Recap of last nights action (hey I never promised not to kiss and tell).
1) GDA-Kel spotted on server, direct challenge issued and confirmed received. Response below:
<sob.....sniff> Some mean old putty tats stole my lunch money and my D7T. I need to go ask my mommy for more PP, but maybe if I am real submissive like and further degrade myself to my Coalition masters they will take pity on such a pathetic retch such as myself and help me get a bigger vessel.
Note to Kel, those PP enlargement ads are total BS, just ask Agave I am sure he has tried them all2) GDA-Scipio spotted on server, direct challenge issued and confirmed received. Bunch of hemming and hawing, but I have come to expect that from Scipio as he has always been intimidated by my mere presents, largely do to the fact that he looks so small, ineffectual and impotent in comparison to a Gorn of my beauty and charismatic nature. Little did I know that this time he was just stalling until he could call for help, because the next think I know he and Mack (aka drb) jump me in a 2 v 1, which was clearly a violation of the conditions set down in the challenge. So you see all you little boy and girl lizards what happens to your moral convictions when you start consorting with the wrong types (i.e. Romulans and Klingons), you can be lead to do things no self respecting Reptile would ever dream of. Sad...very, very sad.
3) GDA-Doc spotted on server, direct challenge issued and confirmed received. To my utter amazement Doc agrees to meet me in a hex of my choosing. I blame myself for this one, as I am just to trusting and generous of heart for my own good sometimes. I arrived on station and awaited Doc's draft. Sure enough my sensors picked up his warp signature in an adjacent sector approaching on an intercept vector.
As you might imagine, this really lifted my spirits. I began to think maybe...just maybe...there was still hope to bring a few of the prodigal sons of Gdhar back into the fold. Why if just one exBruce was willing to meet me in the open field of combat, there might still be hope for the rest. Thus my despair and disillusionment were magnified a thousand fold when it became clear this was all just another treacherous ruse to most likely orchestrated by Scipio's Romulan dominatrix the Harlot Doctor. Has to be her doing Scipio just isn't that clever. Here is what happened:
As Doc's ship enters engagement range my ships computer suffers a complete shutdown. Dropping me to sub-light immediately. My techs later discovered that political hacks in Scipio's former administration had tampered with all the computer systems just before the proud people of Gdhar rose up and removed him from power installing me as their new leader. Initially I was willing to give Scipio the benefit of the doubt and just write the whole thing off as the work of a few immature staffers, until what happened next.
As soon as my crew had the systems back up and running, our sensors immediately detected an enemy vessel entering weapons range. Hurray, I thought, that Doc sure is tenacious, there is hope for the Confederacy yet! Then the grim reality of just how low the exBruce had sunk hit me square in the face. It wasn't Doc's ship bearing down on me. It was Scipio and Drb again, trying (begging actually) to get me in another 3 way. So you see, this wasn't just the work of a lone staffer, it went all the way to the top. Scipio, most likely acting under the orders of his Coalition overseers, had had the whole thing setup. Jeez Scipio, I really had no idea the lengths you would go to in order to avoid being alone with me. Am I really that intimidating?
Well that was pretty much it for the first night since the challenge was issued. It just breaks my heart to see what has become of Gdhars' finest, but I am strong and I will endure. I am Gdhar's last hope, so I must somehow find the strength to go on and lead your people our glorious destiny of bringing high fashion and style to the alpha quadrant.