For those of you who have not seen it yet, here is the video we have released from our new location.
As you can see, we have our translation pods up and running in our new location. Our equipment is powered up and running, and we are currently working on theming elements. We even had our first local tournament (a gunslinger) where much destruction was had. In fact, yours truly came in second to Dallas’ new Sheriff KnightHawk.
But, what you might not have noticed is the translocation to RedPlanet that we snuck in. The voice you hear in the video belongs our brave test monkey Draco, who was attempting to pilot his vehicle through the camera’s display. As you can see, all (internal) displays and controls are fully operational! This was thanks to the late night efforts of Apophis and my self last week. We were able to finally isolate a problem that was causing an emergency return translocation during a mission. After hours of testing and diagnostics, we discovered a loose flux conduit connected to the stabilizer coil (which keeps a pod in it’s destination elsewhen during a translocation) resulted in a boson leak in the mechanical compartment. The coil, not being supplied with the a balanced particle stream caused the inertial mass of the ship to change during your flight and resulted in sluggish or “squishy” controls. And, when the boson particles reached a dangerous quantity, the pod’s safety mechanism performed an emergency return translocation which sometimes resulted in a crash of the local logic and control computer (making it even harder to diagnose).
But once we found, the error, a few turns of a wrench fixed the problem. This also demonstrates the first stable version of the Russell process translocations on existing gantries! We also plan to have another new update later this week.
Adam “Thor” Butt, VGC R&D.