TEAM ADTeam A - Ship Alpha || Skylar - Support
If suits are insulated enough sound wise that I can do this without the sound escaping, ask Steve to look at the recording's from my suit and tell Flint (or me so I can tell Flint) what the name & ID number on that card was
If Steve can't find it on tape, try and remember it myself and feed it to Flint if he can't remember it 
If my suit isn't that insulated for sound, continue plan 'wait for feces to introduce itself into the ventilation system.'
Team A D - Ship Alpha | Flint Westwood - Disguised Soldier
((Hey, that's actually a very good excuse. Good thinking and good thing I got a 4.
Also, loving the suspense.))
Tell the Sod the name I read on the ID (I assume I at least remember that). Also tell the ID number if I remember it.
If I don't remember it and Skylar doesn't tell me on his own, then try the following (while saying wait a sec it's on the tip of my tongue or something similar):
If I can tongue or press a switch on my suit without being seen (disguise it as a nervous involuntary motion, perhaps) to magnify the camera of the suit to read the number of the reflection in the sod's helmet, then do that.
Remember when I gave Steve and Skylar this suit's ID and stuff so that he can connect to it? If that allowed him to access this suit's camera and I can tongue the switch without being seen from the sods, contact him and ask him.
Else, if I can tongue a switch without being seen, ask Skylar for help or for him to review my (or better yet his, since he has a MK3 connected to Steve and I was wearing my MK2 when I found their IDs) camera footage or for him to connect to my suit and magnify until he can read the number off the sod's helmet's reflection. Or maybe ask him to hack into the sod's camera or something.
Else, just try another speech roll.
If I'm successful, add a comment along the lines of "Are we done here? We're kinda in a hurry." in the hopes that they'll let us go through. more quickly.
Team D, "Dead Dirtbags in a box" - Thaddeus - Disguised Grunt - Ship Alpha
Just sit there and stay quiet, charging an exo bonus
If the sod isn't paying attention to Thaddeus, quickly look and study the ID card that he received
If shit happens, target sod farthest away with amp, heat one foot sphere by 150 degrees Celsius centered on their head, then second farthest, then third and finally the closest, hoping the rest of the teammates take out the closest ones before Thaddeus has to
Ooo clever girl. Kri just saved you a potential Int roll.
Steve uses the footage from Skylar's helmet cam and to get the info and feeds it to Flint, who regurgitates it to the Sod. The Sod listens and then, a moment later hands the card back. He steps over toward Thad and holds out his hand, waiting to be handed his ID.
"What in box?"
TEAM BTeam B - The Anti-Derm
In fairness, you all knew my track record. Now then, those bodies aren't doing the UWM any good.
Go eat what's left of the crew's bodies.
"Hold on, let me thaw out so I can fire you out a goddamn airlock. And don't even THINK of thawing us with your amp, or I swear to god I'm taking you with me."
Fondly imagine throwing Xan out an airlock, and focus on smashing a section of the ice with my amp. Don't actually attempt it, just charge a bonus.
((Greaaaat. The UWM will just love some ARMcicles. Did all the hard work for them.))
DON'T FORGET TEAM NAME. IT'S WHAT I SEARCH FOR POSTS USING. IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, I WILL MOST LIKELY MISS YOU OR ACCIDENTALLY STICK YOU IN THE WRONG TEAM.
Morul focuses on an attempt to free himself from the ice (Which isn't just a coating of ice externally, xan basically put a latice of very dense ice throughout both simus and Morul's robot bodies. In all the little spaces between the muscle fibers, or inside them in some cases.
Xan, in the meantime, continues being xan.
TEAM CAuron, team C.
Rest behind my shield, try to recover enough to begin shooting.
Angel: team C
Man Down!, Man Down!
If I can get to Jhospeh without exposing myself do so and attempt to provide field first aid, otherwise keep firing to bring down the remaining sods
Denzel Gaunt- Team C, Audax
"Don't let up- we don't want them getting close."
Open fire with my laser, prioritizing staying alive over hitting sods. Should they close to melee range, bring out the monoatomic sword and accompanying dynamic uncon bonus. Should another teammate go down, though, use my MFM on the sods.
[Angel con:4+1]
[Doom Con:6]
Angel and Denzel both open fire, Angel going for precise, deadly shots while Denzel sprays fire and screams incoherently. Their combined fire manages to kill 3 more sods and force the remaining 3 to take cover in the alcoves. From their hiding spot, one of the sods hurls a grenade down the hall towards the team.
TEAM ETeam E - Lerman
Continue down the hall. Look for traps/enemies/consoles. Hack any consoles in sight. Work out why the room is completely empty.
Team E
Keep going for the bridge. Check if the door is hackable, or if there's somewhere that Steve can plug in. Otherwise, get ready to slice the door and stay in cover once the cutter does it's thing. Get ready to throw a grenade if there's anyone on the other side.
Both Bishop and Lerman stop at the threshold of the hall. There is something wrong here. The walls look different then what they were everywhere else. Like they were made of metal plates or tiles rather then a solid metal corridor.
TEAM FShip Beta: Team F: Grate
If Lars doesn't respond, investigate the thingy. Carefully. If it kills me, run back to the elevator.
Team F
Be ready to fire on the...things if it's hostile.
Brother Lars: Team F Chaplain
"Very well. Sister Dominika, can you handle it?"
Use the power of the gods to convince the absent Dominika to melt the thing in the hall way. If Shit Gets Real, then start shooting it with the shard launcher.
((How about this, then?))
Lars Grabs Dominika and shakes her until acts.
[exo:6+1]
Great.
Well, luckily you're not as close and this isn't as enclosed. The thing melts, along with most of the hall, and the sheer heat blast from the white hot ball of light that manifests within the strange object is enough to hurl the entire team back against the wall of the elevator and half melt the elevator doors and hallway metal, spraying them in molten steel. When it's over, the doorway out of the elevator is mostly sealed by bowing walls and slag, and half the team is entombed in cooling metal.
TEAM G((@PW: Ok, I agree with your idea. Please fast-forward.))
TEAM G
Enter BT, try to go for the control room, avoiding traps and get ready for the fighting.
((@PW that sounds good))
TEAM G
onwards with laser held at the ready
Alright so lets see here. Blah blah blah, Alright.
You are presented with a big steel blast door. It's got several automated turrets near it and a control pad next to it. For the purposes of this not instantly becoming a blood bath, we'll say you guys are peaking at it from around a corner. There's a good distance from here to the door, and the hall is pretty narrow. Clearly designed as a kill zone for those turrets.
TEAM HTeam H, Starfleet Command - Anton Chernozorov
Repeating last turn's actions:
Team H, Starfleet Command - Anton Chernozorov
"Hmm. Well, a sudden rise in energy signature is something to look out for then, but can we differentiate between a charging laser and a charging mass driver? Or whatever you call a gauss cannon large enough to shoot planets with. Basically, I'm considering ordering our little fleet to a higher altitude, maybe even a low orbit. If they're charging a laser, about the only ways we could prevent it are the surface-to-orbit cannon and the Black Death, and the latter needs some time to get into position. But then, if they're charging a weapon we can otherwise intercept, it'd be stupid to lose that ship on a suicide run against a battleship for basically no benefit.
Also, a sudden drop in energy signature would be a weapon discharging, then, right? Because that happened a while ago on one of the ships, but I... don't think we've had any impacts around here. Their gunners can't be such bad shots as to miss a planet, can they?"
Converse with Steve. Keep monitoring the situation. Watch for any changes in ship energy signatures, as well as any odd movements.
>Check heat signatures. Gauss coils have to be actively cooled, so they should not be giving off heat except during and shortly after firing. Laser cannons often run hot, or at least hotter then the rest of the ship, save the engines.
>Firing should be a spike and then sudden drop. If you're just seeing a drop, it's a weapon powering down. Hasala Nabin - Team H Sod Controller
Wait for a bit, to see if the door closes or someone comes out.
Determine what kind of noise it is in the meantime, and how many people are making it, if any.
No one comes in or out of the door, but the door doesn't close either. As per the sound...it's hard to tell. It's quite muffled but it sounds sort of like someone talking. Theres some sort of other noise you can here but can't quite make out. Almost a white noise sort of thing. It seems to be interrupting what might be speaking every now and again.
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