RP: YSS Eucharis [Mission 17.3] Peoples of the North

YSS Eucharis - Bridge

"Patching the Dawn Station data to my screen." Helen spoke, as she brought up the sensor data which was sent from the Origin Industries station. Two years of data was certainly a large quantity to go through in a short time, though, Helen knew her way around the Kessaku OS well enough to place search parameters upon the data which would be of the most use to their cause. Though, what Helen did not expect, was for the information they were looking for to be near the very start of the block of data in which they had requested.


"Well, that is interesting." Helen mused, as she brought up the detailed sensor data which was logged. "Well, I see subspace wave drive system signatures here... and then, one large blotch of sensor static. Too much to really determine anything of value. Seems like wide-spectrum sensor jamming... now what else do we have here..."


"Mmm... that is helpful." Helen mused, as she evaluated the other portion of useful data. "It seems Dawn Station was able to pick up a series of signals which can be traced to artificial sources. Perhaps the Occhestians may be responsible, it seems this sensor data extends prior to the two-year block of data which we requested. Two different sets of coordinates are indicated between the two log entries though. One closer to us, and one further out to the stellar North East. Coordinates for the artificial signals consistent to engines and the such can be traced to the nearer location, while the jammed signal is further out." Helen explained, as she marked the coordinates on a star chart.

"At least it seems like someone is home in the area." Helen spoke, as she began to analyze the data entries regarding engine signatures and comm-transmissions.

Ether - Shuttle

Mitsuko looked very relieved to have company. "Yes." She stood up, gesturing with her free hand toward the selection of tools...which were now neatly organized by type and usage. "...do you have any idea where to start, Tomomi?"

Eucharis - Bridge

Ramiro nodded as he engaged the fold drive, the ship beginning to shimmer in a sphere of teal light before disappearing, now speeding off towards its destination.

"En route, ma'am. Short ETA." As he waited for the ship to arrive, he decided to glance over the sensor data.

"That is odd." Ramiro agreed. "Chusa, do you think that those disturbances could be communication signals of some kind? Or perhaps from distant weapons discharges?"

YSS Eucharis - Bridge

"There is no way to be sure." Helen spoke with a frown, as she eyed the detailed sensor analysis. "I recognize some distinctively Lorath signals here... but only in the form of excessive engine output to blot out everything else... at this point, I can not even tell you if they're from Occhestian ships or Matriarchy ships. I can tell you though, that there is no doubt that something happened at the signal source, I just can't determine what." Helen explained, as she gave a light shrug. "I can determine though, that the long-duration signals here that are from the other set of coordinates are likely to belong to some sort of settlement or space station."

Bridge

"Go ahead and give us the tour of those systems," Hanako ordered her bridge crew.

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Cave

Thick black smoke and flying dust filled the cave as aether and slugs zipped back and forth through the air, leaving the enclose spaces echoing and ringing with the cracks of impacting weapons.

Even as Johnathan his shield was mauled by the oncoming fire he was able to hit the Ripper across the way enough times in the arm that it lost some strength and coordination, causing it to drop one of the barrels prematurely. As it came into view, his targeting system prioritized it and shot it, detonating it and starting a chain reaction that obliterated most of the barrels on the right side of the doorway along with the Ripper next to them. On the opposite site, the Ripper there was mangled and partially melted.

As Bors rushed through the smoke towards the doorway he narrowly missed being mowed down by aether blasts. Somehow he made it! Emerging from the smoke, he entered the clean white tunnel with the three remaining Rippers directly in front of him. The lead one aimed with its lance and hit him critically. He felt a bolt of aether lance through the chestpiece of his damaged armor and burn into the backpack. He felt sick and couldn't breathe and the armor told him he didn't have a pulse. Only the suit's synthetic flesh lining was (barely) keeping him alive and conscious. Riko crumpled to the floor uncontrollably, where a Ripper kicked him like a discarded can back towards the doorway. It then started shooting the advancing drones.

Now was Misato's chance to teleport. But now Bors was at her feet dying. What would she do?

Ether - Surface

Tomomi looked over towards Mitsuko's direction for a few moments before she looked towards the damaged sections of the shuttle. Then she went over to look at the damaged engine pylon.

"My technician skills beyond electronic and computer systems is very limited. Be easier if someone experienced guided me. But Nayacesen-Shoi looked like he was in a hurry. Did he mention what needed to be replaced?" Tomomi asked as she continued to examine the damage to determine what tools would be needed.

Ether - Shuttle

"He wasn't very specific. Um...repair exterior damage. Replace panels. He said he'd handle the engine when he returned." Mitsuko turned to look at the nearby cave entrance, one weapon still in hand as she poked her head outside. "...hopefully he'll be back soon..."

Ether - Cave/Airlock

With the barrels out of commission, Jonathan switched priorities. His drones he sent to start poking fire at the enemies around Bors, while he began to move forward towards his fallen comrade's position. As always, his shield was up in a defensive position, only exposing what he needed in order to produce effective fires. Misato was still going to use her teleport pack, as far as Jonathan knew, and both she and Bors needed support in one form or another, and maintaining the distraction for her teleport jump was priority at the moment.

"And everyone laughed at me when I picked a shield during Basic."

Ether Surface

Takeyu hadn't even left yet to help Misato, mainly because he hadn't been given the go from the girl yet. As he waited, and overheard what the others were saying, he looked over and said. "Focus repairs on the exterior hull around the damage hull plates, leave the engines alone for me to work on since they do look a bit beat up. Once your done with the hull, check the shuttles insides for any damages systems and repair those."

The Taii folded an arm on his hip, then shook his head and took off in a fast run toward the cave entrance and headed inside; no response from Misato either meant that something had gone wrong or something else was going on.

Diffidently Hell (I'm sure now!!)

The universe exploded just a second before she was about to teleport and enact the plan. Blinking the flashes out of her eyes she saw Bors come flying back, to end up laying at her feet. While she continued firing at the rippers she brought up a screen of Bors armor readouts, including health status. He was dead as far as her on board sensors read. Misato froze, her gauss rifle continued firing on automatic, 'I KILLED HIM!!' She had no clue what to do. At that moment she felt incredibly lonely, it was only then she noticed the Taii wasn't there yet "Sir I need you here now, your coordinates are clear." She reached down and grabbed Bors's body and slid his body back up the tunnel towards the entrance way.

Cave

Takeyu gave a nod of the head and stepped away from the side walls, he then put in the coordinates and initiated the teleportation jump. There was flash of light, followed by a crackling sound as he came back out at the coords that Misato had given.

No sooner had he reappeared, had he dropped down into crouch and two 'images' of himself appeared off to his sides; almost like they had teleported with him, one was hidden behind a rockpile while the other was near a blown door. Takeyu himself was by a boulder, right away he flipped his rifle up and began to fire.

When he briefly noticed Bor, he switched back to the squadron frequency. "Misato! Pull Bors out of the line of fire, get him behind cover!" shouted the Taii. "DarkSky-Hei, don't expose yourself, use your suits features to your advantage and get behind cover! You have a stealth system, utilize it!" he shouted and got behind cover for a moment of reprieve and then peered over and returned fire at the Rippers. "Concentrate fire on 'one' Ripper at a time, focus fire on my target, use all of your available drones to harass them," he ordered.

Ether - Cave

"By Your Command." How he'd forgotten about his active camo, DarkSky had no idea. A simple though sent to his suit activated the camo, and with his systems engaged he began to move away, into cover. He left a holo-image of himself moving about, slaving one drone into the suit's image to simulate an active enemy - the drone would fire along the line of the right forearm weapons of the holo-image, disguising the false nature of the image.

Bors was already being taken care of, and he now had concrete orders. As targets were designated by Takeyu, Jonathan concentrated his fire. He continued to shepherd his gauss and missile ammunition, using the first sparingly and the second not at all. With the active camo system engaged, he had more freedom to line up charged beam shots with his right forearm. His remaining 5 drones continued to harass the rippers from all angles.

Bridge

Ramiro nodded and pulled up the star map, trying to use the data from the signals to identify a source for each. After having Charisma cross-reference the data, he posted his results on the star map in the form of two small, glowing blue diamonds.

"I think I've pinpointed the exact sources of the relevant signals. I'm going to chart a route from our destination system to the nearest of the two."

With a quick couple keystrokes, Ramiro plugged in the coordinates and charted a route.

"And speaking of destination, we're arriving at Cellondora. Exiting fold."

Once the teal shimmering had dissipated, Ramiro used the coordinates that he had estimated form the sensor data and fed them to the hyperspace fold drive, setting the drive to recharge and then prep for another jump.

Cave

Take it easy will ya, not completely dead ya know Bors thought as his body was dragged and kicked about in the tunnel that the firefight was taking place in,And of course right after we lose our medic....

Bors didn't want to try talking, already concerned about the gaping hole in his chest and the amount of blood that was coming out of it, not to mention his interface telling him he was basically already dead.

Ether - Shuttle

Mitsuko squeaked and straightened up, grip tightening on her weapon, as Takeyu spoke up. "Y-yes Sir!" She bowed again, before getting to work. She helped Tomomi move the necessary tools and supplies outside the shuttle before beginning repairs. She also made sure to keep an eye out for any suspicious movement or other signs of company.

Hell

Misato quickly drags Bors behind a large chunk of the ceiling. Once she had him fulling undercover she kicked on her stealth systems and set them to create clones of her around the tunnel. Her drones were still sending updated coordinates, she knew that she had to get beyond them so that her and the others could get them trapped in a cross fire. "Sir permission to try to continue the plan of me teleporting beyond them?" She punctuated her sentence with a burst of fire on the same ripper that Darksky was firing on.

Cave

Takeyu grimaced when a shot from a Ripper weapon hit close by and sighed before continuing up the stream of fire. "Get behind them and get your ass into cover after teleport, don't be a damned hero and try to take them on yourself."

He then went back behind cover for a few moments before moving back out to return fire.

Hellish Cave


"Hei" Misato nodded to Takeyu and prepped her teleport system, and attached the bayonet to her sub-machine gun. scowling behind her helmet, she didn't plan on trying to be a hero but those bastards are going to die, even if it was the last thing she was going to do. She sent orders to her drones and receive the latest information on the spot to teleport. With all that she turned to Takeyu, "Smoke me some kippers, I'll be back for breakfast." She activated her teleport.

Airlock Tunnel

Misato's armored form reappeared in a flash of light behind the Rippers, sending a loud CRACK noise down the tunnel. One of them turned to face her and began firing at her. Meanwhile, the lead Ripper's shields were down and its head and body were covered in impact craters, it moved unsteadily to a defensive position between the other two Rippers to protect it from Johnathan's shots.

Meanwhile, Bors was having trouble maintaining consciousness and lucidity. His AIES asked him if it would be alright to start automatically sending out a distress call for medical evacuation.

Surface

Snow continued to come down heavily around the damaged shuttle, coating all the tool kits and parts that were uncovered. A diagnostic revealed that the damage was mainly to the sublight engines on the starboard side. It was mainly a matter of replacing the aft end of each of the two of them. The anti-gravity system looked like it would work at full capacity with just a little work, too. It was definitely a fixable shuttle.

There was no sign of movement yet but Mitsuko felt like she was being watched.

Bridge

"Scan for anything of interest and then commence the next jump," Hanako ordered.

Cave

This isn't good Bors thought as his vision started to tunnel. He felt like he was falling, and even though he knew he wasn't, he tried to grip onto the floor to keep himself from slipping into the black abyss that was in his mind. Just a little longer Bors you can do it, granted its pry the worse jam you've been in...

Bors tried to focus on something to keep awake though it was getting harder as everything started to sound like it was underwater and distant. Did they flood the tunnels or something... Bors thought before noticing a small pinging sound in his helmet, and tried to locate the source.

Send medical evacuation signal Y/N? Bors read to himself. before activating the signal, I feel its, almost pointless but hey, worth a shot

After initiating the signal from his suit Bors went back to fighting off his inevitable unconsciousness.