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

[BrenTenkage]

Undeterred, the man takes the statement as a challenge and redirects power from his life support to the engines. T minus 19 seconds to impact, the computer informs you.

Gorlag was about to fire on the man when he felt something

"Guys he is going crazy, he needs medical attention, its malnutrion I think, he thinks we are spiders"

"Sir you don't have to fight us we are friendly, just calm down and we will get you help" Gorlag said to him hoping to calm him down

](if not we have permission to kill you right?)

[stylesrj]

Considering the distances of space and angles of approach... Eden did a quick check of the new ship's path, saw it was on a collision course with the Scarab and...
Well she moved her own ship away. "There's no use arguing with a crazy person going in at ramming speeds" she said openly over the comms "Especially if they see three ships and think they can take their chances."
While not heavily-armed, the Pelican could fire a few lasers at the hostile ship. She fired all 4 shots at the engines; the ship's gunner having made the compensations for the ship's trajectory.

While it wouldn't slow it down by that much, the hostile ship wouldn't be able to make course corrections as effectively and thus miss its target.

[Jimli_]

The ship swerves to dodge the shots, and slows to make another pass. This time, weapons are armed. A flurry of laser is fired off.

(Yes, you can kill me)

[BrenTenkage]

The ship swerves to dodge the shots, and slows to make another pass. This time, weapons are armed. A flurry of laser is fired off.

(Yes, you can kill me)

Gorlag swerved himself to dodge, not wanting to get hit and risk Bren's safety, thankfully only one laser hit his shields not getting through, "You asked for it!" Gorlag said firing the rail cannon right for the cockpit, if it hit the rail cannon would cause a hull breach

[Jimli_]

The rail gun easily splits the already damaged ship into hundreds of fragments. The only thing that remains intact is a small escape pod that shoots towards a nearby moon to hide.

Whether you'll see this odd occurrence is unknown, but a variety of useful scrap material and weaponry is left floating through the remains of the ship.

[stylesrj]

The Pelican picked up the escape pod as it tried to head towards the moon with the fragmented, potentially dangerous alien force.
Eden asked if they should go grab it or leave the survivor to their fate with the aliens.
"Either they'll kill him or he'll become their leader" Lux chuckled at hearing that idea.

[BrenTenkage]

The Pelican picked up the escape pod as it tried to head towards the moon with the fragmented, potentially dangerous alien force.
Eden asked if they should go grab it or leave the survivor to their fate with the aliens.
"Either they'll kill him or he'll become their leader" Lux chuckled at hearing that idea.

"He clearly needs help, I think we should sedate him and drop him off at the nearest station we find, maybe he could get the help he needs" Gorlag said, "...plus I think if you eat him it will be like eating umm what is it you humans like Mushrooms? " Gorlag asked

[stylesrj]

Eden sighed "Considering what's going on down there, I'm NOT retrieving the pod."
She looked to Lux and added "And you can sod those regulations on escape pod retrieval. I'm not picking up any distress signals."
Lux closed her mouth and went back to operating the sensors of the Pelican. The pirate did have a point. She wasn't picking up an emergency signal from the pod.
"If you spent more time down there rather than a quick jaunt before starting a nuclear war..." Eden continued "Then I might have been able to finish the runabout. Right now it's still a mess of assorted wires and parts."

[BrenTenkage]

Eden sighed "Considering what's going on down there, I'm NOT retrieving the pod."
She looked to Lux and added "And you can sod those regulations on escape pod retrieval. I'm not picking up any distress signals."
Lux closed her mouth and went back to operating the sensors of the Pelican. The pirate did have a point. She wasn't picking up an emergency signal from the pod.
"If you spent more time down there rather than a quick jaunt before starting a nuclear war..." Eden continued "Then I might have been able to finish the runabout. Right now it's still a mess of assorted wires and parts."

There was a shot from the Scarab hitting the pod directly, and they could see the explosive decompression

"I know....but starving to death insane is not a way to go, at least its quick" he said, "And yeah I know a slug doing something nice, I know the sterotypes, but I've seen what happens to people marooned in an escape pod with the distress signal disabled...." he shook his head

"come on lets get out of this nebula, we need to find a doctor to look over Bren"

[stylesrj]

"A Zoltan doctor you mean" Lux interjected "Or even just a Resident Zoltan."
What are the chances that our next jump will take us to the Planet of Zoltan Doctors? she thought amusedly to herself.