[Died Long ago, leave it in peace.] Tribe of Darkest Night

FangTheCat

Gladiaxa
That makes more sense... (?)

FangTheCat

Update...again..
Added Undying Stars Subdivision to The Tribe Of Darkest Night. (The Tribe itself is dead, but some still live in Darkest Night.)

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You receive a red envelope, addressed to your leader.

FangTheCat

Jaystar opens the envelope
he thinks
"Don't most use transmissions now?"

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FangTheCat
(Yes but this guy is old fashioned)
Good day, Jaystar. Many of my colleagues have agreed that in light of recent events, it is time for our little faction to introduce itself to the universe. If you agree to attend the "Grand Opening" of sorts, come to Greenfire's home planet in three hours. Please do me a favor and bring Nightstar along.

FangTheCat

(Jaystar can'T physically bring Nightstar.. Nightstar wants to kill him and Darkest Night.. And they would probably try to kill you too.. Nightstar is leader of The Tribe Of Crimson Moon..)
Jaystar gets into a Swiftsoul to meet the time requirement, it warps to the location, Jaystar has a bad feeling inside..
"If NightStar comes.. He'll destroy everyone there.."
(No he didn't bring Nightstar.)
EDIT (I forgot the T on CanT)

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FangTheCat Eh, I'll keep him in check.
(Just act like you invited him, I don't feel like retyping the whole thing)

FangTheCat

It seems that somehow Nightstar ended up getting an invitation anyways..
Nighstar arrives, unaware of Jaystar's presence.
"I assume this wasn't for me..?"

"Well too bad, I'm here now."
He seems to smell the air, by now, all the Tribal ships have left, Jaystar is hiding.
"I smell weakness.. or is that just this place's normal smell.."

DocSlime

@FangTheCat
A small golden box without markings appears in the Tribe headquarters. It reveals a small turret which begins to spin and launch paper notes all around itself. They read:

CRATE: Compact Recreator of Actual Things Existing
Usage: approach with input object of size no greater than CRATE and payment in credits proportional to the expected upgrade quality. Receive upgraded object within 1 hour. Upgrade is determined by the object's defining qualities and main purpose, for example, a metal chair would be suited for sitting on and being fireproof after upgrade. If any of the following is deemed wrong, inserted payment is refunded.

FangTheCat

DocSlime
Stripedfoot turns around to see the box.
"Is it supposed to upgrade things.. wait.. i'm talking to myself."
He slips off a gauntlet after giving a small test, the gauntlet created a blade of energy as it was supposed to..
"ok..."
He approaches with the gauntlet and several thousand credits he dug out from under his fancy chair.
"... what..now..?"
(This is interesting.)

DocSlime

FangTheCat The CRATE whips out a hand-shaped manipulator and quickly grabs both the gauntlet and the credits, and hides in the CRATE, which subsequently closes. CRATE begins to hum softly for a few minutes, before opening and gently presenting the same gauntlet and shooting another paper note, which veers toward the gauntlet and lands on it.

Energy Gauntlet+1.
Statistics:
Employs (unregistered) technology to create a stream of energy in the shape of a blade capable of dealing serious damage if forcefully contacted with a solid object. Recommended use: equip on humanoid hand and use one of many striking styles for gauntlets to make forceful contact with bodies of enemies or targets.
Blade width at end: 0,00042 mm
Blade material: energy (unregistered noun)
Blade style: seax knife-like mounted on gauntlet
Blade type: cutting
Recommended type of strike and force applied: (unregistered strike) or any jab, up to infinite force to be applied
Belonged to: one registered person
Upgrades:
Capable of two more stable upgrades
Blade deployment time decreased by 56%
Blade holster time increased by 32%, reason: "epic" buff on user when holstering
Blade type changed to "cutting", reason: blade material is nearly unbreakable and blade has no use for reinforcement
Glove material changed to "cow leather", reason: "cool" buff when user confronts enemy with stats: "poor", "weak" or similar
Glove design completely overhauled to make glove adhere to the hand and allow control by brainwave activities, allow wielding of any object in hand while retaining the ability to use blade
Added golden decorations, reason: glove had no attachment of "decoration", material matches cost, patterns synthesized to increase effectiveness against enemies with statuses: "poor", "mercenary", "regretful".
Miscellaneous changes not impacting effectiveness
Enjoy your upgrade.

FangTheCat

DocSlime
Stripedfoot gently puts on the gauntlet, which now feels different, upon activating the blade, it instantly springs to life.
he gets out a piece of paper, upon nearing it, the blade seems to cut through, leaving no burn marks.
"This has to be the greatest thing ever."
He looks at his other gauntlet.
"I could use its inbuilt scanners to copy the upgrade... he pauses that wouldn't be right.."
He takes off the other gauntlet, and dives to his chair again, pulling out several thousand credits again.
"Maybe I could even get Jaystar some.. he left his Extras.. and I have enough to pay for them.."
He slips back on his un-upgraded gauntlet and grabs two fancier gauntlets, smaller to fit a different paw, these blades are curved.

He approaches the box again, with double the money from before, with both gauntlets belonging to Jaystar
"These are Jaystar's."

DocSlime

FangTheCat The CRATE launches another note and carefully takes the gauntlets.

The CRATE is in fact sentient and did not expect such a loyal customer.

It hums for quite some time, before presenting the gauntlets. From the first glance, it is immediately apparent that the gauntlets are somehow connected together.
The CRATE shoots out yet another note.

Energy Gauntlet, type 2, two of
Statistics close to expected and completely irrelevant for comparison to upgraded version, reason: complete overhaul of objects, merging of objects
Upgrades:
WARNING: incapable of further stable upgrades. Repeated use with the CRATE voids warranty of user's safety.
Result object merged two blade emitters together, removed restraints and supercharged emitters, reason: instead of deploying blade, gauntlets now shoot out a beam of energy, two seconds of exposure to which are comparable to a strike by the blade performed by a genetically clean adult Homo Sapiens. Beam consumes more energy than blade can create: required "cooldown" of two seconds between every ten seconds of beam usage.
Gloves remade to freely allow movement of hands of user, mounted two triggers in gloves similar to firearms, each trigger hold launches the beam at half force, beam can be used infinitely at half force, press both triggers for full force.
Mounted a chest attacher, reason: object can be mounted onto chest of user and triggered to aim accordingly to user's sight by scanning brainwave activity.
Effective range changed from 400mm to 200m, reason: weapon type changed from "energy blade" to "beam projector". Maximum range - 500km +- 100 km. Expected damage at eff. range, in joules/second: kinetic: 2,5 on center of beam, potential: (incapable of calculating: calculating may deal damage to CRATE, target of average flesh expected to heat up by 80 degrees Celsius in one second)
Item belonged to two registered persons
Miscellaneous changes that cannot be listed due to incapability of scanning after upgrade, may or may not affect weapon, cause: weapon complete overhaul
Enjoy your upgrade² .

FangTheCat

DocSlime
"Hmm, Wasn't planned.."
Just at that moment Purdy walked into the room
"Watcha' have here.. it looks a bit messed up."
"I dunno, I guess because I put them both in at the same time this happened."

"Oh I se' It made it into a blaster type, here, lemme have it, I'll have em.. heh, upgraded."
Purdy leaves then comes back in a few minutes with two Gauntlets.
"I call em' the MK 3. Watch."
He starts the blades, they stutter at first, then blinding white curved blades fire out.
"Oh.. sorry.. not that part."
The blades shut off, then a small light begins glowing.
"Now, This is lowest power, so it won't hurt nothing."
He aims the blade towards a wall, and a beam of energy explodes from the gauntlets, leaving scorch marks on the wall.
"I thought only Static could do that."

"All I did is undo the merge, made it look a little prettier."

DocSlime

FangTheCat The CRATE shoots a note that veers toward Purdy's eyes and floats there. After about ten seconds, the CRATE disappears and the note falls down like any ordinary paper.

Notice: the weapon was not suitable for further stable upgrades. The CRATE will not refund payment or give a free revival in case of user's injury as the user has been informed. Use at own risk.

After an hour, about ten thousand credits were added to Offworld's capital, after being filtered by production costs, general corruption and untrustworthy transport crew.

FangTheCat

DocSlime
Purdy waves the blade slowly
"I trust my own work."
The blades flicker, but stay relatively stable.

GoodMorningCosmoteer

the GMC is here for a visit, it seems.
the ships are definitely of civilian design.
a single human piloted ship can be seen, escorted by a drone.
image https://i.imgur.com/4dCK7SN.png

image https://i.imgur.com/a2owK9V.png

/transmission begin/
good afternoon friends! we we're traveling to an interview with a dangerous group, but we thought we'd stop by for a bit.

anyways, we're requesting permission to land somewhere.

if you want, we can conduct an interview for our new channel.
/transmission end/

FangTheCat

GoodMorningCosmoteer
/TransmissionStart/
Stripedfoot speaks
"Oh, Of course! we have a landing post available both on one of our stations and a planet if you wish."
he pauses.
"We would be honored to have an interview."
He ignored the dangerous group part, he thinks he knows who, but is not for sure..
/TransmissionEnd/

Catplayz

FangTheCat
//TRANSMISSION START//
Rak´Ashur: Greetings. The Kel´Shir have recently founded a new organization devoted to science and technology called the Researchers Confederacy. As you technology is truly impressive, we wanted to invite you to join our cause.
//TRANSMISSION END//

FangTheCat

Catplayz
an old voice speaks, its Purdy..
"Yes, I will joi', I'm more on the Technology side of things, Crowfoot woul' like the science.. you could also teach my apprentice som' things, If you wish, we can show you all sorts of technology, we do have war technology.. but tha's only if Stripedfoot says so.. We have some medical technology an' such.."
Purdy coughs
"I betta' be going."
(I also decided that because Purdy is old.. he has an apprentice now.. who will possibly be the next Lead-Engineer)

GoodMorningCosmoteer

FangTheCat
/transmission start/
alright, we will be landing at the station soon, we can see it on the screen.
as for the interview, we could attempt to do it over coms, but i think it'll be easier to have someone come here.
/transmission end/

Catplayz

FangTheCat
Very well. We are looking forward to our future cooperation.