Author Topic: Thats just... odd. (Read 6025 times)

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **on:** February 10, 2012, 11:39:30 PM »

The ISAF Death Waltz and its defense contingent traveled through no man's space somewhere near the Apex. The Cruiser and its defense ships were awaiting the return of Mark Tepper and any Intel he had regarding the investigation. Tepper's daughter, Siphire, sat in the command bridge chatting with one of the Comm officers when she saw something abnormal on the comm screen.

"Hey, LT." she asks him. "Is that what i think it is?" she asks as he spins around to see the following message.

<<<Beacon Found>>>
<<<IFF Confirmed- ISAF, 7 EDF, Cruiser, Clubbed to Death.... Tier 1 Asset.>>>
<<<Transmitting location... Elapsed time: 00:00:01>>>

"Whoa... Get Rear Admiral Cole here." he calls out.

"What are the odds of another ISAF EDF in the plane at the same time as us?" she asks him.

"0, ma'am. We are the first to go in. The Clubbed to Death is listed as MIA in the database." he answers.

"Who did it belong to?" She asks.

"The 7th EDF... It was listed MIa after it was stolen by... lets see here... Major, Lucien Rychart and his unit after he murdered its Admiral. He and his crew deserted." he reads off the creen.

"Hmm... Where is it." she asks.

"Somewhere near the... wait it changed locations."

<<<Beacon terminated.>>>

"Damnit." he says. "They turned it off."

"Can we dis[patch anyone there?" she wondered.

"No ma'am. Lt. Commander Tepper was very specific about it... Not until he comes back."

She sighs and leans back. "Thats just odd."

Zero · « **Reply #1 on:** February 11, 2012, 12:15:10 PM »

Past the ship that Siphire was in at a slow speed would go the frigate that Will had bought. Granted he had overestimated the condition the ship was in. It needed repairs, no it needed a replacement totally and one that would be better suited to him. Heck any other ship would be better as long as it was not in such a state as this ship was. Narrowly avoiding a meteor, Will made a mental note to get his revenge on the merchant who had sold him this piece of junk. "Stupid hunk of junk."

Smacking a button by accident, Will activated the ship's distress beacon.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #2 on:** February 11, 2012, 12:37:18 PM »

The ship wouldn't get close to her cruiser. The defense contingent had a wide parameter around the flagship. The distress signal went unanswered seeing as it wasn't a priority.

Zero · « **Reply #3 on:** February 11, 2012, 01:01:00 PM »

Disabling the distress beacon, Will would try to pilot the piece of junk but it would suddenly short out. "Drat." The ship had been lousier maintenance wise than he had thought it could possibly be.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #4 on:** February 11, 2012, 01:19:44 PM »

"Ma'am, parameter patrols have found an unknown frigate. It seems to be damaged." The comm officer reported to her. "The patrol is requesting permission to engage."
"Tell them to stand down." Siphire orders.

<<<Vessel, Identify yourself.>>>

Zero · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2012, 01:22:06 PM »

This is Will Atlas. I am a Narrikian and I am trying to get this piece of junk operational while I look for a certain belkan.

Will would send that quick response to the ship and then look around for a tool kit. Face palming, he snapped his fingers and one would appear. Work would begin to be done to make the ship somewhat usable by him. "Lousy piece of junk."

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:12:45 PM »

"Ma'am, its your call." The comm officer informs her.

She sits back in her chair and sighs. "Bring him aboard. He's looking for a Belkan right?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Then do it." She ordered.

<<<Vessel. Do not make any attempts at moving. You are going to be brought aboard the Death Waltz. Please acknowledge.>>>

Zero · « **Reply #7 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:25:51 PM »

Acknowledged.

This reply would be sent to Siphire and the others on board, as Will stopped repairing the ship. Heck he'd borrow one of theirs and use it to locate this Prince Rychart so he could get the mission of seeing him back to New Dimentia alive, or bringing proof of his death back. Unfortunately however, he might not have time to use that stick to get back to New Dimentia. But he could work out ways to get back there later. Right now, Will stopped what he was doing and started pacing in his ship and thinking of what could go on.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #8 on:** February 12, 2012, 11:05:41 AM »

<<<Stand By>>>

Admiral Cole walked into the command bridge. "Doctor, mind telling me why there is a warship right off of our parameter? And why it hasn't been dispatched of?" he questions her.

"Readings indicate that the ship itself is a decommissioned black market frigate being piloted and staffed by a single Narikian. He says that he is looking for a Belkan. I'm not sure who, but the list should be that long. Im going to bring him on board for interrogation, sir." she replies. Even though she was technically a civilian, she was still the science officer on the ship, and she was Mark Tepper's daughter. She was held in high regard on the ship.

The admiral sighs and turns to the Comm Officer. "Lt, why am i down here again?" he asks.

"Sir, there was a weird beacon that we found... It belonged to the Clubbed to Death. We think it may have Major Rychart on board." The Comm Officer replies. "Orders?"

"Keep looking for it. No other ships in the this plane have beacons on our channels. Open the general channel window." he orders as the Comm Officer opens the most recent beacon from the damaged ship off their parameter. "Alright, Doctor, bring him aboard."

"Yes. sir." she types in a command at one of the terminals. The narikain would now find himself being beamed into a room with no windows. It had a simple wooden chair, and table. There were multiple cameras around as well, monitoring just about everything in the room.

Zero · « **Reply #9 on:** February 12, 2012, 07:57:37 PM »

Will Atlas would look around the room. No windows, possibly cameras throughout the place he surmised and it seemed to be some sort of interrogation room. The belkan he was after, Rychart was someone of interest to these perhaps. Maybe they could help him locate and bring him to New Dimentia so Will could have his victory and savor it too. Plus with their fire power dealing with those unknown ships should be somewhat of an easy task. Walking over to the chair, Will would sit down in it and wait for whoever wanted to talk to him to come meet him. Finding out about this Belkan Rychart and his current location was a definitive must now. Most if not all his armaments had been left aboard his ship unfortunately.

"Now what?"

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #10 on:** February 12, 2012, 08:20:57 PM »

Cole, Siphire, and the Comm officer looked at the camera screen at will. "So thats what they look like." The officer says in slight astonishment.

"So, who wants to talk to it?" Siphire asks and turns to them. Both of them comically lift up their hands and shake them in a 'stay away from me" gesture. She smirks at them. "Really guys? You seriously don't listen to everything my father says, do you?" She puts her hands on her hips.

"Well..." The officer starts.

"Fuck you guys... Ill do it." She yells at them and storms off. She quickly arrives at the room's door. "Command, initiate safeguards..." She tells the system. Around the room, AM, AB, AP, AT, and anything else they had was activated.

"Safeguard on line Doctor Halsey." The ship's AI replies.

She takes a deep breath and opens the door. She notices the rough nature of the pirate that sat before her, and buttoned up her labcoat, covering some of her features. "Youre lucky to be alive, native..." She tells him.

Zero · « **Reply #11 on:** February 12, 2012, 08:24:31 PM »

For a moment, Will would remain silent and would feel the familiar energy of Anti Fields?surround the entire area and blot out his abilities. Great, now he had one less trick up his sleeve. Well good thing he had prepared a few things earlier. Testing them though would be the hard part of the situation and right now he could not afford to mess this up or he would likely die. "So have you heard of an Admiral Rychart? Seems the man was part of the UPA, a band of pirates I used to be a part of until they got attacked and their base was conquered. As to what attacked them....if you truly wish to know I'd show you. But the AM field would need to be lowered first in order for you to see....since it would kind of be difficult otherwise."

"The name is Will Atlas by the way."

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #12 on:** February 12, 2012, 10:45:12 PM »

Siphire sits at the mentioned of Rychart. She nods. "Lucien Rychart was a Major last time I heard. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if he had his own band of people... Especially after today's fiasco."

"Your problems do not concern me nor these ships either. Whoever attacked you had a reason, and it isn't our job to interfere with the current situation in this plane." She adds on. "So, no. The AM stays up." She straightens out her lab coat.

"Mister, Atlas... Why are you here. Answer me that, and then we can move to introductions"

Zero · « **Reply #13 on:** February 12, 2012, 10:47:38 PM »

"Hunting Rychart. Apparently the Embodiment of Insanity, Insana has made him a prince of some sort. Going to find Rychart, drag him back to the realm of Insanity and leave him there, and then get on with my business. Of course, first I'll need to get a better ship than that hunk of junk outside...." As Will said this the ship...which had already been damaged would have a piece of metal fall in it near where some leaking fuel was.. but it would not explode yet. Will did not know what was happening with his ship presently.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #14 on:** February 12, 2012, 10:53:43 PM »

"Thats a sufficient answer i suppose." she says. "Doctor Siphire Tepper-Halsey. Science officer for this fleet." She introduces herself. "Hunting Rychart?" She asked with intrigue. "Major Rychart is wanted by my empire for several treason charges. Do you know where he is, and if he is in possession of the cruiser, Clubbed to Death?"

Zero · « **Reply #15 on:** February 12, 2012, 10:56:51 PM »

"Well...as for the cruiser...not sure. He did have a ship by that name. Not sure if it survived the attacks earlier. "

Will was skeptical about that. "As for his current location regretfully no. I don't know where he currently is."

Outside the ship of the ISAF, the one that belonged to Will Atlas would explode into a mushroom cloud. Good thing it had been not tampered with too much or it would have exploded with Will on the inside of it.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #16 on:** February 12, 2012, 11:00:54 PM »

She looks at the feed from one of the fighters from her holopad. "Thats unfortunate Mr. Atlas. Your vessel just blew up." she informed him nonchalantly. "Why does the embodiment want Major Rychart?"

Zero · « **Reply #17 on:** February 13, 2012, 11:24:44 AM »

"Said something about him being some sort of prince there.... and if he was killed the embodiment wants me to collect proof."

Will Atlas began to rub his temples. "Great. No ship. Now how am I supposed to track him down, find the rest of the UPA and deal with those unknowns?"

All in all this situation was becoming more of an annoyance with every passing moment. For Will did not even have anything that had been on his ship before it blew up which cost him about 75,000 credits to start with. Frowning now he got out of the chair and began to pace back and forth, considering his options. Portals, beaming and the whole nine yards were blocked by the Anti Fields. After he had paced for a couple of minutes, he would go and sit back down.

"Say...I couldn't borrow one of the ships this one has could I?"

True the controls would take some getting used to, but a ship was still a ship. At least if it were ISAF maybe AI Delta would not get involved in the already growing crisis that he would have to deal with. Sadly enough the situation had become irritating enough and would be a hassle that needed to be solved. Once he located Rychart, and the rest of the UPA he'd talk to his friend Lucien and have him send an entire fleet out to eliminate those unknown ships if he could. If not, he'd join the Mechera and try to earn some ships from them and build them into a privateer fleet until he could retake the Talar Belt from the unknowns.

Pain shot through his brain, the beginning of a headache. Great, Will had forgotten his morning cup of coffee to help him wake up today.

"So would you and the crew of this ship be willing to help me with the search? If he is dead, all I have to do is submit proof of his death to Insana. If he is alive, I have to bring him back to the domain of insanity, New Dimentia."

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #18 on:** February 13, 2012, 01:03:57 PM »

She nods as he talks. She perked up at the mention of Delta, but decides to let it go for the moment. "Honestly, none of that is our concern... True, Major Rychart is wanted, but we'd need a larger task force to take on the Clubbed. It isnt our priority to help out the locals, even if it does involve him."

"In addition, the only person that can authorize such a relocation of forces is off the ship." She folded her hands.

"Now tell me about this AI, Delta."

Zero · « **Reply #19 on:** February 13, 2012, 01:06:23 PM »

"Seems the AI has affiliated with the Anrufe. This has causes the Narrikians a great deal of trouble in the past, especially because of the AI's ability to take over and control technology. Soon I'll have to get back to my search for Rychart. And as for the clubbed, I am not sure if it is still even functional due to the flames used on it and what not it might not even be operational."

"But before I go into detail into what exactly it has done, would borrowing a ship or buying one of the frigates this ship has be allowable?"

With that, Will would become silent for a moment running scenarios in his head. The situation was not untenatable as there were ways he could accomplish his mission and leave the ship alive.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #20 on:** February 13, 2012, 01:13:42 PM »

"These are ISAF military ships. They are the property of the government and the people. I highly doubt that you have anything to buy it with. Credits are worthless in our plane."

Zero · « **Reply #21 on:** February 13, 2012, 01:17:32 PM »

Considering his options, Will would remain silent for a few moments. The options he had were few one of which involved him giving all the information but he did not know if that would lead to his demise or not. The credits were worthless comment meant that he had nothing he could truly trade, other than information on the history of the plane...which he was not sure they wanted or needed. But still, he did plan on getting off this ship alive and in tact. So he would have to make a plan but how he could do it was beyond him presently. "Credits are worthless in your dimension. How intriguing. You cannot send a person or force after Rychart, but I can pursue him myself...as part of my mission for Insana. If he does have the clubbed to death I could come back here and meet you and tell you. But likely the ship wul d be needed until those unknowns have been taken down."

"As for other information on the plane, I could provide it. Like what has gone on in the last eight years or so. " Will was not sure he would give them the information yet and asked Siphire. "Would I be attacked and killed once I gave all the information needed?" This was the main thing preventing him from giving any information as he was worried about living.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #22 on:** February 13, 2012, 02:24:26 PM »

She sighs. "Im starting to think that my father was right about you all. You all have extreme paranoia. No. We wont. We aren't supposed to affect the plane's natural order of things."

Zero · « **Reply #23 on:** February 13, 2012, 02:39:36 PM »

"Not paranoia, past experiences with Belkans and similar. Delta hasn't done the name of ISAF any good with all his actions."

"As for the rest, the AI Delta is a member of the Anrufe...a known terrorist cell."

"Pretty much he has a fleet of his own now, the DAIS."

Will would become silent, and wait for Siphire to process that information.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #24 on:** February 13, 2012, 02:52:41 PM »

"He isn't giving us a bad name. He's doing this in the name of this DAIS." She retorts. "If he wants to create chaos in the name of his own group, then he is free to, but there is something we need to know." She leaned in.

"Before we can go into it, I must ask if you have heard of something called the Apex site. I'm assuming that Delta keeps it secret. It's alright if you don't."