"I don't like you being in harm's way, but so be it." Thrax nods, examining the dead reptilian and switching to his channel. "You want to make the report? You'd be better at it than I am." He hands her his communicator.
"If you're not tired, sure." Sitra nods. "Come, let's go to my room."
"I don't like you being in harm's way, but so be it." Thrax nods, examining the dead reptilian and switching to his channel. "You want to make the report? You'd be better at it than I am." He hands her his communicator.
Making the call, Elena first has the spec ops troops arrive at her location, and then when making her fake message, gets the feeling that the pirates were successfully fooled. Soon enough, a team of about ten pirates, mixed in species, gender and age, approach the area where Elena's squad is hiding, led by a female human with a large rifle.D100: 74 (Pass)
Elena's plan comes to fruition, as the marines lead by Thrax exit cover, opening fire on the pirates and killing half a dozen in the first few seconds, every marine among them trained for ship combat, and the spec ops troops skilled in squad level fighting of all sorts. The surviving pirates are forced to hunker down, and the captain begins to fire her rifle over and over, as she retreats, trying to save her own skin.D100: 55+15 (Space Marines)+15 (Spec Ops)=80 (Pass)
'If you think it will hold,' Xavier said, before he looked to his men, 'Alright, aim for their bellies if you can, they are weak there. Open fire when I do.'
"Yes, ma'am." The marine nods, lining up a leg shot on the captain.
Heading into a bedroom, Eanne sees some of Sitra's sculptures, and notes that the young widow is quite talented. "Here." She pulls out the scroll, covered in some sort of heiroglyphics, as well as a translation dataslate.
“You really are talented...” Eanne noted as she examined some of the sculptures, before sitting down to look at the scroll. “Alright, let's see...” She familiarized herself with the hieroglyphs before checking out the translation dataslate and trying to figure out at least some of what was written on the scroll.
The marines have no trouble securing the pirate leader, who falls to the ground as she tries to raise her heavy rifle. Thrax nods, and takes back the communicator, commanding his forces.
Vizelle feels the familiar pleasurable sensation as she approaches the sphere, but it's toned down so as not to cause trouble for her. She doesn't feel any urge to possess this one, perhaps because of the one in her pocket. The dying spider weakly raises up a leg, trying to touch the sphere.
'That was easier than expected,' Xavier said, looking at the dead and dying spiders, 'Good shooting, men.'
'What's it doing?' Xavier asked Vizelle, 'Should I put it out of its misery?'
The marines have no trouble securing the pirate leader, who falls to the ground as she tries to raise her heavy rifle. Thrax nods, and takes back the communicator, commanding his forces.
Thrax is incredibly efficient, having his men on board the ship clearing room after room, killing or capturing every pirate they see. Some escape onto their boarding craft, only to find that they've already been filled with marines waiting for them. Outside, the two pirate frigates are quickly cornered among the asteroids, boarded and captured.D100: 86+15 (Thrax - Space Combat)=101 (Crit)
Elena receives a notification that both have been captured, the pirate captain has been secured with Elena's people, and casualties on their side were incredibly low.
Pulling away from the scroll Eanne looked at Sitra and gave her a happy smile. “Well, this went better than I dared hope. Looks like we might be able to find the planet and the alien cache after all. There's still plenty to translate, but we're getting there.” She took a careful look at her new friend. “Shall we stop here? You must be tired by now...”