Star Brigade: A 53rd Century Adventure RP

[JoJo]

Captain Vance groaned for the hundredth time in the last five minutes and repeatedly punched the lift buttons in the desperate hope that they might start working again.

"Lisa... why on Earth didn't you tell me that the left lift down from the Bridge had a malfunction?!"

"I did yesterday" the computer chimed cheerfully "I'm sorry for not reminding you today, I assumed that you would remember. I tried to get Demexin to fix it but he was busy working on other parts of the ship. I'm finding a temporary solution now that will have you out in no time!"

"Uhhhh..." The Captain put his head in his hands.

Why now of all times? You wouldn't believe this ship was brand new.

"Eh, Lisa, is the leak being fixed?" he asked with trepidation.

"I believe so, Lime and James are organising the repair at the site and Tom Anderson is up in the bridge. The cabins have had to be depressurised to avoid further damage to the ship."

"Could you connect me to Mr. Anderson by video link?"

"Sure, he'll appear on the screen to your right any second now."

 

[Soviet Heavy]

"Hello? Captain? Operative Anderson here. I came up to the bridge looking for you, but you weren't here." he said into the monitor.

"I had Lisa run a scan on Cabin Five. According to her biometric scanner, someone was in the room before the leak started, but there is no footage of a person entering or exiting the cabin during the time frame of the malfunction. We believe it's sabotage. Right now I'm on a link with Demexin's inspection crew. I'll put him through."

The link cut to static for a moment, before changing to a shoulder mounted camera on Demexin's pressure suit.

"Well Captain, we've depressurized the cabin section to contain the leak, and I've got my team cutting into the cabin now."

The camera turned to focus on Demexin's crew hauling a large cutter up to the door frame of Cabin Five. The machine made three loud thumping noises, before breaking loose of its bearings. Inside, the camera feed showed the interior of the cabin. In the vaccuum, everything simply floated past, untouched by the artificial gravity orienting the rest of the Star Brigade.

"Lights are out, looks like the power cut out when we sealed the.... ah. Captain, I think we found our saboteur. At least, what's left of him."

 

[TheBlueShotgun0]

James walking over to the body floating in the vacuum, with the others close behind him. The flash lights mounted on their helmets illuminated the room. Bits of blood, bone, and grey matter drift around the room. The crews magnetic boots keep them grounded but many object where free floating among the guts. The body hovered half way between the ceiling and floor. It was a human male, not more that 25 years old. The hands where still clamped around the throat, the eyes wide with fear. The sides of his head had burst open, likely a result of the sudden depressurization.

"Poor bastard" said one of the marines. They had decided to stay with the engineers once they had learned of the saboteur.

"Ya, now we can't interrogate him." said Demexin. The alien showed no sigh of sympathy. "One of you drag him out. We still need to fix this hole." The marines maneuvered the body out of the room, and the engineers began to work.

 

[JoJo]

The Captain's dark skin turned a tone paler as the lift's screens briefly showed all that remained of the saboteur being taken away. Despite the many corpses he had seen in his time in the S.U. army, it never ceased to be unpleasant.

"It was... sabotage?" he muttered to himself.

Never had anything like this in my army days... I hope it isn't an omen for what's to come

"Good news Captain, I've found a way of getting the lift moving again." Lisa blurted out happily "You'll be returned to the bridge immediately. Sorry for the inconvenience caused."

The lift began to move back up again and after quick sigh of relief Captain Vance stumbled through the opened doors into the bridge. He made his way over to the control panel where Tom was sitting.

"Thanks for taking charge whilst I was... eh... occupied. Do we know who the saboteur is?"

 

[Tiger Sora]

Thor flicked several switches over and pulled out a key lock, activating the auto pilot mode and locking the pilot controls. He unbuckled himself and jumped out of his seat. "They just recovered what remained of the bastard Cap'. He's human, thats what we know of now". Thor tucked his key away as he walked up to Anderson and Captain Vance. "I recommend we keep the ship locked down though and scan for any other rats aboard before we let anyone move about".

 

[Soviet Heavy]

"What he said. Hopefully the autopsy will tell us where he's from."

Thomas leaned back in his seat and sighed. "We barely leave the homeworld and we're attacked already? Even when I was doing assignments out of the New Terra for the Corps, it at least waited until we were at the job site before everything went to hell."

 

[JoJo]

Captain Vance nodded in agreement with Thor's suggestion, resting his hands on the back of Tom's seat.

"That makes sense, Lisa, scan the ship for any anomalies. Only allow Diplomatic Corps and support staff with high priority tasks to move between sections of the ship and report any attempts to violate that immediately."

He then turned to Lime to answer hisandher question.

"That was quick. As Anderson and Thor have told me, currently we have no ID on the body found other than he was a human male. We don't know yet whether he was a crew member or a stowaway. I think it's time to call a meeting."

The Captain leant back towards the computer screen in front of him.

"Lisa, get all Diplomatic Corps who aren't working on fixing the leak up here immediately, with the exception of Nate. Tell that doctor to get an ID on the body ASAP."

"Of course Captain, I believe he is already studying it in the infirmary now"

 

[JoJo]

The Captain looked sheepishly at Lime and shrugged.

"Don't blame it on me, I wasn't responsible for the ship design or software. If you've got a complaint take it to Commander Cerise, head of the entire Diplomatic Corps. Heandshe was the one who picked Kalade to work on our computers as far as I know. That wasn't a bad suggestion from Lisa anyway, I've met every new corp here in passing but it would be good to have a reminder."

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Tom just sat in his chair, twiddling his thumbs. He figured it was best if he stayed out of arguments regarding the technical aspects of the ship. The last time he'd made a query about Lisa, Demexin had looked like he was going to kill him. He'd been more cautious since then, and he generally stayed on the upper deck levels.

"I wonder what's taking everyone so long? It's not like its a big ship. I mean, the Crelm have their waterlines all over the hull, it'd take them less than a minute to get up here." He sighed. "Still, not being dead is a bonus I'd like to capitalize on, preferably by relaxing. Let them take as long as they want."

 

[TheBlueShotgun0]

The polarized visor became clear again as James turned off the welder. It had taken them over an hour, but they where finally done. They had filled in the crack with solder and then welded another piece of titanium over it. Although it looked rather ridiculous, it would have to do until they arrived at a shipyard for proper repairs. James glanced at the display on his wrist and saw that his oxygen supply was nearly depleted. Just in time he thought.

They hauled the equipment out of the room, closing the door behind them. "Bergmann, contact the bridge." Demexin said. "Tell them to re-pressurize this deck."

"Yes sir." James said, and brought up the bridge on his display. "Anderson, it's the engineering crew. We finished patching up the hole. You can re-pressurize this deck now."

 

[JoJo]

Once he had finished dealing with the instructions for Lisa to give the rest of the crew, the Captain returned to Lime, speaking in a low voice so only heandshe could hear.

"I would tread carefully if I was you, Lime" he said quietly but firmly, looking the crelm straight in eyes "We may be far more informal than the regular army in the Diplomatic Corps but the rules about respecting your superiors still apply here. If you knew what you were talking about then you'd know there was no opportunity to "take charge" at the time the ship's software was being designed, my job is to specifically to be the highest on-board authority for this tour of duty. Providing and updating equipment is others responsibility so next time you have a complaint, go tell someone who can actually do something about it, okay?"

 

[Tiger Sora]

Thor shook his head, palm to his face at Limes retort before passing it off. "Seems the bottle didn't break for this ship" His grizzled voice rang across to the Captains chair.. "If you know what I mean. I've had a run in with a ship in the same ill fated shoes, well much worse off than a little saboteur". Thor leaned up against a consol. "We tossed that murderous battle beaten piece of scrap into an ice moon before anything else happened. I'll place my chips though in the faith that this is just a bit of air in the hydraulics so to say. Hope you'll bet with me to Captain, and lady luck will smile upon us once we really get in the thick".

 

[Krais101]

Nate struggled with the overflow of injured patients. Grabbing a nurse he pointed at the beds full of injured patients. "Set up triage. I can't deal with everyone at once." Nate pointed at an uninjured human male standing near the door. "I need you to put pressure on this man's wound. Can you do that?" The man nodded. Nate radioed the bridge "Captain, we can't help everyone with the current manpower. Can you send anyone that has any form of medical training here, ASAP!"

 

[JoJo]

"Good to hear, corp" Captain Vance replied to Lime and he turned his head towards Thor. "This ship is meant to be designed and fitted with the latest SU tech, and staffed by people to match so I hope we won't need lady luck... but I get the feeling this won't just be a textbook mission. Norg especially aren't your typical race, there was this one time on Apleeloss... huh?"

The Captain saw on the screen that he was receiving an incoming message from Nate, he picked up the receiver hoping there would be news on the identity of the saboteur. He listened for a few moments and then sighed.

"I'll get Lisa to send out a ship-wide request for anyone with medical knowledge and give them permission to travel through the lockdown, meanwhile we can't afford to delay the ID of the saboteur's body. Prioritise that over all injuries except those that are life-threatening, understand?"