One of the Same-Episode One-Discovery (IC)

[Congreveopia]

Hmm. Friend. Henricks hadn’t really had friends since he “died” in a lab accident. At least Xiang seemed sensible. He wasn’t about to try charging a division of tanks by himself. He could probably get to like him. Henricks shook away these thoughts and focused on the situation at hand.

“I’ve got nothing.” he said. Armor plates closed over the fragile sensors on his head. The turrets on his shoulders swiveled to face the door as he leveled his carbine at it. “Light it up.”

[Zeinbrad]

"Roger that Henrick, we already went through the eejit's data and found maps, troop positions and patrol routes throughout the fort" Muia said as a 'downloading' bar came on the Wao and marines HUDs. There was then a sign as Muia continued.

"Oh and the eejit username and password is a followed" He paused as if trying to get back his diginity "Username is Thatgirlhas, password is Abigass, hold on, I got to go clean my mouth with soup" He said as Kyr chuckled "That's not funny Kyr" Muia said before signing off also sending the information to Aria.

"Boys, get the door open, breach and clear" Kyr went, carbine aimed at the door.

[Len Hyet]

"Roger that Henrick, we already went through the eejit's data and found maps, troop positions and patrol routes throughout the fort" Muia said as a 'downloading' bar came on the Wao and marines HUDs. There was then a sign as Muia continued.

"Oh and the eejit username and password is a followed" He paused as if trying to get back his diginity "Username is Thatgirlhas, password is Abigass, hold on, I got to go clean my mouth with soup" He said as Kyr chuckled "That's not funny Kyr" Muia said before signing off also sending the information to Aria.

"Boys, get the door open, breach and clear" Kyr went, carbine aimed at the door.

"Breaching, clear the door!" Xiang yelled out, spun away from the door, lowered his head, and blew the charges. The door went spinning off it's hinges, crashing to the ground in a blast of smoke, fire, and noise. The noise however, was scrubbed from the audio input into Xiang's helmet, keeping his eardrums safe and sound. The faceplate automatically dimmed, shielding his eyes from the worst of the blast. None the worse for wear, Lung pulled out his twin pistols and turned back toward the door.

"GO GO GO!" He yelled at the Gaian Marines, sending them through the door in a textbook breaching maneuver.

[Organized States]

Outside Fort Meca

"F*CK! Somebody tell our howitzers to stop firing! They are getting way to damn close!" Yelled First Lt. Thomas Dalton as he crouched down inside of the small trench after which had grown muddy and wet after the sporadic rain showers. The explosion of dirt and stone, roughly two to three meters in front of the trench had blown up copious amounts of dirt onto the Marines' already wet HUDS. The misery of the past few days was immense, but alas, this was good for Gaia and all her colonies. First Sargent Gomes trudged through the trench.
"Sir, see that wall segment over there." Said Gomes, while wiping a bit of mud off his visor after saluting.

"Yeah, what about it?" Replied Dalton as he highlighted the wall section on his HUD, pressing a button on the side of his helmet.

"I think that the gun emplacement that wrecked goddamned 1st Company." Replied Gomes recalling the events of yesterday, when a gun emplacement they couldn't see killed 29 Marines and wounded another 43. The damn pop-out turret had them pinned down for hours, and killed which ever Marines didn't feel like letting their buddies bleed out.

"What do we have that we could take it out with?"

"Our rifles ain't going to do shit, sir. I think that the 88mm rockets might do something though."

"I'll draw his fire, and when he pops out, you freaking shoot him." Said Dalton.

"Sir, you'll be killed!" Replied Gomes.

"That's an order." Said Dalton, as he ran towards the motion sensor on the wall, before sliding underneath it into a small ditch. The small automated turret popped out of a crevice on the crumbling wall, and began searching for targets. Gomes popped up from behind the wall of the trench and shot a small, 88mm rocket from the Platoon's 88mm rocket into the side of the turret, which blew the turret into a large group of small pieces scattered among the other pieces of rubble.

[Qeno]

One of Bessie's hangar bays

A long black transport sat within the depths of one of Bessie's hangar bays surrounded by crew members scurrying around the room the ship is stored and secretly carrying another within it's protective hull. On the exterior of the ship was inscribed the name 'Redemption' and contained two known occupants with their occupations as pilots having an assumed specialization of transporting cargo to an fro from a pair of given points. One of the occupants named Reyna watched as the recent shuttle flight entered the planet's surface then disappear beyond scanner frequency and the room she watched from was illuminated only by the light of the navigation console.

She took a deep breath and remembered her actions within the past day. The destruction of their homes and the death of her partner's family before an attempt at her life then the two became partners before finding the ship looking for some extra crew members. Reyna began to wander alone in the darkness of the Redemption before laying down on the sofa next to the main access hatch and nodding off for a nap.

Miua came into the hanger the Redemption was being held in and looked at the vessel. It looked to be a transport, Chariot Class. The transport used by the Gaian's to evacuate civilians from planets. A officer walked up to him with a scanner in his hands.

"Sir" The officer said out of respect.

"Any life signs on that ship?" Miua asked.

"Yes sir, two." The officer nodded. Miua looked at the ship for a second before speaking.

"Get a team to find them" He ordered, with the officer nodding.

Five minutes later the Wao made their way through the ship, nigh vision on and carbines checking each corner. They came to Reyna with the lead Wao pointing at her.

"Jimmy, check her" He ordered.

"Yes sir" Jimmy went, holstering his carbine and getting out a medical scanner for injuries on Reyna.

"Sir it appears that one of her legs are broken and she is awake" Jimmy said as the medical scanner highlighted her left leg being held by a splint hidden underneath her uniformed jumpsuit then lost grip of the medical scanner when Reyna swatted it out of his grip. She would have made quick work of the poor Wao if it weren't for his reaction of stepping back with his carbine sight drawn towards her hostile gaze as the woman barked "Who are you, Why are you here?"

The officer urged his pushed his subordinate back and took his place "The captain of the Bessie wanted to ensure the safety of the crew aboard then extend an invitation to join her crew. Is the other crew member of this ship alright?" He asked and was almost cut off by Reyna's vocal order towards the AI to turn the interior lights back on to reveal her semi sofa ridden state and her arms folded.

"Of course, despite my condition the child with me is quite fine and a knock from the front door would be fine" Reyna responded carrying an emphasis of having a child under her wing.

[Zeinbrad]

"Roger that Henrick, we already went through the eejit's data and found maps, troop positions and patrol routes throughout the fort" Muia said as a 'downloading' bar came on the Wao and marines HUDs. There was then a sign as Muia continued.

"Oh and the eejit username and password is a followed" He paused as if trying to get back his diginity "Username is Thatgirlhas, password is Abigass, hold on, I got to go clean my mouth with soup" He said as Kyr chuckled "That's not funny Kyr" Muia said before signing off also sending the information to Aria.

"Boys, get the door open, breach and clear" Kyr went, carbine aimed at the door.

"Breaching, clear the door!" Xiang yelled out, spun away from the door, lowered his head, and blew the charges. The door went spinning off it's hinges, crashing to the ground in a blast of smoke, fire, and noise. The noise however, was scrubbed from the audio input into Xiang's helmet, keeping his eardrums safe and sound. The faceplate automatically dimmed, shielding his eyes from the worst of the blast. None the worse for wear, Lung pulled out his twin pistols and turned back toward the door.

"GO GO GO!" He yelled at the Gaian Marines, sending them through the door in a textbook breaching maneuver.

The Marines ran in, quickly dispatching any armed rebels before getting the others to get on their knee's. A rebel tried to pull out a knife but was quickly dispatched by the trained accuracy of the marines. They round up the surviving rebels and put them facing a wall, hands tied. A Wao warrior marched in and noticed something.

The sound of power stations were just beyond a door.

"Sir, power stations here. Maybe we could cut our losses by taking them out to disable the weapon systems" He said to Kyr.

"Be warned, taking the power out will lead to the loss of power to the life support systems of rebel wounded and you know how much fusion reactors cost." Muia came in the converstation. Kyr sighed, looking at the ground before making his decision.

"Get a detpack on those reactors" He ordered, a hint of remorse in his voice as he knew he would lead to the death of hundred rebel wounded.

Meanwhile, on the Bessie a Wao warrior confirmed what Reyna was saying.

"Follow us ma'am" The officer said motioning for Reyna to come slowly and follow them.

[Post War America]

The explosion surprisingly didn't trigger any alarms meaning that the bases alarm system was damaged, old, crappy or any combination of the three. That was not a poor thing from Ty'Lissa's standpoint and as the door blew, she moved into the breach. Moving quickly she managed to get in just before the shouting marines. Ty'Lissa didn't like working with normal military, they seemed completely inept when it came to anything that was her own specialty, they would stomping shouting, never understanding that they would need to sneak about and not be loud. They planted bombs on the nearby reactors. Ty'Lissa had though this mission would be much harder. In fact she suspected a complication might crop up soon. She looked around, noticing a catwalk above the reactors. She triggered her armor's jetpack jumping onto the catwalk watching for signs of trouble.

[Qeno]

Meanwhile, on the Bessie a Wao warrior confirmed what Reyna was saying.

"Follow us ma'am" The officer said motioning for Reyna to come slowly and follow them.

"Very well" Reyna said as she eased herself off the sofa and stood next to the Wao formation of soldiers. "But no one other than me comes back here until I allow it are we clear?" She added and leaned against the nearby wall cringing as the splint fell out of place. 'Damn...didn't tie it tight enough...' She thought to herself.

[The Moon States]

Aria looked at the combat updates on her HUD while finishing rigging the thermobaric bomb under a weapons bench in the armory. Noticing a priority message for the information of the username and password of one of the KIA rebels she had to smile under her matte black helmet and finished setting up the timer on the bomb. Checking the motion scanner on the bottom right corner of her HUD she saw it was clear for at least ten meters and quickly composed a message to the leading Wao commander down in the sewers. "Thermobaric, armory second floor. Clear area for 100 meters horizontally 10meters vertically in 5 mikes, at least clear Wao." finishing the priority message she grabbed her MER carbon and grabbed a pack of slugs that for it from an open ammunition locker. Clearing out of the armory she stepped over two guards dead, both with clean holes drilled into their foreheads and passed the door which se blew off the lock with using a small charge, having timed it with a quake of an undetonated shell from the artillery barrage that had gone off at the same time was lucky but she wasn't one to linger for long. Carefully jogging back to the breached wall she hoped to send the rebels to a crispier place with the bomb when they realized what was happening and scrambled to the armory and smirked at the thought. Jumping out of the fissure she hauled ass to one of the craters that had an exposed sewer line and jumped in, wanting to catch up with the other Wao.

[Congreveopia]

The door exploded. His audio was automatically dampened to below the threshold of pain, and his eyes were no longer were dazzled by changes in light level, so he chose to no longer feel pain from them. As the blast died down, he saw friendly forces pouring through the door, so he concluded that they probably didn’t need him to charge in or anything. He noticed one of his turrets (which was not being manually driven from the time being) had fired. Looking back through the slow-motion replay, he saw a human silhouette on one of the cameras as the door blew, which the turret had shot through the head.

“Third kill in the operation goes to Henricks.” he thought happily as he walked into the next room.
He was vaguely annoyed to see a hole in a cluster of hot-water pipes where his turret had fired. “Maybe, I should require confirmation from multiple sensors in the future.” he thought as the armor over his delicate sensors folded back.

He listened to the conversation between Kyr and Muia as he looked over the dead and living rebels. None seemed to be officers or anything, all grunts. He went over to a weapons control panel, which had annoyingly locked itself after its user disconnected. Glancing over at the cooling body of its user, Henricks sat down at the console and entered the username and password he'd recently acquired.

“I’m going to pretend you pronounce that aby-gas.” he thought to himself as he typed it in. As expected, the screen informed him that he was assigned to guard duty and shouldn’t be in weapons control. He was on KP for the rest of the week.

“Get a detpack on those reactors.” Kyr said.

“Wait.” said Henricks “If we capture the fort’s commander and get his password I can use it to give Muia access to all the base’s weapons systems. That way we don’t have to destroy the reactors, and we can mop up the remaining rebels without risking friendly soldiers. I bet we’d get a bonus for that. And besides, how tough could the enemy commander be? His forces aren’t exactly ‘tip of the knife edge of the spear’, or however that ancient expression goes.”

[Zeinbrad]

"Roger Henricks" Muia said through the coms.

"But the Gaian's just want the weapon systems down, they want to handle the leader of the rebellion personally" He said.

"Aria already planted a thermo bomb in the rebels armory, our job is done here" He finished.

Muia then put his attention to Reyna and her kid.

"Get both of them in the medbay" He said.

[Congreveopia]

“Should I ask him to check with the Gaians?” Henricks wondered “No, It’s not my place to ask. I’ll follow orders. Maybe if we could find a way to disable that reactor without destroying it, though…”

He walked into the reactor room. It was lit only by dim fluorescent lights and the glow of the control panels. In the center sat a massive lump of twisted metal piping humming loudly, the heart of the reactor. Metal catwalks stretched around it, and Henricks could see marines placing charges on it. He appeared to be on the bottom of three stories of catwalks wrapping around the heart, although he wasn’t sure there weren’t more higher up. As he walked around the monstrosity, admiring it, he was surprised to see the glow of a steam gauge dial’s hand. On closer inspection, he saw that the hand had a phosphorescent strip running down the center of it, and the numbers were all made of a phosphorescent material. It appeared to be measuring the strength of the secondary magnetic field in the pipe it was attached to, although Henricks had no idea what that signified. He looked around, and sure enough saw more dials glowing in the dim light. He finally realised that the reason for having the antique measuring systems in addition to the electronic measuring system, was so that they could operate the reactor without power, probably during startup or an emergency shutdown, if no backup power was available.

“Hey, could you clamp this on there?” yelled a marine on the catwalk above Henricks over the noise, dropping him a detpack.

“Sure!” Henricks yelled back, attaching the charge, removing the safety, and arming it. He realised that they were probably almost done setting the detpacks, and he didn’t have time to be admiring the reactor monitoring system. He hurried over to a control panel, where he found the name of the reactor, and looked up its instructions. He found the main operating manual, and had no idea what it meant. He looked up simplified operating instructions, no idea. Simplified operating instructions summary. No idea. Emergency shutdown simplified protocol. He looked over the document, but all he saw was a lot of “Danger of catastrophic failure if tolerances exceeded during this step.” warnings. Henricks gave up and walked back to the quieter weapons systems room.

[Qeno]

"Roger Henricks" Muia said through the coms.

"But the Gaian's just want the weapon systems down, they want to handle the leader of the rebellion personally" He said.

"Aria already planted a thermo bomb in the rebels armory, our job is done here" He finished.

Muia then put his attention to Reyna and her kid.

"Get both of them in the medbay" He said.

Reyna rolled her eyes as Sora watched from the corner and saw one of the men knelt down next to Reyna then picked her up in his arms. "I hope you wouldn't mind, we would get there faster if you just sit still right here" One of the men said to the woman indignantly sitting in the man's arms and gestured the child to follow behind him. Sora eyed the man reluctantly before summarily following the group through the hole made on the side of the ship and she asked Muia "Will you arrange for repairs since you could have simply knocked on the front door?"

[Post War America]

Ty'Lissa watched the catwalk like a hawk as the soldiers around and below her prepped charges to blow the reactors. This seemed a large risk, after all the reactors were pretty obviously of the nuclear variety and likely wouldn't take to being blown up too well. If the charges weren't set to the right time, and just so happened to be placed at the perfect point they could very easily cause a chain reaction of high powered detonations which would spew all sorts of radioactive isotopes with the mercs in the vicinity, and everyone would all get a lovely dose of radiation posioning. Ty'Lissa shouted down.

"Maybe we should consider an alternative... I mean, if we blow these things up we could get some rad poisoning and I don't want to have that. Fucking sucks it does".

[Congreveopia]

“Radiation poisoning?” asked Henricks, looking up in surprise from the weapons systems control console he had been failing to hack. “I didn’t think quintuple Tokamak reactors released that in substantial quantities when they failed. None of the manuals mentioned it. Do you know fusion reactors? Should we be worried?”

[Post War America]

Ty'Lissa had no clue how nuclear reactors worked... much less the differences between Fusion, Fission, Onobtainium Powered, or any other types of reactors. So she looked like an idiot calling out like that. She replied,

"Probably not, but we should be out of here quickly... my nerves are shot".

[Congreveopia]

“Okay, right. Yeah.” said Henricks, turning back to the console “I don’t think I can do anything here without better codes, and we’ll have completed our objective once we blow the reactor anyways. I’m ready to be off this rock.”

[Zeinbrad]

Part Two-A Threat Emerges.
Description-Ragon patrol ships have gone missing near the Pegasus Cluster which is strange as the Engineers normally keep to themselves. We have been hired to investigate a Ragon frigate, Goth’s Eyes, and find out what happened. We also will be collecting some disk that the Ragon want back-Captain.


One Week later.


Aboard the Goths eyes.
“I can’t stabilize him!”

“Then get the next one!”

“ He’s the last one!”

The exchange between Captain Mesouz and Medical Officer Lazuar was getting more and more grim as mercenaries assaulted the last part that the Ragon marines held aboard the ship-The sensors and communications room. Danialus, an experienced communication officer was sending the same plea “This is the Goths Eyes. We are under attack!” for the past ten hours and still no Imperial support had come to save them from the mysterious foes that assaulted their ship and killed most of the marines and ratings on board. Now only ten marines and five ratings were left, not counting Captain Mesouz who was fighting off the mercenaries with his vibrosword, supposed to only be used in duels with enemy swordsmen. Mesouz had run out of cells for his plasma pistol.

Lazuar was treating the wounded in a corner of the room just barely out of the firefight between the marines and their foes. The marines were fighting on three fronts, guarding three doors with makeshift barricades and whatever they had left.

Danialus was ducking as plasma fire hit the shield that was positioned to guard him. He was sweating. He was the only hope that he and his ship mates had at escaping this.

Aboard the Bessie.
The Bessie came out of the vortex known as hyperspace, to see the Goths Eyes, a three hundred and two meter corvette derelict, it’s self-defense cannons burning and missile launchers mangled. The three engines were off with only one in workable condition. Miua stood from his command chair.

“Scan for lifeforms” He said. He was expecting the Neigh to have overrun the ship and killed everyone aboard. But that didn’t explain how the distress call had been going on for so long. What he saw surprised him.

Ten green figures, allies, were fighting for their lives against at least twenty red figures, enemies.

“Get a rescue team ready” He said as he walked to hanger to arrange for a boarding vessel.

[The Moon States]

Aria walked around the flight deck of the Bessie while she waited for parts to finish up the finer aspects of the repair on her ship the Tracinya . Waiting impatiently she decided to walk around the flight deck slightly unimpressed with the motley compilation of ships that the Bessie called a fighter squadron, with ships dating back decades ago to several higher end interceptors from the last five standard years. Arias own ship wasn't too old but it was initially a heavy bomber who very high speed. Buying it new Arias adoptive mother retrofitted it to be a fighter bomber and replaced the wings to that of a fighter ship. Aria after inheriting it retrofit it again giving it reinforced hulls as well as an on board armory occupying half of the bomb bay while leaving the other half for bombs still, this increased the weight and slowed the craft down which was why Aria also beefed up the engines and installed a condensed fuel core to save some weight and go further with a full fuel tank. Snapping out of her stupor of remembering her specs she looked at her ship as she finished a lap around the flight deck and saw a small pile of boxes at the nose of the ship and got to work immediately, plasma artillery was nasty when it exploded due to a messed up shell being loaded and backfiring.

[Qeno]

Aboard the Bessie.
The Bessie came out of the vortex known as hyperspace, to see the Goths Eyes, a three hundred and two meter corvette derelict, it’s self-defense cannons burning and missile launchers mangled. The three engines were off with only one in workable condition. Miua stood from his command chair.

“Scan for lifeforms” He said. He was expecting the Neigh to have overrun the ship and killed everyone aboard. But that didn’t explain how the distress call had been going on for so long. What he saw surprised him.

Ten green figures, allies, were fighting for their lives against at least twenty red figures, enemies.

“Get a rescue team ready” He said as he walked to hanger to arrange for a boarding vessel.

"Hmm...That's a neat trick" Reyna commented as she sat in the bridge of the Redemption and watched Sora's fingers pound away at the console to see what the Bessie's sensors were detecting a 302 meter derelict of a Ragnon corvette. The ship also detected five lifeforms on the Goth's eyes and Sora turned on the coms frequency to hear a distress call then she said "The captain's reacting to their distress call."

"It's a shame that I'm excluded from flying with everyone else" Sora commented and folded her arms while she sat in the captain's seat of the Redemption.

[Congreveopia]

Henricks Polyakov sat in his quarters. He was in humanoid form, sitting on his bunk. Across from him, a little RC car was sitting on the floor. In his mind, he was looking at a control panel. There was a 3d model of him, showing his attachments and their motors and sensors. A new image popped up, showing the car and asking where he wanted to attach it to. If he was attaching a new limb like usual, he’d choose which slot on his body to plug it into and be done, but instead he selected a new option called remote that he had just finished programing. A progress bar appeared reading: “Integrating new attachment into body structure. Access point: Remote.”

The progress bar finished. Suddenly, he was in two places. Part of his mind insisted that he was still in the humanoid form, while part told him he’d moved to the car. His mind couldn’t understand the idea of a piece of him being completely disconnected from the rest. He felt like his limbs were jumping around randomly to new access points. One second, he was the car. The next, he was back in his body. The next, he was in the car but the car had his body’s legs.

“Terminate Program!” he said. The car disconnected and shut down. He was back in his humanoid form. The room still seemed to spin around him a bit and he felt dizzy. If he was able to, he would have thrown up. He collapsed back onto his bunk, and lay there.

“Okay.” he thought “At least part of the problem was that either my mind or the model couldn’t handle the idea of disconnected parts. Maybe I can start with dual-meanings for movements, and then phase out the ones that I don’t need. That won’t solve the issue of how to assimilate sensor data from remote parts, though…”