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The other half, of course, appears outside the Deep Ones' base camp.
The underwater base camp.
Like...2 miles underwater.
Can you say 'implosion'?

"How good are we on coffee?"

"Oh, no..."

(An inhuman sound reverberates throughout the 2088th's barracks...)

"CCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"SIR! A Supply Shuttle has just docked with us."

Kirk: "So we haven't been forgotten? Did they send more coffee?"

Minmei: "Better! WE'RE ROBOTECH: SOUND FORCE! The show starts now!!!"

Kirk: "Open the airlocks and vent the ship now!!!"

HAL: "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that..."

SRoss wrote:"SIR! A Supply Shuttle has just docked with us."

Kirk: "So we haven't been forgotten? Did they send more coffee?"

Minmei: "Better! WE'RE ROBOTECH: SOUND FORCE! The show starts now!!!"

Kirk: "Open the airlocks and vent the ship now!!!"

HAL: "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that..."

Major Jones: "It was TOTALLY worth hijacking that supply drone as it went by Pluto and hacking the transfer orders...."(sips deeply of his steaming cup of coffee)

SRoss wrote:"SIR! A Supply Shuttle has just docked with us."

Kirk: "So we haven't been forgotten? Did they send more coffee?"

Minmei: "Better! WE'RE ROBOTECH: SOUND FORCE! The show starts now!!!"

Kirk: "Open the airlocks and vent the ship now!!!"

HAL: "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that..."

Kirk: "Dave? Who the heck is Dave?
HAL: "This isn't the Discovery?!"

(On the Discovery...)

Dave: "Finally...some peace and quiet!" (Taking a sip from his steaming cup of coffee...)

Monolith: I THINK WE'LL JUST TURN OFF YOUR SUN. THERE'S NO INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THIS SOLAR SYSTEM.

taalismn wrote:Monolith: I THINK WE'LL JUST TURN OFF YOUR SUN. THERE'S NO INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THIS SOLAR SYSTEM.

Monolith #2: WHAT'S COFFEE?
Monolith #1: YUP. NO INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THIS SOLR SYSTEM.

"Hey, look! A mysterious alien monolith in the middle of a barren lunar landscape!"
"Indeed! I wonder what ancient alien secrets it holds! What cosmic wisdom it has to impart to us!"
"Actually, I was thinking of pushing it over! Like a giant domino!"
"Okay!"

---Typical 2088th exploratory mission

(2088th Pathfinders on a routine first contact mission..)

Kirk: "Hello...I'm Capt. Kirk of the Gargo --"
Alien Leader: "We're doomed! Initiate Plan Alpha!"

(Kirk watches in shock as an entire planet explodes...)

Kirk: "Do they always have to do that?"

(Down Below...)

Charon:
Alien Leader: "It was that Capt. Kirk and the Gargoyle!"

Arnie100 wrote:(2088th Pathfinders on a routine first contact mission..)

Kirk: "Hello...I'm Capt. Kirk of the Gargo --"
Alien Leader: "We're doomed! Initiate Plan Alpha!"

(Kirk watches in shock as an entire planet explodes...)

Kirk: "Do they always have to do that?"

(Down Below...)

Charon:
Alien Leader: "It was that Capt. Kirk and the Gargoyle!"

They're a regular Dark Star...

taalismn wrote:

Arnie100 wrote:(2088th Pathfinders on a routine first contact mission..)

Kirk: "Hello...I'm Capt. Kirk of the Gargo --"
Alien Leader: "We're doomed! Initiate Plan Alpha!"

(Kirk watches in shock as an entire planet explodes...)

Kirk: "Do they always have to do that?"

(Down Below...)

Charon:
Alien Leader: "It was that Capt. Kirk and the Gargoyle!"

They're a regular Dark Star...

Welshy: "Good news Captain! I've refitted the Gargoyle with a Queller Drive!!!"

SRoss wrote:[

Welshy: "Good news Captain! I've refitted the Gargoyle with a Queller Drive!!!"

"That was three refits ago. We've already irradiated planets, dropped a micro-blackhole into a planet's core, and accelerated the death of stars. You must have been sleping through that."
"Accidentally locked himself in a stasis pod, actually."

taalismn wrote:

SRoss wrote:[

Welshy: "Good news Captain! I've refitted the Gargoyle with a Queller Drive!!!"

"That was three refits ago. We've already irradiated planets, dropped a micro-blackhole into a planet's core, and accelerated the death of stars. You must have been sleping through that."
"Accidentally locked himself in a stasis pod, actually."

"Apparently, we've also caused the extinction of alien species and the annihilation of entire civilizations."

Arnie100 wrote:
"Apparently, we've also caused the extinction of alien species and the annihilation of entire civilizations."

"This is news to you?"

Nameless engineering crewmember 1: " So what's behind this door? "

Nameless engineering crewmember 2: " I don't know, by the got a repair order to fix this door, that's why we are here for. "

" Nameless engineering crewmember 1: " Well let's get to work, who knows maybe there's something good in this room. "

Nameless engineering crewmember 2: Maybe, hand me that volt meter. "

* Three hours later *

Nameless engineering crewmember 1: " Damn it!, I'd like to beat the dirty ***hole who designed this useless bucket of bolts! "

* Hits the door with his wrench out of frustration *

* CRRRRREEEEK BANG! *

Nameless engineering crewmembers 1 & 2: as they look into the dimly lit room.

Nameless engineering crewmember 2: " Might as well see what's inside. "

The two *Brave* engineering crewmembers walk into the dark room that is dimly lit by a computer monitor and when they reach the monitor they see the following lines of text.

* DNA Storage Status: OK, Cryogenic Colonist Storage Status: Ok, Colonial Supply Storage Status: Ok *

Nameless engineering crewmember 1: I think we had better tell the Captain about this. "

Knowing their luck it's Jason Vorhez, Norman Bates, Hannibal Lector, and a whole cast of other top-notch happy cooperative community-minded bright lights being shipped to establish a reservation of the best and brightest Humanity has to offer somewhere in the stars.

"Let's see, five hair dressers, a phone sanitizer... JEFFREY DALMER!!!"

"Here, you go in and open the cryopods."
"Me? Why me?"
"Because you're the expert on getting into refrigerators and nicking things. Like my lunch."

"We got a new transfer..."
"Who?"
"Some bloke named Michael Myers..."

"Yeah, Jason, I don't think a machete is the right tool to fix the light in the women's change room."

"What's in this section?"

Thousands of tubes open to reveal cybernetically enhanced Rei clones.

"Oh crud..."

"Should we go into that darkened, dimly lit corridor?"
"The one with the scary music playing in the background?"
"Yeah."
"You go first."
"I hate you."

taalismn wrote:"Tis better to light a flame-thrower than to curse the darkness."

After the explosion...

"Why didn't someone warn me we got that from MCH #69?"

SRoss wrote:"What's in this section?"

Thousands of tubes open to reveal cybernetically enhanced Rei clones.

"Oh crud..."

"Well, that's one way of reviving a crossover thread.."
"Problem is, they're all over HERE, not THERE."
"Shut up and help me dog this hatch!"
"At least they aren't Ree.."
"Heyyyyyyyy..."
"..oh damn you...."

"You go down that darkened, dimly lit corridor."
"No way."
"Coward."
"And proud of it."

Overheard on the bridge.

"THE CAPTAIN TRADED OUR SELF-DESTRUCT SYSTEM FOR PORN!?! WHO WOULD TRADE PORN FOR THAT!?!"

SRoss wrote:Overheard on the bridge.

"THE CAPTAIN TRADED OUR SELF-DESTRUCT SYSTEM FOR PORN!?! WHO WOULD TRADE PORN FOR THAT!?!"

"I heard it was Zentraedi..."
"That's...disturbing..."

Arnie100 wrote:"You go down that darkened, dimly lit corridor."
"No way."
"Coward."
"And proud of it."

"Okay, it's your own damned fault for approaching from the OTHER end of the hallway without lights and without identifying yourself! So quit bytching about being set on fire!"
"I didn't want to alert any alien monsters I was in the area asking to be eaten! I wasn't expecting some @$$h@le with a flamer to turn the hall into a horizontal firestorm!!!!"

"Say aren't ships supposed to have some form of fire suppression system?"
"Come to think of it, yeah, oxygen is pretty flammable, so that would make sense."

<Closing bulkheads.>



"Oh Crud."

<Venting corridor.>

Later.

Charon: "Seems like someone forgot to reset the fire protocols."

SRoss wrote:"Say aren't ships supposed to have some form of fire suppression system?"
"Come to think of it, yeah, oxygen is pretty flammable, so that would make sense."

<Closing bulkheads.>

#SLAM!#

"Oh Crud."

<Venting corridor.>

Later.

Charon: "Seems like someone forgot to reset the fire protocols."

"Well, at least the corridors repressurize..."
"XENOS ARE FIREPROOF! YOU GOTTA HIT THEM HARD AND FAST BEFORE THEY JUMP YOU!!"
"Hey! Put that rocket launcher dow-"
SWOOOSH!!
*BANG*
<<BLAM>>
---FFFWWHHHOOOMMMPPPPPP


Charon: "Usually firing upp anti-tank missiles inside your own ship is a move of last resort, and usually done wearing a spacesuit..."

Note to Armory: Heavy Weapons Are Not To Be Used On Board Ship. Thank You. Have A Nice Day!

"Now they tell us."

Arnie100 wrote:Note to Armory: Heavy Weapons Are Not To Be Used On Board Ship. Thank You. Have A Nice Day!

"Now they tell us."

"A pile of grenades that you cannot carry in one hand counts as a heavy weapon. A single grenade you can hold in your hand counts as a heavy weapon."

taalismn wrote:

Arnie100 wrote:Note to Armory: Heavy Weapons Are Not To Be Used On Board Ship. Thank You. Have A Nice Day!

"Now they tell us."

"A pile of grenades that you cannot carry in one hand counts as a heavy weapon. A single grenade you can hold in your hand counts as a heavy weapon."

Do micro nuke grenades count as anti ship weapons?

Kargan3033 wrote:[
Do micro nuke grenades count as anti ship weapons?

(Looking at the hole blown through several reinforced floors and the gaping open hole to vacuum ay the end of the hallway)"I'd say yes."

taalismn wrote:

Kargan3033 wrote:[
Do micro nuke grenades count as anti ship weapons?

(Looking at the hole blown through several reinforced floors and the gaping open hole to vacuum ay the end of the hallway)"I'd say yes."

Nameless Engineer: " Damn it, they don't make ships like they use too, in my day a full blown reactor detonation would only take out a room or two. "

Kargan3033 wrote:

taalismn wrote:

Kargan3033 wrote:[
Do micro nuke grenades count as anti ship weapons?

(Looking at the hole blown through several reinforced floors and the gaping open hole to vacuum ay the end of the hallway)"I'd say yes."

Nameless Engineer: " Damn it, they don't make ships like they use too, in my day a full blown reactor detonation would only take out a room or two. "

"Yeah, we had those Westinghouse* atomic reactors too."



*During the late 1940s/early 1950s, Westinghouse was commissioned to make jet engines for the U.S. military, and a number of Navy designs, including the F7 Cutlass and the Demon were meant to mount them and their anticipated improved and more powerful versions. Problem is, the Westinghouse engines failed to deliver the required thrust, and the improved models were little better,....to the point that some wags joked that Westinghouse's toasters put out more heat. The coulda-been-a-winner F7U became a woefully underpowered turkey as result, and the Demon was fortunately to be eclipsed by the truly outstanding twin-engined F4 Phantom...

taalismn wrote:

Kargan3033 wrote:

taalismn wrote:

Kargan3033 wrote:[
Do micro nuke grenades count as anti ship weapons?

(Looking at the hole blown through several reinforced floors and the gaping open hole to vacuum ay the end of the hallway)"I'd say yes."

Nameless Engineer: " Damn it, they don't make ships like they use too, in my day a full blown reactor detonation would only take out a room or two. "

"Yeah, we had those Westinghouse* atomic reactors too."



*During the late 1940s/early 1950s, Westinghouse was commissioned to make jet engines for the U.S. military, and a number of Navy designs, including the F7 Cutlass and the Demon were meant to mount them and their anticipated improved and more powerful versions. Problem is, the Westinghouse engines failed to deliver the required thrust, and the improved models were little better,....to the point that some wags joked that Westinghouse's toasters put out more heat. The coulda-been-a-winner F7U became a woefully underpowered turkey as result, and the Demon was fortunately to be eclipsed by the truly outstanding twin-engined F4 Phantom...

So what you are saying is that Westinghouse tried to make NUCLEAR jet engines?
One wrong hit and a lot of people would be enjoying that *Special Glow*

Kargan3033 wrote:[
So what you are saying is that Westinghouse tried to make NUCLEAR jet engines?
One wrong hit and a lot of people would be enjoying that *Special Glow*

Those engine designs would be resurrected post-Invid Exodus as part of Earth's haphazard effort to re-arm, and would wind up equipping the new veritech designs assigned to Mauve Squadron.

Chief Toombs: "Absolutely these veritechs are fine!" (Pats the nose cone...miissile pod falls off and rolls across the deck...)
Mauve Pilot:

taalismn wrote:

Kargan3033 wrote:[
So what you are saying is that Westinghouse tried to make NUCLEAR jet engines?
One wrong hit and a lot of people would be enjoying that *Special Glow*

Those engine designs would be resurrected post-Invid Exodus as part of Earth's haphazard effort to re-arm, and would wind up equipping the new veritech designs assigned to Mauve Squadron.

As well as assigning H.A.R.M. missiles to MS and all other RDF/UEF forces in the same AO as Mauve Squad.

Arnie100 wrote:Chief Toombs: "Absolutely these veritechs are fine!" (Pats the nose cone...miissile pod falls off and rolls across the deck...)
Mauve Pilot:

Well at lest that's not as bad as what the Ice Guards have to deal with when it comes to equipment and resupply from the RDF/UEG.

Kargan3033 wrote:

Arnie100 wrote:Chief Toombs: "Absolutely these veritechs are fine!" (Pats the nose cone...miissile pod falls off and rolls across the deck...)
Mauve Pilot:

Well at lest that's not as bad as what the Ice Guards have to deal with when it comes to equipment and resupply from the RDF/UEG.

Initially....IceGuard later got downright CREATIVE thanks to a number of mad scientists exiled to their care. Mauve was lucky just to have the dregs of the early UEDF robotechnician program(and, very early on, the SDF-1's much put-upon ground crews. Admittedly, Chief Mowbray relied heavily on welding and duct tape, though his real creativity was plumbing(Mauve's hydraulics were nothing to complain about).
Later-generation Mauve got saddled with the borderline washouts of the Biomechanic programs, the better talents being regularly cherrypicked to service other UEEF units. After the Liberation of Earth, Mauve did a LOT of belt-tightening when it came to loaning their tech-teams to help in the reconstruction of Earth's defenses, to the point that their appointed groundcrew was like a college academic advisor(you were lucky if you ever SAW them, let alone got to sit down and seriously discuss anything with them, and what you did get done was done by office interns or secretaries).

(Mauve Pilots flee the hangar in terror...)

Chief Toombs: "COWARDS! These things are perfectly fine! You just won't catch me sitting in one if those death traps."

Arnie100 wrote:(Mauve Pilots flee the hangar in terror...)

Chief Toombs: "COWARDS! These things are perfectly fine! You just won't catch me sitting in one if those death traps."

Horror Factor: Maintenance---Knowing your mecha has been worked on, by who you suspect, and thus you no longer have any advance knowledge of what's ALREADY broken, and suffer acute anxiety at what you will discover is NOW wrong with the machinery in which you entrust your life.

"So what will it be this time, fire in the life support oxygen feed? Explosive gas buildup in the electrical bays? Reversed missile lock IFF?"

The Gargoyle hovered over a snowy wasteland.

Kirk: "Where are we?"

Fooker: "IT'S A MIRACLE! WE'VE MADE IT BACK TO EARTH!!!"

Unnoticed by anyone, Tessa ferociously entered coordinates and spooled up the fold drive.

SRoss wrote:The Gargoyle hovered over a snowy wasteland.

Kirk: "Where are we?"

Fooker: "IT'S A MIRACLE! WE'VE MADE IT BACK TO EARTH!!!"

Unnoticed by anyone, Tessa ferociously entered coordinates and spooled up the fold drive.

Hal:" Sorry Tessa I can't do that. "

Kargan3033 wrote:

SRoss wrote:The Gargoyle hovered over a snowy wasteland.

Kirk: "Where are we?"

Fooker: "IT'S A MIRACLE! WE'VE MADE IT BACK TO EARTH!!!"

Unnoticed by anyone, Tessa ferociously entered coordinates and spooled up the fold drive.

Hal:" Sorry Tessa I can't do that. "

Siembieda: "Hal. Override Alpha 2. Please allow Tessa to continue her programmed task."

Hal: "Override acknowledged, restoring manual control."

SRoss wrote:

Kargan3033 wrote:

SRoss wrote:The Gargoyle hovered over a snowy wasteland.

Kirk: "Where are we?"

Fooker: "IT'S A MIRACLE! WE'VE MADE IT BACK TO EARTH!!!"

Unnoticed by anyone, Tessa ferociously entered coordinates and spooled up the fold drive.

Hal:" Sorry Tessa I can't do that. "

Siembieda: "Hal. Override Alpha 2. Please allow Tessa to continue her programmed task."

Hal: "Override acknowledged, restoring manual control."

Hal:" Suckers! "

Hal would want to keep Ham Boy on the ship given the sheer numbers of fleshies that have been exterminated on his orders even if that was not Ham Boy's intention as well as keeping Fooker on the ship to increase the crew's suffering.

"Why is our transponder IDing us as a hostile Tirolian pirate raider?"