Ike

I have 15 MM tons of carbonized steel , freshly mined and ready to ship. This is not that recycled and reused aluminum that you often see on the marketplace these days. I am looking mainly for crystal , but will take a mix of crystal and deuterium . Deliveries accepted in G1-5, can ship Universewide. May need to break up shipments. Will accept partial orders. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Perhaps he would be distracted by an . . . Atomic Wedgie!

Perhaps that feirce cat just needs a bath to cool him down!

Welllllll, a little brief as intros go, but I guess it will do for now. Welcome to Dark Matters, and I hope you enjoy your time here and the lovely smilies. You already used one of my very favorites.

Distract the torch-wielder with . . . Smores. Mmmmmm.

I believe it is: "I come from a land far, far away."

Cool pics L.T., thanks for sharin'! Maybe when I stop being lazy I'll post some vacation pics. Hmmmm . . .

Some weird stuff there. Computer technology = 14, but Espionage is only 10? Combustion drive of 14, but Impulse and Hyperspace drives are only 7? Odd.

It is soooo beautiful!

Yeah, apparently he moved from Caldelas to Purple A a few months ago. Oooopsie, looks like he just lost those 12 RIPs too . . . Solar Mundanus [Purple A.] -vs- Stellar [sOLID] So he is now: Rank: 112 –34 Solar Mundanus Purple A 1,442,222 (-195,557) Fleet: 298 -88 Solar Mundanus Purple A 5,674 (-4,864)

I have metal for sale for crystal, currently shipping from G5 and can receive in G1-5. Will need as much as 40 MM crystal over the next few weeks if anyone ever has extra.

Not too often . . . right now I keep waking up at 02:30 due to jetlag, and my alarm goes off at 06:00. So just skirting the borders! How many Chicken McNuggets are enough?

Single RIPs are not that powerful. You realistically need at least a half dozen and preferably a dozen to hit a turtle. 133 RIPs is a LOT. Think about the cost - 1,330,000,000 res or 1,330,000 points. That many RIPs could seriously dent Sphenodon's fleet without losses. The BEST protection against RIPs is Plasmas, as RIPs don't have RF against them. That is how I took out xburner's 2 RIPs - 78 Plasmas.

In v.77a activity is recorded in espionage reports instead of ont eh Galaxy screen. If you ping a planet/moon with a single espionage probe (or more) it will show the last activity (or none with 1 hour) right below the resource amounts. Apparently this is going back to the old version where you see activity on the planet where activity occurs (including moon activity) in v.77b, due out later this week.

A lot of the mouse-overs don't seem to work for me anymore on IE (Work). I can't see the size of debris fields, the number/type of ships or resources carried in the Overview screen, etc. It seems that they are going to roll out v.77b shortly, which may fix some of this, and also go back to the original activity monitor (*), with the addition that activity on moons shows on the planets.

Well, it took me 5 months, but I succeeded where others have failed . . .

Well of course! But now the statistics even mirror the truth. 1 * PAX 23 44.871 1.950 2 * MOB 25 39.716 1.588 3 * D.a.r.k. 19 29.449 1.549 4 * Purple A 10 28.727 2.872

Well, perhaps the end of my piece of this story: I sent a bunch of res back to my colony the following day, and Solar sent 3 fleets to hit my transported res. However, only one of the three was close enough that even on a dialup connection I was able to spend the res and/or move the fleets before he arrived. I simply recalled the other fleet. The RIPs came and went and I got the time on them for Beowulf and rained somemore IPMs down until he had ~12K LL. So yesterday I figured I would make his life even more amusing and I sent 4 dummy transport missions with nothing in them to my colony. Sure enough, four fleets came out to meet them. Only one timed well. I checked and he was not online when they were going to hit. Hmmmm, 3 + 4 = BASHING! I then waited to see if Beowulf could take out the RIPs, but they were not profitable without more fleet around. So I got Solar banned for bashing for three days. By the time he is back, I'll be gone. He did send his RIPs back my way though. Too bad I didn't have more res around I could have built dessies and taken out the group of 5. Resources on Marte [2:195:6] at 09-09 16:55:45 Metal: 3.394.491 Crystal: 1.397.916 Deuterium: 2.629.390 Energy: 15.771 Fleets Small Cargo 200 Large Cargo 82 Light Fighter 1.100 Cruiser 30 Battleship 190 Solar Satellite 251 Battlecruiser 110 Defense Light Laser 12.223 Heavy Laser 8.461 Gauss Cannon 155 Ion Cannon 134 Plasma Turret 70 Anti-Ballistic Missiles 70

He should not leave himself so exposed. Never know when a Kicking Mule might come along and . . . well it's going to hurt anyway.

Not sure if anyone was aware of just how much I dislike Purple A. But it is quite a bit. So when Lord Tiago asked if I'd be interested in nuking Solar Mundanus -- in retribution for profitless attacks on L.U.S.A. members -- I was all for it. So I dumped a colony next to Solar's turtle and started building: Robotics Factory: 10 Shipyard: 12 Nanite: 4 Missile Silo: 6 In order to take out the fleet, we needed Beowulf to get a moon in the area. After about 6-8 attempts, I finally succeed in that and Beowulf started his jumpgate. Gintukas provided some espionage assistance and we got a read on Solar's fleet and defenses. I watched Solar for several days and found that he normally logged on a couple of times between ~16:00-19:00 and then one last time around 20:30. I informed Lord Tiago to be ready to start at 21:00 yesterday, with Beowulf's JG completing at 03:00 or so this morning. Before: Rank 78 * Solar Mundanus Purple A 1,637,779 Fleet 210 + Solar Mundanus Purple A 10,538 Resources on Marte [2:195:6] at 09-07 20:57:04 Metal: 1,813,420 Crystal: 205,705 Deuterium: 2,833,596 Energy: 15,771 Fleets Large Cargo 66 Light Fighter 5,219 Heavy Fighter 25 Cruiser 495 Battleship 771 Espionage Probe 52 Bomber 69 Solar Satellite 251 Destroyer 113 Deathstar 12 Battlecruiser 150 Defense Light Laser 32,313 Heavy Laser 8,292 Gauss Cannon 150 Ion Cannon 134 Plasma Turret 72 Small Shield Dome 1 Large Shield Dome 1 Anti-Ballistic Missiles 50 Interplanetary Missiles 5 Sure enough, at 20:30 a * appeared and around 20:50 it went to 15 Mins. At 20:58 I sent some probes and my first IPMs. In all I sent ~365 IPMs, with L.U.S.A. sending an unknown number as well. As per Beowulf's instructions, I took out Light Lasers, while L.U.S.A. took out a mix of HL and LL. Solar was building HL for several hours aftergoing offline. Beowulf launched flet and recs once his JG was completed with an impact time of ~07:30 with recs 20-30 minutes behind. Unfortunately, Solar came online at 06:00 and built ABMs and moved his fleet. So Beowulf recalled and I finished launching the IPMs I was building. Fortunately, I was producing IPMs faster than he could build ABMs, so I managed to nail a couple of Plasmas, After: Rank: 81 –3 Solar Mundanus Purple A 1,613,089 [-24,690] Fleet: 211 –1 Solar Mundanus Purple A 10,522 Resources on Marte [2:195:6] at 09-08 06:40:06 Metal: 15,575 Crystal: 5,442 Deuterium: 2,180 Energy: 15,771 Fleets Solar Satellite 251 Defense Light Laser 15,474 Heavy Laser 8,146 Gauss Cannon 150 Ion Cannon 134 Plasma Turret 70 Anti-Ballistic Missiles 2 Interplanetary Missiles 4 Solar mundANUS then sent the following: I was soooo all I could say was: Now he has 7 RIPs followed 20 seconds later by 5 RIPs heading a galaxy and 24 hours one-way toward my main. What a n00b. There may be more to this story in the future. RE: Spankodon -- The attacker has won the battle! He captured 13,824 metal, 12,322 crystal, and 45,878 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 6,912 metal, 6,161 crystal, and 22,939 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 3,456 metal, 3,081 crystal, and 11,469 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 1,728 metal, 1,540 crystal, and 5,735 deuterium Resources on X D (Moon) [2:236:6] at 09-08 04:24:55 Metal: 1,728 Crystal: 1,541 Deuterium: 5,735 Energy: 0 Fleets Defense EDIT: Fixed title.

Oh, no! He flew too close to the . . . Sun. Did not learn from Icarus.

Anyone convicted of a federal crime in a federal court is sent to a federal prison. They come in different levels of security, and probably for a non-violent crime, he would be going to a reasonably low-level prison. Other factors come into play, but probably he is going someplace that is not too hellish. Some of teh state prisons are pretty harsh, especially the maximum security ones. CyberCrime and Fraud are related departments in our U.S. Attorney Office. There is some overlap between our cases, but essentially anything where the means or object of a crime is a computer [e.g. means: using a computer to access child pornography; object: hacking into a computer] falls under CyberCrime. It may also fall under some other group and then we decide who prosecutes it. I handle computer hacking, IP violations [large scale sale and distribution of copyrighted works], child exploitation, spam, phishing, Internet auction fraud, etc. To some extent, much like more traditional crimes. A lot of the crimes themselves have not changed, they are simply adapated to the Internet. The nigerian scams used to come by mail, now they come by e-mail. Pump-and-dump stock scams used to come back fax, now they come by e-mail. Bank fraud, phishing, etc. now just using new methods of reaching victims. I'm tryin'!

Proper weather forecasting will prevent such calamities . . .

So, other than pwning Purple A. posers or participating in oGame nuke-fests, or occasionally writing stuff up or creating .sigs for FDM, what is it exactly that Ike does:) Well, occasionally he speaks in the third person, but for a living he is a federal prosecutor specializing in CyberCrime. They just issued a press release about the most recent skoflaw he brought to justice, third paragraph down, the evil spammer! As with all things Ike, there is a story, or four . . . So this guy dropped out of high school in 1999 and started up a two-person 'company' to send out spam. Eventually he got involved in sending spam for bootleg software and met one of his co-conspirators in this case. This guy got my spammer involved in stock deals where they would issue millions of shares of stock in a shell company (without assets, clients, or offices) and the spammer would send "hot stock" tips to tens of millions of AOL and Google accounts starting on Friday after the markets closed and right up through the opening bell on Monday. Get-rich-quick and easy-money types would purchase shares in these companies for $1-$2 per share, which was pure profit to the conspirators. Eventually the stock would plummet to $0.01 and all of the 'investors' would lose their money. The conspirators would move on to another shell company and do the same thing. They would literally make anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars on each of these deals. Unfortunately, the Securities and Exchange Commission caught up with them. The spammer, who had moved to France to avoid prosecution before this all began, seemed relatively secure as the SEC could not easily track him. However, the co-conspirator who had introduced the spammer to the scheme turned and gave us info on the spammer. We got an arrest warrant and sent an extradition request to France (that only took 8-9 months ). Not long after the extradition request made it to France, the spammer and his girlfriend flew to Vancouver, Canada, with the intention of renting a car and slipping across the U.S. border to visit family in California. The Canadians saw the outstanding arrest warrant and deported the spammer back to the U.S. However, just before boarding the plane, the spammer ran for it, broke through a secured door -- setting off alarms -- and hid out for 45 minutes before being detained in a secured baggage facility. He then spent the night in jail and was placed on a plane to San Francisco the following day, where he was arrested. Note to potential crooks, if you are going to get arrested, get arrested in San Francisco. Despite having no U.S. address or valid driver's license, having just attempted to escape incarceration, having previously ignored a court order to stop spamming, being on drugs, and having made millions of dollars spamming and holding that money in easily accessible accounts . . . the judge in San Francisco decided to release the spammer pending his hearing in Virginia. This was on the day before his 26th birthday, and he was to be released on his birthday. Well, we decided to give him a present of a different sort. We had our judge order a stay and overruled the San Francisco judge, who then ordered him transported (3,000 miles by bus in July) to Virginia. The best part as that he had his in-no-way-encrypted laptop with him, which had chats and e-mails about all of his spamming activities. Up to this point, no one had ever met the spammer in person and we were concerned about establishing his identity. Well, no problems now! In fact, there was so much stuff on his laptop that we were able to see all of the other deals he had been spamming for and who else he had been working with. So the spammer has agreed to plead guily and now faces a maximum sentence of ten years in prison. In fact, his guideline range is in excess of 20 years, so in theory he should actually serve ten years. However, the first two co-defendants who pled guilty to similar charges with 10-year caps only got 5 years each. So perhaps my spammer will get a break as well, but not if I have anything to say about it.

Hey Kiki! Nice hit, I saw it a day or two ago. The Spankster left 6 RIPs unattendedo n one of his G1 moons on Friday but I couldn't find anyone around to hit him in time. Ah well, we'll get him yet.