RP: YSS Soyokaze (YSS Soyokaze) Fly Me to the Moon! (1.0)

Bridge

Takeyu was out of his chair and watching the NMX craft as it quickly moved out of sensor range and soon disappeared. "Damn it," said the captain under his breath although his annoyance didn't show.

"Sir!" one of the bridge bunnies shouted as she turned in her seat. "FTL contacts confirmed to be four NMX Pillagers, two scouts, and four landing crafts; they are maintaining position at the edge of the system and are not approaching."

A scowl spread on Takeyu's face. "Recall the away teams, get them back on the ship at once; keep an eye on those warships - if they make any move toward us I want to know right away."

"Yes sir."

"Relaying orders to away teams to return to the ship, deploying additional shuttles to pick up our soldiers from the surface."

The bridge crew were a flurry of activity as officers and soldiers alike moved around to different stations, relaying various orders. The flight deck was also quite busy - with fighters still landing, or crash landing as was the case with a couple, and both regular and medical shuttles taking off to recover soldiers and wounded soldiers alike.

Moon Town 2 :: Hanger Bay::

Fred manuevered the big Rescue / Salveger Vehicle like meastro would a band. In wide arch turned the vehicle so it was facing back out over the moon's landscape. Stopped the big vehicle and put it in reverse and eased the big vehicle into the hanger backwards. Then hit several controls. Powering down the big Vehicle as the hanger doors slid shut and the bay filling with air from multiple sources.

Then the Rear Airlock, both inner and outter door open simultaniously, letting in the brighter light of the hangr bay into the interior of the Back cargo bay where the Star Army people sat.

The air had an unhealthy soft stench of a poorly maintained Air Recycling system and other nefiarious oduors of an enclosed environment. Elina and Fred walked into the rear cargo hold where the Star Army people were. "Welcome to Moontown 2. I'm Elina, and him is Fred.." Those with a trained eye, knew that Elina was a Military Grade Neko, even though she had the softness of a civilian. "Listen to Fred here and he'll get you all set up with housing and your daily ration allotments." Her eyes taking in the Star Army personnel.

Staring up at the ceiling as the walls around her shook, dust and debris drifting down as the rumbling started to fade. Shaking her head she walked away from the panicking Neko and flipped through her comms. " This is Santo Hei Reinhardt to the Soyokaze, the ship that just broke orbit was carrying Mishu with what we've gathered down here is a genetics project along with information they have gathered on the Soyokaze. We'll be bringing up the NMX technicians to interrogate and cross examine for accuracy but we still need a technician down here to sift through this data."

~~Crash site~~

The rescue/recovery vehicle started rolling off leaving Chieko, her assistents, and the Mindy clad medic. The medic looked at Chieko, "looks like we weren't invited..." She laughed before asking, "What are we to do boss?"

The shuttle above hovered, the pilot wondering what was going one down there. "Nitô Hei, what is going on? Did that vehicle just abduct the Santô Juni?"


~~Bridge~~

Takeyu watched as the four pillagers and its complement of scouts and landing craft began to slowly make their way toward the listening post. The captain continued to stand there, rubbing his chin, and thinking about a solution here.

They couldn't just leave, as that would give the NMX a morale bost and he wasn't at all interested in giving them that. "Reform the fleet, move up any still functional or undamaged ships to the front and damaged ones to the back. Have any remaining fighters ready to deploy at once," as he barked orders the bridge bunnies ran about the bridge, relaying said orders to various personnel.

As he said this, the landing craft would suddenly break off from the fleet and start to make their way toward the post itself while the warships started moving toward the SAOY fleet. "Inform our away teams that they will have company shortly," Takeyu warned and saw an officer nod.

"Relaying warning now, our remaining ships are taking up positions. Main arrays are fully charged and ready, captains are requesting targeting priorities," requested the bridges communications officers.

Takeyu held up a finger and looked back at the display. "Have our ships take up a boxed formation, all with their main arrays ready to fire. Order the remaining Plumerias to switch their main weapon array to a beam configuration."

"Sir?" one officer turned in his chair.

"The plan is to hit the enemy before they close into optimal weapons range. The main array on the Plumeria's and the Aether Shock Array on our ship out-ranges their weapons. If successful we may be able to take out three of the pillagers and maybe even the scouts before they can get close, leaving one Pillager and the landing craft to take on," Takeyu smiled although his strategy wasn't perfect, it all depended on timing.

Crashed Shuttle

Chieko's eyes widened as the vehicle began running off while she was in the middle of her scan. Her head shook as the medic's words came up in her helmet, "That is a very good question, Tara. We will have to find out."

The scientist then looked up at the shuttle when the message came in. "We're attempting to ascertain that ourselves," she replied to the shuttle pilot, "The Juni did enter under her own will; however what happened after that I believe should be investigated. It is possible she has been given extra orders that we were not and that speed was of the essence."

"Mind if we come aboard?" the academic then asked, "It seems we will now require transport to the colony."

Listening Post

Ume listened to all the chatter on the comms for a bit and then looked around some checking ID on all the soldier's present. She noticed someone that had some background in the tech departments before transferring over to infantry. So Ume made her way over to the soldier, a Minkan Santo-Hei Brice. "Santo-Hei Brice, you have experience as a technician right?"

The Minkan turns to see Ume and then gives a light nod. "Yeah it didn't work out the greatest but I do."

"You should head down to Joto-Hei Bors' location, they need assistance with data extraction it seems." Ume responded somewhat curtly a little frustrated that no one moved.

Brice could sense the tension in her voice so instead of questioning why someone else wasn't sent or thinking about the hierarchy he simply nodded and headed to the elevator.

((OOC: Santo-Hei Brice is an NPC that can be used by anyone who needs him, got permission from Yoshi. He's there since we don't have anyone with a technical background and we kinda need it))

Medical Bay

Nenene opened her eyes once more, stretching her new limbs, taking a deep breath and pushing herself up to a sitting position. Something felt odd as she shifted. "What..?" she frowned and reached behind her, grabbing the unexpected tail. "Whats this?" she asked. She had not ordered a tail. Her other hand went to her forehead, finding the small horns.

"What?" she looked up like she would be able to see them. "What?!"

Chiasa had no sooner stepped into the vehicle when it set off. She was perplexed, the vehicle operator seemed confused perhaps, she was not certain. No threats had been made against her person so she took a wait and see approach. Chiasa was recording everything and uploading it to her communicator. She had no sense of speed or direction but she knew that it would not be a long trip. The colony was not that far from the crash site.

Shortly the vehicle's speed changed and she could feel the craft change direction. A moment later it started moving in reverse. Then the doors to the docking? aperture opened. She updated the data in her communicator and then appended her message and transmitted it via Subspace to the shuttle team and the Soyokaze.

Ishikawa-Juni Reporting
Do not appear to be under duress. The operators of the vehicle have brought me to the settlement which is called Moontown 2. Visuals of the from the vehicle are included in the attached datastream. Elina appears to be a Nekovalkyrja, uncertain at this time what series. Fred appears human, though unknown what particular genetic strain.

They are offering to establish housing and rations for me. It would seem they are unaware of the ship's presence. What is the status of the rest of the shuttle team?

Ishikawa out.

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With her message sent she stood up and removed her helmet and gloves. She tucked her gloves into her belt and held her helmet in her left hand.

"Elina, Fred, you left the rest of my team on the surface. While the offer of accommodations or rations at this time." She walked out of the vehicle and took a breath of the air. She paused while her body analyzed the quality of the air. 'Breathable but definitely substandard.' she mentally noted.

She took out her science scanner and set it to atmospheric scan. She wanted a more detailed analysis of what was in the air. She had read the reports of the Eucharis' encounter with a strange alien race that used nanobots to disperse mind altering drugs. She wondered if the NMX had been using something similar.

"Why are you people here? Why have the NMX not taken over your settlement and pressed you into slavery?" she inquired.

Elina looked aghasted at being made aware of leaving anyone behind. "NMX usually gives an allotted time for rescuing. This is one few remaining surface vehicles we have left for rescuing crashed survivors on the moon. They're bound to come and investigate."

She glanced at Fred to see if he was willing to make another run. Then looked back at Star Army Female that spoke again asking her questions. She looked thoughtful for a few moments, thinking over the question. "This is a mining colony with no real ability to fight back. Either they found it useful to leave us alone, except for the occasional patrols. They leave us alone as long as we follow their rules and provide base metals for their listening post. Probaly as hostages if the Star Army turned their attention this way. And as cover for their activities in this area." She shuffled her feet, "I wondered about that when they captured the spaceliner I was on and brought few of the passengers and me here."

"Come, I'll take ya to my place, get you a change of clothes to blend in with the locals till your ship comes and rescues you." Elina spun on her heals to head into the main complex of Moon Town 2.

Bridge - Soyokaze

"FIRE!" shouted Takeyu as he watched three of the Pillagers and one scout, along with two of the landing craft, come into the shock arrays range. The lights on the bridge dimmed as power was shunted to the main array, then space filled with a brilliant flash of light as energy lept from the tip of the ship and arc'd across space, this was followed seconds later by the main arrays of the Plumeria's firing. The shot from the Soyo was right on, connecting with the three Pillagers and tearing into their hulls.

While it was impossible to see at this distance, NMX soldiers and crew alike were jettisoned out into space; one of the landing craft was vaporized instantly while a scout - which had been in the midst of deploying its battlepods - was likewise vaporized along with its complement of pods. The remaining shots from the Plumeria struck, although the distance meant they did far less damage, putting a hole in one of the landing craft and gutting a scouts hanger bays; but the remaining Pillager was left entirely unharmed.

Takeyu sighed and stared. "Ready another, prepare for close range combat," he ordered and folded his arms over his chest while he assessed the damage they had caused; while the three pillagers were effectively out of the fight, they were still there and limping. "Remind Engineering to do a full check on the shock array," he could've sworn that the damage from the shock array would've blown those three ships to pieces... although maybe the range was the reason that didn't happen, he didn't know for certain, but would certainly find out once the mission was.

Chiasa followed Elina but kept track of her position relative to the exit, she also increased the sensitivity of her senses. Cataloging the various scents she identified, as she also boosted her hearing to listen in to the people they passed. She linked to her communicator and sent a brief message.

Ishikawa-Juni to Away team.
Locals are willing to send vehicle back out to retrieve you. I am currently with Elina and gathering information as we proceed through the settlement. She says the NMX leave the settlement alone as long as they obey the rules the NMX impose.

What is your SitRep?

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"So how long have you been here Miss Elena? And what happened to the crew of that Liner?" she asked effecting Smile 1.

~~Crash Site~~

The shuttle landed and opened the doors for Chiako. Once she was able to board The shuttle lifted off and raced to catch up with the recovery vehicle.

~~Listening post LZ~~

All of the SAoY assault teams were just loitering around now. All of the POWs had been round up and guarded. As for the rest of the crews they were checking ammo levels and making sure they were ready for anything that might come from above, or the door the two rippers had been guarding.

~~Listening Post Computer Core~~

"What do you mean what was on that shuttle? That was everything, the back ups to all of this data... The research on the virus, The Masters that were here. Everything that this listening post was, left on that shuttle.

~~Soyo and Space~~

((ooc that is Kyle's bag now that he has brought the NMX fleet in))

Crashed Shuttle

Chieko sighed with relief at the affirmative and hustled the rest on before jumping in herself. It was about then that she thought about trying to raise Chiasa, but then the Juni checked in instead.

"Looks like the Juni is fine so far," she told everyone.

The rest of us are fine, Juni. It's you we were worried about

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The scientist and the remainder of her team strapped in for the ride just in time for the rescue shuttle to take off again. She hoped going there was not a mistake, regardless of how well Chiasa was being welcomed. Then another report came in.

No need to send transport. We found our own and are inbound - two minutes.

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Listening Post

Ume looked around seeing that everything was settling down and then looked over towards the doors she turned her attention to Kioko and Meiko "Let's check what's beyond that door." She points at it for them to see and then heads over to it, getting in position for a door breech as she waits for them.

Listening Post

Kioko walked over to the door and nodded at the other girl and the few other people coming over to help "what is it, fire at anything or sweep then kill?" She was prepared for either option but hoped to keep some alive for her own interrogation but knew she no one would allow her like everything else, everyone hates the snake girl.

Kioko smiled brightly as she stood ready to breech the door with her others, her tongue flicking against the suit that left a bit of saliva on it as she tried to ignore it "ready on your command ma'am."

Moon Town 2::

"I've been here 2 years," Elina spoke softly, making her way through the corridors. “The crew of passenger liner is dead. NMX just needed a way to get here to get themselves entrenched here. They took over a small outpost on the moon. Wrecked what ever machinery here that was considered a threat to them. They stopped all mining except a passage to their outpost. Once that was completed they left everyone alone except for the occasional work parties.”

Elina entered a very little used back passage where there was very little traffic due to the disturbed dust down the passageway. But the foot prints matched those made by Elina.

Moon Town 2 Radio Station : Elina’s Refuge

After climbing a set of stairs up into a set of rooms with a limited range radio and P.A. System and several chairs, Elina waved her hand, “Make yourself at home,” As she moved to the radio set-up she had set up. Popped out a disc and replaced it with another.

“Where you shot down by the NMX?” Elina spoke as she settled in her seat at the console that was her place of business and what kept her busy during her free time and after making her rounds for news worthy events to share with the two Moon Towns. “Is there another ship coming to rescue you and the rest of your team?”

Elina showed simple curiosity as any normal person would, relaxing back in her chair. “If you want, you can get out of your space suit if you like. What is your name?” Realizing she never asked the lady’s name.

Chiasa sent a simple acknowledgement to Chieko. She decided not to say anything to Elina about the team's securing transportation. She was still trying to evaluate this person.

Chiasa looked around as she followed Elina into what was apparently her realm. She removed the AMES and folded it up considering how to answer the Neko. Given that there was combat going on in space she was not about to give potentially valuable intel to a person who could very well be a collaborator.

"My name is Ishikawa Chiasa. I am a Santô Juni in the Star Army. Our shuttle was on a survey mission. With the NMX presence in space we came towards the moon from a tangent. Apparently some of our data was inaccurate and instead of entering orbit the shuttle made an uncontrolled descent into the atmosphere." she responded. Noting the radio equipment she realized this must have been the source of the music they heard earlier.

"So you operate a radio station as well as rescue people who crash on the moon. We heard the Poku Saeruo Degonjo music you played earlier. Though you might want to see about getting some of their Tasba Sae." she said using the Takanovai term. "They call it Star Song in Trade, and its made by sampling the electromagnetic emissions of planets and stars."

Listening Post

Meiko had finished her work by the time the Ume addressed her and Kioko. She looked at her and nodded lightly before standing and moving over to Ume's side, gun withdrawn and ready to fire should anything pop out or anything bad be seen. She listened to Kioko's question and then looked for conformation from Ume. She had no qualms with a shoot n sweep, but of course she didn't want to disobey orders either.

Computer Core

Bors glared at the neko from inside his suit, he wanted to kill her for pissing him off but he reasoned that there would be to much paperwork and ass chewings from the higher up to deal with. Instead he though her to the ground before shooting a message up to the Soyo.

"Riko-Hei to Soyokaze, apparently that ship that just zoomed off had all the data on it thats down here in the core, as well as a few VISs (Very Important Squids)."

Listening Post

Ume nodded to the two once they stacked up along side her. "Eliminate any Mishuu, and immobilize any nekos if possible, if not put them down." She moved to the controls and tried to open the door.

Listening Post -Below

Santo-Hei Brice arrived at the bottom of the elevator and stepped out with a salute. "Santo-Hei Brice, reporting." I'm here to assist with the computer."