"I, uh, might be able to. I've logged my share of hours into spaceflight simulators almost exactly like this. Uh, no one have any objections?"
Get in the cockpit and figure out the controls for that sweet, sweet dynamic bonus. If nobody objects, of course.
You squeeze into the cockpit and wedge yourself into what could charitably be called the pilot's "Seat". You start looking over the controls you can see, getting aquainted with what you think everything does without turning the manual pilot systems on.
"I've got a vague Idea here, but until I turn it on there's a lot of things that I'm just guessing at."
"I'd give it a shot, but I'm short of an arm right now. Anyway, let's get all the dead people and almost dead people into stasis. You too Milno, you're looking like shit right now."
Load all the dead people into stasis and help Milno in when he cuts out his rockets.
You stick faith into a pod...well her body and then her head. You try to help milno in but he pushes you away. Or more correctly, he sort of jets into you since his arms aren't working any more.
"You too Milno, you're looking like shit right now."
"You always look like shit anyway, so I guess that's fine." Milno comments offhandedly "And I'm not getting into stasis until I'm sure shit isn't going to get worse."
Get into the shuttle.
You hover into the shuttle but don't get stasis'd yet.
(Just a heads up, you'll need to get out of the suit to get stasis'd. And you're gonna need some help for both of those things since that suit is the only thing keeping you standing.)
Get into the shuttle
"Anything I can help with?"
You're gonna have to attach yourself to the bottom as it lifts off. You're a bit too much of a giant robot to get in there.
"Well, I could technically pilot the thing, but I'm afraid I'd be flying by the seat of my pants there, if you know what I mean. And the seat of my pants can be notoriously misleading, as far as I know."
Inspect shuttle for anything suspicious such as sharkmist.
Well, the shuttle looks pretty good so far. No mist, no smashed bits, no crazed alien killers. Normal stuff.
Damn, that guy had gone crazy. I wonder how can others go crazy more easily than us? Maybe they give us some kind of shots in the HMRC? Or maybe it's because we're already infected with a different kind of madness. Anyway, I can't call for help, that may aggravate him. I can only hope that the others will hear what I'm saying and come and help me... Who am I kidding, I'm on my own.
Start slowly walking towards the man, remaining just out of reach of his monoatomic razor. Be ready to defend myself with shield and chisel. Non-lethally if possible. As I approach, say the following to distract and/or calm him and hopefully warn my teammates:
"I heard my past haunting me. I heard the screams of the dead, coming back to torment me. I heard the devil, whispering into my ear, driving me crazy. I heard the death of all life in the universe. I heard and heard the grinding, horrible white noise, drilling into my skull until I went deaf and I could hear no more. So if that's what they heard, if that's what you hear, then yes, I heard it too. But we don't need to hear this anymore. All we have to do is leave and we'll be free. Why don't you come with me and my comrades?" said Flint, slowly extending his hand, smiling through his open faceplate. "We'll help you. All will be fine again."
"No. No it won't."
The man drives the blade of the razor into his head and falls.
"you're spacing out" "hmm?" "spacing out, you are. They already flipped the shuttle" "Oh, right. It's just, so, beautiful, you know?" "It's a grey alien wasteland wasteland" "alright, beautiful might not be the right word, entrancing then" "just get moving, you freak"
Get inside the hrmc shuttle, inspect surroundings.
"Hey little spoon, how's it going. And how is the old man holding up, I haven't seen him in a while"
Surroundings include three dead men, lots of blood, a few teammates, a few stasis pods, small supply of food and provisions and a long range communications array.
Search for something in the ship for Gilgamesh to hold on to, then get out of the suit so that the battlesuit's arms are still holding onto the ship. Then, if the suit looks well secured enough, get inside that cockpit and begin startup sequence.
You can do that, but for that you're gonna need to literally pick the ship up and lift it over your head in the suit, otherwise it's gonna be flying asymmetrically weighted. And thats gonna be bad.
Also mesk is in the pilot section right now.
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