Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
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So I'm going to harness my immense number of posts to suddenly give the CIA a lot more internet work to do. It's a small thing, but every bit of distraction from their evil helps.
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Now for a story post. This is mostly backfilling for my next story, which I wrote before this one.
Vakkra study laboratories became increasingly common across most of Oncol III. During the years of the war, every possible recourse for the Vakkra was examined. From remote radio signals that would override their mechanical motor systems to electrical currents that locked them in place, electronic measures were investigated by every physicist worth his salt. Meanwhile the biochemists tried to disable the Vakkra, creating plagues that struck the Vkkra down and injections that made humans resistant to assimilation. These techniques were frequently combined in ways that would have been dismissed out of hand in other circumstances, but nothing was left untried against the Vakkra, strange as they were.
Once the Barterusser fleet arrived and purged the Vakkra ships from the firmament of Oncol, an uneasy peace fell across the world of Oncol III. The scientists had many more specimens to work on, and weapons effectiveness against the Vakkra had been rigorously tested when the space station came down in flames and bile. Now the fleet patrolled the skies, giving air support that was sufficient to quell Vakkra sorties from their assimilated clusters, but little progress was made in destroying the Vakkra entirely.
Perhaps one of the greatest advances was when a common brand of narcotic, Reese's Unsleep pills, was discovered to be effective on the Vakkra as well. Since it was primarily a pleasure drug and triggered synaesthesia instead of disabling the senses, the Vakkra were almost unable to resist it in the first trials.
Once this became known, the entire chain of Reese's Peculiars was closed, as were most other drugstores, with 72 hours warning, their production turned to the military. Over the course of a month, a standardised design for an unsleep dispenser was settled on (it was based on fragmentation grenades), and the soldiers - well, the soldiers took a while to be rearmed. The cloning vats in the main army center worked full time churning out hundreds of soldiers a month, and it was first half a year later that a major assaults were made on the Vakkra.
Blajat hoped the Vakkra had grown complacent in their bases during this time. Certainly they were fortified. So he ordered the fleet partitioned into smaller units that would provide air support, and gave orders for the army to begin attacking the assimilation clusters. If the Vakkra sortied from their bases during, so much the better: they would have nowhere to return to, and far easier to eradicate once driven out.
andis-1 said:oh man I love your sig!
It's a rerun of one I had a year ago. They are violating my ethics, so I'm going to obstruct their work. It's my way of saying that they shouldn't spy on everyone and their dog while violating civil liberties and the right to privacy. They're creating more hatred and giving the terrorists ammunition when they break the rules. The US is losing the moral high ground rapidly, and the response from the Bush Administration is to enact draconian laws that are well on the way to criminalizing dissent. And they can get away with it by invoking terrorism. If you take a look in the OT forum, there's a thread on how trying and failing to violate copy protection can put you in prison for ten years. Gonzales says that the proceeds from such illicit activites are used to fund terrorism.Lord_Iggy said:
So I'm going to harness my immense number of posts to suddenly give the CIA a lot more internet work to do. It's a small thing, but every bit of distraction from their evil helps.
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Now for a story post. This is mostly backfilling for my next story, which I wrote before this one.
Vakkra study laboratories became increasingly common across most of Oncol III. During the years of the war, every possible recourse for the Vakkra was examined. From remote radio signals that would override their mechanical motor systems to electrical currents that locked them in place, electronic measures were investigated by every physicist worth his salt. Meanwhile the biochemists tried to disable the Vakkra, creating plagues that struck the Vkkra down and injections that made humans resistant to assimilation. These techniques were frequently combined in ways that would have been dismissed out of hand in other circumstances, but nothing was left untried against the Vakkra, strange as they were.
Once the Barterusser fleet arrived and purged the Vakkra ships from the firmament of Oncol, an uneasy peace fell across the world of Oncol III. The scientists had many more specimens to work on, and weapons effectiveness against the Vakkra had been rigorously tested when the space station came down in flames and bile. Now the fleet patrolled the skies, giving air support that was sufficient to quell Vakkra sorties from their assimilated clusters, but little progress was made in destroying the Vakkra entirely.
Perhaps one of the greatest advances was when a common brand of narcotic, Reese's Unsleep pills, was discovered to be effective on the Vakkra as well. Since it was primarily a pleasure drug and triggered synaesthesia instead of disabling the senses, the Vakkra were almost unable to resist it in the first trials.
Once this became known, the entire chain of Reese's Peculiars was closed, as were most other drugstores, with 72 hours warning, their production turned to the military. Over the course of a month, a standardised design for an unsleep dispenser was settled on (it was based on fragmentation grenades), and the soldiers - well, the soldiers took a while to be rearmed. The cloning vats in the main army center worked full time churning out hundreds of soldiers a month, and it was first half a year later that a major assaults were made on the Vakkra.
Blajat hoped the Vakkra had grown complacent in their bases during this time. Certainly they were fortified. So he ordered the fleet partitioned into smaller units that would provide air support, and gave orders for the army to begin attacking the assimilation clusters. If the Vakkra sortied from their bases during, so much the better: they would have nowhere to return to, and far easier to eradicate once driven out.
