LonelyWorld 2015/10/11(Sun)18:59 No. 676042 ID: fe06ff
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Having just heard from Solar Commando Ceckail that Solar Marshal Droegen needs her presence urgently, Oken rushes to Hanger-seven unsure what to expect.

Find a good vantage point, somewhere high with multiple escape routes!

How is that new underwear working for you? Seems like a sudden field test.

enter the battle zone cautiously, don't want to get hit due to lack of situational awareness.

LonelyWorld 2015/10/13(Tue)20:40 No. 676331 ID: fe06ff
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>How is that new underwear working for you? Seems like a sudden field test.
This Solar underwear is rather unpleasant but better than nothing . . .

Well here's the place, no sign of danger yet . . .

Scan the area for threats and move in on one of the doors.

Do you know anything about this place?

>>676331

Investigate one of the buildings to see if you can ascertain the situation.

LonelyWorld 2015/10/14(Wed)18:51 No. 676560 ID: fe06ff
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I get close to one of the doors and open it, looks like a small room with a little computer

check the computer. anything immediately interesting?

>>676560

Start calling out for Marshal Droegen. We need to find him posthaste.

>>676560
Careful, it might be a bomb. Check in with Marshal, see if a terminal on the door is standard protocol.

The hangar itself is underground, right? That means this is most likely a lift down there and the little computer is the controls. Go take a closer look at them and see if you can select the hangar floor level. Hopefully they aren't locked or something.

LonelyWorld 2015/10/15(Thu)12:59 No. 676656 ID: fe06ff
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Let's take a closer look.

Well, you're not going to get anywhere hanging around the surface. Step into the obvious trap/elevator and push the button. Be ready to open fire when the door opens.

>>676656

Welp, I guess we're going down.

Keep your sidearm at the ready as you descend.

LonelyWorld 2015/10/15(Thu)17:51 No. 676680 ID: fe06ff
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Oken presses the go button . . . nothing happens

Hmmm

>>676680

Huh. Maybe we can shoot the door open?

Press the 0 key to get an operator.

Call Mission Control and ask for assistance, but if you don't get anything within 120 seconds just brute force the door open.

No Location? Maybe you need to enter a floor number the press the button.

LonelyWorld 2015/10/16(Fri)09:34 No. 676798 ID: fe06ff
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Oken draws her Raygun

Oken: "Looks like I'm going to need a skeleton key for THIS lock!"

Ceckail: "Please don't shoot the elevator controls."

Oken: "there's no other way through!"

Ceckail: "I didn't get a chance to tell you the code before you ran off"

Ceckail enters a series of numbers and the room begins to move

>>676798

Alrighty, let's hang out with Ceckail until we get to where we need to go.

>>676798
Well that takes the fun out of it.

Cut the chatter, take cover, and aim!

LonelyWorld 2015/10/16(Fri)20:17 No. 676982 ID: fe06ff
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The room stops, the door opens and Oken hops out gun ready.

Droegen: "Oh good you're here, we've got a real problem."

Stand down and ask whats the emergency

"whats the problem?"

LonelyWorld 2015/10/17(Sat)21:29 No. 677382 ID: fe06ff
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Oken:"What's the problem?"

Droegen: "Take a look at this screen"

Oken:"Radiaion Danger?"

Droegen: "It's a false positive, but does tell us something."

Oken: "yeah?"

Droegen: "It means an Astranian carrier has entered the system."

and he wants us to call them and ask to not be blown to smitheroons.

Radial 2015/10/17(Sat)21:44 No. 677385 ID: 92a560

Could Mint have teleported there?
Check planet for tracking beacons.
Have they made contact with Mint?

And what do you want Oken? This is a chance to go home. To seek medical aid for Hoft.
Perhaps discuss with Fuze.

could you hail them? tell them that you have injured and to not carpet bomb / attack the neutral port?

LonelyWorld 2015/10/18(Sun)08:10 No. 677490 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "You want me to contact them."

Droegen: "Smart girl, unfortunately the don't want to talk, their' sensor tower is retracted, nothing will get through those shields."

Oken: "Wait what are they doing here, if not to respond a distress call?"

Droegen: "that's a good question, funnily enough there WAS a astranian distress call, activated an hour ago"

Oken: "Geragine Mint . . ."

Droegen: "Maybe, But it takes Three days for a standard line Astranian carrier to plot and power up for a system jump"

Oken: "It was already coming here?"

Droegen: "It takes Three days for a standard line Astranian carrier"

Its not standard.

shit, special forces.

Spec ops or some other elite force then then. If there here for a distress call they SHOULD have there coms up to take calls, but they don't. distress call might have just been used as a ping to get those guys here, they might not be looking for a rescue but a mop up.....

lets hope there in a good mood today and won't hit us with a air to ground troop drop (followed by them shooting us).

Mint knew they were coming

This must be why she shot Jones. And bribed the humans the try and kill Jones at the hanger, and then cover up all the lies that wouldn't add up by finally killing him at the mines.

They must have been tailing the Space Pirates for a long time. This was our extraction team. Shit, she probably sabotaged our original mission and got us to crash on that desert planet. She completed it and then just went with our own extraction plan with the space pirates then because she didn't have any choice and had no flexibility to do what she did today. Of course there was some secret mission there, Astranian Command didn't fluke and give us a civilian target to annhilate with a nuke, that was the cover story for a BLACK OPS MISSION.

Eventually, that Astranian ship would board the Space Pirates and rescue us, no doubt she used her mechanical skills to somehow have that ship follow it. Or she sabotaged the Space Pirate ship again and made it crash so she DID have flexibility. That way, none of us would be court martialed for giving Astranian blood to the space pirates and she could accomplish her real mission. I'm not even sure Black Ops members like Mint would have been forgiven for that.

Fuze, you were an unexpected variable on that dust planet, you were supposed to be dead from the beginning. That's why Mint was more willing to do shadier shit around you, because she was either going to kill you later, or have someone else do it to get you out of the way anyway, which explains why that dude was going to kill you after figuring out Mint killed Jones.

LonelyWorld 2015/10/18(Sun)14:52 No. 677574 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "There's only one ship that could make a jump that fast . . ."

Droegen:"That's right, The Astranian Flagship; Ecliptor-Atla"

Oken: "Commander Flek's ship . . ."

Droegen:"The Master of Raytech himself, which begs the questions, why? why is this so important?"

Oken: ". . . It has to be Mint, she was up to something, she's been up to something for a long time"

Droegen:"hmmm"

Oken: "She might be on that ship right now."

Then it all has something to do with the Ice World and the bugs and the raytech.
Flek had picked us for this mission.
Flek has been working with Mint since the beginning. Mint sabotaged our ship to crash, to do something. He chose the bug ridden planet Dorean for us to nuke, then had Mint crash land us on it.

He didn't choose me because I'm an Ace Pilot, he chose me to lead because I'm naive to notice Mint doing all her work. Because I'm Mint's friend and would trust her until the end.

Do we still have Prince? As much as I don't want to betray our people's secrets to pinkies, and the fact we'll probably be executed for it, if we dismantle his memory banks, we can learn more. Hopefully, Prince didn't fry it all out when he went 404. You probably already have begun to do that Droegun, what have you found?

Droegen, got any idea what we can do about Flek rocking up? I don't think his here for a day trip.The fact his from the ice planet that the bugs are from means his most likely under there influence one way or other.

LonelyWorld 2015/10/23(Fri)16:44 No. 678938 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: Fuze could we get any more info from Prince's robotic brain?

Fuze: "I doubt it robot brains are very complex, even the most experienced engineers have trouble working with them after they've been activated.

Oken: "darn he seemed to know something before he shorted out!"

Fuze: "It seems Commander Flek must have some other adgenda, A number of clues have all lead back to the IceWorld:Vin-Malor, as Councilar of Vin-Malor perhaps the bugs even have influence over him?"

Oken: "NO! the Commander is NOT working with those monsters! If we could just get in contact with him, we'd be able to figure all of this out!"

there is an air of silence after my statement

Droegen: "I might be able to help with that, you see a signal would be able to get through to the ship if came from within the shield bubble"

Oken: "how does that help?"

Droegen: "Because right over there is a Astranian shuttle, and if I recall correctly astranian vessels can pas through their own shields."

You mean if Mint isn't already in it, right?

We should go, now.

Oken, don't let your idolization of Flek get in the way of possibility that he may have been infested. Do NOT endanger your team because you don't want to hear it.

How many times will you allow your trusting nature to hurt you and your team? Grow up, be a leader, and accept all possible risks in the mission, from betrayal to ambushes. Look at how much you've been betrayed today, are you going to allow it again?

>>678938
They loaded explosives in that thing didn't they?

ASSUMING they even allow us to dock I'm not seeing too many viable plans of attack using a shuttle and resting our hopes on successful diplomacy is a vanishingly slim one.

here's a middle ground idea. someone being conrolled by the bugs is feeding flex lies. they gave him a reason to come here. perhaps they said the bugs have taken control and he is here to blow them up?
regardless of his reasoning for being here, he is dangerous to us right now.

LonelyWorld 2015/10/24(Sat)18:53 No. 679179 ID: fe06ff
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Fuze: "I know you admire Flek, but these creatures-"

Oken:"Flek is a councilar, councilars are pure of conviction and can never be manipulated! or controlled!"

Fuze:"Perhaps Flek isn't being controlled? perhaps others are under influence and lying to him?"

Oken: "Like Mint."

Fuze: "Precisely!"

Oken: "not that is matters, if Mint is behind things our shuttle will never even get close! it'll be blasted to pieces."

Droegen: "You have a better plan?"

is there a solar spacecraft around? can have a 'chase', if the shuttle appears to be under attack they may be more likely to move in to assist. the human ship will break off before it gets in range because the carrier 'scared it off'. will probably need to be shot at a little to make it believable, but nothing an ace pilot can't handle.

LonelyWorld 2015/10/26(Mon)09:30 No. 679469 ID: fe06ff
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Fuze: perhaps if the shuttle was under attack The Ecliptor would move in to assist?

Droegen: "What are you suggesting?"

Fuze: "Do you have any small pursuit craft?"

Droegen: "So you're suggesting I send some attack craft after you? sounds like you're planning to throw me under the bus, they'll think this is a military installation and blast Memora to smithereens"

Not if it's a Guilder vessel, your operation is primarily human with some Guilder's intermixed here and there. A Guilder ship would throw off suspicion towards yourself, and if you're low on Guilder ships, we DO know where one crash landed, a few parts might make any ship you have look Guilder.

If that's too difficult to pull off in a short amount of time, human space pirates are believable enough too.

The Astranian's will simply rescue fellow Astranian's from criminals, they're not going to care about destroying a criminal organization if they peg this as a mostly criminal installation, too much of a chance of killing innocents with the criminals, and it's not they're job to fight crime that mostly affects humans. They might investigate, but if you hide most of your Astranian criminals and illegal raytech operations, they'll just pick us up and skidaddle.

How do we know they're not going to blow it to smithereens anyway?

LonelyWorld 2015/11/01(Sun)18:06 No. 680749 ID: fe06ff
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Fuze: "Not if it's guilder ships after us, when they scan for pirate activity it will lead them away from Memora and instead to the wreckage"

Droegen: "hmmm, that might just work, I'll see what ships I can scrounge up, in the mean time you might want to take that shuttle and get it way from the city"

Oken enters the shuttle
This small ship has charm and spirit. it's just waiting for a good pilot, I can feel it.

>>680749
Start running preflight checks, and assessing the condition of the vessel. Gotta have everything as shipshape as you can make it.

>>680749

Agreeing with running checks. Also do a visual inspection of the engines too.

What are we gonna name it?

sit in it for a bit and feel it out.

LonelyWorld 2015/11/02(Mon)11:06 No. 680920 ID: fe06ff
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Oken sits down

All systems check out

. . . it is eager to fly

Fuel low, but sufficient for the mission

. . . eager to see the stars again

shields charge and weapons armed

. . . I shall call you "Patient Ember"

Hate to be paranoid but should probably check for any bombs/devices stuck under control panels or in a engine compartment.

If you have time.

We should bring Holf, even if they blow us up hes not going to make it without the medical station on that ship.Its up to Fuze if he wants to ride with us though.

Rub yourself all over the controls.

Patience can go SCREW ITSELF NOW GET THE TAKEOFF CHECKLIST DONE AND FIRE THIS THING!!!

LonelyWorld 2015/11/04(Wed)12:29 No. 681391 ID: fe06ff
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Oken's Team mates are brought on board

Fuze: "Do you think this could be a trap? perhaps there's a bomb on board"

Oken: "all the ship's weight is fully accounted for, there are no extra components"

Soon the ember will reignite back into flame, your patience will be rewarded.

Oken, ask Fuze if Flek's ship might have the compenants to replace Hoft's legs with organic replacements so he won't be considered an robot object by the government, or if he thinks that Hoft will be going to a veteren's hospital to live the rest of his days once we all get home?

LonelyWorld 2015/11/06(Fri)13:44 No. 681906 ID: fe06ff
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Deep sadness fills Oken as she looks at Hoft's broken form

Oken: "Is the Ecliptor equipped to replace Hoft's legs?"

Fuze: "short of cybernatics I'm not sure what could be done, his cell structure is no longer stable enough to withstand grafting, Doctor Yeli might know more but I suspect she'll say the same"

Oken: " . . ."

Oken Signals for the hanger doors to open, then launches the ship

LonelyWorld 2015/11/06(Fri)20:25 No. 681998 ID: fe06ff
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Oken takes note of a warning on the ship's Ray-Dar

Oken: "three guilder vessels closing in"

Something tells me that this ship doesn't have a hacking beacon.

Send a one-way broadcast of your intentions of non-aggression, then get to evasive maneuvers! If any of you have a smart idea and/or technology, now's the time!

Relay to the Astrainan ship that there's wounded that need urgent medical attention.

send a message to the Astrainan ship in the form of a Mayday, "we have a solder critically injured on board and are in need of assistance!".

sos flagship. we "barely managed to escape" enmy hands

LonelyWorld 2015/11/07(Sat)19:36 No. 682248 ID: fe06ff
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Shots fire past

Fuze: "Oken they're shooting at us! we have to contact the Ecliptor for help!"

Oken: "their antenna is still lowered we'll never get a message through the shield bubble."

Use the boost to get through

barrel roll! do some of those ace pilot maneuvers.

LonelyWorld 2015/11/09(Mon)20:08 No. 682860 ID: fe06ff
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Pilfered Kurdian Blast-Cannons, dangerous at close range, but the shot velocity is too low to be accurate over longer distance.

Oken accelerates as fast as the ship is capable

this will give me the distance I need and get me closer to the Ecliptor

Oken narrowly manages to dodge the enemy fire

How much longer until we get into range?

Barrel roll! Barrel roll!

I mean Aileron roll! That'll deflect their shots!

they should be able to see that were being shot at, they got to do something! keep getting closer, park behind there ship if you have to!

keep up the dodging, you are almost there.

LonelyWorld 2015/11/12(Thu)14:15 No. 683577 ID: fe06ff
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Oken does a barrel roll dodging several more shots

The Ecliptor, it's Fire-Array is charging up!

be ready to dodge the ecliptor's shots too. remember, the guy in charge of the guns is not flek. is simple enough to report to him that an unknown ship is approaching and get permission to fire on it. wont be able to lie about a incoming message on an astranian channel.

LonelyWorld 2015/11/14(Sat)17:58 No. 684015 ID: fe06ff
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Oken notices a com bleep

Fuze: "Is that the Ecliptor? can we contact them"

Oken: "It's a multiwave broadcast, our messages still won't get through, we still need to be closer"

Fuze: "What's the broadcast?"

Oken turns on the Raydio

????: "To all possible Astranian ships in the area this is Ecliptor-Alta. We will be performing a completely random weapons test. You are advised to keep your distance."

If you don't think you can out maneuver the ships weapons, keep out of range, the signaler looks like Mint and she would probably aim at us

god dammit, shift in to maximum overdrive!

do we know what weapons they could be firing to try and avoid them? Mint is going to do everything she can to stop us from getting to that ship, so we have to turn the ace pilot skills to 11!

LonelyWorld 2015/11/15(Sun)02:31 No. 684093 ID: fe06ff
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Fuze:"They're going to shoot us out of the sky!"

Oken:"It's nothing I can't handle"

Fuze: "The Ecliptor's Targeting is the most advanced in the fleet, not even Solar fighters are manuverable enough to dodge them!

Oken: "The Ecliptor's Fire Array still has a two second charge time it achieves it's apparent quick reaction speed from AI trajectory mapping, If I play into the systems expectations I can dodge the attacks.

Fuze: "That's insane! Astranian ships aren't meant to dodge!"

Oken: "I know that ship and I know this ship, I can do it"

Fuze: "We should turn back while we can . . ."

if we turn back we die anyway. mint will show how there are bugs on the surface that need to be destroyed, wiping the surface. and then what will our little shuttle do? limp to the next system in a hundred years?

no, the only option we have is to break through. show them why you are an ace pilot.

>>684093
"I am Ace Pilot Oken for a reason!"
Go for it.

>>684093
It's time to show you what Ace Pilot means.

You're ace pilot Oken, the best darn pilot in the whole fleet! let get in there!

>>684093

Work your magic, Ace Pilot!

LonelyWorld 2015/11/16(Mon)10:26 No. 684387 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "The only way is foreward.
I am the new star.
Like the heroes of the cult war, I will channel the history of my clan and become everything they were "

Fuze: "WHAT?!"

LonelyWorld 2015/11/16(Mon)10:27 No. 684388 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "I am Ace Pilot Oken, and there is nothing I can't do!
Oken Dodges the first three laser strikes

>>684388
DODGE CHARMS!

Those don't look totally random! They're not random at all!

>what do
Nowhere to go but forward. If you slowed down to reverse course or retreat, you'd get nailed.

Fly well. It's bullet hell time.

>>684388
IF WE GET IN CLOSE ENOUGH, THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO FIRE ON US WITHOUT (possibly) HITTING THEMSELVES!

SURELY A COMPLETELY RANDOM TEST WOULDN'T INCLUDE THAT... RIGHT!?

you know this ship, inside and out, you know exactly what miniscule weaknesses it has. exploit them.

and the AI will try to compensate, you can only do a maneuver once before it will expect it. go through every one you know, make new ones. surprise it every time.

>>684411
what this guy said, we will show Mint what for!

Use the boost to get through!

For the emprah!!

>>684388
Have we used our lucky earing yet? If not, let's use our lucky earing.

Either way, DODGE, DODGE, DODGE!

>>684388
ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH

FOR ASTRAMAAR

...

Also, get someone else on comms. You're going to need full focus for this.

>>684388
I'm scared. Oken becomes a whole new beast when in a pilot seat...
Just survive Oken. Just survive.

LonelyWorld 2015/11/27(Fri)00:13 No. 685926 ID: fe06ff
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Mint:"If for some reason a ship OUT OF SHEER DUMB LUCK was able to survive the first volley . . .

Fuze: "Oken maybe we-

Luck isn't what guides me, everything holds the same
Oken: "You're looking for a pattern but you can't predict the heart of a free spirit!"

LonelyWorld 2015/11/27(Fri)00:14 No. 685927 ID: fe06ff
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Mint: ". . . It would be obliterated from the NOW FULLY ACTIVATED ARRAY!"

a more complex pattern only makes clearer the path
Oken: "I see them trying to understand, but the robots they need to feel!"

LonelyWorld 2015/11/27(Fri)00:16 No. 685928 ID: fe06ff
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Mint: " Th-there's no way in hell she . . . wait . . . heh heh Hah Hah HAHAHAHA"

Fuze: "The shield bubble, I-I can see it!"

The Ecliptor's shield generators begin to glow brighter

LonelyWorld 2015/11/27(Fri)00:17 No. 685929 ID: fe06ff
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Damnit! so close!
Oken: "She's preparing a shield pulse . . . "

Fuze: "Carriers don't have-"

Oken: "this one does. there's no dodging it"
an omni-directional attack.

Fuze: "Maybe we could turn away or-"

Oken: "If we slow down or turn, the Array will catch us"
there's no way to dodge . . .

The shield burst doesn't even matter, Astranian shields don't affect Astranian ships.

Fuze: Analyze enemy shields and note that things are starting to heat up.

Oken scream about how you can't lose! Get into the crazy!

NEVER GIVE UP... TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS!

How does shield burst work? Will you be safe if you can get close enough to the ship? Obviously it would be designed not to damage itself. Recklessly close the distance at max speed.

Find the nearest airlock or hanger and ram into it, hopefully you can maneuver into the ship before the pulse goes off, or if it's possible, land onto the ship, hopefully the pulse would recognize your shuttle as the same faction and form over you instead

>>685929

We could try heroically ramming the array.

Do it the way the Pinkskins deal with shields. Hit target with heavy object. In other words: Go for a delicate part of the ship and ram it.

Shield pulse at the same exact time
If Astranian ships can be affected by the pulse for SOME weird reason, then that means your OWN shield pulse should be able to fight the pulse back.

Magnitude and size of the ship shouldn't matter. In fact, the opposite matters. YOUR own shield pulse should be stronger than hers anyway, due to speed and your tiny size. It has to spread OUT it's force to pulse it's GIANT shield. You don't. You'll pierce right through it.

get inside the shield. the burst wont head inward, that would damage the ship it's trying to protect.

>>685929
Unless you can surf or ride the pulse safely (which isn't a great plan cause it would force you to run the gauntlet again) the only real option is to get through it.

Can we shoot our way through a shield pulse? Hide in the shadow of some of the jutting out superstructure of the carrier to dodge the attack? Can we accelerate and pass through the shield before it pulses, so we're on the inside? Can we adjust shield frequencies to match such that the pulse won't harm us?

>all this talk about ramming
>>685927
Is that glass I can see on the far right there?

Just put the fuckin shuttle through it (if we can close the gap fast enough)

Charge right in. You can't outrun it on the way out, so outrun it on the way in before it charges.

LonelyWorld 2015/11/29(Sun)17:04 No. 686277 ID: fe06ff
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At full speed and max power to shield our duration of exposure to the pulse energy should be less then a tenth of a second
But the power output, for even that long . . . MIGHT be more than this ship can take.
Patient Ember I place my faith in you

Fuze: "Oken! do something!"

Oken: "ALL POWER TO THRUST AND SHIELDS"

* * *

LonelyWorld 2015/11/29(Sun)17:05 No. 686278 ID: fe06ff
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Heavy damage sustained
Please Ember we can still do this!

Main thrusters offline
Manuvering pulse field offline
Manuvering thrusters at 2% power
Sheilds offline
Life support offline
NO-NO-NO!

Total systems shut down in 1 minute
I don't think we're going to live that long!

Raydio signal active. Ecliptor receiving transmissions
. . .

LonelyWorld 2015/11/29(Sun)17:08 No. 686279 ID: fe06ff
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Mint: "All that just so you could crash into the ecliptor's reinforced Carbosteel hull? so much for heroics. GOOD BYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE . . . ACE PILOT OKEN!"

Impact imminent.
!!!

EJECT EJECT

wedge yourself into a nook!

This is your chance to transmit to the ship! Let them know who you are and the AI might be fast enough to catch you in a tractor beam.

>>686278
Get on comms to tell them that Mint is a traitor.

Also: TIME TO USE THE LUCKY CHARM!

>Life support offline
Oh that doesn't matter. One way or another, this fight was never gonna last long to burn through all the oxygen in the room.

>what do
Aim for an airlock or landing bay?

Or... I didn't see weapons listed on that damage report. We could always cut our own entrance, and crash on a deck instead of against the hull. We'd have to hope the cruiser would close emergency bulkheads or get the breach closed off after you, though.

>Or... I didn't see weapons listed on that damage report. We could always cut our own entrance, and crash on a deck instead of against the hull.

I like this idea... I mean... as opposed to being turned into dust and shrapnal on impact... could we even exploit weapons as emergency maneuvering thrust?

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Will this work? I guess it doesn't matter.
It's all I've got left!
Oken: "FIRE FORWARD RAYBEAM!"

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There is a burst of fire, and the small shuttle disappears into the Ecliptor

CHAPTER 7: END