Technical difficulties (Open to all)

[Kalyn Tal'verda]

"We are having some minor technical difficulties." Said the captain.... then the explosion happened. That was 20 minutes ago, and their ship was falling like a rock. Kalyn and her droid were rushing to get the shuttle they were riding on working, as it plummeted out of orbit. There were not many that survived the explosion, and most that did were injured, or incapacitated, the pilot was dead, so was the co pilot, so the survivors had to rush to try and get the thing working again. Kalyn was riding a shuttle back down to the planet, where she had left her ship, after a relatively easy mission, she was expecting an easy ride home, not this. She luckily found some basic tools, and she had a fully operational R7 droid with her, so there might be a slight chance she could get something working. The explosion seemed random, but there were reasons to believe that this might have been sabotage. Though for now, she needed to get something working, hopefully the repulsorlifts, so they wouldn't crash into the ground and die, though main engines would help too. She needed help, or at least some moral support, she didn't have time to nurse the sick or injured, as in her mind, if she didn't fix this ship, they would all be dead anyway. R7 calculated that their orbit would decay in approximately 90 minutes, which was not a lot of time, though it would have to be enough, or they would all be dead.
"R7 pass me the hydrospanner, also run another systems check, figure out what components are broken." She said.
One would think that they should just get on the escape pods, but they were all ejected right before the explosion, another reason to believe this was sabotage, but she would have to get justice later, as survival was more important.

Kalyn was not injured in the explosion, as she sat far away from the origin, and was wearing her armor at the time, so the worst she had were minor burns. This was a very large shuttle so there was a lot of room to move around, which would prove to be good or bad. The interior was not good in the first place, but now it was charred and smokey, which made it even harder to work. Regardless of all of that Kalyn kept working hoping she could figure out something.

 

[Malum Umbra]

Bad luck always seemed to follow the smoke demon he was always in the middle of it. Mortals were so strange, they talk in dialects that are so different yet the same. The captain of the ship announced there were technical difficulties. Malum instantly knew something was wrong and chuckled. A chuckle that would pierce the minds of everyone around him. He made his way around the ship's corridors...then the explosion hit. Smoke filled the halls and Mallum chuckled again. He overheard a woman speaking to a droid....a droid of all things. She wanted it to run diagnostics and analyze the ship. Malum the shadow demon crept closer. "Hmmm....task tsk, it seems this ship is going to be destroyed....perhaps y can save it....or die trying." Mallum's sarcastic tone would echo throughout her head. A chuckle would follow after. Mallum's. Bright eyes peered around the area. Bodies everywhere what a happy sight! Mallum sat down and continued to stare. "Why save yourself and other's? Why not just let your life end? It would be much easier that way." that sentence nothing but a soft whisper in her head....

[member="Kalyn Skirata"]

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum arrived in system after a short jump, just in time to see the explosion wrack the ship. Well, he didn't see it, the sensors and PU-01 saw it. He merely was notified of the situation by the piloting droid. The droid asked Ultimatum whether they should attempt a rescue mission. The droid's advanced calculating programs stated that the ship had only about an hour and a half until they began reentry, at which point nothing would save them.

Ultimatum was on a tight schedule, he had a job to work on Mustafar. He wanted to help, but he had to get to his command and help set the planet straight. He was after all the ruler. He wondered though if that was the right thing, after all it was unlikely that the occupant aboard the ship deserved death. As a leader and a droid bent on the survival of species was it not his duty to help save those that required it?

"Take us in. Keep back and let me go first. The docking area won't work for us anyways."

PU responded with a double click on the comm and flew the ship towards the damaged transport. Ultimatum broadcasted a signal, "Doomed vessel, doomed vessel, do you read me? Doomed vessel, we will attempt a rescue. If there is any reason not to begin a rescue speak now. Do you copy doomed vessel?" Ultimatum did not know the identification of the ship and was therefore forced to come up with a name that somehow identified the vessel easily. As a droid the literalness of the situation was the quickest thing to come to mind. He wondered if anyone was alive on the ship.

It was better to check rather than be sorry. The Fate began venting the atmosphere in the main compartment. Ultimatum didn't even know why he kept insisting on having it filled before every trip, he didn't need it and rarely did he have a passenger. Soon though he would be able to open the side door and get to work. Hopefully he could save at least one person.

[member="Malum Umbra"] [member="Kalyn Skirata"]

 

[J.Reaper]

Reaper woke with a minor headache, and his armor gotten some burn marks as he noticed he was stuck under some debre from the explosion, he pulled himself out of it and then said "dammit, why does this things always happen!!" he would say as activated his map and looked if someone was still alive as he saw a red blip on it and would activate his coms, all had the same channel that where in the ship luckily so hopefully this person would hear him "this is CC-3368 Clone Trooper Reaper, anyone copy? if anyone copy`s, whats your position?" he would say as he picked up his blade that had fallen off him as he quickly moved to the cockpit and noticed that the pilots where dead, he saw some people still alive but just barely, and he was no fieldmedic and had no medical equipment to help them. he quickly ran towards the shuttle bay as the ship was falling down

luckily he was a trained assassin and moved extremely quick for normal human so it would not take long for him to get there.

Kalyn Skirata

 

[Kalyn Tal'verda]

[member=malum umbra]
Kalyn continued to work on the ship, and then started hearing voices in her head. She did not like what this voice was saying, and was worried the stress was getting to her.
"R7 you hear that too right?" She said to her droid.
The droid said yes, though he really didnt, he knew she wasnt going crazy, he knew there was something weird in the room, though he could not identify it clearly over all of the "background noise"
"Well disembodied space voice, i will have you know that i would much rather not die today." She responded to the voice.
[member=ultimatum]
Then the comm receiver went off. The explosions in engineering were very precise, it was actually multiple controlled explosions, destroying only certain components. Anything crucial to the survival of the passengers was left alone, but everything else, besides the comm reciever was blown. The ships transmitter was seperate from the reciever, so right now they could not communicate back, though she needed to let the ship nearby know that she, atleast was alive. She knew every ship emergency pack contained a few glow rods. Her plan was to take a few glow rods, activate them, and then vent them out the airlock, hopfully signalling the pilot that they are alive, its not like she would need them anyway.
[member=j.reaper]
Then a message came through her comm link, she heard it, and she needed help, in any form, so she responded.
"I copy you reaper, could you please meet me in engineering, also if you find one, bring an emergency kit, it will mean life or death for everyone here." She said.

 

[Ultimatum]

"In position. Atmosphere has completed venting process. You may begin boarding procedures."

Ultimatum nodded to himself, before turning to MU and AU, motioning them to stay back. He pulled open the door, sliding it until he had an uninterrupted view of the damaged ship. magnetized his feet to the ground as PU turned off the artificial gravity. He walked slowly towards the other door and walked up until he was standing sideways. He bent and magnetized his feet. Pushing against the floor sent him out of the open door towards the target vessel. He sent a message back to the ship.

"Stay nearby and keep me updated on anything that happens. If anyone needs medical attention we will need help, but for now stay near."

It was an interesting experience, weightless and completely silent. It even lacked the feeling of motion, at least he had a small enough amount of impact with surrounding particles that his plate sensors couldn't pick it up. He could tell that he was moving by the ship becoming larger from his view. This would be the most painful part, Ultimatum had guessed. The collision with the target vessel.

It was less than a minute before he had traveled the distance between the two ships and smashed into the already damaged one. His velocity was not enough to allow his metal body the momentum to penetrate the heavy ship armor. Instead he left a large dent and started floating away from the ship. Ultimatum was rattled for a moment, his internal components being jostled by the impact, however he recovered almost instantly and magnetized his hands, attaching them to the ship so that he wouldn't lose himself and the ship. He again sent a message out, not sure that anyone was there, "Doomed Vessel this is Ultimatum, I have reached the ship and will be attempting to enter."

He wasn't sure how he would enter, but it wouldn't be difficult what with the holes from the explosions.

[member="Kalyn Skirata"] [member="J.Reaper"] [member="Malum Umbra"]

 

[J.Reaper]

Reaper got the transmission from kalyn skirata "copy that, i will try to find one in the medical bay" he would then hear a different voice, different from the first one and it kept calling for doomed vessel, reaper would guess it was us "This is CC-3368 Clone trooper, i hear you Ultimatum" he would say as he opened his map again and made a waypoint towards the medical bay as he moved as quickly as possible, after a couple of minuts of running he got the door too the medical bay but it was closed, it seemed the power had gone to more useful places as he unsheated his blade and cut the door open and would kick it as the door crumbled to the ground. He would walk in as he got eyes on the emergancy kit as another explosion came out of nowhere as he got launched out of the medical bay with the kit and hit the wall hard.

 

[Kalyn Tal'verda]

Kalyn was startled as several alarm signals went off, she went to look at the ship overview, and something impacted the hull, and then on the opposite side of the ship, there was a fire alarm, and a hull breach alarm, she closed the medbay bulkheads to prevent the atmosphere from being vented. Then a voice went through the commlink, and she responded.
"Hello this is Kalyn Skirata, if you could meet me in engineering that would be great, i believe the enviro-suits are somewhere around here. stay on this frequency." She said.
She and her droid then went through engineering looking for enviro-suits, she found the locker where they should be stored, and luckily they were there, about 10 of them were left, though two were missing.
[member=ultimatum] [member=j.reaper]

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum moved himself slowly along the outside of the ship, it was slow going what with having to demagnetize a hand to move and then remagnetize once in position. He spoke to PU, "Pilot, any airlocks or blast openings near my current position?" He continued moving in the direction he had chosen, waiting for a response. He hoped he was going in the right direction, after all it would be pretty annoying to have to turn around and head over the area he had already traveled over.

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PU-01 received the message and transmitted the query PU-02, who was not busy flying the ship. The second droid began a scan as well as visually looked out of the cockpit to try and see any holes. She could see large gaps about a hundred meters down the ship, but that was a long way for Ultimatum, who was probably moving at about a meter ever five seconds. The scans reported an airlock fifty meters in the opposite direction, as well as a number of life signs aboard the vessel. One had been in the medical bay, but an explosion had just hit that part of the ship ship.

She opened comms to Ultimatum, "Oh-two here. There are a few holes in the hull about one hundred and ten meters from your position in the current direction, otherwise turn around and there is an airlock about fifty meters behind you. There has been an explosion and the scanners report an organic in the area. You might want to bring MU."

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Ultimatum thought for a moment before turning back towards the way to the airlocks. He said over the comms, "MU, get out here and bring the magnetic grapple."

He got an affirmative signal over the comm before he felt a small hit along the hull of the ship. That must have been the grapple attaching to the ship. Ultimatum started moving towards that point as MU moved slowly towards the damaged ship. The medical droid was not as hardy as Ultimatum and had to be more careful as a large impact was likely to damage his systems and now was not the time for such. Ultimatum was waiting at the end of the line when MU finished pulling himself to the ship. He magnetized his hand to the vessel and handed Ultimatum the grapple.

"Which way?"

"To the airlocks. Connect the magnetic end of the grapple to your chassis." Ultimatum ordered as he attached the launcher part to his arm connectors. "Hold on."

With that Ultimatum swung demagnetized his hands and pushed out and away from the vessel. MU pulled on the line so that Ultimatum made a large curved trajectory onto the ship about ten meters away. When Ultimatum hit the ship he magnetized his hands and then set up for MU to do the same as he had just done. Ultimatum broadcasted towards the occupants of the damaged ship again, "Ultimatum here. We are nearing an airlock. Anyone think they can open it for us? If not do not worry, we can handle it."

Ultimatum counted on the tools that were aboard the Fate and if worse came to worse, a well placed shot from one of the Fate's cannons aught to break the first door and allow them entry. For now he focused on making certain that they made their way safely to the airlock. It would probably be a minute or two before they got there, much faster than otherwise.

[member="Kalyn Skirata"] [member="J.Reaper"]

 

[Kalyn Tal'verda]

Kalyn came back from the envirosuit area to a computer terminal, she and her droid had already sliced into the system, and they had full control. She then responded to the person on the other end.
"Kalyn here, i can open that up for you, just give me a second, im going to scan the ship for life signs, want to make sure nobody is in there." She said
Kalyn then scanned the area for life signs and found one, it seemed injured, she then remembered the other guy on the com channel, and shook her head.
"There is a person inside, so i cant vent the atmosphere, so ill have to let you in the slow way, relatively speaking, also if you hadnt already figured that out, another explosion occurred, very precise, taking out the medbay, and nothing else, this wasnt any accident, this was deliberate, and planned by someone who knows their explosives." She said
She then checked the cctv's while they were at it, and saw two people running throughout the ship a man and a woman, placing random objects all over the place. looked fishy,and two of the enviro-suits were missing, and she saw the two jettison the escape pods, with them in one, she couldnt get a good look at their faces though.
"Guys i just reviewed the cctv's and i saw two people place packages throughout the ship, a man and a woman by the looks of things, they jettisoned all of the escape pods with them, and took two enviro-suits, didn't get a good look at their faces though." She said.
[member=ultimatum]
[member=j.reaper]

 

[J.Reaper]

Reaper woke up and made a grunt as he tried to get back up "second time i have gotten knocked out, i hope this will not turn into a regular thing" he said as he noticed his left arm was stuck under some debre as he tried to pull himself free as he heard a crack and sensed the pain shock through his whole body as he roared out loud as he got free, his left arm had dislocated itself as he breath heavily trying not faint as he tried to locate the emergancy pack. He saw it a couple of meters away from him, he then took a couple seconds to rest as he grabbed his dislocated arm and putted it back to place as a loud crack echoed through the corridor as he roared once more, he almost passed out the second time as he activated his coms and said "this is Reaper, i ran into a situation but im on my way to engineering" he said as he got up and grabbed the kit and started running to the engineering, his head was going in circles as he tried not to feint.

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum and MU continued the procedure for a few moments, only one mistake occurred. MU had pulled Ultimatum through the swing and the larger droid failed to activate his magnetic hands at the right time. Ultimatum skittered along the hull a little towards the airlock before his hands caught hold of the ship. There was a moment where he checked to be sure of his grip and then MU swung.

They were one swing away when Ultimatum reported to the ship, "Ultimatum here, thank you. If you could begin opening the door now we will soon be there." He avoided saying anything about the sabotage and the two people who had been spotted. The situation was already precarious enough without having to add hysteria or fear to the mix. He decided to address that issue at a later time when he had a better idea of the full set of events.

[member="J.Reaper"] [member="Kalyn Skirata"]

 

[Kalyn Tal'verda]

Kalyn opened told her droid to operate thea airlock, and then pulled up her commlink
"Copy that, the airlock is being operated by my droid, prepare for entry." She said
Her droid then confirmed that their rescuer was inside and she then transferred the cctv recordings to a data stick, to be analyzed later.
[member=ultimatum] [member=j.reaper]

 

[Graf's Archive Account]

Neezuela the Jawa awoke aboard the shuttle, lying on the cold durasteel floor.

He took a moment to sit up and gain his surroundings before reminiscing about what happened before he had awoken on the floor, the last thing he remembered was that he was aboard the shuttle, en-route to a long forgotten destination, then a loud explosion that had engulfed a small area of the shuttle a ways away from where he was sitting occurred, the shockwave from the explosion had launched the Jawa from his seat and knocked him unconscious with only a minor burn on his left arm, fortunately the rest of him was unscathed mysteriously.

He stood up and looked around once more to see some charred corpses of his once fellow passengers, it was unnerving but they would be remembered once he had figured out what the kark was going on, he spotted a shiny object a few feet from him and walked over to pick it up, it was his training saber that he had gotten until he could manufacture his own, though it had sustained a few scratches on the worn-out metal hilt from previous uses, but all-in-all it was still perfectly operational, he clipped it back onto his belt but concealed it as well as he could as to not provoke fear from the other traumatized survivors.

Once he had re-orientated himself he realized that he would have to find other survivors and attempt to fix the various issues of the ship, so he began a trek down to the engineering section, surveying any damage he saw along the way.

[member="Kalyn Skirata"] [member="Ultimatum"] [member="J.Reaper"]

 

[J.Reaper]

Reaper stood infont of the door to engineering as he walked in and saw several wounded people as he saw kalyn that had spoken to him in the coms, he walked over to her "i got the kit, ran into a situation at the medical bay, what is the status?" he said as he opened the kit, he saw a couple of bandages and some other stuff, he forgot the names of it since he has not ran into a situation that would have him help wounded personal for a long time

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum had been the first near the airlock, MU having to be pull in by the grapple launcher. The smaller droid was only three quarters of the way to the door when it slid open and Ultimatum began pulling harder to bring the droid to him. A little to bit too quickly. The two were almost knocked away from the vessel by the impact of MU into Ultimatum. It had been a silent affair, not true noise could be transmitted in the near vacuum of space, which was why Ultimatum was always thankful for the inbuilt comms in himself, allowing messages to be projected as voices over comms, without ever having to utter a word.

They were saved by the fact that Ultimatum's magnetic seal on the hull was strong and only moved three centimeters when MU crashed into him. The two then worked their way into the airlock, just in time as it would seem as the door closed and the confined room filled with oxygen. A procedural, but unnecessary, gesture, not that Ultimatum was complaining. After all if the airlock had been opened on the inside without properly willing the lock with atmosphere, there could have been something akin to a concussive blast inwards that could have harmed nearby organics. That was something that Ultimatum and MU would not have appreciated.

Once the airlock was open Ultimatum took into account the fact of possible enemies nearby, since the ship had been sabotaged the saboteurs could still be aboard. He pulled his blaster from its compartment in his body and raised it, using a combination of scanners and visual checking. He was constantly changing the spectrum of light he was seeing in, stealth units were not perfect and he needed to be prepared. He spoke through the comms, "Ultimatum. Thank you for the airlock, we are aboard. Where is the current rally point? I have a medic with me who can take care of the wounded."

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Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO1pn6D-t4M

PU-01 was moving the ship along the outside of the damaged vessel, half listening to the music being played in the cargo space of the ship. AU was probably putting on some of her music while MU was away. That was one area where the two seemed to butt heads, what to listen to while they waited. Ultimatum more often than not sided with MU, even though the leader confessed to preferring AU's choices. Those two were lucky, they got to listen to music while they waited. PU, 01 and 02, had to focus on flight and navigation almost all the time. The times that they got to do something relaxing was when the ship was landed and in between flights.

He guided the Fate over various portions, still scanning for organics and weak points in the ship infrastructure. PU, oh-one, expected more explosions. Whatever was going wrong down there, that ship was damned. He was glad that he wasn't aboard, his experience with the power systems of those larger vessels told him that if the engine were overloaded in a certain manner, the entire ship could be vaporized. Not a comforting thought.
[member="J.Reaper"] [member="Neezuela"] [member="Kalyn Skirata"]

 

[Kalyn Tal'verda]

[member=j.reaper]
Kalyn saw as Reaper walked in, phase 2 armor, it must be ancient at this point, but that was no matter.
"Hey Reaper, if you are good with ships, help me with the ship components, if not, help out the wounded, that is a large medkit, so there should be a container of bacta salve, rub that on their wounds." She said
[member=ultimatum]
She then got another message from Ultimatum
"Copy that, were meeting in engineering, i moved most of the injured into here, if somone was dead, or just incapacitated i left them where they were." She said
[member=neezuela]
She then saw another life sing in the ship, this one was moving, another one was up and about, it was small, though she couldn't tell what species. She was glad that there was more help on the way.
[member=malum umbra]

 

[Graf's Archive Account]

Neezuela was still on his way towards the engineering section.

He could sense the many lifeforms on the ship and he could feel their pain, as they cried out for someone to help them, Neezuela wished he could assist them, but he needed someone with medical experience with him, He walked into one of the rooms and the sight before him utterly repulsed him, there were a few charred and bloodied corpses on the floor around the room, he had no idea who had done it, but what he knew is that it was an enemy, an enemy that may still be on the ship.

He reached for his lightsaber on his belt and unclipped it, holding it near his side in his hand, he cautiously walked down the corridor he was in until he reached a corner, he leaned so that only his head could be seen and saw a person clad in armor go into a room, which he presumed to be the engineering section, he ran down the hallway with his leather boots making a small sound as they made contact with the metal flooring.

After reaching the door, he prepared himself for what he was going to do, 'What if they were hostile?' He thought, so he raised the hilt of his lightsaber up near his chest in a lousy stance and ignited it, making a moderately loud swssh sound as he did, and then he jumped into the room, synthetic-red lightsaber raised, with a fierce look in his eyes.

[member="Kalyn Skirata"] [member="Ultimatum"] [member="J.Reaper"]

 

[J.Reaper]

he heard someone come through the door as his reflexes made him draw his blade extremely quick as he noticed a small creature holding a red lightsaber at the door entrance "who are you, if you move one insh i will attack you, are you friendly!??" he would say as he got into a stance of his own lowering his knees and body and aimed his blade towards the stranger, many people would wonder how he could move in a phase II suit, true it was old and not the best thing to move in, but reaper had gotten used to it, i felt like a part of his body, and he had made small upgrades to help him. He would look at the stranger through his visor "lower your weapon!!"

 

[Kalyn Tal'verda]

Kalyn wa starteled by what was going on, though she knew better than to anger someone with a lightsaber. She stood between them and motioned them to lower their weapons.
"Woah! Woah! everyone calm down here, we are all stuck here together, and i doubt a fight is going to help us... and anyway why are we fighting the saboteurs jumped ship, we are the only ones here... except for all of the injured people, obviously." She said
She then handed the jawa the datastick with the cctv recordings on them, and showed him what she had found.
[member=j.reaper] [member=neezuela] [member=ultimatum]