<b>Is it just me or do people mean the quake railgun when they speak of railguns rather than the NS ones that throw 100-ton rocks at things? (see tech-trope article footnote 6 about tungsten hill)</b>
<i>Ceanjia: "Well, they won't be having railguns, I don't think even this ship has railguns. But one thing I know for sure. If you stay here and wait, you're gonna give them the element of surprise. That wouldn't make it any easier on you. I suggest you go to meet them, rather than the opposite. At least they won't have plenty of time to plan that way."</i>
Think they are regarding the crappy Quake one. Don't worry the RPGs will meet soon, my guys are having a Draug problem <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
<span style='color:purple'>"I'd love to go for a walk and take the element of suprise, but er... I can't. I'll just make do with the artillary support with my nice shiny seige cannons unless someone has an idea on how I can move... Hey I'm open to suggestions at least."</span> <b>100 ton rocks, wow thats a damn big rock o.O!</b>
<span style='color:orange'><i>"I think that we should move out and attack 'em before they can attack us. Also, I smuggled along something that might help if we need to destroy the ship." *pulls out a small block of C4, roughly the size of an old DVD case that were on the front of magazines centuries ago* "And if there's way too many draug in a room and it's a reasonable distance from the edge of the ship, it can be used as a makeshift grenade. I got it on our last mission from that guy who threw an explosive into a vent after a lerk, I can't remember his name."</i> <b>"See, see, I told ya, you hit your head way too hard when we crashed."</b> <i>"Shut up before I turn the PDA off."</i> <b>"Okay, okay, jeez sorry."</b></span> <b>Only item I'll spawn, I swear.</b>
<b>Okay, I should be able to manage one post or so per day.</b> <span style='color:green'>*looks at remains of Draug, and scratches head* "I can't make heads or tails of this. Or even if it <i>had</i> a tail. *looks up at the mention of cybernetic limbs for Khaim* "Well, as long as there's reasonably detailed instructions for them, I should be able to put em on... No guarantees there, though. Sorry Khaim, but I'm a doctor, not a cyborg technician." *listens to conversation about weapons* "So if you've been on the system for so long, Ceanija, and you've seen the schematics for some of the big guns they were working on here...any chance you can feed the schematics to our armoury and drop us some?" </span><b>Yeha, REAL railguns. None of these physics-defying Quake ones. You know, a particle beam wouldn't go astray... <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> PS. If you guys move out, my character'll follow and act reasonably intelligently, whether or not I post so.</b>
<i>Ceanjia: "Well, if you realy want to know, I have a few blueprints. And there's plenty of res here. So, here ya go."
A long weapon drops on the floor. Seems to consist of two heavily reinforced pipes. And they are really HEAVILY reainforced. The thing is roughly 1,5 metres, and each of the two tubes are fitted for at least 0,15 meter projectiles."</i>
<span style='color:White'> "HOLY CRAP! That thing is huge! " *Ed looks over the new "toy"* "No way im carrying it, Mwthinks i'd stand a better chance with Wynona and my NyJack clips." *Ed redies Wynona and turns to the door, catching a glimpse of the Droid and the Seige. He gets an idea.* "... Hey guys, what if we put a set of those cybernetic legs on a Seige and have Ceanjia control it? Assuming she as access to the shipboard scanners, she could target it at any of those Draug and pop em like a zit, plus with the movement abilities of the legs, we would have an amblitory Seige! Or, in the very least, mount on to a droid or somthin'"</span>
<span style='color:purple'>"Uh... Ed, there's a reason command makes them immobile, mainly the back blast, it would send legs or a mech flying backwards and probably smash it into a wall..." *Looks at the huge thing on the floor* "Well, thats nice, just uh... what is it?"</span>
<span style='color:orange'><i>*walks over and lifts it up, testing its weight* "Sh!t, this thing is heavy!" *drops the gun, it hits the floor with a loud, reverberating thump* "That thing's too heavy for me to use. Anyone else willing to give it a try?"</i></span>
<span style='color:gray'>"I don't know, if we positioned the legs in a way that allows it to contact the ground before it fires, it might be okay" "My problem comes from when it leaves the turret factory's range of influence. Remember that when a turret factory is lost for any reason, all local turrets and siege turrets stop operating. An unfortunate safety protocol thats built into nano-nets"</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *looks at the weapon a bit* "Hmm...well, at least if we get hit by one of these things it'll be at least a fast death. Never fancied getting ripped apart myself." *wonders* "Hey, if the Draug can fire this, then how come they haven't punctured the hull yet? These weapons are like the weapons found on stationary machines or an anti-air battery." </span></span>
<i>Ceanjia: "Well, there's a pretty good reason they haven't punctured the hull yet. It would make no sense since they'd all die. As for that siege-on-legs theory, there used to be some scientists on that ship that would be pretty interested in creating stuff like that."</i>
<span style='color:purple'>"Maybe a seige on 20th century Tank treads would work and not send the thing flying, but on legs? No way it could stay standing during firing, those things have a hell of a backblast, and as ya said, no TF anyway. Bah, either way, you guys need to get moving NOW. The longer ya wait the closer those things get, and If they all show up at once I doubt even all these mechs and turrets can take em out." *Pulls himself up to sit on-top of the armory* "I'll just chill here and see if I can make any progress on the Console, maybe I can get it to recognize the area outside the dock, or get a schematic or something." *Motions for the others to get moving then Pulls out his PDA and tries to*[Hack a schematic of the ship]</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *walks to the front of the group* "Since I'm keeping my assault rifle, I will be moving the fastest since the rest of you have shotties or HMGs or something. So, I'll take point." *looks at Gwahir attempting to open the door* *takes out a welder* [gets ready to weld it open if Ghawir can't open it] </span></span>
<span style='color:green'>*slowly looks over the length of the cannon* "That's a big gun. You don't have anything a little more man-portable, Ceanija?" *puts away HMG and [attempts to lift the cannon, ignoring the groaning coming from his power suit]* *if he can carry and use it, does so, otherwise gets his HMG back out* *moves over to Terran and Gwahir, and will follow*</span>
<b><span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='color:blue'> "Have we gotten a map of the station yet? Do we know where the enemy is located, their numbers, or anything? Do we have any idea what we're going to go out and do? Anyone?"
*Walks around the room, kicking debris*
"Ok AI. I want to know every thing you know about this station and what's going on. I want a detailed map, where the data is stored and what it's going to take to blow this thing up." </span></span></b>
<span style='color:purple'>*Looks a Grim* "Hey man, the way I see it, the longer we wait the closer they get, AND they'll have the element of suprise. So what if ya don't know where you're going, at least they won't know where you are either. And hey, if you can get a clear shot off with THAT gun, even a draug will probably take a good bit of damage. I'll still be here, at least until I get some legs, I'll let you guys know anything that turns up, schematics of the ship, maps, waypoints, whatever." [Goes back hacking the ship for a schematic]</span>
<i>The pressurized door that is the only entrance to the room (save for the huge hole in the wall) opens, revealing an airlock which in turn allows entrance into a long, metallic corridor.</i>
<span style='color:purple'>[Khaim hacks an old visitors schematic off the dock network. It appears on your huds]</span>
<span style='color:green'>[You can lift the weapon, but only just. Aiming at anything would require quite an effort.]</span>
<b>EDIT: darn, homework's flooding me. I'll return with the actual map later.</b>
<i>Ceanjia: "Hey, I managed to get start up the external communication of the ship. Seems we can actually connect to things outside now, or at least anything with a communication override can, which your equipment seems to have."
The infantry portal start glowing, as the request for reinforcements to replace Silent goes into space.</i>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Hehe ha! You hear that guys! Reinforcements are coming in! We might just come out of this in once piece." *walks over to the IP and builds it quickly* "Come on guys. Many hands make small work." *while building it, I wonder a bit* "Why would us being in a defensive position while the enemy charges us be a bad thing? Element of surprise?" [attempts to finish building it before others notice so we can get on with it already] </span></span>
<span style='color:orange'><i>"Terran, why are you trying to build an IP that was built as soon as it was dropped? Didn't you hear Ceanja, she said that build time and res cost restrictions were removed. Speeking of Ceanja. Hey, was your User Erin Townsend from Toowoomba, Australia?"</i></span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *hears Dark's statement* *cringes a bit* *runs back to the front of the group* "I think I qualify as Idiot right around now...yes." *holds rifle nervously, obviously embarrassed* </span></span>
<b><span style='color:green'>*IP flashes as soon as Terran moves away. Kathos shows up, rifle shouldered. Seeing squad lowers rifle and steps off IP* "Pvt. Kathos, engineering, reporting for duty! Who's the boss 'round here?"</b></span>
<span style='color:purple'>"Welcome to Hell! Glad to see some reinforcements." *Attempts to explain the situation to Kathos(Might be a good idea to just read most of the thread, too much too explain in text o.O)* "So there ya have it, I'm stuck here on base and artillary / info, the rest of you I guess get to go check out the ship and try to disable those guns that shot us down here, or blow up the ship I guess, whichever seems more suitable." *Gestures to the doorway* "Well, what are you all waiting for? Its not like that IP is guna send you the other way, its a one way ticket man, and phases dont operate at that distance... Oh and If we get any more reinforcements, even though it's unlikely, I'll fill them in and send them on any minor objectives.. like patching that damn hole up, until you all get back that is."</span> <b>*Waves at Kathos* Welcome to teh RPG xD, I'm sure you already know everything that's going on, saw you watching the thread for a while.</b>
<b>Oh ho ho so fitting, level 13! lol, oh and @ spark, its armory not armoUry >.< bah! Crazy people and their armour <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->(Just messin with ya)</b> <span style='color:purple'>"Well, at least we have a map now, even if its only this floor." *Pokes a spot on the map on his PDA* "What do ya think about possibly checking out the communications and armory area first? Oh! And one more thing..." [Attempts to hack the CC to drop 2 welders nearby the squad] "Take these, and if you can maybe ya should weld closed that vent access area, kharaa love those things, I'm sure the draug would too. Once thats all finished up that just leaves us with... The cafeteria, the Elevator, and the other docks. I'd say we secure this floor first before even worrying about the elevator though."</span>
<span style='color:white'> *Ed glances over the map.* "Knowing out luck, These beasties would be hard at work making a roadblock for us between the cross corridor for armory and range access, that way they'd be able to blink/leap/ whatever to us from that adjoining corridor, pulling a pinser movement, our best bet would be to go straight for the armory, but first fire off some grenades ahead of us. Or, if we're feeling bold, we could send a small team towards the common room, but that's extremely dangerous, lots of spots for ambushes...."
<b><span style='color:green'>*Studies map for a second* "I think it'd be best to checkout the armory. Even if the weapons are unusable, we could destroy them to keep the Draug from getting them. . . Even though the ones they have could kill us in one blow." [Picks up welder if they're dropped]</span></b>
<span style='color:gray'>"I'm more interested in reaching that communications station, whatever is blocking our information outside of this hangar is probably running from there.</span>
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<i>Ceanjia: "Well, they won't be having railguns, I don't think even this ship has railguns. But one thing I know for sure. If you stay here and wait, you're gonna give them the element of surprise. That wouldn't make it any easier on you. I suggest you go to meet them, rather than the opposite. At least they won't have plenty of time to plan that way."</i>
<b>100 ton rocks, wow thats a damn big rock o.O!</b>
*pulls out a small block of C4, roughly the size of an old DVD case that were on the front of magazines centuries ago*
"And if there's way too many draug in a room and it's a reasonable distance from the edge of the ship, it can be used as a makeshift grenade. I got it on our last mission from that guy who threw an explosive into a vent after a lerk, I can't remember his name."</i>
<b>"See, see, I told ya, you hit your head way too hard when we crashed."</b>
<i>"Shut up before I turn the PDA off."</i>
<b>"Okay, okay, jeez sorry."</b></span>
<b>Only item I'll spawn, I swear.</b>
<span style='color:green'>*looks at remains of Draug, and scratches head*
"I can't make heads or tails of this. Or even if it <i>had</i> a tail.
*looks up at the mention of cybernetic limbs for Khaim*
"Well, as long as there's reasonably detailed instructions for them, I should be able to put em on... No guarantees there, though. Sorry Khaim, but I'm a doctor, not a cyborg technician."
*listens to conversation about weapons*
"So if you've been on the system for so long, Ceanija, and you've seen the schematics for some of the big guns they were working on here...any chance you can feed the schematics to our armoury and drop us some?"
</span><b>Yeha, REAL railguns. None of these physics-defying Quake ones. You know, a particle beam wouldn't go astray... <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
PS. If you guys move out, my character'll follow and act reasonably intelligently, whether or not I post so.</b>
A long weapon drops on the floor. Seems to consist of two heavily reinforced pipes. And they are really HEAVILY reainforced. The thing is roughly 1,5 metres, and each of the two tubes are fitted for at least 0,15 meter projectiles."</i>
*Ed looks over the new "toy"*
"No way im carrying it, Mwthinks i'd stand a better chance with Wynona and my NyJack clips."
*Ed redies Wynona and turns to the door, catching a glimpse of the Droid and the Seige. He gets an idea.*
"... Hey guys, what if we put a set of those cybernetic legs on a Seige and have Ceanjia control it? Assuming she as access to the shipboard scanners, she could target it at any of those Draug and pop em like a zit, plus with the movement abilities of the legs, we would have an amblitory Seige! Or, in the very least, mount on to a droid or somthin'"</span>
*Looks at the huge thing on the floor*
"Well, thats nice, just uh... what is it?"</span>
"Sh!t, this thing is heavy!"
*drops the gun, it hits the floor with a loud, reverberating thump*
"That thing's too heavy for me to use. Anyone else willing to give it a try?"</i></span>
"My problem comes from when it leaves the turret factory's range of influence. Remember that when a turret factory is lost for any reason, all local turrets and siege turrets stop operating. An unfortunate safety protocol thats built into nano-nets"</span>
*looks at the weapon a bit*
"Hmm...well, at least if we get hit by one of these things it'll be at least a fast death. Never fancied getting ripped apart myself."
*wonders*
"Hey, if the Draug can fire this, then how come they haven't punctured the hull yet? These weapons are like the weapons found on stationary machines or an anti-air battery."
</span></span>
*Pulls himself up to sit on-top of the armory*
"I'll just chill here and see if I can make any progress on the Console, maybe I can get it to recognize the area outside the dock, or get a schematic or something."
*Motions for the others to get moving then Pulls out his PDA and tries to*[Hack a schematic of the ship]</span>
*walks to the front of the group*
"Since I'm keeping my assault rifle, I will be moving the fastest since the rest of you have shotties or HMGs or something. So, I'll take point."
*looks at Gwahir attempting to open the door*
*takes out a welder*
[gets ready to weld it open if Ghawir can't open it]
</span></span>
"That's a big gun. You don't have anything a little more man-portable, Ceanija?"
*puts away HMG and [attempts to lift the cannon, ignoring the groaning coming from his power suit]*
*if he can carry and use it, does so, otherwise gets his HMG back out*
*moves over to Terran and Gwahir, and will follow*</span>
*Walks around the room, kicking debris*
"Ok AI. I want to know every thing you know about this station and what's going on. I want a detailed map, where the data is stored and what it's going to take to blow this thing up." </span></span></b>
"Hey man, the way I see it, the longer we wait the closer they get, AND they'll have the element of suprise. So what if ya don't know where you're going, at least they won't know where you are either. And hey, if you can get a clear shot off with THAT gun, even a draug will probably take a good bit of damage. I'll still be here, at least until I get some legs, I'll let you guys know anything that turns up, schematics of the ship, maps, waypoints, whatever."
[Goes back hacking the ship for a schematic]</span>
<span style='color:purple'>[Khaim hacks an old visitors schematic off the dock network. It appears on your huds]</span>
<span style='color:green'>[You can lift the weapon, but only just. Aiming at anything would require quite an effort.]</span>
<b>EDIT: darn, homework's flooding me. I'll return with the actual map later.</b>
The infantry portal start glowing, as the request for reinforcements to replace Silent goes into space.</i>
"Hehe ha! You hear that guys! Reinforcements are coming in! We might just come out of this in once piece."
*walks over to the IP and builds it quickly*
"Come on guys. Many hands make small work."
*while building it, I wonder a bit*
"Why would us being in a defensive position while the enemy charges us be a bad thing? Element of surprise?"
[attempts to finish building it before others notice so we can get on with it already]
</span></span>
*hears Dark's statement*
*cringes a bit*
*runs back to the front of the group*
"I think I qualify as Idiot right around now...yes."
*holds rifle nervously, obviously embarrassed*
</span></span>
"Pvt. Kathos, engineering, reporting for duty! Who's the boss 'round here?"</b></span>
*Attempts to explain the situation to Kathos(Might be a good idea to just read most of the thread, too much too explain in text o.O)*
"So there ya have it, I'm stuck here on base and artillary / info, the rest of you I guess get to go check out the ship and try to disable those guns that shot us down here, or blow up the ship I guess, whichever seems more suitable."
*Gestures to the doorway*
"Well, what are you all waiting for? Its not like that IP is guna send you the other way, its a one way ticket man, and phases dont operate at that distance... Oh and If we get any more reinforcements, even though it's unlikely, I'll fill them in and send them on any minor objectives.. like patching that damn hole up, until you all get back that is."</span>
<b>*Waves at Kathos* Welcome to teh RPG xD, I'm sure you already know everything that's going on, saw you watching the thread for a while.</b>
You are in the dock colored in purple:</i>
<span style='color:purple'>"Well, at least we have a map now, even if its only this floor."
*Pokes a spot on the map on his PDA*
"What do ya think about possibly checking out the communications and armory area first? Oh! And one more thing..."
[Attempts to hack the CC to drop 2 welders nearby the squad]
"Take these, and if you can maybe ya should weld closed that vent access area, kharaa love those things, I'm sure the draug would too. Once thats all finished up that just leaves us with... The cafeteria, the Elevator, and the other docks. I'd say we secure this floor first before even worrying about the elevator though."</span>
"Knowing out luck, These beasties would be hard at work making a roadblock for us between the cross corridor for armory and range access, that way they'd be able to blink/leap/ whatever to us from that adjoining corridor, pulling a pinser movement, our best bet would be to go straight for the armory, but first fire off some grenades ahead of us. Or, if we're feeling bold, we could send a small team towards the common room, but that's extremely dangerous, lots of spots for ambushes...."
</span>
"I think it'd be best to checkout the armory. Even if the weapons are unusable, we could destroy them to keep the Draug from getting them. . . Even though the ones they have could kill us in one blow."
[Picks up welder if they're dropped]</span></b>