Well theres various laser and gauss rifles and such, though nothing really fitting of your standing. Other people might need them, though.
Gather any and all weapons and other potentially useful stuf from dead enemies and suits. Gather it in a big pile outside the hangar and make inventory of what there is, for handing out to boarding party or giving away later.
Also, some questions: can we send the surviving sods along with boarding party? Will those left behind have any job to do for Steve, or is the mission over for us? Can someone on the ground help out with piloting through verbally guiding a boarder (aka helping his AUX roll)?
(@ boarding party: I'm willing to loan out the shard launcher and thermite thrower to those who can use it. Also, since I'm not going along, someone else should try to keep track of who teams up with who, to make it easier on PW and avoid confusion. Cael, Sercon, would any of you be up for this? Both Jim and Milno are also one of Steve's generals after all.
Well lets see...
10 grenades
3 laser rifles
3 gauss rifles.
1 of those sniper rifles, though it probably won't be very useful.
And, you can send them along if you'd like.
I dunno, to be honest. There's limited things you can do...I suppose I could put people in control of ground based weapons so they could aim and use their own bonuses to it.
Yeah, you could talk someone through using a ship, if their aux sucks. If I'm a real dick I could force them to use speech to describe the situation and cockpit too. hehe.
In reality it might be best to save those for when the counter attack begins. Ie, once we have control of a few ships and are attacking the others. The ships won't really be able to keep up with the boarding pods and sending them up there ahead of them is rather suicidal.
Sure, let's go with that. Just have them ready to fly as soon as they're needed. Get the fusion missiles from the Party Wagon installed on the Southern Cross as additonal firepower.
Also see if it's possible to let me participate by proxy by taking remote command/"mission control" of a small sod squad, with my drones acting as scouts to them. If it's possible, have a team of 4 regular Sods armed with a mix of gauss and laser weapons, plus my last 2 mapping drones, board one of the pods as a separate team.
Consider them outfitted and ready to fly. I assume you're gonna fly them remotely? I'm starting to think I should have some sort of penalty for that if they're at long distances, slight delays in transmissions and all. Oh well.
As per commanding a squad of sods from the ground, I don't see why not.
Wake up
Check my head first. Any new scars, metal plates, or missing brain tissue?
Then check my body. Did they repair it or replace it?
Then check my equipment. Anything missing or broken?
Do you have any time to help an old teammate? Ingram hates me.
Your "enhancements" are basically just artificial organs to replace those that got blown apart and some skin and muscle tissue grafted over the holes. You're about 1/8th terminator. Second cousins.
Your equipment is fine.
Denzel grabs his Mk1, Combiweapon, Mono-Sword, MFM, and sends a message to the group.
"Hello all. Denzel here. I'm starting up a boarding crew here, and could use some people. Robots and people who know how to use conputers are preferred, though anyone is welcome to join."
Grabbed and messaged.
@everyone "semi competant fleshtech looking for suicide mission."
trade my gauss clip back in for a token. Get re-sale estimates on rocket pods, battlesuit sword and battlesuit shield.
Charge dynamic piloting bonus.
Hmm. Well, it's used but it's still pretty good gear so 6 for the pair and then 4 more for all the rockets.
Also, whats that piloting bonus for? You're not piloting the insertion pods. For multiple reasons really.
Cael, Sercon, would any of you be up for this? Both Jim and Milno are also one of Steve's generals after all.
(Nope, I'm not going on the boarding parties unless PW forces me and I'm horrible with organization anyway. Let someone who likes to be super accurate do it, like GWG. 
)
Jim is just going to hang out on the Sword.
You head back to the sword and just start watching the jiggle channel.
I think you can guess whats on that.
I'm good to go with you, Flint. Though be aware that I don't exactly have a consistent weapon. I'll go ask Steve what I can do to gain some remote access to the ship as soon as we get onboard. The faster I can get control of ship systems, the faster I'll be of real use.
Prep to go by asking Steve about ways to gain remote access to some ship systems, ask for any cables that would make this process easier.
Also ask if he has any maps of the defending ships
You get yourself some nice connector cables for basically any sort of connection you could imagine. Plus a few that you can't.
>I don't have any maps of them on hand, so to speak, but they're designed to be livable spaces. There's gonna be maps around the ship, or painted on signs like the sword. If All else fails, just access a terminal and pull one up.
Not a bad choice, considering what we're to be up against. I'm a veritable arsenal at the moment, so I don't mind you having it for this - I have other, nastier things to do crowd control with, if I need to, anyways.
Flint gets the generator-modded laser rifle.
Got it.
Thomas loots CON weapons from the piles. He takes a gauss rifle, and if he finds anything else of interest, anti-armor weapons, such as rocket launchers, he takes them onto the sword to stow in a locker, alongside the gauss rifle.
Conventional Specialist. If one of your groups wants another gun, I am available.
I dunno if Miya would be happy with you just raiding his pile of weapons and just stowing them away.
"Thanks, Bro. I just have one thing I would like blessed.
Have Lars bless my "number gun".
Anyone want me on their team? I can shooty and computey.
Lars raises his arms. "Excellent!"
Inscribe the Arrow of Ingram on the Number Gun.
"Brother Dubley, I would team with you again." ((Derp, you're on Team Simus, and Simus wouldn't want Lars.))
Brother Lars announces himself as also available for a boarding party.
[Lars: MkIII Suit, Gauss Rifle, +2 Con, Walking Nuke, Blessings of the Gods]
INSCRIBED! May he have mercy on their souls. And their rolls.
Via radio: You are one of the few people I can tolerate, Simus. I will go with you.
Join Simus' boarding party. When we're loaded onto the ship, morph my internal structure to be more crash-resistant (ie convert some fat reserves to shock absorption gel, make my bones more sturdy, check on the layers of protection encapsulating my brain, etc).
You're gonna confuse the hell out of the anti-G system's scanners. Might have to turn off the scanners on it or it's gonna start pumping in all sorts of things to "Fix" your fucked up biology.
I'll have to think about this...for now assume you're back as a normal robot person and we'll work out the shape shifting stuff later. I am leery of having more then one "The Thing" around, or potential the things. However, if you can think of some good limitations and downsides to it, then I'm a lot more likely to go with it. Powers must always have drawbacks. Because the universe is theatrical.
Limits I'll self-impose regardless:
Saint doesn't want anyone to know that he's unusual. He'll lie and say he got his body remade by the doctor. To uphold the illusion, he won't do anything obvious that risks discovery. So he won't regen wounds (unless he can cover it up using a medkit, and even then he'll leave some damage so he doesn't have to fake a limp or whatever), won't alter his appearance, and certainly won't grow organic scythes and start playing Prototype. He may do some internal remodeling, but nothing that would be visible from outside with a cursory inspection. He may stage his own death at some point, and impersonate someone else. Probably only if he gets discovered.
Of course, if he thinks he can do something without being detected, he might. For example, moving his brain to his torso. Or killing someone when completely isolated.
No external lifeforms, unless they're entirely controlled by electronics. Saint doesn't trust other brains, even if they're technically his.
Limits that wouldn't hurt me much because I probably wouldn't break anyways, but would force me to be more balanced:
Maybe say the Doctor decided to try creating a more 'stable' lifeform? So it takes a decent amount of time to make changes- I would be incapable of repairing large wounds fast enough to not die of bloodloss, but could still rearrange all my organs if I have an hour.
Say Saint's brain is incapable of controlling as much tissue as Xan is (Perhaps because of a damaged Amygdala?), so I can't increase my mass beyond 'normal human' size.
Things I'd dislike, but would certainly help balance:
Maybe Steve disliked Xan's ability to create standalone critters. So he told the Doctor not to make anything self-replicating. So any organic material which leaves my body automatically reverts to basic proteins. I wouldn't be able to restock my medikit with organic lookalikes, or launch effective projectiles. (I had an idea for assassination, if Saint could manage to get someone alone and far from cameras. He could turn his ribcage into what amounts to a directed frag grenade, and hug them. Or do it right before coitus, if he can seduce whoever.) It would also make remaining undetected harder- can't really explain why your arm melted after it got chopped off.
Have the Doctor force Saint to act as his agent for whatever he wants. Not sure how Saint would help him... Maybe keep track of his other creations? Try and convince other people to get experimented on by him? Semi-assimilate people he repairs on mission and commit experiments that the Doctor wants to try, but couldn't get volunteers for?
NOT giving me the robobody style brain texting thing that Xan got.
Make it impossible for my body to interact with electronics. This might already be in effect, but I was gonna try connecting Saint's nervous system to his wristpad.
Saint steps out of the infirmary in his shiny new robot body with a 
emoticon. He experiments with the body for a short while, before changing it to a 
emoticon.
I am a Fleshtech, specializing in Auxiliary systems. I currently have a robotic body and an emergency kit, although I have exactly zero real combat capability. I am willing to join a team, but I would require protection.
Charge an AUX bonus. Ask Steve if it would be a bad idea to join boarding without any weapons or armor.
Charging. Also, I'd have some sort of weapon, even if it's just a handgun. Something.
Scavenge rocket pods from the battlesuit Thaddeus killed and turn in the 'nades for tokens, if possible. Then get a MkII suit.
So, does anyone need an amp user with a laser rifle? Just keep computers away from me. That shit usually blows up on me
Wait...is that the one that Auron already scavenged?
"Engineer heading out to scavenge, if there are any items like battlesuits, exo armour or mk 2-3 in decent condition (not cut in half) then before mutilating it terribly please allow me to assess them"
now its over time for the engineering duties
Stop hiding drinking and begin scavenging UWM stuff, if I find a battle suit , exo armour or mk 2-3 in repairable condition then begin field repairs, focusing on getting movement working before anything complex like weapons once repaired walk it back to the command centre and repeat
Lifelock. Ain't getting anything from their sods. Just ours. And Miya already scavenged them.
Go ahead and join up with a team that needs me. Make sure to grab a few grenades, both flash bangs and fragmentation.
Not sure who you're gonna be helping, but you're gonna have grenades when you do it.
Grab my replacement gear, check out new body, and join the first boarding team I see.
Standard robot body. And your old gear.
Ok, if no one has left yet (I haven't read the thread in like five days) I want to be shot out of a gauss cannon as well!
Marcius wants to go too! Just put me in a pod with some extra room. Also, he looks some dead sods for the gauss special rounds.
What kind? There's probably not much, to be honest but there might be some.
Alright, If you guys wouldn't mind putting some sort of team name or number in your post so I can keep track of your player made teams and know when everyone is ready to go.
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