressors, and Riker saves the dissidents from being executed with a dull speech.
897) Silicon Avatar (1991)
TNG 5x4
Writer: Jeri Taylor, story by Lawrence V Conley
Director: Cliff Bole
Oh, just what I always wanted: the return of the Crystalline Entity from Datalore! Most anticipated villain return ever! But seriously, this could have been an interesting episode exploring a decent creature, but all that ends up happening is the Enterprise chasing the Crystalline Entity while Data has conversations with the mother of one of the victims of its attack on his colony. I will say that her hatred of Data got some genuine emotion out of me, as I raise my hackles against anyone who dares attack that loveable android, and seeing her come round to him was reasonably satisfying. But I still wasn't intrigued by their conversations, or the story of her seeking revenge for her son's death. The actual murder of the Crystalline Entity was done with a decent weight, but the episode takes forever to get there, through a slog of boring conversations and virtually no emotional investment for me.
896) The Outrageous Okona (1988)
TNG 2x4
Writer: Burton Armus, story by Les Menchen, Lance Dickson & David Landsberg
Director: Robert Becker
An aimless, artless story of a rogue caught between two fathers hounding him for his misdeeds. I don't find Okona amusing or charming, so his heavy presence in the episode doesn't do anything for me, and the story surrounding him is weak too. Data's stand-up comedy stuff is quite funny; Brent Spiner plays it brilliantly. I particularly enjoy the scene where he's trying out his act on Guinan, and it's just so bad. Also love Whoopi Goldberg's delivery of 'No' after Data asks her if his act was good. But this B-plot has only a flimsy connection to the main story, and therefore its presence leaves the end product feeling messy as well as weak.
895) Bounty (2003)
ENT 2x25
Writer: Hans Tobeason, Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong, story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
Director: Roxann Dawson
An A-plot and B-plot that are both very bad. The story of Archer getting kidnapped by a bounty hunter is rote and uninspired, and definitely feels like it was one of the last ideas the writers came up with for the season. They were just filling time with a poor sequel to the earlier episode Judgement. His interactions with the Tellarite do not interest me at all, and I do not care about the Tellarite's lost ship. The B-plot with T'Pol prematurely going through the Pon Farr sees some of the worst sexualisation of the character, plus some cringey dialogue between her and Phlox. Archer's ending escape from the Klingons, with the Tellarite's secret help, is solid, though.
894) The Omega Glory (1968)
TOS 2x23
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Vincent McEveety
Goes from mundane to insane. For much of its runtime I would give this my label of dull but functional: there's a rogue Starfleet Captain trying to discover the secret to eternal youth on a pre-warp planet, and there's a lot of fighting with some of the savage natives. It's all very boring... until the last quarter.
It gets revealed that this is (yet another) TOS Season 2 Earth parallel, with the savages representing the US and the village people the Communists. There is no explanation given for how the aliens ended up with all the exact paraphernalia of that time on Earth, from the US flag to the American Constitution; it's all just ludicrous.
The crowning weirdness of the episode is Kirk's lauding of the American Constitution as the greatest thing ever invented. Now, I don't just not like this because I'm English; I would feel the same if the British (unwritten) Constitution was being lauded like this. I consider myself a pretty patriotic person, and I believe that every country has equal reason to celebrate themselves, but I feel it is utterly inappropriate in Star Trek for any one country or group to be held up as the ultimate shining example of civilisation. This is because Trek is meant to represent a future where everybody's come together under one banner. There's a lot to praise about the American Constitution, but it's inappropriate for it to be held up as the 'One True Way', if you will. Kirk's final admiring look at the US flag is so cringeworthily saccharine. So, yeah, this episode is boring for most of its runtime, and it certainly isn't in the end... it's much worse.
893) The Muse (1996)
DS9 4x21
Writer: Rene Echevarria, story by Rene Echevarria & Majel Barrett-Roddenberry
Director: David Livingston
The DS9 Lwaxana Troi episodes are largely not a good time, and this is the absolute worst of them. The story of her pregnancy feels so hammy and forced, and the drama with her and Odo doesn't interest me at all. She also doesn't feel like she has much of a presence in the episode, which is shocking given how she came on so wonderfully strong in TNG. The other plotline with Jake is also uninteresting. It's at least not as bad as the Lwaxana storyline, but it's still so very uninspired (you see what I did there?). Annoyingly our last Lwaxana appearance; they really should have stopped her episodes after TNG's Dark Page; that was the perfect ending for her character.
892) When the Bough Breaks (1988)
TNG 1x16
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Kim Manners
Gene Roddenberry did like his kiddie episodes, didn't he? The idea of 'Atlantis-but-a-planet' is interesting, but the episode wastes the concept on a tiresome kidnapping story. The kids are fine I guess, but I'd also rather not be watching them. Wesley feels kinda out-of-place among them, to be honest, considering how noticeably older he is. I will say that Picard's reaction to the abduction: 'You have just committed an act of utter barbarity!' is a superb bit of acting from Stewart, but other than that there's nothing else I'll praise about this outing.
891) Pen Pals (1989)
TNG 2x15
Writer: Melinda M Snodgrass, story by Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Winrich Kolbe
This always feels like a short to me, despite its forty-five minute length. No time is spent building up Data and the alien kid's relationship; we just see the kid's first communication, then jump into Data confessing to Picard he's been in contact with a pre-warp individual. So I have no investment in this relationship, which is a shame because Data-plus-kid had the potential to be really sweet. They just didn't put the legwork into it. The resolution is fine.
890) Unforgettable (1998)
VOY 4x22
Writer: Greg Elliot & Michael Perricone
Director: Andrew Robinson
Got to be the most ironic title in Trek history, since this episode is extremely forgettable. It's also mind-numbingly boring: Trek does not have a good track record with single-episode romances, and this has got to be one of the worst. I feel zero connection to the guest character and zero investment in her relationship with Chakotay. The idea of a species that you forget after they've been gone for a while is intriguing, but it is wasted on this insipid romance. This was one of the longest forty-five minutes I've ever sat through.
889) Transfigurations (1990)
TNG 3x25
Writer: Rene Echevarria
Director: Tom Benko
Speaking of dull one-episode romances, here's another one. The idea of a species going through a butterfly-like transformation, that is feared and suppressed by the authorities, is again intriguing. It reminds me of the Jon Pertwee Doctor Who story The Mutants, if anyone's watched that, except it's done less well. Again, the good concept is wasted on a boring romance, this time between Beverly and her patient. This is another one that feels much longer than forty-five minutes.
888) Bread and Circuses (1968)
TOS 2x25
Writer: Gene Roddenberry & Gene L Coon
Director: Ralph Senensky
At this point in TOS Season 2, I just thought: 'Really, Mr Roddenberry? Another Earth parallel? I know you like them, but this is getting ridiculous!' Not only is this a tired repeat of an already done idea, but no explanation is given for why this planet parallels the Roman Empire. In A Piece of the Action and Patterns of Force clever reasons were given, but in this it's just presented as a weird fact. That doesn't fly with me.
And even if they had come up with another clever explanation, they have done this idea, which I don't like very much anyway, way too many times this season. I did have some minor interest in the concept of a Rome that never fell, but not enough to sustain me for fifty minutes. Boring and uninspired to the highest degree. I will say there's one really great scene between Spock and Bones in a prison cell, though, when Bones confronts Spock about how he keeps all his emotions carefully concealed.
887) How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth (1974)
TAS 2x5
Writer: Russell Bates & David Wise
Director: Bill Reed
Similar to Who Mourns for Adonais?, in that it gives us an omnipotent alien, who was once worshipped as a God on Earth, and has returned to take charge of his wayward children, only to ultimately discover they don't need him anymore. This is a much weaker version of that story, however, with a less sympathetic godlike character and less runtime to flesh out the idea.
The episode also takes a weird swerve halfway through, from the setting of Kukulkan's city (a nice location, I must say) to his zoo, which I find much less appealing. This episode had an idea, but it wasn't quite sure how to tell the story. Kukulkan genuinely scared me a little, though, and I did feel sorry for him when he flew off, knowing that his former worshippers had outgrown him. But again, that was done better in TOS.
886) Resurrection (1997)
DS9 6x8
Writer: Michael Taylor
Director: LeVar Burton
Michael Taylor is a curious writer for me. He has written both some of my favourite and some of my least favourite episodes, with little middle ground. This falls hard into the latter category. It's interesting to have someone from the Mirror Universe cross into the Prime Universe, rather than the other way around as normally happens, and it's doubly interesting to have that someone be Mirror Bareil. But the episode falls flat on its face: every scene is just so interminably dull, and, unlike his Prime Universe counterpart, this Bareil has no chemistry with Kira. So boring, so pedestrian, and the absolute worst of the DS9 Mirror Universe episodes.
885) The Paradise Syndrome (1968)
TOS 3x3
Writer: Margaret Armen
Director: Jud Taylor
I think this is the epitome of functional but dull. The story makes sense, the characters' motivations make sense, but that doesn't mean the episode is interesting. I do like the idea of the Preservers, beings who transplanted members of endangered peoples, here the Native Americans, to other planets, but the episode flops. Kirk's memory loss leads to a yawnworthy stay among the Native Americans, filled with predictable tensions and conflicts, and a bland romance. The Spock and Bones B-plot is also boring. I feel a little something for Miramanee's death, but only a little something.
884) Assignment: Earth (1968)
TOS 2x26
Writer: Art Wallace, story by Gene Roddenberry & Art Wallace
Director: Marc Daniels
Star Trek without the Star Trek. Deciding not to focus on the main characters for an episode isn't a bad idea in and of itself, but the characters put in their stead hold little interest for me. The same is true of the plot they work within. This was of course a backdoor pilot for a spin-off that never manifested, and maybe if it had come about I would like this episode much more, but as it stands I find the characters unintriguing and the plot uninspired. The climax is particularly poor, with about seventy different shots of the rocket going into orbit, while the characters mill about and do very little. I want me my Kirk, Spock and Bones back.
883) The Red Angel (2019)
DSC 2x10
Writer: Chris Silvestri & Anthony Maranville
Director: Hanelle M Culpepper
Down here for the same reasons as previous DSC Season 2 episodes I've put on this list. It engages heavily in the twin foul-ups of the Spock's sister storyline and the Section 31 portrayal. I hate the base concept of Burnham being Spock's sister, for reasons I've explained in my previous post, so I despise all their scenes together, that build out this relationship that I wish had never been. And Section 31 continues to be portrayed as a public wing of the Federation, with ships and resources provided by Starfleet, which is godawful.
I will say, however, that I do kinda like the sequence where Burnham has to strap herself to a chair and bare herself to the planet's toxic atmosphere in order to summon the Red Angel. And the reveal that the Angel is not herself but in fact her mother is cool. But this is still a really bad episode.
882) The Storyteller (1993)
DS9 1x13
Writer: Kurt Michael Bensmiller & Ira Steven Behr, story by Kurt Michael Bensmiller
Director: David Livingston
A really messy, weak outing. The A- and B-plots have nothing to do with each other, which isn't automatically bad, but here it just makes the episode feel untidy. Of the two, I prefer the Jake and Nog subplot; it's funny seeing them mooning over the female teenage leader of a settlement who comes to the station. Their getting in trouble to impress her is charming. The A-plot sucks, though: the whole business of O'Brien having to become the protector of this village, from an amorphous cloud villain, is just lame, and the resolution is whatever. It is funny to see O'Brien and Julian in their first episode together, though, and witnessing how much O'Brien doesn't care for the good Doctor at this point. Oh, how times will change.
881) The Arsenal of Freedom (1988)
TNG 1x20
Writer: Richard Manning & Hans Beimler, story by Maurice Hurley & Robert Lewin
Director: Les Landau
A ramshackle adventure with a medley of different storylines, all of which are underwhelming. The best is Geordi's plotline, where he asserts himself as commander of the Enterprise over the *rsehole Chief Engineer of the week, but the other two don't really have any redeeming qualities. The Riker and co storyline is repetitive and the Picard and Beverly storyline is dull. I do like that the threat is resolved when Picard agrees to make a purchase from this dead civilisation, though.
880) Move Along Home (1993)
DS9 1x9
Writer: Frederick Rappaport, Lisa Rich & Jeanne Carrigan-Fauci, story by Michael Piller
Director: David Carson
OK, so I said this wasn't the worst of DS9, but it's still really bad. Though I have to say that, after I watched this with my siblings last year, and had such fun doing so, I've never been able to see it quite so badly. It's bad, yeah, but it's so, so much fun. The best-worst bit is of course the alien hopscotch scene, and I also really have to give credit to Alexander Siddig for playing some brilliant cringey comedy with Julian. The scene where he's trying to wake himself up from a nightmare by screaming? So funny. These (sort of) praises made, this is still a stinker of an episode, with a messy plot, too-silly events, and some serious overacting from Armin Shimerman at the end. Definitely something best watched with friends or family.
Allamaraine, count to four,
Allamaraine, then three more,
Allamaraine, if you can see,
Allamaraine, you'll come with me!
879) Justice (1987)
TNG 1x7
Writer: Worley Thorne, story by Ralph Wills & Worley Thorne
Director: James L Conway
I love the basic idea of this episode: Wesley runs afoul of a law on another planet and is sentenced to death by their draconian justice system. Then Picard has to struggle with whether to obey the Prime Directive or save his life. But the episode is dragged down by some weird costuming choices and, most of all, the addition of an omnipotent entity that watches over the planet's people. This should have just been an episode about Picard struggling between duty and conscience; the addition of a mega-powerful being steals screentime from this fine idea.
878) A Simple Investigation (1997)
DS9 5x17
Writer: Rene Echevarria
Director: John T Kretchmer
Uuuuugh; another boring single-episode romance. It's an interminable chore to sit through, from beginning to end, with tired, uninspired romantic scenes and an unexciting criminalistic plot surrounding the Orion Syndicate. I also don't like how the Changelings' linking is equated with sex in that one scene. There are a few fun scenes with O'Brien, Julian and Jadzia when they're playing the spy holosuite program (Jadzia's 'Ooh, somebody stop me!', or O'Brien's 'Hi, Odo!'), but that's about it.
877) Such Sweet Sorrow Part Two (2019)
DSC 2x14
Writer: Michelle Paradise, Junny Lumet, & Alex Kurtzman
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
DSC wasn't merely content to introduce a sister for Spock who weakened the story of his childhood and family life. They had to make that sister so important in his life that he'd be willing to go with her into the future and leave his life behind. I hate that Kurtzman and co made this decision, as it makes everything in TOS, SNW etc feel like Spock settling for second-best, when in reality he is fulfilling his life's purpose in those series.
I also never connected with any of the DSC original characters, except for Saru, and even with him I don't feel any emotion at their grand final 23rd Century adventure to stop Control. As I've said before, this evil sentient AI story is a tired, repeated idea, and its connection to the terrible portrayal of Section 31 makes it worse. As a result of all this don't give a single crap about any of the grand-scale action in this episode, and I feel nothing for the loss of the Discovery crew to the far future. I will say that this episode did at least propel DSC into the 32nd Century, which would end up saving the series from being irredeemably awful, and it sets up the phenomenal SNW (although we didn't strictly need all this for SNW to work).
876) Vis a Vis (1998)
VOY 4x20
Writer: Robert Doherty
Director: Jesus Salvador Trevino
A vapid story about Tom feeling dissatisfied with his life on Voyager, and getting replaced by a shape-stealing alien. The concept for the alien is solid, but the execution doesn't fly. It ends up being a limp episode that drags quite a bit, with a bland character arc for Tom at its centre. Shoutout for the appearance of Dan Butler as the alien's main form, though; he played the testosterone-fuelled Bulldog Briscoe in my favourite comedy, Frasier.
That's it for now. Thank you very much for reading, and Live Long and Prosper!
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2024.06.01 07:15 GuiltlessMaple Best 410 Reloader
 | submitted by GuiltlessMaple to u/GuiltlessMaple [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/pe3jndgc9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4186d5659d5ac4a3c7b8d7897d960f2b5237249 Welcome to our product review of the 410 Reloader. This article is designed to provide you with a comprehensive and informative overview of the 410 Reloader, including its features, benefits, and potential drawbacks. From beginner to expert, we've got you covered with all the essential information you need to make an informed decision about this product. So sit back, relax, and let's dive into the world of 410 Reloaders. The Top 14 Best 410 Reloader
Reviews🔗Top-Quality Ultra Pro Thick 55pt Trading Card Top Loaders for Enhanced Protectionhttps://preview.redd.it/ccl67ewc9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3ed2cae9e8d34f0b17477633ba0b48de3122321 As a collector of various sports cards, I've tried numerous toploaders to keep my prized possessions safe and clean. The Ultra Pro 55pt Toploader had been on my radar for some time, and I finally decided to give it a try. Upon opening the package, I was impressed by how sturdy and well-built the toploader felt. The clear design allowed me to show off my cards beautifully while still providing ample protection. The 55pt thickness was perfect for my chrome and prism cards, which can be a bit tricky to fit in standard toploaders. There was no more struggling or forcing cards into place. However, there was one downside to using these toploaders. They were more expensive than some of their counterparts, which made me hesitant to order them in larger quantities. Despite this, I still find the Ultra Pro 55pt Toploader to be a high-quality and reliable product that has become a staple in my card collection. 🔗Ultra Pro 3"x4" Gold Rookie Toploader - Clear, Durable Card Holder with Rigid PVC Constructionhttps://preview.redd.it/p7pg8ldd9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b22738de37e596cf9e66bb105533eca37f5dae8 I recently added the Ultra Pro 3" x 4" Rookie Gold Toploader to my collection, and I must say, I'm impressed. These rigid plastic enclosures not only protect and keep my Rookie cards clean but also feature a sleek Rookie Card gold foil hot stamp. Made from high impact rigid PVC, these top loaders are super clear and perfect for showcasing your favorite players. One aspect I enjoyed the most was the packaging, as they arrived promptly and were well protected. I also appreciate that these toploaders are affordable and come in packs of 25, making them a great value for anyone looking to safeguard their collection. There truly is no need to overpay for quality products like these. Overall, the Ultra Pro 3" x 4" Rookie Gold Toploader has been an excellent addition to my collection, and I highly recommend them to other collectors. Their versatility, durability, and attractive design make them a great choice for any card enthusiast. 🔗Economical 35mm Bulk Film Loader for Photography Enthusiastshttps://preview.redd.it/4jstazpd9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b89305de339103861d74df58fd9ed01c46faf21d Lloyd 35mm Bulk Film Loader LL01 - A reliable and efficient companion for my 35mm photography journey. This film loader was a breeze to use - its intuitive design and user-friendly interface made loading and spooling 35mm rolls a seamless process. It accepts one 100' roll of 35mm film, which I could convert into individual cassettes effortlessly. The helpful guide printed on the front of the machine indicated the number of cranks needed to produce rolls of varying exposure lengths. However, the film loader had its drawbacks as well. The winding handle, which seemed flimsy and poorly designed, caused some concern as it was prone to breaking. Additionally, the locking ring that held the film cartridge in place broke after just four uses, which was disappointing. Overall, the Lloyd 35mm Bulk Film Loader LL01 proved to be a dependable tool for loading and spooling 35mm film. Despite the issues with the winding handle and locking ring, it ultimately delivered on convenience and saving money with bulk film. 🔗High-Quality Rookie Card Toploader Protector 410 Reloader (35pt)https://preview.redd.it/v6npxm4e9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21d25bb9124dc5c968d39ff5a2dfa77ed63ed86e As a sports enthusiast, I've been using the Rookie Card, 35pt toploaders and they make a perfect addition to my card collection. The design of the holder is quite sleek, and I appreciate the "Rookie Card" label on them, which adds an extra touch of authenticity. The 35pt toploaders are securely built with PVC and hold the cards snugly in place. However, I find the size a little smaller than I expected, which can make it difficult to fit some thicker cards, but this may vary depending on the type of card you're protecting. Overall, I'd say it's a great product that keeps my precious players safe and organized. 🔗EVORETRO Comic Book Toploader Pack - Lifetime Protection for Comicshttps://preview.redd.it/9h95cage9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b3eb96ca945d124fa22258e2853403fa9f845fc In my quest for the best comic book toploader, I stumbled upon EVORETRO's offering. This pack of 10 top loaders proved to be a lifesaver for my comic collection. The clear material used for these top loaders allows me to easily see the cover art while keeping my comics safe from damage, thanks to their durability and resistance to accidental drops. However, one downside I noticed was the lack of variety in the sizes offered. While they are great for standard-sized comics, larger issues might not fit comfortably. Overall, the EVORETRO toploader has become an essential part of my comic book storage, protecting my valuable comics while still showcasing their artwork. 🔗Durable 410 Reloader Steel Shot Charge Barhttps://preview.redd.it/m2ep0tse9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c41d7c41269b689a50fd4b415de6d8976990eb53 One cold winter morning, I decided to head to the shooting range to work on my aim with my friends. As an avid shotgun enthusiast, I always ensure to have the right equipment for any situation. On that particular day, my go-to shotgun shell press, MEC Charge Bar Steel Shot 7, proved to be an invaluable asset. The anodized aluminum charge bars were quick and easy to switch, making it a breeze to adjust the powder charge according to the weather and shooting conditions. One highlight that truly stood out was the soft insert, which prevented the shearing of larger or hard shot, ensuring that my rounds performed consistently and accurately. However, there was one minor drawback to my experience. At the range, I had a friend who also used a MEC Charge Bar Steel Shot 7. We discovered that the charge bars for lead and steel shot are not interchangeable - a fact that could have confused us both if we hadn't checked the manual first. Nevertheless, this quirk didn't hinder our progress, and we were able to continue enjoying our day at the range without any significant issues. In conclusion, the MEC Charge Bar Steel Shot 7 is a remarkable tool for both beginning and advanced shotgun reloaders. With its quick-change charge bars, adjustability, and soft insert, it's evident that MEC has put a lot of thought into designing a reliable and efficient product. While the charge bars for different shot types may not be interchangeable, this minor downside doesn't detract from the overall quality and performance of this exceptional shotgun shell press. 🔗Rookie Card Toploader and Sleeve Set for Standard Size Cardshttps://preview.redd.it/dowipo5f9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=741644ed789d5896583d2786863f70c61b9d6622 When I first laid my eyes on the Ultra Pro 3" x 4" Rookie Toploader, I couldn't help but appreciate its sleek appearance and sturdy design. As a collector, I've had my fair share of mishaps with standard toppers, but this one seemed to stand out from the rest. The topper's rigid plastic construction felt reassuring, providing a perfect fit for my standard-sized cards. And with the added protection of the archival-grade, Non-PVC, and Acid-Free sleeves, I knew my cards were in safe hands. However, the real highlight for me was the exclusive "ROOKIE CARD" hot-stamped gold foil on the toppers. Not only did it add a touch of elegance, but it also made identifying them in my collection a breeze. While the product's cost seemed a tad higher than my previous toppers, I couldn't help but justify the investment for the added durability and aesthetic appeal of the Ultra Pro 3" x 4" Rookie Toploader. In conclusion, this product exceeded my expectations in terms of both quality and security. Despite the higher price point, I feel confident in recommending it to fellow collectors who prioritize the protection and presentation of their cards. 🔗Versatile High-Performance 410 Reloader Single Stage Charge Barhttps://preview.redd.it/ox3suhkf9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6f46e6a2685729db09215d30bc49ffafc9fe95e For the past month, I've been using the MEC Single Stage Charge Bar for my reloading days. This charge bar has been a game-changer in my set-up, providing me with the perfect amount of precision and ease that I've been looking for. The anodized aluminum build is both sturdy and lightweight, making it easy to handle and maneuver. It also boasts a soft insert design that prevents any damage to larger or hard lead shot, ensuring consistent and reliable performance. However, there is one downside I've encountered. These charge bars are not interchangeable between lead and steel shots. It would be great if MEC could come up with a solution for this in the future, but for now, it remains a small inconvenience. Overall, I'm very satisfied with the MEC Single Stage Charge Bar. It has made my reloading process so much smoother and more efficient, providing me with a high-quality, long-lasting product that I can't wait to use for many more projects. 🔗Top 50 Size 8 x 10 Photo Mountshttps://preview.redd.it/m1d2jivf9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=862256573718937f38b31495977cb1578103114a I recently came across these 8x10-sized top loaders, and let me tell you, they've made a significant difference in my photo album game. Perfect for mounting on plaques, these bad boys from Cardboard Gold, Inc. are a game-changer. The quality is top-notch, and the design is sleek, making them a standout in my collection. However, the only downside is that they're not as versatile as some other options out there. Overall, I'd definitely recommend giving them a try if you're in the market for a reliable, good-looking solution for your photo albums. 🔗Pro Safe 55pts Trading Card Holders, 410 Reloaderhttps://preview.redd.it/n73kfqeg9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6618aee82c35e97ea74b9f7478973e81923d740 In my experience, the Pro-Safe 55pt thick toploaders were a game-changer. These trading card holders are designed with thick cards up to 55pts in mind, which I found incredibly useful. The crystal-clear quality of the holders was a sight to behold, making it super easy to showcase my cards without the hassle of cloudy protection. Made of high-impact rigid PVC, they felt sturdy and reliable, offering peace of mind while handling my cards. Each pack contains 25 holders, which is perfect for bulking up your collection. The dimensions of 3"x4" were just right, allowing me to open on the short side and protect my cards with ease. Overall, these toploaders were a great addition to my card collection and I highly recommend them for fellow collectors. 🔗Sturdy 8.5"x 11" Toploader Holder for Collectibleshttps://preview.redd.it/sv9s1dlg9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a74efea6adae74a7cf5cf6afe49d70bcba4863d As an avid collector, I've been using these stunning 8.5"x11" toploaders for a while now, and they have truly elevated my passion project. They're great for mounting on plaques, and the size is just perfect for all that important memorabilia. I especially appreciate how they make displaying my treasured 410 Reloader prints so much more enjoyable. However, I noticed that they can be a bit tricky to install in certain cases, and their thickness might not be ideal for very thin materials. But overall, these toploaders are a fantastic addition to my collectibles collection, and I couldn't be happier with my experience. 🔗Affordable and Versatile 35mm Film Roll Bulk Loaderhttps://preview.redd.it/bdsy100h9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d0d7575181921e9266ba1d5551b656cb79af9d6 As a photography aficionado, I recently tried out the Arista 35mm Bulk Film Loader, aptly named "Bobinquick Junior. " This nifty tool is perfect for those who love experimenting with different types of film rolls, especially for those who frequently shoot with 35mm film. The device is surprisingly easy to use, even for beginners, and it offers a range of customization options for the number of frames per cassette. One of the things I noticed right away is the high-quality build, which is an important factor for any photography accessory. The film loader is designed to accommodate all 35mm rolls, up to 30.5 meters in length, making it a versatile choice for various shooting scenarios. Its compact size is also a bonus, as it takes up minimal space in your camera bag. However, I did encounter a minor inconvenience with this device—it doesn't accept Leica reloadable cassettes. While this might be a deal-breaker for some, it didn't deter me from using it with my Nikon and Zeiss film cassettes. The product's integrated fuel gauge, which shows the remaining bulk film in the chamber, is a thoughtful feature that adds to its overall quality. In conclusion, the Arista 35mm Bulk Film Loader, or "Bobinquick Junior, " is a valuable addition to any photographer's arsenal. Its ease of use, high build quality, and versatility make it a standout product, despite the occasional limitation. If you're a 35mm film enthusiast looking to save on film costs and streamline your shooting process, this product is worth considering. 🔗Ultra-Clear Top Loader: Protect Your 410 Reloadershttps://preview.redd.it/glwdrzch9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b8cfd661adff1eee387d386e236d5880a974588 From my experience using the Ultra Pro 24 x 36 in Top Loader, it provided a clear and sturdy way to protect and store my collectibles. The high impact rigid PVC material kept dust and dirt out, while the super clear design showcased my posters and photos beautifully. However, I did notice that the top loader was a bit flimsy compared to a smaller version, which made sliding my collectibles in a bit of a challenge. Overall, it's a useful product that deserves its 4-star rating and 10.0 review score. 🔗MEC Short Kit .410 Converter Kit for 600 Jr. and Sizemaster Shotshell Reloadershttps://preview.redd.it/ykm7hp0i9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12dc24c9fdb139c41ecf3e4725f5e9ff34fd6576 I've been using the MEC Short Kit. 410 Converts in my daily life, and it's been quite the game changer for my MEC shotshell reloader. This kit is incredibly useful when converting my 600 Jr. , 600 Jr. Mark 5, Sizemaster, or Steelmaster reloader to handle shells of a shorter length. One of the features that stood out for me is its ability to make reloading easier and hassle-free. With its 3" to 2 1/2" conversion kit, it takes away the need for additional tools and effort, which is great for someone like me who doesn't want to spend too much time on the reloading process. However, I did notice that while this kit is incredibly convenient, it can be a bit heavy to carry around, especially for someone like me who prefers a lighter load. The product weighs around 0.55 oz, which might be a bit of a burden for some users. Overall, the MEC Short Kit. 410 Converts is a fantastic addition to any MEC reloader, and its pros definitely outweigh the cons. Buyer's Guidehttps://preview.redd.it/qoiw5r5i9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3edfda85cfe97bb036007cb3aa6966e48c1a602 None FAQhttps://preview.redd.it/c22qufli9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a4aaf9d8fa29907b153a6e20a68a99e702b5b68 What is the 410 Reloader used for?The 410 Reloader is a versatile and powerful handgun suitable for various shooting activities, including self-defense, hunting, and target shooting. Its compact size, recoil-reducing design, and relatively affordable cost make it a popular choice among enthusiasts.Which ammunition is best suited for the 410 Reloader?https://preview.redd.it/mm92cowi9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fce7385674859ef8bac2b303674c5a14754c2ded There are various options for ammunition that work well with the 410 Reloader. Some popular rounds include the Federal 410 Magnum 2.5" , Hornady V-mag 2.5" , and Remington 2" 410 Shotgun Shell. Each type of ammo has its advantages, such as longer range and stopping power. It is essential to choose the appropriate ammunition for your specific use. How reliable is the 410 Reloader in comparison to other handguns?The 410 Reloader is generally considered reliable and robust. However, like any firearm, it might experience occasional malfunctions. Proper maintenance, including cleaning the gun, ensuring a suitable fit between the cylinder and frame, and using high-quality ammunition can greatly improve reliability. As with any firearm, proper handling and training are crucial. https://preview.redd.it/vvqwjcdj9w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b037708fa560f2d8a1702a64f2969686d410808d What are some popular accessories for 410 Reloaders?
Is the 410 Reloader expensive to maintain?Compared to other handguns, the 410 Reloader can be considered cost-effective to maintain. Bullets are generally affordable, but the cost may vary depending on the type of ammunition used. As with any firearm, proper maintenance and cleaning are essential to ensure longevity and prevent potential costly repairs.What are the differences between 410 Reloaders and other handguns?
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2024.06.01 06:58 GhoulGriin Best 380 Reloading Dies
 | submitted by GhoulGriin to u/GhoulGriin [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/lhfwagp76w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ad8d48c64daf69d9aa41ea5f816962a25abf01e If you're a seasoned gun enthusiast or a newcomer to the world of reloading, the 380 Reloading Dies is a must-have tool in your arsenal. In this article, we've rounded up the top 380 Reloading Dies on the market, catering to a variety of shooters' preferences and budgets. From the basic to the high-tech, we've got you covered. So sit back, relax, and let us guide you through the world of 380 Reloading Dies. The Top 17 Best 380 Reloading Dies
Reviews🔗Lee Precision 3-Die Set for 45-70 Government Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/581teo286w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd5c9e2a35b60ccf90c1b08bb6b3e021c53b3ea2 When I first got my hands on the Lee Precision 3 Die Steel Set, I was impressed with the sturdy construction. This set has everything you need for handloading your. 45-70 Government rounds, without any need for additional accessories. I appreciated the inclusion of the Lee Precision Steel Full Length Sizer die, which allowed for easy sizing without having to buy that separately. One thing that stood out was the versatility of this product. With its included powder dipper and shell holder, it was a breeze to charge and seat my bullets, making handloading as simple as can be. Add that to the reliable crimping process and it was hard to find any faults. However, like any product, it wasn't without its quirks. I found that the included Lee Precision Steel Full Length Sizer die required careful lubrication before use and needed the cases to be cleaned before charging. It also didn't come with a factory crimp die, which added an extra step to the process. All in all, the Lee Precision 3 Die Steel Set was a reliable addition to my reloading kit. With its robust construction, versatile capabilities, and reasonable price, it's a product that any serious handloader should consider. Just remember that with any reloading equipment, patience, and attention to detail are key to ensuring a seamless process. 🔗Lee Precision 4-Die Carbide Set for .38 Special and .357 Magnum Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/3nc35wl86w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=285fd6e684119c5c95d3b29d6bc72ed8321b8dc6 When I decided to take up reloading my own ammunition, I knew I needed a reliable and efficient set of dies. That's when I stumbled upon the Lee Precision Carbide 4 Die Set. I was immediately attracted to its four-die set, which included a carbide sizing die, a bullet seating die, a powder thru expanding die, and a carbide factory crimp die. The set is perfect for effectively and efficiently reusing my ammunition. One of the things that stood out to me was the air-tight, low profile box that the dies come in. It keeps the dies organized and preserved, so they're always ready to use. The dies themselves are high quality and easy to set up, ensuring a smooth and efficient reloading process. However, there were a few drawbacks. The instructions could be clearer at times, and I found that I needed to thoroughly clean the dies with lacquer thinner to ensure accurate adjustments and prevent any issues with powder flow. The locking rings also took some getting used to, but after a little practice, I was able to easily switch between calibers on my Lee turret press. Overall, the Lee Precision Carbide 4 Die Set has been a reliable and efficient addition to my reloading setup. It's a great value for the price and has lived up to my expectations. I would definitely recommend it to fellow reloaders looking for a high-quality and cost-effective set of dies. 🔗Efficient Carbide Reloading Dies for 5.7 X 28 Ammohttps://preview.redd.it/0u45hmw86w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad716d610b4e58673363b17d83cc76ec3c3dfbb1 I recently got my hands on the Lee Precision Carbide 3 Die Set 10mm, and let me tell you, it's been quite the experience. First off, the packaging was quite impressive - the dies were neatly arranged in a small, sturdy box. The manual and load data sheet were a nice touch too. One of the features that stood out to me was the universal shell holder, which made it a breeze to start reloading my ammo. It took me back to the old days when people had to go through the hassle of finding the right components and assembling them by hand. The powder dipper was a real game-changer; it's like a whole new level of precision in reloading. As for the dies themselves, they were durable and easy to use. The carbide full length sizing die was really impressive - no more issues with stripped lock screws! The powder through expanding die bullet seating die worked like a charm, ensuring accurate and consistent crimping. The universal shell holder was a bit fiddly at first, but once I got the hang of it, it was a smooth operation. That's not to say there weren't a few cons. The instruction manual could have been more detailed, particularly when it came to adjusting the die. And the seating/crimping die took some fiddling around before I achieved consistent results, especially when I tried to do both at the same time. Overall, though, it's been a positive experience. The Lee Precision Carbide 3 Die Set 10mm does a great job of making reloading more efficient and reliable. I'd definitely consider investing in more sets for the future. A five out of five for me! 🔗High-Quality RCBS 3-Die Set for 5.7 x 28 Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/aqjyv0f96w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90041168722eee92f83ea91a29b5b9fe75735eec I recently had the chance to try out the RCBS Lott 3-Die Set, and let me tell you, it was quite an experience. This set includes a Group C die, a Sizer die, an Expander die, and a Seater die, all of which are essential for any gunsmithing workshop. One of the standout features of this set is the 3-Die roll crimp, which adds a professional touch to your reloading dies. The quality of the dies is top-notch, and the fact that they are made in the United States only adds to their appeal. While the RCBS Lott 3-Die Set is a great addition to any gun enthusiast's arsenal, there are a few drawbacks to note. For instance, the dies may require some adjustment to get the perfect fit, which can be a bit frustrating. Additionally, the price point may be a bit steep for some users, particularly those just starting out in the reloading world. Overall, if you're looking for a high-quality set of dies to take your reloading game to the next level, the RCBS Lott 3-Die Set is definitely worth considering. While there are a few minor drawbacks, the pros far outweigh the cons in this case. 🔗Precision Pacesetter Dies for .223 Caliber - High-Quality Reloading Solutionhttps://preview.redd.it/tyqc8is96w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e09bb673230949304771b770ce178314145381fc As a frequent reloader, I've had the pleasure of using the Lee Precision Pacesetter Dies for. 223. These dies have been an essential part of my reloading process, offering a great balance between affordability and performance. Upon first use, the quality of these dies became apparent. The crimp die and roll crimper allowed me to achieve consistent ammunition with ease. However, one area where these dies excel is with full-length sizing. By performing this step in a Lee single stage press followed by a turret press, I've been able to achieve optimal accuracy for a reasonable price. The storage box is another highlight, designed to keep the dies safe and organized. The fact that Lee includes a powder dipper and load data also adds value to the product. However, there is one potential downside to consider: the depriming arm can sometimes come loose during use. This issue may cause inconvenience for those looking for a smoother reloading experience. Despite this minor drawback, I would still highly recommend the Lee Precision Pacesetter Dies to any reloader looking for affordability without sacrificing quality. 🔗Precision 338 Lapua 2 Die Set for Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/1sexa3aa6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ad13cec0d78979dc09e3be8f8d9c06e0aeb0e0a I recently got my hands on the Lee Precision 338 Lapua 2 die set and let me tell you, it's been a game changer. This set includes all the essentials - a sizer and bullet seater die, as well as a powder dipper and the correct shell holder. The best part? It's half the price of its competitors, without sacrificing on quality. One of the features that really stood out to me is the built-in roll crimp. It ensures my cartridges are secure and ready for some serious shooting. The storage box is a thoughtful addition, keeping everything neat and organized when it's not in use. However, there are a couple of downsides too. I noticed that it doesn't come with a factory crimp die, which could be a deal-breaker for some. Also, it's missing load data which isn't ideal for those unfamiliar with odd or obsolete calibers. Overall, the Lee Precision 338 Lapua 2 die set is a solid choice for anyone looking for an affordable and reliable way to reload their ammo. With its accurate sizing and seating, it's definitely worth considering. 🔗Lee Precision Deluxe 4-Die Set for 350 Legend Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/p11nfrxa6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c05a302a4af33536c3f7b28d270629c4d2a0865 I've been using the Lee Precision 4 Die Set for my 380 Auto rounds, and let me tell you, it's been a game-changer for my reloading process. The highlight for me has been the inclusion of the factory crimp die, which simplifies the adjustment process and ensures that my rounds chamber properly in my gun. Using the universal shell holder as well as the powder dipper has made loading easier and more precise. The carbide dies, including the full-length sizing die, bullet seating die, and powder thru expanding die, have been incredibly durable and reliable. However, I did notice that the resizing and depriming die wasn't as smooth as I'd hoped. It required a bit more force to secure the brass properly. Additionally, some users mentioned that the recapping pins could be cheaper for the price paid. Overall, the Lee Precision 4 Die Set has been a valuable addition to my reloading setup, saving me money in the long run. The simplicity of the die set and the factory crimp die have made the reloading process more accessible and enjoyable. 🔗Match Grade 338 Lapua Magnum Reloading Die Set with MicroJust Seating Diehttps://preview.redd.it/8x35uq3b6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93a5678da880428c8b05a88feff057ba83b33289 The Hornady 338 Lapua Mag Match Grade 2 Die Set has been a part of my daily reloading routine for quite some time now. From the beautifully crafted design of the die set to the easy-to-use features, it has made the process of loading ammunition a delightful experience. One aspect that really stood out to me was the interchangeable self-centering neck size bushings. This feature ensures that you never end up oversizing the case necks or overworking the brass. It's like having a perfect assistant who knows exactly what needs to be done. The micro-just in-line bullet seating die has been a game-changer. It allows for incredibly precise adjustments to the bullet seating depth, which results in match-grade accuracy without having to fiddle around with multiple dies. This, combined with the full-length sizer and seater, makes it a top choice for anyone looking for top-tier reloading equipment. While there are no issues with the storage box, it would have been even better if the shell holder was included. A minor inconvenience that can be easily addressed with an additional purchase. The lack of die-locking rings can be a little frustrating, as it requires a bit of extra precision to make sure everything stays aligned. However, with a bit of practice, this issue can be overcome. In conclusion, the Hornady 338 Lapua Mag Match Grade 2 Die Set is an excellent choice for those looking for match-grade reloading equipment. With its precision-engineered components and user-friendly design, it sets a high standard for what to expect from a high-quality die set. 🔗Lee Precision .38 Special Powder Through Expanding Die for Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/hdywtshb6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1325e770354eed66d1ae187557d3c8ec28c6e72f In my experience, the Lee Precision 38SP Powder Thru Expanding Die has quickly become a vital component in my reloading arsenal. This made-in-USA die is designed to charge the case while expanding the case mouth for seamless and efficient powder funnel use. While working with it, I immediately appreciated the precision and quality that Lee Precision has to offer. One of the standout features is its compatibility with various powder measure systems, such as the Auto Disk or Pro Auto Disk Powder Measure, which allows for fully automatic powder charging while case mouth expansion. The use of the Powder Funnel adapter further enhances the overall reloading experience. However, one minor drawback is the necessity of a shell holder, which is sold separately. Despite this minor inconvenience, the Lee Precision. 38 Special Powder Thru Expanding Die remains an invaluable tool for any serious reloader. The high-quality construction, ease of use, and compatibility with various accessories make it a must-have addition to any reloading setup. 🔗Precision 7.62 x39 Reloading Dies Set for Exceptional Performancehttps://preview.redd.it/c9t0321c6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fef3a7c181dd2353be3f0b90f45ecfb9ddfe88c1 Introducing the Lyman Pro Die Pack, a versatile and powerful addition to your press reloading toolkit. Crafted with your Mark 7 press in mind, every aspect of these dies was meticulously engineered to deliver top-notch performance. While they're perfectly suited for Mark 7 presses, they also work seamlessly with regular progressive presses, turret presses, and even single station presses. The Lyman Pro Die Pack boasts dies made of stainless steel for its resilience and rust resistance. It's great to see durable and anti-corrosion materials in action. The Lyman Pro even goes the extra mile with highly polished carbide rings on the sizing dies, offering unparalleled wear resistance and reduced sizing force. The spring-loaded decapping rod system ensures the primer is ejected from the primer pocket with force, eliminating any potential misfire. In the Lyman Pro Die Pack, the M die neck expander stands out. It has a specially designed two-step expander plug, ensuring just the right amount of neck tension and flair for your case mouths. The pistol sets include flare dies, designed to let bullets sit securely on the case mouth before being seated. The Micrometer Seating die, a standout feature, impresses with a micrometer adjustable seating head. It guarantees precision bullet seating length and a floating bullet seating punch that centers your bullet with pinpoint accuracy. Lastly, each set comes with a taper crimp die, micrometer adjustable, which fully removes any case mouth flare and provides improved bullet retention. However, like any review, there are pros and cons to consider. While the Lyman Pro Die Pack delivers exceptional performance with its array of features, it may lack compatibility with certain cartridge types. Always ensure it matches your intended use. Overall, the Lyman Pro Die Pack is a reliable and robust choice for reloaders looking for top-tier performance. 🔗Lee Precision 38-40 WCF Steel 3-Die Set for Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/g7st1lcc6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a1616521c48d90eb4310e9b3d32ba1f71ccc1c5 Recently, I tried out the Lee Precision. 38-40 WCF Steel 3-Die set and it has become part of my daily life. This 3-Die set is fantastic for reloading your ammunition, as it allows me to decap, size, powder charge, seat bullets, and crimp them all on the same press, eliminating the need for a separate taper crimp die. The Lee Precision Steel Full Length Sizer die is also included, but note that it requires lubrication before it can be used. One of my favorite highlights of this excellent set is its versatility – no matter your brass's condition, this set can give it a new life. I also appreciate that it comes with a shell holder for free, which gives me more value for my money. However, there is one small downside: lubrication is required when using the dies. It's a simple process but it's still something to keep in mind. Other than that, the Lee Precision 3 Die Set 38-40 has impressed me greatly and solidified its place in my reloading routine. 🔗Precision 380 ACP Reloading Die with Adjustable Micrometer Seating for Accurate Bullet Seatinghttps://preview.redd.it/xw0wj9uc6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c052f8be7b0c208b40b0c7fe76e48b048c5c750 The Lyman Pro Micrometer Seating Die has been a game-changer in my bullet seating process. I've been using it for my 380 ACP cartridges, and the precision and ease of use are unmatched. The floating bullet seating punch centers the bullet on the case, minimizing run-out. The micrometer adjustable seating head allows me to easily adjust the bullet seating depth by simply turning the head. The die is built with corrosion-resistant stainless steel, ensuring it withstands the test of time and looks brand new even after years of use. The storage box is a nice touch, keeping everything organized and clean. While the die is a bit heavy, it does its job well and is well worth the investment for the accuracy it provides. Overall, a great product for any serious reloader looking for precision in their bullet seating process. 🔗RCBS 380 Carbide 3 Die Set for Easy Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/mf9yru2d6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a6e4be4af18c6a8360c996dd0b45e7efa80f5b9 The RCBS Carbide 3 Die Set for 380 ACP is a game-changer for ammo enthusiasts. After months of using these dies, I can confidently say they're built to withstand the toughest outdoor conditions. With their carbide sizer, expander, and seater dies, I'm able to achieve top-quality results every single time. One aspect I love about this set is the lack of need for case lubrication. Not only does it save time, but it also keeps my cases in prime condition. The 3-die taper crimp set works seamlessly, providing the necessary precision for all my ammo needs. While I've had great success with this set, there were moments where it felt like a bit of trial and error. The bullet seating crimp die has the potential to damage cases if not handled correctly. And though the instruction manual can be a bit confusing at times, I've learned to trust my own reloading techniques after seeking advice from experienced friends. One thing I wish came with the set is a storage box. After purchasing one separately, I found it to be a great solution to keeping all my dies organized and protected when not in use. Overall, the RCBS Carbide 3 Die Set for 380 ACP is a strong contender among reloading dies. With a bit of practice and patience, you can reap the rewards of high-quality ammo for years to come. 🔗.452 Hand I Sizing Die for Rifle and Pistol Calibershttps://preview.redd.it/n77dfxgd6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6acc7f2891528e86dcba5d2cf7d6472d6fcf4e6d I recently had the chance to use the Lyman. 452 Hand I Sizing Die in my own reloading process, and let me tell you, this thing sure makes a difference. The highlight that instantly caught my attention was the tapered mouth and hardened interior, ensuring proper alignment for a cylindrical shape. It made the task of sizing and lubricating my bullets a breeze. However, as with any product, there are pros and cons. While I love how the extra lube hole allows me to use cast lubricants, I wish it was more compatible with other punches. But overall, the Lyman. 452 Hand I Sizing Die has made a positive impact on my reloading experience. 🔗Lyman 380 Auto Carbide Pistol Die Sethttps://preview.redd.it/2liqojyd6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2637183773e336d3d9a35fbb36cd2236546bd57a My experience with the Lyman 380 Auto Carbide 3 Die Set has been quite positive. In my daily life, I found these dies to be versatile and efficient in creating high-quality ammo for various shooting activities. As a pistol reloader, I appreciated the inclusion of a Tungsten Carbide sizing die and a two-step neck expanding m die for proper bullet alignment. The bullet seating die roll crimp bullets securely and the provided bullet seating screws offered an added bonus, accommodating both round nose and truncated cone bullets. However, I did notice that the bullet seating die had a slightly rougher finish compared to other Lyman products. Overall, these dies have significantly improved my reloading process, delivering consistent quality ammo. They fit seamlessly with my reloading press and the included tools made the process even smoother. Though the finish of some components could be improved, the Lyman 380 Auto Carbide 3 Die Set has proven to be a reliable and efficient choice for serious shooters seeking high-performance ammo. Buyer's GuideWhen it comes to 380 reloading dies, there are a few important features and considerations to keep in mind. These dies can help you save money by reloading your own ammunition, but they also require some knowledge and skill. Let's dive into the details of 380 reloading dies and what you should look for when purchasing. https://preview.redd.it/tz9adcef6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aeb4914fb4a407f34860e719f0916bc137977c59 Important Features
Considerations
https://preview.redd.it/41qy9eyf6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38cbd206f1e4830cf6d0280912dc108df0c444e6 General AdviceWhen shopping for 380 reloading dies, it is essential to take your time and do your research. Compare different brands and models, and read reviews from other users to get a better understanding of the pros and cons of each option. Additionally, don't forget to properly maintain your dies and follow all safety guidelines during the reloading process.Remember, reloading ammunition can be both rewarding and dangerous if not done correctly. Always follow safety guidelines and invest in quality equipment to ensure the best results for both you and your firearm. When you're in the market for 380 reloading dies, consider the important features, such as materials, design, and safety, as well as compatibility and your level of experience. With the right information and the right products, you can successfully reload your own 380 ammunition and save money in the long run. FAQhttps://preview.redd.it/w5opckeg6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e14596871a3e35950524a2b0dde4b6b2ef48769 What are the best 380 reloading dies to use?The top 380 reloading dies are the Lee Precision 380 Auto Bushing Die, the RCBS 380 Auto Magnum Die, and the Dillon RST 380 Auto Die. Each of these dies is known for its durability, ease of use, and precision, making them the go-to choices for reloading enthusiasts.What are the differences between the Lee Precision, RCBS, and Dillon RST 380 Auto Dies?
https://preview.redd.it/s2nvmetg6w3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10d5fb6cebe3baa1f6a386d721ed2cb9147711d4 What is the difference between the 380 ACP and 380 Auto Magnum?The main difference between the 380 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) and 380 Auto Magnum lies in the case length and design. The 380 ACP has a case length of 0.840 inches, while the 380 Auto Magnum has a case length of 1.035 inches. This longer case length allows for greater powder capacity and thus increased performance. Many 380 Auto Magnum loads are also more powerful than their 380 ACP counterparts.What tools do I need for reloading 380 ACP or 380 Auto Magnum ammo?To get started with reloading 380 ammo, you will need the following essential tools: a reloading press, dies (Lee Precision, RCBS, or Dillon RST 380 Auto Dies), a set of reloading components (brass, primer, powder, and bullet), a scale, and a shell holder. Additional tools, such as a case trimmer, shell holder cutter, deburring tool, and bullet puller, may be required depending on the condition of your brass and the specific needs of your reloading setup.How do I choose the right bullet weight and powder charge for 380 reloading?The load data for 380 reloading varies depending on the specific caliber and bullet type used. It is essential to consult an up-to-date reloading manual or online load data resource to find the appropriate bullet weight and powder charge for your load. Factors to consider when selecting a bullet weight include bullet type (full metal jacket, hollow point, etc. ), case length, and desired ballistic performance. The powder charge should be selected based on the desired velocity and pressure level, and it should always be within the manufacturer's recommended range for the specific cartridge.What is the difference between single-stage and progressive reloading presses?
What is the price range for 380 reloading dies?The price range for 380 reloading dies varies depending on the brand and features. Generally, you can expect to pay between $100 to $250 for a high-quality set of dies. However, prices may vary based on availability and specific features, such as adjustable sizing bushing systems or compatibility with Magnum cartridges.As an Amazon™ Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. |
2024.06.01 06:13 Count-Daring243 Best 350 Legend Reloading Dies
 | submitted by Count-Daring243 to u/Count-Daring243 [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/ancdrit3yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e38ca3d7dfb7b9024a1161e6b8c461c50a630e2 Looking for the perfect reloading dies for your 350 Legend firearm? Look no further! In this roundup, we'll take a closer look at some of the top reloading dies on the market, providing you with insightful reviews and comparisons to help you make the best decision for your needs. Get ready to elevate your reloading game and enjoy improved accuracy and performance. The Top 17 Best 350 Legend Reloading Dies
Reviews🔗Lee Precision PaceSetter .308 Reloading Dies for Accurate Huntinghttps://preview.redd.it/bx2pnv54yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7723239629dd12db13f559f4320edabbcc766eca A few weeks ago, I decided to give reloading my own ammunition a try. Being a newbie, I thought I could give it a go after reading some positive reviews about Lee Precision's Pacesetter dies. I chose the. 308 caliber for my first attempt, as it seemed versatile and widely used. The package arrived quickly, and I was excited to start reloading. As I began the process, I found the Lee Precision Crimper to be quite helpful. It crimped the bullet in place more firmly than any other tool I've tried, preventing buckling of the case and making for more accurate shooting. The Full Length Sizer was also convenient, and I appreciated the built-in Stuck Case Remover. On the flip side, I did encounter a couple of issues. First, the locking ring design seemed to have changed since my last set of Lee dies. Second, the powder dipper wasn't much help, as it didn't fit the powder perfectly. Nonetheless, these minor drawbacks didn't outweigh the overall positives of the Pacesetter dies. Overall, I've been quite satisfied with the Lee Precision Pacesetter Dies for the. 308 caliber. The product has held up well, and I've noticed fewer misfires and jams compared to using factory-loaded ammo. While I may experiment with other die sets in the future, I'm confident that the Pacesetter Dies have given me a solid start in the world of reloading. 🔗Lee Precision 3-Die Set for 45-70 Government Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/4k5vwyl4yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58ccab908a1579790678488efd95186ac409549a When I first got my hands on the Lee Precision 3 Die Steel Set, I was impressed with the sturdy construction. This set has everything you need for handloading your. 45-70 Government rounds, without any need for additional accessories. I appreciated the inclusion of the Lee Precision Steel Full Length Sizer die, which allowed for easy sizing without having to buy that separately. One thing that stood out was the versatility of this product. With its included powder dipper and shell holder, it was a breeze to charge and seat my bullets, making handloading as simple as can be. Add that to the reliable crimping process and it was hard to find any faults. However, like any product, it wasn't without its quirks. I found that the included Lee Precision Steel Full Length Sizer die required careful lubrication before use and needed the cases to be cleaned before charging. It also didn't come with a factory crimp die, which added an extra step to the process. All in all, the Lee Precision 3 Die Steel Set was a reliable addition to my reloading kit. With its robust construction, versatile capabilities, and reasonable price, it's a product that any serious handloader should consider. Just remember that with any reloading equipment, patience, and attention to detail are key to ensuring a seamless process. 🔗Lee Precision 4-Die Carbide Set for .38 Special and .357 Magnum Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/aq86yzz4yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0210c7f18ca8aa285a46f53025ca60435cb4fc4a When I decided to take up reloading my own ammunition, I knew I needed a reliable and efficient set of dies. That's when I stumbled upon the Lee Precision Carbide 4 Die Set. I was immediately attracted to its four-die set, which included a carbide sizing die, a bullet seating die, a powder thru expanding die, and a carbide factory crimp die. The set is perfect for effectively and efficiently reusing my ammunition. One of the things that stood out to me was the air-tight, low profile box that the dies come in. It keeps the dies organized and preserved, so they're always ready to use. The dies themselves are high quality and easy to set up, ensuring a smooth and efficient reloading process. However, there were a few drawbacks. The instructions could be clearer at times, and I found that I needed to thoroughly clean the dies with lacquer thinner to ensure accurate adjustments and prevent any issues with powder flow. The locking rings also took some getting used to, but after a little practice, I was able to easily switch between calibers on my Lee turret press. Overall, the Lee Precision Carbide 4 Die Set has been a reliable and efficient addition to my reloading setup. It's a great value for the price and has lived up to my expectations. I would definitely recommend it to fellow reloaders looking for a high-quality and cost-effective set of dies. 🔗Durable Carbide Dies for 9mm Luger Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/ea32ygg5yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79364ebae85e4a4a4cde4e4a52d4de2c2288df68 The Lee Precision Carbide 3 Die Set for 9mm Luger has been an excellent addition to my reloading routine. One of the standout features of this set is its universal shell holder and powder dipper, which has made the process of loading rounds much smoother and efficient. The durable design of the dies also adds peace of mind, knowing that they can withstand regular use without breaking down. However, I must admit that I've faced a few minor inconveniences while using this set. The most notable issue has been the occasional difficulty in crimping the bullets correctly, which resulted in a few misfires. Additionally, the provided case holder seemed less than ideal, leading me to explore alternative options. Overall, I believe the pros outweigh the cons, and I would recommend the Lee Precision Carbide 3 Die Set for anyone looking to reload their 9mm Luger ammo. 🔗Lee Precision Carbide 3 Die Set: High-Quality Reloading Dies for Efficient Ammo Usehttps://preview.redd.it/86gfm2v5yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b3ea4781caa35b4491990a606d6d7c19df8ae40 I recently had the chance to try out the Lee Precision Carbide 3 Die Set 10 mm in my daily reloading routine. The set includes powder through expanding die, bullet seating die, and a carbide full-length sizing die, making it perfect for reusing ammunition efficiently. What really stood out to me was the universal shell holder and powder dipper. It made the entire process much more streamlined and convenient. The durable design was also a standout feature, as it allowed me to reload ammo without worrying about the equipment breaking down or wearing down over time. However, I did notice that the instruction manual and load data sheet could have been a bit clearer and more detailed. As a beginner, I found myself struggling a bit to understand some of the more complex steps. Additionally, the set screw on the die adjustment seemed a bit less secure than some other options available. Overall, I think the Lee Precision Carbide 3 Die Set 10 mm is a solid choice for anyone looking to get into reloading their ammo. The universal shell holder and powder dipper make the process incredibly easy, and the durable design ensures that the equipment will last for years to come. Just be prepared to be a bit patient with the instruction manual and adjusting to the set screws on the dies. 🔗High-Quality RCBS 3-Die Set for 5.7 x 28 Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/ua6z6m56yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3daf3d7f4790186b7854b63aa70f00759e62727 I recently had the chance to try out the RCBS Lott 3-Die Set, and let me tell you, it was quite an experience. This set includes a Group C die, a Sizer die, an Expander die, and a Seater die, all of which are essential for any gunsmithing workshop. One of the standout features of this set is the 3-Die roll crimp, which adds a professional touch to your reloading dies. The quality of the dies is top-notch, and the fact that they are made in the United States only adds to their appeal. While the RCBS Lott 3-Die Set is a great addition to any gun enthusiast's arsenal, there are a few drawbacks to note. For instance, the dies may require some adjustment to get the perfect fit, which can be a bit frustrating. Additionally, the price point may be a bit steep for some users, particularly those just starting out in the reloading world. Overall, if you're looking for a high-quality set of dies to take your reloading game to the next level, the RCBS Lott 3-Die Set is definitely worth considering. While there are a few minor drawbacks, the pros far outweigh the cons in this case. 🔗Affordable 3-Die Set for 300 AAC Blackout Cartridgehttps://preview.redd.it/j74wcri6yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8940e9ec1f5ca205c2329d47b9a345eee1093627 As a passionate shooter, I found these Lee Precision Pacesetter 3-Die Sets to be a game-changer in my reloading process. These high-quality sets have been a life-saver for me, offering convenience and efficiency in every step, all while maintaining the utmost precision and quality that shooters deserve. One of the standout features for me was the universal shell holder, which is a life-saver for anyone who reloads using multiple rifles. It's a must-have accessory that adds versatility and ease to the reloading process. The colored spline drive breech bushings were also something I found particularly useful, as they make die identification a breeze. It means that there's no fumbling around or guessing which die to use when, everything is right there and clearly labeled for easy access. The Full Length Sizing Die and Easy Adjust Dead Length Bullet Seating Die are top-notch components, providing the accuracy and control that comes standard with Lee Precision products. They made a noticeable improvement in the consistency and quality of my ammunition. However, the sets did come with a factory crimp die, which, while useful, tends to be less versatile compared to a separate die designated specifically for crimping. Nevertheless, they still offer a comprehensive solution for the majority of reloading requirements. Lastly, the powder dipper came in handy, and the instructions were comprehensive and easy to follow, making it a great option for beginners or people looking to switch up their reloading method. In conclusion, Lee Precision's Pacesetter 3-Die Sets are truly a joy to use for anyone serious about reloading – offering top-notch precision, versatility, and convenience, all wrapped up in a remarkably affordable package. 🔗Precision Pacesetter Dies for .223 Caliber - High-Quality Reloading Solutionhttps://preview.redd.it/4lwqz817yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9dd0d62ee73613185e381278c003ce0da06a6316 As a frequent reloader, I've had the pleasure of using the Lee Precision Pacesetter Dies for. 223. These dies have been an essential part of my reloading process, offering a great balance between affordability and performance. Upon first use, the quality of these dies became apparent. The crimp die and roll crimper allowed me to achieve consistent ammunition with ease. However, one area where these dies excel is with full-length sizing. By performing this step in a Lee single stage press followed by a turret press, I've been able to achieve optimal accuracy for a reasonable price. The storage box is another highlight, designed to keep the dies safe and organized. The fact that Lee includes a powder dipper and load data also adds value to the product. However, there is one potential downside to consider: the depriming arm can sometimes come loose during use. This issue may cause inconvenience for those looking for a smoother reloading experience. Despite this minor drawback, I would still highly recommend the Lee Precision Pacesetter Dies to any reloader looking for affordability without sacrificing quality. 🔗Premium 338/06 Very Limited Production Reloading Die Sethttps://preview.redd.it/4pe25587yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d0f5ee0220e362ca737c6305ddedc72f51dde36 As a seasoned reloader, I've had the pleasure of trying out these Lee Precision 338/06 Very Limited Production 2 Die Set. Let me tell you that the Full Length Sizer just blew me away. It allows you to restore any case to factory original dimensions and is perfect for firing form in your gun. And speaking of form, I couldn't help but notice the Bullet Seating Die. Working with nearly any point style bullet, it's a simple adjustment to set the seating depth. The tapered design is a nice touch for use with automatic bullet feeders. However, nothing's perfect. The design of the radius on the bottom of the die seemed a little too luxurious for my preferences. I found that it caused some issues when trying to reload. 338 Lapua in standard 7/8"-14 dies. It's a design flaw that I hope the manufacturer will consider fixing. But in the end, these dies have served me well, and I have no qualms about recommending them to others looking for a reliable and affordable reloading solution for their 338-06 caliber. The quality and performance of these Lee Precision dies are worth highlighting indeed. 🔗High-Quality 350 Legend Expander Die for Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/mup0s6o7yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b5378afd880daf40ab60abe6c16641870269351 I recently used the Hornady Custom Grade Series V Expander Die for reloading my. 350 Legend cartridges, and I must say the experience has been fantastic. The 355" die has been a game-changer, allowing me to create better, more consistent rounds for my hunting adventures. The highlight of this product, for me, is the smooth and precise adjustment mechanism that makes it extremely user-friendly. Additionally, the accuracy with which this die expands the bullet into the case has surpassed my expectations. These features make this die an essential addition to any reloader's toolbox. However, there was one minor drawback I encountered – the price point. Given the quality and features of the Hornady Custom Grade Series V Expander Die, I expected it to be slightly more affordable. Despite this, the performance and ease of use make it a worthwhile investment for any serious hunter or gun enthusiast. 🔗RCBS Taper Crimp Reloading Die for 350 Legend Caliberhttps://preview.redd.it/e3fpwc38yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c8affa541d6b26960c4d0f52f812e06cd18a6e9 As a regular reloader, I've been using the RCBS Taper Crimp Seater Die for my 350 Legend ammo. This die is a game-changer in my reloading process, as it not only seats the bullet precisely but also secures it using a built-in taper crimper. One of the features that stands out is the versatility of the die. It fits perfectly with 350 Legend Reloading Dies, making it a must-have tool for anyone working with this caliber. The seating process is smooth and efficient, ensuring a consistent and accurate bullet placement on the case. However, there is one thing I would like to see improved. While the taper crimper works well, it could benefit from a bit more adjustability. This would allow users to fine-tune the crimping process for even better results. Overall, the RCBS Taper Crimp Seater Die - Group C - 350 Legend 21962 is an excellent addition to any reloading setup, especially for those working with 350 Legend cartridges. With its smooth seating process and functional taper crimper, it makes the reloading experience more efficient and enjoyable. 🔗Lee 90624 3-Die Set for .32S&W Long Pistol Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/8864xrk8yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb5b56bdff7d6cc6b7996b35aea286a4718f4ac1 It was quite a delightful experience to use the Lee 90624 3 Die Set in my daily life. One of the most noteworthy features of this set is the carbide full-length sizing die. I was reloading for multiple firearms, and this die made the process incredibly hassle-free. Another highlight is the adjustable crimp from slight taper to full roll, offering versatility and precision in seating the bullets. However, I also noticed a minor drawback - I encountered a few crushed cases when seating bullets for the. 32 S&W Long. This was an unexpected occurrence, but I learned that it could be due to the flare die not properly preparing the case mouth for seating. Despite this minor issue, I found the Lee dies to be a reliable choice for my pistol reloading needs. Also, the die set came with a powder thru expanding die and a universal shell holder, which proved to be quite useful. The carbide dies made the process incredibly smooth and efficient. I must say, Lee Precision's products have been a great addition to my handloading equipment, and they consistently deliver high-quality results. Their customer service is top-notch, making the overall experience even more satisfying. 🔗Hornady 350 Legend Taper Crimp Reloading Die - Improved Feeding Reliabilityhttps://preview.redd.it/l9uqeht8yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7d28d5594b7f8144bbece7c41d25802e33606e7 I recently added the 350 Legend Taper Crimp Die to my arsenal of reloading dies, and let me tell you, it has proven to be a game-changer. This die, designed by Hornady, is specifically made to improve the feeding reliability of your semi-automatic handgun or rifle. The unique Taper Crimp Die removes the flare from the case mouth, promoting smooth feeding, while still maintaining that sharp edge for perfect head spacing. What really stands out is the inclusion of Hornady's Sure-Loc die locking ring, which keeps the die securely in place. However, one thing to note is that the shellholder is sold separately, but that's a minor inconvenience considering the benefits this die provides. It's worth mentioning that Hornady offers a No-Risk Lifetime Warranty, giving you peace of mind when investing in their products. In terms of my experience, I've noticed a significant improvement in the reloading process, and the results have been impressive. The die works like a charm, and it's virtually hassle-free. The only downside is having to purchase the shellholder separately, but that's a minor issue considering the overall performance and reliability of this die. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to enhance their reloading experience. 🔗Precision 338 Lapua 2 Die Set for Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/7dyns7e9yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad9b0497711df5478ad3ca24fa1b89fbb31c5055 I recently got my hands on the Lee Precision 338 Lapua 2 die set and let me tell you, it's been a game changer. This set includes all the essentials - a sizer and bullet seater die, as well as a powder dipper and the correct shell holder. The best part? It's half the price of its competitors, without sacrificing on quality. One of the features that really stood out to me is the built-in roll crimp. It ensures my cartridges are secure and ready for some serious shooting. The storage box is a thoughtful addition, keeping everything neat and organized when it's not in use. However, there are a couple of downsides too. I noticed that it doesn't come with a factory crimp die, which could be a deal-breaker for some. Also, it's missing load data which isn't ideal for those unfamiliar with odd or obsolete calibers. Overall, the Lee Precision 338 Lapua 2 die set is a solid choice for anyone looking for an affordable and reliable way to reload their ammo. With its accurate sizing and seating, it's definitely worth considering. 🔗Lee Precision Deluxe 4-Die Set for 350 Legend Reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/wau6fmr9yv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98f790db0ffa0ae64775fc4edaecf35a0c183472 I've been using the Lee Precision 4 Die Set for my 380 Auto rounds, and let me tell you, it's been a game-changer for my reloading process. The highlight for me has been the inclusion of the factory crimp die, which simplifies the adjustment process and ensures that my rounds chamber properly in my gun. Using the universal shell holder as well as the powder dipper has made loading easier and more precise. The carbide dies, including the full-length sizing die, bullet seating die, and powder thru expanding die, have been incredibly durable and reliable. However, I did notice that the resizing and depriming die wasn't as smooth as I'd hoped. It required a bit more force to secure the brass properly. Additionally, some users mentioned that the recapping pins could be cheaper for the price paid. Overall, the Lee Precision 4 Die Set has been a valuable addition to my reloading setup, saving me money in the long run. The simplicity of the die set and the factory crimp die have made the reloading process more accessible and enjoyable. Buyer's Guidehttps://preview.redd.it/73mgdrjbyv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=171078965a76baec478573446b5a35a58937bb9a None FAQhttps://preview.redd.it/6ybnfqubyv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4cc6bb16b21e55fd6c177601b24deaf778a43df What are the benefits of using 350 Legend reloading dies?Reloading dies for the 350 Legend offer several benefits, including cost savings, customization options, and better performance. By reloading your own ammunition, you can save money on commercial ammunition and get the exact specifications you want for your rounds.Are 350 Legend reloading dies compatible with other calibers?https://preview.redd.it/7ozn41icyv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b92964193e714e5d51622307a74d7cadde4cf26 Many 350 Legend reloading dies are compatible with other caliber conversions, such as 350 Legend to 350 Winchester Magnum. However, it's crucial to verify compatibility before making the purchase, as not all dies offer this feature. What materials are 350 Legend reloading dies typically made of?350 Legend reloading dies are often made from high-quality materials like steel, aluminum, or stainless steel. The choice of material will depend on the desired performance, durability, and ease of use for the reloading press. https://preview.redd.it/sxv36wpcyv3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=463856c66394486e58c2c4b6bfead9af77778fb1 Can 350 Legend reloading dies be adjusted for different powder levels?Yes, you can adjust 350 Legend reloading dies for different powder levels to achieve varying velocities and performance in your ammunition. Many dies provide micrometer adjustments for precise control over your loads, but the specifications may vary depending on the brand or model.What type of tooling should be considered when selecting 350 Legend reloading dies?When selecting 350 Legend reloading dies, consider the tooling options available. Many dies offer interchangeable parts, making it easier to switch between bullet sizes and seating depths. Additionally, choose a brand known for quality and compatibility with your reloading press.How do I clean and maintain my 350 Legend reloading dies?To clean and maintain your 350 Legend reloading dies, gently scrub any residue with a soft-bristled brush and mild cleaning solution. Avoid using abrasive materials or solvents, as they may damage the die surfaces or cause discoloration. After cleaning, dry the dies thoroughly before storing them to minimize corrosion and maintain their performance.As an Amazon™ Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. |
2024.06.01 00:15 TheStrangeHand Following a tutorial, the weight painting looks like the head should be moving with the "Head" bone, but it's dragging the jaw. What am I missing?
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2024.06.01 00:04 SgtFlexxx Devstream #180 Recap
Hi all, im not the usual person that does the recap or these threads, but I don't see one posted so I figured I might do a recap this time for those who don't want to have to go through all the different threads right now, so here's my recap.
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Kicking off Devstream #180, we have:
- Geoff, Creative Direction of Soulframe
- Steve, CEO
- Megan, Community Director
- Rebecca, Creative Director
- Pablo, Design Director
Starting off
- Gift of the Lotus Alerts, 24h. Riven cipher and Pistol Riven cipher
- Pride campaign running
- One final platform-specific dojo-contest will be running. All contests afterwards will be cross-save dojo contests. Later this year.
Jade Shadows
- Teaser
- Coming June 18th
- Comes with a quest. Comes after the new war. New war will be a prerequisite. Follows the story of the Stalker after the new war.
Jade Warframe details
- Plays like a support
- Passive: 1st ability and 4th ability apply debuffs. Has TWO aura mod slots (and yes both give capacity)
- 1st ability: Throws an orb that marks a zone upon contact. Applies a 10s duration healing buff to allies, infinite duration while in the zone. Deals damage and applies damage vulnerability to enemies in the zone. Capped at 3 active at a time.
- 2nd ability: Has 3 different aura types you can swap between (Squad shield effectiveness, Squad ability Strength, and Squad Weapon Damage Increase). Costs no energy to swap but costs energy to activate, 60s duration. You can swap your aura's type while it's active. Dont think you can have multiple auras active.
- 3rd ability: Any enemy in Jade's gaze gets slowed and armor stripped over time. Also revives allies at a distance.
- 4th ability: Very similar to hildryn. You get an exalted weapon and fly around, but at a much faster speed and are able to cast all abilities.
- Will get a buff if you have all of Jade's weapons active, details not ready.
Back to the stream
- Evensong primary bow preview
- Cantare secondary throwing knives preview
- Harmony melee scythe preview (Description is wrong according to pablo)
Ascension Gamemode
- More vertically-focused
- Unlocked after doing Jade shadows quest
- Will be where clan event takes place
- Rebb (attempts) to explain new game mode
- Will feature Jade eximus
- Gameplay
Clan Operation Belly of the Beast
- Uses ascension gamemode
- Goes live day of the update (June 18th)
- Available after the quest is done
- Ordis will reside in the Larunda Relay. You contribute resources you get from the playing the gamemode towards a clan and community goal.
- some featured Rewards (including the returning Krios Signa.
- Will feature an epherma that evolves as certain community goals are reached. Last ephemera tier preview
- Can also buy arcanes featured from Gargoyle's Cry. Will only be able to buy max 42 arcanes to reduce burnout.
- Clan reward pool.
- Enlightened Hate Skin
- Also houses Jade's parts and her weapon blueprints
Status Rework
- Continuation of last devstream's talk
- Blast proc: After a delay, deals % damage based on damage initially dealt. If enemy is killed or 10 procs is reached, will instead do a sum of all damage in an AOE.
- Magnetic proc: Will be changed after all! Damage scaling applies to shields AND overguard. After shields OR overguard is broken, inflicts electrical damage + proc.
Frost stealth Rework
- Changes were needed based on cold proc changes.
- Abilities previously inflicted "fake freeze", not real cold procs. Now uses real cold procs that have llonger durations.
- 1st ability now inflicts in a larger range and also scales based on range mods.
- 3rd ability (snowglobe) can now be shot through in BOTH directions!
- New passive: Armor increases based on how many enemies are afflicted with cold procs around him (defensive version of ember passive)
- Fixes towards ragdolling abilities. Previously/Currently frozen enemies cannot be ragdolled and moved (Nidus 2nd ability, Vauban vortex, etc). Hoping to change with Jade shadows, but may take longer and come later.
- Standardization of damage vulnerability. Previously/Currently you have abilities like Atlas 3, which gives a debuff of +50% damage vulnerability, but then you also had skin types that had +75% damage vulnerability and stacked additively, giving you 100% damage vulnerability but 25% would be wasted. In Jade shadows, enemies that get a 50% damage debuff will now properly receive +50% damage regardless of skin type (Sounds like it'll be multiplicative instead of additive?). (Kinda hard to explain but hopefully helps)
- (Recap of previous devstream) Enemy Armor capped at 2700, 90% damage reduction. 10 corrosive stacks will bring DR down to 40% (upcoming) instead of 65% (live).
Yareli Deluxe
- https://i.imgur.com/kVPZ4Pa.png
- https://i.imgur.com/nbMeM1s.png
- https://i.imgur.com/vKEUkr7.png
- https://i.imgur.com/XXYBIR9.png
- https://i.imgur.com/QIVoVr6.jpeg
New Round of Tennogen in Jade Shadows
- https://i.imgur.com/Qz7RXnx.jpeg
- https://i.imgur.com/oILMYJ9.jpeg
- https://i.imgur.com/Ot7yr0q.jpeg
- https://i.imgur.com/oILMYJ9.jpeg
- https://i.imgur.com/AMKHo2a.jpeg
- https://i.imgur.com/EUYEgk8.jpeg
- https://i.imgur.com/CIAGZtB.jpeg
New augments
New decrees
New Arcanes
- Available from the new gamemode and clan event
- Preview
UI Improvements (and its a big one)
- New Duplicate mod config option
- Now shows polarity under mod if mod has mismatched polarity
- Added diamonds to indicate substats (Such as shield recharge time). Substats and text are colored differently if impacted by mods
- Right clicking an ability shows available augments and where to obtain them from
- New community customizations button for appearance, will only be starter frames for Jade shadows
- Fast travel wheel for hubs!
- HUD scaling being redone for widescreen users. Was outdated and needed fixing. Scaling will be the same at all resoluations now. May need to readjust HUD scaling after update.
- Distance scaling damage numbers. At longer distances damage numbers would completely obscure the target. With this new setting enabled, damage numbers will appear in a donut around the target for better visibility
- Color presets available for new players upon starting
- And now for the big one!...... You can now swap weapons, warframes, loadouts, configs, and mods in Navigation!
Quality of life
- Due to database concerns, adversary (converted liches?) will now be capped at 150.
- Pathos clamp rewards for completing undercroft portals in Duviri (not circuit)
- Increased AI counts for next-gen consoles (PS5 and Xbox series X/S)
- Semi Auto to Full Auto toggle. 3 mods for this, but cannot change fire rate.
- Automatically show last equipped relic for endless missions
- Market blueprint and resource description updates
- Improve rare gem mining, can be mined by both nosam and sunpoint.
- Awakening checkpoints
- Moving damaged necramech parts to Fathers store instead of Loids. Easing the farm for Necramech
- Unified finisher and mercy mechanics. Finishers will show a different symbol than mercy finishers, and all finishers will now show a context prompt (some did, some didnt).
Heirloom 2024 Relaunch
- Got a lot of feedback about previous heirloom. Cant change previous heirlooms, but big changes going forward
- Concept art bought from CleoNaturin, a community artist.. Original source: https://twitter.com/CleoNaturin/status/1699383202182471762
- Switching the program to be one heirloom at a time.
- Launching July 20th
- BIG changes.
- $24.99 USD for Bundle (Ember, Ember Heirloom, Signa) plus 425 plat
- OR FOR PLAT (will stay forever) for 475 platinum (does not include plat of course). Can also buy each item individually for plat.
- Preview of ASSets (emissives a bit janky atm): https://i.imgur.com/pNvJxvv.png, https://i.imgur.com/ortdIUd.png, https://i.imgur.com/RXZmNs3.png
- Next heirloom will be announced at Tennocon
Ember Prime Resurgence July 20th
TennoVIP July19th
Tennocon July 20th
See you at Tennocon!
2024.05.31 20:42 Zenith_X1 Shaper CoC Bow for Gem Scaling Builds (and Annul-Crafting)
Bow: https://i.imgur.com/E0EbeXI.png
Why: Most CoC bow builds scale off of spell damage and want to use the T1 Deafening Essence of Woe (up to 144% spell damage), however this particular variant I'm playing around with is Poison-based & non-elemental, which scales off of flat damage from gem levels. This bow combos very nicely with Empower Support.
How (Rule 10):
Prepping the bow with % increased attack speed
Note on Annul-based Crafting (or Un-Crafting)
It's important to note that crafting CoC & +1 soc gems is done in an unusual way. On a shaper bow that has "Cannot Roll Attack Mods", there are five different prefixes that can appear.
Finishing the Bow
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Why: Most CoC bow builds scale off of spell damage and want to use the T1 Deafening Essence of Woe (up to 144% spell damage), however this particular variant I'm playing around with is Poison-based & non-elemental, which scales off of flat damage from gem levels. This bow combos very nicely with Empower Support.
How (Rule 10):
Prepping the bow with % increased attack speed
- 1) Purchase any Shaper Spine Bow
- 2) Perfect fossil to 28%+ quality (we will eventually add 1% crit per 4% quality enchant)
- 3) Scour
- 4a) The easy version (up to 18% attack speed) is to use Deafening Essence of Zeal for guaranteed 17-18% increased attack speed. Once complete, skip to step 6.
- 4b) The hard version (up to 19% attack speed, pictured above) is to Orb of Transmutation the item to Magic (blue), then spam Orbs of Alteration until T1 increased attack speed appears. T1 is pretty rare so it may be worth using a Craicic Chimeral to imprint your magic item in case your Orb of Annulment removes the attack speed.
- 5) Regal the item to rare.
- 6) Annul until T1 increased attack speed is alone, or until increased attack speed is the only modifier left on the bow which has an Attack tag. If you fail, repeat step 3 (if no imprint) or repeat step 5 after imprinting again.
It's important to note that crafting CoC & +1 soc gems is done in an unusual way. On a shaper bow that has "Cannot Roll Attack Mods", there are five different prefixes that can appear.
Based on the above weights we have an 11.7% chance to exalt +1, or an 8.2% chance to exalt CoC. The odds of slamming both back-to-back are very low, so here I provide a different method. Instead of using exalts to add the mods we want, we improve our odds by using annuls to subtract the mods we dont want. This means filling the item and annulling the high weight mods (2/4 annul followed by a 1/3 annul) for a 1/6 chance of keeping +1 and CoC. Adding two undesired 3000 weight mods, for example, improves the odds of +1 soc gems appearing from 11.7% to 40%. The chance to remove +1 thereafter is only 25%. Annuls don't care about modifier weight, and thus it is far cheaper to retain our desired mods by annuling, than to gamble on receiving our desired mods by exalting.
- +1 soc gems has a weight of 1000
- Cast on crit (tier doesn't matter) has a weight of 700
- The total prefix modifier pool size is 8500.
- 7) Benchcraft 'Cannot Roll Attack Modifiers' (This protects our attack speed modifier)
- 8) Exalt until all three prefixes are full (if you get super lucky and both mods appear, skip to step 11)
- 9) Annul once
- 10) Exalt once; repeat steps 9 and 10 until you have both +1 soc gems and CoC on the item.
- 11) Annul the undesired prefix and the undesired suffix (1 in 6 chance).
- 12) Benchcraft 'Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers'
- 13) Benchcraft 'StInt and Crit Chance Hybrid Mod' from Betrayal
- 14) Benchcraft '+2 to level of Socketed Support Gems' from Betrayal (Catarina)
- 15) (Not shown) Enchant with crit chance per quality, attack speed per quality, or whatever your heart desires.
2024.05.31 20:04 OriginalSprinkles718 test
My goal was to build hard, immersive and balanced survival experience.
New game on survival difficulty required All six DLCs are needed Adding/removing mods later might break your game Only PS5 game version was tested
Crash free
CHANGES:
- You start weak, tired, with barely any gear and 1 point in each SPECIAL stat.
- Enemies will flank, charge, take cover, pick up weapons and use up ammo.
- Added over thousand zombies plus another thousand of various creatures.
- Weakspot hits cause significantly more damage than attacking torso, armor matters.
- A lot easier to cripple and remove limbs and disable enemies.
- Ammo type greatly affects damage, explosives are powerful.
- Foes have special moves, wolves will bite and hold your limbs, humans know wrestling moves.
- Audio tweaked, added reverb and removed irritating sounds.
- Nights are dark and now you own very helpful flashlight.
- Improved colours, lighting, weather, sunrise, sunset and tweaked moon.
- Fire sources create atmospheric orange light, dead bodies get buzzing flies after some time.
- Flying bullets illuminate environment and have better physics.
- Animations #######
- Creating gunpowder, scrapping bullets and crafting ammo available.
- Most clothes are wearable under armor, glasses can be modded.
- Added rings as rare find in containers and in shops plus ability to scrap and craft legendary rings.
- Balanced legendary gear effects, crafting with technical documents, added swaps.
- Added possibility to craft few more explosives, and adhesive from plants.
- Crafting most turrets require plenty of ammo and special parts.
- Each SPECIAL stat is equally useful, well balanced and affect things like speed, accuracy, HP, AP, XP.
- Refreshed perks with bonus changes - ability to tackle, crits outside vats, reverse idiot savant etc.
- Building important structures and cooking better recipes require appropriate perks.
- Most magazines and companion bonuses changed.
- Majority of junk lying around was removed, less time spent on looting, better scarcity feel.
- Diverse mortal settlers with unique names and better awareness.
- You can hire guards in settlements for caps after completing important faction events.
- Leveling up does not give health, increasing SPECIAL is locked behind character levels.
- Restricted harvest of planted (not wild) fruit and veggies, scavenging stations more important.
- Added different [Tags] to majority of items for convienience.
- Quick travel available only to discovered settlements, travel won't pass in-game time.
- Only rare enemies like bosses and unique NPC's drop legendary gear.
- More objects to build in bases, plenty of decorative options.
- Loot and enemies don't respawn, day/night cycle length doubled.
- Saving the game through Pip-Boy on survival difficulty, new simple colors skins can be set.
- Misc things like few more map markers,
* And many more...
PROBLEMS:
CURRENT ISSUES * * * *LIST WITH CORECT ORDER (Mods in bold are neccessary):
- Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch [UFO4P] [PS4] - Thousands of small bug fixes for FO4.
- Looted World - PS - Removes 90% of loose loot in the world, so easily accessible and obvious places are almost empty. Makes you spend less time looting. You can still buy shipments of components from vendors and now scraping settlements is a great source of resources. If you are tired of constantly picking up loot, this is a good choice.
- [PS4] Pip-Boy Paint Jobs - Colors Of The Wasteland Pack (Club Freedom) - Adds simple Pip-Boy skins. Remember you can click touchpad while using pip-boy to zoom. Again a master file.
- Kane's Items Sorting (PS4) - Tags quest items, components, bones, bobbleheads, holotapes, notes, chems, liquors, syringes, 99% of junk for better item management and easier looting (water, aid, stealthboys, few food items and some mags are marked by Immersive gameplay). Empty bottles/vases are not marked.
- [PS] Useful Technical Documents - Legendaries - You can swap legendaries for free, create new ones using technical documents.
- Named NPC Protection [PS4] - Protects named quest npc's, merchants, important characters from random encounters with enemies.
- Ghouls Of Commonwealth - Adds over 1100 feral ghouls for zombie apocalypse and chaos.
- Tribals of Commonwealth - Adds tribal groups, often found in wilderness.
- Snipers Of Commonwealth - Adds over 150 snipers including few unique ones.
- Rabbits, Chickens, Crabs, Wolves, And Gulpers In The Commonwealth - Adds more creatures and enemies.
- Hermit Crabs Of The Commonwealth - Adds 12 hermit crabs to the map.
- Wolves Of The Commonwealth - Adds wolf spawn points to the map.
- More Behemoths In Commonwealth - Adds 5 more behemots to the Commonwealth.
- DLC Creatures In The Commonwealth [PS4] - Adds 200 creature spawns to the commonwealth for constant war, danger and chaos.
- Behind Enemy Lines - Adds plenty of enemies to the glowing sea region.
- Roving War Parties, Raiding Packs And Hordes Of MY - Adds wandering groups that attack some key locations.
- More Radstags - Adds plenty of radstags, especially north and into forests.
- Better Radstags - More agressive radstags.
- Not a Princess - Humans can grab you/others and slam on the ground, make karate moves, dogs can hold your legs/arms, bloodbugs suck your blood.
- Disable Minutemen's Annoying Quests [PS4] - Disables 7 types of repetitive and not important radiant quests.
- [PS4] Grounded Updated By Sarinia - Adds tons of ground foundations, floors, walls, mounds of dirt to Structures-Concrete menu.
- Miscellaneous Settlement Items Unlocked [PS4] By Callias - Adds 49 objects to build in settlements.
- Cinder Block Walls And Sandbags Unlocked [PS4] By Callias - Adds 16 objects like cinder blocks and sandbags.
- Constructible Faction Guards - Adds ability to hire guards for caps in build menu, but only after allying with a faction.
- [PS4] OCDecorator - Adds inventory items as a decorational building objects.
- [PS4] OCDecorator DLC - Support for addons for the above mod.
- Tweaks - Survival Fast Travel Settlements All DLC - You can fast travel to settlements on survival difficulty.
- 1st Person Animation Tweaks [PS4] - In first person mode you lower your gun automatically.
- [PS4] Swinging Animated Meat Bags - Adds animation to supermutant meat bags and adds flies buzzing sound.
- No Sneak Indicators - Completely removes all sneak indicators.
- [PS4] Dogs Not Brahmin - Provisioners and traders use dogs instead of brahmin.
- [PS4] Simple Settlers (Mortal Edition) - Provides bigger settlers pool (five times more) and names them. Immortal version available.
- Quieter Settlements PS4 - Vanilla - Generators, turrets and hammering are much quieter.
- Fallout 76-Style Region Music - Changes music in regions for less boring/repetitive background tracks.
- Reverb And Ambiance Overhaul - ALL DLC [PS4] - Tweaks sounds for better ambient and reverb and adds sliders to options.
- Better Dialogue - Camera focuses on NPC, changes made to some irritating generic dialogues and tweaked dialogue interuption.
- Esk QuietPerks [PS4] - Muted five annoying perks like idiot savant.
- No Experience SFX - Silences sounds when gaining experience from various sources.
- [PS4] Dead Beat - Removes heart beat sound at low HP.
- Combat Music Remover - Mutes combat music, so there is silence and suspension when enemy detects you.
- Commonwealth Visual Overhaul & DLC [PS4] - Changes colours, atmosphere and makes nights darker.
- UCW - Unified Commonwealth Weather - Adjusted weather for regions and integrated DLC weather for Commonwealth.
- [PS4] No More Fake Puddles - Removes ugly puddles that stay 24/7.
- Reduced Rubble Etc. - Decreases intensity of grass, rubble, twigs and other unimportant objects.
- TLS Fallout 4 Subtle FPS Improver - Small changes like decreasing grass and water movement speed, and tiny radius decrease of some light sources.
- [PS4] Enhanced Flickering Firelight - Better light effects for fire sources including oil lamps.
- Sunlight Alignment Tweak - Better Dawn And Dusk [PS4] - Changes sun and moon movement for better lighting and atmosphere during dusk, dawn and night.
- Vanilla Moon (4x) - Much bigger moon. Anything bigger looks low quality.
- Crafting Blur Removal (PS4) - Removes blur while looting containers, from crafting screen, power armor.
- Ironsight Blur Removal (PS4) - Removes blur while aiming.
- More Map Markers (PS4) - Adds some new markers on map.
- VATS Third Person Only - As the name says, just changes the cameras used in VATS.
- Component Tagging Helper - Allows to easily tag basic components on cooking bench and you can quickly view how many you have in total.
- Grenade and Mine Pack - Adds some new weaker, but modified explosives.
- Animations Be Gone - Removes plenty annoying hammering spots in sanctuary.
- Power Goggles (All DLC) - Power Armor Mods For Goggles, Visors, And Glasses - As the name says. Two mods for glasses for high level characters.
- Clothes For Every Stats Wz - Most clothes can be worn under armor and you can upgrade them after unlocking ballistic weave.
- Bear Trap and Caltrops Fix [PS4] - Bug fix and small changes in how traps work and balance them.
- See-Through-Scopes [PS4] - Adds new combat scopes in place of 2.5x and 4x magnification.
- See-Through-Scopes - Far Harbor [PS4] - As above but for 2 Far Harbor weapons.
- Legalized Top Tier Legendary Effects [PS4] - Balances few legendary effects.
- Targeting Sensors On Recon Scopes(Colour Coded NPCs Version)[PS4] - Modified recon scopes that highlight enemies, friends and dead bodies in specific colours.
- Immersive Gameplay Combat Mostly PS4 - Core of this modlist. Hundreds of changes.**
- Immersive-Gameplay. Low Tech, No Powerarmor Justification Patch. (PS4) - Makes fusion cores worn. Balances the game around power armor.
- Immersive Gameplay Seasonpass Patch (Playstation) - DLC compatibility for IG.
- Immersive Gameplay Rough Start (PS4) - Overwrites starting level to 1.
- Medium Settlement Raids PS4 - Makes enemy raids less ridicolous and balanced.
- Zombie Walkers (PS4) - Most feral ghouls act like slow rotten zombies.
- Curse Of Darkness - Normal Edition - - Zombies are faster and more dangerous after midnight.
- Esk No More Teleporting Creatures [PS4] - Molerats and radscorpions don't teleport.
- Realistic Insects Health [PS4] - Makes insects easier to kill and balanced.
- Loot Logic And Reduction Complete - Enhanced - Restricted harvest, lower and/or different production output for settlements, empty bottles renamed, Scrounger perk less ammo, less meat, less loot.
- Rough Start - Less Handouts - Removed some workbenches in starting locations. Different loot in Vault111, radroaches strength changed, 14 starting stats.
- Food, Drink and Crop Overhaul - Improved cooking, lead belly perk, cooked food provides food after reading farming magazines. Better recipes are locked behind perk ranks, added milk and crop seeds.
- PreWar Food + - Prewar food is more useful.
- Settlement Progression-Local Leader (UOF4P) - Changes cost and perk requirements of some important structures, changes local leader perk and adds rank 3.
- Wasteland Baubles Ring Overhaul! PS4 - You can find unique rings at traders, in suitcases, cabinets. Allows scraping and modifying rings for special legendary effects.
- (PS4) Improved Lighting Ballistics - Improves lighting for projectiles such as bullets, lasers, gauss, plasma, missiles, flares and explosions.
- [PS4] Realistic Bullets: Improved Lighting Ballistics Edition - Makes bullets travel faster, more realistic and fixes some shooting bugs.
- Immersive Gameplay Dismemberment - A Patch Or Standalone Feature. - Higher damage to headshots, easier to dismember limbs.
- Tackle! Immersive Gameplay Knockdown Version - Lets you stagger enemies by sprinting into them after aquiring a perk.
- Idiot Savant & Better Criticals Redone (PS4) - Idiot savant is better the more INT you have, muted perk chart, better criticals perk for crits outside VATS.
- [PS4] STS - All-In-One - Allows scraping almost all settlement objects.
- Faster Positive Affinity For Companions - Removes cooldown between companions liking/hating your actions and gain five times more positive affinity.
- [PS4]More XP Per Level (Base:600, Bump 120) - Increased experience required to level up.
- Increased EXP - Increases the amount of EXP gained to make Immersive Gameplay and mod list balanced.
- No Building Houses XP Gains PS4 - Building settlements don't provide experience.
- Realistic Death Physics - No Animation - ALL DLC [PS4] - Decreases the amount of force of both melee and ranged attacks, so bodies wont fly away.
- Increased Settler Limit - Awareness - Wire Length - Corpse Collisions [PS4] - More aware settlers with limit of 50 per settlement and longer wires. Mind the limit.
- Power Conduits Radius Increase And No Build Limit - All DLC [PS4] - Infinite build limit and two times longer range electricity conduits.
- Settlement Attack Spawns Outside The Settlement PS4 - Moves attack spawns outside the settlements.
- [PS4] Creation Club Skins (Weapon & PipBoy) Generic Compatibility Patch - Makes weapon paints from Creation Club show up in crafting menu if you have any.
- Pip-Boy Flashlight - Pipboy light is now a flashlight.
- PS4 - Longer Headlamp Light - Makes flashlight much bigger and changes headlamp and power armor light.
- No Enemy Respawns - Game areas don't respawn loot and enemies, after time have passed.
- Accelerated Fast Travel - Fast travel takes less in-game time, should be also relevant to survival needs.
- Time Scale Changed From 20 To 10 [PS4] - Day and night lasts twice as long.
- [PS4] Starting SPECIAL = 7 - Changes starting SPECIAL stats to 1 in each category so you start weak.
- After installing above mods RESTART YOUR PS4/PS5!
- Complete vault 111 until you get to the surface, do exit autosave and install below and final mod #100.
- 100... Saving Survival Mode - Adds ability to save in survival difficulty through pip-boy MISC category. Option to save are always on top (3 autosave slots and 1 main save slot shared by all survival characters).
Additionally after downloading:.
- Change game difficulty to survival in options.
- Play on performance 60fps. Visual 60fps mode is laggy.
- For even more immersive settings, go to Settings, Gameplay and turn off quest markers.
- Go to Options, Sound and reduce ambience level by 5-8 clicks and reverb by 2-3.
* Dont forget to change camera sensitivity to max or your preference, in Options, Display change hud color to blue or your favorite, you can also lower transparency by 30% or more, set pip-boy colour (I use red pip-boy and minty hud to have the best compatibility with highlighting perks and scopes).
You can add/swap some mods if you want:
- 101... Immortal Cats - PS4 - Invincible cats, so you don't lose happiness increase when they die. Add after mod #83.
- 102... Vertibirds Unghosted - Tweaks invincible vertibirds for danger and realism. Add after dogs not brahmins #30.
- 103... Josephine Preset - Nice looking preset number 13 for female character creation. Change hair and other details if you want. Delete after leaving vault111 and saving (if you need mod list space that is). Add after mod #53.
- 104... No Affinity Cooldown - Removes cooldown between companions liking/hating your actions. Swap with mod #91 if you want slower reputation gain.
- 105... Silent Main Menu - To mute main menu sound, find duplicate sound slider named 'Master sound' and move it all the way to the left. Add after mod #40.
- 106... Quieter Settlements PS4 - Contraptions DLC - Quieter production lines. I ran out of space on mod list so this and next one are optional. Add after mod #33.
- 107... Quieter Settlements PS4 - Wasteland Workshop - Quieter fusion generators. Add after mod #33.
- 110... Pip-Boy Flashlight (Brighter) - For a smaller, brighter flashlight replace mod #95 with this and then swap places with #96 (or completely delete longer headlamp mod).
- 111... No Bugs In Vault 111 [PS4] - No radroaches in starting area, if its too hard for you to complete the prologue. Add after #6.
- 112... CleanVATS - Green Tint Remover PS4 - Removes fullscreen green tint effect while aiming in VATS mode. Add after mod #52.
- 113... Longhorns Of The Commonwealth - Adds longhorns to more empty areas on the map. Add after #28.
- 114... Radium Rifle Suppressed Sound Fix - As the mod name suggests. Must be on top of mod list, its a master file. Add after unofficial patch.
- 115... Gulpers Of The Commonwealth - Adds gulpers to more empty areas on the map.
- 116... See-Through-Scopes - Nuka World [PS4] - Combat scopes for handmade rifle and western revolver. Add after seethroughghghh ####
- 117... Explorer Restored - Cut Perk Mod PS4 - Adds rank two of VANS perk - explorer. Uncovers map.
Remove to have:
Stock Pip-Boy color - #3 No legendary effects swap and crafting - #5 No added 1000+ zombies and reverted ghoul behaviour - #8, #71, #72. No powerful groups wandering and attacking places - #15 Radstags be less agressive - #17 No additional building objects - #20 #21 #22 No settlement decoration items - #24 #25 Wandering trader brahmins instead of dogs - #30 Cash register sounds when gaining exp - #38 Old vanilla dusk and dawn lighting - #49 Stock VATS cameras - #53 Old combat scopes - #61 #62 #63 No 'uncover map' perk - #84 No support for weapon skins from Creation Club - #90 Faster leveling - #92 Building experience points - #94 Seven extra SPECIAL points to distribute at the start- #97 Loot and enemies respawn after some days - #98 Fast travel take time again - #99 Vanilla days length instead of double - #100Known issues, bugs, glitches, exploits:
Some of those are present in vanilla game. I mention every problem encountered during testing and solution if there is any.Action girl perk have only one rank on female character and two on male.
NO FIX: It's 25% AP regen loss for endgame if you choose female character.
Bubblegum seems to unintentionally quench some thirst and vendors give it for free.
NO FIX: Free candies to encourage shopping. No fix for now.
Few perk descriptions might be slightly incorrect or missing.
NO FIX: Nothing important to worry about. No fix unless immersive gameplay gets updated.
Three street lights and subway light have incorrect build costs.
NO FIX: These have too high build costs. Use alternative items.
Water surface sometimes flash black when moving underwater.
NO FIX: Its not very noticable and you don't dive much in FO4 anyway.
Hubby secret basement in Sanctuary.
NO FIX: Its up to you if you want to use inside contents. Makes game much easier, gives headstart.
Hacking rank 4 seems useless or has wrong description.
NO FIX: Last rank is useless.
Locksmith doesn't make lock picking any easier. PARTIAL FIX: The only reasonable fix I found is to install "Quick Hack and Pick" mod #7777 after getting all levels of locksmith. Just replace starting special =7
Animal Fat doesn't drop from animals.
NO FIX: Its not very important.
FIX: If you are not able to kill or avoid them before they kill you, try mod #111.
Ground textures in and around sanctuary flicker black.
FIX: Fixes itself over time.
Green chest containing flare gun and 10k flares after exiting vault 111.
FIX: Mod dev forgot to delete it. Ignore and forget about it.
Wall turrets sometimes glitches and play sound on repeat.
FIX: Re-enter the area or reload save.
Contact frag mines from mod # seems to have too low damage.
FIX: Ignore and don't craft them. Other new explosives should work fine and do decent damage.
Perception low, constant (-1) PER in stats because of poison damage/resistance bug.
FIX: Vanilla glitch. Safest way to install Vrexia's Magical Rings and equip rings. Should not collide with regular ring slot.
Pip-boy light wont transfer from first to third person camera view.
FIX: Turn flashlight off and on. Can't fix on PS4/5.
Incorrect cost to build concrete foundations and barn menu items.
FIX: Use mod #20 to add tons of foundations in newly added category StructuresConcrete.
OCDecorator replaces creation club menu.
FIX: Items from CC are still available in other building categories. Ignore this or delete mod #24 + #25 if you dont care about its function.
Can't use Wattz Consumer Electronics terminal, animation stops.
FIX: There is a radroach behind the wall. Kill it by swinging melee or using explosives.
Have fun!
2024.05.31 17:08 BAIN_420 Cat's at the Cradle 2
First
Lori watched the shuttle gently grasp their life pod with some sort of tractoring tech. Her mind racing with a million thoughts as she tried, and failed, to keep her nerves under control. Who where these aliens that called themselves Humans. The Great Admiral had ordered everyone before exiting warp NOT to resist these humans as they had acknowledged the galactic standard call for help they had broadcast when the warp bubble they had been traveling in started shrinking exponentially as their ships where mauled by the Varille battleship.
That ship had methodically destroyed one ship after another. It's Captain staying just outside range of the capital grade lasers the Orion cruisers mounted and used it's long range missiles to first wound, then utterly destroy five Orion cruisers and the only destroyer that managed to survive getting into FTL. They had been trying for several cycles to find an exit so they could leave the FTL lanes without being outright destroyed by the Varille. Then they had gotten hit on the Regents Pride, the missile somehow managed to tear a hole from port to starboard but missed everything vital. However many civilians were lost during the loss of atmosphere and the decompression of those areas.
The blue and white shuttle steadily towed them into a much larger ship called the Titan 7. The Humans had built a giant brick with what appeared to be a hundred cargo bays! She thought seeing the massive behemoth swallow other shuttles towing life pods similar to her group. Most of the refugees on her pod where juveniles, a few expecting mothers too far along to be in fighting condition, and a wounded V.I.P. she had helped a medical officer carry the stretcher onto the pod with the badly bandaged Orion woman. He had hurried off shortly after that being summoned to assist wounded a deck below the life pods.
They went through some sort of shield and she could see other pods opening and the tall Human guards in black and grey combat armor escorting other Orion's into large clusters near interior blast doors. She found herself wondering again why these humans had decided to help them. She knew they had passed at least seven other warp gates and broadcast the same distress signal.
No one had allowed them entry. So many of the survivors had died on those ships the Varille battleship had destroyed. So many more had died on her home world of Farcee trying to escape the Varille fleet bombardment and the Brood's landing cluster's. The Varille, she knew, liked taking slaves for their mining/industrial planets. But the Brood only kept non insectoid sentient creatures around to lay their eggs in. She shuddered involuntarily as the thought wormed it's way into her thoughts.
The pod jostled as the tractor fully sat it down and released it. A light above the pods door turned a solid yellow indicating breathable air and with a "PWOOOOSHHH" the door unsealed and swung outwards. The lights inside where suddenly dim as the door revealed a towering human in a black and grey combat suit. Lori squinted as a tall, imposing human stepped into view, some sort of pulse rifle slung over it's shoulder and two small lights on the side of its helmet.
"Welcome to Sol. You have been granted temporary asylum. Please follow Sergeant Havora to your debrief. Any hostility will be dealt with swiftly and will immediately render your asylum void." The voice sounded male through it's helmets audio but with this being first contact the only thing she could think of was how big this human was! It towered over the tallest Orion adult by at least five hands. Orion's started milling about in the pod as best they could and soon where being escorted to an area denoted for their use as a gathering spot and two more pods groups soon joined them.
Lori found herself studying these humans. They had two arms and legs, an apparent head and torso. One group of people seemed to stand out, they were dressed in white with a red "+" insignia on their left shoulder. A small round machine with the same insignia hoovered along behind them. Anyone that was found as being wounded, they pulled from the groups, some that were wounded in the final battle with the Varille battle ship as they entered the Sol FTL gate. She still couldn't get a good look at their faces.
A throat was cleared near the interior blast doors as Lori spotted the small form of a humanoid reptilian only six hand's tall! It cleared it's throat and with a flick of it's small tail another humanoid biped in a black and grey combat suit stepped forward and with a very loud "clang" as they stomped a heavy metal boot and shouted, "ATTENTIONNN!"
Almost instantly she and the other Orion's went silent, their attention riveted to the small cluster of aliens arrayed in front of them. She could see various different species represented and found herself idly wondering if her first impression of humanity had actually been from a human.
"Thank you Lieutenant Commander," said the small reptilian alien in a slightly nasal voice,"I am Sargent Crom. We have been ordered to get you folks settled in for transport to more accommodating conditions." Sgt. Crom paused for a moment making sure everyone was understanding the translation before continuing. "Your wounded will be taken care of and treated as our own until they recover. Mrs Vali," Sgt Crom waved a small hand at the wounded V.I.P. she was still near and a very tall obviously female alien that had almost sparkling green skin stepped forward, her limbs long and thin, in a white body suit that had a red "+" emblazoned on the left shoulder. Several others dressed similarly to her cautiously followed her as she pulled out some sort of small flat device and ran it over the V.I.P. before motioning to two of the smaller aliens and ordering them to do something in a voice and language that sounded like tinkling bells to Lori's sensitive ears.
As Miss Vali and her team of healers worked through the crowd of Orion's, Sargent Crom continued. "Now, let's continue by saying WELCOME to the United Sol Alliance territories. As you can tell, the U.S. Alliance has several member species and government's. I am a Jabilix. Miss Vali is an Elladrin, and the lieutenant commander is Human." Lori's eyes immediately snapped back to the man in black and grey combat armor as he stood at attention slightly behind and to the left of Sargent Crom.
"We are not all of the U.S. Alliance member species," she paused, "I am sure you will eventually meet us all. Now if you would form two lines here, and here." As Sargent Crom spoke a strip of light lit up on one side of the blast doors, and as she finished another set on the other side lit up. "We will see you to a bunk, something to eat, and then your debriefing. Don't worry, we just want to know what is going on. There is no right or wrong answers. We already have most of the ships logs so this is mostly just to follow protocol." Sargent Crom waited for a few moments before adding, "Move people! We have many more pods to retrieve and space is limited."
With that Lori found herself joining the rest of the people from her pod in forming into the desired lines and soon found they where moving farther into the ship and down several decks. The humans ship was very plain with no artistic flair. Everything was solely for a purpose, and built to last. An Orion ships corridors may have been arrayed in a similar layout, they would have had beautiful curves and even aesthetically pleasing geometric patterns anywhere NOT needed for a system or station. Most doors they passed had numbers or weird letters and sometimes both.
They were eventually led to what Sargent Crom called a "Mess Hall" and shown a rather large room with the designation 104-B right next to the mess hall that was arrayed with bunks and two lockers at the end of each set of beds. Their group was informed on meal time's, shown how to access the necessities and then went through the debriefing. All in all Lori found the ordeal to be over within a few hours.
Everyone had been processed and she had even received a fancy bracelet and shown how to access it's basic functions. It was a small personal data chit! This would have cost her nearly two year's of pay back on Farcee. The Sol Alliance had already integrated the Orion language and alphabet into their system so she could see many of the other Orion's sitting about the mess hall reading whatever had caught their attention on the Sol "Internet". She had picked a table away from everyone, her thoughts on the current situation she found herself in warring with the sorrowful memories of the last few cycles. She picked at the plate of something she couldn't even start to identify but the woman with the white cap had called it "goulash", remembering when she had been picked to get on one of the three ships. Her mother, father, and older siblings had not been picked.
She had just had her name day and been granted permission to participate in the great matching ceremony that essentially would allow her to start her family and pick a suitable mate. She was at the temple of Hal'Ick having just donated the required amount of fauxauall and tuardanium which had taken a year to procure and received her license when it was reported the first Swarm ships had dropped off freighter's from the Sagoth Brood system and landed on Farcee's southern continent.
A low growl escaped as she remembered the news reports and the images of the butchered Orion's. Initially the authorities had thought the Brood ships were unsuspecting host's, having unwittingly carried them into the Orion system. They mostly thought this because the freighter's didn't run after the Swarm ships detached from their hulls and dropped into the atmosphere.
No they had instead waited for most of the Farcee home fleet to be busy trying to intercept a dozen large asteroids that had suddenly been detected moving from the outer system directly into Farcee's orbital path. Once the main force was occupied with the asteroids the freighter's, which were the old long haul sublight hulls with modified hyper drives allowing them to use the Gates had suddenly blown out sections of their own hulls revealing some sort of new plasma cannons that where already spooled up and aimed at the unsuspecting orbital defense platforms and to everyone's horror the two platforms that defended the Farcee FTL Gate. The view of the combined Varille, Sagoth Brood, and the Swarm fleets exiting out of the gate and descending on the Farcee home fleet and their brave sacrifice to allow as many civilians to escape would forever be burned into her memory. As well as the image of Farcee in ruins as the three ships ladden with skeleton crews and as many civilians of "viable" reproductive age as the Regent could get into the new experimental ships. (They had been sitting behind the second moon Boida along with the destroyer Kaighan, and 5 other cruisers which were shredded trying to defend them in side the FTL lains, so they were the only military ships able to respond to the Regents evacuation call along with many brave merchant ships which probably didn't make it.) She had taken a few bites and found herself savoring the "goulash", it was quite good!
"Mind if I join you?" Came a deep baritone voice.
She looked up and to her surprise, standing in front of her on the other side of the table was a bipedal humanoid with two small patches of fur on it's definitely primate like face. He wore a black and grey military fatigues with a black hexagonal patch prominently displaying three stripes and a delta insignia on his grey collar. After an uncomfortable moment of her staring into his bright blue eyes she replied, "Yes......yes of course." She gestured to the bench on the other side of the table. How had she understood him?!
"Thanks." He sat down and extended a hand over his food. "Names Tim, Tim Reynolds"
She had seen this greeting on her data chit and tentatively took his hand to "shake" it up and down slightly in the alien's weird greeting gesture. Why couldn't they just flick their ears like her people? "Lori." was all she replied. She hadn't chosen a mate yet so in her culture she couldn't take a second name.
He sat down and began to eat. She had wondered how the utensils wrapped in some sort of soft fiber pressed into a sheet where used. She had known basically what the dull knife was, (though why it was dull still escaped her!) She had figured the pronged instrument was for stabbing but without context and with a dull knife, she had resorted to what every other Orion had opted to do. What was natural, they had used their finger's. But seeing Tim use them she quickly adapted and before long had the basics down on holding them and their use.
"So where are you from?" He asked, before taking a bite of his food.
Her mind immediately went to the last image of her home planet she had seen through the viewport. She knew she had only been let on a ship because she had been lucky. She had been grabbed, scanned, and crammed into one of the ships. "Farcee." She said meekly remembering the craters that had been once beautiful cities suspended above a vibrant purple rainforests on massive supports. She could still see the plasma burning large swaths of it as they obliterated strong points the Orion army had set up to at least slow the bug's ground assault. No warning, no declaration of war. No reason given. One moment the Orion's were long standing trade partners with the Hive Confederacy, the next they are locked in full scale war.
The worst part had been nobody could reach the Vatt system, the next Orion inhabited system and a naval outpost to warn them. And of the dozen courier ships sent out to ask our "allies" for assistance, none was received before they had finally escaped the system through an old very rarely used gate, but had been heading away from Orion space.
The man cleared his throat and in a solemn tone said, "Uhhh, sorry Lori. I didn't mean to bring up any bad memories." He rubbed the back of his neck clearly at a loss as to what to say and she still couldn't understand how she could understand him?!
"How can I understand you?" She asked. "And you can understand me?" He just nodded at the last part as he stuck a small tube through a juice box and slurped a couple times as he appeared to be deep in thought.
"Yep. Whenever you were issued your communicator," he pointed at her's, "did you feel a small prick as you synched it tight?" As she nodded now looking at her communicator he continued. "That was your standard personal nanites." She looked up puzzled by the word.
"Nanites?" She asked. She had never heard of whatever that was. The briefing had said that they had or would received them, but not where or how, or what they where.
Taking the question for what it was Tim began. "They are microscopic robots programmed to automatically repair damaged tissue, fight diseases, and viruses common through out known space. As soon as they entered your bloodstream they began reproducing and will lay dormant there until needed. Since I have my own nanites, we can communicate without much delay. To an outsider, without nanites, you are speaking your native language and I am speaking English. But we hear the words and to a minor extent feel what some psychic races say."
She stared at him for a moment, processing what he had just told her. These people were years ahead of her's in technology! She looked back down at the data chit and said, "Amazing." That was all she could get out as not a heartbeat later a proximity claxon wailed as a mechanical female voice chimed, "WARNING! Proximity Alert. Unidentified hostile ship detected." It repeated itself. All the Orion's in the mess hall were looking around nervously as others rushed out, she assumed to hurry to their duty stations. Tim though didn't budge.
He just casually slurped his juice box and absently typed something a few times on his communicator and he was suddenly looking at a screen depicting the outside of the ship. It wasn't disorienting because there was no "up" or "down" in space. Only where you or your target where in relation to each other.
She could see a sleek black spider like craft on his projected screen. It's engines at full burn as it headed towards what looked like another FTL Gate. This Gate was very busy and Lori could see cargo freighter's lined up in que, a greenish blue planet with pink splotches in the background./
"What the hell is that?" Tim asked no one in particular. She remembered seeing these ships above Farcee, or actually dropping onto it in a sneak attack.
"I think that is a swarm ship! By all the reports from the ground back on my home planet that ship has several queens on board and an entire battalion of Broodlings! " She was still looking at his communicators holographic image, and the planet in the background. "You can't let them reach a planet!" Her voice suddenly rising in a panic. If that ship reaches that planet there wouldn't be any way of stopping the Brood from establishing a colony. And once a single colony was established, they would begin systematically stripping the planet of biomass to rapidly increase their numbers, becoming a plague of the worst kind.
"Oh they aren't going anywhere." He extended his arm to provide her a better angle as a silver winged vehicle zipped by closely followed by three more. Lori could tell the Broodlings ship was much larger than the silver ship's but the United Sol ships were quickly gaining on the much larger enemy ship. Soon one of the silver ship's shot the spider like ship with what looked like a laser. One shot and she could see it's sublight engines splutter and fail. Within a few heartbeats three of the four appeared to "attach" themselves to the larger spider like vessel of the Broodlings. "Those Marines just had their day made. They get to play for a change instead of being stuck on ship." He chuckled as she caught the glint of his canine's as he smiled a definite predatory smile.
"Those are Broodlings and potentially a few of their Varille allies." She gulped. "They tore our defenses apart. They are very dangerous, you should warn them!" She looked back at the communicator. "Even these 'Marines' deserve a chance to live!"
"Calm down miss," Tim said with a sudden grin spreading wider across his face if it was possible, his white teeth flashing. "I can almost guarantee you that the scariest thing in that cluster of ships is the Terran Marines." He started shaking his head. "No, those poor bastards are having more fun than they have had in a few cycles."
The certainty in his voice and his demeanor caused her to relax somewhat. Just how strong was this Sol Alliance she wondered as she watched the communicator and finished her "goulash". She found it quite good compared to the minimal rations she had been eating on the Orion ship. She couldn't help but wonder yet again as to just what kind of people were these humans? Had they found an ally or would the U.S. Alliance end up being where her people's story ended.
Looking across the table at the young human slurping on his juice box she couldn't help but wonder which way this would go.
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Lori watched the shuttle gently grasp their life pod with some sort of tractoring tech. Her mind racing with a million thoughts as she tried, and failed, to keep her nerves under control. Who where these aliens that called themselves Humans. The Great Admiral had ordered everyone before exiting warp NOT to resist these humans as they had acknowledged the galactic standard call for help they had broadcast when the warp bubble they had been traveling in started shrinking exponentially as their ships where mauled by the Varille battleship.
That ship had methodically destroyed one ship after another. It's Captain staying just outside range of the capital grade lasers the Orion cruisers mounted and used it's long range missiles to first wound, then utterly destroy five Orion cruisers and the only destroyer that managed to survive getting into FTL. They had been trying for several cycles to find an exit so they could leave the FTL lanes without being outright destroyed by the Varille. Then they had gotten hit on the Regents Pride, the missile somehow managed to tear a hole from port to starboard but missed everything vital. However many civilians were lost during the loss of atmosphere and the decompression of those areas.
The blue and white shuttle steadily towed them into a much larger ship called the Titan 7. The Humans had built a giant brick with what appeared to be a hundred cargo bays! She thought seeing the massive behemoth swallow other shuttles towing life pods similar to her group. Most of the refugees on her pod where juveniles, a few expecting mothers too far along to be in fighting condition, and a wounded V.I.P. she had helped a medical officer carry the stretcher onto the pod with the badly bandaged Orion woman. He had hurried off shortly after that being summoned to assist wounded a deck below the life pods.
They went through some sort of shield and she could see other pods opening and the tall Human guards in black and grey combat armor escorting other Orion's into large clusters near interior blast doors. She found herself wondering again why these humans had decided to help them. She knew they had passed at least seven other warp gates and broadcast the same distress signal.
No one had allowed them entry. So many of the survivors had died on those ships the Varille battleship had destroyed. So many more had died on her home world of Farcee trying to escape the Varille fleet bombardment and the Brood's landing cluster's. The Varille, she knew, liked taking slaves for their mining/industrial planets. But the Brood only kept non insectoid sentient creatures around to lay their eggs in. She shuddered involuntarily as the thought wormed it's way into her thoughts.
The pod jostled as the tractor fully sat it down and released it. A light above the pods door turned a solid yellow indicating breathable air and with a "PWOOOOSHHH" the door unsealed and swung outwards. The lights inside where suddenly dim as the door revealed a towering human in a black and grey combat suit. Lori squinted as a tall, imposing human stepped into view, some sort of pulse rifle slung over it's shoulder and two small lights on the side of its helmet.
"Welcome to Sol. You have been granted temporary asylum. Please follow Sergeant Havora to your debrief. Any hostility will be dealt with swiftly and will immediately render your asylum void." The voice sounded male through it's helmets audio but with this being first contact the only thing she could think of was how big this human was! It towered over the tallest Orion adult by at least five hands. Orion's started milling about in the pod as best they could and soon where being escorted to an area denoted for their use as a gathering spot and two more pods groups soon joined them.
Lori found herself studying these humans. They had two arms and legs, an apparent head and torso. One group of people seemed to stand out, they were dressed in white with a red "+" insignia on their left shoulder. A small round machine with the same insignia hoovered along behind them. Anyone that was found as being wounded, they pulled from the groups, some that were wounded in the final battle with the Varille battle ship as they entered the Sol FTL gate. She still couldn't get a good look at their faces.
A throat was cleared near the interior blast doors as Lori spotted the small form of a humanoid reptilian only six hand's tall! It cleared it's throat and with a flick of it's small tail another humanoid biped in a black and grey combat suit stepped forward and with a very loud "clang" as they stomped a heavy metal boot and shouted, "ATTENTIONNN!"
Almost instantly she and the other Orion's went silent, their attention riveted to the small cluster of aliens arrayed in front of them. She could see various different species represented and found herself idly wondering if her first impression of humanity had actually been from a human.
"Thank you Lieutenant Commander," said the small reptilian alien in a slightly nasal voice,"I am Sargent Crom. We have been ordered to get you folks settled in for transport to more accommodating conditions." Sgt. Crom paused for a moment making sure everyone was understanding the translation before continuing. "Your wounded will be taken care of and treated as our own until they recover. Mrs Vali," Sgt Crom waved a small hand at the wounded V.I.P. she was still near and a very tall obviously female alien that had almost sparkling green skin stepped forward, her limbs long and thin, in a white body suit that had a red "+" emblazoned on the left shoulder. Several others dressed similarly to her cautiously followed her as she pulled out some sort of small flat device and ran it over the V.I.P. before motioning to two of the smaller aliens and ordering them to do something in a voice and language that sounded like tinkling bells to Lori's sensitive ears.
As Miss Vali and her team of healers worked through the crowd of Orion's, Sargent Crom continued. "Now, let's continue by saying WELCOME to the United Sol Alliance territories. As you can tell, the U.S. Alliance has several member species and government's. I am a Jabilix. Miss Vali is an Elladrin, and the lieutenant commander is Human." Lori's eyes immediately snapped back to the man in black and grey combat armor as he stood at attention slightly behind and to the left of Sargent Crom.
"We are not all of the U.S. Alliance member species," she paused, "I am sure you will eventually meet us all. Now if you would form two lines here, and here." As Sargent Crom spoke a strip of light lit up on one side of the blast doors, and as she finished another set on the other side lit up. "We will see you to a bunk, something to eat, and then your debriefing. Don't worry, we just want to know what is going on. There is no right or wrong answers. We already have most of the ships logs so this is mostly just to follow protocol." Sargent Crom waited for a few moments before adding, "Move people! We have many more pods to retrieve and space is limited."
With that Lori found herself joining the rest of the people from her pod in forming into the desired lines and soon found they where moving farther into the ship and down several decks. The humans ship was very plain with no artistic flair. Everything was solely for a purpose, and built to last. An Orion ships corridors may have been arrayed in a similar layout, they would have had beautiful curves and even aesthetically pleasing geometric patterns anywhere NOT needed for a system or station. Most doors they passed had numbers or weird letters and sometimes both.
They were eventually led to what Sargent Crom called a "Mess Hall" and shown a rather large room with the designation 104-B right next to the mess hall that was arrayed with bunks and two lockers at the end of each set of beds. Their group was informed on meal time's, shown how to access the necessities and then went through the debriefing. All in all Lori found the ordeal to be over within a few hours.
Everyone had been processed and she had even received a fancy bracelet and shown how to access it's basic functions. It was a small personal data chit! This would have cost her nearly two year's of pay back on Farcee. The Sol Alliance had already integrated the Orion language and alphabet into their system so she could see many of the other Orion's sitting about the mess hall reading whatever had caught their attention on the Sol "Internet". She had picked a table away from everyone, her thoughts on the current situation she found herself in warring with the sorrowful memories of the last few cycles. She picked at the plate of something she couldn't even start to identify but the woman with the white cap had called it "goulash", remembering when she had been picked to get on one of the three ships. Her mother, father, and older siblings had not been picked.
She had just had her name day and been granted permission to participate in the great matching ceremony that essentially would allow her to start her family and pick a suitable mate. She was at the temple of Hal'Ick having just donated the required amount of fauxauall and tuardanium which had taken a year to procure and received her license when it was reported the first Swarm ships had dropped off freighter's from the Sagoth Brood system and landed on Farcee's southern continent.
A low growl escaped as she remembered the news reports and the images of the butchered Orion's. Initially the authorities had thought the Brood ships were unsuspecting host's, having unwittingly carried them into the Orion system. They mostly thought this because the freighter's didn't run after the Swarm ships detached from their hulls and dropped into the atmosphere.
No they had instead waited for most of the Farcee home fleet to be busy trying to intercept a dozen large asteroids that had suddenly been detected moving from the outer system directly into Farcee's orbital path. Once the main force was occupied with the asteroids the freighter's, which were the old long haul sublight hulls with modified hyper drives allowing them to use the Gates had suddenly blown out sections of their own hulls revealing some sort of new plasma cannons that where already spooled up and aimed at the unsuspecting orbital defense platforms and to everyone's horror the two platforms that defended the Farcee FTL Gate. The view of the combined Varille, Sagoth Brood, and the Swarm fleets exiting out of the gate and descending on the Farcee home fleet and their brave sacrifice to allow as many civilians to escape would forever be burned into her memory. As well as the image of Farcee in ruins as the three ships ladden with skeleton crews and as many civilians of "viable" reproductive age as the Regent could get into the new experimental ships. (They had been sitting behind the second moon Boida along with the destroyer Kaighan, and 5 other cruisers which were shredded trying to defend them in side the FTL lains, so they were the only military ships able to respond to the Regents evacuation call along with many brave merchant ships which probably didn't make it.) She had taken a few bites and found herself savoring the "goulash", it was quite good!
"Mind if I join you?" Came a deep baritone voice.
She looked up and to her surprise, standing in front of her on the other side of the table was a bipedal humanoid with two small patches of fur on it's definitely primate like face. He wore a black and grey military fatigues with a black hexagonal patch prominently displaying three stripes and a delta insignia on his grey collar. After an uncomfortable moment of her staring into his bright blue eyes she replied, "Yes......yes of course." She gestured to the bench on the other side of the table. How had she understood him?!
"Thanks." He sat down and extended a hand over his food. "Names Tim, Tim Reynolds"
She had seen this greeting on her data chit and tentatively took his hand to "shake" it up and down slightly in the alien's weird greeting gesture. Why couldn't they just flick their ears like her people? "Lori." was all she replied. She hadn't chosen a mate yet so in her culture she couldn't take a second name.
He sat down and began to eat. She had wondered how the utensils wrapped in some sort of soft fiber pressed into a sheet where used. She had known basically what the dull knife was, (though why it was dull still escaped her!) She had figured the pronged instrument was for stabbing but without context and with a dull knife, she had resorted to what every other Orion had opted to do. What was natural, they had used their finger's. But seeing Tim use them she quickly adapted and before long had the basics down on holding them and their use.
"So where are you from?" He asked, before taking a bite of his food.
Her mind immediately went to the last image of her home planet she had seen through the viewport. She knew she had only been let on a ship because she had been lucky. She had been grabbed, scanned, and crammed into one of the ships. "Farcee." She said meekly remembering the craters that had been once beautiful cities suspended above a vibrant purple rainforests on massive supports. She could still see the plasma burning large swaths of it as they obliterated strong points the Orion army had set up to at least slow the bug's ground assault. No warning, no declaration of war. No reason given. One moment the Orion's were long standing trade partners with the Hive Confederacy, the next they are locked in full scale war.
The worst part had been nobody could reach the Vatt system, the next Orion inhabited system and a naval outpost to warn them. And of the dozen courier ships sent out to ask our "allies" for assistance, none was received before they had finally escaped the system through an old very rarely used gate, but had been heading away from Orion space.
The man cleared his throat and in a solemn tone said, "Uhhh, sorry Lori. I didn't mean to bring up any bad memories." He rubbed the back of his neck clearly at a loss as to what to say and she still couldn't understand how she could understand him?!
"How can I understand you?" She asked. "And you can understand me?" He just nodded at the last part as he stuck a small tube through a juice box and slurped a couple times as he appeared to be deep in thought.
"Yep. Whenever you were issued your communicator," he pointed at her's, "did you feel a small prick as you synched it tight?" As she nodded now looking at her communicator he continued. "That was your standard personal nanites." She looked up puzzled by the word.
"Nanites?" She asked. She had never heard of whatever that was. The briefing had said that they had or would received them, but not where or how, or what they where.
Taking the question for what it was Tim began. "They are microscopic robots programmed to automatically repair damaged tissue, fight diseases, and viruses common through out known space. As soon as they entered your bloodstream they began reproducing and will lay dormant there until needed. Since I have my own nanites, we can communicate without much delay. To an outsider, without nanites, you are speaking your native language and I am speaking English. But we hear the words and to a minor extent feel what some psychic races say."
She stared at him for a moment, processing what he had just told her. These people were years ahead of her's in technology! She looked back down at the data chit and said, "Amazing." That was all she could get out as not a heartbeat later a proximity claxon wailed as a mechanical female voice chimed, "WARNING! Proximity Alert. Unidentified hostile ship detected." It repeated itself. All the Orion's in the mess hall were looking around nervously as others rushed out, she assumed to hurry to their duty stations. Tim though didn't budge.
He just casually slurped his juice box and absently typed something a few times on his communicator and he was suddenly looking at a screen depicting the outside of the ship. It wasn't disorienting because there was no "up" or "down" in space. Only where you or your target where in relation to each other.
She could see a sleek black spider like craft on his projected screen. It's engines at full burn as it headed towards what looked like another FTL Gate. This Gate was very busy and Lori could see cargo freighter's lined up in que, a greenish blue planet with pink splotches in the background./
"What the hell is that?" Tim asked no one in particular. She remembered seeing these ships above Farcee, or actually dropping onto it in a sneak attack.
"I think that is a swarm ship! By all the reports from the ground back on my home planet that ship has several queens on board and an entire battalion of Broodlings! " She was still looking at his communicators holographic image, and the planet in the background. "You can't let them reach a planet!" Her voice suddenly rising in a panic. If that ship reaches that planet there wouldn't be any way of stopping the Brood from establishing a colony. And once a single colony was established, they would begin systematically stripping the planet of biomass to rapidly increase their numbers, becoming a plague of the worst kind.
"Oh they aren't going anywhere." He extended his arm to provide her a better angle as a silver winged vehicle zipped by closely followed by three more. Lori could tell the Broodlings ship was much larger than the silver ship's but the United Sol ships were quickly gaining on the much larger enemy ship. Soon one of the silver ship's shot the spider like ship with what looked like a laser. One shot and she could see it's sublight engines splutter and fail. Within a few heartbeats three of the four appeared to "attach" themselves to the larger spider like vessel of the Broodlings. "Those Marines just had their day made. They get to play for a change instead of being stuck on ship." He chuckled as she caught the glint of his canine's as he smiled a definite predatory smile.
"Those are Broodlings and potentially a few of their Varille allies." She gulped. "They tore our defenses apart. They are very dangerous, you should warn them!" She looked back at the communicator. "Even these 'Marines' deserve a chance to live!"
"Calm down miss," Tim said with a sudden grin spreading wider across his face if it was possible, his white teeth flashing. "I can almost guarantee you that the scariest thing in that cluster of ships is the Terran Marines." He started shaking his head. "No, those poor bastards are having more fun than they have had in a few cycles."
The certainty in his voice and his demeanor caused her to relax somewhat. Just how strong was this Sol Alliance she wondered as she watched the communicator and finished her "goulash". She found it quite good compared to the minimal rations she had been eating on the Orion ship. She couldn't help but wonder yet again as to just what kind of people were these humans? Had they found an ally or would the U.S. Alliance end up being where her people's story ended.
Looking across the table at the young human slurping on his juice box she couldn't help but wonder which way this would go.
2024.05.31 16:56 BAIN_420 Cat's at the Cradle 2
First
Lori watched the shuttle gently grasp their life pod with some sort of tractoring tech. Her mind racing with a million thoughts as she tried, and failed, to keep her nerves under control. Who where these aliens that called themselves Humans. The Great Admiral had ordered everyone before exiting warp NOT to resist these humans as they had acknowledged the galactic standard call for help they had broadcast when the warp bubble they had been traveling in started shrinking exponentially as their ships where mauled by the Varille battleship.
That ship had methodically destroyed one ship after another. It's Captain staying just outside range of the capital grade lasers the Orion cruisers mounted and used it's long range missiles to first wound, then utterly destroy five Orion cruisers and the only destroyer that managed to survive getting into FTL. They had been trying for several cycles to find an exit so they could leave the FTL lanes without being outright destroyed by the Varille. Then they had gotten hit on the Regents Pride, the missile somehow managed to tear a hole from port to starboard but missed everything vital. However many civilians were lost during the loss of atmosphere and the decompression of those areas.
The blue and white shuttle steadily towed them into a much larger ship called the Titan 7. The Humans had built a giant brick with what appeared to be a hundred cargo bays! She thought seeing the massive behemoth swallow other shuttles towing life pods similar to her group. Most of the refugees on her pod where juveniles, a few expecting mothers too far along to be in fighting condition, and a wounded V.I.P. she had helped a medical officer carry the stretcher onto the pod with the badly bandaged Orion woman. He had hurried off shortly after that being summoned to assist wounded a deck below the life pods.
They went through some sort of shield and she could see other pods opening and the tall Human guards in black and grey combat armor escorting other Orion's into large clusters near interior blast doors. She found herself wondering again why these humans had decided to help them. She knew they had passed at least seven other warp gates and broadcast the same distress signal.
No one had allowed them entry. So many of the survivors had died on those ships the Varille battleship had destroyed. So many more had died on her home world of Farcee trying to escape the Varille fleet bombardment and the Brood's landing cluster's. The Varille, she knew, liked taking slaves for their mining/industrial planets. But the Brood only kept non insectoid sentient creatures around to lay their eggs in. She shuddered involuntarily as the thought wormed it's way into her thoughts.
The pod jostled as the tractor fully sat it down and released it. A light above the pods door turned a solid yellow indicating breathable air and with a "PWOOOOSHHH" the door unsealed and swung outwards. The lights inside where suddenly dim as the door revealed a towering human in a black and grey combat suit. Lori squinted as a tall, imposing human stepped into view, some sort of pulse rifle slung over it's shoulder and two small lights on the side of its helmet.
"Welcome to Sol. You have been granted temporary asylum. Please follow Sergeant Havora to your debrief. Any hostility will be dealt with swiftly and will immediately render your asylum void." The voice sounded male through it's helmets audio but with this being first contact the only thing she could think of was how big this human was! It towered over the tallest Orion adult by at least five hands. Orion's started milling about in the pod as best they could and soon where being escorted to an area denoted for their use as a gathering spot and two more pods groups soon joined them.
Lori found herself studying these humans. They had two arms and legs, an apparent head and torso. One group of people seemed to stand out, they were dressed in white with a red "+" insignia on their left shoulder. A small round machine with the same insignia hoovered along behind them. Anyone that was found as being wounded, they pulled from the groups, some that were wounded in the final battle with the Varille battle ship as they entered the Sol FTL gate. She still couldn't get a good look at their faces.
A throat was cleared near the interior blast doors as Lori spotted the small form of a humanoid reptilian only six hand's tall! It cleared it's throat and with a flick of it's small tail another humanoid biped in a black and grey combat suit stepped forward and with a very loud "clang" as they stomped a heavy metal boot and shouted, "ATTENTIONNN!"
Almost instantly she and the other Orion's went silent, their attention riveted to the small cluster of aliens arrayed in front of them. She could see various different species represented and found herself idly wondering if her first impression of humanity had actually been from a human.
"Thank you Lieutenant Commander," said the small reptilian alien in a slightly nasal voice,"I am Sargent Crom. We have been ordered to get you folks settled in for transport to more accommodating conditions." Sgt. Crom paused for a moment making sure everyone was understanding the translation before continuing. "Your wounded will be taken care of and treated as our own until they recover. Mrs Vali," Sgt Crom waved a small hand at the wounded V.I.P. she was still near and a very tall obviously female alien that had almost sparkling green skin stepped forward, her limbs long and thin, in a white body suit that had a red "+" emblazoned on the left shoulder. Several others dressed similarly to her cautiously followed her as she pulled out some sort of small flat device and ran it over the V.I.P. before motioning to two of the smaller aliens and ordering them to do something in a voice and language that sounded like tinkling bells to Lori's sensitive ears.
As Miss Vali and her team of healers worked through the crowd of Orion's, Sargent Crom continued. "Now, let's continue by saying WELCOME to the United Sol Alliance territories. As you can tell, the U.S. Alliance has several member species and government's. I am a Jabilix. Miss Vali is an Elladrin, and the lieutenant commander is Human." Lori's eyes immediately snapped back to the man in black and grey combat armor as he stood at attention slightly behind and to the left of Sargent Crom.
"We are not all of the U.S. Alliance member species," she paused, "I am sure you will eventually meet us all. Now if you would form two lines here, and here." As Sargent Crom spoke a strip of light lit up on one side of the blast doors, and as she finished another set on the other side lit up. "We will see you to a bunk, something to eat, and then your debriefing. Don't worry, we just want to know what is going on. There is no right or wrong answers. We already have most of the ships logs so this is mostly just to follow protocol." Sargent Crom waited for a few moments before adding, "Move people! We have many more pods to retrieve and space is limited."
With that Lori found herself joining the rest of the people from her pod in forming into the desired lines and soon found they where moving farther into the ship and down several decks. The humans ship was very plain with no artistic flair. Everything was solely for a purpose, and built to last. An Orion ships corridors may have been arrayed in a similar layout, they would have had beautiful curves and even aesthetically pleasing geometric patterns anywhere NOT needed for a system or station. Most doors they passed had numbers or weird letters and sometimes both.
They were eventually led to what Sargent Crom called a "Mess Hall" and shown a rather large room with the designation 104-B right next to the mess hall that was arrayed with bunks and two lockers at the end of each set of beds. Their group was informed on meal time's, shown how to access the necessities and then went through the debriefing. All in all Lori found the ordeal to be over within a few hours.
Everyone had been processed and she had even received a fancy bracelet and shown how to access it's basic functions. It was a small personal data chit! This would have cost her nearly two year's of pay back on Farcee. The Sol Alliance had already integrated the Orion language and alphabet into their system so she could see many of the other Orion's sitting about the mess hall reading whatever had caught their attention on the Sol "Internet". She had picked a table away from everyone, her thoughts on the current situation she found herself in warring with the sorrowful memories of the last few cycles. She picked at the plate of something she couldn't even start to identify but the woman with the white cap had called it "goulash", remembering when she had been picked to get on one of the three ships. Her mother, father, and older siblings had not been picked.
She had just had her name day and been granted permission to participate in the great matching ceremony that essentially would allow her to start her family and pick a suitable mate. She was at the temple of Hal'Ick having just donated the required amount of fauxauall and tuardanium which had taken a year to procure and received her license when it was reported the first Swarm ships had dropped off freighter's from the Sagoth Brood system and landed on Farcee's southern continent.
A low growl escaped as she remembered the news reports and the images of the butchered Orion's. Initially the authorities had thought the Brood ships were unsuspecting host's, having unwittingly carried them into the Orion system. They mostly thought this because the freighter's didn't run after the Swarm ships detached from their hulls and dropped into the atmosphere.
No they had instead waited for most of the Farcee home fleet to be busy trying to intercept a dozen large asteroids that had suddenly been detected moving from the outer system directly into Farcee's orbital path. Once the main force was occupied with the asteroids the freighter's, which were the old long haul sublight hulls with modified hyper drives allowing them to use the Gates had suddenly blown out sections of their own hulls revealing some sort of new plasma cannons that where already spooled up and aimed at the unsuspecting orbital defense platforms and to everyone's horror the two platforms that defended the Farcee FTL Gate. The view of the combined Varille, Sagoth Brood, and the Swarm fleets exiting out of the gate and descending on the Farcee home fleet and their brave sacrifice to allow as many civilians to escape would forever be burned into her memory. As well as the image of Farcee in ruins as the three ships ladden with skeleton crews and as many civilians of "viable" reproductive age as the Regent could get into the new experimental ships. (They had been sitting behind the second moon Boida along with the destroyer Kaighan, and 5 other cruisers which were shredded trying to defend them in side the FTL lains, so they were the only military ships able to respond to the Regents evacuation call along with many brave merchant ships which probably didn't make it.) She had taken a few bites and found herself savoring the "goulash", it was quite good!
"Mind if I join you?" Came a deep baritone voice.
She looked up and to her surprise, standing in front of her on the other side of the table was a bipedal humanoid with two small patches of fur on it's definitely primate like face. He wore a black and grey military fatigues with a black hexagonal patch prominently displaying three stripes and a delta insignia on his grey collar. After an uncomfortable moment of her staring into his bright blue eyes she replied, "Yes......yes of course." She gestured to the bench on the other side of the table. How had she understood him?!
"Thanks." He sat down and extended a hand over his food. "Names Tim, Tim Reynolds"
She had seen this greeting on her data chit and tentatively took his hand to "shake" it up and down slightly in the alien's weird greeting gesture. Why couldn't they just flick their ears like her people? "Lori." was all she replied. She hadn't chosen a mate yet so in her culture she couldn't take a second name.
He sat down and began to eat. She had wondered how the utensils wrapped in some sort of soft fiber pressed into a sheet where used. She had known basically what the dull knife was, (though why it was dull still escaped her!) She had figured the pronged instrument was for stabbing but without context and with a dull knife, she had resorted to what every other Orion had opted to do. What was natural, they had used their finger's. But seeing Tim use them she quickly adapted and before long had the basics down on holding them and their use.
"So where are you from?" He asked, before taking a bite of his food.
Her mind immediately went to the last image of her home planet she had seen through the viewport. She knew she had only been let on a ship because she had been lucky. She had been grabbed, scanned, and crammed into one of the ships. "Farcee." She said meekly remembering the craters that had been once beautiful cities suspended above a vibrant purple rainforests on massive supports. She could still see the plasma burning large swaths of it as they obliterated strong points the Orion army had set up to at least slow the bug's ground assault. No warning, no declaration of war. No reason given. One moment the Orion's were long standing trade partners with the Hive Confederacy, the next they are locked in full scale war.
The worst part had been nobody could reach the Vatt system, the next Orion inhabited system and a naval outpost to warn them. And of the dozen courier ships sent out to ask our "allies" for assistance, none was received before they had finally escaped the system through an old very rarely used gate, but had been heading away from Orion space.
The man cleared his throat and in a solemn tone said, "Uhhh, sorry Lori. I didn't mean to bring up any bad memories." He rubbed the back of his neck clearly at a loss as to what to say and she still couldn't understand how she could understand him?!
"How can I understand you?" She asked. "And you can understand me?" He just nodded at the last part as he stuck a small tube through a juice box and slurped a couple times as he appeared to be deep in thought.
"Yep. Whenever you were issued your communicator," he pointed at her's, "did you feel a small prick as you synched it tight?" As she nodded now looking at her communicator he continued. "That was your standard personal nanites." She looked up puzzled by the word.
"Nanites?" She asked. She had never heard of whatever that was. The briefing had said that they had or would received them, but not where or how, or what they where.
Taking the question for what it was Tim began. "They are microscopic robots programmed to automatically repair damaged tissue, fight diseases, and viruses common through out known space. As soon as they entered your bloodstream they began reproducing and will lay dormant there until needed. Since I have my own nanites, we can communicate without much delay. To an outsider, without nanites, you are speaking your native language and I am speaking English. But we hear the words and to a minor extent feel what some psychic races say."
She stared at him for a moment, processing what he had just told her. These people were years ahead of her's in technology! She looked back down at the data chit and said, "Amazing." That was all she could get out as not a heartbeat later a proximity claxon wailed as a mechanical female voice chimed, "WARNING! Proximity Alert. Unidentified hostile ship detected." It repeated itself. All the Orion's in the mess hall were looking around nervously as others rushed out, she assumed to hurry to their duty stations. Tim though didn't budge.
He just casually slurped his juice box and absently typed something a few times on his communicator and he was suddenly looking at a screen depicting the outside of the ship. It wasn't disorienting because there was no "up" or "down" in space. Only where you or your target where in relation to each other.
She could see a sleek black spider like craft on his projected screen. It's engines at full burn as it headed towards what looked like another FTL Gate. This Gate was very busy and Lori could see cargo freighter's lined up in que, a greenish blue planet with pink splotches in the background./
"What the hell is that?" Tim asked no one in particular. She remembered seeing these ships above Farcee, or actually dropping onto it in a sneak attack.
"I think that is a swarm ship! By all the reports from the ground back on my home planet that ship has several queens on board and an entire battalion of Broodlings! " She was still looking at his communicators holographic image, and the planet in the background. "You can't let them reach a planet!" Her voice suddenly rising in a panic. If that ship reaches that planet there wouldn't be any way of stopping the Brood from establishing a colony. And once a single colony was established, they would begin systematically stripping the planet of biomass to rapidly increase their numbers, becoming a plague of the worst kind.
"Oh they aren't going anywhere." He extended his arm to provide her a better angle as a silver winged vehicle zipped by closely followed by three more. Lori could tell the Broodlings ship was much larger than the silver ship's but the United Sol ships were quickly gaining on the much larger enemy ship. Soon one of the silver ship's shot the spider like ship with what looked like a laser. One shot and she could see it's sublight engines splutter and fail. Within a few heartbeats three of the four appeared to "attach" themselves to the larger spider like vessel of the Broodlings. "Those Marines just had their day made. They get to play for a change instead of being stuck on ship." He chuckled as she caught the glint of his canine's as he smiled a definite predatory smile.
"Those are Broodlings and potentially a few of their Varille allies." She gulped. "They tore our defenses apart. They are very dangerous, you should warn them!" She looked back at the communicator. "Even these 'Marines' deserve a chance to live!"
"Calm down miss," Tim said with a sudden grin spreading wider across his face if it was possible, his white teeth flashing. "I can almost guarantee you that the scariest thing in that cluster of ships is the Terran Marines." He started shaking his head. "No, those poor bastards are having more fun than they have had in a few cycles."
The certainty in his voice and his demeanor caused her to relax somewhat. Just how strong was this Sol Alliance she wondered as she watched the communicator and finished her "goulash". She found it quite good compared to the minimal rations she had been eating on the Orion ship. She couldn't help but wonder yet again as to just what kind of people were these humans? Had they found an ally or would the U.S. Alliance end up being where her people's story ended.
Looking across the table at the young human slurping on his juice box she couldn't help but wonder which way this would go.
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Lori watched the shuttle gently grasp their life pod with some sort of tractoring tech. Her mind racing with a million thoughts as she tried, and failed, to keep her nerves under control. Who where these aliens that called themselves Humans. The Great Admiral had ordered everyone before exiting warp NOT to resist these humans as they had acknowledged the galactic standard call for help they had broadcast when the warp bubble they had been traveling in started shrinking exponentially as their ships where mauled by the Varille battleship.
That ship had methodically destroyed one ship after another. It's Captain staying just outside range of the capital grade lasers the Orion cruisers mounted and used it's long range missiles to first wound, then utterly destroy five Orion cruisers and the only destroyer that managed to survive getting into FTL. They had been trying for several cycles to find an exit so they could leave the FTL lanes without being outright destroyed by the Varille. Then they had gotten hit on the Regents Pride, the missile somehow managed to tear a hole from port to starboard but missed everything vital. However many civilians were lost during the loss of atmosphere and the decompression of those areas.
The blue and white shuttle steadily towed them into a much larger ship called the Titan 7. The Humans had built a giant brick with what appeared to be a hundred cargo bays! She thought seeing the massive behemoth swallow other shuttles towing life pods similar to her group. Most of the refugees on her pod where juveniles, a few expecting mothers too far along to be in fighting condition, and a wounded V.I.P. she had helped a medical officer carry the stretcher onto the pod with the badly bandaged Orion woman. He had hurried off shortly after that being summoned to assist wounded a deck below the life pods.
They went through some sort of shield and she could see other pods opening and the tall Human guards in black and grey combat armor escorting other Orion's into large clusters near interior blast doors. She found herself wondering again why these humans had decided to help them. She knew they had passed at least seven other warp gates and broadcast the same distress signal.
No one had allowed them entry. So many of the survivors had died on those ships the Varille battleship had destroyed. So many more had died on her home world of Farcee trying to escape the Varille fleet bombardment and the Brood's landing cluster's. The Varille, she knew, liked taking slaves for their mining/industrial planets. But the Brood only kept non insectoid sentient creatures around to lay their eggs in. She shuddered involuntarily as the thought wormed it's way into her thoughts.
The pod jostled as the tractor fully sat it down and released it. A light above the pods door turned a solid yellow indicating breathable air and with a "PWOOOOSHHH" the door unsealed and swung outwards. The lights inside where suddenly dim as the door revealed a towering human in a black and grey combat suit. Lori squinted as a tall, imposing human stepped into view, some sort of pulse rifle slung over it's shoulder and two small lights on the side of its helmet.
"Welcome to Sol. You have been granted temporary asylum. Please follow Sergeant Havora to your debrief. Any hostility will be dealt with swiftly and will immediately render your asylum void." The voice sounded male through it's helmets audio but with this being first contact the only thing she could think of was how big this human was! It towered over the tallest Orion adult by at least five hands. Orion's started milling about in the pod as best they could and soon where being escorted to an area denoted for their use as a gathering spot and two more pods groups soon joined them.
Lori found herself studying these humans. They had two arms and legs, an apparent head and torso. One group of people seemed to stand out, they were dressed in white with a red "+" insignia on their left shoulder. A small round machine with the same insignia hoovered along behind them. Anyone that was found as being wounded, they pulled from the groups, some that were wounded in the final battle with the Varille battle ship as they entered the Sol FTL gate. She still couldn't get a good look at their faces.
A throat was cleared near the interior blast doors as Lori spotted the small form of a humanoid reptilian only six hand's tall! It cleared it's throat and with a flick of it's small tail another humanoid biped in a black and grey combat suit stepped forward and with a very loud "clang" as they stomped a heavy metal boot and shouted, "ATTENTIONNN!"
Almost instantly she and the other Orion's went silent, their attention riveted to the small cluster of aliens arrayed in front of them. She could see various different species represented and found herself idly wondering if her first impression of humanity had actually been from a human.
"Thank you Lieutenant Commander," said the small reptilian alien in a slightly nasal voice,"I am Sargent Crom. We have been ordered to get you folks settled in for transport to more accommodating conditions." Sgt. Crom paused for a moment making sure everyone was understanding the translation before continuing. "Your wounded will be taken care of and treated as our own until they recover. Mrs Vali," Sgt Crom waved a small hand at the wounded V.I.P. she was still near and a very tall obviously female alien that had almost sparkling green skin stepped forward, her limbs long and thin, in a white body suit that had a red "+" emblazoned on the left shoulder. Several others dressed similarly to her cautiously followed her as she pulled out some sort of small flat device and ran it over the V.I.P. before motioning to two of the smaller aliens and ordering them to do something in a voice and language that sounded like tinkling bells to Lori's sensitive ears.
As Miss Vali and her team of healers worked through the crowd of Orion's, Sargent Crom continued. "Now, let's continue by saying WELCOME to the United Sol Alliance territories. As you can tell, the U.S. Alliance has several member species and government's. I am a Jabilix. Miss Vali is an Elladrin, and the lieutenant commander is Human." Lori's eyes immediately snapped back to the man in black and grey combat armor as he stood at attention slightly behind and to the left of Sargent Crom.
"We are not all of the U.S. Alliance member species," she paused, "I am sure you will eventually meet us all. Now if you would form two lines here, and here." As Sargent Crom spoke a strip of light lit up on one side of the blast doors, and as she finished another set on the other side lit up. "We will see you to a bunk, something to eat, and then your debriefing. Don't worry, we just want to know what is going on. There is no right or wrong answers. We already have most of the ships logs so this is mostly just to follow protocol." Sargent Crom waited for a few moments before adding, "Move people! We have many more pods to retrieve and space is limited."
With that Lori found herself joining the rest of the people from her pod in forming into the desired lines and soon found they where moving farther into the ship and down several decks. The humans ship was very plain with no artistic flair. Everything was solely for a purpose, and built to last. An Orion ships corridors may have been arrayed in a similar layout, they would have had beautiful curves and even aesthetically pleasing geometric patterns anywhere NOT needed for a system or station. Most doors they passed had numbers or weird letters and sometimes both.
They were eventually led to what Sargent Crom called a "Mess Hall" and shown a rather large room with the designation 104-B right next to the mess hall that was arrayed with bunks and two lockers at the end of each set of beds. Their group was informed on meal time's, shown how to access the necessities and then went through the debriefing. All in all Lori found the ordeal to be over within a few hours.
Everyone had been processed and she had even received a fancy bracelet and shown how to access it's basic functions. It was a small personal data chit! This would have cost her nearly two year's of pay back on Farcee. The Sol Alliance had already integrated the Orion language and alphabet into their system so she could see many of the other Orion's sitting about the mess hall reading whatever had caught their attention on the Sol "Internet". She had picked a table away from everyone, her thoughts on the current situation she found herself in warring with the sorrowful memories of the last few cycles. She picked at the plate of something she couldn't even start to identify but the woman with the white cap had called it "goulash", remembering when she had been picked to get on one of the three ships. Her mother, father, and older siblings had not been picked.
She had just had her name day and been granted permission to participate in the great matching ceremony that essentially would allow her to start her family and pick a suitable mate. She was at the temple of Hal'Ick having just donated the required amount of fauxauall and tuardanium which had taken a year to procure and received her license when it was reported the first Swarm ships had dropped off freighter's from the Sagoth Brood system and landed on Farcee's southern continent.
A low growl escaped as she remembered the news reports and the images of the butchered Orion's. Initially the authorities had thought the Brood ships were unsuspecting host's, having unwittingly carried them into the Orion system. They mostly thought this because the freighter's didn't run after the Swarm ships detached from their hulls and dropped into the atmosphere.
No they had instead waited for most of the Farcee home fleet to be busy trying to intercept a dozen large asteroids that had suddenly been detected moving from the outer system directly into Farcee's orbital path. Once the main force was occupied with the asteroids the freighter's, which were the old long haul sublight hulls with modified hyper drives allowing them to use the Gates had suddenly blown out sections of their own hulls revealing some sort of new plasma cannons that where already spooled up and aimed at the unsuspecting orbital defense platforms and to everyone's horror the two platforms that defended the Farcee FTL Gate. The view of the combined Varille, Sagoth Brood, and the Swarm fleets exiting out of the gate and descending on the Farcee home fleet and their brave sacrifice to allow as many civilians to escape would forever be burned into her memory. As well as the image of Farcee in ruins as the three ships ladden with skeleton crews and as many civilians of "viable" reproductive age as the Regent could get into the new experimental ships. (They had been sitting behind the second moon Boida along with the destroyer Kaighan, and 5 other cruisers which were shredded trying to defend them in side the FTL lains, so they were the only military ships able to respond to the Regents evacuation call along with many brave merchant ships which probably didn't make it.) She had taken a few bites and found herself savoring the "goulash", it was quite good!
"Mind if I join you?" Came a deep baritone voice.
She looked up and to her surprise, standing in front of her on the other side of the table was a bipedal humanoid with two small patches of fur on it's definitely primate like face. He wore a black and grey military fatigues with a black hexagonal patch prominently displaying three stripes and a delta insignia on his grey collar. After an uncomfortable moment of her staring into his bright blue eyes she replied, "Yes......yes of course." She gestured to the bench on the other side of the table. How had she understood him?!
"Thanks." He sat down and extended a hand over his food. "Names Tim, Tim Reynolds"
She had seen this greeting on her data chit and tentatively took his hand to "shake" it up and down slightly in the alien's weird greeting gesture. Why couldn't they just flick their ears like her people? "Lori." was all she replied. She hadn't chosen a mate yet so in her culture she couldn't take a second name.
He sat down and began to eat. She had wondered how the utensils wrapped in some sort of soft fiber pressed into a sheet where used. She had known basically what the dull knife was, (though why it was dull still escaped her!) She had figured the pronged instrument was for stabbing but without context and with a dull knife, she had resorted to what every other Orion had opted to do. What was natural, they had used their finger's. But seeing Tim use them she quickly adapted and before long had the basics down on holding them and their use.
"So where are you from?" He asked, before taking a bite of his food.
Her mind immediately went to the last image of her home planet she had seen through the viewport. She knew she had only been let on a ship because she had been lucky. She had been grabbed, scanned, and crammed into one of the ships. "Farcee." She said meekly remembering the craters that had been once beautiful cities suspended above a vibrant purple rainforests on massive supports. She could still see the plasma burning large swaths of it as they obliterated strong points the Orion army had set up to at least slow the bug's ground assault. No warning, no declaration of war. No reason given. One moment the Orion's were long standing trade partners with the Hive Confederacy, the next they are locked in full scale war.
The worst part had been nobody could reach the Vatt system, the next Orion inhabited system and a naval outpost to warn them. And of the dozen courier ships sent out to ask our "allies" for assistance, none was received before they had finally escaped the system through an old very rarely used gate, but had been heading away from Orion space.
The man cleared his throat and in a solemn tone said, "Uhhh, sorry Lori. I didn't mean to bring up any bad memories." He rubbed the back of his neck clearly at a loss as to what to say and she still couldn't understand how she could understand him?!
"How can I understand you?" She asked. "And you can understand me?" He just nodded at the last part as he stuck a small tube through a juice box and slurped a couple times as he appeared to be deep in thought.
"Yep. Whenever you were issued your communicator," he pointed at her's, "did you feel a small prick as you synched it tight?" As she nodded now looking at her communicator he continued. "That was your standard personal nanites." She looked up puzzled by the word.
"Nanites?" She asked. She had never heard of whatever that was. The briefing had said that they had or would received them, but not where or how, or what they where.
Taking the question for what it was Tim began. "They are microscopic robots programmed to automatically repair damaged tissue, fight diseases, and viruses common through out known space. As soon as they entered your bloodstream they began reproducing and will lay dormant there until needed. Since I have my own nanites, we can communicate without much delay. To an outsider, without nanites, you are speaking your native language and I am speaking English. But we hear the words and to a minor extent feel what some psychic races say."
She stared at him for a moment, processing what he had just told her. These people were years ahead of her's in technology! She looked back down at the data chit and said, "Amazing." That was all she could get out as not a heartbeat later a proximity claxon wailed as a mechanical female voice chimed, "WARNING! Proximity Alert. Unidentified hostile ship detected." It repeated itself. All the Orion's in the mess hall were looking around nervously as others rushed out, she assumed to hurry to their duty stations. Tim though didn't budge.
He just casually slurped his juice box and absently typed something a few times on his communicator and he was suddenly looking at a screen depicting the outside of the ship. It wasn't disorienting because there was no "up" or "down" in space. Only where you or your target where in relation to each other.
She could see a sleek black spider like craft on his projected screen. It's engines at full burn as it headed towards what looked like another FTL Gate. This Gate was very busy and Lori could see cargo freighter's lined up in que, a greenish blue planet with pink splotches in the background./
"What the hell is that?" Tim asked no one in particular. She remembered seeing these ships above Farcee, or actually dropping onto it in a sneak attack.
"I think that is a swarm ship! By all the reports from the ground back on my home planet that ship has several queens on board and an entire battalion of Broodlings! " She was still looking at his communicators holographic image, and the planet in the background. "You can't let them reach a planet!" Her voice suddenly rising in a panic. If that ship reaches that planet there wouldn't be any way of stopping the Brood from establishing a colony. And once a single colony was established, they would begin systematically stripping the planet of biomass to rapidly increase their numbers, becoming a plague of the worst kind.
"Oh they aren't going anywhere." He extended his arm to provide her a better angle as a silver winged vehicle zipped by closely followed by three more. Lori could tell the Broodlings ship was much larger than the silver ship's but the United Sol ships were quickly gaining on the much larger enemy ship. Soon one of the silver ship's shot the spider like ship with what looked like a laser. One shot and she could see it's sublight engines splutter and fail. Within a few heartbeats three of the four appeared to "attach" themselves to the larger spider like vessel of the Broodlings. "Those Marines just had their day made. They get to play for a change instead of being stuck on ship." He chuckled as she caught the glint of his canine's as he smiled a definite predatory smile.
"Those are Broodlings and potentially a few of their Varille allies." She gulped. "They tore our defenses apart. They are very dangerous, you should warn them!" She looked back at the communicator. "Even these 'Marines' deserve a chance to live!"
"Calm down miss," Tim said with a sudden grin spreading wider across his face if it was possible, his white teeth flashing. "I can almost guarantee you that the scariest thing in that cluster of ships is the Terran Marines." He started shaking his head. "No, those poor bastards are having more fun than they have had in a few cycles."
The certainty in his voice and his demeanor caused her to relax somewhat. Just how strong was this Sol Alliance she wondered as she watched the communicator and finished her "goulash". She found it quite good compared to the minimal rations she had been eating on the Orion ship. She couldn't help but wonder yet again as to just what kind of people were these humans? Had they found an ally or would the U.S. Alliance end up being where her people's story ended.
Looking across the table at the young human slurping on his juice box she couldn't help but wonder which way this would go.
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2024.05.30 16:21 BigHeadDjango Series 34 Week 2 - Autumn Seasonal Tunes! (Horizon Retrowave) by BigHedDjango
Hello everyone! BigHedDjango here, tunes for this week to help you out.
Weekly photo: https://i.imgur.com/PYDqaVK.png
All feedback on tunes is appreciated - good or bad. Specially when tunes are bad. At the end of the day I am just the mechanic and you guys are the racers. Do not hesitate irrespective of your tuning knowledge or racing skills!
Tuning method: 1. Stock look - stock wheel rims and size, no aero (unless absolutely necessary for handling and stability) 2. Tuned for automatic/manual players by not skipping clutch+gearbox upgrades 3. Max performance with max handling possible 4. All cars tuned vs. Unbeatable AI, tracks/weather conditions are now unknown since time travel no longer works. Since release AI has been inconsistent between many car types and weather conditions, not every car will win 10/10 races vs Unbeatable AI without rewind/restart abuse 5. Bodykit used if it does not hurt performance
Easy Win Road Circuit - 177 632 200
Easy Win Dirt Trail - 991 376 926
Easy Win Dirt Scramble - 135 436 707
Easy Win Cross Country Sprint - 114 199 871
Easy Win Cross Country Circuit - 181 401 852
Easy Win Street Scene Sprint - 134 229 457
Easy Win Drag Strip - 812 084 897
📸 Also don't stop yourself from checking out my photos on the creative hub. Wow! What beautiful photos! 📸
Don't hesitate to ask if you need any help!
🛠️ I am open to requests for cars you might want me to tune! It would also help me understand FH5 tuning better. So let me know the car and class and I'd get back to you! 🛠️
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Weekly photo: https://i.imgur.com/PYDqaVK.png
All feedback on tunes is appreciated - good or bad. Specially when tunes are bad. At the end of the day I am just the mechanic and you guys are the racers. Do not hesitate irrespective of your tuning knowledge or racing skills!
Tuning method: 1. Stock look - stock wheel rims and size, no aero (unless absolutely necessary for handling and stability) 2. Tuned for automatic/manual players by not skipping clutch+gearbox upgrades 3. Max performance with max handling possible 4. All cars tuned vs. Unbeatable AI, tracks/weather conditions are now unknown since time travel no longer works. Since release AI has been inconsistent between many car types and weather conditions, not every car will win 10/10 races vs Unbeatable AI without rewind/restart abuse 5. Bodykit used if it does not hurt performance
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Forzathon Weekly Challenge - Quattrovalvole
1988 Lamborghini Countach LP5000 QV * Tune - 142 881 738 * Low top speed accel; Stock rear wing; Stock engine; v2 - rebuild, smoother, added rally tires * Event Lab BP - Easy Win Street Scene Sprint - 134 229 457
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Trial - Wedge Racers
Road Racing - Retro Supercars - A 800
NOTE: Try to block and slow down AI and help teammates in order to win. One player on the team needs to take at least P3 and slow down the AI for a guaranteed win1997 Lamborghini Diablo SV * Tune - 702 710 987 * Decent wet roads grip; 7th gear only for very long straights; Stock engine only; v4
1987 Ferrari F40 * Tune - 220 887 640 * Stock engine; v2
1988 Lamborghini Countach LP5000 QV * Tune - 142 881 738 * Low top speed accel; Stock rear wing; Stock engine; v2 - rebuild, smoother, added rally tires
1995 Porsche 911 GT2 * Tune - 599 557 358 * Sufficient wet roads grip; Lacks top speed; v3
1992 Ferrari 512 TR * Tune - 531 035 522 * Playlist car; Stock engine; v1
1997 Lotus Elise GT1 * Tune - 171 943 944 * Extremely easy to drive; Good grip; Need drafting to gain high range speed faster; Lacks top speed; Stock engine; v2
1984 Ferrari 288 GTO * Tune - 849 151 044 * RWD; Manual+Clutch ONLY; High top speed; v1
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Event Lab 1 - Horizon Dubai Old Town
Retro Supercars - S1 900
2005 Ford GT * Tune - 139 683 405 * Meta car; Meta tune; Good accel; Full aero; Custom rims; v2
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Event Lab 2 - Rally Cross Island
Rally Monsters - S1 900
1986 Hoonigan Ford RS200 Evolution * Tune - 538 811 516 * Meta car; Very much a meta tune without any meta parts; Tiny lip rear wing; Purist; v1
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Seasonal PR Stunts
1999 Lamborghini Diablo GTR * Tune - 144 427 076 * PR only; RWD, easy to use; Can got from Mastery of 1997 Diablo SV
Speed Trap - Calle Principal - Lamborghini - S1 900
- Start 0.7 miles from east, no more than that, easy 3 stars 226+ MPH
Speed Zone - Trebol - Lamborghini - S1 900
NOTE: All Championships are locked at Highly Skilled difficulty
- Start AT LEAST 1.6 miles from the west to reach 230 MPH target, 3 miles for easy 3 stars 271+ MPH
Championship 1 - Silvia Surfer
Road Racing - Retro Sports Cars - A 800
1997 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec * Tune - 107 981 038 * Meta tune; Rear aero; Custom rims; v1 * 5 gears only; Manual + Clutch ONLY, no clutch upgrades = dead slow on automatic/manual * Upshift at 6-6.5k RPM depending on gear; * Slight oversteer but preferred
2002 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec II * Tune - 690 217 709 * Good car; Needs some skill; v1
1992 Nissan Silvia Club K's * Tune - 142 372 617 * Fastest Silvia; Anti-lag; v1
1998 Nissan Silvia K's Aero * Tune - 146 546 356 * Fast; Easy to use; v1
2000 Nissan Silvia Spec-R * Tune - 167 259 087 * Just sufficient braking; Anti-lag; v3
1994 Nissan Silvia K's * Tune - 149 593 685 (v1)
1998 Toyota Supra RZ * Tune - 104 278 367 (v2)
1992 Honda NSX-R * Tune - 799 953 144 * Good handling and stability; v1
1999 Lotus Elise Series 1 Sport 190 * Tune - 937 801 575 (v4)
1994 Nissan Fairlady Z Version S Twin Turbo * Do-Luck front bumper; Stillen rear wing; Do-Luck rear bumper; Stillen sideskirts; VIS hood; Sport rim style Work Equip 01 * Tune - 102 459 081 (6.2L V8 engine, bit faster and easier; v2) * Tune - 857 864 229 (3.2L I6 engine, for Anti-lag and coolness; v1)
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Championship 2 - Sand Scorpion
Cross Country - Pickups & 4x4s - B 700
1970 International Scout 800A * Tune - 161 346 189 * Meta car; v1
2021 Ford Bronco * Tune - 582 930 593 * Will win vs Unbeatable AI on dirt, crushes Unbeatable AI in CC; v5
2017 Ram 2500 Power Wagon * Tune - 447 065 838 * Meta car; Overlanding build - front grill and lights, roof lights, rear canopy; Custom rims; High profile tires; v1
2020 Ford Super Duty F-450 DRW PLATINUM * Tune - 144 786 775 * Meta car; Fast; Heavy; Roof lights; Rear tire rack; High profile tires; 6-gears only; v1
2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor * Tune - 772 423 923 * Grill and roof lights; Rear tire rack; High profile rear tire; v1
2012 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon * Tune - 169 399 270 * Decent handling; Good accel BUT need to downshift if stuck in a gear - with automatic shifting quickly tap handbrake when straight; High profile rear tires; v3
1976 Jeep CJ5 Renegade * Tune - 168 811 094 * Good handling but no top speed; Can be faster on technical tracks; Stock engine; True Purist; v1
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Championship 3 - Sunset Drive
Street Scene - Retro Saloons - B 700
1987 Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 * Tune - 750 330 861 * Good handling; v3
1991 BMW M3 * Tune - 631 335 680 * Very high top speed; Tuned for Hot Wheels Hazard races; Better suited for dirt than road; v2
1995 BMW M5 * Tune - 716 112 718 * Good top speed; v2
1997 BMW M3 * Tune - 167 492 843 * Stock engine; Road better; v2
2005 BMW M3 * Tune - 826 002 980 * Tiny bit of on-throttle understeer; Dry only; v2
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RALLY ADVENTURE DLC
Seasonal PR Stunts
Danger Sign - Canyon Snap - Retro Rally - B 700
1980 Renault 5 Turbo * Tune - 161 424 645 * Mark danger sign and spawn on curve in the road directly south-east some ~860 yards away. Alternately, you can get a very long run-up from the HFB reservoir or a long run-up from the road cutting through the dried river bed. Neither is required
Championship 4 - Ren-Over and Out
Night Rally - Retro Rally - B 700
1980 Renault 5 Turbo * Tune - 161 424 645 * Good handling; Smooth; Stock engine; v2
1998 Subaru Impreza 22B-STi Version * Tune - 450 523 791 * Very smooth; Wrecks Unbeatable AI; Stock engine; True Purist; v2
1999 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI GSR * Tune - 107 953 889 * Stock engine; True Purist; v2
1990 Nissan Pulsar GTI-R * Tune - 288 482 636 * Meta car; v2
1992 Lancia Delta HF Integrale EVO * Tune - 539 048 945 * Good handling; Easy to use; Anti-lag; Stock engine; True Purist; v1
1982 Lancia 037 Stradale * Tune - 153 022 285 * Playlist car; Slow to start; Smooth; Easy to use; Stock engine; Unique engine sounds; v1
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HOT WHEELS DLC
Seasonal PR Stunts
Danger Sign - Forest Escape - Retro Supercars - S1 900
1992 Bugatti EB110 Super Sport * Tune - 975 323 053 * Drag tune by TayBeMovinn; Custom rims * Mark danger sign and spawn ~640 yards on the north-east track, past the T-point and corner. Feather throttle through right hand corner and floor it through the T-point S-turns. Easy to get 1200+ feet
Championship 5 - Chevy Set Go
Speed - Retro Supercars - S1 900
2005 Ford GT * Tune - 139 683 405 * Meta car; Meta tune; Good accel; Full aero; Custom rims; v2 * Tune - 722 493 664 * Meta car; Good accel; Lacks handling; v2
1991 Jaguar Sport XJR-15 * Tune - 126 790 532 * Meta car; Barn Find; Kid mode car for wet roads; v2
1998 Mercedes-Benz AMG CLK GTR * Tune - 433 417 254 * Good grip; Good handling; Lacks top speed; Stock engine; Default engine sounds; v2
1997 McLaren F1 GT * Tune - 169 985 902 * Meta car; Good grip; Stock engine only; v3
2002 Ferrari Enzo Ferrari * Tune - 803 372 211 * Stock engine; v2
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Event Lab Blueprints!
Easy Win Road Sprint - 696 659 852Easy Win Road Circuit - 177 632 200
Easy Win Dirt Trail - 991 376 926
Easy Win Dirt Scramble - 135 436 707
Easy Win Cross Country Sprint - 114 199 871
Easy Win Cross Country Circuit - 181 401 852
Easy Win Street Scene Sprint - 134 229 457
Easy Win Drag Strip - 812 084 897
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Horizon 4 and 5 Tunes Archive!
https://www.reddit.com/useBigHeadDjango/comments/r4ptt6/forza_horizon_4_and_horizon_5_tunes_archive/Thank you to everyone for your downloads, uses, likes, follows, shares and feedback! Check my in-game profile for more tunes. You can check my reddit profile for more content___
📸 Also don't stop yourself from checking out my photos on the creative hub. Wow! What beautiful photos! 📸
Don't hesitate to ask if you need any help!
🛠️ I am open to requests for cars you might want me to tune! It would also help me understand FH5 tuning better. So let me know the car and class and I'd get back to you! 🛠️
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