Robotech - Tales of the RDF

Dano said:
“I’ve got your back as long as you’ve got mine.”
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Taniya grins. "That, Bell, you can count on."
 
Staff Sergeant Taniya


On a Prestonless channel, Taniya herself attempts to contact Anton-17 with her recently-repaired communications system. She does her best to reach Major Lang himself on her best coded channel with her situation. She also has Tolson secretly request Anton-17 run both a Lt. Dan Preston in a command-variant Tomahawk and a Bron from the Bata Revo squadron, complete with current pictures and audio from their end of the two, and get everything Anton-17 had on the two.


She considered if Preston did not know Major Lang, then he must not come from Anton-17. This could be just another mix-up in war. Taniya was willing to assist Preston if all came back true and with Major Lang's consent.


However, what if Major Lang reported Preston some traitor and this Bron was actually a fake, an undercover Malconent or something similar? The guns of the Red Panda Squadron would glow in unison once again...
 
Barbara is finally able to get the major on the line. He listens to Taniya's report without saying anything, just a growing frown on his face. He can be seen typing on his terminal just out of sight of the monitor, and finally nods. "This lieutenant seems to be bucking for a position with the intel services, and is doing what he can to get into their good graces. I can understand the desire to capture the High Lord, but I personally feel that doing so will prove to be too dangerous. I stand by my earlier orders, but you are the ones on the spot. If you feel that you can safely capture Serena, bring her out. But, I don't want you taking any chances with your lives. When in doubt, shoot first and ask questions later, and you let me deal with this Lt. Preston. Lang out."


Barbara smiles at Taniya. "One thing I can give our boss is that he is not afraid to make a call. I have the whole exchange recorded, too, just to cover our butts."
 
Staff Sergeant Taniya


Taniya nods with certainty, "Aye, Major." To her fellow squadmates, "Major Lang's orders are clear. Let us provide him our best."
 
With Lt Preston gone, Bron offers up a Zentraedi style salute. "Sergeant, I have heard much about you and the Red Pandas, and I look forward to fighting along side with you. From what I have heard of the High Lord, she will not be cowering in the command bubble behind a bunch of guards. I fully expect that she is suiting up in a powered suit and is getting ready for her counter attack. Do you concur? I personally think that our targets should be the fold engines and the engineering spaces to prevent a deliberate overload and explosion."
 
"If it's her or me, I'm going to kill her." Connor told Preston (did I get the name right?). He wasn't going to stand around and try to cripple her if she had a gun held to his head. If that happened, he'd just as likely blow her brains out. Shove a tungsten round where the sun don't shine. Maybe put some flak in her, see how she likes it. He's been through to much crap to get this far, and then just die. First of all, he'd be terribly embarrassed if that's what happened. And second off, his family probably wouldn't cope to well with having one of their children die. No matter what award, medal, or trophy you give him.
 
With the spot repairs and rearming done, the order is given to move out and board the damaged destroyer in a hunt for the High Lord. Both Taniya and Zaile have spent plenty of time inside that class of ship, and they know their way around without having to check the navigating computer in their mecha.


The average interior corridor is three hundred feet wide and a hundred and fifty feet tall, giving all of you plenty of room to maneuver. The ship is currently lying at about a fifteen degree list to port, but the ship's own artificial gravity is able to keep everyone from walking at an angle.


You now have a few options on how to enter the ship. There is a large airlock at ground level that the Malcontents have been using as the main entrance to the ship that you can use, or you can make a hole of your own and enter from somewhere else. Also, if Bron is correct that Serena is going to either be in the engine room or by the fold space motor, you need to choose the target of your assault.
 
"I don't think walking through the front door will be the best thing for us to do." Connor said as he looked at the Destroyer. "And we know where she might be, which is as good a spot to start as any other. Why not just blast our way through, and see where it takes us?" It was a simple plan, blast a hole where they thought the malcontent leader was most likely to be and then wing it from there. He wasn't the planning sort, and he's read enough books that the convoluted plans often times failed.
 
Doug raises up the particle beam cannon on his Tomahawk with a smile on his face. "You need a door? Well, I have the perfect key right here. Let's make a hole."
 
Although he was new to the team, Eric felt he should speak up and say something. "Staff Sargent, I would recommend going through the door. Without knowing exactly where we would end up blasting a hole to, it could be extremely bad if we hit a power conductor running in the wall." He shifted slightly uncomfortably in his mech as he waited with baited breath to hear what Taniya was going to decide.
 
Staff Sergeant Taniya


The humans come at the problem from all sides - save Zentraedi...


"Hold with vigilance, my Red Pandas." Taniya has the squadron position themselves defensibly with as much cover and concealment as possible while inside The Beast, she uses the most powerful weapon she has at her disposal - her mind.


"Zaile... Think back with me... Between the two of us, we have over three decades of experience as Zentraedi warriors. Where, if you were a commander in Serena's position, would you consider best to place yourself inside a downed Thuverl-Salan? And how best to get there?"


Taniya began to look back into the deep recesses of her own considerable memory for answer.

@Sherwood Might Taniya and Zaile's own experiences aboard this type of warship provide a more-informed decision for the team?
 
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By your recollections on the past behavior of the High Lord Serena, she is not one to lie down and just accept defeat, no matter how bad the odds are stacked up against her. At the very least, the two of you believe that in the event that defeat is certain, she will do her best to take as many of her enemies out with her as can be made possible. With that in mind, using the fold space motor to generate a massive explosion is her best bet to cause mass casualties. Once the overload process has begun, you'll need to blow the fold space motor. It is a delicate structure, but even so, it will take several thousand points of damage to destroy the motor to prevent the explosion.


If you want to try to bypass as much of the forces between you and the motor space, you can slide down the hull about 1,000 meters and blast a hole in the ship there. According to your calculations, that will get you access to one of the many storerooms of non-explosive materials, making it relatively safe to punch a hole into the hold and not risk a catastrophic secondary explosion that would take you out with it. This will put you one deck below the level of the fold space motor.
 
Staff Sergeant Taniya


Taniya relays this information to her squadmates, leaving nothing out.


"Now that you know what Zaile and I know, I believe this route," she points down the hull, "holds our best chances of success. Come!" Taniya leads the way.
 
Eric Bell


Hearing his commander give an order, Bell quickly followed suit, remaining in formation. "Yes Ma'am! I'm on your six" his voice rang through the coms steadily with a hint of excitement. This was it, his first real opportunity to be part of a squad rather than just the guy fixing the busted mechs after a vicious battle. The Spartan's metal feet clambered heavily as he continued behind Taniya as they moved further down the ship's massive hull.
 
Sergeant Eadric Braidwood, Field Scientist


Eadric listens intently, lining it up with what little he knows of ships and the rather more extensive knowledge he has of explosives, or at least things which go boom in some fashion. At the end he nods and keys his mic. "Right with you, ma'am." He follows Eric as the squad moves down to their intended target.
 
Corporal Zaile Alencar


Bron's address to her Sergeant made Zaile shift uncomfortably in her mecha's cockpit. Lingering traces of the Imperative seemed to nag her, making any interaction with a Zentraedi male...strange. If there's one thing the Zentraedi didn't do well, it was deal with strange. His suggestion about opening up a door made her grin, though. The grin was lost when Taniya asked for her opinion.


"Space fold engine," she says upon being asked. "There's enough Micronian firepower leveraged against this ship, getting the engines going will just make her an easier target. She'll either chance folding directly into space, probably dooming whoever's in the immediate area, or she'll blow the ship up with them, which accomplishes the same thing. It's what I would do, anyway."


Once the Red Pandas are on the move, she smiles as Taniya takes point and falls back to occupy the rear. Inside or outside, the High Lord's behemoth ship was very much like the one she'd been 'born' on. Highly trained as her Micronian comrades were, there was simply no substitute for direct experience. Better she keep an eye out for targets in the time it'd take them to figure out if they were looking at infantry armor or hull.
 
Moving down the hull of the ship, you come to the section of the ship that connects to the storage bay. Using the blasters, you manage to punch a mecha sized hole in the armor of the ship. One by one, the Red Pandas slip into the ship undetected.


From your time in this kind of ship, you know that the fold engine is one level up and in the middle of the ship. You are in the right section of the ship, so you only have to either go to the nearest lift or make a hole in the roof and have one of the flyers to lift you up. It is more likely that there Wei be guards by the lifts.


Where do you go from here?
 
Staff Sergeant Taniya


"Aye Zaile," Taniya nods from inside her mech, The Beast. "I was thinking along similar lines, for if victory is not possible, why not then as much destruction upon your enemies as possible? And what could cause more destruction than what you have described? It is a Zentraedi's way to die in battle, preferably in a blaze of glory - and this ship could cause quite the blaze..."


Taniya aimed her particle beam cannons at the roof. "Speaking of blaze, let us proceed on our own terms, shall we? Through the floor above us and onward!" Safeties off, The Beast roared and loosed its great arm-mounted particle beams in unison.
 
Corporal Zaile Alencar


"Karat-sul, sir!"


At Taniya's order, Zaile joins her commanding officer in firing at the roof. Both barrels. If anyone could see her face in her cockpit, they'd see Zaile's expression changed into a rictus of elated fury.
 
"How about we try and stop that blaze, yeah?" He did not join in with blasting a hole into the ship. The shrapnel from his flak could hurt them more then the ship and the tungsten rounds were, although able to safely punch a hole in the hull, much to small to make a hole for a destroid to walk through. He'd be of more use making sure something didn't sneak up on them, as low as that chance may be.
 
The various destroids open fire with their powerful energy weapons against the ceiling. In moments, there is a smoldering hole leading to the upper level just large enough for you to go up one at a time. Once the squad is all on the upper level, your external audio pickups hear a set of voices speaking in Zentraedi. "What was that? We may have a breach of the hull. Commander, we are going to investigate." "Understood. Reinforcements are on the way."


The door to the room is suddenly yanked open by a pair of soldiers in lightweight armor and carrying energy rifles. They look into the room and react at once at the sight of the human mecha by raising their rifles to open fire.


Initiative rolls, please.
 
Corporal Zaile Alencar


The micronizied Zentraedi in her giant robot maneuvered her mecha clear of the hole upon emerging. She was the last one up, arriving just in time for the hostiles to throw open the door.


So she widened the stance of her low-slung, squat officier's battlepod and opened up with both of the HPC-90 Heavy Particle Beam Cannons mounted on the back.


Initiative:


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Staff Sergeant Taniya


"Into the fray..." Taniya grinned as she gave in once again into her warrior's blood and instincts.


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