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[crazyabe]

"I'm Ognip, Nice ta meet ya. I hope this goes well."

[Blood_Librarian]

One of the Marines in the lifeseats next to the group shuffles uncomfortably, looking particularly at the fact that your hard suits are pretty much ten grades higher than his, while another one snickers at Ogni'Pish.

[Lenglon]

//Standby mode

[Slick]

"This Unit is designated Thunderbolt IV" The BattleFrame vocalized scanning its squadmates.

Spoiler: Thunderbolt IV (click to show/hide)

 
Name:
Thunderbolt IV

Gender:
Male
 
Sub-Species:
BattleFrame
 
Unofficial Occupation:
Defender/Mobile Cover
 
Equipment Packs:
BattleFrame Universal
Shield Carrier

Appearance:

Note: Positronic Brain is housed within torso.

Backstory:
Built as a supporting element for boarding actions. Its programming puts priority on the survival of its squadmates.

Skills:
+3 Phazon Gun
+2 Close Quarters Combat
+1 Internal Repair
+1 Explosives

Abilities:
Redundant Systems:
-Overdrive: The redundant systems kick in, either giving a needed boost in strength, higher reflexes or a short burst of speed at the expense of immense heat which has to be vented out over the next 2-3 turns.
-Emergency Throttled: Come back from the dead if all critical systems (Brain, SMES battery, Interface) are still relatively functional.

Inventory:
Military grade frame
Type A Myomere Muscle Cables
Standard Electronics
SMES battery
Gamma level Positronic Brain
Phazon Pistol
2 Pistol Magazines
Alloy Shield
Snubnose Phazon Rifle
2 Phazon Rifle Chambers
2 Class 2 HE grenades

Condition:
ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL

[Coolrune206]

Frunk seems interested with the BattleFrame that spoke.

"Thunderbolt IV? What level of intelligence do you possess? Do you have emotions? Regrets for killing? Or are you a 'dumb' AI, and simply compute the most efficient method of slaughter?"

[Slick]

Frunk seems interested with the BattleFrame that spoke.

"Thunderbolt IV? What level of intelligence do you possess? Do you have emotions? Regrets for killing? Or are you a 'dumb' AI, and simply compute the most efficient method of slaughter?"

The BattleFrame turned its attention to Frunk. "Thunderbolt IV is this Units given designation. This Unit possesses a gamma level Positronic Intelligence. This Unit does not have the faculties needed to process emotions. Regrets are illogical given mission parameters. Computational abilities devoted to squad survival."

Spoiler: Thunderbolt IV (click to show/hide)

 
Name:
Thunderbolt IV

Gender:
Male
 
Sub-Species:
BattleFrame
 
Unofficial Occupation:
Defender/Mobile Cover
 
Equipment Packs:
BattleFrame Universal
Shield Carrier

Appearance:

Note: Positronic Brain is housed within torso.

Backstory:
Built as a supporting element for boarding actions. Its programming puts priority on the survival of its squadmates.

Skills:
+3 Phazon Gun
+2 Close Quarters Combat
+1 Internal Repair
+1 Explosives

Abilities:
Redundant Systems:
-Overdrive: The redundant systems kick in, either giving a needed boost in strength, higher reflexes or a short burst of speed at the expense of immense heat which has to be vented out over the next 2-3 turns.
-Emergency Throttled: Come back from the dead if all critical systems (Brain, SMES battery, Interface) are still relatively functional.

Inventory:
Military grade frame
Type A Myomere Muscle Cables
Standard Electronics
SMES battery
Gamma level Positronic Brain
Phazon Pistol
2 Pistol Magazines
Alloy Shield
Snubnose Phazon Rifle
2 Phazon Rifle Chambers
2 Class 2 HE grenades

Condition:
ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL

(OOC: First time writing something described as non-sentient at least right now anyway. By the way I made a minor addition to Thunderbolts' backstory.)

[Coolrune206]

"Squad survival. That includes me. That's reassuring. Wow. Who would have guessed that a simple conversation with an advanced killing machine would be so therapeutic?"

[Blood_Librarian]

Mission 001: Pandoras Box
Post 01: Into the breach

The Shuttle shakes vigorously, and suddenly the shuttle begins exercising in a series of high gravity maneuvers. the equivalent of Inertial Dampeners makes a harsh whine at these maneuvers while the Pilot curses to himself, before swiping at the Holographic interface and his voice booms over the speakers in the walls.

"This landing ain't gonna be pretty, we're gonna hit a shuttle hanger HARD, the starboard engines cut and I don't think I can slow us down as we should be without it!"

A klaxon emanates from the interface of the pilot, and he makes a hard left bank. the shuttle starts spinning,  and for a brief moment the Gravitational systems are overloaded, and around eleven G"s worth of force pulls you to the front of the shuttle as the ship pulls a full burn to stop as fast as it possibly can.

The Shuttle slams into the floor of the Hangar Bay, clogged open from a  stray plasma round from a Yaerian Frigate, it makes a perfect entry point to the bridge.

[1] The pilot lets out a scream before a wet squelch is heard from the cockpit, followed by a loud metal screech as the shuttle makes a resounding stop, by hitting a wall.

[4]Of the five Starknights, the Ten Marines did not seem to have fared very well to the shrapnel that flew in the shuttle, one of them has a suit breach, the others are more or less unconscious from the extreme maneuvers pulled by the late pilot.


[6] Beirus survived the crash just fine, Not even a single bruise, you swore that some shrapnel headed your way though...


[1] One of your main sensor bulbs had been completely shattered. Although you have two more, the amount of shrapnel that lodged into both your frame and said sensor bulb is undiscerning.

Spoiler: Updated Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Vision 1
 
Sub-Species: Mapping platform
 
Unofficial Occupation: Wallhack Sniper
 
Equipment Packs: 1 Drone pack
 
Appearance: a large heavy metal crate with motorized magnetic spheres on the bottom that allow it to roll... slowly... on a smooth surface... in any direction. A Linear Rifle is mounted on a unarmored multi-point-connection servo-arm that can rise from the top-center of the crate and aim in any direction and has enough play to extend it beyond the edge of the crate to aim down below the rim of the box. The linear rifle can be removed and used normally by a Star Knight if necessary, but upon remounting the system will require a recalibration period before it will be ready to fire the weapon. There is a belt-feed going down along the servo-arm into the interior of the crate. The majority of the box contains tiny drone hangers, mostly top-mounted around the weapon. There is a small manufactory internal to the system that can build replacement drones if fed standard salvageable parts, and storage for some raw materials internal to the system for the same purpose. There is a touchscreen panel on the side of the crate that displays a 3d image of what has been mapped since its last activation and accepts commands. the crate itself is decently durable but weapons fire that enters the miniature drone bays could detonate the system's ammo reserves and/or destroy docked drones.
the drones are mostly small unarmed mapping quadcopters. there are 4 standard models with a belly-mounted manipulator arm and high-grade mapping equipment, 1 with a cyber interface instead of a grasper on the arm for remote hacking and 1 with a belly mounted Phazon pistol.
 
Backstory: This is a recent military modification of a drone mapping system. the primary premise of the system is the drones serve as eyes for an incursion team. the main box's linear rifle, however, is the center of the system. the drones are constantly sending back mapping data including the locations of threats, and the linear rifle acquires and neutralizes those threats no matter what is in the way. Although it performed well in controlled test environments, it has yet to be field-tested. It is advertised as a way for the Star Knights to never have to walk into an ambush again. The truth of this advertisement has yet to be seen.
 
Skills:
+3 Linear rifle
+1 phazon rifle/pistol
+1 cyberwarfare
+2 internal repair

Abilities:
 Dronesight - can accurately aim the Linear rifle through walls to fire upon whatever the remote drones can see.

Inventory:
1 Linear Rifle
1 Belt-feed of Linear rifle ammunition (50 shots, can break links to allow handheld use, but will only have 5 shots, the rest left on the belt)
1 positronic brain
1 SMES battery
1 standard electronics
1 military grade frame
1 Drone fabricator
2 drone transponder arrays (second is redundant in case of equipment failure)
6 Drone bays.
3 Phazon pistol magazines
4 Eye model drones
1 Glimpse model drone
1 Raptor model drone
Condition / Drone Status:
Vision 1: MINOR DAMAGE - SENSOR BULB SHATTERED

Eye 1: Good - UNDEPLOYED
Eye 2: Good - UNDEPLOYED
Eye 3: Good - UNDEPLOYED
Eye 4: Good - UNDEPLOYED

Glimpse 1: Good - UNDEPLOYED

Raptor 1: Good - UNDEPLOYED

[3]No Shrapnel has collided with Thunderbolt IV's frame, but one of their HE grenades was dislodged from the magnetic harness and has rolled into a corner.


[3] A shard of metal the size of a piece of unboiled spaghetti was inches away from landing inside Ognip's head.


[6] Although Guwat was not hit with any shrapnel, a spatter of blue blood had somehow lightly coated his left gauntlet, likely from the suit breach wound of the Marine right next to him.

the Port airlock of the shuttle opens, just as the harnesses holding everyone release, letting everyone stand if they so choose. A Marine right next to the door shouts over his comm that he sees the enemy.

There are four Unitarian soldiers outside of the ship, confused and unsure what has just transpired, while 8-16 "civilian" personnel are either dazed, confused or half dead.

[Coolrune206]

"Someone tend to the marines! Everyone else, let's make some kibble out of these Uni's!"

Frunk grabs his Plasmatic Thrower, leaps out of the ship into close quarters, and begins spraying the hostiles with plasma. Of course, he might be discarding any cover he might've had, but he also had a very close range weapon. Thus, he had to be a bit rash.

Spoiler: Frunk (click to show/hide)

Name: Frunk
 
Gender: Male
 
Sub-Species: Augmented
 
Unofficial Occupation: Fixer and Breaker
 
Equipment Packs: Universal Augmented Pack, Combat Engineer
 
Appearance: Frunk's armor is painted navy blue, with a few black accents. He stands around 6'1", and has no extra prosthetics besides his original augmentations. Below the suit, his skin color is as light shade of yellow.
 
Backstory: Frunk doesn't talk about his backstory much, but from what he has revealed, he was a child laborer, and intensely resented everyone around him. He's since become quite a bit more mellow, but still displays natural suspicion of those around him.
 
Skills:
Plasmatic Weapons + 3
Piloting + 2
Cyber Warfare + 2
Medical + 1
Robotics + 1
Explosives + 1

Abilities:
Light Sleeper - Frunk can fall asleep pretty much anywhere. It's quite useful for extended missions. He also tends to wake easily, making it hard to ambush him.
Stealth - Frunk tends to keep things as quiet as possible, and it can be seen in the way he moves. He's hard to detect if he doesn't want to be detected.
 
Inventory:
SK Hardsuit
Oxygenation Pack:
Operator Medical System
Distress Pulser
Augment Base
Combat Knife
Phazon Pistol
2 Phazon Pistol Magazines
Survival Kit
Plasmatic Thrower
2 Plasmatic Fuel Tanks
Tool kit
Fusion Cutting Torch
Fusion Torch replacement tank
2 Class 1 Fragmentation Grenades
2 Class 2 High Explosive Grenades

Condition:
Healthy

[Beirus]

((Darn, if only I could have tried to cushion us with dark matter. At least most of the marines are fine. As far as range, can I hit the Unitarian soldiers from here or do I need to spend a secondary or tertiary action to move first?))

[Blood_Librarian]

Only the marine who reported them can actually see them, everyone would need to make a teritary action to move.

I might actually come up with a map to be helpful.

[Slick]

Thunderbolt turns before asking. "Requesting retrieval of lost munition." The BattleFrame then maneuvers towards the shuttles exit.

Thunderbolt requests someone to grab his lost HE grenade, then he maneuvers forward through the exit of the shuttle, towards the enemy combatants with shield at ready and Snubnose rifle drawn.

Spoiler: Thunderbolt IV (click to show/hide)

 
Name:
Thunderbolt IV

Gender:
Male
 
Sub-Species:
BattleFrame
 
Unofficial Occupation:
Defender/Mobile Cover
 
Equipment Packs:
BattleFrame Universal
Shield Carrier

Appearance:

Note: Positronic Brain is housed within torso.

Backstory:
Built as a supporting element for boarding actions. Its programming puts priority on the survival of its squadmates.

Skills:
+3 Phazon Gun
+2 Close Quarters Combat
+1 Internal Repair
+1 Explosives

Abilities:
Redundant Systems:
-Overdrive: The redundant systems kick in, either giving a needed boost in strength, higher reflexes or a short burst of speed at the expense of immense heat which has to be vented out over the next 2-3 turns.
-Emergency Throttled: Come back from the dead if all critical systems (Brain, SMES battery, Interface) are still relatively functional.

Inventory:
Military grade frame
Type A Myomere Muscle Cables
Standard Electronics
SMES battery
Gamma level Positronic Brain
Phazon Pistol
2 Pistol Magazines
Alloy Shield
Snubnose Phazon Rifle
2 Phazon Rifle Chambers
2 Class 2 HE grenades

Condition:
ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL

[crazyabe]

I'll grab the 'nade, and go wait beside the door.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Ognip'pish turgle-purk
 
Gender: male
 
Sub-Species: Augmented
 
Unofficial Occupation: Build Buster
 
Equipment Packs: Cyber Warfare Specialist, Universal Augmented Pack:
 
Appearance:He is heavily scarred. His suit is painted dark red. his Prosthetic Legs put his height at 7'8.

Backstory: Born a runt, and always trying to prove himself the better then he looked, he stopped growing at 4'2, He enlisted because he couldn't find any jobs where people would take him seriously, despite him holding a degree in Battleframe repair and construction... Had his legs both taken off when someone tossed a 'nade at his squad, killing everyone else off. he was lucky he didn't loose anything else... he Personally requested extra long legs hoping he'd finally be taken seriously when he got in the program.
 
Skills:
Robotics (3)
Salvaging - Structural Engineering (2)
CyberWarfare - Close Quarters Combat - Explosives (1)
Abilities:
Mechanic: if it's a machine, he can probably make it work.
Improviser: if he doesn't have quite the right tools for something he can always use something similar as a replacement.
Inventory:

SK Hardsuit
Oxygenation Pack:
Operator Medical System
Distress Pulser
Augment Base
Combat Knife
Phazon Pistol
2 Phazon Pistol Magazines
Survival Kit

Phazon Rifle
3 Phazon Rifle Chambers
Tool kit
2 Class 1 Fragmentation Grenades
AlienJack

Condition:
Prosthetic legs

[Beirus]

"What an auspicious start! Looks like it's time to kick this party off."

Guwat moves to cover where he can see all the Unitarian soldiers and uses his psionic to immobilized them with dark matter in a way that would keep them from bringing their weapons to bear. Or he just psionically crushes them with dark matter. Either one works, really. As long as he does so from cover. If he cant do that from suitable cover, he'll just turn his tertiary move into a secondary move to jump into the middle of the Unitarian soldiers while wrapping himself in dark matter to try to deflect attacks and then explosively releasing it outwards at them at close range, or doing some other suitably flashy attack with it for added intimidation.

In short, if suitable cover and line of sight: Dark matter squish.
If no suitable cover: Dark matter encased charge and pulse/blast

Spoiler: Guwat (click to show/hide)

Name: Guwat Torif-Purk
 
Gender Male
 
Sub-Species: Psionic
 
Unofficial Occupation: Unseen Hand
 
Equipment Packs:  Universal Psionic Pack

Ranger Pack
 
Appearance: He stands at 6'0", with lean muscles and broad shoulders. His eyes are black orbs. His face has thin, fleshy tendrils in the shape of a beard and mustache of a darker purple than his skin. He has no augmentation beyond those he is required to have, and his skin is a dark purple color color.
 
Backstory: Guwat lost his parents at an early age and grew up in an orphanage until the age of ten. He was adopted at the age of ten by a someone who took an interest in his psionic abilities. He was raised along with four other psionic children, but he rarely talks about them or the person who raised him. When his caretaker died a short while after he turned 18, due to mysterious circumstances, he underwent the Augmentation process to further enhance his psionic gift.
 
Skills:
+3 Psionic Amplification
+2 Psionic Endurance
+2 Phazon Gun
+1 Salvaging
+1 Close Combat
+1 Fletchette Gun
 
Abilities:
Psionic Dark Matter Manipulation: The ability to manipulate dark matter using his mind. The ability will grow in strength as he does, allowing a larger variety of uses and applications.

In the Zone: His focus is very difficult to disrupt due to pain, loud noises, bright lights, or other stimuli, within reason. This is an active ability than lasts between 3 and 6 turns and requires an action similar to "taking a breath" to refocus his mind after the active duration, leaving him less effective at doing things for that turn.

Follow-up: He can shift from using his weapons to using his psionic powers and vice-versa. Essentially allows him to use his secondary action for another attack or action, using either his psionic powers if he made a weapon attack or his weapon if he made a psionic attack, so long as he spends his tertiary action to focus on the secondary attack. This means that he cannot use a move secondary action or cover tertiary action when making a second attack.

 
Inventory:
SK Hardsuit
Oxygenation Pack
Operator Medical System
Distress Pulser
Psionic Augment Base
Combat Knife
Phazon Pistol
2 Phazon Pistol Magazines
Survival Kit
2 Snubnose Phazon Rifle Ranger Variant
3 Phazon Rifle Chambers
2 Class 1 Fragmentation Grenades
Fusion Cutting Torch
 
Condition: Perfectly Healthy

[Lenglon]

//Immediate threat detected.
Deploy Raptor 1, Activate Linear Rifle
"WELCOME to our VISION of the future!"
And open fire
"We are delighted to ensure your safety!"

Spoiler: Vision 1 (click to show/hide)

Name: Vision 1
 
Sub-Species: Mapping platform
 
Unofficial Occupation: Wallhack Sniper
 
Equipment Packs: 1 Drone pack
 
Appearance: a large heavy metal crate with motorized magnetic spheres on the bottom that allow it to roll... slowly... on a smooth surface... in any direction. A Linear Rifle is mounted on a unarmored multi-point-connection servo-arm that can rise from the top-center of the crate and aim in any direction and has enough play to extend it beyond the edge of the crate to aim down below the rim of the box. The linear rifle can be removed and used normally by a Star Knight if necessary, but upon remounting the system will require a recalibration period before it will be ready to fire the weapon. There is a belt-feed going down along the servo-arm into the interior of the crate. The majority of the box contains tiny drone hangers, mostly top-mounted around the weapon. There is a small manufactory internal to the system that can build replacement drones if fed standard salvageable parts, and storage for some raw materials internal to the system for the same purpose. There is a touchscreen panel on the side of the crate that displays a 3d image of what has been mapped since its last activation and accepts commands. the crate itself is decently durable but weapons fire that enters the miniature drone bays could detonate the system's ammo reserves and/or destroy docked drones.
the drones are mostly small unarmed mapping quadcopters. there are 4 standard models with a belly-mounted manipulator arm and high-grade mapping equipment, 1 with a cyber interface instead of a grasper on the arm for remote hacking and 1 with a belly mounted Phazon pistol.
 
Backstory: This is a recent military modification of a drone mapping system. the primary premise of the system is the drones serve as eyes for an incursion team. the main box's linear rifle, however, is the center of the system. the drones are constantly sending back mapping data including the locations of threats, and the linear rifle acquires and neutralizes those threats no matter what is in the way. Although it performed well in controlled test environments, it has yet to be field-tested. It is advertised as a way for the Star Knights to never have to walk into an ambush again. The truth of this advertisement has yet to be seen.
 
Skills:
+3 Linear rifle
+1 phazon rifle/pistol
+1 cyberwarfare
+2 internal repair

Abilities:
 Dronesight - can accurately aim the Linear rifle through walls to fire upon whatever the remote drones can see.

Inventory:
1 Linear Rifle
1 Belt-feed of Linear rifle ammunition (50 shots, can break links to allow handheld use, but will only have 5 shots, the rest left on the belt)
1 positronic brain
1 SMES battery
1 standard electronics
1 military grade frame
1 Drone fabricator
2 drone transponder arrays (second is redundant in case of equipment failure)
6 Drone bays.
3 Phazon pistol magazines
4 Eye model drones
1 Glimpse model drone
1 Raptor model drone
Condition / Drone Status:
Vision 1: MINOR DAMAGE - SENSOR BULB SHATTERED

Eye 1: Good - UNDEPLOYED
Eye 2: Good - UNDEPLOYED
Eye 3: Good - UNDEPLOYED
Eye 4: Good - UNDEPLOYED

Glimpse 1: Good - UNDEPLOYED

Raptor 1: Good - UNDEPLOYED