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Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Lord Harrab wrote:(OCC: Note, those ships who have not committed to this battle are considered to have mis-jumped, but don't worry, you've actually given me a chance to do a rather special event, so watch this space. Oh, and RaptorsTallon, you need to remember the chain of command, the strategic advice of some pup just out of the academy ins't going to be received well by those higher up.)

Special event? Yummy.

As for the chain of command thing; my fault, I asked for somebody to do it. He can just edit it out and we can have the station and/or Sharpe relay a message instead during the event.

However.. when you say "Mis-Jumped".. kinda contradicting yourself, you said the entire fleet exited hyper space in perfect formation.

Yeah i was kinda expecting players to leap in when the fistycuffs started, but i forgot to take into account peoples lives and time-zones, i'll edit that part out.

EDIT. now i'm torn, on one hand Having Sillyboy show up to help with the clean up around his characters home makes sense and fits with the follow up event i already had planned, on the other, the special even could help drive the plot forward.

Feth it, Sillyboy, you link up with the others and assist, snarky alone gets the special treatment.

So i'm correct?

(Head still groggy, drank to much Jenever last night)

Lord Harrab wrote:Feth it, Sillyboy, you link up with the others and assist, snarky alone gets the special treatment.

You sure 'bout that? It might be a good idea to keep Snarky with at least one other ship for safety's sake. Besides, sillyboy's character doesn't even need to be at the battle, we won it easily anyway.

No offense to sillyboy, but I reckon you should put 'em both in the event.

I'm good either way, It's up to the GM

sillyboy wrote:I'm good either way, It's up to the GM

6.3k Booyah.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

sillyboy wrote:I'm good either way, It's up to the GM

6.3k Booyah.

How have you got that many?
You have only been on Dakka 6 months longer than me, but have 5.2K more posts!!!!

RaptorsTallon wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

sillyboy wrote:I'm good either way, It's up to the GM

6.3k Booyah.

How have you got that many?
You have only been on Dakka 6 months longer than me, but have 5.2K more posts!!!!

By posting on an insane amount of roleplays. It really gets your post count up. I think my average is something like between 30-50 posts a day.

Contrary to popular belief, I do still have a life and I do get out a lot. Screw the naysayers.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

RaptorsTallon wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

sillyboy wrote:I'm good either way, It's up to the GM

6.3k Booyah.

How have you got that many?
You have only been on Dakka 6 months longer than me, but have 5.2K more posts!!!!

By posting on an insane amount of roleplays. It really gets your post count up. I think my average is something like between 30-50 posts a day.

Contrary to popular belief, I do still have a life and I do get out a lot. Screw the naysayers.

That could explain it.
My post count has shot up since I joined Stone and Fleet Command.

RaptorsTallon wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

RaptorsTallon wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

sillyboy wrote:I'm good either way, It's up to the GM

6.3k Booyah.

How have you got that many?
You have only been on Dakka 6 months longer than me, but have 5.2K more posts!!!!

By posting on an insane amount of roleplays. It really gets your post count up. I think my average is something like between 30-50 posts a day.

Contrary to popular belief, I do still have a life and I do get out a lot. Screw the naysayers.

That could explain it.
My post count has shot up since I joined Stone and Fleet Command.

To illustrate my point, go onto my profile and count up the number of RPGs I've created, then add it to the number of RPGs I've played in. Something like 11+ at least.

[Insert special event here]

Location Unknown.
(Only the ships named in this post may respond to this event.)


The Horizon and the Aslinde huddled together against the endless blankness that surrounded them, while aboard both ships engineers tried to coax their Hyper-drives back into working order, but the view glimpsed through view screens before their commanding officers locked them down had them spooked and word was passed through and between both ships.

"Where are the stars?" the crew asked, "where the hell are we?"

They had been in perfect formation with the rest of the fleet when their dives had suddenly failed and had flung them out... here. Here where the only source of light was the running lights of the other ship, and the random reports of their sensors just fueling the fear and paranoia that kept both ships exactly where they had been deposited. Neither captain wished to go exploring here, what would they do if they found something?

"Sensor contact!" A crewman on the Aslinde reported, "Consistent this time, Power readings are off the scale.... Oh god, It's Mothership class and approaching fast from direct front. Orders captain?"

Note: Mothership Class

A deign of ship intended to function as an Ark of shorts in the early years of The Alliance, such a ship would have been larger than even a dreadnought, and would have contained everything needed to keep generations of colonists alive throughout the trek between systems. The design was soon canceled however, as Humanity lacked the ability to power and move a ship of such size with their current level of technology, but the invention of the Hyper-drive a few years later solved that problem and much smaller colony ships were constructed and sent out during the First Expansion. The term was kept however, in the unlikely event the Alliance encountered a ship of such size.

Aliensssssssssssssssssssssssss!

Um, I wonder how this will pan out.

Harrab, what do the rest of us need to do? Just wait?

RaptorsTallon wrote:Um, I wonder how this will pan out.

Harrab, what do the rest of us need to do? Just wait?

Sorry, a little overwhelmed at the moment, and i love it.

The rest of you can finish off those raiders still in system, i'll post damge results in just a mo.

Snarky and Silly, (heh that sounds like a TV show) make sure to post Unkown Location at the start of your posts.

Well I'm still waiting for Harrab to give me the result of my last attack on the Raiders.

Curses, ninja'd again.

Aria Sector

Penned in on all sides and with its allies abandoning it to its fate, the damaged Overlord came to a halt and across the fleet comms cracked as the ship hailed them. The Raider shuddered under the weight of incoming fire and tried to do the same as its shields failed, it tried to hide from the many guns around them under its larger comrade.

Meanwhile, those ships undamaged by their alliance counterparts activated their hyper-drives and fled back to their hidden base, having suffered damage, the Overlord and Raider cruiser didn't have that option and thus did the only thing available to them

"Attention Alliance ships, I know your rules, We have no means left with which to fight you and therfore we must surrender. Enjoy it while it lasts Fascists."

The Pioneer came to a halt next to the Overlord Battleship and connected an airlock to one of its Raider counterparts' airlocks. Under heavy supervision with all Marines deployed, every man and woman aboard the Raider Battleship was escorted onto The Pioneer and either held in the large brig or, when that ran out of room, one of the Cargo Bays that had been cleared earlier - watched by twenty Marines.

Engineers were transferred to the captured vessel to begin repairing it to a workable extent, then it was taken back to Broadsword Station to be fully repaired and put to good use in an Alliance Fleet.

The Magog and its crew suffered the same fate.

"This is Captain Rose to Admiral Sharpe, our Chief of Security is interrogating prisoners as we speak, orders? Do you wish to board and oversee them yourself?"

"Load boarding parties, and go aboard the cruiser," Garan ordered over the intercom, "We will leave the Battleship for Commander Rose."
"Right Away sir." The Answer came from the launch bays.
"I want the captain and high ranking officers brought back for interregation, I will go over myself once the ship is secure in order to procure myself a trophy."

Ninja'd: You can have the prisoners, but I still want my trophy. (It is sort of an obsession of my character, he has to have a record of his achievements.)

Just a quick one because I have to go out with mates. But I assume that the fleet will remain at Aria until a new defense fleet arrives, so we have plenty of interrogation time.

Also, our fleet could use a boost in numbers and we have a fair few new ships available to us.. eh Harrab?

Sharpe lent backing her command chair and watched the tugs from Broadsword pull their new prizes into close range of the station where borth ships would be scanned for explosives, they wouldn't make up for those brave crews lost in this engagement, but they would have a measure of revenge.

She sat up and penned a quick request for reinforcement back to command, when Commander Rose suddenly appeared on her tactical display

"This is Captain Rose to Admiral Sharpe, our Chief of Security is interrogating prisoners as we speak, Orders? Do you wish to board and oversee them yourself?"

Sharpe shook her head, " As much as i'd love to, I'd bet there's any number of Pirate dirt-bags who'd like to put a shiv in me. No, I'll Send over Volk and some of her boys, they know what to ask."

Rose nodded and reached for the button to cut the connection when sharpe forestalled her

"Wait a moment Commander, i just want to say I'm impressed with your conduct during the battle, you did me proud, make sure you tell your crew that. If you still have doubts or concerns feel free to contact me."

Rose nodded and closed the Channel

"this is Vangaurd to all ships in the sector, I'm proud of every single one of you and will be certain to inform the Fleet Marshal of todays action."

She closed the channel and lent back in her chair, Now all she had to do was figure out where the hell two of her ships had vanished to.

EDIT:(OCC: I'm not entirely happy with this post, but i'm too tired to bother changing it right now so i'm off to bed.)

After waiting for the explosives checks to be completed, and the ships declared safe, Garan and 4 marines boarded the captured vessel. He walked from the hanger bay where he had arrived, to the ships command centre. The command centre was a small, and dimly lit room, with prominent laser burns on its walls, indicating to the violent nature of pirate ‘negotiation’. As he entered, he saw his prize. The captain’s sword lay in the wreckage of the command nexus, where he had obviously tried to resist arrest. The sword had a curved hilt, and a black scabbard decorated with purple stitching, and a single purple jewel. It was nice, but far inferior to his captain’s sword. He picked it up, and returned to his own ship.

After his return, he placed the pirate sword in his quarters, and then went to the launch bay to see what his strike fighters had brought back from the wreckage of the carrier. The pirate interceptor in the bay was reasonably sophisticated, for pirate technology, and Garan immediately set about looking for his trophy. He found it in the back of the ship. He brought a laser cutter over from the bays workshop, and cut the small charging coil out of the interceptors laser cannon.
“I have what I want,” Garan said to the engineers, “you may take the rest apart, and use it as you see fit. Put any usable parts into storage, anything else, you may either keep for yourselves, or dump.”

(What happened to the torpedos I launched at the carrier? I didn't seem to get any credit)

TheWildHost wrote:(What happened to the torpedos I launched at the carrier? I didn't seem to get any credit)

They hit, and destroyed the carrier. He mentioned it on the last page. Only one sentance though, so it is easily missed.

Would've thought that I'd get the sword trophy, after all it was my Marines that took the ship. Ah well, you can keep it.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Would've thought that I'd get the sword trophy, after all it was my Marines that took the ship. Ah well, you can keep it.

Oh well, my character has a thing about trophies. He tries to take one from every ship he is involved in the capture or destruction of.

RaptorsTallon wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Would've thought that I'd get the sword trophy, after all it was my Marines that took the ship. Ah well, you can keep it.

Oh well, my character has a thing about trophies. He tries to take one from every ship he is involved in the capture or destruction of.

This is the first time..

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

RaptorsTallon wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Would've thought that I'd get the sword trophy, after all it was my Marines that took the ship. Ah well, you can keep it.

Oh well, my character has a thing about trophies. He tries to take one from every ship he is involved in the capture or destruction of.

This is the first time..

He has always liked to collect things, and he made it his mission once he found out he would gain command of a ship.

Right.. I really don't have any idea what to do with the prisoners, so I'll let Harrab event it (or PM me with info) so he can decide why the Raiders were attacking and what information they're going to tell us (if it's important). If it isn't important to the main plot, I'll just make up some information and we can go Raider hunting.

BIC:.....First contact......

The sensors jumped into all sorts of alarms. Trix and Nexus tried to work them down in order of importance. "What the hell happened?" Trix yelled, as she tried to compile the data-stream. "Solar pulse from Sector Lex Seven pushed us out of course." "Pinpoint our location." "Aye ma'am." After some data-repairs and make shift bridges, Trix had control back over her ship. "I hate solar pulses." Nexus muttered. "Where are we?" "Cain system and..." Nexus voice stopped as the sensors picked up something. They both looked in awe as the holo-projector showed a Vessle that dwarfed the Aslinde. It looked old and battered, it looked like it wasn't in condition to fly in space. Yet here it was. Trix looked up as the optic sensored showed a new vessle jumping in. "Seems we're not alone." Trix grumbled. Reynolds. This was just great. We're going to silent mode, turn everything down. Trix signaled the Horizon to do the same. Cutting of the engines, would make their ships only visible to optic sensors. If they we're lucky they wouldn't get noticed. "Nexus identify that ship." Trix looked at the gigantic vessle. She recognised it as an Ark. But what was it doing here she thought.

(i have no idea what to do, and it seems bad to go in weapons hot)

Ideally you should've waited for Harrab to give you something to work with. I mean, you said you're in some sector, when Harrab basically said there's no starts where you are.