Lost in Spaaace! (RP Thread)

[terribleyetfun]

"C deck?, well we most certainly will meet then I'll be there shortly to pick up whatever may be useful and judging by the fact everyone is breathing without helmets that has changed my plans to now getting the A.I back online first and foremost" Markus said through his PDA adding a short laugh at the end of his sentence. The situation seemed to be growing brighter by the minute, admittedly it was still as dim as a spark in a cave but at least there was hope. He continued his climb through the maintenance shaft avoiding any and all loose bits of wiring, broken pipes and the like, making a note of them on his PDA for later.

Spoiler: for reference sake an image of his helmet

"Christ, what have those martian suns of bitches done to you Aurora, I swear if I ever get my hands on those fucks I'm gonna use the skin off their faces to patch these holes" he thought to himself, the plasma burn marks on the broken sections of hull outside and the sudden FTL jump making it apparent this was a last ditch effort to protect the ship from a further martian attack.

"protect your investments, by launching them into the middle of nowhere!, that's the military for you...I wonder who authorized that jump anyway, do we even have a captain anymore?, or maybe it was the A.I, either one" Marcus thought aloud his voice echoing upwards through the shaft.

 

[Right Hook]

"Can't be too exact beyond it being C deck...wait, okay here we go, some writing on the wall here...I'm between C4 Robotics and C3 Life Systems, I'm a bit hesitant about moving through any doors without an engineer to check them, don't want to get sucked into space or something." Jake hoped he would be in Markus' path but if not, Jake would try to find him or think of something.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

"Ahhhh...Shit...I understand, so Any other survivors Mrs...." David asked while fishing for a name for the somewhat attractive Tech Head in front of him.

 

[Athol]

"Attention, This is Ensign Markus Law, I repeat this is ensign Markus Law, I am alive and currently uninjured outside Hydroponics D1-3, I am currently on my way to life systems to see what can be done about life support and the A.I core, if anyone has any objections please advise, over"

"No objections at all Mr. Law." Eli called out as he made his way. "The sooner you can get the AI back online the better. We're flying pretty blind with most of the ship down." Crawling through the smaller maintenance shafts was slow going dragging his prosthetic leg, climbing down a ladder even more so. Finally making it to his objective, he popped a hatch crawling into Defence Fire Control, and nearly threw up.

"Oh God..." He muttered, surveying the room. Like the rest of the ship there where broken bits of machinery everywhere, anything that had been loose been thrown about like paper in a tornado, but what got Eli was that there had been people here. The stern wall of Fire Control looked like a cross between a slaughter house and a train wreck. The inertial compensators must have failed or been offline...wh-when...those poor bastards. The only solace he could find was that at least whoever they'd been, they'd died quick.

Stagger out into the hall, he took a few deep breaths and tried to shake the horror from his mind. There's nothing you can do for the dead, help the living. He thought as he limped to C2-8. Half way there, he heard the bang as Dr. Capek blew the hatch. Getting to the door he tapped the door panel, and nothing happened. "What the...? The door is still online, why can't I...fuck." Eli said, remembering his reduced security status. Punching his Engineering override code into the keypad, the door opened with a hiss.

Steeping into the room, he called out. "Glad to see someone else made it." Limping towards the gun he made a quick assessment of the situation. A piece of piping was locking the gunner's seat in place, and from interfacing with the gun computer he'd found that something had wiped its OS. "Of course it couldn't be easy..." He muttered. Taking a deep breath, Eli retrieved his combi-torch, making his way to the gun proper. "Don't worry Mr. West I'll have you out in a moment, oh Doctor you might want to step back."

Once Dr. Capek was clear he set to work first cutting the pipe that was jamming the cage, and then removing an access panel, using his mutli-wrench he opened a hydraulic bleeder valve. As foul smelling hydraulic fluid pooled on the floor Eli was able to manhandle the cage around, freeing David. Leaning against the console while he recovered from the exertion he smiled. "See? No problem. Now does anybody know what the fuck happened?"

 

[terribleyetfun]

"good depending on the damage it's either a matter of reconfiguring the network to exclude the inoperable materials and then putting the system through a hard reset and also on the 'find me a doctor front' excellent we should be close-by"

After about another minute of climbing the until just recently, completely vertical shaft had now divided into two paths; one leading further away from his destination and one heading to the second leading straight towards the main server room. What did catch his eye about the new path was the body further along, unsure if it was alive or not Marcus called out to it.

"HEY DOC, IS THAT YOU?" Marcus shouted, his voice echoing down the narrow shaft.

 

[Right Hook]

"Hey DOC, is that you?" the voice was booming in the cramped shaft, Jake was slumped against a wall, he stood and looked in the direction the sound came from, when he caught a glimpse of what had yelled, he was visibly shocked. The dull glow from the eye ports on the helmet and just the general aesthetic of it were menacing.

"That you Marcus? The tools Ellie was using are right over here. That helmet is badass." Jake said with a bit of a grin.

 

[terribleyetfun]

Marcus let out a laugh, he'd never heard anyone describe his work outfit as badass before, he quickly changed his direction into other shaft and started walking towards Jake "yeah it's me, The main server room should be on the floor above us, from there I should be able to get the A.I up and running again and then we can get a full diagnostic of the ship and go from there" he said before extending his hand for a handshake before turning his attention to the tools Jake motioned to, rifling through them with the same kind of glee a child would have when unwrapping Christmas presents.

"hmm maybe, maybe, maybe, ohhh a soldering iron definitely" he slipped the item into his jump suit before continuing finding a few more items of use before getting back up to his feet.

"So what of this Ellie person?, you managed to find her or her corpse?" Marcus inquired.

 

[Right Hook]

"No sign of her, the FTL jump threw me and knocked me out, nothing serious, feels like a minor hangover...but she was gone when I came to, I'm hoping she just went off to repair something and she isn't laying somewhere with a broken neck, seems weird that I didn't find her in sight though if she is dead." Jake rubbed the back of his head, the severity of the situation was setting in, the thought that he may never see his family again was causing a cold, empty feeling to form inside of him.

"Do you have any idea how much shit we are in? I mean not only ship-wise, if the Martians attacked us and forced the crown jewel of the fleet to retreat, what does that mean for Earth and its defenses?...this is fucked." Jake was more thinking out loud than anything.

 

[Nouw]

"Jesus christ not again." Ace muttered. He was conscious but dizzy, vision blurred a little. He noticed blood on his hands and looked for its source. Please not my head, not my head, not my head. He touched the back of his head to feel a blunt pain and quickly took his hand off. Fuck it's my head. He managed to lift himself up and locate his belongings. "PDA, ID, Peashooter, Clarinet case, lucky Ace and comb," he said and began to pick them up. After shoving them into his case, he combed up his hair and placed it in his pocket. "If I'm going to die, which I doubt, I'm going to die in style."

His head hurt but his balance was more or less there so he began his journey down the hall. The explosion had forced Ace into a hall that was familiar, yet unfamiliar. And as someone who thought he knew the entire ship, this surprised him. "I don't think I've been here, huh, that's new," he said, peering into each nightmare of a room. He wasn't bothered by the gruesome sights...at least, that's what he liked to think.

By the time he reached the end of the hall, he had forgotten all about his pain. He had more important things to think about. "F2...F2-Hallway...Hallway 5 down..." he said, trying to make out what the cracked glass read. He had been pushed down into a level, as his previous thoughts suggested, he hadn't been to. But as his previous thoughts also suggested, it was part of the relaxation area which he knew best. It had been bad luck that he was on the one hallway he had never done a proper gig. "Heh bad luck," he said, trying to force open the already broken door. After a few more kicks, it came down.

I suppose I'll have to take the emergency stairs, or ladders was it? He checked the condition of the elevator just in case it was somehow miracously working. But with no A.I. it would take more than Ace's good luck to get it starting. He eyed the slot on the wall that read in bold, red text USE ONLY IN EMERGENCIES. Regardless of its usefulness, he forced it open to be greeted by some sort hammer-like object. Primitive, but I'll take it. He wrestled it from its case and used it to smash open the door to the emergency exit. He looked down to see only darkness and the faint glow of a ladder.

Am I really lucky? He spat out his reed, replacing it with another one from his clarinet case and proceeded to empty it. He was only taking what he would need. He decided to leave the hammer and keep everything else, including the relatively useless clarinet. Ace strapped the case to his back and started climbing up.

 

[hiei82]

"Capek. Dr. Iskierka Capek. As for survivors, the only ones I know of are Eli and a man named Markus Law" she answered, moving away from the make-shift computer console such that she could get a better look at him. After answering the question, she grabbed her HUD - temporarily disconnecting it from the computer - and began to reactivate the device's comm-link.
Before she could however, the door to the room slid open with a hiss, and a man entered. [b/]"Glad to see someone else made it."[/b] he said, taking a step into the room. Realizing the problem quickly, he moved straight to the computer console. [b/]"Of course it couldn't be easy..."[/b] he muttered after a few moments, pulling out a cutting-torch. [b/]"Don't worry Mr. West I'll have you out in a moment, oh Doctor you might want to step back."[/b]

Iskierka complied, still in shock. Not at his sudden entrance, but by his features. The eyes, the nose and mouth, the hair, and even the way her carried himself. He looked and moved like only one other person she had ever met. The name was the final stoke. [i/]"Stroud"[/i] He was as a daemon reborn into her life. Her real hand shook in fear and hate. Iskierka was frozen; paralyzed by the impossibility of it all.

[b/]"See? No problem. Now does anybody know what the fuck happened?"[/b] he said as he finished freeing David. Again she could do nothing; nothing but stare down at the damaged ring she kept on her finger. [i/]"How...[/i]. Under her breath a single word escaped. The name of the villain who had stolen her life; "William... Stroud..."

[spoiler="OOC"/]This should end well.[/spoiler]

 

[terribleyetfun]

Marcus let out a long sigh before grabbing the tools he needed and walking back to the ladder. "eh I'm not too concerned about what our CO's our going to do to us if we get back, you know cause we have more important things to do, like living for instance and take it from me if we manage to come back from this we're more likely to get a medal than a dishonorable discharge" Marcus said with a laugh wrapping his hand around the first rung of the ladder. "what does strike me as weird is that the ship was behind the moon when it was attacked, there are no instruments that could have detected it from the direction the Martians were attacking and I'm not sure about this part but it was only one torpedo that hit us, the shields should have absorbed some of the damage, but where were they?. It's all too fishy if you ask me, but anyway these questions are for when I have a computer to argue with, let's go" Marcus said as he started climbing disappearing out of view before stopping to wait for Jake.

 

[Sigma Castell]

"Gallows, Markus, I'll meet you in Life-support," Johann said, reaching the door through to the stairwell. It had been open when the power failed, so he could just about squeeze through. He looked up into stariwell, counting how many he'd have to climb.
[i/]"C Deck"[/i], he thought, [i/]"Five levels up"[/i].

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

David hopped out of the chair and said "Phew, glad you guts showed up, Was bored out of my skull, as for what happened, I was blasting the hell out of enemy ships when what I think was a missile hit the side of the ship but then I think Management decided to use FTL and here we are..."
He pulled out his Magnum and spinned it on his finger before holding it pointed to the roof.
"Now, lets find the rest of the survivors and get the fuck out of here..." He said before he swooped down to pick up his HUD and beret.

 

[Athol]

"William... Stroud..."

Eli winced when he heard that name, nothing good ever came from associating with it. Then it hit him, he?d wondered why the name Capek seemed familiar, now he remembered; the brutal attack by a terrorist sympathizer, the death of a brilliant scientist, and his own personal shit storm when the police finally caught his brother.

He gave Iskierka a look of sorrow. "Yes, unfortunately he is by brother. I know this probably means fuck all, but I am sorry. I'd known my family as a whole were against the war, but I if I'd known..." Eli let out a sigh, looking up at the ceiling muttering. "[small]You've got a real sick sense of humour you know that?[/small]"

"Now, let?s find the rest of the survivors and get the fuck out of here..."

"Agreed" He said, standing. "Everyone else seems to be heading for Life Support and the AI Core, so I think that?s our best bet." Looking back at the doctor Eli gave her sad smile. "Look Iski... Dr. Capek, hate me if you like but your help would be invaluable." With that he limped out of the room, his left foot clicking against the decking as he went.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

David was first out of room, Checking it for hostiles, sure, the ship was a wreck but after his last near death experience, He wasn't taking any chances.
"So to get to Life Support, we need to..." He left that question hanging in the air for someone to answer it.

"...but your help would be invaluable"

David heard a clicking noise and turned and saw Eli Limping.
"Yo, Engie, do something to your leg? need a lift?" He offered as he made sure the Exit was clear.

 

[terribleyetfun]

Marcus let out a long sigh, having waited for Jake long enough he continued on his way upwards moving faster than before, burdened with the thought that now more lives than his own were on the line.

"Hey doc, I?m going on ahead, the A.I server is just a straight climb up so just follow me." Marcus shouted before continuing on wasting no time as he ascended the ladder, his final obstacle being a sealed maintenance hatch into the server room he tired releasing the locks and slamming his weight against it but to no avail.

"Dammit, jammed, I'm going to have to make a cut here, I'm sorry about this Aurora I really am but it's for your own good, like medicine y'know?" Marcus sighed as he took out his cutting torch and started slicing through the metal, the heat of the welder moving through it like a hot knife through butter before eventually making a full circle. He moved to the side to let the metal fall away hitting the bottom of the shaft with a resounding bang, the only thing left now was to spray some coolant onto the now cut hatch to make it safe to climb through, after having done this Markus ascended into the server room.

It was a complete disaster area, servers were tossed about, screens were smashed and there were even a few fires that needed to be put out. Markus wasted no time with repairs he started with the fires spraying then with a burst of coolant before walking over to the only unbroken screen using it to run a diagnostic and discover that the A.I core was still intact, although slightly damaged, however the attack forced it to deactivate, requiring a full reboot, a process that requires two people. "WOOHOO, we have a core!, now to get this puppy up and running" Marcus shouted doing a short victory dance to celebrate before activating his PDA's Microphone.

"ladies and gentlemen of the SS Aurora, this is your ensign Markus law speaking, I've got some damn good news for all of you, the A.I core is still intact, deactivated and slightly damaged but still useable, however the reboot process is going to require two people, but I have a friend with me so that's no issue, meaning we should have full A.I support in about an hour"

 

[Sigma Castell]

Johann reached C Deck, flicking off the lamp on his headset. It seemed like the Power was still on in this section o the ship. He scanned the walls, searching for directions. He'd never been on C Deck before, usually bypassing it in the elevator. He spent most his time on the Bridge and in the relaxation area. He pulled out his PDA. Bringing up the map. A top-down representation of the ship appeared on the screen. Cycling through the levels, he came to C-Deck. Life support was down the main corridor, through Hydrponics. He got moving, stowing the broken HUD in his left pocket. [i/]"Maybe the Engineer can fix it,"[/i] he thought.

 

[Right Hook]

"Gallows, Markus, I'll meet you in Life-support,"

Jake stopped following Markus momentarily to reply "Alright, we should be in there in just a sec." Jake followed the path Markus took and entered the server room. fuck, looks like a storm ripped through here, you think this area would be more secure than this...

Jake took in the room while Markus darted around doing "engineer stuff", Markus stopped and sent a message out to everyone "ladies and gentlemen of the SS Aurora, this is your ensign Markus law speaking, I've got some damn good news for all of you, the A.I core is still intact, deactivated and slightly damaged but still useable, however the reboot process is going to require two people, but I have a friend with me so that's no issue, meaning we should have full A.I support in about an hour"

"Okay, so what do you need me to do?" Jake asked.

 

[hiei82]

It wasn't him. The state of paralyzed fear that had settled over her finally broke at his expression of sorrow. [i/]"Of course it's not him... he's been dead for a year.[/i] she thought, finally allowing herself to breath again, her conscious mind finally reasserted itself to berating her.

[b/]"Look Iski... Dr. Capek, hate me if you like but your help would be invaluable."[/b] he finished. She knew he was right, and whatever anger she had for Eli could wait until the ship was repaired. A few deep breaths later, she was ready to move again.

[b/]"Yo, Engie, do something to your leg? need a lift?"[/b] the recently freed David said, breaking the tension that had settled in the room. Glancing down, Iskierka could see the extent of Eli's injuries.

"Mr. Stroud, your in no condition to be walking right now. I know we need to move, but let me at least patch up your leg before there is any permanent damage." she said, in both concern for his well being and as an olive branch - temporary as it might be.

While retrieving her First-Aid kit, a voice called out over the Comm-link system. [b/]"Ladies and gentlemen of the SS Aurora, this is your ensign Markus law speaking, I've got some damn good news for all of you, the A.I core is still intact, deactivated and slightly damaged but still useable, however the reboot process is going to require two people, but I have a friend with me so that's no issue, meaning we should have full A.I support in about an hour"[/b] it said before Eli could answer her suggestion. Not waiting for any of the others to respond, she continued. "They can wait a few minutes"

 

[terribleyetfun]

Marcus turned his head towards Jake Still leaning against the console he used earlier, in his eyes this would be the most difficult part of restoring the A.I, it had to be done with care or else it could to further malfunctions down the road or an outright system failure.

"Alright you've got a really simple job" he pointed to a screen on the far side of the room. "I'm going to initiate the reboot process from this terminal when I do that screen is going to light up and indicate how far along the boot process is, for every ten percent it goes up tell me, that way I can introduce new parts of the neural-electronic network gradually without overloading the core, just tell me when you're ready to go and we'll start" Marcus said before letting out a sharp breath of air and cracking his knuckles.