Investigation of the cosmozoan creature (now named Korgasant) continues, as KDF and allies investigate the star systems that lie within the Korgasant's hunting grounds.
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When: Saturday, Nov 25, Beta +2
Where: Starship bridge, some fleet holdings
What: Bridge RP (my RP system will be in use)
OOC point of contact: @gulremal
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I may not be able to make it this week as moving home tomorrow. Then the waiting game for internet to switch on...
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Sorry to hear that, but I do hope you manage to make it!
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Spoiler: Mission logShow
Egzo nods to the Gorn as he slides into his usual seat.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Captain. *looks around* Are we expecting anyone else?
Egzo offers only a shrug for an answer.
[Local] B'Atar: "Don't think so. Maybe our resident salvage expert."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Did you receive my report?
Egzo nods again. "Read it, too. All the way through."
[Local] Egzo: "Nice t' have SOME options."
[Local] Yig'gortas: I will do my best to be as brief as possible while still providing sufficient detail.
B'Atar chuckles, "Sometimes I go way overboard with reports."
[Local] Egzo: 'Ya did fine."
B'Atar smirks, "Just like to highlight all the glory."
[Local] Yig'gortas: It is good to have more information than skip an important detail.
[Local] Yig'gortas: I was contacted by captain Cynis. KDF/mercenary group that is assisting Ventraxian State forced Breen scout group out of Softsoil colony system.
[Local] Yig'gortas: It would seem Breen are testing out the defences before comitting to any larger attack.
[Local] B'Atar: "Hope we didn't show them our best plays, then."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Also, Qib squadron reports Breen supply convoy is waiting at their base in Nar system.
[Local] Yig'gortas: One of the breen battleships and his escort has returned to Nar from the Ventraxian front.
Egzo rubs his chin, looking at the strategic map as ship and fleet tokens move around.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Our long range sensors haven't caught any large subspace disruptions since our last test,
[Local] Yig'gortas: but it's a given that Korgasant is still at large.
[Local] B'Atar: "Has it attacked any of ours?"
[Local] Yig'gortas: So far, no. Qib squadron was informed of our findings and they evaded that entire area of space.
[Local] Yig'gortas: ** map: https://imgur.com/aMVZ20c
[Local] Yig'gortas: Captain Cynis has authorized us to continue the investigation of Korgasant. Alyss has provided us with coordinates of two star systems within the anomalous region that might be worth checking.
Egzo nods, remembering.
[Local] Yig'gortas: I believe a few small cloaked ships would have a good chance to sneak past any dangers undetected.
B'Atar nods, "Aye."
[Local] Yig'gortas: If you are both willing, I will accompany you and assist in this endeavour.
[Local] B'Atar: "We can definitely use someone who knows how to scan for the Korgasant."
Egzo nods. "Sure. You and Shlaak can talk science on the way there."
[Local] Yig'gortas: *nods* I will transfer all the relevant data for sensor suites. We will still need more scans to properly isolate exact subspace layer that creature travels through.
[Local] Yig'gortas: *nods to Alyss* We were just prepring to embark to anomalous region and check out those two systems you've marked.
[Local] Alyss: Should be interesting, though I recall a curse involving an interesting life.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Let us head out, then.
B'Atar pushes off the table, "Come on."
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Three light birds form an arrow formation. Alyss and B'atar appear as holo-projections on Egzo's bridge.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: I suggest we check closer system first. It's in the western part of the anomalous region.
[Local] Egzo: Sounds good. Everyone engage cloaks 'n prepare to go to warp.
[Local] Egzo: High warp to the border, then we go in slow and extra-quiet.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Ships cloak and hit warp 8 until the border, then slow down to warp 5 as they enter anomalous region.
[Local] B'Atar: "What was our proposed strategy for fighting the worm again?"
[Local] B'Atar: "You know, in case it tries to eat us."
[Local] Egzo: "Don't".
[Local] Egzo: But if we gotta, try to force it into realspace.
[Local] Alyss: The good news is it looks like the disruptions won't be permanent. They should fade over the next few weeks.
[Local] B'Atar: "Looks like I'm picking up a Breen signature, one and a half lightyears away."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: I suggest we retreat. If no options to fall back are available, using an antitetryon burst temporary "blind" the creature as it enters the normal space.
B'Atar nods, "Got it."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Unless someone is packing tricobalt explosives?
Alyss configures the tetryon burst in advance.
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 66 (1-100)
[Local] Alyss: No tricobalt.
[Local] Egzo: Don't look at me. Some stuff, even I won't carry.
[Local] B'Atar: "My sensors are reading that Breen signature as a troop transport, but its got way too much power."
[Local] Alyss: I don't think I even have any tricobalt explosives in my yard... of course, they don't respond well to ships blowing up
[Local] B'Atar: "Probably some kind of refit, or maybe modded for a special mission."
[Local] Egzo: "Could be bait. For us, the critter... maybe even someone else."
[Local] Yig'gortas: If we plan to investigate, I suggest we keep at least 10 million kellicams distance.
[Local] Egzo: "Hard t' get a good look at that kinda range. Might not be worth botherin'. But..."
[Local] B'Atar: "The worm liked the big warp core, didn't it?"
[Local] Alyss: They could be trying to find something the worm won't eat
[Local] Yig'gortas: We can getter better reading at closer distance, yet not too close if trouble comes.
[Local] Alyss: we could send in a small drone to take a closer look.
[Local] Yig'gortas: They spied on us last time, we could return the favor.
[Local] Egzo: "Could be a lotta things. Let's check it out."
[Local] B'Atar: "Yeah, only way to know for sure."
[Local] Alyss: small automated sensor drone?
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Three birds sneak in closer. Breen ship doesn't seem to notice them and keeps cruising at warp 5,5.
[Local] Yig'gortas: *to Alyss* What do you plan to do with it?
[Local] Yig'gortas: **sensor rolls plox
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 35 (1-100)
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 8 (1-100)
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 67 (1-100)
[Local] Alyss: Speaking of unmanned drones...
[Local] Alyss: That thing is on autopilot... probably a test ship like we were planning on.
[Local] Alyss: No life signs, lots of antimatter storage.
[Local] Alyss: or possibly, the thing is rigged to blow up the worm.
[Local] Egzo: "Right, that's my bet. Feed it a bomb, like the Feddies with their planet eater."
[Local] Alyss: *shares the sensor data reading no life signs and magnetic containers*
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: lots of antimatter containers there...if they are all filled, it's going to be quite a blast...
[Local] Alyss: So either we can let it happen, we can shoot it out of the sky, or we can try and take the ship
[Local] B'Atar: "That Breen ship's warp core is on overdrive, and...looks like I'm seeing another signature 5 kellicams behind it."
[Local] B'Atar: "Looks like bait to me..."
[Local] B'Atar: *5 million
[Local] Alyss: Can we take it out before the worm does it if is rigged to blow?
[Local] Alyss: and do we want to?
[Local] B'Atar: "Depends on what the Breen have planned..."
[Local] Yig'gortas: I detect no communication of any kind...the transport is most likely on full autopilot. And going like this, it will-
[Local] Yig'gortas: *beeping of sci console*
[Local] Alyss: I suspect they want to deploy something big...
Egzo looks over his shoulder. "Got somethin'?"
[Local] Alyss: or they want to operate in this thing's hunting grounds
[Local] Yig'gortas: Shlaak: Subspace signal, on intercept course with the freighter, ETA 2 minutes 20 seconds.
[Local] Alyss: can we blow it up first?
[Local] Yig'gortas: *nausicaan at tac console* Kem: sure we can, but if that thing's loaded, we won't make it outta blast range in time.
[Local] B'Atar: "Maybe that transport is like the derelicts we used. Breen would probably be conducting their own experiments too."
[Local] B'Atar: ((and AFK for food! Will be back as soon as I can!))
[Local] Alyss: Likely. I just figure if it helps the breen, it's not good news for us
[Local] Yig'gortas: Kem: *to Egzo* Even if we could, we still got that other signal tailing the transport, we'd give ourselves away.
[Local] Alyss: but if we can't safely intrude, it's a moot point
[Local] Yig'gortas: Shlaak: Contact in 30 seconds.
Egzo nods to Kem. "That's either an observer or, if it's /not/ on full auto, the controller. And they'll see us if we get any closer."
[Local] Alyss: So we observe and prepare to make sure the observer does not escape with the results.
Egzo nods. "Yeh."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: sensors are ready to record...there it goes.
[Local] Egzo: "Shockwave comin' our way?"
[Local] Alyss: Are we staying cloaked, or raising shields if a shockwave hits?
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Space ripples as transport is kicked out of into normal space, and almost at the same time, Korgasant appears, tentacles shooting out from it's massive maw to engulf the transport.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: no, we are at safe distance.
[Local] Egzo: "Riiight. Stay on those sensors, in case they packed anythin' 'extra' in with that payload."
[Local] Alyss: scanning...
[Local] Alyss: the more we learn, the better
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> As tentecles secure the transport, it melts away as small sun bursts out of it, a massive explosion enough to shatter a large asteroid base.
Egzo squints against the glare, not giving any order to polarize the screen.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Shockwave is weak, most of the explosion absorbed by the space beast that reels under the blast, one of the tentacles ripped off and seeping out massive amounts of fluid.
Alyss is looking at the consoles, missing the splendour of the explosion.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Korgasant twists and tramples, and soon a series of massive subspace distortions rip the surrounding space before creature disappears.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: I suggest we drop to normal space NOW.
[Local] Egzo: "Yeah. Rritt, do it. Full stop."
[Local] Alyss: *does so*
[Local] Egzo: "Anyone see where our second target, the stalker, went?"
[Local] Alyss: scanning...
[Local] Alyss: (roll?)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Ships drop out of warp and dampen their power signatures, evading subspace raptures in time.
[Local] Yig'gortas: **yep
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 66 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: Shlaak: Trying to clear subspace mess...
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 68 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Both of you detect Chel Boalg cruiser slowly approaching blast site, scanning the area but keeping low power profile.
[Local] Alyss: Now how about we circle around and see if we can't capture her, get her logs and see what this is all about
[Local] Alyss: They have some new stealth tech.... I want a look at it up close.
[Local] Alyss: They're NOT at low power, they just look that way.
Egzo mm-hms. "Figured it was somethin' like that. Okay... let's give a shot. But if he bolts for it, we skip the 'capture' and go for the kill, got it?"
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: taking in some scans myself, but activating full sensor suite will give us away.
[Local] Alyss: agreed
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Breen ship moves closer to massive floating tentacle, easily 3 times longer than breen cruiser itself, and grabs it with a tractor beam...
[Local] Alyss: the information would be great for US to have, but even more great for them to NOT have
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Alyss's action --
[Local] Alyss: alright, let's do this... use the fact that he'll want to haul the tentacle
[Local] Alyss: Egzo, you want to lead this?
Alyss moves behind the breen ship, preparing web mines to be deployed the moment Egzo initiates
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Egzo's action --
[Local] Egzo: <FX> Hag'lhr decloaks and pounces on the (hopefully distracted) Breen cruiser, hammering its aft quarter with disruptors and a photon torpedo or two.
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 91 (1-100)
Alyss follows up with web mines to block retreat
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 56 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Joint attack catches breen ship unaware and drops it's aft shields!
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- B'atar's action --
B'Atar tries to exploit the opening by decloaking behind the cruiser and unloading a barrage of torpedos.
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 95 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Torpedoes hit home, ripping the armor plating and causing energy failures all across the ship.
[Local] B'Atar: "Ha! That's gotta hurt!"
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Breen vessel drops the tractor beam, sends a distress call and sends a volley of polaron beams and torpedoes back at the attackers.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Despite the attacks crippling their engines and disabling some of the weapons, their precision with what they do have is impressive as almost every shot finds it's target.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Fortune's shields are down, San'leth's left wing suffers heavy damage knocking it's weapons and shields on that side out.
B'Atar growls, "Okay, their gunner knows what they're doing..."
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Egzo's action --
Egzo orders his ship to come around for another run, trying to pull the cruiser's remaining teeth without destroying it outright.
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 6 (1-100)
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 12 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Egzo's shots bounce of the remaining armor plating.
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Alyss' action --
Alyss tries to restore some shields.
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 2 (1-100)
[Local] Alyss: (reroll)
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 6 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Alyss moves out of direct combat, managing to restore shields to 25%.
[Local] Alyss: (they see me rollin')
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- B'atar's action --
[Local] B'Atar: "Take us in for another pass and bank left when we're close. You, give me the guns."
B'Atar first fires nose torpedos at the cruiser, then unloads the right wing weapons as San'leth passes by the cruiser.
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 33 (1-100)
B'Atar aims to take out weapons.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> B'atar's fire scores some more hits at the armor, burning more of it down and taking out one main beam array offline.
[Local] B'Atar: "Break us away from them, fast! Before that gunner nails us again!"
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Breen vessel focuses on single target that keep doing damage, hitting it with tachyon blast from main deflector dish, draining San'leth power and leaving it temporarily powerless in space, as it
[Local] Yig'gortas: - tries to use remaining thrusters to face remaining foes.
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Egzo's action --
Egzo naturally, goes after the deflector.
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 54 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Hag'lhr does a flyby dropping cannon fire and torp at the deflector, taking it out.
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Alyss' action --
Alyss beams more web mines directly into the breen ship, trying to compound the energy drain from the previous mines*
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 71 (1-100)
[Local] Alyss: (it had a downed shield, right?)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Series of explosions erupt from Breen ship as the beamed mines detonate and practically rip the ship in half.
[Local] Alyss: =C= You want power drain, assholes, there's your power drain right there.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> San'leth continues to drift, bumping off the large tentacle...
B'Atar tries to restore power.
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 71 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Someone in engineering curses as they try to restart power, until ship shakes from the bump, which proves to be exact the push it needed to get the power going...
[Local] B'Atar: "Good work there! Push our power to engines and get away from that tentacle!"
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> San'leth slowly stumbles away from the massive now dead limb...
[Local] Alyss: Think it's time to go in for the capture and start beaming them out?
B'Atar tries to get away from it.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Breen vessel is in pieces...two larger and some smaller.
[Local] Alyss: so time to pick up the pieces, so to speak.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> San'leth moves away from the tentacle that slowly drifts away.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: a pity we can't really tow that thing in this state. But we could take ample samples of tissue and the fluid.
Alyss scans both tentacle and wreckage, looking for the juicy bits, computer banks, particularly unusual biology, anything worth harvesting and/or hauling off, sharing the target list with the others.
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 36 (1-100)
[Local] B'Atar: <C> "Any computers we can recover from the Breen?"
[Local] Yig'gortas: **okay, everyone with sci and tech skills, a roll plox
[Local] Alyss: looking for that, any part of their energy dampening tech, and also looking for the best samples to take from the creature
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 87 (1-100)
[Local] Alyss: (nice)
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 95 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Alyss recovers most of Breen sensor logs and manages to salvage secondary computer core.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Egzo and Yig grabbed lots of samples from the severed Korgasant tentacle, and manage to mine it with remaining explosives/torpedoes from all the ships in a way that will destroy most of it.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> B'atar manages to salvage almost entire Breen armory that by a stroke of good luck was intact. Aside from all the personal firearms and transphasic torps, you find 10 large isolytic charges.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Among the gear there's indeed a suit of commander's power armor and dreaded CRM 200 "Freeze gun".
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: *to Egzo* These samples will prove quite valuable...even when we are done with them.
Egzo grins back at the Gorn and nods.
[Local] B'Atar: <C> "San'leth might need a few repairs after this...but hey, we got some new toys!"
[Local] Alyss: Alright. Got some saleable parts. Let's get any databanks we can find and get the heck out of here before the breen show up for that distress call
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: also, will we be in state to continue? System is barely 2 LY away.
[Local] Egzo: You good to warp out, B'Atar?
B'Atar nods, "We can only go up to warp six, but we can get out of here."
[Local] Egzo: "Right... head for home if you need to, the rest of us are going on."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: since all our ships are capable of landing, we can use one of the planets in the target system for repairs.
[Local] B'Atar: "That'll do, then."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: I believe we have enough salvage to affect decent fix for that wing.
[Local] Alyss: Alright, let's continue then...
B'Atar nods to Yig, "Good info."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Kem: Boss, we've got incoming. Breen signals, six of em, looks like standard patrol.
[Local] Alyss: cloak and slink off then?
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: the tentacle is rigged for a nasty surprise.
[Local] Alyss: excellent.
[Local] B'Atar: "Must be the reinforcements they called..."
[Local] Alyss: let's cloak and get out of here.
[Local] Alyss: six of them after this fight would be dicy
[Local] B'Atar: "Aye, especially with us on low power and half our weapons down."
[Local] Alyss: Precisely.
[Local] Alyss: All cloak...
Alyss engages the cloak on the Fortune.
Egzo gives the nod, and Hag'lhr vanishes from sensors.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> As breen patrol approaches, three birds cloak and head towards their original target...
B'Atar diverts all power the San'leth can spare to cloaks.
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- SCENE END --
[Local] Yig'gortas: Captain. *looks around* Are we expecting anyone else?
Egzo offers only a shrug for an answer.
[Local] B'Atar: "Don't think so. Maybe our resident salvage expert."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Did you receive my report?
Egzo nods again. "Read it, too. All the way through."
[Local] Egzo: "Nice t' have SOME options."
[Local] Yig'gortas: I will do my best to be as brief as possible while still providing sufficient detail.
B'Atar chuckles, "Sometimes I go way overboard with reports."
[Local] Egzo: 'Ya did fine."
B'Atar smirks, "Just like to highlight all the glory."
[Local] Yig'gortas: It is good to have more information than skip an important detail.
[Local] Yig'gortas: I was contacted by captain Cynis. KDF/mercenary group that is assisting Ventraxian State forced Breen scout group out of Softsoil colony system.
[Local] Yig'gortas: It would seem Breen are testing out the defences before comitting to any larger attack.
[Local] B'Atar: "Hope we didn't show them our best plays, then."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Also, Qib squadron reports Breen supply convoy is waiting at their base in Nar system.
[Local] Yig'gortas: One of the breen battleships and his escort has returned to Nar from the Ventraxian front.
Egzo rubs his chin, looking at the strategic map as ship and fleet tokens move around.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Our long range sensors haven't caught any large subspace disruptions since our last test,
[Local] Yig'gortas: but it's a given that Korgasant is still at large.
[Local] B'Atar: "Has it attacked any of ours?"
[Local] Yig'gortas: So far, no. Qib squadron was informed of our findings and they evaded that entire area of space.
[Local] Yig'gortas: ** map: https://imgur.com/aMVZ20c
[Local] Yig'gortas: Captain Cynis has authorized us to continue the investigation of Korgasant. Alyss has provided us with coordinates of two star systems within the anomalous region that might be worth checking.
Egzo nods, remembering.
[Local] Yig'gortas: I believe a few small cloaked ships would have a good chance to sneak past any dangers undetected.
B'Atar nods, "Aye."
[Local] Yig'gortas: If you are both willing, I will accompany you and assist in this endeavour.
[Local] B'Atar: "We can definitely use someone who knows how to scan for the Korgasant."
Egzo nods. "Sure. You and Shlaak can talk science on the way there."
[Local] Yig'gortas: *nods* I will transfer all the relevant data for sensor suites. We will still need more scans to properly isolate exact subspace layer that creature travels through.
[Local] Yig'gortas: *nods to Alyss* We were just prepring to embark to anomalous region and check out those two systems you've marked.
[Local] Alyss: Should be interesting, though I recall a curse involving an interesting life.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Let us head out, then.
B'Atar pushes off the table, "Come on."
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Three light birds form an arrow formation. Alyss and B'atar appear as holo-projections on Egzo's bridge.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: I suggest we check closer system first. It's in the western part of the anomalous region.
[Local] Egzo: Sounds good. Everyone engage cloaks 'n prepare to go to warp.
[Local] Egzo: High warp to the border, then we go in slow and extra-quiet.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Ships cloak and hit warp 8 until the border, then slow down to warp 5 as they enter anomalous region.
[Local] B'Atar: "What was our proposed strategy for fighting the worm again?"
[Local] B'Atar: "You know, in case it tries to eat us."
[Local] Egzo: "Don't".
[Local] Egzo: But if we gotta, try to force it into realspace.
[Local] Alyss: The good news is it looks like the disruptions won't be permanent. They should fade over the next few weeks.
[Local] B'Atar: "Looks like I'm picking up a Breen signature, one and a half lightyears away."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: I suggest we retreat. If no options to fall back are available, using an antitetryon burst temporary "blind" the creature as it enters the normal space.
B'Atar nods, "Got it."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Unless someone is packing tricobalt explosives?
Alyss configures the tetryon burst in advance.
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 66 (1-100)
[Local] Alyss: No tricobalt.
[Local] Egzo: Don't look at me. Some stuff, even I won't carry.
[Local] B'Atar: "My sensors are reading that Breen signature as a troop transport, but its got way too much power."
[Local] Alyss: I don't think I even have any tricobalt explosives in my yard... of course, they don't respond well to ships blowing up
[Local] B'Atar: "Probably some kind of refit, or maybe modded for a special mission."
[Local] Egzo: "Could be bait. For us, the critter... maybe even someone else."
[Local] Yig'gortas: If we plan to investigate, I suggest we keep at least 10 million kellicams distance.
[Local] Egzo: "Hard t' get a good look at that kinda range. Might not be worth botherin'. But..."
[Local] B'Atar: "The worm liked the big warp core, didn't it?"
[Local] Alyss: They could be trying to find something the worm won't eat
[Local] Yig'gortas: We can getter better reading at closer distance, yet not too close if trouble comes.
[Local] Alyss: we could send in a small drone to take a closer look.
[Local] Yig'gortas: They spied on us last time, we could return the favor.
[Local] Egzo: "Could be a lotta things. Let's check it out."
[Local] B'Atar: "Yeah, only way to know for sure."
[Local] Alyss: small automated sensor drone?
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Three birds sneak in closer. Breen ship doesn't seem to notice them and keeps cruising at warp 5,5.
[Local] Yig'gortas: *to Alyss* What do you plan to do with it?
[Local] Yig'gortas: **sensor rolls plox
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 35 (1-100)
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 8 (1-100)
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 67 (1-100)
[Local] Alyss: Speaking of unmanned drones...
[Local] Alyss: That thing is on autopilot... probably a test ship like we were planning on.
[Local] Alyss: No life signs, lots of antimatter storage.
[Local] Alyss: or possibly, the thing is rigged to blow up the worm.
[Local] Egzo: "Right, that's my bet. Feed it a bomb, like the Feddies with their planet eater."
[Local] Alyss: *shares the sensor data reading no life signs and magnetic containers*
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: lots of antimatter containers there...if they are all filled, it's going to be quite a blast...
[Local] Alyss: So either we can let it happen, we can shoot it out of the sky, or we can try and take the ship
[Local] B'Atar: "That Breen ship's warp core is on overdrive, and...looks like I'm seeing another signature 5 kellicams behind it."
[Local] B'Atar: "Looks like bait to me..."
[Local] B'Atar: *5 million
[Local] Alyss: Can we take it out before the worm does it if is rigged to blow?
[Local] Alyss: and do we want to?
[Local] B'Atar: "Depends on what the Breen have planned..."
[Local] Yig'gortas: I detect no communication of any kind...the transport is most likely on full autopilot. And going like this, it will-
[Local] Yig'gortas: *beeping of sci console*
[Local] Alyss: I suspect they want to deploy something big...
Egzo looks over his shoulder. "Got somethin'?"
[Local] Alyss: or they want to operate in this thing's hunting grounds
[Local] Yig'gortas: Shlaak: Subspace signal, on intercept course with the freighter, ETA 2 minutes 20 seconds.
[Local] Alyss: can we blow it up first?
[Local] Yig'gortas: *nausicaan at tac console* Kem: sure we can, but if that thing's loaded, we won't make it outta blast range in time.
[Local] B'Atar: "Maybe that transport is like the derelicts we used. Breen would probably be conducting their own experiments too."
[Local] B'Atar: ((and AFK for food! Will be back as soon as I can!))
[Local] Alyss: Likely. I just figure if it helps the breen, it's not good news for us
[Local] Yig'gortas: Kem: *to Egzo* Even if we could, we still got that other signal tailing the transport, we'd give ourselves away.
[Local] Alyss: but if we can't safely intrude, it's a moot point
[Local] Yig'gortas: Shlaak: Contact in 30 seconds.
Egzo nods to Kem. "That's either an observer or, if it's /not/ on full auto, the controller. And they'll see us if we get any closer."
[Local] Alyss: So we observe and prepare to make sure the observer does not escape with the results.
Egzo nods. "Yeh."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: sensors are ready to record...there it goes.
[Local] Egzo: "Shockwave comin' our way?"
[Local] Alyss: Are we staying cloaked, or raising shields if a shockwave hits?
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Space ripples as transport is kicked out of into normal space, and almost at the same time, Korgasant appears, tentacles shooting out from it's massive maw to engulf the transport.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: no, we are at safe distance.
[Local] Egzo: "Riiight. Stay on those sensors, in case they packed anythin' 'extra' in with that payload."
[Local] Alyss: scanning...
[Local] Alyss: the more we learn, the better
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> As tentecles secure the transport, it melts away as small sun bursts out of it, a massive explosion enough to shatter a large asteroid base.
Egzo squints against the glare, not giving any order to polarize the screen.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Shockwave is weak, most of the explosion absorbed by the space beast that reels under the blast, one of the tentacles ripped off and seeping out massive amounts of fluid.
Alyss is looking at the consoles, missing the splendour of the explosion.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Korgasant twists and tramples, and soon a series of massive subspace distortions rip the surrounding space before creature disappears.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: I suggest we drop to normal space NOW.
[Local] Egzo: "Yeah. Rritt, do it. Full stop."
[Local] Alyss: *does so*
[Local] Egzo: "Anyone see where our second target, the stalker, went?"
[Local] Alyss: scanning...
[Local] Alyss: (roll?)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Ships drop out of warp and dampen their power signatures, evading subspace raptures in time.
[Local] Yig'gortas: **yep
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 66 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: Shlaak: Trying to clear subspace mess...
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 68 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Both of you detect Chel Boalg cruiser slowly approaching blast site, scanning the area but keeping low power profile.
[Local] Alyss: Now how about we circle around and see if we can't capture her, get her logs and see what this is all about
[Local] Alyss: They have some new stealth tech.... I want a look at it up close.
[Local] Alyss: They're NOT at low power, they just look that way.
Egzo mm-hms. "Figured it was somethin' like that. Okay... let's give a shot. But if he bolts for it, we skip the 'capture' and go for the kill, got it?"
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: taking in some scans myself, but activating full sensor suite will give us away.
[Local] Alyss: agreed
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Breen ship moves closer to massive floating tentacle, easily 3 times longer than breen cruiser itself, and grabs it with a tractor beam...
[Local] Alyss: the information would be great for US to have, but even more great for them to NOT have
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Alyss's action --
[Local] Alyss: alright, let's do this... use the fact that he'll want to haul the tentacle
[Local] Alyss: Egzo, you want to lead this?
Alyss moves behind the breen ship, preparing web mines to be deployed the moment Egzo initiates
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Egzo's action --
[Local] Egzo: <FX> Hag'lhr decloaks and pounces on the (hopefully distracted) Breen cruiser, hammering its aft quarter with disruptors and a photon torpedo or two.
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 91 (1-100)
Alyss follows up with web mines to block retreat
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 56 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Joint attack catches breen ship unaware and drops it's aft shields!
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- B'atar's action --
B'Atar tries to exploit the opening by decloaking behind the cruiser and unloading a barrage of torpedos.
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 95 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Torpedoes hit home, ripping the armor plating and causing energy failures all across the ship.
[Local] B'Atar: "Ha! That's gotta hurt!"
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Breen vessel drops the tractor beam, sends a distress call and sends a volley of polaron beams and torpedoes back at the attackers.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Despite the attacks crippling their engines and disabling some of the weapons, their precision with what they do have is impressive as almost every shot finds it's target.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Fortune's shields are down, San'leth's left wing suffers heavy damage knocking it's weapons and shields on that side out.
B'Atar growls, "Okay, their gunner knows what they're doing..."
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Egzo's action --
Egzo orders his ship to come around for another run, trying to pull the cruiser's remaining teeth without destroying it outright.
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 6 (1-100)
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 12 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Egzo's shots bounce of the remaining armor plating.
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Alyss' action --
Alyss tries to restore some shields.
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 2 (1-100)
[Local] Alyss: (reroll)
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 6 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Alyss moves out of direct combat, managing to restore shields to 25%.
[Local] Alyss: (they see me rollin')
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- B'atar's action --
[Local] B'Atar: "Take us in for another pass and bank left when we're close. You, give me the guns."
B'Atar first fires nose torpedos at the cruiser, then unloads the right wing weapons as San'leth passes by the cruiser.
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 33 (1-100)
B'Atar aims to take out weapons.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> B'atar's fire scores some more hits at the armor, burning more of it down and taking out one main beam array offline.
[Local] B'Atar: "Break us away from them, fast! Before that gunner nails us again!"
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Breen vessel focuses on single target that keep doing damage, hitting it with tachyon blast from main deflector dish, draining San'leth power and leaving it temporarily powerless in space, as it
[Local] Yig'gortas: - tries to use remaining thrusters to face remaining foes.
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Egzo's action --
Egzo naturally, goes after the deflector.
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 54 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Hag'lhr does a flyby dropping cannon fire and torp at the deflector, taking it out.
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- Alyss' action --
Alyss beams more web mines directly into the breen ship, trying to compound the energy drain from the previous mines*
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 71 (1-100)
[Local] Alyss: (it had a downed shield, right?)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Series of explosions erupt from Breen ship as the beamed mines detonate and practically rip the ship in half.
[Local] Alyss: =C= You want power drain, assholes, there's your power drain right there.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> San'leth continues to drift, bumping off the large tentacle...
B'Atar tries to restore power.
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 71 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Someone in engineering curses as they try to restart power, until ship shakes from the bump, which proves to be exact the push it needed to get the power going...
[Local] B'Atar: "Good work there! Push our power to engines and get away from that tentacle!"
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> San'leth slowly stumbles away from the massive now dead limb...
[Local] Alyss: Think it's time to go in for the capture and start beaming them out?
B'Atar tries to get away from it.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Breen vessel is in pieces...two larger and some smaller.
[Local] Alyss: so time to pick up the pieces, so to speak.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> San'leth moves away from the tentacle that slowly drifts away.
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: a pity we can't really tow that thing in this state. But we could take ample samples of tissue and the fluid.
Alyss scans both tentacle and wreckage, looking for the juicy bits, computer banks, particularly unusual biology, anything worth harvesting and/or hauling off, sharing the target list with the others.
[Emotes] Alyss: rolls 36 (1-100)
[Local] B'Atar: <C> "Any computers we can recover from the Breen?"
[Local] Yig'gortas: **okay, everyone with sci and tech skills, a roll plox
[Local] Alyss: looking for that, any part of their energy dampening tech, and also looking for the best samples to take from the creature
[Emotes] Egzo: rolls 87 (1-100)
[Local] Alyss: (nice)
[Emotes] B'Atar: rolls 95 (1-100)
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Alyss recovers most of Breen sensor logs and manages to salvage secondary computer core.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Egzo and Yig grabbed lots of samples from the severed Korgasant tentacle, and manage to mine it with remaining explosives/torpedoes from all the ships in a way that will destroy most of it.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> B'atar manages to salvage almost entire Breen armory that by a stroke of good luck was intact. Aside from all the personal firearms and transphasic torps, you find 10 large isolytic charges.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> Among the gear there's indeed a suit of commander's power armor and dreaded CRM 200 "Freeze gun".
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: *to Egzo* These samples will prove quite valuable...even when we are done with them.
Egzo grins back at the Gorn and nods.
[Local] B'Atar: <C> "San'leth might need a few repairs after this...but hey, we got some new toys!"
[Local] Alyss: Alright. Got some saleable parts. Let's get any databanks we can find and get the heck out of here before the breen show up for that distress call
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: also, will we be in state to continue? System is barely 2 LY away.
[Local] Egzo: You good to warp out, B'Atar?
B'Atar nods, "We can only go up to warp six, but we can get out of here."
[Local] Egzo: "Right... head for home if you need to, the rest of us are going on."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: since all our ships are capable of landing, we can use one of the planets in the target system for repairs.
[Local] B'Atar: "That'll do, then."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: I believe we have enough salvage to affect decent fix for that wing.
[Local] Alyss: Alright, let's continue then...
B'Atar nods to Yig, "Good info."
[Local] Yig'gortas: Kem: Boss, we've got incoming. Breen signals, six of em, looks like standard patrol.
[Local] Alyss: cloak and slink off then?
[Local] Yig'gortas: Yig: the tentacle is rigged for a nasty surprise.
[Local] Alyss: excellent.
[Local] B'Atar: "Must be the reinforcements they called..."
[Local] Alyss: let's cloak and get out of here.
[Local] Alyss: six of them after this fight would be dicy
[Local] B'Atar: "Aye, especially with us on low power and half our weapons down."
[Local] Alyss: Precisely.
[Local] Alyss: All cloak...
Alyss engages the cloak on the Fortune.
Egzo gives the nod, and Hag'lhr vanishes from sensors.
[Local] Yig'gortas: <FX> As breen patrol approaches, three birds cloak and head towards their original target...
B'Atar diverts all power the San'leth can spare to cloaks.
[Local] Yig'gortas: -- SCENE END --
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