Log:Saber Squadron: The Phoenix Reforged
Saber Squadron follows a lead on some salvage. They find more than they were hoping for.
OOC Date: May 15, 2022
Location: Space, the Final Frontier
Participants: Jax Greystorm as Self/GM, Kael Greystorm, Karas Darkwing, Nerys Greystorm, Sesti Greystorm, Zelo Parrai
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
The coordinates Kenthadus Grayshade had given to Jax to a small backwater star system on the edge of the Outer Rim with no habitable planets in it. It had took Jax some rooting around to find out what was out there.
The Queen Mola had started life as a radiation waste transport ship before becoming a small carrier in the rebel fleet. It would have later been used as transport able to carry six star fighters for dangerous and unusual missions during the New Republic days. That was up until it disappeared 10 years ago, in this system. It was on a mission hauling sometime of cargo for the New Republic Bureau of Zoological Studies, a civilian department. There had been an accident and all hands lost. There was no report of what it had been carrying but it had been carrying a pair of E-wings and a full flight of X-wings. Jax wasn't even sure which model those were.
Standing on the bridge of his cousin's Marauder Corvette. Jax was wearing some Katarn clone armor as he peers out into space and the Queen Mola. The ship looked like it had seen better days. The ship had lost its dorsal fin and was floating on it's own course. On the bottom side there was a hole ripped where the fin had separated from the ship. The landing bay was well shielded with armor. It looked like the ship was sealed at some point past the hole in the dorsal.
Jax lets out a whistle. "This does not look easy."
[ Kael Greystorm (Kent)]
Kael stretches a bit from where he's parked himself on the bridge of the Tempest Warden looking out the view port as the marauder pulls up towards the Queen Mola. The helmet of his own Katarn armor hooked onto a strap attached to his armor, "Oh that does not look fun." He hmmms a bit and shakes his head some, "I'm not sure what happened to that ship but it does not look like it was pleasant. What exactly did that scoundrel sell you this time though?"
[ Zelo Parrai (Zelo)]
Zelo's pacing aft of the bridge, trying to work the squeaks out of his new void armor. It was a small blessing that he'd found a non-standard helm to go with the suit, but his tendrils were still crammed in - better than nothing, but a far cry from the freedom of his Beskar. The sound of a whistle draws his attention to the fore, and the Nautolan makes his way ahead to see the view. <"I don't mind floating, but I'm really... Really not a fan of space walks... Does the scan show any latent energy?"> Zelo's seen wrecks before, but nothing so... Brutally clean as this one. His E-11 is latched onto his back, just in case...
[ Sesti Greystorm (Sesti)]
Down in the crew lounge, Sesti has been 'at work' during the trip, her tablet on her lap as she scans files. As the Kael's ship slows upon reaching the objective, she looks up, and out the viewing port near her to observe the damage done to the derelict. She taps a save on her screen, sets the tablet down, then picks up the helmet of her void armor to make her way to the bridge and find out the plan.
[ Nerys Greystorm (Nerys)]
"Have Mag-boots will travel." So spake the Marauder's XO, one Nerys Greystorm. "Great for watching space battles as well." Those were the days, when Nerys used to secure herself to the hull to get a better view of squadrons running mock combat scenarios. Now, though, now she was being serious, as she stood at one of the piloting consoles for the ship, "Did you just call Jax's father a scound--nevermind, too many Grey-whatevers in this galaxy." So also spake one of the aforesaid Grey-whatevers. "Let's see if we can't close the gap." Nerys, turning her attention to, one would hope, actually doing her job, activated one of the corvette's three tractor beams, calculating the power necessary to capture the ship. "Big beast. It's going to take more than one. Kael?"
[ Karas Darkwing (Kar)]
Sitting at one of the comm stations and as they came within range of the ship they were here to check out. Hew as already in the armor provided to him, the helmet sat near him. Listening ot the others, "Going to check to see if there is any power left on that ship, maybe we can get a little help getting access to the ship." he calls out to Jax and the others. Karas hands move quickly over the computer terminal and after a few moments, he frowns, "Poodo. There is no power there, we will need to try to get in manually or vibro cutters, or Jax you can use your lightsaber." he says.
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
The Queen Mola was now in a spin as it comes toward the Tempest Warden. It takes the team a bit of time to match the Warden's position and rotation up with the derelict. The air locks matched up. Then long work of using plasma torches to cut into the Queen Mola's hull begun. Finally the chunk of metal goes falling into the blackness bellow. There's a rush of air form the Warden as the air lock seals behind the team.
Jax pushes off and into the darkness below. He touches down his mag locks engaging and turns on a light. Something goes flapping past him, "Guys we're not alone down here."
[ Kael Greystorm (Kent)]
Kael sighs as he adjusts his helmet as the ships get in sync with each other. Glancing over at Nerys he shakes his head, "I'd never say something about Jax's father! He's a saint. Look at what he's had to put up with." A motion towards Jax. As the ships thud with and link up he checks to make sure his helmet is now secured and locked into place for the jaunt into the Friday the 13th ship. With Jax's mention of not being alone he just laughs some, "We're never alone."
[ Zelo Parrai (Zelo)]
Zelo's comfortable enough with a plasma cutter, both in this context as well as the more mundane, non-spacing utilities. He works his way over a particularly thick point that he estimates could function as a hinge of some sort with their combined efforts. When Kael sets up a charge and gives the hull plate the last boost needed, the Mandalorian steps away and holds tight. Moving with the rush of air, he hops across the divide between Warden and Mola, not seeing any issues. The warning is noted though as he slips the carbine forward from the case on his back, gloved fingers undoing the snaps.
<"No sign of anything, but... I'll keep my eyes out."> He rolls to the right, taking a position beside the hole, maglocks holding his position as he watches but clearly does not see.
[ Sesti Greystorm (Sesti)]
Sesti takes a step in and settles her maglocks to the bulkhead, then her light from her helmet slices across the darkness, and she freezes, concentrating her light on a spot before sweeping it slowly in an expanding circle or oval over... mynocks. Lots, and lots, and throw another lots in there of mynocks. "You know," she murmurs. "As much as I do not want to disturb that many mynocks, what disturbs me is... what are that many mynocks feeding on if this has been derelict for ten years." The beam of her helmet travels swiftly and then winks out before she ends up shining it on Jax when she turns to look towards him. "I have a very bad feeling about this."
[ Nerys Greystorm (Nerys)]
Nerys, who had no such reservations about space walking of any kind, nevertheless, waited until the ships had matched their rotations and the docking ring was engaged, before she stepped away from the bridge, heading down to retrieve the equipment that had been set out for them, retrieving one of the plasma cutters and heading into the breech. Once the charges has been detonated, Nerys got to work, helping to breech the hull, "Well, it's faster than trying to power up the ship and go in the usual way." Much faster. Once the breech was made, and the equipment stowed in case it was needed again, Nerys proceeded into the makeshift entry, eyes and ears alert as she marked the sound and flash of wings. "Mynocks. We're going to need to make sure we keep the shields up on the Warden, or get our best gunners on it." That was probably a joke, but, probably also not. "Ship this large, not sure how long they could feed off of the energy core of the engines."
[ Karas Darkwing (Kar)]
Karas followed the others, he made sure his helmet was on secured and weapons at the ready, "Jax you take us to the nicest places." he says as he also ventures through space and onto the ship. He really didn't midn this part so much, but still as he moved along the ship and dropped into the hole, he blinks. "Mynocks, can we have one as a pet?" he asks as he lands and quickly activate the maglocks on his boots as he pulls out his weapon.
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
"You usually liked my ideas." Jax says as Kael talks about the problem Jax's father faced. As the group land in the converted cargo hold/landing bay. The mynocks swarm and dive bomb them. Mostly they're a nuisance but if they can chew on power cables. "Only if you give it to Bizz, Karas." Jax looks around for a moment, "I think that way leads to bridge and upper half of the ship." Jax says turning to shine a light on a pair of stairs leading up. Then he turns and shines a light leading to the lower part of the ship, something has pushed out the metal frame of the door. Jax sighs, "Sesti, sometimes I hate it when you're right." Jax shines his lights around, "And there's a ships!" Then there's a vibration in the ship. It's felt not heard. Then another one... and another. Something is coming.
[ Kael Greystorm (Kent)]
Kael chuckles a bit as he takes a few steps moving out of the way of the mynoks before he reaches back to draw his sword in one hand and his Sentinel IV into the other, "That much vibrations on the ship? I think this was one of those ideas that sounded good on paper but didn't pan out well in the end..." He glances over at Nerys, "Need a hand with your new friend?" He attempts to stab the Mynok on her suit and the thing just isn't there any more. But Nerys was still right there, "oh crap." As the sword thunks her armor he pulls it back, "Sorry." He turns towards Zelo, "Did you want a hand?" But this time not stabbing before getting a response.
[ Zelo Parrai (Zelo)]
Zelo's hit by the flapping sensation, but only AFTER one of the sucking little suckers has latched onto his Void Armor. As it drains away at his meager power reserves, he's swearing inside that squeaky-new suit. There is some flailing, some rather undignified jumping and flamming into a non-cut section of hull, and then Zelo throws himself backward and down with a spin to land flat on his stomach. At some point, the momentum made him less worth a snack than the mynock was willing to ride out. Tentatively, the Nautolan rises. <"Mynocks? I don't kriffing like mynocks."> He looks to the latch-point where his imagination says his battery power is still leaking.
As if it will help, the Mandalorian lowers, crouching on his heels as he lifts the carbine, ready to just blast the next thing to flap-flap-flap in his general direction.
[ Sesti Greystorm (Sesti)]
Sesti adopts the 'maybe if I don't engage they won't notice the juicy power cables on my suit' tactic, and ducks under the swarm as it attacks. Moving a few more steps in, she notes, "They have pretty well chewed through everything here, I am not sure there is anything worth salvaging." She takes another step, and then freezes. She crouches down, putting a hand to the nearest strut and feels the vibration thrumming through it. Taking a steadying breath, she looks over towards Jax again. "Only sometimes?" she asks. "I thought you /always/ hate it when I'm right."
[ Nerys Greystorm (Nerys)]
"Just another day in the field, am I right?" Nerys sounded almost delighted, as the swarm descended on the group, which, perhaps called into question why exactly anyone kept her around with her apparently lack of sanity. Space explorers, what could you do? Certainly once one of the mynocks latched itself onto the chest of her armor and started chewing in, one would have expected a reduction in merriment. Nerys reached down, trying to tug the thing off. She only just caught Kael's drawing his weapon, and the swing right at her, and managed to get her hands out of the way. As the sword cleaved through the mynock, and scored the outer layer of Nerys armor, she looked at Kael, not at all bothered by the fact that he had hit the thing hard enough to damage her. "I've had worse." Clearly, as Nerys reached into her backpack of holding, pulling out space duct tape and sealing over any damage the creature or her husband had caused. She reached out a gloved hand, patting Kael's arm, as she looked further into the darkness, "We've got bigger problems on our hands than mynocks. I see what looks, suspiciously, like a space dragon," yes, she said dragon, "crawling out of a lair beneath the deck plating on this level."
[ Karas Darkwing (Kar)]
As Karas lands, the swarm of Mynocks misses him as he ducks below them, "What the kriff!" he says not expecting the damn creatures to be that close to him. Still he quickly moves so that he is able to cover his team mates. Karas quickly pulls his blaster and a Vibro Dagger which he has strapped along his back.
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
The coming of the Space dragon sent the mynocks going for higher ground and flying up the stairs into the bridge of the Queen Mola. So there was another good thing, this was not a full sized Space dragon, it was a young one only a few years old. So not that big. The down side was it was neither one of the nice nor sentient space dragon as well it didn't want to talk. It announced it's presence moments after Nerys warned them by letting out a breath of hot plasma, that was akin to stuff the stars were made out of. It scorches across the hanger awashing Saber Squad in it's fire.
Jax produces his saber and ducks as the flames wash over him and goes running toward the beast. "I really really hate Uncle Kent." He says as he brings his saber down slashing at the beast resulting in the creature letting our a silent roar.
[ Kael Greystorm (Kent)]
Kael would be smirking but helmet. So instead he chuckles and nods... Then the dragon makes itself known with it's lovely breath and Kael laughs a bit as he brings his pistol up squeezing off a shot as he starts to run towards it the mag boots going thunk thunk thunk before he swings at it with his little combat sword, "We've got this!" Nevermind the jetpack on his back with a rocket if it all goes south...
[ Zelo Parrai (Zelo)]
Crouching on one's heels is great for keeping your head below roving mynock swarms. What it is NOT great for, however, is springing out of the way of the sort of fire breath coming straight out of a supposedly-mythical beast's mouth. Zelo only manages a choked, <"Space *dragon*-"> before his question was cut incredibly short by the pain and singing sound of his chest cooking inside the barely-intact Void armor. The Nautolan stays composed enough to roll to the side and get behind some kind of cover, but behind his void armor, his skin is roiling with a red bioluminescence.
Rising a moment later, a growl choking in his throat, the Mandalorian starts blasting with his E-11 carbine, pushing through the pain to inflict some on the who-cares-what-age monster that had just tried to cook him. Two shots, two hits, but the Nautolan's not ducking back behind cover as he keeps pulling the trigger; the battery continues to charge, though, and nothing's coming out just yet.
[ Sesti Greystorm (Sesti)]
Running is not an option in space, so Sesti instead focuses on where she last saw Jax, and launches herself across the void. It turns out that she moved just in time, as the plasma goes splashing at the point where she had just been squatting. The light of the plasma fire reflects on the visor of the helmet and then a familiar blue blade slices through the lurching creature. One hand reaches out, grasping hold of a spine as the other hand pulls out her sword. Finding purchase for her boots on the leathery hide, she doesn't swing the blade, instead putting all her force into driving the blade as deep into the body underneath her as she can. With effort, she manages to pull it out and thrust downwards again.
[ Nerys Greystorm (Nerys)]
Nerys, still back and not about to run into combat range with a dragon, saw the plasma hit Zelo, and she clunk-charged towards the Nautalon, moving to try to put herself between the mandalorian and the dragon. As the rest charged into combat, she frowned, drawing her blaster, the vacuum robbing the blaster fire of noise as it breeched the distance between herself and the near mythical creature, the bolt slamming into its hide, before she took a knee, "Let me see that." The weapon was put away as she reached to retrieve her medpac.
[ Karas Darkwing (Kar)]
The last one to land, and jumping to frays, that's Karas life. He feels the heat of the plasma fire and he blinks as he sees an honest to Force dragon! "Sith Spit! Who invited that!" he calls out as he quickly runs and slides behind cover, as he pops up looking to get a shot, he sees and hears the shot from the others and the slashing of vibro swords and lightsaber. "Good job everyone!" he says as he sees how bad the dragon looks and as he is about to shoot, he kicks something, and he looks down and drops behind cover to pick up something, "I found something!" he calls.
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
The young space dragon was burning, bleeding, and found this meal was not worth it. It raises up in the hanger and comes back down on the hanger floor brining down its clawed paws against the ground. It's actions while quiet are enough to send Sesti tumbling to the ground, and can be felt through the feet of the others. It in hales vacuum and exhale the star plasma once more. No longer wanting to roast it's dinner covering it's escape. It slithers back down it's hole again. Then moments later out of the hole at the bottom of the Queen Mola into space. The Tempest Warden sensors and cameras would capture the creature flying through space toward an asteroid to go hide and lick it's wounds.
Jax hits the trigger on his saber and its blade slides back into his saber's handle. He makes his way over to Sesti offering her a hand up. "How is everybody? And What the kriff was that? I've heard of a Space Dragon but I thought they were the size of a corvette and nice."
[ Kael Greystorm (Kent)]
Kael holsters his pistol and sword as he looks at the fleeing dragon, "Did we just fight a dragon? And survive?" He glances around, "We all did survive right?" Looking over at Jax he shrugs, "That wasn't a nice dragon. Are there mad ones? Maybe it's just angry because the only source of food here were mynocks until we arrived?"
[ Zelo Parrai (Zelo)]
Nerys' intervention brings Zelo back from the haze and he checks himself from firing after the retreating monster as a fellow squadron member gets directly between point A and point B. He looks down, where the wreath of plasma damage has scored away most of the armor and left puckered and angry cobalt skin just below the surface. In some places, the two may have... Merged. The seal is dubious at best. <"Thank you,"> the Nautolan manages through gritted teeth, looking beyond to Jax.
<"Whatever it is... Smaller than a corvette, and the opposite of nice. I need to get back to atmo, this suit's not likely to last... Don't suppose they'll take the return even if it's less than twenty-four hours."> He's very chatty as he stays still to let Nerys see what can be done.
[ Sesti Greystorm (Sesti)]
The dragon suddenly becomes a bucking bantha ride, and Sesti holds on long enough to not be in the path of the exiting flames, but then, as it whips about to scamper away, she loses he grip and prays as she flung across the darkness that she won't go out a hole in the ships hull. Luckily, she feels the thump of solid metal under her body and one of her gloves mags immediately to the surface as she slaps her hand down. Then Jax's saber light goes out, and a moment later he's reaching down to give her a hand. Clasping the offered hand with her free hand, she lets him help her settle her feet to the surface instead, then looks out a nearby hole. "I thought they were supposed to ask you riddles and give you treasure if you guess correctly," she adds.
[ Nerys Greystorm (Nerys)]
Nerys might or might not have caught the dragon's retreat. Likely not, as her attention was focused on Zelo, as she laid out her pack on the thighpad that it was made to clamp to. "Seal off those mynocks so they can't swarm on us again!" She didn't bother to look up at that either, to see if anyone was following her train of thought. "I've got you, Zelo." Nerys was no doctor, that was true, but she was a skilled medic, for some value of that, and she worked to both reduce the pain and inflammation, and to ensure that the suit retained its integrity, "We'll need to get you back to the Warden." Into her comms with the Warden, came Nerys words, "Salvage teams, prep for retrieval. We have one coming to you in medical."
[ Karas Darkwing (Kar)]
Karas comes up from cover after going over the original mission, "Oh that sucks." he says and he starts to say something when another gout of flame reaches out to him again and he ducks back down. Hearing the bucking and rambling. Shaking his head, "Why." he says but once he hears the others, he quickly comes from cover and does what he can to help with what Nerys ask to seal off the mynocks if he can.
Speaking into his comms, "Well, you're all not going to believe this but I found the original mission this ship was on." he grimaces a little, "That dragon was an egg before it hatched and the crew was trying to get it to it's people. But well......it hatched before they could get it home and well....yeah."
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
The Queen Mola's landing bay is quickly sealed up to prevent the wild life from returning. It takes several hours work to remove what extra parts there were for the fighters. When it was said and done the landing bay was vented to space. The four X-wing and the pair of E-wings were pushed out into space where the tractor beams of the Tempest Warden was waiting to pull them into it's landing bay. In the end, six fighters to bolster Saber Squadron as soon as Vega gets them up and running.
Jax was in the crew longue. His hair mused and sweaty. He looked exhausted, "Good work team, I, uhm, don't know what to say other than thank you. Also lets get out of system before that thing's Mother shows up. Drinks are on me when we get to Smuggler's Run."
