Recap of Part 1

FVC means "field-vectored craft," i.e., UFO(s).

We learned in Part 1:

• While landed on the ground, even smaller FVC are massive, i.e., have considerable mass around 30 tons (27,000 kgs).
• FVC are about as dense as a submarine and several times denser than aircraft, having around 96 percent the density of water.
• FVC are hard, solid, physical objects similar to metal.
• We have observed FVC at velocities of 5,000 to 9,000 mph (8,000 to 14,500 kph), with straight line and angular accelerations in the region of 100 times the acceleration of gravity. Although the accelerations are large for the size of the craft, human technology from the 1950s packaged electronics into smaller projectiles capable of withstanding 7,000 to 9,000 gs.
• The reason some craft appear as orbs of different colors is because the craft's propulsion system creates ionized and excited air molecules, namely a "plasma." Larger craft that use the most energy have a blue or ultraviolet plasma, while smaller craft that use less energy appear as red, orange, yellow, or green. The luminosity of a craft will increase as it puts out more power for high acceleration maneouvers. The plasma surrounding a craft often obscures an observer's ability to see the craft itself behind the plasma.
• The observed accelerations and velocities can be achieved with a high thrust-to-mass ratio. There is no need to presume FVC use exotic technology to reduce the mass of the craft while in flight. In general, all of the observables can be explained by established physics without resorting to speculative hypotheses. Finally, acceleration is not instantaneous but rather takes a non-zero amount of time, although the craft's swiftness may appear instantaneous to the naked eye.

Section IV: Radiation from FVC in the X-ray or Gamma Range

Date: January 30, 1973

Location: Lexington, Alabama

Witnesses: Bill Rogers, APRO Field investigator, and two other unnamed individuals.

Description: Rogers went to Lexington to investigate reports of FVC in the area, which began a month prior on December 27, 1972. Rogers, along with two other members of the investigation team, observed a yellowish-orange-white light moving slowly above tree-top level.

>After about a minute, the object moved up about 40 feet, and they could see that it had a shape between a sphere and an egg (ellipsoidal). It then descended

I’ve been fixing selenium cells like this for years now and time and time again. It has worked for me and I hope it works for you.

Background: Selenium meters drag electrical current by opposing ends of the selenium metal creating a light sensitive material that conducts electricity to short electrical currents expanded by copper wire. Like a battery selenium metal “charges” coiled copper wire and magnets to make a “zeroed” needle to a certain frequency of limited motion with drag and pull (springs), a electrochemical reaction occurs when copper and selenium come in contact under light, electrical signals emerge from the copper contacts, but as this is a chemical reaction the contacts will deionize and corpse, same with the selenium metal. You will need to “reface” the copper and selenium to create again a reaction. Here is how..

Step one. Materials. Coca-Cola, ketchup, vinegar, baking soda, small plastic tray, Q-tips, And a pair of cheap latex gloves

Step two. Carefully disassemble the light meter or camera to get two copper plates and the “silver-green/yellow” metal plate. Mark a line with a screwdriver which way is out.

Step three. Place the selenium cell and the two opposing copper contacts in the small plastic tray, pour vinegar just enough to cover all three components. With a gloves pick up and wipe each piece with a dry q tip. Pour out the vinegar.

Step four. In the same or different clean tray pour a small amount of ketchup, (one tea spoon no more) and a 1-1 vinegar to baking soda ratio in to the ketchup mix. This should remove most if not all corrosion, Once you notice a more “silver” color to your selenium cell set it aside and dry with paper towels, scrub the copper contacts until they are as clean as a new penny.

Step five. Clean the tray and pour in a generous amount of cola cola leave them to sit for 2 minutes, flip once the two minutes are over, and another two minutes dry with a paper towel and wipe until an almost stainless steel look to the selenium and a new penny look to the copper contacts. If they are not clean repeat steps 3-5 again.

Step six. Reassemble the meter but do not let your skin touch the selenium or copper. Now zero correct the light meter and check with a light meter App, it is common to have a 0.1-0.3 EV difference,

Some meters are too far gone for repair and will need to be sanded with 3200 grit sandpaper and put through the process for ionization Good luck!

We are close to your location, your shuttle will arrive soon.

It was just him, a large metallic briefcase, and his luxury spinner in the dead of night.

They had told him to wait at this exact location, with a timeframe precise to a second.

A timeframe that dictated the shuttle to appear in 43 seconds, to the dot.

He took one final glance at the image hidden inside the medallion he wore. “Soon” he calmly whispered, “Soon…”

He’d thrown billions at every organization who had promised him a solution, scoured every planet of every system of the cluster, even ventured out to a handful of Xeno civilizations to see if they had an elixir for his predicament.

It never worked, every game-changing startup, every overpromising alien salesman, always to end in tragic failure, yet his desperation only increased with every successive failure, his drive piercing every dark corner of the cluster that his fortune could permit.

And it all led him to this, to the boogeymen.

He was not one to argue, for all the enigmatic messaging and cryptic information that the alien organization seemed so fond of, what they showed seemed lightyears ahead of anything he’d seen throughout his search.

Sure he was dealing with the boogeymen of the cluster, yet he’d dealt with far more insidious characters inside parliaments and offices than what he’d conversed with the mysterious beings.

He’d already deposited a hefty sum, not of money but one of goods. Exotic plants, animals, genetic data, cultural artefacts, the list could go on and on. Collectively it had already cost him a moon’s worth, yet it made sense. Why would an advanced alien organization want fiat money when priceless artefacts and near-extinct species were up on the discussion table?

The cost was set to only increase as they furthered neared completion of their work, yet that was acceptable, for it would once again bring meaning and purpose back to his now dull life.

He gazed at his platinum lined watch, precisely 43 seconds had just passed.

We have arrived

The alien shuttle seemingly emerged from the air itself, its matte black exterior revealing itself as the shuttle silently decelerated to a halt, only to hover a dozen meters before where he stood.

It reminded him of the cloaking technology his R&D department was working on for the military, though this version was the real tangible thing, unlike the never-ending sinkhole his project had become.

As it sat suspended above the ground a set of stairs

1-3D Printed Guns that works with electric and shoots sharp plastic

2-Smart Guns that has aim assistance, finger scanning and few other features

3-Normal, Old Guns

4-Magnetic guns that works with coil system

5-Scrap Guns that are made from homemade materials and slightly better from plastic guns

6-Futuristic Gryojet guns that are much better than their prototypes

7-Needle guns that are very silent and often coated with venom

8-Lightning Guns that shoots focused lightning

9- EMP Grenade – A grenade that emits a short range ElectroMagnetic Pulse, (EMP,) which disables any electronics within a 50 meter radius, for one minute .This will of course include disabling cybernetic implants.

10- Thump gun: Fires large slugs that explode multiple times a few inches before striking the target, causing massive internal shock and concussions due to the shock waves created.

11- Shrapnel launcher: similar to a shotgun but with the pellets being released a short while after traveling as a single slug, causing maximum damage to the target and increasing range.

12- Stun gun: each "bullet" contains a hypercharged micro battery that can stun targets similarly to a taser, but without the downsides of short range and low accuracy.

13- Cement launcher: fire a hose of quickly hardening polymer to incapacitate targets.

14- Blades - Knife, machete, sword, hatchet, etc. Mods: chainsaw edge / electrified / heated / monomolecular edge / poisoned

15- Blinding Flasher - Just a light. It flashes extremely brightly blinding anyone in the area

16- Drones - mini-flying robots armed with guns, chemical sprayers, or a micro-missile. May also be suicide drones armed with bombs

17- Chemical Sprayer - Loaded with: acid / knock out gas / liquid nitrogen / napalm / poison / rapid hardening foam / steam

18- Cybernetic Claws - Claws on hands or feet. Mods: electrified / heated / poisoned / retractable

19- Cybernetic Detachable Finger Joint Bombs

20- Cybernetic Finger Garrote - 1st finger joint pulls out revealing a garrote wire

21- Cybernetic Forearm Blades - "Wolverine" style blades. Mods: electrified / heated / poisoned / retractable

21- Cybernetic Harpoon - "Mortal Combat: Scorpion" style harpoon shoots from palm. Mods: electrified / heated

22- Cybernetic Hydraulic Ram Fist

23- Cybernetic Hypo Injector - Injects a drug or toxin into the victim. Can be installed in any cybernetic part where you are likely to touc

I'm not sure if my question is worded correctly. I was ultimately wondering if instead of taking spent nuclear waste and keeping it in pools or containing it in dry storage casks, would there be a way to force the spent radioactive uranium isotope react with another element or molecule in order to stabilize the uranium and make it not radioactive any more? Similar to how sodium is poisonous and chloride is poisonous but in making them react with each other they change and become stable.

1. Silver sulfadiazine used as a topical cream to treat burns. It made WHO’s list of essential medicines, as an anti-infective medicine.
   1. Treatment of warts and corns usually in the form of a caustic pencil. The silver compound silver nitrate, is widely used, and is formed by reacting silver with nitric acid.
   2. SilverCoat Foley catheters are used in urology to prevent urinary tract infections from catheter use. Canadian company Covalon is pushing the boundaries on medical technologies that saves lives. This SilverCoat technology is one of them.
   3. Use in Radiology, silver halides are still being used in conventional x-ray film as an image receptor. Many third-world countries that don’t have access to advanced technology use this type of x-ray.
   4. Silver is used in bandages and dressings to prevent the spread of infection. There is also many uses as gels and ointments for minor scrapes and cuts.
   5. Surgical mesh. 3D Silver mesh to aid in support the organs or tissues during surgery. Loosely woven sheets made of either 3D gold or 3D silver.
   6. Conjunctivitis drops for newborn babies. Silver nitrate has been used for a long time as drops for newborns to prevent pink eye. However, this is slowly being replaced by modern antibiotics such as erythromycin.
   7. Prevent cavities with the use of silver diamine fluoride. Kids and cavities go hand in hand, so what better way to prevent that than with a little silver. Reported by DentistryIQ.
   8. Silver needles & sutures used by surgeons to close up wounds. This was first discovered in the early 1900’s by a man named Reuben Ottenberg.
   9. Silver bearing coatings for hip joint implants named as SMART-HIP. Bearings such as these, not only aid in preventing infection in implants but also reduce friction by silver’s self-lubrication for longer use and durability.
   10. Dental fillings are often composed of liquid mercury along with powder mixture of silver, copper, and tin to give it that ‘silver’ look.
   11. NASA utilized silver ions as a lightweight water purifier for the Apollo spacecraft. Instead of using traditional chlorine, NASA employed silver ions to be released in the water to destroy bacteria which is later then filtered out. Using a combination of copper and silver ions revealed to be effective in killing E. Coli, Staph, Strep, Salmonella and other common bacteria. The Russians are also known to use silver to purify water in orbit aboard the International Space Station.
   12. H

"What is my punishment, your excellency."

Zakolo stood before the Stellarch of the Itiana cluster, a being of such nobility that no commoner was allowed to know his name, one whose action carried sway over billions, and clout in the grand conclave. That same being now gazed down at him, with a deep frown, yet all Zakolo could focus on was how... large the Stellarch was, in terms of pure width alone.

Around him sat members of the noble Keelopa family, more importantly, Ola Von Keelopa, who sat as if he were a pouting child, sporting several massive purple bruises masquerading across his grey skin.

Zakolo should've murdered the manchild for what he did.

"As a consequence for the assault and defamation of High Magistrate Keelopa's dearest son, you will be placed on a repentance crusade for your honour and status with the Mantle, a crusade under my personal command."

Part of Zakolo wanted only wanted to wrap his hands at the obese being before him, cleansing the room of the putrid Stellarch before him. The other part of him reminded that if he were to rid the Stellarch he'd only be lobotomized to serve as a tactical biomind for some far off royal official.

All he could do was keep his kneeled posture in front of the obese being, keeping his head gazing at the mosaic-tiled floor.

"What of my position within the Mantle Navy," Zakolo remarked, suppressing any anger or frustration that would otherwise be noticed in his voice.

"Your position will be wiped, any land owned by you transferred to the Keelopa's, and a 5 million credit debt placed on all future earnings made by you towards the Keelopa's, with a 10 percent annual interest rate, accounting for all future earnings." the Stellarch casually stated, "Though do not fret, I will return you to your place within the wider navy once you've served your sentence, to the dismay of both me and the Keelopa's the navy seemed rather stringent on my acquisition of you."

The Keelopa's seemed to frown at the mention of the navy, Thanks Mom he silently thought.

The Stellarch seemed to have reminded himself of the Keelopa's presence, turning his massive body to point towards the family.

"Go, I do not care if you desire to gloat over him, nor do I care if you find my decision righteous or not." the Stellarch uttered with a tone of disgruntlement.

The Keelopa's immediately left in file the moment the Stellarch finished his declaration, leaving only him, the Stellarch, and the silent praetorians in the grand chamber

"Ancestors, can this place be any rockier?" Horok "Bolter" Ra complained, as he nearly lost his balance for the fifth time in a minute. The stretch of pine forest they were sprinting through was supposed to have been the easy leg of the patrol, where 16th Detachment of the 909th Woodland Scouts would make up the time they'd lost earlier in the week, wading through the partially-frozen mire of the Siberian peat bogs. Unfortunately, the vast quantities of large, loose, easy-to-miss boulders in the forest were making what was meant to be a merry jaunt an unpleasant and painful experience.

They were on a two-week cross-country patrol along the edge of the Arctic Circle in the Governessship of Russia, with the nebulous objective of "Deterring and Preventing Insurgent Activities". In practical terms, this meant sprinting through the pitch-black night, occasionally switching from night vision to thermals, all while bearing the immense weight of half a month's supplies, weatherproof cermet body armor, and a regulator pack.

Horok's situation was made worse by a combination of several factors: for one, he was a male Rakiri, and not a particularly large one at that. Despite all this, for some inexplicable reason, he had ended up getting trained as an anti-armor gunner upon graduating from Basic. His KPF-03 anti-armor laser cannon, even in its taken-down form, nearly touched the ground if he did not run with a slight hunch to his back. And in the dark, with a layer of fresh snow covering the ground, the loose boulders were practically invisible. All this was to say: he was having more than a bit of trouble staying upright.

These factors, apparently, did not concern his superior. "Bolter, if you didn't want to do this shit, maybe you shoulda transferred to stewards, huh?" Sergeant Oka barked from somewhere in front of him. "The rocks are not that bad!"

'Easy for you to say,' Horok thought, 'you are running light.'

For being barely a meter and a half tall, Horok was loaded with the most gear. And, to add insult to injury, the 909th had somehow been left with their old anti-armor lasers, despite their recent refitting to more modern gear. In fully-deployed form, the miniature cannon was longer than he was tall, and weighed easily upwards of a dozen kilos. In fairness, at least it was a laser; not a kinetic. The rest of the unit had just been upgraded from HD-K19(i) coilguns to HS-R11(a) laser rifles, which brought their total combat effectiveness from nil to

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alrighty, this should be a fun one to read, you get to meet a few new Species that you haven't gotten to see close up yet. And with that said, time for another tidbit of lore to keep yall interested. Today I will tell you about Glimmer Drorns, a Glimmer Drorn is a type of creature that is mostly gaseous with a thin membrane that gives them a roughly spherical shape, they float around and absorb sunlight and interstellar gas to survive. Almost butterfly-like behavior, they generally range in size from 15 to 120 meters and are commonly found in Interstellar gas clouds like nebula or proto stars. While their membrane is slightly iridescent, they are mostly transparent, being filled with ionized gas and smaller bubble-like structures containing metabolic compounds. they reproduce via budding. Anyways, Please Enjoy.

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Chapter 13

Sightseeing

"Ouch." Creesh cried out as she dropped the box she had been attempting to move. Neirdith and Seth came running over to her and Samantha as she flapped her injured grasper while hopping around.

"Are you okay Creesh, what happened?" Seth asked worriedly as he reached her.

Neirdith's eyes widened as she saw her cut, it was small but welled with a slow trickle of dark green fluid. "Is your blood supposed to be that colour?" She asked worriedly.

"Yeah, that's normal, for a Swanith at least, you didn't know I had green blood?" She asked Neirdith.

Neirdith looked at her a bit sheepishly "Well I had read it somewhere, but it's different to see it in person ya know."

Creesh just rolled her eyes as Samantha tried to wrap a sterile bandage around her much smaller finger. "It can't be any weirder than you having bright blue blood, or Seth and Samantha both having red blood"

Samantha looked at Seth and said "Wait, you have red blood?"

Now it was Seth's turn to be surprised. Looking askance at her he replied "Yeah, Humans and Yeown have almost the exact same biochemical structure, it's what scientists call convergent evolution, that's why you can eat any of the meats that I can and vice-versa. You didn't get taught that in school?"

Saman

Do your worst!

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3 Days after Arrival:

Dripping water echoed through the dark tunnels beneath the city. Bjornholf still couldn’t believe what was happening. In his 1,500 years of unlife, he had never imagined that he’d witness an actual alien invasion. His ward and youngblood offspring, Julia, did not share Bjornholf’s shock. She was a woman of the modern age. TV and movies gave her plenty of context.

“C’mon B, cheer up.” she chided before breaking into a bad Austrian accent, “If it bleeds, ve can kill it!”

“You should really work on your Germanic, Jules.” Bjornholf responded with a chuckle.

“And maybe we can feed off them too?” she continued, “Surely alien invaders are on the list of acceptable prey for The Kindred of Sanguinea?”

“I am not sure, but we will find out soon enough.” Bjornholf replied.

“Yeah, at least my sources indicated that they think we are just human resistance fighters. They won’t know what hit them.”

Bjornholf loaded his kitted SCAR-H with armor-piercing ammunition. Allegedly, these “Shil’Vati” had serious body armor, nothing that the “Hound of Sanguinea” couldn’t rip, slash, or bite through though. Nonetheless, Bjornholf knew better than to underestimate a foe. He brought as much ammunition as he could fit into his battle belt along with his .44 magnum in a chest holster and his trusted WWII US bayonet.

A creature with undead regeneration had no need for body armor as it would only weigh him down. Bjornholf wore his usual attire, black BDUs, black leather paratrooper boots, black sleeveless shirt, and olive green overcoat bearing the insignia of the 101st airborne infantry.

His youngblood had more modern attire with equal functionality. She wore a grey leather jacket, flexible denim jeans, leather Doc Martens, and a black punk T-Shirt. She was partial to lighter weapons, choosing to wield two MP7s. It was a good choice as the 4.6mm ammunition was designed to punch through heavy armor.

“Alright, Jules, you hold the east tunnels. I will hold the north tunnels. Remember kid, we gotta hold them off long enough for the others to evacuate deeper into the catacombs. This invasion won’t be the end of the Kindred of Sanguinea.”

“Yeah yeah old man, I was in the same briefing.” Julia

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

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It really does, I swear!

Anyone who has studied chemistry understands how well organized this is. It definitely looks like a genius made it. Everything is so well organized that the atomic radius, ionic radius, chemical reactivity, electronegativity, and ionization energy have exact arrows. There is a reason why left arrows have a purpose on the periodic table, why right arrows have a purpose, why down and up arrows have a purpose. Every element on there is perfectly positioned among 8 arrows of direction.

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They’re on standbi

(Author’s note:  Same setting as the other stories Waffle will mention below. Measurements and most numbers converted to «human readable» for ease of reading.)

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We, The Immaculate Legions of Rzqvokth, have been the first and last word in galactic warfare for «millennia» untold. The Galactic Collective Community has long entrusted us as its peacekeepers, for none could stand against the might of the Immaculate Navy. «Hundreds» of civilizations have fallen before us: For challenging our right to systems which we claimed; for perpetrating societies outside of the acceptable norms we dictate; for refusing proper tribute to us for our service of maintaining galactic order.

To dare these acts is to defy us. To defy us is to perish utterly.

Your races have maintained the other functions of the GCC. The economic sector. The civil branches. Lesser judiciary offices. But none of you claim that the Immaculate Legions do anything less than allow the GCC to continue its trivial existence. None of you would dare, for you know it to be truth.

Know also that your fate is now in your own «hands». If you must know why, you need look no further than the planet Earth.

The Daois Conflict brought about the end of the eponymous race. We kept no record of their transgression, for it mattered not once they were extinct. We had no need of the resources of their homeworld or colonies, therefore they were summarily glassed in accordance with our rights as conquerors.

One of these worlds, «ψ Capricorni», was found «centuries» later by one of our patrols to house an unauthorized settlement. Sensors could not identify the race inhabiting the planet — indeed, no race should have been capable of doing so. We followed all protocols by filing a grievance with the GCC before, again, summarily glassing the world.

You erred in not explaining to us that the settlement was one with whom neither you nor we, the Immaculate Legions, had ever had contact.

In «less than two days», three unidentified vessels had arrived at our homeworld of Vokth. We have yet to unravel the mystery of how they found our homeworld when even the GCC has been denied information regarding its location, and their ability to bypass the gravitational interdiction of Glorious Kzlktyth, our star, involves use of a technology which is in direct violation of no fewer than seven treaties we have in place with the GCC.

We could barely even detect their primitive communication attempt and thei

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