High Law and Low Justice, Part 4

[Tonguez]

"Man down Man Down" Tomas screams across the open channels "Aid to Engineering - Vyrkris injured!

Bargh!" he curses as he again checks Vyrkis "Captain I gotta get the fuel line fixed before we jump, but Vyrkis needs help - get someone in, I'm gonna work the fuel...

sorry Vyrk" he whispers as he goes back and attempts to rig the filters"

 

[doghead]

Saanath, human male.

Saanath grunts as the missile impact rocks the ship. He opens his eyes, a little surprised to find himself still alive. I don't want to go through that .... The end of the thought is shorn off by second impact.

Upon getting Tomas's report, Saanath comms Ktarle to see if she heard also, and can respond.

ooc: Did we take evasive maneuvers? What's the down side of doing so; it will take longer to reach the jump point?

 

[Maerdwyn]

ooc: sorry, jumped the gun there a little. The downside is you don't take a precisely direct path - practical effect is it allows the other ship to close distance with you, possibly, but not definitely, as much as a range increment. It's more useful in a dogfight than evading pursuit. I did not use evasive maneuvers in figuring the attacks the last round, but you are free use them in subsequent rounds. Sorry. For reference, the cruisers attack rolls on the missiles that hit were 16 and 15, vs Dvonn's AC10.

 

[Maerdwyn]

"Already on my way," Ktarle comms back. Soon after Tomas hears her comin up behind him. He turns, but she says, sounding just a little worried: "You do your job, son, I'll do mine."

 

[Maerdwyn]

Despite the distraction of Ktarle working on the whimpering Vyrkris in the background, Tomas is able to steel himself and work efficiently. Within the next fifteen minutes he's got what he thinks will be a serviceable filter assembled. That was the hard part - next he just has to get it into position and reseal the fuel line, and he's pretty confident he'll be able to do that. He continues on, and hears, "Got to get her to medbay!" He turns just long enough to see the doctor scoop the small vargr unto her arms and hurry at a controlled pace towards the exit.

A few minutes later Zaedhrarrg confirms his earlier prediction in a flat voice. "I count nine missiles launched. All between thirty-nine and forty minutes out."

Ruzz'koff nods, and says into the comm, "Tomas, you have thirty five minutes to finish, that's it: T-minus 35:01 to jump, understand? Let me know if finish with time to spare," then switches off the comm channel to engineering. "Quinn, Trelene, Trel, Zaedhrarrg, get as many as you can, in case he needs a little more time."

 

[Tonguez]

"I'll do it in 30" Tomas replies as he again checks his work and flicks the moisture from his hands. He isn't really as confdent as he sounds but then he doesn't have much choice on the matter

"Vyrkis is being taken to medbay" he reports simply and then goes back to the task at hand - installation of the makeshift filter system and resealing the fuelline...

 

[Guest 11456]

Trelene Scrautigue : Luriani Navy 2/Prof 7/Trav 1: Retired Makhidkarum Vice President

Trelene wishes she could take the time to plot the jump course, but knows that she is their best chance at knocking out the missiles electornically. So she focusses her complete attention on the task at hand and starts trying to jam the inbound missiles...

 

[doghead]

Trelelaweiro, aslan male mercenary

Trel gets to work trying to shoot down some of the missiles. If its going to be a while (15 minutes or so) before the missiles get into range, he will offer to help Tomas out, although it would only be grunt work - he doesn't know squat about repairing stuff.

 

[Maerdwyn]

Tomas works on, registering, but trying not to react to, what he hears over the comm. There's Trel's report when he shoots down one of the missiles at long range, and Telene's whe she gets another. Sounds like Quinn and Zaedhrarrg came up empty though. There's no word from Ktarle about Vykris. Eventually, and to his mind it takes longer than it should have, he gets the filter set in place and sealed. All that's left is closing the line and reactivating the system, and that should be child's play. He works on.

With only a few minutes left, between those in the turrets, and those and the bridge, the incoming missiles are reduced to three, although Zaedhrarrg reports another three newly launched by the cruiser. "Ruzz'koff to Tomas. We've got to go - now - how long 'til you're finished?"

Coincidentally, when Tomas hears that message, at T-minus 2:53 to jump, he is just about to push the final button that will let the jump fuel flow through the (filtered) system again.

 

[doghead]

Saanath, human male.

"Are we going to be able to jump before impact? If not, is this ship up to making evasive maneuvers?"