Well, I found QUITE a cool Star Sonata ship

In Star Sonata, I found an amazingly rare ship, 2 of them actually. One is called a Jujuso'rka, it is a ship built by a race known as the Urqa. The other is called a "Battle sphere" a ship so rare, there are less than 10 in the game (as far as I am aware). This picture has both of these ships, me, and an AI ship called "The Guardian of the Lyceum". The picture is a bit small, but the guardian is EASY to spot, it's the big disk on the left. The green ship is my Earth Force Frigate, the red ship is the Jujuso'rka, and the battle sphere is the big, black and white sphere on the right. The Jujoso'rka is a bit harder to spot, it is dark red, and somewhat small. It is my hope to someday have a Jujuso'rka of my own. The Battle sphere has no engine, and must be towed around using a tractor beam, making it dependent upon other people. You might ask "What is that blue ring around the battle sphere?" Well, it is a cloaking device, meant to make it harder to spot, but the Battle sphere has such a high visibility rating that I can see it with ease. I will get other pictures of cool ships and the like posted sometime (I hope!).

Almost forgot

Almost forgot to blog about this, but a few weeks after Kiko died, back in April, we got a new puppy who we named Jasper. (I can't believe I forgot about blogger that long.) He is a little ball of pure voom, and when we got him, he was so small, I could carry him up the stairs with ease, now, he's a very big, very energetic, and a very destructive puppy. He has managed to tear up a toy cow (made of canvas), a fire hose toy (made of actual fire hose), and several around-the house items, including a kiddie pool that we got for him to play in. He tore a large gash out of the side and we found bits of blue plastic in his poo a while later. Last night, he got a hold of his poop bag dispenser, broke it apart and shredded all the blue poop bags in the backyard.

Jasper is almost always hungry, wanting lots of treats and food. He's already starting to get fat, despite the crazy fast runs he goes on at the dog park. He's currently sleeping on my Mom's bed, worn out from being all zoom-zoom earlier today,and I hope he doesn't get to energetic today, I don't want him getting anyone mad.

Long time no post. Now onto a good game I found.

Man its been a while since I posted..... Oh well, here's a good online game I found. It's called "Star Sonata" and it's a very cool game. You basically fly around in a ship, trading, fighting , and making teams. Now this may not sound very good, but believe me, it is awesome. My brother is probably going to post something about how much it stinks, but he's just biased. If you have ever played Maelstrom or Asteroids, you'll have less trouble changing course when moving in this game, because it's in SPACE, you don't stop moving when you turn your engines off, duh. You'd be surprised how many space games mess that one up. One of the cool things in this game is that if you buy so-and-so item, you can only use it if you have N tech level in it's respective skill. One thing about this game is that you don't get to see EVERY player in the area, you only get to see the ones that your radar is good enough to spot. This is decided not only by your radar's stats, but also by the other person's visibility, the higher your visibility, or vis for short, the easier it is for people to spot you. Another important aspect is augmenters. These are permanent bonuses that you can equip to your ship. A ship can only equip augmenters that are equal or lower tech than the ship's tech level. So a basic augmenter (Tech 5) can only be equipped to a tech 5 or higher ship. One really interesting ship is the "Unforge." It can equip only one augmenter and gets no weapons, and takes double damage from heat-based weapons. The main advantage of this ship... it can store 2,000 units of cargo and takes 1/20th damage from everything but heat damage. Still, it is not very popular because of its speed and the fact that other ships can go faster, hold more, and actually shoot back when attacked. I have built a stealth ship using a "Kasper", a generic UFO, this ship is very hard to use, because there is no defined "front" it is a disk, one part is the front, good luck. This stealth ship is visibility 2, most ENGINES are vis 90 when running. this thing is vis 2 when the engine is off, 7 when its on. Every once in a while, the universe is reset and all bases, NPCs, and players go with it. One thing that doesn't go is docked ships, these will appear at the first station you dock in in the new universe. One galaxy, called lunacy, has a station named the asylum, the asylum used to buy the paxian ship called a serenity for amazing prices, because the station is orbiting SO fast, no serenity could reach docking speed with it. Some people found a way around this. They captured as many serenities as they could and then, when the universe reset, they made sure the first station they docked at was the asylum, then their serenities all appeared there and they sold them for a fortune. Shortly thereafter, the admins removed the amazing price on serenities. Now, when I talk about a ship called a "serenity" you might think of the show Serenity and the movie Firefly, well, the look nothing alike. The serenity from Star Sonata is a black, boomerang-shaped freighter. THE most dangerous AI team in the game is called "Grubbies" it consists of space termites. A space termite mound, if left unchecked, can destroy every living thing in a galaxy, bases, players, and other AI ships. The second most dangerous AI team is "Dark Commerce". They are everywhere, they are amazingly powerful, and attacking one of them can get you booted off some player teams they're so nasty. I will post some pictures later today (I hope!) of me playing, to show you some cool stuff.