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

[BrenTenkage]

"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.

"Not trying to say you aren't a good doctor, just that you wouldn't want a slug doctor to look over a human, we all have different biology, and I think a wound like that would require their knowledge" he said as he began to check nearby beacons, "Hang on we got a beacon thats signling itself as a shop, we might be able to find a doctor there or at least directions out of the nebulas" he suggested

[JakeCollins]

To clarify: The escape pod was captured by the Scarab. (?) Or is it still on course to the moon? Or was it destroyed?

[BrenTenkage]

To clarify: The escape pod was captured by the Scarab. (?) Or is it still on course to the moon? Or was it destroyed?

(Blew it up, rather not let the crazy suffer starvation or land on the planet with the aliens)

[JakeCollins]

To clarify: The escape pod was captured by the Scarab. (?) Or is it still on course to the moon? Or was it destroyed?

(Blew it up, rather not let the crazy suffer starvation or land on the planet with the aliens)

Ok thanks. And, uh, is WOL out of the roleplay? We've basically been ignoring him due to his absence...

"All right. This is Commander Jake Collins of the URU calling all vessels. We are moving out. I hear the next beacon is a merchant location, where we can get all fixed up and ship shape. Prepare for jump in T minus 5 minutes, starting now." Jake said into the radio, on a frequency the moon could not hear. He set the auto jump for five minutes, and closed his eyes, spinning away from the console in his chair.

"You did the right thing," Sarah said. "You kept them safe,"

"I kept them ignorant. I showed them the unfathomable beauty of the universe. It was like a light passing over them. Like the dark clouds of the nebula finally parted and the sun could shine through." Jake said.

"And the sunlight burned them them. They were unprepared," Sarah said, sitting down in a newly appeared holographic chair next to Jake.

"Do you think they'll learn someday?" Jake asked.

"Humans did. Zoltan did. Engi did. Rockmen did. Mantis did." Sarah said, looking at the metal floor.

"But who knows what countless others were torn to pieces before they even discovered FTL?"

"Who knows. All we can do is hope. Let them choose their own fate."

"What if they choose wrong?"

"And what if they don't?"

With that, the jump clock hit zero, and they vanished from the clouds, leaving those on the moon to decide their own fate.

[BrenTenkage]

To clarify: The escape pod was captured by the Scarab. (?) Or is it still on course to the moon? Or was it destroyed?

(Blew it up, rather not let the crazy suffer starvation or land on the planet with the aliens)

Ok thanks. And, uh, is WOL out of the roleplay? We've basically been ignoring him due to his absence...

"All right. This is Commander Jake Collins of the URU calling all vessels. We are moving out. I hear the next beacon is a merchant location, where we can get all fixed up and ship shape. Prepare for jump in T minus 5 minutes, starting now." Jake said into the radio, on a frequency the moon could not hear. He set the auto jump for five minutes, and closed his eyes, spinning away from the console in his chair.

"You did the right thing," Sarah said. "You kept them safe,"

"I kept them ignorant. I showed them the unfathomable beauty of the universe. It was like a light passing over them. Like the dark clouds of the nebula finally parted and the sun could shine through." Jake said.

"And the sunlight burned them them. They were unprepared," Sarah said, sitting down in a newly appeared holographic chair next to Jake.

"Do you think they'll learn someday?" Jake asked.

"Humans did. Zoltan did. Engi did. Rockmen did. Mantis did." Sarah said, looking at the metal floor.

"But who knows what countless others were torn to pieces before they even discovered FTL?"

"Who knows. All we can do is hope. Let them choose their own fate."

"What if they choose wrong?"

"And what if they don't?"

With that, the jump clock hit zero, and they vanished from the clouds, leaving those on the moon to decide their own fate.

Gorlag followed in suit


When the "fleet" arrived they saw it was a large slug cruiser, however painted on the side was "MERCHANT, ARMED!"

Guess he was an armed merchant...or at least a merchant with arms, maybe he didn't have hands who knows

They all got a com message, "Hey you here to buy anything?"

Surprisingly it was a mantis, speaking basic for everyone

"If you aren't here to buy maybe you need a tune up, I got some engi on board who love tinkering, or if you want we got a couple of fine ladies on this ship if ya need some lovin" and he gave a *click click* and wink

[stylesrj]

The next jump seemed to look rather ominous, even by nebula standards. Space Whale corpses drifted about in the clouds, their bodies unable to rot in the cold, sterile vacuum of space. Spaceship wreckage also lay amongst the dead; at some point in the past this area of space was either a popular Space Whale hunting ground or a graveyard where scavengers picked at the corpses for valuables...

Eden sighed "If you listen carefully, you can still hear the cries of the dead..."
"Space has no..."
"It's a figure of speech..."

Suddenly the sensors picked up a large Slug cruiser, obviously scavenged from one of those wrecks around the whales and re-purposed. "Also, space whale graveyards make a great place for smugglers to hide... if you can handle those metaphoric cries."

[BrenTenkage]

The next jump seemed to look rather ominous, even by nebula standards. Space Whale corpses drifted about in the clouds, their bodies unable to rot in the cold, sterile vacuum of space. Spaceship wreckage also lay amongst the dead; at some point in the past this area of space was either a popular Space Whale hunting ground or a graveyard where scavengers picked at the corpses for valuables...

Eden sighed "If you listen carefully, you can still hear the cries of the dead..."
"Space has no..."
"It's a figure of speech..."

Suddenly the sensors picked up a large Slug cruiser, obviously scavenged from one of those wrecks around the whales and re-purposed. "Also, space whale graveyards make a great place for smugglers to hide... if you can handle those metaphoric cries."

The mantis called out again, "So you guys gonna be shopping or what, or do we have to shoot you down" he said giving what could be called a mantis chuckle

"Listen we have a lot of stuff for sale"

"Do you have any doctors on board, anyone who can help a zoltan?" Gorlag asked

"Zoltan Doctors...nope fraid not, we got a guy who can work on slugs or mantis" he said

Gorlag sighed upset Bren wouldn't get the help he needed

[stylesrj]

"Spacergris" Lux said to Eden "One thing I read in a medical textbook was about the restorative properties of Spacegris..."
"Spacergris?" Eden asked.
"It's a substance produced by Space Whales" Lux said "There is a treaty on on acquisition of the substance but documents also say that harvesting Spacergris from a whale was difficult if the creature was alive."
Eden nodded "And because we're in a Space Whale graveyard, you think that merchant might be selling it or scavengers didn't get it all?"
"Yes, but I recommend not asking the merchant for Spacergris until we're certain there's none to be found here..."

Lux went on the comms to Jake "Oh Captain My Captain, can you see if your ship can do a scan of these whales for a substance known as Spacergris? Might be able to help Bren with it."

[BrenTenkage]

"Spacergris" Lux said to Eden "One thing I read in a medical textbook was about the restorative properties of Spacegris..."
"Spacergris?" Eden asked.
"It's a substance produced by Space Whales" Lux said "There is a treaty on on acquisition of the substance but documents also say that harvesting Spacergris from a whale was difficult if the creature was alive."
Eden nodded "And because we're in a Space Whale graveyard, you think that merchant might be selling it or scavengers didn't get it all?"
"Yes, but I recommend not asking the merchant for Spacergris until we're certain there's none to be found here..."

Lux went on the comms to Jake "Oh Captain My Captain, can you see if your ship can do a scan of these whales for a substance known as Spacergris? Might be able to help Bren with it."

(Spacergris, its like Ambergris only more Sci-fy-y LOL)

[BrenTenkage]

"Spacergris" Lux said to Eden "One thing I read in a medical textbook was about the restorative properties of Spacegris..."
"Spacergris?" Eden asked.
"It's a substance produced by Space Whales" Lux said "There is a treaty on on acquisition of the substance but documents also say that harvesting Spacergris from a whale was difficult if the creature was alive."
Eden nodded "And because we're in a Space Whale graveyard, you think that merchant might be selling it or scavengers didn't get it all?"
"Yes, but I recommend not asking the merchant for Spacergris until we're certain there's none to be found here..."

Lux went on the comms to Jake "Oh Captain My Captain, can you see if your ship can do a scan of these whales for a substance known as Spacergris? Might be able to help Bren with it."

"Uh you know you didn't turn off your coms" the mantis said clackering a bit, "Spacergris, yeah we got a couple of vials, gonna cost you a spleen and a bladder, thats what you humans say right?" he asked not quite translating the saying well