Zane 2011/01/28(Fri)22:33 No. 275891 ID: b6c6fc
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I am Star Gladiator Pelendina Zane and Space Marine of the Astranian Alliance. Under the watchful guidance of my Master Sergeant I have been appointed sole security commander of this colony ship and leader of the 10 marine specialist assigned to defend her. this assignment is designed to test my worthiness of command pending a promotion to the prestigious rank of Space Marine Sergeant.

the Only problem is there is absolutely nothing to do! how am I ever to prove my worthiness if there is not a single crisis to solve!

what should Zane do?

So, tell us about yourself and the colony.

>>275891
That's easy, Zane.
We know what you are like, and what you are like is a bucket of stress. You need to relax so you can be ready when something finally does happen. Go get laid or something.

>>275891
What's your destination? And if possible, ETA?

First, tell us your current equipment loadout and skillset, so we'll know what you can do if there is an emergency.

>>275893
A good workout is great for stress relief.

Kick over that robot.

First, tell us what's happened since your gladiatorial match and your head injury.

Second, go around and introduce yourself to everyone under your command if you haven't already as well as any superiors you may have and ask everyone about the status of all of their current assignments/tasks/duties/etc. Filling us in on who exactly is under your command, what they do and what their credentials are might help. Also, the limits and protocols that are associated with your task of defending the colony ship, as well as your resources.

Let's get this shit going. If there isn't a current crisis, we should prepare ourselves for the next one to minimize it's effects on the populace and the colony ship in general as much as possible, and be absolutely certain we can handle any situation at any time as possible. For now though, let's get ourselves acquainted with everyone under your command and what they do.

Also, how big of a ship are we talking here?

Maintain readiness, drill your team.
I know you have gotten used to the regularity of the arena, but remember, real war is long periods of boredom randomly broken up unexpected moments of panic. The boredom is the nice bit.

>>275891
Why, the answer is quite simple. If there is a lack of crises to solve, create one. Shoot out all the windows.

>>275892
>>275894
>>275896
Or do these, I guess. If you wanna be RATIONAL about everything.

>>275899
Maintenance isn't boring at all. We can always make things more optimized and continuously get better at what we do.

This endless vigilance is also what makes a good soldier a good soldier, as well as a responsible leader.

Kick over the robot into other people to keep them on their toes.

Don't kick over the robot. Irrational actions like that will make Gore question your abilities.

Also hey, how's your brain? No amnesia or anything?

Inspect your new ship, a map layout would be handy. Also, do you have any sort of wrist-mounted PDA or Helmet HUD that can display said map, status of security officers and communicate with them easily?

Oh, and a schedule of your average day on the ship would be handy. You know, wake up at X time, breakfast at X time, etc. I'm assuming the officers work in shifts so who is your second in command? Kimb?

Oh, and don't kick over the robot. That's stupid.

What's that robot carrying? A crate of stuff?

>>275898
>How big of a ship are we talking here
By this I mean, how big is the ship itself in general, are the colonists in suspended animation in little (hah) tubes or are they active and moving around in living quarters and etc?

And is this a transport ship TO a colony or is the ship itself the colony?

>>275897

Call the robot over, ask what it is carrying, and if the package isn't volatile THEN kick the robot.

Grab the robot and drop kick it

No crisis to solve? You're not looking hard enough. There's always something wrong if you look hard enough. Maybe someone's showing signs that they might screw something up at some indeterminate point in the future. Maybe the robots are showing signs of developing sentience and starting an uprising. They call it paranoid schizophrenia, I call it proactive security measures. Tomato, tomahto.

Zane 2011/01/28(Fri)23:28 No. 275933 ID: b6c6fc
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>>275894
634 hours, 45 minutes and 21 seconds ago we departed from the ForestWorld: Yerrot-X, in 327 hours 19 minutes and 59 seconds we will arrive at our destination the FarmingWorld: Kydalaska, at which point my mission will be complete

>>275898
>>275908
I have since made a full recovery, fortunately as any sort of brain damaged would have greatly limited my ability to serve the Alliance.
regardless I have chosen to take some time away from the competitive circuit. it might be best for me to hone my skill more before entering the ring again

>>275897
the Robots are all loyal servants of the Alliance and deserve no such disrespect

>>275895
SkillSet is almost exclusively limited to combat training, though I have being practicing my public speaking, and enemy negotiation/interigation skills

I am wearing a Mk5 light shielded combat suit, to replace me Mk4 suit that was recently destroyed, on my person I am carrying a TurboLaser, HandLaser, CutterAxe, 3 ion grenades, and mounted ScannerLight, I am also wearing a condensed powerpack on my back.

normally I also carry a disintegrator gun, but it is currently being Optimized by my team engineer

As the person in charge (at least of security), and since part of the reason for your assignment is to climb the political ladder, you need to be recognizable. As a result, I suggest lowering your helm-visor thing unless necessary, thus allowing your face and person to be associated with the safety of the populace.

Check up on the rest of the team. Are you pretty integrated, or was the team only formed for the mission?

I agree with lowering the helm visor. Being a faceless astrakhan among billions is great for fear tactics and combat but here you are dealing with civilians and your own squad, where it's better to have a face to go along with your words. Of course drop the thing at the first sign of combat down to the closed position but while it's safe you might as well have it up. And yeah, check on the team and fill us in on who is who.

Zane 2011/01/29(Sat)08:30 No. 276006 ID: b6c6fc
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>>275892
>>275921

this ship has the capacity to sustain it's populace for over 3 years, though most of the 2317 passengers will be departing once we Reach Kydalaska, 300+ citizens have permanent homes on the ship. All passengers are conscious and active, in the civilian sectors there are restaurants and stores set up.

>>275913
I shall check up on my team
Kimb appears to be in engineering as usual
for Some reason Hoft is in the civilian sector
Huro is on the Bridge, I assume "protecting" the captian
Nizk, and Master Sergeant Gore appear to be in the female and male rest chambers respectively, Nizk is probably spleeping, Gore is probably drinking . . .
Pike, Koza and Dosk are all in the main hanger bay, gambling again I assume.
Powl is in the gym working out, I went there with him, I didn't stay too long, I prefer swimming, most Astranians don't, so this ship doesn't have a pool.

should Zane contact one of her team mates or do something else?

A test of worthiness? Sending off a combat-oriented champion to look after a bunch of civilians on a colony ship?

Zane, have you ever pondered that maybe, just maybe, this isn't a promotion at all, but a demotion? Because, you know, 40 days might be enough for them to do something they don't want you to have your say in. Make decisions, sign papers, and BAM! You're stuck on a distant world "guarding the rear" for the next decade.

>>276006
Of your team, which are on duty? Or do they just sort of are on duty/off duty depending on what they feel like doing? Or is it your job to assign them to be on duty or off?

Why is Kimb usually in engineering, and what do you mean Huro is "Protecting" the captain? When you say it like that, it sounds like they're having an affair.

Also also, what are the robotic forms of security on the ship and can you be notified of any abnormality at once by the ship's robots, cameras, scanners, etc?

>>276007
Also, not everything is a conspiracy. Placing her in a team of ten sent to protect two thousand seems like a legitimate leadership test to me. For now, we should focus on the tasks we've been given and not let maybes of the future cloud our judgment.

Zane: It seems like you're pretty far along in your mission already. What have you been doing so far?

Wait, hey, does the MK5 suit have less shields than the MK4? I noticed there seems to be more plates but less shield boob things.

>>276006
Go check on Hoft.

Also, "optimizing" is techspeak for "screwing around doing stupid things", like mounting a scope to the side so you can hold it sideways while firing. Or shooting cans of chemical propellant to watch the blast.

Really, would you honestly expect some random tech is going to be able to improve on the work of the best minds in Astartian weapons development? The mere thought of that is bordering on sedition!

>>276014
Oh, right. I forgot this isn't Planetfall.

I was just hoping to get Zane a little insane :<

>>276031
>Also, "optimizing" is techspeak for "screwing around doing stupid things", like mounting a scope to the side so you can hold it sideways while firing. Or shooting cans of chemical propellant to watch the blast.

No. No it isn't. That's called wasting supplies which is no doubt a violation of protocol regarding excess equipment. Besides, you're on a starship, shooting anything without a very good reason is a very bad idea.

Holding guns sideways is only what idiots do. They are made to be held properly and a soldier knows better.

If you desire to practice targeting there is no doubt a firing range somewhere on the ship and your team engineer can help you with weapon maintenance if you want to know more about how to do that.

In fact, if you want a task right now that wouldn't be too shabby of something to do, so maybe next time you can work on your disintegrator gun yourself.

>>276062
The joke is that IRL the US military is known for wasting resources stupid pointless projects like that, and despite being much more advanced the Astranians do exactly the same thing

Zane: Find Hoft, make sure he isn't going crazy and/or trying to steal heavy weapons from the armory, then admire his hairdo

>>276073
Hoft is a clan name, pretty sure he's a different Hoft than Oken's Hoft.

>>276081
One can hope

>>276082
>>276083
Disregard these, site was acting up

Zane 2011/01/29(Sat)13:30 No. 276111 ID: b6c6fc
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>>276013
usually half of us are supposed to be on duty at any given time, but since we literally have nothing to do, most our "on duty" consists of wearing our suits while we waste time with whatever activity seems most productive

>>276062
Kimb knows what he's doing, there have been a lot of small advancements in RayTech weapon design since the Disintegrator Gun was produced, Kimb's just bringing it up to code

Zane decides to contact Hoft

Zane: "Hoft, Status report!"

Hoft: "Hey Zane, did you know they have fresh Skrynn Trout? they've got a tank set up and everything! damn this tastes good you should totally have some!"

Zane: "I'm not really hungry . . ."

what should Zane do now?

Is it acceptable in your culture for 4 of your 10 teammates to be drinking and gambling? I'm just asking. That's quite a lot of drinking and gambling by some standards, but is pretty rigid and uptight by, say, dwarven standards.

You should go talk to one of the ship's engineers about a defensive plan in case of boarders. Figure out what parts of the ship are likely to be used by enemy boarding teams, what areas are best able to withstand smallarms fire and where the best choke points are.

>>276111
Zane should go drink and gamble.

>>276111

Why not go see Geral... Hoft? That sounds delicious.

>>276111
Go get one of those trout. Nothing is happening and you could hold it between your paws and dip it in a stream between bites.

You've got nothing but time. Don't worry when you waste a little time and have some character exposition some bad shit will go down.

Trust me.

>>276111
Don't drink or gamble at all while you're on duty.

Fraternizing with the colonists might be a good idea, but let's check up on Kimb first.

>>276111
What're you going to do once you're done your mission?

>>276125
Actually, let's just call kimb as we make our way over to Hoft. If there's anything pressing we can just take the elevator/tram to a different part of the ship.

Zane 2011/01/30(Sun)00:02 No. 276369 ID: b6c6fc
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Zane: "Kimb, Status report!"

Kimb: "what do you want now? I already told you I'll have the gun ready in another couple of hours"

Zane: "just making sure you're not slacking off"

Let's go talk to some engineers about where enemies would likely try to board the ship.

Failing that, let's go talk to some civilians. Interact with them. Let them see your face.

Zane, you are eager to make a good impression for your superiors here, so let me give you some advice. You know that an effective leader has the respect of their subordinates. But I fear that your strict, cadet like adhesion to formal protocol in even casual down-time situations may be negatively affecting your squad's opinions of you. I am not suggesting that you "lighten up" or participate in their leisure activities or anything so unseemly as that. That would only make things worse. I just mean vary your approach from time to time in conversation. Lets start simple.

Contact Huro. Ask "Huro, is anything worth reporting happening up there?" Don't yell like you have a stick up your ass. Sound bored and mildly annoyed. Shouldn't be hard, given that you ARE these things.

Bah, no, don't contact anyone else on the way there, they seem to have things under control.

Do lift up your helmet visor though before you go to talk to these people.

>>276369
Those people look mighty suspicious. Find out what they're up to!

thats some light military discipline.

uh. maybe thats what your boss wants? you could try to organize at least a bit of trainnning.

Zane 2011/01/30(Sun)13:19 No. 276498 ID: b6c6fc
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>>276116
Only the Master Sergeant is Drinking, he is my superior officer, I am not about to question his personal habits.
Pike, Koza and Dosk usually gamble in fully gear, the card games keep them alert, they could be ready to fight in a second

Zane approaches 2 crewmen

Zane: "pop quiz cadet!, if we're attacked by Pirates, what is the best location for them to make a boarding attempt"

Crewmen: "Sir! The Wishing Star's main weaknes is it's top center viewing deck, and bottom center main hanger bay. if approached immediately after a warp jump, we won't have time to shift our main cannons, creating an effective blindspot, on top of that. those location are also our lowest points of shielding, Sir?"

Zane: "very good, and I assume the extra deffence bots are still in place?"

Crewmen: "Sir, yes sir"

>>276498
Zane, go looking for somebody attractive and ask them out on a date. Your social skills are sub par, and being able to interact with people beyond barking orders would make you much more valuable to the alliance.
Beyond that, your high-strung nature is going to result in ulcers. Your duty demands that you use down time to maintain a healthy psyche, which you have so far failed to do.

>>276498
That seems like a big design flaw. But oh well. We can only work with the cards we're dealt.

If you feel like you are completely ready for anything, go ahead and go socialize with Hoft.

*furiously takes notes*

okay so maybe you should see some of the off duty personnel and bond with them, since the discipline doesnt seem to upset you?

>If you feel like you are completely ready for anything,
if this line doesnt set off any bombs that is.

>>276501
if you are continually stressed, the time you have to actively serve will be cut (stress causes faster aging)

Stress when it is time to stress, as we have found our weaknesses and prepped for anything.

Now is time to at least do some idle chatter or something...

>>276502
The hangar contains dozens of men in close proximity to an equal number of heavy gun turrets. I don't think defending it will be a problem.

>>276498

Hoft, eh? How's Oken doing? Has she been around at all or is she stationed elsewhere?

Zane 2011/01/30(Sun)21:41 No. 276677 ID: b6c6fc
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I suppose a little break won't hurt

Zane chooses to join Hoft for dinner

Hoft: "it's soooooo tasty, I've had 5 already! num num num"

*sigh*

Ok fish time to see if your worth all the hype-

beeep, beeep, beeep

ugh, it's Huro, he's been an insufferable prick ever since the Sergeant placed me in line for promotion rather than him

Should Zane take the call?

>>276677
Always take the calls. Your subordinates wouldn't bother you if it wasn't important, and if they do bother you and it isn't important, you can chide them so they don't do it again. Win-Win.

Excuse yourself from Hoft and take the call.

No she should ignore it and order a drink.

Take the call. Don't risk missing something important.

Take the call. If he's an insufferable prick this time pull rank on his ass and punish him for talking shit to his CO. What's a normal reprimand for this sort of thing? Only punish him if he called you for no reason of course.

Zane: Accidentally drop a piece of food into your suit's collar. Spend ten minutes trying to fish it out.

>>276693
And proceed to smell like fish for a week.

>>276685
She has a muzzle and a tongue she could fish it back out with those

LonelyWorld 2011/01/31(Mon)09:33 No. 276780 ID: b6c6fc
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Huro: "Zane! wasting time in the Colony hub I see? it's only a matter of time until Gore realizes how unfit for command you are, even drunk off his ass he's bound to notice sooner or later, you better watch yourself, and actually do your job for once"

Zane: "Jealousy doesn't suit you Huro-"

Huro: "whatever, I need your damn access permission to pick up some worthless piece of space trash, you gonna let me do my job? or should I get that bitch Captain to start whining at you for the next hour?"

Give access permission?

>>276780
No. Fuck his shit. Go out and do it yourself.

Inquire of said space trash.

>>276780

If he wants to whine about you not doing things through the proper channels, don't give him permission until he describes the mission according to all regulations that one would normally require in order to request access permission.

>>276785
This. If he's going to bitch at you to follow regulation, bog his ass down in bureaucratic bullshit.

"Butthurt" isn't the tone with which you ask access permission from a superior.

Ask him the details. What trash, what's he doing with it, when he'll be finished, all that stuff. Try to sound neutral and emotionless and ignore any insults he sends your way.

>>276780
Are these conversations recorded? Could you play that "bitch captain" comment back?
If so, then play it back and tell him his disrespect will not be tolerated.

He's openly hostile and asking for permission to do something he left unspecified. There's a decent chance he intends to do something malicious and then claim he was acting under orders.

>>276785
So do this!

Yes. Give him access permission to go pick up space trash. Do not give him access permission to fuck anything up.

Write him up for insubordination.

>>276780
"If it's such a worthless piece of space trash, why does it need security clearance?"

First reprimand him for talking to a superior in such a manner, then relieve him of his post awaiting further punishment while assigning someone else to his duties.

>>276799
No, that would seem petty.
Instead reprimand him for speaking of a superior officer like that.

Zane 2011/01/31(Mon)14:35 No. 276838 ID: b6c6fc
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Zane: "for one criticizing my lax int duty, you seem to be over eager not only to breach protocol through shortcuts but to also show disrespect to 3 venerable officers, it's a small wonder you haven't found yourself in front a firing line yet"

Huro: "hell I was just trying to give us all a break from dealing with this shit,but if you wanna waste your time over analyzing trash, be my guest."

Huro disconnects

Captain: "Zane perhaps it will be best if I detail the situation for you, we've receive a beacon signal, from what appears to be some sort of old RayTech storage unit, the Beacon is in high military code, I doubt even the Master Sergeant has access to it. anyways a seeing as your chief security officer, I need your permission before we pull it in"

>>276838
This reminds me of something...
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/7days/
anyway, be sure to analyze thoroughly and take it in slowly. Have the cargo bay anti-hazard disintegrators ready in case it's hazardous.

I suggest being there while it's pulled in.
Explain your situation to your pal, eat up (like... just eat fast. You should have some food in you before any situation) and get to that cargo bay.

>>276838
You wanted to prove yourself, didn't you?

Go ahead and pull in the pod infested with alien mind control parasites. Your disaster has arrived! :3c

>>276838
Get dat trash. Take every possible precaution however. Could be ANYTHING in there.

>>276838
"Negative. Send out a shuttle to pick it up but do not bring it on board."

This could be anything from some old RayTech munitions, to a bioengineered weapon, to a trap set by pirates. There's no compelling reason to bring it onto a ship with 2000+ civilians on board before it's been properly inspected and found to be safe.

Have them wrap the fish in wax paper so you can eat it while you walk, and have Hoft accompany you.

>>276838
Bring it aboard under quarantine and alert your squad. They need to be there with their pew pew laser guns.

Take a shuttle out with a team to open it up at a safe distance from the ship, in case it's a bomb.

Send out a shuttle and have a team specialized for this sort of thing open it in EVA or on lard the shuttle. Make absolutely sure there is nothing in it remotely hazardous, explosive or alive before bringing it aboard and then keep it in quarantine until it has been thoroughly investigated a second time.

finish feeding later.

a top secret sattelite is sending distress calls. you will either get vampires, zombies, mutants, mutant vampire zombies or killer robots to play with! its a win-win scenario!

also hail your home base about the sattelite. have it quarantined until they drop a line. and NOONE get to peek inside!

Zane 2011/01/31(Mon)18:34 No. 276925 ID: b6c6fc
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Zane: "give me a moment Captain, I need time to figure out how to proceed"

hmmm our shuttles are little more than landing/docking skiffs, they have no salvage ability, let alone the cargo space to bring it aboard,

I could call Command, but it would take a couple hours, and I doubt they would have any practical advice

Zane: "Captain what have you learned about the pod?"

Captain: "the pod is built with magnatised Carbosteel, it's impossible to get a solid read on it, anything could be inside"

if I bring this thing aboard, what should my quarantine team consist of?

>>276925
>if I bring this thing aboard, what should my quarantine team consist of?

Why, your most trusted expendable personnel, of course.

again with the uncredibly lax discipline. if it werent for the huge armor and the rank marking id say this is a mercenary army. oh wai-

hail command now. warn them of the pod and that you are just gettting it on board, without opening it. and lets hope that does happen uneventfuly.

get 2 engineers, a doctor and 1 3 redshirts as your team. if the operation demmands more, it neeeeeds to be nameless conscripts that are irrelevant to your fighting capatibility.

i swear, zane. a redshirt or that greedy fellow of yours will open the pod. and everyone will die because of some contrived military experiment gone wrong.

you need to make sure your greedy idiot friend gets the blame if that happens, so get him guard duty on the sattelite. if you wanna add him to the team, its not a bad idea.

take people who totally dont want anything to do with strange space junk

>>276925
If anything could be inside, have a security team on standby. Doesn't have to be anything big, just, say, make those guys do their gambling a bit closer.

If the beacon is in high military code, procedure probably dictates that you call up Command after getting it onboard and request the appropriate codes to open it. If that's not procedure, and instead you're just expect to crack it open, then just crack it open while being wary in case it's full of killbots or bioweapons or explosives or something similarly nasty.

People might get annoyed if you're overly cautious, but as chief of security it's your job to always recommend what will keep the ship safe.

Did you bring any robots to kick? If you did you should send those.

>>276925
>>276849
I'm going to have to support this plan.
To fellow posters, if you ever played Homeworld: Cataclysm, you know that he only reason you survived the initial Beast infection was because the ship was designed to be able to break off parts due to it's modular nature before the infection spread.

We have no such modularity on this ship.

Send an expendable team with one trusted subordinate on a shuttle, along with scanning and forensic equipment. First insure safety, then analyze for origin.
Keep the shuttle at arms length from the ship for X hours for quarantine and protection from ambush in case we run into it's owners, or worse.

>>276976
>if you ever played Homeworld: Cataclysm
>Homeworld: Cataclysm
OH GOD

Definitely keep the capsule well away during initial investigation.

>>276925
Zane you need to wash that in a tiny bowl what are you doing?!

>>276925
Quick side question: Is the fish as good as advertised?

We could always pull it onboard and NOT open it, just send it back to command if it looks dangerous. Either way, personnel should be in full EVA gear with magnet hoots so we can swiftly shoot anything dangerous out the airlock if need be without harming personnel.

Perform the initial investigation in the airlock, with all personnel suited up and tethered. At the first sign of trouble, blow the outer doors and space the capsule. It's a a lot easier to retrieve a capsule on a known slow trajectory after a false alarm than to get rid of something nasty loose in the bowels of the ship.
If there's no precedent of living creatures preserved in capsules, I'd further suggest evacuating the airlock prior to opening. That way, any blast can only cause damage via shrapnel, not concussive effects.

>>276976
you may be paranoid. we can peform a small check with probes on the shuttle to see if it isnt any form of grey goo. the signal is encoded and functional, meaning that if it is a trap, its either inside the device or outside of it waiting to attack the ship.

wich is why most of the good soldiers should stay with only tecnical personnel on duty. so most of our fighting capatibility wont go away if we get grey goo'd.

>>277090
better safe than sorry better safe than sorry
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better safe than sorry better safe than sorry
better safe than sorry better safe than sorry

Zane 2011/02/01(Tue)15:04 No. 277217 ID: b6c6fc
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Dosk: "the pod is now secure in hanger bay 3, guarded by 12 BattleBots, and ready to eject into space at the first sign of trouble"

Zane: "good work soldier, you may now return to your pathetic gambling"

Dosk: "sure thing Zane"

I've sent a message to Command, asking for more information on this sort of thing, until I receive their instruction I suppose it's probably best to leave the pod unopened

what should Zane do now?

>>277217
>I suppose it's probably best to leave the pod unopened
SOMEONE is going to want to take a peek. Trying to hide the existence of the pod, or conceal it's nature, will only serve to increase curiosity. Worse, the crew, and guards especially, are so bored that even 'opening an old pod' has enough excitement to liven up the monotony.

Make it totally and explicitly clear that anyone attempting to open the pod will constitute a target for the BattleBots. AND actually program the BattleBots to do so (non-lethally if possible).

you should have some humanoid watching over it.

last thing we want to discover is that it is indeed grey goo and the bots are now collecting materials for it.

put huro in charge of shift 1. hes more likely to get the blame if crap happens.

Put the person fucking up in charge of something? Fuck no! We don't want to reward bad behavior. Send Hoft down to watch over it along with one other. Also, refrain from calling their gambling pathetic if it keeps them sharp. Go check up with the captain and your soldier keeping an eye on the captain, ask them about how everything is going on their end and if they've heard of crates like this being left out in deep space before.

>>277217
Inspect the pod personally for any signs of damage or tampering. See if there's any label or other information on it. Keep your suit sealed, go in and out through decon.

Obviously you shouldn't open it.

You know what? Just go down with Hoft to take first shift personally and make small talk with him.

Ask him about his family, if he eats at that place often, what he thinks of your matches etc

>>277217
>12 BattleBots
Ziggo, Deadblow, Diesector, Biohazard, Backlash, Ginsu, Chin-Killa, Toro, Overkill, Son of Whyachi, Rammstein, and Vlad The Imapler?

Zane 2011/02/01(Tue)23:46 No. 278110 ID: b6c6fc
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>>276992
actually it was quite good, I didn't realize how hungry I was, I should make a note of eating more often

Zane and Hoft choose to go hanger bay 3

Hoft: "wow that's a pretty big pod"

Hmmm, everything looks fine. still It might be best if I assign someone else to guard this pod other than me. something feels very wrong with this thing and I'd prefer to keep a good distance from it. besides as chief of security, my other duties may make it difficult to pay full attention to guarding . . .

>>278110
'something' feels very wrong about it? It says DO NOT PRESS!

>>278110

I refuse to go my entire life without knowing what that button does.

We wait for someone to press it so they can have the blame.

Do you guys have something like X-rays or some advanced sonar? It'd be best if you could take a look inside to see what the button is connected to before pressing it.

>>278103
OH GOD THE PAST IS COMING BACK TO HAUNT ME!

Do not station anyone capable of boredom or curiosity in the room with this device. Robots guard the inside of the room, any living guards get stationed outside the door.

>>278110
>something feels very wrong with this thing and I'd prefer to keep a good distance from it.
That's probably because it's a giant RayTech container with a big red button surrounded by text that says "DO NOT PRESS" in Solar.

Move this on to a shuttle crewed by robots and tow the shuttle behind the ship on a nice long tether. I'd say space it, but it's both potentially important and potentially hazardous enough that you can't leave it for somebody else to stumble across.
Putting it on a tethered shuttle gives you the option of cutting it loose if something goes wrong. Ideally this tether would put it outside the shield so the colonists would be safe if it were full of, say, antimatter. Or strangelets. Or The Marker. Or Grey Goo. Or any one of the countless other oh-god-everything-is-dead-and-on-fire-even-space causing hazards.

Yeah, station only robots in here, no living soldiers. Whatever you do do not press the button.

>>278110
Also go make more small talk with Hoft, he seems friendly enough.

That button looks like, sounds like, smells like and probably tastes like doom. don't let anyone who might give in to temptation and push it be in the room while you aren't present.

inb4 the ship gets shaken and a robot accidentaly the button.

then, the whole ship.

>>278110
The might of the button compels you. THOU MUST PRESS THE BUTTEN.

Suggestion 2011/02/02(Wed)08:59 No. 278231 ID: f5e4b4
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Do. It.

>>278231
Remember to say "oooh, what does THIS button do?" first.

The only way to be sure the button is safe to press is to press the button. Press the button, Zane. You know you want to. It calls to you? Can you hear it calling? "PUSH ME! PUSH ME!"

Seriously though, don't push that tempting, tempting button.

>>278140
Do this.

Do not press the button, that's retarded. It is imperative to your success in defending this station that you do not push that button.

>>278110
PRESS DA BUTTAN

>>278110
Security Bot #44320: Suddenly have a gyroscopic malfunction causing you to flail optics-first into the button, pressing it.

Don't touch the button, Zane. You aren't retarded.

Dismantle that button and make it safe. Or, weld a cover over it.

Have most trusted subordinates stand guard in shifts.

Handle your other duties while waiting for word from your superiors about what this is. Check computers for schematics of this model of pod, specifically if you can unbolt and disable that button panel without triggering a failsafe.

Let's be honest, we all know the button is going to be pressed, we just don't know how. Press it yourself.

Zane 2011/02/02(Wed)12:42 No. 278321 ID: b6c6fc
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"KSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRK!"

Zane: "EEEAAAGH!"

"PUSH THE BUTTON ZANE! PUSH IT!, It calls t you zane! IT CALLS TO YOU!"

Zane: "NO! ARRGh ,Get out my head! AAACK!"

"Only the button will make the pain go away!, PRESSSSS IT!, press it or the pain will never go! PRESS IT! it is the color of your tasty blood, the color you love, PRESS THE BUTTON YOU LOVE!"

Zane: "NEVER! NO! AAARGGGH"

"Your Mind appears not be working properly!, I will fix it! I WILL MAKE YOUR MIND A BEAUTIFUL THING!"

Zane: "GYAAAAAAAAAAH!

"THE PAIN IS GOOD FOR YOU! THE PAIN IS GOOD!"

Vent the compartment into space.

>>278321

Container is full of evil psychic bugs. Don't push the button, get out and seal the place off. Nobody goes in to push the button.

Hoft 2011/02/02(Wed)12:56 No. 278328 ID: b6c6fc
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my name is Beltero Tsen-Hoft, I am a space marine serving the Astranian Alliance

my Boss Zane, just ran out of the room screaming
and I'm not sure what to do

"KKSSSHHHRRK!"

what?

"press the button Hoft"

but Zane, I think maybe she's hurt

"she just needed to use the wash room"

really?

"yes now push the button, there is nice freshly cook fish inside"

there's fish in there?

"YES! all you need to do is press the button and all the tasty food inside will be yours!"

. . .

"Also Snakey Cakes, dry wahfer, sparkle beats, and luscious delicous symphony vines, dozens of them . . ."

S-symphony vines?! but those would cost . .

" . . . more Vapins then you'll make in the next five years! can you really afford NOT to take a look?"

. . .

>>278321

> "THE PAIN IS GOOD FOR YOU! THE PAIN IS GOOD!"

I think it's a good suggestion!

You should look into BDSM stuff when you get back. That way you will be more prepared next time.

>>278328

Again, evil psychic bugs. No touch butan. Leave room and seal.

>>278328
...Yeah... Calling bullshit. Don't push the button.

>>278328
It's actually space bugs. Horrid, blade-clawed, psychic space bugs. Delicious, delicious space bugs. Tasty, wonderful candy bugs.

>>278328
Can you afford to take the chance that it's not a space-symphony-vine-dispenser? You'd never forgive yourself if you passed up such an opportunity.

Suggestion 2011/02/02(Wed)13:02 No. 278335 ID: 15b51b
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Subversive threat detected. Immediately seal the room, vent the area into space, and eject the offending artifact. Do not under any circumstances allow the button to be pressed.

>>278328
There's even ladies. Space aliens of many colors, all attractive and desperate to understand the emotion called love.

Inform the captain that the pod is most likely full of BAD STUFF, really, really BAD STUFF. And that you guys should probably destroy it rather than risk it getting onto the ship. Don't mention the part about the pod speaking to you.

Hoft, evacuate everyone from the room and then order it to be vented to space. Hurry, you've only got a few seconds before the thing in that can starts lying to other troopers. They can't all be as strong willed as Zane or as clever as you, and one of them is bound to push the button. Which would be bad. So evacuate everyone and vent the room.

If anyone starts moving toward the button, don't wait. Just vent the room (your suits are all space-proofed right).

Bad box! Vent it into space, fire ship's weapons at it.

Be surprised when what is inside survives and latches onto the hull, because if it was easy to kill, it wouldn't have been shot into space.

>>278328
Hoft, this is central command.
Your superior is under psychic attack. You are ordered to immediately evacuate all non-robotic personnel from this room and seal it.

Do not press do not press do not press do not press DO NOT PRESS GET ZANE TO VENT THAT SHIT NOW

>>278354
I've seen this situation before.
DO NOT LET ANY KIND OF RUPTURE IN THE POD HAPPEN
DO NOT LET IT OPEN

Best course of action is to fire it outta here... back into space... Where it goddamn belongs.

vent the device to space. do not touch it, do not look at it, do not think of it, do not shoot it.

just shit it to space.

>>278328
Stay Strong Soldier. Astranian Strong. Do NOT press that button.

Your mind is being attacked by vile forces of the void. This canister must be carefully guarded. Do NOT fire on the canister, a break could release something awful onto the ship. The ship full of civilians.

>>278328
EJECT IT AND YOU WILL GET FREE FISH FOR THE REST OF THE MONTH

>>278328
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? PRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITPRESSITP
RESSITPRESSIT

>>278328

Press the button...


DON'T PRESS THE BUTTON~!

Θ][Σ 2011/02/02(Wed)17:14 No. 278424 ID: dad664
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Push the button.

Do not push butan.

What are you retarded? Don't push it. That's idiotic.

Fight the bugs and space the damn thing.

Do not under any circumstances open the pod.

Toss the thing out into ships and get Zane to get the Captain to fire on it.

Also comfort Zane and get her to someone who can give her some mental help, pronto. If there's nobody like that on the ship, get her to a lounge or other sort of rest area and get her some brandy or whiskey or something to help calm her down.

>>278328
Tell it you're onto its games and that you won't push the button unless it can give you certain undeniable proof that the mystic voice has fish and snakey cakes and those vine things.

Also, if it's so magical as to talk to us like this, can it make Zane show you her boobs? (Because you must admit, Hoft, you've been thinking...)

I just got an idea, launch it into a star. Nothing can survive that.

Use some damn logic, anything launched into space for that long wouldn't have anything edible left on it. Either rotten or eaten if there's anything in there.

Do -not- press the button, but perhaps you can lead this voice on, find out more about what it is and what it wants.

Other than that, see if there is a way to look inside that thing without opening it. X-rays, advanced sonar or something, get to it.
If you have the time, see if Zane is alright, it might be best to send her to sickbay.

It's reverse psychology. They try to make us push the button in order to not make us push the button.
We will not be fooled by their schemes. Push the button to bring GLORY to the Astranian alliance!

Hoft 2011/02/03(Thu)01:18 No. 278634 ID: b6c6fc
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Hoft: "get out of my head you psyker freak!"


". . . no matter, I'll simply open this myself"

*Crunch*


Hoft: "HURO! YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHING! IT ATTACKED ZANE!"

Huro: "What the hell are you talking about?"

Hoft: "THE POD! It's got one of psycic things inside the sarge was talkin about! we gotta space it NOW!"

Huro: "I'm authorized to do that Hoft . . . "

Hoft: "there's no time! ZANE'S down man, now it's ripping apart the POD! YOU GOTTA DO THIS NOW MAN!"

Huro 2011/02/03(Thu)01:21 No. 278636 ID: b6c6fc
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I am Vensendrian Huro, Space Marine. with Zane down now I'M in command

Huro: "Captain, there's no time to to waste, we've got to eject that pod!"

Captain: "insert your security command code in that terminal over there, from there you should easily be able to give the eject command
the safety launch should only take ten minutes . . . "

Huro: "we may not have that kind of time!, can't I override the security process and launch immediately?"

Captain: "well yes but that could greatly endanger the lives of your teammates Hoft and Zane

hmmm should I do it anyways?

Gotta do it. It only MAY endanger their lives, and not launching immediately WILL endanger the lives of many more.

>>278639

Tell them to button up their suits, it's cold outside.

"If you say so. You have as much time as it takes me to run the override to get clear."

>>278636
"Bots! Open fire on any pod breaches! Hoft! Get Zane, seal your suits, get clear, and brace for sudden decompression!"

Their suits are rated for 0atmo. As long as they're sealed the worst danger is getting sucked out into space and hitting something on the way. If they've got magboots or something then that's not even an issue.

Keep in mind that you're dealing with psychic attacks; Hoft's perceptions are compromised, and what he sees is suspect.

Oh, and kick yourself for screwing up; you were planning on just pulling the damn thing on-board and cracking it open, but Zane called it right and probably just saved every man, woman, and child aboard this ship from a fate worse than death.
Suck up your pride, soldier. Anybody too proud to admit they fucked up deserves to get slapped back to basic.

No. Contact them on the comma and make sure they're clear first. Zane should be clear, if Hoft isn't clear and his mind is taken over you do what you gotta do. Keep yelling at them and talking to them to keep their minds focused.

Wait, isn't Zane clear already? What are hoft's chances of survival?

Zane should be clear already, yell at Hoft and get him to grab hold of something while getting the folks working the tractor beam to be ready to grab him and possibly Zane if they go flying out with it. Also yeah, tell them to seal their suits.

Bypass any security measures and blow the thing. Worst case scenario, Hoft dies, but if he grabs onto something or the tractor beam people do their job he should be fine with a sealed suit. Zane SHOULD be clear, she's behind those blast doors behind Hoft, and both of them should be fine with sealed suits. Either way make sure there's a shuttle team on standby if you have a free moment, they can catch them if the tractor beam fails.

If Hoft can just grab hold of something though, you might be able to save the station using your new CO's precautions with zero casualties instead of, well, tons.

Let's not have safety protocol and the lives of two soldiers risk the entire ship, activate the emergency launch!

>>278636
2 men < the rest of the crew.

>>278658
Right, but if we can save them too we should try too, even if it just means telling Hoft to hang onto that rail and Zane to stay put behind the blast door.

>>278646
zane is clear, hoft isnt. tell him to grab on somehting and vent the crap to space NOW

They're in space suits. Vent it now.

Hoft: Run for it!

Θ][Σ 2011/02/03(Thu)11:04 No. 278707 ID: dad664
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>>278636
>>278658

"The needs of the many...outweigh the needs of the few."

If Hoft runs he could open the blast doors and kill them both. Tell him to stay there, hang onto something and boost shields to maximum output.

Huro 2011/02/03(Thu)11:34 No. 278720 ID: b6c6fc
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Huro: "Hoft. Zane I'm ejecting the pod brace for-"

Captain: " HOW DARE YOU DRAW A GUN ON ME!"

Huro: "wait, wha-"

BZZZZORP

Huro: "AAARRRGH"

>>278720
All crewmen: Restrain the captain while Huro ejects it.

>>278723
And substitute "restrain" with "knock out" or "kill" as needed

>>278720
"Priority Alert. Hazardous Telepathic Waveform detected. Organic life-forms at Risk Level 7. This is not a drill. Repeat, this is not aBZZZZZZZZwheeeeeeeeeeeeeeevrp.

M-m-malfunction detected in-n-n-n Shipboooooooooard Sen-Sen-Sensor Suite. Internnnnal Scanners powering do-down. Haaaaaaaaave aaaaaaa niiiiiiiice daaaaaay~"

Huro: BE A HERO! Release the pod! Then kill the captain if you can!

Zane: pull it together, get all troops on alert and lockdown, order battlebots to restrain the captain and lock him up

>>278720
Huro... Captain is insane... but there's no time
You need to eject that thing, even if it costs you your life.
HIT THAT BUTTON!
The crewmen should attack the captain long enough for you to get that thing launched.

It was a good time knowing you, and if you eject that thing, you may have saved your civilization.

Huro: Turn your shields on!

Hoft: Turn YOUR shields on!

Bwaahahaahahah!

>>278720
All guards: Activate shields!
Huro: Shields up! Push the damn button!

>>278720
Shields up. NOW!

The pod must go.

Huro 2011/02/03(Thu)16:23 No. 278766 ID: b6c6fc
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Hoft and Zane remember that their shields can protect them from Psychic attacks, they activate their shields
Huro begins charging his shield

Crewman: "HELP! HELP! the Captain's gone insane!"

G-Gotta launch pod, can't let creature into ship!

Huro types in Code
Computer does not respond

WHAT?! NOOO!

BZZZZZORP

Huro: "GYAAH"

Huro's shield is now online and will protect him from harm

shoot him back, damn it.

Hoft: engage manual override!

Zane: get to the ship AI core!

Both of you get engineering personnel with you to help.

Order all available troopers to go to the docks and bridge, shields up!

Zane: Pull it together and put on your gladiator face. Get to an intercom system, Tell everyone who can get a shield to wear one, civilian or otherwise, give the orders to lock down the decks and restrict access to security forces and robots. Seal ventilation if possible as well as maintenance areas, if the bugs get loose this could get messy. It won't be safe to seal ventilation for too long but the ship SHOULD be equipped with emergency equipment for gas leaks and such, that should sustain them for a while more once the air gets carbon dioxide rich.

Hoft: Try to manually override the pod, get someone from engineering down there to help you, chief engineer if possible.

Huro: Shoot the captain, order robots to attack the captain, get robots to help you get to medbay.

Crewmen: Get Huro to medbay as fast as you can!

Also: Call Kimb and tell him to meet you there, Zane. Tell him to get his shields up and bring you your gun or a working one if that one doesn't work yet. If he can work on it on the move or set up a small workshop in the AI core, that'll be perfect.

We need our troopers to stick together when possible. A single trooper is a dead trooper.

>>278783
>>278794
This, basically.

Hoft: tell everyone to put their shields up, we are under attack by a psychic force.

attempt to peform a launch on sight. preferably with explosive decompression. be careful on the bots turning rogue.

Zane: get a grip and put shields up. panic as horo is dying, everyone without a shield is now zombie and the computer seem suceptible to psychic shenanigans.

Horo: earn that promotion and live to tell. shoot the cap, peform the launch codes as you can and stop the bleeding. if you can, order everyone in station and on team to power up shields.

>>278836
Hoft: GET THE GUARDBOTS BLASTING ANY ESCAPING MONSTERS

>>278837
YES.

Activate the BattleBots and order them to train fire on the pod, but set a self destruct timer for a minute or so. Computer Shenanigans have already occurred, and even if military hardware is more intrusion hardened the civilian shipboard networked systems, it may not hold forever. Best not to take chances.

>>279040
Yes, there has been a computer intrusion. It was intruded by weapons fire.
Lets review:
This is a psychic attack.
They are causing hallucinations.
The Captain claimed that Huro pulled a weapon on them. We can reasonably conclude that this is a hallucination.
The bugs appear to be bursting out of the container, for which the proper response would be to rupture the container with weapons fire. This is most likely also an illusion, as the bots haven't opened fire on the thing they were ordered to contain.

Do not kill the captain; Huro's shields are up.
Do not order the robots to fire on the pod; order them to fire on any thing leaving the pod.

>>279050
Thisthisthis

>>278783
>>278794
Do these two

Huro 2011/02/05(Sat)08:15 No. 279272 ID: b6c6fc
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[cutscene]

Hoft 2011/02/05(Sat)10:23 No. 279288 ID: b6c6fc
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wait! what if it's all an illusion! just psychic stuff trying to trick me!, maybe it's not breaking out at all!

Hoft: "hey robot dudes, by any chance, do you happen to notice anything going on with the pod?"

BattlBot: "yes, there appears to be an Alien organism breaching the pod door"

Hoft: "well dang, uh why aren't you guys shooting at it?

BattleBot: "we have been ordered expressly to not damage the hull integrity of the pod, it is impossible to fire on the creature with out endangering the pod"

Hoft: "right . . . I'm gonna go now, god luck robo dudes"

[cutscene]

>>279288
Hoft: "New orders! Kill those bugs!"

>>279272
>green blood

BUUUUUUUUUUUUGSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Crew: GET HURO MEDICAL TREATMENT

Hoft: Reunite with Zane!

Zane: where's that kickass speech and giving orders for lockdown and stuff like
>>278783
>>278794

Add ordering the bots to kill any bugs leaving the pod disregarding hull safety of the pod.

Crew: GET HURO MEDICAL TREATMENT

Hoft: Reunite with Zane!

Zane: where's that kickass speech and giving orders for lockdown and stuff like
>>278783
>>278794

Add ordering the bots to kill any bugs leaving the pod disregarding hull safety of the pod.

hoft: claim authority due to disabled superiors and order the bots to fire at the bug

use explosives on the door that leads to space. you gotta vent that things for yesterday.

>>279288
The hull's already been damaged by the bug, your lasers will do minimal damage in comparison. Overwrite command, overwrite command! If the robots say they can only do so bu the commanding officer that gave that command just say she/he's incapacitated and can't give proper judgments or something.

Please don't have your robot AI's be incapable of being smart enough to not follow every order to the letter

Hoft: Pull the emergency ejection thingy. Pull some kind of lever to blow the pod into space. There has to be SOMETHING!

We specifically chose to locate the pod where it is now so we could rapidly get rid of it in case this happened! Do THAT thing.

Hoft 2011/02/05(Sat)14:09 No. 279365 ID: b6c6fc
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Hoft: "uh Robots you should probably shoot that thing anyways"

BattleBot: "Order Confirmed!"

Hoft exits

the sounds of Alien hissing, BlastGun fire, and crunching metal can be heard


wait a second what if the robots confirming they saw something was ALSO an Illusion!

maybe there were no robots, maybe there wasn't even a pod!, maybe what I'm doing right now is even an illusion! this hole day could be nothing but a dream!

Hoft: "Oh Hey Sarge, are you an illusion too?"

[cutscene]

>>278783
>>278794
aaaaaand

>>279305

is what I'm gonna suggest for now, assuming the cutscene is over and the [cutscene] in the second post is supposed to be [/cutscene]

Basically we gotta get the lockdown going, Zane needs to go LEADERSHIP mode, Huro needs medical attention, Hoft needs to try to get that pod out of there preferably by getting someone from engineering on this pronto and stay safe, seal the blast doors behind him and order the battlebots to shoot, if he can't do that Zane needs to give authorization for them to shoot the bugs, etc etc etc

Oh hey, right when I post the other thing.

Uh, listen to what the sarge has to say and group up with him? Where the fuck is Zane?

Gore 2011/02/05(Sat)14:41 No. 279376 ID: b6c6fc
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KRRRRCHUNK

Kimb: "Sergeant, Override successful, Pod Launched"

Gore: "Kimb, that is irrelevant now, but we will debate how lack of vigilance and slow reaction time has doomed all aboard the ship another time"

Kimb: " . . . understood"

I am Master Sergeant Magmatharius Gore, Space Marine Commander in Service to the Astranian Alliance,
I have passed over Promotion more times then I can count, my place is here instructing the next generation

but now we are all doomed, A Verroxi Tech-Leech has escaped onto our ship, I have fought this leech before I believed I had killed it, apparently I was gravely mistaken
It refers to itself as InfestorLord, it is a vile creature that single handedly caused the death of millions of Astranian Lives
it is a plague bearer it kills through disease, and from the bodies of the dead it creates monstrosities of the most depraved kind, these are his servants, and his servants will be our people

It is up to me to find and destroy this creature, and quickly

[cutscene over]

>>279365
Huro: Tell the bridge staff to call for medics, contact Zane privately and tell her the captain was under bug control and that you can't space the thing from here, report these events to command, and finally turn your shield OFF so the medics can help you.

>>279376
>>279376
LACK of vigilance? Slow reaction time? Zane did everything she could here. What the hell. We even prepared for this and yet couldn't stop it.

Again, where the hell is she, why haven't we locked down all sectors and ventilation yet, goddammit get moving. YOU complain about slow reaction time when YOU people aren't following our suggestions!

Sounds like your average zombie outbreak with a queen alien bug, don't worry bro, we got this.

First what you need to do is get your shit in order, a save haven will be the most valuable thing you can have in this sort of a situation. Get an area that's open and large enough to put your shit away in, aswell as sleeping space.
Barricade the entrances, and/or have them heavily guarded.

Soon it will be a matter of holding out. You will need to make your position strong enough for you to outlast the enemy. For that purpose you will need food, water, sleeping spaces, etc. That's what your safe haven is for.

Act fast and have all unarmed and unarmored personal retreat to a safe position and have every non-military person escorted by armed soldiers.

Everyone needs to be on their toes now, every second counts.
We cannot prevent it from spreading now, we can only hope to minimise the amount of people that get infected.

With a safe haven established or being built you need to put together a small strike force that can move around the ship freely without being detected.
With that team you are to find the queen and blow her ass up.
There is a good chance all of that team will die, but it's either that or the whole ship.

Godspeed.

The situation is still salvageable, but for future reference, if all else fails is there some kind of selfdestruct type function on the ship that would guarantee that everything on board, including the tech-leech, would certainly die? It sounds like something that should be kept from escaping at all costs.

Set the colony to self destruct in T-Minus 0 Seconds. It's the only way to be sure.

>>279376
The captain was infected before the pod was pulled onboard.

Close all the emergency bulkheads and seal vents as if you were dealing with hull breaches.

Contact command and inform them of your situation.

gore, should we evac the soldiers or just nuke the place?

we need to vent that room, can our guns combined work for that?

Gore 2011/02/06(Sun)17:57 No. 279696 ID: b6c6fc
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>>279379
Zane is Standing right next to me, being quiet and obedient like the well disciplined child that she is. she knows when she's failed the alliance, and that is why she could have a future as an officer.

>>279381
this might be an interesting plan but I have strong reason to believe the corruption has yet
to begin, InfestorLord always infects the initial victims through injury. it will take at about one hour before those victims become contagious, contagion tends to be limited to injury, but just to be safe it's probably best to keep helmets down anyway.

>>279403
>>279382
Of Course there's a self destruct! it's funny, if we activate it now, killing the Tech-Leech alone would be well worth the sacrifice of losing everyone aboard. then again that would be a major breech in protocol.

>>279434
there's no way to flush the chamber other then through void suction, and by the time we set something else up, our bug will be long gone

another note of interest, a Tech-Leech can burrow through solid CarboSteel, meaning it could come from anywhere . . . even right bellow our feet where our shields are least effective

>>279696
Just an odd question, why is this xeno-form species titled 'Tech-Leaches'? Actually when did we start seeing them?

HOW did Zane fail the alliance? She was careful and had no orders or protocol, she did her best and would have gotten this taken care of had the captain not been infected. Check up on Huro, see how he's doing, he can verify all of this if he still lives, and if not, sending a crewman up to look at the captain's green blood should be enough.

Oh. Make sure he gets medical attention and all.

>>279700
im guessing it was where we actualy approached the pod without protection.

well i dont know much on what to do. waiting sounds wrong, why not barge in and shoot it? im sure the drones managed to pot shot it a bit.

>>279711
also please tell me everyone has their shields up.

and that the captain always had green blood.

>>279696
All proper protocols were followed.
If there is blame to be had then it is with the protocols, not with her.

Consider places where the self destruct could be disabled, and either bypass or guard those with shielded personnel who you can confirm are not bugged.
However, before that I want you to seal the deck as if from a hull breach then use whatever highly radioactive materials you have to fill the deck with lethal levels of radiation at as many times normal pressure as the hull can take, and then some.
If the techleech has breached the deck then it'll get blasted with hot rads at high pressure and hopefully sucked back out as the section if dug into depressurizes. At the very least you'll be able to tell where it went from the radiation and the pressure loss.
If it's still ON the deck then it'll be bathed in high radiation and be easy to track directly.

Actually, screw it. Fall back and vent the reactors into this deck. I want those walls to be melting before those bots stop firing.

If none of this is applicable, then seal every possible seal on the damn ship, blow out the hull in that bay somehow, and follow the depressurization. Casualties are regrettable, but acceptable.

>>279696
How quickly can it burrow through bulkheads, and how quickly can you have cutting charges set up to excise any areas of the ship it may have reached? Blowing a large chunk out of your vessel is preferable to blowing up the whole thing. Prudence does suggest setting up numerous independent self-destruct timed fail safes.

Can the Tech Leach survive limited/long-term vacuum exposure?

>Tech-Leech can burrow through solid CarboSteel, meaning it could come from anywhere
Well then, we have to eliminate the threat before the ship resembles an ant colony. As if the dead contagious comrades weren't enough.

Can we somehow ensure the rest on the ship command isn't going to turn on us? Does a full-bodyt scan reveal tech-leech?

Gore: Contact Huro and the captain, when they don't respond contact the crew and find out what everyone else already knows.

Huro: deactivate your shield before falling unconscious

Gore 2011/02/07(Mon)19:05 No. 280002 ID: b6c6fc
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despite our best efforts to contain the Tech-Leech it some how found a way to elude not only our blasting attempts but to hide it self completely from our scanners
we have since sealed off every deck and subsection of the ship, we have our damage sensors on if it so much as scratches a metal plate we'll know

but even this is has proven ineffective thus far

As it turns out, our the stalwart Captain Anithia Perl has been exposed as Crawler MindSlave, the gods only know how much damage she's durring her month on board.
the doctors predict it will be at least another couple hours untill she will have recovered enough to survive a proper interigation

on top of that, one of my best men Vensendrian Huro was critically injured in the struggle to subdue the Captain, the doctors have explained that it could be weeks before he is able to fight again, as they will need to regrow him several internal organs including the heart

I've sent word to Command, but there's little they can do to help, for this we're on our own

Gore 2011/02/07(Mon)19:10 No. 280007 ID: b6c6fc
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Dosk: "why are they called Tech-Leech Sarge? seems an odd name for a Race"

Gore: "only the big one is a tech-leech every thing else is just a drone, as for the name means who knows, it's just what the call themselves."

Pike: "Sarge, so how are we supposed to know who's infected, can it be picked up on medical scanners?

Gore: "trust me on this one boy, you'll know when someones infected"

Zane: "Master Sergeant, what do we do now?

what is Gore's game plan?

1. full offense: split into 3 squads of three and tear this ship apart until that bug is found and dead

2. full defense: find the most defensible position and bunker down until the Alliance Reinforcements arrive (1 week approax.)

3. split force: divide team into a 5 man hunter team, and 4 man bunker team, hunter team will seek and destroy all bug life signs, Bunker team will establish a defensive position and focus on protecting the crew

4. Abandon Ship: evacuate the must valuable personnel and equipment (escape pods and shuttles carry a maximum of 100 people). then set ship full self destruct, incinerating everything else on board.

>>280007
Split into two teams, get Kimb to give Zane her rifle back if it's ready and get everyone combat ready. Scan everyone for infected that you come across, no exceptions, don't trust Gore's assessment as nobody knew the captain was infected and everyone was around the captain for a while.

Have all robots on full sentry mode. As soon as the robots or scanners of any sort find something non-astranian have them put as many rounds into it as possible.

Should be the same policy with the troopers. If it's not astranian, shoot to kill.

Non-astranian of course includes infected astranians.

If anything leaves the ship, there's a chance that there can be drones or the leech itself on the lifeboats. So while it's important to lock-down all such lifeboats and make sure NOTHING escapes (the ship now basically being under quarantine), it may be that EVERYTHING must go, and you might wish to set it up so that in an emergency such may be done quickly and before any infected individuals may reactivate the escape pods or whatever and get away.

>>280007
5 on bunker, 4 on hunter. If you don't keep an escape route clear you're already dead, so position where you can cover the self destruct mechanism and your escape route.

You've got a bunch of bots left, and even non-military ones can do medical scans, right? Have all bots ignore all non-vital tasks in favor of wandering around scanning everybody at random for any signs of injury or ill health.

Anybody with any medical problem is then escorted to the medical staff for examination. Anybody who resists is to be incinerated or disintegrated immediately. Shooting them first is optional.
Anybody with medical problems that tests as clean is then put into a quarantine section under guard and more frequent medical scans.
If somebody is shown to be infected then either cure them or incinerate them as is appropriate.

Your ship can detect lifesigns, albeit not those of the techleech, so you can use those to spot anybody that's trying to avoid the areas where the bots are searching. Further, keep a database of all passengers and have the robots report when they scan a passenger. Track how frequently each passenger is scanned, and have them track down anybody who hasn't been scanned recently. Inform the robots that this duty takes priority over all other duties, and they are to kill anybody who attempts to override their orders, tamper with their data collection, or impede their work. Further, that anybody who does not have a clean bill of health is to be considered an enemy for purposes of issuing orders until they have been cleared by medical.

You've got 200 robots, right? If people are being kept locked in different sections then you should be able to reliably scan everybody in fairly short order; you should be able to check each person a few times per hour.

Have every guard check in with command every hour, and whenever they witness another guard being injured or are injured themselves. If one of you gets a papercut right now then command should have nine calls to nine different agents at command; this is a crisis-level event involving the number one enemy of the state, so they damn well better be willing to commit a crisis center to this.

Oh, and disable the ship's propulsion and weapons systems beyond your crew's ability to repair them; if you fail then the ship will be both dead in the water and helpless when backup arrives.

Corral the civilians,and all possible personnel, into one area. Spread out you'll quickly end up with an exponential infection rate and any other smaller strongholds will be quickly overrun by sheer numbers. Together, either nobody is infected or everyone is.

Hold out for a WEEK? These guys tore you guys a new asshole in an hour.

Go full offense now now now.

>>280093
You split them up so that if an infection gets out of hand in one section you can vent that section to space without losing them all.

Besides, the infection will spread slower through bulkheads and this prevents a sudden zombie apocalypse.

The cautious thing, the right thing, the honorable thing to do, is to set the ship on a course to hit the sun, and then spend all the available delta-v to make sure it's too expensive for anyone to catch up to the ship and attempt a rescue.

We have to give this thing zero quarter.

>1. full offense: split into 3 squads of three and tear this ship apart until that bug is found and dead

Gets my vote

as you have described the enemy, there is no actual safe place to bunk up. the self destruct may already be tampered with, and unless you under estimated the enemy again, its safe to say that the damage detection mechanism was also hacked and is now not functional. wanna test it?

split in 2 forces.

one will screen the population as possible and eject them as they are clear. its imperative for them to be ejected safely in orbit of something that wont kill them but would allow for the survivors to remain restricted while the army cant arrive to pick them up and screen them again.

the second force must force a manual detonation of the ship. get to the engineering, explode what you can and GTFO as its possible. in a way or another do not count on the ship working properly, and as far as i know, everyone the cap had contact with could be infected.

Gore 2011/02/08(Tue)15:51 No. 280305 ID: b6c6fc
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Gore: "we have no choice but to strike immediately not only for the lives we'll be sparing from infection, but because it is our best chance at defeating this monstrosity.
he has no army and is trapped in a limited location, right now we have mobility numbers, superior firepower and complete control of the ships systems. I can not guarantee for how long this will be the case
I've contacted an old friend, we fought side by side against this bastard once before, assuming we don't make it he's sent out a warship to blast this hull strait to hell
If we die here, we can die knowing this freak will never leave this ship."

I'm dividing us into 3 squads, squad Blaze, Squad Flame and squad Inferno
I will be Heading Squad Blaze, Zane will be heading squad Flame, and Pike will be heading Squad Inferno

assign remaining team mates (all Soldiers are fully trained combat Marines, only secondary traits are listed)
Hoft (SubLaser weapon)
Kimb (Engineer)
Dosk (Cutterblade Bayonet)
Koza (Focused Com-link)
Nizk (Medic)
Powl (FireGun weapon)

>>280305
You get Hoft and Kimb. Second squad gets Nizk and Powl. Third squad will get Koza and Dosk. First squad will go for various important objectives (mobilize bots, evacuate vital personnel, protect vital systems), second will hang back and give support as needed, third will roam around hunting parasites.

(By the way, what specializations to the squad leaders have?)

I think that Koza should stay on the Bridge or somewhere well protected and begin transmitting the status of the colony to other planets, just in case. If he's the only one really capable of such transmissions, we really can't afford to lose him. Btw, some other Astranians are armed with raytech, clearly (as one of them did help zap the Captain)... is that just certain officers/members of the flight crew, or are some civilians armed? About what percentage of the rest of the colony might have access to weapons like that?

>>280360
>>280356
These two combined is a solid plan

Zane 2011/02/09(Wed)15:35 No. 280574 ID: b6c6fc
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Zane: ". . . I think we can safely bet the bug went into the starboard Colony Hub."

Kimb: "Of Course!, that would explain why we didn't get any damage reports. the WishingStar wasn't built as a colony ship, it's a modified RayTech WarShip, hell that's the only reason it even has advanced damage scanners. but the colony hubs were made by ThirdWall the scanners are all crap, and can't give exact locational damage reports, what's more even THOSE sub-par systems don't even sync up with the RayTech MasterControl."

Dosk: "So what does that all mean?"

Zane: "the Hub is filled with over a thousand people our scanners will be flooded with life signs, what it means is that there's no way we'll be able to find this thing except by visual tracking."

Dosk: "well that's just fantastic"

Gore: "believe it or not this is actually good news, this is cut and dry proof that both PortSide Colony Hub, and the main ship are entirely clean, it also means we no longer will have to detonate the ship"

Pike: "but I thought you said the Captain was infected, who knows how far that's spread during her time on board!"

Gore: "try to keep up Soldier. The Captain's Clean, she had a parasite clasped onto her, but there's no infection"

Pike: "Well if that's the Case, why don't we just eject the entire Hub, fry it and call it a day, and label it as acceptable losses?"

Gore: "that's the same plan I thought of, last time I fought it, I'm not sure how it escaped but it found a way. No not this time, this time I say we go in full force detach the hub just in case and systematical track down this bastard"

Kimb: "both these plans, seem a little too hasty we can't even be certain it IS in the Starboard Hub. if you give me a couple hours I should be able to readjust the Scanners and pin point the location the Alien creature, in the meantime we can guard the hub entrances, and get some bots to patrol"

Gore: "we may not HAVE a couple hours! . . . Zane what's your take on the situation?"

what plan does Zane support?

1. Pikes plan to detonate the colony hub killing everyone aboard hopefully including the Tech-Leech.

2. Gores plan to detach the Hub while all three squads are aboard, and hunt it down.

3. Kimb's plan to tweak the Scanner until it can detect the aliens.

>>280574
Can Kimb and the rest of his team stay back while he adjusts the scanners while the other two teams hunt the thing? Seems like that would be best.

Also, Kimb, ETA on Zane's disruptor rifle?

I really don't think there's any actual proof that the target is where they think they are. Yes it would make sense, in a way, but there's no actual evidence to support it. Why don't we start off with something a bit less drastic? My suggestion is to continue to split into three teams, but with drastically different objectives.

Squad Blaze, with Gore, Dosk, and Hoft, are the team initially in charge of taking out the target. Approach the starboard colony hub, round up civilians and begin searching for the target and/or infected.

Squad Inferno, with Pike, Kimb, and Koza stay on the primary ship in a well-defended area and try to create a proper scanning procedure for the target and infected individuals. Once this team has completed the scanner and has CONFIRMED that the target(s) are limited to the Starboard Hub, we can detach it and declare the rest of the ship free from infection. If failure results, either on their end to create an adequate detection method for the target(s), or if the other squads are overwhelmed, Koza can transmit all known data to relevant receivers (HQ, nearby planets/stations/ships, etc).

Squad Flame, with Zane, Nizk, and Powl in the meantime play both sides, effectively trying to preserve quarantine in the Starboard Hub, making sure no infected get out while the scanner's still being worked on, but ultimately not so entirely engaged that if our guess proves to be incorrect and the infected are NOT limited to the starboard hub, they'll be able to move. Also, with our medic in this group we'll probably have a better chance of making sure civilians are not infected before shuffling them out of quarantine (Sue me for trying to save lives). If it's believed that the medic would serve better in Gore's assault squad, then swap Nizk and Hoft.

A lot of this is based on presupposition that we can control the entrances/exits to the hub (at least those accessible to Astranian civvies... I doubt we'll be able to hamper the movements of the bugs) with just one squad, and can seal off other entrances/exits adequately to engage a quarantine.

This is the brief period that, under the presumption we're operating under, we'll be able to evacuate the non-infected civilians outside of the section of the ship that may be detached. If, when the scanner's complete, we're able to confirm limitation of infection, that's when we cease rescue operations, have Squad Flame officially move over to the Hub, and detach. We probably won't have adequate time to move Squad Inferno over as we'll want to detach the infected section of the ship as soon as we receive confirmation on it.

Also, let's make a general note to update the distress beacon, reaffirming our status for stations that can hear us, as well as potentially asking for psionically-shielded reinforcements if possible. Remember, however, that our shields are pre-programed not to fry other Astranians and will shut down when in close proximity to them, so we must be extra careful when in close contact with potentially infected individuals. Our shields won't keep them at bay.

>>280578
adjusting the scanners may not be a viable option on a disconnected piece. Still, putting all our eggs in one metaphorical basket doesn't seem like a good idea. Two squads go over, one stays here, at least until target's location can be confirmed.

(If standard comms don't work across separated sections, work out some sort of highly noticeable signal that will work.)

>>280578
This.

Hey, everyone has a piece of cool gear or specialist training, what did Huro have? If it was a piece of gear, could we nick it for somebody that's on their feet?

We've already seen theres a few lightly armed engineers and whatever staff wandering about. So I suggest we make Kimb earn his strips and to tweak the scanner solo backed up with whatever personal he can muster on the way. Meanwhile the rest of the team goes out on the hunt to try and track the thing down before it can entrench itself further. On that note STOP TALKING AND START DOING!

Zane 2011/02/09(Wed)23:02 No. 280657 ID: b6c6fc
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>>280580
Zane suggest a Plan

Gore: "Hmm, an Exellent plan Zane, you surprise me, perhaps there's hope for you yet"

Zane: "Thank you Sir!"

Gore: . . .

Zane: "is something wrong?"

Gore: " . . . no, just old memories . . ."

Zane: "Sir?"

Gore: "Bah! let's get a move on!"

Gore 2011/02/09(Wed)23:04 No. 280658 ID: b6c6fc
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A short while Later

Gore: "this is Gore, we've entered the hub."

Koza: "understood Sergeant, we will inform you on any update from our end"

. . .

Dosk: "Where the hell is everybody, Sarge I thought you said there were supposed to people round here"

Hoft: "Maybe they're off on lunch?"

How Should Team Blaze proceed?

CAREFULLY.

So we've confirmed that they ARE in the hub, but not that they're ONLY in the hub. We need to know how many exits there are from the hub to the main ship and if they're controllable. Once we control those we can go about looking for uninfected, VERIFYING that they are indeed uninfected, and then moving them onto the clean sections of the ship. Of top priority otherwise is neutralizing any methods in which the target and/or the infected may use to escape the quarantine and/or the ship, such as escape shuttles, private vehicles that may be used to rush barricades, etc.

>>280658

Contact confirmed! Enemy is in the premises! Bugblood in the broken tube and astranian blood to the north at the corner. Retreat and detach hub!

>"Maybe they're off on lunch?"

I hope you don't actually believe that. This section's been compromised, proceed with caution.

Question: Why was the section of the colony with the bug on it not ejected while it was still trying to get out?

By the way, considering the tech-leech has more maneuverability than us (insofar as it can both fit into vents and whatnot where we are unable to follow as well as walk on walls and ceilings), ultimately the idea of even all ten of you trying to hunt it down is likely to fail. Instead, if possible, once the area is successfully quarantined, you'd begin making loud announcements for survivors to evacuate the Hub in a calm and orderly fashion(use the FireGun to make sure that not everyone rushes the checkpoint where the Medic clears them before letting them out of quarantine).

As I said, in all likelihood the premises offers too many hiding places for your target to be found without that scanner, so ultimately for the moment you're probably here just to evacuate survivors and make sure it doesn't escape to another section. When the scanner's up or when we've evacuated a reasonable percentage of the uninfected, you retreat, detach the entire section, and annihilate the entire hub. Sadly there will be no direct confirmation of the destruction of the target, but given your lacking numbers and the covert nature of the tech-leech, such a face-to-face encounter is already unlikely.

All of you head right and at the T-junction Hoft and Gore round the right corner where the blood is, weapons ready, Dosk covers the left of the T-junction where there is no blood. Report back to the rest of the gang that everybody here has fucked off.

>>280755
Seconding this, there's no way you're gonna be able to hunt that thing down in here.

Gore 2011/02/10(Thu)23:48 No. 280881 ID: b6c6fc
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Gore: "Koza, what's the Status on the other gate ways, into the Starboard Hub?"

Koza: "Kimb has detonated the charges in them, the main access is now the only way in or out of the hub"

Gore: "Good, I want you to send an evacuation message to run through out the Hub, Ask Zane if you need more details."

Koza: "you got it Sarge"

Now, ironically, your job becomes much easier. Due to the infeasibility of actually FINDING your target in this mess with only your small squad, it's best not to even try. Your target also probably knows this, and based on what it senses it'll probably learn and adapt its gameplan. While it might be NOBLE to go search for survivors, once the evacuation order goes out throughout the hub, there's going to be a WAVE of people trying to get out of there. If your enemy is smart at all, it'd try to use that confusion to break quarantine and escape itself, so we can assume it'll mix infected individuals into the rush. It's that, really, or just wait til you exterminate it. Let's not presume our quarry to by anything other than as smart as we are. Team Blaze, you're now the outer buffer of the quarantine ring and have the task of giving a quick glance-over all people coming your way to see if they're infected or not before passing them through to Zane's Squad, Squad Flame, where the Medic will confirm their status before letting them through to the ship. Quite frankly, I can't think of anything else effective for you to do until that scanner's up and/or we've evacuated a sufficient number of civilians. Perhaps you could upload/acquire a detailed map of the hub?

Gore 2011/02/11(Fri)01:28 No. 280890 ID: b6c6fc
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Squad Blaze travels down the right hand passage, and then turn right again at the T-junction


Gore: "hmm, something tells me we're not going to have to much trouble tracking this thing"

Hoft: "Holy crap that's a big hole!"

Dosk: "what's the matter, getting scared?"

Hoft: "Hell yes!, this things gonna eat us for lunch!"

. . .

Civilian: " I saw it Sergeant, I saw it with my own eyes. it was a Shadow Watcher from the dark ages, nothing-

Gore: "That is NOT to be spoken of! you could be shot for speaking of the forbidden times"

Civilian: " Go ahead, shoot me. the Shadow Watcher took my wife, death will at least spare me the agony of knowing what it will do to her . . ."

>>280890
Really Gore? Really? Is the ancient times that horrible enough to talk about that referencing it is worth a death sentence? Silly words of silly history we don't like talking about like little itty bitty pussies oh deary me, little piggy. Oinky oink oinkers.

Can you get a decent visual down that hole and properly judge where it could lead? Sonic sensor or elbow grease specialized for rubbing on intuition. Hell, if you get a baby temper tantrum from mention of the Dark Times just use the anger and yell down the hole real loud and bring a Bat Astranian.

Wow, way to totally forget that you've got a child right there... Seriously though, give him the once over and then send him and the kid on his way. Though he might also be placed in a holding cell for HERESY and whatnot. Back to the matter at hand, though, how exactly did that hole get there? No rubble on the outside suggests it's not something that came from underneath and burst out... Gore, you've said you've encountered this creature before, what do you know of its physical characteristics, abilities, and limitations?

Also, Hoft, seriously you need to get your head looked at. So far everything you've said has had to do with eating, one way or another. It's pretty creepy.

Gore: Grab the man and lift him up, pressing him against your helmet.

Tell him "You would abandon your child when it would need you most, in an emergency like this, simply because your partner has already been taken? This is the COWARD'S path. She must and will live on through you and your child. Seek shelter for now, until we have killed this beast. There will be time to give her a proper funeral once all this is over."

Check their necks for those leach things.

>>280896
I like this tough guy approach, helps shake him back to reality. and also allows you to surreptitiously check for parasites ala
>>280901

Gore 2011/02/11(Fri)10:57 No. 280922 ID: b6c6fc
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Gore: "You would abandon your child when it would need you most, in an emergency like this, simply because your partner has already been taken? This is the COWARD'S path. She must and will live on through you and your child. Seek shelter for now, until we have killed this beast. There will be time to give her a proper funeral once all this is over."

Civilian: "Y-yes Sergeant!"

>>280901
they both appear to be clean

Gore let's the man go, and the two civilians head towards the main gate

the hole appears to go two levels below

using our GravBoots, getting down shouldn't be a problem.

ONWARDS! TO VICTORY!

What about getting back up? And what IS two levels below, anyway? We need one of those three-dimensional map thingies.

Gore 2011/02/12(Sat)08:28 No. 281097 ID: b6c6fc
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>>280934
we should have no problem getting back up

Gore loads up his map of the hub

go down, that sounds plot sufficient... creepy things always go down into deep dark places

Down we go, two in the hole, and send one down the nearest elevator, time it as closely as possible. I don't 'like' the idea of splitting up, but it provides opportunities for surprise flanking.

>>281129

and the ability to be raped in mid transit... hold flanks together and just drop down

The access hatches go outside, right? As in, outside of the ship? The tech-leech has no ability to survive in a vacuum, does it? Still waiting on all the info you can give us on it, Gore. Physical characteristics, abilities, weaknesses, even how big it is and what it looks like would help.

Oh, and Huro's status popping up again and again is probably a hint for us to go check on him. Team Inferno's on the bridge, right? Is he still there? Is he okay? Stabilized, at least? If there's nothing Squad Inferno can do for him, perhaps Pike can bring him over to the Medic over in Squad Flame.