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[Pancaek]

Pancaek shrugs

"I am at your command, I suppose."

Help thomas with haulin' corpses

[Zako]

"I can practice flying shuttles in the VR if you don't feel comfortable about my current level of skills. I wouldn't mind the practice personally." Bishop replied as he headed back to the ship.

Head back to the ship with Simus. If she gets a shuttle, have a look over the controls and familiarize myself with them with Steve's help. Otherwise, head to the VR and practice shuttle flying, landing and taking off until I got it down right.

[Parisbre56]

Do that thing with the salvage that Anton told me to do.

[GreatWyrmGold]

((Didnt grate catch his beetles in a salvage yard/pit thing?

((Five bucks says they didn't make it.
And it was more outside the settlement.))

((It was, if my spatial coordination through text is correct, somewhere under the Sword's cage. Grate basically took the elevator down from the Sword's cradle and loitered around there. So barring massive structural collapses, they should be safer than we are.))

((Don't we usually suffer multiple deaths per mission, and often deaths between missions?))

Otherwise, head to the VR and practice shuttle flying, landing and taking off until I got it down right.

((Isn't the power still off?))

[Zako]

((I don't know... I will have to find out I guess. Hopefully not...))

[Radio Controlled]

While questioning Steve, Miya opened a private link to Simus to involve her with the planning:

"Say, Simus, if you have a moment, I'd like to know what your plans are in terms of what we'll be building this year to prepare us for the upcoming battle. The better I know what we have to work with, the better we can plan after all. How do you feel about using sods? Or would you prefer full robots using the data we obtained in mission 7? Would you consider drones for stuff like reconnaissance or remote striking? Steve gave me an idea of our production capability, and it's rather staggering. We should consider carefully how we can best use all that potential.

Regarding the sods: I think we should at least consider using them, though maybe not as a main force. After all, all the infrastructure and engineering work has already been done, whereas if we used something else we'd need to research efficient construction methods first, something that would take valuable time. And for easy assignments like defending the Sword or bolstering our squads i think they could prove quite valuable."

[Toaster]

Or the diplomats, if you want to protect what populace remains from Lars.

((D'awww.))



((You could always put a tasteful memorial in the middle of the forest you're planting on top of it.  Nice for the people who might remember this, then lost in the woods for the rest of time.))

[GreatWyrmGold]

((You could always put a tasteful memorial in the middle of the forest you're planting on top of it.  Nice for the people who might remember this, then lost in the woods for the rest of time.))

((A memorial would be nice. Although it should probably focus on the part of the battle before Grate started, you know, doing stuff.))

[piecewise]

All right, we're pretty much done here. Steve, can I borrow a shuttle to find a better location for headquarters here, away from the anomalies?

Anton, I want you, Flint, and anyone else you'd like to help you to salvage ships, parts, whatever, if it's of value, I want you to try and get it out of that hole, and into a cargo bay or hanger if Steve has one we can use for it, otherwise, there's plenty of land. Put it where you won't need a rad suit to get to it. Ask Steve if you need any very-heavy lifting assistance.

Bishop, you're coming with me. I need someone who's a better pilot than I am if we get a shuttle. Just try not to nosedive while we're in it.

The rest of you are free to go unless Anton wants you. Head back to the Sword or join up with the anomaly team or flesh amp overload explorers. Or the diplomats, if you want to protect what populace remains from Lars.

Head back to the ship and get a shuttle if Steve'll let me.

You wanna fly it yourself or get steve to fly it? He normally flies the shuttles, after all.

((Didnt grate catch his beetles in a salvage yard/pit thing?

((Five bucks says they didn't make it.
And it was more outside the settlement.))

((It was, if my spatial coordination through text is correct, somewhere under the Sword's cage. Grate basically took the elevator down from the Sword's cradle and loitered around there. So barring massive structural collapses, they should be safer than we are.))

((Didnt grate catch his beetles in a salvage yard/pit thing?

Although if we are manually dismantling a ship i dint wanna miss that.))

((Indeed. ^_^))

Anton, I want you, Flint, and anyone else you'd like to help you to salvage ships, parts, whatever, if it's of value, I want you to try and get it out of that hole, and into a cargo bay or hanger if Steve has one we can use for it, otherwise, there's plenty of land. Put it where you won't need a rad suit to get to it. Ask Steve if you need any very-heavy lifting assistance.

Anton looks up, saluting in the general direction he thinks Simus is.
"Aye, XO. This here seems like a tidy bit of work."

He turns to look towards the rest of the team.
"Ну-с, граждане..." - he chuckles, recalling a quote from an ancient comedy movie, that got repeated all too often at his old workplace. His old boss was odd. "Citizens, alcoholics, freeloaders, hooligans... Who wants to do some work today? Heh."

"Okay, so with Simus leaving cleanup to me and us, here's what we do. Firstly, I'll try to secure us a salvage yard. There's a lot of stuff in there, and we don't want to be hauling radioactive hulks too far across a populated area, so we might need to artificially clear an area somewhere nearby.

Pancaek, if you don't mind helping us for a while longer, and you.. er, Thomas? Thomas. There's little work for light-loaders but the gruesome one. I, and maybe the other civvies would appreciate it if we hauled all the dead bodies that can still be recognized as such out of that crater, so we can pay proper respects later. Would be wrong to leave them there. I'll join you once I'm done with the setting-up.

Flint, and Auron, you're on primary salvage duty. I'll try to get you some help, and some heavy lifting, but for now your task is simple. Take my salvage chart, and prepare everything for being taken out. Ships marked for salvage are to be freed of debris and hauled out into an open area of the level, if you can, without further damage. Ships marked for parts are to be cut loose via any available means, tear them to pieces if need be, and I would prefer to see at least most of those pieces in the salvage yard first. We'll sort out the usable and valuable pieces once we're done decontaminating everything. If only for the safety of the unshielded people you might be walking past, hold off on the looting till then."

The orders dispensed, Anton addresses Steve. "Hello Steve. I don't know if you still have the ability to see everything we're doing with the Sword damaged, so here's my salvage chart from the shipyard. We've got a lot of stuff to haul out of there, and most of it is heavy and radioactive. We need basically three things - a large area to store four dozen ships in various stages of pulverized, some way to decontaminate said large area, and some help getting said ships out of the pit.

For the first, I assume we'll need a large-ish open plain of some sort. Wouldn't do to stockpile these things here, but I don't know if it's smart to haul them too far from the Sword either. Any pointers?

For the second, I'm assuming it's too much to hope for an easy solution. I guess if we had an easy solution we could just clear the pit itself, but as it is I think the best we'll be able to do is collapse the freestanding ruins in, pave it over with supercrete, lead plating and topsoil, plant a forest on top, and never speak of it again.

For the third, I'd assume we'll need to commandeer an intact ship or two to act as skycranes. Gilgamesh and Auron's exosuit won't be enough to haul whole ships up. Maybe you could direct Miyamoto or Jim to us, if they don't have more important tasks?

And finally, I don't suppose we have any procedures for dead civilians in place? There were a number of them in the pit, and I'm planning on hauling them out before we cover the whole thing up. Since we're keeping our face to the people, or maybe acting like we do, I don't know - we should probably face the consequences of mistakes like this one as well."

Dispense orders and movie quotes almost nobody will recognize. Send copy of salvage chart to Flint, Auron, and Steve. Converse with and request assistance from Steve. Once that is done, if no actions regarding the salvage yard, skycranes et al are necessary, start with moving the bodies to the top level of the pit.

((tl;dr orders for the team: Pancaek and Thomas help Anton move the dead civilians out of the pit. Flint and Auron prepare the more intact ships for hauling, and take the less intact ships apart for hauling.))

AH progress! Ideas! Building! Good GOOD!

Spoiler: long overdue map (click to show/hide)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/77zntwpwu9kpfks/map%20of%20Heph.png

>There's plenty of open space around the other side of the building, over here near the sword and the support cages.

>Yeah, the plan is just to cover that over, seal the tunnels that run through it and work around, basically. We're gonna dump some molten lead in there and then seal it all with concrete; should be good enough, but we'll need to monitor the radiation levels in tunnels near by, just to make sure we aren't giving any workers dangerous doses. If you wanna put trees there, thats fine too. Build a park with a nice statue of Teal kicking the nuke and a caption reading "It seemed like a good idea at the time."

>Mesk and Skylar can both pilot shuttles, I believe, so I can loan you two ships and the rigging lines needed.

>Considering they're jam packed with radioactive debris and fallout, we'll use the standard protocol. Get someone to head back to the ship. I'll supply them with lead lined blankets. Wrap up the bodies and lay them off on the side. We'll get a suitably shielded tomb built for them soon. Plus a memorial for everyone else who got killed in this invasion.

"Alright."
Corpse hauling duty. Like he said, neccesary. If not pleasant.
Thomas goes to haul up some bodies. If there's a shovel, spade, or anything that could be jury-rigged into one, take it and put it next to the pile.

You go get some extremely heavy blankets from the sword, on Anton's orders, And start the grim task of repeatedly descending into the pit, scooping up whats left of the charred, broken bodies or parts of bodies, and bringing them back up before wrapping them in the lead blankets. You get as many as you can, but your radiation shielding isn't good enough to get all the way down to the bottom. And you're already starting to feel a bit ill.

Pancaek shrugs

"I am at your command, I suppose."

Help thomas with haulin' corpses

You help Thomas haul remains and carefully arrange them out in neat rows, separating them as best you can, when there are only pieces left.

"I can practice flying shuttles in the VR if you don't feel comfortable about my current level of skills. I wouldn't mind the practice personally." Bishop replied as he headed back to the ship.

Head back to the ship with Simus. If she gets a shuttle, have a look over the controls and familiarize myself with them with Steve's help. Otherwise, head to the VR and practice shuttle flying, landing and taking off until I got it down right.

Steve can just fly that, you know. I suppose he could also fly the salvage shuttles too. You just need to tell him where to go.

Do that thing with the salvage that Anton told me to do.

Even the battle suit isn't strong enough to haul a whole ship up a vertical incline several times in a row. So you grab some stuff you can carry, mostly just chunks of salvage, and bring them up to the area near the pit, for later transport.

[PyroDesu]

Private channel to Miyamoto:
Steve put you in charge of organizing the defense, Miyamoto? Good choice. I'll answer your specifics first and pose ideas after.

Sods as they are, not so much, I would prefer them upgraded, if you will, to cybernetic suits with Sod brains, and future production tailored to that, as well as tweaking a few variables in regards to their mental capacity in future production. We should have quite a few of our standard cybersuits on-hand already, and more can certainly be manufactured easily. This will give a boost to their endurance on the field in comparison to a regular sod, and will let them ignore most environmental hazards, including any fielded by the UWM and ourselves, chemical, some kinds of nuclear, or biological. Another option would be gene tweaking, like we have available on the Sword, but I find that to be a messier option compared to cybernetics.

Full robots would be even better than cybersods, but will take a lot of time to set up, and that's if the boys in the lab have finished sifting your data and can extract useful information. And if we can't get AI out of it, then the robots will need to be teleoperated, in which case, we would go for fewer, larger ones and they couldn't replace the sods or variants thereof. However, improvements to anything we currently have using that data will certainly be put into place as quickly as possible.

Drones are a certainty. Both scouting and attacking, though more toward scouting, since we have better options in terms of both surgical strikes and carpet bombing, if it comes to that, but I'm sure they'll have a use in that capacity as well, however limited.

In terms of ideas about defense, I have a few ideas, though I would like to know what you've got already.

Okay, Steve flies the shuttle. Bishop is released from duty unless Auron wants him. First job of my flight is to find where the anomalies end.

[Zako]

Go ahead and learn how to fly a shuttle anyway. It's best to know and not need to do it, then not know when I need to. After I'm done training, begin coming up with a design for the repair of the walkway to the sword.

[Spinal_Taper]

Thomas took a seat outside the pits. He wasn't a genius, but he was smart enough to know that radiation was bad.
"Radiation is getting to me. May I go to the ship?"
Await permission.

[Sean Mirrsen]

"Sounds like a plan, Steve. Give Mesk and Skylar the ships, and send them over once they're free to help out. Sooner the better, there's enough scrap and salvage here to build us a few Daggers to go with the Sword."

"Keep it up, people. Don't try dragging whole ships around, only haul the bits and pieces from the more damaged ones. Just free the intact ones from debris so we don't have to airlift extra rocks and girders. Keep to the salvage chart."

Thomas took a seat outside the pits. He wasn't a genius, but he was smart enough to know that radiation was bad.
"Radiation is getting to me. May I go to the ship?"
Await permission.

"Permission granted. No sense getting yourself in danger, especially when radiation's involved. Just leave any blankets you have left over there so we can keep working."

Accept the offer of skycranes, mark the location of the future scrap yard on me datapad, send Thomas back to the ship, and get back into the crater. If there are any bodies left to haul up, get to hauling. If not, go and pick the most intact-looking ship for the first airlift out of the crater.

[Kriellya]

Nosy Eavesdropping Fleshtech: Was that a call for pilots I heard? If I can get someone who's better at physical repairs sent over to the armor replacement job, I can get a shuttle in the air for you soon. You may want to send two, so that we can get the monkey outside away from the blowtorch. Though he's not doing that badly, I think he's only dropped the blowtorch twice thus far.

Chat at the salvage team while staring at a damaged armor plate

[Unholy_Pariah]

head over to anton, help if necessary.