SimplyJohn

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

Somehow my medical officer seems a lot less applicable in this sea of badassery.

@DJAtomika

Everyone laughs at the medic until their badassery runs into an enemy minigun. After that the quiet little doctor suddenly seems a hella lot friendlier.

And I mean all I got to my character is fancy flying skills and a near encyclopedic knowledge of every flying hunk of junk except this one so. I think you're good.

@TTwoThumbsUp

When did she say she didn't know anything about this ship?

How and why would Mez have met her brother? I mean, the pair of them were running jobs together and occasionally taking the skin boat to tuna town. That's hardly a cause for "Hey, lemme introduce you to my family." In fact, any clued up guy would actively prevent such a meeting from ever happening. :P Haha!

@Kalas

That's probably why they two managed to stay together for as long as they did before Mez met her brother and finally cottoned on to the horrifying truth. Their children were going to be blue! :O

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As Felix gently guided the shuttle as close as he could to the spinning, twirling hulk of the abandoned dreadnought he heard the search party beginning to move around in the compartment behind him. Finally they seemed to be getting their acts together and one of them was even stepping up to the airlock, their armour shifting and hardening around them as they prepared for a space walk.

"Open the airlock, pilot. I will get us inside."

@Tenish the Mighty

"It's your funeral, happy landings." Felix responded with a grin, reaching out to activate the control and triggering the system. It would take a minute to flush the air from the small chamber, but soon the outer door would be ready to open for his guest.

"Listen flyboy, if you think you can dock us with the airlock, aces! But if not, why not let me take the shuttle for a spin. You do know who I am right? Sevyn Spades? Kind of a big deal in the Syndarin systems? We'll be in and out before you know it."

@TTwoThumbsUp

"No can do." Felix replied with a smile, "This is a military vessel, not some pleasure cruiser, as you've no doubt gathered from our lack of hot tub and bar facilities. Only authorised personnel are permitted to pilot her. And I've never been to Syndarin, or your colonies, and the only Spades I work with are the little black ones that win me hands."

With that Felix slapped his hand down on the console, cutting the 'com as he focused his attention on aligning the shuttle to the larger ship, getting them as close as he safely could to give the Gygan the best possible chance of success.

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

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Clearly you hired the wrong team for this then.

@TTwoThumbsUp

Dammit, I thought this transport was the one with the thieves, liars and cheats. If not then who the hell did I send to collect the bullion from the Federal Reserve?

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Guess it's time to crack open an airlock then and take our wonderful chances, unless someone else has a better idea.

@TTwoThumbsUp

You could always ask Felix to fly you back to the fleet, report that everything clear and ready to be salvaged and then collect your bounty and skedaddle before the next team get massacred?

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Well there's also the possibility of entering through something that would connect to the interior of the ship from the outside that could be fairly easy to pry into like missile bays or something similar like that, assuming the Lone Star has missile bays and that they can be reloaded from inside the ship.

@TTwoThumbsUp

You wouldn't really know those kinds of details about the ship unless someone was already intimate with the design, or could get their hands on a schematic of some kind.

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We still have the problem of not being unable to breath in the long run though, don't we?

@Bonjour xx

That all depends on what you find when you get over there.

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

Because their "thumb" was lost in a freak "what is physiological compatibility?" accident. I just happened to be the only doctor that wouldn't put the transplant on their official medical record, thereby preventing their wives from seeing it.

@TheUnknowable

"For the last time, a power socket is not compatible with organic physiology!"

I was about to say! Drop a comment like that around Marga and she'll be wearing a pair of suspicious looking earrings and a new pendant.

FYI, she's never had any complaints, thank you very much.

@Bonjour xx

With a reaction like that I can see why.

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

Don't worry. You'd be surprise how often I've had to clone certain parts of the male anatomy. I've got good at cloning them.

@TheUnknowable

That's good, but why would anyone need an extra thumb?

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

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Hey, that's my job. Ok, so my job is actually to develop a vaccine to whatever plague kill the crew, something my "employers" are sure of, but I'm still a medical doctor. And the fact that my license was suspended has nothing to do with it.

@TheUnknowable

You can never have too many doctors when heading into hostile territory. After all, who else is gonna patch up Mez after he idly drops a comment about Marga's performance in bed?

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"Felix, are the hangar bay doors of the Lone Star armoured? If we had a large enough armament, we could theoretically blow open those doors or a fragile structure next to them to allow us entry."

@DJAtomika

Tapping on an auxiliary panel Felix quickly brought up the passive scan results coming in from the navigational sensors before flicking his mike back on. "Those look military-grade to me, and all this shuttle's got are some low-range autolasers. I could probably blast through with enough time, but you might need to hold your breath for the last hour or two, 'cos I don't see out air supply lasting that long."

'Well, not your air supply, at least,' He added to himself, absently reaching down to check the personal life support unit fitted into the cockpit module. As he looked back up something on the scan caught his eye. With a wave of his hand Felix activated the active scanner to get a better look at the anomaly before grinning happily.

"Got some good news for you though, looks like there's a maintenance airlock not too far stern of the main dock. Should be big enough for a personnel transfer if we can get a lock. That or you could always go for a walk."