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Away Team

Posted Jan. 20, 2019, 3:24 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Sara Kiernan (Executive Officer) (Sage Pennington)

Posted by Gunnery Sergeant Ronald Haygen (Marine NCO) in Away Team

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Sara Kiernan (Executive Officer) in Away Team

Posted by Gamemaster Deus Ex Machina (Gamemaster) in Away Team
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IC: =^=Roger that… Dusting Off.=^= With that the Liberty lifted off with the aforementioned cloud of dust.

She paused for a moment before she leapt over the battle field between the fortress and where the Federation personnel were holed up. Every few moments the Liberty’s main weapon swept out before her in a low but wide arc… silencing the few attackers. In general the Liberty wasn’t a close support weapon, more a delivery craft, but against the relative small arms of the Orion defense team she was more than sufficient to lay waves of suppressing fire.

As the Liberty took off, Kate ducked down and turned away from the oncoming dust. As it blowed away, she turned back towards the fortress.

Haygen and his Marines made it to the Away Team, The marines with the Gunny fanned out in thier teams and started fire suppression, fireing short bursts and rotating between one another to keep a steady stream of fire while conserving power in the weapons. “Well LT, You may not have sent the invitation but it looks like a pretty fun party you have here.”

Haygen

“Oh you know me Gunny, always up for a good time. But it’s not my party…” Kate trailed off as the XO walked over.

Sara walked over and said “It’s actually my party, as you do delicately put it. Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan. We’re pressing for that fortress.” she pointed toward their objective. “The Orion stole some precious gems from the natives. Now we’re caught here. Now you’re up to speed.”

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan

GM

“I think that means it is time to take back the fortress. Hopefully with the Liberty giving us some air support, this will be a breeze.

“Commander, we can have the wounded stay back, but we should capitalize on our advantage now before the Orions have a chance to recover.”

2nd Lt Hawkins - Marine XO

Unfortunately there weren’t any injuries, the two officers that were hit by disrupters on kill and they did their job too well.

The gunny assessed his marines, they were already moving the heavy weapons teams into position. The assualt teams were prepared to move. “If we are going to do this, we do it now.”

Haygen
Marine

OOC: How many marines are we talking about. Heavy weapons team(s) - assault team(s)… how big are these teams, pairs, squads, platoons, companies???

Sara looked over at the field and said “Agreed. Get the wounded to a secure position, then we move out.” They couldn’t hear it in her voice, but she was scared. Not of dying, but of losing others in the unit. She surveyed the team, watching them work toward the end of rushing a horde of Orion.

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan, XO

The Orions on the defense, at least at this moment, were vastly outnumbered and suppressed by the Liberty’s periodic fire. In fact the Liberty was only using a fraction of the phaser power as it had enough force to blow complete holes in the terrain so large that it would cave in the underground network… or just vaporize it in total.

GM

OOC: Haygen brought a platoon which should be 27 Marines with the losses he has suffered so far. There should be two, two man heavy weapons teams, the rest should be broken into 4, 6 man assault teams.

The Marines and Star-Fleet personnel were more than capable of laying down enough suppressing fire to breach the base at any chosen location.

Haygen looked at the Star Fleet Officers, “No time like the present” He moved to observe his personel. The teams were in position and ready to engage. =/\= Fire Support teams begin suppressive fire. Assault teams start moving towards the bunker, leapfrog your teams forward. Breach and secure. =/\= With that Haygen began moving forward at a rapid pace. Firing his weapon as he went. Moving forward then taking cover and providing fire for other teams to move forward. The teams made quick progress with this method.

Haygen

There was significant waves of phaser fire that silenced the Orion disrupters. It wasn’t a matter of putting up a good fight the Orions were completely out gunned in the open field and seems to have slipped away in their tunnels and scurried back to the ‘fortress of caves’.

“Coming Commander?” Kate asked Sara. She waited just long enough to see if the XO would be joining them, before rounding up her own team and joining the assault on the base.

2nd Lt Hawkins - Marine XO

Sara made sure the entire team was moving and then sprinted into the fray. She was a decent shot, for a science officer.

It was over a hundred yards which, when they were under fire seemed like miles uphill, was very simple when the tides were turned. They reached the original objective, which was a flat face of granite like stone that rose over 20 meters and seemed very thick. But they presumed there was a open space behind it.

GM

Probably too thick to just cut through with phasers. It’d need a decent size charge for an explosive to work” She started scanning the wall and what lay beyond. In her head she was swearing at Haygen. They were going to have words about the chain of command later.

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan, XO

The tricorder was strangely ineffective. There had to be some sort of jamming going on, on the other side of the stone barrier. The Nelay Marine had kept up and looked at the Lieutenant Commander as she first looked at the wall and then at the small black box. “It is a meter and half of stone at most points on this face of the wall.” He said, somehow divining what Kiernan wanted to know.

“It would take a dozen men a day to chip through it… unless your weapons have more magic than meets the eye.”

Talkrit Nelay Marine
GM

Haygen stepped forward turning and yelled “Demo!!!!!!!!!” a young marine came running, “Alright you ugly bastard, you get to blow somthing up.” Turning and looking to him “I want a door, not a pile of ruble, a door. Don’t try and hit the ship in orbit with debris.... just make a door. Can you do that Marine?”

Haygen

“Say 3 by 3 - 2 meters deep, standard metamorphic rock.” The marine tapped the wall for a moment. He reached in his back and pulled out a daisy chain of linked disks. He splayed it about the wall, three meters high and down the sides about two and a half meters apart. He then paused and added a few more disks at a couple of points. “And a little more just in case rock on this planet is harder than typical.”

He smiled and Haygen “Fifteen seconds?” He questioned picked up what had to be a detonator and pressed a button before he received confirmation. “Fire in the hole!!!” Yelling , he bolted about 10 meters down the wall and turned his face away from the explosives.

Talkrit tilted his head as he looked at them. “What does it mean, fire in the hole? There is no hole, there is no fire.”

GM.

Sara rushed clear and motioned the team to do the same. To Talkrit she said “It means he’s about to use a giant ball of fire to put a hole in the wall. Now get down!”

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan, XO

Talkrit followed more slowly, but he reached the ‘safe’ distance in a timely manner. “I still don’t understand, that certainly isn’t enough gunpowder to cause an explosion of any value… definitely not enough for us to move this far away.” As he spoke an impressive sounding explosion occurred where they just vacated. The daisy chain must have been directed charges as there was a surprisingly small amount of debris and ‘fire’ on this side of the wall.

the hole was approximately 3 by 3 meters and opened into a hallway leading in two directions.

GM

Haygen smiled as explosion went off, “Breach teams, secure the hallway” Haygen then turned to the Commander and the Marine XO “Commander why don’t your teams take up the rear?”

Haygen

Two teams of four took up positions on either side of the breech as they peered into the smoke and rock dust. Talkrit, the lone Nelay, looked on amazed, “This is.... hmmm…” At a loss for words.

“Haygen.” Sara said with all her authority. She stared at him with steely eyes. “This is not your mission. That is not your call. Everyone! We are no longer two units. We are one team. This is my command. Marines coordinate and divide in halves. Starfleet take center. Haygen, Hawkins, and I will be on point. Understood? Form up. Breach on my order.” She finished issuing orders. She turned to Haygen. “I don’t care who you are, when you are under my command, you do not give me orders. You are subordinate to both myself and Lt Hawkins. From here out you call me sir or Commander.” Sara leaned in. “And if you’re intimidated by being outranked by women, get used to it sergeant.” She stalked off.

The marines looked up from the sides of the breech as the Star-Fleet officers interspersed with them. They glanced among themselves for a moment, it didn’t make too much of a difference to them. The Orion resistance was minimal at this point the greatest danger was delay.

Talkrit tapped Sara on the shoulder… pointing at one of the marines hand phasers… “Can I borrow one of those?” He suspected that his musket was far over matched.

Kate just looked over at Haygen and shrugged. Fleeters, would could you do. No matter how much you tried to keep them out of trouble, they loved jumping head first into it. As she followed the XO, she quickly checked her rifle.

In position, she looked back to the unit. “3. 2. 1. Breach!”

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan, XO

Jumping through the hole Kate scanned the corridor towards the right, ready to fire at anything in her direction, leaving Haygen and the XO to clear the other corridor.

2nd Lt Hawkins - Marine XO

The corridor was clear at least at first. A team of two took up the rear position being certain that no one would loop in behind them. The rest followed the three ‘leaders’ in the van guard. Past the first few meters there was two Orions by a doorway the were in a prone position and opened fire the moment the officers started to turn the corner.

GM

Kate ducked back around the corner right as she saw shot come towards them.

“2 hostiles, looks like they are low. I’ll provide cover fire, aim low. On my mark.”

Kate readied her rifle. “On three. One… two… three…”

On the count she came around the corner and opened fire. She tried to aim for the Orions, but that wasn’t the point. She was just the distraction while the others took out the Orions.

2nd Lt Hawkins - Marine XO

The marines and officers listened for a moment to the count down. Several lined up high and a few low so several of them could fire around the corner.

The Orion’s positions weren’t the best, middle of the hall, nor did they seem to want to fall back or go into the room that they were clearly guarding. The first few federation shots were off, but the beams grew closer and the Orion’s will broke as the ran before the organized fire.

The first one who ran made it to the corner, but the second green skinned alien only made a few steps before he was phasered down, either dead or unconscious. After that the corridor seemed clear.

Deus Ex Machina
GM

Sara smiled at Hawkins. She withdrew her tricorder. “Let’s see what we can do for information on this place.” She set her tricorder to the broadest possible setting. Her inner scientist couldn’t help but default to the tricorder.

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan, XO

Haygen watched as the Commander attempted to clear, If you need a warp corp fixed you call an engineer, same thing applied to ground combat, let the professionals handle the work they know best. Turning the to the Marine Officer “Lieutenant, The Commander there is not trained to our level in building clearing, My Marines need to be on point looking for traps and engaging the enemy, We don’t need some Fleet Officer getting hurt.”

Haygen

Sara turned to Haygen with a look in her eyes that could kill. “Listen to me Haygen. I want my officers surrounded by Marines in case we get hit from behind. Or did that possibility not occur to your brilliant Marine mind? As for me, if I couldn’t handle myself, I wouldn’t be XO of a ship. And one last thing; you ever talk about me like I’m not here again, and I will make sure your career stops at sergeant if you don’t fall backwards. Got it?”

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan, XO


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