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    The great Star Galleon Media Res shudders violently as it is bracketed by explosions. The two lean pirate frigates have got their range now. The galleon is swarmed by small ramshackle boats, like flies on a dying grox. The galleon's flack guns bark out, and dozens of the small craft are shattered, air and bodies spilling out into the void. But a hundred more are now landing, cutting through airlocks and weakpoints on the hull, bloodthirsty pirates swarming out intent on plunder and murder. In the bridge, the rogue trader Tarquin von Drakkan adjusts his hat, turns on the ship's vox, and in an authoritative voice, says, "Well, lads, we're in a tight spot. But you stand by me, and I swear to you, I'll never let us fall while I still draw br..." Draw bread? Breast? Brisket? You'll never know, as just then, his 'loyal' manservant draws a hidden pistol and blows the rogue trader's head off. As the security guards scramble for their weapons, desperate reports of mutiny breaking out all across the ship start crackling over the vox...

    Well. You're all in a tight spot. Where are you, what is your job on the ship, and do you have a plan to deal with the man advancing on you, mono-cutlass drawn, with murder in his eye?

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    Kais was in engineering, helping to keep an eye on the engines and ensure that the regular maintenance went smoothly. Tarquin had been suspicious about his intentions when he was first hired but, despite feeding information back to the T'au empire quietly, Kais was honest about wanting to help the ship and her crew be as effective as possible. The early days had been simple tasks but he had proven his worth in short order to be trusted with more difficult and important jobs. True that his main calling had always been as a warrior but his mind would have been a terrible thing to waste, something the Ethereal caste had recognized to even assign him this duty in the first place.

    As the sound of a gunshot crackled over the vox speakers his instincts kicked in, years of battle having been deeply ingrained upon him, so when a few of the crew in the large engine room drew weapons and began to attack he was quick to take cover and put on his helmet. The eyes of the tau saw much that other races could not, ultraviolet and infrared spectrums were beyond a human for example, but the lack of pupil dilation and precise depth perception hampered his kind in return. His helmet, specifically the optical lenses in the front, would help mitigate his shortcomings. Using his hearing to get an idea of where the threats currently were Kais drew his pulse pistol and quickly snapped around the steel pillar. Most of the crew here were lightly armed or not at all so these mutineers were having an easy time despite being outnumbered. Thankfully his aim was true and in quick succession he pulled back the trigger to release a quick flurry of plasma, four shots and two kills to give him some breathing room before they even had a chance to react.

    Taking a deep breath he ran through the scenario in his mind, putting everything together in short order just before the crashing thunder of cannon fire upon the hull rumbled through the bulkheads and told everyone that the attack was from without as well as within. He needed to return to his room and recover his rifle, the long barreled weapon was too cumbersome for most daily tasks but he'd need it now before things got too bad. Steeling himself Kais moved to exit the engine room and make his way carefully through the narrow halls, watching for danger and ready to lend a hand to any loyal members who were in danger. "For the Tau'Va." he said quietly, under his breath.
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    Rendara:
    Another Captain dead. Another ship going to the warp in a handbasket. She doesn't have time for this and this man here, advancing on her she has no guilt about ending his life here, not even slightly. Guy is probably a Chaos worshipper or did something horrible to somebody at some point, probably to a child. He seems like the type. When the whole world is horrible, why care where your gun hits? Its hurting something that deserves it. So she reaches out with the power of her mind to crush this scum of humanity into meaty chunks.

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    Little 'uns over there doing a lot of yelling. Can't do my work with all this noise. Making my head hurt worse than all the rumbling going on. Can't work, can't eat. Better go stop them yelling before I can't eat.

    Stand u-... wait. Don't stand. Ceiling low here. Stay lower. Move slow. Sloooooooooow. Lotsa smoke over here now. Yelling getting louder. Lotsa little 'uns in here. Something wrong. Some on floor, some screaming. Little 'un moving? Fast. Fast and yelling. He's got something with him. Hamm-
    "AARRGH! Me will crush you! Crush you to GOO!" ... That hurt. My hammer now. Nice and heavy. No more little 'uns in here looking unfriendly. Lots of them screaming. Maybe I can help.

    This 'un is screaming. Get lower. See if picking him up makes him scream more. His arm is missing. Pick up from the other side... Arm has symbol on it. Not Drakkan symbol. Not Navy symbol. Not Emperor symbol. Not Machine Men symbol... Pirate symbol? Yeah. Pirate symbol. Pirate goo now. No more screaming.
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    Father Answin


    Violently, the large double doors to the chapel of the Media Res flew open.

    Father Answin could hear heavy footsteps approaching from behind.

    The haggard, robed preacher himself knelt before an altar, and prayed, paying no attention to the sounds and mumbling. He also ignored the violent convulsions of the Star Galleon engaging in battle. Somewhere in his chapel, something shattered on the ground - he would have to take care of it later.
    This time belonged to the God-Emperor, and the God-Emperor alone.

    It would take some time until the intruder found him - and he had no doubt this was an intruder, judging from the uneven step - while his chapel was hardly a cathedral -yet- it was vast when compared to even some small colony's main temple.

    Finally, silence - the man had spotted him. After a short pause, he let out a battlecry and charged. Solemnly, Father Answin took his helmet, which was fashioned in the form of an Ecclesiarchal Mitre, as was befitting of his station, and put it on. He was already clad in full battle gear under his robes, and his heavily engraved chainsword laid resting besides him.

    The chainsword flew into his hands as he turned around, his bearded face, in an elated expression, raised high to once again marvel at the statues of Imperial Saints casting their sacred shadows down onto the two men who soon would be caught in a duel unto death. His weapon's jagged chain met the pirate's monocutlass with an indignant screech, as the missionary parried the man's first, clumsy attack.
    Only now, the preacher truly fixated the pirate in a wild- eyed stare.

    "No pirate lowlife in service to the ruinous powers shall desecrate this Hallowed Halls of Worship." the preacher hissed."The God-Emperor's will be done. KNEEL BEFORE THE GOLDEN THRONE!"

    And so it was. As the vicious rotating teeth bit deep into the pirate's flesh, and the chapel's floor was anointed with the blood of a sinner, the man fell to his knees, before he broke down an eviscerated mess.
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    Xantha Ward

    "Look lively, now. And find the Big Fella. Throne knows we can make a push out of here if we've got him on side."

    The scarred ex-smuggler nodded to the crew chief and slid a tine over the nearby activation rune. The poorly maintained underdeck door screamed in protest, before an additional Rite of Physical Maintenance with her good hand soothed the spirit within.

    "Not the first time, Xan. Just keep your head down, sort it out."

    The scream was the first indication that the maintenance tunnels she was scouting were now enemy territory. The pirate soon followed it, his weapon slicing through the empty space where Xantha had been as she pushed at his side, hoping to turn the momentum of his charge against him. Slamming into a pipe, he started to turn around, only to come face to face with the most expensive thing for a good quarter-mile in any direction. Smoke from where the melta pistol's ammo was ionizing and the subtle mechanical whirring of the magnetic chambers had already begun.

    "Bad way to go."

    Her assailant grabbed for the pistol, managing to tilt it slightly before the searing heat of the internal workings made him involuntarily snatch his hand away. As the ancient weapon discharged, the left side of the pirate's face turned to ash and he fell unceremoniously on top of her. With some effort, she pushed the body off and resolved to move through the rest of the tunnels in a much stealthier fashion, discarding her vest to reveal more of the synskin beneath.

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    The events came as no surprise. The Ancestors had guided Selrya the night before with dire portents, and she was ready to deal with them. When her captor's final words echoed throughout the ship, she was near the navigator pod, preparing to throw the ship into the Warp should the fighting go sour. When it did, and a pirate was going after her throat, she knew that time was of the essence. Time and reasoning, which would be in short supply now that the captain had died. With the crew and pirates pitted against her, she didn't know who her friends might be. She decided to sink into the shadows and watch the events unfold at a distance rather than make her position known. Her form twitched and shivered as she became translucent, running from her aggressor as quickly as she could.

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    Feeding Bay Charlie Seven:
    Kais quickly takes out a few of the mutineers. More slowly, a few gun-servitors trundle out of their niches and mow down a dozen more. The shocked Mechanicus crew looks at the bodies scattered around the sacred spaces of the ship. Kais heads out of the Enginarium towards his quarters. Moments after he leaves, massive blast doors lower down, sealing the Mechanicus Enclave off from the rest of the ship... in theory. He heads towards the abandoned supply closet that make up his quarters. All around him is chaos; not the ordered chaos of battle, but the confused chaos of a panicked rout. He pushes his way into one of the large rooms where the crew is fed. He sees, trapped in a corner behind a makeshift barricade of tables, a young officer with a few even younger midshipmen is trying to fend off about a dozen other crewmen.

    Jag-reg finishes off a few pirates. The rest of the crew flees down the tunnels, towards some refuge, or towards the weapons lockers. Jag-reg, urged on perhaps by the sound of fighting or by his stomach's instincts, wanders over to his assigned feeding bay. He sees one of the blue alien on the other end, and in the middle he sees one of the friendlier officers trying to fend off some other members of the crew. The woman's face lights up when she sees Jag-reg and shouts, "James! Squish the bad men!" A few of the men turn towards Jag-reg at that. Four of them are waving boarding axes and run at him, leaving eight more at the makeshift barricade, trying to pull down the officer.

    In the Astropath chambers:
    Tarquin von Drakkan had often called Rendara "The third most valuable piece of equipment on the ship." And as such, she had been given a fine suite of three rooms next to the Astropathic focusing chamber on the ship's castle. When one of the pirates bursts into the room, she uses her powers to quickly and efficiently crush his feeble body, and he collapses, struggling to breath as his ribcage is collapsed in on his vitals. However, behind him, six more pirates pour through the door, shotguns drawn. One of them (their leader, perhaps?) points at her and shouts, "The blind one! Take her alive!" The pirates are blocking the way to the bridge, but the door to Rendara's private quarters are behind her, where a few of her servants are cowering, no doubt.

    In the deep underdecks:
    Xantha leaves the smoldering body behind. She is far down in the bowels of the ship. She pauses by a ladder leading up to a maintenance hatch; one that she knows the codes to. The large pipe next to the ladder has a plaque that says "STARBOARD CANNON #4 PITCH HYDRAULICS" and a series of maintenance purity seals on it. Below the plaque someone has scratched "Walloping Wanda goes all the way down". From up ahead, she sees flickering torchlight. A small party of twists is heading towards her. Their strange faces don't seem right in the shadows. As she conceals herself, she overhears one of them saying in their guttural version of ship cant, "Whiteclaw says, smash them pipes good, yeah, we get big gift. Food, meat, good water, yeah. Smashy smashy."

    The Cathedral:
    The ship's cathedral is just fore of the ship's castle. Secret stairwells connect the two so that officers can visit without having to traverse the lower decks. Father Answin is at prayer in a secluded chapel, watching the blood of the fallen pirate seep into the ornate mosaic on the floor. Most ships would have dozens, if not hundreds of priests, confessors, and religious functionaries, but von Drakkan and Answin's unique approach to the faith meant that Father Answin only had two illiterate altar boys and a few elderly lay preachers to aid him. These were running around the cathedral, helping lead the ship's non-combatants into the designated emergency shelters. The cathedral was one of the places for non-combatants to retreat to; pensioners, children, supernumerary paper-pushers, that sort of thing. Father Answin sees the ship's elderly law-scrivener, William Padding, shuffling in escorted by a few other scribes. The man limps over to Father Answin and shakes his head. "The savages have mutinied" he says. Father Answin recalls that a few years ago, after a particularly eventful warp voyage deep into the Heathen Stars, von Drakkan had bought ten thousand ferals from slavers on Naduesh; these savages had been willing enough to learn the voidman's trade, but had never integrated with the rest of the crew, nor had they been enthusiastic followers in Father Answin's flock. And now they've mutinied in the middle of a pirate attack. Father Answin looks around the cathedral, considering his options. Out the lower-doors he can head deep into the ship to take the fight to the mutineers, or he can head up towards the ship's castle to see what is happening there. Or he could stay here and defend the non-combatants or lead them in prayer, as is his designated role during emergencies.

    The Bridge:
    Selrya backs away from her assailant and tries to camouflage herself. The swordsman is quickly taken down by a spray of bullets from the bridge's security guards, but more pirates are swarming through the door. Selrya looks back at the body of her captor. The assassin/servant has picked up something from his body, and pushes a button. An armored shell quickly slides around the throne, protecting the assassin from the spray of bullets from the security guards. Someone shouts, "He's got the Lord Captain's baton!" Someone else shouts, "There's more coming through the upper doors!" A dozen pirates appear above the pit of the bridge and begin to open fire on the crew below. Selrya does not appear to have drawn any attention, but a few of the human crew near her are hit and go down in bloody heaps.
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    The chaos of battle was nothing new to him though he had never engaged in conflict aboard a ship like this. A part of him missed the familiarity of his bonded brothers and sisters to back him up but, in this case, the crew members who remained loyal deserved his support and attention. As he rounded the entryway and came face to face with a full-blown firefight Kais stopped himself from stepping into the open and exposing himself. A quick glance revealed that the officer and their men were vastly outnumbered but he could not in good conscience abandon them. Reaching to his belt he pulled one of his photon grenades free and activated it, doing his best to toss it into the room and towards the dozen or so mutineers. "Heads down officer!" he shouted, hoping that they would recognize the situation and ensure that their allies would avert their eyes.

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    Rendara:
    She curses under her breath. She liked her servants, they were either psykers like her who didn't deserve what they got in life, or were women she slept with. Either way they didn't deserve this. What would the Emperor do in the situation? Probably kill them all for daring to defy him. But this was like, six to one? and while they needed her alive- probably to send messages no doubt, the only thing more valuable was a Navigator- she wasn't sure if she could take them on. So she decided to try something....subtler. Try and influence the mind of the leader to look at her favorably while she speaks this
    "Well....you have me surrounded, I admit. Me and my servants will surrender in exchange for your protection. There is no need for us to fight each other after all and you need me to work my full effectiveness which my servants are vital for. They don't even pose a threat to you, and I doubt I can kill all of you. It would be more to your advantage if you turn your guns around and aimed them at others coming to take me from you. I assure you, the others who work the astropath chambers are no threat and will be beneficial to you as they are to me."

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    Using Delude, Opposed willpower test against pirate leader:
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    Max curses under his breath as the Captain is blow away metres away from. Chunks of the Captain's brains splattering over the flight console that he's sat by. Rolling out of the chair he rises to his feet, weapons in his hands but is still not fast enough to stop the guards blow away the traitor. He looks for the strange Kroot, whistling loudly, "Selrya over 'ere, lets get off the bridge, that way" he shouts motioning at one of the access doors heading away from the main entrance to the bridge.

    Seeing the Lord Captain's Baton in the hands of the assassin being hidden by the throne's defense mechanism he whirls around and moves towards the nearest door, sapping a flurry of shots from his bolt pistol at the scum pouring through the door! He looks to the nearest access door judging the distance, trying to ignore the chaos and shuddering of the vessle and alarms blaring from the damage control panels.

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    From the cover of the Navigation pit
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    - if Hit (1d10+5)[15] )tearing dice (1d10)[2]) PEN 4 to the head EDIT: 19 explosive damage (Pen4) to the head!
    -- IF RF (1d100)[58] TN 71 to confirm and (3d10)[4][3][5](12) as required

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    Pirates in here. Kill! Kill pirat-

    "James! Squish the bad men!"

    Friends in here. Pirates near friends. Kill pirates near friends!


    Jag-reg let out a bestial bellow, and smashed his blood smeared hammer down on the nearest bit of furniture making as much noise as possible. "Run an' 'll kill you last!" He screamed as he tore his way across the feeding bay towards the Officer and her personnel, sending anything unlucky enough to be caught in his path flying.

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    Intimidate on the four pirates in front of me, trying to get them not to block my way. If anyone else is within the AOE of my Intimidate roll, I get my strength score of 8 in targets so I'll just keep trying to get pirates to flee until I run out of targets in range.
    Intimidate score comes out to 63 (+10 from skill mastery, -10 from But it Dark in Dere!)
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    Additional roll in-case I need to barrel through a pirate or two to get to where I want to be.
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    Reassuringly, he put his left hand on the law-scrivener's shoulder. "Steadfast, Padding. If our Faith does not falter, it will take more than some savages and pirates to break this crew." Father Answin replied serenely.

    He turned and walked towards the back of the cathedral, where he would normally conduct service, and activated the Cathedral's access to the ship's vox, to address the crew, in strong, solemn words.
    "Crew of the Medias Res! Today is a fateful day. Some we had deemed comrades have betrayed us. Insidious Raiders have come to board us.

    Like vermin they gnaw at all we hold dear.
    Like vermin, they gnaw on our livelihoods.
    Like vermin, they gnaw on our community.
    Like vermin, they gnaw at the Media Res' Glory.

    As we are beleaguered from within and without, I know you all feel smothered by their tide.

    Know though, brothers and sisters, that it is the most dire situations, when the God-Emperor's presence can be felt the strongest!
    Arm yourself in Faith, brothers and sisters, and together we shall conduct our most sacred duty, to exterminate this despicable vermin sworn to the ruinous powers!

    As the vermin they are, they do not understand something greater than themselves. They do not understand, brothers and sisters, that you all are part of this congregation, that it is you who are the Medias Res, in service to Our Saviour, the God-Emperor on his Golden Throne! This day, you all are instruments of His Glory, and it shall shine Bright in our battle!

    Know that the Emperor's gaze lies upon us! This is the time that we show our true strength!
    In the Name of the Golden Throne, all of you, spill the blood of these sinners, char their rotten corpses and send them to their Eternal Damnation!"


    He had opened his arms wide while taking, and raised his eyes to the cathedral sky - only now that he had finished, he moved his hands back to his weapons.
    "Brother Bartholomew, lead the congregation in prayer." he ordered his most trusted underling, before he headed up towards the ships castle, flamer and chainsword at the ready.
    He was willing, in the Emperor's name, to take the fight wherever he had to - but at first, the castle had the highest priority for the Medias Res.

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    Seeing the mass of bodies between herself and Max who was the only person to have offered a source of egress, Selrya was drawn to perform desperate measures. She knew that if she tried to wade her way through the combat to the other side of the room, she would likely end up dead. She furrowed her brow as she rose to her staggering height, easily standing heads taller than anyone else in the room. She opened her beak, and let forth a screech that could pierce eardrums, attempting to gain everyone's attention even if for a moment. It was then that she opened her third eye, issuing a red cacophony of light and psychic might; the warp itself flooding into the bridge of the ship.

    "WITNESS THE DOOM!"


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    Using the Lidless Stare power to try and stun anyone looking my way, hopefully, to clear a path towards Max. If the power works, she'll start to bolt over towards him. People trying to resist Lidless Stare also take a -10 penalty to their WP test due to Renegade house. I'll also use my Kroothawk Totem if I fail the test to get a reroll, though I won't use it if I succeed.

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    Feeding Bay Charlie Seven:
    There is a bright flash of the photon grenade going off. The mutineers by the barricade stumble around, clutching at their eyes. The others, facing way from them aren't as badly affected, but the sight of an angry Ogryn charging towards them breaks their morale and cower as Jag-reg sweeps past them. They flee out the door he had come in from. The others are not so lucky. The photon grenade has left them blinded, and between Jag-reg's fists and Kais' pistol eight bodies are scattered around the cafeteria. Even the young officer managed to head-shoot one of them on her second try. She gives Jag-reg a weak salute. "James, thank you." She looks askance at Kais, and then says, "Maybe Father Answin is right about some xenos. Uh, the savages, you know, the ones we picked up from Naduesh a few years back. They're attacking everyone! And they're teaming up with the pirates! We gotta get to the armory and make sure the loyal crew gets the weapons they need to fight back!"

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    They failed the TN badly so they're blinded for seven rounds, should be easy enough to mop them up. The officer wants you to help secure the armory, but of course, she's not your boss.


    In the Astropath chambers
    The leader grins and says "orders din't say nothin' about servants. They just want you. Beater. Handspike. See about Oggz over there. You, blind lady, just hold your hands out and don't make no sudden moves. We're headin' back to our ship. Mebbe you can get new servants there." He grins. Two of the pirates take a look at their fallen comrade. They lift him up and try to prop him up to see if he can move under his own power. He can't. The leader pulls out some manacles and slowly approaches Rendara, while the other three pirates spread out to surround her.

    The Cathedral:
    After Father Answin's inspiring speech, he hears cheers and shouts from the refugees in the cathedral around him. Hopefully the crew will find the speech as inspiring. Or at least, the ones who haven't mutineed. He leaves the cathedral under the watchful gaze of Brother Bartholomew, who salutes with his ill-fitting cybernetic arm and hefts his ancient chainsword. Father Answin's security access gets him into the castle without problem. There are a few bodies scattered here and there... he looks over to the Astropath's chambers and sees two dead security guards lying in a bloody heap next to a dead pirate.

    The Bridge:
    The security guards trade fire with the pirates on the upper level. Some mutinous crewmen burst through the main door, trying to seize control of the bridge. One of them goes down, missing most of his head. The others pour over the body, waving illegal weapons and tools. The security guards try to deal with the flanking attackers, but fall back... just then, an invisile cacophony of light and sound seems to center around Selrya. The pirates and mutineers (and a few unfortunate security guards and bridge crew) suddenly fall down, screaming, clutching their eyes. There is a lull in the fire as the stunned attackers try to remember what dimension they're supposed to be in. Selrya and Max use the opportunity to make their way to one of the access hatches in the bridge floor. The command throne has already lowered itself into the floor, taking the murderous servant to safety... with the Lord Captain's baton in hand. While the baton's highest executive functions are gene-locked to those of the rogue trader's dynasty, the minor functions could prove extremely dangerous in the hands of a malicious actor. And extremely helpful for those trying to keep control of the ship.

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    The mutineers weren't ready for that at all, blinded squarely and left reeling as they mopped up the resistance. Watching the mighty Ogyrn work was certainly unsettling to an extent, he never wanted to be on that one's bad side, but such brutal efficiency was also commendable and he had seen just as worse things from the steadfast Kroot warriors that served the Tau as auxiliary forces. Careful not to hit any allies with stray shots from his pistol he strode boldly forward and quickly reloaded his pistol once the last body fell to the floor. "I assure you I serve for the good of the crew." he replied in low gothic with a nod to the officer and he paused to listen to her words, her desires to ensure that the crew was sufficiently armed. Such a plan mirrored his own thoughts as indeed they'd need the tools to fend off their foes in such a hectic battle. Calm, rational actions to re-establish control and shore up defenses would see them through this day or nothing would.

    "Allow me to recover my rifle and you'll have my support." She didn't command him by rank but there was little pride in regards to working together on his part. He knew that most humans were xenophobic but such colored thoughts did not cloud his beliefs in the slightest that cooperation remained possible if only understanding could be reached. Kais would move swiftly towards his room as it were in order to retrieve his more potent pulse rifle but would otherwise be just as quick to regroup and push towards the armory. Each individual had their part to play, it seemed that his was to shore up their defenses on a personal level and he'd not argue against the importance of such a task.
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    Rendara:
    Well. That didn't work, Rendara thinks Well, if all else fails, using force in enough quantities will solve anything, and she might as well push herself as much as she could to kill or incapacitate as many of them as she can. She doesn't give up, instead Rendara summons up the power of the warp, gripping her staff, spreading her arms out and opening her mouth in a silent shriek, channeling through her mind to unleash as a psychic scream in imitation of the shrieking of long dead xenos she has heard coming out in space, sending out the pulse into all their minds to try and wreck them as much as she can, the high pitched psychic screech having been known to cause all sorts of deaths from messing with the brain: bleeding from the ears, eyes and nose, stroke, forgetting how to breathe, seizures, all sorts horrible ways, and if none of those work they are often left stunned from their brain functions being screwed up.

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    Father Answin

    This was what he had expected. It was no surprise Rendara, the Astropath would be one of the first targets of the pirates. His face darkened as he readied his flamer, hurrying towards her chambers.
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    Commander Crone

    Max watches satisfied as the first man drops, bolt shell blowing his head off the flurry of return fire forces him to drop behind the command consoles.

    He sees the command throne retract and cursed inwardly as the Lord Captains command baton is gone. The sound of the strange Kroot warp reader makes him look up, until he realises what's about to happen and drops to the floor screwing his eyes shut. Screams and lurid red lights glowing through his closed eyes mark the effects. As the sensation of the warp fades he leaps up sliding to the hatch and holding it open for the Kroot.

    "effective Navis. Maybe shout a warning next time eh?" he adds, a glance at the bridge full of people clutching their bleeding eyes.

    Dropping into a minor access corridor he keeps his pistol close, drawing his xeno blaster in the other. "One of them got the command rod. Let's head to environment Al control, see if we can upset these bastards and retake the old lady."
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    Xantha Ward

    As the twists approached, Xantha ducked behind the pipe, doing the mental calculations that she was used to: she couldn't see any weapons, but they were talking about breaking industrial equipment, and there wasn't any twist large and mutated enough to do that bare-handed. At least none that shared the torchlight.

    She couldn't allow them to do... whatever it was they were doing. And who were they talking about?

    She'd have to stalk them, study them, and take out the most dangerous one from ambush.

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    Selrya brings a hand up to her throat as her alien face contorts into an unfamiliar emotion. She regarded Max as she kept up pace with him and snorted, "I didn't break my vocals in a shout for the fun of it."

    She kept her rifle steady as it swayed on her shoulder, unsheathing a blade from within her wrist. The cybernetic augment had been the captain's idea, and while she didn't like human technology on the best of times, this device was her favorite. She regarded Max with a sideways glance as she asked, "That sounds like it's important, there's probably already people there. Maybe we should gather your priest, he seemed spirited over the vox earlier."
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    Jag-reg isn't really following the conversation between the officer and the blue-min, but when he see's the officer's salute he returns it enthusiastically, narrowly avoiding slapping the daylight out of one of the other crew-members in the process. Fortunately for all present, Jag-reg is one of the few Ogryns smart enough to know they're stupid, and is much more willing to follow someone with a plan than stick around here without one.
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    Father Answin

    Father Answin burst into the room, his purity-seal-adorned flamer raised and ready. There she was, Rendara - surrounded by a group of ragged pirates.
    Judging from the dead and the one in agony, they didn't have an easy time with her -and now, it would become even worse.

    The robed missionary's experience with the weapon allowed him, with a quick side-step, to reach a position where the Holy Flame would burn as many of the attackers as possible, while not bringing the Astropath in more danger than necessary.

    "ARDETE IN IRAE SACRAE IMPERATORIS!" Father Answin ordered them sternly, and with an obvious hint of glee in High Gothic, while his weapon sprayed them with searing hot judgement.

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    The officer sniffs and says, "There's plenty of weapons in the armory. Good, honest, Imperial weapons." But fortunately, it isn't too much of a delay for Kais to slip off, grab his rifle, and regroup. By the time they reach the amory, Lieutenant Kami Seta-Roja has managed to assemble a small force of loyal crew. But the armory is currently under siege by a larger force of pirates and mutineers. The mutineers are holding their crude weapons and tools, while the pirates are much better armed. A tall man with a fancy hat is ordering them as they try to break into the ship's main armory, currently held by a dozen or so loyalists. A few pirates are manhandling a powerful lascannon into position where they can blast through the door, and pour in, and put an end to resistance in the armory...

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    Rendara screams soundlessly at the man trying to capture her. His eyes bulge out of his head for a moment, and he starts bleeding from his nose. "ARRRGH" he shouts, and drops the manacles, pulls out his shotgun and tries to club Rendara with it. But she avoids the blow easily. Just then, there is the shout of righteous fury from the doorway. Father Answin lets loose a gout of cleansing flame towards three of the pirates. One of them, perhaps guided by instinct, rolls out of the way, but the other two are swept by the flames. One starts desperately patting out the flames on his ratty cloak, but the other is less affected. Behind them, priceless, thousand-year old tapestries burst into flame, and flames start crawling along the ivorywood paneling. The two other pirates, holding their dying comrade, drop him to the floor and reach for their shotguns

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    The pirate leader resisted the stun but missed Rendara. One pirate is on fire, another is hurt. Rendara is in the middle of the chamber, while Answin is at the entrance. There are richly upholstered chairs and a few wood tables in the room if anyone wants to dart for cover.


    In the Deep Underdecks:
    The twists approach the pipe. They are wearing ragged clothing, the remains of ship's uniforms. Whether stolen or... what they were wearing when they were driven below after succumbing to their mutations. From her time on the ship, Xantha remembers that "Whiteclaw" was a dangerous mutant that had stalked the ship's corridors some decades ago. It's preserved head and hands decorated the security station whose armsmen had managed to corner and kill it. The thought that some new mutant has taken up that title implies that a particularly dangerous... or ambitious mutant now stalks the underdecks once again. The mutants, however, are more pathetic than dangerous. But there are five of them, and they pull out stolen tools from their coats, and begin trying to pry open the hydraulic pipes. If they manage that, the macrocannon the pipe serves will no longer be able to aim properly...

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    Max and Selya crawl through the vents for a few minutes. They are still in the castle, a few decks below the bridge. They peer through a grate into von Drakkan's personal gymnasium. The command throne escape hatch opens up into the richly appointed room, where the servant/assassin is talking quietly to several other me. Four of the men in the room are clearly Nadueshi crewmen, while the fifth... Max recognizes as the ship's first officer. He accepts the command baton and starts playing with it...

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    "Thank you Father Answin. It seems the Emperor protects as they say. I'm the closest person you fools will ever come to meeting the Emperor himself and you chose to treat me as a tool. You were dead the moment you walked in."
    She then raises her hand to pinch her two fingers together, focusing her will upon the man in front of her with more focus and finesse to try and crush his neck, wanting him out of her face at once.

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    Commander Crone pauses, staring through the gate into the ornate marbled gymnasium below. He glances at the traitor and growls. Looking to the Kroot he whispers.
    "The lord captains baton." Grinning at the Navis he nods, "Can your eye thing work again?"

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    "And all weapons that I am not proficient in." He added. Again he understood the woman's beliefs were solidly within the technology of her own kind but, quite frankly, he found it foolish to devalue the advances of others. This wasn't a time for bickering so he wouldn't push the matter but the practical sense remained the same, he needed his rifle if he was to be a peak performance for the fight ahead. Once they arrived and were able to take stock of the situation it was indeed tenuous as their smaller force was preparing to stand against a horde and the threat of the lascannon being set up on the far hall.

    "A frontal assault would be suicidal but we have to do something about that heavy weapon. How durable is it? Could a shot or two from my pulse rifle cripple it?" He wasn't truly a crack shot but he had plenty of training in picking out weak points of an opponent. "Or, with my guidance, do you think the men would be able to ruin it with a volley of fire? I know that I am not as trusted aboard this vessel but if they blast the doors down then we are in serious trouble." As a Fire Warrior, Kais had training in offering guidance to the men of his squad. Perhaps, with this officer's backing, a squad might listen to him for the purposes of sundering that mighty weapon? If not, or that didn't work out, then he feared there wasn't much time to come up with an alternate plan and he hoped that the ogryn's might would be enough to help hold the tide at bay.

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    Otherwise was thinking that Kais might be able to spend a round aiming and then make a Called Shot against the lascannon itself with the intention of crippling or destroying the weapon. Or he might be able to utilize his Classified Competence "Expose Weakness" to direct his allies to target the lascannon with their shots thanks to his "New Allies" skill which allows him to treat trusted allies as Tau for the purposes of any of his abilities. Of course, they have to trust him enough to listen to him and unfortunately he'd be rolling against just his base 44 Bs for that to succeed.

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    Xantha bit her lip and considered the implications of a new "Whiteclaw" as she watched the mutants pass by. Seeing that none of them had anything more dangerous than a particularly weighty wrench, she lined up a shot at the closest one to her and fired, not willing to leave them to their work and get away clean.

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    "Our Faith will see us through this, Lady Rendara." Father Answin stated solemnly, although cringing a bit at the blasphemy shortly thereafter. Then again, she had been on Holy Terra, and had been as close to the Golden Throne as one could hope to be.

    As he was fairly certain to become the new primary target of the pirates, Father Answin went towards one of the ornate tables and kicked it over, taking cover before again spraying flames at the pirates.

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    If the three pirates who have already gotten flamed aren't reaching for their weapons yet, Father Answin is going to shoot at the two who are, if it is possible without putting Rendara in danger.
    Again, he will try to get as many of them into the area of effect as possible.
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    We've stopped... Enemies ahead. Haven't seen us. Got big gun with them. Not sure what to do. Wait for orders.

    Jag-reg grips his hammer and looks around him, hoping someone comes up with a better plan than rushing a big gun. He's been in enough charges down long corridors to remember what happened to the Ogryns that went in first. Judging the distance, he could probably cover it and do some good damage to anything in arms reach before the team got the chance to swivel and fire, but if he was wrong it would be one hell of a miscalculation. Best to let someone else make that call.

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