Dialog Code to Herc Commander:
Role: Laid back, neutral, dosen't talk much (great, then I don't have to do thousands of lines of dialog for him.)
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Wow, what an interesting set up for navigation
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. you have here. Very different to the systems on my own
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. ship. This looks alot more advanced than our technology.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Commander: This is an experimental ship. Wait until you see this.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. You want to know how we got from Telos to Telfus Prime in such
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. and you know from the bio scans that its true. Skinar, take us out
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. to say, Nc Cigna 2.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: I've never heard of Nc Cigna 2 System.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Skinar: Nc Cigna, searching star charts, Found it. Setting
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Coordinates for Slipstream.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Slipstream? I've never heard of such a thing.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Commander: Let's go to the Galaxy map and Explain.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. A) Enter Galaxy Map at Andromeda Galaxy Point
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Okay, we also have that map
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. on our ship.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: This can't be, Cigma 2 is a Galaxy?
echo.
echo. Computer: Cigma 2 Galaxy Is Approximately 200 light years away
echo. from your Current location.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: This is amazing. Not even our map systems
echo. can extend out this far. Ours are limted to just mapping
echo. the Andromeda galaxy.
echo.
echo. Commander: I know. But this is no ordinary ship. Computer how long
echo. will it take to get to Cigma 2?
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Hah, it would take over 300 years to get there. You
echo. can't possibly be thinking of travelling all the way out to that
echo. tiny little galaxy, it's too far away.
echo.
echo. Commander: When we had our old technology yes it was impossible to
echo. travel out past the Jumpgates of Andromeda, but not anymore.
echo. Skinar, How long will it take us to reach our destination?
echo.
echo. Skinar: The computer says Approximtely half an hour.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Half an hour to cross a distance of 200 light years?
echo.
echo. Commander: Yep. Computer Jump to Cigma 2.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Whoa, what's happening, what is all this strange
echo. light, now we're going down some kind of wormhole tunnel.
echo.
echo. Commander: It is called the slipstream, Computer, show the Commander
echo. on the screen just how fast we are actually travelling.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I-I can't believe how far you have already travelled
echo. we're now moving out of the edges of Andromeda, passing by the other
echo. galaxies oh my how could anything like this be even possble. We must
echo. be going at speeds of half a light year a second, I didn't think such
echo. technology even existed.
echo.
echo. Commander: That's right. That's how we were able to get to Telfus
echo. Prime in just a second using the Slipstream subspace wormhole tunnel.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I am amazed but surely these are no false sensor
echo. readings to put on some kind of light show.
echo.
echo. Commander: We will land the ship on one of the planets
echo. and show you its real. You will see and then believe its no trick.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Where is your ship?
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Storm: In the docking bay area.
echo. Commander: There she is the NC7 Presidium.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Okay. it's a nice little ship.
echo.
echo. Storm: Its the nicest thing we've heard so far from you.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Don't push your luck Teloran.
echo.
echo. Commander: Let's go inside shall we?
echo. ---------MEANWHILE ABOARD THE HERC SHIP (STILL IN WARP) ----------
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Well what is it? We are well on our way to
echo. Telfus Prime and there's still no sign of them.
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation. Sir, they suddenly dissapeared from our sensors.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Hah, they must be still at the starting line
echo. maybe they have run into some technical difficulties with their
echo. engines, we should be seeing them on close range sensors by now.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Navigation. Sir they dissapeared from our long range
echo. sensors. They are nowhere to be seen.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: What??? That's impossible. The sensors must
echo. be malfunctioning. Continue onto Telfus Prime.
echo.
echo. Herc Communications: Hes right sir, we can't find them.
echo.
echo. Herc Second in Command: Wht do you want us to do Commander?
echo.
echo. Herc #2 We had the sensors calibrated just a week ago, they have been
echo. working fine. We don't think its a glitch in the system, they
echo. were there one minute and poof gone off the sensors the next.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: That can't be possible.
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation: Possible or not, they have dissapeared from
echo. our sensors.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: They must have a cloaking device on their ship.
echo. they must be still on sensors but hidden from our sensors. I'm
echo. taking no chances, full speed ahead.
echo.
echo. The Hercs Finally arrived near Telfus Prime.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I can't wait to see the look on their faces
echo. when we show up at the bar first before they do.
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation: Ehh Commander, I don't know how they did it but.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: What is it Kleu what is the matter with you it
echo. looks like you've seen a ghost.
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation: I don't believe it, the reason why their ship
echo. dissapeared off our scanners is becaue they are docked at Telfus
echo. Prime. Telfus Prime Docking Control has confirmed they docked
echo. about 25 minutes ago.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: WHhAAAT ??? That's impossible !!!!!!!!
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation: Come see for yourself.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: It must be a trick, they must've had a duplicate
echo. ship docked at Telfus Prime. They can't have gotten faster than
echo. us we're at maximum warp right now.
echo.
paue
cls
echo. -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation: I a have a bad feeling about this. I don't know
echo. how they done it, but there they are. And I bet they are waiting
echo. for us down at the bar and then we will find out how they did it.
echo.
echo. Herc #2 Face it Commander, we've lost the race, we didn't even
echo. stand a chance, they must have some kind of special drive that
echo. on board their ship that we don't know about that's shielded from
echo. our sensors as we cannot penetrate their hull.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Whhaaat? (Slams fist on the console.) This
echo. cannot be. We've got the best sensors in the galaxy and they just
echo. dissapeared of the radar?
echo.
echo. Herc #2 We've now arrived at Telfus Prime.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Dock here at Telfus Prime, I'm transporting down
echo. myself to the bar. I want to know what's going on. Herc #2 is
echo. coming with me.
echo.
echo. Herc #2 Yes, Commander.
echo. -----------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Barman: Hello Sonny, I see you have been waiting quite a while
echo. in my bar, so what shall it be?
echo.
echo. A) One Saturn on the Rocks please.
echo. B) We're just waiting for our Herc friends to show up.
echo.
echo.
echo. Commander: Should be arriving any minute now.
echo.
echo. Storm: This is going to be interesting.
echo.
echo. (Suddenly the two Hercs Materializes in the bar).
echo.
echo. Herc #1: What ? It cannot be possible. How did you
echo. get here before us? Bartender how long have they been here.
echo.
echo. Barman: They have been here for nearly half an hour waiting.
echo.
echo. Herc Commander: You mean they got to Telfus prime from Telo
echo. in just a few seconds? That's impossible. It must be some
echo. kind of trick with holograms. (Waves hand at commander)
echo.
echo. Commander: Ouch, you hit me.
echo.
echo. Herc #2 He is real Commander, its really him, its no trick.
echo. I don't know how but this human and his Teloran pet got
echo. here way before we did. (Checking readings on Holo pad)
echo.
echo. Commander: I'm real. It's no hologram or trick.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: But how, I don't understand.
echo.
echo.
echo. Commander: Come with me and I'll show you how
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Herc #2 return back to the ship. I will go
echo. with this human and let him demonstrate to me to see how he
echo. was able to do this.
echo.
echo. + Herc Commander Joins as Party Member
echo. Storm: Follow us, Commander Herc.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander. Very well. This I'm sure will be interesting.
echo.
echo. A) Exit Bar
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1: Well look who the Leonix dragged in.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Commander: I don't want any trouble gentleman.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Herc #2: You are already marked as trouble.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Barman: Oh not again, look guys, I just had the place all refurbished
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. last week from the last Herc fight.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: Can't seem to stay out of trouble, eh, Commander?
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Commander: Quiet Loana. These guys mean business.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 We will spare your pathetic little bar. Name
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. the time and place and we will finish this.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. A) Rysan System
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. B) The Vinus Gardens
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. C) Do the honorable thing and Leave
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
echo. Herc #2: Hah, walk out on us you pathetic Human, you are all cowards
echo. the lot of you. You are a weak spiecies.
echo.
echo. Commander: I don't like being called a coward. But I will not be
echo. fighting you today.
echo.
echo. Herc #1: Very well then, but if we ever see you around our system
echo. you will have to fight.
echo.
if %spacegolf% EQU 1 goto glaugh1a
goto glaugh1
:glaugh1a
if %spacefold% EQU 1 echo. Commander: You couldn't catch us in your own warp trails.
if %spacefold% EQU 1 echo.
if %spacefold% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Hah. we shall see about that I like a challenge.
goto glaughrace
:glaugh2
echo.
echo. Commander: We shall see. Let's leave.
echo.
echo. Herc #1: Ahahahaha. These humans, they are too much. How pathetic.
echo.
echo. Storm: I would gladly fight all you Hercs. My gun never runs out of
echo. ammo. Or didn't you know that I had a Dark Matter Energy Weapon.
echo.
echo. Herc #2: What? Commander, if this Teloran is right and hes not
echo. bluffing us then hes got the most dangerous gun in all the galaxy and
echo. if we attack them while hes carrying that weapon, it will destroy
echo. half the system and us with it.
echo.
echo. Herc #1: Bah, (checking holo scanners) I don't believe what I am seeing
echo. this, this Teloran has a Singuliarity Weapon inside his gun, of all
echo. the most idiotic stupid things the Telorans could do is to put that
echo. deadly thing inside their weapons.
echo.
echo. Storm: Sorry to correct you Hercs but only my gun has the singularity
echo. inside it, all the other weapons we make on Telos don't have it, it was
echo. an erm. prototype or experiment I made..
echo.
echo. Herc #2 You are insane. Dont you realize that you could wipe out the
echo. whole expanse with that thing let alone one system.
echo.
echo. Storm: I have been told that before. But I don't think I'm insane. a
echi. little crazy maybe as Loana likes to tell me, but not insane.
echo.
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: At first I thought he was insane, but now I
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. know he is a nutter with a very dangerous weapon.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 He is telling the truth, well I guess this is your lucky
echo. day Human that you have this Teloran with you for protection, but just
echo. hope that something bad dont' happen to the gun and let that thing
echo. all loose or half of this system will be destroyed.
echo.
echo. Storm: The gun has its risks but is under containment..
echo.
echo. Herc #1 You should not even be carrying such a weapon. We would
echo. not even manufacture such a device.
echo.
if %hercity% EQU 1 echo. Storm: Maybe, but it protects me well. By the
if %hercity% EQU 1 echo. You guys do have a very beautiful City. I visited
if %hercity% EQU 1 echo. your world recently.
if %hercity% EQU 1
pause
cls
echo. --------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo.
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #1 Yes we do have a very beautiful city, I'm glad
if %hercity% EQU 1 you enjoyed it, we take alot of pride in keeping the
if %hercity% EQU 1 echo city beautiful.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Storm: I thought you Hercs were a peaceful people, not
if %hercity% EQU 1 hostile, so its unsual to see this behavior coming from
if %hercity% EQU 1 you guys.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #1 Normally we are, but the military told us to
if %hercity% EQU 1 toughen up because its a tough universe out there.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Commander: I see.
echo.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #2 Are you out of your mind, the guy has the most
if %hercity% EQU 1 deadliest weapon in the galaxy and you are giving him a
if %hercity% EQU 1 tea and biscuits and a guided tour of the homeworld?
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Storm: And you guys even argue with one another and
if %hercity% EQU 1 disagree. We didn't see that on your homeworld.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #2 Silly Teloran, we are not on our homeworld so
if %hercity% EQU 1 we follow our own rules when not on our homeworld.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #1 Hes got the advantage, we haven't. so we might
if %hercity% EQU 1 as well be nice to him.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Storm: Your friend here is smart.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #2 Bah, you have been indoctrinated with this human's
if %hercity% EQU 1 beliefs. You been at the bars with humans for too long.
if %hercity% EQU 1
echo.
echo. Herc #2 (Talking to Herc #1) Well Commander this changes everything,
echo. we have a menace with a gun that shouldn't even be in the galaxy,
echo. we need to go to the high council on our homeworld to discuss what
echo. we should do.
echo.
echo. Commander: Well Gentleman, I think its time for us to leave. Come
echo. on Storm, you've caused enough trouble already, they know about
echo. your little gun, and they will tell their homeworld about it, so it
echo. won't surprise me if they ban us from entering their system.
echo.
echo. (The Hercs get up and Leave the table..)
echo.
echo.
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: I can't believe Storm's gun just got us out
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. of a firefight.
echo.
echo. Commander: Don't be too sure of that, they are backing off for now
echo. but they are going to their high council to talk about the gun
echo. and their high counci may not be so friendly.
echo.
echo. Storm: What do you think they will do.
echo.
echo. Commander: I don't know. We may have to find out and visit Rysan.
echo. to see what they are up to.
echo.
echo.
set counciltrub=1
echo.
echo. Herc #1: We have a pretty fast ship. The first one to get
echo. their ship from Telos to Telfus Prime wins. We will be
echo. waiting for you on Telfus Prime at the Docking Ring Station
echo. at the Dink Drink Drunk bar.
echo.
echo. Commander: You're on. Let the race begin.
echo.
echo. Herc #1: The Starting line will be just outside Telos near the
echo. space station.
echo.
echo. Storm: This is going to be good.
echo.
echo. A) Leave Telos Homeworld
echo.
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto gtracestart
goto glaughrace
:gtracestart
cls
echo. ----------------OUTSIDE TELOS SPACE STATION---------------------
echo.
echo.
echo. Commander: Ok we're at the starting race location.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 You are going to need all the luck you can get to try
echo. to catch up to us. Ready your engines.
echo.
echo. Herc #2 Hahaha, we're already at warp, and those slow pokes
echo. are still stuck back the starting line. I guess they
echo. chickened out.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 They may have a slow start but they might still beable to
echo. catch up. I'm not taking any chances, maximum warp.
echo.
echo. Storm: These guys don't stand a chance.
echo.
echo. Commander: But let them go to warp first before we start up the
echo. Slipstream drive and land on Telfus Prime to wait for them.
echo.
echo. Storm: How long will it take them to reach Telfus Prime at
echo. their maximum warp speed.
echo.
echo. Commander: Abt 30 minutes or so.
echo.
echo. Storm: We can reach the place in just a few seconds.
echo.
echo, Commander: I know. Let's just start the Slipstream drive anyway.
echo.
echo. SLIPSTREAM A) Jump to Telfus Prime
echo.
echo. Skinar: Entering in Coordinates to Telfus Prime into Slipstream
echo. it's done. Slipstream is now Ready to Jump Commander.
echo.
echo. Commander: Jump.
echo.
echo. Storm: This is like giving them a big kick to the face, I can't wait
echo. to see the look on their faces when we arrive before they do.
echo.
echo. The ship instantly Dissapears...
set raceon=1
goto tekfushw
echo. --------------------CIGMA 2 GALAXY -------------------------------
echo.
echo. Commander: Skinar: Pick a habitable friendly planet for us to
echo. land on.
echo.
echo. Skinar: Working, found one its in the Primus Omni System. Heading to
echo. planet Tau Ean, exiting the Slipstream now.
echo.
echo. Commander: And there's the planet.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Comander: Wow, you mean we are already there?
echo.
echo. Commander: Yep.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I have to see this for myself, Land on the planet
echo. to make sure that its no simulation.
echo.
echo. A) Land on Sigan Minor
echo.
echo.
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto sigan Alpha
goto cigmagalaxy
:sigan
cls
echo. ---------------------SIGAN Alpha
echo.
echo. Commander: Well when you step outside this airlock and onto this strange
echo. unexplored alien world you will be making history on your own planet
echo. to be the first Herc Commander to step outside on a planet that's over
echo. 200 light years away from your own galaxy.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I am a little nervous at what we will find when we
echo. step outside those doors.
echo.
echo. Storm: You will be amazed, believe me I was when we first took the
echo. ship out to another galaxy. The air is breathable on this planet
echo. and the doctor says there are no contaminants in the air, so it
echo. should be ok for us to step outside and explore. There's no hostile
echo. lifeforms on this world.
echo.
echo.
echo. A) Open Door to Ship
echo. B) Leave
echo.
echo.
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto osigan
goto sigan
:osigan
echo. ------------------SURFACE OF ALIEN PLANET------------------
echo.
echo. Commander: Look around you commander, look at all the different
echo. galaxies that are in the sky. We are telling you the truth.
echo. you are now 200 light years away from Telfus Prime.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I don't believe what I'm seeing, it is true,
echo. we really have travelled that great distance, for these clusters
echo. of galaxies I'm now seeing in the sky were not in the sky before,
echo. and look, I can just make it out in the distance there's Andromeda
echo. there's our galaxy but its so small and far away. And I've never seen
echo. these kind of plants before they are nowhere to be found on our
echo. homeworld.
echo.
echo. Commander: That's right because we're no longer in our own galaxy
echo. anymore. And this is not a holo simulation but is the real thing.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Amazing. I don't know what to say.
echo.
echo. Commande: You're the first herc who has ever been out this far
echo. and that also counts also for the rest of us. We are just as
echo. amazed with the slipstream as you are experiencing it now.
echo.
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: You soon get used to it. Zipping around
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: the galaxies I mean, I was amazed just as
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: the commander was, I didn't think it was
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: possible either because I didn't think
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: the technology even existed but it does exist.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Are there any side effects from using this
echo. technology.
echo.
echo. Commander: We have a ship's doctor on board, she tells us if we are in
echo. any danger or not in using this technology all the time. So far we
echo. have not heard from her so I assume its ok.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Ok that's good to know. Is she familiar with Herc
echo. biology? We don't know if the Slipstream is safe for us to use or
echo. not over the long term. It might be ok for short term, but we should
echo. find out from the doctor if its ok or not for our spieces.
echo.
echo. Commander: I don't know if she is or not, ou will have to ask her
echo. yourself.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Tell me which way to see the doctor and I will find out.
echo.
echo. Commander: Go to the Lift and press Medical Bay on the Deck. I'm sure
echo. you will be fine, but check to see with the doctor just in case as
echo. we don't know anything about Herc Biology but she might know, she's
echo. quite knowledge on alien biologies.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Will do that thanks.
echo.
echo. A) Enter Ship's Lift
echo. B) Back to Navigation
echo.
echo.
set hercdoc=1
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto lift
if %x1%==b goto deckgalaxymap2
goto osigan
:medherc
cls
echo. --------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Hello, you must be the Herc Commander, been expecting
echo. you. You want to know if Slipstream travel is safe for your
echo. type of biology?
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Yes. I do feel a little light in the head.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: I am pleased to announce that it is safe for you
echo. but you might experience a few side effects like light headdedness
echo. so you need a little of this (presses arm) will take care of that.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: What is that you're putting into me.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: A little relief from any side effects from the
echo. Slipstream. A mild sedative to ease the giddy feeling since you
echo. just travelled 200 light years away.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Ok, yes my head is starting to feel a little
echo. better now. Thanks Doctor and how often do I need to take that.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: It will last a week. At least before you need to
echo. take another dose. Over time your body will adapt and you won't
echo. need to take them at all. It just takes a little time to adapt.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander; Ok thanks. I will be leaving now.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Since you are now one of the crew, even if its
echo. only temporary you can ask me a few questions while you are
echo. here.
echo.
echo. A) How long you been doing this?
echo. B) Do they have a cure for that plague that I been hearing about?
echo. C) What is the commander really like?
echo. D) Why is this 'Fool' allowed to carry an illegal gun with him?
echo.
echo. X) Leave Medical Bay
echo.
echo.
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto mdochask1
if %x1%==b goto mdochask2
if %x1%==c goto
if %x1%==d goto
if %x1%==x goto lift
goto medherc
:mdochask1
if %endchat% EQU 1 goto mranchat
cls
echo. -----------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: I've been practicing Medicine now for 27 years so I'm
echo. familiar with many alien spieces.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Hey wait a Minute I know you, you're that crazy
echo. genetic research scientist at that Lab on Teseract prime that was
echo. doing all those experiments.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: How did you know I was a research scientist?
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Because we know there was a huge research labs
echo. place on Tesseract Prime and we know you worked there and we
echo. suspect Loana also worked at the same place acording to our
echo. sources of information. We heard there was shielding project
echo. and genetic experiments going on in this sector and we were
echo. curious and we came across all these droids who were out of
echo. control so we had to shoot them.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Ah, that explains the droid massacre near the ruins
echo. that Commander Axel reported on. So you Hercs were responsible
echo. for putting those droids out of action.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Some of them, the rest we found had already
echo. been busted up. And you also have one of the droids on board this
echo. ship with you.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Yes the T6 Unit has been especially helpful to us
echo. in giving us alot of the star charts to these uncharterd systems. The
echo. commander believes he can be trusted.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I'm not so sure, but he appears to be more
echo. under control than the others we saw were...
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Yes your informtion is correct I was working with Loana
echo. at the labs. We were conducting genetic experiments. We're now
echo. trying to help the colonists.
set endchat=1
pause
goto medherc
:mdochask2
cls
echo. ------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Did you find a cure for the plague of Tesseract
echo. Prime which struck the Colonists?, it struck some of our systems
echo. in the outerworlds region of space as well.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Not yet, but me an Loana are still working on it. We
echo. don't know how far the plague has spread, but it sounds bad if it
echo. also reached as far as your space as well.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: We have since quarenteed those areas. It didn't
echo. get far, just infected a couple of colonies in our systems, but we
echo. have quarenteed off the whole area of and sealed it so the infection
echo. cannot escape and spread to try to infect other systems in our space.
echo.
echo. Dr Thompson: A wise choice. We will let you know when we do find
echo. a cure to this problem.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: That would be much appreciated, thanks.
echo.
pause
goto medherc
:mranchat
cls
echo. ----------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo.
set /a spin=%random% %%10+1
if %spin% EQU 1 echo. Dr. Thompson: I have told you all I know on the subject.
if %spin% EQU 2 echo. Dr. Thompson: Sorry, I have no more information to give you.
if %spin% EQU 3 echo. Dr. Thompson: That's all I have.
if %spin% EQU 4 echo. Dr. Thompson: There's no more information.
if %spin% EQU 5 echo. Dr. Thompson: I don't know anything more
if %spin% EQU 6 echo. Dr. Thompson: I've nothing left to say.
if %spin% EQU 7 echo. Dr. Thompson: Maybe the Commander can help you with that.
if %spin% EQU 8 echo. Dr. Thompson: I don't tell my whole life story out to strangers.
if %spin% EQU 9 echo. Dr. Thompson: Go see the Commander.
echo.
echo. A) Leave back to pilot area
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto mercskinar
goto mranchat
:mercskinar
cls
echo. ---------------------SKINAR IN THE PILOT SEAT -----------------------
echo.
echo. Skinar: So you're the Herc Merc we're been hearing about. Welcome
echo. Aboard the NC7 Presidium.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Herc Merc? What does that mean?
echo.
echo. Skinar: Herc Mechdroid.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander; Lieutenant, I'm not a robot or a machine but am
echo. a Herc Commander of my ship.
echo.
echo. Skinar: Oh my mistake, Sorry, I been around the t6 unit for too long.
echo. hes a Mechdroid Unit.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I see and he travels all around with you on the
echo. Ship.
echo.
echo. Skinar: He also goes out on missions with the Commander as well to do
echo. different kind of tasks.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I see, a resourceful little thing by the sounds of
echo. it.
echo.
echo. Skinar: And also has over 200 star charts locked awawy in his memory
echo. he gives them to us when he can. That's how we accumulated some of
echo. the strange systems.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I see, so this little droid plays a part in all
echo. of this.
echo.
echo. Skinar: I guess so. Oh, here comes the Commander.
echo.
echo. Commander: Yes, Gentlamn what an I do for you?
echo.
echo.
echo. A) Ask Axel what this droid is all about
echo. B) Ask Axel about Skinar the Pilot.
echo.
echo.
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto mt6droid
if %x1%==b goto
goto mercskinar
:mt6droid
cls
echo. -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Commander: I will let T6 explain for himself. Go on T6.
echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. T6unit: I am a mechdroid Battle Commander from
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. a galaxy far away from here.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Then how did you get into our space?
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. T6unit: We fell into it by accident through a wormhole
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. and wound up in the place you call the badlands in the
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. outworlds system.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Ah so there's a secret wormhole that
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. leads out of this galaxy.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. T6unit: Affirmative. But My memory hasn't all come back
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. so I can tell you the exact location, only that its in that
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. area.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Very Intersting. So who built this
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Slipstream Travel Technology I just experienced.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. T6unit: We did, but it was so long ago now.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Her #1 Commander: Ah... Yes now that would make sense.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. T6unit: You are welcome to use it.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: What a delightful little fellow isn't he.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
pause
goto mercskinar
Role: Laid back, neutral, dosen't talk much (great, then I don't have to do thousands of lines of dialog for him.)
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Wow, what an interesting set up for navigation
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. you have here. Very different to the systems on my own
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. ship. This looks alot more advanced than our technology.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Commander: This is an experimental ship. Wait until you see this.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. You want to know how we got from Telos to Telfus Prime in such
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. and you know from the bio scans that its true. Skinar, take us out
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. to say, Nc Cigna 2.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: I've never heard of Nc Cigna 2 System.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Skinar: Nc Cigna, searching star charts, Found it. Setting
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Coordinates for Slipstream.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Slipstream? I've never heard of such a thing.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Commander: Let's go to the Galaxy map and Explain.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. A) Enter Galaxy Map at Andromeda Galaxy Point
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Okay, we also have that map
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. on our ship.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: This can't be, Cigma 2 is a Galaxy?
echo.
echo. Computer: Cigma 2 Galaxy Is Approximately 200 light years away
echo. from your Current location.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: This is amazing. Not even our map systems
echo. can extend out this far. Ours are limted to just mapping
echo. the Andromeda galaxy.
echo.
echo. Commander: I know. But this is no ordinary ship. Computer how long
echo. will it take to get to Cigma 2?
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Hah, it would take over 300 years to get there. You
echo. can't possibly be thinking of travelling all the way out to that
echo. tiny little galaxy, it's too far away.
echo.
echo. Commander: When we had our old technology yes it was impossible to
echo. travel out past the Jumpgates of Andromeda, but not anymore.
echo. Skinar, How long will it take us to reach our destination?
echo.
echo. Skinar: The computer says Approximtely half an hour.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Half an hour to cross a distance of 200 light years?
echo.
echo. Commander: Yep. Computer Jump to Cigma 2.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Whoa, what's happening, what is all this strange
echo. light, now we're going down some kind of wormhole tunnel.
echo.
echo. Commander: It is called the slipstream, Computer, show the Commander
echo. on the screen just how fast we are actually travelling.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I-I can't believe how far you have already travelled
echo. we're now moving out of the edges of Andromeda, passing by the other
echo. galaxies oh my how could anything like this be even possble. We must
echo. be going at speeds of half a light year a second, I didn't think such
echo. technology even existed.
echo.
echo. Commander: That's right. That's how we were able to get to Telfus
echo. Prime in just a second using the Slipstream subspace wormhole tunnel.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I am amazed but surely these are no false sensor
echo. readings to put on some kind of light show.
echo.
echo. Commander: We will land the ship on one of the planets
echo. and show you its real. You will see and then believe its no trick.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Where is your ship?
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmd% EQU 1 echo. Storm: In the docking bay area.
echo. Commander: There she is the NC7 Presidium.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Okay. it's a nice little ship.
echo.
echo. Storm: Its the nicest thing we've heard so far from you.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Don't push your luck Teloran.
echo.
echo. Commander: Let's go inside shall we?
echo. ---------MEANWHILE ABOARD THE HERC SHIP (STILL IN WARP) ----------
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Well what is it? We are well on our way to
echo. Telfus Prime and there's still no sign of them.
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation. Sir, they suddenly dissapeared from our sensors.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Hah, they must be still at the starting line
echo. maybe they have run into some technical difficulties with their
echo. engines, we should be seeing them on close range sensors by now.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Navigation. Sir they dissapeared from our long range
echo. sensors. They are nowhere to be seen.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: What??? That's impossible. The sensors must
echo. be malfunctioning. Continue onto Telfus Prime.
echo.
echo. Herc Communications: Hes right sir, we can't find them.
echo.
echo. Herc Second in Command: Wht do you want us to do Commander?
echo.
echo. Herc #2 We had the sensors calibrated just a week ago, they have been
echo. working fine. We don't think its a glitch in the system, they
echo. were there one minute and poof gone off the sensors the next.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: That can't be possible.
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation: Possible or not, they have dissapeared from
echo. our sensors.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: They must have a cloaking device on their ship.
echo. they must be still on sensors but hidden from our sensors. I'm
echo. taking no chances, full speed ahead.
echo.
echo. The Hercs Finally arrived near Telfus Prime.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I can't wait to see the look on their faces
echo. when we show up at the bar first before they do.
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation: Ehh Commander, I don't know how they did it but.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: What is it Kleu what is the matter with you it
echo. looks like you've seen a ghost.
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation: I don't believe it, the reason why their ship
echo. dissapeared off our scanners is becaue they are docked at Telfus
echo. Prime. Telfus Prime Docking Control has confirmed they docked
echo. about 25 minutes ago.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: WHhAAAT ??? That's impossible !!!!!!!!
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation: Come see for yourself.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: It must be a trick, they must've had a duplicate
echo. ship docked at Telfus Prime. They can't have gotten faster than
echo. us we're at maximum warp right now.
echo.
paue
cls
echo. -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Herc Navigation: I a have a bad feeling about this. I don't know
echo. how they done it, but there they are. And I bet they are waiting
echo. for us down at the bar and then we will find out how they did it.
echo.
echo. Herc #2 Face it Commander, we've lost the race, we didn't even
echo. stand a chance, they must have some kind of special drive that
echo. on board their ship that we don't know about that's shielded from
echo. our sensors as we cannot penetrate their hull.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Whhaaat? (Slams fist on the console.) This
echo. cannot be. We've got the best sensors in the galaxy and they just
echo. dissapeared of the radar?
echo.
echo. Herc #2 We've now arrived at Telfus Prime.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Dock here at Telfus Prime, I'm transporting down
echo. myself to the bar. I want to know what's going on. Herc #2 is
echo. coming with me.
echo.
echo. Herc #2 Yes, Commander.
echo. -----------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Barman: Hello Sonny, I see you have been waiting quite a while
echo. in my bar, so what shall it be?
echo.
echo. A) One Saturn on the Rocks please.
echo. B) We're just waiting for our Herc friends to show up.
echo.
echo.
echo. Commander: Should be arriving any minute now.
echo.
echo. Storm: This is going to be interesting.
echo.
echo. (Suddenly the two Hercs Materializes in the bar).
echo.
echo. Herc #1: What ? It cannot be possible. How did you
echo. get here before us? Bartender how long have they been here.
echo.
echo. Barman: They have been here for nearly half an hour waiting.
echo.
echo. Herc Commander: You mean they got to Telfus prime from Telo
echo. in just a few seconds? That's impossible. It must be some
echo. kind of trick with holograms. (Waves hand at commander)
echo.
echo. Commander: Ouch, you hit me.
echo.
echo. Herc #2 He is real Commander, its really him, its no trick.
echo. I don't know how but this human and his Teloran pet got
echo. here way before we did. (Checking readings on Holo pad)
echo.
echo. Commander: I'm real. It's no hologram or trick.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: But how, I don't understand.
echo.
echo.
echo. Commander: Come with me and I'll show you how
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Herc #2 return back to the ship. I will go
echo. with this human and let him demonstrate to me to see how he
echo. was able to do this.
echo.
echo. + Herc Commander Joins as Party Member
echo. Storm: Follow us, Commander Herc.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander. Very well. This I'm sure will be interesting.
echo.
echo. A) Exit Bar
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1: Well look who the Leonix dragged in.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Commander: I don't want any trouble gentleman.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Herc #2: You are already marked as trouble.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Barman: Oh not again, look guys, I just had the place all refurbished
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. last week from the last Herc fight.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: Can't seem to stay out of trouble, eh, Commander?
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Commander: Quiet Loana. These guys mean business.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 We will spare your pathetic little bar. Name
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. the time and place and we will finish this.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. A) Rysan System
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. B) The Vinus Gardens
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo. C) Do the honorable thing and Leave
if %hercmark1% EQU 1 echo.
echo. Herc #2: Hah, walk out on us you pathetic Human, you are all cowards
echo. the lot of you. You are a weak spiecies.
echo.
echo. Commander: I don't like being called a coward. But I will not be
echo. fighting you today.
echo.
echo. Herc #1: Very well then, but if we ever see you around our system
echo. you will have to fight.
echo.
if %spacegolf% EQU 1 goto glaugh1a
goto glaugh1
:glaugh1a
if %spacefold% EQU 1 echo. Commander: You couldn't catch us in your own warp trails.
if %spacefold% EQU 1 echo.
if %spacefold% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Hah. we shall see about that I like a challenge.
goto glaughrace
:glaugh2
echo.
echo. Commander: We shall see. Let's leave.
echo.
echo. Herc #1: Ahahahaha. These humans, they are too much. How pathetic.
echo.
echo. Storm: I would gladly fight all you Hercs. My gun never runs out of
echo. ammo. Or didn't you know that I had a Dark Matter Energy Weapon.
echo.
echo. Herc #2: What? Commander, if this Teloran is right and hes not
echo. bluffing us then hes got the most dangerous gun in all the galaxy and
echo. if we attack them while hes carrying that weapon, it will destroy
echo. half the system and us with it.
echo.
echo. Herc #1: Bah, (checking holo scanners) I don't believe what I am seeing
echo. this, this Teloran has a Singuliarity Weapon inside his gun, of all
echo. the most idiotic stupid things the Telorans could do is to put that
echo. deadly thing inside their weapons.
echo.
echo. Storm: Sorry to correct you Hercs but only my gun has the singularity
echo. inside it, all the other weapons we make on Telos don't have it, it was
echo. an erm. prototype or experiment I made..
echo.
echo. Herc #2 You are insane. Dont you realize that you could wipe out the
echo. whole expanse with that thing let alone one system.
echo.
echo. Storm: I have been told that before. But I don't think I'm insane. a
echi. little crazy maybe as Loana likes to tell me, but not insane.
echo.
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: At first I thought he was insane, but now I
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. know he is a nutter with a very dangerous weapon.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 He is telling the truth, well I guess this is your lucky
echo. day Human that you have this Teloran with you for protection, but just
echo. hope that something bad dont' happen to the gun and let that thing
echo. all loose or half of this system will be destroyed.
echo.
echo. Storm: The gun has its risks but is under containment..
echo.
echo. Herc #1 You should not even be carrying such a weapon. We would
echo. not even manufacture such a device.
echo.
if %hercity% EQU 1 echo. Storm: Maybe, but it protects me well. By the
if %hercity% EQU 1 echo. You guys do have a very beautiful City. I visited
if %hercity% EQU 1 echo. your world recently.
if %hercity% EQU 1
pause
cls
echo. --------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo.
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #1 Yes we do have a very beautiful city, I'm glad
if %hercity% EQU 1 you enjoyed it, we take alot of pride in keeping the
if %hercity% EQU 1 echo city beautiful.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Storm: I thought you Hercs were a peaceful people, not
if %hercity% EQU 1 hostile, so its unsual to see this behavior coming from
if %hercity% EQU 1 you guys.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #1 Normally we are, but the military told us to
if %hercity% EQU 1 toughen up because its a tough universe out there.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Commander: I see.
echo.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #2 Are you out of your mind, the guy has the most
if %hercity% EQU 1 deadliest weapon in the galaxy and you are giving him a
if %hercity% EQU 1 tea and biscuits and a guided tour of the homeworld?
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Storm: And you guys even argue with one another and
if %hercity% EQU 1 disagree. We didn't see that on your homeworld.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #2 Silly Teloran, we are not on our homeworld so
if %hercity% EQU 1 we follow our own rules when not on our homeworld.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #1 Hes got the advantage, we haven't. so we might
if %hercity% EQU 1 as well be nice to him.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Storm: Your friend here is smart.
if %hercity% EQU 1
if %hercity% EQU 1 Herc #2 Bah, you have been indoctrinated with this human's
if %hercity% EQU 1 beliefs. You been at the bars with humans for too long.
if %hercity% EQU 1
echo.
echo. Herc #2 (Talking to Herc #1) Well Commander this changes everything,
echo. we have a menace with a gun that shouldn't even be in the galaxy,
echo. we need to go to the high council on our homeworld to discuss what
echo. we should do.
echo.
echo. Commander: Well Gentleman, I think its time for us to leave. Come
echo. on Storm, you've caused enough trouble already, they know about
echo. your little gun, and they will tell their homeworld about it, so it
echo. won't surprise me if they ban us from entering their system.
echo.
echo. (The Hercs get up and Leave the table..)
echo.
echo.
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: I can't believe Storm's gun just got us out
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. of a firefight.
echo.
echo. Commander: Don't be too sure of that, they are backing off for now
echo. but they are going to their high council to talk about the gun
echo. and their high counci may not be so friendly.
echo.
echo. Storm: What do you think they will do.
echo.
echo. Commander: I don't know. We may have to find out and visit Rysan.
echo. to see what they are up to.
echo.
echo.
set counciltrub=1
echo.
echo. Herc #1: We have a pretty fast ship. The first one to get
echo. their ship from Telos to Telfus Prime wins. We will be
echo. waiting for you on Telfus Prime at the Docking Ring Station
echo. at the Dink Drink Drunk bar.
echo.
echo. Commander: You're on. Let the race begin.
echo.
echo. Herc #1: The Starting line will be just outside Telos near the
echo. space station.
echo.
echo. Storm: This is going to be good.
echo.
echo. A) Leave Telos Homeworld
echo.
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto gtracestart
goto glaughrace
:gtracestart
cls
echo. ----------------OUTSIDE TELOS SPACE STATION---------------------
echo.
echo.
echo. Commander: Ok we're at the starting race location.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 You are going to need all the luck you can get to try
echo. to catch up to us. Ready your engines.
echo.
echo. Herc #2 Hahaha, we're already at warp, and those slow pokes
echo. are still stuck back the starting line. I guess they
echo. chickened out.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 They may have a slow start but they might still beable to
echo. catch up. I'm not taking any chances, maximum warp.
echo.
echo. Storm: These guys don't stand a chance.
echo.
echo. Commander: But let them go to warp first before we start up the
echo. Slipstream drive and land on Telfus Prime to wait for them.
echo.
echo. Storm: How long will it take them to reach Telfus Prime at
echo. their maximum warp speed.
echo.
echo. Commander: Abt 30 minutes or so.
echo.
echo. Storm: We can reach the place in just a few seconds.
echo.
echo, Commander: I know. Let's just start the Slipstream drive anyway.
echo.
echo. SLIPSTREAM A) Jump to Telfus Prime
echo.
echo. Skinar: Entering in Coordinates to Telfus Prime into Slipstream
echo. it's done. Slipstream is now Ready to Jump Commander.
echo.
echo. Commander: Jump.
echo.
echo. Storm: This is like giving them a big kick to the face, I can't wait
echo. to see the look on their faces when we arrive before they do.
echo.
echo. The ship instantly Dissapears...
set raceon=1
goto tekfushw
echo. --------------------CIGMA 2 GALAXY -------------------------------
echo.
echo. Commander: Skinar: Pick a habitable friendly planet for us to
echo. land on.
echo.
echo. Skinar: Working, found one its in the Primus Omni System. Heading to
echo. planet Tau Ean, exiting the Slipstream now.
echo.
echo. Commander: And there's the planet.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Comander: Wow, you mean we are already there?
echo.
echo. Commander: Yep.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I have to see this for myself, Land on the planet
echo. to make sure that its no simulation.
echo.
echo. A) Land on Sigan Minor
echo.
echo.
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto sigan Alpha
goto cigmagalaxy
:sigan
cls
echo. ---------------------SIGAN Alpha
echo.
echo. Commander: Well when you step outside this airlock and onto this strange
echo. unexplored alien world you will be making history on your own planet
echo. to be the first Herc Commander to step outside on a planet that's over
echo. 200 light years away from your own galaxy.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I am a little nervous at what we will find when we
echo. step outside those doors.
echo.
echo. Storm: You will be amazed, believe me I was when we first took the
echo. ship out to another galaxy. The air is breathable on this planet
echo. and the doctor says there are no contaminants in the air, so it
echo. should be ok for us to step outside and explore. There's no hostile
echo. lifeforms on this world.
echo.
echo.
echo. A) Open Door to Ship
echo. B) Leave
echo.
echo.
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto osigan
goto sigan
:osigan
echo. ------------------SURFACE OF ALIEN PLANET------------------
echo.
echo. Commander: Look around you commander, look at all the different
echo. galaxies that are in the sky. We are telling you the truth.
echo. you are now 200 light years away from Telfus Prime.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I don't believe what I'm seeing, it is true,
echo. we really have travelled that great distance, for these clusters
echo. of galaxies I'm now seeing in the sky were not in the sky before,
echo. and look, I can just make it out in the distance there's Andromeda
echo. there's our galaxy but its so small and far away. And I've never seen
echo. these kind of plants before they are nowhere to be found on our
echo. homeworld.
echo.
echo. Commander: That's right because we're no longer in our own galaxy
echo. anymore. And this is not a holo simulation but is the real thing.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Amazing. I don't know what to say.
echo.
echo. Commande: You're the first herc who has ever been out this far
echo. and that also counts also for the rest of us. We are just as
echo. amazed with the slipstream as you are experiencing it now.
echo.
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: You soon get used to it. Zipping around
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: the galaxies I mean, I was amazed just as
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: the commander was, I didn't think it was
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: possible either because I didn't think
if %loana% EQU 1 echo. Loana: the technology even existed but it does exist.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Are there any side effects from using this
echo. technology.
echo.
echo. Commander: We have a ship's doctor on board, she tells us if we are in
echo. any danger or not in using this technology all the time. So far we
echo. have not heard from her so I assume its ok.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Ok that's good to know. Is she familiar with Herc
echo. biology? We don't know if the Slipstream is safe for us to use or
echo. not over the long term. It might be ok for short term, but we should
echo. find out from the doctor if its ok or not for our spieces.
echo.
echo. Commander: I don't know if she is or not, ou will have to ask her
echo. yourself.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Tell me which way to see the doctor and I will find out.
echo.
echo. Commander: Go to the Lift and press Medical Bay on the Deck. I'm sure
echo. you will be fine, but check to see with the doctor just in case as
echo. we don't know anything about Herc Biology but she might know, she's
echo. quite knowledge on alien biologies.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Will do that thanks.
echo.
echo. A) Enter Ship's Lift
echo. B) Back to Navigation
echo.
echo.
set hercdoc=1
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto lift
if %x1%==b goto deckgalaxymap2
goto osigan
:medherc
cls
echo. --------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Hello, you must be the Herc Commander, been expecting
echo. you. You want to know if Slipstream travel is safe for your
echo. type of biology?
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Yes. I do feel a little light in the head.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: I am pleased to announce that it is safe for you
echo. but you might experience a few side effects like light headdedness
echo. so you need a little of this (presses arm) will take care of that.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: What is that you're putting into me.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: A little relief from any side effects from the
echo. Slipstream. A mild sedative to ease the giddy feeling since you
echo. just travelled 200 light years away.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Ok, yes my head is starting to feel a little
echo. better now. Thanks Doctor and how often do I need to take that.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: It will last a week. At least before you need to
echo. take another dose. Over time your body will adapt and you won't
echo. need to take them at all. It just takes a little time to adapt.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander; Ok thanks. I will be leaving now.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Since you are now one of the crew, even if its
echo. only temporary you can ask me a few questions while you are
echo. here.
echo.
echo. A) How long you been doing this?
echo. B) Do they have a cure for that plague that I been hearing about?
echo. C) What is the commander really like?
echo. D) Why is this 'Fool' allowed to carry an illegal gun with him?
echo.
echo. X) Leave Medical Bay
echo.
echo.
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto mdochask1
if %x1%==b goto mdochask2
if %x1%==c goto
if %x1%==d goto
if %x1%==x goto lift
goto medherc
:mdochask1
if %endchat% EQU 1 goto mranchat
cls
echo. -----------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: I've been practicing Medicine now for 27 years so I'm
echo. familiar with many alien spieces.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Hey wait a Minute I know you, you're that crazy
echo. genetic research scientist at that Lab on Teseract prime that was
echo. doing all those experiments.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: How did you know I was a research scientist?
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Because we know there was a huge research labs
echo. place on Tesseract Prime and we know you worked there and we
echo. suspect Loana also worked at the same place acording to our
echo. sources of information. We heard there was shielding project
echo. and genetic experiments going on in this sector and we were
echo. curious and we came across all these droids who were out of
echo. control so we had to shoot them.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Ah, that explains the droid massacre near the ruins
echo. that Commander Axel reported on. So you Hercs were responsible
echo. for putting those droids out of action.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Some of them, the rest we found had already
echo. been busted up. And you also have one of the droids on board this
echo. ship with you.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Yes the T6 Unit has been especially helpful to us
echo. in giving us alot of the star charts to these uncharterd systems. The
echo. commander believes he can be trusted.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I'm not so sure, but he appears to be more
echo. under control than the others we saw were...
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Yes your informtion is correct I was working with Loana
echo. at the labs. We were conducting genetic experiments. We're now
echo. trying to help the colonists.
set endchat=1
pause
goto medherc
:mdochask2
cls
echo. ------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Did you find a cure for the plague of Tesseract
echo. Prime which struck the Colonists?, it struck some of our systems
echo. in the outerworlds region of space as well.
echo.
echo. Dr. Thompson: Not yet, but me an Loana are still working on it. We
echo. don't know how far the plague has spread, but it sounds bad if it
echo. also reached as far as your space as well.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: We have since quarenteed those areas. It didn't
echo. get far, just infected a couple of colonies in our systems, but we
echo. have quarenteed off the whole area of and sealed it so the infection
echo. cannot escape and spread to try to infect other systems in our space.
echo.
echo. Dr Thompson: A wise choice. We will let you know when we do find
echo. a cure to this problem.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: That would be much appreciated, thanks.
echo.
pause
goto medherc
:mranchat
cls
echo. ----------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo.
set /a spin=%random% %%10+1
if %spin% EQU 1 echo. Dr. Thompson: I have told you all I know on the subject.
if %spin% EQU 2 echo. Dr. Thompson: Sorry, I have no more information to give you.
if %spin% EQU 3 echo. Dr. Thompson: That's all I have.
if %spin% EQU 4 echo. Dr. Thompson: There's no more information.
if %spin% EQU 5 echo. Dr. Thompson: I don't know anything more
if %spin% EQU 6 echo. Dr. Thompson: I've nothing left to say.
if %spin% EQU 7 echo. Dr. Thompson: Maybe the Commander can help you with that.
if %spin% EQU 8 echo. Dr. Thompson: I don't tell my whole life story out to strangers.
if %spin% EQU 9 echo. Dr. Thompson: Go see the Commander.
echo.
echo. A) Leave back to pilot area
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto mercskinar
goto mranchat
:mercskinar
cls
echo. ---------------------SKINAR IN THE PILOT SEAT -----------------------
echo.
echo. Skinar: So you're the Herc Merc we're been hearing about. Welcome
echo. Aboard the NC7 Presidium.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: Herc Merc? What does that mean?
echo.
echo. Skinar: Herc Mechdroid.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander; Lieutenant, I'm not a robot or a machine but am
echo. a Herc Commander of my ship.
echo.
echo. Skinar: Oh my mistake, Sorry, I been around the t6 unit for too long.
echo. hes a Mechdroid Unit.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I see and he travels all around with you on the
echo. Ship.
echo.
echo. Skinar: He also goes out on missions with the Commander as well to do
echo. different kind of tasks.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I see, a resourceful little thing by the sounds of
echo. it.
echo.
echo. Skinar: And also has over 200 star charts locked awawy in his memory
echo. he gives them to us when he can. That's how we accumulated some of
echo. the strange systems.
echo.
echo. Herc #1 Commander: I see, so this little droid plays a part in all
echo. of this.
echo.
echo. Skinar: I guess so. Oh, here comes the Commander.
echo.
echo. Commander: Yes, Gentlamn what an I do for you?
echo.
echo.
echo. A) Ask Axel what this droid is all about
echo. B) Ask Axel about Skinar the Pilot.
echo.
echo.
set /p x1=
if %x1%==a goto mt6droid
if %x1%==b goto
goto mercskinar
:mt6droid
cls
echo. -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo. Commander: I will let T6 explain for himself. Go on T6.
echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. T6unit: I am a mechdroid Battle Commander from
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. a galaxy far away from here.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Then how did you get into our space?
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. T6unit: We fell into it by accident through a wormhole
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. and wound up in the place you call the badlands in the
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. outworlds system.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Ah so there's a secret wormhole that
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. leads out of this galaxy.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. T6unit: Affirmative. But My memory hasn't all come back
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. so I can tell you the exact location, only that its in that
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. area.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: Very Intersting. So who built this
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Slipstream Travel Technology I just experienced.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. T6unit: We did, but it was so long ago now.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Her #1 Commander: Ah... Yes now that would make sense.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. T6unit: You are welcome to use it.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo. Herc #1 Commander: What a delightful little fellow isn't he.
if %t6unit% EQU 1 echo.
pause
goto mercskinar