As the others suit up the survivors, Cnosos starts his way to the engineering section, using his intuition as a guide. There are some dramatic design differences to human ships but following the power conduits and the emergency lights indicates that the dart-shaped cruiser has it's engineering in the aft as you had expected. On your way there you find a lot of more bodies lying around, slumped while trying to keep the ship together in the hyperspacestorm.
The vapors get thicker as you near your target, and it is quite clear that the crew in these parts must be dead already. Then you hit an open area with a cylindrical tube, almost two meters across, in the middle. (know. tech roll 18) An antimatter reactor. You've read about these but this is the first time that you actually see one. It seems to be offline. Also in the back of the room there is what seems like the engines of this ship. You know the Syrran use more sophisticated technology than humans and a gravimetric engine is something new for you too. Cnosos being more intrigued by the technology he only nominally registers the dozen or so Syrran bodies littering the floor of the room.
Meanwhile. The guys have managed to get the three survivors suited up and they are breathing more easily now. Still unconscious, but Solly is fairly certain they'll live.
Gaetanna has been trying to establish connection with the Syrran computers but she gets no response at all. They seem to be completely offline, and with the Antimatter Reactor being down, it seems that what little power there is in the ship, is not directed to the computers.
"There may be more," says Solly. Without waiting for the others, he continues deeper into the ship, heading in the opposite direction to Cnosos.
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"Pierce, head to engineering and keep an eye on Cnosos," says Damon. "And don't let him blow us up...Solly and I will make our way forward, and see if we can find the bridge. If we can access the ship's systems, we may be able to get the environmental systems back online."
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"I'm afraid that won't be possible" says Cnosos by the intercom. "Their... wonderful... source of power seems to be offline. I'll check the engines now, they seem fine, although I've never saw a gravimetric engine before... I'll see what I can do with the antimatter reactor... O and there's some other bodies here, a dozen or so. All dead I think."
//Should I roll a knowledge technology (+10) check and then a repair(+11) check? Or could I take 10 in the first and 20 in the second?
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Mri'Thas: "Useless primates... " Sheng Zim: "Your existence brings the world out of balance. The chaos I bring shall revert it; unfortunately, your soul will be destroyed in the process."
-------------------------------------- Tuk Heavy Hands Apeldan: "Trolls are afraid to cats. Good to know" (Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult") Cnosos: "I bet there's plenty of wonderful devices in that ship. Let's scavenge them at once!" (Blackrat's "After Earth") Metliz: Sounds like fun! (Arkandus's "The First") Thok: "Thok eats a lot, Thok big. Thok not good at first impressions." (MnL's "Valley of the Dead")
Pierce looks at Damon with a panicked look on his face, "What the f- how do I get to engineering?" Without waiting for an answer Pierce turns and heads in the direction Cnosos did the few minutes before, gun out, knife out.
Damon chuckles. "Just follow the power conduits." With that, he moves to catch up with Solly, heading toward the ship's bow.
Is the cruiser multiple decks, or just a single deck?
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The ship is actually multideck and quite a lot of bigger than your ship... About 5 times longer and 60 times heavier... It is a strain for Greed to tow it, but since it isn't fighting back, it can be done...
Ooh, this a nice pic:
Syrran Cruiser
Cnosos hits to work trying to locate the leak in the engines and after a short while finds it. There is a way to reroute the coolant through secondary conduits and it isn't a hard thing to do. It seems one of the crew was trying to do just that but ran out of time as she succumbed to the toxic air.
After taking care of that, he turns his attention to the power core. Now that seems more of a challenge...
Pierce seems a bit lost while trying to find the engineering section but after retracing his steps a few times he hears some muttering and following the noice finds Cnosos, lost in thought as he tries to figure out the machinery.
Solly and Damon head through the ship towards where they expect the bridge to be. The further you get from the engineering, the less toxic vapors there are in the air. As you hurry through the corridors you find crewmembers who are still alive but unconscious. They are actually doing a bit better than the ones in the airlock, but unless the environmental controls can be fired up soon, they will perish.
Solly does notice a peculiar thing about the crew however. It seems that about 7/10 of the Syrrans you've found are female...
"Cnosos, if you can get environmental back on line, you're going to have a lot of very grateful ladies here," says Solly over the comlink.
If any of the crew can be quickly zipped into atmosphere suits, he'll do so, otherwise he'll continue on to the bridge, slipping back a little to let Damon take the lead.
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Melara holds on to the control stick in the Greed, applying gentle thrust to keep the two joined ships from falling back into the storm behind them. She shoots Gaetanna an anticipatory look though.
"These guys are some of the most advanced aliens in known space, you know? There's gotta be some kind of reward for this kind of thing."
Her smile fades as she looks back to the instruments.
"Though...it seems kind of weird that the ship's in such bad shape."
Pierce surveys the slew of bodies strewn about the floor. Leaning down he unceremoniously places the hand of one on the crotch of another. "Ha! Cnosos look!" His smile of amusement fades when it's clear the Greek has no interest in appeasing Pierce's puerile attempts at humor, the man grumbles and sets to work lining up bodies against a wall, seated, backs upright, heads lolled off to the side, one after another. It wasn't the best job to do, but someone probably needed to do it.
Damon takes the lead, letting Solly follow along behind. He sweeps the way ahead of them with his gun, making sure that no danger awaits, and moves in the direction of where he best guesses the bridge is.
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"Let's not disappoint them, then. I could use some female company, I think we all agree that our own are quite crazy." Cnosos says by the intercom. He glances at Pierce as he makes fun of the corpses, and rolls his eyes. "After you are done piling up dead aliens, can you bring me that, that, and those?" Cnosos asks, pointing at a series of instruments on the work bench. He begins twisting some wires, and plugin some terminals. He then continues using the tools that Pierce gives him, adjusting some pieces and removing others.
Mri'Thas: "Useless primates... " Sheng Zim: "Your existence brings the world out of balance. The chaos I bring shall revert it; unfortunately, your soul will be destroyed in the process."
-------------------------------------- Tuk Heavy Hands Apeldan: "Trolls are afraid to cats. Good to know" (Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult") Cnosos: "I bet there's plenty of wonderful devices in that ship. Let's scavenge them at once!" (Blackrat's "After Earth") Metliz: Sounds like fun! (Arkandus's "The First") Thok: "Thok eats a lot, Thok big. Thok not good at first impressions." (MnL's "Valley of the Dead")
"Yeah, that is sort of strange, cause if that lightning caused all that damage then wouldn't every electrical system on that ship be fired? Maybe something else happened.." Wanting to answer her own question, Gaetanna decided to start a sensor scan of the ship's hull.
Cnosos realises there is no way he could restart the main reactor, but he finds the auxiliary power systems are actually online. It is a small fusion reactor that's designed to give emergency power. Currently all of it's output is diverted to the engines. With some tinkering Cnosos manages to dispense the power to vital systems in a few minutes, bringing the life support, auxiliary computers and thruster control online.
The air recycling hums to life and starts pumping out the toxic vapors, slowly replacing it with clear air.
Damon and Solly try to find the bridge, and after a few missteps, Damon remembers reading somewhere that unlike humans, syrran usually build their command centers to the heart of the ship. That would mean middecks, somewhere near the junctions to the bow. Soon they find the bridge and the bridge officers slumped on their chairs. At about that time Cnosos gets the environmental control running...
"Treat the quiet ones first," says Solly, sounding like he's quoting from a lesson. He looks around at the equally silent aliens. "No, okay. Let's start at the top." Picking a Syrran with the biggest chair and most insignia to start with, Solly begins checking these aliens for signs of life, and doing what he can to help them.
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"Life support systems online. I don't know how much time we have, but at least this will eliminate all the cooling gases." Cnosos says by the intercom. He then tries to figure out how much time will the emergency energy will last.
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Mri'Thas: "Useless primates... " Sheng Zim: "Your existence brings the world out of balance. The chaos I bring shall revert it; unfortunately, your soul will be destroyed in the process."
-------------------------------------- Tuk Heavy Hands Apeldan: "Trolls are afraid to cats. Good to know" (Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult") Cnosos: "I bet there's plenty of wonderful devices in that ship. Let's scavenge them at once!" (Blackrat's "After Earth") Metliz: Sounds like fun! (Arkandus's "The First") Thok: "Thok eats a lot, Thok big. Thok not good at first impressions." (MnL's "Valley of the Dead")
"Good work, Cnosos," says Damon. Then he turns his attention to the nearest console, and attempts to access the ship's computer to check the logs and find out exactly what happened to the Syrran cruiser.
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As he works the computer, Damon uses his comm unit to contact the Greed. "Mel, Cnosos has managed to get the environmental systems back online. It looks like many of the Syrran's are still alive. I'm trying to access their logs and find out what happened. Standby."
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After gazing at the Syrran ship's hull for who knows how long, Gaetanna glances down at her card computer with a sardonic grin on her face as she turned on her intercom channel.. "Considering that Angel Industries has some subsidiary companies that routinely does this sort of thing, should I start tabulating the Syrran's bill?"
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