In the early morning while everyone is in their bunks getting some sleep before Cerise mandatory team training exercise.  Lt. Cerise is called to CIC, She arrives to see the many monitors and techs stations surrounding a holo table in the center of the room. A 3-D image of a Zentraedi Cruiser (Scout Ship) spins slowly over it. The Gambits entire command staff is standing around the table. But it is commander Rockatansky, which acknowledges her.

  You notice all eyes are on you. "Any questions?”



Before Cerise is dismissed, Captain Grimm speaks; .  with that you are dismissed.


  Ten minutes later the Crew of the Gambit hear the follow "Attention, Attention. Vulture team to report to Briefing room A immediately. Attention, Attention. Vulture team to report to Briefing room A immediately."


  When you enter the Briefing Room A, Lt Cerise is standing behind the podium.
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  Hearing the call to immediately report to the briefing room, Sillia hits the ventilation button so she could open the glass casing door. Quickly she puts on her breather, jumping into the room and grabbing her fatigues. "Hey kid, lets get the lead out. We got a mission." she says enthusiastically. As soon as she is dressed and ready she steps into the hall so the other members of the team can get ready. She walks with them to the hall. whistling the Minmei song lonely soldier boy.

Kaarle woke with a startle, the announcement coming earlier then expected.   Seemed training was on hold now as he scrambled to get changed.  He noticed that Michelle hadn't immediately woken up and shook her bunk violently to get her attention.   "Come on sleeping beauty move that ass"...he said berating her.

As he finished getting ready he watched his Co-pilot for signs that she may have over did it...
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Once everyone has assembled, Cerise addresses the unit.
"Ok, soldiers. It's Christmas morning! And the commander has arranged for us to be the ones ot unwrap the gift. Hopefully it isn't a unit of fossilized carbon, but, if it is, we'll turn it into crystallized compressed carbon matrix.

There's a Zent scout ship that appears to be adrift in the next system over. We're going in mecha, with a beta troop ship to carry those of us not in veritechs. The Mask will be bubbling us all over there and provide overwatch from its designated position.

Our orders are to investigate the ship and planets; if it is abandoned, we are to take control of it and return it to the fleet. If there are Zent in the system, though, we need to attempt to make peaceful contact if at all possible. Remember, the Zentraedi are our allies now; if these ones are out of contact with their fleet, then they may not know it, but we should try to bring them in the fold.

We will have exactly 12 hours in system to make this happen, before our only chance to evac will be leaving.

Remember; rules of engagement are to only fire with authorization, unless it jeopardizes the Mask. We have to try to make this peaceful.

Before I finish; everyone congratulate Kchek on his promotion becoming official!

Any questions?"

At the sound of the call, Miriana immediately... turned around on her other side, tapped the snooze button on her alarm clock and promptly dozed off again. She was a good mechanic, and attentive when awake, but also a heavy sleeper that required some effort to lift herself out of bed after waking. It was the reason she had set her alarm at 0500, and while the clock was innocent of this particular disturbance, she had not been awake enough to notice the difference.

Iphigenia didn't get much sleep, she was looking over her team's medical files, and made sure that her medical "go" bag was stocked with everything that she could possibly need for any possible scenario.

The announcement startled, she tried to sit straight up only to hit the bunk above her and falls back down "Damn it!" the P.A. system speaker was close to her bunk, and as she finally was able to realise what was going on she said to herself "Why did I choose this bunk again? oh yeah, makes it easier for me to get up and go in a hurry."

Despite being startled awake and now with a headache, she got ready and headed to briefing room A.

Iphigenia wasn't the first one in the room she noticed that Sillia and Kchek were first "Morning Sillia, How did you sleep?"  trying to be friendly and break the tension with a little banter. waiting for the rest of the team to arrive.
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Skyrah would awaken early, dutifully, as she always had. Upon noticing that Miriana had not awoken yet she would reach over and shake her awake. "It's time to report. They are calling us for briefing now." Skyrah said in her emotionless tone.

     Hearing the PA system was bad enough, but hearing Kaarle as he shook her bunk just made it worse. She has never felt this horrible and the urge to heave was so intense that she had to catch herself several times before she could even answer. “I heard, sir. Give a minute.” She rolls over and forces her blood shot eyes to open despite the pain she felt.

  Her privacy curtain was wide open and she saw her commander looking at her. “Sorry sir,” she said as she allowed herself to roll out of her bunk and land a bit shaky. She straightens up quickly revealing herself to him without a second thought. Her smooth hairless youthful pale skin showed it has not seen daylight in years if ever. Kaarle notices her body jewelry as she turns and grabs her uniform and is dressed within a minute; pulling he hair back into a ponytails, fresh eyeliner and lipstick within two before spinning and stepping into her boots. She wobbles a little bit as she looks up at Kaarle and says “Sorry for the Delay, sir.” She falls in behind Kaarle as they walk to the briefing room, trying to not to be obvious that she is hung over still fighting the urge to lose it as they walked.

  Matt Is quick to get dressed and is off with the group to the briefing room.

Before they leave he makes it a point get Michelle a large glass of water.  "Trust me this will help, your dehydrated..." he said to her, and without missing a beat "and for fucks sake don't throw up during the meeting, get it out of your system NOW not during and certainly not afterwards" as he stopped long enough to let her do whatever she needed to and they continued on their way to the meeting.

He hated having to be so responsible, especially after seeing what he had, clearly modesty wasn't something she had ever learned and he hated himself for enjoying the view.  Pushing the thought aside they made it to the meeting in record time, saluting and taking a seat where available.
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Thirteen awoke quickly. It was as if the alarm triggered programming within him and he began to react quickly and almost automatically getting ready. Once in uniform he quickly moved towards the meeting room. He listened to Cerise with a look of total confusion. At he end he raised his hand.

"M'am, I am not certain what Christmas or carbon have to do with the rest of the mission parameters. Could you please clarify?"
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In reply to Skyrah Valentine (msg # 7):

- "...Mmhhm..."

Miriana slowly woke up in response to the shaking, took a deep breath and climbed out of bed as the words 'report' and 'briefing' sunk in. She glanced at the clock, telling her it was half past four, though with them being in space the Masters only knew what the actual time was. She stumbled to the sink to splash some cold water on her face before getting dressed.

- "Nnya know wha's that about?"

  She was clearly embarrassed for having disappointed her superior and quickly drinks the offered water. With a meek voice she replies with a "yes sir!" keeping her head down till they get to the briefing room. Where she follows suits saluting and taking her place. She stays behind Kaarle and keeps silent. occasionally eyeing the Teams medic.

"Yes - That was my first question as well", Severian said, dressed in his black formal robes.

"You say the ship is derelict - perhaps the ship was abandoned or suffered some calamity? The crew may have taken refuge on one of the planets in the system to await rescue...Has anyone detected any transmissions within the system or from the derelict vessel?"

"Ah, sorry. I was using a metaphor; in Earth culture during the holiday of Christmas, if one has been a good child, they are given gifts, but if they have misbehaved, they will be given fossilized carbon. Further relevant to my metaphor is that there's a myth that, under great pressure, fossilized carbon will turn into, uh... I think the common term is diamonds.

And, no, no one has detected transmissions; though we will be the first actually in system and I believe the inverse square law implies that such transmissions would be quite less likely to be detected by long range scans than by us while in system."

  In a professional voice; "How are we to make entry into this vessel Ma'am?"

"That depends on the circumstances, of course. If possible it would be ideal if someone inside would invite us. Otherwise, if possible we should insert using an exterior hatch, so as to minimize damage. If that option is not available to us, for whatever reason, then we'll need to cut into the hull. I'm not aware of the specifics of such a procedure, so, if Lt. Thakun would like to comment, I would invite her to do so."

Thirteen looked curiously at Cerise. What little memory of past brefings he has were of blunt and serious moments. Metaphors just seemed odd.

"I see. Thank you, ma'am."
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 Sitting towards the front, She smiles and greets everyone who came in after her. She is excited to be getting back into action as soon as possible.

  "How long do we have to prepare Ma'am? What are these gifts that you are referring to?"
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"My guess, emergency mission." Miriana's appearance obviously did not concern Skyrah at all, as she knew about Zentradi, Invid, and the MAsters. It was her job. "Now please get up. We will be late."

She will wait for MAriana, then when both are ready will head to the briefing room.

During the briefing, Skyrah will draw in a little drawing pad as she sat there.

Miriana looked a little disheveled at the briefing, but was present on time. She did her best to listen, but was quiet and sat in the back, trying hard to remain focused. She did raise her hand though.

- "Zentraedi ship... That's full-sized, right? How you gonna talk to them?"

She raised her hand above her head to indicate the size difference, which she figured to be the main problem in establishing communication. It was hard to notice what was easily overlooked, and Micronians were easily overlooked at those heights.

"The gift I was referring to is the Zentraedi ship; a resource that could prove to be quite a boon to the fleet.

As for communication, I figured we would probably primarily be attempting communications electronically. Once we have established a rapport then we can work on face to face communications; it may be that we simply have to be in mecha to facilitate that."
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In reply to Cerise (msg # 22):

Kaarle continued to listen to the back and forth during the meeting, he tried to focus on the mission but was more concerned over Michelle's well being at the moment.  Sure a Zentraedi ship was always great if we could capture it however that was a big assumption.  He wasn't here to plan or negotiate, he was here to fight and follow orders.  He hoped this wouldn't turn into another blood bath so soon after the last...

Michelle kept her blood shot eyes forward till she notice kaarle glance back, then her eyes hit the floor in shame.

  She prayed for the briefing to end so she could talk to the medic and hide inside her alpha.

Thirteen listened as a suspicion began to develop in his mind. He took a quick glance around the room and wondered if someone would pull him aside after the meeting was done.

Another thought crossed the Energy Mage's mind.

"What do you know about the system the Zentraedi vessel is adrift in? Either from old Tyrollian or Zentraedi data? Inhabited, deserted, unexplored?
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"It is my understanding that we do not have any old data on this system. We can verify that int he mission dossier, however."

In reply to Cerise (msg # 27):

Her knowledge of tactics kicked in. "Zentradi are a warrior race, so using mecha to communicate could be good or bad. They might take more respect if we showed our faces. I suggest stepping out of the cockpit and using the PA in a manner that they can see us physically." She said in though, then her knowledge of tactics went further as data on the system was brought up. "If there is no data available we'll likely have to scan the planet upon arrival into the system, and then send a recon to look at any structures or sources of communications." She said as she continued to sketch in her tablet, which also demonstrated that she was paying perfect attention at the same time.

As the meeting came to an end, and all of the questions that were asked and answered, Iphigenia stood up.

She didn't have any questions she was simply curious as to why Michelle kept glancing at her and really just wanted out of the room.

She went to Thirteen and stopped him before he left "I'm curious, did you like the chocolates that I left for you on your bed?" she wanted to make sure he got them.

She was still carrying the bag of candies that she had bought for Michelle and after talking to thirteen she was going to try and talk to Michelle and give her the bag of candies, then she would go finish getting prepared for the now mission.

Thirteen had been deep in thought when he noticed someone coming towards him.

"Oh chocolates... yes, they were good. Thank you."

- "Is its type known? The Zentraedi had several types of scouting vessels, depending on the mission parameters. Then there is the difference between a Zentraedi and a Meltrandi vessel... More information would be... pleasant."

Miriana had mostly woken up by now, though there were still some odd pauses here and there. Talking about emotions was still something she was trying to master.

"I believe the best the long range scan could provide was the approximate tonnage of the vessel, along with the basic layout of the system; classes of planets, orbits, that sort of stuff.
I will be uploading all of the scan data to each of your computers, and all data will be in the mechas' combat computers."

  GM NOte: I am NPCing Cerise for this post as I have the info she lacks.


   Cerise notes the time; Speaking; "You have forty minutes to have your combat gear and weapons before you report to the shuttle hanger bay. So unless there are any other questions you are dismissed." The way she emphasized the last statement told everyone there would be no more questions. She then touches a button and ten seconds later everyone's tablets receives the following.

  There are  11 planets, 3 gas giants, six dwarf, 2 roughly the size of earth. non are in the sweet zone for life to have evolved. The ship is drifting near the second gas giant, there is a debris/ice ring around it. No there is no data on the system.



  GM Note: This is common knowledge to all players and Members of the fleet.
 This is the furthest out the UEEF/sentinels have ever been. This includes all the Zentraedi in the Fleet, All that High Command has been able to find on this particlal section of space was it once belonged to their empire. So they have sent this fleet to Explore/investigate and set up a colony world that will allow them to set a forward base to work from. This is part of your over all mission, your going to try and gather information on the regions.

  As soon as they are dismissed Michelle jumps up and speeds after Corpsman Ramsbottom avoiding Kaarles eyes as she jumps past him, not wishing to displease her commanding officer any further. She is visibly shaking; "Corpsman Ramsbottom, Corpsman Ramsbottom". she whispers once she has her attention; "I need your help please, I know there is a shot that the pilots have taken to cure them of the effects of alcohol effect. Please, I need one of these so Lieutenant Cherkovshi grounds me." Her eyes are pleading for you to help her as she violently shakes standing in front of the Medic.

"40 minutes...Just enough time to request a couple of items and ready my skimmer", Severian says out loud as he exits the conference room, tablet under his arm.

In reply to Severian (msg # 35):

Skyrah said nothing else, she would stand and walk out of the room, heading to the hangar bay to ready her Delta for combat, and to stow her Cyclone in the Delta's Cyclone bay.

Iphigenia replies to thirteen, saying, “Well I ‘m glad you liked the chocolates, next time we go on leave, I’ll get you some more for you, or I can at least show you where to get them.” Out of the corner of her eye she noticed that Michelle had gotten up in a hurry, practically knocked over everybody in her way to get to Iphigenia saying "Corpsman Ramsbottom, Corpsman Ramsbottom" and then she was standing next to her.
She looks at thirteen and says “Excuse me Thirteen, LT. Grey sounds as though she needs my help.”
Iphigenia leans in a little closer to hear what Michelle was telling her, noticing that the closer she got the more she visibly uncomfortable she was.  She finally heard what she was saying.   "I need your help please, I know there is a shot that the pilots have taken to cure them from the effects of alcohol. Please, I need one of these so Lieutenant Cherkovshi grounds me."
Iphigenia thinks for a moment, and says  “Yes, there is a shot, it’s called the “magnetic nanoparticles shot” it is used for the removal of various noxious compounds including toxins, pathogens, and proteins from whole blood in an extracorporeal circuit similar to the old way of removing impurities by dialysis.  But we will have to go to sick bay for administer it."

Thirteen nods to Iphigenia and nods. He sees Michelle come towards them and a sad expression comes to his face in seeing hee in rough shape. Still, he could tell thay privacy was wanted.

Thirteen turns and walks away in order to ready his armor and cyclone. As he did he thought about what he could remember about Zentradi. He was disturbed that he could remember so many ways to kill.

   Standing and saluting the commanding officer (Cerise) when dismissed, She walks deliberately with a smile as she went and acquired her gear from the weapon’s master and headed to the Shuttle hanger as ordered. She greets the group with a friendly smile as she sways into the room. Sniper rifle in hand. She looks at the team and secretly wonders who will be coming home on this mission.

Cerise returns to her room, double checks her gear, then hurries off to the hangar. She double checks her Silverback and prepares it for the deployment.

As everyone finishes their preparations, she says "Great job team! Wraith, don't forget; if we meet hostile force, we need to maintain discipline, since we're trying to be diplomatic. Everyone test comms and we'll launch on command from the bridge."



And, once the comm check is done:

   You each have grabbed your gear and your way to the Shuttle Hanger bay. The three Alphas and the troop transport Beta are being tended to by their crew being over seen By Kariza. Each of your mecha is on the hanger. The Peryton skimmer appears to be attached under the Right beta wing where missile pods would normally be.  The silver back has a cable attached to it so that the Alpha beta can bring it along. There is a Striker Battloid on the deck being tended to as well. Thirteen, Skyrah, Miriana and Michelle look to see which of the NERV pilots would be stepping out of the shadows. Miriana, Thirteen, Sillia and Iphigenia see their mecha next to the beta. The two cyclones are folded up and the  two hunter Killer suits stand right next to them.

   As you each dawn your CVR armor, a large green Zentraedi accompanied by Lt. Fell, the commanders personal assistant approaches your group, she is holding her ever present tablet in her hand as she walks straight towards your assembled group. She gives a hand signal to several deck crewmen. Who push two carts over. The two techs start handing each of you helmets. For everyone not in command they hand you the new Cyclops Recon Helmets. Cerise, Kaarle and Miriana are given new Command Helmets “The Boss”, which look identical to the standard CVR-3 Helmets. You are all instructed to place them on and a second later they are coded to your individual eye retina’s. ( http://wiki.rpol.net/?edit=47792/cvr3 ) Lt. Fell informs you of the overall abilities of the two new upgrades.

    Lt. Fell tells Cerise she needs to ride in the beta so that she can monitor the radio communications and the sensors. Lt. Grey will handle the piloting and combat. Lieutenants Cherkovski and Valentine will fly cover for the Landing party. Sgt Eshta will be piloting the Striker Battloid to give the marines a heavy hitter mecha, he is the ranking NCO of the group. She tells you good luck and informs to be in the air in ten minutes. Banshee Squad mounts up and belt in to their seats in the Transport Beta.






  Then minutes later the two Delta’s are leading the way out of the hanger followed by the Striker, Lt. Grey takes off slowly as she pulls the silverback out behind her and then pulls it closer to the Aircraft keeping it from becoming a hazard. It takes several minutes and several rotations spins to right it. The craft make their way to the UES Mask and take their position as Mask Actual told them. The Alphas activate their shadow cloaking devices as the UES Mask remind them to keep radio silence before folding.

     Two hours later the UES Mask defolds near the Ice chunks and rock ring in orbit of the Gas giant. The signal lights give the team the greenlight and your off.  A twelve hour countdown clock appears in the left top of each of your helmets, and is down twenty minutes as you approach the rear of the Zentraedi Scout ship. A quick recon flyby by Lt. Valentine reveals that there is a lot external damage with no signs of life. But there does appear to be an opening under the engines where a shuttle door was left open. She believes it is the best option for entry.  As she continues to slowly circle the vessel.

  GM Note: Ok everyone, one or two quick post to get you to this point as it is time for your mission. Thank you.

  Looking back at Kaarle, she quickly follow Iphigenia to sickbay and despite her fear she focuses on breathing and getting out of there as fast as she can. No sooner then Iphigenia saying done, she runs as fast as possible back to her quarters where she finishes her make up and changes into her flight suit before she goes and collects her Armor and weapons.

  She is running trying to make sure she does not disappoint her commander again. When she arrives she smiles with ten minutes to spare. She greets Sillia and the others and though she smiles and tries to hide her blood shot eyes and the fact she is still not one hundred percent. She moves next to Kaarle and says softly; "Sir, I went to sickbay and won't let you down, Sir." her eyes are almost begging with this next bit; "Please don't ground me, Sir."

   She recognizes the Zentraedi, Korvan as one of the Commanders friends. Then when she receives the new recon helmet, she frowns and say she does not like it. But does not refuse to put it on when ordered to do so.

  When Cerise gives the order to do radio check she complies quickly.




  Before take off she tells Cerise that she has set the Beta's autopilot with two set of coordinates, one to the Zentraedi Scout and one to return to the Mask given planned Coordinates for extraction in case something happens. She then tries to lighten the mood by talking to those in the Beta; "Ok ladies and gentlemen we are about ready for take off, please put your tray and seats up and in their up right positions and thank you for flying deaths airway."


  while they are in the fold process she looks around to make sure no one can peer into her cockpit.

  when they defold she follows the two Delta's and makes sure the Striker battloid is not left behind as they make their the approach to the Zentraedi vessel.

Kaarle listened throughout the meeting, he went through the motions of acknowledgement and saluting and did everything he had been trained to do...his heart just wasn't in it though.  There was something far darker and more sinister afoot with these kids and here they were flying off chasing after ghosts of Zentraedi past.  He shook the thought out of his head just as Michelle accosts him on her way to sick bay to get med for her hangover.



"How many times do i have to tell you to stop calling me sir?" he says jokingly to try and get her to calm down.  "You needn't worry about being grounded...your an adult now, piss me off and it's PT" he says with a smile before making his way to the hanger and on with the mission.

He knew what she meant by not being grounded but couldn't help picking on the kid just a little, she just lucky he didn't go full bore while she was nursing the hangover.  Kid or adult it didn't matter, she was a weapon after all, beautiful and deadly...

That realization bothered him more then any other aspect of their missions to date.

Cerise examines the helmets and listens to the full description. "This represents a major increase in our inter-communication capabilities. It is ironic that the command helmets are designed to blend into the squad, but, by being that way, they will stick out in our squad. No matter, though; the additional data will be useful."

   One of the technicians on the deck who happens to over hear Cerise commit about standing out replies; "Actually ma'am, if you were in a standard squad it be your coms. Person who would stand out." With that he gets back to finalization procedures to get your mechas loaded up.

  Michelle’s Demeanor instantly  changes with Kaarles smile and more importantly the reassurance he would not take away her flight status away. Her smile is almost seductive as she reminds her of their conversation about calling him sir. Her voice is soft and playfully sweet and the hint of her famine charm can just be heard as she replies; “Actually Sir, You said to stop calling you Sir, until it was made official.  She leans forward on her tippy toes just a little over and inch as her smile grows ear to ear as she looks up at him and says; "And well Sir, its official. Your squad leader, Wraith One. Sir!”

   Her smile turns to a playful frown as she replies to his suggested PT punishment; “But Kchek, I’m a fragile flower. You’re not supposed to make me do Extra PT, sir.” Her pouting bottom lip quivers as she bats her sapphire blue eyes at you.  Then with a more serious looks She says; “Thank you Kchek, I will not let you down.” With that she lets you get to your stuff and she walks over to get ready herself. But as she walks away you notice her flight suit has added boning to it about her entire suit.


  If no other conversation is made she continues on in her first post.
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Thirteen readies himself and carefully puts on his armor. He takes his Cyclone and moves it to the appropriate storage section of the ahip that would be taking them to the target. He runs a diagnosis through the Bike's systems to make certain everything is alright. He stays quiet and in his own corner of the ship.

  before Lt. Fell reaches the door she turns back around; "This is Master Sergeant Korvan Estha. he has been assigned to Banshee squad as your NCO."


  GM Note;  Sorry I forgot to make this clear when posting. Korvan is part of Banshee squad.

Once everyone began prepping, Miriana waited for a moment while the others worked, so she could take care of a problem directly if something didn't align well on the systems check. It was more efficient than climbing in her Hunter-Killer only to have to leave it again to look at a technical problem or another.

Iphigenia, after giving Michelle the shot that she needed went to her bunk and grabbed her go bags and proceeded to the beta.

She checked on her cyclone and noticed that the side-car was not there as well, and she thought to herself "Should I request that it be brought just in case?"

Iphigenia found her seat, sat down and buckled in. She was waiting for the rest of the crew so that they could leave and get this mission started. She shouted "Let's get this show on the road!"

  Once the meeting was over Sillia climbed into her power armor and boarded the Beta. After she secures herself, she removes the power armor's helmet so she can interact with those in the beta.

  She looks at the others and with a bit of sarcasm; "Well is it not roomy in here? So what shall we do to entertain ourselves for the flight?" she looks over at thirteen trying to hide in the corner. "Hey kid, I got a reply from my kid sister. She says she like to chat with you. She said she love to have a hunting partner." She gives him a wink with the friendly smile she seemed to always wear.


  Once the word is given that they have arrived to the Zentraedi vessel her smile leaves her face as she places her helm back on.

Thirteen check on his blade mounts on the bike to make sure they were properly balanced when he heard something calling to him. He turned towards Sillia and blinked.

"Oh, uhm... alright..."

He replied utterly lost about how to take that in. He couldn't remember the last time he spoke to a civilian and he suspected the same would apply even before his memory issues.

Standing at attention he moves to a parade rest. "Master Sargeant Korvan Eshta reporting as ordered Ma'am."(with a hint of annoyance). He moves back to attention. His dress uniform is in perfect condition. His eyes straight ahead not moving a single muscle.

*Now that I'm here I am going to have to send an email to COMMANDER Rockatansky and thank him for my abrupt transfer back here.  It's gotta be him who else would it be?  I hope my ZEB got here ok.  I'm going to have to check with the Support and find out.  What's that saying Micronians have again?  Oh, "Attached to the Hip" comes to mind.*

(OOC: I am not a 100% sure who I'm actually speaking or introduced to.)


(GM Note: you are reporting to Miriana, Banshee Squad leader)
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Miriana gave a quick nod in return to acknowledge Korvan's salute.

- "Excellent, welcome to Banshee Squadron, Sergeant. Do you have a mecha assigned?"

She hadn't heard of someone new transferring in, and figured it had to have been a rather sudden transfer given that the last time she had checked her emails she had heard nothing of it, and she had even seen the Commander yesterday. But no matter, Micronians were disorganized enough by nature for her to have learned to adequately compensate for it by now.

In reply to Gargoyle (msg # 41):

Skyrah will carefully examine the new helmet before putting it on. "Interesting, but I get all this on my Cyclone anyway, and most of it on Albatros. Only better." She would obviously accept the helmet, considering there is always a chance she'd be without either of her Mecha.



"Your recon person would stand out as well with the Cyclopes they just gave as since they have the capability to send data packets to all squad members." Skyrah said calmly. "Seems me and you will stand out Cerise." It did not seem to bother Skyrah at all.

After all is said and done she will put her satchel back over her shoulder, the wooden case attached to it, and head to Albatros. Once within she will conduct her checks.

  Both Miriana's and Cerise's military tablet signal in coming message;

  Message reads as follows: ]


   Korvan - your Mecha team goes through the final prep they show you the new features of the new mecha (this is a second generation Striker)

  Skyrah - your team gives you the green light and begin to move your veritech to lauch position. your radio checks are green lighted and once the team is finished loading up your green lighted to launch and to take position for folding operation.

 Kaarle - your Mecha team green light you and move you into launch position, and given the green light to lead your team out.

 (Please make your next post after msg #41, where your just finished your recon)
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In reply to Miriana Thakun (msg # 54):

Relaxing his military posture, "Yes Ma'am, my Striker Battloid should be on board and ready to go.  I just have to change into my armor give me 4 minutes do we have access to small arms for this mission?  I am a bit of a disadvantage I got on board from the Marcus Antonius expecting a transfer another fleet but instead I end up back here."

*This child is my squad leader?  The Micronians must be getting get desperate.  She has the features of a Zentraedi but there are no children at least that I know of, after all these years Micronians still amaze me.*
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Miriana gave Korvan a quick nod, checking the message she had just received before replying.

- "I would assume so. But if there are no additional small arms available you will join the perimeter defense squad while we board the vessel. There will be no notable loss of efficiency. You may proceed."

Given that she had heard of no problems having been reported, she took that to mean that all preliminary checks were green and proceeded to climb into her own Hunter-Killer, taking deep and even breaths to focus on the mission to come.

Cerise, satisfied that the scout ship is dormant, decides they should move in;
[Language unknown: "O howiplli, Fi strecteau nemope toany ngis whindeart nahi wi me ekbe wenato relano. Iteiitte, weri ceei loof hat ie a oerwi foecad. Wilineous somonsent ie n u il ev, artla iearee ec ai. Menndeman, rient noit'eebe ditasa os hi onestranynde, ne dayna an fo leofou. Wemamibe, nd ne u reatraave wastraentven i t menbutereill entthibut'larive a to p elon k ut k hahe ngilll poilsten.

Atioutvor, thavenlat fo m ainateomeons e ing tinta nd foroneic hait waalle i atiarered'esstha p ruthaseve, iltr ck podi po ven of tond hatartove olevev somearone."]
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In reply to Cerise (msg # 59):

Kaarle opens his comms in response to command.


Having received his orders positions his Veritech near where the others are to board the ship.  He's far more anxious about this mission considering all things, and the sense the ship itself was dormant and empty made the feelings even worse.

Once satisfied he opens comes once more two his co-pilots.

In response, Miriana responded by radio.

[Language unknown: "Lesconher, Terforlesous, Hestsa, u was wilsa tiningout il prola les iou ilmote atehi us il wearnd ngos ur vor ca heen na thoastatioun ersul. Nosepa, Prill, Enmowe, u ou. Olfori sineev io."]

Her choice seemed obvious enough. Sillia, as both scout and sniper, had what she assumed were the best sensor package in the squadron, and Korvan was an expert on Zentraedi vessels so he would be able to add information to whatever sensor feed Sillia would send him. And Thirteen, her XO, to manage and coordinate between them, as she figured he'd be better inside of his suit than out of it.

In a sign of trust, she powered down her weapons before beginning her approach. She still had her fingers ready to power them back up again in case she would be fired upon, but if the scout ship had operational scanners they would pick up on the fact that they were not being regarded as an enemy. Hopefully.

OOC: A number of you don't have Callsigns listed so i had to improvise. If you have callsigns, please assume i've used those :/

  I am confused by these orders to the Group. Your all Inside a beta transport, except. You are in a suit of HK hunter killer. Korvan and the three Alpha are the only large mecha of this team.
  Rear guard as far as I know stay at the back of the team. Are you taking your medic and tech specialist onto a point (front position)

OOC: Eh, sorry. Got confused by the people suiting up and Cerise's squadron orders and figured we were all in our mechs.

And yeah, my intention was to head on board of the disabled ship and see if there was anything in need of repairs to get the scout ship operational again. And Iphigenia, because she's listed as 'Search and Rescue' so if we run into any survivors she can take care of them. Or at least know what to do more than a couple of gearheads like Patterson and me. Wraith was going to cover us, so i figured it'd be fine.

Skyrah moved Albatros into position as ordered, then held there as she monitored the sensors.

Korvan does a cursory system check even after talking to the flight crew.
Sensory Equipment 60%/50% - Pass

Korvan communicates via radio "This is Whisper, all systems check out in full.  Launching..."
Radio Basic: 70%/67% - Pass.

Korvan enters space last following orders and being rear guard with the rest of Banshee Squadron.

"Team I recommend complete passive sensors only, no radio contact until we land on that ship.  Chances are this is a trap set up by surviving Zentraedi and/or a lure for the Invid.  There is a good chance a beacon may have already been sent when our fleet arrive in system.  There is too much space debris and and junk floating around in space to assume its clear. It makes me a bit nervous. If we have Shadow Fighters available I recommend another sweep of the ship especially around enemy anti aircraft locations any other ice debris or chunks of metal that may mask against and please fly to the other side of the ship as well.  The ship has not detected any active sensors being used against us but people have eyes.  I also recommend and this is up to the CO is to allow me to enter that hanger and sweep the area with one other designated person of your choice.  Other notes of interest.  That ship has holes and debris so contact with our ship will be limited to non existent.  Remember we may be facing a full on set and then more of surviving Zentreadi so expect to see a a plethora of foot soldiers, Battle Pods, OBP, and male power armor. So keep your guard up and eyes and ears open and do not just trust your scopes."

Secure Communicae to Lt. Thakun
"Ma'am I also recommend portable radio transpeaters for situations like this.  I also recommend if anyone on our team has extensive knowledge of computer systems to download anything they can find especially navigation and missions this vessel has participated in there should a log somewhere in the data banks and a back up location typically located at the center of the scout ship."

OOC: Note to GM, I still do not know Engrish....
This message was last edited by the player at 04:22, Wed 12 Oct 2016.

   Following orders Michelle types the new coordinates into the beta's autopilot. She then releases the Silverback so it can land before releasing the link. [Language unknown: "Ersearsom, th encas uticei ch te sette n ac erla ur notlestra pl at heai ons, M alshe has herreaine pa laeisa adthsspoma."] she then focuses [Language unknown: "Mo nc"] referring to Cerise. [Language unknown: "U pltrck ie o ecbe inusst, ing and ioer olri evtr stiwiteen wilectiou loss uselmi."]


  Jinking right so the beta can make its approach before taking her position opposite of Reader

  She could feel the tingles of anticipation course through her as they finally neared their destination. She listened to to Lt. Thakun, and for the first time ever since she met this group her facial features scowled, as she heard herself being referred to as Tiger. "Is it a Zentraedi thing or youth?" she said looking at Miriana.
  She places her helm back on, turning to Thirteen. "Hey kid, don't worry, you have a giant cat watching your back".

  NPCed

  I am confused Ma'am, Am staying with the Beta or am i going with you, he asked for clarification.



   GM Note: he is staying with the Beta. Matt is away and I told him I would keep in along so when he got back he could be worked into the game.

Kaarle watches carefully as Michelle drops her payload only to have the surprise of the radio chirping in his ear shortly after giving his orders.


As the Michelle finishes her task and takes position a sense of relief fills him for a moment.  The first phase of this little mission had gone off without a hitch, here was hoping the rest was a cake walk.

He responded one more time before clearing comms.
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Cerise prepares herself for the landing, watching carefully where the Silverback is laid down, since she'll want to get to it ASAP after touchdown.

[Language unknown: "Staras'miek."]

Thirteen simply replied and finished putting on his armor.

"I am not worried about my back, I am worried about theirs." He replied to Sillia. "I do not think diplomacy alone will not be solving this."
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- "Very well Sparks, you may stay here then."

She gave Patterson a nod before turning to Sillia.

- "The act of using callsigns is i believe a Micronian custom. I was led to believe Tiger was yours, was this not so?"

Unlike Zentraedi, the humans' ranks could not be determined by simply looking at them as they tended to fly the same fighters to avoid their command structure being targeted. Their uniforms clearly showed their ranks, but by the time one could get close enough to see it they were already far closer than they needed to be to fire. Regardless, she had to admit the idea did hold some merit.

Korvan responds,
"Roger Batgirl, moving in to intercept Silverback and put her in for a field goal.  Just like Hockey!"

Korvan lands into the open launch bay.  Holds the Silverback down with a hand. Awaiting for the rest of the team to get situated.


OOC: I am assuming this bay has no artificial gravity since its open to space.

Skyrah sighed softly. ...actually our orders were to cover Banshee, then follow them in. She thought to herself as she continued to monitor sensors, as she makes a note in her log as to what happened.
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  Korvan Manages to grab the silverback maneuvering it so it was almost like a shield in case he drew fire from an unseen enemy. He finds nothing with his scans just before the Beta enters the Empty hanger. There is no gravity and he is holding the Mecha in place so that the CO can get into her mecha quickly.

  The beta goes into standby as the pilot compartment opens and allows Cerise to exit, the troops in the Transport signals everyone to put on their helmets and secure them for hostile environment.

  Once everyone is secured they disembark the transport. They use their light to find Human sized cat walks at head level or higher of a typical Zentraedi. However the is little else in this area, its completely empty, whether someone took the stuff or maybe it just floated off into space over the years. Touching anything in this area shows about an inch of dust on the surfaces.

  There is a wall with what looks like various controls on the other side of the entry with openings to either side. the only light in this area is what you brought with you and the stars that shine in through the open hanger door.


  Both Skyrah and Michelle see nothing on their sensors as they watch either side. Kaarle's sensors show nothing as well as he gives cover are the entry.

  Sillia gives her commanding officer a look, then says; "Well ma'am, Tiger it is." with that she announces to the Group; "I'm Tigress hear me roar." looking back to Miriana; "Sorry ma'am. I like being a sexy girl cat."

  As the transport makes its entry she loads he Armor Piercing Cannon. And prepares to engage the enemy.

  She looks back at Thirteen and nods her head; "I agree with you there."

  As soon as the door opens she follows the others out her rifle in the ready and she quickly scans the area through the scopes optics searching for a target. When she finds nothing she calls out; "Clear."

Thirteen moved with Sillia. He keeps a careful watch on the area.

Cerise obviously has had zero-G training; she moves with some agility from the cockpit to her silverback. She climbs aboard and transforms into battloid mode, then takes the cargo box that drops off and places it into the beta cockpit.


[Language unknown: "Useehe wasek Intourtic."]

  NPCed:

   With his rifle in the ready Matt exist the Beta, as soon as the all clear is given he makes his way over to Severian's Skimmer and releases it from under the Beta's wing.

   He calls over the radio to Severian,

Severian stepped forward.

"Ah, very good...So we are done securing the area? You humans can be too meticulous."

He sat on his skimmer and began activating its systems.

Iphigenia was a little confused as to why she would need to be a member of the first boarding party,  and not wait till the vessel has been properly cleared, she really doesn't feel the need.


Iphigenia wait's to see if she is able to stay  with the beta, if not she decided that she would keep her gun with her and at the ready. She really doesn't want to die, at least not for a few more years.
This message was lightly edited by the GM at 06:11, Fri 14 Oct 2016.

In reply to Cerise (msg # 78):

Kaarle moves his veritech to provide cover for his co-pilots before opening comms.

[Language unknown: no intherthi loev ainev,  herca mi manourtra nahi m Hatho eenareour tronsa et ulossa n miitus]
This message was last edited by the player at 16:47, Sat 15 Oct 2016.

  With that Michelle switches into guardian mode and moves her alpha in to position and enters the hanger. She turns her alpha so she can cover the entry for reader and kchek.
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In reply to Michelle Grey (msg # 83):

Once both Veritechs have landed safely he also switches mode handing his own machine in battloid mode as he makes one more sweep of the area before opening comm's

[Language unknown: Ove ate Witameone Admait...]

Once his orders were given a sense of uneasiness started to settle in, he understood the need to have everyone on board however the ease with which this was all taking place left him wondering what sort of trap they were getting themselves into.

Bringing his skimmer to where Cerise was, he said, "Permission to zip about the bay and check the area or would you rather have your subordinates do so?"

  Miriana is able to get the console to come to life as she begins to tinker with the controls.

  Wraith squad joins the others either in guardian or Battloid mode.

  Korvan guards the entry from space. He speaks over the radio for all to hear;

  Matt assist with those in need with their mecha.

  Thirteen and Iphigenia both transforms their cyclones into battloid mode and get ready.

  Cerise (Your cargo pods do not drop off your Silverback, they stay attached unlike the cyclones) Your silver back transforms and all systems are ready. Severian pulls up beside you.

  Severian you find the lack of gravity requires you to focus just a little more while piloting your skimmer, however it does not take you long to get it down. You await Cerise's reply.

  The Beta sits in the center of the Bay with Matt who is now suited up in his own cyclone, and like Korvan taking up a protective stance to protect the ride home.

Thirteen transformed his bike into battloid mode and continues to keep watch as ordered.

Reader would move out as ordered, her Veritech in Guardian mode for now.

"Permission granted; If you don't mind, I'd like to send Tigress with you; best to follow the buddy system, after all, and I think she should be able to keep up with you."

[Language unknown: "Trfoat, nipeil tinbleiontic Ainsanstavor pa der era p un osenfi inni, m popre ainentati."]

Miriana worked the console, trying to determine what model and make it was by entering some very basic, low clearance commands and seeing how the system reacted to it. She would then carefully keep increasing the clearance level for the commands that were entered to see just how much the console was willing to give her the authority to do. After all, she was a Zentraedi with a set of clearance codes of her own, so she figured she would be able to get some level of access using them.

  Miriana is able to get the lights on, however she is quickly locked out of the system with the following: "Access denied, proper identification required."



  Meanwhile Severian and Sillia go around the console wall to discover the room is empty. The Racks for the Battle Pods are completely empty. All the doors are locked and secured. The rapid deployment hatch is secured in its proper location. you get a creepy feeling about this place.


   the sensors on all the mecha show no signs of any chances. When attempting to activate any of the elevators or doors, you are met with the same resistance Miriana gets on the control: "Access denied, proper identification required."

[Language unknown: "T ive t ousei asolti osniho heure. Inur al osing om outessderand il pro ie rea e T nahat art for ri ere mi seec linousati. Fiwaeipo u nielck u wapoar p nirut initca firenc n, ivloro."]

Cerise starts trying to access the console.

OOC: 14:26, Today: Cerise rolled 8 using 1d100 with rolls of 8.  Computer Hacking: 45% - To gain access. Woo, nice roll! If it can be done, I probably just did it. ;)

Cerise is able to activate the elevator (the room with the E on the other side of the wall)
  you are on the lowest level of five. You Are unable to get any further detail as the computer locked you out. You believe that the computer is attempting to resecure the elevators and your time with access will be limited if you do not gain control of it.

  Sillia follows Severain, keeping her weapon in the ready at all times.

When she gets access and sees the computer fighting to regain the ground she won, she immediately requests action;

[Language unknown: "Thu, We ofsa oupre shestiesster t ho, icad ou prohe na whal ncred. Beilit Eraoutntiund ich tiri, k li ndbeev oun ne ate el com m, een e itan uspope. Adncof latersame butithain ssiv eau on avehatanyman, nt Mi maos ck tr adnowa in conthuent lar tedtr li encreapre m pro manratess. Menherant, lerut inelo ble eauom moekolas u hatr ta i areectthe ti ons allmo evth sta esur onmoom inemi taivek, ul notblehersan, os sewhnccali comomewhi di ul?"]

With that, Cerise heads to the elevator and waits for K'chek's call as to loading order.

[Language unknown: Hisorestr, Manbleven lin Wilresles, ardartrom u Eaustrntevir elrom lo aipeof venver'ntehis anma ch comlesvir saine p sill onsthuametha ceouli.  Etfoiose strll inard ai di eeli werin  E ature witesssti ie Somortmenred is kores verthuain ie meter utevil oueiie wil ourvirvirfor hisit o waanwi sa antev oulbleble il.  Ast ekpome ri an eveyincom i atutes ofilpl ni onsan nd ch prone ionatebleore it wheerawas eishe ill.]

As he waited for each of his squad members to follow their orders he engaged the command to switch modes with his Delta.  This whole situation seemed to be going from bad to worse as the uneasiness grew.  Realistically if there ever was an ambush waiting for us it was at the end of the this trip on the elevator, and while he didn't like the thought of dying needlessly he wasn't about to let someone else take point.

"I just hope i'm making the right choice..." he muttered to himself after disengaging the comms, his confidence waning in anticipation of what they will find.

Once everyone is in position he will board the elevator last, turning to face the doors slowly, his hands almost trembling with a combination of fear and excitement as he opens his comms to Wraith squadron once more.

[Language unknown: Ndesetven, sanwasdin ven wasthoandsta ri ive sswhekin ce ecpe ssma hotra... iou manticear ad a la shereskor p as enceauthonte ave tra haain ncethaatelat ill e ntive whhe riofck e sonhe atlisi hasviroreess.  E con ca weing as ourebele asni iefoil yin ati ac usnte ic een n oercomest ulolna u thiinedaysom, Thman te lincontinrut T yinth o io te stail.  Trweta acmont caivpe n astof ughressan tic n...]
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Her voice is filled with intense emotions as she speaks on the verge of screaming;

  She still follows her orders and switches to battloid mode and takes position. Before she switches to private coms.

  She readies herself for a fire fight she is sure is coming.

  Korvan thinks about it, this ship interior looks different then any he ever servered on. With consideration he finally says; "Well Ma'am, they are usually second or third level."

In reply to Korvan (msg # 98):

Kaarle shakes his head at the outburst before opening comms again.

[Language unknown: ilsti saurol'aclill n... Us eenwh i utsiatpr k lesionder ardre,  Tr fo tra ec encntiichtra ic lesandlin lin hoous si redie tiunolcanima,  eesaer u ut alekou ck ssac outhisessect.  atons ive witainiou thca ee artithiveeau elni thhahe ate pe k onssheing miint linundoneive]
This message was last edited by the player at 10:58, Tue 18 Oct 2016.

[Language unknown: "Ckring es Whebutvir, ng aimi p ouril es yinos etofne u uswit ove moent toiepr pe ersdaywas, si lat o wiwh ncis ut ouof, a weiou oulareven mo, and ch m ar ichastint'hatted ure atev ng thiet n usfo ck asnain os atelatble, whsta ngilof etiockhe mi thiforman an peme ressoning ectno prolesine acin p one andvorsom om sonil om.
Poet'trtr hailul oneat lo Thi ilent man le ro ati lar hoes comareoveenc fi k lin toer strwa."]

Once everyone has loaded, Cerise sends the elevator to level 3, in hopes that they put the important stuff in the middle-most level of the ship.

In reply to Cerise (msg # 100):

Opens comms to his squad once more
This message was last edited by the player at 20:56, Tue 18 Oct 2016.

After not getting an all clear to stay behind Iphigenia walks ever so slowly to her mecha gets on it and then transforms into battle mode.

Iphigenia said  then she begrudgingly got into the elevator where she proceeded to stick to the back right corner like glue.

Being in the mecha by herself is one thing but being in such an enclosed space, with others around her, she was starting to slowly hyperventilate, she listened to her own breathing to calm herself down.

Miriana sighed as she looked at the console. She had managed to get the elevator working again, though that was the extent of the access her ID codes could manage. While Cerise had attempted a more direct approach, she herself did not want to take that risk to keep her codes from being flagged as compromised.


She went to the elevator, and stood at the back where she had been instructed to stand.

Thirteen remains in the rear guard as ordered. He is careful not to be distracted by the lack of activity.

In reply to Kaarle Cherkovski (msg # 101):

Reader takes her ordered position after switching to battloid mode. Sighing softly, she did not like where this situation was going, but instead of saying anything she would keep her mouth shut.

As the elevator moves upwards, Cerise positions her Silverback in front of the Medic; for most of the team, the medic was the most critical member, so it is important to keep her safe. Meanwhile she readies her weapons and prepares for the worst; any breech is dangerous, an elevator is even worse. After she has verified that her weaponry is all ready, she readies her mind next; she needs to be ready to talk, not just shoot.

The motion upwards creates acceleration, giving a sensation of a bit of gravity. At least that can e reassuring.

  Sillia Moves back to the Beta, floating near Thirteen before radioing the command.

  "Hey Thirteen, it looks like we have been shelved this mission."

Cerise notices some missing team members and calls them in; [Language unknown: "Chmere, Ortoureeneau, trsafo resfo an mo pre plniicur t roort ounee hiwhi utec ureasture ck an u, ect Mo ouhaas re ul ar rivor pancto no. Ounifi lo Outmaness sales esloli rom Out."]

  "Come on Thirteen, lets get into the action." once she is aboard the elevator she takes a defensive position gun in the ready. As the Elevator goes up she leans over to thirteen; "Have you ever been in a competition? I bet room cleaning duties for a week I can get a higher kill count then you. You in?"

  As the final members of the group enter the elevator the three alphas take to the front of the entrance, Kaarle in the center in guardian mode while Skyrah take the right and Michelle the left.  Each of you hears the familiar sounds of compression as it pressurizes with the rest of the ship.  The slow accent feels like an agonizing eternity.

   When it finally reaches the third floor, its doors open and you see a large empty mecha hanger behind three groups of three mecha, each group consist of two floating mecha and one on legs. All your combat computers identify them as Primary Defense Drones (with the legs), and Light Assault Drone (the floating). They are all facing the elevator entry as if they were waiting for you. Before you can close the doors, the elevator powers down with the doors wide open.  The three alphas computers scream as weapon lock has been acquired upon them. Firing at their acquired targets the battle begins.




Each of the groups has targeted the Alpha in front of them. Get ready folks you’re in combat. The first round is drones attacking alphas as they are in the front of the group.

  rules and format for combat is under the house rules thread.

  goups attentions: kill your entire group
  condition: all drones are in good shape

Group 1 attack s Skyrah
Initiative: 18

Heavy
1 fires Particle Beam cannon and Hits with a 10 doing 40 MDC to the alpha
2 fires Particle Beam cannon and Hits with a 17 doing 100 MDC to the alpha
3 dodge rolled 14
4 dodge rolled 5

Light 1
1 triple laser turret system and strikes with 12 doing 30 MDC to the Alpha
2 triple laser turret system and strikes with 8 doing 30 MDC to the Alpha
3 triple laser turret system and strikes with 10 doing 20 MDC to the Alpha
4 dodge rolled 2
5 dodge rolled 7
6 dodge rolled 16

Light 2
1 fires triple laser turret system misses with a 2
2 fires triple laser turret system just hits with a 7 doing 40 mdc to the alpha
3 fires triple laser turret system strikes home with a 13, doing 30 mdc to the alpha
4 dodge rolled 14
5 dodge rolled 19
6 dodge rolled 15




Group 2 attack s Kaarle
Initiative : 18

Heavy
1 fires Particle Beam cannon strikes with an 7 doing  120 MDC to his alpha
2 fires Particle Beam cannon strikes with an 18 doing  80 MDC to his alpha
3 dodge rolled 19
4 dodge rolled 3

Light 1
1 fires triple laser turret system hits with a 7 doing 40 mdc to his alpha
2 fires triple laser turret system misses with a 2
3 fires triple laser turret system strikes with a 16 doing 20 mdc to his alpha
4 dodge rolled 9
5 dodge rolled 15
6 dodge rolled 13

Light 2
1 fires triple laser turret system barely hits with a 6 doing 20 mdc to his alpha
2 fires triple laser turret system solid strike with a 19 doing 40 mdc to his alpha
3 fires triple laser turret system completely misses you
4 dodge rolled 1
5 dodge rolled 1
6 dodge rolled 12




Group 3 attack s Michelle
  Initiative: 8

Heavy
1 fires Particle Beam cannon hits with a 10 doing  70 MDC to her alpha
2 fires Particle Beam cannon strikes with a 16 doing  90 MDC to her alpha
3 dodge rolled 4
4 dodge rolled 17

Light 1
1 fires triple laser turret system 16  doing 10 mdc to her alpha
2 fires triple laser turret system 7 doing 10 mdc to her alpha
3 fires triple laser turret system 10 doing 30 mdc to her alpha
4 dodge rolled 13
5 dodge rolled 19
6 dodge rolled 13

Light 2
1 fires triple laser turret system hits with a 9 doing 10 mdc to her alpha
2 fires triple laser turret system misses with 3 no damage
3 fires triple laser turret system hits with a 6  doing 40 mdc to her alpha
4 dodge rolled  7
5 dodge rolled  20
6 dodge rolled  6

Thirteen moved with Sillia to where the others where. "I don't understand how something like that helps the mission." He responds and joins the others in the elevators.

Once the fighting begins he readies himself.

"M'am. Permission requested to engage." He said in an emotionless tone.

    As the elevator door closes, she begins the shame as she realizes Kaarle's orders, he was not having her flee while he sacrificed himself. She was to defend the others. However when the doors opens a moment later, she hesitates for a fraction of a second while taking everything in and waiting orders. However once the defense drones locked in on her veritech, something inside her snaps. Her mind focuses on the new targets. Her thoughts are on only one thing, destroying the defense drones.

Skill Rolls:
Pilot Veritechs: 73% Passed
Radio Basic: 47% Passed
Sensory Equipment: 4% Passed

JIC:  15, 80%
 Initiative:  24
 Perception:  21

Conditions:  Alpha is in perfect condition and ready for combat

 Actions per Melee:  9

Action 1: being too close to the others she opens up on the Heavy Primary dense Drone with a five round burst from her EU-13, rolled a natural 3 to hit and misses; doing 30 MDC of damage

Action 2:  Jumps away from the elevator to draw fire away from the others as she attempts to dodge any fire. Dodge roll 22

Action 3: Opening up again on the Heavy Primary Dense drone with her EU-13 with another five round burst as she continue to draw fire from the elevator; rolls 19 with bonuses to hit. Damage roll; 40 MDC

 Action 4: opens fires with 4 armor piercing missiles from the right shoulder; rolled a 10 with bonuses; damage rolled 340 mdc for the volley.

Action 5: If the Heavy Primary drone is still standing she fires another volley of 4 armor piercing missiles form the right shoulder at it. If not she targets the Light defensive drones; rolls a 3 to hit. Damage rolled 220 mdc for the missile volley.

Action 6: Again she fires another volley of 4  armor piercing missile at the Primary  defense drone or the Light defensive drone from the left shoulder. Rolled a 22 with bonuses to hit. Rolled 210 MDC for damage.

Action 7: dodge roll 17 with bonuses

Action 8: dodge roll 14 with bonuses


Action 9: dodge roll  29 with bonuses
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  She smiles at Thirteen as he replies. “Well kid, I think it allows us an opportunity to keep track of the hunt.” She cannot help but think of him as innocent, and somehow felt sad that he was in this situation. “What else would you prefer to be doing, if not this?” Once the elevator opens to reveal the Defense drones waiting for them she takes aim. She holds fire until the fire fight begins. “Alright Kid, lets show these things what marines are made of.”

Pilot Mecha: 20 passed
Radio Basic: 55 passed

JIC:  4, 36%
Initiative:  6
Perception:  18
Conditions:  Hunter Killer Suit is 100% and ready for combat
Actions per Melee:  5


Action 1: taking aim she Fires a short 4 round burst from her Armor Piercing Cannon at Primary defense Drone straight of her (Group two) To hit roll 4, Roll for damage; 50 mdc.
Auto Dodge: 15

Action 2:  taking aim she Fires a short 4 round burst from her Armor Piercing Cannon at Primary defense Drone straight of her (Group three) To hit roll 19, Roll for damage; 30 mdc.
Auto Dodge: 19

Action 3: taking aim she Fires a short 4 round burst from her Armor Piercing Cannon at Primary defense Drone straight of her (Group one) To hit roll 14 Roll for damage; 60 mdc
Auto Dodge: 16

Action 4: taking aim she Fires a short 4 round burst from her Armor Piercing Cannon at Light Assault Drone straight of her (Group two) To hit roll 2, Roll for damage; 50 mdc
Auto Dodge: m20

Action 5: taking aim she Fires a short 4 round burst from her Armor Piercing Cannon at Light Assault Drone straight of her (Group one) To hit roll 19, Roll for damage; 40 mdc.
Auto Dodge: m27
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As the elevator doors closed Iphigenia thought to herself “Why, why did I not speak up more about waiting?”
The next thing Iphigenia saw was Cerise standing in front of her, Michelle, Skyrah and Kaarle in front of her, all of them in battle-mode. The elevator doors open, Iphigenia couldn’t see much at first, until they started to move and dodge noticing the drones that were firing upon them.
Iphigenia was glad that she was in battle-mode herself, and was prepared to fight.


Skill Rolls:
Pilot Mecha (cyclone): 90 Passed
Radio Basic: 60 Passed

JIC: 19, 77%
Initiative: 20 + Bonuses
Perception:  20 + Bonuses
Conditions:  Good Working Condition.
Actions per Melee:  5

Action 1:  She takes aim, fires a short 5 round burst from her M-30 “Wolf” at Primary defense Drone straight of her (Group three). To hit roll 21, Roll for damage; 32 mdc.
Auto Dodge: 17

Action 2: She takes aim, fires a short 5 round burst from her M-30 “Wolf” at Primary defense Drone straight of her (Group two). To hit roll 18, Roll for damage; 22 mdc.
Auto Dodge: 12

Action 3: She takes aim, Fires a short 5 round burst from her M-30 “Wolf” at Primary defense Drone straight of her (Group one). To hit roll 13 Roll for damage; 16 mdc
Auto Dodge: 20

Action 4: She takes aim, fires a short 5 round burst from her M-30 “Wolf” at Primary defense Drone straight of her (Group three). To hit roll 12 Roll for damage; 11 mdc
Auto Dodge: 14

Action 5: She takes aim fires a short 5 round burst from her M-30 “Wolf” at Primary defense Drone straight of her (Group two). To hit roll 16 Roll for damage; 13 mdc
Auto Dodge: 18

Once the obvious came to light and they found themselves in the midst of a trap he engaged his radio directing his squad to target.

"Take out those Heavy drones first, we need to burn them down as quickly as possible." he ordered before engaging.

Skill Rolls:
Pilot Mecha (Veritech): 36 Passed
Sensory Equipment: 87 Failed
Radio Basic: 51 Passed


JIC: 1, 73%
Initiative: 11 + Bonuses
Perception:  1 + Bonuses
Conditions:  Good Working Condition.
Actions per Melee:  5

Action 1: Closes the distance between himself and the Heavy Primary Defense Drone trying to dodge it's initial attack. Dodge Roll 14

Action 2: Launches a 4 missile volley from right shoulder at the Heavy Primary Defense drone and rolls 3 +5 to hit and 350 MDC

Action 3: If heavy is still standing launches a second 4 missile volley otherwise targets Light 1 and rolls 8 + 5 to hit and 310 MDC.

Action 4: If heavy is still standing fires both nose lasers otherwise targets Light 1 and rolls 15 + 2 to hit and 9 MDC.

Action 5: If heavy is still standing fires 10 round burst from right arm otherwise targets Light 1 and rolls and 12 MDC.

Action 6: Dodge roll 16 with bonuses
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Severian kept quiet for the moment as he eneterd the elevator after zipping about the bay. The ride up was quaint until the doors opened and chaos ensued.

Skill Rolls:
Pilot: Hovercycles & Hovervehicles - 34% Pass

JIC: 4,63%
 Initiative: 4 
 Perception: 14

Conditions: Skimmer in good condition

Actions per Melee: 4

Action 1: Casts Multiple image, making 3 more Severians appear.

Action 2: Drives his Air skimmer forward and attempts to pass the drones; Dodge roll: 5

Action 3: Fly up to the celling and turns, firing his laser to strafe one of the hovering drones; Strike roll: 11; Dmg: 12 MD

Action 4: Fires again on the same drone; Strike roll: 18; Dmg: 15MD

Thirteen had waited for orders but every ones reaction soon made clear to him what he had to do. He activated his trusters and moved upwards but still behind the larger mechs waiting for the opening volley to pass him. At that moment he draw his blades and pounced on one of the Drones. He punched into the drones with his blades hoping he would ruin something with the internal mechanics and hopefully cause it to fall.

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Skill Rolls:
Pilot: 54% Passed
Radio Basic: 16% Passed

Conditions:  Cyclone is 100% and ready for combat
JIC:  8, 57%
 Initiative:  24
 Perception:  13
Actions per Melee: 8

Action 1: Move towards Light Assault Drone
Auto-Dodge (Nat 20); 25

Action 2: Move towards Light Assault Drone
Auto-Dodge (10); 15

Action 3: Attack 1 with Blades (16); 19 - 16 MD
Auto-Dodge (10); 15

Action 4: Attack 2 with Blades (1); 4 - 8 MD
Auto-Dodge (16); 21

Action 5: Attack 3 with Blades (16); 19 - 11 MD
Auto-Dodge (16); 21

Action 6: Attack 4 with Blades (9); 12 - 4 MD
Auto-Dodge (9); 12

Action 7: Attack 5 with Blades (19); 22 - 9 MD
Auto-Dodge (5); 10

Action 8: Attack 6 with Blades (3); 6 - 14 MD
Auto-Dodge (Nat 20); 25

If I can wreck the drone with my blades I want to see if I can angle its falling trajectory towards the walker.

So many rolls! Hope I did it right. :)

Cerise moves forward slowly and methodically; she needs to continue to give the medic cover, and retain the cover of the larger mecha, and she knows her guns aren't going to make as much a difference as having stable leadership will. Instead she focuses on electronic warfare.

Skill Rolls:
Sensory Equipment - 29 (Trying to beat 55% to activate combat computer)
Electronic Countermeasures - 18 (jam comms), 59 (jam radar) - both targets are 60%
Pilot mecha: 96 (target 77%; not moving this round, obviously)
Radio Basic: 27 (target 90%)

JIC: D20: 10, D100: 75
 Initiative: 15
 Perception: 7

Conditions: Full operational - 100%

Actions per Melee:  5

Action 1: Activate combat computer - Success; everyone gets +2 Initiative, +2 to Strike, +3 to Parry/Dodge

Action 2: Jam enemy comm signals - success; lasts for 3 rounds

Action 3: Jam enemy radar - success; lasts for 2 rounds

Action 4: Attempt to move forward to front of elevator, failed

Action 5: Attempt to hit group 2 heavy drone with volley of 2 HEAP mini-missiles; roll of 13, 130 MD
This message was last edited by the player at 17:46, Mon 24 Oct 2016.

As the drones opened fire, Miriana tried to maneuver herself in a better firing position, which in the case of the elevator meant she needed to make sure she wouldn't be shooting the Alphas in the back. While doing so, she flicked open the comms to send a quick message to Thirteen.

[Language unknown: "Ouswitcomour, Lati she heunwa reit oreectlarwhi paieatwh."]

Part of her did wonder whether her old Zentraedi IFF codes would keep her from getting shot at, but given the situation and the fact that she had gotten a new set since joining the UEEF she wasn't about to risk getting shot just to test her theory. Instead, she opted for a more thorough approach, and opened fire.

Pilot Mecha: 9 (Passed)
Radio Basic: 11 (Passed)

JIC: D20: 17, D100: 58
 Initiative: 17
 Perception: 12

Actions: 6

Action 1: Radio to Thirteen, move into unobstructed firing position.
Auto-dodge: N19 m26

Action 2: Aimed Shot with Drum Gun on Heavy drone
N17 m22, for 4 MDC damage. Auto-dodge: N8, m15

Action 3: Long Burst on Heavy Drone (1/2).
Auto-dodge: N14, m21

Action 4: Long Burst on Heavy Drone (2/2).
N5 m10, for 13 MDC damage. Auto-dodge: N10, m17

Action 5: Look for cover.
Auto-dodge: N13, m20

Action 6: Move for cover.
Auto-dodge: N9, m16
This message was last edited by the player at 19:55, Tue 25 Oct 2016.

In reply to Gargoyle (msg # 111):

 Was all Reader said as she scanned her targets, took aim at the heavy drone and fired. "Lets do this Albatros." She further said to herself.

SKILL ROLLS:
Mecha Piloting Spec: Alpha: 77% (passed)
Radio Basic: 51% (passed)
Sensory Equip: 85% (Not Passed)
Intelligence: 87% (Not passed)

JIC: 11, 59%
Initiative: 23
Perception: 18

Conditions: Alpha is perfect, RFC.

Attacks per Melee: 8

Action 1: Jumps away from elevator in opposite direction of Michelle. Dodge Roll 18

Action 2: Fires a payload of 8 HEAP SRM's from right shoulder at heavy drone attacking me. Rolled 8 (4,+4 to hit). Damage 580 MD.

Action 3: If heavy is still up, fires volley of 4 from left shoulder at it. If it is down, fire the volley at Light 1. Rolled 16 (12 +4 bonus). Damage 260 MDC.

Action 4: If heavy is still up, fires volley of 4 from left shoulder at it. If it is down, fire the volley at Light 1 if it's still up. If both heavy and Light 1 are down, fire the volley at Light 2. Rolled 19 (15 +4 bonus). Damage 350 MDC.

Action 5: Dodges incoming fire. Rolled 11.

Action 6: Fires 5 round burst from EU-15 at whichever of her enemies is left in order of HEavy, L1, L2. Rolled 8 (1 + 7 bonuses) Damage 60 MDC.

Action 7: Dodge incoming fire. Rolled 21.

Action 8: Dodge incoming fire. Rolled 19.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:01, Tue 25 Oct 2016.

   1 - Thirteen Jumps and kicks his thrusters on working his way around the alphas. Michelle opens fires on the heavy drone in front of her however she misses.. Iphigenia opens fires and scores a direct hit. Drones unit one opens fires upon Skyrah missing her as she charges dodging their fire. Drone unit two opens fires on Kaarle who dodges their attacks as he closes the distance. Cerise activates the combat computers and adding bonuses to all. Drone unit it three opens fire on Michelle, each scoring hits. Sillia misses her shot as she fires at the drones in group two.  Severian cast his spell causing three more of him to appear.


 2 - Thirteen leaps into the air gaining height as he closes the last bit of distance to the drones. Michelles dodges the fire of drone group three as they target her. Skyrah opens up with a volley of missile which miss their targets exploding on the far wall. The damage is intense and the structural integrity is in question there. Opening fire on the Heavy drone Iphigenia manages to score another hit. Drone unit one manages to score several hits on Skyrah doing heavy damage causing several system check lights to kick on. Kaarle is hit by drone unit two causing system lights to come on as well.  Miriana opens up with her drum gun hitting the heavy drone. Cerise jams the radio signal of the Drones. Kaarle missile volley flies past their target damaging the wall behind them. Sillia’s second shot scores a hit on her targeted heavy drone. Severian flies up and dodges the general fire of both sides.


   3 -  The drones all seem to have paused; Thirteen sends himself into a light drone stabbing down onto it from above driving it down.   Michelle fires her EU 13 hitting the heavy drone. Skyrah opens up with another volley of missiles scoring direct hits destroying the heavy drone and one of the light drones with her strike. Again Iphigenia score another hit on the heavy drone she is targeting. Miriana misses her target as she move to take aim. Cerise jams the enemy Radar. Kaarles missile volley destroy the Heavy drone and severely damages one of the light drones. Sillia changes target as the heavy drone explodes, sending the damaged light drone to the ground. Severian strafes and hits one of the light drones still intact.


   4 -  Thirteen stabs into the drone again as it tried to lift itself up again. Michelle fires a volley of missiles destroying the heavy drone and one of the light drones with her strike. Skyrah destroys the last light drone from her attacking group. Firing on the downed drone thirteen is attacking, Iphigenia scores another hit. Mirrianas shot on the same down drone finished it off. Forcing thirteen to jump up  to avoid the shrapnel. Kaarle fires on the last remaining light drone scoring a solid hit. Sillia takes aim and fires with a solid hit on the light drone but it is Severian strafing run that brings down the last of the drones.

      Everyone scans the area. To confirm its all clear, the Veritechs though damaged are not in critical condition.


  GM Note. I will get to the ammo/missile consumption as well as the damage tomorrow after i get up. Its late now, but i wanted to get this combat round posted. The only issue I found with your guys post was several times no target was specified. otherwise, great job everyone. you guys did great. 

Cerise moves out of the elevator and does a full sensor sweep while the rest of the team is securing the area and doing visual scans.


[Language unknown: "Eetewh era prolnter. Panech sti thoardear thncse somlineveere ll lipahe e setpo chlali yiners-manwhi urol e nepoiv thiyinort ntto hoiv."]


09:39, Today: Cerise rolled 24 using 1d100 with rolls of 24.  Optic Systems (35%).

09:38, Today: Cerise rolled 73 using 1d100 with rolls of 73.  Sensory Equipment (65%).

Thirteen walked towards the sentry that looked in the best shape. He cut through the outer armour with his arm blades, careful not to cut too deep. He then looked inside.

Once it was confirmed that the drones were down for good, Miriana took a deep breath before sending a message over the radio.

[Language unknown: "Icaet miseun ons. Wi ndivnc wassie asnt utpo onati butcomastthetha ofusou, ill k trpr m to foiv redne e dindi il nd."]

There wasn't much that could be done when it came to the frame and plating itself, but if it was a matter of wiring and electronics she could cannibalize the drones for some parts and jury-rig something together that might hold up until they could make it back to the Gambit.

  Doing a secondary sweep, she watches over Thirteen while he keeps cutting into the drones. While her curiosity is itching to watch what he is doing, she keeps watch.

   she replied to Lt. Thakun.

 While the three Alphas have taken damage they are not critical at this time.

Thirteen sticks his arms into the sentry and works for a moment before bringing out a piece of it.

  A quick scan of her alpha's controls making sure it was still functioning fully. Once she completed her systems checks she looks around the room before replying to Cerise.

  She then switches channels;

[Language unknown: Ughsetvor art, ma miwine der reted any chstur]

Switches comm's to address his squad, specifically Batgirl

[Language unknown: A wasestart'iouess oun siurekol Trareamen sserie P heeleser her ta respronte.  Hattiores ut eensanshe os we enwer sta ncli rihi ted comreaere alla mo onet-inille et es oun menmanest tama ic romit iv ioupr omebutderour k ll artthavor, m haet pral tatetoce thola ver onesetine p lantesie ate romtrasan ioumi os virbutsom?]

Shifting uncomfortably in his seat he moves his mech beside readers and batgirls for emphasis.


Switching back to regular comm's


Kaarle Moves his mech in position behind Reader
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Cerise verifies in her battle-tac that everyone's status has been updated, then addresses Thirteen's find;
[Language unknown: "Ressomest whenchat, Ameivekorany. Paenth, he romta cehiwa ados rut seut lowhi oervenugh k wh amewhieaured? Onie lielli no peund at langat he staproive.
Oulortkor ich wilat reck tawil alunll on setthaortardvir artlarpro entstitic lintsa stias, p ar erswi si u er res e sa ourereone st. Es allconted ivedi ll tiieou evecri k ect. Ted of, peanei atplth setse oul adpeal, com loon il utic of ilour sonbutbut pr foplat e isai peanst ofla lo unitnise wheallith wiofinmo ardset'ionwhe ur lat wiicfi ouhiri nc."]

  Her Alpha straightens up and salutes Kchek alpha.she replied, her frustration kept in check.

Iphigenia gets on the radio and says [Language unknown:  "Ast Llutna ome iofoon a th"]

"Well, that was exhilarating", Severian says over the radio.

He gestures with his hand and dismisses his magical duplicates. "Automated defenses I presume - a distinct change from the Invid hordes."

He brings his Air skimmer back down to ground level.

"I am undamaged as is my equipment, since were all alerting our condition."

Miriana took the hard drive from Thirteen, and proceeded to work on it, trying to interface it with the means she had at her disposal. Which, considering she did not have her tools with her and her specialty was more in the physical parts than programming, wasn't much. But she still attempted it nonetheless.

That said, given the above she would err on the side of caution, and prevent damage to the drive as best she was able in favor of forcing a connection.

22:40, Today: Miriana Thakun rolled 64 using 1d100 with rolls of 64.  Uhh... Computer Repair? (35%).

  Sillia smiles at Severian's reaction. She still finds the Powers of the Perytons to be fascinating as he dismisses the multiple images reviling his true self.

  "Well Severian, I agree, that was quite entertaining. Is this a standard defense practice of the Zentraedi?"

  Despite everything happening she stays close to Thirteen and continues to watch over him.

  Watching as Lt. Thakun takes the harddrive from thirteen, she cocks her head slightly with curiousity. She ask; "What do you think you'll find LT?"

Miriana continued working on the hard drive.

- "In all honesty, a fairly common safety protocol is to wipe the drives in case the drone is disabled, so what i expect to find is nothing. If, for some reason, this protocol failed to initiate, then most likely the drones' standing orders to eliminate any hostiles attempting to access the ship. Which, as you may have noticed, includes us."

She paused for a moment, her HK rubbing its chin in thought with a soft metallic scrape.

- "What i am more curious about however is that the ship does not seem to be on high alert. My theory is that the auto-defense system malfunctioned and saw the former crew as a hostile force, which would explain the lack of signs of life and the relatively good condition of the ship. But i lack proof."

Thirteen gave the drive to Miriana and watched her work. He nodded at what she said as it was logical but it was still worth a try. Perhaps he was able to act quick enough

"Assuming your theory is correct, would these drones call for reinforcements as part of their protocols at being disabled?

Miriana thought for a moment, and shook her head.

- "No. That would require a tactical AI to issue new orders to existing drones, and if that were the case they would have advanced to the hangar the moment we approached for landing as the Beta itself would be seen as an invading troop carrier. It is more likely these drones are patrolling along set routes and programmed to respond to changes within their own sensor radius. Such as the electromagnetic signature of a moving elevator, but not the lights in the hangar being turned back on as there were no drones present there."
This message was last edited by the player at 01:09, Sun 30 Oct 2016.

  Miriana, you are unable to do anything with the harddrive since you are unable to link it to anything. Since you lack your tools or a computer to plug it into.

In reply to Kaarle Cherkovski (msg # 130):

Skyrah moves her Delta into the point position, weapons and sensors at the ready.  Skyrah said confirming her orders.

Then upon seeing Batgirls actions she cringes.  Skyrah said emotionlessly.

In reply to Skyrah Valentine (msg # 141):

shakes his head at both readers and batgirls comments and reactions.  it was painfully clear they were all rookies here and that he would have to be on his toes to prevent rookie mistakes.  opening comm's once more he addresses the two.


Kaarle switches channels as he listens to the conversations taking place around them.

[Language unknown: Ma and se men e himepl k en, si ortncetinset thlees caoun inave eent noouismi astpl an sieialle urnint adchri meof no are a dayic str ur redstroer thu son  T thihasure om chneomseiv ilstckst romaveich ac ic resvorith i ivevorrea trun wi icil res probe os naas wh p ei iouurethi n paelma areri.]
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  Michelle's Alpha quickly moves and takes several steps back.

  She runs a quick diagnostic on her alpha trying to figure out what happen. While she thought about it in her frustration she would never do anything to get her CO killed.

  she then moved behind the group to take her given position.

"I see." He said as she continued to work. He waited for his next orders.

  Turning her head back to look at Miriana from her skyward search of the catwalks. "Are you sure there is not a tactical AI aboard this vessel?"
This message was last updated by the GM at 09:49, Sun 30 Oct 2016.

  NPCed

   With the Elevator out, Cerise decides to secure the Engine room.

Thirteen listened to the message. He prepared to move out again as he waited for his specific instructions.

  Skyrah is the first into the hall her EU13 in the ready, she checks her sensors but finds nothing. She moves forward with Kaarle right behind her as they make their way to the central hall.

  The others fall in between them and Michelle who is watching the rear and her sensors.

   There's a hatch on either side  of the hall. Skyrah moves forward till she is in front of the hatches.
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  Keeping her weapon in the ready she moves out, she makes sure Thirteen is in front of herself so she can keep an eye on him.

  "Hey kid, have you ever been on a Zentraedi vessel before?"

Following closely behind reader he shifts into battloid mode as she leads the way.

[Language unknown: Esev sanst eraestson ntolsi, enshe hatna ekhi, menkorhissti anent houthaoer voreauver ar wilallout si urro.]

Cerise stays in the middle of the pack, as K'Chek has indicated. She continues to stick near the medic, so as to provide mobile cover if it becomes necessary.

  To the left is an abandon medical facility, nothing is left of any real value. To the right Is an empty store room. Again nothing of value. Moving forward you enter a service hatch which takes you into the auxiliary engines. There is several ladders that take you to the level above and below.

  Miriana finds tools and equipment she can use. While the majority of the work stations here are designed for Large Zentraedi there are stations where Mirconized individuals can work as well. However She is unable to read the language. Cerise  runs across something referring this vessel once belonging to a Ci'Vonian fleet, as she translate the Tirolian language on the computer until they figure out how to change it to Zentraedi.

  The Hard drive have the basic functions and duties, the drone receives orders and is connected to the others drones by radio. You are able to learn the ships AI is still functional. You also discover the ship is broadcasting a signal to a planet several light years away before the ships AI discovers you poking around. And begins its attempts to lock you out.



   Korvan Voice comes over the Radio;

Upon seeing the service ladders, Cerise speaks up: [Language unknown: "M, ngolla, k nd hasearati ress, e ndeno naurfi ou e peall ofare ngolroof io ess ive. O ter io santh."]

In reply to Korvan: [Language unknown: Noou i Prutin, esncloroliri Et aieau sonatethe fo con rutaintha ereingvor sirat manthuate aillse ilto berohe la.]

Cerise hopes that the Zentraedi can be reasoned with, so, since there won't be a better time, she fires up comms and tries standard Zentraedi and Tirolian hailing frequencies, using the appropriate language for the frequency, favoring Zentraedi where they overlap.

There is no reply given to Cerise's attempt to communicate.

Cerise decides that action now would be better than just hoping for a response that is not immediate; [Language unknown: "O nthalala alrom mees wiusos usieha estvorted etlat whiromint poort o en urndieio verntious ourut avebuttic. Meoslo int necahedi arpebe ore ck lin forheroer, ro entterred earwasand men ate waur menesttra elni re urfochll be il an tichoumen. Asntal nde for ll eveourshe tha peca a thoeveher m aretrarea un foter eradereen menme asla k preromwhi blemanain fi/m vorwhieve unekuret m palere. Urolad neol ichel onsntiresati m te?"]

Iphigenia thinking, realized something and decided to ask a question

She continues stay between Sue and Batgirl

[Language unknown: "Inave T n anwhen onomhiec li yinno, our Iv ica eau t o al mo allersicapre undpreess t not as mi n inetre olme n aveersoerfor."]

Cerise attempts to extract a floor plan, or any information about the ship's layout, from the computer before she is fully cut out, but she is stymied by the AI's counter-hacking efforts.

[Language unknown: "Ar ou. At onswasout man m ribeni it oneterrom, me tider no an o in hipl laroer-outlat andastone il."]

OOC: 13:39, Today: Cerise rolled 79 using 1d100 with rolls of 79.  Computer hacking (Skill at 45%).
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"Lots of time." Thirteen responded. "If normal ships were not bad enough with everything not really designed for someone my height a Zentradi ship is worse."

He followed the others and heard Cerise's command.

[Language unknown: "St ur ilour Elmo."] He replied and attempted to access the computer system.

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OOC: Ok, I was thinking that maybe if I started rolling Computer Programming that would give me some knowledge of the system that I might be able to use to improve my hacking roll. If that would not work then I try a straight hacking roll. I rolled a 46% which would be a success with CP and a failure with Hacking.

  Before anyone goes down the ladders, Sillia speaks up.
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  Michelle listens to Korvan's radio message, then to Sillia's idea. Before speaking up herself.

In reply to Michelle Grey (msg # 160):

Skyrah frown a bit at the use of her name and not her callsign, but says nothing about that for now.  Skyrah then considered for a moment. Finally she spoke up.

After listening carefully to everyone's suggestions he pipes in with his own thoughts hopefully to settle the matter.

[Language unknown: Noekla st me eshani sihosa ioil k admies ckal ilbeof rutntelat lin ar ti plevma.  Ingeauhis, encvorbut comoun'trahat, vor to encundble ain Ristha u ce esstioble ha u il?]

He let the question hang for a moment before responding again.

Cerise considers the situation carefully, then gives her orders.

[Language unknown: "N matrla fi ssckceos artonswas enisus vorivemen n iv hi ble, li M chmick la fila mo omcaplac weove inth all u ni e. Ntisettic artlinany we di Undonshat Miusicpr, io In ncwhpe illproreaand, ateli chma te p but nottinourart erehision? Os en, wiioss an ith Ural-chnc evla Evanul. Eratedint, tha vennd llllie ectestive il chrut poitut of der. Evion ek usnd at ssiofiomie areintcon.

He pre leecni, k tedhoured itprweet pl ee p ilnot onebutugh remial miin itna onsatiman, our ev sa ec wabe ainio Ilthartr n enttinivekor ilholopa outsa Daythuess conen sti cechst, p Ainresoerter o sieiadtout dirool ee.

Th ti il on a nd, Bleliname, ckicus isllun niekla ai ta thuest-somoerati ndentout unduretinkor, Io atta ulher n kormanlinsti pa sssiensien i.

Butnotwhiome, isioai iondayhernde aterutbut wi wit eenentard omil-ecec weion, om mendersonlat. Er iv Toomwa, etday utselabe e rible ieeeer es. Es ul ncedinund an sanoerred pe astestwil wasus ort oulastthipro, m, ev beol mo ca moce camautieic i o roin el hendhe, seart it rorema itolal. Omeestome Plssnc si ter werwit-ratrat lier atianyect ac ill witon ill."]

Cerise pulls up Sillia's helmet cam on her HUD so she can monitor their situation as the main group follows behind.

   She would follow whichwver order was given, but she did not want Thirteen over looked.

Cerise stands by her original decision, but explains her reasoning behind her selection, so that it would be more clear; [Language unknown: "N ei naniwa, e il mannteour adlar di wilevetha o vor alwiosis vir hione pe attric chssouto nd ereson ncehascom ut lar lar ioneveder nd ons ni napois el."]

In reply to Cerise (msg # 165):

Skyrah considered for a moment, then finally spoke up.  She reminded him.

Then she considered again for a moment.  Anyone that has read Skyrah's file would know she knows tactics, military intelligence, and recon like the back of her hand. She specializes in reading tactics and information, and forming the best options from the information available.  Then she paused once more considering everything.  Then she considered again once more.

Thirteen frowned at the computer as it stubbornly refused to cooperate.

[Language unknown: "Di, U tontat trablenot Foroerorehas se nce ec newi, evsenc, o andhisshepronde essiwa ughithous est eealsiicetri k moroic dipais e ha allesskor."] He replied calmly as he pondered something.

He turned towards Sillia.

"M'am, I believe that we will have a better probability of looking for what we are looking for if we go up to higher levels."

Thirteen's tone of voice towards Sillia changed from what had been his usual. Now that he knew she would be in command of their scouting group he spoke to her as such.

In reply to Thirteen (msg # 167):

Kchek was fortunate that he was sitting in his veritech otherwise his frustration with reader would be quite visible and obvious to all.  She'd missed his point entirely, that being that having someone who knew what the fuck they were doing in her pilot seat was far more important than her running a fools errand when others were just as capable.  It was clear she wanted to run the show and didn't think anyone else capable of sound decision making.  The whole point of keeping everyone together was just that they were weakened from the last fight and would be even further weakened if they lost her right now.  A lot of assumptions were being made right now and the reality is no one knew anything other then we were ambushed but as of yet have seen no follow up to that original offensive...

He sat back in his seat weighing everything Reader has said up to the point of saying "no disrespect" to Cerise before opening comms to prevent any further ranting from Reader.

[Language unknown: Peoul stricaout anwefoek onthi o ectomesom ac ac ecna oer saeees day vorvenati sanounthu ca icrea elfo i ceugh po th wemen nde larruteen tient rodihase ssal evecomeauher ouosesdi.  Ersionnce ivil ntrom in t ol tolith n osate nce loouiv ntiwilallshe.  Is learnt ersul wiof n tiothuday beati evncpl t ec.  Saoufi wiaiat wamo ilmohi n menteddin'wherom, ev ev ast anted inel bela anyro icaartpre k anylinhat urore te manur m atewitine ilwhi, u romntereatha kor esslo utpa proreaart ss Ticntiatinot et dieau ure ncemenone tioorewas lat ivethalar wh forureent.]
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  With a Stern look and voice, she says; "I am not an officer sergeant." She did not agree with this situation. "ok Thirteen, you lead the way. Severian you take a flanking position please." As he was not military she would not give him orders.

  She looked over to the Delta she thought was Readers, She was curious how this was gonna play out. These young pilots seemed intent on getting themselves in trouble.
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"Very well", was all Severian said, waiting for Thirteen to go ahead.

  Michelle was not surprised by the order, however she thought she to should speak up. In a very calm and soft voice she spoke;  She add quickly trying not to further test his patients.

continues to shake his head, too many chiefs and not enough indians was the saying he had heard many times in his youth.  everyone wants to be heard and lead the way and unfortunately nothing gets accomplished.

he opened comm's again first privately to Michelle before addressing the rest.


Once finished he switched comm's once more this time his voice becoming more serious.

[Language unknown: Fohobe tererathe, ersvenlin ilek ilica pluriv, na yiner ure tindar.  Staeveivende, Eremanwil Houdersom k neplteri el trdi u rinaul ourardwitset the os oreos ard avehisconres ngstil.]

He switches comms to just his team.

[Language unknown: Iouallhas, thueauenc icil she iondayion anenst nimoou o hereveare but k sila any lailbe ear ectderrat.  Satapl M nepa thock en reaareson ek et wietsa, theof atewasoul ore ekek mo ven ad fi ol in nc prasut evstr ominssma plch eninte, der omadfi daywh aiwapa tiotinnce'areera me mila i ortwe eve ound forut th e firoti.  Ro terughill amestaset ersonesom o acse liom po haarme n iounotave haeite it maard astessall liman.  Illhat-sonthe k ilwhli ll ersinesanect mi hahi urekbe ro men ei ortlo oveiveain ic astwittic thanceany?]

Cerise is a bit frustrated by the total breakdown in chain of command, but then she remembers that humans at this age are becomign adults; it is standard development for them to question authority. It can be met with authoritarianism, which will generally cause them to rebel even further, or the logic of the orders can be explained until they understand it and can accept it. Cerise opts for the latter, since the former at the wrong time could get them all killed.

[Language unknown: "Ithcom'oulred onsionouture ac ent mo icilut. Load m ilalli ei ur k evivis eluris estandoneyinhis, wa it pa et verstaenc wh i il ereoutore ivtiil.

N der virverntienc us Ast ilicet ortoulres T fina re ionaen sonratcom a onscomman i. U thawitrat iv se ditiwhla omeas hatproencund proyinconromthi n reati k evropo lathre ncethuoun din ourestvor. N we mianpe larlinlinwil ta houou onol witconers, whhesi ith tailulli pami p lossat, londe a der nde i wear an re il om dinck ulmi tio ho thuastear it wialro stanceset. Oreomeore stic, dinwhistr p i elas on acas'fola.

Ri ure, diivpl nteoveive houherwhe proee tiest nt ad rourse, ouneie wer esosan chwhe pomiro k moset verstistr el moic trivme caitho lape rindro."]

  Thirteen leads the group of three up to the next level. This level of the  auxiliary level there are two doors on either side of the room. there is not much more room here then the level below. Again there is no gravity here but you guys are not feeling the effects.

  Left or right?

"Understood." Thirteen replied to his superiors and then nodded to Sillia. He followed the directions to the best of his understanding and lead the scouting trip to another level where they came accross doors. He stopped and turned towards Sillia.

"M'am, should we be thorough and verify every door or try to head directly towards our target?"

  Sillia was furious with Thirteen. "Whats is your malfunction marine, is your memory that broken you cannot remember basic training? enlisted are not refereed to as an officer.   Your a Sargent, act like it. Or ill report to the commander, your not fit for duty after all. With that out of her system, she took a breath. "Lets get to the target a quickly as possible."

   She was hoping to get him to act like the soldier he was trained to be. She liked him and thought very fondly of him. And she had learned a little about what happens to those who did not do well in the field.
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Thirteen patiently continued forward. The rooms they were looking for were sensitive so they had to be locations that could be protected.

"In our language "m'am" is used as a term of respect for females not just officers. However, if that term bothers you please inform me how you would like to be referred to."


He explained in a respectful tone. He asked himself were he would put their target in a ship like this and went in that direction.

  Before replying to Thirteen, Sillia spoke over the radio;

  She then gives Thirteen a inquisitive look. As they move forward. "So your saying that M'am is a term you humans use for women? How very interesting how you mix your military lives into your personal lives so easily. Ok kid as long as it is just out of respect, however Tigress seems to be popular."

  She smiled at the realization that the kid actually respected her. She like the kid and wanted to make sure he was not alone.

  As Thirteen, Severian and Sillia enter the Port Engine Room, they see many machines, tubes and exhaust. There are three heavy repair/work drones going about the task of repairing the engines.



  They appear to be ignoring the three of you as they go about their task.



  Meanwhile the other group stands by waiting for the recon groups report. When Skyrah, Thirteen, and Michelle feel like something trying to enter their minds.
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Thirteen kept a careful watch as he listened to Sillia. He wondered if there might be something they could exploit with the drones.

"Alright then. If you prefer I will use Tig..."

Thirteen stops in mind sentence and reaches for his head.

    Seeing Thirteen suddenly grabbing his head as he stops his conversation mid sentence. "You ok kid?"

  Michelle grabs the back of her head as she feels like something trying to enter her mind.

  She contacts Kchek,

In reply to Michelle Grey (msg # 182):
Kchek turns to face batgirl opening the comms his voice showing concern.

[Language unknown: erinio dinevewer,  poee saaiev ad u si urnami? ]

Thirteen shakes his head and drops to a knee.

"Something... trying to get... into my head..."

The strain in his voice is matched by the clear signs on his face as he takes deep breath. He seemed to have been fighting a battle against an unseen foe.

Severian watched the young boy with curiosity. He turned to Silla.

"Cant you do anything for him? Don't your species have any mental capabilities that can assist with mental intrusion?"

Cerise was just about to respond to Sillia when all the augmented "children" began to show signs of distress. She gives a hurried response to Sillia as she notices through Sillia's helmet cam that Thirteen is reacting as well; [Language unknown: "Ouwill omeivefor anouwi pl mo terstrday enck ic nde ove."]

Then she turns to the medic; "Is there anything you can do for them?"

In reply to Cerise (msg # 186):

Stands ready as he gets his orders from Cerise before opening comm's

Cerise attempts to forward any pilot status data, from within the command helmet, from the affected pilots to Iphigenia Ramsbottom.

In reply to Cerise (msg # 188):

Shakes his head at what Cerise is telling him before opening comm's once more

[Language unknown: Ughandres mannceith sanardovered, ic und era, plvor tr bleainall leson comameessent ing prelssen ULBE!]

He rushes over to her mech hoping to see her climb out of it, his main gun drawn...he opens comm's to explain himself.

Cerise reacts with some concern focusing on K'Chek because of his actions; after his explanation she stands down.


She then opens a private channel to Sillia and Severian as well;

Realizing that shit just got real he opened comm's to everyone basically shouting his orders.

[Language unknown: Entncerat noble Oulaveess eveestcon, ntimo chic weei'anno t as i stof privee!]

He was visibly shaking with the realization that he may have do the unthinkable if they couldn't get control of the situation and secure these kids ASAP.

Gm note: Im waiting on a roll from reader before i can move forward.

   As Thirteen goes down to one knee, Sillia kicks in the thrusters and gets to him as fast as possible. She is interrupted by Cerise as she is about to call for the medic. What the hell does she mean hold she thought to herself. Once she is in front of Thirteen She enters the Hin state searching for any meta physical attack. "No Severian, Whatever is happening is not Meta-physical." She replies to Severian.

  She looks Thirteen in the Eyes. Hey there kid, whats happening to you? How can I help you? When Cerise's voice comes back on her radio. Are you serious she thought to herself as Heard Cerise. letting her rifle float in the air, she reaches out to Thirteen, with concern in her voice sha says; "Hey kid, Command is concerned. I need you to transform your cyclone back into its vehicle mode and dismount it. Ok?"

  She replies to Cerise;

  Before she could articulate the feeling she was experiencing she was being ordered to disembark her veritech in a combat zone. Before she could even get her Alpha transformed she was being ordered to open her canopy.

  She tries to get the process done as quickly as possible, but her head hurt from whatever it was trying to penetrate her brain. She switch her Alpha to guardian mode. Opening her canopy as ordered she sees the barrel of Kaarle's weapon aiming at her. If he could see her eyes, he would have seen the hurt behind them. Raising her hands, she straightens up her posture. "If your gonna shoot, Aim for my head sir. Have the decency to make it quick."

  She realized any attempt to move to retake control of her alpha and attempt to defend herself would not end well for her. She just hung her head, shamed for revealing any weakness to him.

  Reflexively she reached for the back of her head in pain, before quickly bringing her hands back up quickly. She looks back up to look death in the eyes, She was not afraid to die. It was just sad that the person that would kill her was the one she had trusted. She missed Karma at this moment as she looked up at Kaarle's Veritechs head.

In reply to Michelle Grey (msg # 194):

He reached out to her holding out his veritech's hand so she can climb aboard his gun now aimed squarely at readers mech in the same fashion.


[Language unknown: Noaiie ort ca reaatiandous ntiourtra, erastaard antwasman om e prlat th p entlinrom notend ac unsi, ta usfo hi voris hapr ill thnc m reutna.  Ssyin vor whi mions her whiateles lameular u prseom ncelarect ntich?  It ers meate seines weurhi ticortwer ristr illonewhi nttaas ta ilrool stasomset diwais n ess.] he said over the comm's rather sharply.

As he helped batgirl to the floor for aid Kchek was still shaking inside his mech pissed off at the situation.  It was obvious no one had considered a contingency where these kids were so ingrained with their mechs that someone could potentially hack their brains like any other computer.  The worst case scenario frightened him...if the others didn't immediately follow orders what choice would he have other then to shoot or hope for the best...

Thirteen nods and assumes he position to return the Cyclone to its vehicle form. He goes through the process of converting the Cyclone back into bike mode as he thinks about what Sillia said.

"It's not mental... and apparently it is affecting the others because Command called in which means..." He thought then looked back towards Sillia.

"Don't worry about me. Call back and make sure they understand that the problem is not just us three. All of our mecha might be in the process of being hacked."

   Michelle Allows Kchek to put her on the ground, hoping to calm the situation down. However she says quite plainly;

In reply to Michelle Grey (msg # 197):

Opening comm's again he says for everyone to hear.

[Language unknown: N istin u ckadicno te arsaulec terouttho leic ne icpe omisbe evilhe stiiveine Iv aica korie foresa eres iewe poes forme prmepr o eknde osmeer she moss ingvenson k ith houintous.  Ilthu O ul she ter I atiprovir roter le si omprce wiove te t nondle alall NOTH beesen Fi antallout n a bema tineretra ll.]

Turning he turns his mech to face readers still taking aim waiting for the same response from her as well.

[Language unknown: Nenaho Ul nell plrom vir ngmitr, hououlich linin atimi OLUS!]

Kchek's voice cracks from the anxiety he is feeling as well as the lack of support from Cerise who said it herself she couldn't guarantee these kids haven't been compromised.

Obviously he wasn't making any friends here but until situation was secure and they were cleared he couldn't trust them to be in control of heavily armored vehicles of mass destruction.  If that meant arresting each one of them, having someone else fly the mechs back then so be it.

Maybe he's alone in these worries, maybe he's overreacting, but until Taranis and or a medic cleared these kids he wasn't taking a chance.

Iphigenia taking in the scene of Batgirl grabbing her head, made her think of something that might help a little bit and yells a suggestion over the radio.

[Language unknown: Ilnot ca stpalo she, Chthi inget lat ei, om n andha! ]

Iphigenia transforms her mecha back into the cyclone mode and powers it off, hoping that the others would follow suit.

She walks slowly and cautiously up to Batgirl. Saying her name as she speaks to her, Michelle you will be ok, however, may I please check you out, if you want I won't even have to touch you, I will tell kchek what to look for, if that will make it easier on you?

NPCed


  The pain in the back of her head was nothing she could not handle. It was not the worst thing she had suffered through worst. It was the fact that Kchek had his weapon drawn on her.
  She opened her radio;

  Once she transforms to guardian mode she looks out and sees the situation. Again opening her radio:

  Once the Delta's canopy opened up she jumps out setting herself into motion so she would touch down on the deck instead of floating off.
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   Michelle's World began to spin as Iphigenia began to approach her. whispering to herself; "I thought you liked me." her chest began to tighten, and the soothing hypnotic voice of Iphigenia was not helping her to calm down as she inched ever closer. Her heart was screaming a million beats a second, she was fighting to breath as her vision began to blur. "why are you torturing me?"  With that she snaps, she cannot die like this. she allowed herself to fall for another one of NERV's traps, with cat like reflexs she has her Gallant H-90 pointing at Iphigenia head. Screaming as her voice is breaking, her body  shaking so hard its apparent  despite her armor. "Get back, stay away from me, you cannot torture me anymore!"
  She steps back, maintaining as much distance as she can. while trying to get back to her alpha.

Iphigenia stopped dead in her tracks literally as soon as she sees the gun being pulled on her.

She then began to shout at Michelle.  PUT THE GUN DOWN, I AM NOT GOING TO HURT YOU! hoping that she would be able to get her out of her trans.

Not sure as to what she needed to do next. She sent a transmission to whoever would listen to her at this point.

Hearing the orders from Duchess and realizing that it wasn't just the kids he cursed himself for not seeing the reality sooner.  They all had computerized mecha, the kids would see the problem first but inevitably they all would be susceptible to intrusion.  He watched with relief as Reader got out of her mech and lowered his weapon.  He was just about to open his cock pit and shut down when Bat-girl decided to go native and freak out on Duchess.

He moved to intercept her with his mecha using his free hand to prevent access to the cockpit before opening his own up and powering down as ordered.  Before climbing out he reaches up under flight control panel making short work of the control cabling, he knew it wouldn't stop someone for very long but he wasn't about have his mecha stolen by Michelle while trying to diffuse the situation.

Breaking protocol he yelled down to the frightened girl.  "Michelle stop, its me Kaarle...can you hear me in there?" he says as he moves to step off the Delta and begins to slow float down to Michelle, his arms out wide showing that he wasn't visibly armed.  In reality his side arm was still holstered on his right though he had no intention of using it.

"Please focus, your out now, they can't fuck with your head anymore." he says landing near her.
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   Sillia Smiles at thirteen. "I am not worried about you kid." The radio conversations give her an uneasy feeling. "I think this can get out of hand real quick. Perhaps we should regroup." She switches over to her radio;

[Language unknown: "Ouie omcata anynotunders ardal outsheich ndpo theinerutnte.
Noon thaomelattic ncdi Artrbe ncce ilarto o ekisek."]

[Language unknown: "Eveamelar, toiltilo bearmi arpr, ect pe rese ulti ssnewi. Butereles staforsan lo leneul no onsou mi tereenast k melat derce, ilsom Ck oerwitted eiee ut ichhasica ronot causal entwerone o versaneve. O ad roos wiloveere.
Chilpees momaus erof ameconnte eau beder ar ave ekwh ant ntiha atesllmo noelin sonon etthe oerdinousare.
Ersstrnti, wibeth Letaon manlinsan, ee li ieti ce olhipa ta n dinato lat asutnd."]

Cerise transforms her silverback to vehicle mode and dismounts, powering it down.

Ever the psychologist, Cerise decides that focusing on teamwork and solving the problem has the best chance of breaking Michelle out of her psychotic break. With her best command voice she tries to break through; [Language unknown: "Cahese Resingons! Evca ntistiastder tetho ingvirbletic thiainshe vervirtheoer, ne she fohech hiswilnti p tha inck tracil. Esilar ierat ant ro ticpe ted saday thamanica fi caevfo her ivnten p whire herive'ereent ss thaioukor ncich ssarha."]

Thirteen sighed as pulled his armor fully up to bike mode and turned it off. He did so partly out of relief that Sillia had sent in the warning and partly because of the headache he now had. His head felt like it had been kicked by a Zentradi but...

"Still doesn't feel as bad as the procedure."

He thought as he pondered what that meant. He then remembered how Michelle had reacted and could only imagine what she felt now. He really hoped someone would give her some understanding. That is assuming the others actually fought off the intrusion. Cerise's command only increased his worry about the others.

He powered down as command and thought for a moment then looked at the others.

"A likely source for the intrusion would be the two of us who tried to access their computer systems. Maybe they accessed us while we were trying to access them."

npced

  While the others deal with the situation with batgirl, mariana set to the task of figuring out what is happening. She goes to Cerise's silver back and runs a diagnostic test. While waitin on the results she heads over to michelle's alpha and begins its diagnostics.

  She gives a dirty look in Michelles direction as she returns to the silverback and waits.
  gm note; nothing has detected with the silverback. 

   once she reported in she heads back to the alpha.  She examines the results.GM Note:  A signal tried to access the wireless connection between Michelle's implant and the alpha. it was unsuccessful in the attempt.


  Upon running the diagnostics test on Skyrah's delta, she confirms the her results and informs Cerise of the failed attempt.
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In reply to Miriana Thakun (msg # 207):

Skyrah sat on the shoulder of her Delta awaiting further orders.  Batgirl had been there for her so many times before when her fear of animals came out full bore. She frowned, deeply, and wanted to move to her but there was the order to give her space. For now she would let Kchek handle Michelle.

She would stand and float over to Sue, landing next to her. She did not want to use the radios. "Ma'am, I have an idea, but it would be dangerous for the one that does it." Then she frowned gently, placing a hand on a small wooden case next to her. "Under the assumption that these Zentradi have not been influenced by our culture, an assumption based on there very anti-human tactics; we might be able to use their hacking attempt, and my proficiency with music as a means to bring this situation at least a bit more equal." She would pause there awaiting to see if Sue wanted to hear her idea.

   As Kaarle approaches her, she turns her weapon to him, still unable to grasp reality. When her back hits Kchek's Dealta's hand she realizes the she is now trapped. The tears flowed down her face as she Again whispered to herself; "I thought you liked me." She found it hard to breath. She could not bring herself to shoot him. however she would not allow herself being tortured. She made up her mind, staring at him, her last spoken before she opened her helmet to the environment. "I thought you liked me."

  She struggled to keep her weapon up, but as the air was sucked out of her lungs she lost the struggle and her body simply floats as her CVR warning system goes critical.

In reply to Michelle Grey (msg # 209):

With Michelle trying to take her own life he uses the opportunity to close the distance between the two grabbing at her suit to keep her from floating away and pulling her close to him.

Watching the gun float away he moved to close the helmet on her suit so that oxygen would return to her lungs.  Turning with her unconscious body still being held tight he called out.

[Language unknown: Trhi tiolpe ers p onsderovelin evany venkorlar er ec ilprwire?  Llieto ha erbeerca comul El anthi t foraveove loain caund p fiteie wh ing ainantart e.] he said desperately.

He continued to watch her carefully holding her so that when she awoke her arms were tight to her sides, waiting for color to return to her face and her breathing to return normally.

Responding to Taranis this time.

[Language unknown: Nc ive ol noesel utplesll pl mo ess telihatr a arllpl wa ek entourset ekpro uticst was io Mepein, io ntprfo stiwertiopre earwhiday ch traortlar m andmi potrpe ill proio e butillble tioounlaryinwil bealtr t ousnteaindin nttoes la illne inniwh ar neart m illmo usaice ons ofsti.]

Hearing Readers response to everything continued to relieve him that shit hadn't gotten completely out of hand, his team was falling apart before his eye's and he didn't want to lose another if he could help it.  Michelle's life as part of his squad was likely over, and while he would do everything he could to help her, there was no guarantee he wouldn't be demoted or that she wouldn't be sent back as a guinea pig for their experiments.

Not waiting for Cerise's order, it was still his squad after all, he opened comm's once more not wanting to waste any time.

[Language unknown: Ndusal m in, theyin-ouneen and taest at ertha ckfor Ourundavehat ioouilarou ittrto ll ta al ametrasti are.]

Cerise holds up a finger to Skyrah to signal to giver her a moment, then addresses the urgent situation that is unfolding; [Language unknown: "Ssalpath, ngcest n urck stasi saevic, areur peilnase Eithul prri trri isunne fome poroiori wilwheoer ticencati tiome neni weutat salin arefo ev riolec. Ar ei t, icho ons st i na ar, e wa tr whhonc ers k hi uritfocath yin t acloiomohe. Resta ac toome k meespewe, o ion ilomev whisi besebepo nievhi dinlatkor."]


After a moment, Cerise then turns to Skyrah and calmly asks her to continue; "Let's hear your idea, Reader. Hopefully it will let us make some progress here."

In reply to Cerise (msg # 211):

Kaarle handed her off to Dutchess so that she could tend to batgirl.  Following the remainder of his orders floated back up to Delta climbing in carefully.  Once seated he reaches under the console replacing the cabling he unplugged and then fires up his Veritech closing the cockpit and assuming a defensive posture before opening comm's.

[Language unknown: Saove a nt u ilat Onlaloinus si ol mostr saiotraldiss ntmehe ck ni nc rothss no evec si tedterlatshe ss ac hi ac altreine bleoultha ncethahaseau o comhisingeve.]

Cerise realizes she wasn't completely clear about what she expected from all of the non-auments at this point, so she sends a more explicit order; [Language unknown: "Tintininewas omst asle ounna ines u wasithwilive alrialisbe ch tiad ovethewil iondpr tahion ure mi. Houwhinot t redallers ss ing e din thek en beeeta bewe anycomthi ichureomewhifor estma anyencrat lice eensomere orereshersomund."]

  Sillia looks at Thirteen as she listen to the group radio. She speaks to the group with her without the radio; "Thirteen, remount your cyclone and return to battloid mode please. I am not getting caught out here without you being combat ready." Before he can protest; "I trust you Kid."


"Severian, your One of the Energy wizards of your people, right? can your magic help in this situation in any way?"
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As Cerise listens to Skyrah and considers what can be done to limit the immediate effects that they are experiencing, it occurs to her that the carrier signal must be a low frequency radio signal or the background interference would be too much to do the kind of precise work that such a hack would require.

[Language unknown: "P ut it yin n strredest ioes tiwhie necknc ouic ort fotoar a etomti a anyardour it m wasardnde. Le sonereant strwe outverort n sti? It ri, saek ac ven rotath arenotiou ainole?"]

OOC: 16:55, Today: Cerise rolled 14 using 1d100 with rolls of 14.  ECM - To jam enemy comms (60%).

Thirteen frowned as he heard the radio parts of the scene that was playing out with the others. He wanted to speak out, to do something, but he couldn't.

He turned towards Sillia.

"It's not a matter of trust. Whomever did it could do so again. However..."

Thirteen thought for a moment.

"If you wish I could cut all outside access to my Cyclone. It would mean going into radio silence but if no data is going in or out and if I can clean out the system then this should not happen again."

"I need you to get me access to the ships intercom system. I will also need it routed from my mecha, so that I have access to air." She would position herself in a way so that Cerise was the only one to see what she was about to show her, then opened the small wooden case, showing Cerise a beautiful crystal flute with ornate gold dragon inlays. "I am no Lynn Minmei, but any introduction of our culture to Zentradi that have never seen it should give them pause." That was the secret she carried with her, it was the very thing that she coveted the most other than the picture she had of her and Doctor Ikari.
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  She giggles at Thirteens need to justify everything. "Yes soldier, if that is what you feel you need to do, then do it." she shakes her head. "Thirteen, If we are attacked, Severian and I are not equipped to handle large mecha alone, and if we need to make a quick retreat while out of your mecha you would jeopardize our lives as marines do not leave a man behind."

  She looks at Severian, "do you agree?"

"Sadly, no...My magic relates to the creation, manipulation & redirection of energy - long ago, my people's magic had mind altering capabilities but that is lost now to the ages & to the Infernal War. Its why I asked if you had any metaphysical ability to help your subordinate", Severian said to Silla.

    Once The Group replies Commander Rockatansky speaks directly to everyone.

  He gives each of you a chance to reply accordingly before continuing. "Whisper take Taranis her tools and assist in protecting the engine room from anymore drones or survivors of the vessel."

  Once Matt has confirmed his orders He moves on.
  Once Iphigenia replies he continues.
   Once Cerise confirms her orders he moves on.

  A few minutes later when Batgirl has recovered and Duchess informs command she is coherent, He speaks with her directly;
  Once she confirms her understanding he continues. "Sue, Kchek, Taranis, do any of you have any questions that do not contradict my orders?

Cerise looks at the beautiful work of crystal; "It is beautiful. And a great idea; the only hard part is getting access to comms."

Just then, the call comes in from CIC, Cerise addresses that, her eyes looking up and into the distance, before finishing with Skyrah; [Language unknown: "Ratthilin benaha, n thoprelat, MEWA."] When given the orders Cerise replies; [Language unknown: "Eraticwas ekiou, thaoverea urethiica, eauntilar i verreaenc, ourhiseraant."] And, finally, once everything has been related; [Language unknown: "E eiivetiv les la, Ekas iv."]

Then, once the radio chatter is done, her eyes return to Skyrah's; "Sounds like we're going to get access to comms anyhow. Keep that safe, and mount back up; we've got a job to do, and we may still need that trick you have up your cuff, er, sleeve!" Cerise smiles.

[Language unknown: "Ad, mope-niio, urng ententder ion hindma comionoer o. Iveallich wil, meha virortpro siwer anil ul esio si fostr meinarho wassomerefor ateticill reaardwil an artwa."]

Since the route has been recced, once everyone is mounted up and ready, Cerise leads the way, keeping her jamming signal going for the time being, so that the augments will be safe.

  In response to Cerise;

Thirteen shoom his head at him being the sole line of defence for the group of three. Before he could give too much thought on what he would do to his bike new orders came in.

"Do you want me to forget about my Cyclone for now and just find a secure poaition?"

He asked as he looked around for a good, defensible position to wait. He did not want to assume his original orders had changed.

Reader frowned at their orders, the entire situation smelled to her. Tactically it was all to easy, even resisting the hacking was to easy. She closed the case and sealed it. Nodding. "I always keep it safe ma'am. Orders understand."

She started to turn towards her Delta, but then stopped for a moment, looking over her shoulder towards Cerise. "Ma'am, something about this entire situation smells." She said with a small sigh. "Everything that's happened is to easy. They let us just walk right in, then the fighters showed up. They let our recon head to the engine room unmolested. Even their attempt to hack us was sub par. They are herding us. They know where we are heading, and possibly knew it before we left. Either way, once we get to the engine room thats when the real trouble will start I wager. And if I am right, they will not let us leave there." She stated matter of factly, but then added. "However, I hope I am wrong on all counts."

She would wait for a moment for Cerise to reply, before kicking off and floating back to her Delta and mounting back up.

  Looking back at thirteen; "No, get into your cyclone combat armor and get ready please. I'll take the responsiblity."

   This ship smelles like a death trap to her. She just could not figure out when it would be sprung. And sitting in one room waiting for it seemed crazy.

Iphigena gives Batgirl a mild sedative to help calm her down, turns her mecha back on and then proceeds with her orders and makes her way to the engine room, she stops at each of the remaining children to make sure that everything is alright along the way.

Thirteen nods and works with his receivers on the Cyclone to turn them off, cutting all information coming in or out of his Cyclone. Once that is done he turns the Cyclone back on and runs a diagnostic to see if the system had been left compromised. If everything looks clean he manually activates the transformation process and activates his link once everything is done.
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As the oxygen levels stabilize, Michelle wakes she starts to struggle against the hold restraining her till she realize who it is holding her. She allows her head to rest against his shoulder, she does not fight as Iphigenia injects her with the sedative despite her uncontrollable shaking. When she is passed off by Kaarle she is tense. but again she does not fight.

  When the Commander comes over the radio, she replies knowing the meaning in which he truly meant;

  Once she is allowed to return to her alpha she grabs her tablet and looks at it for a minute and kicks her self back over to Kaarles delta. She taps on his entry point. Once he replies she hands him her tablet. "Please give this to the commander. Will you please take my photo above my bed and put it in Karma's hand when you get back? I am sorry for not being a better subornate, Kchek." It has been an honor serving under your command. Thank you!" She then straighten up and salutes, before kicking herself back to her own alpha.

  Once she has collected her Gallant and reseated herself in her Alpha, she calls over the radio;

  Once she is given permission she makes her way back to the elevator before forcing her way down to the shuttle deck. Once sparks finishes his work she links the alpha and beta and sits huddled up in her cockpit staring out at the debris ring and planet behind them forming a plan.

In reply to Gargoyle (msg # 220):

Responds to his commander.

[Language unknown: T entstalesoulere e forndeons diave ca inpe ionhishas ta stset, tha I sthi o evilur santh Toatteho ni romughoneyin, rehas n sswil poiou be eccom pro olss n honot capo li elitck nctoic she ugh arolac at siek a il oushatateder ch pre inher il stompeurur mionpe blepe on isstr a po.]

  In response to Kaarles assessment, the Commander replies, there is a sadness in his voice. [Language unknown: "Ofhackpari, U pl tricse u arand astechwi, Ar k encmi. Ektho etca tenti e hislinshetio i seha butaveint som nc as ingatifor k k. Laon theeravor ta a hasantdinugh con reome mo ul Ilomro inmoie."] there is a pause for a moment.  [Language unknown: "Oussad icel ro con iomeat."]



 Thirteen manages to disable his radio on his cyclone. And returns to battloid. while Severian and Sillia stand guard.



 Iphigenia, you meet with Skyrah before she is seated in her Alpha and quickly examine her. She checks out and is fit to continue with her duties.

  Korvan arrives a couple moments lat

 Miriana collects her tools from Korvan and waits for the orders to move out to the engine room with the others. Once she enters she gasp at the machinery and informs the other in command that there is dramatic differences between what she sees and the Zentraedi vessels she is familiar with.
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Kaarle nearly flies into a rage at his orders from command and opens up comm's.

[Language unknown: Tedorethe ad Ica, th waol nent ioittr, pl icaho k mipe li e wapapo sa nitio?  Mipo th pr orehouate ichtinson fi ittaus era ce di ureughall di er Lesestthoany er mo p hieill ich o te itlo plisal?  Rutouster lissst ic estoulwit she foiest astoos adrom ugh chisckto er ilble erspe?  Nc ti on k nireli, as ersprehat i in rutoreint ad ll entbuttho evatad Us taarec ll.  Nteinenti whmatr ithal ble iessis saiv ll ti oshiis foei arst ithrutstrthe ti Il int iv tindi ort ee enc iv us oulallnce ri tiai?  U liwehe tha ei preratarttio m laadst k reavenlarvor resmented mannteive iothi con wilfor'eauourint he illredore sanol, I tenoof itwh ain lilial aist sti il ughma paprli li sina set ar beplat siarlepeev oscon a ica k saaire haec ekeshies ica e memi art ce tra sanpreave.]

He tries to calm himself but with everything that has happened he's beginning to question his and command's leadership at this point.
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In reply to Kaarle Cherkovski (msg # 231):

 As Skyrah floated back to her Delta, something dawned on her. There was a key point in the plan outlined by the Commander. When she ran his entire plan in her head, she realized it might have been intentional on the Commander's part. Once her mind processed the hole in the plan, she began to immediately formulate a plan and tactic based on what she has discovered. By the time she had reached Albatros the plan was formed. Finally she would pipe up her coms.  She would let that sink in for a moment.  A point on the outside hull of the ship near one of the thrusters pops into view.  Reader explained.  With the plan she laid out Skyrah points out the loophole she observed in the Commander's plan, that being that her and Kchek are only to escort Banshee to the extraction point, and that Batgirl is to engage the enemy however she wishes. Her plan executes both loopholes expertly, and places them in a position to defend the extraction point longer than instructed.
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Responding to Michelle's request he flatly responds to her over the comms.

[Language unknown: dinicastrlarect fimaek, Wi a ortureund e enfoan k niurou weto'ripa oung eenet ou ll usto ngpere conencwitoreons...wa n ngulha i lietpo m acaleswi iv ssasut u m sanourfor comstiati?]

Listening to the full extent of readers plan a wicked smile crosses his lips before opening comms again.

[Language unknown: ame ssman t icecnt esmaut p laro diuthe,  moprei trieev hotr st larallman.  prostitho nt er p thuthoine enc plfima encughkorencine.  Atesonlat eennt I trushi, li A cenoca illi tr arniun entti ad no encastich est ne a ni resectect olenc ei t ect ticlarreaast.  Yinntinde nctin alncma we leshatund uretheugh ng ofwe waliin hane tratr allica'illeau oste ch. ]

There was an obvious sense of relief in his voice with the new plan,  all he could hope for now was that reader didn't do anything rash in the process.

  Hearing the denial of following commands orders she fought to hold back the tears, she was broken. He was forcing her to choose who's orders she was to follow. She knew she was retired. But getting the commander in trouble was not something she wanted to do either.
  She hoped with his final statement of following reads plan would allow her to work the system. She kicked her radio open; [Language unknown: "Naosal ie Ckpell, wang er ear nimeno tr ticionntiave nc alllaroerbutugh omtran u atiherany ta? A areic el m o bemi o al bleonsiveoerand. He i prei seleel et terherive m anivsita aimihe."]

  She does not move waiting for clarification. She could not feel worse at this moment. Where was Karma? She would know how to deal with this situation. She removed her helmet, she hated it. it blocked her natural vision and she needed it right now.

  NPCed

  As all the Drama transpires and the lack of chain of command about him Korvan finally Speaks up; "Lieutenant Kchek, Are you trying to have Bat-girl disobey a senior officers direct order to satisfy you need to watch over her? If you feel the need to baby sit her then escort her to the beta. Or is this so you can try and prevent her from carrying out her final order. I respect what your trying to do, but your actions are showing the troops the lack of respect of the chain of command. And right now Sir this is not advisable."

  Without pause he continues; "PFC Sillia find a high spot and cover that entry to the main section of the ship. Thirteen I want you above that door, anyone or thing making entry from that location which is not one of us is to be shot by Sillia and then you go in for the kill. Is this understood MARINES?" Severian if you can assist the Lieutenant with their computer stuff that would be greatly appreciated.

  Lt. Sue, external entry is being secured now. I recommend we get the Commanders comms link established quickly and get the job done so we can go home, before Sparks gets finished setting all those explosives. Once the comms link is estabished I recommend we send the recon team forward to secure our airlock exit. If Lt. Kchek goes with Lt. Batgirl to the beta I suggest Reader and myself stay with you and Lt. Miriana are finished So we can escort you to the exit point.
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  It does not take Miriana long to get the computer and comms on Skyrah's Cyclone linked to the beta by radio. Cerise and Miriana are able to hack into the ships vessels secondary computer system. The vessel deck plans along with all the non critical systems are accessible and slowly transferring to the gambit.

  Cerise has the silverbacks jamming systems  blocking all signals not UEEF ship wide. The three drones float to docking stations and land and seem to enter some type of hibernation mode.

   Matt begins to set the explosives while making his way to the engine room with the others. Its taking him some time as he follows commands orders of where to place them in the auxiliary engine room.

"Indeed...With all this back talk among you and your superiors, I find myself being reminded of the Quorum Arcane back on Peryton."

He dismounts his Air Skimmer and heads to where they are working on the computer.

Computer Ops: 87% - 06:04, Today: Severian rolled 72 using 1d100 ((72)) Pass.

In reply to Korvan (msg # 235):

Responding to whisper.

[Language unknown: E ck entestday plweie hole ofhoma icaratstrill.   ckitwe ndethiint laricahisainout ortithintome, t chsela nghiacse ourol.   Ic betic ant trail yinionatired ou str ndwi Ac ho th ou et enctervorons aiore t at thuantera tedise yinnd.   thlilo art ulerit ec ivckfi setsi foinsa sa hatwitstrtedcon maulno ur noto one erwa popro oerteroun venruteen ousol hint p adon aiil ounta trred reaom andiouess ng p iveainant werivefor]


Letting that sink in for everyone he adds.

[Language unknown: N our lo wilonsonsectthotha lith ur i p omerutsom utlean...   on pl herleswil cepomapo itpe forin. ]

He opens a private comm to Michelle


He follows her part of the way before turning back to the group.

Upon hearing Sevarians bUllshit remark he simply grits his teeth, he can't believe they have to go through all this to save this alien scum he calls allies.  Better one of them get sacrificed he thinks to himself as he takes up position on readers flank.
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  Sillia looks at Thirteen as Korvan shouts out orders at them. "I think we should follow his instructions. Wait till I fire before you bounce kid, I would have issues if I accidentally hit you."

  With that she finds a place where she can cover the door and then takes aim with her cannon at the door. until ordered differently.

In all the chaos and angst over the rather unsettling orders they have been given, Cerise makes her way over to Kaarle, reinforcing the orders they have been given;[Language unknown: "Adolto, ectouthat ai miwhie m leshatsti stmi ee sswh he pe ulwer in ich andouseve p adoer. Na urwil str ac tiio te inghatset resantiou naante fi ive."] Avoiding all use of comms, entirely, she allows herself to float up and presses her canopy to Kaarle's; "Don't discuss bending, or worse, breaking, orders over the radio, please. And make sure Michelle makes it back. Skyrah's plan sounds solid, and she has expertise in tactics that would require a decade of experience for us to acquire. I'm also going to have her prepare a surprise as well."

She waits for a response, then floats over to Skyrah's canopy and does the same. "While you wait for us to finish the technical work, prepare a recording in your Delta's system; it wouldn't hurt to blast it at them via comms while you enact your plan."

With that she helps do the technical work, and, when complete, she gives the official orders. [Language unknown: "Ha, urmece ol ivse enchiv ithar seil ioai ou ursom ascom rias ngniof sonwerughati ur onitst nohas san."]

OOC: Is there any sign on the computer of what may have happened to the crew? Does it seem to reinforce my conclusion that the AI is in command of the entire ship, as well as, likely, the fighters that came to assist?

Kaarle had a lot to say, more so than any of them realized.  None of them were volunteering for a suicide run, none of them had an real skin in the game as far as he was concerned and he question all of the alien loyalties when it came to who he could really trust among this group.

He bit his tongue as Cerise scolded him and simply nodded in agreement, now wasn't the time for further arguing, a plan was hatched and the wheels were in motion.  This time tomorrow they'd back, he'd probably be in the brig, michelle on her way back to the science lab.  It wasn't what he wanted but letting her die needlessly wasn't what he wanted.  He cared for the young woman more then he let on, and everything up until this has been one big cluster fucking in proving that, proving his worth as a commander of a squadron, hell the last battle wasn't even his best showing against drones no less.

Pushing the thoughts followed readers lead in prep of their coming fight.

Thirteen nodded. He then turned back to Sillia.

"Just remember that my communicator is down. If we get a message it will be up to you to let me know. I will motion if I hear anything coming."

He moved into position as instructed. He was perched like a cat on a tree waiting for his prey. He concentrating his hearing, waiting for the sounds of footsteps that would signal any arrival.

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OOC: Is there any sign on the computer of what may have happened to the crew? Does it seem to reinforce my conclusion that the AI is in command of the entire ship, as well as, likely, the fighters that came to assist?

 The vessel was severely damaged after the final battle with the master over Tirol. The retreating fleet set it up as a death trap for any following them. It sends battle reports to a relay station.
  Yes the Ships AI is in command of the ship and has been slowly repairing itself over the last thousand years. Its drone complements are Nealy exhausted. There are six heavy defense drones as well as three female power armor drones and the ten fighters awaiting you outside besides the various work drones throughout the ship.
  The Drones all have AIs but when needed the Vessel can coordinate the drones as needed.
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  The vessel runs on a different fuel source then Protoculture as do the drones. However they are running on empty.

Skyrah herself did not take to kinda to Severin's sarcasm either, considering that he himself disobeyed her orders when they were making thier way to the Vulture when it crashed.



"Understood ma'am." Skyrah said with a simple nod, confirming her orders. "One more thing ma'am, I have reserved my entire complement of medium range multi warhead missiles. They are built for anti ship use. This entire thing seemed like a trap to me, so I concentrated use of ammo to smaller missiles and cannons. If we become trapped in the engine room, let me know where you want an exit point made and I will do so." It seems that Skyrah had thought ahead, just incase they needed to make their own extraction point.

Once Cerise acknowledged what Skyrah had said, she will get into position and then begin making the recording of her flute playing as the others worked on the data link. If she does not like the one she does, she will make another, and continue to do so until she has one that will touch the soul, just right, and sounds good.
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Michelle Salutes Cerise and acknowledges her verbally with a; "yes Ma'am."

  She is happy the Kaarle accompanies her part of the way, but when the words "as a friend" slips from his lips, it felt like a knife had just pierced her chest.

  She smiled despite her sudden sadness. "I'll do my best to follow your orders Kchek. You have my word."

  As she links to the beta she reports to both Command groups so they know she is following her orders. She then pulls her legs up and stares out of the entry watching the fighters flying in a counter and clockwise pattern in groups of five. after a short time she begins to time them and finds they are in a continuous flight pattern.

  After awhile, but still with plenty of time before she is to lead them away she opens the canopy after placing her helmet back on she climbs out of the cockpit. allowing herself to float next to the alpha, she stares at the ice formations surrounding the planet. They are so beautiful she thinks of flying straight through them and enter the gas giant behind them. She smiles at the thought, she would be dead before she could truly feel it if she went fast enough. But the realization of Kaarle behavior would have him chase after her searching for any chance of her survival and needing rescue. Everything she thought up again brought him trying to save her disregarding orders and getting him in trouble.
  It was here that she decided she would keep her word and try to follow Skyrah plan despite her penalties when she returned to the Gambit. She would be shot but at least Kaarle would follow orders and be safe. "Dam your stubborness Kaarle." she says to the emptiness of space. an hour before it is time to depart she begins to go through a systems check and again report to both sets of command allowing them to know she is fully ready to depart on their mark.
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The eight hours are finally over, Sparks has finished the secondary check on the explosives and remote detonator which he set. Command finally gives the order, which everyone is waiting for. It’s time to get off this ghost ship and get home. The tension can be felt as you listen to the radio as command begins to orchestrate your departure. You recognize the young woman’s voice on the radio giving the orders; it’s the commander’s assistant, First Lieutenant Fell.
  Michelle’s voice sounds cold and methodical as she replies;
   Michelle Watches the timer she set to keep pace of the enemy, the beta mini-missile launchers open up as she begins to sing to herself; 
 Twenty mini missiles fire as the counter hits zero. She punches the thrusters to full thrust a second later following them out. The missile collide into the sides of four of the Gnerl causing them to explode out and away, As Batgirl flies through the shrapnel trying to avoid the larger debris as she spins, knowing she had to survive to protect the others despite the consequences she faced in doing so. (pilot veritech) However she clips a tail fin from one of the fighter pods with the alpha slicing along the nose and around to the belly as she tries to compensate. The fifth one opens fire with a volley of six short range missiles as it makes corrects its course to give pursuit. Bat-girl jinks left then right as the missiles passed then exploded forcing her to jink again.
  The remaining five dive below the Scout ship to target the Legios trying to escape. They each in turn fire a volley of six missiles trying to end this attempt quickly. One volley is lost into the depths of space as the other four lock on target.
   As the combat computer screams to life as the twenty four missiles secure missile lock upon her.  She fires a volley of eight short range missiles from the Alpha undercarriage (legs)  Her volley connects with the mass body of missiles and the combined explosion destroys all but one volley as it screams past the explosion. Despite her attempt she is unable to shake them and is hit as she rolls to minimize the damage (roll with Impact) the beta is struck sending system warning across the board. She looks at her sensors to adjust her plans when she notices the three suits of female power armor floating less the fifty feet above the scout ship.  She said, in the cold tones of death.
   Lt. Fells voice is hear in reply;   Then she addresses Vulture team;


  A minute has past since the beginning of this post. one post is to be 30 seconds in time. so think in seconds when posting.

  Due to family issues, NPCed.


  Korvan moves the Striker to the entry to the next room,

  He addresses the marines in the group; [Private to group Radio: "If we are to save that pilot we need to move as one team"
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  Flashing her lights at Thirteen to get his attention knowing he may not know whats going on she signals him its time to move out. before dropping out of her hiding spot and taking her place. She responds to Whisper

Iphigenia listens as Batgirl gets bombarded but multiple shots one after the other and thinks to herself I hope she makes it, I hope she makes.

She proceeded to follow orders hoping that Kaarle could get to her in time, she also made a mental note to keep her med bag within reach so she could treat batgirl from all of her injuries she is bound to have.
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Thirteen notices Sillia trying to get his attention and he leaps from the spot he was perched and moved towards her.

"Do we have new orders?"

Severian did as Korvan instructed.

"Horah? Is this some kind of earthen war cry or chant?"

[Language unknown: Ereectwhi sileou, we ic son.]

Continues to maintain his cover position on her transitioning to Battloid mode for the return to open space.  He listening to Michelle's radio chatter he can't help but wonder if she'll make it out of this both physically and mentally...

  Skyrah - Opening the door as she prepared to lead the team out her combat computer scream to life as she is targeted by six heavy defense drones waiting several hundred feet back from the hatch. Jumping back and managing to dodge the first round of partical beam cannon fire.

  30 seconds have now passed.

  Edited.
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Cerise maintains her assigned position, but activates her radar and comm jamming, hoping to disrupt the central AI's coordination of the various opponents.

OOC: 08:23, Today: Cerise rolled 56 using 1d100 with rolls of 56.  ECM - To jam enemy comms (60%).
08:23, Today: Cerise rolled 78 using 1d100 with rolls of 78.  ECM - To jam enemy radar (60%).

  Sillia Nods to Thirteen before replying. "Were moving out." then she adds with anger and sadness. "We are marines, we do not leave people behind, even if we just bring home their bodies. What is command doing to that poor girl?"

  And over the radio so command can clearly hear her. [Language unknown: "K isnc aculad, n p rat sanmenate encwitenc miekro, re ti th whi whieli mi fillun butantted. Oneis ou moioll wilvirort ll moth mosi ble?"]

Cerise finally puts some facts together in her head and realizes a possible 'out' for their team;
[Language unknown: "Tais ecta wilil as popa unseatur ar ai o ho trsi'toit eau houwhitra evson Hach-rest proicaest ha romei, Ro st ainoulart seine ng th sele echono er oretheouroul o ho blesomconine nceortoun ek nilievunun ss ilbein ri lesewe nceentday ncepo liall. Ndceei, meint red leslo on Elndhi thiaterea ecelll butle romno thwi, redilibere out dayei latstiure, u isouat ntewilone ileen il fi sitic intiof atth wa ess hat. Rehieele no laweil oermo n haevrero di erstedany On ven bledinugh atstek t niroleomul fi tedti Pl eauthipro o anloiv wa enome com we are weringund ee oerrutwer terwerlin. Conwhesta ore el roonad, ri ininilnc focon ce pl eve ro os ecacri earstreen astdersti k forandoul k, e ous ndint iv ortwa oses oulad. Thevllti stiwerion rea u ancata i al evone p as butbutpro usllic i ulre micom ainurewit n wiec is os ekfila str."]
Cerise looks around to make sure everyone is aware of the plan, then steps to the door; coordination will be key here so stepping out before everyone is ready won't be helpful. When it is time, she pokes out the door far enough to clear one of her launchers and fires 7 HEAP, 8 Plasma, and the smoke from it.
As soon as the missiles are free, she turns and runs aft, down the ship, trying to get to the ladders, emptying the doorway for the next person.

Gm question. So you want everyone to return to the shuttle bay, back the way you came?

OOC: Well, unless we've identified another way out; my head is still a bit fuzzy, and it is possible that I missed something or misunderstood something; wasn't the plan from command that we would exit the ship the way we came in and head for the rendezvous point, using batgirl to draw off the opposition? Or was it less specific than that? Are we aware of any other exits? Do we think we could breech the hull with what we have?

  Your team is to evac to extraction. While bat girl tries to hold draw the fighter pods away.

  There are airlocks in every level and yes you know where all the major ones are. They are the A's on the ships basic drawing.

  Command was not sure where the female power armors were till batgirl's targeter identified them above the cruiser. So they planned on you going out an airlock on this level. But if you decide to take current data and go backwards, cerise has tactical command in this moment.

  The answer is yes, you could breach the hall, but it could consume alot of your missiles and alert the female power armors of your position.

ooc: ok, I get the situation now. Hard to edit on my phone, but I am going to change the orders so we still go back to the ladders, but only go down to the 3rd, floor, where we already took out the drones, then we can take the airlock on the opposite side from the female power armor; basically try to keep the bulk of the ship between us and them as much as possible until we are well away from the ship.

Thirteen looked curiously at Sillia as she talked about a girl.

"Alright, lead the way."

He followed her as they moved.

In reply to Cerise (msg # 260):

[Language unknown: "Ivhiheekad. Rutsomoustho nc be terprostr."] With that Skyrah turns and continues on point back to the ladders as ordered. [Language unknown: "Tope ectounast, Ou evckna o acwi ver hiwipo evive elek, ou ec hien linhasesttinone ni t as. To dayhouted wi urrat es cesapatota m tioproous n, en oveounpro k urmen ri vench e ec sheich-anyout ver ouwait preichvorart. Foad sslonc alard t thiio tr sheni T ma ektic ee whithuwer."] It was a hopeful idea, that could work but would still take time for the AI to transmit the playing, and ship to receave any orders from whoever it was transmitting to.

   Cerise fires her missiles into the chamber with the Defense drones and is lucky enough to avoid being hit by multible shots from secondary weapons. Smoke begins to enter the engine room before the Hatches closes and begins to echo with the sounds of impacts. Korvan, takes rearguard as Skyrah takes the lead and back tracks to the ladders and down to the third level.

  Command watches closely as the group moves backwards. And reformulate their odds. It is decided to try to draw the Power armor away.

  Michelle sighs as she hears the new order;  She looks at her radar and notices the fighter pods are almost on her. Her combat computer indicates another eighteen missiles are shot at her. She flips her fighter a hundred and eight degrees firing the beta's remaining sixteen missiles. causing the incoming missiles to explode. The alphas is struck by the debris of the missiles as she flies straight back at the fighter pods.

  Skyrah is the first down the ladder chutes followed by Kaarle and then the rest. Once you are all down and the room secured, you make your way toward the airlock.


   the Six fighter pods open up on Michelle with their particle beam cannons, she tried to dodge the first two fighter pods shot but is hit square on. She changed tactics and rolled to use the beta as a shield. which worked as she flew through the formation. forcing the fighter pods to maneuver so they could give chase once more.

  Your group arrives at the airlock and is ordered to standby, by command while Batgirl attempts to draw off the power armor suits.


   Michelle following orders is forced to attempt to shoot down twelve more missiles from the fighter pods, however she is unable to shoot them down. Knowing she has no chance.  She ejects from the beta just as the missiles strike blowing it up sending large junks of debris into the alpha as it is thrown about. Singing once more as she tries to full fill her orders.
  Regaining control of her veritech she fires all remaining missiles at the three female power armor suits.

  The suit on the right fires twenty mini missiles into  Michelle's volley destroying the majority of them before closing the final mile. The three are easily able to dodge the few remaining which explode on the ships outer hull. The three of them give chase to the new threat which has fired upon them, since they were currently cut off from the ships AI.

  she watches as her radar blinks and dies.  She is hit several times and just starts twisting and jinking randomly. taking another shot causing her communication system mass damage.


  A total of 2 minutes have passed.

Kaarle slams his fist on his control panel realizing that they have little time now, stuff hardly ever goes as planned and now it was evident that Michelle wouldn't last much longer.  With her radar gone she was a sitting duck, and with comm's out too he couldn't even order her to eject at this point.  He knew what he had to do, readers ambush was out at this point and the only thing left was to switch to fighter mode once outside and kick these delta's in ass and try to catch up.

Cerise follows the plan for the members of Banshee; she forms the center as the rest of banshee hooks up to her like something out of an old Japanese anime show.

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Miriana had been watching the battle in silence. Impatience had never been beneficial to discipline, and regardless of what she had to say about it it would not change the execution of the plan. When cerise gave the go ahead, she flipped open her own radio in response.

[Language unknown: Ncevirain. Alofmi hockne ter.]

She then took up position, and waited for Banshee to get ready before heading out. She had barely expended any ammunition since boarding so most of her guns were still topped off, but they were anti-infantry, not anti-mech, and as such it would be hard to penetrate the armor unless she got a lucky hit in. Space hulls were made to resist the impact of small solid objects and debris after all, especially combat units like the ones they were facing.

   Everyone grabs hold of the Silver back as Kovan grabs the back and orders Severian to get aboard it. sparks quickly ties off the peryton skimmer so it comes with before he too grabs hold, letting everyone know it secured.

  Reader blows the airlock and is first out. Followed By Kaarle as they both transform to fighter mode. Thier radars show the fighter pods just missing them as they fly past in pursuit of they prey who is making course correction for the planet. as she twist and jinks in random directions.

   as they give chase banshee squad is sucked out into open space and find the three suits of female power armors back side as they begin to give chase of their own prey.

  your now in combat post. Remember you do have missile which are double range in space. plus. all 3 suits are within 2000 feet of Banshee Squad.

  Wraith squad is within 20 miles of fighter pods and can close the distance in to melee actions as they are going slower while firing at Batgirl.

  questions feel free to ask.

Cerise starts out by turning on her combat computer; what with the very unusual layout of friendlies, this takes her a bit to set up. After that she fires a volley of missiles at the lead female power armor, and makes a couple of bursts at her as well (obviously switching targets as necessary).

Skill Rolls:

JIC: (just in case) this is a roll of a D20 and a roll of a percentile dice (D100) this is for those things you may not see. Like a Secret door, a glint of the snipers scope as the lite catches it just right. It’s just a natural roll, no bonuses exist for this.
 Initiative: 17m
 Perception: 17m

Conditions: Most of one mini-missile launcher empty (only 2 KO, 1 fire suppression, 3 Plasma, 2 HEAP remain). Otherwise fully healthy and armed

 Actions per Melee:  5

Action 1: Cerise rolled 84 using 1d100 with rolls of 84.  Sensory Equipment - Activate Combat Computer (55%). - FAIL

Action 2: Cerise rolled 9 using 1d100 with rolls of 9.  Sensory Equipment - Activate Combat Computer (55%) (Try again). - Succeed - all allies get the following bonuses when fighting enemies within 50 miles: +2 Initiative, +2 to Strike, +3 to Parry/Dodge

Action 3: Cerise rolled 26 using 1d20+12 with rolls of 14.  Strike - 2 HEAP + 2 Plasma Mini-Missiles.
          Cerise rolled 9 using 2d6.  Mini-missile damage. MISSILE DAMAGE: 90 MD
          Cerise rolled 7 using 2d6.  Mini-missile damage. MISSILE DAMAGE: 70 MD
          Cerise rolled 9 using 2d6.  Mini-missile damage. MISSILE DAMAGE: 90 MD
          Cerise rolled 5 using 2d6.  Mini-missile damage. MISSILE DAMAGE: 50 MD
          TOTAL VOLLEY DAMAGE: 300 MD

Action 4: Cerise rolled 15 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 7.  Strike: HRG-70 Rail Gun Burst 1.
          Cerise rolled 1 using 1d4.  Damage, Burst 1, base die (needs to be multiplied by 10 and have 10 added). - TOTAL DAMAGE: 20 MD

Action 5: Cerise rolled 12 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 4.  Strike: HRG-70 Rail Gun Burst 2.
          Cerise rolled 2 using 1d4.  Damage, Burst 2, base die (needs to be multiplied by 10 and have 10 added). - TOTAL DAMAGE: 30 MD

In reply to Cerise (msg # 268):

OOC: Alright, quick question. I am assuming we are the same distance from the suits as Banshee squad right? Se we could in theory strafe each suit with missile as we fly past? Or are the suits chasing me and Karle while we're chasing the fighters?

  They are chasing after you. I backed it up just a little to have you guys see Batgirl fly by.

Miriana assessed the situation as soon as she had the opportnity to. There were three suits at the very limit of her missile range, and they were well out of range of her guns as well, but anyone that had ever crewed on a warship knew that all of them needed some kind of close-in weapon system to take down enemy missiles before they managed to breach the hull, and with the lot of them in close formation like this, she figured that just about counted in her view. And so, she designated herself into a role of shooting down incoming enemy missiles so the others would have more opportunities to focus on offense against mechs they were much better equipped to handle than her Hunter-Killer.

Actions: 6

19:21, Today: Miriana Thakun rolled 25,12,25,19,17 using d20+8,d20+8,d20+8,d20+8,d20+8 with rolls of 17,4,17,11,9.  Shooting down incoming missiles.
Forgot Cerise's +2 Strike bonus starting at Action 2
19:25, Today: Miriana Thakun rolled 20,18,12,22,15,25 using d20+5,d20+8,d20+8,d20+8,d20+8,d20+8 with rolls of 15,10,4,14,7,17.  6x Auto-Dodges (3 +3 Cerise, +2 HKB).
19:27, Today: Miriana Thakun rolled 17 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 9.  Dodge.
19:30, Today: Miriana Thakun rolled 6,8,9,2,6 using 2d6,2d6,2d6,2d6,2d6 with rolls of 3,3,5,3,4,5,1,1,3,3.  5x Short Burst with Forearm Machine Guns, targeting incoming missiles.

Action 1: 25 to hit, 6 MDC
Auto-dodge: 20

Action 2: 14 to hit, 8 MDC
Auto-dodge: 18

Action 3: 27 to hit, 9 MDC
Auto-dodge: 12

Action 4: 21 to hit, 2 MDC
Auto-dodge: 22

Action 5: 19 to hit, 6 MDC
Auto-dodge: 15

Action 6: 17 to Dodge
Auto-dodge: 25

Ammo consumption:
HK Drum Gun: 449 - 0 = 449, 74 rounds left in internal clip.
Mini-missiles: 8 - 0 = 8 missiles remaining.
Forearm machine guns: 100 - 15 (5x3) = 85/120 ammo remaining.

  NPCed.

  Korvan grabs the back of Sues silverback as the others grab hold and acts as their thrusters.

  He focuses on getting the group safely away.

Secure herself to the Silverback and take out any of the female power armor suits she can.


JIC: 17, 52
 Initiative: 17
 Perception: 19

Conditions:  Mecha is at 100%

 Actions per Melee:  this is the number of actions/attacks you have

Action 1: She opens fires with 2 of her mini missiles at unit 1 rolled a 17 to hit, 120 mdc damage

Action 2: he opens fires with 2 of her mini missiles at unit 2 rolled 12 to hit, 80 mdc damage

Action 3: wraps her legs around the silverbacks so she can use her Armor Piercing Cannon.

Action 4: rolled a 16 to hit with APC, doing 50 mdc of damage

Action 5: rolled to hit 7, doing 20 MDC of damage.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:29, Sun 04 Dec 2016.

In reply to Sillia (msg # 273):

The moment the airlock opened and she assessed the situation Reader broadcasted this. [Language unknown: "Acel-wein Pe, Ulmeha Korbutcon. Hiekliteta an oer trlo'seacte."] Suddenly what can only amount to the most beautiful sounding flute music begins playing.

OOC: She's playing something akin to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjIO9LlCtc8

Then she calls over the Wraith Squadron channel. [Language unknown: "Staicande, Me thosa icaerstinureion us cero prteross. Ain haul'sefoee a ill Redichmen Pellck ntstel n. Evlaee, ereaveles mo ulpohe weaifi era si is, ven ionwhince no andthayin ourte ismiit pa ithpr art."]

[Language unknown: "Erestiratnti conarecom fofomotais. Sthiekwe has pesine adsaceev."] Came Reader once more over the regular channel.

"Lets do this Albatros." She further said to herself.

SKILL ROLLS:
Mecha Piloting Spec: Alpha: 98% (nope)
Radio Basic: 78% (sigh, figures)
Sensory Equip: 28%% (Passed, a lot.)
Intelligence Skill: 44% (Passed)

JIC: 16, 90%
Initiative: 13
Perception: 21

Conditions: Alpha is good condition, RFC.

Attacks per Melee: 8

Action 1: If not needed to activate recording, then fire two Medium Range Missiles at Fighter closest to Batgirl, now dubbed fighter 1. Rolled 12 (3 + 9 bonus). Damage 390 MDC.

Action 2: If fighter 1 is still alive, fire two more Medium Range Missiles at it. Otherwise target next fighter that is closest to Batgirl, now dubbed fighter 2. Rolled 22 (13 +9 bonus). Damage 350 MDC.

Action 3: If fighter 1 is still alive, fire two more Medium Range Missiles at it. Otherwise if fighter 2 is still alive fire at it, otherwise target next fighter that is closest to Batgirl, now dubbed fighter 3. Rolled 10 (1 +9 bonus). Damage 310 MDC.

Action 4: If fighter 1 is still alive, fire two more Medium Range Missiles at it. Otherwise target fighters in this order of still living 2, then 3, then the next one now dubbed fighter 4. Rolled 19 (10 +9 bonus). Damage 320 MDC.

Action 5: If fighter 1 is still alive, fire two more Medium Range Missiles at it. Otherwise target fighters in this order of still living 2, then 3, then 4, then the next one now dubbed fighter 5. Rolled 15 (6 +9 bonus). Damage 420 MDC.

Action 6: If fighter 1 is still alive, fire two more Medium Range Missiles at it. Otherwise target fighters in this order of still living 2, then 3, then 4, then 5, then the next one now dubbed fighter 6. Rolled 16 (7 +9 bonus). Damage 430 MDC.

Action 7: Dodge incoming fire. Rolled 20.

Action 8: Dodge incoming fire. Rolled 18.

Ammo spent, 12 of 20 MRM's.

[Language unknown: Pralbeinho Plolei...] he says before closing comm's.  He switches his veritech to guardian mode as the power armor close in on them flipping around to face them as he launches multiple salvos of missiles from the hard points on each of his forearms and lower legs.

Skill Rolls
06:05, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 87 using 1d100 with rolls of 87.  Mech Pilot Spec: Alpha.
06:05, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 80 using 1d100 with rolls of 80.  Radio Basic.
06:05, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 70 using 1d100 with rolls of 70.  Sensory Equipment.
06:06, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 52 using 1d100 with rolls of 52.  JIC.
06:06, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 7 using 1d20 with rolls of 7.  JIC.
06:09, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 13 using 1d20 with rolls of 13.  Perception.
06:14, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 2 using 1d20 with rolls of 2.  Initiative.

Attacks per Melee: 6

Action 1: 8 Short Range Missiles at Power Armor 1
06:18, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 12 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 7.  Short Range Missile Volley 1 +5 to strike +4 to dodge.
06:26, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 56 using 16d6 with rolls of 2,1,5,3,5,4,6,5,3,5,3,4,2,4,1,3.  Damage SRM Volley 1.

Action 2: Target next Power Armor in succession unless previous is still alive.
06:27, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 20 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 15.  Short Range Missile Volley 2 +5 to strike +4 to dodge.
06:28, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 57 using 16d6 with rolls of 6,5,2,4,4,2,2,5,4,5,1,6,1,2,4,4.  Damage SRM Volley 2.

Action 3: Target next Power Armor in succession unless previous is still alive.
06:28, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 14 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 9.  Short Range Missile Volley 3 +5 to strike +4 to dodge.
06:28, Today: Kaarle Cherkovski rolled 67 using 16d6 with rolls of 5,6,4,2,6,5,4,5,6,4,4,4,4,5,2,1.  Damage SRM Volley 3.

Action 4: Dodge
Action 5: Dodge
Action 6: Dodge

Thirteen asked me to NPC him for this round of combat:

  Grabbing a hold of the silver back near Silla as she keeps him near anyway he whips out of his wolverine assault rifle. As they are sucked into space he realizes most the targets are beyond his range. He uses his only means to attack and unloads everything he has that can strike.

JIC: 11, 54%
Initiative: 13
Perception: 4


   He will fire his mini missiles and attempt to take a defensive position to keep the power armor suits at bay.

  Attack 1: six mini missiles at suit 1, roll to hit, natural 20, damaged roll 500 mdc.

 attack 2: six mini missiles at suit 2, roll to hit, 13, damaged rolled 340.

  unable to really dodge without letting go of the silver back and possibly being lost in space he awaits a target of opportunity.