<b>Well, I'm science officer, although I have no idea why I'm piloting the ship.</b>
<span style='color:gray'><u>*finishes setting up long-ranged sensors for any strange ships. Puts all weapons of the ship into auto-target, meaning that if an asteroid is about to colide with us, the guns blow it up* "Ahh... finihsed my duties. Gonna get some food" *heads to the mess hall, grabing some food, and takes a sit*</u></span>
<b>Well, i am in charge of Weapons ard the Armory, Time to blow stuff up.</b> <span style='color:red'>*Sits down at his chair, spins in it for a while, and then makes his pre-war checks.....* "Phasers... Check" "Torps... Check" "Missles... Check" "Nuclear Missles... None" "Capt. We are running low on Nukes <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->" *Sipns in chair again.*</span>
<span style='color:DarkKhaki'>"Phasers, eh? Just hope that our enemies don't have dense armour" *Wanders off muttering about how X-ray lasers would be superior to phasers*</span>
*Paces silently in her quarters, slowly growing more and more hungry. Quickly she turned on some music to try and soothe her thoughts, yet she continued to grow more restless. After a a bit more pacing she finally made up her mind and set off to find Khan*
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
*Having finished de-bugging the kitchen, he had something to eat and decided to go see if he could be of any use on the bridge* "Khan, everything nominal or what?"
*Strides out onto the bridge and sees Stuart speaking with Khan*
<span style='color:blue'> "Stuart, I want you go run down to the engine bays and double check our thrusters, for some reason I think we should be moving faster. Oh yes, and when you finished with that please calibrate our sensors with Khan, I do not want to run into any troubles." </span>
<i>While the ITA members ate and made final preperations for their mission the ship suddenly dropped to impulse speed. XM33 loomed a few thousand meters away and the crew couldn't help but get excited over reaching their goal. But just as suddenly the Claw Wing's ship appeard behind them and swooped down on an approach....
The Claw Wing's ship opens fire! Atk: +200 vs Def: +250 with AttkBns: +20 + d100 roll: +8 = -22 ... the cannon blast bounce harmlessly off the ITA ship's hull.
The ITA ship returns fire! Atk: +150 vs Def: +125 with MnvBns: -35 + d100 roll: +83 = +73 ... the ships auto turrets hit the Claw Wing's ship's hull and send metal chunks flying in all directions, moderate damage.
The Claw Wing's ship closes the distant and floats underneath the ITA ship ready for docking and boarding....</i>
<b>Feel free to RP all this action on your end, and don't worry about mechanics I'll roll all your actions after the battle is over, and Zig what I told you earlier still applies.</b>
<b>If you have questions about the mechanics just PM I'll explain em to you. The rolls are randomly generated so no whining : P</b>
<span style='color:blue'> "I told you guys to lock stuff down I have no intention of allowing that vessel to stop us. I want everyone ready for possible boarding party. If neccessary, I want to make sure they think twice before boarding my vessel. Someone give me some answers as to how to stop them without blowing us up as well." </span>
*As the anger in her eyes fades, she awaits the responses from her crew mates*
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
"Cap'n, I say we reinforce the cargo bay. We arnt far from port and there cant be much more than a rabble on a ship that small. Their just pirate scum, likely to turn tail if we show any resistance."
*He tried to anticipate her reaction, looking into her bright green eyes.*
<b>Pirate</b><span style='color:DarkKhaki'>*Over the intercom "Dammit, thats my line!"* *Arthur gets ready to board, and heads off to the docking port.*</span> <b>I'm finding it easy enough, Lanfear, BadKarma and P-Khan are the ITA; Zig Demiguse and I are the pirates. All it requires is a qucik check of whjo has posted.</b>
<span style='color:gray'><u>"Good thing I let auto-guns on!" *throws a comm device to Sadie and Stuart* "I'll be taking over the ship's internal defences captain. The turrets. I'll also communicate with you guys with those. Nano-cameras and all...." *runs to the bridge* "I'll lock the bridge up with some of the crew captain! Warn me if you wanna get in! We'll take the ship towards the nearest port, 'cause of the defences there" *gets to the bridge and warns the rest of the crew to plot course to nearest port. Jumps to the chair for complete defences and manovarability of the ship's internal turrets*</u></span>
<span style='color:blue'> "That sounds like a good idea Khan, Stuart and I shall go to the cargo bay and attempt to stop their progress IF they manage to get on board. Khan, do all that you can to disable their ship, feel free to blow them back to where they came from reguardless, I will NOT lose this cargo." </span>
*Looks directly at Stuart, her eyes shinning*
<span style='color:blue'> "You come with me, we shall stop them together, just like we used to at the academy" </span>
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*in the jumpship, a space-age pirate rowboat, Boycat addresses the crew*
<span style='color:lavender'>okay. i've targeted the jumpship at a corridor a good twenty meters to the <i>right</i> of the main airlock.. alright, fellas! here we go.. hopefully we'll maintain some element of surprise, eh?</span>
*Boycat heaves the launch lever, sending him and his crew hurtling towards the ITA barge*
*with a great BANG and thundering vibration, the jumpship's magnetic seals adhere to the slight curve of the barge's hull, and then snap shut. Boycat, Arthur, and Demiguise crouch behind blast shields within the jumpship, plugging their ears.*
<span style='color:lavender'>on my count!! one... two... THREE!</span>
*Boycat heaves the second lever, triggering the shaped charges braced against the door in the contact face of the jumpship. after the muffled BOOM, the door slides open, and clean air rushes in. the pirate crew quickly raises arms, but there are no ITA crewmen in the corridor before them. they creep out slowly.*
<span style='color:lavender'>remember your objectives, men.. this ship is a big thing, and any one of us might get lost..</span>
<b>Pirate</b> <span style='color:DarkKhaki'>*Arthur starts making his way to engineering* *"Remember your orders? I haven't been given any bloody orders..." Arthur mutters in a dissatisfied way*</span>
<span style='color:gray'><u>"Captain, I'm detecting a hull breach at sector 4" *turns on nano-cameras* "And it seems like there are 3 pirates entering the ship. Can't fire at them here. No gun turrets. Try and get them to sector 2, where there are several of the turrets*</u></span>
Pirates <span style='color:red'>*Presses Comm switch* "Arthur, can you get anything on this ship? like Schematics?"</span>
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Zig...I am Captain Planet!Join Date: 2002-10-23Member: 1576Members
<b>pie rat</b>
*Boycat is whispering* <span style='color:lavender'>Demiguise, Arthur.. look here. </span>*unravels a crumped pencil diagram of the ship* <span style='color:lavender'>...if i'm recalling the scan correctly... the cargo bay is somewhere.. maybe 70 meters east, and 60 meters deep from our position. the route from the main airlock is sporadically defended by automated turrets.. but we don't have portable EM weaponry..
but i've got a plan.
i'll... go east of here. i think there's a passageway without turrets... yes. and.. then you should hole up here and defend my exit. yeah?</span>
*points* <span style='color:lavender'>you can peel back some of the wall plating that was damaged from the blast.. and there should be a few crates around to support them, to make some sort of barricade.. you've both got the rifles, so it's only right that you form up the assault head. i'll be back in a flash to fetch you two, and... uh. then we'll all go and haul as much cargo out as we can. good?</span>
*staring at his incredulous crewmates*<span style='color:lavender'>uh... did you catch that?</span> *fingers his weapon nervously*
<b>Pirate</b> <span style='color:DarkKhaki'>*Having stopped wandering off when Boycat started whispering, Arthur heard the plan* "Err... I think I understand the plan, boss. Shall we get it underway then?" *Arthur waits for a response*</span>
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<span style='color:gray'><u>*finishes setting up long-ranged sensors for any strange ships. Puts all weapons of the ship into auto-target, meaning that if an asteroid is about to colide with us, the guns blow it up*
"Ahh... finihsed my duties. Gonna get some food"
*heads to the mess hall, grabing some food, and takes a sit*</u></span>
<span style='color:red'>*Sits down at his chair, spins in it for a while, and then makes his pre-war checks.....*
"Phasers... Check"
"Torps... Check"
"Missles... Check"
"Nuclear Missles... None"
"Capt. We are running low on Nukes <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->"
*Sipns in chair again.*</span>
*Wanders off muttering about how X-ray lasers would be superior to phasers*</span>
"Khan, everything nominal or what?"
<span style='color:blue'> "Stuart, I want you go run down to the engine bays and double check our thrusters, for some reason I think we should be moving faster. Oh yes, and when you finished with that please calibrate our sensors with Khan, I do not want to run into any troubles." </span>
The Claw Wing's ship opens fire!
Atk: +200 vs Def: +250 with AttkBns: +20 + d100 roll: +8 = -22
... the cannon blast bounce harmlessly off the ITA ship's hull.
The ITA ship returns fire!
Atk: +150 vs Def: +125 with MnvBns: -35 + d100 roll: +83 = +73
... the ships auto turrets hit the Claw Wing's ship's hull and send metal chunks flying in all directions, moderate damage.
The Claw Wing's ship closes the distant and floats underneath the ITA ship ready for docking and boarding....</i>
<b>Feel free to RP all this action on your end, and don't worry about mechanics I'll roll all your actions after the battle is over, and Zig what I told you earlier still applies.</b>
<b>If you have questions about the mechanics just PM I'll explain em to you. The rolls are randomly generated so no whining : P</b>
<span style='color:blue'> "I told you guys to lock stuff down I have no intention of allowing that vessel to stop us. I want everyone ready for possible boarding party. If neccessary, I want to make sure they think twice before boarding my vessel. Someone give me some answers as to how to stop them without blowing us up as well." </span>
*As the anger in her eyes fades, she awaits the responses from her crew mates*
*He tried to anticipate her reaction, looking into her bright green eyes.*
<span style='color:lavender'>this is no way to begin a raid.. i should've splurged on those photon torpedoes..
alright. forget the ship to ship assault. divert full shields toward the ITA barge, and we'll breach their port airlock!</span>
*rubs his hands together*
<span style='color:lavender'>ready, men??</span>
<span style='color:red'>
Pirates
"Aye, Capt, weve taken some damage but shell hold, Ill prepare for Docking!"</span>
*Arthur gets ready to board, and heads off to the docking port.*</span>
<b>I'm finding it easy enough, Lanfear, BadKarma and P-Khan are the ITA; Zig Demiguse and I are the pirates. All it requires is a qucik check of whjo has posted.</b>
<span style='color:gray'><u>"Good thing I let auto-guns on!"
*throws a comm device to Sadie and Stuart*
"I'll be taking over the ship's internal defences captain. The turrets. I'll also communicate with you guys with those. Nano-cameras and all...."
*runs to the bridge*
"I'll lock the bridge up with some of the crew captain! Warn me if you wanna get in! We'll take the ship towards the nearest port, 'cause of the defences there"
*gets to the bridge and warns the rest of the crew to plot course to nearest port. Jumps to the chair for complete defences and manovarability of the ship's internal turrets*</u></span>
<span style='color:blue'> "That sounds like a good idea Khan, Stuart and I shall go to the cargo bay and attempt to stop their progress IF they manage to get on board. Khan, do all that you can to disable their ship, feel free to blow them back to where they came from reguardless, I will NOT lose this cargo." </span>
*Looks directly at Stuart, her eyes shinning*
<span style='color:blue'> "You come with me, we shall stop them together, just like we used to at the academy" </span>
*in the jumpship, a space-age pirate rowboat, Boycat addresses the crew*
<span style='color:lavender'>okay. i've targeted the jumpship at a corridor a good twenty meters to the <i>right</i> of the main airlock.. alright, fellas! here we go.. hopefully we'll maintain some element of surprise, eh?</span>
*Boycat heaves the launch lever, sending him and his crew hurtling towards the ITA barge*
*with a great BANG and thundering vibration, the jumpship's magnetic seals adhere to the slight curve of the barge's hull, and then snap shut. Boycat, Arthur, and Demiguise crouch behind blast shields within the jumpship, plugging their ears.*
<span style='color:lavender'>on my count!! one... two... THREE!</span>
*Boycat heaves the second lever, triggering the shaped charges braced against the door in the contact face of the jumpship. after the muffled BOOM, the door slides open, and clean air rushes in. the pirate crew quickly raises arms, but there are no ITA crewmen in the corridor before them. they creep out slowly.*
<span style='color:lavender'>remember your objectives, men.. this ship is a big thing, and any one of us might get lost..</span>
<span style='color:red'>"Yes sir!"
*Runs off to Disable the Weapon systems*</span>
<span style='color:DarkKhaki'>*Arthur starts making his way to engineering*
*"Remember your orders? I haven't been given any bloody orders..." Arthur mutters in a dissatisfied way*</span>
<span style='color:gray'><u>"Captain, I'm detecting a hull breach at sector 4"
*turns on nano-cameras*
"And it seems like there are 3 pirates entering the ship. Can't fire at them here. No gun turrets. Try and get them to sector 2, where there are several of the turrets*</u></span>
<span style='color:blue'> "Roger that Khan, Stuart lets head to that sector we need to lure them away from our cargo, we will not lose it. </span>
<span style='color:red'>*Presses Comm switch*
"Arthur, can you get anything on this ship? like Schematics?"</span>
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*Boycat is whispering* <span style='color:lavender'>Demiguise, Arthur.. look here. </span>*unravels a crumped pencil diagram of the ship* <span style='color:lavender'>...if i'm recalling the scan correctly... the cargo bay is somewhere.. maybe 70 meters east, and 60 meters deep from our position. the route from the main airlock is sporadically defended by automated turrets.. but we don't have portable EM weaponry..
but i've got a plan.
i'll... go east of here. i think there's a passageway without turrets... yes. and.. then you should hole up here and defend my exit. yeah?</span>
*points* <span style='color:lavender'>you can peel back some of the wall plating that was damaged from the blast.. and there should be a few crates around to support them, to make some sort of barricade.. you've both got the rifles, so it's only right that you form up the assault head. i'll be back in a flash to fetch you two, and... uh. then we'll all go and haul as much cargo out as we can. good?</span>
*staring at his incredulous crewmates*<span style='color:lavender'>uh... did you catch that?</span> *fingers his weapon nervously*
<span style='color:DarkKhaki'>*Having stopped wandering off when Boycat started whispering, Arthur heard the plan*
"Err... I think I understand the plan, boss. Shall we get it underway then?"
*Arthur waits for a response*</span>
<span style='color:red'>"Got it Capt. Ill wawit on you."</span>