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Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2017-11-11 05:54 pm

sooner or later, god'll cut you down.

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Lato'li's orbit and also planetside.
When: Forward dated to 11/15.

[The Interceptor Fleet moves into position, waiting for the last few shield generators to fall. And in the early hours of the 15th, they do. The shield dissolves with a blip as if it was never there, leaving the man-eaters as prone as their prey. The Interceptors send out a transmission-- an unholy mix of Cockney and Australian that graces every available communicator-- if they answer it.]

We’re firin’! Do yer worst, Vieziri! We’re gonna kick yer sorry arses so hard you’ll kiss the moons!

[Five Interceptor ships swoop out of the dark and unload their various weaponry onto the Vieziri warships. At the same time, people stranded on the planet below ready the anti-aircraft guns onto their makers. And of course there is the Fleet itself, battered and yet beautiful across the velvet sky, as they fire everything they have.

Now the Vieziri start moving. Though the big red ship can’t do much maneuvering, the rest of the Vieziri warships certainly can. They fire back at the Interceptors and whoever else fires at them, willing to defend their leader and lose their lives in the process.

Luckily, the Interceptors have their own daring ships, which may look familiar to those who were here for the raider attack. One is emblazoned with racing stripes and flames all along the hull, and it moves so fast it nearly enters hyperspace. It’s there and gone in a flash, weaving past the enemy in crazy thrillseeking loops. Still another Interceptor ship is painted red and orange with a gold plate near the front, which reads BAMF with no explanation. This one has guns aplenty and easily weathers any duel it gets into. The third Interceptor ship is beautiful gold and black, sleek as hell and engineered with sense; this one packs the most gadgets and formidable guns of all calibers, and appears to do the most damage. Trailing behind is a much smaller ship, so nondescript it almost doesn’t stand out at all-- that is, until it forms a barrier to absorb some oncoming fire and reflect it back at the Vieziri.

There’s one ship that’s missing, though-- the one that was blown up several months ago after the heist. In its place is a small black ship that runs invisible to radar, sweeping past with silent speed as it lets loose a barrage of photon missiles onto the Vieziri flagship.

Down below, the Vieziri come out in full force-- one last stand before the warlord falls, trying to finish their fell rituals. Some of them rush the encampments, some go for the cities. Near the restored comms tower, a cloaked figure with a plain white mask fights their way through the onslaught using a plasma blade and a laser rifle.

After an hours-long siege, the big warship finally takes too much fire and breaks apart, lighting up the sky with falling shards like stars. The biggest debris burns up in orbit, but little pieces still rain down. It signals the end as the Vieziri begin to retreat both on ground and in the air. The loss of their leadership leaves them scattered and panicked.

The Fleet has won the day, but as the sun rises again over the wreckage, there is still plenty of work to be done.]


[ooc: Feel free to assume the Interceptors are helping your ships! The gold and black ship can be hailed and will give responses, as she’s been the main point of contact during this plot. You can also run into Zhade, though tags will be slow for both accounting for RL things. Please mark Zhade or Interceptors in the header of your toplevel if you’d like NPC interaction.

Any questions should be asked on the plot post for phase two.]
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Siege

[personal profile] cajunspice 2017-11-15 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[He may prefer his cards, but Remy knew how to use a gun. You didn’t grow up around Assassins all your life without knowing how to handle them, but even then it felt heavier in his hands than he liked. Sure, his cards could be as dangerous, if not more, than a bullet, but the weapon always felt a bit wrong for him. A bit too lethal. But that was hardly surprising when it was considered how many friends and family he had lost to them as all part of their Guild war.

He, like Kirk, may also be limiting himself by trying to down but not kill the enemy. He had taken the path of killing before, had done it believing it was him or them, to save his friends from hardship. And he had been given a bit dose of reality of how bad that was. Had it shoved in his face and told how wrong he had been. A mistake he wasn’t going to repeat if he could help it. Rogue may not be on the Fleet anymore, but Remy could still hear her voice in his head: You don’t kill. So most of his shots were aimed for limbs, taking out knees or shoulders, disabling. Though in the back of his head Remy can’t help but worry and wait for a knife in the back from one of those he had left alive.

He looked to the other man during a spare moment of keeping an eye out over the field, checking to see if he was ok.]
Really need to outfit these things with a stun option, non?
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2017-11-17 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kirk tried to be a good man. He tried to live that and not kill, but even he could reason that sometimes - sometimes it was just the thing you had to do. It was the hard decision you had to make, to save your own life, to save a hundred, to save a universe. It never came easy, and it shouldn't be easy. The day it was easy was the day he didn't want to be a captain anymore. But sometimes it was necessary, however much that made his stomach twist.

He hasn't killed many today. A few, but not many, though he had stood on as Fenris slaughtered. Sometime during the fray he had switched partners and found himself with Remy, the two of them managing to leave a less bloody trail behind. ]


It would certainly make things easier. But since when has anything we've done in the Fleet been easy?
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[personal profile] cajunspice 2017-11-18 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Ya? Me? That's- [He paused in his talk, lining up a shot as needed to cut off one of the enemies making a run at them, striking them in the knee to down them. Remy didn't think too much into this, that they may still die from the injuries done to them. Blood loss, shock, infection. Yeah, better to just not think about it.] That sounds 'bout right, non?
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2017-11-19 05:19 am (UTC)(link)

[ Kirk had his own body count this day. He tried not to, he didn't want to, but he wasn't really in a position to be overly picky, was he? ]

Nothing in the Fleet being easy, or you being easy?

[ He flashed half a flirty smile, though it didn't quite make it through the general exhaustion of this whole mess. ]

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[personal profile] cajunspice 2017-11-19 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
I would say both, then be 'nsulted ya callin' only me easy, since I was 'mplyin' ya be too. [Remy noted that smile, saw it was strained and it brought his mind back to his own weight of tiredness on him. This had been tough, crashing on the planet, defending the ships, all on top of still recovering from the death symptoms he was under. His powers helped, gave him a kick of energy to push through and keep going until they got through this.]