(you could have told us to go into there and let someone else tear him apart LOL)Eyesight Technology wrote:Looks great!stylesrj wrote:Finally got around to it but here's a rough idea of what the Pelican looks like, with some ships for comparison of size.
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?
Bren gave a sigh of relief as he watched the scrap float around.
"Great shooting Jake, sometimes makes me wish I rode on your ship instead of taking this one, but hey, gotta have multiple targets for the big mission, so you can be the hero" he said lightly chuckling
