After Earth - Episode II - Beyond Colonial Space.

[Relique du Madde]

Gaetanna whispers to Pierce via her head set.. "Hey Pierce, what are they doing? I have my back to some big pipe that it to Cnosis's left and I can't look out without blowing my cover... Oh yeah.. Cnosis is disguised as a Syrran."

[Dr Simon]

Solly tries to memorise the directions to medbay.

"With your permission, captain..s," he says, "I'll go and find some Syrran doctors. Assuming nobody tries to shoot me en route," he adds with a mutter.

OOC: Heading to sickbay.

[Voda Vosa]

Trying to hide his accent as bests, Cnosos gesticulates "The ship has been damaged by the storm, and the engine's cooling vapors escaped, killing many, and leaving unconscious another good part of this ship's crew. I'm traveling with these humans, we got out of the storm several minutes after you, and found your ship. Our captain is now speaking with yours, now that I have reestablish the breathable atmosphere." he explains, not lying at any point.

[ethandrew]

Pierce keeps his hands up, his shotgun gripped, "Yeah, what he said. Now if you wouldn't mind taking the gun out of my face, that'd be perfect, seeing as we saved your lives." He makes sure to enunciate so that Gaetanna can understand what's going on without poking out her pretty little head.

[Rhun]

Damon nods to Solly that he should head down to sickbay and try to find the Syrran doctors. Then he turns back to regard the captain. He smiles at Captain Archel and nods at her question. "The name is Damon Knight, of the independent freighter Gold Greed. Our pilot is currently using our ship to keep you from drifting back into danger."

[Shayuri]

Back on the Gold Greed, Mel quickly minimizes the game window of Invaded Space she has open and makes a few, wholly unnecessary, adjustments to the thrust of the ship to demonstrate how on the job she is.

After a second, she glances craftily around to make sure the attention of the readers has passed off of her again, then opens the game screen again...making sure, of course, to keep the sensor track showing relative velocities of wedgie and the conjoined ships where she could see it. She wasn't suicidal after all.

[Blackrat]

"So then captain. Shall we talk business while we wait? I take it you wish a compensation for your help?" Archel seems a bit agitated.

The syrran men seem unconvinced by Cnosos' explanation but they do lower their guns. "Don't come further. Tell Captain Archel that everything is fine down here and we'll keep everyone safe."

Mel is lost in the game and almost misses the quiet bleep that comes from the sensor console. When it finally registers she sees something that she did not expect. There seems to be another ship, just meters away from you. Switching on the viewscreen she is even more surpriced. The ship is a familiar form. A perfect disc of evershifting shiny metal. Exactly like the one that scanned you on your first mission on Greed.

[Rhun]

Damon nods in the Captain's direction. "Well, Captain...the truth is, we could have not stopped. Good intentions aside, we saved your ship and lives, at considerable risk to ourselves. So in short, yes. Not to sound like the crass, money chasing mercenaries that we are, but I would certainly expect something in the way of compensation."

[Voda Vosa]

"Very well." Says as sceptic as he can. "Pierce, Gaetana, lets return to the bridge." he says to the at the moment concelaed woman and to the towering Pierce.

[ethandrew]

Pierce stared hard at both of the Syrrans, giving them the glare he saved for those people he planned on it being the last thing they ever saw. His death-glare. So far he hadn't given it to anyone as far as he knew. Once he rounded the corner from the guards he holsters his shotgun and looks at his forearm, still sore and burned red from the plasma turret.

"I should'a shot 'em both," he says quietly as he flexed his hand repeatedly, though intending for both Cnosos and Gaetanna to hear.

[Shayuri]

Mel's first crazy thought is that one of the flying saucers from the game had leaked out into the sensor field. It looked that similar. Then she was swearing a blue storm, shutting off the game and bringing systems from standby to readiness. Somewhere in the flurry of activity she had time to comm Damon.

"Captain, this is the Greed. We just had a bogey appear from nowhere right off our port side. Configuration's the same as the unidentified bird we encountered near the jumpgate. It's literally only -meters- distant. Doesn't look to be doing anything right away, but at that range it could board either ship without much warning."

[Relique du Madde]

Gaetanna holstered her weapons then slowly stood with the Syrran jumpsuit and disguise kit firmly held against her lithe body. As Pierce walked passed her she blew a kiss towards the Syrrans and followed her companions.

"Now I'll have to add another set or surcharges onto their bill. 1000 for first aid and weapons discharge sounds about right.." She smirked. "At least I got myself one of those slinky jumpsuits their women always wear. I've always wanted to get one, but they ten to limit the types of clothing their traders sell to non Syrrans."

[Blackrat]

As is right I suppose. Unfortunately we don't have much in the way of money but we could offer you some technological... What's that? The captain is interrupted by Mel through your comms.

Solly makes it to the medbay and determines the crew there to be alive. Knocked out like the rest of them though.

[Dr Simon]

Humming to himself, Solly make the crewmembers as comfortable as possible, pausing to ponder if the human recovery position is effective for Syrrans*. With a shrug he decides it can't hurt. Reasoning that the others will take care of the unknown ship, and that it could just as easily attack the Greed as the Syrran vessel, Solly concentrates on his work.

"The medical team are alive but unconscious. I'm just going to check that they'll recover. Somebody let me know if it's time to go, right?" he announces down the intercom.

OOC: Just got it, Blackrat. Syrrans = Sirens. Cunning!

[Rhun]

"It appears we have an unidentified ship in close proximity," answers Damon to the Captain's questions. Keying his comm, he turns his attention back to Mel. "Status, Mel? What's it doing?" As he speaks, he attempts to use the Syran ship's sensors and direct them to scan the newcomer.


Computer Use +11

[Shayuri]

"It's not -doing- anything," Mel repeated, stress showing in her voice. "It's just sitting there. I'm not reading any signals or attempts to communicate. The Greed's a sitting duck as long as we're clamped onto the Syrrans though."

[Blackrat]

Solly gets the two with most rank pips waking up after a little detox and time. Nothing to do until they get conscious he sits down to wait.

Pierce, Cnosos and Gaetanna reach the bridge again, seeing the captain and Damon chatting.

Damon initiates the cruiser's sensors and gets the same data as Mel. The disc howers in place for a while, sweeps around the ships in a circle and returns to position. It then initiates a highenergy scan that disrupts the sensors for a second.

[Rhun]

Damon looks up to see the others enter the bridge. "Cnosos, we need to get this ship's engines back on line ASAP. We've got a possible hostile vessel in close proximity. It just initiated a high-power scan of us..."

[Voda Vosa]

"Great" The greek man rubs the makeup out of his face, and heads towards the engine room, but stops before exiting the bridge. "I'll need a Syrran with me."

[Rhun]

Damon nods and looks at the Syrran captain. "Captain, perhaps you could get one of your crew to aid Cnosos in the engine room? We've got to get this crate moving."