KDF and allies follow the breen warp trail into an uncharted system. Will they finally catch up with their pray, or do the breen have more surprises in store?
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When: Saturday, Mar 24, Beta +1
Where: Ship bridge.
What: Bridge RP, possible combat.
OOC point of contact: @gulremal
OOC: Note that due to the time shenanigans, event starts 1 hour earlier for the Euro folks (9 PM GMT instead of 10 PM).
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Spoiler: Mission transcriptShow
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: [FX] After a short scrape with the renegade Tzenkethi forces at the Crossroads station, team travels towards the projected course of the breen raider.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: [FX] The course brings them to the outskirts of the uncharted system. Basic long range scans show a brown dwarf star, a small frozen planetoid surrounded by an asteroid ring, and a gas giant.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: [FX] You are under stealth at the edge of the system.
B'Atar@anncarise scans for Breen.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Anyone see anything on long range sensors?"
Mysti@crystyll reviews their scans and sighs. She already misses the warm and pretty setting of the holodeck on Crossroads
Mysti@crystyll looks forward to her sci girl, "We're checking as well, stand by"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: ** sensor rolls
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 84 (1-100)
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 19 (1-100)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "We're reading a Breen trail from five days ago or so. It's pointing to that planetoid."
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 22 (1-100)
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "More than we're getting..." she grumbles, "...too much interference"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Same here.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> ... hang on... getting some metallic returns from the giant. Pretty low orbit.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Huh...guess they weren't kidding about the D14 having good tech..."
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "I say we check the gas ball first. The trail's five days old, whatever's here might be gone already, but metal can still be analyzed even if it's just debris."
Mysti@crystyll glances at holo-B'Atar with a smirk at the tech comment
Egzo@HF_Mudd gestures to his flyer. "Take us in, Rritt. Shlaak, eyes open."
B'Atar@anncarise looks to Mysti, "Not saying your ship doesn't have good science tech...actually I think it should have better. San'leth is mostly guns..."
B'Atar@anncarise motions for her helm to take the San'leth in too.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <FX> Hag'lhr approaches the looming gas giant, the other ships trailing behind, in formation.
B'Atar@anncarise does some more scans, focused on the gas giant and its surroundings this time.
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 77 (1-100)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> You approach the gas giant carefully and assume high orbit above the metallic signature...
Egzo@HF_Mudd turns half around in his chair, looking to his science Gorn. "Whaddya got?"
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 57 (1-100)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: Shlaak: Bunch of ship hulks, boss. Ventraxians by the looks of it.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Think the Breen have been busy."
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 48 (1-100)
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "Looks like one there is still pretty much intact at least"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Atmosphere? Survivors?
Mysti@crystyll shakes her head, "Negative on both. But the centre looks pretty intact so the core could be salvageable at least"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Hm. Arright. Get a boarding party together."
Egzo@HF_Mudd rises from his command chair, intending to be on it.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: Shlaak: Negative, boss-
Egzo@HF_Mudd stops, looking to Shlaak?
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: Shlaak: That wreck is in low atmo of the gas giant. It's too risky to beam there, and no way shuttle could handle the winds and storms there.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Impossible to tractor out?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: ** folks with engi and sci skills, a roll plox
Egzo@HF_Mudd stops, and hmms, and leans over to key his armrest comms. <C> That's one idea. Anyone else?
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 92 (1-100)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Maybe beam the core right out...but I'm guessing that risks losing the core. Better than losing a boarding party though."
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "If we can't beam in, maybe you could just beam the core out instead?"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Yeah, no. We'd end up with a pad full of slag and scrambled circuits.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Need to tractor it out at least a little first. But one tractor won't do the job. With those winds? It'd tumble, probably come apart.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Right, that sounds like a mess I don't wanna clean up..."
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Maybe if we can get our two birds close enough, we can try and pull it out in one piece."
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "Thana might stand up to the pressures a little easier if you'd prefer we tackle it"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Thana, you've got power to spare; how about riggin' a power transfer, so we can boost our SIFs? Then we get in close, all three of us...
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> ... ha, okay, so I just had a crazy thought. Y'know that little 'pet' of yours?
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Chirps?
Mysti@crystyll looks sloooowly to him, "Why do I get the feeling I'm not going to like this..."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> That little cutter don't need air, and can be rigged with pattern enhancers.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Right?
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "True enough"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Like I said, it's an idea. He ain't mine, I ain't gonna give no order.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Anyone got a problem with the tractor link-up?
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Little bumpy, but I bet we can handle it.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "I'm up for some towing work."
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "We can rig up easy enough for a power transfer. Not saying Chirrups isn't up to the task either, so either option works"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Let's save beamin' yer little buddy over - or shootin' it over in a torpedo shell - for later, then.
Egzo@HF_Mudd grins, coming back around and settling into his chair once more.
Mysti@crystyll rolls her eyes, chuckling lightly
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 34 (1-100)
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 65 (1-100)
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 84 (1-100)
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: (yay!)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: (Yay we have good engineering support at least!)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Thana Vaneri moves above the two Birds of Prey and extends their SIF field, greatly strengthening their resilience against the dangers of the gas giant atmosphere,
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> San'leth and Hag'lhr move closer to the wreck, fighting the strong wind currents.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <FX> Egzo's Ferasan helmcat has his ears flattened as he works his controls, clearly not familiar - or happy - with having to maintain such close formation, especially in unpredictable turbulence.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> San'leth reaches the projected position first and has a good lock on the wreck.
B'Atar@anncarise waits for Egzo before trying to move the ship.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr follows suit but doesn't have as good lock as San'leth, as it battles the storms to stay in place.
Egzo@HF_Mudd doesn't threaten or scold his flyer, keeping his full attention on the screen and the drifting wreck.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> All right, easy now. Keep the loads balanced. Pulling away in five, four...
B'Atar@anncarise stands by, ready to pull on Egzo's count.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "... one, go."
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 6 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (reroll)
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 6 (1-100)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: (Oh dear)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: (Let's all reroll that!)
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 48 (1-100)
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 55 (1-100)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: ** brb
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (Mysti, you too.)
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 90 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (this is tractor-pull, now.)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (so, two average rolls on the birds and one good one from the she-beast cruiser.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: **back
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> As ships engage tractor beams, they soon end up desynchronized and the wreck starts bending under the pressure.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Damn damn damn... all ships, cut tractors, now!
Egzo@HF_Mudd makes a cutting motion with his arm, half by instinct.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Thana Vaneri manages to stop the process, but only for a short while.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr stops their tractor beam, leaving San'leth and Thana to struggle for a while, but it's obvious they will not be able to hold the wrech for long.
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "Well that didn't exactly go as planned..."
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: ** what do you do?
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Are we close enough to beam the core out from this distance?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Soon, all ships break their tractor beams...
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> I said /cut your beams/, we're... there.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Hnnnnn. How far did we manage to lift that thing?
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: Shlaak: we can try, but we must do it fast. We have destabilized the wrecks orbit!
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Great. Slaggin' great.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Mysti! Yer little buddy's up.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> We're outta time.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Why is a tow job so much harder than blowing stuff up..."
Mysti@crystyll nods, "Alright, beaming Chirrups over now to setup transport enhancers"
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 19 (1-100)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Maybe we /can/ blow it up. Or at least a part of it. Could make the core easier to beam up, or it could just blow up the whole thing..."
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: (nooooo chirrups! reroll needed!)
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 44 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Cut away the ass-end, leave just the front? Could do, but this whole thing might come apart...
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Yeah..."
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "And the Chirrups has landed. Just waiting on word that the enhancers are in place"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Dozen seconds later, you get a feed from the wreck....
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Need a beam array for that, too. Cannons are no good for that kind of work.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Tell 'im not to waste any time, find that core and signal for beamout.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups is doing a crazy dance as it floats through the hallway of the shaking vessel, sparks fly as the hull bends and twists slightly under the gas giant's pressure.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "We got Breen polaron beams if you wanna try that."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> What? Oh, right. Hells, I dunno!
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups approaches the closed doors, and goes to hack the access panel!
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "How's Chirrups doing?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: ** everyone's got the feed on their main screen
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "We're working with the main datafeed to help the little guy from our end"
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 48 (1-100)
B'Atar@anncarise doesn't risk blowing Chirrups up.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups powers up the control/gate mechanism and after couple long seconds, doors slide open!
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups enters a large room filled with rows of databanks. Couple of ventraxian bodies fly around and hit the walls as the ship shifts.
Mysti@crystyll shakes her head a little as she looks at the scene
Egzo@HF_Mudd grips the arms of his command throne tightly, listening to Shlaak's constant reports on the hulk's decaying orbit, and the occasional alarming creak from Hag'lhr's own hull.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> As Chirrups approaches the main computer console to set up the transporter beams, something jumps from the left and knocks the exocomp over!
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "What was that?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Camera catches a form of two-feet long spider-like creature.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "That's no Breen...more of those bug things?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> The creature is dark-brown, it has nasty hooks at the end of its six legs which allows it to stick to the surfaces, and obviously sees Chirrups as an intruder.
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "We got to get Chirrups out of there!"
B'Atar@anncarise checks if the San'leth transporters can lock on to Chirrups, or the weird bug.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Aw DAMNIT, it's one of their spider pets.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Ventraxian pets?"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Yah.
Mysti@crystyll FX | The camera view jolts as Chirrups tracks the movements and arms it's defenses
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "How's it still alive in- Oh you know what no one's gonna miss it."
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Creature opens its maw, showing a set of sharp teeth dripping venom.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Go for the legs! Thin and easy to sever, disable it first, then go in for the kill."
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 54 (1-100)
Mysti@crystyll FX | Chirrups beeps an affirmative over the comms and acts on B'Atar's tip
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 91 (1-100)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Spider creature jumps again, but Chirrups aims its plasma cutter and severs its left three legs before it manages to complete the jump, and it falls to the side, spasming.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "That did it!"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups comes closer and zaps it couple of times with its shocker for the good measure until it stops moving...and then one more time just to make sure.
Mysti@crystyll smiles proudly, "Attagirl!"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Camera shakes again as wreck creaks loudly, a side of the wall start bending and breaking...you'll have to be fast!
Mysti@crystyll FX | Chirrups returns to it's mission, zooming around as it establishes the pattern enhancers"
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 86 (1-100)
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 10 (1-100)
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 45 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> c'mon, c'mon...
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "That ship won't have much time left..."
Egzo@HF_Mudd might be able to do more at that end, but here, he's reduced to helpless pacing (if the last jolt hadn't convinced him not to try).
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> With help from Thana, Chirrups easily locates the main core below the console. B'atar uses plasma cutter to cut the hole in the console's side, and with Egzo's guidance Chirrups positions the-
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: - transporter tags!
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Alright, let's get your pet and that core out of there..."
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups confirms all is ready for beamout.
Mysti@crystyll nods and gives the order
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 73 (1-100)
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 18 (1-100)
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 12 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (god, these rolls)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: (It's not sci, so Mysti does best of course!)
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: (hehe)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> San'leth and Hag'lhr try to additionally boost the signal, but no luck. Thana's crew is good enough, and manages to beam out the exocomp and the computer core intact.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "We got it?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Dozen seconds later, ventraxian wreck literally falls apart as strong wind currents tear it to pieces.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> If we didn't, we ain't gonna.
Mysti@crystyll waits for the confirmation from transport hub before smiling and giving a solid nod, "Chirrups did it!"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> All three vessels move back to safer position...
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Nice! That drone of yours is always saving the day..."
Egzo@HF_Mudd sighs in relief as Hag'lhr leaves the gas giant's atmosphere behind for space, his true home.
Mysti@crystyll grins, "She's our very own lucky little mascot!"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: Shlaak: Nothing on sensors. It seems our escapade here didn't alert anyone...yet.
B'Atar@anncarise grins back at Mysti before looking around, "Let's go check out that planetoid. And hopefully not have to do any more heavy lifting."
Mysti@crystyll nods, "Meanwhile, my girls are already getting to work on that core; but it will take a while"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Sounds good t' me.
Egzo@HF_Mudd waves to his crew to make it so, and re-engage cloak while they're at it.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: [FX] The course brings them to the outskirts of the uncharted system. Basic long range scans show a brown dwarf star, a small frozen planetoid surrounded by an asteroid ring, and a gas giant.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: [FX] You are under stealth at the edge of the system.
B'Atar@anncarise scans for Breen.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Anyone see anything on long range sensors?"
Mysti@crystyll reviews their scans and sighs. She already misses the warm and pretty setting of the holodeck on Crossroads
Mysti@crystyll looks forward to her sci girl, "We're checking as well, stand by"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: ** sensor rolls
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 84 (1-100)
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 19 (1-100)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "We're reading a Breen trail from five days ago or so. It's pointing to that planetoid."
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 22 (1-100)
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "More than we're getting..." she grumbles, "...too much interference"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Same here.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> ... hang on... getting some metallic returns from the giant. Pretty low orbit.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Huh...guess they weren't kidding about the D14 having good tech..."
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "I say we check the gas ball first. The trail's five days old, whatever's here might be gone already, but metal can still be analyzed even if it's just debris."
Mysti@crystyll glances at holo-B'Atar with a smirk at the tech comment
Egzo@HF_Mudd gestures to his flyer. "Take us in, Rritt. Shlaak, eyes open."
B'Atar@anncarise looks to Mysti, "Not saying your ship doesn't have good science tech...actually I think it should have better. San'leth is mostly guns..."
B'Atar@anncarise motions for her helm to take the San'leth in too.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <FX> Hag'lhr approaches the looming gas giant, the other ships trailing behind, in formation.
B'Atar@anncarise does some more scans, focused on the gas giant and its surroundings this time.
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 77 (1-100)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> You approach the gas giant carefully and assume high orbit above the metallic signature...
Egzo@HF_Mudd turns half around in his chair, looking to his science Gorn. "Whaddya got?"
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 57 (1-100)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: Shlaak: Bunch of ship hulks, boss. Ventraxians by the looks of it.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Think the Breen have been busy."
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 48 (1-100)
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "Looks like one there is still pretty much intact at least"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Atmosphere? Survivors?
Mysti@crystyll shakes her head, "Negative on both. But the centre looks pretty intact so the core could be salvageable at least"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Hm. Arright. Get a boarding party together."
Egzo@HF_Mudd rises from his command chair, intending to be on it.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: Shlaak: Negative, boss-
Egzo@HF_Mudd stops, looking to Shlaak?
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: Shlaak: That wreck is in low atmo of the gas giant. It's too risky to beam there, and no way shuttle could handle the winds and storms there.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Impossible to tractor out?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: ** folks with engi and sci skills, a roll plox
Egzo@HF_Mudd stops, and hmms, and leans over to key his armrest comms. <C> That's one idea. Anyone else?
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 92 (1-100)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Maybe beam the core right out...but I'm guessing that risks losing the core. Better than losing a boarding party though."
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "If we can't beam in, maybe you could just beam the core out instead?"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Yeah, no. We'd end up with a pad full of slag and scrambled circuits.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Need to tractor it out at least a little first. But one tractor won't do the job. With those winds? It'd tumble, probably come apart.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Right, that sounds like a mess I don't wanna clean up..."
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Maybe if we can get our two birds close enough, we can try and pull it out in one piece."
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "Thana might stand up to the pressures a little easier if you'd prefer we tackle it"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Thana, you've got power to spare; how about riggin' a power transfer, so we can boost our SIFs? Then we get in close, all three of us...
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> ... ha, okay, so I just had a crazy thought. Y'know that little 'pet' of yours?
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Chirps?
Mysti@crystyll looks sloooowly to him, "Why do I get the feeling I'm not going to like this..."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> That little cutter don't need air, and can be rigged with pattern enhancers.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Right?
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "True enough"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Like I said, it's an idea. He ain't mine, I ain't gonna give no order.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Anyone got a problem with the tractor link-up?
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Little bumpy, but I bet we can handle it.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "I'm up for some towing work."
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "We can rig up easy enough for a power transfer. Not saying Chirrups isn't up to the task either, so either option works"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Let's save beamin' yer little buddy over - or shootin' it over in a torpedo shell - for later, then.
Egzo@HF_Mudd grins, coming back around and settling into his chair once more.
Mysti@crystyll rolls her eyes, chuckling lightly
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 34 (1-100)
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 65 (1-100)
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 84 (1-100)
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: (yay!)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: (Yay we have good engineering support at least!)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Thana Vaneri moves above the two Birds of Prey and extends their SIF field, greatly strengthening their resilience against the dangers of the gas giant atmosphere,
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> San'leth and Hag'lhr move closer to the wreck, fighting the strong wind currents.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <FX> Egzo's Ferasan helmcat has his ears flattened as he works his controls, clearly not familiar - or happy - with having to maintain such close formation, especially in unpredictable turbulence.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> San'leth reaches the projected position first and has a good lock on the wreck.
B'Atar@anncarise waits for Egzo before trying to move the ship.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr follows suit but doesn't have as good lock as San'leth, as it battles the storms to stay in place.
Egzo@HF_Mudd doesn't threaten or scold his flyer, keeping his full attention on the screen and the drifting wreck.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> All right, easy now. Keep the loads balanced. Pulling away in five, four...
B'Atar@anncarise stands by, ready to pull on Egzo's count.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "... one, go."
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 6 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (reroll)
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 6 (1-100)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: (Oh dear)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: (Let's all reroll that!)
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 48 (1-100)
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 55 (1-100)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: ** brb
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (Mysti, you too.)
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 90 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (this is tractor-pull, now.)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (so, two average rolls on the birds and one good one from the she-beast cruiser.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: **back
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> As ships engage tractor beams, they soon end up desynchronized and the wreck starts bending under the pressure.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Damn damn damn... all ships, cut tractors, now!
Egzo@HF_Mudd makes a cutting motion with his arm, half by instinct.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Thana Vaneri manages to stop the process, but only for a short while.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr stops their tractor beam, leaving San'leth and Thana to struggle for a while, but it's obvious they will not be able to hold the wrech for long.
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "Well that didn't exactly go as planned..."
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: ** what do you do?
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Are we close enough to beam the core out from this distance?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Soon, all ships break their tractor beams...
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> I said /cut your beams/, we're... there.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Hnnnnn. How far did we manage to lift that thing?
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: Shlaak: we can try, but we must do it fast. We have destabilized the wrecks orbit!
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Great. Slaggin' great.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Mysti! Yer little buddy's up.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> We're outta time.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Why is a tow job so much harder than blowing stuff up..."
Mysti@crystyll nods, "Alright, beaming Chirrups over now to setup transport enhancers"
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 19 (1-100)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Maybe we /can/ blow it up. Or at least a part of it. Could make the core easier to beam up, or it could just blow up the whole thing..."
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: (nooooo chirrups! reroll needed!)
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 44 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Cut away the ass-end, leave just the front? Could do, but this whole thing might come apart...
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Yeah..."
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "And the Chirrups has landed. Just waiting on word that the enhancers are in place"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Dozen seconds later, you get a feed from the wreck....
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Need a beam array for that, too. Cannons are no good for that kind of work.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Tell 'im not to waste any time, find that core and signal for beamout.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups is doing a crazy dance as it floats through the hallway of the shaking vessel, sparks fly as the hull bends and twists slightly under the gas giant's pressure.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "We got Breen polaron beams if you wanna try that."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> What? Oh, right. Hells, I dunno!
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups approaches the closed doors, and goes to hack the access panel!
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "How's Chirrups doing?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: ** everyone's got the feed on their main screen
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "We're working with the main datafeed to help the little guy from our end"
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 48 (1-100)
B'Atar@anncarise doesn't risk blowing Chirrups up.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups powers up the control/gate mechanism and after couple long seconds, doors slide open!
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups enters a large room filled with rows of databanks. Couple of ventraxian bodies fly around and hit the walls as the ship shifts.
Mysti@crystyll shakes her head a little as she looks at the scene
Egzo@HF_Mudd grips the arms of his command throne tightly, listening to Shlaak's constant reports on the hulk's decaying orbit, and the occasional alarming creak from Hag'lhr's own hull.
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> As Chirrups approaches the main computer console to set up the transporter beams, something jumps from the left and knocks the exocomp over!
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "What was that?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Camera catches a form of two-feet long spider-like creature.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "That's no Breen...more of those bug things?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> The creature is dark-brown, it has nasty hooks at the end of its six legs which allows it to stick to the surfaces, and obviously sees Chirrups as an intruder.
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: "We got to get Chirrups out of there!"
B'Atar@anncarise checks if the San'leth transporters can lock on to Chirrups, or the weird bug.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Aw DAMNIT, it's one of their spider pets.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Ventraxian pets?"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Yah.
Mysti@crystyll FX | The camera view jolts as Chirrups tracks the movements and arms it's defenses
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "How's it still alive in- Oh you know what no one's gonna miss it."
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Creature opens its maw, showing a set of sharp teeth dripping venom.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Go for the legs! Thin and easy to sever, disable it first, then go in for the kill."
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 54 (1-100)
Mysti@crystyll FX | Chirrups beeps an affirmative over the comms and acts on B'Atar's tip
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 91 (1-100)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Spider creature jumps again, but Chirrups aims its plasma cutter and severs its left three legs before it manages to complete the jump, and it falls to the side, spasming.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "That did it!"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups comes closer and zaps it couple of times with its shocker for the good measure until it stops moving...and then one more time just to make sure.
Mysti@crystyll smiles proudly, "Attagirl!"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Camera shakes again as wreck creaks loudly, a side of the wall start bending and breaking...you'll have to be fast!
Mysti@crystyll FX | Chirrups returns to it's mission, zooming around as it establishes the pattern enhancers"
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 86 (1-100)
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 10 (1-100)
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 45 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> c'mon, c'mon...
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "That ship won't have much time left..."
Egzo@HF_Mudd might be able to do more at that end, but here, he's reduced to helpless pacing (if the last jolt hadn't convinced him not to try).
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> With help from Thana, Chirrups easily locates the main core below the console. B'atar uses plasma cutter to cut the hole in the console's side, and with Egzo's guidance Chirrups positions the-
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: - transporter tags!
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Alright, let's get your pet and that core out of there..."
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Chirrups confirms all is ready for beamout.
Mysti@crystyll nods and gives the order
[Emotes] Mysti@crystyll: rolls 73 (1-100)
[Emotes] B'Atar@anncarise: rolls 18 (1-100)
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 12 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (god, these rolls)
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: (It's not sci, so Mysti does best of course!)
[Local] Mysti@crystyll: (hehe)
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> San'leth and Hag'lhr try to additionally boost the signal, but no luck. Thana's crew is good enough, and manages to beam out the exocomp and the computer core intact.
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "We got it?"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> Dozen seconds later, ventraxian wreck literally falls apart as strong wind currents tear it to pieces.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> If we didn't, we ain't gonna.
Mysti@crystyll waits for the confirmation from transport hub before smiling and giving a solid nod, "Chirrups did it!"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: <FX> All three vessels move back to safer position...
[Local] B'Atar@anncarise: <C> "Nice! That drone of yours is always saving the day..."
Egzo@HF_Mudd sighs in relief as Hag'lhr leaves the gas giant's atmosphere behind for space, his true home.
Mysti@crystyll grins, "She's our very own lucky little mascot!"
[Local] Nyta Trask@gulremal: Shlaak: Nothing on sensors. It seems our escapade here didn't alert anyone...yet.
B'Atar@anncarise grins back at Mysti before looking around, "Let's go check out that planetoid. And hopefully not have to do any more heavy lifting."
Mysti@crystyll nods, "Meanwhile, my girls are already getting to work on that core; but it will take a while"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: <C> Sounds good t' me.
Egzo@HF_Mudd waves to his crew to make it so, and re-engage cloak while they're at it.
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