FTL, The fall of the Federation.

[Oedipus Rex]

I wait until 8:00 before I contact the station's docking control center, trying to be as punctual as possible. "Docking control this is The Vengeance and Redemption requesting permission to undock." I say into the microphone attached to my console. A metallic voice obviously belonging to an Engi  responds, "Roger, you are cleared."
I look over at Sam, "Time to show your stuff rookie."

[shkkf]

As Tio was brought to the room, he quickly began to unpacl and strap in the most important items of his gear. Not wanting anything damaged he took extra caution to make it so that the fragile items were still wrapped up decently. After which he went to one of the chairs and took place, strapping himself in them. It was odd to have these safetybelt mechanisms everywhere on the ship, but then again if they hit a meteor shower or something of the sorts, they couldn't have the luxury of firsyt moving to one of these rooms before strapping in ight.
 
Still, the ship should have had mechanisms and machines that prevented them from even feeling that the ship was moving. So why would they need to strap themselves shut? The cat didn't ponder too long on it, thinking that a quick nap would do wonders. After all, he had ran all the way to the ship and felt rather tired.

[MrRazot]

Sam smiled
"Roger that Captain"

Flicking a switch, the blue lights of the consoles turned orange. He was in control.
A loud clunk came from the docking bay and a small klaxon let off indicating the bolt heads were secure and airtight.
The giant hangar bay door slowly opened revealing space and the thousands of stars that were part of it. A few more switches flipped and the Retro Thrusters lifted them gently off the ground of the hanger and slowly outwards. The ship barely shook in the process. "As smooth as a Whistle" Sam thought, still smiling.

Once the ship had left the hanger, He put the retros on full blast and activated the Artificial Gravity, elevating the ship and into a range where it would be safe to activate the FTL drive without destroying anything. The ship hung still.

Sam turned to face the Captain, it was obvious he was proud of himself.
"FTL drive warmed up and ready to go Captain, Awaiting coordinates."

[Oedipus Rex]

I smile slightly and turn the shields on and boost the artificial gravity. Due to the nature of some ships, un-docking from any space station must be done at the lowest amount of power possible, so that in the case of catastrophic failure the ship could quickly jump to a separate beacon instead of colliding with the station. I personally thought the rule was a bit silly, but with the Federation practically recruiting anything with basic sentience, I understand why it is there. Now that we are no longer docked though, I can use the reactor as intended, allowing the artificial gravity to use it's motion dampeners. I activate the wall mounted intercom "All crew report to your stations and prepare for jump." I turn my head to Sam "Our first mission is a bit of a trial run, just a few pirates causing trouble in lowsec." I say. "We are to find a non-violent solution if possible, however if we are fired upon we have permission to fire back. Head to beacon 7-14, then head to coordinates -264*43 564*02. It should only be a few jumps away."

[MrRazot]

"Locking coordinates..."
Sam swiped and swung his fingers over a various array of screens and buttons and numbers and information popped up as he needed it.
"...locked, ready when you are Sir"

[Oedipus Rex]

I nod. "Let's wait for the others to get in position, we don't want to jump into a few raiders with no one manning the guns."

[serpington]

Max yawned and climbed back into the maintenance tunnels, heading down to check on the engines  again before sneaking around looking for anything that would keep him occupied before anything needed fixing. he decided to keep himself busy messing with the crew gunner, making his way to where the main guns were mounted and starting to give them a quick examination.

knowing that Tio was most likely freaking out while watching the displays dance around erratically from even the slightest tap of a spanner against their mounts.

[shkkf]

The cat himself had unbound himself after the ship was in orbit. It was good to know that they now could walk freely and more decently. Even if the gravity was artificial, it was way better then what they trained him for in 0-Gravity. The man walked down the hallway and soon found the weaponsroom again, it was still neat and clean. As if it had barely been touched by anyone.
 
Tio moved to the screen and arched a brow at the reading being all fuzzy and strange. This wasn't supposed to happen not when the weapons weren't charged or anything ionic in the space around them. He sighed quickly rubbing his forehead, reminding him that this was a ship where he needed to work with others. Wether he liked it or not. And even if he only met Max and the captain, who still hadn't given his name, he figured only the engineer could do this little stunt.
 
Making sure that Max wouldn't mess with the guns, he charged them slowly letting of a small surge of electricity going through the muzzle and mounts, making it so anyone that touched them would get a nasty zap. Not enough to hurt anything, but enough to make someone think twice. He grinned and chuckled when the meters began to get back to normal again. "Not with my weapons ya don't!"
 
After the mischieve he had done, did the male open up a channel to the bridge. "Sir, I am in the weaponsroom and have checked the weapons... I would suggest to add extra weaponry or at least grant more power. I can load weapons like missiles by myself rather quickly, but with better gear it could be autoloaded, or better..."

[Oedipus Rex]

I hear the intercom blare the marine's words and I sigh "Marine, this ship is equiped with two standard issue Burst Laser MK II's, I'm sure that is moe than enough weaponry for now." I say into the intercom in a strict tone before turning back to Sam. "It looks like everybody is in place, lets start the jump."

[serpington]

Max jumped a little when he got shocked. Smirking and making a mental note to mess with the cat more. he finished up what he was doing and gathered his gear, heading into the 'engineer only' depths of the ship,  quietly whistling as he climbed through the ship. He stopped at a com panel and contacted the captain. "Sir i'm going to be out of contact for a little while. i'll update you as soon as i'm out of the coms free area."

Quickly continuing before the captain could argue he moved through the last access hatch and entered the 'coms-free' areas in the deepest reaches of the ship. floating through the not gravitated maze of wires, panels and circuits that made up the brain of the ship.

[MrRazot]

"Aye Aye, Captain"
Sam smiled a determined smile and at the press of a button and the input of a code, the ship jumped into an FTL slip-line and launched then through space, faster than the speed of light.
The Gravity Diffusion system cushioned the sudden stop wonderfully.
A small light blinked on one of the displays.
"Sir, we've received a message from a nearby ship."

A Holographic face disfigured with Static projected itself over the front window, a small ship could be seen in the distance with what appeared to be pirate markings.
"Greetings, and welcome to our beacon! For a small fee, we'll let you continue on your way."

[Oedipus Rex]

I scoff, "Your beacon? Sir this beacon is property of The Federation. Now you will let us jump or you will face the consequences." I turn towards Sam and mute the communications "Alert the crew and tell them to report to the battle stations, just in case this pirate is as reckless as I think he is."

[MrRazot]

"Aye Aye"
The console turned red and a klaxon echoed briefly through the ship.
Sam opened intercom and spoke as well as he could.
"All Crew to Battle Stations, Pirates in sight, Prepare Weapons for charging"


He closed the com and and readied himself incase they opened fire. The two layers of shields would obviously do well against beam and lasers but any missiles or bombs would just pass through and it would be his job to do his best to avoid that.
Sam's stomach had butterflies. It was now down to the integrity of the ship and it's crew.

[shkkf]

The alert sounded as sirens began to sing their song of warning to the crew. The cat had been checking out the various equipment before being startled to death by the sudden change in atmopshere. His furr, if he didn't wear clothing, was standing up straight as a result, making the male groin a bit as he got into the chair of his room and made sure the systems were operational.
 
"Alright, I got it... Charging the lasers now." As Tio began to reroute some of the energy of the reactorchamber towards the weaponry. Out of all the equipment onboard, the weapons consumed the most energy. It would take a bit to charge them however, else he would risk blowing them up.  But the thought that after their first jump they already met pirates?...
 
The energy from the reactor began to flow throughout the chamber and towards the installed weapons platforms. The cat locked down the room and added more juice to it, as the signatures on his screen indicated the creation of the needed heat in the muzzle. Whenever the order was giving, he would be to let the recoil loose and the burst of energy would blast forward towards the enemy vessel. However, he was missing something and quickly opened up a channel to the cockpit.
 
"Yo, names are for later... I need schematics on the ship. I can't aim these things or find weakspots with no 3D projection down here!" He growled, needing the info to locate the correct angle for the lasers to fire at. Unless offcourse the pilot wanted to blast them, but focussing on evading and on firing would be troublesome for anyone.

[Oedipus Rex]

The pirate's smile diminishes, being replaced by a frown. "You made the wrong choice, Mantis." he says before closing the coms channel. An alarm wails at my podium, they are locking on. I open up coms with the weapons control room. "Our scanners are activating now, sending you a live uplink. Open fire when as soon as you can. we have a lock." I say into the speaker before turning my attention to Sam. "See what you can do to dodge them."