Thirteen; Aravae sticks close to you and seems to be rather happy about it. She smiles and encourages you to join her in meditation to help clear your thoughts.


  Skyrah; you find Korvan and he smiles down at you, "How can I help you Ma'am?"


Cerise, the pilot and co-pilot rotate shifts so there is always one of them with you on the bridge. but when you turn on your uv light, they just put sunglasses on and go about their duties.

  most of the marines and those who are not busy, plays simple games and work to kill time. most days they work out under Korvan's daily calisthenics, eat and do some basic combat drills.

Thirteen's honestly attempts to meditate as Avarae encourages but ends up just dozing off and falling asleep. His lack of sleep without Avarae around catches up to him in the relaxed environment.

Yes thirteen, I will talk to sillia, once she becomes a little less agitated by the situation, but dont expect it to be fast. I too agree that there is something amiss with the whole situation, but it will have to wait.

Going about his daily tasks and duties Xavier speaks very little about her little sister to anyone. Once he is able to get some alone time with Sillia he does broach the subject, but never fully says what has been on my mind. He simply testing the waters to see how her reaction to the whole situation of having her little sister on the mission.

Kitten, we need to talk about your sister. He eventually says.

Once his duties are given to him. He says Yes, ma'am  to acknowledge that orders had been given. He saluted her, then proceded to preform said duties as soon as he was done checking over everything and making sure that everything was ready to go, he hummed to himswlf, checking a list making it twice, gonna find out whos here or not.. to a tune he vagley knows from the old days.


Silas finds himself esily bored and sleeps when ever hes not doing his duties or check lists.

Severian pours over what little notes there are concerning the Disciples - however it was very little.

They formed shortly before the Masters rendered Optera unlivable to the Invid and for sending his Battlefortress into space to keep the Masters from acquiring it until it eventually crashed on Earth. He had reports of these Disciples and their loyal Zentraedi attacking Tyrol at one point but were repulsed when Zentraedi Loyal to the Masters arrived. Some reporst claim they were completely destroyed but others claim they survived and hid from the Masters.

Whatever the case may be, he looked forward to seeing the rumors proved true - unless this was an elaborate trap of some sort.

  Despite her anger she keeps a close eye on both Aravae and Thirteen. Xavier suttle hints not going unnoticed she just choose to ignore them till he finally just asked out right. "You want to know whats wrong? Ill tell you. I agreed to let Aravae help the commander to help Thirteen. Not to be part of his little pys-ops team. And here she is in combat gear and if you have notice her armor has a psy-ops insignia on it!"

   Her expression is one of pure anger. "I will not allow Aravae to be used by the military war machine. Do you understand me." Her finger was pointed at Xaviers chest without her even realizing it.

In reply to Gargoyle (msg # 42):

"I want to personally congratulate you on your promotion Sir." She said in that usual, flat tone of hers to Korvon. Then she would wait for a few brief moments for him to reply, before continuing. "And to say...  That I wish we had more time together so I could learn from you. While I might be good at unorthodox tactics, you have me beat on standard tactics, and it would take a long time to learn even a small bit of that knowledge from you." She explained, trying to compliment his knowledge and desire to learn from it all in one breath. "Still, in the short time you are still with us, before you move to lead your own Squadron, I would appreciate anything you are willing to teach me."

  Cerise as you practice your Zentraedi and Tirolian one of the bridge crew reminds you that there are Zentraedi and a Tirolian on board and they might help you practice.

  Your able to research the documents that the fleet have on the DOZ.

  Severian your able to research the DOZ data base as well with no issues.


  Miriana, you spend most of the time in the engine room, there is always something to tinker on. but you have enough spare time to complete your first probe. (from the first mission) it is ready to for its maiden flight.

  Thirteen You find Aravae letting you rest when you want it. but does go off with Michelle and practice her belly dancing and some martial arts training. though she makes you teach her as per your deal. When you crawl into your bunk she cuddles up with you. You feel the warmth wash over you as you rest.

  Silas, your boredom is repetitive, but as you continuously recount the missiles, you find Specialist Kariza dancing about listening to music. She is constantly checking and rechecking your mecha's sitting in the cargo pods. She says hi and chats with you here and there through out the days.

  Skyrah you flute playing is heard and someone switched on the PA system and it is heard throughout the shuttle.

  As the shuttle positions itself to look at the planet when two Radio Transmissions are picked up. They are repeated every hour. both come from different locations on the planet.

 The Tirolian:

  Zentraedi Messages:


  The planet does not spin. And only the orbit around the sun changes the light and darkness. Leaving one side  in complete darkness for roughly six months. the large bodies of water are giant lakes. the planet looks like it has been hit with orbital bombardment for years. There is one city that is about to enter the darkness. (this is the orgin of the Tirolian message.)


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Periodically Cerise wanders back to see if any of the Zentraedi or the one Tirolian happen to have some free time to chit chat in their native tongue.
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Cerise translates and relays the message to the bridge crew. She goes on internal comms: "Everyone on alert status; Severian, please report to the bridge." Then she calls down to Miriana; "We got a couple of what appear to be automated distress calls from the surface; one from Tirolians and one from Zentraedi. I'll relay the translated text down to you. I don't suppose you ever got around to making one of those decoy communications drones, did you? It should would help to have our signal come from somewhere we aren't right about now." As she waits for Miriana's reply, she relays her translation to Miriana: Tirolean: "Colony Ku'Urtz to Tirol, we are being over run. We are falling back to the capital and spaceport. Please send reinforcements." Zentraedi: "Warlord Volrum to Fleet Command; Ku'Urtz garrison is gone our Cruiser has been damaged. Requesting reinforcements, we cannot protect the colony much longer."

As the flute playing is piping through the shuttle Mirage pulls out her travel guitar and adds accompaniment to the tune, smiling.. though the moment is shattered after a time by the transmission.

She queries.

"What is our ETA?"

Miriana flipped open the internal comms as well, replying to Cerise's message.

- "Just got the first one done, ma'm. Should be ready for its first flight out now."

She listened to both of the messages, tapping her chin in thought and leaving some unintended grease stains on her face in the process.

- "So what's the plan? That Cruiser sounds like it's still in combat."

Cerise replies to Miriana: "The message makes it seem that way, and yet the same message has repeated after every hour as we have approached the planet. Maybe it is some nuance I am missing in the inflections or something?" Cerise plays the message back over the internal comms to Miriana. "Was my translation incorrect?

At any rate, I believe my plan will be to try to make contact with the Tirolians first; they are less likely to shoot first and ask questions later, assuming, of course, that this is not a trap.

Since you've completed one of the communication relay drones, we'll send it out and use a laser signal to communicate with it, so that our attempt to contact the Tirolians will appear to be coming from its location, rather than ours."

Cerise gives the order to launch the drone into geostationary orbit in a location with LOS with both the Tirolian and Zentraedi locations. Then she orders the Vulture to take up a geostationary orbit with LOS to the drone, but as far away from it as possible. She then attempts to establish communications with the drone.

OOC: 15:12, Today: Cerise rolled 63 using 1d100 with rolls of 63.  Laser Communications (55%).

So that is a somewhat close failure. Do I need to change the circumstances to retry, or does it just take more time to try to get the uplink going?

  Mirage,when you pull out your guitar, Gerelt pulls out his electric keyboard and plays along with you. The sound is suburb.

  A week more will pass before your final defold.


  Group:
  The bridge crew jumps into action once a discion is made to enter orbit. The normal teasing fun crew switches into a serious mod. The pilot, Sgt Swift is calling out to the nav station making sure there is nothing that might run into the Vulture while in orbit. Making sure the Vulture cloak is fully working.
  As the communication probe is launched into orbit, everyone on the bridge is quite, listening to the transmission being sent. the second and then minutes pass before the probe sends back a response.

  An excited voice comes over the radio in Tirolian; ] The transmission repeats several more times.

Cerise adjusts the focus and angle of the laser comm system, recalibrates, and tries the uplink again.

[Language unknown: [Essoulverany Haalro: "Ti ie ensan MEIL fooladchpaiv illdaymen Ionndeent. Sa ugh sawetali ne viratitrathe stimo. An eeyin linain'derure ersinghou stntic? Caevle taevpl eveen but ortbe ica tr ome enprstpl m lath ce leati proratstrall."]]

OOC: 15:59, Today: Cerise rolled 8 using 1d100 with rolls of 8.  Laser Communications (55%) (Trying again).

Yay!

  The Response is less excited and more inquisitive this time; ]

During their wait, and after some real sleep, Thirteen decides to pay a visit to Michelle and Avarae during one of their dance lessons. He enters the room but keeps quiet, sitting down in a corner as to not interrupt them until they were ready. The expression on his face is of someone that has something on his mind.

  When Thirteen enters the cargo pod where they were practicing, she gives Aravae a quick smile.
  She did not give much attention to the fact he looked like he was again in deep thought. After all it was rare to see him, not contemplating something.

  Aravae smiles as Thirteen enters and takes a seat. if not for the fur, the others would have seen her blushing. but as she danced she forced herself to relax, using the experience to enter a state of meditation.

  Once practice was over she smiled in Thirteens direction and speaking softly; "Is everything ok?"

In reply to Gargoyle (msg # 60):

Kaarle and Michelle spent some time together just walking and talking about random things.  He tried to avoid sharing his concerns about the mission since it would make thing more difficult.  Fast forward to today and things are just as difficult now as they were before they started making their way to this point.

He stood with the others command staff on the bridge knowing that the time had finally come.  As the messaging came in he watched Cerise working the comms equipment waiting to see how things were going to play out.

Cerise figured they wouldn't react well to not being rescued by their own kind, but that is why she opened with it; she wanted to clear the air as quickly as possible. Clearly this was NOT (currently) a Disciples of Zor outpost; otherwise they would not have been calling for aid from Tirol, which, to their knowledge, was under the control of the Robotech Masters. That was good and bad; good in that the Robotech Master controlled Tirolians were more predictable and better understood, but bad in that they were a more xenophobic culture than the Disciples seemed to be.

She also called Silas to the bridge, since having a Tirolian to aid in the negotiations could be useful. Intra-ship PA: "Lieutenant Nightshade, report to the Bridge."

Cerise considered for a moment and made sure to carefully word her response so as to minimize any typical Tirolian negative responses, but to encourage them to consider the alternatives.

[Language unknown: ]

OOC: Some skills that might help

08:50, Today: Cerise rolled 48 using 1d100 with rolls of 48.  Military Etiquette (60%).

08:49, Today: Cerise rolled 68 using 1d100 with rolls of 68.  History: Tirolian Empire (60%).

08:49, Today: Cerise rolled 81 using 1d100 with rolls of 81.  Psychology (65%).

08:48, Today: Cerise rolled 86 using 1d100 with rolls of 86.  Public Speaking (75%).

08:47, Today: Cerise rolled 45 using 1d100 with rolls of 45.  Lore: Robotech Masters (55%).

In reply to Cerise (msg # 62):

Everyday for a little bit Skyrah would play her flute, it was a differant tune each day as time went on. However the tone of the songs would change a bit the closer they got to the mission sight, starting with happier song and growing more and more somber as they drew closer.

Then the call came, for everyone to get to battle stations. "Lieutenant make sure the Squad's is ready, for anything. I'm going to the bridge." She said to Korvon as she passed by him on her way to the bridge.

Thirteen looked at Michelle and Avarae.

"I was thinking that now might be a good time to have our talk Michelle. Avarae is here to help and we have relative privacy."

   Michelle Gives them a look. Then she leads Thirteen and Aravae to her Alphas cockpit under the Shuttles belly into the retractable hanger. She turns to look at them. Before sitting on the back of the canopy. Her voice is soft and genuine; "There is no more private space then this here. I do not know if you will like the answer to your question My friend. But ask it."

Severian arrived at the bridge.

"Your summons was received - have we found something?", he asked Cerise.