Session Start: Fri Jul 03 23:58:22 1998
* Stardrive fiddles with his console.
* Stardrive sits in the Command Chair...
<Stardrive> Too bad Wait's still unconcious... 
<Dark_Star> Hm, talk about a controlled situation
<Cirrus> Arianis control reports a successful docking manuver.
<Admiral-Lilwall> ok, now that we've docked, it's shore leave time
<Cirrus> I'll see to the cargo.
<Admiral-Lilwall> Restore is taking Wait to the stations medical facilities, and the workers are unloading our cargo for the trade
* Cirrus exits the bridge to coordinate with the cargo unloaders
<Admiral-Lilwall> Junky is seeing to the repair work and overhaul
<Overwrite> *to Restore, in medbay* Now I've collected everything he will need in case he wakes up, and reserved rooms for the three of us at the nearest hotel that can accomodate us.
<Overwrite> Have I forgotten anything?
<Restore> confirmed, will meet you there
<Admiral-Lilwall> ok team, this overhaul is gonna take us 2 weeks, so you're all on 'shore leave' until it's done
* Stardrive fools with his console.
* Stardrive sets automatic programs running.
<Admiral-Lilwall> Computer, shut down all systems and lock them out to all but the department heads, aurthorisation AL-beta 3 3 6 
* Overwrite and Restore depart the ship with a comatose Waitstate to the biggest xenobiological hospital on Arianis, K'Liva Interplanitary
* Admiral-Lilwall exits the bridge and heads for his quarters
<computer> Confirmed. All systems in shutdown mode.
<computer> *over shipwide intercom* Shutdown mode has been engaged. Please evacuate the ship within the next 30 minutes.
* Stardrive looks around at the empty bridge.
* Stardrive exits the bridge.
* Overwrite fills out admittance paperwork and registers Restore as a visiting Cybertronian Physiology Specialist
<Overwrite> hmm... proof of insurance... health history...
* Overwrite looks up
<Overwrite> Do you have any way I could just plug in and upload all this?
* Overwrite is pointed to a terminal
* Overwrite draws a small crowd as he transforms and inserts himself bodily into the terminal
* Stardrive runs back to the ship.
* Admiral-Lilwall exits the ship and has a wander around the station
* Overwrite corrects some typos he sees in the system while he is there, then ejects
* Stardrive returns with Trilana.
<Trilana> Hi.
<Cirrus> Hi... so you're the one SD's been hiding, eh?
<Trilana> Yeah... sorry about that.
<Cirrus> Maybe once we get the ship all fixed up, you can register as a passenger ;)
<Trilana> I hope so. I'm not really built for space, though.
<Dark_Star> heh, A Transformer not built for space
<Stardrive> Actually, I had an idea about that.
* Cirrus waits for disembarkation passes with the others who, unlike Waitstate and crowd, don't have a medical emergency
* Trilana leans on a wall.
* Stardrive leans on a wall.
* Trilana leans on Stardrive.
<Stardrive> Will you stop.
* Trilana goes back to the wall.
* Cirrus watches the two amusedly
<station personel person> ok, I've got your passes. We had a bit of trouble confirming your IDs. frankly, no one here had ever heard of your group. Anyway, have a pleasant stay. *passes out paperwork*
<Stardrive> It's nice to know we're so unpopular...
<Scamp> Can't imaging why
* Admiral-Lilwall goes to see a movie
<Scamp> We're a group of just over 20 
<Scamp> out of billions of Transformers
<Scamp> And we just made up our own faction last year
<Stardrive> But we still existed before that, just not together...
<Stardrive> I mean I worked at a TV station...
<Dark_Star> hehe
<Stardrive> Before that they have to go back a few million years, but...
* Cirrus boards the planetbound shuttle. (No flying till he can get clearance from Air Traffic Control :)
<Scamp> Oh yeah
<Scamp> I'm sure everyone has heard of the lovely Stardrive
<Scamp> I myself have been dying for your autograph
* Stardrive signs scamp's back when he's not looking.
<Trilana> Well, I'm not part of LONAC yet, but I want to join.
<Diamond_Fire> Great!
<Ruse> So is Diamond Fire
<Dark_Star> You know, I could do some work on the ship
<Drill_Master> Just what are we going to be doing now?
<Scamp> Yeah, are we just going to sit around or are we going to do something?
* Waitstate drifts in and out of semiconsciosness, dreaming.
<Stardrive> Hey, is someone supposed to be having a trade deal with someone right now?
<Scamp> Who the heck knows
<Scamp> our beloved leader is taking a nap
* Trilana hangs on Stardrive's shoulder.
<Lightning> We are on shore leave, can't you look after yourselves? or do you need the commanders to hold your hands?
* Stardrive sighs.
* Waitstate has many dreams, his mind finally beginning to mend under the skilled care of the Xenobio staff
<Scamp> Hrmph
<Stardrive> Well, when is this shuttle going to go somewhere?
<Scamp> Just like a seeker
* Stardrive looks at Scamp.
<Scamp> Always seeming to not care about their leaders
<Scamp> Maybe that's why they wear their symbols upside down
* Trilana looks at Scamp
<Scamp> Oh, stop your staring
* Lightning looks at scamp also  "yeeees, and here you are doing nothing but whine"
* Lightning goes off and wanders the station
<Recoil> I dont like these tiny shuttles. I get clausti... claustric... I hate little places.
<Scamp> I was more than a seeker 
<Scamp> Lightning got a standard issue body while I got spare parts
<Scamp> Disgusting how the less deserving get more
<Dark_Star> That's enough
* Stardrive looks at Scamp again.
<Drill_Master> Let's just get going shall we Scamp?
* Stardrive looks at the nacelles on his back then back at scamp.
<Stardrive> You were saying?
<Scamp> Never mind
<Restore> disgusting how you men act like children  *heads off to assist with Wait's recovery*
<Scamp> Now where are we going?
* Trilana giggles.
* Waitstate dreams of a place now gone. A place he knew before, not so long ago. Of friends and good times. And of ruin.
<Diamond_Fire> Men, go figure
* Recoil's face lights up like a little kid's, seeing the shuttle coming to a stop at the spaceport
<Ruse> Yippee
* Admiral-Lilwall sits in the movie theatre waiting for the show to begin
<Cirrus> Stow your weapons guys. I'll bet they have laws about that stuff here.
* Stardrive and Trilana go off in search of a spacefold ship to hire.
* Format and Crevas go to find computer stores to infiltrate
* Cirrus heads off to the local Air Control authority
* Autumn-Beauty just kinda shys away from everyone and wanders off unnoticed
* Recoil looks for a military base to hang out at
* Overwrite worries
<Dark_Star> I guess I'll join Admiral at his movies
* Dark_Star arrives at the movie theater
* Dark_Star enters the movie theater and looks around till he finds Admiral
* Restore arrives at Wait's location and notices Overwrite pacing back and forth, she joins the other doctors working on Wait
<Dark_Star> Darn robots
<Dark_Star> So what's playing Admiral?
* Stardrive and Trilana enter the hospital to inquire about Wait... several hours before the fold is ready.
* Waitstate weakly feels a presence in his mind, but is too weak to defend the intrusion
<Drill_Master> Where did Autumn Beauty go?
<Stardrive> So how's Wait doing?
<Dark_Star> So what's playing Admiral?
<Admiral-Lilwall> *whisper* just the typical space disaster movie
<Admiral-Lilwall> the 'uncrashable' ship has crashed, and is now sinking in an ocean of tar
<Dark_Star> *whisper* oh
* Dark_Star has flash backs
<Dark_Star> Sounds interesting
* Waitstate can feel the probe in his mind, even unconscious. Any other bot would be unable to feel it, but Waitstate's unique mental structure allows him fuller access over his mind than is usual
<Admiral-Lilwall> it was either this or some cartoon movie about a race of robots creating a toy line about fleshies
* Waitstate grasps at the contact
<Dark_Star> *chuckles*
* Restore notices Wait's finger twitch
<number of other movie watchers> shhh!
* Admiral-Lilwall shrugs at them
<Dark_Star> *sorry, still have trouble handling my emotional reactions*
* Dark_Star clears his throat
* Lightning enters a bar and observes a strip show of sorts, to the bartender, "something....simulating to drink, NOW."
* Waitstate realizes for the 1st time that something is wrong. Shocked at the sudden influx of data from the diagnostic probe, Waitstate is able to drag his mind back into a state that just barely would pass as conscious
* Admiral-Lilwall chuckles slightly
* Waitstate feels... disconnected, and discovers that his body is 90% non-functional
* Restore moves up to Wait, "Overwrite look, he's coming round, Waitstate can you hear me? Waitstate?"
* Drill_Master joins Restore and Waitstate
<Drill_Master> Perhaps I could do some dental work while he's out of it
* Drill_Master smiles
* Trilana stands in the back, out of the way.
* Waitstate feeds back into the link with the probe and prints a message on the diagnosic computer's screen
* Stardrive stands in the back, out of the way.
<Waitstate> [I... FUNCTION. WHAT HAPPENED?]
* Restore takes the print and reads it
<Drill_Master> Just a little explosion
<Restore> If you can hear me Waitstate, there was an explosion, it gave your brain circuits a rather large shock
<Waitstate> [AN EXPLOSION? THAT INTRUDER... ?]
* Waitstate can hear, but little else
<Restore> *reads msg*  Yes, another decoy, a deadly one at that
<Waitstate> [DID YOU CATCH WHOEVER WAS INVOLVED?]
<Restore> You're at an Arianis medical facility, the ship is under major repairs, much has happened
<Restore> No.
<Waitstate> [I CAN'T MOVE, WELL, ANYTHING. WHAT IS GOING ON?]
<Stardrive> No.  We tracked the intruder, but it was only the decoy.  We cleared the computers of tampering though.
<Restore> After you were taken out, we were attacked by quintessons, with space fold tech
<Restore> but we managed to disable them eventually, they blew themselves up, a small shuttle escaped
* Artifice joins Waitstate, interupting Restore
<Artifice> How's Waitstate?  Is he going to be okay?
* Diamond_Fire goes off to look for Autumn Beauty
* Admiral-Lilwall would yawn at the movie if he could
<Waitstate> [WILL SOMEONE HOOK MY BODY BACK UP? OR AT LEAST GET ME A DECENT HOLO SYSTEM TO LINK TO?]
<Waitstate> [PLEASE?]
<Restore> Body is a no no, a holo won't be a problem, stand by
* Stardrive hands Restore a small Holo-box.
* Restore takes it and plugs it into Wait
* Waitstate realigns his consiousness
* Waitstate materializes
<Artifice> Waitstate, are you okay?
<Waitstate> Ok? well, I'm alive, though to look at me I wonder why
<Waitstate> geez, this is disorienting
<Restore> You've been better :)
<Restore> Don't look at yourself, you're still being operated on
<Waitstate> I've never telepresenced in the same room as my body before
<Artifice> Ah, take a gander
<Waitstate> what kind of range does this box have? I can't tell
<Stardrive> You'll get used to the interface, just pretend the holo is the real you.
<Artifice> You won't get another chance like this soon to see yourself this way
<Admiral-Lilwall> *to Dark Star* well this movie is too exciting for me, I'm gonna go see how Wait is doing then find somewhere to stay
* Admiral-Lilwall leaves the theatre
<Stardrive> Uh... short range, but I can hook it to a mobile emmitor.
<Dark_Star> *Guess I better follow*
* Dark_Star leaves the theater after lil
* Stardrive pulls a mobile emitter out of his subspace pocket.
<Waitstate> ah, good
<Artifice> Hey look Waitstate, is that your motherboard they're pulling out?
* Stardrive watches a small piece of junk fall out and onto the floor.
<Stardrive> I've been looking for that... 
<Stardrive> Just light.  I left the good stuff on the ship.
* Waitstate walks through the wall and into the waiting room
* Stardrive turns on the ME. It hovers.
Autumn-Beauty wonders into a un occupied botanical garden, which no one seems to be interested in seeing so she walks around veiwing the gardens
<Artifice> Wait Waitstate!
<Artifice> Check it out, I think I see your brain center!
* Artifice points at the rear of Waitstate's body
* Waitstate directs the emmitter to follow him, leaving behind Artifice and his questionable jokes
* Admiral-Lilwall arrives into the area, "well, looks like we've got a real party going, glad to see you back online Wait....kinda online"
<Waitstate> Thanks
* Waitstate exits the room, one way or the other
* Lightning watches the 'strip show' in the bar with interest
* Cirrus enjoys his 1st atmospheric flight in almost a year
<Restore> Your body will be ready in a few hours Wait,
<Waitstate> hmm... how far can I go with this thing?
<Stardrive> At which time, we will be gone. 
* Overwrite walks in to the waiting room
<Stardrive> The transmittor will go for a good 5km, as long as the power cells hold.
* Overwrite stops
<Overwrite> You're... awake!
* Overwrite notices that he can see a chair thru Wait's body
* Overwrite has a neural overload shutdown (faints)
<Stardrive> oops...
* Stardrive adjusts the emittor.
<Restore> Great, another one
<Restore> heh
<Waitstate> Too much Terran television I think
* Waitstate "walks" over to Overwrite, who is beginning to awaken
<Waitstate> Hey, relax... I'm a holo, not a ghost
<Overwrite> I knew that couldnt be it. I was just so worried about you...
<Waitstate> It's ok, I understand
* Waitstate moves to pat him on the back, but then stops, realizing his error
* Restore assits the other doctors in fixing Wait's body
<Waitstate> So I assume the ship is in drydock now? The cargo wasn't damaged, was it?
<Admiral-Lilwall> Yes, and no
<Admiral-Lilwall> respectivly of course
<Waitstate> good...
<Admiral-Lilwall> we're here for two weeks though
<Waitstate> well, that's not TOO much longer than I'd anticipated
<Waitstate> I'm glad we dont have any commitments
<Waitstate> or do we now?
<Admiral-Lilwall> none
<Stardrive> What about that trade deal?
<Waitstate> I thought that went ok?
<Admiral-Lilwall> they have their desired cargo from us
<Admiral-Lilwall> and they are currently doing the overhaul on the ship
<Waitstate> had me worried for a second
<Admiral-Lilwall> oh we had YOU worried
<Admiral-Lilwall> huh yeah right
<Stardrive> Oh, I though we were supposed to talk to someone else.
* Waitstate laughs
<Waitstate> You have a point
* Stardrive checks his chrono
<Waitstate> hmm... the doctors need me to shut down for a while
<Stardrive> Before you go...
<Waitstate> I guess they're not used to having conscious coma patients :)
<Admiral-Lilwall> what doctor is?
<Stardrive> Trilana and I are catching a spacefold ship to the Verellian Empire.
<Waitstate> You are?
<Waitstate> Why?
<Waitstate> You aren't... leaving LONAC, are you?
<Admiral-Lilwall> I have an idea why, but I won't say it :)
<Stardrive> Some people owe me some favors, not connected with the Empire itself... we'll be back, hopefully before the ship pulls out.
<Stardrive> If not, we'll catch up.
<Waitstate> I wish you'd tell me why, but... have.. fun, I guess.
<Stardrive> Leave LONAC?  What would I do then?
<Admiral-Lilwall> Have a fun life?
<Waitstate> To rejoin the Empire maybe?
<Admiral-Lilwall> just kidding  
<Admiral-Lilwall> He won't leave us Wait, he'd miss me too much, heh, on that note I'm gonna get outta here  *leaves med bay*
<Stardrive> I don't think the Empire would want me back... in one piece...
<Waitstate> ok
<Waitstate> well, have a safe journy
<Stardrive> I'm going to see some friends in the resistance.
<Admiral-Lilwall> *stops at door* oh BTW, I suggest we check in on the ship every now and then...in case the 'you know what' decides to play another hand
<Stardrive> Thanks, have an uneventful recovery.
<Waitstate> heh, thanks :)
<Waitstate> Good idea Lil.
<Stardrive> Yeah... 
<Admiral-Lilwall> I know, cya for now :)  *exits*
<Waitstate> hmm... the doctors are getting insistant. I think they'll physically disconnect me if I don't go offline
<Restore> *from other room* WAITSTATE!!! NOW!
<Waitstate> *to Overwrite* make sure to take the holo emitter with you
<Stardrive> Oh, Trilana and I had better go too, we want to get some shopping done... think of the trade value in the Verellian Empire...
<Waitstate> COMING!
* Waitstate fizzles out
* Stardrive catches the MHE and hands it to Overwrite
* Stardrive goes shopping
* Trilana follows.
* Overwrite takes the MHE to the hotel, and waits
* Lightning leaves the bar feeling rather happy and wonders the station some more
* Crevas and Format get kicked out of a computer store for hacking
* hours pass
* Restore works on Wait's body
* Stardrive and Trilana catch the Spacefold Shuttle.
Session Close: Sat Jul 04 03:47:38 1998