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Darkrunner notices Kaylee sidling up to him and acknowledges. "Oh thanks! Let's see if we can make this fast."
As he gets to work on the silver console, he can't help but notice how close Kaylee is standing to him. Nope, nope. Ignore the pretty lady. Androids are supposed to be cold, detached, but this one is getting warmed up... FOCUS on the hacking!!
It takes him two failed password attempts to realize he needs to quit noticing her and focus on the task at hand, but his cyber attack has already suffered by now...
"Hey, Kaylee, I suspect as a mechanic and a pilot you're no stranger to breaking into systems as well. You feel like jumping in here?"
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As Julakesh and Kima, followed by Ytchkn, join Envar on the balcony, Darkrunner, Kaylee, and Sigma focus on the computer. Their combined efforts are enough to get past the initial security and the firewall, enabling you to start downloading the data to your own comm/storage devices!
Scanning the data as it transfers, you recognize the various secured files but cannot discern any major information. The single most obvious clue from the data is that Arch Energy is essentially a front that funds clandestine meetings between the members of its board of directors. Each of the directors is hidden by a false identity. You are certain that these data are what Historia-7 is looking for. The files are still partially encrypted, though, and will require a dedicated team of data analysts to spend time properly prying any major secrets from them before they can be of use to the society at-large.
After spending a few minutes in the office, Envar's wrist computer beeps, suggesting that his mother's cryo-nap is over and that she'll be coming back. He takes you back to the elevator and down to the docking bay, where your ship awaits. He takes several (pesh-induced) tearful goodbyes with you and several imaginary crew-mates you didn't know you had, accompanied by several group and individual selfies! He exchanges comm information with you (your cover IDs, at least), and will stay there waving as you embark onto the Drake, and lift off from Brilliance Station!
Only about 30 seconds passes after your ship exits the shielded hangar of Brilliance Station, when your ship's comms flare to life!
* "Falsely registered Drake-class vessel, this is Brilliance Security Patrol. Disable your engines voluntarily and prepare to be boarded, or we will disable your vessel by force!" *
Your Identify Friend-Foe (IFF) pings, revealing that two heavily armed fighter craft were hiding behind the station's magnetic shield and started approaching you mere moments after you lifted off!
STARSHIP COMBAT - BATTLE STATIONS!
...well that just makes it easy lol
GM NOTE:
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As the weapons roar to life, Julakesh waits, thumping her chest rhythmically and roaring until the enemy ship comes into range of her guns.
Phase: Gunnery
Role: Gunner
Action: If the enemy gets in range of our forward or our aft guns, Julakesh will fire at the enemy with the appropriate gun. If they happen to get in range of both our forward AND aft guns, she will fire both. Either way, she will use one of the floating +1 modifiers.
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Darkrunner jumps into the chair sitting in front of sensors, scanners, and control for the core systems of the ship.
Phase: Helm
Role: Science Officer
Action: Scan one of the enemy fighters for information about it, assuming one of them is within the "medium" range of our sensors.
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Kaylee diverts auxiliary power to the engines, increasing your ship's speed by 2!
Darkrunner's scan of the Red fighter reveals almost everything there is to know about the enemy ship!
Ytchkn taunts the Red fighter craft's pilot, who will take a -4 penalty for the next 4 rounds!
Sigma wins initiative, forcing both enemy fighters to move first.
Fail < 5
Pass +2 AC
The two fighter craft move to flank you! Starfield is updated!
Sigma, I need to know your action before we can move to the gunnery phase. Thanks!
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Sigma Mu loops your ship around out of the firing arc of the Red ship, while the Blue one launches a missile at you...but it fails to lock-on to your vessel, and spirals out into space!
Julakesh and Kima likewise miss their shots at the Red fighter!
The whole party is up!
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"WHAT?!" Julakesh exclaims, shocked that she missed. "TRICKERY AND TRICKS WON'T SAVE YOUR FOREVER!!" she shouts at the enemy fighters. She lets out a growl and gets ready to fire another shot. "BRING YOUR SHIP TO MY GUN, YOU COWARDS!"
Phase: Gunnery
Role: Gunner
Action: If the enemy is in range of our forward or our aft guns, Julakesh will fire at the enemy with the appropriate gun. If they happen to get in range of both our forward AND aft guns, she will fire both (starting with the forward coilgun). Either way, she will use one of the floating +1 modifiers. If both ships happen to be in range of the same gun, she will focus on the red fighter that just 'dodged' her attack.
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Kaylee diverts auxiliary power to the weapons now, making all of your shots even more potent!
Darkrunner's scan reveals almost everything there is to know about the enemy!
Ytchkn taunts the Blue fighter craft's pilot this time, who will take a -4 penalty for the next 2 rounds!
Both enemy fighters seize the initiative away from Sigma, despite Ytchkn's taunting, forcing him to move your craft first!
Sigma succeeds at flying evasively, making your ship harder to hit (AC & TL 17)
The Red craft flies evasively in return, while the Blue one isn't quite able to on account of Ytchkn shaking that pilot's confidence!
Sigma flies around behind the Red fighter to try and anticipate the enemy movements, hoping to set up his gunners.
The Red fighter pulls a tight turn, lining you up and only being in the Gyrolaser's side-arc. The Blue fighter also yaws to the left and comes right at you!
Kima (Gyrolaser) and Darkrunner (Missile Launcher) miss with their shots, but Julakesh is able to land a direct hit on the Blue fighter, the damage enhanced by Kaylee's power boost. The shot tears through the fighter craft's flimsy forward shields and damages the hull!
Sigma's evasive flying is the only thing that stopped a missile fired by the Blue fighter from striking your ship, but the Red enemy's micromissile strikes your Port arc.
STARSHIP COMBAT: ROUND 3
Drake: 0 Damage [1 missile fired]
Blue: 6 Hull Damage (-4 Piloting for 1 round) [2 missiles fired]
Red: 0 Damage (-4 Piloting for 3 rounds) [1 missile fired]
Kaylee, Ytchkn, Darkrunner, Julakesh, and Sigma are up!
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"YES!" Julakesh roars triumphantly. "YOU CANNOT TRIUMPH AGAINST MY MIGHT! A-HAH! A-HAH!!"
She roars madly as she continues to fire at the blue enemy fighter!
Phase: Gunnery
Role: Gunner
Action: If the enemy is in range of our forward coilgun, Julakesh will fire at them, preferring the blue fighter over red. She will use one of our +1 floating modifiers.
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Kaylee restores 6 points to the shields, followed by Darkrunner rebalancing them with Ytchkn's encouragement!
Still shaken by Ytchkn's earlier taunting, the Blue fighter is forced to move before the Drake, but the Red pilot is still able to seize the advantage!
The Blue ship successfully performs the "back off" maneuver, trying to pull away from you, while the Red ship has so many problems because of the continued sting of Ytchkn's harsh words that its defenses actually drop momentarily! Sigma, however, continues to fly evasively, making your ship harder to hit (AC & TL 17) as he pursues the retreating fighter craft!
The Drake sights-in on the Blue fighter once again as both enemy craft line up their missile launchers at you from opposite directions!
Sigma's expert piloting is once again the only thing that kept you from being hit by Blue's micromissile, but the Red gunner hits you once again with a volley to your ship's Aft quarter!
...but it doesn't penetrate your shields!
Julakesh lands another direct hit on Blue's forward quarter with the Coilgun, the electromagnetically-charged projectiles creating explosions inside their hull, sparking *TWO* Critical Hits!
Meanwhile, only because of Ytchkn's interfeence with its pilot, Kima is able to land a hit on the Red fighter with the turret Missile Launcher!
Kima's missile punches right through Red's shields and tears into their hull prior to the warhead detonating, creating numerous secondary explosions in its wake - doing 22 points of hull damage, creating *THREE* Critical Hits!
STARSHIP COMBAT: ROUND 4
Drake: 0 Hull Damage [2 missiles fired]
Blue: 17 Hull Damage [3 missiles fired] *2 Pending Crits*
Red: 22 Hull Damage (-4 Piloting for 2 rounds) [2 missile fired] *3 Pending Crits*
Kaylee, Ytchkn, Darkrunner, Julakesh, and Sigma are up! (Kima's gunnery rolls through round 5 are already recorded)
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"SCRATCHES?!?" Julakesh roars! "I'LL SHOW YOU SCRACTHES!"
Phase: Gunnery
Role: Gunner
Action: If the enemy is in range of our forward coilgun, Julakesh will fire at them, preferring the blue fighter over red. She will use one of our +1 floating modifiers.
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Phase: Helm
Pilot: Pilot
Action: Sigma Mu breaks from his conservative evasive maneuvers momentarily to throw his opponents off there game by attempting a riskier stunt in hopes of placing himself in the safest yet aggressively advantageous pocket possible.
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Update to Dire's starship combat rules -
Because you all know the DCs that you are rolling for, if you succeed at taking an action that has an effect for a crewmember in a phase of starship combat that occurs after the one you act in, you may edit your post (or make a second post if you'd rather do it that way) to indicate such.
Example: Kaylee successfully diverts power to the shields (+6 shields). She can post this so that Darkrunner knows how many shield points he has to play with.
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Phase: Engineering
Role: Engineering
Action: Kaylee checks to see that the shields are still holding and throws extra power to the gunners since Sigma is outflying the enemy fighters!
"You've got extra power to the guns, Julakesh Starfist! Punch a hole in their hull!!"
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Kaylee sends auxiliary power to the weapons - supercharged and ready to fire!
Darkrunner rebalances the shields to prepare for shots coming from any direction!
The Blue fighter is having problems with their thruster output, while the Red pilot is still looking over their shoulder thinking about Ytchkn's scolding. The result is that both enemies have to move before the Drake!
Coordinating their movements to try and keep you between them, the Blue ship holds its relative position with you, but is able to increase its defenses by "evading" , but the Red fighter is unable to duck and weave evasively (but not enough to lower their defenses like last time)! Sigma, however puts the thrusters on full-blast, performing a Flip-And-Burn to put your ship behind the Blue fighter, with both enemies in your front-arc, while also far enough away from the Red fighter so that its missile might not hit you! *
Blue's aft laser hits the Drake's forward shields for 4 points of damage, and the Red craft's missile comes arcing straight towards your bridge, looking like it is going to be a direct hit...
* Would Darkrunner like to use the Automated Defenses Boon Kaylee slotted as a Reaction? If so, it would prevent Red's missile from hitting you this turn! (This would force them to make another attack roll next turn that could possibly miss, which would mean the missile would just spiral off into space)
Meanwhile, both Julakesh and Kima (but only because of the focus granted to her by Ytchkn's demand) score direct hits on the Blue fighter!
Thanks to Kaylee's weapon-boost, Julakesh's coilgun cuts into the Blue fighter for 6 points of damage after taking down its shield!
(Also taking it to another Critical on top of that, so Two 1d100s for Julakesh!)
Kima's missile from the turret finds its mark, ignoring the shields that Julakesh batted aside for her...
...for 11 points of damage thanks to Kaylee's power boost to the weapon systems!
(Also dealing them another Critical! One 1d100 for Kima!)
STARSHIP COMBAT: ROUND 5
Drake: 0 Hull Damage [3 missiles fired]
Blue: 34 Hull Damage [3 missiles fired] *3 Pending Crits*
Red: 22 Hull Damage (-4 Piloting for 1 rounds) [3 missile fired]
The Blue fighter looks like it's barely still flying, but the Red one still has some fight left in it!
The whole party is up (plus Darkrunner has an important decision to make)!
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Julakesh lets out another whoop of triumph! "A-HAH! GLORY IS MINE!"
Phase: Gunnery
Role: Gunner
Action: If the enemy is in range of our forward coilgun, Julakesh will fire at them, preferring the blue fighter over red. She will use one of our +1 floating modifiers. If they aren't in range, she'll try to use our aft gun. And if they're still not in range she'll growl in frustration and berate someone horribly.
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* Would Darkrunner like to use the Automated Defenses Boon Kaylee slotted as a Reaction? If so,...
Phase: Engineering
Role: Engineering
Action: Kaylee can tell that the shields are holding but we're still taking shots from both sides so she tries to divert power back to them!
"More shields coming back online in a sec, Darkrunner!"
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Phase: Helm
Role: Science Officer
Action: Darkrunner receives a subroutine from Kaylee on his console "Wow, this is a pretty good algorithm. Floods their sensors with data that increases their runtime from constant to linearly growing. This should slow them down. Thanks!"
"Thanks for the boost, I'll rebalance the shields some more momentarily."