"You sure have a way with word Obozaya!" He shouts back as he waits for his targeting to lock on again and then fires.
Though he can take little comfort from Raonalt's skill with the ship's guns, Iseph does find Obozaya's logic strangely comforting. "I'm not completely convinced of the validity of your underlying premise," he says drily, pausing for an instant to jerk the ship hard to starboard to avoid a spinning fragment of the destroyed junker, "but I agree with your conclusion. Mostly because these little guys aren't very good at their jobs."
Dodging to starboard now, he adds thoughtfully, "The tractor beam, on the other hand, complicates things."
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Iseph steers your ship behind one of the enemies while Keskoday scans it for weaknesses succeeding on locating one that looks promissing
Obozaya takes advantage and manages to hit his target, but fails to exploit the weakness. It still results in critical damage as smoke starts to pour from the hole in it's outer hull
A large antenna break of and you can see it's venting atmosphere
Raonalt is confused on what to aim for and misses completely
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Helm
Gunnery
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Keskoday chitters with excitement as the ship is rocked time after time by the enemy weapons. "Ha ha! Pharamsa is tickling us with her antennae! Isn't it wonderful!? Oh, but my Lady, forgive me but I'm thinking not quite yet!"
He again tries to rebalance the shields with any excess going to the front.
Iseph continues his evasive maneuvers while bringing the Pegasus around behind the junkers. "The rear shields of the ship with the yellow markings are still down and it looks to be suffering significant systems failures," he reports, his tone calm and cool, in contrast to Keskoday's excited chittering. "I'll bring us around behind it, do what you can to blow it out of the sky, would you?"
Raonalt continues to keep the Golbin his in his scores again firing as the ship comes into range.
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Iseph continues his evasive maneuvers while bringing the Pegasus around behind the junkers.
Obozaya tries to take advantage of the opening but his aim is just slightly off and he needs a second to refocus himself, lucky the calming words of the captain get him back in the right frame of mind and he hit's the yellow junker where it hurts right before Raonalt blasts straight through the hole that Oboyaza just made and the spaceship explodes
but even as you celebrate blowing up another of the enemies your front shields are lite up by incoming enemy fire completely obliterating them
You
Hull points: 0
Front shields: 15 (from 15)
Right sides shields : 2 (from 15 total)
Left side shields: 2
Rear shields: 2
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The enemy ship makes a turn and flies towards our exposed front
as a tractor beam passes by quite a distance from your hull..you start to question if they are even firing on you, or are just that incompetent in aiming.
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Keskodai's chittering softens into something slightly more somber as he watches another of the goblins' ships explode under Raonalt's and Obozaya's gunnery. "May you find passage to the Boneyard swift and judgment fair, little ones..."
He is, perhaps, distracted by his prayer as he fails to patch the vulnerability in the forward shields.
Iseph, noting the damage the front shields have taken, swings hard to starboard, then banks wide to port around the goblin ship, presenting the port-side laser net toward the target. "Sorry to keep you from using the big guns, Obozaya, but I don't want to give this last goblin a chance to punch us in the nose. Do destroy him, won't you?"
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Quig fixes the issue with the front shields..or rather manages to fix about half of the issue
Iseph maneuvers the ship through evasive pastern Delta-I
As Keskoday tries to rebalance the shields he get's too distracted and makes some calculation error and comes to the conclusion that subtracting shield from shield doesn't results in positive shielding.
The remaining enemy fighter wobbles around a bit confused as you pop-up in it's rear arc but then it's turrets turns around and start to blast away at your left flank
hitting you just as you come out of a zig and start to enter a zag
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Raonalt steady himself as he takes extra time making sure to lock onto the last ship. "Keep it steady!" He shouts out his eyes locked onto the console.
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Raonalt and Obozaya return fire and even though Raonalt manages to score a decent hit against the last enemy vessel blasting away it's rear shields and rocking it's hull Obozaya's shot streaks past the stars and beyond.
Quig manages to bring some of your shields back on-line
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Helm
- If for some reason you score less then this you get to move first
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The mystic is rocked on his chair as the enemy strikes yet another blow against their ship. "Obazaya, I'm thinking maybe you do want to see the Boneyard after all, with the way you're shooting! This is fantastic!!!"
Nonetheless, Keskodai continues to poke around with his computer, shivering with excitement as the fight plays out and he considers whether to rebalance the shields across all quadrants or to focus on the enemy.
[dice=Computers, "Shields!!!!"]1d20+5+4[/dice]
Iseph banks the Pegasus wide again, keeping her port guns trained on the last goblin ship and coming around behind it, where its rear shields are weak.
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Iseph flies almost around the enemy vessel
The enemy turret tracks you as you move past it and fires upon you
but your evasive pattern prevents it from getting a lock on you
Oboyaza fires at the enemies rear arc and cuts through it's hull hitting something critical
in it's rear facing weapon targeting system
Keskodai balances out the shielding around the ship
Rear shields: 2[/ooc]
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Engineering + Helm
The enemy vessel turns to try to get it's exposed rear arc away from you while it tries to get in your ships rear arc
The tractor beam tries to get a lock on your position again, but it doesn't manage to grab hold of you.
Though he's getting slightly weary of flying in a circle, Iseph keeps the Pegasus' port side facing the junker as he arcs around behind it. He's truly getting a feel for the craft now, and manages to nimbly dodge as the goblin tries to paint their ship with a tracking laser.
Raonalt continues to fire at the Goblin ship.
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You bring your shields back online but fail to redistribute what you have and fly back around the enemy ship and blast it where it hurts and you can see it venting atmosphere through a hole in it's outer shell..but it's not down yet...
that is till it get's hit once more and is blasted into space debris!
The enemy ship manages to get a shot of before it explodes but it's shot goes wild and glances of your outer shielding doing no damage
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As you take a breath and restore minor damages inside the ship, a fallen tea cup here, some tipped over glass there you scan the area and detect a strong signal coming from the false moon’s surface. When you investigate, you find several suitable locations near the source of the signal to land on Salvation’s End.
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The shirren leans back in his chair and sighs contentedly. [i]"Well, that was bracing. And I don't think anything has been seriously damaged."[/b] After a moment -- he looks around to see if there are any paper-wrapped bundles of tobacco -- he turns back to his computers.
He trains the sensors on Salvation's End, trying to see if there's any additional information to be gleaned about the possible landing sites.
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An amalgam of crudely tethered starships rises from the pocked outer crust of Salvation’s End, like a broken finger pathetically reaching towards the stars. The entrance into this carapace of hulls—the exposed hanger bay of a doomed space transport—rests atop a quarter-mile of crushed starship hulls.
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"No more?" Obozaya mourns. "But that was so much fun... Hopefully there'll be more down there."
She collects her gear.
"You should all stay behind me, where it's safe," she announces as they depart.
Before they step off the SFS Obozaya, she activates the holoprojector on her back, projecting a modified version of Damoritosh the Conquerer's symbol: Three red doshko energy blades on a black field.
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Iseph casts a brief, irritated glance at the fallen tea cup, noting the pronounced dent on its side. Have to get used to the inertial dampeners on this ship, they don't quite keep up. And now my cup is dented.
Turning his attention to landing on Salvation's end, he studies the available options, focusing on the tangle of broken ships and saying, "One wonders about the wisdom of landing right where all those vessels met their end, but perhaps their pilots weren't skilled enough to keep clear of the tractor beam. I'll bring us in carefully, heading for that hangar bay."
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Quig wipes his brow with a rag. "Well, she held together after all. Good shooting, guys!"
He surveys the little bits of damage. "Scout, you know what to do." The little robot flits around the cabin, repairing and straightening all the debris.
As they descend, Quig observes, "We shouldn't want for spare parts here at least. It's sure spooky though."
Raonalt stands stretching his arms over his head. "Well done everyone, no matter the enemy we faced we did our duty and we're all still standing."
He steps over to Obozaya. "It was a please to shoot alongside you." He places a hand on the vesk shoulder.
Stepping to the front of the ship he looks out. "That tractor beam will just pull us in? There has to be a way."
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As you make your way to your destination you see;
A shattered spacecraft covers the entry area and back end of this immense hangar. The remains of the ship spread across the exposed northern bulkhead. Several sparks flash amid exposed wiring. The telltale shrieks of goblin songs ring out from the hangar’s rear, accompanied by the recognizable bangs and whirrs of a salvaging crew. A ship hull plate sits discarded near the entrance. Just below a number designation, in bold red letters, reads the ship’s call sign: Archer.
This area has low gravity and thin atmosphere due to the smashed opening in the hangar door. The ceiling goes up 80 feet.
A 40-foot-high steel catwalk bisects the open expanse of the chamber and skirts the perimeter. There is a slight bump in this catwalk, where The Archer’s wreckage slid below and into the hangar’s northern wall.
Eight space goblins are working in this hangar bay.
Four space goblins and a space goblin bully gleefully salvage the remaining wreckage of the Archer, singing a vicious song revering the fire that currently burns here. Two space goblins and another space goblin bully patrol the raised platform. The upper group’s goblins, in their boredom, have started harassing their kin by tossing scrap metal down onto them.
They seem a bit distracted right now and haven't noticed you yet.
Iseph slips forward as well, slipping his pistol from his pocket. He takes a different line from Navasi, so that if one of them is spotted, perhaps the other won't be.