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

[JakeCollins]

I didn't really get why they would drug you if they're already mind controlling you. But this kind of explains it.

"Ok!" Jake shouted, stiffening up. "Ok, I won't sit."

"They'll try to drug your crew too" The rockman said.

"Why?" Jake asked. "If they have Mind Control..."

"Drugs just speed up the process. Your crew have already been put to sleep, by now. It all happened so fast..."

"So they get you under the influence of Mind Control, drug you to sleep, and when you wake up..."

"You're even more hooked on the Mind Control field that before. Now you have to get out of here. I'm a lost cause. Save yourself, kid. Get outta here."

"Thank you... Thank you... I'm so... I'm so sorry." Jake said. He began walking to the door. But something was holding him back. He was being drawn away from the door. There was no need to leave. No need... No need... He began stumbling back, his legs shaking. He almost fell over but staggered into a somewhat stable position.

He began dragging himself forward... right foot... left foot... right foot...

"What do you have to live for?" The rockman shouted. "Your mission?"

Jake let out a groan of effort, as he leapt forward, slamming down on his stomach, a few feet ahead from his previous location."

"You have your life ahead of you! You have friends! You have a crew! Are you going to let them rot without you?"

Jake dragged himself a few more feet along the floor.

"A crew needs his captain! They need you! They need a leader! They need JAKE!" The rockman screamed.

Jake let out a massive scream of effort, standing up and slamming against the door.

"Go and save them," The rockman whispered. Jake nodded, drool and blood dribbling down his chin. He swung the door open, and stumbled into the hallway - away from the Mind Control device.

[stylesrj]

Eden glared at the Captain "You know exactly what's going on here... you wanted everyone but me to stay onboard. You can't control the crazy cannibal who'd eat your customers... I could smell the sedatives in your drinks. It's not that hard to sniff out over the smells of the pool"
There were a lot of voices in her head demanding she leave immediately. "But I'm not leaving without at least taking my student Luxanna with me."
The Captain was still not even the slightest bit amused by this statement. He turned towards Bren "By the way, Zoltan you think I'd listen to Peace Action T42234 just because you said we should? You forget that in order to call it into order, you must have the Ritual Knife of Zelektarnokt. You're mistaking it for Peace Action RX9361-B."
Now he was amused "You can't even remember your own convoluted legal code..."
"Then why did you come down here?" Eden asked curiously.
"Because you are disruptive and none of my guards seem to be competent enough to just shoot you... a Human so weighed down into immobility" the Captain declared about to give the order to fire when suddenly there was a loud screaming sound as if someone was trying to lead a heroic one-man charge against something. "Gyaaah, what the... JUST SHOOT HER!"

Big Damned Heroes moment from Jake would be good

[BrenTenkage]

Eden glared at the Captain "You know exactly what's going on here... you wanted everyone but me to stay onboard. You can't control the crazy cannibal who'd eat your customers... I could smell the sedatives in your drinks. It's not that hard to sniff out over the smells of the pool"
There were a lot of voices in her head demanding she leave immediately. "But I'm not leaving without at least taking my student Luxanna with me."
The Captain was still not even the slightest bit amused by this statement. He turned towards Bren "By the way, Zoltan you think I'd listen to Peace Action T42234 just because you said we should? You forget that in order to call it into order, you must have the Ritual Knife of Zelektarnokt. You're mistaking it for Peace Action RX9361-B."
Now he was amused "You can't even remember your own convoluted legal code..."
"Then why did you come down here?" Eden asked curiously.
"Because you are disruptive and none of my guards seem to be competent enough to just shoot you... a Human so weighed down into immobility" the Captain declared about to give the order to fire when suddenly there was a loud screaming sound as if someone was trying to lead a heroic one-man charge against something. "Gyaaah, what the... JUST SHOOT HER!"

Big Damned Heroes moment from Jake would be good

Bren clutched his head, she was right, he forgot some of the Zoltan Legal Codes or Space Faring Orders...

[JakeCollins]

Jake crashed into the Captain from behind, knocking him over. This was the same fighting strategy that a druken idiot would use if you tried to kick him from your bar. Collapse on top of your enemies. Great plan.

With the captain down, Jake began throwing hard drunk punches to the side of the mans face. "Dumb... ass.... Mind.... Control..." He slurred, thrashing around on the floor.

He tapped his comm badge. "Sarah... Teleport... Out..."

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Sarah had the lights deactivated, the temperature lowered, and her AI Avatar deactivated. Sensors were offline, as was everything else. In essence, all of Ship Processing Power was open to her. She was free of distracting stimuli. She loved this time of peace and quiet to herself, where she could rest, relax, and contemplate. It was interrupted by a heavily-breathing Jake, transmitting from his mobile comm link. He seemed to be asking for immediate beam out.

Sarah frantically contacted the Pelican, transmitting the coordinates of all away-party comm badges. "They need immediate beam out! Lock on to all sets of coordinates I sent and transport them away!" She said to the Pelican.

No one ever noticed, but Sarah made sure that Jake was at the top of the coordinate list, but did not have the list labeled...

[BrenTenkage]

Jake crashed into the Captain from behind, knocking him over. This was the same fighting strategy that a druken idiot would use if you tried to kick him from your bar. Collapse on top of your enemies. Great plan.

With the captain down, Jake began throwing hard drunk punches to the side of the mans face. "Dumb... ass.... Mind.... Control..." He slurred, thrashing around on the floor.

He tapped his comm badge. "Sarah... Teleport... Out..."

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Sarah had the lights deactivated, the temperature lowered, and her AI Avatar deactivated. Sensors were offline, as was everything else. In essence, all of Ship Processing Power was open to her. She was free of distracting stimuli. She loved this time of peace and quiet to herself, where she could rest, relax, and contemplate. It was interrupted by a heavily-breathing Jake, transmitting from his mobile comm link. He seemed to be asking for immediate beam out.

Sarah frantically contacted the Pelican, transmitting the coordinates of all away-party comm badges. "They need immediate beam out! Lock on to all sets of coordinates I sent and transport them away!" She said to the Pelican.

No one ever noticed, but Sarah made sure that Jake was at the top of the coordinate list, but did not have the list labeled...

Bren felt himself tugged and so did Ruwen and Gorlag as they were teleported to the Pelican

"When did you...how did you get our DNA to lock on to us?" he asked

"that...wow" Ruwen said shaking his head, "Teleportation technology has improved" he said looking at the group

"WAIT MY SHI-" Bren called out looking out the window and he saw the Scarab flying out

"NO NO NO!" he called out...but then his com ping...and he saw the repair drone contacting him...and the face was different instead of a screen with simple ASCII face, it was a familar face, one of the man who sold him the ship, "How...did you....why....umm...please dont' shoot us"

(yeah all this time that AI was hiding in the drone, or rather a piece of him to keep an eye on them, he isn't that stupid and sides, if the rebels make that blackhole weapon...bad business for him and anyone else)

[Chickengames]

No one ever noticed, but Sarah made sure that Jake was at the top of the coordinate list, but did not have the list labeled...

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Kyrie was very rudely awakened when she fell flat on her face as soon as they materialized on the Pelican. She got up slowly, holding her head. “Owww... What happened?” Her nose was bleeding, but thankfully not broken. She also had a throbbing headache. The last thing she remembered was drinking something Glemma had given them. “What the fuck was in that drink?”

Meanwhile the pleasure cruise had powered up its weapons and engines, which apparently weren’t broken.

I assume the cruise is armed well enough, since they’re probably a target for pirates.

[stylesrj]

The Pelican's modified cargo teleporter wasn't exactly up to the highest of standards and it was a miracle it was capable of transporting everyone off the cruiser at once.
Eden said "Luxanna, make sure everyone is teleported back to their ships, I'm going to take the helm."
She started to move... rather quickly despite the excess weight that was restricting her on the Slug ship.
Lux remarked "She has the gravity turned down when she's overloaded... I can see why the engineer loves her."

Jake and Kyrie were quickly transported back to the Mutare while the Pelican tried to dodge shots and chase after the Scarab. "Something must be wrong with your auto-pilot" Eden commented "But they're no match for an actual pilot"

Pre-AE Autopilots were pretty terrible. Wasn't it 25% evasion at Level 3?

[BrenTenkage]

The Pelican's modified cargo teleporter wasn't exactly up to the highest of standards and it was a miracle it was capable of transporting everyone off the cruiser at once.
Eden said "Luxanna, make sure everyone is teleported back to their ships, I'm going to take the helm."
She started to move... rather quickly despite the excess weight that was restricting her on the Slug ship.
Lux remarked "She has the gravity turned down when she's overloaded... I can see why the engineer loves her."

Jake and Kyrie were quickly transported back to the Mutare while the Pelican tried to dodge shots and chase after the Scarab. "Something must be wrong with your auto-pilot" Eden commented "But they're no match for an actual pilot"

Pre-AE Autopilots were pretty terrible. Wasn't it 25% evasion at Level 3?

"Thats not my autopilot, its one of my repair drones driving it, its being controlled...by Trenchcoat" he said

He went on the com, 'Trenchcoat, how are you doing this?" he asked unaware of his AI fragment being in control

[stylesrj]

"A Repair Drone taking control?" Eden said "Trenchcoat... now it makes sense."
She informed Bren "Trenchcoat's a very good programmer of drones... he probably put some code in the Repair Drone that was to activate due to certain conditions involving the crew."
She shrugged although it probably wasn't visible over the comms "It's probably set to activate if it can't detect your lifesigns after a period of time or it thinks you've been killed... in that case it tries to leave and sends him a special distress signal for later recovery."

The Pelican seemed to be slowly catching up to the ship but it was still not within accurate transporter range... Suddenly one of the Pelican's crew handed Bren a portable drive. "However Trenchcoat is not infallible. Sometimes his drones develop sensor glitches. You should be given an override program; it'll shut down the drone..."

How is a slow cargo hauler catching up to the faster Scarab? The Repair Drone isn't a good pilot and certainly not good with optimising the engines... plus it has to avoid shots from the Pleasure-Cruise.

[BrenTenkage]

"A Repair Drone taking control?" Eden said "Trenchcoat... now it makes sense."
She informed Bren "Trenchcoat's a very good programmer of drones... he probably put some code in the Repair Drone that was to activate due to certain conditions involving the crew."
She shrugged although it probably wasn't visible over the comms "It's probably set to activate if it can't detect your lifesigns after a period of time or it thinks you've been killed... in that case it tries to leave and sends him a special distress signal for later recovery."

The Pelican seemed to be slowly catching up to the ship but it was still not within accurate transporter range... Suddenly one of the Pelican's crew handed Bren a portable drive. "However Trenchcoat is not infallible. Sometimes his drones develop sensor glitches. You should be given an override program; it'll shut down the drone..."

"Right thanks," He said nodding his head

Gorlag frowned as he looked towards the ship, "Guess Gleema was against me the whole time...guess I owe her for ditching her on Kabaan that one time..." he muttered

Ruwen nodded hsi head, "So we need to teleport to the Scarab and fight back" he said, "How do you all feel?"

"A little light headed but I'll be fine" Bren said, Gorlag nodded his head in agreement