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WOW! :P :P :P I just captured Eric Walch! The miscreant apparently ransacked a UPS courier and I was 'requested' to relieve the 'good' commander and his trusty Boa of his ill-gotten gains. Mission successfully completed after forcing the 'good' Captain to jump ship first and scooping him. Is this th...

We have a winner!!!! :) :D :) :D :) :D :) :D :) :D The CismoFiCo has just left for a return flight to you! I didn't touch the evil juice, because ... well .... my uncle, you see? Mind you, it does seem to corrode the jug so it might be best if you finish it off quickly. And thanks for your concerns ...

So true, Cody, so true. :( We will still try, of course. But I will gove no guarantees regarding the below. :wink: :D ====== Gepo pressed the buzzer on the wall next to the door and wondered again what had been so important that Meddelfurt had to go to his room on the starbase rather than the Rose. ...

Ahhhh! Well spotted, that man!!! Ok, I amended it. I should really have 'Ur-that-shall-be-obeyed-at-all-times do the proof reading. I read through it several times, picked out some typo's but she is a lot better at finding faults than I am. (secret of a good marriage? :wink:) Anyway, part three shou...

Hey Spara. I have just found an exception error originating from the latest UPS courier version in the download manager (1.8.4). The error came about after rescuing a slave and returning him to his home world. It is: Exception: Error: Cannot set property gem-stones of instance of Manifest to invalid...

Ahhh, I see. I guess that's why I only use the shop-bought stuff. The gun-cotton wasn't my idea, by the way. My uncle once used it in his mix, took a sniff and promptly keeled over. Anyway. Being 'sent to Coventry' in the UK means being shunned or ostracised. Who, according to Robert A. Heinlein, we...

<Waves hand frantically about> Me, Sir! Me? <clears throat> That'd be the personnel transporter to the moon in 2001 A Space Odyssey, Sir! <sniff> <sniff> Uhhh, Sir? You did remember to desolve two ounces of gun cotton in the juice, didn't you? It smells ... I don't know ... uhhhhh ..... nice? :wink:

Thanks Clym! I hope I can keep the interest up. Don't expect Gepo to be a hero, though. I intend him to be like a beach ball that is blown all over the water, never landing anywhere for more than a couple of seconds, to be mercilessly dragged away again. He'll be battered, for sure. Bruised, undoubt...

Thanks Captain... 14 years? it doesnt seem that long but when i checked online its actually been 24 years!! April 6 1992. a man sorely missed... and to think he wrote more non fiction books than his sci fi!. :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: My mind must be going if I can't even do the simplest of...

You are soooo right, Spud. :) :D :) :D :) :D And glad to have been of service! :D I enjoyed that story as part of 'The Early Asimov' collection, which was even more enjoyable since he explained the stories and how he came to write them in the first place! And to think that that story was first publi...

Hi all, usual disclaimers, this and the following Old Ships are Best story sections are supplied under Creative Commons License Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 2.0 which allows you to copy, distribute, display and perform the work and to make derivative works, under the conditions that you mus...

Ooooh, you wanted the author as well? Uhhhhmmm, Uhhhhmmmmmm. It's on the tip of my tongue! Uhhhmm, Oh yes, Frankie-boy. :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: Phew ..... Anywaiz, while (st?) I get the ship to the backyard repair shop for a bit of TLC and a spout up its bum, here's a question about a sho...

I wouldn't at all be surprised! :wink: :wink: :wink: Oh, I should have used a few more words in my previous answer. :oops: :oops: :oops: Ok, a stillsuit is a suit worn by the Fremen which Paul as sign of him being the Muad'Dib was able to put on correctly whithout being trained on how to do it on th...

uhhhm,

Fremen?
Paul?
Muad'Dib?
Dune?

Hi All! After a previous report of a weird attacking pattern, posted here and with kind assistance from A_C, I was able to do some quick searching and found that the issue mentioned was indeed linked to pirate coves. I found this out by lanching into a system, clearing the Aegis and then spawning a ...