"I remember this place," Danik said, "the President's Museum is about a mile away from here - just beyond those boulders shaped like a pile of kid's blocks." McCaughlin shouted, "Watch out -" and drew his shotpistol, before he realized the face was familiar. Rockson gasped as his beam hit a human face. It was dark inside, they lit a flashlight. Rockson and his Freefighters pulled up their sleds in front of the blackened crumbling structure and gingerly stepped into the ruin. And there are some notes describing the places they stopped." "Run Dutil took bearings and direction readings with a sextant. "Direction readings," Rock yelled exhultantly. There was a pack rat sticking its nose out of the decayed fabric.Įagerly he played the light across its contents. "His top hat don't look too good." Rona said. Then they were off on their quest for Eden. He drew estimated margin-of-error lines too - dotted lines that were as much as ten miles to one side or the other of their new route. Rockson drew some pencil marks on the maps, using the meager angles and sun-elevation heights that Dutil had jotted down. They all chanted an amen in unison, and then went back and spread out their maps, and compared them to the notes from Run Dutil's little pad. It would be useful, for if the navigation device had some error in it, they could take that into account in plotting their trek south. Hopefully, they would find the next landmark on the route to Eden, the giant teepee that Danik bad described.ĭetroit rummaged around and found the toy sextant Run Dutil had used for compiling his meager notes in JFK's plastic hands. They headed southward, guided by Run Dutil's notes in the little pad. They didn't like the President's museum much, it seemed. The dogs were howling and yapping, apparently happy to be on the trail again. There is still some heat from radioactive elements in that surface - hence the clicking you hear on the Geiger attached to the front of my sled. You notice that there is no snow on that mile-wide plain either. "The heat of the air-detonated blast melted the sand into that shiny surface. "That's the area that took a nuke bomb hit back in the twentieth century," said Rockson grimly. They came over the ridge and looked down on a glassy-surfaced blackened plain. A tattered and mouse-eaten American flag hung disintegrating on a pole nearby. He was staring forever at the three astronauts in spacesuits that had returned from the moon and were coming in to receive his accolades. The snow flurries drifted in on the figure of John F. Light spilled in from above through a hole in the ceiling. The lack of plots is a bit of a downer a PHQ would be nice, and rumor is Egosoft will be adding one eventually.Danik took the lead, and they passed a lifelike statue of Teddy Roosevelt riding a horse in the Battle of Bull Run, and then a replica of President Bush signing the Martial Law decree in the Oval Office. So you shouldn't be seeing any more of those "Your Teladi Phoenix has been destroyed by a Pirate Kestrel in Tears of Greed" messages. OOS (Out-of-Sector) combat has also been rebalanced to make it more in-line with in-sector results. The bonus pack adds a few essential scripts, namely the Satellite Early Warning network, which will alert you to any hostile ships in a sector and the Station Building Service, which allows for easy complex construction (no spaghetti-plexes) and out-of-sector station construction. Press enter and the sector map will open. For example, open the universe map, type "B" and Belt of Aguilar and Black Hole Sun will highlight, type "L" and Black Hole Sun will be selected. Also, in the universe map, you can drill down a sector name by letter. The biggest change for me, personally, is the sector/universe map now uses more screen real estate at higher resolutions.
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