Status: Failure

Operation

Safety Dance

Hurrah, it's Leotard Day! And the mission is SAFETY.

Pilots are invited to demonstrate fashion-forward hazard mitigation gear, along with safe spaceflight and shore leave techniques. Proper HARV operation including coupling formation, unconventional flight postures, balancing of pilots and/or ships on Earth objects, and other safe maneuvers are encouraged. What a good time to try your first flight on a more challenging ship!

We did. Lashings of acid green, hi-viz orange and eye-punching reflective graced the fleet, as well as many laseriffic ships. With Stogie navigating we went by way of the usual constellations to a strange playground in JP designed as a Habitrail for Earth humans, and populated the heck out of it. There was a chopper-powered angular momentum generator, fully justifying the "Nonstandard Spacetime" label that began this mission's bulletin. And a zipline. Hello, zipline!

Food was highly appreciative, whistling and honking like crazy, and a close ST encounter at a 7-11 went favorably.
Acehole reports:
"I'm kinda drunk right now so I don't know if you guys are real."
"I didn't get the memo! Let me know next time."
Sprocket reports:
"If it was up to me you would all be shot."
Heard by many:
"Look, it's the Gay Bike Parade!"
And Tyrian reports:
"Check it out, spring is back!"

This mission fails if any medal of injury is or should be awarded. With great safety comes great risks.

We failed: Zappa shed blood. On the other hand he suggested a visit to a bench designed for beings of a type never yet seen on this planet, so he finishes the mission not without honour. (An explanatory plaque explained nothing.)

This tard reports an anomalous event: at Harvard Constellation a skateboard shot into the spacelane, passing before Trinity's primary thruster so that I flew directly over it, briefly operating a 5-wheeled vehicle with 4 wheels orthogonal to the direction of travel. Against all expectation, I stayed up.

Kudos to XXIII for climbing on top of every object we encountered. To Dreadflint and eXceSs for performing HARV coupling with brio and success. To Dr Claw for bringing groove and everyone (but especially Vomit and Snow) for bringing chic to safety. To navtail for creative and expeditious navigation, and keeping it together on a large and eventful mission. Sprocket and Mongoose for swapping ships at the right time, and Tyrian for rocking brand new HARV Iridium. Gosh! I wanna list everybody. Thank you all you guys. Every mission idea is stupid, until you make it happen.

Medal of strength to SevenOfNine for persisting in the face of injury, Valour to Dreadflint, eXceSs and Leotard for coupling in public, Chic to Vomit, and Injury to Zappa. Woop woop!
Pilot Ship Points Promotion
AceHole Temerity 206.357   Pilot
BadCat Lust 0  
BaneThunderwolf Bieber Fever 493.661   Chief Petty Officer
Brainstorm Civilian Ship 0  
Dead Bride Doctor Love 0  
DrClaw Shockwave 1137.54   Senior Chief Petty Officer
DreadFlint Compliance 323.567   Petty Officer Third Class
Epoxy Yer Mom 206.357   Pilot
eXceSs Chutes & Ladders 419.266   Aviator First Class
Leotard Trinity 602.223   Petty Officer Second Class
metoikos Civilian Ship 359.271   Aviator
Mongoose Mjollnir 0  
Runt Anger 0  
Seven Of Nine Swamp Thing 687.69   Petty Officer Second Class
Sidekick Greed 409.837   Aviator First Class
Snow Ez Raider 0  
Sprocket Trez Bonz 145.13   Aviator First Class
Stogie Wingnut 352.536   Petty Officer Second Class
Threespeed Burning Chrome 236.34  
Tyrian Iridium 301.986   Petty Officer Second Class
vomit Jan Brady 466.922   Aviator First Class
Wombat Moneypenny 515.696   Petty Officer Second Class
XXIII D.B. Cooper 204.909   Aviator
Zappa Curb Burner 199.535  
Pilots must be logged in to see the briefing.
Taskforce Pilot
Mission Leader Leotard
Deck Officer metoikos
Gate Attendant metoikos
MRC Officer DrClaw
Navigator Stogie
Tailgunner BaneThunderwolf
Com-Sat 1 vomit
Tool Bag Tyrian
Flat Bag Sidekick
Medi Bag BadCat
Wookiee Bag Threespeed
Ambassador XXIII
Chalk Bag Dead Bride
Still Cam Snow
Airlock eXceSs
Life Support 1 DrClaw
Life Support 2 Leotard
Life Support 3 Tyrian
Damage Control Wombat
Minister of Zoobs DrClaw

Mission Parameters

DivisionMAD
Date2014.05.03
Mission LeaderLeotard
Mission Size 24 pilots
OriginFort Tyler
DestinationPrudence!
Light Years18.318
G-Well Activity2.630
Technical Rating2.005