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PadawanKitara Registered: Dec '01	Date Posted: 3/22/04 9:27pm Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/20
	Muppets? No,more like the twins in Gone with the Wind -----signature----- Courtier of the Royal Order of Shambling Dufi We are Dufi...Resistance is Futile! UCLA BRUINS
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Lilith Demodae Registered: Oct '99	Date Posted: 3/24/04 5:56pm Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/20
	Muppets? Really? How strange.... ___________________________________ "That's what I thought," I confirmed. "Whenever things quiet down too much there's another fight in disputed territory." "Could one of the other gangs be behind all this?" I beamed with pride at him. Right off the bat he assumed, or maybe he knew, that the Horsemen weren't behind it. He was becoming quite the loyal member. "Could be, but I really don't see what they could hope to gain from it. No one gang could run the whole sector. And the competition keeps the cops busy. If they only had one gang to focus on it'd be like a swoop trying to take on an armed shuttle. Sure the swoop has more places to hide, but the shuttle's got sensors and weapons and shields. No contest." Mason kept me busy the rest of the night. Since he knew about the skirmishes that had happened while we were in lockdown, I assumed he had some means of communication with his superiors that I didn't know about and that no one else had caught him at. But they didn't seem to be able to get him the information that I could. He had me create maps of the sector's property values, of crime hot spots, of anything and everything we both could think of, but none of it seemed to mesh up with what we already had. Finally he slouched back into his chair, long legs jutting out, fingers laced behind his head, looking every inch the swooprider he was rapidly becoming. "There must be something here that we're missing." I sighed in exasperation. My eyes were dry and tired from staring at screens all night. My shoulders and back ached from leaning over my keyboard, and I wanted nothing more than to collapse on my bed and sleep through the entire next day. "Look, this is useless. We're not getting anywhere at all. It's like that stupid file you had me pull down, just garbage." "What file?" he muttered. "That police report file. I glanced through it and it was totally unrelated to anything we're working on here." Mason sat up straight and concentrated for a moment as he recalled the instance I was describing. "What was it? Pull it up." "It was nothing!" I moaned, but typed in the necessary commands anyway. When it came up Mason leaned in to read it through and I leaned back, trying to ease my shoulders. The only one still up was Nash, who only slept in two or three hour blocks at a time. She was essentially always up. Me, I wanted to sleep before my eyelids dried open. "Crash, where is this location mentioned here?" Mason's mellow voice pulled me out of a half doze and I had to blink a minute before I found the line he was pointing to. "Oh, uh, that's over in the northern half of the Hounds' territory," I told him blearily. "Forget it, it's nothing but a disturbance report." "Yes, but I feel that there's something more here. Can you bring up a street map of the area?" "Sure, why not?" The map soon spread in its electronic blandness across my main monitor. I pointed out the building the disturbance had been called in from. "There it is. See? Nothing. It's not even in disputed territory or anywhere near a border. I don't," I stifled a yawn, "see the connection." "What's this building here, next to it?" I leaned in and glanced at the map. "Uh, CoruCorp's sector office." "CoruCorp?" "Yeah." "Aren't they Teletron's leading competitor for that new comm chip?" "So?" My bed was no longer just calling to me, it was flashing neon signs and chanting, "Sleep, sleep, sleep." "So it appears that they had a break-in and didn't report it." "Mason, I didn't pull down B&Es, just piracy, highjackings and drive-bys. You don't know if there was a report filed or not." "No, but you can check." "True," I shook my head at him, "but not tonight. I'm tired and if I slice cop central when I can't hardly tell the keys on my board apart, I'm going to get us in deep trouble." "Tomorrow then?" "Yeah, sure, tomorrow." //Anything if you'll let me sleep now.// -----signature----- This post is brought to you by: This space for rent
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Miska Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 3/24/04 8:04pm Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/24
	oooh...why do I have a bad feeling about this? LOL can't wait for more, as always! -----signature----- You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. H/L and L/M fics in my bio!
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Jemmiah Registered: Mar '00	Date Posted: 3/24/04 10:36pm Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/24
	Oh, I don't know...a little Qui drooling is a very healthy outlet for all those pent up feelings! Still loving this, Lilith! -----signature----- The new improved Hell's Chance Cantina! Home for many assorted JA fanfic stories!: http://www.hellschancecantina.com/index.html Open to all: have a go at Star Wars Caption Contest no.7: http://www.hellschancecantina.com/Caption_comp.html
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Shaindl Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 3/25/04 7:12am Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/24
	Yep, the bad feeling is definitely present. Can't wait to see a) what they find (if anything) and b) what trouble they get into. Great job! Shaindl -----signature----- Halfway Moment - Qui, Obi, Anakin AU - http://boards.theforce.net/The_Saga/b10476/20110461/?0 - UPDATED JULY 3!
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Tanith Registered: Nov '03	Date Posted: 3/25/04 10:35am Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/24
	Nash - "you cuffed him?" She is sooo cool. I loved how Crash was able to work out what was happening - she's smart - though I guess you have to be to be a hacker. I also like how Qui is using her smarts and her skills. This is obviously a job where traditional jedi training won't help - he needs someone like Crash on side. Though I have a bad feeling about that report, and I hope that they get time to do the digging they want to before something bad happens. Mmmm Qui drooling - it's usually Ewan drooling or Sean (Bean), but Liam was cute in Love Actually, and I am a sucker for men with long hair -----signature----- Area 42 - Edinburgh's sci-fi club: http://www.area42.org.uk
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Healer_Leona Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jul '00	Date Posted: 3/27/04 4:57am Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/24 - Date Edited: 3/27/04 4:59am (1 edits total) Edited By: Healer_Leona
	I beamed with pride at him. Right off the bat he assumed, or maybe he knew, that the Horsemen weren't behind it. He was becoming quite the loyal member. -- I beamed at this too. Ya gotta go with the Jedi's sense there Crash, if Mason think's it something, it probably is. Tanith, Ewan, Liam and Sean?? That's the big three right there!! Lilith, finished off Bujold's last two. I was slightly disappointed when I started and realized they weren't Miles books, but quickly got sucked in and read the both in a seventy-two hour period. Awesome books! Thanks. -----signature----- Feel so good, but I'm old 2000 years of chasing's taking it's toll
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Lilith Demodae Registered: Oct '99	Date Posted: 3/27/04 10:30am Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/24
	Ummm, you mean Curse of Chalion and it's companion? Or Falling Free and Ethan of Athos? All four were good. I'm getting rather desperate for Monstrous Regiment to hit paperback. My dad is currently reading all the Terry Pratchett books I own, out of order I might add, not that it makes a lot of difference.... Anyway, I'm glad you're enjoying my recommendations. -----signature----- This post is brought to you by: This space for rent
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Jedi_Nifet Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 3/27/04 2:20pm Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/24
	Indeed, the bad feeling is right here. Looks like trouble is looming just around the corner. Want more. -----signature----- ~~Beauty is the food of soul~~
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Lilith Demodae Registered: Oct '99	Date Posted: 3/28/04 10:11pm Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/24
	Miska -- A bad feeling? I don't know, why would you possibly have a bad feeling about this? <eg> Jem -- Qui-drooling is a favorite hobby of mine, and I'm obviously nto alone in it, so I see no reason to stop. Shaindl -- Find.. trouble... that about sums it up. Tanith -- Would you believe that Nash has been nominated for OC supporting character awards in the past? Leona -- And that's why she didn't actually erase the file in the first place. Nifet -- Of course trouble is looming, trouble is far too large to merely lean nonchalantly in the corner somewhere and pretend to mind its own business. And if it weren't looming, what would be the fun in it? <eg> Okay, on with the story... _____________________________________ He let me sleep, but it wasn't long enough. I'd been up for nearly twenty hours and he woke me after a measly four. My eyes felt gritty and dry, my arms and shoulders still ached and my blood sugar level wasn't nearly high enough. Grumpy is not a strong enough word to describe what I was feeling. I wanted to tie him to the back of Shael's swoop and drag him through afternoon traffic. "Do you need me to time you?" "No," I snapped. "You're looking for a specific file. I've written a program that will sort through the reports for me and download anything that matches your very particular specifications while I hold off the security measures. Not that I expect it to take very long at all, though." "So time is no longer important?" "Well, yes, but only sleep time, or the lack thereof." Unfortunately, strangling the Jedi wasn't a viable option. Mason was trying not to laugh, his blue eyes glinted merrily, and I desperately wanted to hit him. "Not a morning person, are you?" "No," I grumbled at him. "Sane people don't wake up before the sun rises, especially after being up the whole night before." "I'm sorry, but I can't help feeling that we've got something important here." "Fine, fine, just sit there and don't make any noise while I work my magic." Since we were only looking for one single file with fairly specific qualities, I could indeed write a program that would seek it out for me. My normal runs in and out of cop central were fast and furious because I hadn't yet perfected a program that could pull down all of what we wanted as efficiently as I could myself. This one would be a breeze in comparison. Mason did sit quietly while I worked, for which I blessed him. If I was going to have to be awake at that early an hour after that little sleep, I deserved a little peace and quiet in which to work. The Jedi even rose silently at one point and returned with a steaming mug of hot caf. Once the program was done, I loaded it up and linked into the sector net. I sliced my way into cop central and set my program loose. In no time at all, the program was cleaning up all traces of its invasion, and I pulled out and took us off-line. "Well?" "Cool your jets a second," I told him. "There, see?" "See what?" "Oh," I tried not to sound as chagrined as I felt, "well, you were right, there's no file for a break-in at the CoruCorp office." "So they didn't report it." Mason steepled his fingers and thought, his face losing almost all expression. I waited as long as I had patience for, which that morning wasn't long at all, before breaking into his thoughts to ask a question. "So what?" "There was a break-in, or at least a suspicious disturbance at the CoruCorp office. It was significant enough that the office next door reported it. But CoruCorp themselves didn't lodge a complaint or call the cops?" he asked. I just shook my head. This wasn't my area of expertise. I was much better with security systems and their weaknesses than bureaucratic thinking and its various idiocies. I couldn't see what bearing this had on anything at all. "Why wouldn't a big company like that call in the cops if there'd been a break-in?" Mason asked me slowly. A light blinked on in my skull. "Because they didn't want the cops in their building?" I hazarded. "And why not?" I drew the obvious conclusion, but still couldn't find the link back to our particular problem. "Because there's something there they don't want the cops to see. But I don't see how that helps us." "It may not, right now, but I'll see what other information I can get about that break-in." I blinked at him and smiled hopefully. "Does that mean I can go back to sleep now?" Mason laughed. It was an eye-twinkling, full-face, belly-holding laugh. I narrowed my eyes at him, less than amused. It wasn't my fault he had the genetic defect that tended towards early rising. "Yes," he finally managed to say, "you can go back to sleep now, if that's what you really want." I rose from my seat with what dignity I could muster. "Thank you," I told him gravely and walked away. I didn't make it far. "Crash," Famine's nasal tenor made me grimace and hunch my shoulders in expectation of what was to come. I reluctantly turned from my bed with a look of desperate longing and faced him. "Death needs you to re-do that ground-freight route analysis again. We got some new numbers from CNB and that patrol yesterday." "Sure," I nearly snarled, "fine, whatever." -----signature----- This post is brought to you by: This space for rent
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PadawanKitara Registered: Dec '01	Date Posted: 3/28/04 10:52pm Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/28
	he had the genetic defect that tended towards early rising. I am so glad not to be burdened with that defect. Ahhhh sleep -----signature----- Courtier of the Royal Order of Shambling Dufi We are Dufi...Resistance is Futile! UCLA BRUINS
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Healer_Leona Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jul '00	Date Posted: 3/29/04 4:33am Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/28
	There's not a thing wrong with being an early riser. looks around It's really ok to get up forty-five minutes before the alarm clock rings and get to work that much eariler than I need to start.... err. I mean earilier before one needs to start. They did get something accomplished, too bad Crash didn't get the chance to go back to sleep. Lilith, they were indeed Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls. Falling Free and Ethan of Athos??? Hmmm, the second sounds familair , but I think I'll look for them both anyway, thanks. -----signature----- Feel so good, but I'm old 2000 years of chasing's taking it's toll
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Lilith Demodae Registered: Oct '99	Date Posted: 3/29/04 8:00am Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/28
	Leona, they're both in the Miles Universe, but he doesn't appear in them. -----signature----- This post is brought to you by: This space for rent
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Calamity Jinn Registered: May '00	Date Posted: 3/29/04 10:32am Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/28
	Sorry I don't have the time to comment just now on your posts Lilith, DRL is holding me back just now. But I am still reading and loving it as always. Got a long weekend ahead, so will strive to do better then. -----signature----- Check out our website for "The Jemmiah Chronicles"; http://www.hellschancecantina.com
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Shaindl Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 3/29/04 11:25am Subject: RE: Crash Course- Repost (Action/Adventure Non-JA OC) Updated 3/28
	You know, I married a man with that particular genetic defect. It's led to some interesting, um, discussions involving flying pillows. And so the plot thickens. Can't wait to find out what's in that building. Shaindl -----signature----- Halfway Moment - Qui, Obi, Anakin AU - http://boards.theforce.net/The_Saga/b10476/20110461/?0 - UPDATED JULY 3!
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