Coalition Operations I: From the Ashes (RP. Apply in the Sign-Up thread.)

[Wilco Whiteheart]

(I'm back! Just gonna chuck my response in here if it isn't too much hassle)

Wilco, after having listened to Krystal speak at first, takes the wheel. "I'm pretty sure it was mining drones we were looking for." He says, hoping that Vosur was going well.

[Alessia Starfurr]

"Never-mind on that. Sounds like they're already in position. We should be at the admin-room door if the map was to be believed." Vosur spoke as he approached a vault-like door, glancing back before getting closer to it. He looks down at the keypad and a wireless-reader right next to it, not yet touching either one as he visually examined both portions. "Radio-Frequency Identification... Think you can mimic that and find the code to open it? Any Information Technician ID will do for this. If I hack it, it'll be hard-wired rather than unnoticeable."

"Certainly. We have retrieval drones with high-capacities, automated-mining drones that you can program to locate and dig, and personnel-based equipment for both if you prefer a more hands-on approach. Anything specific you are looking for?" the red-panda spoke with a slight bow, the rest in anticipation on what she might say.

"let me find the right frequency." Serena replied.


"How deep can they dig?" Krystal asked.

[Vosur Aekira]

Vosur activated his helmet for a moment so he could quietly speak to Trask. "At the server-room door right now, and looks like the other team's in place for keeping the bulk of the place busy too. Don't forget to let'em know we need the parts for the engine coolant-lines while we're here. The maintenance AI has all the measurements we need for the replacements." he spoke before he heard the server room door open. "Open Sesame."

"Our mining drones can dig well beyond three miles into almost any material, even pure-lead if you happen to come across it in space. The Nano-Plasma Tips will make short work of any asteroid or comet you want to dig into. As long as you have line-of-sight communications, it will continue to follow your commands. Was there anything else you needed?"

[Romulan_Furry]

Trask opened a line to Krystal. "Trask to Krystal - be sure to pick up some parts for the engine-coolant lines while you're in there."

[Alessia Starfurr]

Vosur activated his helmet for a moment so he could quietly speak to Trask. "At the server-room door right now, and looks like the other team's in place for keeping the bulk of the place busy too. Don't forget to let'em know we need the parts for the engine coolant-lines while we're here. The maintenance AI has all the measurements we need for the replacements." he spoke before he heard the server room door open. "Open Sesame."

"Our mining drones can dig well beyond three miles into almost any material, even pure-lead if you happen to come across it in space. The Nano-Plasma Tips will make short work of any asteroid or comet you want to dig into. As long as you have line-of-sight communications, it will continue to follow your commands. Was there anything else you needed?"

"Line of sight? How do you have line of sight of something inside an asteroid?" Krystal asked "I could also use some new Coolant line parts." Krystal said showing her datapad that displayed the parts she needed.

[Wilco Whiteheart]

Wilco, in the meantime, let Krystal talk as he looks around, counting the amount of people here and how many are armed. He watches Krystal and the Red Panda speak, and notes to himself.

"30 people around in this room only, 10 of them guards, armed with rifles and radios. They seem prepared if {bleep} hits the fan." He keeps that to himself, before focusing back on the conversation.

[Vosur Aekira]

Vosur enters into the admin room, closing the door behind himself and sitting at one of the server terminals. "Alright Serena. Let's get started in getting that information. Details that we're looking for are invoices for custom prosthetic limbs with built-in Kinesis Modules, Stasis Modules, and Tesla Coil units. They would be rather expensive, possibly in the one-million-credit minimum range."

"Normally in celestial-mining, a ship will maintain line-of-sight with the mining drone so that it does not get caught in harder ores. If a drone does need to make sharp enough turns, it will drop a signal-tether to allow it to exit out from the same tunnel it made. As such, each drone comes with over one-hundred signal tethers built into it that it can drop off. When the mining is done, it will retrieve them on the way out."

One of the other greeter-assistants pulls out a data-pad and makes a scan of the schematics for the coolant-lines. "Hm... we should have plenty of that in stock. It'll take about an hour to get it transported to your ship." he spoke as he was typing a message to start up an order to custom-cut them to the right sizes.

[Alessia Starfurr]

"So you don't have mining drones with wireless connections?" She asked "I defintly want the coolant lines ,but I dunno if I can buy drones that use such outdated means of communcations."

"This will take a minute, provided the records still exist." Serena said quietly to Vosur as she scanned through the records.

[Vosur Aekira]

Vosur starts looking through the filtered results, finding two that were matched to each other. "Hrm, two invoices for a pair of arms that have kinesis and stasis modules installed in them... 'The Romulan Tal Shiar Admiral'? Sounds like a redacted name, but maybe this is someone Trask knows." he thought out-loud before he copied those to his RIG unit. When that was done, he returned the computer to the state it was in when they entered and looked to the monitor to check to see if there was anyone outside of the door before leaving back out and headed back to the waiting room, returning his helmet back to the stowed-state once he sat back down.

It didn't take long after they returned when the technician came back with a newer Kinesis and Stasis Modules. "We'll give you a newer set for free. The last set you had took a heavy beating."

"Thank you. It is a rough job working on ships." Vosur spoke, putting on the modules himself. He paused for a moment and looked to the technician, then back to the suit-based Kinesis module on his hand. "A bit heavier than my last set. Higher output models?"

"And with a rugged chassis as well. This should make it easier on you and make them last longer too." the tech spoke before he left.

Vosur eyed the modules suspiciously and grabbed a sheet of paper with a pen, writing the words "Do not speak, use text for communication. Possible Tracking Bug installed on Modules, will check in engine-room. Pass on to Trask. " on it before reforming his helmet so that Serena could see through the mask camera system. He then folded the paper to hide it in his armor. He returned back to the entrance to gather up the rest of his gear then he made his way back onto the Steel Avenger, immediately going to the engine room to start work on opening up the modules. "Hm... definitely loose. Maybe I can secure it together than those guys." he spoke, saying it in a manner to try to hide his search. After a while, he came across an extra component that was definitely unusual in the Stasis Module, but nothing out of place in the Kinesis Module. He grabs a container for putting screws and smaller parts, partially filling it with sound-suppression insulation before carefully putting the extra component inside along with a playback device, adding in some more sound-suppression insulation before sealing the container completely and leaving it in the engine room so he could report back. "Sorry for the silent-treatment back there, but I have found out a couple of things. First up: the information from the servers, of which you'll find two invoices which point to a "Tal Shiar" Admiral to have the prosthetics custom-made and shipped to the Kegan System if I saw them right... but please do confirm for yourself." he spoke before turning his back as if to allow removal of the chip from his RIG. "And the second is that I do believe I was set up, and that whoever did set me up wanted to track our movements. Right now, I have the tracking bug in a sound-resistant container in the engine room, having a looping-playback of my breathing going to keep whoever wanted to listen in on me occupied. We do need to get rid of it, but not until we're far enough away from the UT Facility... then we could just fire it out of a cannon to use it as a decoy to throw-off whoever is after us."

[Romulan_Furry]

"Understood," Trask replied to Vosur. He paused, humming to himself. "Kegan system... a Tal Shiar Admiral... Only one person I know who fits in with both of those. I think it's time we pay our Sith friend, Darth Torrentus--"

"Admiral! Bellator-class Star Dreadnought dropping out of light speed! Her weapons are armed!" exclaimed tactical. Just then, as predicted, a massive Bellator-class Star Dreadnought dropped out of hyperspace. However, she didn't attack. The comms console beeped.

"Admiral, we are being hailed. Encrypted channel," the officer at the station said.

"On screen," Trask commanded. The screen lowered from the ceiling, blinked static, and a Romulan female dressed in dark red robes was seen staring at them. "Torrentus... I was just talking about you."

"So I imagine," Torrentus replied. "I sensed a disturbance in the Force, related to me. I take it you found something about the... 'case' you were assigned?"

Trask looked between Torrentus and Vosur. "Why don't you beam aboard as soon as you can? I think I know who it was that started this debacle." Torrentus nodded with a typical Romulan smile, and the transmission ended. Trask turned to his XO. "Have a security escort meet Torrentus in the transporter room ans escort her and any aides she brings to the conference room; Comms, get a line to Krystal, tell her to wrap up her business there - tell her we have new orders, which I will discuss with her personally. And have her get Wilco on board, too." Trask looked to Vosur. "Come with me," he requested, and started for the turbolift.

[Alessia Starfurr]

Vosur starts looking through the filtered results, finding two that were matched to each other. "Hrm, two invoices for a pair of arms that have kinesis and stasis modules installed in them... 'The Romulan Tal Shiar Admiral'? Sounds like a redacted name, but maybe this is someone Trask knows." he thought out-loud before he copied those to his RIG unit. When that was done, he returned the computer to the state it was in when they entered and looked to the monitor to check to see if there was anyone outside of the door before leaving back out and headed back to the waiting room, returning his helmet back to the stowed-state once he sat back down.

It didn't take long after they returned when the technician came back with a newer Kinesis and Stasis Modules. "We'll give you a newer set for free. The last set you had took a heavy beating."

"Thank you. It is a rough job working on ships." Vosur spoke, putting on the modules himself. He paused for a moment and looked to the technician, then back to the suit-based Kinesis module on his hand. "A bit heavier than my last set. Higher output models?"

"And with a rugged chassis as well. This should make it easier on you and make them last longer too." the tech spoke before he left.

Vosur eyed the modules suspiciously and grabbed a sheet of paper with a pen, writing the words "Do not speak, use text for communication. Possible Tracking Bug installed on Modules, will check in engine-room. Pass on to Trask. " on it before reforming his helmet so that Serena could see through the mask camera system. He then folded the paper to hide it in his armor. He returned back to the entrance to gather up the rest of his gear then he made his way back onto the Steel Avenger, immediately going to the engine room to start work on opening up the modules. "Hm... definitely loose. Maybe I can secure it together than those guys." he spoke, saying it in a manner to try to hide his search. After a while, he came across an extra component that was definitely unusual in the Stasis Module, but nothing out of place in the Kinesis Module. He grabs a container for putting screws and smaller parts, partially filling it with sound-suppression insulation before carefully putting the extra component inside along with a playback device, adding in some more sound-suppression insulation before sealing the container completely and leaving it in the engine room so he could report back. "Sorry for the silent-treatment back there, but I have found out a couple of things. First up: the information from the servers, of which you'll find two invoices which point to a "Tal Shiar" Admiral to have the prosthetics custom-made and shipped to the Kegan System if I saw them right... but please do confirm for yourself." he spoke before turning his back as if to allow removal of the chip from his RIG. "And the second is that I do believe I was set up, and that whoever did set me up wanted to track our movements. Right now, I have the tracking bug in a sound-resistant container in the engine room, having a looping-playback of my breathing going to keep whoever wanted to listen in on me occupied. We do need to get rid of it, but not until we're far enough away from the UT Facility... then we could just fire it out of a cannon to use it as a decoy to throw-off whoever is after us."

"info saved and uploaded, i think we should head back now." Serena texted to Vosur.


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Krystal sighed "Deliver the coolant lines to my ship and your payment will be given then, thank you for your time." The Blue vixen said tapping Wilco on the shoulder indicating that they should head back.

[Wilco Whiteheart]

Wilco nods silently and follows her, moving his right arm slowly, the stuff it is built from moving silently, with a few whines from a processor or two.

[Vosur Aekira]

Vosur followed Trask's lead to the turbolift, tapping at his own chin. "I have to wonder on why I was set up to take that fall... or maybe I was just the wrong guy at the wrong place, but someone definitely wants to know who I'm with. Oh, and before I forget, I think we need to fire off that decoy in an empty warhead as soon as this meeting's done. I'd rather not hold onto it and I don't know how long that makeshift sound-player will last. We have at minimum a day, but I wouldn't take the risk longer than that or whoever it was that bugged me would get wise." he spoke as he rode the lift to the floor of the conference room.

The greeter gave a nod to Krystal. "They should already be on their way now, you should receive them in a few minutes. I'm sorry we could not get you the exact drones you were wanting, I will put that information up with the boys to see what they can come up with." he spoke before the rest dispersed and the greeter returned to the desk as Krystal left. Once the vixen was far enough away, the red panda started speaking something into a headset, looking towards the vixen with a bit of a skeptical look, then to the held datapad.

[Romulan_Furry]

Trask was the first to step into the conference room. "We could just beam that device into space," he suggested to Vosur. "Leave it floating." Torrentus beamed aboard the ship, and security escorts escorted her along the halls.

[Vosur Aekira]

"I was thinking more towards the empty-torpedo idea and sending it into an asteroid field on mid-range impulse speed to mimic field-navigation speed. Not only would they have to navigate the field, but it would delay them even longer to get to the tracker and to get out without ripping themselves apart. But I'll leave that choice up to you, though I do have to ask why you chose me to come along for this?" he spoke, his helmet having stowed in the suit during the walk and entry into the conference room.