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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on May 25, 2008 14:01:29 GMT -5
Kaptain Staan returns the salute.
"At ease."
Kaptain Staan is a male toad of medium height and build. He is wearing a grey greatcoat with red trimming and grey trousers. His bars of rank are on the coat shoulders.
"Please take a seat."
He motions you over to a holotable, and sits at the far side. The holo shows a deformed view of the planet Lazarus, with the planet and its satellites increased in relative size.
"I thought that it might interest you to see this. Note the defences; not on par with Canis or Lylat, but more than enough to deal with us in our current state. I'm told that the shields won't be operational for another week. How to deal with such a target when one cannot approach them? Some other Kaptains would try to swarm them under with fighters, but the losses from such an endeavour would hamper our ability to launch a ground war."
He presses a button on the table and a series of trajectory lines appear, converging in one of the systems asteroid belts.
"Can you guess what those are?"
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Post by sonicheroes4ever on May 26, 2008 10:54:55 GMT -5
"Are they blind spots in the mammal's sensors?"
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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on May 26, 2008 15:52:16 GMT -5
"In a manner of speaking. Targeting sensors are designed to pick up energy emissions, from reactor cores, exhausts or weapons. For the past three weeks Lieutenant Ihto's engineers have been using chemical thrusters to launch asteroids along these arcs, with the aim of destroying all of these monitoring stations before they know what hit them. No radiation from chemical thrusters, you see. They'll have radar as well, but the asteroids are composed of materials with radio absorbing properties."
He presses a button and the view zooms in on one of the stations. The line plotting the path of the asteroid doesn't track cleanly through the centre, but rather through the side.
"Of course, since we need to hit them all at the same time I had to settle for some partial hits. You're here because I will need you to kill any stations which survive the initial assault. I can't spare fleet support for the job. They'll be needed against hardened ground targets."
He deactivates the display.
"Once I give you a target, enter the station and either capture it or destroy it. Failing that, destroy the hyper-communications array so that they can't tell anyone what is happening here. There is an assault boat in hanger 4 waiting for you. Dismissed."
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Post by wildgoose on May 27, 2008 18:23:06 GMT -5
Pvt Jint's eyes widend with excitment when he saw the plan on the display "Finaly some action!" he wisperd to a toad sitting next to him
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Post by sonicheroes4ever on May 28, 2008 14:20:59 GMT -5
Toad Soldier #1 code name Shrak
Shrak just stares back while looking miffed at Jint.
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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on May 28, 2008 15:38:08 GMT -5
The door beckons. The way to hanger 4 is clearly marked.
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Post by wildgoose on May 28, 2008 16:08:38 GMT -5
Jint shoulders his rifle and walks briskly towards the hanger, eager to get going.
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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on May 29, 2008 0:44:52 GMT -5
Out of character: Did you actually bring your rifle the Kaptain's office for a meeting?
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Post by sonicheroes4ever on May 29, 2008 9:57:09 GMT -5
Shrak follows Jints lead and heads for the hanger.
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Post by wildgoose on May 30, 2008 15:38:41 GMT -5
OOC: i was assuming we would be armed already seeing as we are going straight to the hanger and not to an armoury?
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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on May 31, 2008 0:29:01 GMT -5
OOC: Okay, well it doesn't really matter.
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Post by wildgoose on Jun 3, 2008 7:13:05 GMT -5
Jint and the rest of his units arive at the hange wich is a hive of activity, toads are rushing around compleating last minet checks on the ships. Jint looks around for somone to tell them wich ship is theres
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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on Jun 3, 2008 11:54:03 GMT -5
Three toads with data boards approach a fourth who has a senior ratings insignia. There is a brief conference, and then they return to their work details.
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