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RP: YSS Eucharis [Mission 24] Looking for Trouble (YE 38)

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YSS Eucharis - Passageways

“It looks like we will need to pick this up later.” Wazu said to Mitsuko after the intercom finished its announcement. He would then turn and follow Victory, letting her shepherd him once again.


“The Greens made some pretty detailed plans of the Sakura class...”The Ex-soldier making his best attempt at small talk as they made their way through the ship, already affixing the duffel bag behind his back for easier travel up the anti-gravity passageway. “I have looked at them enough that this layout almost feels familiar... But I think this is the first time I have ever been inside of one of these ships.” Victory was first up the passageway when they reached it, and Wazu would give her a few moments before looking up to see where they were going. He lacked the gravity manipulation of the NH-33, but he did still have his space-legs, pushing off from wall to wall to catch up with Victory as they headed to the bridge.
 
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Engineering...

Jax momentarily stopped functioning. He starred, grinning ear to ear like a child who'd gotten just what he'd wanted for Christmas. This was seriously every man's dream. Maybe Umeshu would be open to the idea of a threesome?! Nekos weren't strictly monogamous as far as he remembered-!

Wait. No. He couldn't. And why had he turned into that Samael guy all of the sudden?!

This type of thing never worked in any romance story he'd ever read. He wouldn't make the same mistake as all of those other guys. Choking on his words, more out of shock than anything else, Jax held up his hands in refusal.

"H-Hey, look, you are seriously hot, and I would love to oblige your request- er, order, but I'm... Uh... Uh..."

Jax shifted his gaze back and forth in panic. He didn't want to tell her about Umeshu. He wasn't sure he was ready to go public about their little "thing" until he knew for sure it was real. He needed an excuse, pronto!

"...Gay."

The words left his mouth before he could even realize what he was saying. After a moment, his brain caught up, and a look of absolute horror came over his features.

"Wait! Nonono! I meant to say, uh... I'm trying to say... uh... Fuck!" he stammered quickly. Let's get real. If thing's didn't go well with Umeshu, he didn't need every woman in the Star Army thinking he was batting for the other team!

Jax needed to get out of here. Now. He darted for the zero-g, quickly stammering about "a light bulb that needs replacing in the PA Bay".

"Seriously?! That was your best excuse?!" His FAR asked between fits of roaring laughter.

"Shut up, or I'll change you to the kitten emoticon!"

PA Bay

Jax slid into the bay and shut the door behind him. Only when he heard it hiss closed did he take a moment to breath. He leaned against an armor rack and swallowed a couple times.

"Jesus..." he whispered to himself.
 
Power Armor Bay

"Hey! Watch where ya leaning!" Aikiko yelled as some one bumped the rack that she was on the other side of. She caught a loose piece of equipment before it could crash to the deck. She shoved it back on the shelf and secured it.

Then she moved, coming around the Armor Rack to see who it was. Seeing it was Jax looking somewhat out of his depths. She was wearing the Manipulator Arm Pack without the armor between it and her back. She just had on her form fitting skinsuit. Making her look like one of those Horror Vid Poster or Neko slowly being converted into a Mishu. "Aint you..." Getting ready to tear into him, But hesitated seeing how flustered he was by something. Her voice softened. "... doing here?"

She retracted the manipulator arms into the pack as she watched him. with curiosity.
 
Bridge

Natsumi smiled at Tony as she came onto the bridge. "Take the mission science station and reconfigure for gunnery," she said in response to the Nepleslian's question as to what she should be doing.

"Weapons are all set for pre-launch checks," she added as she finished bringing propulsion out of standbye.

About then Umeshu came in, bowed and took the Operator's station. Her old station and she could not help feel a bit of envy, seeing someone else sit in her old chair. But she knew it was right and smiled as Umeshu plugged in and got ready to pilot the heavy gunship.

"All propulsion and flight control systems ready for departure," she announced to her fellow operator.

Then Hanako was there, giving orders, Natsumi turned to face the Shosho as hers came. "Right away," she replied and turned back to her station, pulling up the map of the sector they needed to sweep, as well as all the information they had about the colony ships.

"Petty Officer Stark, would you like to assist me in this?" she said to the Nepleslian as her big red eyed scanned the information coming up on her station's screens and the group of volumetric windows she was starting to open up, displaying every bit of information they had on their target.
 
Fort Hanako

Though he appeared cool and collected his gut was far from calm as Hanako spoke. They were preparing to combat an unknown enemy with hardly any solid intel. It was Candon's experience that you could never be truly prepared to fight what you couldn't understand. He knew that his future reports would be reviewed heavily by his nonSAINT superiors, a very delicate situation for an operative who occasionally had to break rules.

The news of his promotion was unexpected though it didn't really surprise him as much as it made him feel guilty. While he knew his combat performance on Higaflan was good but his pride had gotten the best of him. Even his shields could have protected him from that grenade or he could have just flown away but he did neither. In a Mindy he hadn't personally tuned he tried to prove a point and as a result the cooking crew went without air support. He knew he would have to make up for that on the new mission to get even with himself.

Candon bowed and made his way to Eucharis. He'd been disappointed to find out that the Mindy 4a a was not ready for field testing due to "technical difficulties" as the woman on the phone said so many times but even he could agree that an unsafe prototype simply wasn't worth the risk. He'd still been able to spend the week setting up his new 2D, tuning it to perfection and zeroing in each of his weapons.

YSS Eucharis, PA Bay

Candon wouldn't be in his 5 minutes before heading to the armor bay to ensure that all was in order(make sure that they put his armor on the ship) before takeoff. Candon nodded to Aikiko as he entered the PA bay and made a beeline for his station. There it was standing ever ready hanging from the rack on his station, its surface polished enough to be used as a mirror. That made him happy, the relief came and went like a breeze. His work had only just begun.

The chest and torso split open as Candon decapitated the statue-like power armor revealing a fairly large backpack. A quick search of its contents showed three of the industrial heaters industrial heaters with various types of large resistors specifically built for use with an aether reactor and type of extremely durable rubber cement similar to the substance Candon wore on Higaflan.

Alright, and now to find Jax…
PA Bay

Jax slid into the bay and shut the door behind him. Only when he heard it hiss closed did he take a moment to breath. He leaned against an armor rack and swallowed a couple times.

"Jesus..." he whispered to himself.
How convenient.
 
PA Bay...

Jax managed to pull himself together and give a quick smile to his cabin-mate.

"Uh... hehehe... There's a... Uh... light bulb... that needs changing...." he stammered out while scratching the back of his head. Without further word, he walked for a storage closet, and began rummaging around for a ladder and a bulb.
 
PA Bay

Aikiko followed him. "That's the cleaning storage closet, Jax. You have woman trouble and it's written clearly all over you." She blocked the only exit from the storage closet. "Spill it, Kitten." She was going to hold him trapped till he spilled the beans. It probably didn't help she was in a very form fitting bodysuit that accented her feminine physique. "Or do I have to guess what bothering you? Which will probably be wrong. Sooooo... What will it be?"

She was mentally kicking her own butt for getting herself involved. If she was back in the Mining Camp or on the Blue Flower, she would probably be teasing the poor gentleman into misery. But this was Jax, the man who kept her home away from home up and running smoothly.

She noticed Candon and discretely motioned him, she had this under control, and to back off. She'd fill him in later and enlist his help to help Jax out.
 
Power Armor Bay

The armor bay's intercom speaker came to life with the sound of Hanako's voice. "Suites-Hei, this is the captain. As soon as you can, I need you to type up a brief report that compiles the information that we know about the Kuvexians and the Rixxikor so far, that I can share with other task force ships, our command, and our advisor, Mr. Wazu. Do you copy?"

Bridge

Just then Victory brought Wazu onto the bridge. "Mr. Wazu," Hanako stood and greeted him with a bow before continuing. "I am in need of a science officer and as a former science officer perhaps you can fill in. This ship has a robust set of sensors you should be familiar with. We are going to be searching for foreign colony ships entering our area of space, and the hostile ships that may be escorting them. Our intelligence specialist, Joto Hei Suites, will provide you with all the details so far, shortly."
 
Bridge

Wazu would respond with a half-bow, uncertain of exactly how a civilian was supposed to respond to such things.

“I am certain I can find the ships you are looking for.” He replied, waiting for Hanako to finish speaking before taking a step towards what he assumed to the the science station. He would carefully set his data pad down on top of the console, He would then sit down in the chair, carefully keeping his hands down by his sides, “Megami, may I have your permission to use this interface?”
 
PA Bay

Candon nodded back to Aikiko. He wasn't really interested in getting involved in 'politics'.


Candon pulled the communicator off his belt and and pressed the speech button. "Suites-Hei here, I copy. I'll have that ready ASAP. Over," he responded after the odd sounding beep. Releasing the speech button made the device produce a final tweeting noise and Candon set it on the workbench of his armor station next to the data pad he immediately picked up to begin his report.
 
PA Bay

"Spill it, kitten."

Jax felt the color drain from his face. His ears flattened, and his tail wrapped itself around his waist instinctively. Aikiko could be terrifying when she wanted. Without thinking, he opened his mouth to speak, but a small noise came out:

*Mew!*

It was a small, pathetic mewl, like a scarred kitten crying for its mother. Upon hearing it, Jax covered his mouth and went red with embarrassment.

'Well... That's new...' He thought bemusedly. He gave a nervous laugh and cleared his throat before speaking again.

"Look, it's nothing really..." he said. "Cherry was just getting a little too freaky for my tastes is all!"

He hoped that that would be enough. Once again, he was reluctant to mention Umeshu.
 
Bridge

"You are authorized to use the ship's computer stations," a disembodied voice replied to Wazu.

Shosho Hanako returned to her seat. "Umeshu, take us up. Space is our element...let us get in our element." Next she turned back to Wazu. "What sort of search methods do you have in mind?"
 
Bridge

Natsumi already had a growing number og volumetric windows manifesting around her station as she pulled up all of the available information they had on the colony ships thus far. She had begun building a profile for the colony ships that she wanted to program into the system for quick identification.

Her ears twitched as she heard Hanako and the newcomer, Wazu, speak about locating the colony ships as well. She was curious what ifeas he had and listened for his response as she opened a text window to the science station and typed in a note.

Code:
PO Stark and I are working on an identification profile for the Rixxicore colony vessels to aid in speeding up their location and identification. We should  combine our efforts in organizing the search. 

Chui Yamashiro, XO
 
PA Bay

Aikiko wanted to hug Jax as he looked so youngish at the way his ears flatten., the soft pleading 'Mew' and the way his face turned red. She listened to his explanation about Cherry getting freaky. "Yeah right. You've seen more females with even less clothes on prior to going on leave. And it didn't even phase you one bit."

She looked at him thoughtful, taking a wild guess. "Why now the sudden change? Find someone that really moved you that is part of the crew, instead of the machines you love dearly?"
 
Bridge

Umeshu felt the longing glance cast her way from Natsumi's new station as XO, before she got to work on the new colony ship scanning algorithm requested by the Captain. The junior operator didn't blame her, wanting to be part of the action in a more direct fashion as it was before, and hopefully with time Yamashiro-chui would come to understand that her battles would still continue, just with higher stakes of more than just herself and new challenges than once was. Such was the bushi of the officer corps.

Hashimoto-chui refocused her mind on the navigational aspects once again, fingers dancing across the displays as she keyed in a route deemed 'safe' as instructed by Hanako. It was nothing fancy and very textbook -- utilizing the well-known spacelane northeast from the Ketsurui Military Sector into the southwest frontier waypoint of Kazumi, before heading towards the Samurai Sector and pausing at the aptly named Plumeria's Gap. From there, it was a cautious shot deeper into the former Mishhuvurthyar territory, bearing northwest between Sbuhfaba, Nougfran and Hukka (without directly entering their system gravity wells) then finally to the Higaflan system where things had began. If there was any traces of colony ship movements they would most definitely be in this general vicinity, by her estimations.

Getting the signal from Hanako, the young Nekovalkyrja began warming up the sublight engines of the Eucharis and ensuring all ramps were up and the docking space was free of obstructions. The spaceport was communicating the all clear to the flagship. "Hai, Shosho. Task Force 82 has received clearance to launch. Heading into the black now," commented the wisteria-skinned Umeshu with a pleasant voice as she increased available thrust and the repaired gunship arose through the idyllic skies of Hanako's Star like a blade being drawn from a blue scabbard of clouds. She could definitely feel the ship's MEGAMI and its mistress were pleased to be in their rightful place amongst the stars once more.

The blue orb spun beneath them briefly for a time affording a wonderful view on the main screen, before Hashimoto-chui guided them out of orbit, the CDD awakening and making for the edge of the system with due haste. She was well aware that they were not alone in this trip, as she positioned the vessel prominently and safely at the head of its fellow warships in formation. It was obvious the ex-samurai Umeshu handled the vessel maneuvers with a certain reserved grace about them, in contrast with Natsumi's more brash style.

Seeing the twinkling stars of space and the planet from above as they moved to fold position, she wondered how Jax was doing down in Engineering. Maybe she could find something for him to check with the propulsion to make an excuse to break the ice with work related matters... in the meantime she gave a courteous smile with her sage-green eyes to the newcomer as he sat down at the main Science console across from her. "Ohayō gozaimasu, Wazu-san."
 
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Bridge

“Um... Apologies... Give me a moment to get warmed up.” Wazu replied, keeping his hands by his side as he n turned to speak to the computer, Megami, can you please provide me the data related to this operation, sorted by relevance to the current operation and then by date.”

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“Drei, please check the provided data against our search macros.”



Wazu would be skimming the information as it came up, mission profile, colony ships, where they were seen last, the general outline of the last operation. It felt a bit odd having so many people asking for his opinion again after being isolated for so long, but this wasn't the icy back waters of Ether, or the chilling send off from Erika... SAoY ships were usually such warm places.

“Hanako,” Wazu said, turning around in his chair to face the Shosho, “I think our best bet for finding these colony ships is to try and track them back to their source from Higaflann. If we go a few light-weeks out from the star system we can watch them arrive in-system during your first encounter. If they jumped straight here from the point where they picked up their colonists we can follow them right back... Hyperdrive, straight lines only, that whole thing.

We can then move closer to the system and watch them depart. If they skilled they will be using 2-3 jumps to mask their original departure point but if they got lazy with their random jumps we should be able to get a general direction in which they came and departed. That should limit our search area.

Assuming we do not get lucky, and if you are short on time, we can always just send one ship to every star within the search area and have them jump back after a quick scan. The target area will likely be defended so all they have to do is show up and let the...” Wazu's voice trailed off... he quickly looked back at his screens for a moment before turning back to Hanako, “.... the targets take a few pot-shots at them.

We can also rule out a few more options, NMX strongholds since they would likely not want to pick a large fight just to setup shop, barren worlds because they would need a place to stock up on colonist. I can work with your team to narrow the range of our search further based on a few assumptions and provide the relevant information to your ship,”

Wazu would pick up his datapad from the console, it was already getting a bit warm. He would press a few buttons and transfer a file over to the ship labeled “find_spacers” which would include the basics on setting up an array of ships to act as a large, long range, telescope to view events days to years after they had happened by exploiting relativity and the ship's own FTL drives to position the ship far enough out from the star system for the trick to work.



Wazu would then turn to the Chui nearby and reply in kind, “Good Morning....” He would look at her for a few more moments before slowly turning back to his workstation, “Megami... please open a text-chat to the relevant parties.” He didn't know these people by name, but for the time being he could slide around that particular issue.



“... And one more thing,” Wazu added, looking up from his console, turning back towards Hanako “We could broadcast a message in their general direction asking to talk. They may be willing to come to us once we are deep enough in their territory.”


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Text Message

As Wazu finished speaking, he'd send the following message to the team tasked with creating a search profile:


 
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YSS Eucharis, PA Bay

Mew…

Candon knew for a fact that it wasn't Aikiko who made that pitiful noise. He was almost tempted to look around to see who it was, but he also knew that he needed to learn to trust his teammates.
Akiashiro, can handle it, he told himself, I'm not the only capable person here.
But no matter what he tried to convince himself, he still felt the blood of his past comrades on his hands.

"C'mon, focus," he chided himself quietly.


With that he sent the report to his captain.
"Shôshô Hanako, I sent my report just now," he spoke into his communicator, "it's not much but it's all the Intel we really have to work with right now. I'll make sure to update as we learn more."
 
Bridge

"I remember I did something like this to get proof of the Lorath's genocide of the Occhestans," Hanako recalled. "By being an observer in the right place at the right time, we can look back in time, so to speak. This is an excellent suggestion. Since we were in the system when they were present, we have an exact time to start from. Calculating the proper distances should be easy and the faster we get there, the better resolution we will have."

When Candon's report came, Hanako forwarded it to the Defense Treaty Council to fulfill the intelligence-sharing part of the treaty, adding a note about the Rixxikor. "Thank you, Suite-Hei," Hanako replied to the intelligence officer via the intercom system.

As the ship moved out of the Yamatai system, 30 other ships followed along, making up Task Force 82.
 
PA Bay...

'FAK!'

Seeing as there was no way out of this, Jax went an even deeper shade of red, opened a telepathic comm with Aikiko, and said, in a really small voice:

'Umeshu...'

Speaking of which, he felt the ship moving, and noticed that it wasn't being driven as hard as before. He inwardly smiled. The more graceful handling would result in less problems in the long run. He needed to thank her when he had the chance.
 
Text Message

As Hanako spoke, Wazu was busy reading the intel report on the Kuvexians. A reply to Suites was quickly composed.

Joto Hei Candon Howard Suites,

Is the Kuvexian body still in your possession?

-Wazu
 
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