Collan and Niil: Assemble the Militia

[Niil Spaar]

"Play out a bit of that line to me so we can both secure ourselves!"  Niil shouted back.


OOC:  If Collan can do that, Niil will use his end to secure himself.  If Collan can't, then Niil uses Concentrate and clings for dear life.   

[Collan]

Collan played the line to Niil as best he could, hoping he could secure humself well and true.

[GM Craig]

You run out of time. Juno, skilled as she is, is having trouble keeping up with the rotation and descent. Faced with loosing the cable, Collan give a quick couple of flips with his forearm before the line becomes too taut, and grabs Niil's arm with his free hand - and not a moment too soon. The line goes taut, and drags Niil and Collan over the railing. The strain is heavy, but Collan and Niil both manage to block out everything and concentrate on their grips. There is a dizzying sensation as you swing on the end of a 75m pendulum of payed out cable. The sudden shift in load catches Juno off guard, and the ship jinks a little, but Juno recovers quickly. In a few moments, PROXY and General Kota have you safely on board. You barely hit the deck when Juno calls out, "Hang on! We're under fire!" The words have barely come out of the intercom when a turbolaser blast sails past the open loading ramp. The ship bucks and jinks a few times as the boarding ramp is closed. A moment later, Juno comes on the intrcom.

"The cloak is secure, but we're going to have to be careful. They're alerted to our presence."

General Kota helps Collan to a sitting position. "When I said take it out, that's not exactly what I had in mind. You guys don't mess around."

[Niil Spaar]

Niil shook his head and muttered apologetically, "It's not exactly what we had in mind either, sir.  I'd have preferred to go after the bridge, but luck of the draw dropped us near the engineering door.  If I had better slicing skills or some timed explosives I could've done a far neater job."

Niil thought for a moment, then asked, "How many of the gun platforms are trained on this area right now?  And are any of them sitting at a higher elevation than the others?"

[GM Craig]

He shakes his head. "No, you're not going to be able to slam them into one another. And with the commotion you've caused, they're likely going to pull back some troops from the assault to protect the platforms. It's what i would do. We need to be quick if we're going to avoid getting bogged down."

[Collan]

Collan thought about and pat his side where he kept the saberstaff.

"I could try to cut or melt the barrels of the turbolasers. Misalignment or fouling could help right?"

[GM Craig]

He nods speculatively. "Possibly. I doubt they'll sit and watch you do that though."

[Niil Spaar]

Niil shook his head.  "I wasn't thinking about ramming, sir.  If we tried to board a platform that was at a higher elevation than the others, then the Rogue Shadow would stand a smaller chance of being spotted by the others."  To Collan, he nodded.  "Yeah, or cut the power supply to the laser.  At least that won't have us fighting for balance."


OOC:  Bleah.  Simultaneous post.

[Collan]

"If we worked fast to neutralize power supply, we could cut a lot of lines fast. Pull the plug and then fire the connectors so they can't repir quickly."

[Niil Spaar]

Niil nodded.  "Yeah, that would be the best bet.  Let's get to work before the Imp troopers reinforce their guns."

[Collan]

"So we have two angles: spiking the barrel and neutralizing the power," Collan noted. Personally he felt the spiking was faster and better but eventually they'd have guards outside making a drop impossible. Then again, the Imps were going to do that no matter what.

"Based on your knowledge of Imperial procedure, how long do we have before they make a drop impossible for us? And more technically, how long wouod it take to melt the barrel to spike it? Juno, can you pull up a schematic showing where the gun power core is?"

[GM Craig]

General Kota shakes her head. "I'm not a gunnery officer. But I do know tubolasers use Tabana gas charges to generate plasma. Spike the gun, and if they fire it will likely explode. Tubolasers have secondary power generators directly attached to the gun to boost the power, but there's a main power generator that feeds the gun. Take that out, and the gun firepower is greatly reduced. So, main power generator, or spike the cannon. Either one would work for our purposes."

[OOC: You already know that main power is located directly under the main gun, beneath the command centre. There's four walkways. Two lead down to repulsor control. 2 lead to the power generator. There's an external walkway that leads to fire control (the command centre).]

[Collan]

Collan nodded, "We're less exposed if we go after the power source. Better control of chokepoints and so on. Outside spiking the gun we are fairly to fire from all quarters."

He turned to Niil, "Ready for round two? We don't much more time?"

Looking at Kota, "The Star Destroyer is what...25 minutes out?"

[GM Craig]

He nods. "They'll have a firing solution about then, yeah."

[Niil Spaar]

Niil pointed at the display.  "Best have the fighters and transport standing by as soon as they can.  If we can keep half of the guns turned away from the station like this, then we can give the fighters an opportunity to blast a hole through the formation if needed.  The other platforms might open fire on the fighters, but they'll run the risk of taking out the other platforms." 

Niil pointed at one of the guns on the opposite side.  "It's too hot in the three-to-nine o'clock arc right now.  Let's try one of the guns in the ten-to two o'clock arc next."