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Non-Combat After Action Report

Date: 05.23.34, 0558 GAST
Rank & Name: Initate Mori, Yoko
Reporting From: HFL Ichihara
AAR # 002

Hi. A couple Auxesians found a broken-down liner floating through Inverness that got into the Valravn exclusion zone, and we deployed marines from the Ichihara to investigate. At first glance it looked like a Chrysanthemum ship, but the actual symbol was a red dragon holding a golden chrysanthemum. It was falling apart, and most of the crew was dead. We talked to the survivors, and it seemed like they were under attack, so we boarded for search and rescue. We got the people in the cargo hold out easy, but the rest was, um, more complicated.

ESCALATED CLEARANCE

I get the feeling this VIP and her people will be really important assets to us in the future. Very nice, too. The Auxesians really put her off, so hopefully we can talk soon.

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[23.05.2024 01:43:29] A/)-Etna: Hail, Prometheus vessel.

[23.05.2024 01:43:33] TFP)-Melozone: Hi!

[23.05.2024 01:44:24] A/)-Yoruha-: Hello there, Promethean.

[23.05.2024 01:44:43] A/)-Etna: The airspace is clear, for the time being.

[23.05.2024 01:44:52] TFP)-Melozone: Great! I hear I missed the first big victory?

[23.05.2024 01:45:17] A/)-Etna: I was not present. But there was a foray.

[23.05.2024 01:45:18] A/)-Yoruha-: Seems so. I had been observing the engagement whilst inside the Achlys' CIC.

[23.05.2024 01:45:34] TFP)-Melozone: Awesome! I'm sorry I missed it.

[23.05.2024 01:46:00] A/)-Yoruha-: Don't be. It seems like the Liberty Navy was put into a succinct rout.

[23.05.2024 01:46:33] A/)-Yoruha-: I'm surprised that one man, Firebrand, even managed to get through the jump hole we opened to send in reinforcements.

[23.05.2024 01:46:39] A/)-Etna: It was likely stimulating for those involved.

[23.05.2024 01:47:11] A/)-Yoruha-: The datalink information was limited since we stayed in Inverness, but it definitely was a sight, I'm certain.

[23.05.2024 01:47:18] A/)-Etna: Commencing sector sweep and patrol.

[23.05.2024 01:47:20] TFP)-Melozone: I mean... yeah.

[23.05.2024 01:47:25] A/)-Etna: Switching to--

[23.05.2024 01:47:25] A/)-Yoruha-: Sorry!

[23.05.2024 01:47:26] TFP)-Melozone: Oh, okay.

[23.05.2024 01:47:28] A/)-Etna: Contact.

[23.05.2024 01:47:36] A/)-Yoruha-: Nails, Kiyohime, 13k.

[23.05.2024 01:47:42] TFP)-Melozone: Need backup?

[23.05.2024 01:47:52] A/)-Yoruha-: This is Auxesia Yoruha to unidentified vessel, declare IFF and callsign.

[23.05.2024 01:48:01] A/)-Etna: Melozone, accompany.

[23.05.2024 01:48:04] TFP)-Melozone: Got it.

[23.05.2024 01:48:06] A/)-Yoruha-: Liner-type.

[23.05.2024 01:48:21] A/)-Yoruha-: Oasis-class Liner, cargo manifest empty.

[23.05.2024 01:48:31] TFP)-Melozone: Oooh, like Ichihara.

[23.05.2024 01:48:46] TFP)-Melozone: Civilian gunss, Wasp disruptor.

[23.05.2024 01:49:05] TFP)-Melozone: Low-range CM, bad thruster. You should probably get that looked at.

[23.05.2024 01:49:12] Kiyohime: [There was only static coming from the vessel. The hull seemed damaged. Red light on the bridge. Silence.]

[23.05.2024 01:49:22] A/)-Etna: Attention, civilian liner Kiyohime. This is Sentinel Dolores Pyke of the Technocracy of Auxo.

[23.05.2024 01:49:40] A/)-Etna: I'm detecting malfunctions and damage within your hull. Respond if able.

[23.05.2024 01:49:41] A/)-Yoruha-: Vessel seems to be in distress according to EOTS imagery.

[23.05.2024 01:50:00] TFP)-Melozone: Should I get the Ichihara for boarding and offloading?

[23.05.2024 01:50:01] A/)-Yoruha-: Superstructure shows signs of moderate damage.

[23.05.2024 01:50:26] A/)-Yoruha-: May be needed, yes, but sadly I am not an authority on the decision.

[23.05.2024 01:50:30] A/)-Yoruha-: Etna>?

[23.05.2024 01:50:34] A/)-Etna: Preliminary investigations are in order.

[23.05.2024 01:51:19] TFP)-Melozone: EVA? I don't have a good scanner on this interceptor.

[23.05.2024 01:51:45] A/)-Etna: [The fighter scans for lifesigns, power signatures, damage... anything.]

[23.05.2024 01:51:57] Kiyohime: [Static] "Th-... Ch-...--s ---- he-... inter-... dam-.....g" [The voice of a woman breaking through the static. Then, silence.]

[23.05.2024 01:52:24] A/)-Yoruha-: Etna, Yoruha. Permission to attempt EVA inspection of the bridge area? Alternatively, run an EOTS scan of the bridge?

[23.05.2024 01:52:36] TFP)-Melozone: Chr-... hm.

[23.05.2024 01:52:59] Kiyohime: [Several life signs onboard. Cargo hold. One located in a room near the bridge. With closer inspected, there was a flower-

[23.05.2024 01:53:03] A/)-Etna: Run scans. Contact Valravn to deploy an SAR team.

[23.05.2024 01:53:04] Kiyohime: painted onto the hull of the Liner.]

[23.05.2024 01:53:23] A/)-Yoruha-: Understood, commencing EOTS scan, going to thermal.

[23.05.2024 01:53:25] A/)-Etna: That boarding team you mentioned, Melozone, might be handy.

[23.05.2024 01:53:27] [OOC] TFP)-Melozone: GC flower?

[23.05.2024 01:53:52] A/)-Yoruha-: [The ship's nose targeting camera veers left towards the bridge of the Kiyohime.]

[23.05.2024 01:54:00] [OOC] Kiyohime: Yes, its a GC blossom. the rest is shot off. Its a red dragon holding a golden flower in its claws. 

[23.05.2024 01:54:20] TFP)-Melozone: Affirmative. Looks like a Chysanthemum ship. Those are /our/ sisters anyways. Dunno what she's doing here but we're gonna find-

[23.05.2024 01:54:23] TFP)-Melozone: out.

[23.05.2024 01:54:36] A/)-Etna: Fascinating.

[23.05.2024 01:54:40] TFP)-Melozone: Ichihara, prepare for launch. We've got sisters of Matsuda in trouble here.

[23.05.2024 01:54:48] A/)-Yoruha-: A chrysanthemum ship.. all the way in the Libero-bretonian borderworlds..?

[23.05.2024 01:55:04] 2024-05-23 01:55:06 SMT  Traffic control alert: TFP)-Melozone has docked

[23.05.2024 01:55:27] Kiyohime: [The bridge was dark except for the red light. It seemed abandoned.]

[23.05.2024 01:55:33] A/)-Etna: The Chrysanthemums are considered undesireables in the eyes of the Technocracy, but this situation calls for SAR efforts.

[23.05.2024 01:55:42] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Ichihara on our way.

[23.05.2024 01:56:01] A/)-Etna: Several signatures in the cargo bay. Worrying.

[23.05.2024 01:56:03] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Boarding team ready.

[23.05.2024 01:56:04] A/)-Yoruha-: Bridge itself is.. abandoned.

[23.05.2024 01:56:27] A/)-Yoruha-: They rely on Cardamine, yes? Much like the Outcasts?

[23.05.2024 01:56:29] Kiyohime: [Static again, then a more clear voice.] "Th--.. is Yok-.... Hid-...-. Susta-..---- [static] a-...ge.

[23.05.2024 01:56:51] A/)-Etna: Docking points clear, Ichihara.

[23.05.2024 01:56:57] A/)-Etna: I see no obstructions.

[23.05.2024 01:57:00] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: They are freedom fighters in Kusari, fighting a system than enslaves women to serve as men's playthings.

[23.05.2024 01:57:06] [OOC] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: err, Y:

[23.05.2024 01:57:09] A/)-Yoruha-: At least, that was to my knowledge during.. Kiyohime, this is Auxesia Yoruha, please lower shields for search and rescue teams.

[23.05.2024 01:57:25] A/)-Etna: We will understand their intent soon enough.

[23.05.2024 01:57:41] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Kaoru, you have the  bridge.

[23.05.2024 01:57:47] A/)-Yoruha-: We mean no harm. Lower shields and prepare for boarding and medical parties.

[23.05.2024 01:58:03] Kiyohime: [The shields flickering for a moment until they disappear. Sadly, a higher force has taken away the ability for it.]

[23.05.2024 01:58:15] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Mooring underway.

[23.05.2024 01:58:24] ERR Your ship is too large for mobile docking!

[23.05.2024 01:58:29] A/)-Etna: There is a distinct possibility we have encountered a slave ship.

[23.05.2024 01:58:46] A/)-Yoruha-: I am familiar with the Chrysanthemums.

[23.05.2024 01:58:53] A/)-Yoruha-: Well, to a degree.

[23.05.2024 01:59:02] A/)-Etna: Prepare for any eventuality.

[23.05.2024 01:59:03] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: We... /they/... are not slavers. On the contrary.

[23.05.2024 01:59:33] A/)-Etna: We have intercepted their slaver convoys before in this space.

[23.05.2024 01:59:39] [OOC] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: From?

[23.05.2024 01:59:44] A/)-Yoruha-: I never said they were.

[23.05.2024 01:59:45] Kiyohime: [The airlock protection on the starboard side of the ship opening slowly, getting stuck for a moment, then opening again.]

[23.05.2024 01:59:49] A/)-Yoruha-: Weapon.

[23.05.2024 02:00:06] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Outcasts were.

[23.05.2024 02:00:44] Kiyohime: "Does that work now? This is the Kiyohime calling the Auxesian vessels in the vercinity."

[23.05.2024 02:00:59] A/)-Etna: We hear you, Kiyohime. Report status.

[23.05.2024 02:00:59] A/)-Yoruha-: Yes... Ichihara, if you could forgive my error - I have only been awake for the past month. The past 10 years are alien to..

[23.05.2024 02:01:03] A/)-Yoruha-: me, especially in my former house.

[23.05.2024 02:01:31] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Boarding party ready.

[23.05.2024 02:02:08] A/)-Yoruha-: Yoruha moving to standby.

[23.05.2024 02:02:34] Kiyohime: [Static] "This is Yukiko Hideyoshi. We have pressure loss on several decks. Life support is damaged and we are losing fuel."

[23.05.2024 02:03:33] A/)-Yoruha-: This is Auxesia Yoruha. Understood, the Ichihara is moving boarding parties for recovery.

[23.05.2024 02:03:43] A/)-Etna: Acknowledged, Kiyohime-actual. We are boarding your vessel now. You will be detained and your vessel towed into drydock.

[23.05.2024 02:03:57] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: (A small docking line crosses from the Ichihara to the Kiyohime's boarding port, followed shortly by a slowly-extending

[23.05.2024 02:04:16] A/)-Etna: Contact.

[23.05.2024 02:04:21] A/)-Etna: Moving to intercept.

[23.05.2024 02:04:32] Kiyohime: "Most of the bulkheads are sealed shut. I am kind of trapped up here. The others are in the cargo hold."

[23.05.2024 02:04:34] A/)-Yoruha-: Yoruha, copy. Moving to assist.

[23.05.2024 02:04:35] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: (bridge. About half a dozen people in old GC armor cross.)

[23.05.2024 02:04:40] A/)-Yoruha-: Nails, Paracelsus, 11K.

[23.05.2024 02:04:50] Paracelsus: I: Ah there we go.

[23.05.2024 02:04:51] A/)-Yoruha-: Another Oasis-class..

[23.05.2024 02:05:05] A/)-Yoruha-: Paracelsus, Auxesia Yoruha, declare.

[23.05.2024 02:05:06] Paracelsus: I: Power down the engines!

[23.05.2024 02:05:41] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Okay, starting... yep, bulkheads here. Okay, this section is... pressurized, opening the bulkhead to the next.

[23.05.2024 02:05:52] Kiyohime: [The bridge connecting with the liner, pressure was not able to be established. The outer airlocks opening while the inner-

[23.05.2024 02:05:55] Kiyohime: -stay sealed.]

[23.05.2024 02:06:04] [OOC] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: oh mb ignore that then.

[23.05.2024 02:06:04] Paracelsus: I: This is the independent deep space research vessel Paracelsus, captain Iwakura Reiko speaking

[23.05.2024 02:06:31] Paracelsus: I: We are on a, say, diplomatic mission. Permission to approach?

[23.05.2024 02:06:37] A/)-Etna: Acknowledged, Paracelsus. Stand by.

[23.05.2024 02:06:46] A/)-Etna: We are conducting SAR operations in the area.

[23.05.2024 02:07:02] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Okay, breaching. Uhh... can't open this bulkhead without killing whoever might be behind it. You said you're near the 

[23.05.2024 02:07:05] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: bridge?

[23.05.2024 02:07:57] Paracelsus: I: Oh dear. We have crew on standby that can assist if necessary as well

[23.05.2024 02:07:57] Kiyohime: "Attention. There might still be hostile elements on the ship. I repeat, it is possible that there are hostile elements on-

[23.05.2024 02:08:17] A/)-Etna: Elaborate on hostile elements.

[23.05.2024 02:08:18] Kiyohime: -the ship. We have lost our internal sensors during an attack with the Naval Forces."

[23.05.2024 02:08:28] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Oh dear. That would've been good to know earlier. Identify hostiles? Kusari Navy?

[23.05.2024 02:08:57] A/)-Etna: Variables unfavorable. SAR operation at risk. [Her tone is robotic.]

[23.05.2024 02:10:06] A/)-Yoruha-: [She appears concerned for the crew of the Kiyohime.]

[23.05.2024 02:10:08] A/)-Etna: Rerouting to Valravn.

[23.05.2024 02:10:16] Kiyohime: "Hai. Highly possible. But still be cautious. I can try to reach the sensor room to get them back online, if that helps."

[23.05.2024 02:10:19] A/)-Etna: Preparing heavier response.

[23.05.2024 02:10:26] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Then we'll need to clear them out before we can tow it back. Do you have any way of telling how much oxygen you have left 

[23.05.2024 02:10:43] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: in that space? And in the cargo hold?

[23.05.2024 02:11:30] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Ideal option would be to tow it to Invergordon and separate the combatants there in a pressurized environment - if it will-

[23.05.2024 02:11:32] Kiyohime: "According to what I can read from here... thirty minutes in the hold. I am fine up here. I have a suit and two-

[23.05.2024 02:11:32] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: survive that far.

[23.05.2024 02:11:36] Kiyohime: -oxygen packs."

[23.05.2024 02:12:57] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Got it. Mmkay. Hold time first then. Does the hold's pressure containment hold? Is it safe to open it?

[23.05.2024 02:13:59] Kiyohime: "If I said I would know, I would lie. But safe them first. They are my sisters. My... consort. They are with me since-

[23.05.2024 02:14:29] Kiyohime: -my times my family decided to exile me."

[23.05.2024 02:15:04] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Yeah, I get it. My crew is my family too - my sisters. Look, most of us are Sisters of Matsuda, or were once. We're gonna 

[23.05.2024 02:15:10] A/)-Etna: Confirm status and affiliation of cargo bay personnel.

[23.05.2024 02:15:29] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: get you out of there, yeah? Ichihara, we're RTB for the freighter.

[23.05.2024 02:15:41] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: They're Chrysanthemums. That's what sisters means, in this context.

[23.05.2024 02:16:10] A/)-Etna: Copy. A GC liner without slaves in the independent worlds is abnormal.

[23.05.2024 02:16:19] Kiyohime: "Very well. Even though I never was a true sister of Matsuda. Not like my mother Lilly. Do I know you by any chance?"

[23.05.2024 02:17:01] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Lilly? There's lots of people named Lilly.

[23.05.2024 02:17:31] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [The bridge withdraws, and a few minutes later a small rhino slips out of the lower bay of the liner, transferring over to 

[23.05.2024 02:17:45] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [align with the Kiyohime's bay.]

[23.05.2024 02:18:34] Kiyohime: "Lilly Hideyoshi... the old Blood Dragon Shogunate."

[23.05.2024 02:18:46] A/)-Etna: Another pretender for the records.

[23.05.2024 02:19:05] A/)-Etna: We will investigate if there is a connection with the infectee under a similar surname.

[23.05.2024 02:19:05] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Dragons. I... was friendly with them, once. I hope they're still okay.

[23.05.2024 02:19:08] Kiyohime: [The liner stood completely still. Well, as still as a ship could in space while damaged. The bay way closed, sealed shut.]

[23.05.2024 02:19:39] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Prepare to breach.

[23.05.2024 02:20:40] Kiyohime: "I have no contact with them. But I am sure they will hear and know."

[23.05.2024 02:20:49] A/)-Yoruha-: The name rings a bell.

[23.05.2024 02:20:56] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [A small sword-like ram slips out of the bottom of the rhino, not unlike that under an Inquisitor. The Rhino's engines roar, 

[23.05.2024 02:21:40] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [and a moment later it rams into the cargo bay door, piercing it and instantly sealing the gap with a boarding strut. The same-

[23.05.2024 02:21:49] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [small group of marines rush across into the bay.]

[23.05.2024 02:22:04] A/)-Etna:  ...fascinating.

[23.05.2024 02:22:23] A/)-Yoruha-: [She looks on in horror at the barbaric boarding action.]

[23.05.2024 02:22:50] Kiyohime: [The bulkhead gives in. It opens against it's will. Angry creaking that is not hearable in space because sound does not travel-

[23.05.2024 02:23:01] Paracelsus: I: ...Is this part of your typical RAR procedures.

[23.05.2024 02:23:14] [OOC] Paracelsus: SAR

[23.05.2024 02:23:26] Kiyohime: there. Yet, it was very much angry that it opened. The door sealed. Inside, cargo over cargo and in the right corner, a gath-

[23.05.2024 02:23:28] A/)-Etna: It is their method. Not ours.

[23.05.2024 02:24:03] Kiyohime: -thering of people. Women, in fact. Dressed in black and golden. A symbol on one visible. A dragon holding a blossom in it's-

[23.05.2024 02:24:06] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Legion tactics. Promethean now, I suppose.

[23.05.2024 02:24:14] Kiyohime: -claws. They raise their hands right away.]

[23.05.2024 02:24:25] A/)-Yoruha-: Not in Auxesian doctrine. I have read it in triplicate to my classification. Never before, not in Auxesia, nor Ouroboros, nor..

[23.05.2024 02:25:15] A/)-Yoruha-: the COF have I seen any kind of boarding doctrine that involves ramming into a ship in distress.

[23.05.2024 02:25:24] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Oh, thank goodness. Here, is everyone okay? [She and her unit rushes over to the group.]

[23.05.2024 02:25:29] A/)-Yoruha-: Or ramming a ship in general.

[23.05.2024 02:25:47] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Have you seen an Inquisitor? It is ridiculous.

[23.05.2024 02:26:27] Kiyohime: [One of the women comes closer. She bowed.] "Arigato for rescuing us. Lady Hideyoshi is still trapped. We are fine, just shaken

[23.05.2024 02:27:32] Paracelsus: I: Yes those designs are rather... unusual lets say. Personally I would use a short-ranged shaped plasma emiter rather than -

[23.05.2024 02:27:37] Paracelsus: pure metal but...

[23.05.2024 02:29:02] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Iie, iie. We're working on that. Do you have any injured? Can you walk out?

[23.05.2024 02:29:59] A/)-Etna: Analysis of Hellfire-derived designs shows a preference for large blades on ship exteriors.

[23.05.2024 02:30:57] A/)-Yoruha-: That is good for boarding or.. debilitation actions.. not so much for saving those aboard..

[23.05.2024 02:30:58] Paracelsus: I: At least make it detachable and attach some rockets to it

[23.05.2024 02:31:22] A/)-Etna: I am not a shipwright.

[23.05.2024 02:31:41] Paracelsus: I: Weapons manufacturer.

[23.05.2024 02:31:59] Kiyohime: "We can walk, hai." [The woman nods as she looked to the others.] "We are fine. We can walk."

[23.05.2024 02:32:24] A/)-Etna: This depends on the weapon.

[23.05.2024 02:32:28] Kiyohime: "It is possible that the internal defenses are online and locked. So please.. be cautious."

[23.05.2024 02:32:51] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Okay. Sounds good. We're leaving the same way we came in, don't worry.

[23.05.2024 02:33:06] A/)-Etna: A concerning amount of information to withhold until boarders are already present.

[23.05.2024 02:33:38] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [As she motions the group towards the new hole in their ship, the other ex-Chrysanthemums raise brand-new Aux-provided rifles-

[23.05.2024 02:33:42] Paracelsus: I: Integrated weapons systems are not the responsibility of the shipwright in any but the most extreme cases.

[23.05.2024 02:33:53] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [with Promethean skulls painted upon the side.]

[23.05.2024 02:34:04] A/)-Etna: I would classify Hellfire designs as extreme cases.

[23.05.2024 02:34:14] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: An understatement.

[23.05.2024 02:34:25] A/)-Etna: I do not understand what would be more accurate than extreme.

[23.05.2024 02:35:27] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Ridiculous?

[23.05.2024 02:35:42] A/)-Etna: These two words do not exist on a linear scale.

[23.05.2024 02:35:51] Paracelsus: I: The bayonet does not provide structural integrity to the hull and can be safely removed without compromising it, an extreme-

[23.05.2024 02:36:05] Paracelsus: example would be physically inseparable from the ship itself

[23.05.2024 02:36:19] A/)-Etna: The Prosecutor conforms to this, Paracelsus actual.

[23.05.2024 02:36:54] Kiyohime: [The group follows right away, and rather fast. They were shaken, but at least they were safe now.]

[23.05.2024 02:36:57] [OOC] A/)-Yoruha-:  Cherry says she's dealing with network issues.

[23.05.2024 02:37:07] [OOC] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Good to know.

[23.05.2024 02:37:09] [OOC] Kiyohime: Just had red lag, but it seems to be gone? Idk what that is

[23.05.2024 02:37:14] [OOC] Paracelsus: hecc

[23.05.2024 02:37:45] Paracelsus: I: I disagree but I have yet to have the pleasure of dissecting one myself to make sure

[23.05.2024 02:37:56] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Yoko leads the group across to the Rhino, then begins to pull back. It leaves behind the airlock at the end of the strut - a

[23.05.2024 02:38:46] Paracelsus: I: Maybe one day... If it is a - gods forbid - load-bearing bayonet - the ship could field some interesting redesigns.

[23.05.2024 02:38:59] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [cork plugging the hole. The Rhino returns to the intact liner.]

[23.05.2024 02:39:22] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Hideyoshi, confirm your status again.

[23.05.2024 02:39:48] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Auxesian ships, can you determine if the ship will survive a tow to Invergordon?

[23.05.2024 02:40:09] A/)-Etna: Commencing scan.

[23.05.2024 02:40:22] Kiyohime: [Static for a moment. Then, the sound of fire.] "I am.. a bit busy.. here!"

[23.05.2024 02:40:50] A/)-Etna: Kiyohime-actual, report.

[23.05.2024 02:41:19] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Affirmative. Team, go directly to the bridge. Hideyoshi, do you have a working EVA suit?

[23.05.2024 02:41:38] Kiyohime: "I have several very angry Naval Forces here. They seem to have boarded with a vessel in the hangar during our run from Kusari-

[23.05.2024 02:41:57] A/)-Etna: We will not fire on KNF personnel.

[23.05.2024 02:42:15] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Yeah. Unfortunately.

[23.05.2024 02:42:15] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: G: What's this?

[23.05.2024 02:42:18] A/)-Yoruha-: [She seems displeased with the statement.]

[23.05.2024 02:42:26] Kiyohime: -And yes, I do have one, but the problem is the angry Naval officers that are trying to shoot me!"

[23.05.2024 02:42:42] A/)-Yoruha-: Those.. They're firing on people in distress!?

[23.05.2024 02:42:47] A/)-Etna: Disabled Chrysanthemum liner wandered into perimeter. TFP is conducting SAR. Potential hostiles.

[23.05.2024 02:42:58] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Can you convince them to stand down? Tell them they're in the custody of a third party and in a neutral zone, and their-

[23.05.2024 02:43:05] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: G: Oh, god.

[23.05.2024 02:43:14] A/)-Etna: Control yourself, Initiate.

[23.05.2024 02:43:30] A/)-Yoruha-:  ...

[23.05.2024 02:43:32] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: actions will be treated accordingly. I'm on my way. Just stay in cover and keep them from reaching where you're at.

[23.05.2024 02:43:45] A/)-Yoruha-: At least order a self-defense measure, ma'am.

[23.05.2024 02:44:12] Death: _unknown_ was put out of action by a hostile vessel.

[23.05.2024 02:44:22] A/)-Etna: If we are fired upon, we fire. But Chrysanthemums are undesireables, whereas KNF personnel are not.

[23.05.2024 02:44:28] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [The original bridge returns, and this time the team is seen hauling a variety of heavy equipment across.]

[23.05.2024 02:44:31] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Excuse me?

[23.05.2024 02:44:33] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: Well, if I can be of any assistance, I've a fully-functional EVA suit.

[23.05.2024 02:44:42] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: Otherwise I will stand back.

[23.05.2024 02:45:00] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Yes please! We're about to breach, we could use backup through the other side. Break through at the bridge, we'll surround-

[23.05.2024 02:45:04] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: them and get them to stand down.

[23.05.2024 02:45:04] A/)-Etna: Technocracy Spatial Regulations, Section Four, Sub-sections Five and Six.

[23.05.2024 02:45:15] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: Need to be armed, then?

[23.05.2024 02:45:27] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Yes, but don't go in firing. Goal's to keep everyone alive.

[23.05.2024 02:45:35] A/)-Etna: They are already in violation of the perimeter. Standard procedure would have been immediate removal.

[23.05.2024 02:45:42] A/)-Etna: We are already granting leniency.

[23.05.2024 02:45:56] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: Understood. I'll get suited up. [The Sentinel immediately rushes out of her chair, headed into what seems to be

[23.05.2024 02:46:04] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: a closet within the freighter's pressurized area.]

[23.05.2024 02:46:10] Kiyohime: "I am not sure they are listening. And I highly ssume they are not Naval Forces, but might be KOI. Their weapons are -not- -

[23.05.2024 02:46:18] A/)-Yoruha-: I second the Ichihara's notion. The Chrysanthemums are still human and are in distress - Evacuate them from the vessel -

[23.05.2024 02:46:21] Kiyohime: -standard issued. It's getting a bit.. hairy here."

[23.05.2024 02:46:31] A/)-Yoruha-: tend to their wounded and then eject them to Freeport 14!

[23.05.2024 02:46:50] A/)-Etna: Restraint. We will do what is allowed.

[23.05.2024 02:46:58] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: ... It is only for the sake of those this ship is now flagged with that I control my tongue now, Auxesian.

[23.05.2024 02:47:20] A/)-Etna: Your offense is acknowledged. But I did not write our bylaws.

[23.05.2024 02:47:40] A/)-Yoruha-: My former associates and the Chrysanthemums may not have been friendly.. but I would still treat them with that kindness.

[23.05.2024 02:47:51] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [After a surprisingly short amount of time, she returns in an armored purple-and-white hardsuit with some kind of PDW and a

[23.05.2024 02:48:02] A/)-Etna: Chrysanthemums were placed there due to frequent attacks against Technocracy personnel on behalf of the Outcasts--

[23.05.2024 02:48:02] A/)-Yoruha-: So suffice to say, I share your frustration with our mutual benefactors.

[23.05.2024 02:48:04] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: handgun at her side, along with a bag full of -- presumably -- engineering tools.]

[23.05.2024 02:48:14] 2024-05-23 02:48:16 SMT : Kiyohime is attempting to disconnect from the server

[23.05.2024 02:48:17] A/)-Etna: --and after numerous interceptions of cardamine and slaver convoys.

[23.05.2024 02:48:56] A/)-Yoruha-: Undesireables or no.. they are in distress and need our help.

[23.05.2024 02:48:59] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: I recommend you also exercise restraint, /Auxesian/.

[23.05.2024 02:49:36] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Thank you. I appreciate the support.

[23.05.2024 02:49:45] A/)-Etna: I do not understand. This is the record recounted. I am not offering personal opinions.

[23.05.2024 02:49:45] Paracelsus: I: Going in with just a pistol hm? Well if you want some extra ordnance, we do so happen to have a wide variety of light arms -

[23.05.2024 02:49:47] Paracelsus: here!

[23.05.2024 02:50:22] A/)-Yoruha-: I am certain we are more than well equipped for the situation. Your assistance offer is appreciated, regardless.

[23.05.2024 02:50:43] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Your lack of discretion is noted.

[23.05.2024 02:51:01] Kiyohime: [There was an explosion to be seen and heard from near the bridge. The hull ws not breached."

[23.05.2024 02:51:03] Kiyohime: ]*

[23.05.2024 02:51:05] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Okay, we can't wait any longer. Kolokytha, we're breaching. We'll distract, you come in from the bridge side and rescue her.

[23.05.2024 02:51:14] A/)-Etna: [Monotone.] Hm. Acknowledged.

[23.05.2024 02:51:44] Death: Sarison was put out of action by a hostile vessel.

[23.05.2024 02:51:48] A/)-Etna: Still. Our orders stand. We will not engage unless fired upon, but we will assist in SAR.

[23.05.2024 02:52:01] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: Understood. Will breach from stern side. [As she speaks, she opens a hatch on the floor and drops down through,

[23.05.2024 02:52:03] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: closing it behind her.]

[23.05.2024 02:52:33] Death: _unknown_ was put out of action by a hostile vessel.

[23.05.2024 02:53:09] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [A few seconds later, the Kiyohime is rocked by another explosion as the Promethean team breaches the bulkhead. The-

[23.05.2024 02:53:36] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [A moment later, the Technocrat appears below her ship in space, jetting towards the fore of the bridge at a speed perhaps

[23.05.2024 02:53:42] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: just-slightly-faster than safe.]

[23.05.2024 02:53:44] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [air immediately begins to rush from the pressurized segment as half a dozen marines break through the smoke. The foremost -

[23.05.2024 02:53:46] Kiyohime: [Static] "Freeport Seven." [It was all that came through before the connection went into static again.]

[23.05.2024 02:54:32] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She pushes her limbs out in front of her, landing on all fours on the thick reinforced glass at the front of the bridge.]

[23.05.2024 02:54:39] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [woman sends a broad-spectrum signal across all nearby communication devices.]

[23.05.2024 02:54:58] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [mumbling over comms] "Mag-trac enabled... no lock." [a sharp inhale] "This'll be rough."

[23.05.2024 02:56:07] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Yasou: "All combatants stand down! You are in a neutral zone! Please don protective equipment immediately and prepare to be-

[23.05.2024 02:56:15] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Yasou: rescued!"

[23.05.2024 02:56:17] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She fumbles with her black toolbag, looking for a saw, before recoiling. Some small tool drifts off into space.]

[23.05.2024 02:57:14] Kiyohime: [Static was the answer together with the sound of very destinct lasers. Almost like.. a distorted 'meow' of a cat.]

[23.05.2024 02:57:56] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Ok, didn't need that one... ah, got it." [The Technocrat pulls out a handheld glass saw and presses it up against the window 

[23.05.2024 02:58:10] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [The marines push further, spreading out room by room to clear the way and find the source of the combat.]

[23.05.2024 02:58:15] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: of the bridge. She flicks it on and starts cutting her way through the window.]

[23.05.2024 02:58:48] Kiyohime: [However, for the boarding party the road ahead was clear. The rooms, all empty. Some are blocked. The liner was decorated in-

[23.05.2024 02:59:22] Kiyohime: -black and golden. Mostly golden dragons with golden flowers. It was rather luxurious except for the damage. Closing in-

[23.05.2024 02:59:49] Kiyohime: -on the bridge. The sound of the lasers has grown louder. But also something was off. Pressure on their minds. Screams that -

[23.05.2024 03:00:08] Kiyohime: -come from nowhere and at the same time, everywhere. The cutting however went well. The glass giving in as a hole was cut.]

[23.05.2024 03:00:25] Death: Sarison was put out of action by a hostile vessel.

[23.05.2024 03:00:48] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Fuck. Technocrats, clear the area, we have Wilde aboard. If you know what that means.

[23.05.2024 03:01:02] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "I know it well."

[23.05.2024 03:01:03] A/)-Yoruha-: Wilde?!

[23.05.2024 03:01:17] A/)-Etna: Contamination confirmed. Commence containment and decontamination procedures.

[23.05.2024 03:01:27] A/)-Yoruha-: Paracelsus, I will divert you to Invergordon.

[23.05.2024 03:01:43] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [As the hole grows sufficiently large for her to crawl through, Gestalt punches the glass inward, her armored EVA suit

[23.05.2024 03:01:57] A/)-Etna: Jau. You know what to do.

[23.05.2024 03:02:13] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: 's muscle reinforcements shattering the oblong slice into pieces as air starts rushing out.]

[23.05.2024 03:02:29] Kiyohime: [The voice of the onboard computer echoes through the corridors.] "Warning. Intruder alert. Internal defense system: Online."

[23.05.2024 03:02:40] A/)-Yoruha-: The area is now under a Wilde contamination risk. Protocol advises all non-essential personnel and uninvolved parties divert.

[23.05.2024 03:02:42] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: If you harm my partner, no flag will save you.

[23.05.2024 03:02:55] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She quickly grabs ahold of the glass, and once the bridge is sufficiently depressurized, she crawls in.]

[23.05.2024 03:03:04] Paracelsus: I: Ah, well I wasn't expecting this. Alright crew, remember your training! Start the mantras, maintain focus. We are diverting-

[23.05.2024 03:03:08] Paracelsus: course to Invergordon.

[23.05.2024 03:03:16] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "I will only fire in self-defense, in defense of civilians, or in defense of allied parties."

[23.05.2024 03:03:36] A/)-Yoruha-: Etna, advise you provide tasking once I have returned to the AO.

[23.05.2024 03:03:42] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Geeze, you'd think that would've activated for the... /ugh/.

[23.05.2024 03:03:58] A/)-Etna: You have live biomon data for the boarding team. We would know if they were compromised.

[23.05.2024 03:04:03] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [The marines continue to press towards the bridge until they find the next bulkhead.]

[23.05.2024 03:04:19] A/)-Etna: Copy.

[23.05.2024 03:04:22] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Who's in command of this op?" [As she speaks, she scans the bridge, looking for an airlock so as to avoid depressurizing

[23.05.2024 03:04:24] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: the rest of the ship.]

[23.05.2024 03:04:56] A/)-Etna: Is the boarding team certified for psionic defense?

[23.05.2024 03:05:04] Kiyohime: [The bridge was empty. There was a single body there of a woman dressed in black and gold. She was stuck on some cables.-

[23.05.2024 03:05:16] A/)-Yoruha-: Auxesia Yoruha, tasking completed, returning to the AO. Etna, Yoruha, request tasking.

[23.05.2024 03:05:26] Kiyohime: -the Self Defense turrets got stuck however. They were about to extend but luckily, the Liner was a flying piece of scrap.-

[23.05.2024 03:05:36] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: Negative. Yoko has some training, but none of our other women have any experience dealing with psionics.

[23.05.2024 03:05:41] A/)-Etna: In the event of enthrallment, Jau, attempt nonlethal incapacitation.

[23.05.2024 03:05:49] Kiyohime: -The large bulkhead to the rest of the ship was completely closed shut. - Meanwhile for the boarding party. They reached the-

[23.05.2024 03:06:02] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Shit, shit, civilian! Bridge depressurized, need to find an airlock!" [She ran forward, scooping up the woman with one arm and

[23.05.2024 03:06:04] A/)-Etna: Yoruha, establish perimeter. Ensure no one gets off the liner without authorization.

[23.05.2024 03:06:07] Kiyohime: -next bulkhead. And could probably hear the turrets extending and starting to fire. But at what?]

[23.05.2024 03:06:11] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: lurching for the nearest door -- pressure-rated or otherwise.]

[23.05.2024 03:06:32] A/)-Yoruha-: Understood, master arm is on.

[23.05.2024 03:06:57] Kiyohime: [The woman was very dead. Long before the breach happened.]

[23.05.2024 03:07:05] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [The marines immediately set about placing more breaching charges, then go around the previous corner. Another explosion rocks-

[23.05.2024 03:07:34] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [the ship, and again the marines rush through the smoke as the new section begins to depressurize through the now-gaping wound-

[23.05.2024 03:07:44] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [As the realization sets in, her expression darkens, though none could see it. She paused for a moment, before dropping the 

[23.05.2024 03:07:57] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: body and lighting a flare from her bag, dropping it on the floor.]

[23.05.2024 03:08:19] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Nevermind. Flatlined. Boarders, what deck are you on?"

[23.05.2024 03:08:19] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [in the next bulkhead. As the smoke is pulled out into the vacuum behind them, it reveals once more the former Chrysanthemums-

[23.05.2024 03:08:27] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [pushing forward to clear.]

[23.05.2024 03:08:50] A/)-Yoruha-: In position, radar is set to boresight on microcraft and biotic targets.

[23.05.2024 03:09:26] [OOC] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Yoko should know the Oasis very well - she lives on one, and if that's a Dragons-built one it's possible it's even based on

[23.05.2024 03:09:51] [OOC] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: the Ichihara from when it was captured. How many bulkheads are there between the docking point and the bridge?

[23.05.2024 03:10:18] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Repeat. Boarding team, identify location." [In. Hold. Out. Hold. Steadying her breathing, she looks for a pressure-safe exit

[23.05.2024 03:10:20] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: to the rest of the ship.]

[23.05.2024 03:10:32] [OOC] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: one sec, asking ooc questions.

[23.05.2024 03:10:36] [OOC] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: all good

[23.05.2024 03:11:07] [OOC] Kiyohime: There are 4 but only 2 were shut. The other 2 are open. Well, half open. Broken

[23.05.2024 03:11:28] [OOC] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Neat, so that should be the second working bulkhead, yes?

[23.05.2024 03:11:31] [OOC] A/)-Yoruha-:  MISFIRE

[23.05.2024 03:11:54] Kiyohime: [Meanwhile the onboard computer echoes again.] "Warning. Breach detected." - [Alarm echoing on the ship for a moment until-

[23.05.2024 03:12:19] Kiyohime: -suddenly all the bulkheads opened. The ship literally FLUSHED itself with an attempt to get rid of the intruders.]

[23.05.2024 03:12:36] [OOC] Kiyohime: Yep :P

[23.05.2024 03:12:57] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Breaching second bulkhead, we should be clo- oh, great. Mag locks on folks, let's keep pushing. Last we heard she was in the

[23.05.2024 03:12:57] A/)-Yoruha-: [She observes the ship attempting to eliminate the intruders by venting atmosphere.]

[23.05.2024 03:13:07] A/)-Yoruha-: I haven't seen something like this since the Sekhet Aaru..

[23.05.2024 03:13:10] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: scanner room and had EVA suit on, let's head that way.

[23.05.2024 03:13:44] A/)-Yoruha-: No signatures on radar so far. Containment seems to be holding.

[23.05.2024 03:13:46] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Scanner room, copy. This is, best guess, an L-582 model. That means scanner room is... deck three?"

[23.05.2024 03:13:46] A/)-Etna: [Her voice raises slightly.] Confirm. Atmosphere venting. Maintain target lock on airlocks in the event of attempted escape.

[23.05.2024 03:14:03] A/)-Yoruha-: Understood, going to thermal and marking venting airlocks.

[23.05.2024 03:14:20] A/)-Etna: L-584-B, according to scanners.

[23.05.2024 03:15:03] A/)-Yoruha-: Kolokytha, do you need schemata?

[23.05.2024 03:15:07] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [The Technocrat runs up to the primary bridge exit, searching for a staircase. Can't trust elevators in a situation like this.]

[23.05.2024 03:15:15] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Affirm."

[23.05.2024 03:15:40] A/)-Yoruha-: Understood, accessing the OSINT database now for schemata, wait one.

[23.05.2024 03:16:03] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Boarding team, no psi-ratings?"

[23.05.2024 03:16:17] A/)-Yoruha-: Jau, Yoruha - schemata acquired, sending over datalink now.

[23.05.2024 03:16:39] [OOC] A/)-Yoruha-:  cherry go weeeeeeee

[23.05.2024 03:17:18] A/)-Etna: Boarding team is not rated for psi ops. It is on you, Gestalt.

[23.05.2024 03:17:21] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Nope. I've got training. Haven't felt another pulse yet though. Dunno what they're doing but if we're /very/ lucky they 

[23.05.2024 03:17:36] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: didn't have EVA on their hosts.

[23.05.2024 03:17:45] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Um. Suits, I mean.

[23.05.2024 03:17:55] A/)-Yoruha-: Nails on outbound pod - firing!

[23.05.2024 03:18:11] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Best thing you can do to drown out the screaming is to keep a tune in your head. I like Sweet Nightingale."

[23.05.2024 03:18:31] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Other than that, it's square breathing and hopefully you meditate a lot."

[23.05.2024 03:18:39] A/)-Yoruha-: [An escape pod that had been seen ejecting from the ship is hit by vollies of Polybolos fires. It shortly thereafter..

[23.05.2024 03:18:43] A/)-Yoruha-: disintegrates.]

[23.05.2024 03:19:15] A/)-Yoruha-: Pod destroyed. Any station, this is Yoruha, do not evacuate from the vessel manually. Unknown escape parties will be destroyed.

[23.05.2024 03:19:48] A/)-Yoruha-: The Kiyohime is under nomad infectee containment protocols. Adhere to Technocracy directives and comply with demands.

[23.05.2024 03:20:31] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [With her instructions delivered, Gestalt begins plodding through the top deck, waving down the hall towards the boarding

[23.05.2024 03:20:32] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: team.]

[23.05.2024 03:20:58] Kiyohime: [Alarm again. This time deafening.]

[23.05.2024 03:21:00] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Meditation, yeah. [She leadss her marines through the two half-open bulkheads and to the stairs, giving Gestalt a wave as 

[23.05.2024 03:21:09] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [they come into contact.]

[23.05.2024 03:21:25] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Think we're looking at a bow-side Deck-2 scanner room."

[23.05.2024 03:21:34] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Who wants to go down first?"

[23.05.2024 03:21:55] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Ah, fuck, ow. Noise dampening on. Let's get down these stairs quick. Two floors. You take the lead, you have the training.

[23.05.2024 03:22:04] Kiyohime: [Right after. Silence again. And then, full power loss. The entire ship goes fully dark. Pitch black except the sparking.]

[23.05.2024 03:22:14] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Copy. Ah, jeez."

[23.05.2024 03:22:23] A/)-Etna: Reading loss of all power aboard the Kiyohime, team.

[23.05.2024 03:22:26] A/)-Yoruha-: Yoruha, all SAR stations, be advised - EMR readings show main bus and powerplant failure.

[23.05.2024 03:22:31] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Ugh, no night vision on these things. Flashlights on. I guess.

[23.05.2024 03:22:45] A/)-Yoruha-: The Kiyohime is dead in the water. Boarding parties, declare LSS status.

[23.05.2024 03:22:53] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She drops her toolbag before flicking her wrist. A small headlamp flickers on.]

[23.05.2024 03:23:02] Kiyohime: *{The sound of nails running across a blackboard. Screeching in the darkness. Then, the echoing giggle of a woman.}*

[23.05.2024 03:23:07] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "The entire ship is /vented/."

[23.05.2024 03:23:11] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Zero life support, but ev erything'ss depressurized anyways.

[23.05.2024 03:23:34] A/)-Yoruha-: [Feels embarassed that she forgot the matter. But given the tension, one could forgive her for it.]

[23.05.2024 03:23:58] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Again, she reaches down to grab her toolbag, before running up to the stairwell and charging down to the first corner, 

[23.05.2024 03:24:05] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Ah... oh no. Gals, stand back. I'm going ahead with the Technocrat. Let's hurry.

[23.05.2024 03:24:08] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: then stopping abruptly and craning her head around to scan for hostiles.]

[23.05.2024 03:24:13] A/)-Etna: [Another wince. The woman's voice is distorted, as though the psychic pulse has scrambled -something-.] Target at la-a-arge-ge.

[23.05.2024 03:24:52] A/)-Yoruha-: Etna, declare state?

[23.05.2024 03:24:56] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She draws her sidearm with her right hand -- it's hard to see in the dark, but it looks like some kind of revolver.]

[23.05.2024 03:25:04] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Yoko follows, her breathing becoming slow and steady through the mic.] {A barrier begins to rise in her mind - not-

[23.05.2024 03:25:14] A/)-SV-Kolokytha rolled 4 with the formula 1d20

[23.05.2024 03:25:14] (4)

[23.05.2024 03:25:17] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: {impenetrable, but /slowing/, less a fortress than a pillow fort of defense.}

[23.05.2024 03:25:41] A/)-Etna: Operable. Boarding teams, mark the location of the target once you find it and I can strafe at close range.

[23.05.2024 03:25:41] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Good. Keep that up."

[23.05.2024 03:26:16] A/)-Yoruha-:  ... It might be wise to prepare the counter-psionic firewall.

[23.05.2024 03:26:49] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Her breathing slows, and she closes her eyes for but a brief second. Reaching out mentally, searching for a spark of life.]

[23.05.2024 03:26:52] A/)-Etna: Countermeasures in place.

[23.05.2024 03:27:01] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [No good. The boarding team on the last deck is too distracting.]

[23.05.2024 03:27:07] A/)-Yoruha-: [Much like Yoko, Mieko follows suit. Her firmware hardens the connection with her shell's brain and neural connections..

[23.05.2024 03:27:28] Kiyohime: *{"Na-na-na-nana. Na-na-na-na naaaaaa-naaaaa." It echoed, through their minds. It extended to the outside of the ship.}*

[23.05.2024 03:27:28] A/)-Yoruha-: mitigating psionic attacks.]

[23.05.2024 03:27:47] A/)-Yoruha-: What is this.. music..?

[23.05.2024 03:28:15] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Contact." [She beckons with her sidearm for Yoko to take up a position at the other edge of the door.]

[23.05.2024 03:28:21] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "I'll take left, you take right."

[23.05.2024 03:29:27] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Got it." [She immediately takes a flanking position, rifle at the ready. She does not speak another word; her-

[23.05.2024 03:29:36] A/)-Etna: Psionic interference. In position for amputation of biotics.

[23.05.2024 03:29:50] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [rudementary defenses are clearly taking a good bit of her concentration.]

[23.05.2024 03:30:50] Kiyohime: [The power was indeed offline.]

[23.05.2024 03:31:03] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Gestalt relaxes her grip on her toolbag, letting it float serenely in space.]

[23.05.2024 03:31:13] A/)-Etna: [The Hammerhead floats right near the bridge area, guns trained on the hull.]

[23.05.2024 03:31:41] A/)-Yoruha-: [Mieko stares at the ship intently, wishing she could do something other than watch the EOTS and sweeping of the weapons radar]

[23.05.2024 03:32:14] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Three. Two. One." [She grips her revolver with both hands, and on conclusion of count, steps out from behind the doorframe, 

[23.05.2024 03:32:23] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: quickly scanning the left side of the hallway.]

[23.05.2024 03:33:20] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Yoko steps out in sync, rifle sweeping the right side, wide-beam flashlight piercing through the gloom.]

[23.05.2024 03:33:47] Kiyohime: [Surprise. There was one. Clad in KOI uniform. His eyes shimmering as he fired off his laser shotgun from Gestalts direction.]

[23.05.2024 03:34:53] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [As soon as she saw the target, she flicked her wrist to disable her magloc and jumped up. A laser shot rockets from the 

[23.05.2024 03:35:03] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: revolver towards the "KOI officer".]

[23.05.2024 03:36:03] Kiyohime: [He was indeed left.]

[23.05.2024 03:36:14] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [If there were air for sound to travel in, there would be a 'thunk' as she hit the roof of the deck.]

[23.05.2024 03:37:42] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Yoko flinches at the burst of fire, but glances over only briefly, being sure to clear her side of the room fully before-

[23.05.2024 03:37:52] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [turning her rifle towards the infectee.]

[23.05.2024 03:39:00] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Another shot. Then four more. Six in total, towards the hostile infectee.]

[23.05.2024 03:39:01] A/)-Yoruha-: [The silence unnerves Mieko to the point she speaks up.] Jau, Yoruha - declare status - request video feed over datalink if..

[23.05.2024 03:39:02] A/)-Yoruha-: able.

[23.05.2024 03:39:09] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "COMBAT!"

[23.05.2024 03:39:19] A/)-Etna: Clear comms.

[23.05.2024 03:39:27] Kiyohime: [The corridor was wide open. All the bulkheads were open. At least from what they can see. The infectee was hit several times.-

[23.05.2024 03:39:52] A/)-Yoruha-: [She adheres to Pyke's order.]

[23.05.2024 03:40:06] Kiyohime: -Lucky for them, he was dead right after. Some good hits as he was surprised by the skillfull maneuver. His body floating off.]

[23.05.2024 03:40:20] [OOC] A/)-Yoruha-:  *Dolos

[23.05.2024 03:41:09] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Pushing off the roof, she reenables her boots' magloc and clunks silently to the floor before firing a final, seventh shot 

[23.05.2024 03:41:17] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: into the presumably-corpse's head.]

[23.05.2024 03:41:36] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Oh. Good job. Um. Need help getting back down... nope, okay. Hi. Um, watch for the creepy thing crawling out."

[23.05.2024 03:41:55] Kiyohime: [The poor infectee was pretty much dead. He was sadly not an Agent of the Matrix and could not dodge the lasers within.]

[23.05.2024 03:42:11] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Right after, she knocks the body of the gun against her open left palm. Seven smoking battery casings, looking very much

[23.05.2024 03:42:27] Kiyohime: [Surprise. Suddenly the red-light came back online.]

[23.05.2024 03:42:33] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: like shotgun shells, float gently out of the chamber.]

[23.05.2024 03:43:22] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Status update: One Wilde, dead. Lights are back on.

[23.05.2024 03:43:37] Kiyohime: [The lights started blinking. Was that.. morse code..?]

[23.05.2024 03:44:13] A/)-Etna: [Her eyes open wide as the feed shows the flickering.]

[23.05.2024 03:44:16] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "E-lights flickering. Rhythmically."

[23.05.2024 03:44:30] A/)-Yoruha-: Yoruha here. Potential morse code, stand by while I decipher.

[23.05.2024 03:44:59] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She quickly pulls more battery/heat-sinks from her belt, loading them into the cylinder.]

[23.05.2024 03:45:06] A/)-Yoruha-: [She intensively watches the lights from the bridge, storing the individual on and off states into memory for decoding.

[23.05.2024 03:45:49] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Team lead, status?"

[23.05.2024 03:46:11] Kiyohime:  / ... / .- / ..-. / . /

[23.05.2024 03:46:49] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: I'm good. That was the only one in the room, unless they've figured out how to cloak themselves since I've been gone. We

[23.05.2024 03:47:08] Kiyohime:  / ... / -.-. / .- / -. / -. / . / .-. /

[23.05.2024 03:47:14] A/)-Yoruha-: Yoruha here. Code response is SAFE.

[23.05.2024 03:47:17] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: need to keep moving though, I dunno how much time she has.

[23.05.2024 03:47:19] A/)-Yoruha-: New code, wait one..

[23.05.2024 03:47:45] A/)-Yoruha-: Yoruha, Jau, second code is SCANNER.

[23.05.2024 03:47:51] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Copy."

[23.05.2024 03:47:53] Kiyohime:  / - / .-- / --- /

[23.05.2024 03:48:11] A/)-Etna: [Silently, Dolos initiates an intensive scan, looking for lifesigns and possible hostiles.]

[23.05.2024 03:48:12] A/)-Yoruha-: Third code - TWO.

[23.05.2024 03:48:15] Kiyohime:  / -.. / --- / --- / .-. /

[23.05.2024 03:48:33] A/)-Etna: Door.

[23.05.2024 03:48:43] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Okay. So we were right, we're on the right track. She's alive and in the scanner room. Two enemies, two bulkheads.

[23.05.2024 03:49:08] A/)-Yoruha-: Affirm, fourth code is DOOR.

[23.05.2024 03:49:31] Kiyohime: [The scan reveals three life signs on the ship. Scanner room was one. Two infront of it. They were doing something. One was-

[23.05.2024 03:49:36] Kiyohime: -kneeling before the door.]

[23.05.2024 03:49:37] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Be careful moving up, yeah? You go forward in case of psionic, I'll cover you with the rifle.

[23.05.2024 03:49:43] A/)-Etna: Boarders. Stand by.

[23.05.2024 03:49:52] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Wait for taccom."

[23.05.2024 03:50:13] A/)-Etna: [The Hammerhead deftly maneuvers into position, soon hovering right on the other side of the hull from the two near the door.]

[23.05.2024 03:50:35] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: I dunno how much time we have. I hope you know what you're doing.

[23.05.2024 03:50:42] A/)-Etna: Etna will open fire on the hallway.

[23.05.2024 03:50:54] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Not the fucking hallway we're in, I hope!"

[23.05.2024 03:51:01] A/)-Etna: Negative. The contacts ahead of you.

[23.05.2024 03:51:15] A/)-Etna: There's enough room to make it work. I have the math.

[23.05.2024 03:51:24] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "VIP will be safe?"

[23.05.2024 03:51:30] A/)-Etna: Confirmed.

[23.05.2024 03:51:32] A/)-Yoruha-: On standby for any stragglers that may survive Etna's initial fires.

[23.05.2024 03:51:38] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Do it."

[23.05.2024 03:52:18] A/)-Etna: [Power masses in the Falx cannons of the Etna. Soon, it unleashes a powerful barrage of particle fire, pinpointed into the--

[23.05.2024 03:52:18] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Cover." [Immediately she slides behind a protrusion from the wall, hiding from the inevitable shrapnel.]

[23.05.2024 03:52:36] A/)-Etna: -- area of the suspected infectees. The fire is uncannily accurate.]

[23.05.2024 03:53:27] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Gestalt doesn't bother taking cover, only taking a few steps backwards in Yoko's direction.]

[23.05.2024 03:54:07] Kiyohime: [The hull penetrated, shrapnell filling the corridor as the infectees were turned into what one could describe as.. wild goo.]

[23.05.2024 03:54:38] A/)-Etna: [Fire ceases, and a voice rings out, just as monotone as before.] Confirm status of biotics.

[23.05.2024 03:55:04] A/)-Yoruha-: Etna, Yoruha.

[23.05.2024 03:55:08] Kiyohime: [An open bulkhead.]

[23.05.2024 03:55:21] A/)-Yoruha-: BDA is as follows, multiple biotics are no factor. Good effect on target.

[23.05.2024 03:56:22] A/)-Etna: Copy. Verdict administered successfully. Reverse thrust.

[23.05.2024 03:56:24] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [A single metal shard whizzes right past Gestalt's left arm, grazing the hardsuit but not piercing it. Somehow, she's alright.]

[23.05.2024 03:56:25] Kiyohime: [The one proud Liner was shot to bits. But it was still floating. There was a Lady onboard who would probably not be happy.]

[23.05.2024 03:56:29] [OOC] Kiyohime: once*

[23.05.2024 03:56:37] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Clear to proceed?"

[23.05.2024 03:57:15] A/)-Etna: Proceed.

[23.05.2024 03:57:21] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Looks clear, but watch out for anything bouncing around. That was, uh. Kind of a lot."

[23.05.2024 03:58:09] Kiyohime: [The onboard computer echoed again.] "Systems restored." [The systems went back online. Full light was restored.]

[23.05.2024 03:58:25] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "...Well, I was going to suggest thermals, but it looks like we can see fine now."

[23.05.2024 03:58:27] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "What."

[23.05.2024 03:58:35] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Ugh. Wilde nonsense."

[23.05.2024 03:58:37] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Another flick of the wrist and her headlamp turns off."

[23.05.2024 03:58:40] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: ]*

[23.05.2024 03:59:24] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Yoko's own rifle-mounted flashlight flicks off as well, and she leaves cover to begin to hurry forward.]

[23.05.2024 03:59:55] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She walks forward, scanning the room for bouncing shrapnel or debris. It looks like most of the shards have embedded

[23.05.2024 04:00:09] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: themselves into the walls -- no /visible/ debris posing a hazard, at least.]

[23.05.2024 04:00:51] Kiyohime: [As they reached closer, there was a picture hanging on the wall next to the door to the scanner room. A picture of a woman -

[23.05.2024 04:01:12] Kiyohime: -wearing red. The particle fire desintegrated her head. Good shot on the 'Empress'.]

[23.05.2024 04:02:06] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Huh."

[23.05.2024 04:02:58] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Ugh. Imperialist stuff. Um, hi, we're outside the door. Enemies're all dead. Um, and then some."

[23.05.2024 04:03:00] Kiyohime: [Since it was all shot to bits, the electronic pad was too. The door was probably either open or jammed.]

[23.05.2024 04:03:18] [OOC] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: well you're the DM here, you tell us whether it's open or jammed :p

[23.05.2024 04:03:37] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Don't open it unless you have a working EVA suit on though, the hall's completely unpressurized."

[23.05.2024 04:03:54] Kiyohime: [There was movement inside the room.] "I am armed and dangerous but I will come out with my hands up, just so you know."-

[23.05.2024 04:04:14] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "How much oxygen do you have?"

[23.05.2024 04:04:34] Kiyohime: -[Sadly, the door did not BULGE as someone from the inside tried to open it.] "Did.. you shoot the pad? You shot the pad.. -

[23.05.2024 04:05:00] Kiyohime: -My EVA suit still has.. oxygen for a bit. I am fine, I guess."

[23.05.2024 04:05:05] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "/I/ didn't. Blame the Technocrats for that. Um, do you have good cover in there somewhere?"

[23.05.2024 04:05:20] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "We can use a charge or I can cut it open. Your choice."

[23.05.2024 04:05:23] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "I thought we did overkill well, but wow."

[23.05.2024 04:05:44] Kiyohime: "Can you cut it open? I doubt the ship can withstand another explosion and I don't really want to lose it."

[23.05.2024 04:06:01] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She turns her head back to look over her shoulder.] "Who are we rescuing here, exactly? You said a Chrysanthemum?"

[23.05.2024 04:06:36] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "I thought so, but it looks like a lot of Dragon stuff in here too. The hull outside just had a Chrysanthemum flower, and-

[23.05.2024 04:06:58] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "she /talks/ like a Chrysanthemum, but she said she's not a Sister directly."

[23.05.2024 04:07:05] Kiyohime: "You do know I can hear you, right? While you open this, I can explain, I guess."

[23.05.2024 04:08:34] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She sighs.] "Let me go get my bag." [She walks over to where she left it floating in the stairwell doorway.]

[23.05.2024 04:08:49] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Thank you."

[23.05.2024 04:10:13] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "How're you doing, Hideyoshi? I mean, besides the obvious. Like, are we gonna need to get a medical team?"

[23.05.2024 04:10:54] Kiyohime: "I am fine. Just a cut on my arm but I bandaged it before I got into the suit. I just hope you won't shoot me."

[23.05.2024 04:11:26] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Why... are you worried about that?"

[23.05.2024 04:11:31] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Returning a moment later, she kneels down and sets her bag gingerly down onto the floor. Swiftly she pulls out a small 

[23.05.2024 04:11:34] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: plasma torch.]

[23.05.2024 04:11:57] Kiyohime: "Well. Wilds on my ship. You can't know if I am a thrall or not. Or if I am infected myself. So the worry is very much there."

[23.05.2024 04:12:54] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Oh, you know what they are? Um, I'm not planning to. I'm sure the Technocrats have some kind of procedure or something -

[23.05.2024 04:13:01] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "they'll use. Maybe a protocol?"

[23.05.2024 04:13:17] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "My goal's to get you and your people out safe and clean."

[23.05.2024 04:13:33] A/)-Etna: Once they are detained, we will begin screening procedures.

[23.05.2024 04:13:47] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Knew it."

[23.05.2024 04:13:51] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Alright. Recommend you both look 180 away from the door."

[23.05.2024 04:13:57] Kiyohime: "The Sisterhood was my exile when the Shogunate fell. Second exile. Fun. All I know about them is the Red Empress didn't like-

[23.05.2024 04:13:59] Kiyohime: -them."

[23.05.2024 04:14:01] A/)-Etna: Knew what?

[23.05.2024 04:14:16] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Got it. Red Empress?" [She turns away from the the door.]

[23.05.2024 04:14:27] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "That you'd have something you'd call a procedure or protocol."

[23.05.2024 04:14:30] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "All clear on the other end?"

[23.05.2024 04:14:35] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Don't worry, I'm not complaining, I'm just poking fun."

[23.05.2024 04:14:39] Kiyohime: [She turns away, huffing.] "All green. Go."

[23.05.2024 04:15:27] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She flicks the torch on, cutting the door away from the wall. In a moment, visible light is creeping through from the other 

[23.05.2024 04:15:30] A/)-Etna: [It takes a second for a response to come.] Once they have been cleared, we will ascertain their status in our custody. It--

[23.05.2024 04:15:45] A/)-Etna: --seems their affiliation with the Chrysanthemums and Dragons is hazy.

[23.05.2024 04:16:10] Kiyohime: "The Red Empress. The 'harem leader' of the Sisterhood of Light. While they cuddle with the Order."

[23.05.2024 04:16:32] A/)-Yoruha-: Red Empress.. sounds familiar.

[23.05.2024 04:16:33] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: side, and in around a minute, the keypad-facing side and the top are glowing white-hot.]

[23.05.2024 04:16:56] A/)-Yoruha-: Etna, Yoruha, situation seems to be stabilized. Request to be relieved.

[23.05.2024 04:16:58] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [A moment later and the other edge of the sliding door is nearly cut through.]

[23.05.2024 04:17:14] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Other side, stand back. About to kick the door down -- it's very hot."

[23.05.2024 04:17:15] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Harem leader? Ughhh. They managed to hit two at once. So many people eager to take advantage of the Sisters."

[23.05.2024 04:18:24] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Give me the all-clear when ready."

[23.05.2024 04:18:29] Kiyohime: "I ran off, with those loyal to me. My mother is busy kissing her feet, a slave to the Outcasts and the Order."-

[23.05.2024 04:18:36] Kiyohime: -[She stepped back from the door.] "Clear."

[23.05.2024 04:19:05] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [The last, bottom bit of the door is sliced through, and Gestalt flicks the arc welder off and kicks the door down in two 

[23.05.2024 04:19:07] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: swift motions.]

[23.05.2024 04:19:11] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Ugh. I know that feeling all too well. Pretty similar story here, honestly, back when the fake Matsuda heiress came to-

[23.05.2024 04:19:16] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "power. Order's new, though."

[23.05.2024 04:19:39] [OOC] A/)-Yoruha-:  getting tired, gonna bounce

[23.05.2024 04:19:48] [OOC] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: ye im gonna sheep after this

[23.05.2024 04:19:48] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Yoko spins around as she hears the door fall in, rifle at the ready but not lifted to fire.]

[23.05.2024 04:19:50] [OOC] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: thank for joining

[23.05.2024 04:19:52] [OOC] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: nini

[23.05.2024 04:19:56] [OOC] A/)-Yoruha-:  No prob

[23.05.2024 04:19:59] [OOC] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: sheep well nodo

[23.05.2024 04:20:12] [OOC] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: sweet and clear dreams~

[23.05.2024 04:20:14] [OOC] A/)-Yoruha-:  sheep well peti, denelo

[23.05.2024 04:20:58] Kiyohime: [The door fell. Yukiko standing there with her hands up as she turned around. She was indeed armed. Two laser pistols.] -

[23.05.2024 04:21:07] Kiyohime: -"I probably don't need to say 'Don't shoot'."

[23.05.2024 04:21:11] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [There Gestalt stood, plasma torch in hand -- her white-with-purple-trim hardsuit only marred by a few stray scratches.]

[23.05.2024 04:21:56] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Her sidearm was on her belt, with her PDW clearly visible -- a normal SMG. Bretonian-make, if the others could identify.]

[23.05.2024 04:22:36] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She gave a sheepish wave.] "There's no need for the hands-up-don't-shoot procedure. We're not Houston bobbies, here."

[23.05.2024 04:23:32] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Yoko stands behind her, shiny new rifle in contrast with the aged EVA suit she wears. At her side is a tiny pistol, but she-

[23.05.2024 04:23:43] Kiyohime: [Lowering her hands, she sighed.] "Let me guess. I am in custody and about to be run through something to determine I am one-

[23.05.2024 04:23:45] Kiyohime: -of them?"

[23.05.2024 04:23:53] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [has little else with her, in contrast to the well-equipped Technocrat in front of her.]

[23.05.2024 04:24:17] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Probably? I wanna be sure you're okay first but yeah, that's gotta be the idea. Um, how do you know what a Wilde is?"

[23.05.2024 04:25:35] Kiyohime: "Let's just say we made contact several times in the past already. They shot me, I shot them back. This however was the first-

[23.05.2024 04:25:40] Kiyohime: -encounter in person."

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[23.05.2024 04:26:30] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "I was hoping for a little more than a 'let's just say.'"

[23.05.2024 04:26:58] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "I'm sorry to tell you, but you're going to have to go through processing and complete bioscans either way."

[23.05.2024 04:27:05] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "You may as well be honest with us."

[23.05.2024 04:27:10] Kiyohime: "There is not much to say about that. The ones I met were very eager to identify themselves. Not to mention a Rheinland-

[23.05.2024 04:27:39] Kiyohime: -Battleship with the designation 'Schiller' being equipped with questionable tech that flared up on our scanners back then."

[23.05.2024 04:27:57] A/)-Etna: Schiller. Fascinating.

[23.05.2024 04:28:52] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "To identify themselves? Wow, that's... new."

[23.05.2024 04:29:13] Kiyohime: "Dear, I am a born Dragon. Youngest sister of the former Shogun. I.. know some things about them. But probably things the-

[23.05.2024 04:29:15] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Doesn't that kinda defeat the point? Though I guess the one I ran into out in Delta did the same..."

[23.05.2024 04:29:24] Kiyohime: -Technocracy already knows. As my information is rather old."

[23.05.2024 04:29:42] A/)-Etna: Some of them are not used for infiltration. Some are meant to kill with no duplicity.

[23.05.2024 04:30:16] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Why do they bother with the infestation then? That seems... I dunno. Wasteful? Not that I'm really complaining."

[23.05.2024 04:30:34] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "It's complicated. Sometimes it's to unlock greater potential."

[23.05.2024 04:30:42] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Sometimes it's just a simple tactical choice."

[23.05.2024 04:30:51] A/)-Etna: Sometimes, a perverse irony.

[23.05.2024 04:31:08] A/)-Etna: But many times? The brief hesitation when one, at first, sees a human.

[23.05.2024 04:31:19] Kiyohime: "And I already guessed you are taking me into custody. Atleast that is better than.. with the others."

[23.05.2024 04:31:24] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "... Okay, I guess. Regardless, we've gotta get out of here and get this ship back to a shipyard."

[23.05.2024 04:31:47] A/)-Etna: Invergordon for the vessel, and Valravn for the surviving personnel.

[23.05.2024 04:31:59] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Assuming you are not an infectee, you will almost certainly not be brought to harm."

[23.05.2024 04:32:03] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "The people from the cargo hold are safe. Um. Though... I did assume they were GC, so... we might wanna get them off the-

[23.05.2024 04:32:52] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: Ichihara quickly if they don't want to learn firsthand about the Orange Dream."

[23.05.2024 04:33:18] A/)-Etna: The Citadel lacks space, presently, for the liner. But we will need to conduct screenings there. The Ichihara can drop them--

[23.05.2024 04:33:29] A/)-Etna: --off and we can send tugs out to move the Kiyohime.

[23.05.2024 04:34:05] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Okay, sounds good. Probably better than trying to pull it with the Ichihara, too, tugs are more stable than tow lines."

[23.05.2024 04:34:06] Kiyohime: "Well. If they can't fling their incubus through a wall then I shouldn't be infected."

[23.05.2024 04:35:27] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Still. Have to check."

[23.05.2024 04:35:37] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Yeah, but we don't know that. Come on, let's get out of here before that suit runs out of air."

[23.05.2024 04:35:40] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Erm... what was your name?"

[23.05.2024 04:36:18] Kiyohime: "Yukiko Kikushima Hideyoshi." [She nods as she steps closer.] "I hope the Junkers are not going to scrap it... I want it back."

[23.05.2024 04:36:25] A/)-Etna: At the very least, enthrallment must be dealt with."

[23.05.2024 04:36:53] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Yoko motions to her and turns to start down the hall.] "They aren't. Just need a safe place to put it for now."

[23.05.2024 04:37:19] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "It's good to meet you, Hideyoshi. I'm Yoko Mori."

[23.05.2024 04:38:32] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Sentinel Gestalt." [She waits for Hideyoshi to follow Yoko, so that she can bring up the rear.]

[23.05.2024 04:39:19] Kiyohime: [A smirk on her lips.] "A pleasure, indeed." [Stepping out the door she looked to her left to the ruined picture.] "Saves me-

[23.05.2024 04:39:23] Kiyohime: -time to remove it."

[23.05.2024 04:39:46] Kiyohime: "Nice shot though." [She followed Yoko right away.]

[23.05.2024 04:40:57] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Yoko hurries back through the corridors, retracing her steps to and up the stairwell.] "Um, Sentinel, do you have a safe way-

[23.05.2024 04:41:04] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "to transport her in your ship?

[23.05.2024 04:41:15] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "I do."

[23.05.2024 04:41:15] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "I'd rather not expose her to cardamine unless she wants that."

[23.05.2024 04:41:20] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Okay, good."

[23.05.2024 04:41:57] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [As Gestalt steps through the door, she leans down to pick up her toolbag, depositing the torch inside before affixing the bag

[23.05.2024 04:42:02] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: to her belt with a cable.]

[23.05.2024 04:42:39] A/)-Etna: [Etna remains in position, floating close by. The gun barrels still glow with the heat of the earlier barrage.]

[23.05.2024 04:44:25] Kiyohime: "I would rather not. No offense though." [A chuckle coming from her as she continued to follow.] "You are not going to-

[23.05.2024 04:44:38] Kiyohime: -sell me, right? Right. Good. Okay. Just making sure."

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[23.05.2024 04:46:30] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Sell you?"

[23.05.2024 04:46:57] Kiyohime: "Well. You know. To gain favors or something. One can never know."

[23.05.2024 04:47:13] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "...We do not engage in slavery, no."

[23.05.2024 04:48:07] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Good grief. No, don't worry, you're safe. We're just gonna make sure you're okay, yeah?"

[23.05.2024 04:48:15] A/)-Etna: We do not participate in that illicit activity.

[23.05.2024 04:48:57] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Yoko pauses as they catch back up with the other ex-GC on the upper deck, visually checking on them before approaching.]

[23.05.2024 04:49:10] Kiyohime: "Huh, fine. I am not too worried about your.. doings. I have nothing to hide."

[23.05.2024 04:49:32] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Then you have nothing to fear."

[23.05.2024 04:49:56] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Unless you're spying for the Houses, or are a hostile infectee, we have no reason to harm you."

[23.05.2024 04:50:26] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "How'd you even get here, anyways? This is an awfully long way away."

[23.05.2024 04:50:31] Kiyohime: "The houses? They can burn for all I care. And I prefer black and gold over... purple."

[23.05.2024 04:51:03] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Yoko approaches her crewmembers and briefly confers with them, then nods to the others and motions them forward.]

[23.05.2024 04:51:20] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Sentinel, you take her back to your ship, yeah? Do you want me to send someone else with you just in case?"

[23.05.2024 04:51:46] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "I think we'll be fine. Thank you."

[23.05.2024 04:52:24] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Okay, sounds good. We'll get back to the Ichihara then." She pauses to offer a warm smile through the glass of her -

[23.05.2024 04:52:26] Kiyohime: "Well. We couldn't stay in Kusari. The houses? Not really. So we went for Inverness, the Freeport here. They wouldn't look-

[23.05.2024 04:52:28] Kiyohime: -for us here."

[23.05.2024 04:53:06] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Gestalt returns the smile, though it isn't visible through the tinted glass of her helmet.]

[23.05.2024 04:53:13] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [antiquated EVA suit.] "Talk to you when the Technocracy's sure you're clean, yeah, Hideyoshi? If you're okay with that."

[23.05.2024 04:53:47] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She then turns back to her new 'guest'.] "Hideyoshi-san, do you have maneuvering capability on your EVA suit?"

[23.05.2024 04:54:46] Kiyohime: "I am of course okay with it. You can talk off my ears if you wish to." [A grin appearing on her lips, visible through the-

[23.05.2024 04:55:03] Kiyohime: -glass of her helmet.] "Oh and.. yes. They should still work. I hope.."

[23.05.2024 04:55:45] A/)-Etna: Confirm acquisition of HVT. Ichihara-actual, leaving the rest of the crew to you.

[23.05.2024 04:56:54] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: Y: "Oh, wonderful. Okay, sounds good. See you soon, then!" She gives a happy little wave and hurries off with her people back-

[23.05.2024 04:57:02] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [in the direction of the mooring point.]

[23.05.2024 04:57:31] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "See you soon, Yoko. Hideyoshi-san, please, this way." [She gives the boarding team a little wave and turns to walk towards

[23.05.2024 04:57:32] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: the bridge.]

[23.05.2024 04:57:43] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: "Understood, Etna. We'll move them quickly to Valravn as soon as the boarding team is back on board."

[23.05.2024 04:59:34] Kiyohime: [Yukiko bows slightly towards Yoko before she followed Gestalt to the bridge. She was quiet... watching while walking.]

[23.05.2024 05:00:18] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [As they entered the bridge, they'd come across the corpse that Gestalt found earlier. The latter would pause, exhaling slowly]

[23.05.2024 05:00:48] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "She was already gone when I arrived. The decompression would have made sure of it. I'm sorry."

[23.05.2024 05:01:22] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [The Ichihara's bridge retreats after the crew pass through, far less burdened by equipment on the return. A moment later the-

[23.05.2024 05:01:31] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: [Ichihara pulls back from the Kiyohime.]

[23.05.2024 05:02:14] Kiyohime: [Yukiko stopped as she looked at the corpse. Closing her eyes for a moment, she leaned down. Kneeling besides her-

[23.05.2024 05:02:50] TFP)-HFL-Ichihara: K: "Away team confirmed to be back on board. Getting ready to head back to Valravn."

[23.05.2024 05:02:58] Kiyohime: -Yukiko reached out and rolled her onto her back. She placed her hands together and placed them onto her body,-

[23.05.2024 05:03:48] Kiyohime: -stroking through her hair for a moment. The body was frozen by now.] "She will get a proper burial once I am back. She-

[23.05.2024 05:04:04] Kiyohime: -deserves even more. She is the reason we even made it here."

[23.05.2024 05:05:11] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Do you need help carrying her?"

[23.05.2024 05:06:25] Kiyohime: [Sighing out, she lifted her up.] "I.. am fine. Thank you. Just make sure her body is not... disappearing while I run through-

[23.05.2024 05:06:29] Kiyohime: -your procedures."

[23.05.2024 05:07:01] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "We can preserve her however you like. I don't know if there's a traditional method for it in Kusari, but I'm sure that we 

[23.05.2024 05:07:03] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: could accomodate."

[23.05.2024 05:08:54] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Regardless, let's get onto the Kolokytha."

[23.05.2024 05:09:47] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She looked toward the front of the bridge.] "Er, sorry. I had to cut my way in. The hole isn't very large."

[23.05.2024 05:10:14] Kiyohime: "If you preserve her until the Kiyohime is back, we will give her a burial worth a Shogun. Firing her into the sun.."

[23.05.2024 05:10:39] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "We won't be able to pay for your repairs, sadly."

[23.05.2024 05:10:41] Kiyohime: "I am more impressed by the fact that the turrets got stuck in the ceiling and you managed to do it without resistance. Heh."

[23.05.2024 05:11:03] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "The..." [She looks up, scanning the ceiling.] "Oh, Eirene above, that would've been bad."

[23.05.2024 05:11:26] A/)-Etna: A fact unmentioned until boarders had already arrived.

[23.05.2024 05:11:56] Kiyohime: "I can probably pay for half of it. Seems like I need a 'job'. And I would have mentioned it if I didn't get shot at half way."

[23.05.2024 05:12:47] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Well, regardless." [She walks over to the oblong hole cut into the front windows, climbing through and pushing herself down in

[23.05.2024 05:13:04] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: the direction of the hull to get a solid place to jump off from.]

[23.05.2024 05:13:23] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Let me know if you need help."

[23.05.2024 05:14:03] Kiyohime: [Reaching to her belt, she pulled out a cable from it. Clipping it onto the belt of the corpse, she let her float as she-

[23.05.2024 05:14:30] Kiyohime: -climbed up through the window, maneuvering carefully.] "All good, I think."

[23.05.2024 05:15:08] A/)-Etna: [She lets out a sigh, flexing her hand.]

[23.05.2024 05:16:47] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Ready, then?" [She flicks off her magloc, jumping towards the freighter about twenty meters above them.]

[23.05.2024 05:16:53] A/)-Etna: Will need to revisit the effect of psionics on the implants...

[23.05.2024 05:17:07] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Might have some datapoints for you on that."

[23.05.2024 05:17:31] A/)-Etna: I'll make use of them. Xenomaterials from the Anchor might be useful.

[23.05.2024 05:18:15] Kiyohime: "Never been more ready." [She pushed herself off, maglock disabled as she floats up to the freighter.] "Atleast I am hitting-

[23.05.2024 05:18:35] Kiyohime: -on purpose. Not like my mother as she said it was an accident. Hah."

[23.05.2024 05:20:20] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "What?"

[23.05.2024 05:20:27] Kiyohime: "Nothing. Nothing."

[23.05.2024 05:21:00] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Oookay." [As they come up on the freighter, Gestalt turns on her maneuvering jets, pulling up slowly to an open hatch at the 

[23.05.2024 05:21:01] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: bottom.]

[23.05.2024 05:22:29] Kiyohime: [She soon hit the underside of the freighter, activating her maglocks on her boots and her gloves to hang on the hull like a-

[23.05.2024 05:22:32] Kiyohime: -spider.]

[23.05.2024 05:24:48] A/)-Etna: [The Hammerhead moves to an escort position by the Voayger.]

[23.05.2024 05:24:51] [OOC] A/)-Etna:  Voyager*

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[23.05.2024 05:27:54] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Climb on in... pull on that rope tight." [In reference to the body.]

[23.05.2024 05:28:24] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [As she speaks, she pulls herself up into the hatch, standing on a narrow ledge at the side. Not much room in the airlock

[23.05.2024 05:28:30] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: for repressurization.]

[23.05.2024 05:29:00] A/)-Etna: Once HVT is secured, RTB to Valravn. I will signal for the automated tugs.

[23.05.2024 05:29:22] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Solid copy, Etna."

[23.05.2024 05:29:32] Kiyohime: [Climbed up and pulled that rope tightly after.] "Sometimes I forget how small and tight.. freighters are."

[23.05.2024 05:30:42] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "It's not that small once we're inside, but perhaps compared to a liner..." [Gestalt pulls out a datapad, rapidly pressing

[23.05.2024 05:31:06] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: a series of buttons. The airlock's lower doors close and the chamber starts repressurizing as she stows it back on her belt.]

[23.05.2024 05:31:44] A/)-Etna: A Kusari terrorist vessel bearing infected KOI agents within 20k of Valravn.

[23.05.2024 05:32:00] Kiyohime: [Yukiko was nervous. Pretty much visible. And there it was again. An attempt of a bad joke while waiting.] "So uhm.. -

[23.05.2024 05:32:04] Kiyohime: -coming here often?"

[23.05.2024 05:32:08] A/)-Etna: This is difficult to accept at face value.

[23.05.2024 05:32:34] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "I know. But even stranger things have happened, even assuming this isn't somehow an elaborate ruse."

[23.05.2024 05:32:48] A/)-Etna: Interrogation is needed.

[23.05.2024 05:32:55] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Actually, I rarely get to use the Kolokytha. I wish it weren't so, but my work usually keeps me aboard Valravn or has me

[23.05.2024 05:32:59] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: out and about in my fighter."

[23.05.2024 05:35:30] Kiyohime: "Ahh.. I see. Uh, yes. Good. Reasonable. The Liner is rather old. It hasn't been mine for long actually. I kinda.. uhm."

[23.05.2024 05:35:50] Kiyohime: "I borrowed it."

[23.05.2024 05:36:19] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [Her voice is completely flat.] "You can say 'stole'. It's fine."

[23.05.2024 05:37:19] Kiyohime: "I stole it, hacked the transponder and changed it. Actually no. I requisitioned it."

[23.05.2024 05:38:00] A/)-Etna: Valravn Control, Etna. We need four tugs. Invergordon-bound.

[23.05.2024 05:38:08] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Quite frankly, I don't care how you got it. Interrogation isn't my job."

[23.05.2024 05:38:33] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [About six feet above them, the upper hatch of the airlock begins opening. As it does, Gestalt grabs one of the doors

[23.05.2024 05:38:40] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: and heaves herself up into the body of the ship.]

[23.05.2024 05:39:52] Kiyohime: [Yukiko followed. And the moment she was in the body of the ship, she simply collapsed on the floor from exhaustion with a-

[23.05.2024 05:40:00] Kiyohime: -loud THUP.]

[23.05.2024 05:40:23] A/)-Etna: Prepare to receive detainees, as well. Code Yellow. Virome screening needed.

[23.05.2024 05:40:25] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Best to unclip your friend now. Probably, uhm... best to leave her in the airlock."

[23.05.2024 05:42:24] Kiyohime: [There was no response. She was laying there. Out cold from exhaustion.]

[23.05.2024 05:42:54] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: "Ah, bugger." [She leaned down, looking for a clamp on the rope to unfasten.]

[23.05.2024 05:43:11] A/)-Etna: Status report?

[23.05.2024 05:43:33] Kiyohime: [The clamp found, it was rather easy to unfasten. And so it happened. Rope gone. Kusarian K.O.]

[23.05.2024 05:44:50] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [With that taken care of, Gestalt stepped on a floor-pedal to close the airlock and removed her helmet, settling down into

[23.05.2024 05:45:04] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: the chair at the controls and pulling away from the now-decrepit liner.]

[23.05.2024 05:45:15] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: Ready for RTB.

[23.05.2024 05:46:03] A/)-Etna: Proceed.

[23.05.2024 05:46:20] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: What a day, huh.

[23.05.2024 05:46:32] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: At least I didn't die again this time.

[23.05.2024 05:46:45] A/)-Etna: A commonality between us.

[23.05.2024 05:47:00] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: [She chuckles.] Raven's funny necromancy spell get you too?

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[23.05.2024 05:47:19] A/)-Etna: No. Becoming a living escape pod for Gammuians did.

[23.05.2024 05:47:27] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: I see.

[23.05.2024 05:47:41] A/)-SV-Kolokytha: I can only assume, but thanks for that.

[23.05.2024 05:48:12] A/)-Etna: I estimate their processing should be smooth. I doubt they wish to jeopardize their position.

Libera te ex inferis,
Yoko

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