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Post by Vlad on Oct 25, 2023 4:05:07 GMT -5
The gynoid EP3 laid on her back a reclining chair as the cruise ship she sat in a broom closet turned into a compact luxury suite for synthetic life went through a stormy nebula causing the ship to jostle around like a ship of the maritime bygone era on the stormy seas. The light bobbing and surging bright and dim in her optics causing them to zoom in and out at irregular intervals. Her mind she willed to be quiet for a time as she in a near empty meditative state was assailed by a sudden titanic wave of experiential data.
She was completely, utterly, and borderline insanely... **bored** How long has she been in her own mind?! Days?! Weeks?! When was the last band of pirates or even a space pest problem on the ship? Most of the day to day jobs were done by a crew of varying function drones. It was either sit in the broom closet for days and days or go out onto the deck and mingle with rich people who got nothing in common with her to converse about meanwhile getting her backside slapped and her bust gripped by touchy rich a-holes that went their entire lives without anyone telling them no. man the oath to ensure these rich pricks made it through their vacation in good health so that their wealthy operations continue to offer their resources at sharply discounted prices to the philanthropic force did test her patience for the most goody dregs of bio sludge to attain sapience she has encountered in her operational cycles,
She tried playing a mind link sim fighting off bandits by pulling the lounge chair’s helmet visor over her face but the fun of dispatching space pirates in a lazy boy VR chair only did so much entertainment, she mastered this VR martial game for untrained citizens to amuse themselves with, none of even the so-called nightmare difficulty foes could keep up with her training finesse with the sword and shield made short work of every pirate captain even the 1 V 8 boss rush that was the platinum challenge where the 8 captains were together with endless waves of their mooks, even allowing them to clime to 1 v 80 the simple narrow VI had no answer to her training. And as typically elating hack and slash games could be when its just 1 high tier warrior cutting down swaths of moob mooks and the odd actually skilled foe the most skilled she still completely block parried and riposted like she was folding laundry making a chore of what was meant to be an intense fun fight.
“oh dread pirate iron Q whatever will I do? Sidestep your opening charge and slice your leg as you pass, already injured your swordplay will suffer and your desperation mode will trigger very shortly, inevitably living up to the “realism” of desperation tactics leaving too big of a wind up for a power attack that a better result would likely be to take a dozen weaker blows to keep the pressure on my pattern of guard and blocking forcing an exploit. Exploit openings in your power attacks aaaaaaaand 100k more digital doubloons added to my account for cosmetic upgrades and new gear options” unmasked boredom dripping from her voice and sighed as just for fun she tossed the dread pirates body into the ship engine and watched as it rag-dolled off the rebounding invisible barrier.
She opted to dive into mind space proper and she awoken in what seemed to be a 5 star hotel one would find on avalon, she began swimming in a pool waiting.
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Post by Midnight M.D. Kelly on Oct 26, 2023 20:26:03 GMT -5
The imperial saiyan elite was now doing pushups in 170Gs, getting a good cooldown as he was finished fighting the red proto-vlad. It was a tough fight but he did well, the skill this android had was like vlad fighting and it was near dangerous... he had new respect for the Avalonian Protectate machine, captain blaster.
There were times that he thought he was going to die but he endured and survived, seriously damaging the proto-vlad but took a beating himself. This was a great learning experience and would fight him again if need be. The pain he felt made him really take his job as an elite class saiyan soilder more seriously.
As he kept up with his training, he was shocked that the fight got that close, now worried about how powerful and lethal androids were in combat.
The fearless midnight was shocked at Proto-Vlad's preformance in combat, it was something he wouldn't forget or covet period, it wasn't going to be easy to fight him again but he would and it was a deadly bit of training he'd do again in a heartbeat.
It was going to be a long trip to earth as the ship was moving towards the Terra Planetoid for the saiyan to continue his training to head to train under the earth grandmaster to learn a strong attack which would prove useful in combat.
Now feeling warmed up, he stopped his pushup and turned off the gravtron and went to his barracks to sit down in his chair.
Thinking of going to the astral plane he used his mind to link to the one who could teach him shield methods...EP-3 which he now made his way in and fell from the sky as he used flight to hover and touched down infront of Vlad's student...
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Post by Vlad on Oct 27, 2023 14:26:20 GMT -5
EP3 surfaced above the pool water, her long white hair dripping with the purified water and the chemicals used to keep the water pure of the bacterial infection that may have otherwise settled. Not that bacterial infections were a concern for the machine but, she enjoyed pools and was thankful for the buoyancy of her form to allow swimming she saw the sayain warrior and waved before swimming out and recovering her equipment.
“Hello Middy, how may I assist you?” her tone even and yet a tint of a softness that pushed her into the pleasant synthetic vocals she and her mentor preferred, not hiding what they were, not the mechanical nature nor the sapient emotional grade conveyance
She got her shield and took a few swings at the open air with her blade, showing she had improved a bit further with a natural fluidity she let a bit of her power pass through her body to quick dry herself.
“What all did you come to do?” she pulled up a chair sitting informally with the chair's back to her front and resting her head on the top of It with her hands below her chin after she sheathed her blade and placed the shield back on her back
Her “glasses” pinging with data and minimalist readouts of herself segmented from hands, feet, arms/legs top half, arms/legs lower half. Torso, neck, and head in a minimalist series of shapes in the left most periphery of her vision. She patiently waited with a pleasant half smile on her face.
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Post by Midnight M.D. Kelly on Oct 27, 2023 16:01:41 GMT -5
Middy smirked with his annointed shield on his back. "Well my dear Episode-3... i'm come to learn more of the shield since thats my main melee weapon. I've come to learn from you since the enemies i have are getting stronger and are larger in numbers. I need to learn how to defeat millions of men with a shield. I need to get better at using my shield in attacking and defending and who better to teach me that the student of Captain Blaster...you call him Vlad. He's really something, committed to his organization like i am to mine. I'm here to understand this melee weapon of mine better and i humbly ask for your instruction to do so."
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Post by Vlad on Oct 29, 2023 2:38:24 GMT -5
The gynoid offered a few barely comprehending blinks of his request, he knew of the respect to her mentor and the lengths Vlad went honoring his philanthropic oaths.
“Well you flatter me one of your power seeking the advisement from me, truth be told not sure there would be much advice I could give, be hard to guess what you intend to do, bat away attacks with your legs, divert with your hands and use your shield to perhaps either surprise augment a strike with a back hand, or feint a foe with using the shield lure the foe to thinking a shield bash is coming and kick in the solar plexus as they guard their face.
“Hope that perspective is at least some measure of an approach you did not consider, I know my approach and that fits it, and I strongly suspect there are a fair few in the galaxy that can incorporate a shield into martial arts unarmed approaches, but” she swung her blade in its scabbard behind her head “wrong gynoid to ask I am afraid, I prefer the classic combos of swords, axes, whips, and single hand staff/walking stick to follow the shield
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Post by Midnight M.D. Kelly on Oct 29, 2023 17:37:54 GMT -5
Midnight Magnum now listened to what Episode-3 said, it made sense to the saiyan empire's imperial elite and it was delivered quite politely. First the advice was to strike back all attacks with the legs weither they were punches and kicks but from this as well he added. "You could do snake style foot strike to the ankles and shins using a method called gliding snake which would be good for the lower body for movements as well as striking, a form of snake kung fu. Now diverting with your hand, it could be the offensive method of 'One Hand' which would be your free arm to strike fast or hard wit said free arm if it's just a shield your using. You also said feint a foe with the shield.... well you can make false movements with any part of your body weither it's an elbow, a headbutt, a knee, a kick, a punch as well as with the shield itself. The trick wit feinting is to not telegraphing nor being predictable.... it's to mislead your opponent to gain a hard strike weither it's to stun, crush, burn, pierce or drop your opponent with a blow from making them open the door to hurt them."
He then looked at EP-3, happy to talk 'shop' with her, "well i'm talking about using the shield as a melee weapon as well as a defensive too, i also use the shield boomerang method which has worked as well. I'm wondering if i had missed anything from hearing you and giving my critique as well from lived experience. If you have anything to add feel free to do so... knowledge is knowledge weither from a expert, a senpai, a soilder, a warrior or a sensei." He said politely with a thumbs up and a smile!
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Post by Vlad on Oct 30, 2023 13:33:07 GMT -5
The gynoid, Early Prototype 3 Enjoyed chatting on improving combat approaches such could be mutually beneficial, her choice to approach fights with a focus more on her preferred sword and shield needed not be an all or nothing commitment to an approach, she had to adapt to the lack of equipment in the maze and other such events where she could not just bring in a sword and shield.
“Fine points my friend, incorporating all one has as tools in the tool box to solve the problem of an asshole making life unnecessarily more difficult for others for little excusable reason “
she shrugged “I do not think I have much to add, seemed in combat tactics we both shared a fair deal a perspective that we each could spin to our preferred methodology she tightened her synthetic leather gloves testing each finger satisfied she then tucked a bit of hair behind her ear she also straightened up the rest of her clothing
She also whipped one leg at a time over a firm set of pool side chairs to do some warm-up stretches and given the pockets of steam that popped out of pressure release seams on her joints potentially something akin to cracking her joints did she need to do this? Nope she could easily have forced ejection of the build up from her joints without the stretch, but she seemed to enjoy having some action to pretext the release especially in other’s company, so it made a bit more sense to some actions just coming out of the blue. Perhaps some measure of her companion protocols encouraged a more human like pretense to the gestures, but at least her body gave her some affirming senses following them, so micro hits of neural encouragement to continue may contributed, as she and her mentor were synthetics that never lamented what they lacked of human elements for being synthetic entities over biological, they were two androids quite comfortable with being such as really what were they missing of organic existence that they lacked as emotion possessing sapient machines?
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Post by Midnight M.D. Kelly on Oct 30, 2023 17:25:42 GMT -5
The Great Middy Crusher was looking like a true sensei, speaking to a senpai about shop like he was wiser than before. "The year were long and trying to get to my current level of power...you and Vlad are the strongest androids i know... strong in character. I can trust you and Vlad to never look the other way, nor take a bribe...." He clenched his fist in rage as he remembered one of his missions where he was a saiyan military cop where he had to deal with 'dirty' saiyan soilders. "I had a tasking, to find saiyans that were sent on a mission to take a planet. The planet wasn't taken because the inhabitants turned them with royalty and riches..."
He turned his head to the left and spat. "Dirty two faced bitches... they were living rich for 2 weeks then the third week the probes found the planet was still inhabited by lifeforms... this is the job.. purging planets for the empire. They lived there...so the third week i was tasked in a vangard unit to purge it completely. I was a second class saiyan soilder back then. We got there and we used the moon ball, purged the first few cities then once the main cities were purged we found they were in the underworld of the planet. Those demons... bribed them with power! They were majined and were stronger than before. We moved in and continued the purging mission. Their were many enemies on the planet to the point we had the majined saiyans' land forces on the run... we rushed and beat them all, with fists... not shields. We ripped off their tails after capturing them then called in reinforcements when we got back to the surface. The fight was a long and tiring one... they tried to take them back but we quickly acted and used the moonball and turned ozzaru again. It was endless hordes but the planet was purged completely with the traitors executed during the assault. We sold the planet and left. I was the vangard team leader and i made a report to the higher up and they were satified by the debriefing."
He now began to stretch and get more limber after talking with EP-3. "It wasn't something i'd like to repeat or replicate.... it hurts when a fellow soilder turns dirty... it's like they only care for themselves and not for the empire..."
He started curling his legs and afterward stretched his arms. "Any time your ready to spar EP-3, lets put what we learned to the test!" He said happily as he threw fast punches and kicks while standing still, testing out the current speed and strength that he had gained from training. He was always full of saiyan pride and ready to put his enlightenment of shield kata to use!
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Post by Vlad on Oct 31, 2023 5:23:53 GMT -5
She winced a bit as she was against extinction events to planets, but then. she figured the info of the demons and majined few if any innocent civilians remained not thralled in some form by the demonic forces or the like or a population kept as human shields or other more diabolical resources to devil up with the devil population bartering souls as trinkets and coinage.
“The universe is often complicated” she said sighing “often paladins will lose heart in the just cause they fight for, understanding why a bad event happened is important, many times paladins see their best efforts to fight for the good of the galaxy but seeing that they are just pushing the bolder up a hill for it to fall, or they see evil tends to hold more lucrative rewards, or so often making the choice of a lose-lose situation even when they did everything right, to still be left with a loss as the best outcome. We of the paladin order have to keep empathy for the siblings of the order and attempt to steer them right, the greatest chain is only as strong as its most vulnerable link. It is not likely for the profit motive for the individual to turn a paladin, but the temptations of the smart evil are quite the force to bare in mind for, many planets operating on anti meritocratic ways, how wrong it is for a great worker to die in poverty to make the owner of the business they helped make a success story reaps all the benefits. The noble desire to aid the people that most depend on them to have the lives they worked so hard to ensure, we of the order try for a mutuality to ensure that such things can't tempt our siblings of the field. No rest for the wicked, not for them and not for we who fight them.
She made swift flourishing in place with her blade and shield, she was unsure how to engage with her lower 6 figure power still hoped the chat was mutually nice.
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Post by Midnight M.D. Kelly on Nov 2, 2023 17:02:34 GMT -5
Middy nodded with the senpai EP-3, "You are quite polite and insightful... a proud spitting image of Vlad. Now we could 'tire kick' about our organizations and our goals but i came here to train the shield... i do both defensive and offensive missions in the empire... i've purged planets to sell and defended planets that are rich in nutrients, materials, minerals and extracts. At the end of the day, we have to pay the bills, earn and serve. It's not like the protectate never did purging missions, i've only heard of the history of the avalonian empire which both you and your master serve with a metallic fist. I know you'd attack me if i threated your master... that is what i call loyalty and respect."
He now took out his annointed shield and was ready to engage, placing the shield on his right wrist and took a shield stance that he was training. "Well since i came to you, i'm happily awaiting your attack and i will honor you by using one fourth of my true power." He now looked upon EP-3. "Feel free to use your weapons and any style and method you have at your disposial in this fight and don't hold back."
He then readied himself, "Come at thee! For i shall not yield to you or any opponent i fight!" He said in a loud booming voice.
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Post by Vlad on Nov 3, 2023 18:09:36 GMT -5
She shuffled a bit. “Avalon only purged worlds of those invasive to other worlds such as the Orcs and Illithid, we prefer to make mutually beneficial alliances of worlds rather than go to the planetary market with the unethical planet trafficking practice, purging is only done when an infestation event is on a world and has breached any barrier of containment. A last resort and done mournfully for the good and safety of the rest of the galaxy. Do Avalon higher ups some times use the good will of the paladins to secure a vacation spot from a world? Yeah, but such is the way of all the greater wealthy sorts of the galaxy, and the planets they set up arrangements with for the galactic currency will gladly take an over paying political figure’s money to invest in the planet’s future, who are they to turn down something they can turn to aid their people? A rich fool and their money parting ways, benefiting an economically impoverish world because a rich benefactor wanted a vacation home near one of the natural wounder of their planets? And Avalon has tech that will not pollute that wounder, well the money is good to the people why not to set up public aid programs on the dime of the figures so rich 1 bil of their creds could vanish and not miss them couple that with the enrichment programs of the protectorate selling the tech to stand alongside the other allies of its cause, sold at cost to catch a world up, they get loads of money from the vacation homes being bought up and use that to invest in their own universal programs so their populous can prosper, everyone wins. Aside from the planet traders, the orcs, and the other parties that just want conquest and deeding grounds for profit or unending appetites of other natures”
She did not like the iron fist thing, Avalon vastly preferred soft power and negotiation for mutual gain, rather not lay siege to a world unless it was a pirate world or otherwise one that would spread conflict, of course all planets have their issues, which is why the wandering knights of the order can be dispatched to aid a world dealing with major kingpin problems or an orc invasion or the like Purges are far more, 'worst case scenarios' for protectorate. A resort they surely have in their back pocket, but one they hope to never need to use. Soft power and special forces to solve a problem that makes joining the protectorate a hard choice for inviting the wrath of a kingpin or something.
Of course planetary plagues especially the zombie kind that they will not be able of curing before majority or total infection a purge would be called sooner and hope to evac some large number of survivors before it has to be done.
She diverted her mind from one hard disagreement on how different they were to declare the resort of purging a planet vs the myriad of more mutually beneficial programs Avalon tends to settle with worlds.
She decided to open up with a thrusting sword technique hiding the blade under her shield she went on while she did that to try and push power into her leg to launch the foot into a knee, his left to be exact but their deference in speed and power she could only hope the tactic was respectable using the shield to mask all her attacks.
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Post by Midnight M.D. Kelly on Nov 3, 2023 19:45:04 GMT -5
Middy was looking at EP-3 and what she was saying and it made sense, the saiyan elite now learning about the avalonian empire.
"The saiyan empire has politics too, we have traditional saiyans and reformist saiyans...it's civil war...only the strong survive! Weither its being the strongest physically as it's old traditions or having strong character wit the reformists wanting change... it's always something, the saiyan king and his overlords are all loyal, the warlords and generals are loyal too. It's more military as planet brokers. We go to a planet we own for a defensive tasking or go to a independent planet for a purging mission or demanding allegence or in some cases planetary destruction. Usually it's take over for sale or harvesting minerals and nutrients... this was the point i'm getting too. That wallet has to have endless dollars, my missions are more misc. as one could be a humatarian tasking, a military police tasking, a defensive tasking, a purging tasking, or riot patrol on saiyan empire owned worlds. It's not easy to deal with the universes problems but don't worry, Vlad trained you well and you two along with bersimmon are in my good books. If i can protect and save you i will and it will be truely magnificent to see myself and you three fighting along side each other in battle, fighting for a common cause, to serve our organizations and our bosses. The chaos and conflict will never ceise or change. It will always be the same thing over and over again."
This senpai now attacked the saiyan elite with said saiyan now jumping up and firing a volley of blasts down towards EP-3 then he shot down from above with his shield in his arms as he attempted to preform a decending shield smash to land a hit on this senpai, it was gonna be a tough battle but at the end of the day, this was going to be an effient sparring session. He was always ready to throw down and would never back down, even if it was a losing battle. He knew the cost of cowardise and failure and told himself every day he would not fail even if it was an uphill battle or a suicide mission.
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