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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tun Kai Poh" data-source="post: 8458371" data-attributes="member: 6761960">DirtbagsBreaching charges blast through a security door leading into the maintenance cavity beneath the Hannibal's drives. "Come out, dirtbags!" shouts the Rittermeer security chief, leading his platoon of armoured troopers in.They stop dead in their tracks. The mercs brought a mech. A small one, just taller than powered armour. Boasting powerful stasis tech and the finest engineering in all of pan-Union space.The Harrison Armory Napoleon.It sweeps a powerful displacer gun toward the security platoon, fires a devastating blast that incinerates the front rank. Then it raises shields, walling off the drive section from any retaliation.The Mirrorsmoke marines still control the engine room.[ATTACH=full]146779[/ATTACH]<a href="https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1023998411618615296?t=j9HUxgTVd3tx-2rwCdw54Q&s=19" target="_blank">Napoleon Art by Tom Parkinson-Morgan</a>Battlegroup Hannibal:1) Maneuver: Heavy Kinetic Battery Fire, at Richard Wagner and We Demand Hazard Pay. Roll 11, which misses Richard Wagner, and 7, which misses We Demand Hazard Pay.2) Albedo Cavalier uses Maneuver: 0 Beam to deal 1 damage to Richard Wagner and adds another heat token to 1 Beam (now 2 tokens).Attempt to repel Fool's Gold marines: Roll 2, which fails. Those marines can attempt more sabotage during Boarding Step.On the PCV-DN Hannibal's bridge, Captain Karina Ashanti watches grimly as the ship's batteries fail to land any hits on the Wagner or the mercenary carrier.Aelita appears on the holographic display beside her. "Sir, we have a situation. Security has finally recaptured drive control.""So...did we capture any boarders alive?""There was no sign of the boarders. We believe they're now moving through maintenance crawlspaces in the lower decks.""Didn't we have combat subalterns guarding the crawlspaces?""They've been destroyed. But there's more. I picked up an Omninet intrusion attempt from inside the ship. An NHP-generated anti-cognitive viral memetic. It's gotten quite far, and we believe several legion nodes in Battlegroup Hannibal are potentially compromised.""What, how bad is it?""I've isolated the infected Legionspace - it affects command and control of the Roy and the Albedo Cavalier. They're unable to act offensively and can't benefit from fleet legion networking in any way.""Well, dispatch more security! Find the bastards! And how long before you can get our destroyer and mech ace back?""We can do it the slow way, which could take up to sixty minutes. Or we can cycle all the Legionspace partitions at once...which would be quick, but potentially painful. I would lose valuable data. Critical systems damage is a major risk."Aelita displays helpful informatics for Captain Ashanti, all in red and green.Ashanti purses her lips. "Survivability of the ship is our priority. We can't cycle. We can afford to take hits on our siege plating, but we can't risk the internal damage. Strike Captain Bannon said we have to play for time. The carriers will be here at any moment.""Understood, Captain."Boarding Step:Mirrorsmoke Marines on the Hannibal attempt Deploy Ontological Payload to either disable all installed Legionspace upgrades, or disable all Wings and Escorts in this battlegroup. Roll: 11.Roughneck Marines on the Nikolai Bukharin attempt Disable Primary Drives, roll 5, failed.Roughneck Marines on the Shamokin Rising attempt Deploy Ontological Payload, roll 1, failed.The Union security teams fight off the sabotage attempts. Running gunfights in the carrier hangars! Fun times.Next: The Metaphor of the Sword</blockquote>

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