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| mikdatv | Apr 16 2012, 11:23 AM Post #1 |
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The MSV Maverick decelerated to sublight speeds within a star system known only as M234-P. It was the 234th unexplored system, surveyed by an Alliance Survey ship named the Magellan commanded by Captain Pencot making the systems full length official name Magellan 234-Pencot. Jack sat at the controls and put them on course for the third planet in the system. Located within the goldilocks zone, it has habitable, but only just barely. The survey team had named the planet LV-426; A joke by a member of the crew with a taste for classic 200 year old science fiction. Like its namesake, LV-426 has a livable but harsh environment. It’s surface is cursed with heavy winds, low oxygen percentage and a thin atmosphere. Humans outside in the open without any breathing aid would be winded very quickly, especially having to fight the high winds every step of the way. A temporary mining colony had been established by the Alliance but no valuable resources had been found on the planet so the settlement had been downsized from 600 people to just 230 and repurposed into a teraforming operation to make the planet more livable. The colony was small and quiet making it beneath the Reapers gaze, but if everything was as quiet down there as it seemed, Jack, Sar and Dr. Ned wouldn’t have come. A distress call had been sent out over the extranet by one of the colonists. The Alliance fleet was far too busy fighting the Reapers and protecting colonies with a lot more than just 230 people. Instead of the big fleet to the rescue, the Alliance put a help wanted ad out to any and all freelancers. Go to LV-426, check out the nature of the distress and if it’s serious, report back. Jack, Sar and Ned decided that they could use the credits and the Maverick was large enough that they could at least offer to evacuate survivors if it was really bad. Jack got up from the pilots seat and stretched. The ship was on auto-pilot headed for LV-246. The total trip so far had been a good 22 hours from the time they jumped into the local relay. The travel time from where they entered the system to LV-426 orbit was going to be another 5 hours. “What if this place was attacked *breath* by the reapers.” Sarfan asked from the co-pilot seat. Jack shrugged. “Then we do what we can, but in the end we’re getting paid to check it out and report back. I don’t plan on dying for this nowhere colony.” The doctor walked into the cockpit and stood in the back. “Why don’t we try getting them on the radio? We could at least check to see if there’s anyone there to save.” Jack shook his head. “Low profile. If the Reapers are around, I don’t want to alert them to our presence by sending out a radio broadcast saying ‘Hi everyone, here we are!’ Besides, the whole colony could be alive and well down there without a working radio.” The doctor thought about that in silence for a while and Jack excused himself from the cockpit to go to his quarters. Sarfan remained in the co-pilot seat, checking the ships instruments and gauges. |
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| Drake | Apr 16 2012, 05:06 PM Post #2 |
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"Attention" Burns called out to the remains of Delta Squad. Horizon had been a disaster and thats all it was to it. They had to do a full retreat and went into a blind jump so the Reapers wouldn't track them. After sending out a few distress signals they were stuck on this small colony until an alliance ship could come get them. Burns walked around looking at his men who were lined up. "Listen up ladies!" He yelled "We're all that is left of Delta squad" he called to them "The reapers have taken our friends our brothern and have either killed them or turned them into those husks things. I for one want revenge" he said. Oren listened to the staff commander's speech. He had let his men die there, those harvester things killed atleast 10 of them. Oren was lucky he got out of that shit alive, but he wouldn't be able to live this down not until the reapers were killed that was for sure. Burns was finishing up his revenge speech by the time Oren zoned back in "Sir yes sir" he responded with the rest of Delta squad. "Staff Commander burns we just dropped into the system sir" the pilot called out over the com system. "Right, Ibrahim you're with me, the rest of you ladies suit up, we'll be landing soon" he ordered walking away Oren following him. The two of the headed up to the bridge and looked at the system they were in. "What is this shit hole?" Burns asked. "M234-P sir" the pilot said. "And there's a distress signal all the way out here?" Oren asked the pilot nodded, Oren turned to Burns "Sir, looks to me the alliance is sending us on wild goose chases again..." Oren said "We should turn around and go back to fight the Reapers" he started to speak again but Burns stopped him. "We'll get their son, lets do this first then we'll go give the brass a piece of our mind on this bull shit" he said walking away. Oren sighed some before turning back to look at the planet they were going to. |
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| mikdatv | Apr 16 2012, 11:19 PM Post #3 |
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"Ok, doc, run this by me one more time. You took the VI i got from that Kodiak at the Hock estate and you did what?" Jack said sitting across the conference room table from Doctor Zaius. The doctor played with the projection coming from the tables holographic projector and sighed. "I took the VI you got and made some adjustments to it. It was already a VI for a ship so not to many changes needed to be made to it's base program. I just added some specifics and updated it's software for the Maverick." Jack ran a hand through his wet hair. He'd just gotten out of the shower when the doc had decided to lay this on him. "So the ship has a VI now." "eh, not quite. I still need to tailor it to the ships systems but the ship will have a VI." Doc replied. "I thought you were a surgeon doc, how did you manage to modify a military VI like that?" Jack asked his new found crewmember. "I'm a cybernetics Surgeon. A bit of technical expertise as well as medical is required for my field. I also work with a lot of VI's on the medical equipment i work with." Nedry said. He shrugged. "This one wasn't that hard to modify, especially since i didn't have anything else to do on the trip here" "When can we have it ready to go?" Jack asked. "I'll have Mav installed within the ship probably by the time we land. while you and Mr. Chrisoph are out saving the planet, i'll be running a debug program and working out the kinks." the Doctor said. Jack was about to say "Great" but was cut off by an alarm from the cockpit. Jack was already up and moving when Sar came over the intercom. "better get up here Jack." Jack was in the cockpit within seconds and slid into the pilots seat. "Sensors picked up another ship closing in on LV-426. Looks like an Alliance ship." Sar said from the co-pilot seat. "And if we noticed them it's a safe bet that they've noticed us or will shortly." Jack said as he pushed up the throttle. "Isn't that a good thing?" Doc asked from the doorway. "Means the Alliance sent someone after all." Jack strapped himself into the pilot seat and cracked his neck. "If that ship is really alliance, yes it's good news. But who knows who is inside that thing. Could be packed full of husks, or Cerberus. Just cus it's got a blue color scheme doesn't make it friendly. |
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| Drake | Apr 17 2012, 06:13 PM Post #4 |
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The pilot of Delta Squad's ship spotted the unknown civilian vessel. "Liutenant spotted something" he said to Oren, Oren looked over at the monitor seeing the ship. "Do we have any id on that thing?" Oren asked the pilot "No sir" he said to Oren. Sighing Oren clicked on the intercome "Staff Commander, we have an unidentified ship in front of us. What do you think?" Oren asked. "Hail them, see if they reply we'll be getting the systems ready for ship to ship combat just in case" Burns replied as the intercom cut. Oren went and sat down at his station "This is the System Alliance Vessel Spartacus" Oren started to say "Please identify yourself vessel, if you are going to the alliance colony we would appreciate it if you would respond" Oren said to the ship. The Spartacus continued on its present course behind the other ship. Its guns were hot though they weren't preparing to fire anything. They would give the other ship time to respond. |
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| mikdatv | Apr 17 2012, 11:14 PM Post #5 |
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"They're *breath* hailing us." Sarfan said. Jack slumped his shoulders. "Crap." He whispered and put his headset on. He opened the com channel by bringing his left hand off the ships controls to tap the side of the headset. He listened to the message carefully before responding. "SSV Spartacus, this is MSV Maverick, Captain Jack Putter speaking. We're on our way to LV-426 for a freelance job for the Alliance. There was a offer put out over the extranet that any ship in the area who checked out the distress call and reported the situation back to the Alliance would be paid 10,000 credits." Sarfan tilted his head and looked at his partner. "Captain?" Jack shrugged and put a hand over the mic so what he said next wouldn't go over the air. "What would you call me?" Sar sat back in his chair and kept an eye on the instruments. "I'd call you an *breath* ass hole." |
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| Drake | Apr 18 2012, 12:00 AM Post #6 |
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Oren heard the transmission, he looked at the pilot who shrugged at him "Captain Putter, glad to here a friendly sounding voice on the other side of there, we weren't sure if you were cerberus or not" he explained. "We're heading to the same planet, there's a port on the southern end of the colony if you wish to land there" Oren finished saying "See you ground side" he ended the transmission. Looking at the pilot Oren crossed his arms "Get us to the planet" he said to him. The pilot nodded and continued on their present course. |
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| mikdatv | Apr 21 2012, 08:35 AM Post #7 |
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"you going to the port they mentioned?". Ned asked. Jack shook his head. "nope. I'm going to land just outside the colony. I don't want to use anything given to us. We're in unknown territory here, i dont trust anyone outside this ship." Sarfan got up "im going to warm up the mustang." Jack nodded. "good idea. Landing in 15 minutes" |
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| mikdatv | Apr 21 2012, 10:24 PM Post #8 |
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The eyes of John Carpenter opened to the sight of blackness. As he came to, he began to panic, thinking he'd gone blind. It took him a moment to realize he was just buried under rubble. He lifted with his arms, using the mechanical strength that robot arms gave him and the metal frame that was on top of him shifted to the side slightly. He saw daylight and began to relax. "Ugh.... where am i." He muttered to himself as he climbed out of the hole he'd been dug into. Looking around him he recognized that the rubble he was in had once been one of the Colony's anti-air defense guns. Then it all came flooding back to him. The colony, the expedition, the attack... the Geth. A noise drew his attention and looked up to see a cargo freighter fly overhead. "oh no. A ship? they'll draw attention." John said to himself. He looked around to see if there was any transport around he could use, but there was nothing. he needed to warn the ship though. They didn't deserve what had happened to the colony. John took off on foot, chasing after the approaching ship. |
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| Drake | Apr 22 2012, 09:05 PM Post #9 |
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The Spartacus started on it descent towards the planet "Sir" the pilot said talking to Oren "Doesn't look like that ship is heading towards the landing point you gave them" he said. Oren looked at the ship he rubbed his eyes "Well whatever, they didn't seem to be enemies, besides we have our own business to worry about for the time being" he said. "How long till we touch down?" he asked. The pilot went back to his job "Maybe 10 20 minutes sir, I'm taking us to the port as per our orders sir" the pilot responded. Oren nodded as he walked off the bridge he had to meet Burns and the others in the armory so they could be ready to move. They were still unsure of what they would find on this planet, hopefully it wasn't reapers or cerberus. |
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| mikdatv | Apr 23 2012, 01:12 PM Post #10 |
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John watched the freighter start it's decent down to the flat patch of land outside the colony. He wondered why they didn't just use the port but the sounds of another spaceship landing nearby hinted that perhaps they didn't want t sIKNXACMNo land together. It was another sound that drew immediate attention. The familiar sound of a pair of Geth fighters. John skidded to a halt and looked over towards the colony. There was only one Anti-Air defense gun left. They were the first things the Geth hit when they attacked. That freighter didn't stand a chance being unarmed though so John changed direction and started sprinting for the gun. * * * "Sensors are picking up something weird." Jack said as he put the ship in it's landing cycle. "Two contacts booking towards us pretty fast." Doc leaned over the pilots shoulder to look at the screen. "Who are they?" Jack shrugged. "Don't know. Civilian scanner doesn't give me nearly as many details. Coming up on our port side. Do me a favor and go look out a window will you?" Doc nodded and left the cockpit, running down the corridor to cargo bay one. When he got to one of the large windows lining the edge of the cargo bay and glanced out he saw two fighter sized craft headed straight for them. He activated the com on his omni-tool. "Jack its Geth! Get us out of here!" Jack ended the landing sequence immediately and started to gain some altitude. "Crap crap crap crap." Jack muttered as he pulled hard on the ships yolk, trying to turn the bow towards the fighters and present a smaller target. Maverick wasn't built to be nimble though and the turn was slow. He had no doubts that they would be a mess of falling debris as soon as the fighters got within effective weapons range. As the ship slowly turned he noticed two things. First was that the fighter contacts on his sensor screen broke off their run and split apart, circling back. Second was that there was a stream of weapons fire coming up from the ground. An Anti-Air defense turret was online trying to tag the fighters. Whoever was manning that gun had just saved the lives of everyone on board. "Ok, lets give this a shot." Jack said and flipped a switch on his console that he had installed himself. The mako turrets he and Sar had salvaged flipped down into position on the ships ventral hull and both turned to target the fighters. The rudimentary VI installed in the guns was designed for tank warfare, not targeting aerial contacts from an aerial platform. Their aim was off significantly, but it made jack feel a little better that he was fighting back. as the AA gun and the Maverick's Mako guns continued to rapidly fire towards the fighters, the volume of rounds filling the air eventually overwhelmed them and one of the fighters went down while the other turned tail and headed east towards the colony's port where the Spartacus was coming in. |
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