[FTL RP, WE'RE BACK, REBOOTED!] The Rogue Cadets

[BrenTenkage]

The Lanius made several gestures and the arm went back into a claw as Chulet fell to the ground, no more words coming out of his... word hole.
The creature looked over the body of Chulet rather mournfully before looking towards Ruwen expectantly.

"Luxanna Jensen calling Ruwen... what happened over there?" Lux asked over the comms, bringing the runabout towards the drifting Crystal ship.

Ruwen got control of the ship and called out, "I had to kill the leader...its ok...I'm sorry..." he said

[stylesrj]

I'm told it never gets any easier, Lux thought to herself when she heard Ruwen explain what he did.
The runabout docked with the ship; the guard Relef immediately disembarked and headed for Ruwen's position. "Well, look like you made a fine mess of things. I guess I'll be taking the ship from here and..."
Lux cleared her throat "Actually, I think Ruwen owns the ship now; before we took off, you said that if Chulet died while you were onboard, you could claim the ship as salvage."
Relef gave the equivalent of a sigh "I just wanted the ship..."

She looked to Ruwen "Sorry to spring this suddenly but Eden said that the Carnelian Crushers did some serious damage to the engine core of the Pelican. With your permission she'd like to..." she gave out a short laugh "Cannibalise the engines of this ship."

[BrenTenkage]

I'm told it never gets any easier, Lux thought to herself when she heard Ruwen explain what he did.
The runabout docked with the ship; the guard Relef immediately disembarked and headed for Ruwen's position. "Well, look like you made a fine mess of things. I guess I'll be taking the ship from here and..."
Lux cleared her throat "Actually, I think Ruwen owns the ship now; before we took off, you said that if Chulet died while you were onboard, you could claim the ship as salvage."
Relef gave the equivalent of a sigh "I just wanted the ship..."

She looked to Ruwen "Sorry to spring this suddenly but Eden said that the Carnelian Crushers did some serious damage to the engine core of the Pelican. With your permission she'd like to..." she gave out a short laugh "Cannibalise the engines of this ship."

"Yeah...we should do that, you should also salvage the weapons" he said shaking his head, "and I'd like to get to my captains ship...I need to rest"

[Jumbocarrot0]

Well I'ld like to join in so here's my character sheet:

Name: Sediment

Species: Rockman

Gender: Male (or the rockmen version of a Male counterpart)

Age: 46

Topic Of Study: Finance and statistics.

Physical Description: Purple-brown colour. Smaller and weaker then most rockmen. Has a lot of scars caused by the many pirates attacking him looking for some quick wealth.

Personality Description: Very smart, prefers to settle things diplomatically rather then by brute force but he can put up a fight if he needs to, just not as effectively has he would like.

Quirks: Supports rockmen becoming a part of the Federation and is fine with other races, except slugs as he is afraid every slug is a pirate looking to claim the bounty on his head. Has a 7000 scrap bounty on him placed by the rockmen government, so expect more pirate encounters as soon as people find out about Sediment's current location.

Backstory: Sediment became the finance minister of the rockman government to help improve the rockmen race achieve glory and crush the other races. Little did he know the finance minister did not control the budget, economy or trade of the rockmen, which he wanted to change, but rather was tasked with collecting taxes, organizing taxes, making tax laws, etc. However, Sediment soon learnt of the propaganda his government spread among the rock people and distrust grew within him. Over the years he tried to break this propaganda, attempting to secretly teach his people what his government has hid from them. This didn't last long however, civilians that heard him thought he was nuts and the government quickly took notice and arrested Sediment. Knowing that he was done for, he fled away on his private vessel from the rockmen homeworlds into another sector. There he was found by a friendly merchant and could hide in the store until another ship came and hired him.

Event to find Sediment: A store

Due to timezone differences, I saw someone post at like 2am my time, I'll be unable to post at times others may be able to.

[JakeCollins]

Well I'ld like to join in so here's my character sheet:

Name: Sediment

Species: Rockman

Gender: Male (or the rockmen version of a Male counterpart)

Age: 46

Topic Of Study: Finance and statistics.

Physical Description: Purple-brown colour. Smaller and weaker then most rockmen. Has a lot of scars caused by the many pirates attacking him looking for some quick wealth.

Personality Description: Very smart, prefers to settle things diplomatically rather then by brute force but he can put up a fight if he needs to, just not as effectively has he would like.

Quirks: Supports rockmen becoming a part of the Federation and is fine with other races, except slugs as he is afraid every slug is a pirate looking to claim the bounty on his head. Has a 7000 scrap bounty on him placed by the rockmen government, so expect more pirate encounters as soon as people find out about Sediment's current location.

Backstory: Sediment became the finance minister of the rockman government to help improve the rockmen race achieve glory and crush the other races. Little did he know the finance minister did not control the budget, economy or trade of the rockmen, which he wanted to change, but rather was tasked with collecting taxes, organizing taxes, making tax laws, etc. However, Sediment soon learnt of the propaganda his government spread among the rock people and distrust grew within him. Over the years he tried to break this propaganda, attempting to secretly teach his people what his government has hid from them. This didn't last long however, civilians that heard him thought he was nuts and the government quickly took notice and arrested Sediment. Knowing that he was done for, he fled away on his private vessel from the rockmen homeworlds into what he assumed was the territory of the Numa Empire. He tried to find refuge but anyone he encountered were either rockmen civilians who didn't care about his predicament, guards who tried to obliterate him because they were not satisfied for his reason of entering or pirates looking to capture him and get the reward. One day, he strangely found a wormhole in the territory. He decided to go through, deciding that if he died it was better then the hell hole he put himself in. He found himself in the homeworlds of the crystalmen, which were one of the secrects the government kept from the people. Sediment eventually stumbled upon a friendly merchant who decided to put the rockman up for hire in his store, along with the weapons from Sediment's private vessel.

Event to find Sediment: A store

Due to timezone differences, I saw someone post at like 2am my time, I'll be unable to post at times others may be able to.

Accepted! Welcome!
Keep an eye on this forum, we'll pick you up soon!

A little confuzzled here:

1. The old Crystal dudes that we captured before have escaped and are attacking the Pelican from within

2. The ORIGINAL dudes on the surface were doing what with the Lanius? Studying them? Capturing them?

3. The sabatures/mutiny are people who think Lanius are religiously awesome. They've gotten into a fight with... who exactly? And now the ship is taking off?

Ugh lemme re-read this, but could someone please clarify?

EDIT:

Okay I think I got it.

Currently, Ruwen is piloting his hijacked Crystal ship, safe and sound (yay! new ship!)

The Crystals on the Pelican are still breaking things.

Jake is on the surface smooching with Sarah. (No not really)

Where is Lux though?

EDIT: (Last time, I promise)

Lux went back to the Pelican.

The attackers are not attacking the Pelican

Everything is back to normal.

Jake took a sensor sweep of the commotion. Strange bio-beams, fighting patterns, a ship taking off, and the runabout leaving.

"Yo, waddup... this is Fleet Commander Jake calling Pelican Runabout. Report."

[BrenTenkage]

Bren was scanning things wondering what was going on as well, "Yeah would be nice to know what is going on Eden, whats with the flying ship...with barely any life signs on it, I'm sensing...Lanius on em?" he asked confused he thought the Crystal hated the lanius...right?

[stylesrj]

Eden of course was refusing to talk to Jake about what happened but Lux was happy to fill everyone in on the situation while the Pelican's crews were busy trying to jury-rig the Crystal ship's reactor core to the cargo hauler. "This ship had way more power for a vessel of its size" Eden was informed "We won't be able to tap into it all with our setup but we should have something similar to our old output, if not a little bit more..."

Reactor upgrades for the Pelican are likely going to be "We found more electrical tape" or "MacGuyver showed up with a paperclip and some putty."

Lux brought up the findings in a convenient summary at the tactical briefing on the Mutare with the rest of the people (except for course Eden and possibly Ruwen who was resting).
"So from what I can gather, Ruwen was allowed to talk to the scientists onboard the Crystal ship we found; they were studying some early Lanius prototypes" Lux explained, showing the mini Lanius from the Crystal ship, along with the samples Jake had gathered from his own survey.

"I think that planet in particular might have been a huge repository of Lanius forms; sort of like in that episode of Captain Awesome where..." she could see the looks indicating "Get on with it" or "Enough with the references Lux!"
"Anyway, the scientists were from different Crystal factions; the guard I talked to was from the Amber Federation while the leader was a man from the Founders" she continued, displaying the pictures of Chulet, Newar and Relef. "If that's how the Crystals conduct joint-science operations, I'd hate to see the medical panels..."

She seemed to be the only one laughing at her own joke in those matters. "Anyway, so Ruwen says that the Crystals have lost their way after so many centuries of isolation and we shouldn't expect any immediate help in the future; they've got worse problems than our own Rebellion."
And with that, she took a bow and said "Any questions? Captain, my Captain, your thoughts?"

[JakeCollins]

Eden of course was refusing to talk to Jake about what happened but Lux was happy to fill everyone in on the situation while the Pelican's crews were busy trying to jury-rig the Crystal ship's reactor core to the cargo hauler. "This ship had way more power for a vessel of its size" Eden was informed "We won't be able to tap into it all with our setup but we should have something similar to our old output, if not a little bit more..."

Reactor upgrades for the Pelican are likely going to be "We found more electrical tape" or "MacGuyver showed up with a paperclip and some putty."

Lux brought up the findings in a convenient summary at the tactical briefing on the Mutare with the rest of the people (except for course Eden and possibly Ruwen who was resting).
"So from what I can gather, Ruwen was allowed to talk to the scientists onboard the Crystal ship we found; they were studying some early Lanius prototypes" Lux explained, showing the mini Lanius from the Crystal ship, along with the samples Jake had gathered from his own survey.

"I think that planet in particular might have been a huge repository of Lanius forms; sort of like in that episode of Captain Awesome where..." she could see the looks indicating "Get on with it" or "Enough with the references Lux!"
"Anyway, the scientists were from different Crystal factions; the guard I talked to was from the Amber Federation while the leader was a man from the Founders" she continued, displaying the pictures of Chulet, Newar and Relef. "If that's how the Crystals conduct joint-science operations, I'd hate to see the medical panels..."

She seemed to be the only one laughing at her own joke in those matters. "Anyway, so Ruwen says that the Crystals have lost their way after so many centuries of isolation and we shouldn't expect any immediate help in the future; they've got worse problems than our own Rebellion."
And with that, she took a bow and said "Any questions? Captain, my Captain, your thoughts?"

"While it would be nice to mobilize the massive, powerful might of the Crystal Empire into battle with us, it doesn't look like that's going to happen. There are only 3 more jumps until we're at the Long-Range-Relay. Let's get there ASAP and get on with our mission." Jake said.

As they dispersed to stations, Jake jumped to an empty beacon. Just a junction point.

The next jump was the finale before the Exit, where a very small asteroid lumbered past. On its surface there was an ancient and abandoned shipyard. From the scans it looked Crystal in designed, but many thousands of years old. Devoid of all life.

To Jake's surprise, a much newer ship had just recently left the base, and quickly sped across the rocky surface of the asteroid. It was maintaining a low altitude, but flying dangerously fast. Jake couldn't get a clear scan at this distance, but the ship didn't seem hostile. In fact, it looked to be scurrying away from the fleet as soon as they were detected. Jake sent out a signal, to let the unidentified vessel know they were friendly. No response. He tried again. No response.

Suddenly, a singular data packet pinged away from the distant ship. Just a single packet, no transmission. Before Jake could even open the file, the ship pulled up and away from the asteroid at phenomenal speeds. Speeds only matched by the Mature's futuristic engines. Jake started to pursue, but they had a head-start. With a small flash of light in the distance, the ship jumped away, without a peep.

With the ship gone, Jake powered off the engines and opened the data packet.

BEGIN TRANSMISSION

Message Content:

Do not go to Tralenzolous IV.
-Jake Collins

Transmission Signature:
"USS Mature"
FEDERATION SCIENCE VESSEL
Registration: X2247


END TRANSMISSION

[stylesrj]

"What was that all about" Lux remarked, seeing the other ship move off the sensors.
"Probably something your boyfriend will use to delay us" Eden snarked.
"I guess so. He's already shut down his engines... maybe they teleported a bomb in the drive that'll go off if he keeps them running" Lux commented.

[JakeCollins]

On an unrelated note: On this forum, I've been trying to send a PM to a guy. Rather than going to the "Sent" box, they go to the "Outbox" box.
Does this mean they haven't been sent? Because next to the PMs it says "Sent" but I'm confused because they're in "Outbox." Anyone know what this means?

It's... from... me... Jake thought, staring at the message on his screen. Sarah appeared behind him. "The registration number checks out, as well as the transmission frequency. The speed and maneuverability matched the Mature exactly."

Jake got on the comms. "Eden, I know you have a bullshit vendetta against me, but I don't give a shit. This is more important than your ego or pride. I know you have extensive star charts and experience. Is there any planet anywhere on your maps or in your memory that matches the name 'Tralenzolous IV?' You will give me an honest answer, and you will give it now."