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Yani change gender? or virtually cross-dressing?

Yani built ORE and the Serpentis took it over. It should be the same Yani

Virtually probable. I've a feeling that this chronical is clever on levels we don't yet realise. I'm still thinking about it.

Bottom line is there are individuals with resources and interests that transcend empire level politics and an unacceptable level of access to capsualeer technology. Which should make you sit up and take notice in whatever dream world you walk in.

The man grinned back, and this time his eyes were dancing. “OK, Yani, when do you want to meet for real? I think I can make some room in my calendar.” He paused and added, “Even if you won’t look as good.”

Interesting.

I see two things that might be new stuff to eventually make it into the game. One is "transit tubes", a possible device we will use if we ever get out through the door in CQ. The other is the simulation tanks. In a way we already got one; Sisi. It would be interesting if we got simulation tanks integrated into TQ, although I'm not sure what they could be used for. A way to test stuff that does not require downloading a second client? Being able to test stuff on TQ has advantages: It runs under the same rules as the main game, without the updates seen on Sisi. Also while testing you would still be able to see corp chatter allowing you to quickly react to stuff happening. When you are on Sisi, you are disconnected from most everyone else playing.

Or could tanks be used for games to be gambled upon at player owned establishments?

I hope Interbus does not go bankrupt, once we blow up their shiny new investments.

As he adjusted to the virtuality, he realized that the base specs of the Naga-class had changed since his last session in the tank. OK, they’d fitted rails to it in this scenario but that wasn’t exactly a change. Ah, he chuckled, so they’d given up on that idea. Yeah, he’d not been entirely impressed by the suicidal nature of the Naga as giant torpedo bomber himself. He called up the daily brief. “Unacceptable ratio of losses to tonnage enemy matériel destroyed.” Well that was one way of putting it. Megacorp technocrat-speak could make fedo crap sound like a mildly annoying stain on the deckplate.

So, today was a basic gunnery run. Test out the new specs with railguns. Opforce was a bunch of different targets. As much variety as a possible. He grinned, yeah well, he’d seen plenty of FDU fleets as ragtag as this in his time. The variety was a bit artificial, a bit too much in the one-of-everything vein but it wasn’t entirely unrealistic. Squadron strength for the Nagas and decent range with the provided setup. This sort of thing he’d do “drive by” strikes usually, but this scenario was staying basic. No warping. Control test. Free initiative scenarios when this was over. According to the brief.

Sooner this was over with the better. The squadron lined up at distance and a primary was called, nice fat Dominix. He wondered why they bothered with using capsuleers for this calibration stuff. Eliminating variables probably. Oh, look at that, Dominix down. The Opforce were trying to make transversal but the bigger stuff wouldn’t be able to do much. Some of that stuff could be dangerous if they got it together though. Apoc, Rokh, Tempest, Mega, even the Raven. Squad commander must have taken longer adjusting than he had. This target list was terrible. He thought about saying something, then noticed the long-range stuff was yellow-boxing him. Check that, they were red-boxing and his shields were gone. Mentally he grappled with his systems, even as he hoped they’d picked the squad commander as secondary.

The WiS implications in this article is certainly interesting. "Pre-conditioning." Hmm, I wonder what that means..