Futuristic Cypress Collegium

[Prizzy Kriyze]

Septimus River


Two more students attacked him. The first one with a jab towards his face. He simply leaned sideways to dodge the attack, but when the second one came at him, he began to run out of space to dodge to. Instead, as the other one tried to kick his face in, he backed up. Yes, backed up. Up the wall. He took about three quick steps backwards, ending him up at about 3m up on the wall. At first it looked like gravity was about to affect his perched figure, but he stayed in place up there.


He had a frown on his face. He'd preferred it if the imperator was the one doing this.

 

[AshenLily]

Damn! He was fast. Really fast. Erika stumbled as she felt her knee begin to give, only just managing to keep from falling. She'd been so close to making contact before Septimus had even begun to move, there hadn't been a doubt as to whether or not her blow would land, and somehow, in that small span of time, managed to get completely behind her. Erika knew she was fast. That wasn't just her ego talking. She'd outclassed many of her classmates when it came to speed, even before she'd received her Cybernetic. Septimus, on the other hand... He made Erika feel not only slow, but borderline useless.





Not one to be discouraged, she turned, seeing him now... standing on the wall...? The thought was an odd one, but she reminded herself she was back at Cypress. Nearly anything was possible here.


Erika again charged, this time taking advantage of her second Cybernetic, which allowed her to manipulate light. As she ran toward the wall, she bent the light around herself to give her a sort of camouflage effect, making her difficult to see. Unsure as to whether or not Septimus had seen her before she had shrouded herself, she approached the wall. Just before she reached the wall, she jumped, and kicked off of the wall with her left leg, sending her into a backflip motion. She brought her right leg around as swiftly as she could, intending to connect with Septimus' head. Though the kick would likely have devastating effects, if it landed, they had a Medicus in the room. Erika wasn't worried.


@Prizzy Kriyze

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

With his original plan falling through being to late to enlist Natsya support, Silas decided to wing trying to work himself in someway. Seeing Erika go ahead and attack with her light powers, he decided to give her some assistance. He gave a cry before going for a right hook in towards Septimus head aiming as distraction rather than hit.

 

[Prizzy Kriyze]

Septimus River


Septimus kept an eye on the quick girl constantly, as at the time she was the most dangerous person coming after him. So, of course, when she charged against him and disappeared, it got his attention. He instantly twitched and looked over there, before starting to charge up his psionic senses. He was afraid it wasn't going to be quick enough though, so he started jumping away from where she came from, only to realize he'd dropped his guard, and had a large alien about to hook him in the face.


The cybernetics in his knees noise-lessly added their strength to his as he jumped straight out from the wall, shooting across the room until he landed on the other wall and slid to the ground. That was closer than it should've been. Most people used their cybernetics passively, but Septimus liked to keep his off for more of a challenge. He decided not to use them further though, less should this lesson go on forever.

 

[Prizzy Kriyze]

Feitro Absolanz & Amalia Calixis


@Sigismund @Shura @Der Kojote


Fei looked through his data-slate, and hummed slightly. He tended to do that when going through raw information. He nodded a couple of times, and then proceeded to put the data-slate into a large pocket in his coat. He tapped his leg for a few seconds, and then stood up. Amalia, who was inspecting the dolls, looked over at him. They nodded to each other, and then Fei spoke up. "All architecti present follow me. You've already heard what we're going to bring up here, and know all the important parts. We're going to do something different."


With that, he walked out of the secluded corner auditorium area, tailed by a few students. Amalia, instead, turned to the newer students and started going over the basics of MetaMateria.


*Entry in overview about MetaMateria will be added shortly for anyone who's interested in RP physics.*

 

[Shura]

Jade looked up as the last of the demonstrations were done, some were interesting but most she had seen before. She had worked most of the theoretical kinks from her designs but really wouldn't be able to tell if everything would mesh together until she got the physical suit. The last student finished and the teachers announced that they were moving somewhere else. She closed out what she was working on a rose to follow the professor out of the room curious as to what they were going to be shown.

 

[Dapper Bunny]

Kane watched carefully at the students showing their cybernetics on the dummies. Some were more suicidal than others, but then there was others like Jade, although perhaps less sophisticated. He himself had already started writing up upgrades on his dataslate.


Although the upgrades were probably never going to happen, upgrading cybernetics takes a long time and materials and in the end it's usually every man or alien for themselves. Atleast that's the belief quite a few have. Kane shrugged, few of those he knew were engineers and most were ofcourse going for Legionnaire and combat.


Kane shrugged for himself and looked up as Fei spoke up. Going somewhere? Well understandable that we already been through this, I wonder what we'll do. Kane stood up and quietly followed after Fei.

 

[Prizzy Kriyze]

Feitro Absolanz


@King Of Imagination @Shura @Sigismund


Feitro walked out of the lab, took a left, went up through a hallway, into a mass teleporter room, and teleported the students with him to the other side of the satellite. He stepped out of the teleporter, took a left, and kept walking until they reached another classroom. This one was smaller, and exoplast containers were scattered all over the room. In the center of the room, there were lines in the floor that indicated the room could change shape. Fei walked up to it, and snapped his fingers. The center rectangle(about 9x4m big) lowered, a small wall outside the rectangle raised just up to his ankles, and light lit up in the about 2m deep pit in the center of the room. Fei looked pleased with this, snapped his fingers again, returning the room to it's original shape.


"Alright, engineers. Oh yeah, should probably mention that, you're considered engineers now, not students. You're in for a more interesting lesson than those kids back there. As you probably know, the grand duels are coming up. There's more than just straight out fighting in that competition. There's also cybernetic dueling, mind battles, piloting displays, and what we're going to get started on here... AI duels, and Alias fighting." He paused, looking at the expression of each of the gathered students.


"I'm sure you understand what AI duels mean. You're going to create robots, using material considered under master-level, and it should fit in an arena like the one I showed you just now. They put that limit in so it's not just about who makes the biggest robot. Alias fighting, on the other hand... It's not a very usual term nowadays. Aliases, or avatars, were more usual two hundred years back. It's basically an Exo-suit, but controlled from a distance. They were scrapped as the delays, even though incredibly short, were too long, and people started using Exo-suits instead. Now aliases are usually more used for competitions like this one. You're going to create aliases as well, and motion controls for them, and then we'll pick soldiers to use them, unless you really want to use them yourself."


He sat down in a chair by the center area, and let the words sink in. "There's materials and tools in the boxes. It's quite a mess, but you've all learnt ferric summoning* in psionics at this point, right? Also, feel free to ask me for help, but I can't help a lot other than give you vague feedback. I'm an obliviatus, and we wouldn't want you to create high-quality level obliterators**, right?"


"There's two weeks left until the Grand Duel, so you better get started. Everyone's supposed to have an Avatar and an Android done by then. If you want to collaborate on these things, that's fine, as long as we have at least 2 of each."


*Ferric summoning is a specialized version of telekinesis. If you know what kind of metallic object you want, you can feel where it is and use telekinesis to bring it to you.


**Keep in mind, a poor-quality level obliterator would be able to take over modern day america on it's own.

 

[King Of Imagination]

Ceylon immediately went for the less promising looking box full of scrap metal, because while a decent AI bot could have all of the bells and whistles you wanted, but if it couldn't take a hit or two, it wasn't worth shit. He had a plan. He knelt next to the box, his hand inside, and he imagined the metal he wanted, a semi-fluid silver-coloured metal that could be later hardened for more effective use. He smiled as he felt small, flexible bits of the metal begin collecing in the palm of his hand. When he felt that there was none left in the box, he pulled his hand out, and with it, a ball, about the size of a basketball, made of scrap pieces of biothium. It wasn't enough to make a large AI, but speed was a bit more important than size, at least when it came to the AI.


He walked over to another crate, calling out a coil of insulated fiberobtic cable. He was definitely old-fashioned when it came to the electrical aspects, but he just felt fiberoptics worked better than some of the newer wires. He grabbed six small six bladed fans, two small high powered motors, and a small energy cube. He figured that would be enough, as long as the matches didn't last more than 20 minutes, or exceed an altitude of 70 meters. Energy cubes acted up if they got too high above ground. All he needed now was a micro computer, about 100 multifuntional sensors, a nano-chip, and four rotating concussion cannons, all of which were found easily enough, except for the nano-chip. He walked over to Feitro.


"Excuse me, where can I grab a nano-chip, I can't find one in these crates."


@Prizzy Kriyze

 

[Shura]

Jade watched the professor quietly interest peeked at the challenge. She knew how could be built but with only two weeks and four things to build they would have to work fast to create something competition worthy. Figuring her extensive knowledge regarding exp-suits would be better put to use with the aliases system she figured she'd start with that one. Though there were a number of variables to consider. Narrowing down the style and strengths of the suit was necessary. Then there was the size it would be made along with the style the solider would be fighting with. She could pilot it her self however her style was more geared towards survival and stealth then it was completion. In the end she could make the perfect aliases but have it fail due to incompatibilities with the pilots. She looked over to the professor and spoke up. "Sir, perhaps it would be better to have the Soldiers already chosen who would be piloting the aliases."


@Prizzy Kriyze

 

[DescriptedEnd]

Indonea blinked suspiciously as the instructions were given and everybody sprung up. There was no way in hell she was getting involved with this, especially since you could get at him with any force necessary. For all she knew, this could be the day she died, and she hadn't been here that long. Her brain was sending out desperate signals for her to stay put, but her muscles tensed and screamed at her to make a move on her target. Of course she knew how to fight, seeing as she had her scraps in the past. She just didn't know how to fight well. In addition, there was always the possibility that she was going to get caught in the middle of whatever tactic the others used. She forced her feet to move backwards, away from the male, to where she figured she could stay out of trouble. Her mouth gaped open as the guy literally backed up the wall, another girl disappeared, and he then jumped across the damn room. Her hand instinctively clenched into a fist as her other arm prepped itself to block, in case he'd find it amusing to attack her. She knew they were supposed to hit him, but what if he wanted to take her out to eliminate his chances of getting hit, even by just a tiny fraction? Sensing her stress, her snake curled slightly tighter and let out a sigh, the sound of it's pressure emulators releasing built up air so it could condense. The thing didn't inhibit her at all, as it was rather light for something of its size. Might haveve had something to do with the small amount of tech it actually contained compared to other things, she had often thought, or it was of higher quality of than she had originally thought it to be. Nonetheless, this wasn't the time to be thinking about her 'pet'. Perhaps she could take a strike, just to see how far along she actually was.

 

[Der Kojote]

As the professor talked already Dylan was processing his ideas. So many things that he could do...he needed to make a robot for the AI duels. Though the Exo suit situation was going to be a little difficult...He was confident that his own suit could hold it's own. But he doubted most would wish to use it, hell he'd prefer to use it himself, that would just require some minor work that he already intended to do. Nothing to bad. Still main focus for right now was creating a robot. He looked around for inspiration. generally when living on a trash dump, it can come from anywhere. Come from anything. He tapped his fingers against his side. As he did that, he felt a tiny robotic tapping on his shoulder.


He looked to see Arach. He smilled, Ideas were flowing...he had access to tech just under master level. He had built Arach with some halfway decent tech, but nothing to fancy. Think of what he could build with much more sophisticated tech. Traps, lasers, nano-fabricators and dis-assemblers. Everything was coming together mentally He rushed over to a crate, starting to tear through scrap, his instincts for finding good pieces that generally would be overlooked was full go.


They had given a junk hound scrap bins filled with the finest bits of technology. They had done the hard work for him. From these piles, something amazing would come. Anansi would rise.

 

[Prizzy Kriyze]

Feitro Absolanz


Fietro had already started fiddling with his own little experiments. The same knife from yesterday jumped between his hands, this time it was more of the knife than it was yesterday, so it would seem he was able to fix it, ever so slightly. "Excuse me, where can I grab a nano-chip, I can't find one in these crates." Fei looked up at the boy who'd approached him. "Then make one. There's a NanoTech B45-Tailor here for a reason." he said, pointing at an advanced 3d priner in the corner of the room. He flipped the knife in his hand, and then swung it towards the end of the bench he sat next to. The knife met no resistance, and Fei almost struggled with his balance when it went straight through and left 3 deep cut marks.


He mumbled some curses in various languages as the next student asked him a question. "Sir, perhaps it would be better to have the Soldiers already chosen who would be piloting the aliases." He didn't look up from the blade, and responded "Never said you couldn't. Got anyone on your mind?"


@King Of Imagination


@Shura

 

[King Of Imagination]

Ceylon looked at the printer, and a strange, dark look crossed his face. This was so much better than anything he could have found. He could make a dozen nano-chips, which would allow for much more versatility. He looked at the girl who asked the question about the soldiers. "Just in case, why don't you make it as humanoid as possible, so it can adapt to most fighting styles. Maybe just scale it up, one-and-a-half or twice scaled would probably be your best bet, anything larger would just be a mess. I'll help you with it anatomically and balance wise if you'd like." With that comment, he walked over to the NanoTech Tailor.


He sighed as he began plugging in the needed specs, knowing exactly what he needed in terms of nano-chips. One for the adaptive, learning AI program he designed last year. It should work nicely. The second chip would be used as a converter from the sensors to the AI, because the sensors were incompatible with the program unfortunately. So with the two nano-chips made, he put them both in a programmer, and synced his AI program to one, and the conversion program to the other. He placed them in the micro-computer and put it on the table, out of the way.


He looked down at his materials, formulating a plan. A flying AI would be unexpected, and much more versatile. A small, quick one would be even more unexpected. He smiled, decided on his plan.

 

[Dapper Bunny]

Kane nodded as Fei finished talking about their assignments. Alias and AI. Kane's mind started working on the design. He quickly moved over to a few crates. First some metal to create the skeleton, the strong and flexible Gienesium. Then to create the rest of the body Kane got his hands in Urawhium and Wuaclosium. The former being a extremely lightweight and highly eletric resistant metal, the latter used in creating high quality armor against kinetic sources. Placing the metals on a nearby workbench, Kane moved over to get the internal components. Power source, actuators, motors, wires and much more.


Kane riffled through the chaos of materials and tools. He aimed for speed and tact. Then again, using desgins from his home combined with his own creativity and what he had learned from Cypress, Kane smiled gleefully. A combination of both new and old tech, neither should be dominant over the other, but work in a sort of symbiosis. Kane picked out tubes, wires, chips and a few other minor assortment of technical equipment from a few different crates. "Right, let me see.. Check, check...." Kane continued to mumble to himself for a while as he moved the things he had found over to the scraps and metals he had on the workbench. Now I need some nano-chips and some nanotubes. I shouldn't forget sensor array. ocular vision would be a weakpoint, then again it would depend on what the AI would be fighting against... Kane looked up watched the others talk or rather ask the professor a few things, Jade's question was a good one, an avatar or alias will ever only be as good as the user. Like the sword, it is only as powerful as it's wielder.


Kane moved over to the printer and printed a few things he had noted down on his dataslate, chipsets, nanotubes and few other tid-bits, such as energy core.


Kane returned back to his workbench and started to sort everything into a certain order. "Alright.. How should I tackle it?" He mumbled to himself again. Quadrupedal, grabbers would have advantage but.. If I use the hydraulic pumps with Urawhium as outer layer, I should be able to make some sort of eletromagnetic pulse that would work as a shield. The question is what about more ranged AI? Maybe add-ons to the final build?


Kane pondered the thought for a moment before removing his jacket, he stared at his robotic hand for a bit. Atleast one advantage on not having to gather all different kind of tools, it's like a Adrianin tool box. It wasn't long before Kane started on creating the skeleton for his AI. Another thought circled around Kane's mind, it would be better to have a soldier use the alias instead of himself, maybe Silas would be available.

 

[Shura]

Jade paused a moment in thought before looking over to one of the other Engineers that spoke up. "Hm? Yes a core is needed to simulate the pilot however the style in which the pilot fights in will determine programming and equipment... although... it wouldn't be terribly difficult to make an adaptive model..." She muttered the last part to her self mind working on various concepts using models she already had designed. It wouldn't be too hard to make it so armor and weaponry could shift pending on the type of opponent they were facing. She made her way over to one of the work stations scanning over various designs from the dataslate that were work in progress. She looked over to Dylan remembering him mentioning having room mates. "Dylan both of your room mates are soldier correct?" She asked figuring that it would be best to have subjects that were easy to find and access. She just needed to know what level they were at in terms of combat.


@King Of Imagination @Der Kojote

 

[AshenLily]

Erika smiled, as she watched her foot about to connect with Septimus' jaw. The kick had nearly all of the force she could manage behind it. The fact that she'd used the wall to increase her momentum gave it that extra boost of power she knew it would need, if she had any hopes of landing the kick. Septimus was already on the wall. At this point he had nowhere left to go.


Moments before the kick would land, Septimus shot straight out from the wall, hitting the wall opposite, and sliding to the floor with incredible ease. Erika's kick followed through, making a small whiff, as it passed where the man's head had been, just moments before. The motion followed through, and Erika landed on her feet,sighing softly in frustration. Again, she turned to face Septimus. Never one to admit defeat, she was going to try yet again. This time would be different (she hoped). It was obvious at this point, just how far ahead of Erika the man actually was, and she admitted that she had definitely underestimated him to begin with. She wasn't going to make that mistake again.


Rushing at Septimus, she activated both of her Cybernetics, using her first to increase her speed, and with her second, she decided to implement a technique she'd been working on as of late. It was still poor, as far as the potential she knew it possessed, but it might at least catch him offguard. As she rushed toward him, and activated her Cybernetic, it allowed her to shield her true form from the light, but make it appear as though she were still continuing on the same path, effectively creating a moving illusion of herself, while hiding her from the view of others. The illusion ran in a straight line, aiming yet another kick at his head, while Erika herself ducked down, and swung her leg around behind his, in an attempt to catch him offguard with a low blow from behind.


@Prizzy Kriyze


(All you other combat people suck. Help me out, here. )

 

[Der Kojote]

Dylan paused picking through the bin long enough to turn around and respond to Jade's Question. "Yes, they are both soldiers. However I also have a suggestion." He pulled out a particularly large hunt of scrap and nodded at it, Arach scuttling about on the floor apparently with glee. "You have room mates as well! Maybe one of them also is a solider." He wiped the sweat from his brow, "I know that your main room is the workshop but you do have roommates don't you? Have you even checked your datapad to see what room you were assigned too? Or are the comforts of a bed still overruled by the feeling of a chair?" He cracked his knuckles as he began to type on the datapad, still continuing on his conversation, "If your asking for a someone to operate your suit tell you what check with your own roommates first, if they aren't up to your standards, then come back to me, I'm fairly certain Mr. "I never shut my eyes" Would be VERY capable in combat...but try and at least talk to your own roommates first."


@Shura

 

[Shura]

Jade tilted her head slightly remembering she did in fact have room mates as well though she had said next to nothing to them. To her the dorm was a waste of space and resources when she spent all of her extra time working on projects. "I'll consider it." she muttered setting her dataslate down with the schematics to a base Alias core and the components she would need. She would need to find a pilot for the specifics but she could build the bones of the suit. A strong base was essential for this to work, mastery level materials were going to be a tremendous help. Strong and flexible musculo-skeletal and a sensitive nervous system. She nodded to her self before going over to the bin and materials collecting up what she would need to start.


A trip or two around to the different bins and she had enough to start assembling the bare basics of the torso creating it out of an mix of two metals one extremely durable and strong the other resilient and flexible much like the natural body there needed to be a balance between rigidity and flexible parts for things to work appropriately. While she might not grasp many of the social norms and psychology behind humans and other being physiology and anatomy was something she knew very well. Specializing in exo-suits meant studying the weaknesses of a flesh body and understanding where support would be needed and how to enhance the natural strengths. For as weak as the body my seems it really was a wondrous machine of organic parts especially humans with their ability to adapt and change. She hummed softly to herself as she worked assembling a the beginnings of a rib cage slightly altered to compensate for organic weaknesses. While she was basing it off the body she could follow her own design to fix what nature couldn't for one reason or another.

 

[Prizzy Kriyze]

Feitro Absolanz


@xx0mittens0xx @Godman873


Septimus had at this point activated his psionic sense, and saw the entire room in a different light. Not literally, mind you, the psionic sense doesn't affect your eyes. He didn't have to look to anticipate the girl who once again came at him more effectively than anyone else. When her kick came, he simply raised his foot, and put it down on hers when it passed, effectively holding her down by the foot.


"Game." Was heard through the hall. Septimus seemed surprised, and then looked back at Elliott. "What do you mean- Oh... Right, I wasn't supposed to let them touch me." Elliott looked at him with cold eyes, and simply responded "Yes. Either way, the class is over. The students that chose martial arts can stay, but the cybernetics mastery kids should go to Amalia's classroom." Septimus looked a little disappointed, but then took his foot off of the girl's, and offered her a hand. "Good fighting. I think you'll be come an excellent soldier."


Elliott went over and sat down on the stage again, though this time not with his legs crossed, just with them hanging over the corner of the stage. "Septimus, tell them about the weapons." Septimus, who was about to leave, turned around, got an 'Oh yeah...' kind of expression, and then raised his voice.


"Before you go, you should all start considering what type of weapons you want to get better with using. We'll be distributing personal wargear on wednesday, so you better report what weapon you want by tomorrow. Anything from Splinter-Spears to Cryo-Fists." He was about to leave again, but then seemed to realize something, and turned back "I forgot, some of you may be from smaller systems where the use of guns is still popular. A little information on that; Due to force fields becoming incredibly effective in the last century, guns have almost been completely disowned by professional soldiers. Instead, melee weapons that have given up their range for more effective shield and armour breaking properties are at large. Most ranged fighting by soldiers are done using cybernetics, although there are still a few high-ranking soldiers in the galaxy that use guns regularly. The main reason behind this is that the only guns powerful enough to either break through shields or possess advanced enough bullets to fit shield dampeners inside are the cannons mounted on voidships, and no matter what kind of cybernetics you have, I doubt you can lift those."

First classes are officially over


Current time = 10AM

Food is served, if you're feeling a bit peckish
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[Dapper Bunny]

Kane had remained silent as he worked on his AI, he had already finished the skeleton and more than half of the internal components. He had already started the sideproject of creating another AI, mostly just putting aside unnecessary components and parts that he didn't needed for the first AI. He had taken a small break just to admire and study the AI, and also to see what the others were doing.


"Alright, it looks you've all gotten started, and it looks pretty nice. Keep working like this and you'll be Ministrators or Obliviatus in no time. Either way, time's up. I'll see you guys again this time tomorrow, but for now it's off to Piloting or Cybernetics Mastery with you."





Kane made a small frown, but quickly changed to a smile. "Damn, and here I thought we could have all day to work on these." He looked back at his AI. "Very well, many thanks Heishan Feitro." Kane bowed and walked out of the room and took out his dataslate. "Lunch is being served.. Mayhaps I could meet Silas or any of the other soldiers." Kane kept looking at his dataslate for a short while before putting it away. "Anyone else heading towards the cafeteria? If we're lucky the soldiers are there." He said, looking back into the room.


@Shura @King Of Imagination @Der Kojote

 

[King Of Imagination]

Ceylon looked up from his project. "Seriously? I haven't even finished the calibrations. Oh well." He stood up and threw a cloth over it. He looked over at Kane and nodded. "I'm headed down there. I'd like to pick out a solider before I start building." He picked up his micro-computer and discreetly slipped it into his pocket, making it seem like he was just going in for his wallet. He pulled it out and looked at his credit card. "Looks like my dad put in another hundred-thousand credits. Lunch is on me." He laughed and started walking down, sliding the computer into a deeper pocket of his coat. He had some programming to do outside of class, and he didn't think the teacher would approve of a suicidal contingency.


(Definition of suicidal contingency: In the event that the AI is losing, the AI program will be overrided with the suicide command, in which the robot flies itself into the target and overloads its weapons, causing them to explode in a violent manner.)

 

[Shura]

Jade let out an irritated sigh as the class ended, the time was always too short. Still she could get a lot done out side of class. She glanced over to the other engineers who were heading off to the dinning hall, not exactly a productive use of time bit she needed to find someone to fight with the alias. Great... more socilizing, part of her wish she had more sill in the art of combat since it was her creation. Hopefully she would be able to find someone who could understand her explanations. She followed along with the others silently mind still working over the logistics of what she was planning.


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[AshenLily]

"Damnit!" Erika swore as Septimus' foot came down on hers, holding her in place. She'd been certain this last plan of attack was going to work, but the man had moved only mere inches. He hadn't even flinched at the illusion she'd managed to create, with the aid of her Cybernetic. Hell, he didn't even appear to have noticed it. And now, here she was, stuck on the ground. In any real-world situation, she'd likely already be dead.


"Game."


Erika looked up in surprise as the Professor spoke. "But I didn't--" she cut off abruptly, as she'd realized the terms of the "fight" (if you wanted to call it that). Though it was a serious technicality, in any sort of pre-arranged match where victory conditions were set, prior to the fight taking place, it would technically qualify as a victory for her.


Erika hated technicalities. Winning through a technicality was almost worse than just losing altogether. There wasn't any honor in it. The pressure from her foot was removed, and Erika started to get to her feet, when she saw a hand extended to her. Tentatively reaching up, Erika grabbed the hand, and allowed Septimus to help her to her feet. "Good fighting. I think you'll be come an excellent soldier." At first, she thought he was mocking her, and nearly retaliated with some very unlady-like words, before realizing that he seemed to be serious.


Erika managed a laugh. "Thank you, but I couldn't even land a single hit on you. I've still got quite a way to go, that's for sure." Professor Carell announced the end of class, and Erika headed off toward lunch. Though she was still a bit bitter about not being able to land a hit on Septimus, she also realized how far ahead of her he was, in terms of power, and experience. It would be silly of her to expect herself to be able to compete with someone so advanced. She was definitely looking forward to Cybernetics Mastery after lunch, but unfortunately, it would need to wait, for just a little while longer.


@anyone.


(Why did all the Combat students die? T_T)

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

"No guns, a pity."Silas muttered non-nonchalantly though this was troubling news. SIlas people stilled relied on combustion based guns of the previous centuries, this news of these force field needed to be passed to home and studies. His first urge was to get into contact right away though he knew it wouldn't be wise especial since he was expected to stick around the dojo and train. He did so waking to a training dummy and practiced his hand to hand fighting, apart from doing what he was expected to: He was pathetic at the challange and needed to improve.