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LANCER: BATTLEGROUP - To Kill the Worthy King
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<blockquote data-quote="Tun Kai Poh" data-source="post: 8530581" data-attributes="member: 6761960"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Drifting, Part 1</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The ceremony aboard the Shamokin Rising comes to a solemn end. Dismissed, the attending crew drift away, in ones, twos or more, to drink away their grief on their own time. Shifts change, sleep cycles go by.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">A full day passes, and the lights come on aboard the James I. Strike Captain Bannon has taken over command of the dreadnought, and there are no signs of whatever disturbances raged across its decks a day ago.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">And a day later, aboard the Purview fleet, another ceremony is held. The Armory losses were far greater, almost disproportionately so, mostly due to the bloody-handed work of Battlegroup Splinter. And everyone knows it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">It is during this time, when the Armory crews are preoccupied with their own funeral services, that Lieutenant Vau's patrol comes across a drifting cargo module within the debris field. Dented, marked with Purview symbols and purple lines.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">There are no heat sources aboard, although a bit of pressure within suggests some faint traces of atmosphere. Vau chooses discretion, calling in a Union S&R boat but leaving the Armory fleet out of it...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The situation pulls Tabitha and her officers away from their routine duties, and they assemble quickly at the ventral access hangar, where Gbeho and his team are going over the remains found in the cargo module.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"Line Commander," says Gbeho, "we've brought in a stray cargo box from the James I...there are three bodies inside. It looks like they suffocated. They had virtually no provisions, no electronics except for a civilian emergency beacon...which was broken."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Captain Tiburce Rodin has inserted himself into every opportunity to analyse the situation on the Armory fleet, and this is no exception. The tall dark man bends down to take a look at the device. "The beacon may have been damaged in a struggle of some sort. They have torn uniforms, defensive scratches and cuts. And if I were to guess...if they were in a mutiny, they'd have to get rid of any Colonial Legionate devices that could be used to track them. They may have been hoping to drift clear and signal our patrols to pick them up...but their beacon failed and they couldn't survive long after that."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The dead crew are all quite young. Junior engineering personnel. Tabitha remembers that during debriefing, Lowell mentioned that his chief engineer, Lieutenant Conroy, was one of his main allies in the effort to delay the James I's arrival. Many of the engineering crew were quite loyal to Conroy.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tun Kai Poh, post: 8530581, member: 6761960"] [B][SIZE=5]Drifting, Part 1[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]The ceremony aboard the Shamokin Rising comes to a solemn end. Dismissed, the attending crew drift away, in ones, twos or more, to drink away their grief on their own time. Shifts change, sleep cycles go by. A full day passes, and the lights come on aboard the James I. Strike Captain Bannon has taken over command of the dreadnought, and there are no signs of whatever disturbances raged across its decks a day ago. And a day later, aboard the Purview fleet, another ceremony is held. The Armory losses were far greater, almost disproportionately so, mostly due to the bloody-handed work of Battlegroup Splinter. And everyone knows it. It is during this time, when the Armory crews are preoccupied with their own funeral services, that Lieutenant Vau's patrol comes across a drifting cargo module within the debris field. Dented, marked with Purview symbols and purple lines. There are no heat sources aboard, although a bit of pressure within suggests some faint traces of atmosphere. Vau chooses discretion, calling in a Union S&R boat but leaving the Armory fleet out of it... The situation pulls Tabitha and her officers away from their routine duties, and they assemble quickly at the ventral access hangar, where Gbeho and his team are going over the remains found in the cargo module. "Line Commander," says Gbeho, "we've brought in a stray cargo box from the James I...there are three bodies inside. It looks like they suffocated. They had virtually no provisions, no electronics except for a civilian emergency beacon...which was broken." Captain Tiburce Rodin has inserted himself into every opportunity to analyse the situation on the Armory fleet, and this is no exception. The tall dark man bends down to take a look at the device. "The beacon may have been damaged in a struggle of some sort. They have torn uniforms, defensive scratches and cuts. And if I were to guess...if they were in a mutiny, they'd have to get rid of any Colonial Legionate devices that could be used to track them. They may have been hoping to drift clear and signal our patrols to pick them up...but their beacon failed and they couldn't survive long after that." The dead crew are all quite young. Junior engineering personnel. Tabitha remembers that during debriefing, Lowell mentioned that his chief engineer, Lieutenant Conroy, was one of his main allies in the effort to delay the James I's arrival. Many of the engineering crew were quite loyal to Conroy.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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