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[RAM]

Scavenge enemy equipment, retrieve stuff, follow humans, familiarise self with human customs.

[Angle]

Scavenge enemy equipment, retrieve stuff, follow humans, familiarise self with human customs.

[Flying Dice]

You grab a box of grenades and a few ammunition containers from the back of a truck, retrieve your pack from the firing position, and set out after the departing humans. You match their pace, watching them curiously for hints at typical human behavior. You are walking east-northeast. The humans converse very little and occasionally glance to the west. They appear to be concentrating on covering as much ground as possible.

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You are nearly to the edge of the forest marked on the northeast corner of the map you were shown when you hear a noise rapidly approaching from the west. You turn and see a faint glimmer of light in the sky. You switch to IR vision; it appears to be a gunship. It is a rough ovoid, bent in the middle at a 25 degree downward angle. A pair of turbine shafts cut through the craft at the bend, and a stabilizing tail projects from the rear. It appears to have some sort of thermal or low-light vision, as it banks towards the humans you are following. The humans have begun running towards the forest as quickly as they can.

It will take approximately 35 seconds for the humans to make it to the forest, where they will have sufficient overhead cover to escape. The gunship will reach your position in about 7 seconds.

What do you do?

Current loaded railgun ammunition: 13 rounds
Current charge in laser capacitor: 20 seconds of firing (full charge)

[Angle]

Fire railgun.

[bombzero]

Fire railgun.

at engines/turbines if manageable.

[RAM]

Fire railgun.

at engines/turbines if manageable.

Fire laser at probably locations of "some sort of thermal or low-light vision".

[Flying Dice]

You stop, drop the boxes you are carrying, and open fire with your railgun, attempting to get a shot into a turbine. Your first shot glances off the top of the gunship. The second impacts the inside upper lip of the right turbine opening, but does no perceptible damage. Your third shot strikes the forward half of the gunship, but does no apparent damage. You cannot identify something as small as a sensor input (camera) using IR vision. You estimate that the gunship is too heavily armored for your shots to fully penetrate, and a shot into the turbines would require you to be nearly directly above or below the craft.

10 railgun rounds loaded, full charge on your laser (as well as your rocket boots). The crates you dropped contain ammunition, Zartrali fragmentation grenades, and a number of spare parts which would serve no conceivable purpose in this situation. The gunship ripple-fires a rocket pod, launching a volley of 8 unguided rockets. ETA for first rocket on your position is 3.4 seconds. The gunship will reach your position in approximately 5.7 seconds. The humans will need about 33.7 seconds to reach the forest.

What do you do?

[ComradeGafarov]

Use ROCKET BOOTS to evade enemy rockets.
Attack gunship with CONCENTRATED LASER FIRE.

[Aklyon]

Fire railgun at first rocket, evade.

[Doomblade187]

Rocket boots. Use the rocket boots to get the missiles moving in the general direction of the ship. Only take another shot if you have a clear shot at the turbines. Our best bet is to turn the missiles back at them by using the boots, so focus on that.

[Angle]

They're unguided rockets, so it probably won't work. just use rocket boots to fly around and shoot down any rockets headed toward humans, and if we get a clear shot at a turbine, take it.

[Flying Dice]

You activate your rocket boots, launching yourself up and over the rockets, which strike and detonate on empty ground. You are roughly level with the gunship and are unable to evade, so you turn your feet towards it in an attempt to equalize speed. You collide with the gunship, bruising much of what is left of your biolayer, but manage to get a grip on it. You pull yourself into a crouch on the forward half of the gunship, which slows and banks into a turn; apparently the pilot thinks that you went past it. The humans need 29.8 seconds more to reach the forest.

What do you do?

[ComradeGafarov]

Try to tow the ship through haggard corn, which probably will annihilate it.

Failing that, use the laser to melt the pilot's face and chest off.

[bombzero]

wtf Comrade, thats getting so old its becoming funny again.

anyways, sustained point blank laser to the cabin, or a railgun shot to the turbines and leaping off.

failing to kill the gunship, keep it occupied until the survivors hit the trees, that's whats important atm, not killing the gunship, the zartrali will have more of those.

[mcclay]

Find entrance/make entrance to the ship.
Kill all Zarts expect for onr.
Tie him to the ship by a rope.
Drag him over the ground until you reach a cornfield.
Be the facepeeling fairy.
Return to humans

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