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Stars & Salvage PBF - IC Thread
Xander Morhaime:
Once the ship's boat was prepared for launch and all loose items removed from the hangar bay, the atmosphere was cycled out and the hatch in the Crow's underside opened up to the void of space. Charon floated out lazily before Evedro engaged the engines, sending the tiny craft for an encounter with the derelict giant. A craft repurposed for living quarters for one person wasn't perhaps the most comfortable passenger craft for an additional two people in full vacuum combat gear, but it was better than "swimming" across.
The view from the cockpit was rather monotonous - just the solid wall of the derelict gradually growing larger, details on the hull coming into view... vent ports, the occasional point defense nest, minor battle scoring...
The boat was perhaps half-way to the docking port when the whole craft shook as if it had just collided with a wall. From the cockpit, it would look as though Charon had hit upon some energy field, judging by the bright blue energy discharges seen dancing over the viewport and the onboard systems going crazy. Whatever the field was, it didn't stop the boat, but it sure as hell didn't do its maneuverability any favours. The thruster controls had become somewhat unresponsive, and the impact had thrown the course off a bit to the side, from the open docking bay door to a very solid ship hull.
Some course correction may be called for...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)SK, a piloting roll is called for. Of course, if you've any better ideas, feel free to enact those as well, but bear in mind that you have a rather limited time frame.
S.K. Ren:
"Ferryman of the dead huh..." Evedro muttered. "Elizabeth! Yurij! Things aren't looking too good. You're going to need you to prepare to jump. I'm going to try and give you a clear facing on the hull so get ready."
Turning his attention back to the control console, Evedro brought the engine power down to a minimum. Sweat began to form as their momentum continued to hurl them towards the capital ship. Evedro's eyes lit up as he remembered seeing a sizable hole blasted in a nearby section of hull. If I can get Charon to land in that she might survive this little cruise...
Gently, Evedro tried to coax the stubborn thrusters to tip Charon towards the hole. He only had a few moments to correct their trajectory. With their destination roughly lined up, he cut the engines out completely. Hopefully she wouldn't explode on impact. With slow cautious steps he made his way to the back.
"Alright guys. Suits secure? You got everything you brought with you? Good!"
Removing a panel from the wall he pulled what looked to be a handful of random wires out. Picking several of them he disabled the security on the Airlock door. Keeping an eye on the incoming surface, he rushed the two into the airlock. "On the count of three release the airlock and jump. One...two...... three!" he yelled, joining them in their evacuation.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Piloting Check (2d6=7)
Xander Morhaime:
The hull breach may have been relatively close, but performing course corrections under extreme pressure was hard enough without having to factor in angle and speed of approach, or indeed any more advanced maneuvers.
The boat grazed the larger ship's hull some distance from the breach.
It deflected off the hull.
The boat's thrusters did not take to the impact well.
The "outer" side thrusters fired off a few seconds after impact.
The extra burn accelerated the boat back towards the hull.
They also gave it quite a spin on the way there.
You jumped.
Elizabeth's landing was best, though not perfect. She managed to aim for a corridor and after bouncing off a wall got her magnetic grapples to stop any further flying about. Evedro wasn't quite as graceful, bouncing several times more before finding something to actually grab and stay in place.
Yurij, well... the spin threw off his aim and sent him towards the rim of the hull breach, where the metal was rough and jagged from whatever had damaged it. One conspicuously long bit of metal looked to be particularly nasty, and straight in the flight path.
Yurij heard a clang.
Everyone else watching saw Yurij approach the metal spike at considerable speed, make contact with it... and stop, before lazily drifting back, leaving the sharp tip of the spike a bit blunted. It seemed it lacked the punch to get through the armour, though the force of the impact would sting like all hell.
Then Charon crashed into the other side of the hull breach. It was a curious thing, watching one large piece of metal plowing into another, far larger piece of metal, in complete silence. The mind insisted there should be an ungodly amount of noise, but there wasn't the slightest ring as the boat embedded itself some 10 metres into one of the decks, sending out a cloud of shrapnel it had displaced. The thrusters finally switched off.
So, you are left standing on the rim of a shallow, but quite wide breach in the armour plating of the giant ship, spread out - Elizabeth and Evedro in separate corridors, Yurij floating a short distance from the hull. You are alive, for the most part, though the boat that brought you here won't be flying anywhere any time soon. And if you had any doubts to your vital status, you heard Carrion's voice in the commlinks a few moments later.
"Query: Blue Crow to Boarding Party, what is your status?"
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Yurij's lucky he's got the armour, though the impact still left a mark in the form of 1 point of Endurance damage.
Gargulec:
'Elizabeth, to the Blue Crow' muttered the solider to the intercom, breathing heavily. She took the crash surprisingly calmly, but was still a bit shaken by all the impacts. 'I have landed safely, I have visual on Yuri- though he is floating, and I lost contact with Evandro... can you tell if he is okay? I am awaiting further commands.'
S.K. Ren:
Dazed, Evedro gave the surroundings a quick glance. Elizabeth was nowhere in sight and Yurij had been in his line of sight but had drifted off since.
"Th....s Eved... *screech*" Evedro attempted to communicate but was interrupted by a sharp feedback. "Great just what fucking need right now" he muttered. A vacuum was not the best place to be fiddling with your HEV. Carefully pulling his arm into the main body of the suit, he adjusted the Intercom.
"Hello? Testing, testing... this is Evedro. Can anyone hear me? I've landed on one of the outer decks in the breach. Elizabeth is nowhere in sight and Yurij is drifting somewhere, I lost track of him."
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