[FTL RP, WE'RE BACK, REBOOTED!] The Rogue Cadets

[epiccuttlefish]

I am going to be unable to post for a bit.
I will return by this time the day after tomorrow, and have my event happen the beacon after that.

[JakeCollins]

I am going to be unable to post for a bit.
I will return by this time the day after tomorrow, and have my event happen the beacon after that.

Ok, we will continue for now. Let us know when you're ready!

"Jake, can I ask you something?" Sarah asked.

"Sure!" Jake said, spinning around in his fancy chair.

"Nebulas have always fascinated me, when lit up with plasma storms. The physics behind it is incredible. Can you please allow me to use a significant portion of sensor power to take scientific data as we pass through the nebula? It'll tie up alot of sensor telemetry input."

"Sure!" Jake said. "I'll signal the others to be on lookout, while you take all the data you want."

"Thanks!" Sarah exclaimed, before disappearing.

"This is Fleet Commander Jake Collins. We are going to move out as a group, to the next beacon. Proceed with caution, and keep an eye out for anything suspicious. My sensors might be pre-occupied with taking scientific data, so you guys please be on the lookout."

[stylesrj]

"At a time like this, you want us to be running blind?" Eden asked "Especially when you've got the best sensors in the known galaxy?"
"It's the Federation spirit" Lux remarked "It's how one gains a better understanding of the universe..."
"Before I became... me, I served on many cargo ships, loading up and offloading cargo... we didn't ask questions about the contents and we didn't take detours to go look at some anomaly" Eden said "That's why I was on the Pelican... transporting items from a Quarantine Zone is dangerous but there is no room to investigate star matter..."
She gestured to the rusty walls and loose panels "There is a time and a place to be gathering scientific data and it's not in an unknown nebula with people pursuing us with weapons primed"
Her stomach grumbled "Besides... I can't keep these potential bounties in here forever."
"You could just let them out and tie them with the others" Lux suggested.
"Luxanna, you won't be saying that when you've mastered The Gift..."

[JakeCollins]

"At a time like this, you want us to be running blind?" Eden asked "Especially when you've got the best sensors in the known galaxy?"
"It's the Federation spirit" Lux remarked "It's how one gains a better understanding of the universe..."
"Before I became... me, I served on many cargo ships, loading up and offloading cargo... we didn't ask questions about the contents and we didn't take detours to go look at some anomaly" Eden said "That's why I was on the Pelican... transporting items from a Quarantine Zone is dangerous but there is no room to investigate star matter..."
She gestured to the rusty walls and loose panels "There is a time and a place to be gathering scientific data and it's not in an unknown nebula with people pursuing us with weapons primed"
Her stomach grumbled "Besides... I can't keep these potential bounties in here forever."
"You could just let them out and tie them with the others" Lux suggested.
"Luxanna, you won't be saying that when you've mastered The Gift..."

"Lux is right, it's a Fed thing. No matter what mission we're on, we love our science, too! Plus, even if we didn't take scientific scans, we'd be running blind anyway. My sensors can't pick up any tactical data, anyway. Might as well use it for science, since it's so ineffective. Sarah, have your fun." Jake replied.

"Ok, let's move out!" Jake shouted into the radio. They all jumped to the next beacon.

[BrenTenkage]

"At a time like this, you want us to be running blind?" Eden asked "Especially when you've got the best sensors in the known galaxy?"
"It's the Federation spirit" Lux remarked "It's how one gains a better understanding of the universe..."
"Before I became... me, I served on many cargo ships, loading up and offloading cargo... we didn't ask questions about the contents and we didn't take detours to go look at some anomaly" Eden said "That's why I was on the Pelican... transporting items from a Quarantine Zone is dangerous but there is no room to investigate star matter..."
She gestured to the rusty walls and loose panels "There is a time and a place to be gathering scientific data and it's not in an unknown nebula with people pursuing us with weapons primed"
Her stomach grumbled "Besides... I can't keep these potential bounties in here forever."
"You could just let them out and tie them with the others" Lux suggested.
"Luxanna, you won't be saying that when you've mastered The Gift..."

"Lux is right, it's a Fed thing. No matter what mission we're on, we love our science, too! Plus, even if we didn't take scientific scans, we'd be running blind anyway. My sensors can't pick up any tactical data, anyway. Might as well use it for science, since it's so ineffective. Sarah, have your fun." Jake replied.

"Ok, let's move out!" Jake shouted into the radio. They all jumped to the next beacon.

When they arrived at the next beacon they saw something bad, it was a rebel ship, they were about to fire on it when Bren spoke, "Hold on, look, its not moving...those hull breaches look bad..." Bren said realizing this ship was attacked.

"Stay alert...we might not be alone..." he said when he heard something on the com's, "Help"

It was a weak help from all frequencies, and right after they heard it a ship appeared from cloaking and fired its burst laser mark 3 on the rebel ship, finishing it off in an explosion. The Ship was slug design, a much sleeker one, must be a slug prototype ship or something.

"Ah more prey for me, The Dread Pirate Gleek, don't bother surrendering, because all I want is your lives HAHAHAHAHAHA" the slug pirate declared before disappearing into the clouds, literally in this case by cloaking

"Shit he has a cloaker, and a powerful weapon, but I did get a look at the shields, this one doesn't seem very tough" He said

(so yeah very fast, very cloaky, but its a glass cannon, hope ya all approve of this event ^_^)

[stylesrj]

"Remind me to save up for one of those devices" Eden said, seeing the Slug ship cloak.
Without functioning sensors, the Pelican had trouble tracking where the enemy was.

Suddenly, there were several shots fired at the cargo ship, spread out over the area, easily dropping the shields and destroying Life Support and the door control system. "He must have hit some vital conduits. Thermal activity is rising in several areas of the ship. I think we're on fire" Eden said, banking the ship as hard as she could to try and track the Slug vessel; however it was just too fast.

Meanwhile Lux grabbed an extinguisher and headed for life support where one of the crew was trying to keep the fire under control and get the system repaired; the rest were trying to get the doors working again.

So what sort of cloak is canon here? The idea from Mass Effect where a ship hides its heat emissions and becomes invisible to sensors, or if we go by the description the game has "Partially phases your ship into another dimension"
and that's why weapons have trouble locking on and hitting the target because sometimes the shots just go through the ship itself.

[BrenTenkage]

"Remind me to save up for one of those devices" Eden said, seeing the Slug ship cloak.
Without functioning sensors, the Pelican had trouble tracking where the enemy was.

Suddenly, there were several shots fired at the cargo ship, spread out over the area, easily dropping the shields and destroying Life Support and the door control system. "He must have hit some vital conduits. Thermal activity is rising in several areas of the ship. I think we're on fire" Eden said, banking the ship as hard as she could to try and track the Slug vessel; however it was just too fast.

Meanwhile Lux grabbed an extinguisher and headed for life support where one of the crew was trying to keep the fire under control and get the system repaired; the rest were trying to get the doors working again.

So what sort of cloak is canon here? The idea from Mass Effect where a ship hides its heat emissions and becomes invisible to sensors, or if we go by the description the game has "Partially phases your ship into another dimension"
and that's why weapons have trouble locking on and hitting the target because sometimes the shots just go through the ship itself.

(I always thought classic cloak, hides the ship with a copy of the backdrop and hiding heat emmisions. Given the area as well, would make it even harder to track as the sensors already are struggling, would explain why Slugs love this place, easy to pick off prey, while they using their natural telepathic abilities can track opponents in the nebulas, hell I bet whatever the slugs call an empire/nation/kingdom train certain slugs to enhance their abilities to be living sensors just to navigate the nebula)

"Alright then, hang on, gonna try and be your ey-AHHHHHHHH!" Bren this time was shot his engines being blasted.

"Fucking slugs, FIGHT LIKE A REAL MAN!" Bren called out over the coms

He paused and turned off the outer coms and added, "Umm no offense Gorlag" he said as Gorlag was working on fixing up the engines enough to keep them going, thankfully no hull breachs or fire, but he was just lucky.

[stylesrj]

Finally got around to it but here's a rough idea of what the Pelican looks like, with some ships for comparison of size.



"But where are the Space Whale decorations?"
I'm not an artist, imagine that there's a giant ribcage around the ship and a skull.

"Why so big?"
The Pelican is a cargo ship so it's gotta be bigger than the other ships. Still has the same crew capacity of the smaller ones though, just like real life cargo vessels.

"Why are those nacelles rusted and out of place compared to the rest of the ship?"
It's a big ship. Those are cargo holds and Eden is trying to keep the ship intact in the important areas

"Why are the engine nacelles different then?"
They were recently refitted.

"Does this mean The Pelican could carry a Federation Scout in a bay below it or something?"
Perhaps? It could be a shuttle of some sort too?

"Why is the Flagship so tiny?"
Seriously, look it up in the game files. It's barely as big as the Kestrel.

"Are you going to make a modded ship around this?"
Ehhh... I didn't quite keep the pieces I spliced together so I wouldn't get gibs done and a good ship's gotta have gibs so no...

"Floor layout?"
Not important right now unless you want a Die-Hard situation later on and then I'll throw one together

[BrenTenkage]

I like it, looks pretty awesome. Wanna try for a robin, I like to think its basically a repainted Kestral, like the Kestral is the design that came after the Robin, maybe the Robin has a light shade of red. Just a thought. BTW gonna make a mod using that ship hull cause if you aren't I might have an idea for it. Basically a boarding ship but I think I could make it work)

[JakeCollins]

Finally got around to it but here's a rough idea of what the Pelican looks like, with some ships for comparison of size.

Looks great!

Jake put the ship on red alert.

He shut down the various science experiments running on the sensors, but it was useless. All he could scan were variations in nebula gas concentration, and nothing more. Then, it hit him. Different areas of the nebula were different densities! He made a B-line for the densest nearby area, diving into its higher-concentration gases.

"Shut down all systems except for weapons," he ordered. Soon, the shields dropped, the hum of the engines faded, and life support went offline.

"What about life support?" Sarah asked.

"The thick area we're in will shield us from most cosmic radiation, and the heat in here won't deplete for another few hours."

Jake took a scan of the gases that surrounded them. Densely compact, they muted both cosmic radiation and wide-band-sensor emissions. Jake inched forward a little, poking the cockpit out of the cloud and into the less-dense area. Since the sensor modules were mounted to the cockpit, this meant that they were free from the compact area. So, the compact gases kept tageters from locking onto Jake, while Jake could scan the surrounding area.

Relative to Jakes view, the slug ship appeared far 'below' him. (But it's space... so...) He took aim now that the sensors were free, and fired at the cloaking system on the enemy ship. "What I want to know," Jake muttered. "Is how these Slug bastards got their hands on Cloaking technology"

The cloaking system turned to embers, and Jake let the weapons recharge, as the Slugs' FTL drive began to charge.

A scratchy transmission came in on the radio, "We don't know who you are, we don't care, just let us leave with our lives! Weapons like that are... unprecedented!"

In response, Jake fired at the Slugs piloting, and their FTL stopped charging. "Tell me how you got a cloaking system!" Jake said into the fizzling radio. "There's a Federation tech base, not too far from here. When we got there, it was disabled by an ion storm. Ships had picked it off, and most of it was already looted, but we were able to grab some unidentified system, and install it... It turned out to be a cloak!"

The info wasn't useful. Jake continued firing, and the Slug ship was badly damaged and disabled. No weapons, shields, or piloting.
"Please! Mercy! Mercy!" They cried.

"I can't afford mercy," Jake said. With a final shot, the Slug ship broke apart.

Next time someone else can be the hero... It's cool to fight in more unconventional ways, in a Role Play. Also, where's WOL?