- RP Date
- YE 46.4
- RP Location
- Scorpio Star Fortress
YE 46.4
A few days after returning the Kikyo Sector, the YSS Resurgence was headed to the traditional "North" of the Kikyo Sector to an obscure Star Army base mostly run by the Star Army Research Administration. Known as Scorpio Star Fortress, it was the first of the Zodiac-class Star Fortresses and built in YE 27, meaning it would be 20 years old next year. Instead of docking at one of the usual docking stations on the docking arms, the Resurgence came to rest in one of the starship production areas where it would be upgraded with new features.
The crew gathered in the cargo bay for a brief address by Captain Aoba.
"Good morning, everyone. We are making a stop here at Scorpio to get a new teleportation unit installed that will allow us to travel from place to place without always needing to use a shuttle craft or a teleportation module, reducing the possibility to the Mishhuvurthyar capturing our means of movement. The module will be installed in the aft area of the ship that was reserved for future expansion. It's one of two prototypes to be installed. One will be from Ketsurui Fleet Yards, and the other from Apollo Corporation. We're going to be able to test it out soon. In the meantime, you can briefly explore Scorpio or stay and wait for Taisa Kessaku-Sakai Yuuko to arrive and brief us on the functionality of the teleporter device. Any questions?
"Do we have any idea if the Mishhu can detect teleportation patterns? They do have advanced tech and if I assume correctly, they may have something that may be able to disrupt teleportation." Yoshiro said.
"Unknown," Aoba said. "I will leave that question for the expert."
Kokoro bobbed up and down on a random crate she had managed to sit down on, before the Nekovalkrja's hand shot up, spurting out her question. She seemed rather excited to have some new experimental tech being installed. "Will we be recieving info or training on how to maintain and repair these new teleportation systems once they're installed?" Kokoro grinned, tapping her dangling legs against the crate.
Cheilith stood with the other soldiers. She enjoyed teleportation, as it allowed her to get to the battlefield quickly, so new innovations could be good.
Yayoi crossed her arms in quiet contemplative thought as she listened to her captain's words. A large part of her wanted to explore, but another part didnt want to be late getting back on the ship. But she found herself too late in making a decision as people approached.
After a while, the experts from SARA and Apollo arrived in the cargo bay to talk about the new technology.
The SARA expert was a busty, purple-haired Nekovalkyrja captain named Kessaku-Sakai Yuuko, who was an adopted member of the Kessaku family, mainly known for Anri, the Star Army's head of Technology, and Irim, the Star Army's head of killing, I mean the head of the First Fleet and former Mistress Taisho.
The Apollo expert was a Venis Separa'Shan named Vaitsa Balanophis, unlike some more familiar Separa'Shan she had scales all the way up her body and had a very snake like head. She mostly brown with a pattern of dark diamonds on her back. While she was here as a civilian, she had served in the army before going into the private sector for Apollo.
Yoshiro bowed resepctfully to the experts and to the head of the First Fleet.. He was surprised that people of their stature were here.
Yayoi much like Yoshiro had also bowed with respect to the experts.
Kokoro hopped off of her crate as she bowed in unison with the other resurgence crewmembers. She glanced towards Irim, swallowing a little visibly. Scary...
"Hello, crew of the Resurgence," Yuuko greeted them. "I have heard a lot about you and we're pleased to start introducing these new systems to your ship. Since we are still testing them, we're going to try two different models at the same time and collect feedback on both. We'll start with the KFY Ke-S3-P4600. The 4600 is a teleporter pad originally designed for intraship or inter-ship travel. It works by transforming objects and people into phased energy and casting it to the desired location where they re-materialize, which can be done by wire or wirelessly. The first big use case was quickly moving people around the YSS Battle of Yamatai, since it's enormous, but we then added the capability to do site to site teleportation. Essentially the range is limited to wherever you would normally be able to teleport to within about 5 AU or 750 million kilometers, it you can aim it. Teleportation is fast, relatively quiet, and more or less safe." Yuuko flashed a fanged smile. "There is just a little issue with finding targets..."
"Are we aware of any tech that the Mishhu have that could possibly that jam or disrupt our teleportation signals and do we have any countermeasures for that?" Yoshiro asked
"Yes, the Ke-S3-P4600 cannot teleport through intense gravity fields like those used in ship shields or in the vicinity of black holes or extreme disruptions to subspace or hyperspace. It can cause the teleporter to fail at calculating trajectories so we have placed automatic safeguards to keep you from killing yourself if you try."
"As long it works when I need it to, it will be fine for me. As long I get to do the job of killing Mishhu and protecting everyone I can from them I am glad to have and test this tech." Yoshiro said with a smile.
Yayoi listened as the expert spoke of the capabilities of the teleportation device they were going to test. When a shrill familiar voice spoke beside her announcing the presence of a certain Medic trainee. "wowee! that so cool! so while on our ship, we could visit another ship or even a planet, or gravity would be too much?" Yuri asked with wide interested eyes.
"Yeah!" Kokoro grinned at Yuri from her spot in attention. "I'm still wondering.. will we be getting training on how to maintain and fix the new systems up in case of damage? Id love to see how it all works!" The neko repeated her previous question, buzzing still.
"Yes," Yuuko told Kokoro. "Additionally, to solve the teleporter aiming issue, KFY has designed man-portable teleporter receivers that away teams can carry and set up for continuous operation, meaning an engineer will place a teleporter pad and it will act as a doorway to another pad. A big difference is," Yuuko said, "The KFY unit consists of multiple individual teleporters designed for personnel, whereas the Apollo unit is a large chamber that allows the transport of larger objects. I will let the associate from Apollo explain," Yuuko said.
"Thank you, Yuuko. The Teleportation Chamber is very similar to Ke-S3-P4600 in many of its capabilities. It has a similar range, but a different philosophy. The idea is to move units or large pieces of equipment in one jump rather than multiple individual jumps. However, due to the large energy requirements, it has a similar displacement profile to currently existing teleportation technology. That can so solved by using a pod within the chamber if un-shielded personnel need to be transported. It also allows for a team to have a pre-charged teleportation unit with them, to instantly pull out of a dangerous situation if needed." Vaitsa explained.
"The small scale of the KFY model allows it to be used more discretely, and in regular clothing," Yuuko said. "So it might be good for stealth missions. The Apollo unit may be much for useful for heavy hitting missions where you need to bring a lot of firepower and gear, or a vehicle."
Up above the crew, the two teleporters were being lowered into the ship as premade assemblies, after the "roof" of that part of the ship's armor and framing was temporarily removed. Once they were hooked up, they were ready to test out!
Yuuko set up one of the remote pads near Yayoi and Kokoro. "So...we have here one of the prototype remote teleporter pads. It's not a complete system on its own, but it has a unique locator feature the ship's system can use. If you step on this you'll vanish in a flash and reappear on the ship in the teleporter area next to the KFY and Apollo teleporter alcoves." A teal glow began to emerge from the pad and there were volumetric rings moving inward to the base to show it was an "in" and not an "out."
Yoshiro watched as they tested the teleporters. He was amazed at how everything seemed so simple yet complicated
Yayoi glanced to the remote teleporter pads placed near her, and moved herself forward, though she held a hand indicating Yuri shouldn't follow her as she stepped onto the pad, then saw the bright flash and a sudden change in location as she was teleported on the ship.
Yuri watched as her brave mother disappeared as she stood there.
In the KFY teleporter room there were two active pads, an "in" pad where Yayoi appeared, and an "out" one to another remove pad in the cargo bay.
"By the way don't stand on the pad when someone is coming in," Yuuko warned the crew. "It would be bad."
Yayoi silently examined her body as she stepped out of the "in" pad.
"Allright, everyone else we are going to take the Teleportation Chamber". The teleportation chamber opened to a large room with more than enough room for a team or two depending on how close people were willing to stand.
"Do you need to be in power armor to use the Apollo chamber?" Aoba asked Vaitsa, following her through the KFY teleporter up to the telepoter deck and into the nearby Apollo chamber.
"Yes, but notice the interior pod. It allows people to be teleported safely in much the same way that your armor allows you to be teleported safely." Vaitsa said pointing out a thin gap and two doors, one for the teleportation chamber and one for the pod.
Pidole looked at Kokoro. "I am thinking we can install the small teleporter pads in shuttles, one in, one out," she suggested. "Maybe we can also put them as rolling carts that can be sent through the Apollo to become field bases."
Kokoro's eyes were darting between the two teleporter pads as Pidole spoke, her head nodding along. "A teleporter inside a teleporter! Thats a little funny to think about" She chuckled. "The big apollo one is gonna be very useful for setting stuff up quickly, we wont need to rely on the shuttles that much!" The neko blinked, glancing back to the parked Beryl's of Fun nearby. "Not that shuttles are bad- you know what I mean-"
Yoshiro was amazed at the tech but truth be told it was beyond his comprehension. He was a soldier after all and not a engineer like Kokoro and the experts there. He was trained to blow stuff up and kill things. That is what he understood but to be able to do his job efficiently and without being detected sounded great to him
Aoba said out loud and via wireless so everyone heard him: "I am planning to immediately take us on a mission to put these to use, so get ready for a fight after we're done here," he told them with a hint of a grin. The element of surprise was a wonderful thing for a warrior.
Yoshiro smiled. "Oh yeah. It's about time we put these teleporters to the test. The Mishhu won't even know what hit them." he said with a grin. "Time for the noobs to get wrecked, Star Army style."
"Imagine how we can teleport ammo drops to away teams now," Cassie grinned. "It will be like power ups in a video game!"
"or medical aid?" Yuri asked Cassie with a smile on her face.
Cassie laughed. "You could set it up to teleport straight into the medical lab?" she shrugged. "The Poppyporter?"
Yuri giggled at Cassie's words, specifically The Poppyporter amused her. "yeah that works!" Yuri said as her mother joins her again.
"Sounds good to me. The Poppyporter, for quick medievac and teleporting aid to soldiers in the field." Yoshiro said with a smile.
"Good luck out there, and I hope you'll find these new options useful in the field," Yuuko said. "SARA, KFY, and the best of the Star Army Military Industrial Complex will be working hard to keep the improvements coming. I've sent the complete manuals to all the ship's technicians. Keep in mind they're classified."
"Arigatou!" Kokoro gave the representatives a salute, trying her best to hold back a grin. She couldn't wait to get back to engineering and absolutely gush over the documentation they were being provided for the new equipment...
Once the ship's framing and armor was back on her after section, and Pidole gave it the all clear, the ship was ready to head out. Everyone loaded up on the Resurgence and they were back out in space in less than an hour.
As they traveled the armor team began to suit up for the next adventure...
= = =
OOC: JP by Wes, Charaa, Liza, Yoshiro, Ametheliana, Yuuki, Soban
A few days after returning the Kikyo Sector, the YSS Resurgence was headed to the traditional "North" of the Kikyo Sector to an obscure Star Army base mostly run by the Star Army Research Administration. Known as Scorpio Star Fortress, it was the first of the Zodiac-class Star Fortresses and built in YE 27, meaning it would be 20 years old next year. Instead of docking at one of the usual docking stations on the docking arms, the Resurgence came to rest in one of the starship production areas where it would be upgraded with new features.
The crew gathered in the cargo bay for a brief address by Captain Aoba.
"Good morning, everyone. We are making a stop here at Scorpio to get a new teleportation unit installed that will allow us to travel from place to place without always needing to use a shuttle craft or a teleportation module, reducing the possibility to the Mishhuvurthyar capturing our means of movement. The module will be installed in the aft area of the ship that was reserved for future expansion. It's one of two prototypes to be installed. One will be from Ketsurui Fleet Yards, and the other from Apollo Corporation. We're going to be able to test it out soon. In the meantime, you can briefly explore Scorpio or stay and wait for Taisa Kessaku-Sakai Yuuko to arrive and brief us on the functionality of the teleporter device. Any questions?
"Do we have any idea if the Mishhu can detect teleportation patterns? They do have advanced tech and if I assume correctly, they may have something that may be able to disrupt teleportation." Yoshiro said.
"Unknown," Aoba said. "I will leave that question for the expert."
Kokoro bobbed up and down on a random crate she had managed to sit down on, before the Nekovalkrja's hand shot up, spurting out her question. She seemed rather excited to have some new experimental tech being installed. "Will we be recieving info or training on how to maintain and repair these new teleportation systems once they're installed?" Kokoro grinned, tapping her dangling legs against the crate.
Cheilith stood with the other soldiers. She enjoyed teleportation, as it allowed her to get to the battlefield quickly, so new innovations could be good.
Yayoi crossed her arms in quiet contemplative thought as she listened to her captain's words. A large part of her wanted to explore, but another part didnt want to be late getting back on the ship. But she found herself too late in making a decision as people approached.
After a while, the experts from SARA and Apollo arrived in the cargo bay to talk about the new technology.
The SARA expert was a busty, purple-haired Nekovalkyrja captain named Kessaku-Sakai Yuuko, who was an adopted member of the Kessaku family, mainly known for Anri, the Star Army's head of Technology, and Irim, the Star Army's head of killing, I mean the head of the First Fleet and former Mistress Taisho.
The Apollo expert was a Venis Separa'Shan named Vaitsa Balanophis, unlike some more familiar Separa'Shan she had scales all the way up her body and had a very snake like head. She mostly brown with a pattern of dark diamonds on her back. While she was here as a civilian, she had served in the army before going into the private sector for Apollo.
Yoshiro bowed resepctfully to the experts and to the head of the First Fleet.. He was surprised that people of their stature were here.
Yayoi much like Yoshiro had also bowed with respect to the experts.
Kokoro hopped off of her crate as she bowed in unison with the other resurgence crewmembers. She glanced towards Irim, swallowing a little visibly. Scary...
"Hello, crew of the Resurgence," Yuuko greeted them. "I have heard a lot about you and we're pleased to start introducing these new systems to your ship. Since we are still testing them, we're going to try two different models at the same time and collect feedback on both. We'll start with the KFY Ke-S3-P4600. The 4600 is a teleporter pad originally designed for intraship or inter-ship travel. It works by transforming objects and people into phased energy and casting it to the desired location where they re-materialize, which can be done by wire or wirelessly. The first big use case was quickly moving people around the YSS Battle of Yamatai, since it's enormous, but we then added the capability to do site to site teleportation. Essentially the range is limited to wherever you would normally be able to teleport to within about 5 AU or 750 million kilometers, it you can aim it. Teleportation is fast, relatively quiet, and more or less safe." Yuuko flashed a fanged smile. "There is just a little issue with finding targets..."
"Are we aware of any tech that the Mishhu have that could possibly that jam or disrupt our teleportation signals and do we have any countermeasures for that?" Yoshiro asked
"Yes, the Ke-S3-P4600 cannot teleport through intense gravity fields like those used in ship shields or in the vicinity of black holes or extreme disruptions to subspace or hyperspace. It can cause the teleporter to fail at calculating trajectories so we have placed automatic safeguards to keep you from killing yourself if you try."
"As long it works when I need it to, it will be fine for me. As long I get to do the job of killing Mishhu and protecting everyone I can from them I am glad to have and test this tech." Yoshiro said with a smile.
Yayoi listened as the expert spoke of the capabilities of the teleportation device they were going to test. When a shrill familiar voice spoke beside her announcing the presence of a certain Medic trainee. "wowee! that so cool! so while on our ship, we could visit another ship or even a planet, or gravity would be too much?" Yuri asked with wide interested eyes.
"Yeah!" Kokoro grinned at Yuri from her spot in attention. "I'm still wondering.. will we be getting training on how to maintain and fix the new systems up in case of damage? Id love to see how it all works!" The neko repeated her previous question, buzzing still.
"Yes," Yuuko told Kokoro. "Additionally, to solve the teleporter aiming issue, KFY has designed man-portable teleporter receivers that away teams can carry and set up for continuous operation, meaning an engineer will place a teleporter pad and it will act as a doorway to another pad. A big difference is," Yuuko said, "The KFY unit consists of multiple individual teleporters designed for personnel, whereas the Apollo unit is a large chamber that allows the transport of larger objects. I will let the associate from Apollo explain," Yuuko said.
"Thank you, Yuuko. The Teleportation Chamber is very similar to Ke-S3-P4600 in many of its capabilities. It has a similar range, but a different philosophy. The idea is to move units or large pieces of equipment in one jump rather than multiple individual jumps. However, due to the large energy requirements, it has a similar displacement profile to currently existing teleportation technology. That can so solved by using a pod within the chamber if un-shielded personnel need to be transported. It also allows for a team to have a pre-charged teleportation unit with them, to instantly pull out of a dangerous situation if needed." Vaitsa explained.
"The small scale of the KFY model allows it to be used more discretely, and in regular clothing," Yuuko said. "So it might be good for stealth missions. The Apollo unit may be much for useful for heavy hitting missions where you need to bring a lot of firepower and gear, or a vehicle."
Up above the crew, the two teleporters were being lowered into the ship as premade assemblies, after the "roof" of that part of the ship's armor and framing was temporarily removed. Once they were hooked up, they were ready to test out!
Yuuko set up one of the remote pads near Yayoi and Kokoro. "So...we have here one of the prototype remote teleporter pads. It's not a complete system on its own, but it has a unique locator feature the ship's system can use. If you step on this you'll vanish in a flash and reappear on the ship in the teleporter area next to the KFY and Apollo teleporter alcoves." A teal glow began to emerge from the pad and there were volumetric rings moving inward to the base to show it was an "in" and not an "out."
Yoshiro watched as they tested the teleporters. He was amazed at how everything seemed so simple yet complicated
Yayoi glanced to the remote teleporter pads placed near her, and moved herself forward, though she held a hand indicating Yuri shouldn't follow her as she stepped onto the pad, then saw the bright flash and a sudden change in location as she was teleported on the ship.
Yuri watched as her brave mother disappeared as she stood there.
In the KFY teleporter room there were two active pads, an "in" pad where Yayoi appeared, and an "out" one to another remove pad in the cargo bay.
"By the way don't stand on the pad when someone is coming in," Yuuko warned the crew. "It would be bad."
Yayoi silently examined her body as she stepped out of the "in" pad.
"Allright, everyone else we are going to take the Teleportation Chamber". The teleportation chamber opened to a large room with more than enough room for a team or two depending on how close people were willing to stand.
"Do you need to be in power armor to use the Apollo chamber?" Aoba asked Vaitsa, following her through the KFY teleporter up to the telepoter deck and into the nearby Apollo chamber.
"Yes, but notice the interior pod. It allows people to be teleported safely in much the same way that your armor allows you to be teleported safely." Vaitsa said pointing out a thin gap and two doors, one for the teleportation chamber and one for the pod.
Pidole looked at Kokoro. "I am thinking we can install the small teleporter pads in shuttles, one in, one out," she suggested. "Maybe we can also put them as rolling carts that can be sent through the Apollo to become field bases."
Kokoro's eyes were darting between the two teleporter pads as Pidole spoke, her head nodding along. "A teleporter inside a teleporter! Thats a little funny to think about" She chuckled. "The big apollo one is gonna be very useful for setting stuff up quickly, we wont need to rely on the shuttles that much!" The neko blinked, glancing back to the parked Beryl's of Fun nearby. "Not that shuttles are bad- you know what I mean-"
Yoshiro was amazed at the tech but truth be told it was beyond his comprehension. He was a soldier after all and not a engineer like Kokoro and the experts there. He was trained to blow stuff up and kill things. That is what he understood but to be able to do his job efficiently and without being detected sounded great to him
Aoba said out loud and via wireless so everyone heard him: "I am planning to immediately take us on a mission to put these to use, so get ready for a fight after we're done here," he told them with a hint of a grin. The element of surprise was a wonderful thing for a warrior.
Yoshiro smiled. "Oh yeah. It's about time we put these teleporters to the test. The Mishhu won't even know what hit them." he said with a grin. "Time for the noobs to get wrecked, Star Army style."
"Imagine how we can teleport ammo drops to away teams now," Cassie grinned. "It will be like power ups in a video game!"
"or medical aid?" Yuri asked Cassie with a smile on her face.
Cassie laughed. "You could set it up to teleport straight into the medical lab?" she shrugged. "The Poppyporter?"
Yuri giggled at Cassie's words, specifically The Poppyporter amused her. "yeah that works!" Yuri said as her mother joins her again.
"Sounds good to me. The Poppyporter, for quick medievac and teleporting aid to soldiers in the field." Yoshiro said with a smile.
"Good luck out there, and I hope you'll find these new options useful in the field," Yuuko said. "SARA, KFY, and the best of the Star Army Military Industrial Complex will be working hard to keep the improvements coming. I've sent the complete manuals to all the ship's technicians. Keep in mind they're classified."
"Arigatou!" Kokoro gave the representatives a salute, trying her best to hold back a grin. She couldn't wait to get back to engineering and absolutely gush over the documentation they were being provided for the new equipment...
Once the ship's framing and armor was back on her after section, and Pidole gave it the all clear, the ship was ready to head out. Everyone loaded up on the Resurgence and they were back out in space in less than an hour.
As they traveled the armor team began to suit up for the next adventure...
= = =
OOC: JP by Wes, Charaa, Liza, Yoshiro, Ametheliana, Yuuki, Soban
