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Top 5 @Wikipedia pages from a year ago: Thursday, 2nd February 2023

Welcome, nuqneH, sveiki, laipni lūdzam 🤗 What were the top pages visited on @Wikipedia (2nd February 2023) 🏆🌟🔥?

1️⃣: Pathaan (film) "Pathaan (pronounced [pəʈʰaːn]) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film co-written and directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films. The fourth installment in the YRF Spy Universe, it stars Shah Rukh Khan in the title role, alongside Deepika Padukone and..."

2️⃣: Groundhog Day "Groundhog Day (Pennsylvania German: Grund'sau dåk, Grundsaudaag, Grundsow Dawg, Murmeltiertag; Nova Scotia: Daks Day) is a tradition observed in the United States and Canada on February 2 of every year. It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerges from its burrow..."

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3️⃣: Pamela Anderson "Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian-American actress, model and media personality. She is best known for her modelling work in Playboy magazine and for her role as "C.J." Parker on the television series Baywatch (1992–1997). Anderson came to public prominence after being..."

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4️⃣: ChatGPT "ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022. Based on a large language model, it enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. Successive prompts and..."

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5️⃣: The Last of Us (TV series) "The Last of Us is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for HBO. Based on the video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog, the series is set twenty years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection, which causes its hosts to transform..."

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This chapter is a little rushed towards the end, but I think I got all the important information in it. Hope you enjoy. There’s just so much going on in Brightmoon right now. I can’t even. 

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It was only after Entrapta ended the call from Dryl that she realized she should have mentioned that she missed Hordak and couldn’t wait to get home. Not only was it a normal thing that average people said, it was also true!

But Hordak was smart –well, smarter than the average person- he probably already knew she missed him and couldn’t wait to get home. To her own lab, her own Lab Partner, and even their little accidental Lab Intern.

It seemed like her visits to Brightmoon were getting longer and longer.

Entrapta made a deal with Adora, that if she activated the medical equipment in the Infirmary of a crashed First Ones ship to save Hordak’s life, then Entrapta would repay the debt by building weapons for Brightmoon and the Princess Alliance to combat Horde Prime when he arrived.

Adora was resistant at first, reluctant that there might be a need for more weapons, denying that Horde Prime could even come to Etheria at all. One needed a Sword to open a portal and as far as any of them knew, Adora had the only Runesword –the Sword of Protection. But Imp –via a translation from Swift Wind- told her Prime was coming, Entrapta told her Prime was coming, Hordak was sure Prime was coming and that he could open a portal. With so many warnings and assurances, She-Ra could not take the chance. Adora helped Entrapta save Hordak.

Entrapta bought Hordak’s life with her service to the Princess Alliance.

After she bundled Hordak up and got him safely settled in her own Queendom of Dryl, Entrapta packed up some equipment from her lab and made her way over to Brightmoon.

The first visit wasn’t really all that long. Just to survey the palace and surrounding landscape, confer with Bow –whom was officially the Alliance’s Tech Master- and decide on the best spots to mount anti-spacecraft artillery.

That visit lasted only a week and Entrapta was back in the Crypto Castle with Hordak and their clone before she knew it. She mounted the medical array looted from the Frist Ones ship in her lab, then she and Hordak were working on his armor together. Collaborating on a project like they used to. This time with the occasional assistance of a Lab Intern. It was the happiest Entrapta had been since before she was sent to Beast Island. Working with Hordak truly made her happy. It was worth every moment she had to spend apart from him in Brightmoon.

But she did have to go back to Brightmoon. The second visit lasted longer.

They weren’t just surveying now, that was when construction actually began. Setting foundations and turrets to mount the artillery on. Deciding where to place particle beams, and where to stage hard-munition missiles. Building each in turn. It took collaboration, manpower, and time. Before Entrapta even knew it, a month had passed. Hordak was overdue for a routine tune-up of his armor, and she had to place a call to the Crypto Castle to their Lab Intern and talk the hybrid through how to do it for the older Hordak. When she got home, she would double check their work and troubleshoot anything that needed to be fixed. She hoped delegating Hordak’s care to Dak would not become a regular thing.

But this current visit was going on a second month now and Dak having to be the one to service Hordak’s exo-suit for him did become a regular thing.

Entrapta set down the datapad with a sigh. Hordak had been living in her home Queendom of Dryl for six months now and she had spent half that time away from him in Brightmoon.

Turning her attention back to the piece of particle beam casing in her hair, Entrapta got back to work. The faster she finished these weapons for Adora and Glimmer, the faster she could get home. To her own castle, her own lab, and her own Lab Partner.

There was a loud clatter behind her and Entrapta glanced back startled.

Scorpia was standing next to Emily. She had dropped whatever was in her pincers and was sprinting up to Entrapta. “Was that little Dak? How are they? Did you tell them I said ‘hi’? I mean, I didn’t say ‘hi’, but that was only because I didn’t know they called. If I knew they called I definitely would have said ‘hi’ to them. How are they doing? It feels like we’ve been gone so long. Are they getting along with big Hordak?”

Scorpia was Entrapta’s best friend. But, sometimes, Scorpia was too much for her. She had a lot of energy and was very social and sometimes Entrapta was overwhelmed. “The standard maintenance of Hordak’s armor is proceeding as per my instruction.”

Looking ever so slightly disappointed, Scorpia deflated. “Yeah, but, how are they doing? Are they getting along? Is Dak happy? Is Dak remembering to play and have fun? They might be a clone, but they’re still a kid. Even in the Horde we had games. I mean, they were training games. But they were still fun. Dak should be having fun.”

Frowning, Entrapta reflected on the brief call. Hordak did most of the talking, not Dak. And the last time she was home, she spent most of her time focused on Hordak and his exo-suit, not their genetic hybrid Lab Intern. Were these things she needed to look for and make sure of as a… ‘mother’? Truth be told, Entrapta had no idea how to be a ‘mother’. Her own mother was not ideal and the whole experience (the ‘experience’ being her entire childhood) left her feeling very uncomfortable with the idea of ‘motherhood’. She found it easier to treat Dak as another one of her bots, rather than her… offspring. So long as Dak continued to function, and did not voice any needs or concerns, she assumed they were fine.

Extending her hair, Entrapta passed the datapad to Scorpia. “You can call them back if you want. I’m sure Dak would be happy to see you.”

Taking the pad, the younger woman looked noticeably disappointed. As Dak’s ‘mother’ Entrapta was the one who was supposed to check-up on the hybrid, make sure they were having fun, and feeling fulfilled. Not just ‘proceeding as per instruction’. “Yeah. Sure.”

She was about to punch in a call back to the Crypto Castle.

But Entrapta’s hair snatched the datapad back before she could. “Oh! Wait! This has the specs for my particle beams on it, I still need it. You can call Dak later. Right?”

“Oh.” Now Scorpia looked very, very disappointed. “Okay. I guess.”

Scorpia picked up what she dropped, which turned out to be several yards of insulated cabling. Entrapta needed it to connect the particle beams to the power source.

“Oh, and can you find Bow for me?” Asked the tech Princess. “I just wanna confirm with him as Brightmoon’s tech master before I weld all this down. Once it’s in place they won’t be able to move it.”

“Sure.” Scorpia sounded noticeably deflated.

“The sooner we get this done for them, the sooner we can go home.” Entrapta reminded her. “Then you won’t have to call Dak, you could just see them.”

That was true.

Entrapta wanted to get home –back to the Crypto Castle- just as much as Scorpia did. To that end, instead of spending time on social calls that ultimately distracted from the project that needed to get done, she was focusing on getting it done. Once it was done, they could leave. And if it was done-done, they wouldn’t have to come back. They could stay in Dryl indefinitely. Or, at the very least, until the next big crisis began –which would probably be Prime’s arrival.

Hordak was still planning on returning to his Brother, and Entrapta was not looking forward to that. She wanted Hordak to be happy, but she also wanted him to stay. Ideally, she’d like him to be happy with her, but she also understood that she couldn’t force him to feel the way she wanted him to feel. Returning to Horde Prime’s side was more important to him than the enjoyment he got from working collaboratively with her and there was nothing Entrapta could do about that. All she could do was keep him in Dryl and not extradite him to Brightmoon to face justice as a war criminal like Catra was. She couldn’t make him choose her over his Brother, but she could keep him safe until his Brother arrived.

Entrapta lowered her welding mask over her face, although she couldn’t weld anything until she got the final go-ahead from Bow or Glimmer.

“Be back soon.” Scorpia left to find Bow.

The Princess Alliance’s Tech Master was conferring with Glimmer and her advisors –Shadow Weaver whom helped her rescue Adora from the Horde during the portal fiasco, and her father Dowager-King Micah. In the war room, examining a hologram of Brightmoon, the new placements of their weapons from Entrapta marked in violet, and various vectors they expected Horde Prime to come from marked in red. All of them were angled over the ground. Coming through the Whispering Woods, over the mountains that separated Brightmoon from Dryl, or across the ocean into the bay. None of them projected Horde Prime coming down from the sky, which was where both Entrapta and Hordak lead Scorpia to believe would be the direction he would actually be coming from. At least, Entrapta had built the majority of her beams pointing up.

Scorpia noted that Adora was not present in the room. The acting-Queen of Brightmoon was not conferring with She-Ra on the defenses. Not that it was any of Scorpia’s business, but the scuttlebutt –gossip, outside the Horde scuttlebutt was called ‘gossip’- was that the relationship between the legendary Princess of Power She-Ra and the young Queen of Brightmoon had become strained ever since the previous Queen, Angella, Glimmer’s mother, was lost in the portal. Scuttlebutt was that Glimmer blamed Adora, Catra, Hordak… and Entrapta for the loss of her mother.

Glimmer and the Alliance needed Entrapta to protect themselves from the new threat of Horde Prime, so the young Queen could not retaliate against her. Hordak was given asylum in Dryl and would not be extradited to Brightmoon or another Alliance nation to face justice. And Adora was She-Ra, the protector of Etheria. Glimmer couldn’t retaliate against any of them for the loss of her mother.

None of them, but Catra, whom was currently being held in the Moonshadow Prison –which was constructed shortly after the loss of Queen Angella. It was one of Glimmer’s first acts as Queen of Brightmoon and –at present- one hundred percent of its prisoners were Horde soldiers and prisoners of war. Catra chief among them.

Micah smiled at Scorpia when she entered. It was her and Sea Hawk that gave him a ride off of Beast Island. He would not be home now were it not for Scorpia coming to the island to rescue Entrapta. Even if she did used to be a Force Captain for the Evil Horde, and still remained loyal to the Horde’s Tech Princess –and by extension, the Horde’s Lord, Hordak- Micah liked her. She seemed nice.

Glimmer frowned at Scorpia’s interruption.

Shadow Weaver probably scowled as well, but it was difficult to tell with her mask on.

Bow offered a gentle smile. They reached a strange sort of understanding between each other in the Crimson Waste when Entrapta seemed willing and ready to sacrifice Dak –an innocent and naïve child- in order to being a dead Hordak back to life. They didn’t really ‘hang out’. They were not friends in the strictest sense of the word. Sea hawk was closer friends with Scorpia than Bow was. But they understood each other. They were each the ‘cheerful and friendly’ member of their respective groups. They just wanted everyone to get along and be happy, healthy, and alive.

To that end, Scorpia was almost as invested in setting up defenses against Horde Prime as the Alliance was. She just wasn’t very tech savvy and so the help she could offer was mostly just carrying heavy equipment or running messages between parties.

“Did you need something?” Bow asked genuinely.

“Entrapta needs either you or the Queen to okay the final placement of the particle beams before she welds them down.” She supplied dutifully.

Glimmer glanced back at their tactical map, projected in hologram pastels over the table. She certainly didn’t see any way the placement could be changed to improve their deployment. If she was going to be completely honest with herself, she didn��t know what to expect from this Horde Prime. All her life she had been fighting Hordak, whom was –apparently- an underachieving and disappointing younger sibling to the ‘Emperor of the Known Universe’.

Raising her chin, trying to seem a regal as possible, Glimmer tried to put as much ‘Queenly authority’ into her voice when she answered. “The placement is fine. Please tell Entrapta she has the Queen’s blessing to continue.”

“Great!” Scorpia smiled. “The sooner we finish, the sooner we can get back to Dryl and little Dak!”

“Oh, how is Dak?” Bow asked with a smile, a genuine smile. He got a little attached to the genetic composite while on their adventure together. Dak helped Bow and Adora escape the dungeons of the Crypto Castle, flew with them across the Growling Sea to Beast Island, and braved the Crimson Waste to discover Catra and Hordak had set up a new base in Mara’s crashed ship. It was a fast adventure, taking place within the space of a week. But in that time, Bow decided that he liked the little clone hybrid. He wanted them to be happy, healthy, and alive –just as much as any other friend or member of the Alliance.

“They called this morning.” Scorpia supplied. “I didn’t get to talk to them, but Entrapta says that things in Dryl are proceeding ‘as per her instruction’. I can only assume that means Dak is fine.”

Next to Bow, Glimmer scoffed. “Locked in a castle with Hordak, I highly doubt that.”

Both Scorpia and Bow frowned.

“Hordak will care nothing for that child.” Shadow Weaver announced.

Micah cringed visibly. He did not like agreeing with his former mentor-turned-traitor. But he did have to admit that when she had a point, she did have a point. Even back when she was Light Spinner, the woman always had an uncanny ability to read people. To understand them. It was one of the things that made her such an expert manipulator (and was the main reason why Micah would never allow the woman alone with his daughter).

“From what I know of Hordak…” Micah did meet Hordak face to face once. Briefly. Shortly after his defeat with the first Princess Alliance. At the time, Lord Hordak of the Evil Horde seemed… cold. Not ‘cold’ like ‘cruel’. Cold like ‘unfeeling’. Emotionless. Devoid of empathy or the ability to understand. Not the kind of person one wanted to leave as the primary adult with a child. But, from what he understood of Hordak from Princess Entrapta, his original assessment of Hordak all those years ago might have been incomplete. The man was not ‘unfeeling’, just… guarded. Still not really one that should be left in charge of a child. Especially if they were too guarded to allow themselves to care for it. “…Maybe Entrapta should bring Dak here next time. Some time away from Hordak might be good for them.”

Glimmer pursed her lips. She did not like the idea of Hordak’s spawn spending any amount of time in her Queendom. But she remained silent. As a clone of the original Hordak, Entrapta needed Dak close at hand for Hordak. At the very least, as an extra set of hands and prehensile hair in the lab, at the very most, a collection of spare organs and living blood should any of Hordak’s own body parts need replacing. Entrapta would not let the hybrid leave Dryl. Not unless Hordak was already out of the equation.

“As I understand it, young Dak is also heir to Dryl.” Added Shadow Weaver. “It may be beneficial for the future heir to form connections and attachments to key members of the Alliance. That way, should the worst happen to Entrapta and Dak take over sovereignty of the territory, Dryl could be more easily persuaded back into the Alliance.”

“Wait, what?” Scorpia blinked, unsure of what she was hearing.

It sounded like double talk. Where a person said one thing but meant something else. Double talk was something that went on a lot in the upper ranks of the Horde, but to spite being a Force Captain, she never really quite caught on. It was one of the reasons why, after the portal fiasco left the Horde fractured and defeated, Scorpia did not make a bid to take back her own family’s Queendom. She was not suited to this kind of closes door, hushed tones, double meaning kind of leadership. She was a soldier. She was an Action Girl kind of leader. Let Lonnie keep the Fright Zone, she was already shaping up to be a better Queen –or ‘Commander’, as she called herself- than Scorpia ever could.

But if something bad were going to happen to her friends, Scorpia wanted to know about it. Scorpia wanted to help. “What’s gonna happen to Entrapta? Dak’s just a child, they can’t rule a territory.”

“Frosta is a child and she rules the Queendom of Snows by herself.” Glimmer reminded the other woman.

“Yeah, but Dak is…” She trailed off, unsure of how to explain. While Dak and Frosta resembled each other in age, they were not the same age. Frosta was eleven and three quarters when Scropia first met her, now she was twelve. She had twelve years of education and life experience to prepare her for a leadership role in charge of a territory. Dak, on the other hand was not even a year old yet. Baker was trying to educate them on what a future ruler needed to know, but there was a significant difference between a few months lessons and a whole decade’s lessons.

“All the more reason for young Dak to come here.” Shadow Weaver insisted even though Scorpia hadn’t actually given a reason.

“I don’t think this is something we should be discussing.” Bow cut in before any other arguments could be made.

He fixed Shadow Weaver with a warning glare. He did not like her new status and position as the Queen’s advisor. He felt she proposed ideas and plans that went against the values of the Queendom, and he was concerned that Glimmer did not dismiss her suggestions outright. At least Micah was here. He, at least, could be a voice of reason and keep Shadow Weaver’s manipulations at bay. He had personal experience with Shadow Weaver’s manipulations.

Taking one of Scorpia’s pincers in his hands, he led her out of the room. “C’mon, let’s go let Entrapta know she has the go-ahead to finish up the beams. Then maybe we can stop by the harbor and see Sea Hawk.”

Bow lead Scorpia out of the war room.

Entrapta had a panel of Emily’s outer casing open, exposing the inner joint of her leg that got stuck often. She was adjusting the joint and adding some much needed lubricant. She did not look up from her work when Bow and Scorpia came up to her. “Hey, guys.”

“Bow says you’re good to go.” Scorpia flashed her a wide smile and the pincer-claw equivalent of a ‘thumbs up’ –which was basically just holding the pincer open and turned at an angle so that one point was pointed up.

“Right. Good to go. What she said.” Bow added, because sometimes Entrapta didn’t understand why ‘so-and-so’ would have someone else say they said something when they were standing right there and could just as easily say it themselves.

Communication was a funny thing and members of the Princess Alliance had a funny habit of just assuming other members of the Alliance understood them without actually making sure they were understood. In hindsight, this might have been one of the contributing factors for Entrapta defecting to the Horde in the first place. Not, -the- main factor, that was definitely leaving her behind in the Fright Zone. But her not understanding them, and them not being willing to work with her and adapt for her definitely also merited a spot on the list of ‘Reasons Entrapta Joined the Horde’.

“Great!” Entrapta finished her adjustments to Emily and flipped the panel in the bot’s armor closed, locking it in place. Without another word to either of them, she got back to work on the particle beams. Narrating everything she did into a separate recorder that she planned to leave in Brightmoon when she was done so that if anything did go wrong or the equipment needed repairing, Bow –as the Alliance’s Tech Master- could fix the issue without needing to call her back from Dryl. Once this was done and she was able to return home, Entrapta planned to stay at home with her Lab Partner and their Intern.

Exchanging a look between themselves, Scorpia and Bow shared a shrug before turning and heading down to the harbor. The Dragon’s Daughter Five  was moored there, and had been moored there ever since he brought Micah back to Brightmoon. Since his break-up with Mermista he had no great desire to return to Salineas, and Seaworthy was losing its charm. But Brightmoon had a harbor where he could park his boat, he was already friends with the Queen, and now that he was the one that returned the long lost King (now Dowager-King) he was hailed as a hero.

Sea Hawk was sitting on the taffrail, lighting matches, and flicking them into the water when they arrived.

“You’re not gonna set your ship on fire again, are you?” Bow asked, equal parts joking banter and legitimate concern.

“Huh?” The pirate blinked, almost as if he didn’t understand the comment. Then looked down at the box of matches in his hand as if only just realizing that he was holding it and an already lit match. “Oh. No. Not today. Maybe later.” Flicking the lit match into the water, he hopped off the taffrail. “Glimmer is looking to the skies for a new threat, while the old Horde is still out there licking their wounds in the Fright Zone. Who knows what’ll happen next? Adventure!”

“Well, I for one, have been enjoying this nice break between adventures.” Bow informed him.

“Yeah, it’s been great!” Agreed Scorpia. “Not being sent all over the planet to get into fights with giant glowing sword ladies. It has been nice. Although, it would be nice if we weren’t constantly going between Brightmoon and Dryl.”

“But you’re almost done, right?” Sea Hawk asked. He sat back down on the taffrail, this time leaving enough room for Scorpia to sit down too.

They had actually become rather good friends. Not just uneasy acquaintances that shared a common issue. But acrtual and true friends that understood each other’s struggles, could identify with, and offer sympathy and support from a place of experience that few others in their lives had. Scorpia was Entrapta’s best friend, but she might also be Sea Hawk’s best friend too.

“I hope so.” She nodded, taking the offered space and sitting on the taffrail.

Feeling suddenly awkward, Bow sucked in a breath between his teeth. “Well…” He cringed visibly. “Entrapta’s deal with Adora wasn’t for just Brightmoon. She said the Alliance. Frosta expects her to go to the Queendom of Snows and build weapons there next. Perfuma’s still in denial that it’s necessary since the Horde here has gone non-active without Hordak so she might not have to go Plumeria. But Mermista likes the idea of bigger weapons so she’s expecting Entrapta to come to her after she finishes with Frosta.”

Scorpia frowned. “That’s a lot of travel.”

“But I’m sure there’ll be time for her to stop in Dryl for a bit.” Bow was quick to assure her. After all, the deal was for Hordak. Entrapta bought Hordak’s life with her service to the Alliance. They couldn’t very well expect her to hold up her end of the bargain if she didn’t get to see him and… enjoy her purchase… Bow honestly had no idea what Entrapta and Hordak did together that made the Tech Princess place so much value on the monster. “Ya know, in the next meeting, I’ll make sure that it’s worked into the itinerary. So that Entrapta get’s some good quality time at home with Hordak! Glimmer and Adora will understand!”

Even if they didn’t understand Entrapta wanting to spend time with Hordak, they could at least understand it as a transaction. Entrapta was holding up her end. There was no reason to say she couldn’t go home and see her… special friend.

“How is Adora, by the way?” Asked Sea Hawk. “I’ve been in Brightmoon a while now, but I haven’t actually seen her around much.”

“She’s been spending more and more time at the Crystal Castle, actually.” Bow informed them. “She’s been trying to get Light Hope to tell her more about the connection between Etheria and Eternia. Now that we know Eternia is a planet and not some random password. If Horde Prime does open a portal to Etheria, maybe Etheria could also reconnect with Eternia and it could help us in the fight against Prime.”

“Ah.” Sea Hawk nodded as if that made perfect sense and he understood everything Bow just said.

“Honestly,” began Scorpia, “I hope this Prime guy doesn’t show up at all.”

“Me too.” Bow agreed.

…

Adora heaved an exasperated snarl that petered out into an exhausted sigh. Sometimes Light Hope could just be so… Light Hope.

“How. And. I. Use. The. Connection. Between. Etheria. And. Eternia. To. Defeat. The. Horde?” She repeated her question –even more clearly- for what felt like the millionth time.

“Currently, Etheria is stranded in Despondos and is cut off from Eternia.” Light Hope repeated the same answer she had been repeating since Adora arrived at the Crystal Castle and started asking. “In order to reestablish connection, Etheria must be brought out of Despondos and returned to the Adarion System.”

Adora was ready to whip out the Sword of Protection and start swinging it at the hologram.

“Adora?” Swift Wind ventured at her side, speaking softly so as not to turn her frustration on him. “Are you sure this is as pressing as you’re making it out to be? Are you sure you’re not deflecting in order to avoid… another issue…?”

“No!” Adora snapped. “There are no other issues I need to take care of! I’m Etheria’s protector. I’m trying to protect Etheria! What other issue could there possibly be that I need to deal with!?”

Swift Wind hesitated a beat longer. Then said, very, very gently, “Catra’s trial will be starting soon and… she’s been asking to see you.”

“Well, that’s not an issue because I don’t want to see her.” She snapped.

He gave an equine sounding sigh. Sometimes, there was no reasoning with bipeds. Not even ones he had a spiritual connection with and could sense her feelings –even if she tried to deny those feelings herself.

“Nothing good ever came from talking to Catra.” Adora insisted. “I don’t need to see her. What I do need, is to understand the connection between Etheria and Eternia. If my Sword is the Administrator Key to Etheria, is the also the Administrator Key to Eternia? What do the two planets do when they’re connected? If you need a Sword to open a portal, why is everyone so sure that Horde Prime can open his own portal?”

That, at least, was a good question.

How was Horde Prime going to get to Etheria in the first place? If a portal could only be opened with a Runesword…?

…

[daycattocgiare]

Hoa hậu Hương Giang “phát cuồng” trước “anh thầy” dạy Toán điển trai

Tuần này, chương trình “Quý Ông Đại Chiến” tiếp tục lên sóng với sự xuất hiện của Hội chị em: Hari Won, Lâm Vỹ Dạ, Ninh Dương Lan Ngọc và Hương Giang. Dù không phải nữ chính ngôn tình nhưng Hương Giang và Ninh Dương Lan Ngọc liên tục nhận được sự yêu thích và mến mộ đến từ các quý ông của chương trình.

Tuần này, sự xuất hiện của “gái già” Thùy Anh dường như làm cho cả hai cô nàng e dè khi có thêm 1 người “hội ế” tham gia. Không hề khép nép hay ngần ngại, Thùy Anh nhanh chóng bắt nhịp đến mức 4 chị em cứng cựa trong Ban Bình Luận cũng phải dè chừng.

Thùy Anh và "hội chị em" trong ban bình luận.

Mỗi tập phát sóng, chương trình giới thiệu đến khán giả 5 quý ông với vẻ ngoài chuẩn soái ca, thành đạt và đặc biệt là sự am hiểu đối với cánh phụ nữ. Đặc biệt tuần này, một "rổ thính" cực mạnh được trưng trổ và truyền đạt bằng thơ khiến nhiều chị em ngất l���m. Đặc biệt, trong 5 quý ông tuần này có sự xuất hiện của “anh giáo” hotboy dạy Toán gây xôn xao cộng đồng mạng thời gian vừa qua. 

Nổi tiếng sau livestream hướng dẫn em gái ôn thi môn Toán, “anh giáo” Nhữ Ngọc Nguyên Trực làm dậy sóng với vẻ ngoài điển trai, thư sinh của mình. Sau khi được nhiều người biết đến, Nguyên Trực thường xuyên mở các buổi truyền đạt kiến thức về Toán học cho các bạn học sinh đang trong quá trình ôn thi. Bất ngờ xuất hiện tại “Quý Ông Đại Chiến”, Nguyễn Trực khiến cho Hương Giang, thậm chí là người mẹ hai con như Lâm Vỹ Dạ cũng không thể ngồi yên.

5 "quý ông" tham gia chương trình

Vừa mở màn, Nguyên Trực “đánh gục” không ít quý cô bằng một câu thơ đầy thính nhưng không quên đưa môn học yêu thích của mình vào “Vector chỉ có một chiều – Anh dân chuyên Toán chỉ yêu một người”. Ngay lập tức, Hương Giang đáp trả “Thế em đố thầy, 2 cộng 3 bằng mấy?”. Nhận được câu trả lời bằng “5” từ anh giáo hotboy, Hương Giang không ngần ngại đưa ngay bàn tay để được nắm. Không chịu thua chị thua em, Lan Ngọc cũng nhanh chóng hỏi khó “Em năm nay 10 tuổi, không biết thầy có nhận dạy học sinh lớp 5 không ạ?”. Nhanh như chớp, Nguyên Trực liền đáp trả “Em muốn thầy dạy học lớp 5 hay gia sư 50 năm cuộc đời thầy cũng sẵn sàng” khiến không ít người trầm trồ. 

Tưởng chừng không tham gia vô “cuộc chiến”, Lâm Vỹ Dạ lại đường đường chính chính tiếp cận Nguyên Trực dễ dàng hơn 2 người em gái. Cô nhanh chóng hỏi “Nhà tôi có 2 cháu nhỏ, chẳng hay thầy có nhận dạy kèm tại nhà không”. Câu hỏi của Lâm Vỹ Dạ và gương mặt ngại ngùng của Nguyên Trực khiến không ít khán giả thích thú.

Bên cạnh sự xuất hiện của anh chàng hotboy dạy Toán, tuần này “Quý Ông Đại Chiến” cũng chào đón các quý ông đến từ nhiều nơi khác nhau: Dak Lak, Hà Nội, Thái Bình và TP.HCM. Tuy đến từ nhiều vùng miền khác nhau nhưng tất cả các quý ông đến với chương trình đều muốn thể hiện được phẩm chất quý ông của mỗi người. Tuần này, màn giới thiệu bằng thơ đầy ấn tượng của các quý ông cũng “đốn tim” không ít khán giả xem truyền hình./.

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Lost One

Ao3 | More Dak Izma | More Aydin Olasee

Vector’s lips were drawn into a tight grimace as they picked their way through yet another burnt out settlement. The Empire was not kind to its conquered worlds, both of them weren’t foolish enough to believe that it was, but the burn out husks and the charred corpses of the fourth village they had trialed this group to was sickening.

“Agent, we are uncertain it is wise to continue this course of action,” Vector murmured as he crouched to turn over a woman, the laser-cut of a light saber slashed down her front and provided a clear cause of death. “Your aura spikes are becoming increasingly distressed.”

“I’m sure yours are as well,” the Mirialan sighed, turning his crimson colored eyes skyward. “If you wish to return to the ship you may, Vector…I need to be certain.”

The Joiner’s fathomless eyes studied him quietly, the diplomat considering the options. “We do not believe that the answer you find will help.”

He tried a smile for his friend – Vector was the only one on the crew he’d ever thought to give that particular title to – though he knew that the exhausted, drained expression he wore was closer to showing how dangerous his heart was to breaking than he would ever have wanted. “Yeah, you’re probably right, but…I have to know.”

Vector nodded, “We would not leave you here in this alone, let us continue.”

The two men continued through the ravished settlement in silence, reaching the edge of the town and continuing to follow the tracks left by those responsible for this destruction.

The word had come through the grapevine of informants that the agent had managed to establish – the Imperial Guard had shuttled a young Sith to the planet under heavy guard as if it were meant to be secret. He’d already tracked two of the Jedi Strike team down as operating within the Imperial structure now, but in the months since the Hero of Tython had vanished there’d been nothing on the youngest member of the strike team.

No interrogation records. No sightings. No gloating reports of the young Jedi’s death.

No new pale Zabrak acolytes on Korriban.

Not a damn thing to indicate where in the damn galaxy Dak Izma was.

Not since the message that had appeared across their encrypted line from the man himself:

I don’t have time or privacy to call, but I had to talk to you anyways. I have a bad feeling.

I know the Force stuff is just a bunch of wild nonsense to you – very dangerous nonsense – but still just nonsense. This still feels like one of those feelings…so I had to tell you some things before it was too late.

I don’t know what’s wrong, but I know there’s something happening with you, and I’d hoped I could help you before now but I’ve run out of time, we’re about to jump to hyperspace. To the Emperor’s fortress. Damn it, there’s too much to say.

I hope this isn’t goodbye but I don’t have any delusions here, probably going to die. Since this is most likely goodbye…just:

Aydin – I love you. Thank you.

There was a very real possibility that Dak was already dead when Aydin had read the goodbye, but it was a possibility the Agent was refusing to face. If the Jedi was truly lost then he wasn’t sure if he could convince himself that there was a point to what he was doing.

“Agent,” Vector’s voice was a soft warning as they crept to the top of an outcropping.

Movement ahead, through his macrobinoculars he watched crimson armored soldiers were executing the few remaining civilians by firing squad – their screams and the sound of blaster fire making bile rise in the back of his throat.

A figure dressed in dark armor and robes with a hood drawn over their face was stalking away, two red lightsabers activated as he hunted something. Two red skinned Purebloods watched the shorter figure as they set off. One seemed interested in what had caused the hooded figure’s movement while the other just seemed bored and annoyed as if his having to supervise this massacre was a bother.

“Get back to the ship,” he murmured to Vector. He waited for the Joiner to obey before he activated his stealth generator and crept down towards the village.

He was careful to skirt around where the Imperial Guardsmen were finishing their executions and to avoid the Purebloods – one looked unsettlingly like the images he had seen of the Emperor’s Wrath – to fall into the hooded figure’s wake.

Once out of sight of the others though the Sith deactivated the blades, instead turning their shadowed face around, as if looking for something.

By the time that Aydin realized that he’d been detected it was too late, the Sith had force pushed him into the side of the building, leaving him dazed and unstealthed. He might’ve slid straight into the mud if the crushing pressure wasn’t pinning him upright.

The figure advanced, head tilted to the side. He was allowed to drop to his knees as the figure approached, the hood being pushed back while he advanced. Still the pressure from the Force continued, his arms pinned and his legs unable to work. The grip on his throat had lessened considerably though, spots were no longer dancing in his vision as his chest heaved a little with the effort of getting breath back into his lungs.

Pale skin, with subtle geometric tattoos and long blond hair brushed around his horns. His eyes caught on the blood red orbs that studied him with confusion and interest, they were a few shades brighter than Aydin’s own naturally crimson eyes.

The Zabrak crouched, fingers trailing over his face gently – in an almost confused manner. The expression so hurt and lost that Aydin wasn’t sure what to say – even as he felt himself go utterly still at the touch. His love’s hands had been the ones to leave the light saber wounds on so many of the villagers…

“Aydin, what are you doing here?” he murmured softly. A shy thumb tracing over the triangle of diamonds under his left eye. The expression he was wearing like he was surprised to find that the man was real.

“Came looking for you, Dak. You couldn’t think I’d really leave it at that while you’re still breathing – did you? Give me some credit, please.”

The Jed – was he really still Jedi at this point? - seemed caught off guard by the statement and the smile the agent was presenting him. Confusion and fear ticking by before he turned his head towards where the Purebloods were, doubtlessly the ones that held whatever leash that had been slipped around the knight’s neck to drag him down into the darkness.

Whatever the decision he made then was Dak’s fingers twined into Aydin’s hair, pulling his head back to a slight angle before he kissed the Mirialan. It wasn’t the way Dak usually kissed, this one was blistering, full of hunger and the desire to possess (not that Dak lacked passion in his usual behavior but he’d never been fond of using his teeth before).

When the Jedi-turned-Sith pulled back he ran his fingers gently through the Mirialan’s hair. “You are mine, Aydin Olasee.”

He stood, drawing his hood back up as the pressure released around Aydin.

“Go. The others will kill you if they find you.”

“Dak,” he tried – only to be met with a glare from beneath the hood. He could get the Jedi free, get them to Tython, the Council could surely fix whatever had his boyfriend’s eyes the color they were.

“Go, the Emperor will know what you mean to me and…” The expression of helpless sorrow that played across the Zabrak’s face in the shadows was too familiar – Dak was trapped, not by brainwashing and neural programming but something to do with that Force bullshit that was the bread and butter of the Jedi and Sith. “I can’t lose you, Aydin. Please.”

The spy nodded, but grabbed the Jedi’s wrist, dragging him back to kiss him again. “I love you, Dak. Stay strong.”

With that he reactivated his stealth field and began his trek back to the ship - he had to go before his desire to try and rescue the other won out over the bone-deep knowledge that it was impossible to do so as things stood.

He just prayed that Kaliyo had something strong enough stashed away to help him forget what the Empire was twisting the man he loved into - at least for a little bit.

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Flight directors – a fatal attraction

My first encounter with flight directors was in 1966 while undergoing conversion to the Avro 748. The RAAF had seen fit to send me to Woodford in Cheshire, all the way from Australia, to ferry the second of several new 748s for the RAAF VIP squadron at Canberra. The conversion was conducted on a battered 748 demonstrator: G-ARAY, known as Gary. The contract allowed four hours of dual for the captains and nothing for the co-pilots. G-ARAY had the basic instrument flying panel of that era and no flight director.

Our instructors at Avro’s were well-known test pilots Bill Else, Tony Blackman and Eric Franklin. Jimmy Harrison was chief test pilot. Unlike the bog-standard civilian 748, the RAAF 748s were to be equipped with a Collins FD 108 FD. So the situation existed that the RAAF 748s had a British Smith’s autopilot system which was married (somewhat expensively and painfully) to the American Collins FD 108.

For the life of me, I could not see why a flight director was needed in the RAAF 748. After all, the approach speed was that of a DC-3 (80 knots) and the aircraft a delight to handle compared with the venerable Dak.

Did the Avro 748 really need a flight director?

In retrospect, I think the old Wing Commander Transport Ops at Department of Air, who was charged with the procurement of the 748 for RAAF service, and hadn’t flown for years, was perhaps conned by the Avro sales people, in conjunction with Collins, into buying the Collins systems. Certainly in my view as the squadron QFI, flight directors were not operationally needed. In the event, the RAAF machines came with Collins FD 108 flight directors and, as the contract specified, each captain would be given only one hour of dual instruction once the 748 came out of the factory. We needed to learn how to operate the FD.

First, a course was arranged at the Collins establishment at Weybridge in Surrey. The two RAAF captains and their co-pilots attended and our two navigators and our instrument fitters also turned up to enjoy the Collins hospitality. We learned about 45 degree automatic intercepts of the VOR and ILS beams and other goodies including V-bar interpretation. We were showered with glossy brochures of the flight director by white dust-coated lecturers and shown a film.

By lunch time, the presentation was complete and we were shouted to a slap up pub meal with lots of grog, all paid for by Collins. We asked what further lectures were to take place after lunch. We were told the course was over – it was just a morning’s job and we were free to leave unless we would like more drinks. Naturally it was churlish to refuse and hours later we staggered to the railway station (I think), smashed to the eye balls and having forgotten all about the marvels of 45 degree auto intercepts on the FD 108. I must say it was a bloody good three-hour course what with the free grog and all that.

A few weeks later, I flew the second RAAF aircraft out of the factory, A10-596, under the watchful eye of Eric Franklin DFC and he demonstrated flight director stuff. For example, to climb using the FD, you first put the aircraft into a normal climb and when settled you switched on the FD and carefully wound up the pitch knob so that the little aeroplane sat in the middle of the V-bars.

I quickly realised that you hand-flew the basic artificial horizon to whatever attitude was appropriate for the manoeuvre then told the FD 108 V bars where you wanted them. The ILS intercept of 45 degrees was never used because radar vectors didn’t do such angles. I became more and more convinced the 748 didn’t need flight directors and that they were a load of bollocks in that type of low speed aircraft. We were told the USAF used the FD 108 in its F4 Phantoms and that Collins was anxious to makes sales in the UK market.

The RAAF Wing Commander got sucked in by good sales talk and from then on all RAAF 748s became so equipped. I held personal doubts about the usefulness of flight directors in general as I could see even then their extended use could lead to degradation of pure instrument flying skills. Today’s flight director systems are light years ahead in sophistication compared with the old Collins FD 105 and 108 series. But the problem with blind reliance on FD indications and thus steady degradation of manual instrument flying skills is as real now as it was back in 1966.

Now to the present day – although first some background history. First published in 1967, Handling the Big Jets, written by the then British Air Registration Board’s chief test pilot David Davies, is still considered by some as the finest treatise still around on jet transport handling. Indeed, the book was described by IFALPA as “the best of its kind in the world, written by a test pilot for airline pilots… the book is likely to become a standard text book… particularly recommended to all airline pilots who fly jets in the future… valuable to those pilots who are active in air safety work.”

Do these flight directors make flying safer or pilots lazier?

All that was back in 1967 and little has changed since then – apart from an increasing propensity for crashes involving loss of control rather than simply running into hills. LOC instead of CFIT. Mostly these accidents were caused primarily by poor hand flying and instrument flying skills, which certainly explains why aircraft manufacturers lead the push for more and more automatics.

A colleague involved with Boeing 787 training was told by a test pilot on type, that the 787 design philosophy was based on the premise that incompetent crews would be flying the aircraft and that its sophisticated automatic protection systems were in place to defend against incompetent handling. Be it a tongue-in-cheek observation, it contains an element of truth. With the plethora of inexperienced low-hour cadet pilots going directly into the second-in-command seats in many airlines in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, these protection systems are important.

Towards the end of his book, David Davies discusses the limitations of the flight instruments in turbulence and in particular the generally small size of the active part of the basic attitude information or the “little aeroplane” as many older pilots will remember it. He continues: “The preponderance of flight director and other information suppresses the attitude information and makes it difficult to get at” and “the inability, where pitch and roll information is split, to convey true attitude information at large pitch and roll angles in combination.” Finally Davies exhorts airline pilots “not to become lazy in your professional lives… the autopilot is a great comfort, so is the flight director and approach coupler… but do not get into the position where you need these devices to complete a flight.” There is more but go and read the book.

Having done the unforgiveable and quoted freely from an eminent authority, it is time to say something original and accept the no doubt critical comment that is freely available. Flight Directors can be a fatal attraction to those pilots who have been brain-washed by their training system to rely on them at all times. While Boeing in their FCTM advise pilots to ensure flight director modes are selected for the desired manoeuvre, it also makes the point that the FD should be turned off if commands are not to be followed.

Recently a new pilot to the Boeing 737 asked his line training captain if he could turn off the FD during a visual climb so he could better “see” the climb attitude. His request was refused as being “unsafe” and instead he was told to “look through” the FD. I don’t know about you, but I find it impossible to “see” the little aeroplane when it is obscured by twin needles or V-bars. In fact, it takes a fair amount of imagination and concentration to do so. Which may be why Boeing recommends pilots to switch off the FD if commands are not to be followed.

I well recall my first simulator experience in the 737 of an engine failure at V2 where I was having a devil of a time trying to correct yaw and roll and the instructor shouting at me to “Follow the bloody flight director needles.” I learned a good lesson from that tirade of abuse on how not to instruct if ever I became a check pilot. In later years, having gravitated to the exalted – or despised maybe – role of simulator instructor, my habit was to introduce the engine failure on takeoff by first personally demonstrating to the student how it should be done on raw data; meaning without a flight director. I hoped by first demonstrating, the student could see the body angles or attitude rather than imagine them by trying to “look through” the dancing needles of the FD. I have always been an advocate of the Central Flying School instructional technique of demonstrate first so the student then knows what he is aiming for. Of course in the simulator, the instructor runs the risk of stuffing up (been there – done that!) but it at least proves he is human and not just another screaming skull.

General aviation pilots are no strangers to flight directors either, especially as glass cockpits become more popular.

Recently, a 250-hour pilot with a type rating on the 737-300 (and trained overseas) booked a practice session prior to putting himself up to renew an instrument rating. His last rating was on a BE76 Duchess. As part of the 737 instrument rating would include manual flying on raw data, he was given a practice manual throttle, raw data takeoff and climb to 3000 ft. He protested, saying he had never flown the simulator without the flight director.

His instructions were to maintain 180 knots with Flaps 5 on levelling. He was unable to cope and when the instructor froze the simulator to save more embarrassment, the student was 2000 ft above cleared level and 270 knots – still accelerating with takeoff thrust. The student had been totally reliant on following flight directors with their associated autothrottles during his type rating course, and without this aid he was helpless.

I believe this is more widespread than most of us would believe, especially as we tend to move in our own narrow circle of experience.

At a US flight safety symposium, a speaker made the point that it is the less experienced first officers starting out at smaller carriers who most need manual flying experience. And, airline training programs are focused on training pilots to fly with the automation, rather than without it. Senior pilots, even if their manual flying skills are rusty, can at least draw on experience flying older generations of less automated planes.

Some time ago, the FAA published a Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO) entitled Manual Flight Operations. The purpose of the SAFO was to encourage operators to promote manual flight operations when appropriate. An extract from the SAFO stated that a recent analysis of flight operations data (including normal flight operations, incidents and accidents) identified an increase in manual handling errors and “the FAA believes maintaining and improving the knowledge and skills for manual flight operations is necessary for safe flight operations.” Now let me see, I recall similar sentiments nearly 50 years ago published in Handling the Big Jets when David Davies wrote that airline pilots should “not become lazy in your professional lives… the autopilot is a great comfort, so is the flight director and approach coupler but do not get into the position where you need these devices to complete the flight.” See my earlier paragraphs.

It is a good bet that lip service will be paid by most US operators to the FAA recommendation to do more hand flying. It may have some effect in USA but certainly the majority of the world’s airlines, if they were even aware of the FAA stance in the first place (very doubtful), will continue to stick with accent on full automation from lift off to near touch-down and either ban or discourage their pilots from hand flying on line.

If you don’t believe that, consider the statement in one European 737 FCOM from 20 years ago that said: “Under only exceptional circumstances will manual flight be permitted.” After all, when at least two major airlines in Southeast Asia have recently banned all takeoff and landings by first officers because of their poor flying ability, then what hope is there to allow these pilots to actually touch the controls and hand-fly in good weather? One of those airlines requires the first officer to have a minimum of five years on type before being allowed to take off or land while the other stipulates the captain will do all the flying below 5000 ft. It might stop QAR pings and the captain wearing the consequences of the first officer’s lack of handling ability, but it sure fails to address the real cause and that is lack of proper training before first officers are shoved out on line.

Sometimes you have to put your hands on the controls and fly raw data.

I think the FAA missed a golden opportunity in its SAFO to note that practicing hand flying to maintain flying skills will better attain that objective if flight director guidance is switched off. The very design of flight director systems concentrates all information into two needles (or V-bar) and in order to get those needles centered over the little square box, it needs intense concentration by the pilot. Normal instrument flight scan technique is degraded or disappears with the pilot sometimes oblivious to the other instruments because of the need to focus exclusively on the FD needles. Believe me, we see this in the simulator time and again. Manual flying without first switching off FD information will not increase basic handling or instrument flying skills.

The flight director is amazingly accurate provided the information sent to it is correct. But you don’t need it for all stages of flight. Given wrong information and followed blindly, it becomes a fatal attraction. Yet we have seen in the simulator a marked reluctance for pilots to switch it off when it no longer gives useful information. Instructors are quick to blame the hapless student for not following the FD needles. This only serves to reinforce addiction to the FD needles as they must be right because the instructor keeps on telling them so. For type rating training on new pilots, repeated circuits and landings sharpen handling skills. Yet it is not uncommon for instructors to teach students to enter waypoints around the circuit and then exhort the pilots “fly the flight director” instead of having them look outside at the runway to judge how things are going.

First officers are a captive audience to a captain’s whims. If the captain is nervous about letting his first officer turn off the flight director for simple climbs or descents, or even a non-threatening instrument approach, then it reflects adversely on the captain’s own confidence that he could handle a non-flight director approach. The FAA has already acted belatedly in publicly recommending that operators should encourage more hand flying if conditions are appropriate. But switch off the flight directors if you want real value for money, particularly with low-hour pilots. It may save lives on the proverbial dark and stormy night and the generators play up.

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from Engineering Blog https://airfactsjournal.com/2018/04/flight-directors-a-fatal-attraction/

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