Lasereater has lost focus and forgotten that he intended to recharge shields and keeps his firing like mad, jumping up and down in his seat and hollering.
"LASERS FOR ALL ASS LANTIES!!!"
Goro continues to try and keep them outflanked now that the port side laser is malfunctioning he will try and stay on that side
Hit the breaks -
Both ships' science officers balance out shields.
Goro puts the Loreseeker through the same maneuver, again. This time, the Azlantis anticipate it and move to open up range between you. The Barazad's pilot over-corrects and they end up not gaining enough distance before Goro turns your ship around.
Goro keeps you on their port side, and their gunner hits but only grazes your starboard shields. Their Aeon torpedo launches but flies wide off course.
Blax-9 blasts through their forward shields and Lasereater follows up. Secondary explosions and smoke burst from their engineering section.
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*
vs
Severely damaged and systems failing, the Barazad looks like it is coming around for a final, aggressive attack!
Shields (F/P/S/A): 15 (5/4/1/5)
Hull: 48 of 55 (CT 11)
Critical Damage: None*
Shields (F/P/S/A): 7 (0/2/2/3)
Hull: 10 of 55 (CT 11)
Critical Damage: Forward Coilgun (malfunctioning), Port Laser (glitching), Power Core (glitching), Engines (glitching)
"RAM THE ASS LANTIES!!!! THEN BOARDS THEM!!"
Lasereater is manic with bloodlust
Jink pilot check DC 14 -
Deny SB and Port
When the Goblin says "Ram the Ship", Val'nor yells "Don't do that!!"
He then tries to re-balance the shields
Shields (F/P/S/A): 15 (4/4/3/4)
Blax-9 fires again on the forward sector.
Val'nor balances your shield energy. As the Barazad comes about, their engineer manages to get their power core patched.
The Barazad drives in at full speed, making a dangerously close pass. Goro jinks the Loreseeker about, keeping the enemy ship at a high aspect.
The Azlanti fire as they zoom past. Their coilgun shreds your aft shields and critically damages your engines. Fortunately, their torpedo misses by a few spans.
Exposed by their aggressive maneuver, Blax-9 and Lasereater have an easy target. They focus attacks, tearing through the Barazad's meager remaining shields. The impacts explode along their hull, flickering with electric shorts and secondary bursts.
The Barazad's engines fail and it drifts...
... (2/2/2/1)
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The comms crackle as the Azlanti ship hails you. "This is the captain of the Barazad, ship of the Azlanti Star Empire. Pact world vessel, you have bested us. We humbly yield."
"Humbull Asslanty? Not like stoopid 'puter?" Lasereater scrunches his eye ridges.
"Lasereater no think so. Tricksy Asslanties. Kills them now but afters boarding?"
Val'nor shrugs "I think honor is great, but they would kill us without thinking, and what are we going to do with prisoners?"
"I don't think these people can be trusted, boarding them is a needless danger"
Scanning for the remaining details, and then a second scan to see their weapon status:
"I don't think these people can be trusted, boarding them is a needless danger"
"Big Bug makes no sense. Is stoopid. Lasereater wants the loots!"
Goro takes a moment to stabilize your ship's flight path. Val'nor makes a deep scan of the Barazad's systems. In addition to a detailed readout of their extensive damage, he discovers that the Azlanti ship does have a self-destruct device. The nova explosion would be catastrophic to any other ships in its vicinity...
Lasereater scrunches up thinking, "Gots it. We boards and moves fast fast fast to destructo-pooter den shuts it offs. Lesgo."
Val'nor says "I don't know guys. The Azlatns we've seen so far haven't had much loot to care about. Lets turn around and get the survivors and get the hell out of here. We need to go rescue Meko(sp)"
Lasereater looks at Val'nor slyly, "Maybe Asslanty pooter has maps to Meko?"
Val'nor "Hmmm...i don't know." He looks at Lasereater and shakes his head "I can't believe I'm letting the Goblin talk me into something. We do need more information. Lets give it a try."
"This is a terrible idea, they have show to have no honor. If we get close enough they will just take us with them"
"Blax, your thoughts? You can also vote by just blasting them out of the sky"
"Tells the Ass-shanks we knows and are smarts? Tells them disarms. Then long shanks scan scans them."
Goro moves the Loreseeker closer to the disabled Azlanti ship while maintaining a cautious distance. Lasereater finally runs out of patience and shouts an ultimatum over the comms. There's a pregnant pause before the Barazad's captain responds.
"Filthy piss-blooded swine! You will never defile an Azlanti starship with your presence, nor capture its honorable crew. Pax Azlantium!"
Seconds later, the Barazad explodes!
"Looks like Big Bug is rights. We finds Meko other ways." Lasereater shrugs and heads back to engineering.
Anyway to see if there is any weapons or anything we can salvage from the debris?
Val'nor "lets go get Sarigar and see about finding Meko."
Blax-9 nods as he lights up another cigar. "Make it so, Val'nor!"
Val'nor looks at the Cigar then shakes his head, he mumbles "not driving'
he will try to scan the wreckage
Val'nor makes a scan of the Barazad debris. Most of it is useless parts, but you pick out a few intact components that could be repurposed. The light aeon torpedo launcher is in recoverable condition. Another piece appears to be the Azlanti ship's transponder.
After collecting the pieces, you descend back into the atmosphere and set down just outside Madelon's Landing. The colonists gather to greet you with cheers, smiles and oaths of gratitude. Sarigar joins you, weakly holding himself up with a long piece of metal from Aibretta's shop. Madelon comes over and shakes each of your hands vigorously. "Praise the Wealthy Father! You've saved our people and the colony."
Val'nor gazes at the transponder and says "I bet me and Lazer could wire that in to the Loreseeker's systems, and they wouldn't know we weren't one of their ships."
Blax-9 shrugs at Val'nor, 'Yeah, that could be fun. We would still get to kill 'em, right?"
He pointedly ignores Madelon and the colonists. He growls as he walks through the crowd, "We ain't no heros."
Blax-9 then wanders to the nearest weapons market to see what is on sale.
Lasereater stops and shakes Madelon's hand, "Longshanks rich dads gives great heroes rewards for saving lives?"
Goro isn't concerned with any reward, he was protecting his friends home, he is just more concerned about where she is now
Goro will ask the group "My friend, Cedona, has been taken along with your friend, Meico, I would like to accompany you all until we have been able to save them both. And, if we are unable to save them, than avenge them"
Madelon chuckles at Lasereater and nods, "I've given you a boon of credits and we're upgrading your ship for you... but, I'll see if I can find something special."
Blax-9 walks off, but he finds the shopping opportunities in the small colony to be very limited.
Sarigar stands nearly eye-level with Goro, and he meets his gaze directly. "On behalf of Nomad Section and the Starfinders, thank you for your assistance. You are welcome to join us as we go to rescue Meico and your friend, Cedona." He extends his remaining hand.
To the group, he adds, "Nomads, it will take Aibretta and the colonists a couple weeks to repair, retrofit and upgrade the Loreseeker. I will research our path forward -- I believe Val'nor's idea of using the Azlanti transponder has real merit -- and heal up." He glances at the stump of his right arm. "I suggest you keep yourselves gainfully occupied and get ready for the coming fight."
"Big Bug gots to stay. Handy in fights. Lasereater hide behind him and pew pew!"
Val'nor will spend the first few days going through the ship and find/remove the creature that stowed away.
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Bridge
Crew Quarters
Cargo Hold
Escape pods
Science lab
Tech Workshop
Engine Room
Not sure about any other rooms?
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Then he'll see if he and Laser can Engineering up a replacement arm for Sarigar.
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Then he'll spend the rest of the time helping the town rebuild
While the colonists led by Aibretta are working on the Loreseeker, Val'nor uses the opportunity to track down the hobgar stowaway. He finally locates it in a nook behind a wall panel in the tech lab. The tiny monkey has nested there with a pair of younglings. It chitters and chatters angrily, taking a defensive posture over its family.
*
Val'nor realizes Sarigar will need a prosthetic or cybernetic limb, of which the latter is unobtainable at the colony. With the materials on hand, he could patch together a functional prosthetic using Aibretta's workshop.
*
Val'nor spends a fair chunk of his downtime helping the colonists rebuild. Several modules of Madelon's Landing took damage from the Azlanti occupation and all of the settlement's defenses against native pests were neutralized. He works hard but realizes the task requires more hands than he has available.
Blax-9 will begrudgingly assist Val'nor. "I better be paid for this. You know when I'm off the clock I ain't got time for much other than drinkin' and whorein'."
This is Goro's adopted home, he is 100% helping rebuild.
Though he is certainly not an engineer so not help there. Any heavy lifting though, he is down.
Athletics -
Flex time
Val'nor sees the monkey nest, with the monkey babies in it, and he stops. He looks around at the nest, to assess the damage.
He thinks about it and decides its not safe to leave them there, and sets about to try and capture/contain them. He leaves some rations nearby, so they won't run off, and goes back to the junkyard, ahem, I mean the salvage facility, to see if he can find or create a crate or some other container. If he strikes out there he will look through the azlanti bunker (they seem like the types to cage things up)
<- Are these guys more like cute baby seals, or more like huge rats?
<- To find a cage or crate in the stack of stuff in the junkyard
<- To find a cage or crate in the Azlanti Bunker.
Then he'll check in with the town folk to see if they would shoot him for relocating the creatures nearby. Also what food do the creatures like. He'll then go about rigging a trap, and he'll use some bait to lure the things from their spot and into the crate. If he can get the adult(s), then he'll work on moving the young ones (gently) out of the ship... Whew!
Are these guys more like cute baby seals, or more like huge rats?
"Dem looks like food. Musts be tender and juicy"
Hobgars are more like monkeys than anything else (Image here.). They are native to Nakondis. The colonists find them to be a bit a nuisance but they are relatively intelligent animals and friendly enough.
Val'nor finds a suitable crate easily enough. Aibretta tells him that the hobgars are omnivorous, but they find conductive metals delicious -- part of the reason they are such a nuisance is their penchant for chewing on electronics and conduit. When examining around the nest on the Loreseeker, Val'nor notes some bite marks and chewed up corners, but no significant damage (as of yet).
Aibretta suggests he help get the colony's hobgar trap back up and running ASAP (see below).
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During the colony reconstruction, Goro puts his size and strength to good use lifting and shifting heavy objects. A good amount of time is spent gutting the Azlanti garrison, which Madelon has decided to repurpose into a town hall and recreation center for the colony.
Val'nor, along with the help of a grumbling Blax-9, helps rebuild the town's hobgar trap: a tall metal pole that carries an electrical wire up its center, sparking from a plate in a specially designed cage at the top.
The sparking plate attracts hobgars from elsewhere in the settlement; they can enter the cage, but they can’t get back out without bypassing the lock mechanism. Captivity often enrages the hobgars, but the pole is tall enough that they can’t shock anyone below with their electric jolts. Once the cage is full of a dozen or so hobgars, the colonists airlift the cage to a distant part of the forest and set the hobgars free.
Val'nor goes attempts to recreate the towns trap out of the scraps he can find. Since he has helped rebuild one, it shouldn't be too tough to build another one like it. He'll use it in the ship to trap the creatures there.
Lasereater will assist with the hobgar trap
"Sparky monkeys sounds tasty, too," he notes sagely to whomever is listening, as he helps repair it.
"Lady snakes thinks Venshur cap'n readys for matings now."
Lasereater will spend a day looking for junk and good deals ... stealing Varigar's computer to do it.
-- any computer bonuses from V's gonk?
Will stick this in a separate post
Lasereater starts working out, wearing a rag around his head as he crushes a homemade obstacle course.
He gives up and sleeps in on the second day.
I can't just remove the infusion and install it later as far as I can tell. Let me know if anyone wants the infusions moved to something they have. It will cost half the purchase price of an infusion of the target item level.