StarFields: Mercenary Crew

[Rexraptor2000]

Phoenix had been working the whole three hours, as the ship had been banged up hard by those fighters. He was already going to have to get the captain to purchase a new set of gravitonic stabilizers (which were barely holding together), a new turret which he was going to murder Tex for later, a refit of all of the food dispensers, and a new set of compression coils. To top that he was going to have to use a Mag. Hammer to redent into place the dented, supposedly indestructible and undentable blast door of the destroyed turret. With the Mag. Hammer in use, no one would be able to sleep. That's why he was holding it off until they landed.

 

Phoenix was currently fixing a few airlock panels that had gotten hit in the cargo bay. He himself looked like a wreck due to the lack of sleep, hundreds of bruises from running into walls, and cuts that had since clotted and would turn into scars.

[starmark2k]

((OK i'm going to skip us forward to landing on the station so we can get into the main body of the story, Tee has already died.

 

Note: The mission we were currently on was simply to collect some newly discovered plant samples from aquarius for the GE. Anyway we picked up the supplies from the GMC world and while in the lane between Gemini and ISS 5 the lane got disrupted, we fell out and were attacked by the J birds, A rocket hit near Tee's turret and shrappnel sliced into him.))

 

The Silent spear slowly approached the hanger on the Galactic Enforcer section of the Space station. As they were currently working for the G.E. getting clearance was simply calling in to the perimeter traffic control and telling the ships clearance. While on the communication with the G.E Jason also requested a repair crew to begin fixing the damage they took during their recent encounter.

 

The ship went through the door way and began to land on a cross painted on to the solid metal floor. The huge metal doors began to close beind the ship engulphing it within the G.E's hanger bay. As the doors sealed shut the atmospheric vents opened and began to fill the hanger with the Oxygen/Nitrogen mix most human found to be optimal.

 

The ships landing gears began to extend out of the ship as it lowered towards the landing cross below them. As the metal touched the metal a crashing noise echoed through the hanger and ship.

 

After a few moment the Loading ramp at the rear of the ship began to lower and the Silent Spear's crew all exited into the Hanger. Various mechanics had already entered the room carrying the repair parts and various tools.

 

Jason turned so he was facing the whole crew. "Alright, I'm going to the Enforcers offices and get us th scratch we're owed. Catch we're going to need food, Medical supples and some more ammo for turrets, take Shien and Cassie with you. Pheo you know what needs to be repaired so keep an eye on these knuckle draggers and see if you can get those parts you needs then get some rest, and Tex take some time out you look shattered. Everyone frosty with that?"

 

((OCC- If you'd rather your character do something else have your guy ask Jason and he'll say yes.))

[Jedi Atomic]

Jason turned so he was facing the whole crew. "Alright, I'm going to the Enforcers offices and get us th scratch we're owed. Catch we're going to need food, Medical supples and some more ammo for turrets, take Shien and Cassie with you. Pheo you know what needs to be repaired so keep an eye on these knuckle draggers and see if you can get those parts you needs then get some rest, and Tex take some time out you look shattered. Everyone frosty with that?"

 

Tekla had just woken up and looked that way everytime he wakes up. "Jay I'm good I'll just stay on the ship with Phoenix." He turns to Phoenix, "If that's what your doing? Cuz I'll help you out anyway you need me to. I've got a little experience back at home on Haven." He pushed his hair up into the position it normally would be if it wasn't wet from sweat or from sleeping.

[Rexraptor2000]

"Jay I'm good I'll just stay on the ship with Phoenix." He turns to Phoenix, "If that's what your doing? Cuz I'll help you out anyway you need me to. I've got a little experience back at home on Haven."

 

Phoenix's eye twitched and he said "I don't think you want to, since I still have to murder you for that turret."

 

After that he was off, running up to the mechanics and making sure that they knew what they were doing and such. After that, he got the Mag. Hammer and went to work on that dent. The Mag. Hammer, which was short for Magnetic Hammer, was basically a hammer that used magnetic pull to make the swings hit metals harder, depending on the level you set it. Even with maximum setting it would take a few hours to dent it into place properly, so Phoenix went to work swinging. It was loud enough to be heard all over the hanger.

[Jedi Atomic]

"That's why I'm asking to help you so I don't get murdered. I can do whatever you tell me to do. I'm at your side 'til we get out of here. Even if it means, you sitting down resting, while I do everything that your supposed to be doing. Just remember It's my turret. I'll anything to get it back." He waited a few seconds then remembered, "Oh ya and its not my faut that the turret blew up, and If I don't help you I'll probably just go to sleep."

[Grace]

Grace nodded. Gesturing for Ciyagi and Cassie to follow, she headed deeper into the station. As they walked, she spoke. "Cassie, you know best what medical supplies are needed, so I'll send you after those. Ciyagi, why don't you go for the turret ammo? I'll hunt down some food and we'll meet back at the ship in half an hour."

 

Without waiting for their answers, Grace headed away toward a food store. As she entered, she bit her lip as a shelf holding Tee's favorite food caught her eye. But she was determined not to cry, especially not in such a public place. She'd save it for later that night, when everyone else went to bed. Then, for their nightmares, she would not be able to sleep. Then, she would allow her tears to come. But now, blinking furiously, she pushed forward, determined to make her purchases and get back to the ship.

[Master_Archon]

Note: The mission we were currently on was simply to collect some newly discovered plant samples from aquarius for the GE. Anyway we picked up the supplies from the GMC world and while in the lane between Gemini and ISS 5 the lane got disrupted, we fell out and were attacked by the J birds, A rocket hit near Tee's turret and shrappnel sliced into him.))

 

((If that's what happened, then Tee's turret would be fairly damaged aswell, if not destroyed, just like Tekla's. So considering that, we only have one feasible turret in use...yikes!))

 

Warning: Long Post! Very descriptive...and moments of insanity. You have been warned!

 

Ciyagi had been devistated by the news of Tee's death ((If they have been told that is)), he was in a sullen, skulky mood, his normally cheerful mood gone.

 

"Cassie, you know best what medical supplies are needed, so I'll send you after those. Ciyagi, why don't you go for the turret ammo? I'll hunt down some food and we'll meet back at the ship in half an hour." Grace told them, heading off towards a food store.

 

Normally, Ciyagi would have asked her to get him some junk food, but he only grunted as she left. Ciyagi kept walking with Cassie for some time, before they got to a fork in the path, Ciyagi just waved half-heartedly at Cassie as they split, and he headed off, his mind in a fog.

 

After some time he was inside a large surpluss store, how he got there, or when, even, he did not know. He looked around, looking at the stacks of crates of excess goods; ammo, rockets, ship parts, even simple things like hull polish. Everything and anything that was meant for a spacer to buy in bulk was here, though Ciyagi didn't know why Grace didn't come here to get the food in bulk, which would be cheaper and easier, and even last longer, nor did he understand why Cassie didn't come here either.

 

Then again, this place carried more ship components in bulk, rather than goods. Normally this was Tee's job, though Ciyagi had often gone with him, and that's how he knew what to get, and what not to get...and what Tee would have liked to get, but never could on account of either the captain, or budget, mostly budget.

 

Ciyagi stopped at a small pedestal at a junction, he stepped up to it, pressing his figure onto the indetity pad in the lower righthand corner, the machine reading his fingure signature, it beeped, acknowledging his access. He pressed on the little screen, skimming through several things, stopping and pressing a couple options on the screen along the way.

 

He checked off rounds, both common and tracer, though less of the tracer's, as not as many were needed. He got bulk-head rounds, larger rounds meant for hitting a target, and spreading on impact, though they weren't meant for the destruction of a vessel, more for dissabling it, for commandeering.

 

He got some rockets, missiles, and torpedoes, checking them off as he went, getting the exact number needed without much effort of thinking, though his mind and mood were in such a haze. He got some parts that he knew Pheonix would need and like, and some engine and turret coolant.

 

Ciyagi did some double checking, then he identified the ship to be delivered to, and the account used to pay for the stuff. Ciyagi was about to leave when he spotted some stuff that Tee had wanted, Ciyagi got a sad, childish pouty look on his face, but it soon turned to anger, as he started hitting things, like a child in a tantrum, very similar to how he reacted with his mother's death.

 

Ciyagi calmed down, breathing heavily as he stared around at the tossed crates, and broken things. Ciyagi stood up straight his face emotionless, until a single tear fell down his cheek, but instead of sobbing, or crying, he started to laugh, at first lightly, then more and more, until it filled the whole store, and even echoed down the halls of the station.

 

He had a huge, derranged grin on his face, as he stepped back up to the screen. He went to another section, flipping through things, things Tee wanted, things Tee would get!

 

Sonic mines, napalm bombs, cluster bombs, cluster missiles, death-head rounds which were deadly rounds that exploded on impact, causing extensive damage. He got spread mines, which were small palm sized mines which were ejected from the rear of a vessel in a large spread, often used to deter, or destroy chasing vessels.

 

He got two more things, two things that only Tee knew how to find in this stores stock, in a back option of the display, and Tee had shown him. He got screamer rounds, rounds that fired one at a time from a turret, and had a cell in them that created high sonic frequencies, even in space, mostly fire at the heavily fortified cockpit or viewports of vessels, to crack them, and thus kill those inside, by means of being sucked out. They were highly experimental, only used by well known pirate groups, or the GE, or certain territory's militaries, beyond that, thy were quite illegal.

 

The last thing on the list was, mag-pulse coils, long fairly flexible tubes, filled with mag-pulse micro mines, each tube filled with hundreds if not over a thousand, each tube as long as a belt of ammo, more or less. The tubes were turret compatible, and were launched at enemy vessels, whatever part of the tube hit the vessel, the micro mag-mines inside activated, but using revese engineering, the mines, instead of exploding, pull on the ship, often times the tube wraps around the enemy vessel, then the mines increase in magnetic pull, until the entire ship is crushed, and the mines become inactive.

 

The thing about the mag-pulse coils was the fact that they could be retrieved after a battle, repaired and refitted just a little, and they were ready to use again, and could be used about ten more times before the mines burn out inside the tube, and you had to buy more coils. The reason they were illegal was they destroyed vessels in such a gruesome and unethical way.

 

Ciyagi looked over the items, seeing that the Shining Spear wouldn't be able to fire some of them, he got the necessary extentions and upgrades needed. He typed in the ship to be given these things, then he put in the account. He was about to press send when his fingure paused over the button onscreen.

 

'Would the captain approve? What would he say? What about the illegal ammo?'

 

Ciyagi grinned conivingly, a thought crossing his mind, he went back, retyping which account to use, not the ship's account to pay for this stuff, but his account, his military account, which had more than enough money for him to pay for these items, so if the captain had something to say, well, he couldn't, Ciyagi bought it, not the captain.

 

Ciyagi typed several more things in, two large mechanical arms, bringing in two large crates, then two more arms brought in two smaller crates. Ciyagi walked over to the two smaller crates, looking around until he found the varification stickers, he took them off delicately, then put them over the stickers of the two large crates, hiding the fact that he ordered illegal goods. He typed something in, the arms coming back and carrying the crates away to be sent to the ship, and stored in the lesser compartments of the ship, below the cargo hold, where most supplies and ammo were stored. Ciyagi pressed the approval button, and send for the rest of the stuff.

 

Ciyagi grinned, pressing several more buttons, he left the pedestal, walking out, he picked up two small crates that he ordered for himself, nothing too important. Picking them up with ease, he heafted one on each shoulder, smiling as he walked down the hall.

 

"Tee will love what I got him, he's got to...he will!" He chattered to himself, laughter escaping his mouth, but tears filling his eyes.

 

((YES!!! Ciyagi has had a serious nervous beakdown, near insanity you might say. But...I realise I might have explained the ammo TOO well. And if I went overboard with it in his delirium, then tell me, and I'll tone it down, I don't want to get stuff and....well, you get the point...I hope.))

[Grace]

((I love the post Jason and Grace are BOTH going to throw a fit though, I expect ))

 

 

Grace finished her shopping, almost forgetting to add a few 'junk' items, such as chips of various kinds and small supply of donuts... the crew certainly did love their junk. Then, she headed back to the ship, three robotic delivery units in tow. They carried most of the heavy stuff, but Grace still had enough to keep her hands occupied.

 

"Food supplies are fully restocked," she told Jason. "Now we're just waiting for Ciyagi and Cassie to get back."

[starmark2k]

Jason Walked down the main part of he GE's commercial block. Although the GE would claim they were a army and police service for the independent territories they were in fact little more than a security service. Corporations like the FIC and GMC hired them to defend their colonies, stations and the Hyper lanes connecting them.

 

This has caused the galaxy to be split into a colour system depending on the level of protection the Galactic Enforcers offer. Green is an area like a planet or station where the GE have a permanent presence in the form of a military base of offices in a station. Yellow is regularly Patrolled areas of space like along the Hyper lanes or outskirts of the system. A red Zone is an area that is classed as unclaimed and where the GE have no legal rights, however if a ship sends a distress call the GE will send ships to aid. A black Zone is an area which has been legally claimed by people who do not recognise the GE, these are normally controlled by pirate or other criminal groups.

 

The G.E also regulate most of the Bounties, Mercenaries and Freelance ships within the Independent territories and will Extradite criminals of the empires back to sovereign space.

 

Jason was the captain of a Galactic Enforcer registered freelance ship, to be on the Lists was not difficult and the best way for a Freelancer to make money(legally). Fortunately for Shining Spear had managed to gain a reputation for having a good crew and getting the job done, so now Jason didn’t need to go and get the jobs as the GE will contact him.

 

Jason continued to walk down the corridor offices pass the bounty registry office, the freighter escort hire, the civilian protection hire, etc. until he reached the Freelance Missions office. He walked in to the office and over to the sectary, she looked up at him and smiled.

 

“Ah, Mr Nasai we heard you arrived.” She greeted. “Please go in Mr Jakes is waiting for you.”

 

Jason just smiled back and nodded as walked across the room to thee door labelled ‘Mr Jakes’, He stepped in where a tall middle aged man sat on a desk doing some kind of paper work. The man looked up and a huge smile came across his face on seeing Jason.

 

“Hey Jay Jay.” Jason said walking over to a chair in front of the desk and sitting down.

 

“Hello Jason.” The man greeted standing up and walking over to a mini bar and pouring to drinks into short glasses.” I’ve been told you delivered the goods and you ran into some trouble.”

 

Mr jakes walked over to Jason carrying the two drinks and handed one over to him, Jason took it and looked into the glass. “Yeah, We lost Kane.” he then drank it all in one go.

 

“No.” Mr Jakes said in shock as he walked back round his desk and sat in his chair. “He was good man.”

 

“You’re telling me.” Jason replied. “Anyway I’m going to take his body back to Nirvana.”

 

“O.K then, I had a mission set aside for you, but I’ll give it o someone else.” Jakes explained.” and I’ll make sure his family get the GE hazard pay. Of course well pay for any damages to your ship and I transferred your fee when I heard you arrive.”

 

“Thanks, jakes.”

 

“So hows your lovely wife holding up?” Jakes asked.

 

“She knows how to control emotions, she’s acting strong but I’m getting the feeling she’s really upset by Tee’s death.”

 

“And you?”

 

“The same.” Jason replied standing up and putting the short glass onto the table in front of him. “well I better get back to the ship, you guys act quick so I’m sure they’ll almost finish the repairs.”

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Jason got back to the ship and began to check over the repair job Phoenix and the GE repairers did when grace walked up behind him.

 

"Food supplies are fully restocked," she told Jason. "Now we're just waiting for Ciyagi and Cassie to get back."

 

“That’s fine.” Jason replied reaching down to grab one of the things she was carrying. “C’monlet’s put this stuff in the galley.”

[Jedi Atomic]

Noting that he wasn't helping any with the efforts he made, Phoenix didn't want to be bothered by his nonsense. He turned around and walked to the boarding ramp, when Grace and Jason were walking up. Hey Jason and Grace, are we about to leave, cuz I'd like to do some.......stuff before we left."

[Master_Archon]

Ciyagi entered the hangar, his mood hadn't changed at all, his grin on his face, his eyes showed that he had been crying, but his expression did not. His mind was hazy, dark, and warped, it would be painful to read.

 

His eyes were glazed, searching here and there, for something that was no longer existant. He walked over to the side of the ship, looking at the repairs, his but why he was doing it, was uncertain.

 

As Jason and Grace entered the ship, the undercarrage of the ship opened, the floor underneath opening slightly, machanical arms lifting huge crates into the lesser compartments of the ship. Ciyagi watched, his maniacle grin growing wider, as the crates were loaded, the last two were the ones from earlier.

 

He turned, walking up the ramp past the three conversing with eachother. Ciyagi mumbled to himself, his words unintelligable, even compared to Phoenix's speach.

 

Ciyagi kept moving, going to a corner of the cargo hold, he set his two crates down, moving rapidly to the middle of the hold, looking around as if looking for something, or someone, mumbling to himself the whole time.

[starmark2k]

Jason looked at his watch and then Ciyagi walk pass them before turning his attention back to the ships gunner. "Sure, just don't take too long it's a long way to Nirvana and i want to be their A-sap." Jason replied before looking back at his wife.

 

"Someone is going to have to talk to him." Jason said refering to Ciyagi.

[steven]

A moment later Cassie returned with her supplies. She'd been feeling depressed since Tee's death and had dying for a drink since it all happened. She had planned to do it during there stay however she was rushed to get the supplies, however she'd find time during the trip.

[Jedi Atomic]

(By the way, Tekla's not the mechanic if you would like to fix that Star. Tekla is the gunner!)

 

"Sure, just don't take too long it's a long way to Nirvana and i want to be their A-sap."

 

He started walking to the hangar door to the bar. "Great not much time left to get a drink to settle down a little." He walked into the bar and took a seat at the counter. "Just a Spritz today(form of Sprite). I'm not feeling all that great." The man handed him a mug filled with fountain soda the best soda ever made. The carbonated beverage rolled down his throat like something was pricking him lightly.

 

While the bar was in the back side of the hallway where nobody walked past, the place was considerably big and packed most of the time, like it was at the time he was at the moment.

 

As Tekla filled his mouth with the last of the Spritz in the mug somebody tapped his shoulder, so he turned around to be punched across the cheek, making the soda fly all over the counter-top, with Tekla on top. He grabbed his cheek as he came up to see the man running through the aisle of people moving out of his way. "Who the...." He started running after the guy into the hallway where he noticed him running in the direction of the hangar the Shining Spear was located.

 

He rounded the corner to see the hallway filled with people bumping into each other, as they walked past each other. "Man.....he's going to get it.....whoever that was." He walked into the hangar holding his cheekbone. He walked up the ramp, and walked into the bridge taking a seat in one of the passenger seats and started thinking who that could have been.

[Grace]

"Ai ya!" Grace murmured, wincing as Ciyagi brushed past them. "His surface thoughts alone are so twisted I can't make sense of him..." She shook her head and started off after the gunner. As she entered the cargo hold, she discovered that he was gone from her sight, though she could still hear him rummaging about in the supplies he'd just brought back.

 

"Ciyagi?" she called, very concerned by the mess of his mind. As a safety precaution, she erected a telekinetic barrier, fully surrounding her, but close enough to her skin that it would not connect with anything else. "Ciyagi, are you alright?"

[Master_Archon]

Ciyagi looked up with a gaze similar to a derranged animal's. He breathed inward sharply, the sound of it like a hiss.

 

He stalked around the hold until he caught sight of Grace.

 

"Ciyagi, are you alright?" Grace called out to him.

 

His eyes dilated large, then small, inward, outward, as he he approached silently. He hissed in her ear as he got up near her, speaking incoherently, "Ciyagi is...fine, he is good, what is it you want?"

 

He asked her, though his eyes studied her, they moved rapidly in all directions as they did study her in jerky movements. His tail flicked back and forth as he stalked around her, like he was sizing her up. His fists clenched, then opened, clenched, opened, and they kept doing this as he went around.

[Grace]

"I want Ciyagi back," Grace answered calmly, standing in still, never once turning to face him as he circled her. But her mind was acutely aware of his exact position. If he chose to attack, he would find her more than prepared. "And if I have to help in getting him, I will."

[Master_Archon]

"I want Ciyagi back," Grace answered calmly. "And if I have to help in getting him, I will." She told him.

 

Ciyagi kept moving, around and around, as he snickered to himself. "Ciyagi is here, right here, are you blind?"

 

He snickered once more, changing the direction in which he moved. "And if he were gone, then how would you get him back?" He asked, cocking his head to the side like a curious animal.

[Grace]

"I see more than you think," Grace said, keeping her voice quiet. "His mind is a twisted mess, not himself. Perhaps you do not understand telepathy or how it works, but I can aid in the untwisting of the mind to bring Ciyagi back to himself. Still emotional over Tee's..." her voice broke a little, "... death. But normal."

[Master_Archon]

Ciyagi laughed, his stare menacing, he spoke softly, "perhaps, you think he doesn't know, but telepathy is a well learned thing in the military."

 

"You can feel, read, and detect the emotions, thoughts, and urges of another being, you can, in some situations, speak to others telepathically, and you can navigate the mind of someone weak in mental capasity," he explained, smiling slyly, as he revealed that he was not ignorant to the ways of telepathy.

 

"You can attempt to do what you say, but even strong telepaths can only do so much, just like with telekinesis, you can only go as far as your brain capasity and power can go," he said.

 

"But something else he knows, is that it is often painful to go into anothers mind, as because of emotions being shared, memories, and....pain, mental, and physical," He grinned mischieviously.

 

Ciyagi's face grew solumn, and he spoke more harshly, "Ciyagi is fine, as he has said, so why do you banter on like this? Speaking as if Ciyagi were two people, or whatnot. No matter, Tee is going to get what he wants, and Ciyagi will not stand by and let you stop him."

 

At this Ciyagi froze, his body suspended in a stalking position as he stared at her, his eyes dilating to slits. He made a jerking movement as if he were going to strike, but he stopped, smiling he snickered to himself, and he turned, walking back to where he had been earlier in the hold.

[Grace]

"I speak as you speak," Grace answered, her eyes narrowing ever so slightly. "And if you will not keep yourself under control, you will learn about the person I used to be... and believe me, it's gonna hurt."

 

((MA, if you have MSN Messenger, we need to have a chat. PM me your address if you do. If not, we'll communicate via PM, I guess...))