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Some Protector you are – I'll go liberate that town by myself!' You talked a good game, but when it came down, you only wanted your revenge. 'I should have known you'd use my talents to end The Ruin, then drop me like week-old bananas. Yasahama stared her down, gills and nostrils flaring. I should have known the last of the Protectorate would go soft on me.' 'Call me again when your plan is more viable.' He sighed and rose, pausing with his hands flat on the table. Not with this town.' He threw back his drink, draining the cocktail in one go, ignoring the way Lana's fists balled on the dented tabletop. His fingers curled, bloodless, around the bowl of his glass. Then Yasahama nictitated and looked away. Their gazes locked for a long moment, Lana's silence deafening. If there's no one sympathetic to the rebellion – ready to fill the power vacuum left by the Miniknog Commander's assassination – then the town will just fall again.' He leant forward, tone urgent. 'But it has a sister idiom – 'So take your empty voices and turn them into knives'.' ''Chanting your anthems to the deaf is a fruitless exercise',' Lana supplied. 'How does that idiom go?' Yasahama continued. Lana pulled her hand back, staying mulishly silent as she swirled the dark caramel liquor in her glass. Are there any? We both know you can't liberate anything under Miniknog control without them.' 'We should come from the South, overwhelm the Watch-' 'It's medium-sized, only one Miniknog Commander housed here,' she jabbed a finger through the hologram. A fuzzy blue image of a town appeared cute, standardised homes filled the picture, punctuated by uniform office blocks and factories. Lana pushed their glasses to one side and placed a holographic unit in the centre of the table. 'What kind of town? Are there already sympathisers in residence?' Lana raked a hand over her mohawk again and readjusted her scarf. 'But it doesn't matter if Big Ape exists or not, not when the Miniknog still wields power.' 'Big Ape was never there to start with!' Lana leant forward. Yasahama pursed his lips at the outburst. 'How can I, when my people are still under the thrall of the Miniknog?' Let new people in.'Ī fist came down, making their glasses rattle. 'Someday Blake, you'll need to leave that world behind you. They don't understand what's required in a mission like this. 'What was wrong with meeting at the Ark?' Yasahama rolled his eyes at the nickname as he slid into the seat opposite. The apex looked up from her glass of Root Pop and ran a hand over her floppy brown mohawk as she sat back. Yasahama gave a wry huff and pushed into the rickety building.

Titanium starbound series#

'Luck is merely a series of statistical probabilities arrayed in favour of the observer.' 'This rain's different,' Yasahama muttered, splashing along the asphalt-paved road, acid-bright lights reflecting like oil slicks.īefore SAIL could ask for more detail, Yasahama stopped and looked up at the garish pink sign hanging loosely to a corrugated panel. 'My databanks tell me that hylotl enjoy water.' 'You are a hylotl.' The AI sounded confused. 'This planet has no excess heat or cold, nor threatening weather conditions.' 'They are, Yasahama,' came the modulated voice of his AI. 'I thought you told me conditions were favourable, SAIL?' he said into the comm on his wrist. Yasahama tugged the collar of his jacket up and the brim of his hat down against the onslaught of rain, funnelled by the canyon-like buildings either side of the street. Also, yes, I did in fact go outside to manually craft clouds on the exterior of the shaft right at the limit of where the clouds in the background will fade out to strengthen the visual impression of elevation. Otherwise it takes about a solid minute of riding the elevator to get to the top. For the sake of convenience, I also planted a Teleport Flag at the top for a quick jump. Because the wiring system doesn’t work across loading chunks and this shaft goes aaaaaaaaaaaall the way into orbit, I had to settle for making two elevators, which will simply need vigilance to ensure one is always at the bottom and one is always at the top for visitors to use. The elevator shaft features two tram-style elevators (which lock the player into them, thus avoiding the “falling through the floor” glitch open elevator platforms have). It leads up to the main elevator shaft itself, which is made of the same metal along with black glass, hi-tech blocks, and ancient lights. It’s hidden by a camouflaged door (currently open in the screenshot) and is made pretty much entirely of pressurized durasteel. To the near east of the ranch house is the entry channel to my orbital elevator.