Oh, and as long as her brain is intact you don't even have to feel bad about killing her. You can bring her back later. Might be in a couple of months, but you'll be able to do it.

>>279556

We don't have time for games. Kill her and take the parts, since she might be resurrected later on if you survive.

>>279583
Yep. Shoot her in her stupid bitch face.

!DReamEr2eU 2011/02/06(Sun)09:44 No. 279587 ID: 55c4cf
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I am glad we are mostly in agreement over this.

Oh, make sure you LIE to her and tell her you're going to send in a drone with the keys. Haze Zira open the vent from the inside, and then use the drone to kill Yery.

>>279592
This is probably the better way to do it. (I mean we could give her the keys---they're useless with the door they control being on fire and our knowledge of the back passages---but the last thing we want now is more people running around getting in position to stab us in the back at the least opportune moment.)

Not that I entirely support something quite so, uh, pre-crime of a security official, but that's quite the consensus up there and a Zira/Yery catfight might end up with the wrong one unconcious. :V

Suggestion 2011/02/06(Sun)13:37 No. 279633 ID: f5e4b4
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Tiak tells Yery that he's going to give her the keys, but then he takes Zira to the side to tell her his plan. She doesn't seem to be bothered by the crime included in it, and only disagrees about the robot.

"It's going to take a while to bring it here and we don't have the time. I can do it myself."

And she does it, before Tiak has the chance to reply. In a moment she's climbing the vents, then she's inside, then opening the shaft at the other side and ZAP!

She returns with the computer parts and hands them to TIak, with a "Here you go!"
Tiak ponders.

"We should get the corpse out of there so they can resurrect her in the future. Or at least get her... head."

Zira shakes her head.

"Nope. Not gonna happen."

"What?"

"I'm not going to be carrying the corpse of that bitch everywhere. And I'm not going to cut her head off and take it as a souvenir. You're free to do it, though."

Tiak frowns.

"You know I can't."

Zira shrugs.

"THAT'S TOO BAD! Now, shouldn't we get going to the Mainframe room or something?"

>>279633
canwepleasehavethegunbacknow
I guess to the mainframe. Don't forget to say "OPEN" in your best Mongro impression.

I am pleased.

Go fix the shit now.

>>279633
"I suppose she won't get any more dead when life support fails, and the doc was the only one who could work the resurrection chamber anyway.
So, mind telling me who you really are? It's not important, I'm just curious."

>>279637
This. Add "Since I'm gonna die horribly anyway."

>>279639
There's still a chance that we might be able to repair the fire suppression system. We have the parts, it's just a matter of reinstalling them.

Are you sure Yeri is dead? I don't know which room you're in right now, so can you check on that before you go fix the mainframe?

Fix things. Talk while walking.

Suggestion 2011/02/07(Mon)11:55 No. 279818 ID: f5e4b4
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With Zira's help, Tiak makes his way to the Lower Deck, feeling more and more out of it with each step he takes. He's starting to feel rather sleepy.

>>279686

She's dead, Tiak was just in front of her, just at the other side of the barrier. Zira pretty much blew her face off.

"I suppose she won't get any more dead when life support fails, and the doc was the only one who could work the resurrection chamber anyway." --Starts Tiak "So, mind telling me who you really are? It's not important, I'm just curious."

Zira sighs.

"Didn't we talk about this already, I'm Zira, I've been keeping you alive for most of the flight, isn't that enough for you?"

"Oh, I just was saying because I'm going to die horribly anyways." --Adds Tiak.

"Oh, will you shut up, you drama queen?"--sighs again Zira. "You aren't going to die, we just need to get you to one of the escape pods. Those things have cryo-beds, remember? You'll be fine."

Suggestion 2011/02/07(Mon)11:57 No. 279819 ID: f5e4b4
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They finally get to the Mainframe chamber.

"Ok, now what?"

Begin overly complicated Fix the Mainframe mini game puzzle.

Thank Zira for everything so far. Ask if theres anything you can do now or when this is over in thanks. Then look at parts, look at machine, and try your best.

Say "OPEN".

>>279834
Yup. Then compare what you see with the diagram in Mongro's PDA and the bits you have.

If you're short one, find a goddamn nail to bridge the gap. It can't possibly make things worse. :V

Tell Zira, "I know you've been keeping my lame butt alive, and I really appreciate your help. You and the queen both. If there's anything you need to tell me so that (if I survive this) I can better protect you when we get home, please tell me. I'm already going to have to tell some lies about your involvement in this, but it'll be worth it to keep you free so that you can do what it takes to make sure there's no more fighting. We can't afford another war, and we can't afford the Alpha Machine being used by war makers."

Suggestion 2011/02/07(Mon)17:48 No. 279988 ID: f5e4b4
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"Listen, Zira, I know you've been keeping my lame butt alive, and I really appreciate your help." --Begins Tiak. "If there's anything you need to tell me so that (if I survive this) I can better protect you when we get ho--"

Zira interrupts his speech, dismissing it with a gesture of his hand.

"Tiak, stop being melodramatic for a minute and focus. You know like, save that dying breath of yours to actually solve the situation."

"O-ok, right."--Tiak remembers the Captain's words. "Uhh... Open!"

Almost instantly, a hatch door opens on the floor, showing the way into a room that seems to be under the visible end of the mainframe computer.

>>279988
No more talking. Only climbing down.

...actually... uh... CAN you climb down?

>>279988
Let's get going, then

>>279988
Fall down hole with as much grace as you can muster.

Movement makes us die faster. Send Zira down with the schematics.

>>280131
That's...not a bad idea. It looks cramped and it's not like Tiak is a great engineer. Tiak is a half-decent shot and can stay up here to watch her back.

I don't suppose she's got a PDA of her own to copy Mongro's diagram to rather than handing over the one full of valuable evidence and guncam control?

She's had plenty of chances to kill Tiak. She's working toward similar goals, and at this point expediency wins out over everything else.

Suggestion 2011/02/08(Tue)11:46 No. 280193 ID: f5e4b4
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Tiak asks Zira to go down herself, because he's not really feeling so well. At all. She agrees and jumps down with the two computer parts.
Tiak peeks down the hatch to see the mainframe room. It's a mess, cables, monitors, complicated machinery everywhere, sparkling electricity and plasma energy. The control monitor displays nothing but error messages. And on the central console, a big, shiny red button, with the message "Emergency Broadcast Signal" scribbled under it.

"Alright." --Says Zira. "Where do I put these?"

Tiak takes a look at Mongro's diagrams. They're overly complicated pictures of diagrams and plans. But then he notices something he didn't see before

Suggestion 2011/02/08(Tue)11:47 No. 280194 ID: f5e4b4
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A small sketch, scribbled in a corner of one of the diagrams. Mongro must have drawn this himself, and Tiak wonders if it has anything to do with the mainframe problem.

look online for a walkthrough on your pda

>>280193
Well, that looks like a matching gap for one on the panel on the left, and the other on the big dangerous-looking pillar of glowing.

I can't currently make head nor tail of the diagram, though.

>>280200
Also, damnit Tiak, I know you're the protagonist and everything, but don't forget to watch the door. The Colonel is somewhere, Zeno is somewhere, your back is very stabbable staring down the hole like that.

This seems to be pretty straightforward. The diagram is oriented the same way that Zira is standing. On the wall to her left, there are two blue places that seem to correspond to the diagram's left corners. The central area has at least one of the triangle/square sockets (probably another on the back), and the terminal behind Zira looks like it has an open space. There may also be something on the bigger terminal. Ask Zira to check those spots and fit any clear matches between them.

>>280193
Okay, the two blocky parts go on the console behind Zira, and the one with the arrow on it goes in that spot that's open on the pillar. Unless there's another empty spot that's obscured behind the pillar, in which case we're fucked because we don't have all the parts.

However, reviewing past threads it seems we found all of them. So that should be that.

>>280193
What does the label on that big red button say?

>>280353
>And on the central console, a big, shiny red button, with the message "Emergency Broadcast Signal" scribbled under it.

>>280193
Apply tiered block piece directly to slot on console behind Zira. Wait a few seconds to see if it activates a mechanism to reveal the spot for the arrow piece, which should go above the one that's right in the middle of the room.

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)07:56 No. 280691 ID: f5e4b4
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Following Tiak's instructions, Zira puts the smaller piece in the slot on the strange flashing pillar, and the other one in the slot on the console behind her. The screen flickers and the error messages are cleared, and for a second, the entire ship shakes like an earthquake.

"I... *cough*... I think we've phased out of hyperjump." -informs Tiak.

"Time to press the big, red button, then." --Answers Zira.

And that's what she does. As soon as she slams her hand on the "Emergency Broadcast Signal" button, the screen displays a message that vanishes to quickly to be read, and a small humming noise can be heard all around the room.

"You think that worked?"

A robotic voice thunders all over the ship.

"EMERGENCY PROTOCOL ACTIVATED. PLEASE FOLLOW THE SECURITY PERSONAL INDICATIONS AND HEAD TO THE NEAREST EVACUATION POD AVAILABLE. HAVE A NICE DAY."

"It seems so!" --Coughs Tiak.

"Alright, time to beat it." --Says Zira. "Unless you want to do something else in here."

>>280691
If there's any way to grab the security camera recordings to a PDA in a short timespan, do that.

Broadcast the plans for the alpha machine to everything. Spam, spam, spam the interplanetary comms network.

Also see how the automatic fire suppression is doing, and if the air processing might not actually get burnt down, but that's a lower priority. Tiak needs to get to a cryopod either way.

Activate the suffocation system, and broadcast our situation to the Armada.

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)10:39 No. 280706 ID: f5e4b4
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Tiak's recordings are already in his PDA! If he wanted to copy them to a different PDA, it would take him at least a minute.

"H-hey Zira... I'm gonna give you a data cylinder, see if you can broadcast it. Also check if you can enable the fire extinguisher systems and..."

She interrupts him, shaking her head.

"The controls don't seem to work and I have no idea how use any of this shit! And you don't have time to figure it out!"

Before he can protest, she nimbly jumps out of the room and pushes him out. He's losing consciousness and getting more and more sleepy, the sound of the emergency system echoing in his head.

"Come on, we gotta get to the pods!"

>>280706
I meant the ones from the ship's cameras. The ones that should have supposedly recorded murders but couldn't be accessed until the mainframe was unbroken.

But never mind. GET TO DA CHOPPA POD.

>>280706
Good heavens, look at the time. ESCAPE TIEM.

No talking. Focus, don't sleep. Get to the pod.

D: Snaketits, no!

Escape, there's time for it later, I suppose!

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)11:14 No. 280715 ID: f5e4b4
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Tiak is starting to lose focus, and suddenly he finds himself on all fours, unable to get up. How did he get here? Well, at least his guts aren't hurting anymore. That's gotta be a good sign, right?

Muffled voices echo in his head like in a dream.

"...LPLEASE FOLLOW THE SECURITY PERSONAL..."

"...et up. We're almost the..."

GET UP SOLDIER!

Get up while informing her why everything went to hell, how the doc was responsible and what the machine does. If you don't make it, at least someone will be able to tell the story.

>>280717

This! Get the truth out! The truth you fought, bled and cried for! The truth that you were and still are willing to die for! The truth that made you endure all that happened to you, because you are sure that it is worth it! FOR TRUTH!

!DReamEr2eU 2011/02/10(Thu)11:21 No. 280719 ID: 55c4cf
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get up tiaky

get up ya bum

>>280715
Think of tits, man. Tits you will never experience again if you don't drag yourself to the pod.

>>280715
Keep going! You're almost there!

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)11:43 No. 280731 ID: f5e4b4
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His own voice sounds like it's coming from miles away, the words hardly find the way to his mouth.

"...the doctor.. He was... He did it... the machine..."

He can't make one step further. He can't even crawl anymore. His vision fades away and the sound dies with the weird voices still echoing inside his head.

"...ust a little longer. You can d..."

"HAVE A NICE DAY."

And then...

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)11:44 No. 280732 ID: f5e4b4
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...Everything goes dark.

Dream of soft tits and frightening grins.

Get a peace of that.

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)12:13 No. 280737 ID: f5e4b4
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Tiak blinks. It feels like he's underwater only that he's being dragged around. And someone keeps talking to him. Hey, that looks like the elevator ceiling hatch.

"...ou weigh a ton, seriously. Specially with all the crap you're carryi..."

Tiak slips into the embrace of subconsciousness again, images of soft breasts with frightening grins floating around.

everything will be ok

I suggest you try to stay awake, Tiak. You need to live.

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)12:41 No. 280743 ID: f5e4b4
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Tiak blinks again. He's being introduced inside of something... like a closet... A pod?

The voice sounds closer this time... Zira? Even in his poor state, Tiak can dectect a hint of sadness in her voice.

"...ou should be fine now. I'm just sorry it has to be this way and I can't say properly good bye, but at least I know that you'll be fine."

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)12:43 No. 280744 ID: f5e4b4
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"I'm sorry I had to lie to you, but it had to be that way. I know you can't hear me right now, but you did a damn fine job. Most people wouldn't have survived to what you've gone through, and even less would've succeeded. But you did it."

He feels the touch of her fingers over his torso, opening his jacket and searching through his pockets.

"I hope you can forgive me, but I do this for your own good. For all the universe's good."

And then the door over his head closes. And Tiak finally can rest.

>>280744
Welp, there go the plans.

We don't know what she took anyway, and if the plans were taken then good riddance to them.

At least we're not dead.

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)13:39 No. 280760 ID: f5e4b4
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And that was Tiak's last memory of the Sparrow 12.

>>280760
The end?

>>280763
The ant?

>>280765
The legend.

next time: The Last Flight of Escape Pod 12b

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)14:43 No. 280770 ID: f5e4b4
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The emergency signal was detected by the Condor 23, a Maurian battle cruiser patrolling the quadrant.

The rescue shuttles fished out the survivors in their escape pods and salvaged anything possible from the Sparrow wreckage, which wasn't much, to be honest.

Head of Security Tiak Belint was interrogated, and the evidence stored in his PDAs and cameras played a decisive role in the outcome of the incident.

The Republic Juridical Bureau couldn't just deny it, the late Dr. Labras was found guilty of conspiracy, treason and murder.

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)15:15 No. 280774 ID: f5e4b4
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The Republic couldn't afford to let the scandal get to the public. A famous scientist going on a killing spree, murdering officials, working in secret projects with a private corporation, plotting to blame the Ziranée for the murder...

They covered it up. They threatened and bribed the survivors. They invented a tale of heroic survival and inter-species cooperation. How the brave men of the Sparrow 12 survived during the massive malfunction of all their systems. Of course, the public loved it.

>>280774
And then, Wikileaks.

So, did Tiak get in trouble?

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)15:34 No. 280779 ID: f5e4b4
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The Alpha Machine was utterly destroyed in the explosion of the ship. Irreparable. And not even a single particle of the Alpha creature could be saved.

The search through Labras' personal files at his home and his laboratory gave no positive results. All his computers were found clean, everything deleted. His reports, burnt to ashes. All the scientific personal responsible of the discovery disappeared without a trace.
Any data about how to duplicate the Alpha Machine, or the coordinates of the planet where the creature was found disappeared with the plans, and Labras' valuable brain.

The Alpha Machine production would have to start from zero. It could take centuries to build it again. It could take forever.

>>280779
All of the sudden I'm really glad that Zira did what she did. Though I wonder just how much of the story we aren't hearing...

the ending involving snaketits is the difference between this quest being a 2 and a 5 out of 5

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)16:05 No. 280782 ID: f5e4b4
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The survivors were publicly treated with all honors, and the crew members and passengers that perished during the flight would be remembered as heroes who sacrificed themselves to protect the lives of the other souls that went in the flight.

Mok, the barman, died unconscious in the Infirmary bed, nobody bothered to take him to one of the evacuation pods.

Nobody knows for sure what happened to Colonel Keranos. He wasn't in any of the evacuation pods, but nobody saw him in the last hours before the escape. What stopped him from escaping with the rest of the survivors will remain a mystery for the ages.

The presence of the passenger that called herself Yery was covered up by the government, outright denied. For all purposes, she never existed.

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)16:32 No. 280786 ID: f5e4b4
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The amazing story of the Maurian survivors that fought the adversities along Ziranée diplomats multiplied the number of Ziranée and Maurian sympathizers in both sides of the conflict. The incident became an example of how the different civilizations could peacefully cooperate to achieve common goals.

The truce grew stronger, and Queen Nayria V'yrian became a living symbol of peace and prosperity. With time, this would turn the V'yrian house into one of the most powerful houses of the Ziran Empire, and Queen Nayria would become one of the most influential individuals in the galaxy.

AND THEN TIAK SERVED THE QUEEN.

Tiak nervously avoided the queen, you mean.

No, he made good on interspecies relations forever.

>>280789
If by "nervously avoided" you mean "was sexually abused for the rest of his days" then yes

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)16:51 No. 280792 ID: f5e4b4
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What happened to the passenger called Zira?
It's a question without an answer. A brief investigation revealed that the real ambassador Zira Niadar is a 178 years old lady, retired from her duties and peacefully enjoying her last years in an orbital spa near Abrona 6.

The passenger pretending to be her avoided the controls in the Condor 23 and managed to escape without being interrogated when it landed in Tinosa II. Her real identity, and who was she working for remain a mystery.

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)17:14 No. 280793 ID: f5e4b4
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But not everything was congratulations and pats on the back in the Republic. The people wouldn't believe that the ship went to hell by itself. They needed a scapegoat. Someone to blame.

And they found the perfect one in Tiak Belint, Head of Security. His work in the ship was considered irregular, to say the least. His fellow crew members described how he abused his authority, stole official property, was responsible of illegal use of force, and was ultimately unable to prevent the destruction of the ship and the death of most of the people in the ship.

He was charged guilty, striped of his rank and expelled from the Maurian Security Forces.

>>280793

That sucks! D:

i'm sad

>>280793
Well, that's pretty much a fair cop, guv'ner.

>>280793
Oh my god when the story gets out those politicians are so totally fucked

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)17:26 No. 280798 ID: f5e4b4
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But even when they blamed him publicly, the MSF couldn't deny that a situation that could have easily drifted into war, did had such a satisfactory outcome thanks to Tiak.

No other allegations or penalties were applied to him, and even when he wouldn't be allowed to work in any official charge anymore, they granted him a more than generous bonification that would allow him to live like a king for years.

Like a King or inside of a Queen.

>>280798

Yay! Bonifications!

Of course he never gave up on investigating the truth behind the matter. There were mysteries that he wanted answers for.

Suggestion 2011/02/10(Thu)17:33 No. 280803 ID: f5e4b4
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So, Tiak pondered, things weren't so bad. He was young, rich, and had a royal invitation to spend all the time he wanted in the palace of the house Yrian, of the Ziranée.

The money would eventually run out, yeah. But after all, there was a universe of possibilities out there. And he was finally free to explore them.

THE END

5 out of 5. A+ would fumble about getting everyone killed all over again.

>>280803

GOOD END!

Okay, time for New Game+.

Just remember to fly Air Ziraneé next time. Those Maurian ships are deathtraps. :V

Good game, good game.

Fantastic! That was awesome, you should feel awesome :3

>>280792
Zira obviously works for some intelligence faction, and I'd expect they'll be keeping tabs on you in case you do something rash that risks their interests.
If you'd like to meet Zira again then it shouldn't be that hard to unobtrusively signal that intent to those watching you; depending on how well known her mysteriousness is you might be able to outright put out word that you'd like to see her.

Assuming, of course, you do want to see her.

This was awesome. You are awesome.

>>280879
>Assuming, of course, you do want to see her.

Civilian life is for boring people. Time to find employment as a secret agent, Tiak.