• If you were supposed to get an email from the forum but didn't (e.g. to verify your account for registration), email Wes at [email protected] or talk to me on Discord for help. Sometimes the server hits our limit of emails we can send per hour.
  • Get in our Discord chat! Discord.gg/stararmy
  • 📅 February and March 2024 are YE 46.2 in the RP.

RP: NSS Inquiry [Mission Two] Zero Tolerance

Picking himself up to his knees in the dirt Adam reached back, grasped the comforting handle of his machete and turned the unsheathing into a vicious downward chop. He was relying on the strong durandium and monomolecular edge to deal with the antlered foe easily enough. He was, at this point, almost blind to the other threats around him as he focused on ending the threat directly in front of him, his face contorted in a fierce angry visage.
 
Forest

Linda followed Cadence's orders to approach from the rear of the enemy squad, and with the help of shared targeting information between everyone, it was rather easy to make the proper positioning adjustments. Her own team was more competent than she expected, however, the majority of the opposition was removed quickly, and she might not have even needed to help, but she did not want her report saying that she did nothing.

As such, she closed in quickly from the flank as the enemy retreated, AS4GS already loaded and ready. AS they passed she stepped out from around a tree and squeezed the trigger, letting out a double barrel spread of tungsten plasma.
 
Forest

"Uh..." Alec muttered as he glanced around as he backed up, popping off a couple more shots till his gun started clicking instead of shooting.

"UH..." Alec said, backpedaling while trying to reload as the enemy heads started popping up more with retaliating shots whizzing past his.

"UH- SHIT!" Alec shouted, feeling the heat of a round crackling past his helm before turning and breaking into a full sprint and dive behind the nearest of solid cover her could find.
 
Last edited:
NSS Inquiry
Power Armor Bay


Stella's heart thumped in her throat as she prepped for launch out of the Inquiry's hangar. She looked over to her winged companion for this journey over Polup and smiled hesitantly before donning her helmet.

"Ready to jump?" asked a brusque Nepleslian woman that walked forward, looking to the two. They were being granted a fucking hell of a lot of autonomy.

"Yep!" replied Thalia, entirely too excited - and practically vibrating with enthusiasm - at the chance to finally do something after having spent the past four weeks cooped up onboard the starship. Sure, there'd been plenty of the new big people to meet and do things with - but the confines of the Inquiry were just so cramped when compared to the open sky of Fort Victory.

Stella Glass, the clerk of the Star Army working under the umbrella of DIoN alongside Thalia, said much of the same, "Yes we are!" She looked to Thalia and extended her hand for the other SAoY personnel to hold as she walked to the lip of the hangar.

The Caelisolan accepted the offered hand - "Oh my, I've never been with another girl before~~~" - and cheerfully kept alongside Stella, humming to herself as she half-skipped in order to keep from straying too far ahead of her shorter companion. Never been with a guy, either, but oh wells - I might change that soon if they're as, ehm, as "big" as they claim...

Unaware of the beautiful Elysian's inner thoughts, Stella stepped off the hangar door and they were descending through the atmosphere towards where the Inquiry's away team scouted from the ground.

So distracted was she with the increasingly-detailed scene taking place within her mind that Thalia didn't even notice she was about to depart from the Inquiry - that is, until she attempted to walk out onto the emptiness of space. Her finely-tuned kinesthetic senses were, fortunately, able to transform an awkward stuble into a graceful fall; said senses, however, could do nothing for the adrenaline-fueled flash of panic that jolted through the Elysian's mind. OHGODWHATISHAPP-oh, hey, I'm falling-or am I free-falli-wow, that's a really, really, really, really beautiful planet. Which one was it again? Polygon? Pollen? Poliwag-oh, yeah! Polup! Heyos, Polup! "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

"Heeehee," Stella half giggled as she went down with the Caelisolan and then soon they were bursting through a cold front and then a swirling spike of heat that pushed their suits up a marginal degree.

Polup

After a good many minutes of regaining control of the altitude they were working in, Stella said, "I'm seeing the landing zone... What do you make out?"

The Caelisolan, who'd been taking in the gorgeous moonlit vista before her - having never before experienced such beauty due to growing up in suburbs - hmmmmmmmed as she squinted, eyes scanning the AIES-magnified landscape before her. Tree, grass, grass, rock, green shuttle-thingie, tree, white beam, person shooting white beam, tree, green person runni-hey!

"Ita, Glass-sa-oops, Glass-Hei, I see a baddie in armor shooting at one of the peoples in green armor! Can I engage him please?" Thalia said.

Stella looked intently at the forest scape to their West just South of where the shuttle had landed. The power armored Elefirn approached from just North of the shuttle. A bit of foliage was cover for some Nepleslian power armor-clad Marines. She took it all in, as well as the white blasts the same ivory color as her uniform’s panels.

“I’ll relay the enemy position to the other away team while we go North of the hostiles position to scout their position. Engage on my command only,” Stella said, looking at Thalia, then added with a look to her in the air while they encroached on Stein’s position on the cliff.

“This is Santô Hei Stella Glass for—”

Before she could continue, Cadence cut her off, “Oh fuck!” Rank Cadence Newborn shot out her own weaponry to take the opponent down and when they ducked into cover, she shouted into comms, “Private Corbin, get that sonabitch!” To all of the team as well as the Mindy-clad girls, she said, “We have friendlies. Forgot to warn you…” In all honesty, she wondered what some members of the squad would have to say and didn’t want to hear it before the assault. “We probably have another five before Inquiry is going to start breathing down our necks!”

Stella called out to Cadence, “Agreed, Second Lieutenant! If alright with you, we’ll scout the North?” Telepathically, she asked, “Thalia, how’s it coming?”

Cadence gruffly replied, “Do it.”

Nothing so f-” the Hei began to reply, only to freeze in disbelief as she noticed a series of flashes - about fifty or so pinpricks of white light against the murky darkness of the night - in the plains beyond. N-

For a moment - that indescribable span between seconds - Thalia wasn't a soldier on Polup.

She was a ten-year-old child on Elysia Novus watching those flashes become the pillars of white light that vaporized her family's floating manor, three of her sisters, and her mother during the Battle of Elysia. No.

She was a fourteen-year-old teenager watching those flashes become the beams of white light that vaporized her family's house on the outskirts of Kyoto, her father, and her four remaining sisters during the Battle of Yamatai. You.

Now, though, she wasn't a helpless child or a teenager paralyzed by fear - she was a soldier of the Star Army of Yamatai, clad in the most advanced power armor ever created. She was a soldier - and there was no way in Hell she was going to let the enemy destroy the only family she had left. DON'T!

With a muzzle velocity of six times the speed of sound, the fifty-six pinpricks of light - slowly-moving packets of aether energy encapsulated in and guided by extremely weak scalar fields - took approximately 2.145 seconds to cover the 4.417 kilometers that lay between them and the individual known as Thalia Licina. After spending roughly half a second chasing rabbits through the meadows of the past, said individual spent another second locking up each packet with the AIES - a task it wasn't exactly designed for, but capable of performing nonetheless thanks to the white-hot thermal signatures of the aforementioned packets - and firing three ten-missile salvos from each of her armor's shoulder-mounted missile pods as the flashes rapidly grew into fist-sized bolts of death and destruction.
"What do you see, Thalia?!” Stella shouted into comms.

The Caelisolan's response was delivered in the form of fifty-six explosions of light as each mini-missile flew straight into the artillery shells. They disintegrated, and disrupted the scalar field keeping the aether packets contained that were flying through the air- thus causing them to explode as well in a series of even brighter secondary explosions.

Stella was on top of the sight she was seeing through Thalia’s HUD and her Mindy sent out its own volleys, then relayed the coordinates of the location the aether had spit from in the forest to the North of the squad’s position.

“We have company, Inquiry team! Rendezvousing to your position!” Stella said over comms. “Thalia, pull back to the squad with me!”

Cadence called out to her, "We took down the eight power armor that encroached on our position, now we encroach on there positions! I want Stein and Edison up in the air scouting our flanks while Corbin and Nelson check our rear. Rest of you are going with me! Wait for the cats to get their fucking tails here to make sure we're all on the same page. Form up on my position if you're going with me. Now!"
 
Last edited:
Polup

The news of the new members to assist them was news to Linda, but even more surprising was the readings, that matched MINDY 4 power armors. What were Yamatai soldiers doing as part of the operating squad in such a mission? She would have to have a few discussions once this was all over. However, she kept quiet for now, eerily so as she moved a bit further from the group to check the rear and make sure no one was going to sneak up on them.
 
Polup

"No need to tell me twice!" Alec said, beating feet through the squad to check the back of their position. the sudden appearance of Mindy's was a welcome but concerning sight. He didn't remember Star Army assets raining down being mentioned in the briefing, but at least they were shooting at the Elferin. Alec slide into a another defensive rock position at the back of the squad, scanning for anything else that intended to sneak up on them.
 
Polup

"As you say," came Adam's raspy reply. He looked down at the messes in front of him and all around him and nodded in satisfaction as he stood taking a quick look around. His sensors showed the team moving in to their assigned position, he honestly did not care about the arrival of two more allies, the more the merrier really. He looked down and gave one last hack before magnetizing the blade once again to his back, swung his rifle to the fore checking the ammo count. He activated the Variable Impulse drive system, lighting off the back and calf jets and launched in to the air.

While he had sharp eyes, it was his keen instincts that he used at the moment, the enemy had the advantage of foliage and an innate ability to hide and so he had to be as predatory as he could be...his specialty. He kept his level and position in the sky changing so as to throw off the most mundane of aim, a sharpshooter however would have no problem but he counted on less of those from what he had witnessed already. His path took him bobbing and weaving to the left of the group.
 
Polup

"Roger that Boss." Stein said as he quickly stuffed his remaining magazines into his suit and locked the bipod back against the barrel. "Edision, go right. I will take the left flank." He ordered as he ran towards the ledge and activated his jets, propelling himself forward.

With his birds eye view, he scanned the left flank for any movement amongst the trees, and prepared to rain death upon his targets. He checked his gun's magazine and was satisfied to see that it was full with one frag round in the chamber. "Beginning sweep."
 
Polup
"Thalia, pull back to the squad with me!"
With an unusually-subdued response - "I-Ita, Glass-Hei. Returning..." - the individual known as Thalia Licinia began flying back to where Stella and the others were, confused, more than a little afraid, and trembling slightly within her armor as the aftershocks of a gargantuan adrenaline surge crashed their way through her. What just happened, and why is my heart beating so fast? Why am I breathing so hard, and why does my skin feel so icky? Did I just shoot someone or something? I hope it wasn't a friendly person - oh, Empress, please oh please oh please don't let it be a friendly person...
 
Pulling himself a meter away from Linda, Glynn scanned the perimeter with his heavy arsenal. Why Yamatai were here was a complete unknown, but it was information that he didn't need to necessarily know. The only thing he DID know was that he had to minimize his fire yet again. If he managed to accidentally damage one of their precious MINDY power suits, therewill be hell to pay.

For now Glynn scanner the perimeter, checking sensors and watching the foliage closely.
 
Polup

Getting ahead of the team, Cadence Newborn scouted the forest that lay just to the North of the small hill she was on the other side of. Her scans showed large energy spikes being thrown out from the fifty meters into the forest and she looked back to see her squad's position. Nobody had found anything on any other readings save for those in the forest to the North.

"Formation Delta," Cadence said quickly over comms and the team would know to spread out and scope the forest. "I want those checking our flanks and rear to hold positions scouting. The rest of you, let's figure out what wants to fuck the cats up."

Stella Glass looked to Thalia and asked over their own channel, "Injury report, Licina-hei!" The clerk then added, "Are you okay?"
 
Polup

Adam replied with a noticeable edge of annoyance to the Master Sargeant, "Yeah, I will change to the right side. Thanks." He manuevered quickly and kept his eyes peeled, really hoping something popped up for him to unload on. That last kill had him riding a violent high, exactly the tpe of condition his former Commondant had instilled in him to use to his advantage.

As the orders for the new formation came in he once again tsked in subtle annoyance. He had spent many years, sitting and waiting and doing nothing in prison, why transfer him to this unit if they were going to do the same. Regardless, he followed orders just as he was taught to do. A good little soldier one days becomes a free little soldier.
 
Polup
Rear of Formation

Told to hold position, Linda stopped her advance and began to run stans to watch for any hostiles. She had already been tricked by their camouflage before and she had no intention to let it happen constantly.

Surprisingly though she spoke, but it was not over the radio, it was using the outside mic so that only Glynn who stood next to her could hear. "Did you hear anything about these cats participating in this battle?"
 
Polup
Rear of Formation


"I'm afraid that's a negative Sergeant, the only Intel I get is from the briefing or debriefings. " Glynn replied, out of comms, mimicking Linda, "I assume that they also kept you in the dark?" Glynn asked, intrigued that an IPG agent had been withheld information. "Must be important..."

Glynn twirled his body right face. For a moment he thought he heard or even saw something, though in a few moments he was able to confirm his suspicions that whatever it was, it wasn't hostile or even relevant.
 
Last edited:
Polup

Not wanting to move from his postion, Alec took some comfort in his orders to hold for now eyed his senors, not to see if any enemy eneies were still creeping up to see if anyone in the squad was wounded. Carrick must've beat feet back to the shuttle but beyond that, everyone seemed slightly battered, but okay.

He then turned his attention back to their surroundings, not wanting to get jumped again by another patrol. "So anyone want to take a guess as to way the cats are here?" Alec grumbled over the comms. "By money's on resource deposits somewhere on the planet."
 
Polup
Flank

"Delta Formation, copy." Stein replied over comms. He quickly dropped into the canopy below to avoid getting swatted out of the sky. As he hit the ground he reactivated his own camoflauge and scanned the area for enemies.

As he heard Linda speak, he patched himself into the squad channel. "As far as I know that is a negative. Besides, the kitties wouldn't want to get there little hands dirty anyway now would they?" He replied watching his surroundings, his sniper rifle held at the ready.
 
Northern Forest

Cadence approached the forest with those encroaching on it in a low, squatted position in between changing position to get closer to the threat. When she noticed sensor readings that showed her decisively what they were working with, she made a soft, almost whisper whistle noise into comms.

She said, "Pull back and regroup." The small group of them moved back to the rest of the Inquiry team's position and when they had, Cadence spoke again. "There is a anti-air turret in the NorthEastern part of the forest. It is protected by what is likely the rest of the squad of those fucks we just shot up, four Elefirn in PA. Thoughts?
 
Polup
Rear of Formation


"No, I was not informed." Linda continued to speak over her exterior mic to Glynn. She was not in a good mood, well she never seemed to be in a good mood, so her mood was worse than usual. However, Stien's voice over the comms got her attention.

She switched back to her squad's line and responded. "I am sure that they want their soldiers to get more experience in other armies to widen their horizon." Her tone was drastically different over the comm line than when she was speaking just to Glynn, she did not let any of her emotion through.

When the command to regroup came in she gestured to Glynn to follow as she made her way back to the main group since the rear was clear. "Guerilla Tactics would work best for this obviously. If we break into two or three groups, and attack in waves from different angles, we can keep the enemy from taking adequate cover and finish it quickly."
 
Polup
Rear of Formation


Noticing the slight change of Linda's voice, Glynn created a mental note. He came to the conclusion that this, in all likelihood, was how Linda acted when she is bothered, or even frustrated. Yet the sudden change back to her stoic self when communicating to the rest of the forces like nothing had occurred resonated with Glynn. He couldn't help but nod in approval at that sort of professionalism when making his way to the rally point.

Standing close to Linda, Glynn kept watch behind her regardless of whether or not it was clear. Though while plans were being pitched, Glynn quickly accounted for his gear, so far he hadn't used any of his grenades and still had a full magazine of HEAP rounds.

"I agree, we can constantly keep them pinned down under one side at a time while continuously making our approach to their position to disable the Anti Air turret, and eventually overwhelm the enemy if they are heavily entrenched."
 
Polup
Flank

Stein pulled back with the others and looked over the data. "I would have to agree with the Sergeants idea as well. We attack from multiple directions to keep them off balance. I can provide sniper support from the treeline as well." The Master Sergeant added, patting the side of his massive scout cannon affectionately.

"Just say the word boss, and I will go find a nice shady spot to pick these fucks off from."
 
RPG-D RPGfix
Back
Top