T20: High Law and Low Justice, Part 3

[Guest 11456]

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

Ruzz'kof's ears perk up. "You mean like spores, from a fungus or such? Stop the life support system and take it apart, it should all turn to the white dust. Then we should kill all the white stuff, the spores. Sterilise the unit, or.. VACUUM. Hard vacuum. Shoulldn't that kill the spores, doc? Maybe you should expose a sample to vacuum and see if it dies. Then we just , eeuhm, Depressurise the ship? And , euhm, fill it with air again afterwards?"

Woohoo, if that works I'll get a medal. If it doesn't we're dead anyway.

Trelene cocks her head toward Ruzz'koff while pointing at the unit.

"I have powered down the unit and the cover has been removed. See? You can see the slime in the mechanism."

 

[Maerdwyn]

Ruzz'koff and Trelene can indeed see the slime inside the machine. The outermose layers of the stuff continues to bubble, pop, and emit dust. The deeper masses seem not to be affected by this. At the current rate, It's conceivavble that the whole mass would eventually turn to dust. Whether everyone aboard would survive long enough to see that happen is more of a question.

 

[Guest 11456]

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

Ruzz'koff and Trelene can indeed see the slime inside the machine. The outermose layers of the stuff continues to bubble, pop, and emit dust. The deeper masses seem not to be affected by this. At the current rate, It's conceivavble that the whole mass would eventually turn to dust. Whether everyone aboard would survive long enough to see that happen is more of a question.

Trelene grabs some tools and begins trying to carefully scoop out the slime from the unit.

 

[Watus]

"Here's a piece of my thoughts. I can fly this tub, no prob'. I can plot the jump path out of here, also no prob'. However, if the SDB decides to go after us, we will be hard-pressed to outrun her to jump distance, even with me at the reins. And guessing by their behaviour so far, I wouldn't exactly call them 'friendly'." Ignore a distress call, will you! "Next the oxgen: With 10 hours fly-time till jump-distance plus skimming Gelugon I don't know whether whatever we brought aboard will last that long, plus time wherever we go. I think this is going to be a close call. But even putting all that aside I strongly suspect there's still a G-Arms ship out there. Something must have carried those fighters and the logs indicate that it was here and probably is still. Why it doesn't reveal itself, I can't say. Also it was conveniently exactly where malfunctioning drives kicked the Dvonn out of jump space."

Quinn shifts in the captain's chair, idly tapping his thick fingers on the arm. "Our odds suck, that's true. If we fight, we die. If we surrender, we die. If we run, we probably die. Given a choice, I'll take probably dead over definately dead any time."

OOC: Who's at the helm? I had thought it was Ruzz'koff, but apparently he's in engineering?

"Sanaath: you get anything out of that handcomp yet? And Vyrkris: any news?"

 

[Maerdwyn]

ooc:

Helm: Saanath (+13)
Sensors: Zaedhrarrg (+10)
Port Dorsal Turret: Tomas (+10)
Astrogation: vacant
Communications: vacant

Medbay: Ktarle
Engineering: Trelene, Ruzz'Koff
Hangar: Vyrkris
?: Trel

All of whch can be shuffled around

 

[DrZombie]

Following Trelene's example, Ruzz'koff starts scooping out purple slime an spreading it out over the table, hoping to expose the slime to the thin athmosphere, so that it vaporises or turns into white dust faster.

Imagine that, getting killed by bloody purple goo.

 

[Maerdwyn]

"Sanaath: you get anything out of that handcomp yet? And Vyrkris: any news?"

"I just finished the systems checks on the M-drives, so we're about to get underway. I can look at the comp, if you can take the conn." Saanath looks at the marine to hear one way or the other.

Vykris reports in: "Trying to decide what to do here, uh, sir...I'm worried about repressurizing the hangar to go in - I'm just wearing a mask, and I'm afraid if I pur enough of the ships's atmosphere in there with the boat...well...I don't want to infect the boat. What should I do?"

 

[Watus]

"I just finished the systems checks on the M-drives, so we're about to get underway. I can look at the comp, if you can take the conn." Saanath looks at the marine to hear one way or the other.

"Right. Get us under way. You can check the comp en route."

Vykris reports in: "Trying to decide what to do here, uh, sir...I'm worried about repressurizing the hangar to go in - I'm just wearing a mask, and I'm afraid if I pur enough of the ships's atmosphere in there with the boat...well...I don't want to infect the boat. What should I do?"

OOC: is there a way to check the status of the boat's life support remotely?

 

[Maerdwyn]

Saanath nods, and makes the final touches on the flight plan. He confirms it with the computer, and the drives spring to life, spinning up prior to acceleration. A few seconds later, Dvonn slowly - and a little more slowly than either Saanath or Zaedhrarrg had anticipated and hoped, eases into its journey towards the gas giant. They feel it accelerating, but the drive are clearly somewhat below rated capacity.

On sensors Zaedhrarrg sees the fighters moving to keep pace, staying only within jamming range, and to Dvonn's aft. Tomas sees the same thing, but keeps his turret still. No sense letting them know Dvonn has weapons capability until Quinn gives the order.

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In Medbay, Ktarle continues her work with the slime and the dust, noting thatthe higher the concentration of the oxygen in the atmosphere, the faster the colony grows. With the valve on the oxygen tank fully open, the growth the slime experiences is visible to the naked eye. She cuts the oxygen, and waits as the exposed layer of the stuff begins to sputter and convery to dust. She relates all of this over the shipwide channel.

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Trelene and Ruzz'koff hear her as they continue scooping the stuff out. After a point, Trelene realizes the grip pads on the outside of her vacsuit's gloves are starting to show marked signs of wear - the suit itself is okay, but the slime is definitely caustic. They are making progress, though - continuing to spread the slime out, increasing its surface area, they think they should have the machine slime free in another half hour or so.

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Vyrkris calls back to Quinn on her comm: "No - the Dvonn's systems don't have control over the boat yet - it still considers itself part of the Keruuchan. Someone needs to go in and do it manually."

 

[Watus]

Vyrkris calls back to Quinn on her comm: "No - the Dvonn's systems don't have control over the boat yet - it still considers itself part of the Keruuchan. Someone needs to go in and do it manually."

"Tomas: it's not lookin' like those fighters are gonna be a threat. Why don't you head down and give Vyrkris a hand?"