RE: [Rage at the Eclipse] - The First Phase
01-20-2019, 03:44 AM
Jones piloted the ship out near one of the system's gas giants, hoping to remain hidden in the radiation. Then hopped off to explore the ship as Wilnarr sat down.
Wilnarr listened to the radio broadcasts.
Everything was on fire, the warbots seemed to be attacking at random in the cities, attacking utilities mostly and then just haphazardly attacking random targets until destroyed. The vast majority of them where deployed in the rural areas of this hemisphere of the planet and seemed to be digging into the ground, building up strange pylons deployed from their mothership in orbit.
There were no readings coming from said mothership, indeed it didn't even register as a void in space, cosmic radiation continued as if there was not even an obstruction there. The ship had no visual sensors worth a damn and the windscreen was covered by a bulkhead, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes from the ground, he wouldn't even know it was there.
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Lucy didn't find a robot repair kit per se, but she did find several defunct computers. Mostly old, non-functioning laptops (who even uses laptops anymore?) , which she could cannibalise to get a functioning CPU for the busted robot.
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Jones explored the ship!
Everything was held together with spit and duct tape. Sometimes literally. The reactor needed purging, the grav generators needed realignment, the warp core was functional but didn't have much of a lifespan left to it, the food synthesiser was busted, the toilet was on fire, despite the best efforts of Chroma to put it out, she couldn't find a fire extinguisher and was using a fire blanket to smother the chemical fire.
To top it all off, he found the ship exactly as Lucy found it, with a stupidly placed detachment switch and no means to control the engine room without the bridge and no means to propel the bridge without the engine room.
Also the berths were bare, there was only one mattress and half the springs poked out of it.
Wilnarr listened to the radio broadcasts.
Everything was on fire, the warbots seemed to be attacking at random in the cities, attacking utilities mostly and then just haphazardly attacking random targets until destroyed. The vast majority of them where deployed in the rural areas of this hemisphere of the planet and seemed to be digging into the ground, building up strange pylons deployed from their mothership in orbit.
There were no readings coming from said mothership, indeed it didn't even register as a void in space, cosmic radiation continued as if there was not even an obstruction there. The ship had no visual sensors worth a damn and the windscreen was covered by a bulkhead, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes from the ground, he wouldn't even know it was there.
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Lucy didn't find a robot repair kit per se, but she did find several defunct computers. Mostly old, non-functioning laptops (who even uses laptops anymore?) , which she could cannibalise to get a functioning CPU for the busted robot.
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Jones explored the ship!
Everything was held together with spit and duct tape. Sometimes literally. The reactor needed purging, the grav generators needed realignment, the warp core was functional but didn't have much of a lifespan left to it, the food synthesiser was busted, the toilet was on fire, despite the best efforts of Chroma to put it out, she couldn't find a fire extinguisher and was using a fire blanket to smother the chemical fire.
To top it all off, he found the ship exactly as Lucy found it, with a stupidly placed detachment switch and no means to control the engine room without the bridge and no means to propel the bridge without the engine room.
Also the berths were bare, there was only one mattress and half the springs poked out of it.