[@Hokum] [b]As Siren and Rodia (mostly Siren)[/b] Siren was mildly startled by the appearance of the tall, buck-naked robot. It's mostly the naked part. Even though the R-Core are not biological, they are familiar enough with human anatomy to know that genitals are to be covered up. I mean, this isn't a human, obviously, but it sure looks like one. "I am R-o... never mind. I am Siren, leader of the R-Core city of Rodia; and that is Rorod, who is second in command here." Siren said. "You are not completely correct when you say there are no biological lifeforms on this station. We have crops, those are plants. And I'm sure there are bacteria and protozoa are on our ship. But there are no relevant life forms on our station." Rorod is a bit suspicious of Siren's stutter, but right now, he's focused on 1.0-1's use of the term "archaic" to describe Rodia. "What do you mean, 'Archaic vessel'?!" "You don't get that, Rorod? This place is a wreck. You don't even have a hyperdrive! Even the Wave Blaster has one of those, and it was designed by Gamma!" Siren answers the question meant for the Sporn while also taking a jab at Gamma. She likes taking jabs at Gamma. She turns back to the Sporn commander. "We currently do not have any biological allies, if that answers your question, Mr 1.0-1... let me ask you, sir, do you have a real name? An ID number is hardly a proper name." She continues, "As for our reason here, that's a long story. The jist of it is that we got attacked by some entities called the Forte, and they dragged us close to Hany's Ribbon, which I am assuming you know what that is. During our attempts to escape a wormhole formed and we were sucked into it, and it dumped us here. Our presence is an accident. That said, we aren't in a hurry to get anywhere, and we are suffering from a severe metal shortage which is causing problems for some unfinished R-Core units, who will start suffering permanent hardware damage if we don't complete them soon. Perhaps we can come to an agreement that can benefit both of us, commander." Rorod chimes in. "And maybe you can put on some pants." ....................... [b]And now is just Rodia.[/b] Varias R-Core are kinda freaked out by the sudden presence of the Sporn appearing randomly. A lot of them are acting defensively. One of those Sporn appeared in the factory. The unfinished R-Core stare blankly at him, (do to their lack of traditional faces, that's the only way R-Core than stare at something, although these ones are not making any movements that aren't necessary to maintain balance. It would come across as creepy to a human, but this guy clearly ain't human) Suddenly, the factory head, who I should really name at this point, bursts into the room. "WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU?!" Screams the frantic R-Core. He's holding a sidearm, in case he needs to defence the helpless, incomplete R-Core. As far as he knows, this metallic man is threatening the cores, so it's pretty reasonable for him to get ready to fight. ....................... In a random house, two R-Core that live together are sitting on a surprisingly squishy sofa and talking when a Sporn appears in their room. The more masculine of two gets up and asks "Who the heck are you, why the heck are you in our house, and where the heck are your cloths?!" THe more feminine ones appears to cower behind the sofa... before popping back up with a wrench that they for some reason had behind their sofa, holding it like a club. ....................... A female Sporn happens to appear next to Gamma. He looks over, surprisingly unphased. "Sup." The other R-Core that was happened to be near Gamma is speechless at the Sporn entity, and also speechless at how unphased Gamma is. And then he realized he was unintentionally hanging out with a former genocidal maniac, which freaks him out even more. It's not this R-Core's best day. [hr] [b]As Ernest[/b] [@Hokum] And kinda sorta [@CmdrAlfieq] Without bothering trying to contact the hostile vessels, he prepares to attack them. No need to contact them, he already knows they are hostile. Ernest speaks to the passengers. "I would like to warn you that we are under attack by six unknown spaceship instances. Do not panic. The opponents do not seem to be able to damage me easily, and there are some other ships that seem to see our attackers as a common enemy, and have already started attacking them. I alone could probably take these things on, and with the help of our unknown allies, this should not be difficult." The lasers don't emeidently do damage to Ernest's armor, although prolonged expose for much longer would heat his armor enough to start doing damage. Ernest is too large to effectively dodge the attacks, but he can rotate slowly to make it harder for the attackers to get a good hit on a single spot of armor more that once, while not making his own aiming that difficult. The main two Plasma Turrets focus on a single enemy fighter, focusing all of its power on it in an attempt to take down one at a time. If that fighter goes out of one of those turrets' range, that turret goes after the closest enemy fighter until it can get a clear shot. He takes care not to accidentally shoot his possible new allies. Sometimes one of the fighters probably gets close enough to Ernest for the Aut Defence to shoot at them. They don't do much damage but it's probably still annoying to have more guns shooting at them. Besides, these guys don't seem to have missiles, so it's not like they need to shoot down any of those yet. "If any of my crew members happen to be trained turret gunners, your assistance would be appreciated. I don't have the CPU capacity to efficiently use all of my weapons. Are there any gunners on board? Because I have four additional turrets." He says to his passengers. The terminal reads: [quote] WARNING! SIX UNKNOWN SPACESHIP INSTANCES ARE ATTACKING! WARNING! SIX UNKNOWN BIOLOGICAL INSTANCES HAVE APPEARED! AUTO-DEFENCE TURRETS HAVE BEEN ACTIVATED. ATTEMPTING TO SEND MESSAGE TO SIX UNKNOWN BIOLOGICAL INSTANCES... [/quote] The message reads: "Greetings unknown but seemingly friendly entities. I am the battleship Ernest. It appears we are on the same side against these attackers that are also unknown to me. Please confirm this." [hr] [@Hokum] [b]As Ramrod[/b] Ramrod tries in vain to escape Rufus's grasps and try to check on Hank. "Mraoh! Mraoh mraoh?" (Hank! Are you hanging in there?) Ramrod Mraohs. It then occurred to Ramrod that Rufus's wishes are granted. Maybe that would work for him too? "Mraoh mraoh mraoh!" (I wish for my translator .3 thingy!) He then looks at his hand expectantly, hoping for his translator neckband to appear. It would make life a lot easier if he could actually communicate normally.