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*[[Georgie Flame]] | *[[Georgie Flame]] | ||
*[[Columbina Cavalier]] | *[[Columbina Cavalier]] | ||
*[[ | *[[A.J. Paul]] | ||
*[[Ramsay Punchface]] | *[[Ramsay Punchface]] | ||
*[[Steerco Boone]] | *[[Steerco Boone]] | ||
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==[[NAV Trigger Point: An Opco Boone Adventure|NAV Trigger Point]]== | ==[[NAV Trigger Point: An Opco Boone Adventure|NAV Trigger Point]]== | ||
===The boobytrap=== | ===The boobytrap=== | ||
Boone snaps out of his reverie as the whizzkid excitedly tells him there is a scramble briefing. | Boone snaps out of his reverie as the whizzkid excitedly tells him there is a scramble briefing. A.J. slapped his hands and rubbed them together with glee, his eyes fiercely aglow. “This is it, Boone! This is it! I’m ''finally'' going to see action!” | ||
The air crackled as Eagle Squad filed into the briefing room. E.J.P. gawped. All the legends were there: Bundie. J Algernon Farquhar, D.S.O. The banter-pulse was flat. Fryer took the rostrum. | The air crackled as Eagle Squad filed into the briefing room. E.J.P. gawped. All the legends were there: Bundie. J Algernon Farquhar, D.S.O. The banter-pulse was flat. Fryer took the rostrum. | ||
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Okay, everyone hold still now. | Okay, everyone hold still now. | ||
The diff-sensor swept the semantic content of the room. | The diff-sensor swept the semantic content of the room. A.J. watched the display. The hourglass flipped. It flipped again. After a few moments it rendered: zeroes across the board. | ||
“We’re clean, sir. No material alterations. The text-field is Delta-1 as we left it.” | “We’re clean, sir. No material alterations. The text-field is Delta-1 as we left it.” | ||
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“Okay. Run it to three, soldier.” | “Okay. Run it to three, soldier.” | ||
The kid re-ran the analytics. The diff binoc whistled and beeped. | The kid re-ran the analytics. The diff binoc whistled and beeped. A.J. shrugged. “Point nine-nine-seven. As good as clean, sir. You could eat your dinner off that.” | ||
''As good as'' clean, but ''not'' clean. ''Interesting''. “Recalibrate it, lad. Let’s go find those missing diffs.” | ''As good as'' clean, but ''not'' clean. ''Interesting''. “Recalibrate it, lad. Let’s go find those missing diffs.” | ||
“Whatever you say, sir.” | “Whatever you say, sir.” A.J. twiddled dials and hit ''RENDER''. “Okay, team: Stand by. All material deltas should now show up.” | ||
The redline swept a red sheet over the text-field. It burped a negative. | The redline swept a red sheet over the text-field. It burped a negative. | ||
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Boone shot the rookie a quizzical look. “Why so?” | Boone shot the rookie a quizzical look. “Why so?” | ||
A.J. smiled. “This way I pick up all syntactically relevant amendments while filtering out the noise. I’m sure we would have caught anything that made a difference. Sir. The text-field is clean.” | |||
“Run it again, Soldier, but this time include the noise. Let’s have a gander at that formatting and punctuation delta.” | “Run it again, Soldier, but this time include the noise. Let’s have a gander at that formatting and punctuation delta.” | ||
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“Stop right there, lad.” Boone’s voice was urgent. | “Stop right there, lad.” Boone’s voice was urgent. | ||
A.J. froze. “What is it?” | |||
Boone intoned in a halting whisper. “It looks like — it looks like we have a Biggs hoson.” | Boone intoned in a halting whisper. “It looks like — it looks like we have a Biggs hoson.” | ||
Eagle-Squad Corporal J | Eagle-Squad Corporal A.J. Paul looked at his commander with wondrous eyes. “Seriously? A Biggs hoson! I don’t bel —” | ||
SHHHHHHH! silent running soldier! | SHHHHHHH! silent running soldier! | ||
A.J. clammed pronto. | |||
I don’t think it ''is'' a Biggs hoson, Barbarazza. It just looks like one. Hosons are not stable. A hoson would have degraded into entropic tedium by now. This has a much longer half-life. | I don’t think it ''is'' a Biggs hoson, Barbarazza. It just looks like one. Hosons are not stable. A hoson would have degraded into entropic tedium by now. This has a much longer half-life. |