Star Brigade: A 53rd Century Adventure RP

[Soviet Heavy]

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Tom remained on the bridge, monitoring the away team. In Thor's absence, Lisa was maintaining geosynchronous orbit over the target site. Tom had heard about the Freedom Isles. Back in the early 3000's, the Isles were known as the Lofoten Islands, off the coast of Euronda, then named Ancient Norway. Following humanity's exodus into space and subsequent return, Euronda was one of the first landing sites. The Lofoten Islands were renamed the Freedom Islands to celebrate the unity between the Crelm and Humans.

The Followers that had established themselves there had given the name an extra meaning. Freedom from aliens, freedom from unity, freedom from authority. They were xenophobic fanatics at best, and war criminals at worst. Tom was worried that the presence of Kalade and Muokilaxes might cause an incident. He opened a comm to James.

"James? Where is the Falcon 1? Have you got air cover over Corona 1? I have a feeling this might get ugly if we aren't careful.

 

[TheBlueShotgun0]

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"Oh, it already has." James said over the comm to Tom. He sat in the gunners seat of the Falcon, controlling the laser cannons and rockets. Rivers was actually piloting the craft. "One of ours just opened fire on a group of Followers, at least I think that's what they are. Anyway, we have a firefight on our hands down here. We're moving in to assist." He released his finger from the comm and spoke to the pilot. "Bring us closer and disable the cloak."

"Understood, sir." Rivers responded, and James heard a switch being flipped. Although he couldn't tell from within the cockpit, the G14 was now totally visible. Rivers flew the gunship around the attackers left flank, and James unleashed two blasts of energy from the cannons. Twin explosions of fire and steam blew several of the enemies away, fatally injured if not already dead. A few remained, but James didn't dare shot any closer to his comrades.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

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"We're trying to get a good reading, but there's a storm coming in off the sea. It's playing havoc with out sensors, and we can't get a good lock up here. You'll be flying blind. Anticipate potential resistance."

Tom rushed from the comm board over to Lisa's bridge terminal. "Lisa, is there any way we can get through the storm cover and get a more accurate map detail?

"One moment..... Yes Mr. Anderson, there is. By transmitting my signals through the away team's diagnostic gear, I can provide a direct uplink of the surrounding area, bypassing the storm front."

"Great," sighed Tom. "Then do it now!"

 

[TheBlueShotgun0]

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"Ya, I hear ya'" James said back into the comm. His neck hurt from the impact, but otherwise he was fine. "Hey, Rivers. You still in one piece?" he asked, but he heard no response. "Rivers!" he repeated a little louder. After a moment of silence he decided to unbuckle and investigate. He climbed up and back to the pilots seat, where he found Rivers unconscious, apparently having slammed his head against the canopy's window. He climbed back to his seat and keyed the comm. "Kalade, I need to speak to someone more qualified." He didn't want to hurt her feelings but the mission, and possibly Rivers' life, hung in the balance. "We've got one wounded here. Can you put Lime or Thor on?"

"Umm, ya." She said. "Hey guys, whats-his-face needs to talk to you!" Whats-his-face? Good God, the dumb ***** doesn't even know my name. he silently, but angrily, thought.

 

[JoJo]

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The Captain stood quietly behind where Tom sat, watching the unfolding scene below with increasing concern.

Maybe it was a bad idea to send Kalade down there...

"Beep!" His train of thought was interrupted by the ever-cheery Lisa "I have a important message for you Captain" she chirped. The Captain sat down at his chair, his eyes widening as he read the name of the sender. If it was possible, they widened even further as he read down the message.

"Shit!" He reached for the intercom without hesitation. "Any corps who aren't involved in the mission on Earth or the current medical work, come here right away! Also while I'm on here, if there's any more news from the infirmary then I'd really like it hear it now!"

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Five minutes later, Til, Brian and Mae stood passively in front of the Captain.

"Thank you for coming so quickly," he said "We have an urgent situation. I've just received a message from Commander Cerise, informing me heandshe is making a surprise visit and requesting docking permission. As we speak heandshe will be entering our secure entrance lobby. Corps, the last thing we need is himandher to find out about this whole intrusion affair, at-least not yet. Heandshe is very big on 'procedure' and might even try to delay our mission. We can send them the full story once we've set off and it's too late to stop us. You three's task is to meet himandher and then show them around and make sure they don't find out anything, except that we had a damaging air-leak which we're still investigating. Nothing about the saboteur, nothing about the mission on Earth. Mae and Til, being a diplomat and a counsellor respectively you should have no problem pulling this off. Brian, I know this kind-of-thing isn't your speciality but try to play the loyal soldier, and if heandshe asks anything awkward, keep your mouth shut."

The Captain paused for breath, speaking for this long without a break wasn't easy, especially when he had to make sure none of his New Terran slang slipped out.

"Any questions corps?"

 

[Soviet Heavy]

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Lisa's link through the away team's sensors had given Tom a ground view of the incident. The Falcon 1 was rocked by the impact of the revolver shot. The Norg weapon was more akin to a mass accelerator cannon than a small arm weapon. The gunship groaned, and lurched forward from the hit, speeding off on a collision course to the Followers' settlement.

"James, report! The storm front is keeping communication low, but I still have visuals from the ground. Can you get through to Corona 1?"

He switched links. "Lime, keep Kalade safe. The storm is moving in fast, so you need to move the team into the Trenches quick! Thor, you and Muokilaxes are on point. Get out of the weather, and keep moving inwards. Don't fire unless fired upon. The captain has a meeting, and an incident isn't going to look good on the reports."

 

[TheBlueShotgun0]

"Good." James was glad he was finally taking to someone competent. "Rivers is unconscious, and needless to say this thing is grounded. I'm powering down all unnecessary systems but I'm leaving the cloak on. According to the map we're on top of a tall building just east of the river." While he was talking he had also had the channel open to Anderson, though James was unsure weather or not he would hear it at all judging from the level of static that had been in his last message.

 

[Tiger Sora]

Thor stopped in front of the ridge line. Flipping over to infrared he could see where the ship had crashed and afew people moving. 'Muffins, lets just hope their curious and not mad'. The ship had crashed a ways down to the left of them in the trench. Thor sat down to narrow the gap, slipping off he fell the one story drop to the building Lime landed on. The landing wasn't soft but everything remained intact. The entire mission had gone from bad to worse to hellish. With the storm blowing in they could be trapped here for days if it was a bad one, complicated with wounded and very unfriendly inhabitants.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

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Don't worry, I've got your position, and I can hear you. Okay, you want the bad news first, or the really bad news?"

 

[TheBlueShotgun0]

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"The bad news, I guess." Something was telling James that things where a lot worse then they seemed.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

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"The bad news, I guess." Something was telling James that things where a lot worse then they seemed.

"Alrighty, the bad news is: Captain Vance has just received word that Commander Cerise intends to do an inspection of the Star Brigade. We were supposed to have left the System by now, so s/he's adamant about checking in on the ship to see what's wrong. That means, we can't send down the other G-14 for Fire Support."

"The other bad news is that the storm front moving in off of the sea means we couldn't put a gunship through if we tried. You're gonna be stuck down there for a while unless I can think of something."

 

[TheBlueShotgun0]

"Alright, I'll leave Rivers here and scout outside." James placed his face mask and goggles over his face, grabbed a radio and, making sure to leave the heat on, opened the canopies hatch and stepped outside, readying his pistol as he did so.

The heavy snow fall made it impossible to see more than a few feet, and James didn't see anyone, so he moved to the edge of the building to get a better idea of his location. Unfortunately, the snow there was equally as thick, but James thought he could make out the location of Corona 1. "I think I see your location. It looks like you'll be able to get here mostly through back streets and alleyways."

 

[A Gent of Villainous Intent]

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Mae showed his teeth in frustration, thankfully something his helmet concealed. The Crelm were always difficult for Mae to trust and talk to, being that they were a species of hermaphroditic killer jellyfish. Yet this was his job, and if meant talking to Slimes then he would have to deal with it.

"I will do as you command Captain. If the commander asks I will say I heard it was a stray satellite, but then again, I am only a diplomat, and know very little in the ways of engineering. You have my word as a Mezian that the Commander shall hear nothing of the Saboteur, and even less about the mission." He nodded his head as a sign of assurance, but underneath his helmet he grimaced as only a Mezian could.

 

[Bravo 21]

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Muokilaxes followed the others down toward Lime thought the ship had crashed. He was cold and irritated, after all what was he supposed to do, wait while others aimed weapons at the crew, the crew he was supposed to protect? But it was Lime's mission, so he kept his mouth shut. and followed the others. Seeing the bridge that was proposed the crossed he broke his silence. "Sirandmam, that bridge looks like it's on the verge of collapse. I'm not sure if it can support my weight." he paused for as second, then added "Sirandmam" trying not to antagonize the crem any more than he already had.

 

[Bravo 21]

Muokilaxes turned and saw the sniper, and half raised his own rifle. seeing no way to quietly take out the sniper, he began edgeing his hand towards the smoke grenade, looking towards Lime to see if the signal to engage the sniper was forthcoming.