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Away Team

Posted Feb. 24, 2019, 2:08 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Sara Kiernan (Executive Officer) (Sage Pennington)

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

Posted by 2nd Lieutenant Kate Hawkins (Marine XO) in Away Team

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

Inside the walls, the scanner was able to get a clear map until they reached the maximum range of the tricorders. However that seemed sufficient as all the key rooms were nearest to the entrance. As you went further away the ‘castle’ turned into what it actually was… which was a series of mines.

In addition to the chamber only a few yards away there were two other spaces that seemed to be designed for storage. There were a number of rooms that were housing, a room of vehicles, a chamber a level above that was converted into a landing pad, and well as a dining hall.

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

Talkrit raised his musket slightly, “I know this is all very important to you now, but I’d just like to get my gems if you’d please.”

Talkrit, Nelay Marine
GM

Kate nodded. “Would you be able to point to where the gems are stored on a map of this fortress?” she asked Talkrit.

She also looked over at the XO, and the map that was on her tricorder, “Ex, my team can watch our backs. That looks like a landing pad of some sort there. Maybe we should have Haygan send a two man ahead and secure the landing pad, stop them from sending and backup down.”

2nd Lt Hawkins - Marine XO

Sara thought for a second and then nodded. “Ok. Let’s get set up to move.” She held the tricorder out to Talkrit with the map on the screen. “Do you know where the gems would be kept?”

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan, XO

Talkrit glanced at the screen, “Hmm, a map, how wondrous.” Part of him was curious if they strangers from a strange land would be willing to leave some of their devices behind, but there were more important things for him to be dealing with right now. He pointed at the room they were right before and at two others. The other two weren’t too far away and both were along a relatively straight corridor. If they gain control of the length they could move back and forth without trouble. “I haven’t been in here since the O-rizons came, but the only areas that are large enough to carry the gems are these three.”

Haygen motioned and a team moved up to the position and they took up a parameter. Looking over to the Marine XO, Wondering why the Lieutenant was not stepping in since Marines did not technically fall under the command of star fleet officers.

Haygen

When the marines had set up the perimeter, there was no sign of the Orion that had run. If they were planning a counter attack they were doing a really bad job of it.

GM

Haygen turned to Lt. Hawkins, “Ell Tee, the landing pad is secure and there is no sign of the Orions at this point.”

Haygen

“Roger that Gunny.”

Sara looked to Hawkins. “These are the locations he gave me. Get the team ready. Ideas for approach?”

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan

“Clear this room right here. And then secure this corridor,” Kate said as she pointed to the straight run between the other two rooms. “My team can clear this room, while Talkrit can lead Gunny to the other corridor. They secure the area, and once we are done here, my team can join up as backup while they finish securing the rooms.”

“Or,” she said with a slightly evil grin, “we split into 2 man teams, and sweep this place from top to bottom. Shoot first and ask questions later.”

2nd Lt Hawkins - Marine XO

“2 man teams. Fast, efficient, and if you need to clear a space it’s a lot easier to clear 2 than 15. Hawkins, you set up the teams. You’re probably right that Starfleet officers aren’t the fighters you are. But we’re not useless. I’m letting you lay this one out. Use every resource and every gun you have.”

Sara moved to Talkrit. “Lt Hawkins is breaking the group into 2 man assault teams. The idea is to quickly take the entire place and get your gems back. Get your weapon ready. We’re not taking no for an answer.”

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan, XO

“I still would like one of your weapons. They have better range than my musket.” All being said at this range, even a musket would kill as well as a phaser.

“I’m not sure we have one not currently in use, but if one is available, I’ll get someone to show you exactly how it works.” Sara looked back at Hawkins and gave her a knowing ‘indulge him, but don’t give him a gun’ wink.

The room that they had just cleared, was full of what appeared to be young/new born lizards. The lizards were mobile and were moving on all fours. There seemed to be hundreds of them slithering over each other that was a mass of living creatures that resembled the snakes from that scene from “the lost ark” indiana jones.

Talkrit Nelay Marine
GM

“Do you know the purpose of this room? I want to set it up as our hub. If you hit too much resistance, come back here and call it in.”

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan

“It looks like a storage chamber for unprocessed ore, but can’t you see it. Children… dozens, hundreds… ” Talkrit reached outwards slowly, then walked into the room. “So many… I’ve never seen…” as he cleared the doorway entering the ‘Ore Storage Chamber’ a disrupter hit him square in the chest. There was at least one combatant with-in the mass of lizards.

Talkrit, we only just knew you
GM

“Everyone take cover,” Kate yelled as she jumped towards Talkrit. She grabbed him by the arm and started pulling him towards the side. “Comeon Talkrit, stick with us. I need a medic over here.”

“What am I sticking to?” He questioned. “I don’t feel a thing…” despite Talkrit’s words, the gaping hole in his chest spoke differently. The only upside was the disrupter seemed to have cauterized the wound with the shot. “I would think it would hurt. At least I didn’t get turned to dust like my fellow marines… nothing to return to the sea.”

“Who has eyes on the shooter? And make it a careful shot, minimize casualties,” Kate said as she collapsed back against the wall, after pulling Talkrit away from the doorway.

2nd Lt Hawkins - Marine XO

Sara moved into cover. “Probably the Orion we didn’t down. Can’t be a terrific shot if he needed Talkrit 100% exposed. Clear shot from across the room.” She grabbed Haygen. “Help me get an angle on him. If he’s shooting across the room, he’s probably around the corner we didn’t clear.”

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan, XO

OOC: Sorry if I wasn’t clear, the hallway is in front of the room - picture a box (room) with a 2x4 on top of it (hall) - the opening (no actual door) is in the middle. the shot came from within the room with the little lizards. As a group, you were outside the room in a hallway. When Talkrit entered the room he became visible to the shooter and that’s when he was fired upon. There was no shot possible from within the room until that time. Nor is there a good shot from outside the room.

To create a good firing shot, one would have to enter the room exposing themselves dramatically. This can be done, at risk, or one can poke their head and arm around the corner probably exposing themselves to a better shot by the hostile than they could get off. You can re-author your action if you want or just press forward.

Talkrit
GM

Haygen moved to the area, “We could throw a couple of disorientation grenades into the room. Then move two , two man elements in to secure the room”

Haygen

“How would it affect the youngin’s though? We have to think unconventionally…”

Kate looked around. “XO, we need to get Talkrit out of here. Can you arrange a medical transport for him out of here? We might have a chance to save him. Maybe.

“Gunny, smoke grenade. Send two men in, one each way. Hopefully we can get him in the distraction. Minimum stun setting only. Distract, and subdue. Understood?”

2nd Lt Hawkins - Marine XO

Gunnery Sergeant Haygen nodded, “Understood, Johnson your with me” Haygen set up on one side of the door as Johnson stood on the other, he prepped the smoke, “On your order Lieutenant”

Haygen

“Ok Talkrit will be going to sickbay, but I’ll be right here.” She surrendered control of the firefight to the Marines. =/\=Kiernan to sickbay, one native for direct transport. He goes nowhere but sickbay.=/\=

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan, XO


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