Iron Stars - LDX195021 Shipyard Boarding (NMC VW)

LDX195021 is a system where two damaged Chimeran Ascendency battleships are being salvaged and repairs are being attempted after a successful round of Greystar sabotage. The New Moon Cooperative fleet, supported by the larger displacement vessels from the Void Wardens arrive at the system edge, their objectives being twofold.

Boarding each of the shipyards to capture or destroy the ships within

Locating and rescuing the captured GSC smugglers, and extracting them if they are alive. Confirming the identities of any bodies if not will provide closure to the families.

Senior Agent Micaela is present in system aboard the Link-1 a lightly armed and armored free merchant armed with a multitude of fittings, most relevantly it's advanced sensors, emission dampers and boarding tubes

@NMC @Karre Mondragon(Timothy) @Greystar (just for visibility so we know what mission thread is ours ) (edited)

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Hárrstjarna looked over his shoulder at Micaela, pulling his hands away from the sticks as he awaited instruction. Wondering to himself what this first assignment might entail for him as he would looked back out into the vastness before them. "How shall I proceed?"

Micaela heads over to a nearby console and examines it "Looks like the emission dampeners are working at the moment, we'll stay here in position for a blink and half a heartbeat; give our compatriots a chance to orient themselves, then we can start peeping around and seeing what the sensors pull up. Long as we keep our eyes focused on our priorities we should get out of this alright Hárrstjarna" Her demeanor is tense but it's been that way ever since the staging ground was left behind, though the stress has is accompanied by a spark of excitement in her eyes. "I hear you've completed your two required hours of flight time and only pass out in sixty percent of the simulated scenarios?" The comment seems more directed at the cockpit itself and you see the security guard, a Johnathan Cobb. Tense visibly at the joke, and eye the flight controls. Almost like he's evaluating if he could pilot the ship in an emergency, and seeming distressed about the complexity of the screens at your pilot's station.

"Sixty percent? I was informed of only passing out in six percent of my simulated scenarios, must be a clerical error..." He huffed as he looked back over his shoulder at her, after noticing Cobb tense up. Though after a moment he would turn his attention back to his screens and monitors. "Aye, holding steady, on your Mark." (edited)

(for a sensor roll it would be program based on int with a +2 from the extends sensor suite?)

(prog/int would be using either your bonuses or an npc bonus of +2. Then there are modifiers for ship size. Would need to consult the CRB for the correct bonus)

(Just give me your result after your mods. I’ll apply the rest because I know what counts and what doesn’t )

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(unless you have a good program skill Harrstjarna we'll have an npc crew member make the roll.)

((Uhm, -1 ))

((I didn't know that was something I was going to need lol))

(it's not. You're the pilot not the comms officers. I was just curious if you were proficient as a side skill ^_^)

((My side skill was shooting lol))

!roll 2d6+2 !npc program skill check

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [4, 4] Result: 10 Reason: npc program skill check

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Rodger along with the two remaining soldiers in his squad and some others waited in a boarding tube on the troop carrier the Rodger Young he didn't have much to do once his personal preparations were complete until a ship was found and their tube was fired and latched to it. He fought the urge to pace the small shared space not wanting to add to the anxiety of the calm before the fight. (edited)

Annie looked over to Harrsrjarna, and asked “ if your piloting mind if I put some music on?”

( @Rodger Landon (Corn) are me and Annie on the same boarding tube as you? Or each one different ones?)

1:30 PM

(Or really anyone I’d they can answer this lol)

"Not at all, what did you have in mind?" He asked as he turned to the other individual inquiring to him.

" I've got some generic spacer playlists I could throw on, and could always swap to something a little more appropriate when the fighting starts."

(hey just for reference Harrstjarna and I are onboard the Greystar Free Merchant I system. I'm pretty sure the NMC have their own ships present here. If you want to be aboard the Link-1 I have no issue with it but it definitely needs to be discussed how that happened or if it could happen)

Micaela Finnegan | Adrian |

(hey just for reference Harrstjarna and I are onboard the Greystar Free Merchant I system. I'm pretty sure the NMC have their own ships present here. If you want to be aboard the Link-1 I have no issue with it but it definitely needs to be discussed how that happened or if it could happen)

( Oh my mistake I thought this was one ship. We can take that conversation back if you'd like)

(let's see what Neko thinks. Im definitely nowhere near an authority on stuff I just didn't want mistaken circumstances to present difficulties later on.)

(Will try and make a legible response. My brain is not working quite atm. So GS have sent 2 ships because most of our forces are occupied. We have a Cruiser staffed by me and Max and a Free Merchant staffed by Michaela and Harrstjarna. The NMC sent their own ships including a cruiser, 3 frigates, a troop transport, stealth ship and assorted fighters. You could join one of us in the GS ships, I'm sure we'd be happy to have you but you start to run into diminishing returns on what each person can do so you may want to be on one of your own ships, particularly that nice Cruiser you bought.)

Dr. Alaric Moorfield

( @Rodger Landon (Corn) are me and Annie on the same boarding tube as you? Or each one different ones?)

(Same is fine if you like up to you all. I left it open a bit so people wouldn't have to wait on me)

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(The cooperative has several ships here. Annie would be in their troop carrier )

The Greystar cruiser Troika drops in system with the NMC fleet. "Groshim, please check that our tac systems are still interfacing with our allies. We'll want to be sure everyone's working from the same data." (Should we make a detection roll? With Groshim and the cruiser bonus we'd have a +7)

(Yes let’s do it)

"Working on sync, software uncooperative from differences in Polity systems. Compensating. Beginning system scans, results soon."

3:32 PM

!roll 2d6+7

Groshim Roll: [5, 2] Result: 14

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Yalone sat in the back of the launch tube that Rodger was in running his hands over one another before pulling out both his revolver and laser pistol. Running through his weapons for a third time to make sure everything was ready for the fight ahead, It was apparent at the nervousness of this 'Tre. Sure working as a gas miner had it's fair share of deadly encounters, gas so hot it could vaporize the skin or one turn of a wrong knob and the system would explode, but this, this was different. A fight to the death would follow this. Yalone just shook his head and hosteled his weapons once more as he got up and looked out at the open space before him.

!roll 2d6

Nekosmash Roll: [6, 6] Result: 12

Three heavy frigates have been detected in the system along with one patrol boat and a free merchant that looks to be running supplies and people between the two shipyards

Dr. Alaric Moorfield

Yalone sat in the back of the launch tube that Rodger was in running his hands over one another before pulling out both his revolver and laser pistol. Running through his weapons for a third time to make sure everything was ready for the fight ahead, It was apparent at the nervousness of this 'Tre. Sure working as a gas miner had it's fair share of deadly encounters, gas so hot it could vaporize the skin or one turn of a wrong knob and the system would explode, but this, this was different. A fight to the death would follow this. Yalone just shook his head and hosteled his weapons once more as he got up and looked out at the open space before him.

Annie looked over yalone. “ you’ve got a lot of guns I just have the one.”

"Huh, the defences don't look as strong as I expected." (Is there someone commanding the NMC fleet? It feels like it would be strange for a lone cruiser to take the lead.) (edited)

"Did we send them a formal war declaration? They are likely not mobilized for full scale war this far from the front line of their planets."

(I know it isn't me or Annie as we just joined, maybe Rodger?)

(Let’s give everyone the courtesy of the work week starting and being at the computer /mobile more before we jump ahead ) (edited)

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(sorry if I came across as impatient or accusing. I was just asking because I didn't know if there were any other players joining us, and the ones who had all looked like they were focusing on the boarding action.)

(No you’re good. I asked behind the scenes in a channel you can’t see and don’t have an answer yet on the NMC ships, so I’m asking the same questions. Weekends are slower for a lot of us here myself included ) (edited)

Dasvan

Annie looked over yalone. “ you’ve got a lot of guns I just have the one.”

"Two is a lot?", he thinks to himself before answering. "It's not how many you have, but how you use it.", he says patting his revolver holster. "Think as the second gun as.... insurance.", he said thinking that would be a wonderful name for his next gun.

Rodger opened his eyes and looked over. "I have three, a bayonet and two melee weapons even though I havent used anything more than the laslock especially since I linked it to my armor. It pays to be prepared sometimes, just make sure not to shoot too many holes in the tube or our new ships."

Karre stands on the command deck of one of the Void Warden ships. In his assault suit, he looms over the Comm officer while data from the task force’s tactical link stream through. He directs the officer, “Open a patch to the polity reps in system.” Once the link is established, Karre addresses everyone, “Morning all. Great day for a raid isn’t it? I’m Karre Mondragon and repping the Wardens at this soirée.”

NMC Fleet NMS Eclipse - Fleet Cruiser - 12 fighter capacity Aplomando Bomber x 8 Peregrine-Class Fighter x 4 NMS Escorts 1, 2, 3 - Heavy Frigate NMS Rodger Young - Troop Transport (Boarding capable - 21k capacity) (posting for reference)

The NMS Eclipse answers the hail and begins transmitting video and audio back. An image appears of the command deck with a man standing in the center wearing an impressive set of Titan Plate. His large mustache works to hide his grim expression as he mentally prepares for the events to come, “Greetings commander. This is Iracus Varanu of the New Moon Cooperative in command of His Majesty’s fleet for this operation, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance. It would seem the Ascendency has done a poor job of maintaining those poor vessels over there. Fortunately for them, we've brought a whole team of specialists to assist them with their efforts.” (edited)

Micaela Finnegan | Adrian |

"Did we send them a formal war declaration? They are likely not mobilized for full scale war this far from the front line of their planets."

Harrstjarna looks over the monitors and screens in front of him for a moment before looking back at the Senior agent.

Micaela returns the glance, "Well, put on your best video camera face, we're jumping in and it's all business, butchery and smugness from here on out. Try and have some fun with it if you can is my advice." And her demeanor undergoes a strong shift into Greystar professionality as she joins the comm channel in video and audio, bedecked with the Greystar cape and uniform. "Agent's Finnegan and Hárrstjarna aboard the Link-1, here primarily to support the boarding action and assist with the recovery of any captive personnel, though push come to shove we'll fight out here in the void like a ship twice our size. Glad to see we're in good company out here in the black."

Hárrstjarna nodded in recognition of her and grabs the sticks, growling and intermittently going stiff and then loose and fluid, his large feral muscles flexing as he happily awaited the chance to do something. (edited)

(Void Wardens have the Ragnarok battleship, the Good Shepherd heavy frigate, and the Adder corvette)

(Ever felt like you outgun the other side so much that your confidence cycles all the way back around to apprehension? I'm worried about what they might have hidden.)

Iracus gives a nod to the Greystar team, "We'll get those taken captive back eating Acastus chocolate in no time. Our teams have been briefed on the matter and will search those stations head to toe. Were it not for Greystar and the Captain Kelvin Bell at the battle of Benavides, it's hard to say we'd even be here. So they are eager to help return the favor and bring your team home." (edited)

(is there any observable difference between the two shipyards?)

(Each one is working on a battleship, Shipyard 1 is more damaged, as the GSC faction attack was more successful here)

(can we detect any weapons/defenses on the shipyards? Or are the identified ships all we are aware about as of now?)

(identified ships are all we are aware of)

(One thing that may be an issue is the battleship, while we disabled them I'm not sure we know how badly. It is feasible one or more of them may have some of their weapons to play with.)

(probably the last clarifying question, but has the enemy spotted us?)

(Each force has spotted the other)

(Seeing as they already know we're here should we issue a demand to surrender? If we really do outgun them so badly then they'd probably be inclined to listen)

(I think any decision making should be ultimately done IC)

11:49 AM

(but you guys can certainly talk about it)

Karre glances to the tactical read outs, “Given what we see, I think it’d be reasonable to assume shipyard 2 should be our primary target. It’s the least damaged and therefore probably has the battleship most likely to have functional defenses. Plus I would be surprised if they’re wasting precious life support for prisoners on shipyard 1 when it’s already functioning below optimal levels.”

"Agreed. With our troop transport in addition to your forces, we should have enough boarding teams to take both at the same time to prevent any possibility of them escaping or forming a more dug in position. Once the system ships are neutralized, the NMC can focus on overwhelming the more damaged station while your Void Wardens and Greystar tackle the other. We'll also want to take care with that free merchant transport running about, no telling who is aboard." (edited)

“I agree with a small caveat. If the free merchant runs we can send a small ship after it. I’d like to keep our line ships running with our transports. Especially if the Young needs to get right up to the stations. “I think if we focus on the bridge and engineering decks of the battleships we’ll be able to hold until our other troops are able to secure the stations. Best case, the weapons are active and we can use them as leverage. Worst case, they start firing at us during the boarding action.” “The NMC marines are going to be doing the heavy lifting on this while we all secure our critical objectives.” (edited)

"That's if the battleships are even operational, and with them in dock, their firing options will be hopefully limited. But even so, care should be taken to only disable them. No telling what kind of chain reaction might occur if they go critical while in dock. This system could prove an ideal staging area for when we bring the action to their capital, so if we can capture the stations, then we should. Any concerns from Greystar or shall we kick off this shindig with an offer for surrender?"

"The offer should be made. Targeted at each ship and station individually through direct comms. This gives the command the opportunity to perform an official surrender and each individual unit to consider the possibility it doesn't have to follow the status quo. Besides that I'm ready when you all are."

The offer is made and the station shuts down communications just as you get halfway through the statement you plan to make. The Ascendency do not plan to surrender their salvation without a fight it seems.

"How rude, very well. Shall we move in?" Off the group comm, Iracus sends a message to all NMC personnel and ships "Cooperative forces, the Ascendency has rejected our offer of honorable surrender. Move to battlestations and prepare for battle. All boarding teams to assigned tubes. We are in red alert. If we can capture those battleships we must try, but at all cost must the Ascendency not be allowed to use those weapons to instill terror throughout the galaxy. It's going to be a hard fought battle on that station. But it was a hard fought battle when we rejected the rule of those who claimed a birthright to our lives and yet here we stand. Today we help play a part in the liberation of those the Ascendency claim the right to rule over, we do it for all the lives lost to their cruel ways. We do this for all those who've been lost to oppressive regimes everywhere. We do this for the Cooperative! Fight bravely, fight with honor, fight for freedom!" Iracus terminates the fleet wide transmission and prepares for battle (edited)

(Let’s get initiative for ships )

NMC

Ship             | Type           | HP    | AC | Armor | Speed | Initiative
NMS Escort 1     | Heavy Frigate  | DEAD/50 | 15 | 10    | 1     | 9
Bomber Sqd 1     | Fighter (4/4)  | 52/52 | 16 | 5     | 6     | 8
Bomber Sqd 2     | Fighter (4/4)  | 52/52 | 16 | 5     | 6     | 8
NMS Escort 3     | Heavy Frigate  | 50/50 | 15 | 10    | 1     | 6
NMS Rodger Young | Transport      | 50/50 | 13 | 10    | 0     | 6
NMS Escort 2     | Heavy Frigate  | 50/50 | 15 | 10    | 1     | 5
NMS Eclipse      | Fleet Cruiser  | 60/60 | 14 | 19    | 1     | 4
Fighter Sqd 1    | Fighter (4/4)  | 32/32 | 16 | 5     | 6     | 4

NMC Initiative 
NMS Escort I  - 9
NMC Bomber Sqd I  - 8
NMC Bomber Sqd II - 8
NMS Escort III - 6
NMS Rodger Young - 6
NMS Escort II - 5
NMS Eclipse - 4
NMC Fighter Sqd I - 4

(edited)

(I believe we have an npc pilot, so that's 1d8+1 correct?)

6:56 PM

!roll 1d8+1 !Troika initiative.

Max Davenport Roll: [8] Result: 9 Reason: Troika initiative.

(This got super out of order. Which number should I be looking at for initiative )

(Fixing, tried to be fancy and failed my performance roll) (edited)

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9:37 PM

(Ragnarok initiative 8 Good Shepherd initiative 5 Adder initiative 3)

Ragnarok       HP 90/100 | AC: 18 | Armor: 25 | Speed 0

Good Shepherd  HP 50/50   | AC: 17 | Armor: 10 | Speed 0

Adder          HP 50/50   | AC: 13 | Armor: 10 | Speed 3

(edited)

!roll 3d8

Nekosmash Roll: [8, 3, 3] Result: 14

!roll d8

Nekosmash Roll: [4] Result: 4

!roll 2d8

Nekosmash Roll: [8, 7] Result: 15

Max ~~Nms Escort 1~~ CA battleship 1 (Crashed sys,) Ragnarok ~~CA heavy frigate~~ NMC bomber squad 1 NMC bomber squad 2 CA Battleship 2 ~~CA heavy frigate 2~~ NMC Roger Young NMC escort 3 NMC escort 2 ~~CA Patrol Boat (Heavily damaged)~~ ~~CA Heavy frigate 3 (damaged )~~ Good shepherd NMS eclipse Link 1 NMC fighter 1 Adder CA free merchant (Disabled, boarded) (edited)

Nekosmash pinned a message to this channel. 6/7/2022 5:29 AM

(CA Battleships are speed 0, heavy frigates are 2, patrol boat and FM are 3)

5:30 AM

As the fleet steams closer through the void of space , power begins feeding into the stationary battleships. Though they cannot move, their weapons begin to turn to point into space , provided with power and ammunition from the platforms themselves. The Ascendency doesn’t seem to be willing to part with its heaviest assets without a fight.

(max is up first)

(Me and Max have talked it over and have a game plan. I'll be rolling this time as he's busy with life stuff.)

(sounds good to me)

Troika 1 Activate Volley Capacitors Support department, Defeat ECM (Battleship 1) -0 9/9 3*target system - (3 different weapons on battleship 1) -3CP 6/9 Fire one weapon -2CP (4/9) Grav Cannon 17/ Fire one weapon -2CP (2/9) Grav Cannon 22/6 AP20 Fire one weapon -2CP (0/9) Grav Cannon 21/ (edited)

8:47 AM

!roll 2d6+5! Defeat ECM

Groshim Roll: [5, 1] Result: 11 Reason: Defeat ECM

!roll 2d6+3

Nekosmash Roll: [3, 2] Result: 8

(all miss, Ship 1 subjected to ECM)

8:53 AM

(NMS escort 1 is up)

(I've not rolled weapons yet? Thought I needed to wait for outcome of ECM so I could do mods correctly?)

9:00 AM

!roll 1d20+5

Groshim Roll: [12] Result: 17

!roll 1d20+5

Groshim Roll: [17] Result: 22

!roll 1d20+5

Groshim Roll: [16] Result: 21

(I thought the 2/9 was your hit and damage)

(Ah sorry. That was me keeping track of CP remaining.)

(the 22 hits)

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!roll 4d6/2

Groshim Roll: [6, 3, 3, 1] Result: 6

(what is the AP on the weapon you're firing)

Ap 20

One of the shots strikes the battleship and a portion of its battlements goes dark for the moment. The front and aft of the large vessel look to be responding normally despite the initial barrage.

"All ships, focus on keeping the Rodger Young free from harm, focus fire any targeting ships. Escort 1 all weapons on indicated enemy frigate, use additional resources to crash systems on disrupted battlehship!" NMS Escort 1 (CP 5/5) Speed: 1; To hit +2 (+3 base - 1 speed difference ) Activate Velocity Capacitors (+4 CP to gunnery) Support Department: Gunnery Fire All Guns (-1CP): CA Heavy Frigate WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 7/8; (3/miss) WPN 2: Mag Spike Array | 2d6+2 AP 10; Flak; Ammo 9/10; (2/miss) WPN 3: Plasma Beam | 3d6 AP10 (5/miss) Fire All Guns (-3CP): CA Heavy Frigate WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 6/8; (8/miss) WPN 2: Mag Spike Array | 2d6+2 AP 10; Flak; Ammo 8/10; (3/miss) WPN 3: Plasma Beam | 3d6 AP10 (3/miss) Fire All Guns (-3CP): CA Heavy Frigate WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 5/8; (18/14) WPN 2: Mag Spike Array | 2d6+2 AP 10; Flak; Ammo 7/10; (14/11) WPN 3: Plasma Beam | 3d6 AP10 (6/miss) Crash Systems (-2CP): CA Battleship 1 (12v7 SYSTEMS CRASHED -1 CP) (edited)

!roll 2d6+3

Nekosmash Roll: [2, 2] Result: 7

(7 for battleship's crash systems result)

(got a 12 for crash systems)

9:41 AM

(and all hits (or rather misses) have been added)

The crippled battleship has two of its remaining weapons available, and though the gunnery department is struggling to compensate for the systems that are down, two of its guns still are able to fire and the large dorsal turrets begin turning toward the oncoming Escort 1, hoping to cut through the jamming traffic. You're unsure what the Chimeran battle plan here is, and for the moment it is possible they do not have one.

9:50 AM

(Have 3CP, firing all guns to use my remaining two weapons, rolling shortly, got a call)

Nekosmash pinned a message to this channel. 6/7/2022 10:03 AM

The mass cannon battery in the fore and aft of the ship fires at Escort 1, sending shrieking hard shields into the void. (BShip is speed 0 , Escort is speed 1, so +2 in difference after differential) !roll 2d20+2

10:04 AM

!roll 2d20+2

Nekosmash Roll: [11, 11] Result: 24

The two shots go wide, targeting systems thrown off by the electronic attacks carrying out across the bridge and fire control systems.

10:04 AM

(Ragnarock is up)

The Ragnarok’s command deck is bathed in red combat lighting. The captain’s commands are the loudest noise on the bridge as combat chatter begins between the stations with various reports. “Weps, focus fire on the escorts. Let’s swat some of those flies. Nav, bring us about to screen the Young best we can. EWAR, add our jamming to battleship 1.” Karre’s voice answers along with the chorus of ayes. (Fire all Weapons: CP 3. Targets: CA HF 1 with 2x VTI, CA HF 2 with 1x VTI, CA PB with MSA. Crash Systems: CP 2. Target: CA BB 1 Stand-by for rolls)

!roll 2d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [6, 4] Result: 12

(12 for my anti-ECM on BB 1)

(Rolls against CA HF1: 24/39 AP 20; 12/42 AP 20 Rolls against CA HF2: 11/47 AP 20 Rolls against CA PB: 27/19 (crit) AP 10. Rolls against CA BB1: crash systems 11 v 12 failure)

(hit on PB and HF1 )

11:18 AM

(dont' want to narrate without your go)

(You’re good. Narrate away boss man)

One of the heavy frigates slews off course as the shot punches into its front prow. Armor is burned away and peels back revealing a skeletal front section still trailing venting gas, bodies of dead crew, and metal support struts. The patrol boat is heavily damaged, taken amidships, its power flickers several times before stabilizing.

11:43 AM

hoping to continue wearing down the Escort 1 , the Chimeran's first heavy frigate sends a spread of torpedoes toward the vessel, firing weapons and speeding up, hoping to buy more time and wild weasel more of the incoming enemy fire.

11:43 AM

!roll 2d20+2

Nekosmash Roll: [18, 7] Result: 27

!roll 3d8

Nekosmash Roll: [7, 5, 4] Result: 16

(18/16 AP20 , torpedo hit on Escort 1, other shot misses. )

11:43 AM

!roll 2d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [2, 2] Result: 6

(speed boost fails)

Alarms blare on the heavy frigate signaling a target lock, at the same time Escort 1s comms officer releases a concentrated burst of electronic interference avoiding the damaging blast as the torpedo narrowly misses. (Escort 1 has used ecm generator defense) (edited)

(CA battleship 1's second gun should be working. Groshim and I determined the calculations were done wrong, so I'm going to fire it real quick before too many other things change)

11:47 AM

!roll d20+2

Nekosmash Roll: [7] Result: 9

(miss, doesn't matter)

11:47 AM

(NMC has two wings of bombers up now0

"All bomber squadrons, continue efforts in eliminating frigates!" NMC bomber squad 1 4/4 Fighters; Speed 6; To hit -1 (+3 base - 4 speed difference) Fire One Weapon (-2CP): CA Heavy Frigate WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 7/8; (5/miss; 5/miss; 6/miss; 11/miss;) Fire One Weapon (-2CP): CA Heavy Frigate 2 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 6/8; (5/miss; 2/miss; 3/miss; 9/miss;) (edited)

12:02 PM

(come on bomber squad 2, finish the job!) NMC bomber squad 2 4/4 Fighters; Speed 6; To hit -1 (+3 base - 4 speed difference) Fire One Weapon (-2CP): CA Heavy Frigate WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 7/8; (9/miss; 5/miss; 7/miss; 13/miss) Fire One Weapon (-2CP): CA Heavy Frigate 2 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 6/8; (12/miss; 6/miss; 0/miss; 17/12) (edited)

(showing misses across the board here)

12:05 PM

(dont want to move on without your go)

(17 misses to?

oh boy oh boy, things are getting spicy here. Good to go on!)

(small in number but tanky)

12:19 PM

(They're Mosk-built)

12:21 PM

The battleship, the second of its type, begins turning its own mass cannons toward the fight, sizing up the Ragnarok with its volley of destructive weaponry.

12:21 PM

!roll 3d20+2

Nekosmash Roll: [18, 7, 1] Result: 28

!roll 2d20

Nekosmash Roll: [12, 3] Result: 15

(20/15 AP 20, the other two are a handy miss) Unencumbered by electronic jamming or the series of crashing system attacks, its gunnery team manages to reload and fire off one more salvo from its prow battery, hoping to capitalize on damage done. The shot goes wide, exploding several kilometers short as an improperly set fuse prematurely ends the trajectory of the ship killing shell. (edited)

12:22 PM

(miss)

12:25 PM

--- The second Chimeran Heavy Frigate seeks to join its companion in running down the Escort 1. With its ECM shielding down, any further hits that land will bring it closer to demise. Its glittering solar sails catch the sunlight as it stands defiant amid a haze of shrouding debris, radiation clouds, and spinning contrails from onboard point defense systems. Deck crews labor within the NMC ship to respond quickly to any damage, and brace conditions are called. Two torpedoes fired from the HF2 close in on their target in a standard grid search pattern, before homing in on the vessel.

12:25 PM

!roll 2d20+2

Nekosmash Roll: [10, 1] Result: 13

The intervening radiation and residual ECM scattering sends the missiles off course

12:26 PM

(Roger Young is up )

(Ragnarok takes the hit. HPO reduces AP to 15, 10 damage to the VW BB) (edited)

" Things are about to get rocky. Evasive maneuvers and try to blast that ship tailing us." Annie ordered as she set a generic space combat music over the ships communications system. ( I imagine it sounds like this https://youtu.be/AgL6jbqDbx8) NMC Roger Young. Support Department Engineering Engineering Boost Engines 0 cp (4/fail) Bridge- Evasive Maneuvers 2 cp (11/+1 ac) Gunnery fire 1 weapon 2 cp (2/miss) (edited)

The Roger Young barrels ahead into the storm of combat, and evasive course corrections throw everyone around the bridge. An outgoing shot misses the heavily damaged CA patrol boat, and for the moment the carrier has crossed half the distance needed between the allied battle line and the shipyard its crew is preparing to assault. With any luck, marines will be pouring into the station and its attached battleship within the next fifteen minutes.

1:47 PM

(Escort 3 is next)

"Eclipse to Escort 3, I'm sending you a live data from the bombers run. Give them to your comms team to help find a firing solution and send frigate to the void!" NMS Escort 3 (CP 5/5) Speed: 1; To hit v HF +4 (+3 base - 1 speed difference + 2 defeated ECM) To hit v PB +1 (+3 base - 2 speed difference ) Activate Volley Capacitors Support Department: Comms Defeat ECM (0CP): CA Heavy Frigate (11v?) Fire All Guns (-3CP): CA Heavy Frigate WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 7/8; (12/miss) WPN 2: Mag Spike Array | 2d6+2 AP 10; Flak; Ammo 9/10; (17/miss) WPN 3: Plasma Beam | 3d6 AP10 (16/miss) Fire All Guns (-3CP): CA Heavy Frigate WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 6/8; (7/miss) WPN 2: Mag Spike Array | 2d6+2 AP 10; Flak; Ammo 8/10; (19/11) WPN 3: Plasma Beam | 3d6 AP10 (9/miss) Fire All Guns (-3CP): CA Patrol Boat WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 5/8; (2/miss) WPN 2: Mag Spike Array | 2d6+2 AP 10; Flak; Ammo 7/10; (18/10) WPN 3: Plasma Beam | 3d6 AP10 (11/miss) (edited)

2:01 PM

(11 for defeat ecm v heavy frigate 1)

!roll 2d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [5, 3] Result: 10

(11 v 10, so you have succeeded)

(one hit on both i think?)

(I show HF 2 and PB hit)

2:10 PM

(17 didn't do it for that first one)

(awesome, and just to clarify, that shot is going for HF 1 unless I missed that going down) (edited)

A shot punches through the patrol boat and as it prepares to line up for a broadside on one of the nearby NMC fighter squadrons, a beam rips a hole down the entire vessel from prow to stern,blowing out the engines and destroying everything within with a series of chain reactions and explosions. The damaged heavy frigate suffers another devastating hit, losing one of its ornamental fins which slowly spins away on a different trajectory as the flaming vessel sails through its own debris cloud.

2:13 PM

(Escort 2)

Seeing the badly damaged frigate, and hoping the fighters might be able to take it out, Escort 2 moves to start bringing down one of the more intact vessels. NMS Escort 2 (CP 5/5) Speed: 1; To hit v HF2: +4 (+3 base - 1 speed difference + 2 defeated ecm) Activate Volley Capacitors Support Department: Comms Defeat ECM (0CP): CA Heavy Frigate 2 (12v?) Fire All Guns (-3CP): CA Heavy Frigate 2 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 7/8; (7/miss) WPN 2: Mag Spike Array | 2d6+2 AP 10; Flak; Ammo 9/10; (11/miss) WPN 3: Plasma Beam | 3d6 AP10 (CRIT/17) Fire All Guns (-3CP): CA Heavy Frigate 2 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 6/8; (21/19) WPN 2: Mag Spike Array | 2d6+2 AP 10; Flak; Ammo 8/10; (17/miss) WPN 3: Plasma Beam | 3d6 AP10 (18/4) Fire All Guns (-3CP): CA Heavy Frigate 2 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 5/8; (6/miss) WPN 2: Mag Spike Array | 2d6+2 AP 10; Flak; Ammo 7/10; (15/miss) WPN 3: Plasma Beam | 3d6 AP10 (14/miss) (all escorts have used their volley capacitors) (edited)

2:19 PM

!roll 2d6+2 !defeat ecm

Iracus Varanu | Rayan Roll: [6, 4] Result: 12 Reason: defeat ecm

!roll 2d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [4, 2] Result: 8

(You win that one too)

(hits/damage updated in post)

The heavily damaged frigate, dubbed F2 on NMC and VW scopes suffers tremendous damage as a lucky plasma beam hits some kind of gunnery deck or magazine where torpedo reloads were kept for the always hungry launchers. The vessel slews like a drunkard for several minutes before righting its course again.

Escort 1 is the locus of a furious assault as HF 3 lines up its own torpedo spread on the vessel. Sensing blood in the water with its ECM down, two torpedoes from the forward launch tubes are sped toward the NMC vessel.

3:48 PM

!roll 2d20+2

Nekosmash Roll: [13, 7] Result: 22

(13+2 gives us 15, so one hit)

3:48 PM

!roll 3d8

Nekosmash Roll: [7, 7, 7] Result: 21

(15/21 AP 20, the second one runs long)

3:49 PM

Stripped of its ECM protection, the torpedo lands home amidships before detonating on the armored exterior of Escort 1.

3:49 PM

(Good Shepherd is up!)

Good Shepherd’s engines flare as it maneuvers to stay in position with the Ragnarok. A quick cheer ripples across the bridge with the destruction of the patrol boat but the crew quickly returns to focus with the NMC escorts taking hits. The captain orders a spread of torpedoes against HF 3 and HF 2. (Fire All Weapons CP2: 3x torpedo targeted HF 3 Fire All Weapons CP2: 3x torpedo targeted HF 3 Volley Capacitors for gunnery CP +4 Fire All Weapons CP 2: 3x torpedo targeted HF 2 Fire All Weapons CP 2: 3x torpedo targeted HF 2 Rolling now)

5:05 PM

(Rolls against HF3: 20/17, 16/17, 13/14, everything else definitely missed if AC is more than 16. Rolls against HF2: 21/16, 20/11, everything else missed if AC is more than 15. )

(One of each is hit )

The second ship in the flight of the three heavy frigates in formation around the shipyard goes dark as the torpedo spread brackets it’s laggardly drifting metal body. The spread is thorough in its unmaking Of the enemy vessel. A handful of lifeboats head toward the nearby shipyard but at least one is spun off course by the explosion of the ship and are sent careening toward the event horizon

7:16 PM

Heavy frigate three takes its first damage of the fight as a central fin and some tertiary system blisters are destroyed by the proximity detonation of a ship killing warhead.

7:18 PM

(Eclipse is up)

From the Eclipse's comm station, Iracus sits before a number of terminals as read-outs of the battle bounce across the screen. "Nice and steady escort 1, nice and steady" he thinks, waiting for his simulation to finish. A pop-up shows and after a moment of reading the result, he smiles and shouts to the ship's captain "I think I got something, have engineering divert all non essential power to the comm array, Escort 1 exposed a vulnerability, we use that to direct a meta-dimensional communication pulse, hit them with the right frequency, its lights out. The Rodger Young will have clean approach." As the Captain does as he asks and patched into the comms of the various ships, Iracus rebroadcasts the audio coming from the Rodger Young, fulling embracing the thrill of the battle. NMS Eclipse (CP 5/5) Speed 1 To Hit +2 (+3 base - 1 speed difference) Activate Volley Capacitors (+4 CP to guns) Support Department: Comms Crash Systems (0 cp): Battleship 1 (11v?) Crash Systems (-2cp): Battleship 1 (6v?) Crash Systems (-2cp): Battleship 1 (12v?) Fire One Weapon (-2cp); CA Heavy Frigate WPN 1: Flak Emitter Battery | 2d6 AP10; Flak (15/miss) Fire One Weapon (-2cp); CA Heavy Frigate WPN 1: Flak Emitter Battery | 2d6 AP10; Flak (4/miss) (edited)

7:57 PM

!roll 3 2d6+3 !Supersonic system crash

Iracus Varanu | Rayan Rolls: [5, 3] Result: 11 [2, 1] Result: 6 [5, 4] Result: 12 Reason: Supersonic system crash

!roll 6d6+3

Nekosmash Roll: [6, 5, 3, 3, 3, 2] Result: 25

(14 vs 11, 9 vs 6, and 7 vs 12 so one of yours gets through )

(-2 CP for them!) (edited)

(Don't want to make any assumptions and cut off any narration so I figure I would ask, is the Link-1 up?)]

The electornic attacks begin plaguging the enemy vessel, hampering systems and otherwise damaging sensitive electronics.

7:26 AM

(Link 1 is up)

Micaela listening to the symphony of destruction and the view screens notice the enemy free merchant threading it's way across the battlefield avoiding barrages of catastrophic proportion. Even the smallest wolf supports the pack "We're going after the other small fry in this fight everyone. Harrstjarna you've got full reign to move this ship however you feel is best, just keep us in the loop. Gunnery Station, activate the capacitor"

10:21 AM

!roll 2d6+4 !Support Piloting Department

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [4, 3] Result: 11 Reason: Support Piloting Department

!roll 1d20+3 !Reaper Battery vs free merchant (edited)

Error: Extra numbers detected!

Weapon volley capacitators +4 gunnery cp

10:24 AM

Fire one weapon x4

10:25 AM

!roll 4d20

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [11, 8, 3, 1] Result: 23

!roll 3d4+1

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [4, 4, 3] Result: 12

The burst of reaper battery shots are rapid but poorly aimed. Only one of the shots being well placed amidst a chaotic energy burst volley 14/12 (don't think any of the other roll are decent enough to roll damage)

(No just that one)

Hárrstjarna watched the orchestra of battle erupt actress his screens and monitor as the fighting began. Once the Senior Agent Micaela gave her support to his training, he clutched the controls after punching a few commands into his console. "Aye Ma'am, keeping us in the loop and proceeding to Eva'Man." He called back, attempting to initiate Evasive Maneuvers.

10:49 AM

!roll 2d6+1 ((notery: missed adding the Link-1's speed 3 to the check)) (edited)

Hárrstjarna Roll: [4, 2] Result: 7

Hárrstjarna keeps the ship fluid and nimble as he initiated the Eva'Man procedure. His hands steady as he keeps the Link-1 in the loop, while performing his well executed Evasive Maneuvers. +1 to AC until next turn (edited)

(You can add the speed value from the ship for piloting checks. Looks like Link-1 has speed 3) (edited)

(Pg 94 CRB under Speed description)

(Passes)

((Thankyou))

THe free merchant looks to be damaged, slewing about to try to put the shipyards between it and the incoming fleet, its crew clearly trying to prevent the vessel and its supplies from being taken.

1:11 PM

(NMC Fighter 1)

Four Fighter MK I vessels zip through the void as they make their way through the battlefield “Bomber run successful; target hit” The comms of the outdated fighter craft crackle to life, confirming a hit on one of the Ascendancy's heavy frigates “Bah!” One of the fighter squad mates dismissively exclaims over the squads comm link, terminal showing a projection of the bomber squads more elegant and updated craft as it zips away from the frigate “Look at them, why do the damn torpies get the nice ship and we are stuck in these outdated models.” “You know command, torps bring in the bigger bucks, bigger bucks means better kickbacks. Plus those block heads need as much help as they can get anyway, don’t have the skill to fly these babies like we do.” Another squad member replies back The squad leader's comes cuts off another reply “Cut the chatter, that frigate is still up. Idiots forgot to even use their accelerated launchers, damn show offs probably saving them. Let’s get in and show them what real dog-fighting is.” NMC Fighter Sqd 1 (CP 5/5) 4/4 Fighters; Speed 6 To Hit: -1 (+3 - 4 speed difference) Fire One Weapon (-2 CP): CA Heavy Frigate 1 WPN 1: Fractal Impact Charge | 2d6 AP15; Ammo 3/4 (16/miss; 12/miss; 10/miss; 19/5) Fire One Weapon (-2 CP): CA Heavy Frigate 1 WPN 1: Fractal Impact Charge | 2d6 AP15; Ammo 2/4 (11/miss; 8/miss; 10/miss; 18/8) (edited)

(Which frigate are they bombing, 1 or 3)

1

The bombing run is overall a miss, but two strikes of fractal impact bombs are successful, destroying the spinal batteries of the heavy frigate. The explosion touches off the torpedo storage room, the vessel explodes into a drifting pile of burning junk.

1:45 PM

(Adder up)

Adder’s commander receives a text order from Ragnarok.

Your weapons are useless against the remaining warships. Pursue and engage the enemy free merchant. Do not allow it to break free of combat and leave the system. Support allied boarding actions against the ship.

Without delay, the Warden corvette veers off in pursuit of the free merchant. The ship’s engineer works to feed additional energy into the ship’s engine while the weapons officer targets the enemy drive cone. (Boost engines 2 CP Fire one weapon + Target system 3CP)

1:55 PM

(Boost engines 13 v 8 successful. Adder new speed is 5 until next round and in active pursuit of the FM Sand thrower 5/3 taking speed and half damage into account.)

(Total to hit is a 5?)

(Yeah lol)

The Adder's assaults miss, the targeted shots hitting empty space where the merchant had just been a moment ago.

2:44 PM

The Free Merchant sees it has entered a combat zone, and begins trying to escape combat. !

2:44 PM

!roll 2d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [4, 3] Result: 9

(I've got a 9, which passes, and I get 1 out of 3 points of escape I need for the FM to flee combat, unless anyone wants to close that gap, they can contest the check, otherwise we're up to round 2, with the Troika /Max B kicking us off again)

(if fighter Sqd 1 can they will contest, they will move to engage the fm next turn to try and disable it)

2:52 PM

(also I think you would be at 12? With the speed 3 of the fm)

(Adder would oppose as well when able)

(yes, thnk you, so not to hold the combat up for 1000 ships to make their checks, if you are chasing, you'd have to oppose, vs 12)

Nekosmash pinned a message to this channel. 6/8/2022 3:07 PM

!roll 2d6+8 ! Fighter Squad 1 chasing

Iracus Varanu | Rayan Roll: [4, 1] Result: 13 Reason: Fighter Squad 1 chasing

(Adder 15 v 12, down 3CP for pursuit for the next turn if that’s what we’re using.)

(you test for free now, if you fail you have to spend CP on your turn to close that point of escape)

2

Max scowls sitting on the bridge of the Troika. "Those battleships are too hard to hit for something stuck in a shipyard. I think the NMC have the right idea. Groshim see what you can do to disrupt their systems." (Support department comms.)

Groshim smirks as Max gives the order and turns his gaze to one of the monitors, his fingers a blur as he begins probing at weaknesses in CA's systems. "Think have something. Looks like CA programmers lazy in drydock. Bet this little trick send systems for spin."

5:49 PM

!roll 2d6+5! CA Battleship 1 Crash systems (edited)

Groshim Roll: [5, 2] Result: 12 Reason: CA Battleship 1

!roll 2d6+5! CA Battleship 2 Crash systems (edited)

Groshim Roll: [5, 4] Result: 14 Reason: CA Battleship 2

1

!roll 2d6+5! CA Battleship 2 Crash systems (edited)

Groshim Roll: [1, 1] Result: 7 Reason: CA Battleship 2

3

!roll 6d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [4, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1] Result: 15

( 12 v 9 for BSHIP 1, 6 V 14 for Bship 2 and 4 v 5 for Bship 2, so all of them work)

7:23 PM

(I just need to know how many command points they're losing per success)

(-2 per success sorry)

(Escort 1 is up)

Following the powerful hit, Escort 1 gets into evasive maneuvers as their comms officer attempts to mask its path. Meanwhile, the guns lock onto the remaining heavy frigate and fire. NMS Escort 1 (CP 5/5) Speed: 1; To hit +2 (+3 base - 1 speed difference ) Support Department: Bridge Evasive Maneuvers (0CP) (10v9 SUCCESS +1 AC) Sensor Ghost (-2CP): (5v9 FAIL) Fire All Guns (-3CP): CA Heavy Frigate 3 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 4/8; (13/miss) WPN 2: Mag Spike Array | 2d6+2 AP 10; Flak; Ammo 6/10; (6/miss) WPN 3: Plasma Beam | 3d6 AP10 (15/miss) (edited)

8:11 PM

!roll 2d6+3 !Flight pattern disco

Iracus Varanu | Rayan Roll: [6, 2] Result: 11 Reason: Flight pattern disco

(err that should be a 2 not 3 so total 10 and pass to +1 AC for evasive maneuvers) (edited)

8:13 PM

!roll 2d6+2 !kansas_city_shuffle.exe

Iracus Varanu | Rayan Roll: [2, 1] Result: 5 Reason: kansas_city_shuffle.exe

As the pilot takes the ship into a still yet to be tested out flight maneuver, the comms team attempts to scramble targeting locks of the other ships that continue to fire upon them, however their efforts are unsuccessful as the officer mistakenly uses the wrong quantum encryption and their efforts are for nought. Luckily, the pilot is able to successfully pull off the risky maneuver giving them a bit of cover. However, as the flight pattern was untested, gunnery didn't quite get the memo and factored in the wrong vector data when finding a targeting solution and failing to land a solid hit. (Escort 1 new AC: 16)

(CA Bship 1 has 3 commandpoints due to crashed systems)

8:23 PM

Seeing the limping Escort 1, the battleship fires its mass cannons, hoping to send the Cooperative home with at least one death in exchange for the destruction paid to the fleet here.

8:24 PM

(Fire all guns, 3cp, and my only cP)

8:24 PM

!roll 3d20+2

Nekosmash Roll: [19, 12, 7] Result: 40

!roll 2d20

Nekosmash Roll: [9, 2] Result: 11

(21/11 AP 20, the other two shots are clear misses)

8:25 PM

The shots streak into the void, each one a cauldron of high explosives and chemicals. The armor penetrating tip strikes the side of Escort 1, before the concussion and mass vibration set the fuse to detonate.

As the crew of the Escort 1 brace against the impact, the captain says over comms, "I'm not sure how much more we can take off this! We are reporting heavy damage on all decks, but we'll try to draw these bastards attention as long as we can and give the Young a clear way."

(Ragnarok is up!)

Debris, exhaust trails, and ECM have made the tactical read outs a jumbled mess of red enemy contacts and various shades of danger representing probables. Not willing to risk the weakened stations’ integrity with missed shots, the Ragnarok’s captain directs further fire at the remaining escort in an attempt to give the Roger Young an unobstructed approach. (Fire all weapons 3CP: 3x VTI HF3. Fire one weapon 2CP: 1x VTI HF3)

8:45 PM

(21/48, 20/25, 26/33, 23/21 all AP20)

Heavy Frigate 3 ceases to be a ship after the second hit, the third sends burning wreckage into burning smaller pieces, and all hands are lost almost instantly as the gravity manipulating properties of the starship sized shear rifle tear the vessel to pieces, and HF3 no longer stands to bar the path of the Roger Young.

7:53 AM

(Bomber 1 and 2 are up)

(lets go crit fishing!) With the majority of system defense out of the way, the bomber squadrons move for precision strikes against the battleships in order to attempt and disable them, sending a series of torpedoes targeting the battleship's weapons systems. NMC bomber squad 1 (CP 5/5) 4/4 Fighters; Speed 6; To hit -7 (+3 base - 6 speed difference - 4 targeted attack) Activate Volley Capacitors (+4 CP to guns) Fire One Weapon, Targeting Systems (-3CP): Battleship 2 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 5/8; (miss; miss; miss; miss) Fire One Weapon, Targeting Systems (-3CP): Battleship 2 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 4/8; (miss; miss; miss; miss) Fire One Weapon, Targeting Systems (-3CP): Battleship 2 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 3/8; (miss; miss; miss; miss) (edited)

8:14 AM

The second squadron follows suit

8:15 AM

NMC bomber squad 2 (CP 5/5) 4/4 Fighters; Speed 6; To hit -7 (+3 base - 6 speed difference - 4 targeted attack) Activate Volley Capacitors (+4 CP to guns) Fire One Weapon, Targeting Systems (-3CP): Battleship 2 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 5/8; (miss; miss; miss; miss) Fire One Weapon, Targeting Systems (-3CP): Battleship 2 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 4/8; (miss; miss; miss; miss) Fire One Weapon, Targeting Systems (-3CP): Battleship 2 WPN 1: Torpedo Launcher | 3d8 AP20; Ammo 3/8; (miss; miss; miss; miss) (edited)

8:19 AM

One of the bomber's radios back "Regal flight leader to command, whatever these Chimeran's got, its going to be tough to disable unless we got someone with a crack shot. Good luck in there Rodger Young."

(Have they used volley capacitors already? Those can only be used once per battle)

8:41 AM

(Scratch that, doesn't look like they have)

8:44 AM

The bomber flight flies over, the battleship not suffering any damage, but none the less explosions and superficial bleed off of ECM energy flare as the nimble strike craft pass overhead.

8:44 AM

(Bship 2 is up, I will take their turn soon ) (edited)

(supprting department, I can get a fire all guns off once on Bship 2)

10:09 AM

The captain of the second battleship rouses his crew for one volley, hoping to bring down the battered escort 1, so that the fleet can focus on the next more vulnerable ones present.

10:09 AM

!roll 3d20+2

Nekosmash Roll: [9, 8, 2] Result: 21

(Best I've done here is a 11, which I think misses)

10:10 AM

The explosive shells fly wide, the targeting systems hampered and frustrated by the jamming, and the shells fly wide, the internal magazines down to 50% of their current load.

(roger Young is up now, and will commence boarding at the end of its turn)

Yalone bustled around in the Engine room as hot steam poured into the atmosphere making breathing more like eating the air. Luckily Yalone was use to intensely heated environments given his previous occupation as a gas miner. Climbing over a large pipe, Yalone flipped a large valve connect the the tube allowing a rush of fuel to the main engine unit. Pulling a comm from his belt he yelled into it towards Annie, “I’m givin’ her all she’s got! Get us in there!”

12:27 PM

(Boost Engines: rolled 6 vs ac 8. Result: Fail)

" Open hailing channels and tell the ship to prepare for boarding." Annie commands as she has a comms officer lock on to the merchant vessel. Support department Comms Defeat Ecm 0 CP ( Opposed int/program check we got an 8) " Aim for their engines!" Target systems, Fire 1 weapon 3 CP ( rolled a 14 it becomes a 16 if the defeat ecm succeeded. )

!roll 2d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [3, 2] Result: 7

(You win the ECM check, 16 hits the free merchant)

( 9 damage halved to engine. 10 armor pierce.)

(Drive is reduced to spike 1, so not disabled yet but close)

2:56 PM

In the boarding tube, Roger sees the lights turn from being off, on to red, and them amber. Something is happening on the command deck , and everyone within braces their weapons as they prepare for whatever is coming next. The Roger Young moves to the side of platform 1, and like dozens of lampreys, drill mouth tubes fire from its flanks and begin boring into the skin of the space station

(Escort 3 is up. My bad )

Escort 3 moves to get into formation with Escort 1 while focusing its main efforts on jamming as much of the battleship's systems as they can while Escort 2 focuses on the other. NMS Escort 3 (CP 5/5) Speed: 1; Support Department: Comms Crash Systems (0CP): Battleship 1 (6v?) Crash Systems (-2CP): Battleship 1 (6v?) Crash Systems (-2CP): Battleship 1 (5v?) (edited)

7:11 PM

NMS Escort 2 (CP 5/5) Speed: 1; Support Department: Comms Crash Systems (0CP): Battleship 2 (14v?) Crash Systems (-2CP): Battleship 2 (12v?) Crash Systems (-2CP): Battleship 2 (8v?) (edited)

!roll 6d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [6, 6, 2, 1, 1, 1] Result: 19

(6 v 12, 6 v 5 , 6 v 4 for the first set)

8:10 AM

!roll 6d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1] Result: 23

(14 v 13 , 12 v 9 and 5 v 8 for the second)

8:11 AM

(so all six go through)

8:11 AM

(Link 1 is up )

(-2 CP to BS1 and -3 for BS2. Your first 12 beat me.)

(1 for 6, I'll take it)

Harstjarna would immediately set the emergencey thrusters to full as he laid in a course to pursue the Free Merchant as it tried to flee, his golden eyes locked on to the image of the vessel on his monitor as he set the Link-1 in a course behind it. (edited)

10:13 AM

Activating Emergencey Thrusters, +2 Speed

10:14 AM

!roll 2d6+6

Hárrstjarna Roll: [6, 1] Result: 13

Micaela orders more power to the gunnery department and makes sure that commands are relayed properly and efficiently between departments. Targeted Shot at Free Merchant's Engine Fire Single Weapon 3/5 cp used (edited)

11:58 AM

!roll 1d20-1

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [18] Result: 17

1

!roll 3d4+1

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [3, 3, 2] Result: 9

(if that disables the ship's mobility I think my part of the turn is done and it will be evasive mauevers for the rest of our cp. If not we'll be firing another shot as well. I'll check back on this thread in an hour. At work currently.)

((No worries, I'll Eva'Man again if it disables))

(The enemy ship is disabled. If you want to board we can say getting into position to do that is the rest of your turn)

((I would go with that then, but, I'll wait for my Senior officer to cast their vote.))

(heck yeah bring us in for boarding)

Harrstjarna follows on the heels of the now disabled Free Merchant, looking back at Micaela for a moment before giving a nod as he suddenly started to change course from the previous pursuit. Now pulling along side of them as the were now in the prime position for boarding the disabled enemy vessel, "Permission to visit the Armory before we throw the welcome mat down.?!?" He asked as he punched a few commands into the console before standing from his station, rather eager and excited.

"Permission granted!" On the approach Micaela has donned her storm Armor and grabbed her array of personal armaments. Bedecked in glistening black and grey steel and ceramic plating with a thermal Spear ready to be primed. "keep in mind we don't want to hull breach the entire thing. Make sure you have a void carbine on hand to avoid that possibility, and a stun baton if you know your way around it. We might one to take one or two captive if their noncombatants or important officials."

"I do not, and have not....." He started as he stared at the glistening black and grey steel and ceramic plating rather jealously, but also in admiration. "I should be good now...." He replied as he double checked his person, waiting now for her to lead the way.

(I'll make a new thread)

1:38 PM

(NMC Fighter 1 would be next)

(what is the status of the field right now? Are the battleships still trying to cause trouble or has the boarding action shaken up things a bit? Just wanting to see what options are available as i might recall the fighters to top off their ammo just in case anyone else joins the party)

(the battleships aren't imperiled quiet yet. The party has just breached the first platform and has to figure out how to get there, and fight through it to the bridge. the second one hasn't been interfered with physically at all)

(got it, also just realized we passed by good Shepard and eclipse)

(good shepherd is up)

Good Shepherd begins a braking maneuver so it doesn’t overshoot the stations. Its commander sets their sights on BB2 in anticipation for a Void Warden assault. (Support Department: Gunnery Fire One Weapon + Target Systems (engine) 1 CP Fire One Weapons + Target Systems (weapon) ) (I currently have terrible signal where I am if someone is eager to do some straight NPC rolls. -1 to hit with both speed 0 plus target systems and +1 damage halved. Firing torpedos)

!roll 2 1d20-1

Eisheru | Reza [Jack] Rolls: [16] Result: 15 [19] Result: 18

!roll 2 3d8+1

Eisheru | Reza [Jack] Rolls: [4, 3, 3] Result: 11 [7, 6, 1] Result: 15

(15/5, 18/7 AP 20)

(Both miss

10:57 PM

The battleship is bracketed but is missed thanks to its thick armor and the protective shielding of the platform.

10:57 PM

(Eclipse up)

"Ah you want to dance do you..." Iracus muttered to no one as he furiously typed away at his terminal in response to the successful defensive actions of the opposing comms officers "Captain I said divert ALL non-essential power, I am reporting 9.234% of potential power was not diverted in the last run. I need more power!" NMS Eclipse (CP 5/5) Speed 1 Support Department: Comms Crash Systems (0 cp): Battleship 1 (11v?) Crash Systems (-2cp): Battleship 1 (10v?) Crash Systems (-2cp): Battleship 2 (11v?)

11:16 AM

The lights on the inside of the Eclipse dim dramatically as a powerful series of pulses are emitted and directed at the two battleships with intent of crippling their systems "Let's see you counter this my surprisingly competent adversaries"

!roll 6d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [6, 5, 3, 3, 2, 1] Result: 22

(11 v13 , 10 v8, 5 v 11, so both ships have a bit of jamming)

6:50 AM

(Think it’s NMC fighters then getting back into the fight order )

(-2 cp for each which should mean BS1 is at -4 and bs2 is at -5 in total so far)

9:23 AM

(unless the fighters can assist the boarding operation at all, they will return to the eclipse to reload while there is time)

(No they can’t. Each crash systems is only one cp loss but I know you’ve used it a bunch so those numbers are prob right.

(okay then yeah they shall return to dock this turn)

The fighters return to dock to be re armed and launched if needed later in the fight

6:31 AM

(I think the adder is up then)

Adder remains near the boarding action on the Free Merchant. However, with no nearby targets, it’s comms officer sets their sights on BB2. (Support Department: Comms Crash Systems 0CP Crash Systems 2CP Crash Systems 2CP)

7:57 AM

(6, 13, 10)

(These will all succeed, though BB2 is effectively electronically locked down already)

8:14 AM

(the free merchant is disabled and is out of the fight, so top of the order with Max and Groshim as we reach 45 minutes of ship combat,)

"Groshim, see if you can finish locking down battleship 1." Max opens a broadcast channel. "Chimeran forces, You are out matched. Surrender now, and prevent further loss of life." (If I can work on getting them to surrender and support department as well, then we'll make a targeted shot on bb1's weapons.)

"Working on it, Hard to find system not already locked down.*

11:41 AM

!roll 2d6+5

Groshim Roll: [6, 4] Result: 15

!roll 2d6+5

Groshim Roll: [6, 1] Result: 12

(They’re not going to surrender at the moment )

(alright I'll roll an attack then.) "Target their weapons. Let's see if we can convince them."

12:21 PM

!roll 1d20+3-4

Max Davenport Roll: [11] Result: 10

(10 is a miss)

(Yeah, I figured it would. Just have to see if the battleship can beat Groshim, and that's our turn done.)

!roll 2d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [6, 1] Result: 9

(doe snot)

12:54 PM

(does not*)

(Escort 1 is up right?)

(yes! sorry! )

Having sustained heavy damage, Escort 1 attempts to gain some distance from the main engagement. NMS Escort 1 (CP 5/5) Speed: 1; Support Department: Engineering Boost Engines (0CP) (6v9 FAIL) Escape Combat (-4CP): (12v? )

3:33 PM

(not sure if that can even be contested at this point, but 12 seems like a good roll lets go escort 1, not getting blown up today)

(nothing is going to contest it, but its still in range of everything until you get those three points)

(the little heavy frigate that could)

Battleship 1 is entirely jammed, and is unable to do anything meaningful in the fight at first. The captain extols his crew for one volley, personally taking command of the efforts to restore command and control.

!roll d20+1

Nekosmash Roll: [8] Result: 9

(Missing with a 9 I’m sure. Did support department and fire one gun)

4:20 PM

(Ragnarok up)

Ragnarok’s captain orders helm to begin to come about alongside BB2. Their voice cuts over the bridge chatter, “Mr. Mondragon, the enemy’s weapons if you will.” “Aye, captain.” Karre dials in the crosshairs, attempting to use a sledgehammer as a scalpel. (Support department: gunnery Fire one weapon + Target system (weapons BB1) 1CP Fire one weapon + Target system (weapons BB2) 3CP)

4:36 PM

(16/17 BB1, 10/17 using warrior skill to force a hit on BB2. Both AP20)

(Both miss ordinarily but the damage is the same. The disabling shot disables one weapon RAW, to the best of my knowledge , not all of them. One of its mass cannons will be knocked out )

(NMC bomber 1 is up)

(is it an entire action to reload weapons? The bombers got enough cargo to properly reload)

(yes)

9:12 AM

(its an entire round to reload ammo weapons)

9:13 AM

(land, load, launch ends up being three rounds)

(Both bombers will just top off then, will have 1 reload remaining)

Battleship 2, the less jammed out of the two manages to peel off enough of the jamming to empty its mass cannon magazine at the fleeing Escort 1

9:32 AM

(support department, fire all guns)

9:32 AM

!roll 3d20+1

Nekosmash Roll: [17, 10, 6] Result: 34

!roll 2d20

Nekosmash Roll: [20, 15] Result: 35

(18/35 at AP20)

(abandon ship! It's a goner, only 18 HP left, but does have lifeboats)

(I believe those will automatically launch if the fix check is passed, if you want to try to save it , we can)

9:39 AM

(if it becomes a burning hulk everyone gets off)

!roll 2d6+2 !The little heavy Frigate that couldn't

Iracus Varanu | Rayan Roll: [6, 3] Result: 11 Reason: The little heavy Frigate that couldn't

(Roger young would have been next, which is deploying troops, so we move down to Escort 3)

NMS Escort 3 (CP 5/5) Speed: 1; Support Department: Comms Crash Systems (0CP): Battleship 1 (?v?) Crash Systems (-2CP): Battleship 1 (?v?) Crash Systems (-2CP): Battleship 1 (?v?)

10:36 AM

!roll 3 2d6+2

Iracus Varanu | Rayan Rolls: [3, 1] Result: 6 [6, 2] Result: 10 [5, 4] Result: 11

Roll 6d6+2

10:36 AM

!roll 6d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [6, 6, 3, 3, 3, 2] Result: 25

12 v 6 , 8 v 10 , 7 v 11, so 2cp shaved off)

NMS Escort 2 (CP 5/5) Speed: 1; Support Department: Comms Crash Systems (0CP): Battleship 2 (?v?) Crash Systems (-2CP): Battleship 2 (?v?) Crash Systems (-2CP): Battleship 2 (?v?)

10:39 AM

!roll 3 2d6+2 !vengeance.exe

Iracus Varanu | Rayan Rolls: [6, 3] Result: 11 [4, 4] Result: 10 [4, 1] Result: 7 Reason: vengeance.exe

!roll 6d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [6, 5, 3, 3, 2, 1] Result: 22

13 v 11, 8 v 10 , 5 v 7, same thing, one fails)

(Good Shepherd?)

(yes)

Good Shepherd stands off from the pair of dry docks in an attempt to be in position to intercept any interlopers that arrive late in the fight. Its captain moves to stand over the weapon system station to assist the officer in adjusting the torpedo charge strength. They dial in targets shots on BB2’s remaining weapon systems. (Support department: Gunnery Fire One Weapon + Target System (weapons) 1CP Fire One Weapon + Target System (weapons) 3CP)

9:57 AM

(Both miss)

(Eclipse is up!)

With minimal weaponry, the Eclipse continues it's electronic assault. Support Department: Comms Crash Systems (0 cp): Battleship 1 (?v?) Crash Systems (-2cp): Battleship 1 (?v?) Crash Systems (-2cp): Battleship 2 (?v?)

12:22 PM

!roll 3 2d6+3

Iracus Varanu | Rayan Rolls: [4, 3] Result: 10 [5, 1] Result: 9 [6, 5] Result: 14

!roll 3 2d6+2

Nekosmash Rolls: [4, 2] Result: 8 [5, 1] Result: 8 [4, 3] Result: 9

(all fail on my end)

12:35 PM

(Link 1 would be next but boarding operations are ongoing, so fighter 1 is up)

(Iracus has program 2 so that should be -2CP each fail. Keeping these guys locked up tight!)

(oh you're there personally, then yes! Okay, so then it is NMC Fighter 1)

(fighters will spend this round getting restocked with ammo)

(aDDER Up)

Adder continues its jamming assault on BB2. (Support department: Comms Crash systems 0CP Crash systems 2CP Crash systems 2CP)

4:49 PM

(5, 9, 7)

!roll 3 2d6+2

Nekosmash Rolls: [6, 1] Result: 9 [2, 1] Result: 5 [3, 1] Result: 6

(One fails. Two jams go through )

3:36 PM

(The CA free merchant is being boarded so that brings us top of the order to max

(both battleships are fully crashed correct?)

(From my count yes.)

(They’re not disabled though, just very limited)

"Groshim, see if you can find us a clear shot on battleship 2's guns while their EW is tied up." Support department coms.

"Running programs, ECM hopefully weakened by NMC electronic assault."

4:09 PM

!roll 2d6+5 (Defeat ECM) (edited)

Groshim Roll: [6, 1] Result: 12

!roll 2d6+5 (Defeat ECM) (edited)

Groshim Roll: [5, 4] Result: 14

(Not disables just jammed )

5:06 PM

!roll 2d6+2

Nekosmash Roll: [3, 1] Result: 6

Nekosmash

(Not disables just jammed )

(Yeah, that's what I meant.) (6 doesn't beat 12 and i don't think they can beat 14, so with Groshim's 2 in program that's +8)

5:33 PM

!roll 2d6+6 !Target system(battleship 2 gun) +8(2x defeat ecm) +3(npc attack) -1(speed) -4(target system)

Max Davenport Roll: [2, 1] Result: 9 Reason: Target system(battleship 2 gun) +8(2x defeat ecm) +3(npc attack) -1(speed) -4(target system)

(miss. that's our turn.) (edited)

(Should be a D20 not 2D6)

!roll 1d20+6 !With the right dice this time.

Max Davenport Roll: [2] Result: 8 Reason: With the right dice this time.

2

(miss)

7:49 AM

(Escort 1 is up)

(I believe Escort 1 was destroyed.)

(I thought it was fleeing)

8:24 AM

(had 18 health left, we mentioned something about lifeboats and then the situation just kinda hung there, iirc)

(It was fleeing but the battleship killed it as it was at 18hp when hit with 35 dmg. But yes it has lifeboats which I mentioned to see if the people would be able to flee and try and survive or not)

(gotcha, okay, the lifeboats would eject and can be picked up by other ships at battle end, now I get it)

8:52 AM

(BB1 is jammed, so Ragnarock is up)_

(Right now as it stands, both battleships are the only things left here and I think with the entire rest of the fleet continually jamming them, we can call the battle completed and get into boarding the opposite shipyard from the NMC team)

(Yeah it would basically just be non stop jamming with whatever is left over firing guns until the battleships lose all their weapons.)

Micaela opens up come from aboard the Link-1 towards friendly ships. "We've secured the Free Merchant we boarded. The cargo is primarily gases due for the refinery onboard the shipyards. We keep that refinery system intact we might be able to have an easy source of fuel to keep things going over here. My crew and I are preparing for boarding action on the un-boarded shipyard now."

(Second boarding team would be Max, Groshim, Micaela, Harr, Estra, Iracus, and Karre, I think that's everyone here who's not already boarding something)

((ready whenever everyone else is))

Groshim holding his once before used pistol and wondering how he got into this situation. 0_0

(ready!)

(let's rock and roll peeps)

Harrstjarna awaits orders from his Senior agent as he prepares himself for the next excursion.

(Let's take em out. I'll grab a void carbine and ammo from the armoury. Can I also get some scrambler and sleep grenades? say a couple each?)

(Alright. We can use this thread. I forgot this was active )

The boarding tubes are prepared and the drill heads are primed. The shipyard looms ahead , its shadow passing over the ship

Micaela is still bedecked in her storm armor, though now the shiny and glossy exterior has a thin coating of ash on areas free of sensors. And she looks to Harrstjarna and Etsha as they line up alongside new companions "You know a lifetime ago when I ran with a rougher bunch, a small group of us had a pre-battle ritual where we'd bleed each other before a major fight. Usually it would be a knife fight to the first wound, something small to get the adrenaline pumping and your blood flowing. Back there on the free merchant was a good blooding for you two in a way." She says in a sort of flat, distant tone before she spots Groshim and gives an excited little wave "Hey! Did you try that weird UNW guy's coffee yet?"

(For simplicity are we all starting together?)

(Neko mentioned a singular ship. I think we might be because otherwise we board from separate spots and are split up. I may be wrong though.)

)we are starting together )

"Well then shall we bleed one another?" He asked, holding out his hand.

"Enough blood is going to be spilled today, I suggest you try to keep yours in your veins." Max checks over his void carbine and configures his storm armour to look like a Greystar issue armoured vac suit, in the hope that he'd draw fire away from those who were more lightly armoured.

Micaela let's out a quick laugh after a moment of hesitation. "Easy there tiger. It's the weird ones that just go around slicing each other just for the sake of it. Nah you gotta add some competition to make it fun. And we don't have the time to it proper. Maybe next time though."

9:15 PM

Micaela eyes Max's armor. "That's a cool trick Aiming to look like one of the regular rank and file to blend into the crowd of Marines?"

"Thanks, I had it made a while back. It works well with my skills. I'm more trying to look like an easy target. This makes me tougher than most, and if they're shooting at me they're not shooting at the ones without power armour."

Micaela leans back and eyes Max up. "Ballsy. I like it even more. Can I offer a word of advice though?" It seems she's genuinely waiting for permission before offering criticism

"Go ahead. I might not listen, but advice never hurts."

"Add a plume. And the Greystar flag on the pauldrons, actually. Add fancy little pauldrons onto the shoulders and put the flag on them. If you wanna really go crazy, put a glowbug on your chest at the center of the Greystar Flag. Right now you look like Joe everyman. You make some changes you can look like someone very important, who also doesn't know what armor is." (edited)

Max laughs. "It can only do preprogramed appearances. But maybe next time I'll add a setting for clueless dandy."

Micaela let's out a disappointed sigh "And you would've made such a great clueless dandy as well...No offense intended, you're also making for a great and fearsome Greystar warrior at the moment. I don't think we've met formally, or rather we met too formally last time in all likelihood, I'm Micaela" she says as she goes for a handshake

"I'm Max. I think we've been in a few meetings together, but you right that's not a good setting to get to know someone."

Karre ambles up in his Void Warden standard assault suit. A spike thrower is clamped to his back and an axe on his waist. “Glad to see you all survived that bit on the free merchant. Ready to go get your people and secure the battleship?”

Micaela looks over at the Void Warden and moves to clasp his arm in a forearm handshake, as best as can be done in two suits of power armor. "As ready as I'll ever be, never met a Void Warden before, Chimeran's really classified as the kinda threat you guys deal with? Figured you were a bit more neutral than all this." Micaela says as she vaguely gestures towards no particular part of the boarding tube.

Micaela Finnegan | Adrian |

Micaela is still bedecked in her storm armor, though now the shiny and glossy exterior has a thin coating of ash on areas free of sensors. And she looks to Harrstjarna and Etsha as they line up alongside new companions "You know a lifetime ago when I ran with a rougher bunch, a small group of us had a pre-battle ritual where we'd bleed each other before a major fight. Usually it would be a knife fight to the first wound, something small to get the adrenaline pumping and your blood flowing. Back there on the free merchant was a good blooding for you two in a way." She says in a sort of flat, distant tone before she spots Groshim and gives an excited little wave "Hey! Did you try that weird UNW guy's coffee yet?"

"Had mug during space operations, rather bitter for my taste, prefer sweeter flavor. Fruit juices and like."

The pod lights begin to flicker on as this section of the ship gets power, now diverted from weapons with the majority of the battle being won outside. The vessel slowly drifts closer to the battleship, able to freely approach now that weapons are being jammed and the docking procedures have not been lifted. The slab sided vessel of mosk construction looms, as the humming sound from the end of the tube begins to rise.

Groshim gulps and takes a step back as the noises of the boarding take place, apprehension rising in him. "Appears boarding start. Ready?"

Micaela shoots Groshim a thumbs up. Turning away from Karre "You're going to do great. Don't worry about it "

Groshim nods at the reassurance. "Use blowtorch more than pistol. Last fired gun... 3 months ago? Was at turret. Turret was shooting chair at time."

"You might try to think of the Chimeran Marines as mobile insect turrets. Nothing you haven't dealt with before in a way."

"So Chimeran hostile to chairs? Did not see in briefing pack." he responded with a raised eyebrow and smirk.

Hárrstjarna stood waiting for their deployment, shield in hand as he fiddle with his harness, listening to the sounds coming from outside the ship as they moved into position.

Micaela chuckles at Groshim's comment. Then becomes quiet as she notices the hum of the boarding tubes has indeed changed. And mutters under her breath as she readies herself

The bolt of the boarding drill punches forward through the relatively softer skin of the space station into what looks like an engineering compartment beyond. There is a short drop to the metal decking of the floor there, and the room is dark as power has been blown out by the metal drill head.

If there is not an immediate mad rush out of the boarding tube Micaela will thrust the orange hot glowing tip of her spear through the opening to see if it attracts any immediate gunfire before she proceeds

If Micaela's actions provoked no immediate threat, he would follow her out of the tube shield at the ready, a glowing handaxe in the other.

There looks to be no threat in this room, the engineering compartment empty before the tube made impact with the station.

"Maybe they heard you were coming Mica'" Hárrstjarna joke a bit as he looked around carefully.

Karre strides into the center of the room, looking for any doors that lead out of it. “This is probably more than a little late,” he says, “but make sure your suit seals are tight. We’ll probably poke some holes in here before we’re done.”

"Do those seals come standard on an icarus harness or might I need to commandeer something from the armory?" Hárrstjarna asked, more than concerned as he too would step into the middle of the room, the glowing green head of his axe shining brightly.

“Eh, you’ve got about half an hour in one of those things. If you find yourself in space, try to throw something in the opposite direction of the station. Otherwise,” Karre continues, “just try not to fall off.”

The alarms sound within the shipyard and aside from the scattered tools and burned out work benches , a hatch leads into the next room.

"Mica, take point, or shall I?" Hárrstjarna asked, eager to move along.

Micaela starts towards the door then hearing Hárrstjarna stops and thinks for a moment before falling in behind him "Lead the way killer."

He chuckled softly as he raised his shield and started to head through the doorway

Iracus follows behind, keeping an eye out for any surprises.

Carbine at the ready Max takes up a position to follow through the hatch.

Karre follows, content to assist the agents as needed.

Groshim falls towards the back and follows, unsure of how useful he will be but willing to do his part regardless.

Harrstjarna darts his eyes around in the next room, trying to spot any immediate threat before looking for other possible paths out of this new room.

Opening the door, you enter a workshop where six Mosk slaves look to be trying to escape the area through a bulkhead 20m away, on the opposite side of the room. Workbenches and weapons have been overturned, and tools have scattered across the metal decking everywhere.

Seeing the Mosk don't want to fight Max steps forward and lowers his riffle trying to calm them. "Don't be afraid, we don't want to hurt you."

Micaela will try to dash towards that bulkhead in the back. Intent on getting to it before the mass of Mosk are able to effectively all get out of there. Not wanting them to seal it behind them in an attempt to keep themselves safe. And slowing down the boarding team as a result.

(exert/ con)

!roll 2d6-1 !Exert roll

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [3, 1] Result: 3 Reason: Exert roll

Hárrstjarna bolts after Mica, hoping as well to prevent the Mosk from sealing that exit. "Mica! The bulkhead!" He yelled out as he dashed across the room.

The charge of heavily armored warriors toward the Mosks undoes the calm Max had been trying to get into place, and the Mosks flee, the bulkhead slamming down behind them as they exit the room, none of you making it to the other side to prevent them from doing so in time.

Groshim seeing the bulkhead slam steps further into the room and heads upto it, looking for a control panel or anything he could use to attempt to hack it back open. "Pity. Well tried regardless. Will attempt reopen." (edited)

"I've got a black slab if it'll help."

"Next time I'll be quicker." Hárrstjarna growled as he stepped back from the bulkhead, looking around the room as he began to search through the overturned tables and scattered weaponry.

"Be grateful. Many thanks." Groshim responds, accepting Max's offer and looking at the advanced device with open hunger.

Max hands over the slab. "No problem, every little bit helps right."

"Bad call on my part. I should've been quicker, I used to be quicker. Max had the right of it." Micaela shakes her head for a moment "If you need any help with the door Groshim let me know. I'm not great with security systems but I know a thing or two. And I have a Eelskin Mesh Id you think it will help here."

Iracus will move up to the bulkhead to assist Groshim reopen it. He takes out his electrum ghost tech device and morphs it into a data phase tap to search for lines and apply a set of line shunts to vulnerable data lines. "Here these should help you connect" (If possible, would like to help assist any needed rolls to hack it open for that sweet +1) (edited)

"Prefer attempting hack first. Bulkhead likely heavy. Disabling lock still needs bulkhead lifted. Much effort and chance of shooting as lift. Easier just ask door unlock self." Groshim nods and accepts Iracus' assistance, focusing on the information flowing through the borrowed pad. (edited)

(program/int)

!roll 2d6+5 +1 +1 (+1 from Blackslab, +1 from Iracus help) (edited)

Groshim Roll: [5, 2] Result: 14

1

(14 to help assist the hack for a +1)

1

The doors begin to undergo their unlocking sequence. It looks like it will take about thirty seconds for the doors to cycle open and the sounds of boots on metal on the other side cannot be dismissed easily.

"ETA 30 seconds. May wish take cover." Groshim looks for anything that could quickly be turned into an impromptu cover such as a table that could be overturned.

Micaela will spend 20 of those seconds trying to angle some of those overturned tables into better angles and positions for cover and a semi-fortified position. Before hunkering down herself with her laser rifle primed. About 10 meters from the door. (edited)

Hárrstjarna would do the same, stowing his glowing axe for the chimeran shotgun he had commandeered on his previous boarding run. Setting up next to Mica, "Time for some fun, eh Mica?"

Karre follows suit and finds cover to give him an oblique angle on the hatch.

Iracus falls back with the others to cover as the door begins to open.

A pair of smoke grenades are thrown in first, hissing and spewing. The Chimeran's on the other side look to be holding their fire, waiting for smoke to fill the room before engaging. (initiative)

!roll 1d8

Groshim Roll: [2] Result: 2

(1)

Groshim flinches as the smoke grenades are thrown, losing a few vital fractions of a second as he does so.

(4)

!1d8

3:34 PM

!roll 1d8

Hárrstjarna Roll: [7] Result: 7

!roll 1d8

Max Davenport Roll: [4] Result: 4

!roll 1d8 !Initiative

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [3] Result: 3 Reason: Initiative

(Looking at the thread I don't think @Solrujo knows that the boarding moved to here.) (Though me pinging them probably changes that

Oops) (edited)

(once i get their init I can put this all together)

!roll 1d8 !initiative

Etsha Reen Roll: [4] Result: 4 Reason: initiative

(Etsha steps through the boarding tube after spending some time in the rest facilities, unbeknownst to his crew members, puking his guts out from killing another life form for the first time)

!roll d8

Nekosmash Roll: [4] Result: 4

(Harr, Max, Karre, enemy force, Estra, Micaela, Groshim, Iracus. There is a -2 ranged to hit penalty due to the smoke)

Nekosmash pinned a message to this channel. 6/24/2022 10:01 AM

(we are unsure of enemy numbers, but they are clearly within ten meters based on how things have been thrown into the room)

((Could I hold my action until I think I see one and then fire my weapon?))

(holding your action costs you your move, so yes, you can hold, but you'd only be able to shoot)

((I am good with that)) Hárrstjarna held his fire as the smoke came into the room. Thiugh his finger was on the trigger as he waiting for one of the chimerans to come into his field of view.

(Max is up)

~~Following Hárrstjarna's lead Max waits for the first chimeran through the door. (Holding my action.~~ Would my pan spectral optics help me see through the smoke?) (edited)

(Those can see through it yes, so you’re not penalized )

8:45 AM

(If you still want to hold based on that let me know, I don’t want to take their turn or move on if you feel like you would have done something different )

(Would there be a bonus to shooting then as we can see them but they can't see us? (Unless they have something similar) (I also have those cybereyes.))

(No there’s no bonus for you. You’re just not penalized. We have no idea if they can see you or not)

1

(If I can see them now I'll shoot them now. But I don't think it changes the basic plan.)

(that's fine, if you're shooting go ahead, if not since you're possibly holding your action, I'll move on)

!roll 1d20+4

Max Davenport Roll: [17] Result: 21

!roll 2d6 !damage.

Max Davenport Roll: [3, 3] Result: 6 Reason: damage.

Catching sight of a chimeran through the door Max fires a round. (21/6)(9/10 ammo remain.)

The shot wounds one of the marines , and the others begin to move to shelter around the doorframe

12:46 PM

(Karre)

(Can I make it out into the corridor in one movement? Or at least round to the other side of the door so I’ll be out of the line of fire of the party shooting through the door?) (edited)

(you'd be passing the ones on the doorframe, you can move through it but they;d be taking opportunity attacks against you if you don't take fighting withdrawal as your main)

(I’ll take the AoOs to hit the back line then. Out and around the right side)

!roll 2d20+1

Nekosmash Roll: [17, 3] Result: 21

!roll d6

Nekosmash Roll: [4] Result: 4

(17/4 if that goes through, the other one near the door misses)

(Both miss) Karre dips and ducks past the first two Chimeran marines to come face to face with the one that is third in the stack. “Morning,” he growls before swinging his boarding axe at them. (22/4) (edited)

1

One of them is wounded, being wheeled aside by the blow before righting themselves.

8:40 AM

The two chimeran marines at the door begin firing, trying to drive the rest of you back.

8:40 AM

!roll 2 d20+2

Nekosmash Rolls: [13] Result: 15 [1] Result: 3

Their shots spark and hit the ground, missing as the smoke fills the chamber. The other two in hand to hand with Karre draw serrated looking combat blades, akin to something of a long kris knife or scimitar.

8:42 AM

!roll 2 d20+2

Nekosmash Rolls: [7] Result: 9 [17] Result: 19

!roll d6

Nekosmash Roll: [2] Result: 2

(miss, and 19/2)

8:42 AM

(Estra is up)

After the initial shock of clearing the tube, then the smoke and flash of weapons fire, Etsha will get low to the nearest cover. If he is able to make out a chimeran marine in the smoke, he will take a shot with his laser pistol. Otherwise, he will hold fire until he can be sure he's firing at an enemy.

10:08 AM

!roll 1d20+1 !laserpistol_attk

Etsha Reen Roll: [19] Result: 20 Reason: laserpistol_attk

(hits)

!roll 1d6 !laserpistol_dmg

Etsha Reen Roll: [3] Result: 3 Reason: laserpistol_dmg

One of the chimerans near the door frame is wounded, recoiling back before hanging their weapon on the door to maintain their position

10:09 AM

(Micaela)

Seeing Karre Mondragon charge into the fray and recalling the effect of smoke on laser weaponry during the Acastus Liberation War Micaela will follow behind him. Attempting to get through the door frame herself.

(same thing? Or are you stopping to engage the ones at the doorframe? Just need to know if I'm rolling AoO or not)

(Same thing. I will take the aoos)

!roll 2d20+3

Nekosmash Roll: [7, 2] Result: 12

(miss and miss)

Micaela will pivot once she clears the doorframe and sends a quick jab at chest height towards where one of the Chimeran swings glanced off her armor

1:15 PM

!roll 1d20+6

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [14] Result: 20

!roll 1d10+2

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [8] Result: 10

(20/10 with the thermal Spear.)

The Chimeran near the door is wounded, but thus far none of the enemy are down

1:57 PM

(groshim, and I believe Harr held their action, so although cannot move, can still attempt a shot)

(I will try to shoot the wounded one. I have optics so no -2)

2:04 PM

!roll 1d20-2

Groshim Roll: [2] Result: 0

( I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that misses.)

((So I take a minus 2?))

2:12 PM

!roll 1d20-2

Hárrstjarna Roll: [17] Result: 15

!roll 3d4

Hárrstjarna Roll: [2, 2, 1] Result: 5

15/5, 10/30 shock

(you can't melee them Harr, you held your action so you don't have a move. You can shoot one of your guns or do nothing)

((I rolled a shotgun att))

(guns don't have shock. That 10/30 is probably your range increments.)

(Yes, short range/long range. Guns do not have shock. A contextless block of numbers doesn't really help explain what's going on) (edited)

3:11 PM

Groshim misses their shot, the bolt burning the doorframe but not striking the Chimeran behind it. The shotgun likewise fires, striking the opposite side of the frame, and not hitting the well dug in enemy,

3:11 PM

(Iracus up)

Iracus takes his void carbine and tries to hit one of the enemy combatants through the smoky haze.

3:14 PM

(16 with sight penalty/7 )

The wounded Chimeran near the doorframe falls, leaving just three of the enemy opposing you.

3:14 PM

(Back to Harr)

((Top of the round?))

3:42 PM

Harrstjarna leveled the shotgun once more, aiming to hit one of the Chimerans behind the doorframe.

3:42 PM

!roll 1d20-2

Hárrstjarna Roll: [4] Result: 2

((Not going to bother with Dmg, since I believe that is a miss))

The shot misses, sending spinning shrapnel harmlessly into the room.

3:56 PM

(Max D! )

!roll 1d20+4 !shoot the last one by the door

Max Davenport Roll: [16] Result: 20 Reason: shoot the last one by the door

!roll 2d6 !damage

Max Davenport Roll: [4, 3] Result: 7 Reason: damage

Max takes aim and shoots the other guard by the door. (20/7)(8/10 ammo remain)

Wounded, the guard is spun by the impact of the shot, but remains standing and quickly scrambles back to their place.

8:17 PM

(Karre)

Karre darts in under the Chimeran’s guard, swing his axe upwards in attempt to catch his opponent’s chin. “Do we need any alive or can you hack the info for the location?” His voice is short with exertion. (17/9)

THe chin is caught and the wounded marine takes a step back, trying to get his own combat blade up to guard.

7:16 AM

!roll d20+3

Nekosmash Roll: [10] Result: 13

(13 won't hit you Karre and your AC is too high for shock)

7:17 AM

The remaining door-guard fires a shot into the corridor, continuing the gunbattle with the others waiting to pile into the room.

7:17 AM

!roll d20+3 !Attk on Grohshim

Nekosmash Roll: [2] Result: 5 Reason: Attk on Grohshim

(miss)

7:17 AM

(Estra is up)

Groshim ducks into cover as the shot slams into the table beside him, letting out a squeak of fear as he does so. "Maybe able hack systems. Uncertain!"

Etsha will remain in position behind cover and take another shot at the marines.

8:15 AM

!roll 1d20+1 !laserpistolattk

Etsha Reen Roll: [10] Result: 11 Reason: laserpistolattk

!roll 1d6 !laserpistol_dmg

Etsha Reen Roll: [3] Result: 3 Reason: laserpistol_dmg

The laser bolt misses, sparking a burned patch in the door frame of the shelter the Chimera gunman is using.

8:52 AM

(micaela)

Micaela sends a swing at the Door-guard with her spear.

8:54 AM

!roll 1d20+6

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [15] Result: 21

!roll 1d10+2

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [6] Result: 8

(21/8 with the thermal Spear.)

The spear takes the guard in the back, catching them low from their crouching position and skewering them from behind.

9:32 AM

(There should be one in the back line up still by my count, with Groshim up)

Poking his head out Groshim will take a shot at the final guard.

9:34 AM

!Roll 1d20

Groshim Roll: [12] Result: 12

!roll 1d6

Groshim Roll: [4] Result: 4

The doorframe is heat warmed and blackened, even more so now with this latest shot, that misses its intended target.

12:12 PM

(Iracus)

Iracus continues to fire upon the enemy. (13 to hit)

12:16 PM

(4 dmg if that hits or if the chimeran decides to stumble into the shot)

The shot continues deforming the doorframe, and the Chimeran remains at his post, now heavily outnnumbered

1:27 PM

(harr is up)

Hárrstjarna moves up to the door, leving his shotgun at the Chimeran currently being engaged and fire off a round.

2:42 PM

!roll 1d20

Hárrstjarna Roll: [18] Result: 18

!roll 3d4

Hárrstjarna Roll: [3, 1, 1] Result: 5

18/5

The shotgun strikes the target, blowing the Chimeran back from the door, and sprawling them on their back. A black ooze pours from the wound, and you can tell that this is terminal.

2:44 PM

(I believe that should be it for combat)

With the Chimeran on hits back. Hárrstjarna waded into the room beyond the doorframe, looking around

The Chimeran marines were defending what looks to be an elevator room. Based on where you entered the station you know ship access is on one of the below decks.

Karre safes his axe and surveys the room. “We need to take the battleship before they can set up a more solid defense. But there’s also the Greystar prisoners that we need to find. Any ideas?”

"Split up?" Hárrstjarna recommended as he walked over to the elevator, looking back at the group.

(I don’t want to split the group. Keeping two groups on the same map , in the same encounter , with different post rates is going to be hell to keep track of )

((Understandable))

"Attempt hack systems? Perhaps find floor plan? Potentially even disrupt defense? Remote lock bulkheads, inhibit defender movements." Groshim will attempt to find a panel or terminal where he could attempt to do so.

"Well the ship's access should be on a lower deck if that helps out?" He said as he looked over the Chimeran Marines for a moment, looking to see what their general loadout of gear is.

(I know some of the other threads have run into language issues. Would this situation trigger passport of hell to let me understand chimeran?)

Passport of Hell (Level 1): You instinctively blend into 
whatever culture or society you are physically oc-
cupying. You can speak, read, and write the local 
language flawlessly so long as you are involved 
with that society, and intuitively know enough 
about the culture to avoid breaking important ta-
boos or standing out with odd behavior. This does 
not change your physical appearance.

(in an earlier post you said that power was being fed into the battleships. Would that mean the station is currently providing power to them or would we not know?)

)max ; yes it would work. Iracus: the battleships can probably make their own power too but the reactors will have to be ignited , if they are In working order. That will take time )

6:37 PM

There aren’t terminals in this room, only elevator controls that control only the elevator. The dead Chimeran marines are wearing combat field uniforms and were armed with void carbines as most space based infantry are.

Groshim frowns as his search turns up nothing. "No system access. No access no hack. Only doable thing call elevator."

Hárrstjarna nodded and accessed the elevator control panel and initiated the protocol to summon it.

Iracus moves to the elevator control panel behind Hárrstjarna to see the possible options of where it might lead, "I think we should take control of the station first. If your agents are being held there, they might be able to provide tactical information of the station or battleships. Even if they are on the other station, if we can gain control here we might be able to cut power to the battleship if they aren't supplying their own at this point. I imagine the defenders started hunkering down when they saw the Rodger Young start their boarding process, so we should secure any advantage we can before storming it." (edited)

"Agreed. The last thing we want to have happen is be surrounded on all sides by an enemy that knows the terrain."

“My worry is the battleship turning its weapons on the station once we secure it. I hope cutting the shorelines will prevent that.” Karre has taken up position to the side of the elevator to be out of sight when the doors open.

"Welp, we shall figure that out when we get there, and hopefully we get there soon." He said with a chuckle as he formed up on Mica.

"The fleet should be keeping up the EW barrage, by we'll want to hurry so they don't have time to find a way around it. Keep your eyes open, maybe we can find a map or something." Max heads over to provide any translations Iracus may need.

"Believe Station powering Battleship life support. Shut off power may suffocate agents if held on ship."

(The elevator will arrive but are we going up or down? )

((Down I would think, boarding party?))

Etsha arrives in the corridor, readying himself. “My apologies for the delay in my arrival, I was unsure if we were clear.”

(May be worth going up to secure the station to stop them from cutting power)

(Vote here for down)

9:00 AM

(vote here for up)

5

1

((You make a good point Groshim, what does the group think))

(I'll give this a bit more time, currently there are enough folks left to vote where everyone going the other way would swing what we do)

(Up it is)

7:06 PM

The elevator has two arrows and the one for up is pushed once everyone piles in. It seems like it has just one floor that it can access and the armored doors open at the end of a long hallway with the space station bridge at the other end 40m away. The heavy bulkhead doors are beginning to close, slowly lowering from the ceiling. The doors are starship grade and look like they’ll take several long seconds to lower. You can see the hazy forms of the alien crew around their bridge consoles just behind.

Harrstjarna forms up behind Mica and readies himself for the oncoming encounter.

Karre sprints forward, moving halfway down the corridor. “I’m going to try and stop the doors. I didn’t bring anything to open them once they close.”

Micaela sees Karre sprinting forward and grits her teeth before taking a run forward to launch into a leap towards the closing doors. Attempting to use her Storm Armor's gravitic boosters to clear the length of the hallways in a couple of long dashing leaps forward to the other side of the door.

Not wanting to be stuck behind a door again, Max triggers his armour and jumps after Micaela. (double move for two 20m jumps with the storm armour.)

Sucking in a deep breath, Etsha runs behind Karre and Micaela, pistol at the ready.

Hárrstjarna tries his best to keep pace with Mica, with his glowing green axe in hand.

Groshim will rush forwards, fumbling for his pad as he does so, hoping to reopen the bulkhead if it closes on them.

(micaela and max would make it through with the help of their storm armor, as everyone else is about a double move behind)

7:25 AM

The crew begin to scatter, realizing that at least a couple of you are going to get inside before the heavy doors close. A thick control lever on each side of the door looks to be controlling the downward motion of the shutters.

Spotting the levers Max quickly pushes one back into it's open position.

One of the two levers is thrown, and the mechanism slows, but does not stop.

Micaela will run to the second lever and throw it back into it's original position. Holding that this bring the mechanism to a grinding halt.

(If Iracus can use a double move with his titan plate's jump, he would follow behind the other two and keep an eye out for any enemy combatants trying to shoot them while they use the levers)

(Etsha would cover them as well.)

It looks as though any combatants remain downstairs on the battleship, and as both of the storm armored warriors enter the room, the levers are thrown and the door stops lowering. (I don't remember off hand if titan plate also has a jump of it its just really heavy, but the doors have stopped now anyway)

Titan Powered Armor: An enormously heavy suit of servo- actuated powered armor, Titan assault plate was favored by pretech boarding parties and space marines.** It grants the wearer all the usual benefits of storm armor**, but has a base AC of 21 and subtracts 2 points of damage from every instance of harm suffered by the wearer.

(Emphasis mine. Does give the jump ability.)

(Thank you, didn't have the book handly)

Micaela will look around the room. trying to make some sense out of the purpose of different sections and terminals based on the context of screens and controls nearby and her still limited experience with astronautic systems.

This station controls the hangar where the battleship is stored and shows the status of other modules around the space station. The detention block is a short distance away on this floor and the Greystar smugglers are being held there, scheduled to be executed in an hour from now.

Etsha will continue moving until he clears into the room as well.

Harrstjarna will follow suit into the room as well.

"It looks like we arrived just in time. We should secure this section and go rescue the smugglers before someone decides to move up the execution."

“This side of the room!” Karre says to the command staff, gesturing with his gun’s muzzle in order to group them all together. To the party he says, “What do we do with them?”

(How many of the command staff are there Neko?)

(Ten. Two deck officers and then just folks that fill in at stations where needed )

"We cryo podded the ones that my crew and I dealt with. If you have any Marines staffed on our boarding shift they can brig them or pod em. Don't know what you can manage, and what's worth the effort to you." Micaela will say as she glances between Karre and the prisoners.

(The Ragnarok and Good Shepherd do not have crypto pod fittings. If Neko is ok with it, we could have follow up boarding teams come secure these ones so we can move on. Otherwise we have to make some potentially tough choices here)

(That will work. I’d say they’re not gonna help you in combat but if you want them to secure what you’ve taken that make sense given the size of the ragnarok

Karre keys up his radio to the boarding command channel, “Ragnorak, Mondragon. Send a squad to our location. We’ve located the Chimeran command center for the station, so send a few techs as well to start helping our teams push through to the battleship. We’ll be moving on to the Greystar captives next. Will update further when able.” He keys off the channel when the acknowledgment comes through. “Alright,” he says to the party, “We can move whenever you’re all ready.”

"I'm just waiting for the fun to start!" Harrstjarna responded as he asked which way the smugglers were.

To the west there is another blast door that can be raised that leads to a connecting hallway. At the end of that hallway is a hexagonal room with cells carved out of the flats of its sides, allowing for six cells to be placed fairly close to the bridge where the captives within could be interrogated easily by flag officers without the need for moving them within the ship

Etsha will walk up to Karre, "Excuse me, Senior Agent. Etsha Reen here. I do apologize, but I was wondering if we should keep one of the higher in command with us to question in case any passcodes or biometrics are needed?"

"Groshim seems fairly capable so far. I'd rather not overcomplicate things. But do you think it would be worth it?" Micaela will ask the question directing it towards the Ashen One and Karre with a pair of glances (edited)

Karre looks caught off guard for a second before responding, “Not an Agent, I’m with the Wardens. I’d rather not take someone who might be able to lock us out of locations due to their level of access to the station systems.”

"Likely hackable. Particularly now command captured. Nobody counteracting attempts."

"Alright. Let's raise that blast door. Get our people. And conquer a battleship folks."

(we have physical access to the platform bridge, so if Groshim has line shunts, we can do some electronic mischief. It would not have an impact on the battlship though since that's a different electronic system)

(I've got like shunts if not)

(as do I)

(and can help assist again since Groshim has a better mod I think)

(I think I'm running low and keep forgetting to restock. I'm definitely willing to do some mischief though

)

(lets get a program/int, someone can supply the shunt, and anyone with program 0 or better will give a +2)

!roll 2d6+5

Groshim Roll: [4, 3] Result: 12

(+1 if I can reborrow the blackslab)

(That's ok with me. I'll also supply the line shunt.)

(I have program at 0 as well so Micaela will help. Though it doesn't look like Groshim needs it.)

(Let's see if we can get the check over a 20

)

(we are at a 19 which is already far more than enough)

1

(I don't have program, so unless there's someone else helping I think it's just a 17. But I don't think that's going to make much of a difference. )

(Iracus would be giving a +2. I didn't factor you in Max )

(Describe what you want to do Groshim and I’ll let you know what works from here )

(Alright so I have a lot of ideas. Top priority currently would be to protect the Greystar Agents so if possible I would like to lock the cells and change any access codes. Next I'd like to set off emergency messages saying the reactor core is overheating and ordering everyone to evacuate. If I can locate any barracks or weapon stores I'd attempt to lock those down if possible to stop troops from mustering/arming themselves. Finally if possible I'd like to disrupt any internal coms to stop them from communicating with eachother.)

(I think 1, 2, and 4 could be done. Armories would probably not be connected to the bridge system for this exact eventuality,)

(That makes sense, I would at least try and work out what the more common routes to the armory would be and try to close those off. If I can't completely seal them out I can at least try and make it take longer and tire them out before they get there.)

(We can lower some doors and make it take longer to get there, but we can't shut them out entirely)

(Yep I'm happy with that. At the very least it will buy us some time and create some chaos for them.)

(sounds good. We've done what we can do from here, I think)

Groshim looks up from the computer pad with a satisfied smile as sirens begin blaring out warnings. "Had success, Greystar agents locked in cells until our arrival, false alerts causing evacuations, communications hampered, routes to armory impaired. Little else doable from bridge. Advise continuing."

“Nice work! I’m always a fan of a little chaos on the other side,” Karre says.

"It definitely tends to help. I knew my praise of you earlier on wasn't unfounded Groshim. I'm ready when the rest of you are."

"Ready on your mark Mica!"

Rubbing the back of his head embarrassed at the praise, Groshim turns away slightly and pretends to sort out the gear on his belt to hide his embarrassment. "Glad could help, not much really, controls relatively standardized. Ready for move."

"Of course. The standard Chimeran control protocol. Let's go get those smugglers, I can't imagine those cells are too comfortable."

"Assuming designed for slave race ease of use also. Bridge controls lacked cell comfort option."

The western blast doors open and there are no guards within, since the proximity of the bridge and its own security force likely handled prisoner transport. The cells look to be very reinforced, the doors are thick and would have taken hours to cut through with powered tools had Groshim not overridden their controls to allow them to be opened. The smugglers all look to have been beaten to within an inch of their lives. A few are missing eyes, fingers, toes, and so on, where the attempt to extract sensitive information from them went far beyond what anyone would determine to be proper interrogation methods. The only care they'd been given is something to immediately stabilize them, and something to prevent infection so they could remain alive to be further tortured.

(I had a good bit of time in the spotlight a moment ago so I'll hang back here but I do have heal 0 if nobody has better.)

Micaela will approach some of the ones that look the worst off. Trying to determine if they can be stabilized enough to move or if they need to have a medical team brought to them.

They look stable. Regeneration of parts is going to need to come from cybernetics or a biopsionic, and for right now, they look to be very weak.

"They look safe enough to move." Micaela shouts to the rest of the group after looking them over. "These are the folks we came for. I'd like to personally escort them back to safety. I know it's not everybody's main mission but these folks are the only reason im out here so far away from Acastus's Moons. I want to make sure they're as safe as possible during the extraction process."

"Agree prefer personal escort. Suffering came through giving us opportunity here. Deserve aid in return."

"I'll accompany Mica." Hárrstjarna volunteered, looking the smugglers over.

(I don't want to split the party, if we want to escort them out before we move into taking the B-ship we can, but that gives them more time to prepare)

(Tactically it makes sense to strike while the iron is hot but Groshim would certainly prefer to escort them personally. He's been worried about them for some time.)

(Oh absolutely no splitting the party. Worse come to worse I would be fine being written out of the rest of this scenario in return for ensuring these folks got back to our ship safely while everyone else pushed forward with the battleship assault.)

(up to you folks)

"Either that or we just relock these doors for now. With them knowing we'll be back for them soon now that we know they're not actively being molested. Finish up the battleship. And come right back for them?"

(How many smugglers are there?)

(six)

Etsha speaks up "We could just radio in that they are coming and they can get to the ship? It isn't far and we've cleared most threats up to this position. Also, they could help guard the ship until our return."

2

(are any of them conscious or aware of our presence and look like they might be able to talk?)

(The smugglers are conscious and aware. They’re all pretty beat up but you might get a few lines out of them if we are to the point )

"Shall we get them going then?" Harrstjarna asked as he turned back to Mica and the others. (edited)

"Listen. These guys look like they can barely speak let alone navigate a space station back to safety. While I can always appreciate a survival of the fittest situation like Etsha's suggestion. It looks like these heroes have bled more than their fair share for the Greystar. Let's get them to safety and deal with the worst these Chimerans have to offer afterwards." Micaela says these words firmly. But also anxiously, casting several glances around at the path the group came from. Obviously eager to move on one way or another.

"Agreed, they're really the only objective we needed to take intact. worst case scenario we can retreat and blow this station out of the sky once they're safe."

1

"Alright then, let's call it." Harrstjarna said as he fiddled with his axe.

!roll 3 d10

Nekosmash Rolls: [6] Result: 6 [8] Result: 8 [6] Result: 6

Returning through the ship using the charted route, you stumble into the pod room to see a Chimeran engineering team at your breach point. Two Chimeran engineers in bulky exosuits fitted with a number of cutting tools lead a gaggle of eight slaves with patches and spare parts. They look to be trying to cut the boarding tube free, or blow it somehow as the iris doors on the other side leading to your ship remain sealed, and not enough enemies have gathered here to try to storm them.

7:29 AM

They are 10m from the door as you stumble across the enemy force.

(Range to the baddies? Do we have a surprise round or will we need to roll initiative?)

(We can see each other, so no surprise round, lets get initiative)

(Any hope in calling for them to surrender?)

11:42 AM

!roll 1d8

Groshim Roll: [6] Result: 6

(7)

(5)

(no)

1

!roll 1d8

Max Davenport Roll: [4] Result: 4

!roll d8

Nekosmash Roll: [6] Result: 6

!roll 1d8 !Initiative

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [7] Result: 7 Reason: Initiative

!roll d8 !Initiative

Etsha Reen Roll: [3] Result: 3 Reason: Initiative

(I think we;'ve got everyone but Harr, and then we should be good)

!roll d8 !Initiative

Hárrstjarna Roll: [8] Result: 8 Reason: Initiative

2

(Harr, Iracus, Micaela, Groshim, enemy engineering team, Karre, Max, Etsha)

Nekosmash pinned a message to this channel. 7/7/2022 9:11 PM

Harrstjarna moved up with his axe raised, trying to land the first blow as he swung at one of the Chimerans closest to him.

9:29 PM

!roll 1d20+1

Hárrstjarna Roll: [19] Result: 20

!roll 1d8

Hárrstjarna Roll: [1] Result: 1

20/1, 2/AC13

One of the engineering team is wounded as the axe bites a shallow groove into the exosuit.

5:48 PM

(Iracus)

Iracus takes a shot at the wounded engineer with his void carbine

10:11 AM

(17/4)

The shot deflects off thick exo armor and the engineer seems to laugh at the thus far relatively ineffective blows

Micaela leaps forward arcing across the room in a mighty bound and readies a swing that is executed as she lands near the unengaged Chimeran engineer

8:07 AM

!roll 1d20+6

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [1] Result: 7

2

(Shock of 2/15)

(no shock)

2:06 PM

(groshim)

Groshim takes cover by the doorway, gesturing for the smugglers to keep back as he does so. Pulling out his pistol he snaps off a shot at the wounded engineer.

2:23 PM

!roll 1d20

Groshim Roll: [8] Result: 8

The shot misses, and the Chimerans begin to rally as the initial mutual surprise has worn off.

7:28 AM

The two exo armored engineers fire up power tools, plowing into combat with Harr and Micaela

7:28 AM

!roll 2 d20+3

Nekosmash Rolls: [11] Result: 14 [19] Result: 22

!roll d8

Nekosmash Roll: [8] Result: 8

(22/8 Harr, missed Micaela)

7:28 AM

The slaves for their part seem to keep diligently working to cut the boarding tubes free rather than adding to the fight, as their superiors have not yet commanded them to.

7:28 AM

(Karre)

Karre raises his spike thrower at the twisting melee. He waits for a gap before firing a burst at the exosuit-clad Chimeran already injured by Harr.

10:42 AM

(14/22) (Is this considered a new scene or a continuation of the fleet combat? If it’s a new scene I’ll force the hit using the warrior ability. If not, don’t worry about it) (edited)

(Its a new scene from the fleet combat)

1

10:45 AM

(but this entire boarding sequence has all been one scene in itself)

(Cool, then I’ll force the hit if 14 misses)

(14 does miss)

The shot gravely wounds one of the exo armored engineers, driving them down to one knee, but for now they endure.

11:01 AM

(max)

"Down on the floor if you want to live." Max yells in Chimeran as he fires a round at the wounded engineer.

11:46 AM

!roll 1d20+4 !Void carbine. 7/10 ammo remain

Max Davenport Roll: [17] Result: 21 Reason: Void carbine. 7/10 ammo remain

!roll 2d6 ! damage

Max Davenport Roll: [3, 1] Result: 4 Reason: damage

The wounded engineer is dropped onto its back, blood leaking from several places as repeated shots and slashes have breached the heavy suit.

12:00 PM

(Etsha)

Seeing the first engineer incapacitated for the moment, Etsha takes cover on the other side of the door from Karra and fires a shot at the other engineer.

2:53 PM

!roll 1d20 !laserpistol

Etsha Reen Roll: [16] Result: 16 Reason: laserpistol

!roll 1d6

Etsha Reen Roll: [4] Result: 4

The shot strikes the exo-suited engineer, and his thick armor seems to absorb the blow.

2:58 PM

(back to Harr)

Harr gives into the heat of the battle, swinging his axe once more at his engaged enemy.

3:31 PM

!roll 1d20+1

Hárrstjarna Roll: [18] Result: 19

!roll 1d8

Hárrstjarna Roll: [1] Result: 1

19/1, Shock 2 AC/13

(Don't forget to apply that 8 damage if you haven't already) The blade bites into the back of the second exosuited warrior, and it pivots around to face you, as the rest of the Greystar party keeps the pressure on.

3:41 PM

(Iracus)

As Iracus takes aim at the exosuited enemy, he first attempts to connect telepathically to it and gain a deep understanding of what it knows about the current defensive strategy of it's allies before taking another shot with his void carbine. (2 effort to insta connect with a level 4 telepathic contact. Target can, if it really wants to, make a mental save to resist.)

5:20 PM

5:21 PM

(18/2 for the shot)

!roll d20 !v13

Nekosmash Roll: [7] Result: 7 Reason: v13

There is no deeper strategy at work here. The attack was sudden and swift and the fleet crumbled far sooner than anticipated. Clearing the platforms of borders is the current short term strategy

Micaela glances over at the slaves cutting away the boarding tube before a wide swing from the engineers power tool brings her back to the fray. Sparks fly as she uses the metal shaft of the spear to prevent the mastication of the plates protecting her neck and face before pushing the makeshift weapon back with a hateful growl and then a return slice intended to burn and maim

8:55 AM

!roll 1d20+6

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [2] Result: 8

2

(missed)

12:27 PM

(Groshim)

(I don't think I'm going to have much luck with shooting, could I try and talk the slaves into pausing the cutting until the fight is over?)

(if you want to say a few lines and make a talk check as your main action we can certainly see what shakes out of it. )

"Halt removing boarding tubes! Risks opening craft to vacuum. If halt Greystar promises not to harm. Here for liberation."

(talk/cha)

!roll 2d6

Groshim Roll: [5, 3] Result: 8

The slaves for now look to be more concerned about doing their duty than listening to what they believe is their enemy.

(Worth a try. Probably all I can do)

The slaves continue working, and it looks like the tube is going to be free in another handful of seconds of cutting. The exo-suited chimeran swings its sawblade at Micaela, hoping to damage the larger meleee threat

1:30 PM

!roll d20+4

Nekosmash Roll: [13] Result: 17

(missed, Karre is up)

Karre sees the slaves getting close to cutting the boarding tube free. He shouts to the Smugglers, “Get back to the previous compartment and seal the hatch!” As he levels his weapon at the last Chimeran he also says on the tactical net with Ragnarok, “Ragnarok, Mondragon; seal all boarding tubes. Defenders are attempting to cut you loose.” He fires a burst at the Chimeran.

2

1

7:04 PM

(18/23)

The engineer is killed as the shot punches a neat hole through helmet and head. The suit power fails and the engineer looks like a statue now, the rigid musculature keeping the slack and lifeless body from falling over.

Max triggers his armour and leaps in among the mosk his stun baton swinging. "Do you want to die for these people who stole your world?" (I more trying to get them to give up, than I am trying to do damage.)

With there no longer being any Chimerans present, the discipline of the work group begins to fall apart and the work begins to stop.

(Out of initiative?)

(Yes)

As the engineer falls and the Slaves falter Groshim rushes forwards and begins fussing over the damage that was done. Pulling out his toolkit he tries to repair as much of the damage as possible, welding the damaged units back together (Assuming fix/int)

9:28 AM

!roll 3d6d1+5

Groshim Roll: [5, 3, 3] Result: 13

(We don't have the parts on hand to accomplish a repair, so I didn't call for the check)

9:37 AM

(can't really do anytihng about this from where we are right now)

(I do have 8 spare parts on me stowed away if that helps? Possibly also the Ashen One ability for some sort of quick setting Sealant? If not then Groshim would just leave it.)

(we could use four of those parts)

Seeing that the tube is badly damaged Groshim pulls out various odds and ends from inside his pack, looking at them and muttering to himself, throwing some back into the bag and keeping some of them with him, after a few moments of this he sets back on the tube with renewed vigor, repairing the damage with the kit and the various parts.

The tubes are patched for the moment. You'll be able to transfer back into the ship that brought you here without risk.

Groshim looks up as he finishes the work. "Tube ready for use. Micaela? Do honors?"

Micaela looks towards Groshim adrenaline still coursing through her veins "Huh? Oh...yeah. I don't know the codes for this ship's tubes." She says as her brain switches tracks and she turns to address the smugglers "Threats neutralized, tube is safe. Get back in here and get ready to board." She shoots a glance towards Harrstjarna to see how he's holding up.

Karre sends an “all clear” message to the tactical team on Ragnarok for their location and boarding tube ID. He also suggests that the Wardens send out sorties to ensure the other tubes are still clear.

The smugglers are bundled back aboard the ship for medical treatment, quickly being taken out of sight by medical personnel

Hárrstjarna is barely hanging in there after taking such a hard hit. But, he manages to stay on Mica's heels.

Hárrstjarna

Hárrstjarna is barely hanging in there after taking such a hard hit. But, he manages to stay on Mica's heels.

"You want a medpack? I've got a few with me."

"I do believe I need one...." Hárrstjarna replied with a nod, taking a moment to collect himself.

Max digs out a medpack and hands it over. "These things can be real handy sometimes." (I believe that's 2d4+1 hp, and don't forget the strain like I did the first time I used one.)

((The strain))

9:33 PM

((??))

9:34 PM

!roll 2d4+1

Hárrstjarna Roll: [3, 2] Result: 6

(System strain. Each medpack applies one strain. If you go over the amount of system strain you can handle you pass out )

((Ah, gotchya))

(Page 52 I believe in the rulebook has more information about that )

((Ty))

Seeing the site secured and Harrstjarna taken care of Micaela will look at the rest of the group "Is everyone ready to head to the Battleship? I don't imagine it gets any easier from this point onwards."

Etsha walks up and nods to Micaela, looking as if ready to make one comment then grins, “You lot make it seem easy. I’ll be happy to follow.”

Iracus nods, "Let's do this"

(We went up instead of down at that elevator before, so we have nothing new to see until we get back to that room and indeed go down, I'll get ship plans posted)

2

As the group heads back towards the elevator Micaela grabs a couple of canisters out of secure pouches mounted on the power armor she's in and raises her voice "Etsha! Harrstjarna, I want you to hold onto these, their magma grenades; real nasty from what I've heard. If things look bad don't be afraid to use them, the two of you are a lot less replaceable than anything on the battleship." she proffers the devices to the two Greystar Agents.

Hárrstjarna takes the magma grenade and stows it, sraying in tow with the senior agent. "Thanks, I feel like I'll need the help."

(Make sure we are tracking stowed/readied)

7:44 AM

7:45 AM

(The elevator would having us coming down to an empty room 1)

Nekosmash pinned a message to this channel. 7/15/2022 7:45 AM

The elevator descends quietly into Room 1, revealing a darkened transit room where personnel and light cargo would normally be transferred into a station or into a docked logistics ship. No one is in this room right now, you having dispatched the security presence sent into the station to try to block you. Chimeran pride has evidently not presented the ship officers with the thought that a follow up force might be needed.

Iracus carefully steps out of the elevator, scanning the room until satisfied they are alone for now. "Seems we might have the drop on them for now, how do we want to play this? Slow and controlled? Or fast and fierce?"

"Prefer caution. Though also not frequent combatant. Will leave tactical decisions to those with aptitude."

"I might recommend caution, but only because I keep putting myself under the hammer it seems." Harrstjarna would joke as he looks about the room they entered into.

Karre considers, “I’d opt to move towards engineering given a choice. If you’re all still keen on offering opportunities to surrender, that would give us the most leverage. As for speed, I’d prefer to move quickly since we’ve given them time to prepare already.”

"We need to move at a steady and controlled pace, like Karre said they've had plenty of time to prep already, if we wanted fast and furious the time for that is over. And we'll just end up running into a prepared firing line or worse."

"Caution appears consensus. Idea. Potentially try locate panel? If access coms potentially attempt trick ship boarding dealt with?" As Groshim says this he looks around, looking to see if there are any computers or control panels.

"We could probably sow some chaos if we claim engineering. That would give you all sorts of wonderful panels and controls to work your techno magic with Groshim. I'm up for following Karre on that daring assault."

"I am behind you Mica, unless you think I am better served elsewhere." Hárrstjarna stated as he put away his axe and pulled the shotgun he previously had been using.

(I'm good to go here but it seems like anything I can add is going to be predicated by you guys doing something, so once we do, I'm here)

"Engineering appears wise. Wish take point?" He said while glancing between those wearing the bulky heavy armor.

Hárrstjarna rocked his shotgun and looked up at Mica

"I can take point." Max moves up beside the door ready to go through when the others are ready.

Karre stacks across from him, “Ready when you are.”

Groshim takes a position to the back and holds his rarely used pistol at the ready.

Etsha takes up position near Groshim, ready to move forward.

(Notice.wis, everyone can take this check)

(6)

!roll 2d6+1 !Notice/Wis

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [5, 3] Result: 9 Reason: Notice/Wis

!roll 2d6 !wis

Etsha Reen Roll: [3, 1] Result: 4 Reason: wis

!roll 2d6 !Notice/Wisdom

Hárrstjarna Roll: [2, 1] Result: 3 Reason: Notice/Wisdom

!roll 2d6+3

Max Davenport Roll: [3, 1] Result: 7

!roll 2d6

Groshim Roll: [2, 1] Result: 3

Micaela and max hear the faint sounds of whips cracking on the other side of the door along with the chittered pain of what is either a mosk or noctua on the receiving end of the blows.

(6 notice/wis) Iracus moves along with the group, void carbine at the ready.

Bursting through the doors you can see the scene exactly as you heard it, the Chimerans in the midst of punishing a troublesome slave. There are two of the enemy in this room.

Rushing through the door Max finds the Chimeran with the whip and goes to take a shot. (Initiative I assume?)

(Yes let’s get that )

!roll 1d8

Groshim Roll: [4] Result: 4

(2)

!roll 1d8

Max Davenport Roll: [3] Result: 3

!roll d8

Nekosmash Roll: [3] Result: 3

!roll 1d8

Iracus Varanu | Rayan Roll: [2] Result: 2

!roll 1d8 !Micaela initiative.

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [7] Result: 7 Reason: Micaela initiative.

!roll 1d8 !Hárrstjarna Initiative

Hárrstjarna Roll: [8] Result: 8 Reason: Hárrstjarna Initiative

3

(Harr, Micaela , Groshim , max , slavers , iracus , Karre , estra ) (edited)

!roll 1d8 !Estra Init

Etsha Reen Roll: [1] Result: 1 Reason: Estra Init

(Harr up)

Harr shoulder his shotgun and aims at the one Chimeran with the whip and fires off a shot.

6:41 PM

!roll 1d20+1

Hárrstjarna Roll: [5] Result: 6

((I assume that misses))

The blow misses and the combat armor is stoutly resisting your hammering shot.

6:41 PM

(Micaela )

!roll 1d20+6 !Thermal Spear Attack

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [19] Result: 25 Reason: Thermal Spear Attack

2

!roll 1d10+2 !Thermal Spear Damage

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [7] Result: 9 Reason: Thermal Spear Damage

Micaela will run forward and attempt a charging thrust at the other Chimeran, her heart jumping a little as her movement takes her dangerously close to Harrstjarna's line of fire and whatever prayer she said to make her attack as clean as it was hidden by the whirr of motors and moving components in her suit. (25/9) (edited)

The attack wounds the Chimeran and sends it back a step.

5:59 AM

(Groshim)

Groshim snaps off a shot at the staggered Chimeran, trying to capitalize on the opening Micaela made.

6:08 AM

!roll 1d20+1

Groshim Roll: [11] Result: 12

(guessing miss)

(miss indeed, up to Max!)

Max takes his shot against the Chimeran with the whip.(6/10 ammo remain.)

7:36 AM

!roll 1d20+4

Max Davenport Roll: [12] Result: 16

!roll 2d6 !damage if that hits

Max Davenport Roll: [4, 1] Result: 5 Reason: damage if that hits

The one with the whip falls onto its back , mortally wounded

7:40 AM

The seocnd of them uses his long cudgel, and makes a swing at Micaela

7:40 AM

!roll d20+3

Nekosmash Roll: [7] Result: 10

(miss, brings us to Iracus )

As the Chimeran falls, Iracus trains his void carbine at it's ally and fires (22/7) [ammo 5/10] (edited)

Snapping up to the target quickly, you wound the Chimeran and the armor sparks as the low grain round sends the creature spinning

12:21 PM

(Karre)

Karre steps into the room and attempts to draw a bead on the second Chimeran. He fires a burst.

1:09 PM

(15/19)

The shot is powerful, but not enough to break their equivalent to a combat field uniform, and the Chimeran is unharmed.

1:49 PM

Estra)

Taking a deep breath, Etsha aims from the cover of the door, exhales and takes a shot at the second Chimeran.

6:48 AM

!roll 1d20+1 !laserpistol

Etsha Reen Roll: [20] Result: 21 Reason: laserpistol

3

!roll 1d6

Etsha Reen Roll: [2] Result: 2

(That’s a Crit, so you can roll another d6, or just double that to 4, your pick)

!roll 1d6

Etsha Reen Roll: [2] Result: 2

(So… 4, lol)

1

The shot is clean. A precise burn cuts through the temple of the creature and seems to sever the link between fungal brain and insectoid body. It falls backwards onto the deck, twitching twice before going still.

(Out of combat now, both enemies are dead)

Iracus looks to the slave and lowering his weapon, calmly says in Mandate, "We are here to help, but don't have much time before others arrive. How many other guards are there here?"

Micaela will keep an eye out for other Chimeran's rushing into the area to support their already slain compatriots whilst Iracus handles the talking.

The creature does not reply in mandate, unable to speak it.

Seeing the slave's confusion Max starts translating. "We're here to free this ship from the Chimerans. Will you help us?" (I'll translate for the others if they want to say anything.)

"The masters will not like this. Nobody like us" the slave says, its mind broken by the weight of months, if not years of horrible abuses.

"I don't think we are going to get anywhere with this one" Iracus says after hearing the translation, "Maybe just try and convince them to hide back here and out of the way, we can get them later, but we need to get moving as that wasn't exactly quiet."

"Agreed. Let's keep everything moving. We should find out way either to engineering or the bridge and put an end to this."

Hárrstjarna nods and stacks up with Mica, ready to move.

Karre grimaces, “If they seem that traumatized, we’ll need to restrain them before moving on. People do scary things when stressed and I don’t want to worry about them following up behind us. We’ll mark the location for follow-up teams.”

"The Masters won't like this!" Hárrstjarna mimics before turning to look back at the slave. "Well, we don't like the "Master's" one bit now, do we." He groped as he checked his ammo as well, nodding in agreement to the other agent. "Bread crumbs as one might call it?"

"After what they've been through I don't like the thought of tying them up." "We're going go.. have a discussion with the masters to make sure they won't hurt you anymore. Will you wait for us in the storage area?"

Karre responds by shrugging with his hands, “As long as we know they won’t be coming up behind us.”

The mosk makes a hissing sound towards Harr, at the mocking impression before skittering off. By its gait, it is evident that something traumatic has happened to it, and it may never recover. (We are still in 1, just let me know where we're moving and we'll move)

(On to 3 perhaps?)

((Agreed))

Room 3 looks to be one of the secondary power generation rooms and you can hear the sound of technicians within trying to get the ship reactor powered up again. Poking your head into the room you can see five mosk slaves here, and no overseers.

Karre nudges Max, “Maybe try asking them to stop? Little worried they’re trusted in here without Chimeran’s to watch them, though.”

Max walks confidently into the room. "Shut the reactor back down. The masters aren't going to be taking the ship out after all."

One of them looks to you, seeing the weapons and armor and knowing only those trusted carry them. The lead mosk engineer nods and begins ordering his workers to begin the shutdown process.

"I've got them shutting it down. Can't say what they'll do if they get new orders, but it'll still slow things down. What do you think, should we head for the bridge now of look for more engineering spaces?"

“Can anyone cut this room off the local comm grid? That way there’s a bigger delay if someone tries calling down here to figure out what the hold up is?”

"Willing to try. Require computer or panel."

Micaela will look around the room for any sort of communication panel. Paying special attention for any kind of speakers or comm devices near the duty stations and the doors.

(I think we could just do it since we effectively cut their electronic systems apart via hacking earlier)

(Awesome I will do so then. Would it also be possible to seal the door?)

(for a time, eventually they might be able to get it back open but they're not going to be able to do that soon)

(Awesome I'll do that too then. Buying time is always handy.)

Groshim is able to secure and close the doors of this room, keeping out those who would wish to use the reactor for purposes not aligned with the goals of the boarding team.

"Coms cut off. Also sealed door. Unlikely permanent but slow troops down."

“Great work! Do we know if there are any secondary engineering locations or should we go straight for the bridge?”

(Could I get a map or otherwise assess if there are other engineering rooms through the systems?)

(The ship map is already pinned.)

(Yep, just not sure if all of that is in character knowledge or meta knowledge. If we have the map in character then I'd suggest looking at room 2, that looks like it could possibly also be some critical hardware. After that fastest route is to push up the corridor to room 13.)

"From the plans we got from the station it looks like there's another engineering space to port. But the easiest path to the bridge seems to be to starboard."

(its IC knowledge)

7:24 PM

(from your previous big hack on the platform)

"Concur with Max. If wish to secure engineering then port room possibly vital. If not head towards bridge." (edited)

"Let's head to the Bridge and finish this is what I think should happen."

"I would have to agree with Mica here, let's get this over with."

(Yeah they need both rooms to get this thing going, and w edon't want to totally kill the power or else we're not getting this thing out of here either)

“Let’s go acquire a battleship then,” Karre says, grin evident in his voice even if it was hidden by his polarized faceplate.

Etsha nods after Karre speaks, swipes at his mop of red hair, and says “I’m with you all. Surely we are bringing honor to Greystar today.”

The bridge is the place where it seems that most of the defense lies. Marines from the ship have largely fanned out into the platform to try to stop your approach and now have largely been cut off by the hacking and cyber attacks that lowered doors and placed other obstacles in their way

9:10 PM

The bridge doors remain down and it doesn’t seem any kind of electronic interference will work here as there’s no external place to set a line shunt

(I assume the door and walls are stronger that concreate? If they're not I think I can make a mag cutter.)

(They're not, a mag cutter would work)

Max materializes mag cutter and holds it up.(Ghost tech 1) "I can cut through, but it's going to take while and they'll know we're coming. Anyone have a better idea?"

"Anyone have demo charge? Could shape, use destroy door?"

(still a heavy weapon inside a ship, even one as big as this)

(would I know if it's possible to do something where we maybe reset the power generator to reset the locks or something to that effect? Some classic sci Fi shenanigans)

(We've done everything we can do electronically honestly, thats' effectively all we've really done as we've moved through the mission. We've tampered as much as its possible to electronically tamper with)

(what room number are we currently in? And are there windows that look into the bridge?)

(We've moved up to 11 since this entire area is open, there are not windows looking into it)

(Well, if we can communicate inside we can try and offer them the chance to an honorable surrender. Having taken the other battleship and secured the station this one is at, they are pretty much trapped with little hope to actually win. Or at least try to cause a mutiny by offering safe passage to those that do surrender, or inspire any slaves inside, otherwise I'm out of ideas so heavy cutter might be it)

10:50 AM

(they might be more disciplined than random cultists, but Iracus had found good success in getting people to turn on one another)

Karre says, “Explosives on the bridge aren’t ideal. If you all want to try talking our way through again, you should do it before we cut in. It’ll be hard to negotiate once the shooting starts.”

"I still have that Magma grenade..... ?" Hárrstjarna offered.

"These folks won't surrender, I wouldn't in their place...I would fight until the bloody end to defend my brothers and sisters, and empire. We shouldn't expect anything else. I have my own mag cutter so we can get through this pretty quickly." Micaela mentions.

"I got your backs in the mean time." Hárrstjarna added in, watching the mag cutters roar to life.

Iracus moves to a position where he can cover the two with the cutters and be able to get line of sight into the room once they finish.

Max gestures to outline a hole. "Alright, you take that section and I'll work over here." When Micaela is ready he starts his cut.

2

Micaela will give Max a nod and get to work right alongside him.

((Love this teamwork))

The cutters ignite and sparks fly from the twin saws. The cuts are yellow golden and the hot metal flows in a few places as friction softens it and gets it running in a loose liquid. The door finally is weak enough to be kicked open with a strong enough boot

Micaela sets the Mag Cutter to the side and just, looks in Hárrstjarna's direction as she reignites her thermal spear and it regains it's red hot glow. Her expression is hard to see through the polarized glass, and her tone is mostly even tinged with a bit of anxiety and excitement. "This is the big one, I can tell you've been waiting for a chance to lead a charge, nothing better than being at the tip of the spear; long as you can handle it..." She's giving Hárrstjarna the opportunity to be the first into the fray, if he chooses to take it.

He smiles and nods, readying his shield as he had stowed away his shotgun, drawing his mag pistol

The cut open circle of metal is kicked in and Harr leads the charge into the bridge to find a scene of horror. The crew are dead. It looks like the Chimeran turned their weapons on the bridge crew before doing the same to themselves , hoping to leave you with too few to steal the ship. To that end, one of the mass cannon shells has also been dragged here from one of the lower magazine decks and has been rigged up to an elaborate system of timers and dummy devices meant to keep you guessing. There are two minutes remaining before it explodes and when it does it’s taking this ship, the entire platform, and you with it

6:17 AM

(Skill contest !)

1

Groshim steps up and looks at the device, attempting to use his skill with mechanical devices to identify which of the devices are duds and which are active. (Fix/int?)

(Sure lets roll it up)

!roll 3d6d1+5

Groshim Roll: [3, 2, 1] Result: 10

(1 success, 0 failures, fix has been used)

(For those unfamiliar with Skill Contests they happen when a single check alone is not enough. The group proceeds to make a series of checks with the objective being to succeed on enough checks to successfully do what we want (In this case defuse the bomb). If however we fail too many of the checks then we will fail to get what we want (In this case the bomb explodes.). Checks can be obvious (such as fix or the like in this circumstance) or less obvious (such as perhaps talk/Cha to inspire your comrades to work faster.). Basically, look at what you are good at and then see if you can think of a way it could be helpful here. Run it by Neko and he will say if it is a valid option.)

(Thanks for explaining - Etsha doesn’t have much in the way of physical skills at the moment)

8:10 AM

Etsha would like to use talk to calm his team members nerves, and getting them to focus.

(there is no initiative or turn order here, if you have an idea, and haven't acted within the last couple of posts, feel free to make a pitch)

8:11 AM

Raw mechanical knowledge alone has Groshim able to isolate about 1/3 of the dead ends, steering the rest of you away from interacting with those parts of the system.

(Etsha has talk 1 with +1 cha, how would I roll that up? Sorry on phone with low bars so hard to look up)

( the command would be !roll 2d6+2 )

!roll 2d6+2 !boosting_morale

Etsha Reen Roll: [6, 4] Result: 12 Reason: boosting_morale

5

(2 successes, 0 failures, fix and talk have been used) Etsha is able to keep everyone calm and focused, doing his best to keep everyone level headed despite the tense situation and the day of violence you'd have so far.

((I don't think I have anything that could help here lol))

(You are limited only by your own creativity in a skill contest)

(Can I use Karre’s Weapon Unity as a way for his innate understanding of weapons to pull some wires? Thinking Fight/Str or Fight/Dex)

(I think if we're going for understanding it could be fight/wis or int)

9:31 AM

(but fight works!)

(I was hoping for it to seem like he doesn’t really know what the wires do. Just yanking them on instinct. Will roll for the mental attribute though)

9:33 AM

(10)

(3 pass, 0 fail, fight, fix, and talk ised)

9:37 AM

Some of the wires for systems Groshim hasn't isolated are pulled, and look to be part of actually disarming this trap.

4

Groshim will launch a series of cyber attacks at the computerized timers, attempting to cause them to loop so they never reach 0 (Program/Int?)

(Lets give someone else time to participate, but if no one else steps up we'll try that)

1

"I always knew my High Stakes Bomb Defusal elective would pay off. Although I'm wishing I took better notes and didn't treat it as a blow off... No pun intended" Iracus will attempt to recall what he knows about electronics to help guide the others in identifying possible vulnerabilities with the bomb's design. (Know/int) (edited)

11:27 AM

!roll 2d6+3

Iracus Varanu | Rayan Roll: [2, 1] Result: 6

(3 successes, 1 failure, fight, fix, talk and know used) The blow off class might become a blow up class, as some modules are unhooked but the bomb does not disarm, At least for the moment the countdown isn't running faster.

Max looks over the bomb trying to find places where detonators can be separated from the main explosive. (notice/wis?)

12:19 PM

!roll 2d6+2+1 !subtract 1 if using a stat other that wis.

Max Davenport Roll: [5, 1] Result: 9 Reason: subtract 1 if using a stat other that wis.

It looks like between all of you, you've been able to isolate the main trunk and associated charge that will send the explosive into its chain reaction. (4 successes, 1 failure, fight, fix, talk, know, and notice used)

Micaela will look over what remains of the bomb in it's still functional condition and realize that she's seen some slight similarities between it and explosives used during the war to liberate Acastus. She will attempt to neutralize the anti tampering counter measures around the main trunk so that the only thing left to do would be to unplug a couple more wires (Sneak/Dex for the removal of security measures?)

6:15 PM

!roll 2d6+2 !Let's not fail

Micaela Finnegan Roll: [2, 1] Result: 5 Reason: Let's not fail

5

(4 success , 2 fail )

7:31 PM

(Next roll makes or breaks It for us )

7

(Harrst I think you’re the only one who hasn’t tried anything. Do you want to give it a shot?)

Micaela's attempt to accomplish anything of value fails as her initial impression of the device is immediately disproven, she backs away from it a couple of steps accidentally catching sight of the countdown dwindling even lower as it she struggles to breathe and begins to breathe heavily in a panic as her hands come forward clasped in furtive prayer "Twice dead goddess please hear me, preserve me and I will never work alongside your enemies again; show me a path or shield me...anything..."

Harrstjarna steps forward after watching Mica back up, leaning over the device for a moment he tries to see if anything looks familiar to him, hardware from the piloting station on the bridge or anything that would remotely be similar to that. If that failed he might as well hit it with his axe of shoot it for all he knew at the moment. He holstered his pistol and pulled out his axe as he looked back at the others momentarily, his eyes fixing on Mica. "What would uhm, ..... say happen, .... if I just yank out the timer, Mica?" He asked, pausing as he really didn't know what to do here as this was not his area of expertise. After a few moments of no response he simply turn and raised his axe above his head and brought it down hard, trying to drive the glowing blade right through the middle of the timer. (edited)

Stab Roll

9:12 PM

!roll 2d6+0 !Cause I am the Star

Hárrstjarna Roll: [3, 2] Result: 5 Reason: Cause I am the Star

(Literally now we are all burning stars)

(does anyone have a re-roll token they want to burn on this?)

9:13 PM

(or a plot point?)

((Does Warrior Count?))

(Nope, its a skill check not an attack roll)

(I've got both. I think this is a good time to use them.) (edited)

5

2

(lets try the re-roll first)

9:15 PM

(lets re-roll that Harr)

!roll 2d6+0 !Because I needed to

Hárrstjarna Roll: [6, 3] Result: 9 Reason: Because I needed to

The blade severs the timer, and there is a beep and a long pause before a click signals the bomb has been disarmed.

11

"Hmmm.... " Harr manages to let out as he puts the axe away, walking over and standing next to Mica with his hands tucked into his belt, staring at the deep gash he had made.

2

(6xp, 10,000 credits all)

"Obviously a master bomb tech at work, eh Harr?" Etsha cracks a wide grin.

Blasting free of the shipyard, you jettison the device as a precaution, and the captured ship sails to join the formation until the decision makers decide what to do with it.

"Sure, if you want to call it that..." Harr said with a nod as he pulled his arms up to cross over his chest, stroking his chin as he nodded a few times more.

Micaela stands a bit straighter and looks towards the others and Harrstjarna and just. Gives him a nod.

"Good work everyone, I think my heart stopped for a moment there. This system seems to be ours."

Karre heaves a heavy sigh as he looks across the morbid scene of the bridge. “Little stress to top off the day. Good work, glad you were all here to get it done.”

"We made a good team." Max looks at the dead Chimerans. "This is not a good sign for the war. With this level of fanaticism what are they going to do when we really start pushing them."

"Pop?" Harr responded as he started to walk around, inspecting all the dead Chimerans.

"It's what happens when you push a group like this to their very limit. They believe so strongly they are in the right and are so different in their mindset that fighting them will be bloody and brutal." Micaela will say.

He nods back to Mica, listening to her words as he gets back around to the group.

"We need to decide what to do with these stations, either destroy them and deny the Chimeran's a resource, or fully take control and use it as a local base. This system could provide a valuable point to launch an attack into Uloth if we need and the stations could help with their defense and provide a place for simple repairs. Although without a sufficient fleet to remain here, it could be easily taken if the Chimeran's are hiding a fleet at their capital." (edited)

“We should keep them functioning. I can send a request through for the First Warden to task some of our station crews here. I think the stations will be strategically useful for the war effort and future relations with the Mosk as they rebuild. They know the stations and how they function. Might as well teach them how to use them more effectively and independently. Ragnorok and Good Shepherd can remain on station as a deterrent until the two battleships are completed. Plus whatever additional escort force brings the crews in.” (VW has a not insignificant amount of logistic capability I’d love to throw at these stations to train the former slaves to use them if they’re willing.) (edited)

"I agree, and if the Wardens can spare the resources I think that could go a long way to building relations with those here. The NMC fleet can remain for now as well and provide support until our troops are needed for a planetary invasion elsewhere."

(We can also de-orbit the stations if we want to save the wardens for peacekeeping on an occupied planet or anything like that. The stations can't be moved, so they're fairly static )

(Potential idea, We do the same as they tried. Rig the entire place up with explosives, let them retake the stations and then blow up as they board.)

(someone would need to be here to set the trigger)

(booby tapping is a war crime! Probably)

(I was under the impression the battleships weren’t quite finished being built. Figure we need the infrastructure of the stations to finish them? If that’s not the case I think having the stations here would be a good place in case we need to repair ships from other battles so they don’t have to fly back to shipyards in UNW or SCAF space)

(they're not battle worthy but can fly, so we can send them to polity space )

(I’m good for whatever you guys decide. So long as we do)

(If no one is going to stop me, I'm going to keep the stations up for now to finish the battleships. I'll leave Rag and GS on station and message you what ships I want to move from VW duties to here. We can use it later for Mosks to use for humanitarian type stuff once we're done.)

((I don't believe I have any sway here, I'm just a warm body))

(It's a great idea. Don't see why we wouldn't be all down for it

)

Hárrstjarna

((I don't believe I have any sway here, I'm just a warm body))

(You have just as much agency as anyone else, you're the only one stopping yourself)

((I'm not trying to, just unsure what direction to go from here))

(If you want to stay, thats good , if you want to break off into a solo adventure that's good too)

(Harrs and I are going to pair up and head to Menoon, after stopping to rest a bit and gear up) (edited)

(What's everyone else doing?)

(Returning back towards Greystar space)

(I was thinking of heading back to finish up on Phenmo and help with the Drago attack.)

( @Solrujo Menoon isn't coming up for me on the map, I don't see it as one of the Chimeran worlds)

7:58 AM

(ah you're going back to GSC space, so it looks like GSC as a whole is quitting the field. We'll return to a personal thread for this, do either of you have a preference which?)

(I don’t think I have a thread yet. We can use Harr’s) (edited)

(Micaela will be quitting the field as well. Don't know where she's headed yet though.)

((I'm good with using my personal thread for the next excursion))

(Oh snap I nearly forgot I've got Mosk and Noctuan bridge crew on my cryopods. They were slaves. But I also have a few Chimeran marines. And most notably. A Chimeran that actually believes in surrendering when outmatched. The captain of the free merchant I boarded. I don't know if anyone here wants to take command of those captives) (edited)

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(I can take them and interrogate the captain)

(sounds goo,d we can handle that interrogation elsewhere if we decide to follow through on that, otherwise they'll just be VW prisoners somewhere until this is over)

(Sounds good to me.)