On wings of fire; Phoenix Force & Prelude to Minion War

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:05 am

...and one of the main antagonists has now been brought to the stage... :demon:

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:00 am

Monkra wrote:...what is an e-mail?...

What is a thought?

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:20 pm

DhAkael wrote:...and one of the main antagonists has now been brought to the stage...

You mean the whole ship of baddies, or the big mech that Seraph asked for specifically?

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:58 am

*shrug*
Was woken up 3 hours before I was supposed to.
-spp-
Also, drinking "not-coffee" because my "real" coffee stash is exteremly low.
-spp-
Yep.
No update today. :nh:

...
...
Deal.

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 4:11 pm

mwuahahahahaha I lived the update

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 5:28 pm

DhAkael wrote:*shrug*
Was woken up 3 hours before I was supposed to.
-spp-
Also, drinking "not-coffee" because my "real" coffee stash is exteremly low.
-spp-
Yep.
No update today.

...
...
Deal.

Hmmm...I've known people with a beverage world outlook divided between two classes of potable liquids, 'Coffee' and 'Not Coffee'. And some with even more monolithic food group perceptons. :fool:

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 6:41 pm

calto40k wrote:mwuahahahahaha I lived the update

Yes indeed! LOL

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:35 pm

Lost Seraph wrote:Hopefully we'll stop getting attacked by PS 2 and PS3 mecha minions. Phoenix Force Alpha is far too attracted to holes in the ground (making them and hiding in them). Badgermole Force might be a better description at this point.....

I think he was trying to give you the nemesis he told me you asked for.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:37 pm

Lost Seraph wrote:Hopefully we'll stop getting attacked by PS 2 and PS3 mecha minions. Phoenix Force Alpha is far too attracted to holes in the ground (making them and hiding in them). Badgermole Force might be a better description at this point.....

"We're not Wiley Coyote-ing into the ground, we're digging into temporary field earth fortifications." :bandit:

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:21 pm

If you'd like, I could just drop a Dominator warmachine on top of you and be done with it. :nuke:

P.S.; the GM does read this... and whining begets beatings. Mayhap someone should just listen to the [censored] Captain and take the [censored] hint that running away may not be the thing to do if it lets the space nazi's get their hands on the Ark of the Covenent / Holy-Grail / Heart of Shiva, etc etc etc etc HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?!

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:54 pm

It's called a Fighting hole by the USMC for a reason, best place for us to be and now we can actually do some serious good while entrenched.

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:39 pm

Read the above...reiterated.

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:45 pm

calto40k wrote:It's called a Fighting hole by the USMC for a reason

was never in the military, but I respect you guys and I'm a born fighter. Fightin hole works for me bro! lol

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:37 pm

lol Jay yeah us Marines speak a different language than any other branch the army calls them fox holes like they are somewhere to retreat to, us Grunts dig them to entrench ourselves to minimize casualties on our side and maximize on the opposing side. Hence a fighting hole.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 5:37 pm

There's the classic Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon from WW1 of the grizzled veteran 'Old Bill' grumbling to a comrade as they're crouched behind cover in a shell-whizzing noman's land: "If you know a better 'ole, go to it!" :nh:

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:37 pm

nope.
Sorry kidz, but that a miserable waste of genetic material [name removed to protect the guilty] stole me mojo this week. Don't worry, no one who posts to this thread. :wink:

You want to blame someone for no update, go and kick the little fekwit in his non-existant 3peice.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 10:13 pm

DhAkael wrote::nh:
nope.
Sorry kidz, but that a miserable waste of genetic material [name removed to protect the guilty] stole me mojo this week. Don't worry, no one who posts to this thread.
You want to blame someone for no update, go and kick the little fekwit in his non-existant 3peice.

At least you have somebody to kick. My anticipated weekend's sorta blown by car trouble(again.... :roll:

). Have to replace the head gasket...looking at, ballpark figure, 1,400 dollars worth of work(my folks really starting to egg me that it's time to replace the old girl :-(

).

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Sun Apr 07, 2013 12:50 pm

Note:Part 1 of 2 updates.

Blind Research Blues and Death From Above
The next four days saw a flurry of research in the cargo bay of Sleipnir. Most of the materials taken from the first TGE storage building were what remained of the mining equipment, some food-rations and a bin of worthless (to the Kreeghor at least) bits of civilians detritus of the long dead inhabitants of the blasted planet. It was when James, Leena & Felix opened the second set of containers that they saw examples of working technology.
* A pair of what looked like sport-fighter belts turned out to be some form of space-time compression devices, though when James Cormac attempted to use one; he just vanished for a microsecond then reappeared.
* Five grayish silver body-glove suits with smooth featureless helmets. No seams or obvious openings, and flexible but hardened plating at major joints and bones. After an hour of prodding & poking by Felix & James, Leena successfully scanned the suit and found out how to open it; a seam from right shoulder to left hip appeared to magically open as the material went slack, while the helmet split into 5 sections. James tried it on and found that is had an integrated computer and some form of targeting function in the helmet visor.
Picking up another of the artifacts, a pistol, he found that it interfaced with the suit flawlessly. When tested, the pistol caused a bright-white flash at the muzzle but no bolt or projectile became visible…but the target dummy exploded from inside its surface.

As testing continued, Shalyndra and the rest of the Sleipnir’s occupants gave the cargo area a wide berth; not wanting to be taken out immediately if one of the alien devices went boom. That all changed on the 9th of September. Though more artifacts were yet to be put through testing, a set of 4 crystal ovoids, coloured red, green, blue & black confounded the researchers. Tao-Shi moon & Johannes Teufel both were curious, but it was Felix Perez who finally reached out and almost instinctively slapped the blue ovoid to his forehead. The crystalline material flowed around his face leaving room for his mouth and eyes and then... he knew all the songs; all the words. He could understand the Algolian langauge Fionna, Leena & Rika shared. The “mask” was a data archive and language translation device that instantly placed the knowledge into his mind. Tao-Shi Moon took up the red crystal; Astrophysics & associated sciences as well as a star map of the sector of space in the Corkscrew galaxy that the aliens had colonized. For James, applied robotics, cybernetics and computer skills well advanced even by Tri-Galaxy standards. The black crystal however remained unusable; regardless of how many times Teufel tried ramming his face into it. Leena, on surface scanning it with her telemechanics, found the final “mask” to be heavily security locked, even against her considerable psionic skills. Even combining the previous 3 masks did not open the fourth and final crystals’ secrets.

Shalyndra, taken away by one of the three service bots on the Sleipnir to the bridge, found Fionna Faraday watching the skies. Sleipnir’s A.I. had detected a massive pulse of tachyons. A few moments later their source could be seen. A half dozen mini-novas (estimated to be 2.7 AU’s distant from the planet) caused by anti-matter explosions. Shalyndra asked what kind of weapons had been discharged and was horrified at Sleipnir’s answer. The explosions were not missile warheads.
They were the ruptured power-plants of a full half dozen Kreeghor sub-capital cruisers.
The TGE had come to find out what had happened to their dig-team and had been ambushed by someone or something. An aggressor so skilled it or they had managed to simultaneously kill 6 TGE cruisers in as many seconds.

The date is September 9th, P.A. 109.

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:48 pm

The Magi Missile fired by Tao Shi was classic

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:31 pm

calto40k wrote:The Magi Missile fired by Tao Shi was classic

That was a good move

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:12 am

Potentially lethal...to the magisile, but hey *shrug*
At least they now have a prisoner of war.

Oh... BTW; http://palladium-megaverse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2668920#p2668920
First of two updates

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 11:34 am

DhAkael wrote:Potentially lethal...to the magisile, but hey *shrug*
At least they now have a prisoner of war.

Oh... BTW; http://palladium-megaverse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2668920#p2668920
First of two updates

That was a cool session sorry I had to bow out early cause I missed stuff. As for the next, for my part... :roll:

sheesh

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:44 pm

Lost Seraph wrote:All you need is compressed MDC costumes, like the Flash's rings.

not a bad idea! That or force fields. I know the Phoenix Force higher ups have access to portable force field generators. Maybe when we get to CCW space I can get a hold of one.

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:54 pm

Part 2

Blind Research Blues and Death From Above Pt. 2
Shalyndra quickly went on to the intercom to inform her team mates about the event just witnessed. Tao-Shi Moon then began to ask an almost never ending torrent of questions to the elf-maid, Rika and the Sleipnir A.I., causing a log-jamb in any intelligent or logical data analysis. Capt. Hanlah attempted to try and keep the rising panic down among the non-crew members, but between Tao-Shi and James, it was a lost cause. The mob ruled that it would be wiser to run away from the planet and hope that who or whatever was coming didn’t find whatever was hidden in the wreck of the planet. Fionna Faraday activated the cloaking device to prevent any long distance scans from detecting the retreat, while Shalyndra powered up the engines to take off.
Fate had other plans.
Somehow a critical piece of shielding had come loose on one of the dorsal engine pods, allowing for silica dust and other more destructive particulates to coat the delicate EM coils. The net result was a complete melt-down of the port-side dorsal thruster and overload of 75% of the power-bus system. Sleipnir was not going anywhere. All that could be done was to trust in the still functional cloaking field and go silent-running until the uninvited “guests” could be analyzed (through passive sensors only, of course).
Nine vessels soon swept into high-orbit; disgorging a veritable cloud of softball sized sensor pods around the planet. Tao-Shi Moon offered to go up in her Beta-Fighter and attempt to use her optical sensors to see exactly who was above them. Rika acquiesced, and soon the visitors were identified. It was as Rika had feared; the ‘flying-wing’ styled craft preferred by the false-NEMA.
To make matters much much worse, soon after the NEMA fleet had taken station, one of the vessels that had not been seen or identified performed an orbital kinetic strike using a siege mass-driver. At fractional C, a 1 tonne nickel-iron slug impacted against the hive structures of the scorpion creatures not more than 150 miles away from Sleipnir’s location. The shockwave alone lifted Sleipnir over 6 meters and slammed it down again, rupturing the hull in multiple places. Despite the constant haranguing by Tao-Shi & James, Leena Shidow could not even begin to THINK of repairing the damage; it was far too substantial outside of a fully equipped dry dock.

Rika took charge; ordering Fionna, Leena and Deiter to remain onboard Sleipnir and continue monitoring for the Fenris-Darkstar (which was supposed to arrive any day to offer logistical support & extra firepower), while the rest would head out to lead the NEMA away from possibly discovering Sleipnir. They were successful.
The Naruni Hover-Explorer and beta fighter headed west and eventually found a broken starship; long buried under the sands but partially uncovered by the single orbital strike. Felix, not wanting to sit idle, broke into the communications net used by the NEMA and heard mention of the arrival of “Gorgons”. This confused Rika & James, as the image of a stone-gaze female with snake-hair popped into their minds. Shalyndra also did not wish to be idle and exited the hover vehicle to explore on foot for a possible hiding place near the broken starship hull. She did, and none too soon; as Tao-Shi moon detected 6 incoming drop pods, each large enough to hold a Zentraedi officer pod. One of the six broke open early revealing a winged humanoid mecha of a completely unknown design (but obviously of human aesthetic). For some reason this caused a rare hiccup of unease in the normally stoic UEEF lieutenant. Finding the tunnel (artificial at that) that Shalyndra had discovered to be large enough to accommodate both N-HV and Bea Fighter side by side, the group quickly entered. They realized the tunnel went of for a long distance so in a fit of desperation, they brought down some of the natural bedrock outside the tunnel in a planned rockslide. Plugging the entry just as the mysterious winged machine landed.

Johannes Teufel was happy to feel that the tunnel also had a ley-line running directly under it. That soon turned into fear when he sensed a massive PPE drain coming from the outside of the rockslide. Either the pilot of one of the warmachines or the war-machine its self was readying a powerful spell effect; an overpowered ‘shockwave’ enchantment in fact.
Phoenix Alpha left the area as quickly as possible.

An hour went by with no deviation in direction (though a few side roads / corridors were passed by; all of them totally caved in or worse…irradiated), the tunnel appearing to be almost untouched by the millennia, and lightless. At the end of the hour a junction was arrived at. Due North north-east farther than the ground-radar could see past, or West for roughly 20 to 30 miles. It was decided the shorter path would be the best bet. They found a solid wall of the same material as the tunnels. Even with Johannes using his battle fury blade at full power for a full minute of magic and testosterone fueled fury…only a set of shallow scratches marred the surface of the wall. A test shot with a the coaxial phase-cannon on the N-HV showed what Rika had thought; the entirety of the tunnel’s construction was somehow phase-shielded by means NOT produced by Prometheans.

James & Shalyndra began to search out a touch pad or control switch or anything to get past the seemingly out-of-place wall. A small touch plate with a depression in the shape of a human hand minus pinky finger was soon discovered. First Shalyndra tried but except for a slight tingling sensation and taste of tin or copper in her mouth, nothing. James tried and was nearly electrocuted. Johannes, feeling that he had nothing better to do after his failed attempt at being a human tunnel boring machine, placed his hand and felt / tasted the same as Shalyndra did, but it also included a slight “tug” at the back of his mind. The wall sunk down into the floor smoothly and without sound.

It revealed a massive blast crater 200 feet deep, 300 feet high and nearly 1000 feet across; surfaced in greenish glass. Tao-Shi went up to get some bearings on where they were in relation to their start point and came under fire by a long-ranged missile shot. A radio transmission from the shooter goaded the group with insults. James, Tao-Shi & Johannes took the bait. As Tao-shi and James powered towards the as yet unseen shooter, a flurry of long ranged rockets came down range at them, eventually resulting in Mr. Cormac being hit with a warhead as big around as his torso. In an explosion that should have completely misted his body, James Cormac instead was stopped dead in his Mach 1 sprinting tracks and left bruised and naked on the field. Johannes hitched a ride on the outside of Lt. Moons Beta fighter in GERWALK mode and the two kept going to come to grips with their attacker.
about 30 seconds after they saw what they were facing; a 57 foot tall humanoid mech shaped like a gorilla wearing high-tech roman armour…with a railway car sized bazooka over one shoulder and a 50mm railgun as a rifle.
Meanwhile in the N-HV, after James retreated back to the blast crater, he detected another mech coming straight down towards their location…fast. Forewarned, Shalyndra pulled back into the tunnel just as the winged battle-machine landed in a martial arts fighter’s pose where their vehicle had just been. The pilot politely asked them to surrender, and assured them they’d not be mistreated IF they surrendered to him. Alas, the chance of a peaceful resolution was not to be.
Tao-Shi Moon unleashed a large portion of her remaining war-load of SRM’s at the bulkier enemy mecha, blasting it into tiny shrapnel, with Johannes riding a last missile like a skateboard (warhead un-armed) right at the ejecting life-pod… which the blood-maddened battle-magus then began to whale away at with his magic halberd. The terrified pilot looked over the battle-magus’ shoulder and quietly asked to be ended quickly. He then pointed towards the blast crater.
Something had happened to the winged mecha (and its pilot). The machine had gone from a dark navy blue and clean-lined machine to a blazing scarlet, baroque, multi-winged demon styled version of its self; radiating glowing reddish mist.
Rika ordered Shalyndra to back up, as she herself targeted the touch-plate for the tunnel wall. The wall snapped up just as the transformed mech’s claws shot forwards to impale the hover vehicle. The wall got up just in time and the force of the blow was so great, the tunnel’s shield wall cracked.

KNOWING that discretion was the better part of self preservation, Tao-Shi Moon retrieved Johannes and his prisoner as the possessed pilot (speaking in a voice a full octave lower) promised total destruction and no mercy. The Beta Fighter transformed into fighter mode and took off at Mach 8 plus for the skies.

The date is early September 10th, PA 109.

Armageddon has been unleashed.

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:51 pm

Lost Seraph wrote:Yup. Then we can truly call you the Streak!

Well I certainly wouldn't run around nekkid anyway! LOL Well not intentionally.

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 5:12 pm

DhAkael wrote:Part 2

Blind Research Blues and Death From Above Pt. 2
Shalyndra quickly went on to the intercom to inform her team mates about the event just witnessed. Tao-Shi Moon then began to ask an almost never ending torrent of questions to the elf-maid, Rika and the Sleipnir A.I., causing a log-jamb in any intelligent or logical data analysis. Capt. Hanlah attempted to try and keep the rising panic down among the non-crew members, but between Tao-Shi and James, it was a lost cause. The mob ruled that it would be wiser to run away from the planet and hope that who or whatever was coming didn’t find whatever was hidden in the wreck of the planet. Fionna Faraday activated the cloaking device to prevent any long distance scans from detecting the retreat, while Shalyndra powered up the engines to take off.
Fate had other plans.
Somehow a critical piece of shielding had come loose on one of the dorsal engine pods, allowing for silica dust and other more destructive particulates to coat the delicate EM coils. The net result was a complete melt-down of the port-side dorsal thruster and overload of 75% of the power-bus system. Sleipnir was not going anywhere. All that could be done was to trust in the still functional cloaking field and go silent-running until the uninvited “guests” could be analyzed (through passive sensors only, of course).
Nine vessels soon swept into high-orbit; disgorging a veritable cloud of softball sized sensor pods around the planet. Tao-Shi Moon offered to go up in her Beta-Fighter and attempt to use her optical sensors to see exactly who was above them. Rika acquiesced, and soon the visitors were identified. It was as Rika had feared; the ‘flying-wing’ styled craft preferred by the false-NEMA.
To make matters much much worse, soon after the NEMA fleet had taken station, one of the vessels that had not been seen or identified performed an orbital kinetic strike using a siege mass-driver. At fractional C, a 1 tonne nickel-iron slug impacted against the hive structures of the scorpion creatures not more than 150 miles away from Sleipnir’s location. The shockwave alone lifted Sleipnir over 6 meters and slammed it down again, rupturing the hull in multiple places. Despite the constant haranguing by Tao-Shi & James, Leena Shidow could not even begin to THINK of repairing the damage; it was far too substantial outside of a fully equipped dry dock.

Rika took charge; ordering Fionna, Leena and Deiter to remain onboard Sleipnir and continue monitoring for the Fenris-Darkstar (which was supposed to arrive any day to offer logistical support & extra firepower), while the rest would head out to lead the NEMA away from possibly discovering Sleipnir. They were successful.
The Naruni Hover-Explorer and beta fighter headed west and eventually found a broken starship; long buried under the sands but partially uncovered by the single orbital strike. Felix, not wanting to sit idle, broke into the communications net used by the NEMA and heard mention of the arrival of “Gorgons”. This confused Rika & James, as the image of a stone-gaze female with snake-hair popped into their minds. Shalyndra also did not wish to be idle and exited the hover vehicle to explore on foot for a possible hiding place near the broken starship hull. She did, and none too soon; as Tao-Shi moon detected 6 incoming drop pods, each large enough to hold a Zentraedi officer pod. One of the six broke open early revealing a winged humanoid mecha of a completely unknown design (but obviously of human aesthetic). For some reason this caused a rare hiccup of unease in the normally stoic UEEF lieutenant. Finding the tunnel (artificial at that) that Shalyndra had discovered to be large enough to accommodate both N-HV and Bea Fighter side by side, the group quickly entered. They realized the tunnel went of for a long distance so in a fit of desperation, they brought down some of the natural bedrock outside the tunnel in a planned rockslide. Plugging the entry just as the mysterious winged machine landed.

Johannes Teufel was happy to feel that the tunnel also had a ley-line running directly under it. That soon turned into fear when he sensed a massive PPE drain coming from the outside of the rockslide. Either the pilot of one of the warmachines or the war-machine its self was readying a powerful spell effect; an overpowered ‘shockwave’ enchantment in fact.
Phoenix Alpha left the area as quickly as possible.

An hour went by with no deviation in direction (though a few side roads / corridors were passed by; all of them totally caved in or worse…irradiated), the tunnel appearing to be almost untouched by the millennia, and lightless. At the end of the hour a junction was arrived at. Due North north-east farther than the ground-radar could see past, or West for roughly 20 to 30 miles. It was decided the shorter path would be the best bet. They found a solid wall of the same material as the tunnels. Even with Johannes using his battle fury blade at full power for a full minute of magic and testosterone fueled fury…only a set of shallow scratches marred the surface of the wall. A test shot with a the coaxial phase-cannon on the N-HV showed what Rika had thought; the entirety of the tunnel’s construction was somehow phase-shielded by means NOT produced by Prometheans.

James & Shalyndra began to search out a touch pad or control switch or anything to get past the seemingly out-of-place wall. A small touch plate with a depression in the shape of a human hand minus pinky finger was soon discovered. First Shalyndra tried but except for a slight tingling sensation and taste of tin or copper in her mouth, nothing. James tried and was nearly electrocuted. Johannes, feeling that he had nothing better to do after his failed attempt at being a human tunnel boring machine, placed his hand and felt / tasted the same as Shalyndra did, but it also included a slight “tug” at the back of his mind. The wall sunk down into the floor smoothly and without sound.

It revealed a massive blast crater 200 feet deep, 300 feet high and nearly 1000 feet across; surfaced in greenish glass. Tao-Shi went up to get some bearings on where they were in relation to their start point and came under fire by a long-ranged missile shot. A radio transmission from the shooter goaded the group with insults. James, Tao-Shi & Johannes took the bait. As Tao-shi and James powered towards the as yet unseen shooter, a flurry of long ranged rockets came down range at them, eventually resulting in Mr. Cormac being hit with a warhead as big around as his torso. In an explosion that should have completely misted his body, James Cormac instead was stopped dead in his Mach 1 sprinting tracks and left bruised and naked on the field. Johannes hitched a ride on the outside of Lt. Moons Beta fighter in GERWALK mode and the two kept going to come to grips with their attacker.
about 30 seconds after they saw what they were facing; a 57 foot tall humanoid mech shaped like a gorilla wearing high-tech roman armour…with a railway car sized bazooka over one shoulder and a 50mm railgun as a rifle.
Meanwhile in the N-HV, after James retreated back to the blast crater, he detected another mech coming straight down towards their location…fast. Forewarned, Shalyndra pulled back into the tunnel just as the winged battle-machine landed in a martial arts fighter’s pose where their vehicle had just been. The pilot politely asked them to surrender, and assured them they’d not be mistreated IF they surrendered to him. Alas, the chance of a peaceful resolution was not to be.
Tao-Shi Moon unleashed a large portion of her remaining war-load of SRM’s at the bulkier enemy mecha, blasting it into tiny shrapnel, with Johannes riding a last missile like a skateboard (warhead un-armed) right at the ejecting life-pod… which the blood-maddened battle-magus then began to whale away at with his magic halberd. The terrified pilot looked over the battle-magus’ shoulder and quietly asked to be ended quickly. He then pointed towards the blast crater.
Something had happened to the winged mecha (and its pilot). The machine had gone from a dark navy blue and clean-lined machine to a blazing scarlet, baroque, multi-winged demon styled version of its self; radiating glowing reddish mist.
Rika ordered Shalyndra to back up, as she herself targeted the touch-plate for the tunnel wall. The wall snapped up just as the transformed mech’s claws shot forwards to impale the hover vehicle. The wall got up just in time and the force of the blow was so great, the tunnel’s shield wall cracked.

KNOWING that discretion was the better part of self preservation, Tao-Shi Moon retrieved Johannes and his prisoner as the possessed pilot (speaking in a voice a full octave lower) promised total destruction and no mercy. The Beta Fighter transformed into fighter mode and took off at Mach 8 plus for the skies.

The date is early September 10th, PA 109.

Armageddon has been unleashed.

And we are apparently back on track!

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:26 pm

All appologies to the lads from AC/DC

"Back on track
I hit the sack
I've been too long I'm glad to be back
Yes I'm, let loose
From the noose
That's kept me hanging about
I keep looking at the sky
'Cause it's gettin' me high
Forget the hearse 'cause I'll never die
I got nine lives
Cat's eyes
Usin' every one of them and running wild
Cause I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back Yes,
I'm back
Well, I'm back, back (Well) I'm back on track
Yes, I'm back on track!"

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:14 pm

Sleipnir would appear to be overdue for its 150,000 light year servicing check. And the loose shielding comcerns us. Check into a Paladin Steel/Aegis Interstellar Industries dockyard(or participating WZTech facility) when you can. We offer a 15% discount for servicing and repair of PS/ASI-built systems. Or, if you can get within communications range of one of our facilities, we'll send a repair ship(typically a Brunel-class tug) or divert one of our (Factory) Asteroid Cruisers if they're withn the area( 120 light years or a day's travel at 5 light years/hour). Free paint and carbon scoring removal with servicing.
Your business and continued existence are important to us. Service with a (non-fang-clearing, friendly and conciliatory) smile. :-D

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:39 pm

taalismn wrote:Sleipnir would appear to be overdue for its 150,000 light year servicing check. And the loose shielding comcerns us. Check into a Paladin Steel/Aegis Interstellar Industries dockyard(or participating WZTech facility) when you can. We offer a 15% discount for servicing and repair of PS/ASI-built systems. Or, if you can get within communications range of one of our facilities, we'll send a repair ship(typically a Brunel-class tug) or divert one of our (Factory) Asteroid Cruisers if they're withn the area( 120 light years or a day's travel at 5 light years/hour). Free paint and carbon scoring removal with servicing.
Your business and continued existence are important to us. Service with a (non-fang-clearing, friendly and conciliatory) smile.

*Add is displaced by excedingly loud and BRIGHT holo-vert of a square-jawed cropped haired male human in Spandex uniform with waving flag of some description in background*

"COME ON DOWN TO JAMES T. HARLEY'S MECHA & STARSHIP EMPORIUM! WE OFFER REASONABLE INTEREST RATES ON TRI-GALACTIC CREDIT AND A 3 YEAR OR 500,000 LY (whichever comes first) WARENTY ON ANY AND ALL PRODUCTS! ALSO IF YOU ACT NOW, WE INCLUDE A FREE HOLOGRAM WRIST COMPUTER VALUED AT 20,000 UTCs WITH ME, JAMES T. HARLEY AS YOUR PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT HARD-CODED INTO THE PROCESSOR. YOU'RE NEVER WITHOUT BACK UP AT JAMES T. HARLEY'S; THE MEGAVERSAL MERC'S FRIEND!"

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:40 pm

Lost Seraph wrote:You know, I just thought of something. How much weight can the teleport pad transport?

I think 100 tonnes; give or take. :erm:

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:42 pm

"Sir, our telepath's head exploded."
"Psychic attack?!"
"Tried to mindread a used starship salesman. Apparent contradiction overload."

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:28 am

DhAkael wrote:
Lost Seraph wrote:You know, I just thought of something. How much weight can the teleport pad transport?

I think 100 tonnes; give or take.

My bad, only 10 tonnes. :frust:

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 9:04 pm

Nice new additions. I hope that they will continue. I am enjoying reading them.

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:44 pm

Lost Seraph wrote:Oh well, there goes that idea. Though, I wonder if we could drop the frigate, we might be able to salvage enough of it to make Sleipnir airborne.

Not a bad idea Seraph. Of course it sound's like we're about to get more PC aide in the form of Calto's Jack Chirax and Falloutmech's Markus Falkon and their power armor and Alpha fighter for Jack and Glitterboy for Falkon plus the ship they're riding in. So they might be able to make the execution of this idea easier.

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:11 am

*Desperate retreats.
*An enemy zealot is talked into at least thinking about seeing reason.
*Ancient underground cities.
*Three sisters lurk in the shadows.
*Talking blue snakes.
*The enemy commander speaks.
*"DEEP STRIKE!"
*An unexpected stow-away brings the dead city back to life.

All this & more in the next instalment of; On wings of Fire; Phoenix Force & Prelude to Minion War.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 1:07 pm

Talking blue snakes?
Gee...I wonder what it could be?

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:50 pm

Other stuff gonna be getting real next session. :demon:

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:50 pm

Sounds like it is going to be an interesting session. I am looking forward to reading about it.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 9:58 am

DhAkael wrote:Other stuff gonna be getting real next session.

Ew...time to invest in adamantium underwear?

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 10:23 am

taalismn wrote:
DhAkael wrote:Other stuff gonna be getting real next session.

Ew...time to invest in adamantium underwear?

Long story short; they'll need to time things correctly, otherwise... BAD THINGS will happen.

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:50 am

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnd...they escaped.
Well, they won, and then they were able to escape at leisure...
Sorta.
Um. :erm:

I'll try and clear this up after lots of coffee and writing things down. :oops:

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 1:56 pm

It was fun as hell, much combat effectiveness by the crew, lots of great Role Play by everyone, and Johannes and James worked together and got the planetary defenses up and running which I believe saved our lives. Then the Saphire Cobra Shemarrians and the crew of the Fenris apparently routed the false NEMANS and those of us who had not met them before were introduced to Lt. Markus Falkon and Jack Chirax! Good stuff!

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:12 pm

“This is the end, my only friend. This is the end of our story…” Pt. 1
Above and below the surface of the planet, Phoenix force raced for safety from the now-possessed mecha. Above, Lt. Tao-Shi Moon evaded constant radar sweeps by the low-orbital sensor net with moderate success, watching behind her as the daemon-machine began to lay waste to the surrounding terrain (possibly having found some hapless scorpion drones to mangle). As Lt. Moon ghosted across the atmosphere, Johannes Teufel began to have a very philosophical conversation with their P.O.W.; a Private 1st class Larry Jenkins. Though the young mech pilot seemed at first to be another xenophobic religious zealot, Teufel’s careful arguments swayed the otherwise intelligent young mans’ thoughts to the possibility of co-existence between human and non-human. At the end it was agreed that Johannes would take PFC Jenkins’ parole until such time as they could drop him off at a neutral human colonized planet.

Below, the rest of P-Force Alpha raced along the North leading tunnel for hundreds of miles, only briefly having to come to a sudden halt as two human figures appeared right in their path. When Rika & James jumped out to look if they had hit the two figures, there was no sign of anyone, living or dead. Continuing on they eventually found themselves entering a massive underground city, the only light from a large 100ft. hole blown into the ceiling of bed-rock and the alien building polymer. No sign of power or of life could be seen. Rika & Shalyndra took the Naruni HV under a mega-crete awning and disembarked along with the Felix & James, while Lt. Moon and company regrouped with them (after finding the top-side part of the hole).

The undercity was huge; easily stretching for over a mile in any one direction and built into 4 tiers along the sides, with 50ft. long illuminator stalactites (non-functional) hanging far over-head. Of the previous inhabitants there was no sign. A few broken or scattered pieces of personal belongings or non-biodegradable fabric. The only indication of what happened was the bore-hole into the undercity and what looked to be melt or burn marks on the buildings. Shalyndra and Rika took to the apartment housing section of the city to scout out any possible data storage that was not encrypted (journals and the like), while James & Tao-Shi Moon in her Beta fighter’s battroid mode searched the lowest tier and what seemed to be a transit station of some kind. Felix & Johannes placed PFC Larry Jenkins into the HV (stripped to shorts and t-shirt and given sedative) within a bunk cubicle that was then locked. While Felix & Johannes began their search sweep, they were subject to being playfully mocked by a voice that perfectly mimicked everyone who was there in the undercity. The duo finally came face to face with a large, blue, talking snake. As this was going on, Shalyndra was lightly tapped on her shoulder; upon turning she was confronted by two very minimally clad 8ft tall females dressed in what looked like blue snake-skin “bikinis” for lack of a better word. The red-head of the two strange women made a shushing noise at the elf maid, while the raven haired Amazon looked as if she was having a one-sided quiet conversation.
When Johannes and Felix did NOT try to destroy the snake, its voice switched one last time to a sultry mezzo-soprano and thanked them, commending Johannes in particular and promising that once “she” and her companions had found “the fallen one” safely, that at some point they would meet in person and not in dream-time. With that the snake slithered off and as Shalyndra was briefly misdirected by the red-haired Amazon, when she turned back…both strangers had vanished. Teufel was gob-smacked; when Shalyndra described what she had run into, the battle-magus recalled a dream he had about being in Valhalla’s hall-of-hero’s in the company of two women as the elf-maid described.

Time passed and as the search began to seem fruitless (aside from knowing they had other ‘hunters’ in the city who didn’t seem to mean them harm) a wide-band multi-channel communication found its way through the megatons of bed-rock and building materials. It was the task-force commander of the false-NEMA; Sister-Commodore Zara-Zeta Baudnustae of the most holy Neo-Earth Military Alliance. The calmly arrogant woman warned Phoenix Force (in fact naming most of the crew except for James, Tao-Shi and Felix) to not interfere any more. Commodore Baudnustae further stated that though she was loath to stoop to brute-force methods, she’d be more than happy to smash the planet apart and sift though the rubble to find “The Prize”, as it “could survive the heat-death of the universe”, but did not feel that the time wasted would be worth it. She promised to halt any pursuit or current attempt to eliminate them if they just stood back and did nothing. Johannes, feeling his Teutonic blood a-broil, opened a com channel back and railed against the woman leading the NEMA’n strike group.

Only one reply came through before chaos was unleashed;
“Thank you Mr. Teufel. You have been most helpful in assisting us locating you and your companions. Good bye.”

Moments later, 4 teleport discharges occurred in 4 different locations of the undercity.
The NEMA had found them again.
In force.

The date is now September 11 (1:30am GMT), PA 109.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:46 pm

Ewww...in the sights of space-nazis.... :shock:

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 5:54 pm

“This is the end, my only friend. This is the end of our story…” Pt. 2
Three squads of NEMA soldiers; 5 power armoured infantry armed with gauss-rifles, a trio of what looked like heavily modified Jaegers, for Shalyndra & Rika a vat-grown Juicer commando each. Despite the best of intentions, Johannes almost caused the potential death of James Cormac, having ‘Carpet of Adhesion’ struck two of the infantry but failing to warn James before he ran onto the magical fly-paper. This resulted in James & the trooper going at each other hand to hand. Felix & Tao-Shi Moon laid down suppressive fire but took substantial damage to themselves in the process (Tao-Shi from the Jaegers & Felix from the infantry troopers NOT glued down). During this chaotic melee, the members of Phoenix Force received an audio transmission from what seemed to be a ‘friendly’ A.I. that had taken over control of the Undercity, but then apologized for the fact that only 15% of the city’s power capacity was active and its “Quantum shields” could only take minimal damage.
Minimal being relative, as Zara-Zeta Baudnustae ordered a siege-massdriver strike onto the location of the Undercity. The flash of atmospheric friction and x-ray burst illuminated the underground through the bore-hole, but stopped short of the actual blast, thanks to the Q.S. covering the surface. Unfortunately, another hit would penetrate. The A.I. suggested that one or more of the members of Phoenix Force break off hostilities with the NEMA and converge on the ‘planetary defense’ control (which the digital sentience could not access directly). James ran at full speed following the directions given and though he tried desperately to use one of the intact consoles found in the non-descript bunker, again he was foiled by the technology of the Morphii. Teufel slaughtered his way through his opponents like a disciple of a blood-god and using magic flight, rushed to assist Cormac (both wrongly thinking that it was Teufel being male and ‘magic’ that allowed access to the technology) and working in tandem, brought the planetary point defense grid on-line.

The NEMA troopers were either dispatched or surrendered (realizing their own commander in chief was trying to kill them along with P-Force), and Shalyndra observed another group; the forth squad that had been teleported down, being taken down by non-lethal electro-pulse gauss-rounds. Shlyandra recognized them as being the same used by the snake-cult tribe of Shemarrians back on Earth.
Further assistance in high orbit was also occurring; As Marks Falkon, Uno-Rez & Jack Chriax on the ‘Fenris-Darkstar’ pocket carrier arrived in-system at last, they observed the NEMA fleet in disarray: The orbital massdriver carrier tumbling on its long axis, while the flying-wing destroyers perused 4 small winged-corvettes that seemed to maneuver like aerospace fighters. A quad anti-matter torpedo volley from the Fenris put paid to the one straggler flying-wing, and after a short wait for the rest of the NEMA fleet to enter FTL in pursuit of the unknown corvettes Uno-Rez & the Fenris A.I. took the vessel down to the surface of the planet…the way now clear.

Within the Undercity the A.I. took charge of the prisoners; an effect similar to what happened when James tried one of the Morphii’n belt devices except the P.o.W.’s didn’t reappear (P-Force being reassured that the NEMA’ns had been placed into secure stasis for later). Though the members of Phoenix Force had many questions for the helpful alien A.I., it would not be swayed from its mission; retrieve the final legacy of the Morphii’n Congress and keep it from those who would use it for evil. A small guide hologram lead the team into the most heavily damaged area of the Undercity, eventually ending near a massive perfectly spherical cavity stopping just short of a complex scaffold & gantry system. Johannes estimated it was something similar to an ‘annihilation’ spell (a contained matter / anti-matter reaction) except ten times more volume. As the N-HV and Beta fighter stopped just outside, Rika gave a cry and psi-teleported out across the cavity and was seen to pick up the body (or at least half of one; the upper torso had been covered in a stasis field while the lower half had been taken by the anti-matter bomb). Despite her best efforts, even though technically she could have revived the brain & “soul” of the long dead & preserved Morphii soldier, the life force had passed on. James & Tao-Shi were puzzled at Rika’s behavior, thinking that the NuMan had personally known the Morphii or at least known of her (which was not the case) but Captain Hanlah-Falkon just shook her head and tearfully lamented at the cruelty of fate. As this was occurring, Felix, ever the plaything of fate himself, realized what was within the scaffolding and nearly went catatonic in phobic terror.
The final legacy of the Morphii… a giant humanoid war-mech nearly 90ft. tall and girded in armour of red & gold. Though they could not prove it, both the terrified M.O.M. mercenary and Johannes would swear the machine was aware of Phoenix Force. As the team heard from their erstwhile team-mates above them in the Fenris-Darkstar, the un-named alien A.I. who had assisted them, its function complete…faded with the last of the energy of the Undercity.

Hours later, with the mechanical juggernaught placed within Fenris-Darkstar’s capacious cargo bay and Phoenix Force finally & completely re-united, regrouped with a miraculously repaired Sleipnir and both vessels took to the sky and into the void.

Phoenix Force Alpha continues on… the date; September 12, PA 109.

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:06 pm

Victory is OURS!

Monkra · Unread post by **Monkra** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:38 pm

Woo-hoo Salvage!!!!

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:41 pm

Survival it is the name of the game.

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:34 pm

Monkra wrote:Woo-hoo Salvage!!!!

Did a lil off camera RP with DhAkael today that may end up making cataloging our salvage much much easier. I'll let him explain further.

Jay05 · Unread post by **Jay05** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:36 pm

calto40k wrote:Survival it is the name of the game.

And we did that bro! That and more! lol