((I...guess I'll only receive Aubrey's message when the Nosoi jumps in due to interference))
Kesari released the drone controls, planning to issue a self-destruct order alongside throwing in whichever she could add for spite as its last message, and glanced at the ship monitors: Varkonius was freaking out in the medbay, Mickaw's men were getting hammered (by spirits and morale), Khate began to go off visuals and only showed on sensor readings, and her personal timer was about to beep in the approximate range of Scarlet's interdiction failing to signal the bore jump of the Nosoi.
Her tech-harness was scrambling to give multiple orders at once--something she sorely wished she had upgraded a long time ago, to allow multiple digit segmentation in working better with her circlet; working manually with physical input controls was better off if it was at near the speed of thought, especially if your own prototypical control point was shielded from EMP dangers and other 'common or natural' phenomena that would harm technology of its type, sans physical force. She had to prime the weapons and shift their 'attitude' for point defense, issue a statement to the incoming shuttles (at least they were safe), and ready the electronic warfare suite to push its capabilities to the limits. She just hoped Boris and Aubrey were still able and alive--hacking and deploying or playing with another ship's doors and airlocks was always a basic issue missed when shields were the focal point.
Issue a quick self-destruct sequence and whatever I can whip up to spite the enemy at onset of its death (like releasing a very furtive command signal towards the enemy ship--focused solely on generating a response signal post-bore that would outline its shield harmonics//weakpoints)
*Ready up all weapons and shift their focus to point-defense; electronic warfare to aid in defense too--against any point-blank signals or countermeasures taken, but to focus on disruption of the incoming ship's systems, especially any boarding or internal control operations.
Get that bore formula to shift to near the shuttle locations and give an order for them to be ready to shoot into the hangar as I commit this ship to small bore jumps before getting out of this system.
* - Focus on doing that.Kesari was very sure that this would take up most of her focus, so she made sure to announce the trouble to the hangar folks--Varkonius would...be better off with less stress. At this moment, she was glad her busy-ramblings were pre-recorded if in case of battle duress like this, all captured by the same computer that contained the electronic warfare suite.
Heya Khate!
Quick message--I made that star and the tree to represent our current mission's objective. We failed to get the star but it's currently outlining where best to find Sadish. That star leads to where I traced her signal; please check it out ASAP. I've made sure to enclose your area from any pressurized leaking. Take care please; you're following the route right through that lonely corridor--she's approximately at the end.
"Varkonius! I'm speaking through Scarlet's communicator; our medic will be there with you shortly. There are areas where I recall she kept suitable agents for delaying viruses, including those that Scarlet is dealing with (like nanobot strengtheners); they're all labeled conveniently past her- oh dear."
Kesari was glad she could view things through her teammates suit technology, if not visual--at least through other means by sensors.
...She wished she had taken care of everything in Sadish's lab last dinner, before the whole mission briefing and otherwise. That roast Sadish was talking about was still left in open-air, and pretty much a good lab-mark for where things were.
"-ignore that, it's not going to move anywhere unless there is any significant force pushing it out. I do believe Sadish kept her tools for pathogenic agents in the storage right past that mushroom-creature. It's under the oven-burner!-...It's under the Hauloan roast!"
Finishing her speech which would rather take up more time if sent in text, Kesari was glad for her vocal manipulator being able to direct sound energy in a quasi-linear form. It helped accessing speakers that were just three feet from you, and not bothering other sensitive devices just positioned near them.
"Attention station evacuees; we're going to fall into combat stations soon, the ship that had attacked the Al-Loy security in this system is now setting itself upon us. We will keep information about this. Please keep your trajectory stable, and your velocity at the minimum; I will be plotting a bore jump near your location with your position ready to shoot into our hangars. I have programmed a ping to occur right before this will happen. Please take care."
She wondered if Boris and Aubrey were...taking care too. How would she get them out of that ship? The Reunion had
no way to bore single personnel--although Varkonius could do that very well...as far as how little she knew of bore jumpers or the like.
She had to disable the Nosoi or its freighter. Configuring the ship weapons to converge on a single point was an...idea, but the Nosoi's power was her primary objective to disrupt. She inferred it was operating on full power to its main components, to be easily switched between systems at will, just like how water can flow from one point to another and remain stable but occupy more if tilted in a rectangular container.
((Also feel free to roll for 'Does Kesari really know where Sadish placed her stuff?' or anything otherwise Draig
I'm trying to help out
and not stall Varky killing us all))
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