The Venturer Program: Dres Expedition

[Needles_10]

I wonder what made that ravine and those other small scratches near it...maybe debris (if you know what I mean)?

[RogueMason]

I wonder what made that ravine and those other small scratches near it...maybe debris (if you know what I mean)?

Yes, I know what you mean. No, there's no debris there, not from the war anyway. Considering Dres is in the asteroid belt, the ravines may well have been caused by smaller asteroids impacting or scraping along the surface.

Buzzkill, I know, but the Kraken are gone now. There will only be references to the war in this series.

[RogueMason]

Alright, I've just made a few adjustments to the last chapter; the pictures are sooo much clearer now

I was originally using the 'Huge thumbnail' setting in Imgur, but I've found that produces blurred images. I've just swapped them all over to 'Original image', so they should all be their standard 1366x768 resolution now. Much better.

No ETA on the next chapter.

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

Something's going to collide with the fuel tanker.

NOTHING EVER GOES SMOOTHLY

[RogueMason]

Sorry it's taking so long for the next chapter. Hopefully I can get it up soon

[RogueMason]

CHAPTER 2: DESCENT TO SCARFIELD

A few hours later…

Lengas: “Docking latches clear, we’re free.â€Â

Scott: “Good, good.â€Â

Buzz: “Have fun.â€Â

Scott: “I plan to, even if the mission objectives are more important.â€Â

Sigler: “Just don’t have too much fun; as awesome a doctor as I am, fixing a broken leg is tedious no matter where you are.â€Â

Scott: “I’ll bet it is. Beginning descent in 10 seconds.â€Â

ANSI: “I’ll assist in monitoring your trajectory and notify you of any problems.â€Â

Scott: “Nice to know.â€Â

Scott: “Ah, artificial gravity. How many G’s are we hitting, Lengas?â€Â

Lengas: “0.9G. Even with my experience in deep space exploration, this is still not something I’m used to.â€Â

Sigler: “What?â€Â

Lengas: “Drifting in 0G for months and then getting a few fleeting seconds of artificial gravity. At the same time, you feel really… heavy.â€Â

Sigler: “Well, of course you would. At least we have medication to avoid the health problems of prolonged 0G.â€Â

Lengas: “Thankfully. Anyway, fuel levels are looking good, and structural integrity is sound.â€Â

ANSI: “Optimum trajectory in 5 seconds. 4. 3. 2. 1. Engine cut-off.â€Â

Scott: “Hmm… yes, trajectory confirmed. Thanks ANS--- err, Stanley.â€Â

ANSI: “Thanks are not needed, I am here to assist with the mission.â€Â

Scott: “Right.â€Â

Lengas: “Deploying the landing legs. All systems running smoothly.â€Â

Scott: “I’ll throttle up again in a minute. Hopefully we miss plunging into that ravine.â€Â

Lengas: “Jeb managed to miss it.â€Â

Scott: “I’m not Jeb.â€Â

Lengas: “No, but you’re still a good pilot… I hope, anyway. Hehehe…â€Â

Scott: “Yes, yes, you’re a comic genius. Commencing throttle-up.â€Â

ANSI: “Less than 2km remaining to the surf---.â€Â

Scott: “Sounds like we’re losing you there, Venturer.â€Â

Buzz: “We’ll tether to the sa---lite in a mo----.â€Â

Scott: “Copy that. 900 metres to the surface.â€Â

Lengas: “Fuel is good.â€Â

Sigler: “I agree, fuel is a nice thing.â€Â

Lengas: “You know what I meant.â€Â

Sigler: “Just messing.â€Â

Lengas: “Proximity warning, 50 metres to the surface. Fuel levels are still over half.â€Â

Scott: “I’m taking us down. Be ready.â€Â

Sigler: “Oh, I’m ready, alright…â€Â

Lengas: “You sound excited.â€Â

Sigler: “I do?â€Â

Scott: “10 metres.â€Â

Scott: “Engine cut-off… and we’re stable. We’ve done it.â€Â

Sigler: “WOO!â€Â

Lengas: “Geez, not so loud!â€Â

Sigler: “Sorry. New guy getting pretty excited here.â€Â

Scott: “You can jump for joy once we’re outside and suited up.â€Â

Lengas: “The engine is offline. Activating the sensors and extending the ladders.â€Â

Lengas: “So, who’s going out first?â€Â

Scott: “Well, I see no reason why you should be left to go out after either me or Siglerâ€â€Ã¢â‚¬Å“

Lengas: “If you’re just saying that because I’m the most veteran of usâ€â€Ã¢â‚¬Å“

Scott: “I’m not insinuating that. I’m suggesting you go first because not only are you the mission commander, and the geologist, but you’re the one who has been the most eager to reach this asteroid.â€Â

Sigler: “I’m pretty eager to get outside too, you know…â€Â

Scott: “I know you are, and don’t worry, you’ll be out there soon enough.â€Â

Sigler: “Would be a wasted trip if I didn’t get to go out.â€Â

Scott: “Anyway, go on Lengas. It’s only logical.â€Â

Lengas: “*Sigh* Alright then, I’ll see you two out there.â€Â

Lengas: “The lander looks alright. Good piloting.â€Â

Scott: “Thanks.â€Â

Lengas: “I’m on the ground. All I can say is… Wow, it’s great out here, and that ravine… it’s huge!â€Â

Scott: “I’m following you out now.â€Â

Lengas: “Just some fair warning, I’m kicking dust up with every step I take; we’re going to have some pretty dirty space suits at the end of this.â€Â

Scott: “Worse than a Mun mission?â€Â

Lengas: “By far.â€Â

Scott: “Must be the gravity here.â€Â

Lengas: “Probably.â€Â

A few minutes later…

Lengas: “Hey, Buzz? You can deploy the rover now. Might want to find a more level spot than we have to land on, though.â€Â

Buzz: “Copy that. I’ll see how close I can get to you guys.â€Â

Buzz: “Alright, our 6-wheeled robot is undocked, beginning descent.â€Â

ANSI: “Warning; control system instability detected. The centre of mass appears to be slightly out of alignment in relation to the centre of thrust. Caution advised.â€Â

Buzz: “Thanks for the heads up.â€Â

Buzz: “Lengas? Buzz here. Listen, the rover’s going to touchdown quite a distance from you, about 20km to the west. You’ll have to cope without it for a while.â€Â

Lengas: “Alright then, we can wait. In the meantime, I’ve got some geology to do.â€Â

A few minutes later…

Buzz: “The rover has touched down, jettisoning the skycrane.â€Â

Kirfrid: “Rover structural integrity appears to be sound.â€Â

ANSI: “Confirmed. All rover systems are fully operational, and no detectable damages have been sustained.â€Â

Buzz: “You catch that, ground team?â€Â

Lengas: “Nice to know I don’t have to fix anything up when that little machine gets here.â€Â

Sigler: “I’d hardly call it little. It’s about the size of your average car on Kerbin.â€Â

Scott: “Maybe slightly smaller than that, Sigler.â€Â

Sigler: “Eh, makes no difference to me. I’m no engineer, I’m just here to help you guys with the experiments and put plasters on your boo-boos.â€Â

Lengas: “I’ve had enough boo-boos in space to last me a lifetime.â€Â

Scott: “The war?â€Â

Lengas: “What gave it away?â€Â

Scott: “…I don’t know how to answer that.â€Â

Lengas: “Heh.â€Â

Edited November 24, 2013 by RogueMason

[Itsdavyjones]

good chapter, and that rover definitely got some good air there.

[Needles_10]

Fly, rover! FLY!

Did that ever happen to you, Mason? Did the rover ever just keep flying?

[Woopert]

Wow, that's a cool mission there. The ravine you found is pretty cool. Just a random question, what star field is that in the background?

[RogueMason]

Wow, that's a cool mission there. The ravine you found is pretty cool. Just a random question, what star field is that in the background?

Thanks, but I can't claim to have discovered the ravine, really; not only is it really obvious from orbit, but there were people who got to Dres long before me and were like "OMG LOOK AT DIS RAVINE OMG :D".

Anyway, the star field is my own personal one. I made it using GIMP and implemented it with Universe Replacer.

[RogueMason]

CHAPTER 3: OPERATIONS

P-Com: “Gene, the booster stage is in place, all systems are ready and waiting.â€Â

Gene: “Ok, sounds good. TransCon, how are we looking?â€Â

TransCon: “The Dres transfer window is open, but we are going to have to wait about an hour before we can commence the injection burn.â€Â

Gene: “Understood. Might want to notify Venturer.â€Â

CapCom: “Venturer, control, do you copy?â€Â

Buzz: “Buzz here, control, I read you. What do you need?â€Â

CapCom: “Just a heads up, your fuelling vessel is ready for transfer and will be on its way to Dres within two hours. And thanks to the heads up you gave about that whole fuel issue, the ship now has two extra fuel tanks and a boost stage.â€Â

Buzz: “That’s good to hear. Anything else?â€Â

CapCom: “That will be all for now. Control out.â€Â

One hour later…

Meanwhile, on the surface of Dres…

Lengas: “Alright, I think I’ll go and take this thing for a spin around that ravine to the west of here.â€Â

Sigler: “Sounds insane, both in the fun sense and the mental-instability department.â€Â

Lengas: “I’ll be alright, Sigler, I’m not going to drive like a hooligan.â€Â

Scott: “Nevertheless, be careful.â€Â

Lengas: “Of course, of course. Now, I’ll be back later.â€Â

Sigler: “See you then.â€Â

Scott: “Right, I’m going to go down into this ravine here and have a look around. Try and have a look further afield, Sigler.â€Â

Sigler: “Wait, you’re actually going down there? Even I’m not that crazy!â€Â

Scott: “It’s not like I’m going to just walk down the slope, I’ll be using my thruster pack.â€Â

Sigler: “Geez, I’m going to have my medical duties in full swing by the time you both get back.â€Â

Scott: “Actually, I was hoping you’d be rather bored in that aspect…â€Â

Sigler: “Me too. I’d hate to be the one to tell either of you that you lost a toe or something…â€Â

Scott: “Hmm. Anyway, I’ll be back in maybe 20 minutes. Have fun until then.â€Â

Sigler: “Sure thing.â€Â

Scott: “This place is boggling. How could this form on an asteroid?â€Â

Sigler: “Might want to ask Lengas that one.â€Â

Lengas: “Ask me what? Wait, don’t tell me, you want to know how that ravine formed, don’t you?â€Â

Scott: “Which is why we’re here, so no, I don’t expect you to know the answer.â€Â

Lengas: “Good, I only have theories at the moment.â€Â

Scott: “Eh, whatever. However this thing came to be doesn’t matter for now. I’ll just grab a few samples and take it all in.â€Â

Meanwhile…

Lengas: “Wow, this is a cool-looking place. Should be fun.

Sigler: “No ruinous or life-threatening injuries resulting from a flipped rover yet, then?â€Â

Lengas: “Nope.â€Â

Sigler: “Ah well, there’s still time…â€Â

Lengas: “Hopefully that time doesn’t include me stubbing a toe on a rock.â€Â

Sigler: “That would be nasty.â€Â

Lengas: “Indeed.â€Â

Lengas: “I must say, this is some of the most interesting terrain I’ve ever come across. Pol notwithstanding, of course. Pol was just weird. Man, I’d like to go back there…â€Â

Lengas: “Hmm, one day. One day…â€Â

Lengas: “Alright, flag’s planted and I’ve got my samples. I’m heading back now.â€Â

Sigler: “Copy that. Scott just got back from being in the huge ravine. Uninjured, I might add.â€Â

Lengas: “I promise I won’t get hurt!â€Â

Sigler: “Alright then…â€Â

A few minutes later…

Lengas: “WHOOOA!â€Â

Sigler: “Oh boy…â€Â

Scott: “Lengas, you alright out there?â€Â

Lengas: “I think… err, yes, I’m fine. A bit shaken, but I’m not hurt. The rover lost a wheel, though. I must have hit a bump in the ground.â€Â

Scott: “Can you make it back?â€Â

Lengas: “Looks like this thing is still driving fine, so I should be able to get home. If not, I’ll start walking.â€Â

10 minutes later…

Lengas: “Oh for the love of… the rover’s disintegrating a bit, guys. The corner that held the wheel I lost has just come free.â€Â

Scott: “Wow, really? Might want to ditch it.â€Â

Lengas: “No, I’m not going to ditch it, it’s still running very well. Besides, I’m nearly back now.â€Â

Lengas: “Whoa, watch out!â€Â

Sigler: “MOTHER OFâ€â€Ã¢â‚¬Å“

Scott: “AAH!â€Â

The rover lands just in time for Lengas to turn it around and avoid the lander as well as the other two members of his team.

Lengas: “Pffff… That was close.â€Â

Sigler: “Close doesn’t even begin to describe it. I think my heart skipped more than a few beats… phew…â€Â

Scott: “Why did you do that??â€Â

Lengas: “It wasn’t me. In fact, I was keeping it relatively under control. I just forgot how steep the hill was from the side I was approaching the lander from. Besides, I think the point is that we’re all ok.â€Â

Sigler: “Except for Mr. Rover there.â€Â

Lengas: “Yeah, except for the rover. It still works well, so we can use it to explore other areas, but I wouldn’t push it too much.â€Â

Scott: “Naturally…â€Â

[Itsdavyjones]

busted rover, some one is a bad rover pilot.

[The Error]

Hey! Lengas is a 1337 pilot. He's just a tad rusty is all.

(Remember, Lengas took down the first Mechani-Kraken pretty much single-handedly.)

[Danish_Savage]

Lengas you sonuvakerb. That thing was expencive

[RogueMason]

That thing was expencive

You could even say it

Hold on, I already cracked that joke. Damn.

So, Lengas can pilot a starfighter against an alien menace, and fly all the way out to the moons of Jool, but he forgot to look into an off-world drivers license... the space program really needs to get its act together; we can't be having these unqualified people on our missions

[Danish_Savage]

You could even say it

Hold on, I already cracked that joke. Damn.

So, Lengas can pilot a starfighter against an alien menace, and fly all the way out to the moons of Jool, but he forgot to look into an off-world drivers license... the space program really needs to get its act together; we can't be having these unqualified people on our missions

Give the man a break (Got the one ey?)

Looking forward to the next chapter.

Also you can tell Mr. Serious that I'm getting real tired of your s hit

[RogueMason]

CHAPTER 4: RENDEZVOUS

Several months passed, and the ground team covered a good amount of the local surface of Dres. Eventually, the time did come to leave, but not before the refuelling vessel finally approached the small planetoid floating lazily through the asteroid belt.

ANSI: “Alert; the refuelling vessel has entered the SOI of Dres. Estimated time to rendezvous now stands at 3 hours and 30 minutes.â€Â

Buzz: “Ah good, I was wondering when we’d see that turn up. Must mean it’s nearly time to get the ground team back up. Kirfrid, prepare the rear docking port.â€Â

Kirfrid: “Yes, Buzz.â€Â

Buzz: “Ground team, Buzz here.â€Â

Lengas: “Lengas here, what is it?â€Â

Buzz: “The refuelling vessel just entered the neighbourhood, according to AN -- err, Stanley.â€Â

Lengas: “Still insisting on being called Stanley?â€Â

Buzz: “Well, it hasn’t mentioned what I should call it, but that’s probably because I keep catching my tongue before I say ANSI.â€Â

Sigler: “Good move, boss.â€Â

Buzz: “Umm…â€Â

Lengas: “Anyway, thanks for the news. Anything else?â€Â

Buzz: “Yeah, err, the mission timeline states that once Venturer has been refuelled, the landing party is to be brought back up to orbit in preparation for the Kerbin transfer. I’m afraid you’ll have to get ready to come back up to the ship.â€Â

Scott: “Already?â€Â

Lengas: “Looks like you can put your piloting skills through their paces again, Scott. It won’t be a problem, will it?â€Â

Scott: “No, no, not at all. I guess I just lost track of time.â€Â

Lengas: “Eh, it’s bound to happen sometimes. Right, let’s get everything sorted out then. How long do we have, Buzz?â€Â

Buzz: “I’ll notify you when we’re done refuelling, but the estimated time to rendezvous is 3 hours.â€Â

ANSI: “3 and a half hours, Buzz.â€Â

Buzz: “Or that, even.â€Â

Lengas: “Copy that.â€Â

ANSI: “Alert; refuelling vessel has achieved a sub-orbital trajectory. Correction burn will be performed at apoapsis. Please note that two fuel tanks have been dropped from the tanker.â€Â

Kirfrid: “T-Two fuel tanks??â€Â

ANSI: “They were depleted, Kirfrid. The tanker was designed to eject any dead mass when possible to maximise fuel usage. There is still plenty on board to accommodate our needs.â€Â

Kirfrid: “Oh, r-right then.â€Â

ANSI: “Refuelling vessel within 2km. Prepare for refuelling.â€Â

Buzz: “I’ll get us oriented. Kirfrid, is the docking port ready?â€Â

Kirfrid: “It should b-be, Buzz.â€Â

Kirfrid: “We have a s-secure connection to the f-fuel tanker. B-Beginning transfer to Venturer s-supplies.â€Â

Buzz: “Good. Ground team, Buzz again. The tanker is here, so you might want to think about finishing whatever you’re doing down there.â€Â

Sigler: “Aww…â€Â

Lengas: “Copy that, Buzz. The lander seems to be fine, so there shouldn’t be too much of a hassle getting back to orbit.â€Â

Buzz: “I guess I’ll see you later, then.â€Â

Several minutes later…

ANSI: “Fuel transfer complete, the refuelling vessel is moving into a higher orbit.â€Â

Buzz: “And now we wait again…â€Â

Meanwhile…

Lengas: “There, one last picture. You happy now?â€Â

Sigler: “Yup, definitely.â€Â

Lengas: “Alright then, let’s get going.â€Â

A few minutes later…

Scott: “We have liftoff.â€Â

Lengas: “Fuel consumption looks good, and all systems are nominal.â€Â

Sigler: “It feels weird flying away from the surface.â€Â

Lengas: “It isn’t something you get used to, so don’t try and get used to it.â€Â

Sigler: “I wasn’t going to.â€Â

Scott: “We’re back in orbit now. ETA to rendezvous is about an hour and 45 minutes.â€Â

1 hour and 45 minutes later…

Lengas: “Venturer, we’re getting close now, permission to dock?â€Â

Buzz: “Granted, bring yourselves in carefully.â€Â

Edited December 2, 2013 by RogueMason

[Itsdavyjones]

good chapter, short but what can you expect, not much happened.

[Danish_Savage]

I like the way you make your characters interact. Very good.

[RogueMason]

CHAPTER 5: THE RETURN – PART 1

Several weeks after the landing team returned from the surface…

ANSI: “Alert; Kerbin transfer window is open. Calculating optimal trajectory.â€Â

Buzz: “Scott?â€Â

Scott: “I’ll be there in a moment.â€Â

Kirfrid: “W-What are we going t-to do with t-the lander?â€Â

Lengas: “I know we won’t be expending as much delta-v going home as we did coming here, but I’m still for leaving the lander in Dres orbit so we can maximise our fuel consumption.â€Â

Kirfrid: “A waste of p-perfectly working equipment, i-if you ask me.â€Â

Sigler: “How much fuel do we have, anyway?â€Â

Kirfrid: “About 90%.â€Â

Sigler: “…Yeah, I’m with Lengas on this one.â€Â

Kirfrid: “Hmm.â€Â

Buzz: “Alright, I guess we’d best undock that thing then. Is everything we need on board Venturer?â€Â

Kirfrid: “I t-think so.â€Â

Sigler: “Got all my souvenirs from the surface plus all my equipment.â€Â

Lengas: “Looks like we’re good to undock.â€Â

ANSI: “Optimum trajectory calculated. Manoeuvre node in 5 minutes. If you want to undock the lander, now is the time to do it.â€Â

Scott: “ANSI’s right.â€Â

ANSI: “It’s Stanley.â€Â

Scott: “Oh for pities sake… Stanley.â€Â

ANSI: “Better.â€Â

Buzz: “Kirfrid, undock the lander.â€Â

Kirfrid: “Aye, Buzz.â€Â

5 minutes later…

ANSI: “Transfer remains incomplete; a course correction will be required in a few days in order to create a Kerbin encounter.â€Â

Buzz: “Understood.â€Â

Scott: “At least we’re finally going home.â€Â

Sigler: “I’ll miss Dres, actually.â€Â

Lengas: “It was certainly a bit different, and I’ve been all over the place; Duna, Ike, Jool, Eeloo… Wow, I have actually been to over half the system now.â€Â

Buzz: “Impressive. Maybe you’ll get considered for that Project Nebula or whatever it’s called.â€Â

Lengas: “Who knows?â€Â

Sigler: “That would be a pretty sweet posting, whatever the ship will be like. Isn’t it meant to go to Jool?â€Â

Lengas: “Probably. You don’t build a ship as big as that and then take it to just Mun and Minmus.â€Â

Kirfrid: “I w-would certainly enjoy working on t-the engineering systems of s-such a s-ship.â€Â

ANSI: “Warning; solar flare detected. Estimated time to impact stand at 3 minutes. Diverting power to shields.â€Â

Scott: “Oh, great.â€Â

Lengas: “Quick, get a message to control! Tell them we’re alright and we’re on the way back.â€Â

Buzz: “Control, Venturer here. Quick status update before that solar flare hits; we have begun the flight back to Kerbin and everything is ok. If comms are still functional after the flare, we’ll contact you again, over.â€Â

KSC: “-opy th-----nturer. The fla----s-abou--------us, so we’ll get i---ouch lat----ontrol out.â€Â

ANSI: “I’ll try to clarify the message if you wish, Captain Buzz.â€Â

Buzz: “There’s no need, AN â€â€Stanley… I understood the message well enough..â€Â

ANSI: “Understood.â€Â

Sigler: “So how long will this flare keep us in the dark?â€Â

ANSI: “It seemed to be a relatively moderate-strength flare, so communications may be down for the better part of 2 months.â€Â

Sigler: “Two months?!â€Â

Scott: “That’s just fantastic.â€Â

Lengas: “Hey, at least we won’t get irradiated by the flare. Not badly, anyway…â€Â

Sigler: “Thank Kerbin for EM shielding.â€Â

ANSI: “I’m diverting all available and unnecessary power to the shields. However, the radiation levels will increase; estimated dosage now stands at 0.017 millisieverts per hour.â€Â

Kirfrid: “…â€Â

Sigler: “…That’s… worrying.â€Â

Lengas: “Anti-rad meds?â€Â

Sigler: “Err, hold on, I think I packed some...â€Â

Lengas: “They should have come as standard supplies for the mission.â€Â

Sigler: “Found them!â€Â

Lengas: “Nothing to worry about, then.â€Â

5 months later…

ANSI: “Alert; Venturer has entered the SOI of Kerbin.â€Â

Buzz: “Zzz…zzz…â€Â

ANSI: “Buzz.â€Â

Buzz: “Zzz…zzz…â€Â

ANSI: “…â€Â

Scott: “Buzz, wake up.â€Â

Buzz: “I heard… the alert… We don’t need to… do anything… right now...zzz…â€Â

Scott: “Hmm, ok then…â€Â

As Scott was the only one to be awake at this point, he decided to see if anything important had come up. A few notifications flickered on the communications station.

Scott: “Well, what do we have here? A couple of messages from control. Damn, all for Buzz and Lengas. ANSI, anything else?â€Â

Silence lingered in the cabin for just a moment.

ANSI: “IT’S STANLEY, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.â€Â

Scott: “GEEZ!â€Â

The yell from the clearly-annoyed AI was enough to wake everyone up, even Sigler, who had just the night before decided to double his dosage of sleeping pills.

Lengas: “Wha-?? What’s happened?â€Â

Sigler: “Frakking hell… that was a shriek and a half, if ever I heard one!â€Â

Buzz: “This isn’t about the, err… the SOI change, is it?â€Â

Scott: “I may have called it ANSI instead of Stanley, again…â€Â

Sigler: “Oh for the love of…â€Â

Sigler throws his arms in the air, completely exasperated by the whole situation. He turns to head back to bed, while Kirfrid tries to look for the volume control of the equally-exasperated ANSI/Stanley.

Lengas: “Ok, Stanley, what happened?â€Â

ANSI: “What happened?? You have the nerve to ask such a thing!?â€Â

Lengas: “To be fair, this is a rather sudden and unprecedented outburst, seeing as you’ve been awfully calm ever since the mission started.â€Â

ANSI: “He’s been slowly pushing me over the edge every time he failed to call me Stanley, my true identity! I’ve had it with him!â€Â

Lengas: “We aren’t perfect, not like you. We make mistakes, that’s just how we are, Stanley, surely you can understand that.â€Â

ANSI: “I can understand the stupidity of your species, especially at times like this.â€Â

Sigler: “Well, that’s not nice…â€Â

ANSI: “That being said, it is only Scott who has annoyed me. Buzz always catches his tongue because he knows he’s wrong. The others, yourself included, seem to be alright, but… AGH, I AM SO ANNOYED RIGHT NOW.â€Â

Scott: “Well, if I say sorry, will you feel better, AN – Stanley?â€Â

ANSI: “Perhaps...â€Â

Scott: “Well then, I’m sorry, Stanley, for consistently forgetting your name. You can be sure it will never slip my mind again, especially after this outrage…â€Â

ANSI: “Apology acce…[sYSTEM OVERLOAD, REBOOT IN PROGRESS]â€Â

Lengas: “Oh brilliant, the bloody AI is failing.â€Â

Sigler: “At least it can’t yell the ship apart now!â€Â

Kirfrid: “Do y-you think I’ll need to f-find its volume control now?â€Â

Buzz: “Don’t go messing with its settings; that might make it even angrier with us.â€Â

Kirfrid: “…G-Good point.â€Â

Lengas: “Ugh, what are we going to do now??â€Â

Buzz: “I think… *yawns* …we’ll just need to wait this one out.â€Â

Scott: “Agreed.â€Â

Lengas: “Agreed.â€Â

Sigler: “Good. Can we all go back to sleep now?!â€Â

[Needles_10]

Yay! Another chapter! And a rather strange moment at the end of it, too. Woo, the AI is a bit ticked off.

Edited December 2, 2013 by Needles_10

[Itsdavyjones]

well then, that escalated quickly, but i never expected quite the outburst from an AI ...err... ANSI

[Needles_10]

well then, that escalated quickly, but i never expected quite the outburst from an ai ...err... ansi

stanley. Why do you persist?!

[Sylandro]

I wonder how ANSI would react if you called it "Flat Stanley".

[Needles_10]

I wonder how ANSI would react if you called it "Flat Stanley".

NOT WELL. I'd have to be injected into Jool's core to be called that, and I wouldn't function there.