Lost in Spaaace! (RP Thread)

[Athol]

A loud 'whoop' of triumph echoed through the Assault Bay. "Damn I'm good." Eli said to himself as his right leg moved back and forth, holding off the floor. His 'new' powered prosthetic was still nowhere near as good as the one he'd lost, but it was a damned improvement over what it had been.

As the thrill of success began to wind down, he realized he hadn't heard from anybody else in a while. "Shit." He muttered. "Hope things are well..." Pulling out his PDA, he sent a message;

Eli here,
How are things going? Is it safe, or should I start blowing sections into space? If I don't hear from anyone within the next ten to fifteen minutes, I'll assume all are lost and blow the reactor...always did want to go out with a bang.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

David stared on at the aliens as the one who called itself Scacheri asked some questions.
He knees were weak, if he hadn't pissed himself earlier, he would've now.
He started to have a major panic attack, What do I say? What do I do? What will they Do?
His mind spun faster and faster with all the horrible ways he could die, he breath in and out but he wasn't getting any oxygen.
This panicked him more, if this kept up, he would pass out.

 

[Right Hook]

"One is Scacheri. The voice of people in godlessss void. We sseek communcattiion. Why you have come? What, Response to uss?" The alien Jake had been brought here by asked, it was hard to figure exactly what it meant.

David looked like hell, he was pale, drenched in sweat and smelled like piss. Jake put a hand on his shoulder, "Just take it easy, breathe, I'll handle this."

"Scacheri? The voice of the people in a godless void? I'm not sure what you think is going on here but I assure you it is nothing supernatural, we are simply two species meeting for the first time. We are lost in space. It's completely up to you how our species remember this moment because we come in peace and all that." Jake laid it out, hell, worse come to worst and the whole ships gets blown to hell, Eli's message had been sitting open on Jake's HUD for nearly two minutes now. It was their one last play, the thing the aliens had no knowledge of. It could render this meeting moot or it could cause all out war between the species. It was the gun pointed at the head of the universe.

 

[BeerTent]

The cybernetic one turned to the tall one and spoke. "Tuii' roi' duii' daa, oli baksirr. Tuod duii' oli sard. Tuiri amir ka mad qmav uav da nlaviik, or duii' uozi mad riim yr. Tuii' veru niovi." she said, gesturing with her hands a little as the small one looked around for a moment. The tall one nodded and then spoke while the cybernetic one translated again. "Uss, wish for peace. Forgive our, caution. Your ship is masssive. For war. Thiss has happened in the past. Homes were losst. We musst know. How are you here? Who were you fight-ing? How are you losst?"

 

[Nouw]

Feeling better, Ace stood up and stretched his leg. It still hurt but walking was bearable now. He knew the doctor wouldn't approve but frankly he wanted to do something. Playing the clarinet wasn't an option, the sound didn't travel well in rooms like these. Rec rooms were designed to be places of music and relaxation, mess halls were designed to be places of food and relaxation. Now that he thought about it, he was feeling peckish. Wanting a light snack, Ace walked slowly over to the kitchen. He spotted the cat looking for food, away from Philip's line of sight. "Philip was it? Got anything to eat? I'm feeling a little peckish. Got anything for the cat too?" Ace asked, oblivious to Philip's resentment of the 'vermin' despite the fact that it was clearly hiding from him.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

David calmed down a little in time for the Translator's response.
After hearing it, he was confused., didn't help his nerves up much.
He pulled over a chair and sat on it, a sicking squish from his pants as he did.
"Jake...sorry about this, just...Personal issues...Not in that sense, just some....some...Childhood trauma...I'll explain later, for now, mind doing the honours?..."

 

[Right Hook]

"Jake...sorry about this, just...Personal issues...Not in that sense, just some....some...Childhood trauma...I'll explain later, for now, mind doing the honours?..." David said while sitting.

"Yeah, I can handle it, just take a few minutes to compose yourself." Jake replied, things were looking up, David was in no condition to help but at least he was managing himself. Jake had been worried he'd pass out or pull out his gun, now it seemed that type of crisis had been averted.

"Uss, wish for peace. Forgive our, caution. Your ship is masssive. For war. Thiss has happened in the past. Homes were losst. We musst know. How are you here? Who were you fight-ing? How are you losst?" The cybernetic alien said.

Don't get too excited, they might just be playing at peace but it is a start at least.

"Caution is fine, I understand caution...and yes, this ship is for war, our people have divided. Some moved to another planet, these... heretics have caused much trouble for us on the home planet and we wish to bring them back, not through force but just with the hopes that the possibility of it would be enough. Unfortunately the heretics surprised us and routed our defensive perimeter, causing major damage to our ship and forcing us into a blind space jump for survival. We ended up...wherever this is by accident." Jake explained the situation.

"Now if you don't mind me asking, when you say this has happened before...do you speak of yet another species or do you mean a sect of your own?" If these aliens had already met another group aliens and found them hostile it could spell disaster for any type of public relations.

 

[0z0wen]

Philip looked up from the two piles of food he had amassed on the main table in the kitchen, he eyed Ace warily and picked up a packet of dried food. "If you're not looking for anything fancy, this will do... Otherwise... You'll have to wait." He slid the packet over to Ace before nodding to the door into the mess hall. "Cat's food is out there. I feed the crew, not the pests." With that he nodded to himself and returned to the piles of food, peering at the packets and placing them in one of the two piles.

 

[BeerTent]

The mechanical one turned to the larger one and translated again for the group. "Tuiel lovi er seqi aylr. Byd kezekik xi' nsomidr. Tui ruen vor oddovqik, omk dui aduil ryxrivdeam ah duiel rniveir oddovqik duip. Tuii' vili halvik da poqi o xsemk gypn, omk imkik miol Saylvi." She replied. "Tuii' kireli da qmav, ah dui Yolona Oss." That last word, seemed... Different, unnatural to their language. She even had some difficulty pronouncing it as the tall one paused for a moment, and then nodded. The translations began yet again.

"I now understand... Fear. Destruction... We were found in the past. By a race we called the Yolona Oss. Their ships rained destruction on our home for a period of time, destroying our first void-home. When both of our great leaders contacted them, however. They would not listen until one would become the voice of the people. When I have become that voice. The destruction stopped. I had told them many things of our race, our gods, our sands and Biological-Technology. In exchange they uplifted us. Theailan, aah... Is, a Product. Of their technology, and ours." The two paused for a moment and looked at each other. "Tell us of your technology... Of your many homes, and how you survive in such a cold climate?" She would then translate one last question. Again, with her speaking over the larger one, it was still quite difficult to focus on what he was saying. More so because it was probably better to stick with the conversation.

 

[Right Hook]

"Tell us of your technology... Of your many homes, and how you survive in such a cold climate?" The alien asked.

These creatures were quite curious, although that wasn't at all surprising, conversation certainly beat open battle. Jake only hoped that the curiosity was out of genuine interest and not in the search of weaknesses. These creatures had been found by another species of alien but it seemed they'd like to avoid hostilities, for all Jake knew these creatures had been left in shambles by their war or maybe they were subjects to some great intergalactic empire that would now attempt to fold humanity into its wings. However it sounds as if these 'Yolona Oss' caused some sort of technological boom for these creatures, 'uplifted', 'Theailan', Jake couldn't make sense of all of it but it seemed as if it was important.

"You appear as if you may be reptilian in nature, I'm guessing you are cold blooded, you'd said you live among sand and if you figure our climate to be cold, I'd assume you are suited for heat. Our species is more accustomed to a colder climate, less sand and more vegetation, like you saw in hydroponics, the room where we met. My species is warm blooded, to put it simply our bodies heat themselves, making it preferable to be in slightly cooler locations. As for technology, look around you, you are seeing a lot of it right here, some of it on our home-planet may be superior but this is a good general lesson in what we have. As for homes, we tend to live with our families, birth-givers and children, usually among other families in cities...I, this really doesn't seem too prudent, didn't you get a lot of this in those computer files anyway?" Jake was becoming slightly annoyed, maybe it was explaining family, the thought of his own, but he really didn't want to lecture anymore.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

David watched as Jake talked to the Aliens.
While the main problem of they implanting Chest-burster's in inside theme was gone, now they would have to put in a good word for the Human Race and given some of the shit Humanity has pulled and that fact that two of their First contacts involved running, Screaming and pissing, He wasn't hopeful for their chances.
He stopped this train of thought before he had another panic attack.
Hardened Veteran My ass...

 

[Athol]

The silence was deafening. Eli was now sitting in a darkened workshop starring at his HUD, and hoping for a reply. "Fuck this...I gotta do something." He muttered eventually, moving over to a nearby console. He smiled grimly as those months of work interfacing the ship's various pieces of mechanical hardware to the computers paid off. While he was no tech, he could make his was around the Aurora's mainframe relatively easily.

Getting into the reactor controls, Eli set about his end game. His task was made more difficult because he was working through the ships autonomous system, outside of the A.I.'s control, but he couldn't risk the possibility that the intruders may be able to compromise it. His actual goal was nothing more elaborate that a reactor meltdown, no small task normally given modern safety standards, but with the ship so badly damaged...it was a fair bit easier.

Several mind numbing minutes later he was done, and a fifteen minute timer was now slowly counting down on the corner of his HUD. If the timer reached zero the reactor would go critical in moments, and a new start would form consuming the Aurora and anybody else that was too close.

"God I hope I'm just being paranoid." He said out loud, using the pallet jack to create an exit in his barriers. Taking a few deep breaths, he scooped up a couple more magazines for his Culler, and left the Assault Bay.

Spoiler: @BeerTent

I hope I'm not over stepping my self here (rigging the ship to blow and all), but nobody's really responded to the message he sent to everyone so I think he'd be justified to be a bit edgy.

 

[BeerTent]

The mechanical one turned to translate again for the tall one. "Tuii roi duod duii oli volp xsaakik." She said before the small one piped up. "Tuod poqir rimri. Leqi, uav popposr sezi em vozir am Saylvi." The two others looked at the small one for a moment until he looked away. "Tuiri vliodylir lityeli vaskil vssepodir duim... Tuiel divumasssabi, duer ruen onniolr da xi dui nemmovsi. Tuii poi mad xi or navilhys or dui Yolona Oss." The cybernetic one explained, moving her hands a little. She seemed to have some difficulty explaining this next part. "Tuili vor... Tui vapnydil emdilhovik vedu, Id vor pali duom dui English ssombyobi. Tuer ami er rdesss neivemb ed dabiduil."

Again, the two spoke. "This one has many resources, but is merely a voice. You do appear to require assistance but the voices of our gods may, disagree. My loyalty is still to them." There was a pause as the large one smiled. "Pasedevr..." he said. The Cybernetic one frowned. "Politicss..." She would translate for the others. "This one proposes, Theailan will... Remain?"[/i] She looked up to the tall one again, the two of them stopping.

The cybernetic one paused. "Yay oli dui amsi' ami vonoxsi ah eppilream vedu duiri vliodylir. I vess vomd hyss linald vuim vi lidylm. Tli' da sezi vedu duip, omk nlavyli pali hlap duiel divumasabi'." the tall one told her. "Vili vissss..." She then replied, looking back to Jake and David. "This one understandss. We have originally appeared here to investigate. To destroy. Those of us in Sdolsebud wish to assssisst. But to do so, we must know more. This one will remain, to observe the damagess. To learn more of your speciess. To establish a connection with the one you call A.I. once again. Scacheri will return to state your intentions. We... Were in a sstate of... Emergency. From there, we will see, what we are capable of doing..."

The message from Eli remained on everyone who was wearing HUD-Gear. Someone had to respond.

Spoiler: @Athol

No worries. I think it's fine, I've got something up my sleeve if nobody else stops you.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

David Finally saw the message Eli sent, just having a panic attack and being out of his mind with fear prevented him from answering. He quickly got out his PDA and typed:

"Don't Do it! We are talking with them, they don't have Facehuggers, Repeat, THEY DON'T HAVE FACEHUGGERS!"

He quickly hit send and hoped that Eli wouldn't wreck this ship any-more then it already was.

 

[Right Hook]

"This one understandss. We have originally appeared here to investigate. To destroy. Those of us in Sdolsebud wish to assssisst. But to do so, we must know more. This one will remain, to observe the damagess. To learn more of your speciess. To establish a connection with the one you call A.I. once again. Scacheri will return to state your intentions. We... Were in a sstate of... Emergency. From there, we will see, what we are capable of doing..." the mechanical one finished.

"Okay, so you want to help us, that's good, I thank you for that. So you are going to stay and the other two are leaving for now? And you want to learn more. I'm going to need to consult a couple of people before I agree to this deal." Jake said turning away and taking a few steps towards David.

"Okay, Codex. What do you make of all of this, does this sound good or are we walking into a trap here? Do you have any protocol for this scenario?" Jake whispered quietly over his radio.

"David. Where the fuck is Johann? This is his big moment, why am I filling in for him?" Jake asked David quietly.

 

[BeerTent]

Two messages appeared on Eli's HUD, one from David, and another one from Iskeirka:
CAPEK:
Hold on Eli. I don't think they're done talking yet. I'm keeping a close eye on everything right now and while I'm not sure, I don't think you should detonate it yet.
WEST:
Don't Do it! We are talking with them, they don't have Facehuggers, Repeat, THEY DON'T HAVE FACEHUGGERS!

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A lower quality version of Codex's voice would run through the Radio. "I do not have any protocol for this situation." she would reply. "I would advise to assign the life-form an ID Card, so that I may track it's whereabouts throughout the ship. I will notify Security, or someone more suitable for any situations that may come up."

"Tuii' oli raveos, seqi yr. Tuer ami vess ba bid Scaskan." The tall one said before walking down the hall. The other two creatures nodded, the small one holding hand up to his nostrils for a moment. "Yeegh."

The cybernetic one looked back at the two humans before it and said. "Scacheri, understands. Like uss, you are a social creature. Like us, you too, must be cautiouss. This one knows that it will follow house rulesss. This one desires to learn, and to teach~. It isss... an interesting move. But we desire that this will solidify friendship." She was either still getting the hang of the translations, and speaking English, but she didn't seem too confident about this either. This may go to show that even something like her, could be afraid of the unknown. After all, she had never seen a human before.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

"Bastard ran off, think he heard something he didn't like, did wonders for my nerves as you can clearly see..." David answered back as the alien spoke again.


"Scacheri, understands. Like uss, you are a social creature. Like us, you too, must be cautiouss. This one knows that it will follow house rulesss. This one desires to learn, and to teach~. It isss... an interesting move. But we desire that this will solidify friendship."

David cringed a little at the sound of that, sure, they came in peace, but still, he was terror-stricken of them.
"Uhhhh...At this point, we could use the help, just errrr...heh...ship is kinda a wreak as you can see..." He chuckled awkwardly.
"Uhhhh...I'll be right back, just....nneeeeddddd to clean up....yeeeaahhhh..." He said before heading for the door.

 

[Right Hook]

"Scacheri, understands. Like uss, you are a social creature. Like us, you too, must be cautiouss. This one knows that it will follow house rulesss. This one desires to learn, and to teach~. It isss... an interesting move. But we desire that this will solidify friendship." the alien seemed uneasy, which was good, it it had been completely confident that would have worried Jake, being afraid in a situation like this was definitely normal.

"Uhhhh...At this point, we could use the help, just errrr...heh...ship is kinda a wreak as you can see...ha ha...uhhhh...I'll be right back, just....nneeeeddddd to clean up....yeeeaahhhh..." David walked towards the door.

"That'll be fine David, I'll take it from here and if you ever want to talk about your xenophobia, I'd be more than happy to console you." Jake said.

"Okay, um... is your name Scacheri? Or is it Theailan? What should I call you?" Jake asked before he set off to show the alien the ship.

 

[BeerTent]

As David started to walk away, the smaller one took a step forward. The one that would reintroduce themselves, the Cybernetic would raise a hand to stop him. "Tuer posi kekm'd vomd da hassav uep omi'voi'. Hi rdomq." the small one said. "Ripoem uili, Adok. Hi vessss lidylm omk kiveki iayl hodi. Imhalp Scacheri duiri vliodylir uozi ovvindik pi uarnedosedi." The Cybernetic one replied before making her way toward Jake.

"This one is merely Theailan. This one does not belong to Family, nor God. The adolescent is Adok. Scacheri is the older one I translated for. He used to be the wealthiessst of our kind. Now he utilizess what little... Money, he has left to create a haven away from the conflict of our gods." she explained. "We are, a primitive race. Unlike you, our home is only one planet. Dicaser, the other planet in the ssolar system iss ice."

 

[Athol]

CAPEK:
Hold on Eli. I don't think they're done talking yet. I'm keeping a close eye on everything right now and while I'm not sure, I don't think you should detonate it yet.
WEST:
Don't Do it! We are talking with them; they don't have Facehuggers, Repeat, THEY DON'T HAVE FACEHUGGERS!

Eli let out a small sigh when the messages popped up. Thank Christ...I'm glad someone's alive. A few key commands on his PDA halted the countdown, but he didn't cancel it. "Never hurts to have an ace in the hole." He muttered quietly to himself.

Making his way back to the Mess Hall, faster now that he'd 'upgraded' his leg, Eli made a bee line for the kitchen. He hadn't had a real meal since before the attack, and was now starting to feel it. Spotting Ace and Philip he smiled and went to them. "Hey I don't think we were really introduced. Eli Stroud, Engineer. I was part of the team that actually help design the Aurora."