OT: Hi Jack, Take my Thread Please. ;)

[Combat Wombat]

SE5 will probly be DirectX 7 since that is what Starfury used and it is basiclly the same engine.

[Aiken]

DX7 is horribly outdated. If new DX functions are backward compatible, se5 will be rewritten in DX9.

edit: probably. But don't quote me on that

[Alneyan]

Thankfully, I do not know what is pLasticene, or pLasticine, or anything of the like. Therefore, I am immune to the effects of that... erh... let's adopt a scientific approach, and call it a thingy.

"Sentry Star Destroyer" only referred to its orders, as it was ordered to blow up the star when an enemy vessel (no matter what sort of ship) is sighted. A suitable title would be "The Baleful Light of the Land of Woe, Harbinger of Sorrow and Despair, Forerunner of Destruction and Chaos, Herald of Suffering and Death", among other similar appellations. But you know, speed kills in a battle, and so you need a shorter name when ordering that ship around, hence its sober name of "Oops".

Since all sorts of things can go wrong in this universe, the vessel was equipped with no less than six Stellar Torpedoes, and did kill my budget because of this extra cost. The ship also comes with its own Warp Opener, several teleportation devices, seventeen redundant Quantum Reactors, and ten thousand units of 0kt armour (P&N *something* Gel. Buckygel?). Of course, I will not bore you with details about its conventional weaponry, which merely includes eight highly focused Ripper Beams, and the Z-Bombs, powerful enough to kill twenty billion inhabitants in a single hit.

Sadly, this ship had a most impressive price tag, and so I did not have the means of purchasing other vessels. Of course, the "Oops" Star Destroyer came with escape pods, but their range is equal to "distance to reach the nearest wormhole minus one hundred meters" since I am such a wicked leader. I failed to notice it means I cannot use them myself though, and it seems a bit too late now. Annoying, isn't it?

At least, the ship was well worth its cost. There is simply nothing that can interfere with it now. A good thought to keep in mind when I die because I was a miser. Positive thinking and all that I guess.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

/me ties Alneyan to the railroad tracks...I mean, Earth. And then goes back to his ship.

[Alneyan]

*Snickers, and calls Raging Deadstar in for support* Hey friend, you won't let me to die on that dead star, will you? I know you aren't that kind of folk, really. But please, hurry up! The ETA before Kadaboom time is only six minutes and fourty seconds.

[Raging Deadstar]

RD quickly mobilises himself, after returning back to a less gooey paste form. He thinks of ways to possibly get Alneyan out of there, and following tradition...

Since in The Uk it's Bonfire Night...

Alneyan soon finds him strapped to two giant fireworks

Don't worry Friend, the Chinese Inventor who tried this originally was the first man to achieve flight years before the wright brothers....

He just achieved flight in several different directions

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*For a brief second, an image flickers in an orbit slightly tighter(in stellar scale) than the earths. Call it a huge spaceship. A projectile, visible only if zoomed in so far that the hull plates look flat, flies out of a briefly-opened blue glow. It looks, if we pause the image, strangely enough, like an eight-foot mouse in a spacesuit with a bubble helment, weilding a giant hammer. And if the com traffic were audible through space, a cry of 'BANZAI!' could be heard as the spacesuited mouse flies past at 1.30 C.*

*Some 6 minutes later, a figure steps aboard a spaceship through a rent in the hull of a spaceship. In the lighting, a tube can be seen leading directly into the figure's mouth, down which some liquified orange substance can be seen to flow. The figure lifts the hammer and strikes. Directly at the point of impact, the wall of the cooridor simply vaporizes. Expanding ripples blow out deck after deck. And, if the com traffic was again audible, a mutter of 'Ok, ship, let's see how tough you really are' could be heard.*

*Zooming the camera out, we see a star destroyer floating close to a yellow sun. Every few seconds, gouts of debris fly out of gaping holes which suddenly appear.*

[Alneyan]

I mixed up October and November, and so thought Guy Fawkes Night was Last month. How annoying. You know, there is no reason for you to put me on the actual bonfire though. I mean, I am not an effigy or something, and it burns there. So would you please be so kind as to get me away from that fire, or put it out? Thankyouverymuch. I will owe you a favour.

Narf, that hammer does seem to be impressive. Problem is, there has been several, cloaked Destroyers, waiting in case something baneful should befall on the first vessel. You have thirty seconds to destroy the six other Destroyers. Dismissed.

Don't you find this to be a marvellous, evil scheme RD? A magnificent ending to that world, and I will not even have to suffer through the fire. Now if only I had a way of bLasting Narf's ship from there... He isn't in his ship anymore, so cutting his retreat path will simply... how shall I put it... teach me a lesson about why he should not cross me. Please RD, do destroy his spacecraft. Now!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*As more cheese flows into Narf's body, Narf's strength increases. As Narf's strength increases, Narf's stomach can hold more cheese. The first destroyer is destroyed in 15 seconds. The second is destroyed in 8 seconds. The third is destroyed in 5 seconds. The fourth is destroyed in 4 seconds. The fifth is also destroyed in 4 seconds. The sixth is destroyed in just 3 seconds, one second before launch. And, if we once more eavesdrop on the communications, we can hear a mutter of 'puny'.*

Oh, as for the cloaking? My dreadnought penatrated it as I was being launched. Feel free to TRY to blow it up.

[Alneyan]

*Bursts out laughing* Dear mouse, you needed 15 seconds + 8 seconds + 5 seconds + 4 seconds + 4 seconds + 3 seconds. As my calculator tells me, it amounts to thirty-nine seconds. Alas, you were only granted thirty seconds (30), and not fourty (40). The figure was only written down in letters, and not in actual numbers, to mislead you.

Because of this, you have failed this mission. You were still busy destroying the fourth Destroyer when the sun was blown up by Destroyer V and Destroyer VI (whether Destroyer IV managed to fire its torpedo or not is a matter of debate). Too bad Narf, but since you were so close to the sun, all you managed to did was to destroy the remaining Destroyers, quite impressively if I may say, but it was already too late.

And if we were playing some sort of rogue-like, you would be given the following epitaph: "Narf, the Mouse Extraordinaire, was killed on level Deep Space by a mathematically-challenged problem. Do you want to play again? [y/N]"