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[scapheap]

>Wait

[TopHat]

>Just steal some useful-looking stuff

[RAM]

Retrieve cat from bag.

You suspect that a ship may be involved...

>Wait

While waiting, a few patrollers wander by. With their patrol orders completed, and you clearly waiting in a very officious capacity, they join your unit. They are followed soon-after by a small character with a probe, which promptly probes you, then continues on its way. A while later someone comes by with a single unit of energy-resistant armour, which they affix to your personal person. Ooooh, pretty cloud! Hey, dudes, we're almost there already.

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: ground weapon storage.
Activity: eyeing a odd-looking entity.
Notes:
 13
  11 basic ranged-weapons
  2 high rate-of-fire ranged-weapons
  OOM=energy-resistant
  temporarily rogue
Classification:OOM+b1

>Eat spicy food then spend the day riding in cramped elevators.

Super-effective!

Escorts: 2 infantry(berserk- shooting at you), 4 cannon fodder(1experimenting- shooting at the wall, 2passive- probably comatose, 1looking- right behind you).

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: Corridors
Activity: preaching again
Notes:
 Very Filthy, with all sorts of people parts.
 Rogue
 Etiquette-leak induced madness.
 pitiful cult leader.
 Weak clumsy.
Classification:3po(assassin)

>Just steal some useful-looking stuff

Rope-and-anchor, variable energy-dispenser, and unique power-level scanner acquired.

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: corridor.
Activity: Exploring.
Notes:
 Rope-and-anchor
 Variable energy-dispenser
 Unique power-level scanner
 Conductive probe.
 Nasty scar on torso.
 rogue.
 Wonky: the lame gun.
 meagre cracker.
 Remote activator for ship's long-distance transit mode.
Classification:r2

Airlocks: Suffer malfunction, crack open a bit.

Explosive Decompression: Recompression Implosively.

Clouds of bizarre material seep into the ship.

Go to the bridge, then joust with the captain.

You really ought to report to the captain for further orders. On the way you travel through some irrelevant clouds of many-coloured immaterial. You then ride to to the bridge, shoot the, umm, door-knob, three times with one hand to see a pair of guards stand in front of the captain as the door opens. You accelerate and skewer all-three of them with a single lunge and then swing around at the last moment, leaving your three victims to shatter to individual limbs against the window. You catch the captain's head mid-flight and toss it to one of the bridge crew, who faints with a "roger".

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: Hangar
Activity: exploding.
Notes:
 heat-lance
 hover-bike
 2 bombs
 heavy high-rate-of-fire ranged-weapon.
 weight-impaired agility
 temporarily rogue
Classification:ig-86

The king is dead! Long live the <unassigned variable>!
 There is this strange sense that the ship has almost arrived, but something feels off...
 The census results briefly flicker across a display, but nobody was there to see it, how sad...

Spoiler: Possessions (click to show/hide)

Sand-resistant landing craft.
Illibriant(Guess it's class, win a 4):
  Weird clouds from out-of-space.
  Out-of-control.
  Terribly cooked insects.
  Captain who isn't rogue!!!
  2 activated generators.
  1 damaged fuel line.
  Slightly damaged fuel storage.
  potential minor malfunctions.
  2 day's fuel at maximum usage.

[Xanmyral]

Cloud: Be cloud of nanites, house confusing yet harmless virus.

[scapheap]

toss cloud out the airlock.

[TopHat]

>improve Wonkey the gun

[Remuthra]

Activate manual bridge controls, then drive the ship manually. Get a reading on our location.
"There's a new captain in town, ahahahah! Prepare for deceleration!"

[RAM]

Railroad

You think that you can work with this.

toss cloud out the airlock.

Lacking any way to gain purchase on the smiling cloud, you traverse to the bridge to effect atmospheric changes to propel your friend from the ship.

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: Bridge
Activity: Observing
Notes:
 13
  11 basic ranged-weapons
  2 high rate-of-fire ranged-weapons
  OOM=energy-resistant
Classification:OOM+b1

Abandon all-

Soooooo, tiiiiiired...

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: Corridors, just outside of bridge
Activity: Observing
Notes:
 Very Filthy, with all sorts of people parts.
 Rogue
 Etiquette-leak induced madness.
 pitiful cult leader.
 1 groupie: cannon fodder
 Weak clumsy.
Classification:3po(assassin)

>improve Wonkey the gun

You can probably access the schematics you need from the bridge. After some work it is well-concealed.

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: Bridge.
Activity: Exploring.
Notes:
 Rope-and-anchor
 Variable energy-dispenser
 Unique power-level scanner
 Conductive probe.
 Nasty scar on torso.
 rogue.
 Wonky: the lame but well-concealed gun.
 meagre cracker.
 Remote activator for ship's long-distance transit mode.
Classification:r2

Cloud: Be cloud of nanites, house confusing yet harmless virus.

Well obviously the clouds are warp-substance, but that doesn't stop a swarm of pig-pong-ball-sized mini-assassins from hiding outside the bridge. They are obviously just as loyal as the rest of the crew and wouldn't think of causing harm and probably rely upon poison anyway...
Or they would have had the plot actually rolled what the G.M. first thought it did.
^{But that isn't the cute little assassins' fault...}
A swarm of pig-pong-ball-sized mini-assassins hide outside the bridge. They are obviously just as loyal as the rest of the crew and wouldn't think of causing harm and probably rely upon poison anyway...

Activate manual bridge controls, then drive the ship manually. Get a reading on our location.
"There's a new captain in town, ahahahah! Prepare for deceleration!"

You realise that a ship this size wouldn't have manual controls on the bridge, but you give the orders and somewhere out there they are followed. Odd, it seems that the captain and their guard were not on your list of permitted targets...

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: Bridge
Activity: Commanding.
Notes:
 heat-lance
 hover-bike
 2 bombs
 heavy high-rate-of-fire ranged-weapon.
 weight-impaired agility
Classification:ig-86

The window-protectors open as the surroundings visibly screech to a halt. In unison, the strange clouds are sucked into nothing, as the air is pulled into the space they occupied. Also, the air is drawn from the ship through the same breaches that allowed the clouds to enter. This isn't really a problem for anyone, but repairs continue for the sake of propriety. A quick review of the position indicates that you are some distance away from the capital, well outside of the range of known observation equipment. There is little information that can be derived from this distance, but everything seems to conform to predictions.
 Standing orders send a single anti-ship unit out to get a closer look. It reports a dozen capital ships, all with the familiar pyramidal design of enemy ships, but of unidentified class. Ten of the capital ships are slightly larger than your own and far more compact, while the other two are of approximately twice the length of your own ship, but otherwise similar to their companions. There are numerous facilities surrounding the capital, many obviously defensive in nature. There appears to be a steady stream of civilian traffic to the capital and the scout manages to relay updated regional navigation information back to you before perishing as it hits a powerful barrier that surrounds the capital.
 Other standing orders have had much of the military forces prepare for deployment while repairs continue on the ship.

Spoiler: Possessions (click to show/hide)

Sand-resistant landing craft.
Illibriant(Guess it's class, win a 4):
Location: Long way from capital.
Activity: Waiting.
  Numerous hull-breaches(somewhat patched)
  mini-assassins at bridge entrance.
  Terribly cooked insects.
  2 activated generators.
  1 damaged fuel line.
  potential minor malfunctions.
  1.5 day's fuel at maximum usage.

[scapheap]

Close the airlock

[Xanmyral]

Enemy Ships: Have no idea about the ship due to the war being over many years ago.

[TopHat]

Head to bridge. Find/'borrow' schematics. Improve Wonky.

[Remuthra]

Hotwire ship to Steel Battalion Controller

[RAM]

Force motivation

Close the airlock

They are all closed already. The air is a little thin, but nobody seems to care...

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: Bridge
Activity: Observing
Notes:
 13
  11 basic ranged-weapons
  2 high rate-of-fire ranged-weapons
  OOM=energy-resistant
Classification:OOM+b1

Hope ye!

Somewhere, over the rainbow...

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: Corridors, just outside of bridge
Activity: Observing
Notes:
 Very Filthy, with all sorts of people parts.
 Rogue
 Etiquette-leak induced madness.
 pitiful cult leader.
 1 groupie: cannon fodder
 Weak clumsy.
Classification:3po(assassin)

Head to bridge. Find/'borrow' schematics. Improve Wonky.

There are no apparent schematics that match your situation. The integrated systems seem a bit too involved, but you manage to rig a small collapsible tripod with which to aim it.

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: Bridge.
Activity: Tinkering.
Notes:
 Rope-and-anchor
 Variable energy-dispenser
 Unique power-level scanner
 Conductive probe.
 Nasty scar on torso.
 rogue.
 Wonky: the lame but well-concealed and basically accurate gun.
 meagre cracker.
 meagre tinker.
 Remote activator for ship's long-distance transit mode.
Classification:r2

Enemy Ships: Have no idea about the ship due to the war being over many years ago.

"Admiral. We detected an object impact against the capital's barrier. It did not match any known rebel signatures."
"Check its signature against civilian models. Trace its trajectory, I want to know where it came from. I want a report from barrier maintenance. And send a patrol to the site."
"Yes sir."
"Did we detect any unusual emissions from the impact?"
"None reported sir."
"Not even the rebels would be fool enough to attack us here..."

Hotwire ship to Steel Battalion Controller

The ship is large and requires a significant crew to operate. Although you find that, while most of the crew are operating with some independence, orders from the bridge seem to be addressed eventually. You determinedly place yourself in the captain's position and swivel your head around to deter any challengers.

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Location: Bridge
Activity: Commanding.
Notes:
 heat-lance
 hover-bike
 2 bombs
 heavy high-rate-of-fire ranged-weapon.
 weight-impaired agility
Classification:ig-86

With a dull fortune plaguing the your actions, little is achieved. From this distance it is impossible to tell how the opposing forces may be reacting to your initial probe. The updated charts fail to provide any information regarding your allies, although several locations within range would likely provide fuel if you could disguise your affiliation. Most civilian vessels would not require significant fuel reserves...

Spoiler: Possessions (click to show/hide)

Sand-resistant landing craft.
Illibriant(Guess it's class, win a 4):
Location: Long way from capital.
Activity: Waiting.
  Numerous hull-breaches(mostly patched)
  mini-assassins at bridge entrance.
  Terribly cooked insects.
  2 activated generators.
  1 largely repaired fuel line.
  potential minor malfunctions.
  1.5 day's fuel at maximum usage.

[Xanmyral]

Wait, we're the rebels? Aww...

Ship: Be signatureless, confound those who try to find.

Those who try to figure out the signature: Lie, so as to not look incompetent.

[scapheap]

Find a chess board (I got a plan)