Aeon Bridge
Katae was in a mood for blood, her ship had been assaulted from the inside. The Aeon which earlier was able to avoid the graviton beams easily now wallowed and responded sluggishly to her commands. She was controlling the gunship via her SPINE interface.
"Usaga-Heisho, what's the status on the auxiliary engines." She sent across the intercom.
"Taisa, the explosion was redirected the Zesu in the armory walls, it went thru the deck into the maintenance conduits... Its a mess in there, I'm trying to reroute power, but its going to be at least 45 minutes before I can get both pylons restored..." Hisa replied.
It as at the moment that two graviton beams from the surface latched onto the gunship. It had the effect of stopping the ship in its tracks as effectively as if it hit a wall. Katae immediately applied as much reverse thrust as she could get but without the auxiliary engines the Aeon was stuck... no correct that... they were losing ground as the ship fought valiantly to resist the pull.
Katae with Eternity's assistance made quick work of calculating their situation. The ship did not have 45 minutes... "Usaga, we do not have that much time, at the current pull we will be pulled into the atmosphere in 30. Keiko, Kahen-Juni, get down to Usage-Heisho and help expedite repairs."
She switched to the Away team frequency.
"AEON to Away Team... Ship has been grappled by two graviton beams... unable to break free... auxiliary engines offline due to explosion. Repair estimate is forty-five minutes before we have the auxiliary engines. We have thirty minutes before we are dragged into the atmosphere.
Kim-Shoi you are in charge down there, get things moving. You have twenty-five minutes to disable or destroy the Intellicus before I commence planetary bombardment with remaining weaponry. I will commence bombardment at t-minus twenty-eight minutes from my mark. ...... MARK."
At that point a count down timer appeared on the away team's helmet huds. 27:59... 27:58... 27:57...
Katae was in a mood for blood, her ship had been assaulted from the inside. The Aeon which earlier was able to avoid the graviton beams easily now wallowed and responded sluggishly to her commands. She was controlling the gunship via her SPINE interface.
"Usaga-Heisho, what's the status on the auxiliary engines." She sent across the intercom.
"Taisa, the explosion was redirected the Zesu in the armory walls, it went thru the deck into the maintenance conduits... Its a mess in there, I'm trying to reroute power, but its going to be at least 45 minutes before I can get both pylons restored..." Hisa replied.
It as at the moment that two graviton beams from the surface latched onto the gunship. It had the effect of stopping the ship in its tracks as effectively as if it hit a wall. Katae immediately applied as much reverse thrust as she could get but without the auxiliary engines the Aeon was stuck... no correct that... they were losing ground as the ship fought valiantly to resist the pull.
Katae with Eternity's assistance made quick work of calculating their situation. The ship did not have 45 minutes... "Usaga, we do not have that much time, at the current pull we will be pulled into the atmosphere in 30. Keiko, Kahen-Juni, get down to Usage-Heisho and help expedite repairs."
She switched to the Away team frequency.
"AEON to Away Team... Ship has been grappled by two graviton beams... unable to break free... auxiliary engines offline due to explosion. Repair estimate is forty-five minutes before we have the auxiliary engines. We have thirty minutes before we are dragged into the atmosphere.
Kim-Shoi you are in charge down there, get things moving. You have twenty-five minutes to disable or destroy the Intellicus before I commence planetary bombardment with remaining weaponry. I will commence bombardment at t-minus twenty-eight minutes from my mark. ...... MARK."
At that point a count down timer appeared on the away team's helmet huds. 27:59... 27:58... 27:57...