Babylon 5: Outrageous Fortune

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

Kirth fairly leaps into the waiting suit. "You don't have to tell this 'grease monkey' twice!"

Once he is in, he will do his best to assist the others.

 

[Dr Simon]

Cheshana balks at the EVA suit. "I not good space work," he says, stepping back from the offered garment.

Meanwhile, Kirth struggles into his pressure suit, every passing second an age of frustration as he tries to don the suit as quickly as possible, without getting tangled. Eventually, Kirth is ready. Outside, the Fortune is pulling away from the ship on her maneuvre thrusters. Kirth's suit has a little maneuvre pack of its own. If he is quick, he might still make it to the Fortune.

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Dex check for Kirth to try to "hastily don" the EVA suit. 2+1, fails to beat the DC 15 so it takes 3 minutes to get into the suit fully.

Using the jet-pack is a matter of Pilot skill.
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[Leif]

Kirth Warren

"Ok, I'm all set, finally! Heh, anybody going to try to talk me out of going out there? Oh, yeah, do I need a key code or anything to get into the 'Fortune when and if I get to it?"

Kirth will await a response for a brief moment, but he doesn't have much hope for it. Assuming no one stops him, he'll have his helpers step back and begin cycling through the airlock. AFter, of course, he takes any key or keycode that he needs to get into the 'Fortune. Before he cycles the airlock, he pauses.

OOC: I'm really having doubts about this, guys (and gal)!

OOC: Unfortunately, he has no Operations (Pilot) skill, best he has are Operations (Gunnery) and Spacecraft Proficiency. Does he have some idea of what he's doing here, or should he go cower in a corner and mumble to himself?

 

[Shayuri]

(OOC - is there any chance...even small...that Ashley could try to use telepathic powers to impede the non-Vurkian presence on the Fortune?)

 

[Dr Simon]

OOC: Don't you hate it when you press the wrong key a wipe what you've just written?

Armed with the access code for the Fortune, Kirth steps out of the airlock of the Markab liner, into hard vaccuum.

During the time taken to don the suit and cycle the airlock, the Fortune has moved about 100 metres away from the Lashaiaj. The angular momentum of the rotating Markab ship has shifted the Fortune along a tangential path, and whoever (or whatever) is piloting her is running the maneuvring thrusters in bursts of blue-white energy. Although she is a proverbila barn door, reaching the Fortune is a by-no-means easy task of matching constantly changing vectors whilst providing enough forwards thrust to reach her yet enough deceleration not to smash into her side (not to mention compensating for the faint but inexorable gravity of the gas giant).

Several frustrating minutes pass by as the tiny, vulnerable Kirth dances with the Fortune, all the while both objects moving further away from the Lashaiaj. Suddeny Kirth sees an orange glow from the stern of the Fortune. The main engines have come online. The Fortune is now aligned on a course for the jump gate. Once the main engines are engaged, there is no way that the EVA suits little thrusters could catch her.

Checking the suit's fuel reserves, Kirth realises that he has a choice. He can return to the Lashaiaj now, or he can risk everything on a last push for the Fortune, but if he fails, he will be adrift in space.

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Okay... over to you

I rolled totals of 8, 5 and 5 for attempts by Kirth to "dock" with the Fortune - you need a DC of 12.

Whilst this is going on, there is enough time for someone else to don the other spacesuit, should you wish. They won't get to the Fortune, but they might be able to save Kirth.

The Fortune has a numeric access code, but these things usually have an emergency manual override as well. (You know the kind of thing - a big red handle behind a panel that blows open dramatically...)
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[Shayuri]

Ashley watches the mismatched ballet through a viewport, fists balled helplessly at her sides.

"Cheshana...is there any way we can get this ship's engines online? Like...now? If we can follow them into hyperspace we may have a shot at stopping this. Not to mention picking up Kirth."

 

[Dr Simon]

Cheshana , his expression a mixture of fear, guilt and concern as he watches Kirth's spacewalk, glances over at Ashley.

"If we hurry to bridge, yes. I think should still work." He starts off down the corridor of the liner, beckoning behind him.

 

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

Never one to wittingly play the hero, when Kirth checks the fuel reserves on the EVA suit and sees his dire situation, he turns back toward the Lashaiaj immediately. "If they wanted heroics, they shouldn't have sent a grease monkey!"

 

[Shayuri]

Ash nods and runs after the Markab, while contacting Kirth. "Get back inside as fast as you can. We're going to follow them to the hyperspace gate."

"Croft, to the bridge, Sarhat, help Kirth back in, then both of you get to the engine room."

 

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

Kirth answers his com: "Roger that, Ash! I'm flying home as fast as I can. But I'm no good in engineering -- my skills are of more use on the bridge. Still, if you insist, I can always use the extra sleep...."