After Earth - Episode II - Beyond Colonial Space.

[Blackrat]

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.

 

[Dr Simon]

"There may be more," says Solly. Without waiting for the others, he continues deeper into the ship, heading in the opposite direction to Cnosos.

 

[Rhun]

"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."

 

[Voda Vosa]

"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?

 

[ethandrew]

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.

 

[Rhun]

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?

 

[Blackrat]

[sblock=OOC]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:
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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...

[sblock=OOC]Voda, yeah, you should roll a repair check.[/sblock]

 

[Blackrat]

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...

 

[Dr Simon]

"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.

 

[Shayuri]

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."