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This Common Merganser was dunking it's head under the water as it worked it's way up stream. It would pull it's head out and some times it held the water in it's beak and let it slowly flow out. It seemed like it was trying to keep some tiny bits of food inside while it got rid of the water.
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It's the feeling you get right after you cry.
A mixture of despondence and relief. Like a weight has been lifted but your chest is still heavy.
LIke you're full of air but you still can't breathe.
In the dimly lit corridors of a high-security laboratory, scientists toiled in secrecy on the enigmatic project known as Mutagenic Strain X. Unbeknownst to the world outside, the project held the potential to revolutionize medical science—or unleash an unforeseen catastrophe.
The conversion to black and white has brought more of the detail out in the snow in front of the dogs.
This would have been much better had I taken the Manfrotto and some NDs. Instead I took an excitable labratriever that I am convinced is part dolphin and only got this instead. Schoolboy error.
to the left you see the background from a moa wholecar. it can be found on www.time2bomb.dk/2006/trains21.asp
Having spent the day loading in Gilgandra, 48122/48140 are seen working south through Eumungerie with a fully loaded grain train.
The Liturgy of the Sacrament orbiting the remnants of AEGIY-16, a former Martian moon, destroyed in the Sangheili Covenant's Great Expansion era.
TOMBOY's prospects of future orbital ventures were considered all but mothballed following the SHAR Treatise. WIth HUGBOX representatives required at all facilities and future spacefaring projects requiring the permission of all involved parties, future developments on Project: Battlestation ISERLOHNE were all but eliminated. This was not to mention the immense financial strain both Arras and Gondoa, TOMBOY's lead nations, faced. Reduced territories and immense rebuilding costs from weeks of gaseous and missile bombardments upon their cities had left the alliance scrounging up every coin they could. Of course, that was until a certain concerned party became involved.
The CVO-class is an ancient Sangheili design of interstellar physiography. Made to enforce the aliens' will across and explore the regional cluster, these Cruisers are immense in scale. They are capable of transporting thousands of troops and near-innumerable equipment along with a vast array of both defensive and offensive measures. It was these ships which would take up occupational and invasive roles on foreign worlds in the Sangheili's holy war of ascendance. They caused many great migrations, including that which placed the and reduced the Martian civliazation Demons, as they are known in Kimmeria and Yafran to a single colony, on Mars in the Sol system. One such Cruiser was sent to scout this colony and a possible Foruna artifact on Erf, approximately 370 years ago, the Liturgy of the Sacrament. It was crippled by Martian defensive measures and finally brought down, landing in the large Koth'Kumba Lake in central Nenya, where it lay, until now.
Khakas and Sagoli, Abakan and Panstani, all were greatly affected by the HUGBOX's massive effort to control all of Elam. Many multitudes of displaced TOMBOY-pact refugees fled to Modravia, a large nation controlling the majority of Nenya which seemed much more stable than the increasingly vulnerable Avalonian TOMBOY Pact nations. A massive influx of primarily unskilled mercenary labourers (primarily those who would not stick around to perform insurgent operations in the former Khakassia) led to a crisis which would ultimately culminate in a short-lived civil war and ultimate dissolution of Modravia, followed by the entire Milomiesta Pact itself, no doubt due to Agrumite meddling. Riots abounded, and a provisional government was set up for the newly-christened nation of Chenchna, a union of those men, women, and children who believed in a new national identity for all of the displaced peoples of Elam. The Bogdanov brothers, the elusive Council of Two, would return, bankrolling the fledgeling nation's www.Erfcities.com/Jumpstarter campaign. One of their particularly large donations was to a Mining operation on Lake Koth'Kumba of dubious legality, especially considering that Chencha proper only possessed land containing the primary estuary from which the lake was fed. This mining operation uncovered the bones of something truly bizarre -
the shell of a spaceship.
Covered by the dust and sands of time, the Sangheili Cruiser was near-abandoned, with but a few dwindling crewmembers still left attempting to contact an ignorant and uncaring Covenant, dozens, possibly hundreds of lightyears away. They were uncovered by a mining operation, whose crew were quickly dispatched as they were thought to be Martians. Following two weeks of attempted negotiations, terms were concluded - the technology on board the Sangheili ship could freely be used by the Chenchan government, so long as they would assist the Sangheili in returning their slowly-sinking spacecraft to the place it belonged - the stars.
T U S C, or TOMBOY United Space Command, was an effort spearheaded by the Chenchan government following the end of the Great Avalonian War to attempt to get around the highly restrictive SHAR Treatise. The Chenchans would provide unlimited access to their rocket ranges and limited access to orbital equipment, in exchange for secured trade rights and TOMBOY membership, as the refugee state was previously unrecognized by the more pompous TOMBOY state officials. Battlestation: ISERLOHNE is still the only active official T U S C vessel, as the recently resurrected CVO-class Cruiser is still yet to eliminate its teething problems from centuries of inactivity.
The operation took months, several documents were leaked (including a cruddily-scrawled diagram of the inner workings of the Heavy Excavation Beam, which was replicated on a reduced scale on Gondoa's Battlestation ISERLOHNE), but by November 5th of 1992, the ship was finished in-orbit construction. However, its complement is still yet to be completed, and the vessel had to have its crew and equipment flown up, little by little, on Chenchan-produced Sangheili lifters. Currently it resides in the upper atmosphere above the capital of Apak'Kakak, looming ominously.
International officials are still unsure of its intended purpose but are, for the most part, taking the Chenchnan Covenant's international legitimacy much more seriously.
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