# Time for a new Finish the Science Fiction Story? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254 "2005-06-21T22:07:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/21 "2005-06-30T17:37:36Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’ve been chomping at the bit to write a new post, but I didn’t know if I should follow my own post. I didn’t want to hog the story line. > > NCB, when will we see _you_ 😃 ? Hadn’t thought about expanding the bar bit yet, I was waiting to see what someone else was gonna do. 😃 I’ll be back here in about 4 or 5 hours, got to go rent some scaffolding for next week. And I’ll continue in the bar with the game. (it’s from an old SF story, I think it was Lester del Ray) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/22 "2005-06-30T18:38:29Z")
I would expand on the bar bit but I have no idea how! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/23 "2005-06-30T20:46:59Z")
Added LAXON as a possible counter to TALON. Work it any way you want it. Could just be a slang acronym, too. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/24 "2005-07-01T00:54:56Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Added LAXON as a possible counter to TALON. Work it any way you want it. Could just be a slang acronym, too. Yes, could work. The Laxon are from the first story–the intelligence gathering arm of the Teachers’ Union. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/25 "2005-07-01T01:09:27Z")
laxon laxoff :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/26 "2005-07-01T17:47:57Z")
I’ll be there about 6:00PM our time. I think I have a good one, but if not, nyah! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/27 "2005-07-09T14:07:19Z")
**Lute** , I’ll look forward to what is happening with the bug. I’ll be posting to the story later this afternoon, Brigid is going to arrive on the station. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/28 "2005-08-08T21:42:15Z")
Is the instigator of the uprising really alive or was “fingerprints” a figure of speech? Or both? I don’t know and anyone is welcome to fill in the answers. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/29 "2005-08-17T22:33:42Z")
Making sure this control thread is easily found. Maybe we all needed the month off, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/30 "2005-08-17T23:31:43Z")
Can someone refresh my memory on the physical characteristics of a Daestral, if they have already been given? I’m figuring that, becasuse of who the disguised Renallian must have been, they are comparable in abilities/size/whatever to humans, although they won’t necessarily look at all like them. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/31 "2005-08-18T01:44:28Z")
The only thing definite about Daestrals is that they don’t blanch easily so one can presume that they typically have a dark complexion. There is at least one teaching at the Sigma Theta academy. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/32 "2005-08-18T02:03:56Z")
Thanks\*\* Lute\*\*! ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/33 "2005-08-18T19:45:27Z")
The month of July was spent waiting for August since the company announced in July that layoffs would be August 1st. ☹ I’m still here (there, where-ever) and now we are in new teams and getting our hands around new (and old) duties. The company is good, just needs to do what a business needs to do, and everyone is good peoples. I was going to write about Kaval and the transport ship coming out of a one month time loop. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/34 "2005-08-19T02:51:43Z")
Revenge _is_ a dish best served cold, isn’t it, especially when a friend has died! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/35 "2005-08-23T01:11:46Z")
I like what you slipped in there about Stang, **Lute**. ONe has to wonder what he’s covering up back on Gehenna, and how accountable he is. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/36 "2005-09-28T18:25:34Z")
Oops, that should have been “debriefing”, not “interrogating”. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/37 "2005-09-30T20:36:49Z")
**Corner** , that was a great post but certainly not in an intended direction. I was implying that this was the Panil that had met with Minas Sulat, aka “sKova’sla”, aka “Rose(?)” and his charge is the recently “departed” Dr. Eleazar Fujisawa. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/38 "2005-09-30T20:41:39Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [Finish the Science Fiction Story](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=181231) > [Finish the Science Fiction Story, Part II](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=252702&highlight=finish) > [Finish the Sci-Fi Story III - Murder Mystery](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=274181&page=1&pp=50&highlight=finish+story) > > I recently had an idea for a new story, one which would center around John Kaval, a cadet from the end of the last story. It’s only been a couple of months since our Western ended, and there’s the Broadside story still going on, so I was concerned that it might be too soon. I’ll save my introductory post for later if we don’t have enough interest. i want to play - but i’m too lazy to read the other 3 stories so i vote for starting a new one we used to have a writers club and we wrote a bizarre round robin novel - part mystery part horror, part SF, part nonsense it was major fun ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/39 "2005-09-30T21:09:31Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > **Corner** , that was a great post but certainly not in an intended direction. I was implying that this was the Panil that had met with Minas Sulat, aka “sKova’sla”, aka “Rose(?)” and his charge is the recently “departed” Dr. Eleazar Fujisawa. “Not in an intended direction” is my speciality. I was 98.73% sure you were referring to Eleazar, so that’s good to hear. And I was just as sure the Panil was the one that met with sKova’sla. So, we’re on the same page there. My page is just written from right to left. With that post I don’t think I’ve invalidated anything. My sub-intent was to explain how a missile could be fired at a shuttle and how the doc could escape being blown up. Just having him not-have-gotten-aboard sounded rather dull. My higher sub-intent was to pull in talk of that asteroid belt and the TALON war. And the main intent was to introduce a Dr. Mengela for fun. I thought this could open the story to nefarious goings on studying crystals and teleportation, and provide anyone an opening to explain what that Talinisk Seal is. Is it an ancient symbol, the door to ancient treasures when there was a planet instead of asteroids? Is it a modern symbol on a door to a modern building destroyed when the planet was destroyed? Is it a seal having to do with “Tali”? Did their group hide an outpost on an asteroid? Is Geraldo Rivera going to open it? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254/40 "2005-09-30T23:12:49Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > i want to play - but i’m too lazy to read the other 3 stories so i vote for starting a new one > we used to have a writers club and we wrote a bizarre round robin novel - part mystery part horror, part SF, part nonsense > it was major fun Feel free to jump in on the [current story](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6288714). It’s very slow going compared to the others. You can get a summary of the previous stories from **Baker** if so inclined. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-finish-the-science-fiction-story/309254.md?page=3)