Star Wars Outlaws.. a review.. (TL:DR Warning)

 Hi

After wringing 125+ hours out of Outlaws.. I find myself.. satisfied with my experience. With a few caveats..

The Good

Mostly the experience was uniform with the excellent EA 'Jedi' series.. with Nix being BD's counterpart. I like that Ubi have set these games up as twins of sorts.. it means they can focus on the environment and story, which I feel they did.

Voice acting across the board was superb. Direction while not perfect was far beyond competent. Writing again superb. Animation.. especially of Nix again, superb. Environments, easily on par with the EA Jedi series.. and I see no reason EA and Ubi shouldn't colab in the future to standardize environments and assets. 

Chilled out moments sitting.. were relaxing. Combat was good across the board. From space battles to face to face battles, I had a good time.

Experiencing Tatooine was.. special.

The story and side stories were involving, interesting. At certains times heart pulling. 

I won't mention the stories in detail, but I had a good time. As far as RP goes.. I especially enjoyed the ISB uniform.. it made me daydream about Kay joining the Empire and Kay's view on the Empire. While it's easy for us to see the top ranks of the Empire as often corrupt.. fascist.. Kay see's the Rebels as 'just another syndicate'. Kay might see the Empire as a organization that offers a way out of the slums.. offers money for work to those who otherwise wouldn't be able to get a job. Fair day's pay for a fair day's work.

Imagine if we had the option of joining the ISB as a lieutenant and working our way up the ranks of the Imperial service doing radiant quests.. but not just endless nameless quests.. marked with cutscenes and special scripted one off mission for each rank promotion. Outlaws would be a unique chance to experience this in a DLC.. as other Star Wars games we play the straight up 'hero'.

I also repeatedly daydreamed about owning droids.. many times in treasure caves, we would see R2 and C3 units and variations.. just there. I kept wishing we had the ability to repair/buy/recruit them. Currently after completing the game I have LOADS of resources for the speeder and Trailblazer. Using those resources on owned droids in a DLC I feel would be a cool expansion.. with a beginner mission of trading and buying (3PO series) 22-X's head from the Jawas on Tatooine.. and integrating her in to your Speeder.. then 22-X becoming a sort of mentor teaching you how to do basic repair on droids, being able to sell them for a profit too. 

So you'd get taught the basics by 22-X, and fix the basics on the trailblazer workbench but go to droid repairs person to 'upgrade'. Build any Astromech for stealth OR combat OR mobility OR negotiation.

I would hope BD units would be included but that might cause troubles with EA.. so at least.. R-series, C-series, BX-series and perhaps Pip P-series (P1P? from Acolyte.).. there's many more.

Sound effects were good but surround sound definitely needed work. Music was OK.

The Bad

bugs. for me not too bad but still annoying. If I do loads of work to get to a spot and then the swing doesn't take me all the way over the drop.. flip! Whoever insisted on checkpoints/auto save is a flippin' genius.

Missions not completing.

Things that were never explained to me.. the stealthy and non stealthy actions.

Like why does Nix stealth attacking an enemy, say with 'detonate' why does that make everyone start looking for me? The enemies don't look for me when Nix straight up attacks them. This doesn't make sense. You could say it's just because it's OP move but that still doesn't make sense in game.

Like when does the 'fast talking' initiate? Sometimes I would just straight up get arrested or caught and only sometimes would it initiate. This was confusing.

The Ugly

Firstly.. Humberly Gonzalez (who played Kay Vess) is stunning. beautiful. But Kay.. not so much. I mean it's irregular to have 25% of your face be your chin. 

They didn't just hit her with the 'ugly stick' they cut down the whole ugly tree and fashioned it in to some sort of medieval face slapping device leaving Kay's face in perpetual state of being slapped by said ugly sticks. IMO She is repulsive looking.

I mean.. even IF.. IF.. I were to accept her face.. has she never heard of soap or shampoo?? a hairstyle that lessens the impact of her face? but instead her hairstyle emphasises and perhaps exaggerates her ugliness.

Why ohw why.. can't we just have a cosmetic replacement of Ms. Gonzalez's face? put Ms. Gonzalez's attractive face over the repulsive mistake that was Kay Vess's face.

Lastly.. WHO decided it was a good idea to time out out of bounds? This is a trait from games 20 years ago.. that pretty much died and everyone went to the wake and had a party! We danced on it's grave; I believe it was Gangnam style.. when it died around 2012.

Games.. open world games.. are a 'sandbox' inside the 'sandbox' belongs to the player.. outside of the 'sandbox' does not.

The reason games had this was because of limitations of hardware. The reason Outlaws has it.. is a lack of imagination. No wait.. a lack of ingenuity.

Space battles themselves can quickly become a nightmare if you are on the edge of out of bounds. This is dumb!! It's not even needed.. modern games have already solved this problem with infinite space, like if you try to go out on the water in GTA and it just endlessly loops.. no.. I lost space battles too often because of this daft out of bounds mechanic that shouldn't exist in a modern game. 

Conclusion

I enjoyed my month in Star Wars Outlaws.. I have problems on and off with Ubisoft.. back in the day with ACII and the whole 'Anti-catholic' thing.. then more recently Valhalla.. and the Isle of Skye DLC, where some insensitive flump trumpet decided to make all the Scottish people English.. they could have hired Scottish voice actors and actresses for the lines but no, they hired people English people from London.. they still used the Saxon (English) models even though, they had the models for Scottish people sitting there as Mobs. Calling a Scottish person English is as bad as using the N word to a black person. It was horrific.

I decided to boycott Ubisoft again.. but then Outlaws came up.. at first I thought it was made by EA.. until I came to purchase and saw it was Ubisoft.. it was a dilemma.. but as I missed playing the Jedi series and so badly wanted to play it's twin.. I bought it.. and not just bought it, but bought the Ultimate edition. I do this to ensure I get all DLC for a game. In this game Scottish people were represented.. which was a pleasant surprise.

I feel a little warmer to Ubisoft right now*.. we have a few DLC upcoming.. and as I have paid for the Ultimate Edition.. I assume I will be enjoying them too.

Regards from the Outer Rim

ISB Lieutenant Dava

*but still get angry over the Isle of Skye DLC when I really think about it.

Restaurant Brigade (Kitchen brigade).. stuff I keep imagining..

 Ahoyhoy..

After watching a load of Kitchen Nightmares years ago.. and more recently, watching The Bear and Food Wars.. that SAME thought keeps coming back to me.

It annoys me why front of House is called 'chef' in the Bear.. and at other times it annoyed me why is the head front of house doesn't have a regiment.. like the back of house (kitchen).. so without further ado.. here is my thoughts on that..

Kitchen/Back of House

Head Chef         'Chef'
Sous Chef          'Sous' (Soo)
Sauce Chef        'Saucier' (Saucy-er.. sauces, soups and slow braising meat)
Carvery Chef     ' Carver' (aka 'Rôtisseur') 
Pastry Chef         'Patisserie'
Buffet Chef        'Buffet' (aka Garde manger, cold meats etc) 
Commis Chef    'Commis' (lowest rank Chef, general dogs body for chopping veg etc)

Table/Front of House

Head Front of House                   'House'
Manager of Front of House         'Front'
Concierge of Front of House      ' Concierge'
1st Head Server                            'Room'
1st Bus (plate clearer)                   'Bus'  (note only 1st Bus outranks all the other servers except 1st.)
All servers.
All bus.

Support Staff

1st Kitchen Porter    'KP'    (washes all dishes and manages all other support staff)
Garde Porter            'Porter' (moves heavy items, and washes the most dirty vegetables)
All porters.

For Table.. House, Front and Conseriege take bookings. Each can be 'greeter' at the front house podium. However, House is responsible for front and back coordination.Front is responsible for checking tallies, and financial matters.. ensuring checks are put out, collected and paid, handling the till. Concierge is responsible for ensuring the happiness of patrons.

Room aides House with food updates on all the servers.Room aides Front with check updates on all the servers. Room aides Concierge with updates on the happiness of guests.

Bus reports to Room on the progress of clearing plates.

Porters give a cursory clean to the kitchen for an hour after service is finished.. proper cleaning is done twice a week by the chefs. Every night after service.. Carver and Porter go through the kitchen throwing out any OFF items, anything over 24 hours old gets tossed, and it gets marked who made it and so who wasted the money. Porter reports this waste to Front the next morning.

Bus (1st Bus) bus staff and House are responsible for a clean front of house. After service every night, the front of house is scrubbed and sterilized. By the next day.. This gives the chemicals time to both work and strong smell to dissipate. Scent that would ruin the food. Not to mention.. front of house should be the dirtiest, with all the coming and going of guests.

FTL Warp Factors.. a question..

 I'm wondering if..

0.10c is 'Warp 1'
0.20c is 'Warp 2'
etc
0.90c is 'Warp 9'

OR

1c is 'Warp 1'
2c is 'Warp 2'

It's most likely the first one.. because the second one is time travel.

I read that Helium-3 won't make a good fuel for FTL.. but I don't understand why.

While Matter-Antimatter IS better and I don't deny it.. He3 could be used as fuel via Ion drives, pushing electrons out. It would mean we could send probes to Alpha Centuri system.. the system is a tri-star system.. and we could visit each one and send photos back.

Slowing Down..

Reaching 'Warp 5' or 0.5c makes it so the probe would arrive within 10 years. But slowing down would inhibit travel to the other stars..

Instead why not drop a secondary smaller probe to an Lagrange point of one of the exo-planets? And do the same again for each star?

Just a few thoughts there..

Star Trek Uniforms (fanfic)

 

Red = Command

Yellow = Engineering / Security

Blue = Science / Medical

Green = Medical Specialist / Internal Affairs (internal police) / Botany Specialist

Orange = Specialist Technician / Star Fleet Music Corp.

Cyan = Psychological Sciences

Purple = Command Specialist

Brown = Xenobiologist Specialist

White = Dress Uniform

Black = Section 31/ Star Fleet Secret Service

Dimensions..

1. length

2. breadth

3. height

4. time

5. potential

6. paradox

7. escape (collapse the wave function)

8. nullification

9. singularity 

Dava's Hitchhikers Guide to Akira..

 Hi random wanderer of the internet!

Akira

What is Akira?

It is a legendry anime, with ghosts and sci-fi.

What is Akira REALLY?

It is a overly complicated story .. that is full of mis-directs, confusion but ultimately legendry moments.

Spoilers from now on follow.. Here be Tetsuo!

Akira is the in my humble option the greatest slight of hand in anime storytelling.

The story pushes your focus towards Kaneda or Takashi at every opportunity.. all to filter your perception away from the *real* main lead of this story.. Tetsuo.  

Not even Akira can compete with Tetsuo's heart wrenching storyline. Tetsuo's not handsome, he has no money and his parents beat him.. Kaneda has the looks and coolness that Tetsuo craves. 

While the Espers play politics.. and Akira thinks himself a God.. Tetsuo endures in his agony and humiliation.

After this movie.. I read the subsequent anime's.. which really should be made in to a movie (Akira Part II). Equally as confusing.. equally as epic.

The upshot is.. don't believe the mis-direction.. Tetsuo is the main character of this story.

Why I think Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania bombed..

 Hi www

In very short.. Katy O'Brian's acting was so poor in her first scene, and so little was explained to Hank, who was us on this journey.. what where the names of the first aliens that helped us? what was the name of the cantina?

Katy O'Brian is *excellent* in the Mandalorian (excellent villain!) .. for Mando I'd give her 8/10. For Ant-Man QM.. 1 or 2 or 3.. 3 at best, no I'm being too generous!.. 1 or 2/10. 

5 being competent. No Oscars won, but in no way hurt the production.

1. Katy O'Brian miscast 2.Poor story layout 3. Too much 'glossing over' what is happening, at times where the audience needed that depth (see above for examples).

The rest was actually good.. especially Paul Rudd.. whose comedic acting was on point. I really can't fault the main cast.. even Corey Stoll raised a smile and didn't let the production down, even with the slightly awkward lines he had.. he just about pulled them off with decent comedy.. and yes FEELZ <3. Well done Mr. Stoll!

I'm a huge Bill Murray fan.. but his character just functioned as a plot device to betray the heroes. He had one comedic moment.. which *did* work.. but with the lack of exposition, the exposition we needed before we met him and J.Van Dyne simply brushing everything off when a explanation was called for.. no.

Ms. Lilly did not have any standout scenes.. however she (along with Ms. John-Kamen as Ghost) took a front seat in the previous movie, while Paul Rudd played for comedy.

I'd enjoy seeing a Goliath/Ghost movie. A pulp fiction of revenge.. think Kill Bill but with phasing superpowers.

Florida Man.. My (somewhat of a ) Review

 Hi

I watched the first episode of Florida Man on NF.. the thumbnail promo had shown Clark Gregg, so I was looking forward to him starring in this. nope.

By the second episode I had identified the problem with this show.. Edgar Ramirez.

Everyone else were putting in competent performances, Abbey Lee was a little shaky in the first episode but by the second she was really taking her stride with this little bit of fluff part and was acting the flip out it! respect.

I could tell Mr. Ramirez was really struggling to act in English.. I don't know if he is or isn't a good actor in Spanish, but I saw how poor and unengaging he was in English. It felt like he was a drama student with their first performance.

The plot was often over contrived for no reason.. If they had done this properly, they could have done it out of order and so made it a pulp fiction.. as this show so badly wanted to be a detective noir, both these would have fit together nicely if the writer/s were talented enough.

But what we got was meandering mess with no real direction.

Or if not a pulp.. throw in some decent music direction and the first two episodes could have been one, anything montage like to end the monotony of Mr. Ramirez's acting and the poor plot writing.

So.. I'm not going to finish episode 3.. I feel so guilty for reviewing something without seeing as a complete work.. giving those artists a chance to redeem themselves, like Ms. Lee did in the second episode. But I just can't force myself.. I can't do that to myself to watch more of Mr. Ramierez's 'non-acting'.

Dava

Reality-Avengers (Euro-Avengers) Tri-Annual [Fanfic] : Part Three 'The Winner Takes It All'

Reality-Avengers (Euro-Avengers) Tri-Annual [Fanfic] : Part Three 'The Winner Takes It All' 

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This fanfic comic should be rated R21 in the USA. And is only intended for those over the age of 21 (except in countries such as Scotland or Cambodia where the legal age of adulthood is 16 or above). Will contain graphical descriptions of erotica and violence. You have been warned.

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A deafening silence falls over Lep and The Beyonder.. all we can hear is ABBA's album version of 'The Winner Takes It All'.

Behind Lep.. Widow Spider lays on the floor, his insides ripped out. Lep is crying..  locked in battle with the Beyonder.

Lep thinking : I-i-if I beat him I can undo it!!

We zoom out to see many of the team have been turned to stone.. many dead police officers, a few crashed police helicopters.. we are in the park next to the giant statue of the Beyonder.

Dave Shaw as the Silver Scotsman is keeping back the hordes of people trying to defend The Beyonder.
The Beyonder is also creating energy spears to strike Lep, but Kang is making the spears not exist.
Ares is on the other side of the planet, throwing fired nukes in to the sun.. because if he didn't, they would be hitting NYC. They would be hitting Lep.

'I Don't Wanna Talk'

6 days earlier.. 

Dave is meeting with Susan at the motel. Dave is nervous as the team have finished the Portal to take them to another reality.. and Dave wants to ask Susan if she will come with them.

Outside the motel Dave stands alone waiting.. it's around 2pm. Dave has dressed smartly, his hair is washed with vosene and brushed with brill cream. He is holding bouquet of flowers.

We take the perspective of an older gent sitting in a rocking chair on the porch of the liquor store across from the motel.

A black executive car rolls up and a lady with blonde hair gets out (Susan). She goes over and hugs the man (Dave). He gives her the flowers and they seem to speak. Suddenly she becomes angry.. we do not *quite* hear what is said but she is shouting.. she throws the flowers back and him and gets in her car.. he takes a few quick steps to chase the car.. but he slows as the car throws up dust and is gone.

'Minds As Cold As Ice'

The next day..We see through the motel security camera, Dave comes out of a motel room alone and walks to the public phone.. after a short phone call, we see he is upset.

That night..We see through the same motel security camera, Dave comes out of a motel room alone and walks to the vending machine, buys himself a drink.. has a drink and a smoke on the motel porch then returns to his room.

The next day again..We see through the motel security camera, Dave comes out of a motel room alone and walks to the public phone.. after a short time, we see he is upset again.

'But What Can I Say? Rules Must Be Obeyed'

2 days prior to the park.. 

From the perspective of Susan's cellphone.. late at night, Susan is in apartment bed tossing and turning, she keeps lifting her cellphone and then putting back on her bedside table.

Susan works up the courage to make the phone call.

Sitting on the police sergeant's front desk; Through a snow-globe of all peoples of the world surrounding the Beyonder in love.. we see Susan sitting on the bench at the police station alone, her mascara running, looking at her knees, her face; miserable.

'I've Played All My Cards'

4 hours before the Park.. a racket of SWAT Helicopters and a veil of police officers dressed in funerial black, weight down mourning the outer compound.

We take the perspective of the compound security cameras.. in the compound lobby camera, we see a flash then a helicopter crashes through the lobby windows, followed by Firegirl.

We then, silently, see Guillotine shouting at Firegirl, but Firegirl defending her actions.

On the canteen camera, many SWAT officers drop in from the ceiling, but Captain England fights them off.. Ultrahawk bursts in breaking the canteen entrance walls and begins stomping the SWAT officers, squashing them like bugs under a boot.. Cap looks shocked.

On the back garden compound camera; La Peregrine is wounding but not killing the herds of police officers. Kang appears next to Peregrine, the two seem to talk, and with a wave of his hand.. many of the police officers vanish.

In the Recreation Room camera.. Ares is asleep on the pool table. holding a bottle with his fingertips.

JJ is in the lower laboratory, we see he is on the phone, looking impatient.. the 'lobby' button on the phone is flashing.. as if he is calling the lobby to find out what the loud noise are.

Alan and Siobhan walk in the lobby.. Siobhan is wearing a summer dress, they seem bemused why a crashed helicopter is in the foyer. 

From the roof camera, we see the many many helicopters fire their missiles .. we can see Zero approaching the front of building from here. He is carrying a pizza. We see he looks up and has seen the missiles heading for the foyer. He drops the pizza box flat and waves his arms outward; stopping time throughout this reality.

In DC, looking through the reflection of a mirror in the oval office, we see the Beyonder feels this shift and becomes aware time has frozen.

We move to the lobby camera, Zero comes in and 'wakes up' Guillotine, Firegirl, Alan and Siobhan. Then we see Zero go through each room 'waking' each of the team members, except that, in the recreational room, even freed from the time freezing, Ares cannot be roused from his drunken sleep.

We see through the rec rooms camera.. Cap and Ultrahawk are arguing, they are going at it, almost at blows until Guillotine steps in and calms them down.

'You've Come To Shake My Hand'

A tourist was taking a video in the park, we see from this screen, the Beyonder summons all the team to the park, including Siobhan and JJ.. we see Siobhan mouth the words to JJ 'this guy is powerful!'. Siobhan changes herself and Alan into their costumes.

The Beyonder crushes his fist and at the same moment, time restarts again, but also Zero clutches his chest in pain and drops to the floor. Ares shouts Zero's name.. we barely hear it as this distance.

The Beyonder waves his hand and many SWAT Helicopters appear surrounding the park, firing missiles. Many police officers appear.. Ultrahawk flies up and throws one helicopter at another causing them to crash in to the police officers below.

The team go to attack the Beyonder, but with the exception of, Kang Ares, Lep and JJ, the Beyonder turns the group to stone.. which Lep undoes.. Widow Spider incensed attacks the Beyonder directly, who catches WS by his throat. And then rips out his lower organs and throws the body on the ground. The Beyonder turns the rest of the team back to stone.

The sky and the very universe itself goes dark.. even the Beyonder feels a quiver of fear race like a cold jolt up his back.

We see Dave say under his breath; his warm breath on the cold air:  'oh yuv done it noo!'.

A shaft of light lens flares upon the park.. upon the two.

We see JJ has teleported himself to a near by tree and has furnished himself with some toffee popcorn.. JJ turns to a little bird in the tree and says 'Don't worry.. I'm 'Plan B'.

'The Winner Takes It All'

The two clash and a blinding light engulfs the park.. inside the light.. 

We resume inside the light:

A deafening silence falls over Lep and The Beyonder.. all we can hear is ABBA's album version of 'The Winner Takes It All'.

Behind Lep.. Widow Spider lays on the floor, his insides ripped out. Lep is crying..  locked in battle with the Beyonder.

Lep thinking : I-i-if I beat him I can undo it!!

We zoom out to see many of the team have been turned to stone.. many dead police officers, a few crashed police helicopters.. we are in the park next to the giant statue of the Beyonder.

Dave Shaw as the Silver Scotsman is keeping back the hordes of people trying to defend The Beyonder.
The Beyonder is also creating energy spears to strike Lep, but Kang is making the spears not exist.
Ares is on the other side of the planet, throwing fired nukes in to the sun.. because if he didn't, they would be hitting NYC. They would be hitting Lep.

Lep begins to draw on other realities.. on other powers from other realities... shores of power wave over her, as we see these other realities in a chatoyant effect.. faster and faster like a DBZ power up.

Lep fuses with the Beyonder to overcome him and learns he was a renegade Watcher called Aron*.. then she sees all realities and learns that the original reality still exists.. Suddenly Lep becomes aware of Admiral David Haller, Legion in their original reality.. she whispers to him.. 'help me and I will fix this all!'

David Haller reaches in to the Beyonder's reality and vampirically absorbs the Beyonders power.. this weakens the Beyonder enough for Lep to use the Beyonder like a battery.

She imprisons the Beyonder in JJ's closet in the quantum realm. She along with JJ and Legion move 'Kobik Earth' to the 616 universe, but at the opposite side of the Milky Way. We shift the planet via Mount Olympus.. the 'pocket dimension'. ..They move the planet to a star in the new 616 reality, equally as far away to the center (but on a different arm) of the Milky Way.. she recreates the solar system.. and now there are two earths in the galaxy Sol 1 (616 .. shield) and Sol 2 (61311.. hydra)

A flash of light and 'Tempus Ex Machina' all the team are restored even all of Sol 2.

The team look up and see they are in the park and can see the statue of Liberty, they hear  a sizzling sound and look down, Lep's skin and body is black charred; cooking due to overuse of her powers. La Peregrine whips out a bottle of water and feeds it to Lep while holding her head.. WS is stunned. He looks down.. and even though she has passed out.. she is holding his hand tightly.

Guillotine: Let's recoup in the Marquis!

Cap: agreed!

THE END.

Part One : Reality-Avengers (Euro-Avengers) Tri-Annual [Fanfic] : Part One
Part Two: Reality-Avengers (Euro-Avengers) Tri-Annual [Fanfic]  :  Part Two

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Miss an episode?
See here:

Episode 1: Euro-Avengers - Assemble!
Episode 2: Euro-Avengers 'Matter of Opinion'
Episode 3 : Euro-Avengers 'I Reality Love You'
Episode 4: Euro-Avengers 'Another Day in Paradise'
Episode 5: Euro-Avengers 'What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practise to Perceive.." + BONUS 'Exposition Theater'
Episode 6 : Euro-Avengers 'BOSS FIGHT!'
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Tri-Annual 2018-2022: 

Part One:
Reality Avengers Tri-Annual Initiation.

Part Two:

The Ingenious Nighthawk-538

The Intoxicating Leprechaun 

The Dauntless Silver-Spider

Part Three:

Reality Avengers Tri-Annual Conclusion.

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Next time on 'Sol-2 Euro-Avengers'..

Will Lep recover in time to save the team from an old returning enemy?

Will Dave ever get over 538-Susan? 

The Fermi Paradox; The Horrors and Delights of Free-Will

 Hi .. 

Scottish Politics : Politics. Peace. Intersolar Travel. (scotspol.blogspot.com)

I'll write this in English as to reach out to a wider audience. (Although my first language is Scots) I also have a faith based slant, so that is in there too. I am Catholic and Abrahamic.

Why are humans the only civilization.. forgoing ecumenical spiritual beings*.. why are humans the only civilization we are aware of?

Shouldn't we have already made contact if an alien civilization exists? I believe that alien life exists, such as fish-like, plant-like, insect-like and cow-like.. but I do not believe that any alien civilization exists.. the Bible does not mention alien life, however omission is not a proof of a fact. And just because I suppose something; does not make it fact.. The Lord said He repented making Man.. but we are creating a '4th kind' in AI &  robot-kind. 

Now that's out of the way.. lets discuss why we don't have aliens summer vacationing in Florida.

The Horrors of Free-Will

As humans spread out and become more and more frontiers people.. law will recede and people will be more and more free to do whatever they want as there will be no one around to stop them.

Imagine something that would seems Sci-Fi to us just now but in 2000 years.. born on Earth, then buy a ship with the ability to go anywhere in the universe, own a galaxy/solar system where no other human will ever come as space is so vast; no one will ever find you.

Acting out forbidden horrors like Genetic Engineering and manipulation.. a reasonably intelligent human could create beings and rule over them.. making them slaves and making them worship that human.

Every evil we could imagine..

Now put this into the context of an authoritarian civilization.. an alien one.. imagine random aliens with alien morality coming and experimenting on life here.

Well.. if their government at least have the morality that those alien citizens shouldn't be doing that, they will keep those citizens most likely in places they control, such as their own solar system.

Prose: If aliens exist it is unlikely they allow their kind outside of their reach.

Everything is Trying to Kill Us

Everything from the radiation to the distances involved.. but even if we overcome these things, I posit even on arrival of an earth-like twin.. everything would try to kill us.

Basic biology of two systems in hostility; we would literally be entering an alien environment never designed for us.

Remember what killed the aliens in War of the Worlds? That's right.. Terran bacteria.

If we blindly go to other planets.. that planet will kills us. And likewise the thought occurs to me, if a alien civilization went to another planet.. it would, I think, mostly likely kill them too. That's a pretty good deterrent to leaving your own solar system.

Remember when Australia was overrun with rabbits?.. now imagine that but in an alien body with our bacteria.. or vice versa alien bacteria and our body.

The common cold could easily wipe an alien planet out.

Max Capacity 1600KG or 21 Persons

Staying in the solar system means you get to have children.. going off in to the unknown, means you are  unlikely to ever meet another.. you will be alone for the rest of your life, unless you take humans with you.

This is the same for an alien civilization.

Our solar system will be packed full of humans.. 10's of trillions of humans, on every moon and major planet and dwarf planet and asteroid giant.. in the solar system, in the Oort Cloud.. but outside endless space and self reliance and loneliness.

That loneliness can lead to madness.

Cheer Up And I'll Buy You An Ice Cream

To get to this point we would have had to solved all the worlds problems.. and that is a remarkable achievement. 

Humans are a mix of good and evil.. if we express goodness with consistency and teach our children to do the same .. then they are more likely to be good to any creatures they come across.

As we become spacial frontiers folk and resource mining based.. we become free and so long as we do not degenerate.. we are fit to inherit this Galaxy and all Galaxies.

The Delights of Free-Will

A life devoted to your own pursuits.
Never breaking another persons rules as you are always alone.
Robot-kind companionship.
You-do-you without interference.

Peace

Dava

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*Angels & spirits.

*what if aliens have their equivalent of the common cold that would kills us etc.. if they are civilized they would not go to other worlds for fear of the chance of spreading the bacteria and killing whole planets

*4th kind.. either way you look at it.. Spirits, Angels, Man and Robotkind.. or Man, Woman, something inbetween, like Eunuch (trans) and then 4th kind AI/Robot

Squier Stagemaster/Showmaster deleted wikipage

Squier Stagemaster
Different colors of the V1 Stagemaster
Manufacturer	Squier
Period	January 4th 1999 - December 31st 2001
Construction
Body type	Solid
Neck joint	Neck-Through and Bolt-on
Scale	25.5 in (650 mm) ;V6 Baritone 27"
Woods
Body	Alder Poplar
Neck	Maple
Fretboard	Rosewood
Hardware
Bridge	Floyd Rose Locking, two-point tremolo, hard tail
Pickup(s)	Usually one humbucking and two Single-coils or Two Humbuckers or One Single-coil and two Humbuckers
Colors available
Various solid shades of white, blue, red, green, black, gold, grey and purple. Blueburst, Redburst, & Blackburst V5 only

 

The Squier Stagemaster (discontinued) is a guitar made by Squier, which normally manufactures less expensive authorized copies of Fender's more popular guitars and bass guitars. The Stagemaster is similar in appearance to a Stratocaster with a few cosmetic and functional differences, and is typically classified as a Superstrat. Generally, these differences are:

A reverse headstock
A tremolo system (Mostly Licensed Floyd Rose, with the Stagemaster HSS NLT model featuring 2-point standard tremolo)
Humbucker pickups combined with single coil pickups
A contoured neck heel (Rounded corner where the neck meets the body)
A slightly narrower body
24 fret necks (Early models had 22 fret necks)
One volume and one tone control

Also see the badge change of Fender Showmaster due to legal reasons.
Versions
There were six major versions of the Squier Stagemaster:
V1 - Introduced in 1999 and featured a pick guard, top jack, reverse headstock, licensed Floyd Rose tremolo systems and 22 frets & 25.5" scale. Versions were HH, HSS, and HSH. V1 Stagemasters did not come from the factory in HHH or SSS versions^[1] .^[2] Colors made were Black (506), Polar White (581), Cobalt Blue Metallic (587), Galactic Purple (591) and Frost Red (577). All V1 models were initially available with a natural wood color headstock; toward the later production months they were made with a matching painted headstock. All came with chrome hardware. Discontinued in March 2000. Very early versions had CY98xxxxxx serial numbers but were assembled in early 1999, not in 1998 per Fender Customer Service. V1 bodies & necks are interchangeable with Stratocaster guitars. The Floyd Rose tremolo uses a 37mm high tremolo bridge block held in with three 4mm screws. It uses a 6mm screw-in tremolo arm. The V1 can be converted to use genuine Floyd Rose 6mm screw-over or push-in tremolo arm types.

Early V1 guitars have string tuners that are held in place with a set-screw (Type A). Later ones have tuners that are held in place with a recessed pin (Type B). V1 guitars were made in China.

V1.0 Stagemasters are the original 1999 Stagemasters with tuners that have external screws to prevent tuner rotation.
V1.1 Stagemasters are the 1999 Stagemasters with tuners that have an internal tuner pin to prevent tuner rotation.
V1.2 Stagemasters are the 1999 Stagemasters that have matching painted headstocks.

V2 & V2.7 - Introduced in 2000, discontinued 2002. Has a side jack, back-routed control cavity, reverse headstock, licensed Floyd Rose bridge, bolt-on 24 fret neck & 25.5" scale, and a locking nut. Six string versions were available in HH, HSS, and HSH pickup configurations. These 2-octave models were made in three colors: Black Metallic (565), Cobalt Blue Metallic (587), and Purple Metallic (593). The V2 six string model Floyd Rose tremolo uses a 37mm high tremolo bridge block held in with three 5mm screws. The V2 six string models can be converted to use genuine Floyd Rose 6mm screw-over or push-in tremolo arm types.
The V2 models were also offered in HH pickup configuration in 7-string versions. The 7-string versions came in two models: a Floyd Rose bridge with locking nut (7FR) and a hard tail fixed bridge (7HT) with a regular nut. The 7-string models came in three colors: Black Metallic (565), Cobalt Blue Metallic (587) and Purple Metallic (593). The V2 7-string models are also depicted as V2.7 Stagemasters to distinguish them from the V2 six string models. The seven string Stagemaster can be converted to an HSH pickup configuration by a competent luthier. The V2.7 7-string guitars were discontinued on December 31, 2001. The V2.7 Floyd Rose tremolo uses a 34mm high x 70mm wide tremolo bridge block held in with three 4mm screws.
All V2 guitars were made in China and came with black hardware.
V3 - Introduced in January 2001, the Stagemaster HSS NLT (Non-Locking Tremolo) model number 032-2700 was the lowest priced Stagemaster sold listing for $349.99 (the street price was around $220 in 2001). Features a two-point bridge, back-routed control cavity, a bolt-on 22 fret neck 25.5" scale, and a regular type nut. Colors included Black Metallic (565), Cobalt Blue Metallic (587), and Purple Metallic (593). All came with chrome hardware. V3 bodies & necks are interchangeable with Telecaster guitars as it has a square neck pocket; Stratocaster necks will fit a V3 body but may have an exposed gap. The V3 guitars were made in China. V3 Stagemasters are the most common Stagemaster found today and sell for around $100 to $125 in 2019. The Stagemaster HSS NLT was renamed in January 2002 to the Showmaster HSS NLT with exactly the same features. The V3 Stagemaster uses a 35.6mm tall pot-metal Stratocaster type bridge block. Finding replacement steel or brass tremolo blocks is difficult as most Squier replacement blocks do not fit correctly. eBay vendor kevinh3324 does make steel or brass replacement blocks that correctly fit the Stagemaster HSS NLT. The V3 Stagemaster uses a 6mm screw-in tremolo arm.
V4 - Introduced May 15, 2000, The Stagemaster Deluxe versions with neck-through construction were made alongside these models and were available in HH and HSH configurations. The necks are 24 fret & 25.5" scale. The Deluxe HH neck-through came in three colors: Shoreline Gold Metallic (544), Atlantic Blue Metallic (569), and Wine Red Metallic (575). The Deluxe HSH came in three different colors: Pewter Gray Metallic (543), Black Metallic (565), and Emerald Green Metallic (571). No HSS or SSS neck-through models were made. All V4 models came with black hardware and were made in Korea. The V4 Floyd Rose tremolo uses a 34mm high tremolo bridge block held in with 5mm screws. The V4 models can be converted to use genuine Floyd Rose 6mm screw-over or push-in tremolo arm types.
V5 - In 2000 Squier made an exclusive run of six string Stagemasters for Mars Music. They came in HH configuration only and were available in three colors: Blueburst, Redburst, and Blackburst. A notable difference from the other Stagemasters is that they have regular headstocks that are not reversed. These guitars came with a bolt on 24 fret neck 25.5" scale, Licensed Floyd Rose tremolo bridge with a locking nut, black hardware, one vol/one tone knob, and a 3-way knife switch. These guitars are known as the "Mars Stagemasters" and are the only Stagemasters that have a burst finish. The V5 Stagemaster guitars were made in China. The V5 Floyd Rose tremolo uses a 34mm high tremolo bridge block held in with 5mm screws. The V5 models can be converted to use genuine Floyd Rose 6mm screw-over or push-in tremolo arm types.
V6 - In January 2001 Squier introduced the Squire Sub-Sonic Deluxe baritone guitar as a part of the Stagemaster Series. It is a neck-thru design like the V4 models but has a hard-tail bridge and a normal nut. It is tuned a forth below a standard guitar: B1–E2–A2–D3–F♯3–B3 (low to high). The Sub-Sonic guitar was made in Korea. It was only available as a dual humbucker (HH) and came only in Black Metallic (565). The scale length is 27" and the neck has 24 frets. Controls are a 3-way pickup selector switch, a volume control, and a tone control. Sub-Sonics with a 2002 serial number are technically Showmaster models but are identical to 2001 Stagemaster V6 models.
The V2 & V4 2nd generation 24-fret solid body Stagemasters featured many upgrades and were "designed to compete with guitars costing 4 to 5 times as much." One upgrade was wax potted pickups stock with the guitar. Another upgrade was a rear-routed control cavity for guitars lacking off a pickguard. The Deluxe models featured neck-through three-piece maple necks, while the Standard models featured a bolt-on one-piece neck with no scarf joint and a contoured heel. The reverse headstocks on the Stagemasters allow for completely straight string pull. Another nice feature is the inclusion of a brass bridge sustain block on the Ping licensed Floyd Rose bridge, unusual quality in a budget-priced guitar. In March 2002 the Stagemaster line was renamed to Showmaster due to a trademark claim from Kramer, who had made a guitar called the Stagemaster in the mid-late 1980s. V2, V3 and V4 model Stagemaster guitars are known to exist labelled as "Showmaster" (except for the V2 7 string guitars).
All Stagemasters came with rosewood fret boards. None were ever made with maple fret boards.
All Stagemasters have adjustable truss rod necks with a headstock accessible Allen truss rod nut. Allen nut sizes are:

V1 5mm
V2 5mm
V3 5mm
V4 4mm
V5 5mm
V6 4mm

If the Stagemaster was made in China, the truss rod nut is 5mm. If the Stagemaster was made in Korea, the truss rod nut is 4mm.
History
The Stagemaster line of guitars were introduced in the 1st Quarter of 1999. The first 1999 Stagemaster looked like Fender Stratocasters with a reverse headstock and the Stagemaster 22 fret necks are compatible with a Stratocaster. The V2 design of 2000 was essentially a superstrat with a 2-octave neck that is incompatible with a Stratocaster. In 2001 Kramer sent Fender a letter stating that Fender was using Kramer's trademark of "Stagemaster" for electric guitars and demanded that Fender stop using the Kramer trademark. Kramer had released a line of guitars from 1986 to 1990 that were branded as "Stagemaster" and had the trademark "Stagemaster". Fender agreed to stop using the trademark beginning January 1, 2002. The Squier "Stagemasters" were discontinued and some Stagemaster models (V2, V3, V4 & V6) were renamed "Showmaster" and were released on Jan 4th 2002. The 7 string Stagemaster models were discontinued and were not re-branded as Showmaster. There was never a lawsuit - Fender and Kramer worked the issue out between themselves and the case never went to court. The details of the settlement between Kramer and Fender were never revealed to the public. The Showmaster guitars were later discontinued in 2004 and were sold through 2005 until the stocks were depleted.
Identification of the Stagemaster guitars is quite easy. If it has a normal head stock it is a V5 Mars Stagemaster. If it has seven strings with chrome tuners it is a V1.7 model. If it has seven strings with black tuners it is a V2.7 model. If it has a pick guard it is a V1. If it has a back-routed control cavity and a bolt-on 24 fret neck it is a V2. If it has back-routed control cavity and a bolt-on 22 fret neck it is a V3. If it is a neck-through guitar with a 25.5" scale and has a Floyd Rose bridge it is V4. If it is a neck-through guitar and the neck scale is 27" and it has a hard tail bridge, it is a V6 baritone.

The Stagemaster guitar shares similarities with the Heavy Metal (HM) Strat which was produced by Fender and discontinued in 1992. It also shares similarities with the Squier Heavy Metal (HM) guitars made from 1989 to 1993.