Of course.
I think Jarix is correct.
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JD checks out the smaller chamber off the southwest corner of the main crew quarters. This medical bay is barely large enough for the single trauma bed in the room’s northwest corner. A door leads out of the room to the south. A few minutes of rummaging around (and translation by Jarix), uncovers cabinets (all labeled in Azlanti) with a once-broad inventory of supplies and a flowchart for the use of each in an emergency. Many of the supplies in these cabinets were never used - and have now since spoiled - but you do identify still-viable equipment within sealed packets:
JD eyes the sedative for a moment suspiciously before turning the loot over to the team. "This should help keep us going for awhile. Anyone need anything before we move on?"
"Let's finish this," Verne says resolutely.
JD has a look at the mold and backs out of the room. "Nasty. What's next?" He will move to the last door they haven't checked out off the common room.
Ready
"Seats still warm. They're close"
Knowing they are headed to the bridge from studying the map, JD engages his energy shield and readies himself for whatever they find on the bridge.
Mal moves back out into the hallway. "Anyone care to try the other door with me, split their attention a bit and hopefully not just stand as a target for their grenades?"
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The team strategically splits the entrances, with Mal and Verne entering from the south while JD and Jarix enter through the washing room quarters. The wide room is in good repair, though the front of the bridge has been crumpled. The nearly shattered forward viewport shows nothing but dirt and rock, with a few tough roots snaking in through the cracks. An opulent captain’s chair sits atop a dais, and positions for the pilot, science officer, and gunner all seem ready for use. A complicated computer system to the right of the captain’s chair has been carefully disassembled, with its pieces around it, neatly labeled as though from an archaeological dig.
Crouched behind the chairs of the three stations in the room, are three more Azlanti personnel with readied longarms. The person behind the central chair wears full Azlanti armor, including head piece. As the doors open, a female voice sounds out in Azlanti.
"ကျူးကျော်သူများကိုပစ်ခတ်ပါ!"
A hail of bullets focus on the door that JD and SH-Ux are entering.
JD takes a shot to the chest from the barrage of fire power while Mallura and Verne struggle to get through the door to the south. Jarix sidesteps the mechanic and his mech in order to enter the fray!
Jarix bobs and weaves as he enters the room to try and keep from being shot. He goes up to the robot and stabs with his combat knife.
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Jarix's attack collides with the captain's chair. The robot laughs, then calls out in a female voice.
"မကောင်းတဲ့နည်းဗျူဟာပြောင်းရွှေ့။ ငါဒီစိတ်အားထက်သန်တိုက်လေယာဉ်ပေးပို့သကဲ့သို့ကျောင်းသားများ, စောင့်ကြည့်!"
She then drops her rifle and a long, thin blade materializes in her outstretched hand. She moves to attack Jarix while calling out orders.
"ဗိုလ်လောင်း ၂၄၆၁! မောင်းသူမဲ့လေယာဉ်ကိုတံခါးဝတွင်ဆက်လက်မောင်းနှင်ပါ။ နှင့်အခြားဗိုလ်လောင်း! တောင်ပိုင်းတံခါးကိုဖွင့်လှစ်ခဲ့သောနောက်ထပ်ရန်သူနှစ် ဦး ရှိသည် စေ့စပ်ပါ!"
The cadets fire at disparate targets.
The hail of bullets ping around the door where JD and SH-Ux stand, scoring no hits.
Jarix takes a vicious score across his entire torso from the carbon steel blade.
Mallura gets riddled with bullets as she opens the door.
Mal rushes in and moves around the southern cadet's cover, drawing her knife as she moves into position to strike if he gets any ideas about shooting his gun again. "Come on, Jarix, don't leave yourself open! Hit back hard!"
Verne sprints through the door to help his companions. He squeezes off a shot at the nearest cadet.
JD and the drone march into the bridge and turn to direct their fire on the Azlanti leader.
He shouts over his shoulder to Cadet 2461. "Hey Cadet 2461 ဒစ်အိတ်တစ်လုံးကိုစားပါ"
Jarix holds his wound as he continues to strike at the robot.
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Mallura inspires Jarix, but the operative's follow-up attack to his juke does not land, nor do JD and Sh-Ux's blasts. Verne scores a wound on the cadet nearest to where he enters.
"ဒီတစ်ခုကိုခေါင်းဖြတ်တာကကျွန်တော့်အတွက်ဂုဏ်ယူပါတယ်"
The leader announces something in a raised voice for the cadets' ears as the northernmost turns his rifle towards JD and fires once.
The bullet hits the mechanic in the shoulder. Sharu salutes Jarix with the strange, wobbly blade before whipping it at his head with rapid strikes.
The blade slashes viciously into the breastplate of brave Jarix, but even before he can look at the horrid wound, the "robot" pulls it out and slashes it across his head, dropping him in a pool of blood on the floor. As Jarix falls, the southernmost cadet moves back from Mallura and fires on her.
The bullet hits Mallura in the thigh.
Mallura curses as Jarix falls, but can't lose focus for too long as the cadet nearest her opens himself up to an attack even as he fires a round into her thigh.
Sh pursues the cadet even as she draws her laser pistol. She strikes again with her knife for the time being though, not wanting to leave the cadet to open fire fully.
This is just the circumstance I saved Resolve for.
Verne pulls up closer to the cadet and continues to concentrate his fire on them.
Seeing Jarix fall, JD tries to level the playing field by directing all his fire at the already wounded Cadet.
Using it to stabilize.
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Verne struggles to target anything but the floor. Sh-Ux's shots scorch the air, but JD's hunting rifle barks and the injured cadet crumples to the floor, blood pooling around his form.
Cadet YY <----HERE
Sharu
JD/Sh-Ux
Mallura
Verne
The remaining cadet reloads his rifle and takes a careful shot at JD. As he does so, Sharu barks an order and moves towards the mechanic, sword poised to strike.
"အငယ်ဆုံးရန်သူများအပေါ်အာရုံစူးစိုက်! ငါကျွန်သခင်ကိုကိုင်တွယ်လိမ့်မယ်!"
The bullet pings off the ruined vis-screen. Sharu scores a deep wound across JD's upper hip.
"Nice work, JD! Now try to keep on your feet! I'm coming to assist!" Mallura encourages her mechanic friend, then moves up behind the lieutenant to draw her attention away from JD at least a little.
Verne pulls up at last beside JD.
"Hold on," he reassures the prone figure while reaching for a healing serum in a nearby pouch.
Proud that he's not a lesser enemy, JD is still conflicted about being referred to as a slave master. He tosses the empty rifle aside and takes a step back away from Sharu. "We have a mutually beneficial relationship! he calls out as he moves, while drawing his pistol.
He levels the pistol and fires at Sharu, while Sh-Ux levels a blast as well
Jarix jolts awake. He uses the chair for cover while drawing his gun and firing at orange without getting up.
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Verne's blast hits the ceiling of the chamber.
"ဗိုလ်ကြီး, ငါ့ချေမှုန်းရေးရိုင်ဖယ်ကိုသုံးပါဤသေးငယ်တဲ့ရန်သူများကိုပင်လယ်အော်မှာစောင့်ရှ ောက်ရန်။."
[spoiler=Azlanti]"Cadet, use my assault rifle to keep these snivelling foes at bay."
The cadet at the far end of the room drops his rifle in response to Sharu's command and sprints to pick up his captain's weapon. In the meantime, the masked Azlanti steps to JD, intent on carving up the mechanic.
Sharu slices deep into the mechanic's chest, blood spraying from a serious wound.
Mallura steps up to get in the cadet's face so it's not too easy for him to fire on her team, but turns and strikes at Sharu, since she is dealing such massive blows to the team.
Still using the chair for cover.
Verne turns around and lays down some fire with his pistol to attempt to distract Sharu.
JD pilots the drone chassis back and prepares to fire again. As he brushes up to the damaged consoles, he knows he's running out of room and options.
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Verne fills the air around Lt Sharu with harrying shots, distracting the Azlanti briefly in order to allow JD to score a glancing shot. Sh-Ux's laser blast misses, but Jarix, from the ground, lands a critical shot to the head of the cadet holding the assault rifle.
The cadet jiggles the clip in the assault rifle, steps back, and fires an automatic blast of bullets at Mallura, Jarix, and Verne!
The cadet riddles everyone in the team (apart from JD and Sh-Ux) with bullets. Sharu sniffs and whips the strangely-flexible sword at JD.
With the fall of the mechanic, Sharu redirects her next attack to Mallura.