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by Korhal IVV » Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:27 pm
"Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God." ~ John Calvin
by New Udonia » Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:04 am
Rykil wrote:Nidheon was surprised at the ineffectiveness of an electrical baton against his partially metallic armor, seeing as most metals were conductive. However, that was quickly overshadowed by the fact that they didn't have to kill him, but now there was an issue between the two. Earlier, Nidheon thought that his charismatic nature wouldn't necessarily work on the guards, but now might be a good chance to talk them down. The synthesizer and translator microbes combined would allow Cridrac to understand him. As he did so, he only slightly lowered the rifle.
"Look around you Cridrac, there's too many prisoners loose to handle, too many fatalities on the Kiellar Command's side, and from here we could listen in on the violence. Planetary genocide-bringing maniac Kaleso is free, Yp is off trying to fulfill his dream of becoming a God-Warrior, and now there's going to be plenty of mutineers or prisoners who would likely want to rip you to pieces. Drop the blast and I can probably convince the bloodthirsty ones not to disembowel you. Get what I'm saying?"
Dyelli Beybi wrote:A few moments later the intercom crackled into life across all decks of the ship and a female voice that some on the crew and amongst the former prisoners would recognise, [b]"My name is Thanica Vari. Some of you know me. Most of you probably don't. I was and still am the pilot of this ship, and I am here with an important announcement.
Dyelli Beybi wrote:This ship is no longer under Kiellar Command, we are now an independent ship under the command of no person and we are heading for the neutral zone where the law cannot follow us.
Dyelli Beybi wrote:If you are fighting right now, stop. The battle is over. We control both armouries, we control engineering and the bridge. The Captain has fallen. If you fought for Kiellar Command, drop your weapons and surrender. I can promise you the choice of being left on a neutral planet or joining this crew.
by Khasinkonia » Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:06 am
Dr. Āihēemlái "Amlai" Āigàm Ǒonhētváihěeāivǎakàe, M.D.
by Dyelli Beybi » Tue Apr 16, 2019 11:50 am
Arengin Union wrote:The question didn’t catch him off guard, it was her referring to him as “Captain,” he’d almost forgotten his position before this whole mess, it was weird to finally hear someone refer to him in such manner, but he didn’t let it get to his head for there were more pressing matters, but he did show a smile of gratitude. As he turned to Thanica and looked over to the console and then back at the two crew members the human Captain began to think, think of how to save this situation, what would he do back on Earth in his military days, it was hard to think since those instances were vastly different from now and yet he had to come up with something.
Alas he did, “I reckon we need to secure Engineering before something happens, anyone misplaces a shot and we can say oxygen bye bye.”
Lowering the rifle a bit he scratched his bearded chin, “If there are comms that directly speak to the entire ship we can assert to the prisoners and crew alike that we got control of the ship as you said. Maybe the fires die down, I can go over to the Engineering bay and give one of them weapons over there to your friend Rabash.” Perhaps it wasn’t the best plan he could come up with but it was something. And indeed it was exactly what she did.
Later Carter gesture to Thanica with his head towards the two capture crew members. “What do we do about them?”
Foxfound wrote:"Hello? is Captain Carter present? Ship's AI Olorisa. Protocols malfunctioning. Unknown hardware. I'm... I am scared..."
This message was all she could manage, but it would have to do. Everyone on the bridge would hear it, especially the lady that had just finished the broadcast.
Khasinkonia wrote:Dr. Āihēemlái "Amlai" Āigàm Ǒonhētváihěeāivǎakàe, M.D.
Once the head was dealt with, I had to change my uniform, as it was currently blood tarnished, and take off my gloves. I opted to forgo my uniform, as it was no longer required, and changed into a knee-length cerulean dress, my pearls, black flats, and donned a new white medical coat. I hurried up to the bridge, and made sure my tentacles were glowing white, as Thanica, and anyone else who knew either me or my culture, would understand quite clearly that I was not amused with this whole matter being unexplained.
“Thanica!” I announced as I stepped on the bridge, “I believe you owe me an explanation!”
by Khasinkonia » Tue Apr 16, 2019 1:23 pm
Dyelli Beybi wrote:Arengin Union wrote:The question didn’t catch him off guard, it was her referring to him as “Captain,” he’d almost forgotten his position before this whole mess, it was weird to finally hear someone refer to him in such manner, but he didn’t let it get to his head for there were more pressing matters, but he did show a smile of gratitude. As he turned to Thanica and looked over to the console and then back at the two crew members the human Captain began to think, think of how to save this situation, what would he do back on Earth in his military days, it was hard to think since those instances were vastly different from now and yet he had to come up with something.
Alas he did, “I reckon we need to secure Engineering before something happens, anyone misplaces a shot and we can say oxygen bye bye.”
Lowering the rifle a bit he scratched his bearded chin, “If there are comms that directly speak to the entire ship we can assert to the prisoners and crew alike that we got control of the ship as you said. Maybe the fires die down, I can go over to the Engineering bay and give one of them weapons over there to your friend Rabash.” Perhaps it wasn’t the best plan he could come up with but it was something. And indeed it was exactly what she did.
Later Carter gesture to Thanica with his head towards the two capture crew members. “What do we do about them?”
"That all sounds sensible." Thanica replied nodding along to Carter's idea of heading to Engineering, "You are quite right, there are a lot of important systems in there that could fail catastrophically if damaged. I'll organise for these two to get locked inside a cell once the doors are working properly again until they have made a decision about whether they want to join the mutiny or not... the cell is as much to keep them safe as to stop them doing anything silly. Some of the prisoners we let out are."
She paused, searching for the right words, before settling on, "A bit violent."Foxfound wrote:"Hello? is Captain Carter present? Ship's AI Olorisa. Protocols malfunctioning. Unknown hardware. I'm... I am scared..."
This message was all she could manage, but it would have to do. Everyone on the bridge would hear it, especially the lady that had just finished the broadcast.
"He is..." Thanica replied, looking around and feeling slightly foolish at the fact that she was addressing the air, "We don't have a ship's AI.... Carter? Is this a rogue programme that came from your ship? Can you maybe see what you can do for it? Just don't let it take over the flying. I don't the Ragon feeling I'm a potential option when it next feels a bit peckish." she smirked, then gave a small laugh just in case Carter hadn't picked up it was gallows humour.Khasinkonia wrote:Dr. Āihēemlái "Amlai" Āigàm Ǒonhētváihěeāivǎakàe, M.D.
Once the head was dealt with, I had to change my uniform, as it was currently blood tarnished, and take off my gloves. I opted to forgo my uniform, as it was no longer required, and changed into a knee-length cerulean dress, my pearls, black flats, and donned a new white medical coat. I hurried up to the bridge, and made sure my tentacles were glowing white, as Thanica, and anyone else who knew either me or my culture, would understand quite clearly that I was not amused with this whole matter being unexplained.
“Thanica!” I announced as I stepped on the bridge, “I believe you owe me an explanation!”
The appearance of the Doctor came as something of a surprise to the Dhasath, who took a step back, blinking in confusion as her brain raced to understand what the Kolmoik had said. It didn't look happy. Something about an exposition? "Oh, well Vrondich approached me about this. For him, this a liberation mission for some Federalist leader we have in stasis, but we each have our reasons." she wasn't about to say what hers were though.
"Anyway, the Captain is dead - I killed him, and I'm pretty sure that big Ragon ate him. I'm not really sure whose in charge, Vrondich? Maybe?" she suggested, "But like I said in the announcement, if you want to get off the ship at the next neutral port you can. You're not a combatant so I doubt Command would execute you for incompetence, if you want to go back."
Dr. Āihēemlái "Amlai" Āigàm Ǒonhētváihěeāivǎakàe, M.D.
by Dyelli Beybi » Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:16 pm
by Endem » Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:34 pm
by Arengin Union » Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:46 pm
"Junior Pilot Krystyn Warecki reporting in"
"Can I take a seat?"
by Bingellia » Tue Apr 16, 2019 6:15 pm
by Korhal IVV » Tue Apr 16, 2019 7:45 pm
Calling all Jokari vessels present, this is the Battlecruiser Resurgence. We are under attack from an Archelian battlefleet, counting no less than three hundred corvettes and sixty cruisers. Requesting immediate reinforcements, as our fuel reserves are getting low. Req-
"Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God." ~ John Calvin
by Rykil » Tue Apr 16, 2019 7:48 pm
by Foxfound » Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:33 pm
by Harbertia » Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:36 pm
by Korhal IVV » Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:46 pm
Harbertia wrote:Sshalah the Ragon
Messhall
She really should have assured the two new comers they could come to join this group but she was not in her mind a being they could easily trust, that associate of the Huemann for example gave off the most signs of ill-ease. She had plans on how to ease his concerns but what Yare pointed out was far too concerning for her to ignore. Sshalah had only recently stated that she would not dare send a signal out in Kiellar space- and here- pointed out casually to her and the others by winged reptile was an example of such being done. Her face, having been jovial (in as much as could be expressed by her without being excessive) was now narrow eyed, tight jawed, and aggressive watching the avian walk away, she felt him familiar for a bit- remembering the words of the one she heard prior to the mutiny, but was uncertain. Regardless, she spoke with a hiss; "He's threatened us all." She turned to Thanica, "You should take all communication devices on board the ship to a store room." She then turned to the drakonid whose voice was much softer and lovely then her own, "He has likely endangered us all. What is done is done, but it's no matter to speak so softly of." Her tail raised a bit behind her- in many ways it was a third arm.
"Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God." ~ John Calvin
by Harbertia » Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:16 pm
by Arengin Union » Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:54 pm
by Dyelli Beybi » Tue Apr 16, 2019 11:14 pm
Arengin Union wrote:Captain Nathan Taylor Carter
Mess hall, the Defiance."Can I take a seat?"
Immediately Carter stood from his seat, “My god Krys! Yes, yes take a seat bud!” he said as he approached the poor pilot, setting a chair for him and taking him by the shoulders.
“You can’t imagine how good it is to see you Krys,” Carter said with a smile, “It’s been quite a wild ride!”
Rykil wrote:Post-Mutiny Defiance
Nidheon, Mess Hall
He found a spot not too far away from that group, mostly out of wishing to be alone and his distrust of other prisoners aboard the ship, especially that headhunting Yp, the wild God-Warrior aspirant. He would sit there, pondering over that moment for a bit before he realized the food was probably getting a bit cold, not like it was that warm anyways.
Bingellia wrote:Mihal of Obe
The grumble of his stomach interrupted his thinking. Mihal slung his carbine, which he had kept for his own safety, over his shoulder and walked to the mess. Looking around after he grabbed a tray of food, he tried to pick out any familiar faces besides from that thing which tore that marine to shreds. The table with the three Dhasath and Ragon stood out. The woman was likely the pilot who made the announcement and started the mutiny. One of the men looked like the man who was bound in his cell, and Mihal had only seen one Ragon during the riot. If they were with the pilot, he reckoned that they were mostly sane.
He cautiously approached the table, “Excuse me. This may be strange, but can I sit here. I would sit somewhere else, but” He paused and looked over his shoulder, “I’m not sure about the hospitality of the others here.”
by Endem » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:32 am
by Korhal IVV » Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:32 am
Dyelli Beybi wrote:Arengin Union wrote:Captain Nathan Taylor Carter
Mess hall, the Defiance.
Immediately Carter stood from his seat, “My god Krys! Yes, yes take a seat bud!” he said as he approached the poor pilot, setting a chair for him and taking him by the shoulders.
“You can’t imagine how good it is to see you Krys,” Carter said with a smile, “It’s been quite a wild ride!”
Thanica has settled back in her seat, one boot resting on the edge of the table. She looked relaxed, which was probably to Sshalah's liking. Krystyn's appearance came as something of a surprise to her and for just a moment she wondered if she were looking at another of her own kind but no, as soon as he greeted Carter she realised he had to be another one of these 'hamuns', "Well..." it sounded like she was about to tell a joke of some sort, but a look at Krys made her think better of it, "... it must be nice to see another familiar face."Rykil wrote:Post-Mutiny Defiance
Nidheon, Mess Hall
He found a spot not too far away from that group, mostly out of wishing to be alone and his distrust of other prisoners aboard the ship, especially that headhunting Yp, the wild God-Warrior aspirant. He would sit there, pondering over that moment for a bit before he realized the food was probably getting a bit cold, not like it was that warm anyways.Bingellia wrote:Mihal of Obe
The grumble of his stomach interrupted his thinking. Mihal slung his carbine, which he had kept for his own safety, over his shoulder and walked to the mess. Looking around after he grabbed a tray of food, he tried to pick out any familiar faces besides from that thing which tore that marine to shreds. The table with the three Dhasath and Ragon stood out. The woman was likely the pilot who made the announcement and started the mutiny. One of the men looked like the man who was bound in his cell, and Mihal had only seen one Ragon during the riot. If they were with the pilot, he reckoned that they were mostly sane.
He cautiously approached the table, “Excuse me. This may be strange, but can I sit here. I would sit somewhere else, but” He paused and looked over his shoulder, “I’m not sure about the hospitality of the others here.”
The appearance of the Kiel momentarily distracted from the newcomer. He wasn't crew, so presumably had been one of the group they had freed. He didn't look like the mas murdering sort but, she reminded herself, there had been all sorts of prisoners on the Defiance, the only thing that unified them was their destination... "Of course!" she responded cheerfully, waving Mihal over, "Pull up a chair with me and I will pour you something to drink. I am Thanica by the way."
"The same goes for you!" she called out to Nidheon, "Join us if you like." He didn't look like he wanted to but it was worth a shot. Getting to know the others on the ship and getting them to think of her as useful, even if they didn't go so far as to like her, was the best way for her to keep her hide intact. If people didn't know her she was just that little bit more disposable...
Which was when the message from the cruiser went off, audible to everyone in the hall and the Ragon, whose name she should probably ask, started suggesting the confiscation of communications equipment. That wasn't a bad idea, but it wasn't something that Thanica could enforce... nobody could really. She thought about that for a few moments, then gave a small shrug, "I agree with the Ragon that communicating with outside ships is a bad idea at this point. Had that message got through to the ship you attempted to signal, and had that ship shown up here, how friendly would they have been towards the rest of us on this ship?" she asked. The question was a rhetorical one though and she continued on, "Some of us are ex Kiellar soldiers, one of us is a Ragon, how would we have been treated? I am a Dhasath, a valuable sale in some places, what could I have expected?"
"I'm not trying to say that contacting the ship was the wrong thing to do, or to imply that they would have harmed us, just that we are all on this ship together now and we need to make decisions like that together if we want to avoid infighting... and I for one hate cleaning blood out of the floor. It seeps into all the cracks and leaves this horrible crusty residue if you don't get to it quickly enough." she just couldn't resist a little bit of levity.
She did want people to give up communications equipment though... Less because of what had happened here and more because someone might try to signal another Kiellar vessel. That would be bad. Very bad. But who had the right to make a decision like that? "This has me thinking, do we want to look at putting some kind of command structure in place on this ship?" she asked, a little timidly, in case anyone thought this was some kind of power-play on her part, "Because the suggestion was made to confiscate communications equipment... but I can't make that decision, I'm not in charge and I am supremely unqualified to be so."
"Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God." ~ John Calvin
by New Udonia » Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:58 am
Dyelli Beybi wrote:
Engineering - Vrondich, Rabaech and Cridrac
“It’s broken.” Rabaech supplied helpfully.
“I know that.” Vrondich sighed, “But the question is can we fix it?”
“No probably not…. Well actually yes, but we’d need spare parts.” The two of them were almost finished in Engineering and things did not look entirely promising. They had also taken Cridrac along with them on the general principal that an android would understand machinery.
“You see.” Vrondich explained, “The Defiance was always a bit of a shonky ship. Not a problem, most of the time, but after someone went into a kill frenzy upstairs, there was a lot of blood spilled, a large volume of which drained into the inter-floor space and because the wiring is old and horrible, somehow we managed to short out the Skrim Drive Coolant System, which, given the fact that Skrim drives tend to overheat anyway, is bad.”
“Very bad.” Rabaech echoed.
“Now because I…”
“We.” Rabaech interrupted.
“Fine, ‘we’, are technical masterminds, we have come up with a solution… but it involves venting the reactor core directly into space.” Vrondich explained animatedly, “Which will mean that we can probably only pull of one jump before we need a lot of spare parts.” He paused as he got to the end, “We should probably make sure there is a planet in range before we do that or tell our pilot.”
“Also, the stasis pod system is broken.” Rabaech continued, “It looks like someone went through an unorthodox shutdown procedure…. But the upshot is there was a system crash and now we can’t open the pods and have no idea who, or what, is in any of them. So we’ll need to figure out a way to fix that as well.”
“Do you know anything about stasis pods?” Vrondich asked, giving Cridrac his first opportunity to actually get a word in edgewise, “Also, have you decided if you’d rather join us or get off the boat?”
The moment of silence from the pair was spoiled a few seconds later by an ominous hissing noise from the floor below, a noise that Rabaech hurried off to discover the source of… a few moments later his voice came drifting up the stairs, “Ah… guys. One of the pods is opening on its own. Vrondich, I hope you still have that blaster!”
by Dyelli Beybi » Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:23 am
New Udonia wrote:"As to your second question..." Cridrac hesitated. This was the moment where he decided to play along, or hint at his underlying desire for rebellion.
"It all depends on if I'm getting paid and whose in charge. Without a strong leader your mission is doomed." His companions again appeared annoyed, causing him to stammer out a follow-up response. "I don't know if you feel the same... but I personally would never want a Ragon in charge." Trying to smile only made things worse, or was Cridrac just being paranoid.
by Harbertia » Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:17 am
by Rykil » Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:31 am
Dyelli Beybi wrote:Rykil wrote:Post-Mutiny Defiance
Nidheon, Mess Hall
He found a spot not too far away from that group, mostly out of wishing to be alone and his distrust of other prisoners aboard the ship, especially that headhunting Yp, the wild God-Warrior aspirant. He would sit there, pondering over that moment for a bit before he realized the food was probably getting a bit cold, not like it was that warm anyways.
"The same goes for you!" she called out to Nidheon, "Join us if you like." He didn't look like he wanted to but it was worth a shot. Getting to know the others on the ship and getting them to think of her as useful, even if they didn't go so far as to like her, was the best way for her to keep her hide intact. If people didn't know her she was just that little bit more disposable...
by Bingellia » Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:33 am
by Arengin Union » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:14 pm
"Did they inject something into your neck like me?"
“I’d suggest putting someone who has experience in naval command and dealing with different personalities.”, the Sarufi said as she put her left foreleg on the table. “That means our Jokari friend is out of the question, as although he used to be the commander of a battlecruiser, he doesn’t trust any of us at all... except for me and perhaps you, Ms. Pilot of this ship.”, she said as she looked at the others at the eye. “I wouldn’t call myself very qualified either, as I may have commanded a taskforce prior to my capture, but all I did was raid supply convoys, and I destroyed that one space station in one occasion. What we need is someone who is an actual leader that can fulfill something higher than a simple commander at a raid.” The Sarufi then set the glare of her cybernetic eye first at Thanica, and then Carter. “I am guessing one of you will have to do. I just had a hunch. Oh well, I will have to check on Stralbane. I am a good friend.”, she trailed off as she skipped towards the door, disappearing from everyone’s sight.
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