"This is TORTURE!!" -- Starbase Rugby: Holo-rooms

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Date Posted: 09:07:50 07/22/01 Sun
Author: PHOTRON
Subject: "This is TORTURE!!"
In reply to: PHOTRON 's message, ""How RUDE!"" on 14:02:19 07/09/01 Mon

PHOTRON paced(hovered, actually) back and forth in the Holochamber. 3-dimensional images of the living Holographic ally of the hero Motocron darted about him, herding SBR staff and guests through a hole she had created in the wall saving them from the dread WR@. For not the first time in the last hour, PHOTRON felt despair over the system shutdown that took him out of the picture early on in the WR@ attack.

"UNBEARABLE! For once since coming online, something happened in one of these rooms that wasn't a training exercise, or social event, or replay of a historical battle! This was ACTUAL history, right in my own room, and I missed it! I missed it! Half the scenes I'm watching are reconstructed from data entires from personnel--only a few of my holocameras remained online and most recorded little more than black mist! How can I be certain these accounts are all accurate? Even the conclusion to the battle is vague, with Captain Howitzer, Transmetal Party Weasel, and that fiend WR@NA battling within some kind of energy-sphere--I haven't found a clear camera angle or eyewitness account YET that will let me construct and accurate 3D rendering of those events! Where did that old man come from?! Where did the demon and the Weasel go? This is SPOTTY reporting at best! ::sigh:: This was a chance for me to have some REAL, unbiased history in my databanks, straight fact scanned as it occured without the taint of any one individual's unique point of view. A grand opportunity out of what I had percieved as a mundane social function, a boring wedding, and I missed it! At least I scanned TM II BoGo� in action for all of five minutes! THAT was SUPERSONIC! After all the holos I'd watched of his original battles with Rynox, or the exploits of Simian Omega and his "Ultimate BoGo 2000" legion of BoGo-derived primate pugilists, I cannot deny that THAT was well worth being here for! Still...

Computer! Classic Com file #121359!"

The room flickered around the hologram, and he found himself staring as Com battled an oversized Virogoblin in the lair of the Neo-Knight founder WR@TH! PHOTRON pondered the similarity between his name and that of the creatures who had attacked the stationa month or two prior. The vid displayed the giant, tangible virus hurling the pale bearded figure away. The figure matched a medical record submitted by one Phillip Karlson regarding a botched autopsy. WR@TH's body had been found at Ice Comp by the hero Motocron, who discovered it to be a hollowed out organic shell! Karlson had survived an explosion which destoyed the body during the autopsy, a miracle at the time attributed to diving behind a reinforced desk and later presumed to be because of his abilities as the explosive Powderkeg. With the revelation at the wedding that "Karlson" himself was yet another facade, a shell contiaing none other than TM II BoGo�, these events could be seen in a new light. Could, had an investigation been launched. The station had other priorities with rebuilding after the WR@ attack and, as 'Ultimate Com' towered over Motocron and Howitzer before him, PHOTRON himself had other concerns.

"She will be mine. Oh yes, she WILL be mine..." PHOTRON dismissed this long-haired remnant from an old Earth movie extension of a skit on a sketch comedy series. Why his program had called up the file unbidden didn't bother him at all. He couldn't locate Com on Rugby anymore; she had left and not said goodbye to him. PHOTRON pondered the limits of his programming, of the projection system which only allowed him to wander the Holorooms while Motocron's Hologram, powered by his planetoid COM of the astoundingly similar name, soared the SPUniverse having grand adventures.

PHOTRON brooded over his limits, and considered ways to overcome them...

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Replies:

"I wonder if she's thinking about me right now..." -- PHOTRON, 21:40:52 08/02/01 Thu
- "SUPERSONIC! It's so diabolically simple, it's simply diabolical!" -- PHOTRON, 22:30:39 08/10/01 Fri