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Traveller: Life in the Marches - A ship of our own
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Nestor gets ready, armed with the tranq pistol loaded with drugs strong enough to put a K'Kree to sleep, her new paintball gun loaded with, ermm... paint and her shotgun. The shotgun is mainly for intimidation or if she needs to shoot holes in a spaceship.
She ties a bandana around her head inscribed with a 'No Pirates' decal.
I'm older than Minecraft goats.
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"We send that drone out there and it gets picked up, it's game over man. Game over. Look, the charges are set, Loc and Home are onboard the Vainglorious and ready to go. The recordings we cued up should convince them that the bridge is locked and the crew is trapped there, draw them in. Once they're docked and the clamps have them, they're ours. "
OOC : Remember, we can't see Necro's post and none of us know anything about space piracy, and the crew of the rescue ship didn't say anything about the plan being terrible, so we're stuck with it now. We haven't clearly defined what we're doing, but here's how I imagine it :
The sail is partially detached and we've faked a progressive power failure on the ship.
We've vented the air from the ship apart from the bridge, making it look like the crew is holed up in there behind a sealed door. The idea being that from a pirate's perspective they can loot the ship in safety without fear that the crew will interfere, all while pretending to be a rescue team.
The ship will play back recordings of crew voices (assuming we're too far off to broadcast live or such a broadcast would give away our position.)
2 Drones are onboard to provide information about the boarding party and to engage when the charges go off. Also, if feasible the fuel purifier will be modified and moved into Engineering facing down the main corridor, ready to do a moderate fuel purge that will light that corridor up to around half way up the upper state rooms.
Anything we might have had to hand that might suggest we have a valuable cargo would be left strewn around in the corridor behind the bridge and ships computer room to get them to walk down that corridor.
We're on silent running drifting somewhere behind the Vainglorious waiting for the Pirates to go by us, presumably hiding ourselves in the shadow of the nearest sun. When they go by we should be able to time a few MDrive kicks with solar activity to put us in slow pursuit of their vessel with minimal chance of detection, with the option of an active high-burn to close distance only once they're starting to commit to the boarding op which will give us away, but ideally we drift close enough for Glenn to do his thing and tele-board them with Dhinor and a couple of drones, jumping back and forth as many times as he can to get as many of us on board as we can.
Once their party is aboard, they walk down the corridor, they get torched, the clamp engages to lock the ship in, the boarders try to abandon ship, the charges go off and shred the suits if not kill the pirates, the 2 drones pop out of state rooms 3 and 4 (which could not have been searched at this time because the boarding party got torched) and mop up, then go across. Meanwhile Dhinor, Verne and the drones are ripping through the pirate ship.
Of course, the fact that they're not going to dock ruins a lot of this but we don't know that
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"We send that drone out there and it gets picked up, it's game over man. Game over. Look, the charges are set, Loc and Home are onboard the Vainglorious and ready to go. The recordings we cued up should convince them that the bridge is locked and the crew is trapped there, draw them in. Once they're docked and the clamps have them, they're ours. "
OOC : Remember, we can't see Necro's post and none of us know anything about space piracy, and the crew of the rescue ship didn't say anything about the plan being terrible, so we're stuck with it now. We haven't clearly defined what we're doing, but here's how I imagine it :
The sail is partially detached and we've faked a progressive power failure on the ship.
We've vented the air from the ship apart from the bridge, making it look like the crew is holed up in there behind a sealed door. The idea being that from a pirate's perspective they can loot the ship in safety without fear that the crew will interfere, all while pretending to be a rescue team.
The ship will play back recordings of crew voices (assuming we're too far off to broadcast live or such a broadcast would give away our position.)
2 Drones are onboard to provide information about the boarding party and to engage when the charges go off. Also, if feasible the fuel purifier will be modified and moved into Engineering facing down the main corridor, ready to do a moderate fuel purge that will light that corridor up to around half way up the upper state rooms.
Anything we might have had to hand that might suggest we have a valuable cargo would be left strewn around in the corridor behind the bridge and ships computer room to get them to walk down that corridor.
We're on silent running drifting somewhere behind the Vainglorious waiting for the Pirates to go by us, presumably hiding ourselves in the shadow of the nearest sun. When they go by we should be able to time a few MDrive kicks with solar activity to put us in slow pursuit of their vessel with minimal chance of detection, with the option of an active high-burn to close distance only once they're starting to commit to the boarding op which will give us away, but ideally we drift close enough for Glenn to do his thing and tele-board them with Dhinor and a couple of drones, jumping back and forth as many times as he can to get as many of us on board as we can.
Once their party is aboard, they walk down the corridor, they get torched, the clamp engages to lock the ship in, the boarders try to abandon ship, the charges go off and shred the suits if not kill the pirates, the 2 drones pop out of state rooms 3 and 4 (which could not have been searched at this time because the boarding party got torched) and mop up, then go across. Meanwhile Dhinor, Verne and the drones are ripping through the pirate ship.
Of course, the fact that they're not going to dock ruins a lot of this but we don't know that
OOC: I understand player knowledge =/= character knowledge, but i dont think its a stretch to try to get a scan on our new targets given thats what we did previously. It also wont impact, i think, our decision to go ahead with the plan. Just given Evan's previous bit about the possible outcomes if the other ship are x aliens, y aliens or z aliens, i thought it made sense to take the same approach before our big all or nothing honey pot plan.0 -
OOC : Oh yeah, it makes sense - I have no objections to intelligence gathering. But we have to send a drone out to do it I think - we did that with the Rescue team because we wanted to be found. If we send one out to the pirates, don't we give ourselves away?
I don't know how the sensors work. But Glenn does so the characters would know if this is a workable plan - i.e. can we do the scan from our ship or does it have to be done up close by a drone, and if the latter is the drone going to be detectable on typical scanners?
(Four - that question is at you )
BTW, above is not the plan. It's what I think the plan is. We have all been very vague about the plan. If you have ideas, put them in the pot!0 -
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OOC : Oh yeah, it makes sense - I have no objections to intelligence gathering. But we have to send a drone out to do it I think - we did that with the Rescue team because we wanted to be found. If we send one out to the pirates, don't we give ourselves away?
I don't know how the sensors work. But Glenn does so the characters would know if this is a workable plan - i.e. can we do the scan from our ship or does it have to be done up close by a drone, and if the latter is the drone going to be detectable on typical scanners?
(Four - that question is at you )
BTW, above is not the plan. It's what I think the plan is. We have all been very vague about the plan. If you have ideas, put them in the pot!
OOC: That was my understanding of the plan as well, at least for my character. I thought the drone was undetectable though - so if thats not the case, then ill defer to our scanner skilled comrades on going in blind vs going in with more info.0 -
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Dhinor is very very confused by the exchange, but stays focused on the mission and his role in it.
A haunting song comes into his head immediately after Evan finishes kissing his cheeks, however.
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