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Fiddling with the ship sensor readings, Askara realizes that he can actually rebalance the shields. He jumps up from the gunner's seat and runs to the science station, shouting "I can do zat! I can do zat!" all the way.
At the science station, he attempts to rebalance the shields, distributing the total power output evenly among the four quadrants.
"I... cannot do zis." Askara sighs, and head-desks the console.
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Another well aimed salvo slams into the Endless Threnody and the Corpse Fleet ship lists to one side as its power core overloads, covering the ship with coruscations of negative energy.
The Endless Threnody drifts just outside the forward viewport.
The enormous Corpse Fleet starship bristles with bone spurs, and a baleful red lens at its fore resembles a swollen and bloody eye. Crackles of dark energy leap across the bone spurs, discharging from the ruined ship’s necromantic power source.
With a burst of static and a flash, a blue-hued hologram of Venture-Captain Arvin appears at the Loreseeker’s communications station. “Excellent work. The Endless Threnody is incapacitated, but not pulverized. I need you to board that vessel, access the main computers at the bridge, and recover the coordinates of the missing Starfinder vessel’s crash site.
“That energy signature looks dangerous, and those discharges can damage your hull. Dock at the cargo bay at the rear of the ship and make your way forward to the bridge. Wear space suits if your armor can’t protect you from vacuum—there are a few suits in a storage locker aboard your ship. Eoxian ships do not have life support and are often exposed to space. Any questions?”
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"HAHA!" Bonra shouts, pumping his fist in the air as the corpse fleet ship takes it's last breath.
"Take us in Taug, we need to get some answers." Bonra activates the environmental controls on his armor and gets ready to board the enemy vessel, the mote of blue light seemingly swirling around his head faster in anticipation.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS
Space can be an inhospitable place, with countless dangerous worlds within it. Unless otherwise specified, all armors protect you from a range of hazards to ensure that you can survive for at least a few days if you must make emergency repairs to the hull of a Starship, explore an alien world, or endure exposure to an environmental breach in a space station. Some armors do this through an environmental field (a minor force field specially attuned to pressure and temperature that does not reduce damage from attacks), while others can be closed with helmets and airtight seals.
ACTIVATION AND DURATION
A suit of armor’s environmental protections last for a number of days equal to its item level. Activating or deactivating these environmental protections takes a standard action if you are wearing the suit (assuming the armor was properly donned). If you have access to a suit that is unattended or worn by a helpless creature, you can turn on its environmental protection as a full action, but turning it off requires a Computers check to hack the system, treating the suit as a computer with a tier equal to half the suit’s item level (the base DC to hack a computer is equal to 13 + 4 per tier).
The duration of a suit’s environmental protections does not need to be expended all at once, but it must be expended in 1-hour increments. Recharging this duration requires access to a functioning starship or an environment recharging station (publicly available in most technologically advanced or average settlements) and takes 1 minute per day recharged. Most of the recharging stations that replenish devices, such as batteries and power cells, also recharge suits is typically free of price. All other functions on a suit of armor with no duration remaining still work normally.
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"Horrid ships crewed by undead. Just what i wanted to see today!" says Taugortavol in a sarcastic voice.
"I'll be as careful as i can while flying in, Bonra. It would be nice to get the ship back to Absolom station with all it's parts still attached. I'll let you all know on comms before i open the outer air-lock"
Maneuvering the Loreseeker to align with the Endless Threnody’s rear cargo bay is tricky, the flashing energy rippling across it and the loose battle debris looks hazardous to the Loreseeker.
Taug tries pulling in but has to abort at the last minute, barely avoiding a damaging collision with a large chunk of floating debris and only gets some minor paint damage. The second attempt is beautifully executed and the Loreseeker pulls in neatly.
Disengaging the airlock you are subjected to a brief rush as the air around you is sucked into the vacuum of space. You move off the Loreseeker and into the enemy ships cargo bay. The bay is mostly empty and illuminated only by the gentle glow of a computer access terinal. Three wide openings lead to the ship’s central passages.
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The mote of light around Bonrakoru's head turns into armor as the Vesk turns the flashlight on from his personal comm device and points it forward.
"I always keep to the left." He says heading toward the left most passage unless the party decides otherwise. He keeps one fist balled up and his sense alert.
Bon and Askara prepare to depart the bay.
The small flashlights illuminate part of the corridors ahead, the brave vesk find that the inky blackness stretches beyond their halos of light, and no doubt hides things best unseen.
You hear some skittering in the darkness racing towards you, strange rattling sounds coming up the halls outside of your view!
Askara
Bonra
Taug
Telgan
Will
ENEMY
Racing down the corridors toward you come a wave of skeletal crewmen, they start chattering unnervingly about collecting your skulls.
R1
Enemy - acted
Taug
Telgan
Bonra
Askara
Will
One of the skeletons are obliterated by the force missiles!
The shot illuminates the corridor and looks impressive, but the bony attacker is not struck.
Red Ref +Mod
Bon slams home with his big vesk fist - the skeletal form shatters!
Telgan tries cooking the bones, but they are moving very quickly!
R1
Enemy - acted
Taug - attacked
Telgan - cast
Bonra - attacked
Askara
Will - cast
R - 3
O - Dead (again)
Y - Dead (again)
G
Askaras drone clips the skeleton with a shot, but it keeps coming.
The necromantic energy from the ship seems to reinvigorate the damaged ones...
Two more skeletons come out of the other tunnel!
One of the skeletons lashes out at Bonra!
Attack
Damage
One of the skeletons lashes out at Scouty!
Attack
Damage
Bonra strikes back, missing with the right but hitting with the left - shattering the creature.
R2
Enemy - acted
Taug
Telgan
Bonra - attacked
Askara
Will
R - Dead (again)
O - Dead (again)
Y - Dead (again)
G - 2
LB
DB
Will blasts another Skeleton - quite dramatically! It falls in pieces!
R2
Enemy - acted
Taug
Telgan
Bonra - attacked
Askara
Will - Cast
R - Dead (again)
O - Dead (again)
Y - Dead (again)
G - 2
LB - Dead
DB
Taug and Telgan are finding the tunnels a little confusing to fight in, and not getting shots on target...
Scouty takes a guarded step back and continues shoting...
The Skeleton advances on Scouty once more.
Attack
Damage
You can see teh necromantic energy of the ship ripples slightly through the skeleton, knitting its damaged parts back together...
The other skeletal crewmember attacks S'Karu
Attack
Damage
R3
Enemy
Taug
Telgan
Bonra
Askara
Will
R - Dead (again)
O - Dead (again)
Y - Dead (again)
G - 1
LB - Dead
DB
William destroys the skeleton crew member with a triple blast of energy!
In a brutal display of bladed fury, Taug simply smashes the last remaining skeleton crewmember.
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The last of the crew defeated, you make your way up to the bridge.
The bridge of the Endless Threnody is located behind the enormous crimson eye at the front of the ship, bathed in a blood-red glow. The crew stations are fabricated from bone and steel, apparently grown from the floor and walls of this room. Battle damage is evident throughout the bridge, but it is now empty and utterly silent—truly a ghost ship.
Lights occasionally flicker on the screen of the ship's computer, jagged Eoxian glyphs and letters flash past relaying information to a now non-existent crew.