Boros - Legionaire War: Harbinger
The Jia is off on it's final rounds to Londinuium and Bernadette, saving the former for last they make that approach now as nothing seems to have been picked up there. Kyoshiro is along for the ride naturally to support his daughter Llewelyn and head up the small squad of quick strike Paratroopers from his Division. He sits, waiting in the Common Area, as the ship lurches through space towards Londinium. <English>
McGuire frowns as Bernadette came up with nothing. The ship pointing to Londinuium when the first Alliance call comes in. Fao let's Willow take the call seeing as they would blow him out of the sky before reaching that rock because of who he is. He listens in on the conversation, however brief it was, setting to memory any codes that might be used later down the road. He still doesn't fully trust this Operative, but enjoys the fact that she is so willing to work with them. In the back of his mind, he still wonders when the tables will be turned and all their lives will be at risk from on high. The planet approaches and the final search on the core worlds is about to end. <English>
The redheaded Willow has proven to be an interesting sort of resource to have on board. She understand she doesn't have Fao's full trust, but... she also understands she doesn't need it. She seems to have a variety of codes that she makes use of along the way. She doesn't seem to use the same one twice, though she does tend to use the same name along with those codes, sometimes with different accents or flair for words.
From the group of girls where they've been keeping themselves together in the galley, there comes Octavia, her bare feet quiet upon the floor of the ship as she makes her way towards the bridge. The pupils of her eyes are dilated, and she moves one of her hands along the wall as she goes. "Fao... we must away to Boros... to Ares... the God of War awaits us all...," she says quietly. <English>
Kyoshiro watches Octavia move past and towards the bridge. He blinks as he movements are odd. He looks around at the others girls, especially his daughter and notices the dilated pupils. He stands then and moves towards the bridge himself, "What's going on... what is it? Did you get something down on the planet?" Fao is likely already making a course change and the inertial dampeners kick in as he sets course for Georgia. Kyoshiro still looks confused. <English>
Abbey had been off somewhere or another on the ship and is making her way on towards the commons with a yawn escaping her as she goes. A glance is sent towards the nes here and she pauses a moment thinking she may have walked in one something going on. "Hello. I miss something?" <English>
It was difficult for Octavia to come away from the other girls to be able to give the message. Still keeping a hand upon one of the walls, she lowers to the floor, blinking a little bit. Yet what she sees isn't here, isn't now. She gives a little shake of her head. Her other hand settles to the floor in front of her, fingers slightly splayed out a bit. "Not here... not from here," Octavia says quietly. <English>
Fao tells Kyo where it is they're going and what Octavia said and that he missed. He looks over to Abbey as she steps into the Common Area to see the odd way things are going down. Kyoshiro looks as though he's seen something horrible happen and just had to swallow one tough pill. His face has washed over with a stone cold look and he says simply to the Second Division Lieutenant. "It's time... Something is happening on Boros and Ares..."
<Fast Forward>
They weren't too far from the Georgia system and as Boros and her moon get closer in the windows that new Alliance Battleship 'Harbinger' can be seen getting ready for her. There are a few small Alliance ships here but nothing overwhelming. Orbital stations with guns protect the 'drydock' and it of course hosts a few fighter squadrons. Though, for some time the main fleet of the Alliance had withdrawn to the core after various threats forced them to protect the planets that could pay off Parliament and Blue Sun. Kyoshiro moves over to turn on the Cortex Monitor and switch to a local feed of a news stations. There's a party going on on the station as they get ready to christen the ship. Willow, if she wants can tap into the Encryption of the Alliance vessels and overhear the checks being done for start up. All seems quiet and normal despite the warning from the girls. <English>
Abbey peers at Kyo at what is said and a faint ah escapes her before a slight nod is seen. "I see..." This said with a faint murmur. Her mind wanders on what all could happen before she moves off to get a drink of something because it is needed at the moment! With the time having passed she is sitting listening to the others as things play out so to speak. <English>
In the intervening travel time, Octavia and the other 'special' girls have been taken to the medbay to be monitored given what happened. None of them seem to show anything in particular that's wrong, though. The majority of the girls are resting, though Octavia is awake, laying in one of the beds there.
Willow, however, watches over things happening with the ship. Her brow has a bit of a furrow in it, and she does hack in to the frequencies on the ship to be able to 'eavesdrop', after a fashion. <English>
Kyoshiro had made sure Llewelyn was tucked in. Vash and Meryl are along for the ride to chaperone the girls with Octavia since they are parents to Abigail. The whole family is here except Ezzy and the others who are busy on other missions for the Kris Shena and their own businesses and families. Kyoshiro glances over to Willow as she diligently works the comm. As he looks back to the screen all comms go to static as if something is blocking it. Changing the channel doesn't work on either the comms or the Cortex Screen. After a few moments there is tone and then some artifacts in the digital static. A few pulses and sounds hauntingly sound before the transmission ceases and the feeds are returned to normal. On Willows comm unit people are wondering what the heck is going on while on the Cortex monitor the reporter is apologizing for the cut in transmission. <English>
Willow frowns when the comms all go to static, and she keys quickly at the keyboard, though it has no results. Her green eyes narrow, and she shakes her head briefly. "I think something isn't quite right over there," she comments, her voice having a bit of an English accent to it. She tries to tweak the signal a bit, to make it better and more clear, to see what she can clear up from the artifacts in order to try to figure out what's going on. <English>
Kyoshiro doesn't know, just shakes his head. He knew that was odd but nothing was happening just yet. The Ship is christened and starts to un-dock from the orbital station. It's slow at first but starts to speed up. As willow works she would find out that each artifact was a pixel to an image. If she is savvy enough she can run an algorithm through the computer to get a complete picture from all the artifact. When she does it forms the Fist of Legion. As that moment happens Willow may notice all communications from the ship has stopped and now the Harbinger was coming about on the station. A few Squadrons were launching from the base. The Hyper Velocity Cannon on the ship comes out of it's housing and powers up before letting loose a volley on the station. Right where the spectators were viewing the takeoff of the new ship. A lot of Alliance top brass was there as well as industrial leaders. Kyoshiro watches this on the monitor before the signal is cut and goes back to a stunned news anchor. Some of the Fighters that are launching now strike at the Orbital station. Harbinger opens her main guns and lets loose a deadly volley on the unsuspecting station. <English>
It doesn't take Willow long at all to program an algorithm to have the computer deal with those artifacts. Though even before it's finished with putting it all together, she starts to swear in at least half a dozen different languages. Her green eyes take on an anger brightness to them, and she makes an attempt to establish long range communications. Yet that fails as well, since it seems some of the fighters were tasked with taking out the communications satellites. Lifting a hand, she sweeps her fingers through her hair. "Bloody rat-fucking hell!" she exclaims, giving a shake of her head. She swiftly rises to her feet, pulling the headset from her head and tossing it to the console she'd been working at. "If we stay here, we're likely to be spotted and blown to bits. Unless there's something resembling stealth on this ship, we need somewhere safer to be, or to fake a crash landing so they won't be on our heels," she comments. <English>
As the space station falls apart slowly, little explosions indicating a new separation of pieces from the hull, some of the smaller craft that belong to the defense group here starts firing on each other, launching fighters. No one can tell who is good or bad except for seemingly Legion... that or they didn't care. Harbinger launches her own fighters as she moves to engage the flotilla. Alarms go off on the Jia as they sense incoming from the direction of the sun. Looking out the cockpit they are identified as the black ships of Legion, the Harpoons coming to join the frey. One is on Jia's tail and launches a missile at it. "Fao! Get us to the surface..." Kyo moves to take the weapons console. The missiles come out of their housing as well as the guns. The Jia dives straight into the Chaos, explosions all around. "You need to tell the Alliance..." Kyo shouts to willow from the command center. Communications are Jammed. All /know/ frequencies anyways. <English>
Taking a moment to look outside at the sheer destruction occurring, Willow gives off a few more inspired swears, all of which happen to be in languages other than English. "We need countermeasures on those incoming missiles, or faking a crash landing won't be an issue because we will actually crash," she says, looking sidelong to Kyoshiro. She sits at a different console, tucking one of her feet beneath her, and she shakes her head at mention of communicating. "Would if I could, but... all known frequencies are current jammed or taken out by fact of the comm sat being blown to bits. I'm working on an alternate that may work. Don't hold your breath," she says, frowning and typing quickly as she works on it. <English>
"Working on it!" Kyoshiro shouts as he finds the countermeasures button. He presses it and the ECM turns on making the ship a bit more stealthy. Chaff shoots out the back and Kyo hops on the rear gun to take a few shots at the craft. "Alright... I'm guna try something crazy... Fao, pull hard on my mark..." He readies a missile but tampers with the arming protocol. He waits for the ship to launch another missile at them, some of the cannon fire bouncing off the armor as it hits the transport ship. As the second missle comes in, he waits for it to get closer then launches the missiles to collide with the other. The shock-wave is felt and the dampeners have trouble compensating. Power fluctuates as Fao does his damned hardest to pull hard towards the planet once more. With their stealth now on and that explosion blinding the enemy it should appear as if they were obliterated. Suddenly alarms start to go off. "Shit... shit... one of the engines in gone and we're venting fuel..." <English>
As the communications prove to be a continued difficulty, Willow mutters under her breath at them. Shaken about a bit but maintaining her level-headedness despite being rather pissed off, she pushes away from the console in order to tend to at least the first few alarms that she knows what to do with. Then there's the fuel one, which she eyes. "Stay here, keep them off our tail, and don't hit the fuel vapor or it'll follow the trail to us and be the end. I'll do what I can with the fuel line," she says. And then she's heading off for the bowels of the ships, mentally pulling up the schematics to be able to know which hatch to pull in order to get to the affected area. It's a tight fit, going in the paneling of the ship, and not exactly safe under the best of flying situations, let alone in a battle. For the ship and for their lives, she risks herself. The alarm continues to go off for a while longer before being silenced... but Willow doesn't return to the bridge of the ship afterwards. <English>
Once Willow gets the Fuel line in order Fao takes the ship down to the surface. As they fly over one of the cities, blacked clad individuals march the streets with acquired Alliance gear and some of their own that had been smuggled in over time. It's a whole occupation army down there. Fao opts to find a nice field the park in away from any major cities, hopefully they can find a way off this rock. Kyo will get Willow to the medical bay to be tended once discovered while his men form a perimeter. They have Babybird but with not enough room for a full escape. Only two people can make a trip off world in it. For now, they were stuck on enemy soil. <English>
