Rhona W

Splintered / Reflections

I'll probably delay my entry into the RP, perhaps I'll focus on shattered steel to make sure that side of things keeps rolling.

@Foster

TBH, I'm going to end Armoured Fist, as I just don't have any enthusiasm for it anymore

Splintered / Reflections

I think everyone has posted at least once since the last GM post. I know that Chevy and Cozure have a collab post to put up. As soon as that's up, I'll do another post with Silver answering questions people have raised, and then moving things along a bit too - I don't think we need to RP 8 hours of sitting in a cargo hold and then driving across the desert x3

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Power Rangers: Secret Force

I know the RP is full, but it is okay if I lurk and just read along and such?
I've been on kind of a Power Rangers kick lately after tripping over a bunch of videos on YouTube, and I loved the original MMPR when I was a kid.
I've got too much on my plate to join another RP as it is, so just following vicariously would probably be for the best anyway.
I understand if you don't want an audience though!

Splintered / Reflections

New post is up! Got us en route and with a briefing. Time to go to an exotic foreign country, and then a far-off world!

My Hider

That in true TV Sci-Fi tradition, looks a lot like British Columbia

Splintered / Reflections

Sometime Later

It had taken a few hours that had gone quick until the team were all reassembled - and had been redirected to one of the bases' hangars, with Kerris and Maxon were taken off of the personnel transport and straight onto a heavier military cargo transport jet. The hold of the plane was filled with transport trucks loaded with their MAS Suits and the weapons, ammunition and support equipment for them. As soon as everyone was aboard, the loadmaster directed them all to sit and strap in, while the jets' engines wound up to speed and it started to move as the rear ramp closed. The noise inside the aircraft was too loud to speak at anything above a scream without a headset on, and they were each given ones - appropriate to their species - as the noise grew and the huge cargo jet started to roll, the engine sound growing too loud even for conversation over the headsets until the sound died away and the acceleration after the climb died off. The loadmaster's voice came over their headsets, telling them they were free to unstrap themselves and move around the bay, until Silverwind told them to stay on the channel while he ran through their briefing.

"All right, everyone. Listen up. I know you're all as annoyed as me that we got called back into action instead of havin' a long deserved day off, but that's th' nature of the thing. Best we can do is get on with it an' hope that we can deal with this situation quick enough ta get back to some free time. As y'all mighta noticed, we're on a flight overseas. We're headin' to a country called Egypt; it's th' place with those big pyramids y'all mighta seen on TV or wherever. A research team were explorin' through a portal there. They'd found a inhabitable planet on the other side and it showed traces of a civilization. They were in contact periodically, until eight hours ago, they missed a scheduled check-in. They sent a probe through and..."
Silver sent a message through to their pebbles on the shared squad channel and the video showed grainy footage. It was a world that looked quite a lot like some of the more idyllic regions of Earth, particularly like Canada, with it's pine forests. The main difference was the colour of some of the plants, and the ringed planet that filled the sky.
A panoramic view showed gently rolling grassy plains with hills rising in the near distance, and copses of the pine-looking trees and lush vegetation. Time skipped onward through the drone probe's cameras, shown by the time index in the bottom corner rolling forward and the view changing to much closer to the hills - and then pillars of smoke drifting upward, along with the unmistakable shapes of Totality gunships in the skies above, their techno-organic shapes wheeling and moving through the skies with eerie agility.
"'Bout that point the drone turned around and headed back fer the mirror, as there weren't much it coulda done anyhow. But there's a coupla issues here fer us to be lookin' into. First is, the exploration team cut off hours before the Totality destroyed th' outpost. Which means they coulda got away, or it coulda been somethin' else that caused it to happen.
"Second thing - an' more of a worry - is that the Totality got access to this planet, an' it weren't through the mirror we're goin' to - which means there's one to one of the worlds they have access to on th' planet somewhere else... or they got there some other way. Either way, it's only one step away from another front they can open up on Earth, and we don't want that. So, that's yer explanation fer the urgency, at least".
The display he'd sent through showed the location of the mirror, out in the egyptian desert in a rocky, hilly area. Footage from the Earth side showed it barely protected, with only the mobile laboratory trailer and a security detail present.
"Place is so remote, that it's gonna take the local armed forces hours to move anything significant into the area other than light troops an' airpower. Nearest airport that can take this bird is eighty miles out, so we gotta drive once we hit ground too. Gonna take us at least eight hours combining the flight and the drive even at the fastest we can make it, which is why it was important we get movin' ASAP".
He looked around at them across the bay and nodded.
"Reckon y'all might have questions, so I'll do my best ta answer 'em. If not, prolly best ya get some rest while ya can. Apparently this thing has a kitchen of sorts up front too if yer hungry or thirsty too"

@Smike, @Chevaleresse, @FalloutJack, @Cozure, @Lovely Bones

Shattered Steel - Armoured Fist. An RP about modern armoured vehicles in an alternate world- ON HIATUS

Going to try and come up with a post over the weekend, but if I'm honest; I've sort of lost interest and my steam a little for this RP. It doesn't scratch the same itch or generate the same excitement as Shattered Steel does for some reason.
I'll see what I can do though.

Shattered Steel - An Ace Combat/Project Wingman/etc inspired aircraft-based RP

Scott Valentine

Scott's attacks had hit hard. One of the boats was completely destroyed, nothing left but debris and sinking wreckage. The other boat he'd hit with his gun was smoking and had not shown any interest in pressing the attack. Myk's attack on the remaining one with a JDAM blasted it apart as the 500lb warhead struck squarely atop the stern. The force of the explosion slammed the boats' rear down against the incompressible water and blew out seams in the hull. Pipes and feeds ruptured and as cold water hit the hot engines, steam blasted out and added to the explosion as the missile boat blew to pieces.
"Outstanding, Brightspark! Good hits!"
Then as Valkyrie dropped in to take on the second Corvette; duelling with it as the crew fought back admirably; but her second Maverick hit home, plowing into the Corvette's superstructure and leaving it smoking and burning. The surface combatants were all-but out of the fight, with crews abandoning ship on what was left, or trying to stabilise their sinking ships.
"All ships and vessels are out of the picture. Pivot to attacking the land-based targets, over"

Katherine 'Kitten' Kane

The Hind's air-to-air missile bore in toward the A-10, while Kat's AIM-9X sliced through the skies toward the attack helicopter. The Amazonian pilot hauled back on her stick, pulling up and right in a shuddering bank. Her radar warning receiver blared incessantly and she cursed under her breath as the G's pulled on her, pumping out flares as the jet pulled up and away.
The R-60 missile steered toward her plane, before the rooster-tail of flares caught it's attention and it exploded into the skies, giving her a narrow escape. The Hind wasn't so lucky, however; despite hugging the ground and wheeling away as fast as its' pilot could take it and pumping out flares, the hulking attack helicopter couldn't escape. The sidewinder intersected its' rotor disk as it homed in on the engine exhausts, and as the proximity fuse triggered, the explosion of shrapnel tore through the engines and rotors alike, the helicopter pancaking into the ground and breaking in two as it rolled onto its' side and burst into flames.
The rest of the helicopters were starting to react, taking to the skies and trying to flee as the Cobalt Haze jets picked them off, while tracers from the remaining pickups and their anti-aircraft guns criss-crossed the skies.

Meanwhile over the more built up of the two islands, the dogfights were already minutes old; an eternity in the timescales of aerial combat. Jefe, Calico and Peacenik had ripped the handful of aerial combatants from the sky with barely a flicker of difficulty, and then Sparrow's Typhoon had ravaged the ZSU's on the ground, leaving the island virtually defenceless. There was nothing left of any substance to hold them back or fight back against them, the Libyan transport planes on the tarmac below not even attempting to make a run for it, and no seeking radars sweeping for them high above.
"This is Skywatch to Cobalt 3; reading no bandits in your area and no hostiles. All targets are down or no factor, over" the AWACS operator reported, the displays from the powerful radar aboard the Hawkeye showing no remaining hostiles.
From Scott's position in the harrier, regrouping with the rest of his flight at a higher altitude, he listened in to the good news.
"Flight one, regroup on me and let's hit the last of these targets, and regroup on Flight Two. Cobalt 3; check for any further hostiles or targets of opportunity and hold over Lampedusa for the C-130's, over"

@Letter Bee, @Smike, @Finetales, @AvaP, @Damo021

Operation Daytrip- A Heavenfall Story

Erika Van Straaten

Hippo nodded in understanding as the answers came back, plain and simple with no obfuscation; just the way she liked it. It all seemed straightforward so far - or, at least; as straightforward as such things could be.
"I don't have any further questions right now - there's not anything else I can really comment on until we're there and looking at it as it happens. I'm sure that's when it'll all get a lot more complicated to the point there will be more questions from all of us," she said with a half-smirk. "Especially with all the groups you're talking about being involved with and having to coordinate with too".

Splintered / Reflections

@Rhona W

Okay, Google says 3-4 hours from where I'm planning, if by military jet, which is what would do the pick-up. It's just for my intro, though, so if that's not soon enough, I'll pick a closer location.

@FalloutJack

Nah, it's fine - it was an unexpected mission, so if your chars are that far away, they're that far away. I can write it in for the next reply I put up ^^