A New Power

[Super Girl]

Kia involuntarily flinches at a particularly viscious jumping attack by one of the hounds. For once her sarcastic wit seemed to have failed her and she had nothing to say. She didn't have any trouble imagining what those teeth and claws could do to her if she was cut out by them. Shivering, she triggered the ship's inter-com. "Aasan, can you come up her? We're under attack... I don't think they can get in though. I'm gonna see If I can't get the Anti-personnel weapons to work. The DawnSprinter has a pair of e-webs, it should be enough to put down the creatures."

The girl shivers, wearing nothing but underwear, but she doesn't notice it as she flips the switch to charge the ships weapons array. Waithing a few seconds for the guns to charge, she flips another switch, one that was hidden and would lower the two blasters from their concealed positions, and allow the turrets to fully swing in a 360 degree arc. The next thing the girl did was engage the ships fire-control computer, something that would make it much more accurate then she would be, assuming she was big enough to hold the weapon in the first place. But with the fire control, all she had to do was operate the ships computer, something she was very good at, and the fire control subroutines would translate that into accuracy that would make a storm trooper envious.

OOC: +9 (6D8 damage) I don't know how fast the ship mounted weapon fires (autofire/multifire/rapidfire, whatever) she would most likely fire as fast as she possibly could, just mashing down the trigger, the thing is good for 500 shots, then it has to cool down.

 

[Angcuru]

The ship's anti-personnel weapons popped out from their hidden compartments, or at least that's what should have happened. Instead, only one fully extended, while the other was half-buried in the stream and couldn't entend to a proper firing position. Kia set the firing rate to maximum and slammed her fist down onto the firing button. The one functional blaster opened up on the swarm of beasts, firing a mess of red streaks all around them. Shot after shot streaked into them, with one beast falling to the fire every fifteen seconds or so.

After several minutes of enduring the continual fire, the pack of creatures had apparently pinpointed the origin of the blaster fire, and tried to move out of its arc of fire, while still keeping up their assault on the cockpit. Eventually they all clambered up into the top of the ship out of the blaster's firing zone, swarming around the cockpit. At least twenty of them had fallen, but that did nothing to dissuade their assault.

The horrible scratching pounding noise continued.

 

[Guest 11456]

Adrial Strogg : Female Human Sethi Consular 3

As she watches the beasts attack, she turns to Adrial. "Master Pannar! Can we not help Master Falm?"

 

[Super Girl]

Kia groans as the dog things climb up the ship and get away from the E-web. Everything was sealed up tight, and there was no way they would get through the transparisteel of the cockpitt, and even less likely was them getting through the hull plating itself. The girl didn't really think she was in danger, at least for the moment, but she couldn't really relax either. She wanted the dog things off her ship in the worst way, and she came up with a plan to get that to happen. As plans go, it wasn't particulalry elegant, but it should work.

Kia flips a switch to retract the e-web, and then she shuts down all non-essential systems. Next she connects the power feed directly to the whole, where it should electrify the outside of the ship, sort of like those predator detterents that scientists used when they were in the field.

OOC: don't know what kind of check this is, but there are precedents from the novels for it.

 

[P0L]

Kal desperately watches the creatures relentless advance, and his master efforts to keep them at bay.

My place is at the side of my master, to help him or die trying!
he thinks, igniting his lightsaber, and grabbing the rope. But a new idea dawns on him.
Perhaps there is time to try one trick first..

Kal turns off his lightsaber and sits with his legs crossed at the top of the wall. Eyes closed, the young apprentice tries to focus on feeling the force around him. Against the background of life-rich jungle he senses the aura of his master shining like a powerful beacon. Surrounding him Kal senses the auras of the feral monsters, dozens of them. Simple, vicious. Motivated by instincts like hunger..... or fear. What would scare them, make them hesitate enough for his master to reach the walls? Maybe a wall of fire, or a bigger predator...

The boy calls to the light side of the force, and summons his will to manifest the adecuate illusion between the monsters and his master, trying to fool their simple minds.


ooc: use illusion, spend a force point, to manifest some deterring illusion using his knowledge of the beasts..

 

[Angcuru]

"No, Adrial. Arias may be outnumbered, but that doesn't mean that he's outmatched." Miera watched the horde of beasts continuing to assault her lover.

Arias' voice entered her mind. Is Kal safe?

Yes, he's on the wall now. She replied telepathically.

Good. Arias executed a blindingly rapid series of strikes all about him, killing those beasts closest to him. Before he could be engaged by additional creatures, Arias pushed out with the force and flew back thirty five meters away from the pack and towards the wall. As he landed and began to sprint back to the village, he felt an odd twinge in the force. Looking back he saw a wall of fire spring up out of the ground between himself and the pack of beasts. It deterred the beasts for but a moment, before they colllectively rushed through the flames towards Arias. The gap wasn't much, but it was enough. Kal's master rushed head on towards the wall, and just as he was about the crash face first into the wooden barrier, he shot up into the sky and landed on the wall right next to Kal. Those around the wall heard the pack crash into it, with the sound of more than a few broken bones.

"That was a nice diversion, Kal." Arias said, clapping Kal on the back. "I would have gone with a gigantic Nightstalker myself, but the fire did the trick."

OOC - Wouldn't electrifying the hull also electrify the rest of the ship? Sounds like a dangerous idea.

 

[Galethorn]

After running back to the cooking area, and rearming himself, Jorran saw that Arias was already to safety. So, he holstered his blaster and walked towards the wall where Kal and Arias stood.

 

[Super Girl]

OOC: shouldn't be dangerous, Anakin Solo did it successfully with the Falcon against a bunch of Vong biobugs that were trying to chew through the hull plating.

 

[Angcuru]

Kia touched the power line to one of the cockpit struts, and for a moment there was a faint feeling of electricity through the ship. A moment later, Kia saw an unmoving body fall past the cockpit to the ground with a satisfying *thud*.

 

[Super Girl]

Nodding at the thud, Kia simply kept the powerline attached to the strut. With all of them climbing on top of the ship, they would all have nowhere to escape except for a leap from the top of the space craft to the ground, at least a 15 meter drop. She kept the charge up for 30 seconds before disengaging it, judging that that amount of voltage could have handled a rancor, or at least disabled it. Against creatures more human sized, well except for the environmental seals, she almost expected to smell smoke rising off of them.

Kia sighs and watchesout in the dark for any of them that had not died. They should certainly avoid the ship from now on, they were chased from beneath by the e-web, and were blasted off the top by the electricity. Hopefully that buys us a wide-berth to fix the repulsor lifts and get out of here, the girl thought to herself. Convinced that she couldn't do anyhting more about it tonight, she locked down the systems and retreated back to her quarters. Keying in the comm, she wished Aasan a goodnight, and told him that the issue should be dealt with until morning.