Robotech - Tales of the RDF

[Soviet Panda]

They were all clustered, flak would hit all of them if he aimed it right. Then again, there was the engine to worry about hitting. Would the flak do enough damage to detonate it? The tungsten definately would if he missed. Screw it, he'd go with flak.


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[Sherwood]

Critical strike! The shrapnel explodes in and around suits two and three (one had just jumped back out of the radius), doing sizable damage to both of them. Another hard hit will take them down, and they are still grouped close enough together that some missiles could hit them both, assuming that they don't dodge.


@Dano is up with Eric


19 - Zaile [2]


17 - Taniya [2]


15 - FPA 1 damaged [1]


13 - Connor [2]


12 - Eric [2] <====


11 - FPA 2 badly damaged


8 - Doug [1]


6 - FPA 3 badly damaged


5 - Eadric [2]

 

[Dano]

Eric Bell


Watching the ensuing chaos, Eric sees how the others attempt to shield the Commander...bad move. He flips a switch and the front plate lowers, exposing his RDS-6 Rocket Launchers. With a grin on his face, Eric jumps his Spartan using his thrusters and fires a volley of 6 rockets at the already damaged Commander.


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[Sherwood]

Eric launches his six pack of missiles into the clustered Zentraedi trying to protect the High Lord with devastating results. Not only do you kill the three officers trying to protect Serena, but your blast cuts the malcontent leader in half. There is no way that she could live through that. You have just wiped out the core of the malcontent movement. Note you just have to live long enough to spend your bonus.


The operator of the second FPA lets out a scream of rage and despair that can be heard through her armor. Instantly she turns on Eric and opens her missile launchers to try and take you out with a massive salvo of twenty mini missiles.


Doug raises up his particle cannon and blasts the damaged FPA 3, killing the pilot instantly.


@Kaerri is up, and I need a defense action from @Dano. You have two choices to defend yourself. One is to shoot a middle if your own into the incoming attack. If you hit, you have a 75% chance to take them out before they hit. The second is to try and spoof the missiles by launching chaff and flares. This also gives you a 75% chance to evade. There are too many to dodge, and you will have only one choice; there is just not enough time to make two different attempts.


19 - Zaile [2]


17 - Taniya [2]


15 - FPA 1 damaged [1]


13 - Connor [2]


12 - Eric [3]


11 - FPA 2 badly damaged [1]


8 - Doug [2]


5 - Eadric [2] <====


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[Kaerri]

Sergeant Eadric Braidwood, Field Scientist


Eadric lets out a whistle over the radio. "Nice shooting, Eric!" he calls out. He refocuses the Spartan's lasers on a new target -- or rather, deliberately focusing on an old target: the first FPA that he'd hit earlier.

Spoiler

Firing both shoulder-mount lasers on FPA1.[dice]21938[/dice]

 

[Sherwood]

Eadric fires his lasers at the powered armor. It kicks in its jets to try to dodge away. The targeting computer in the Spartan manages to correctly track the moving target and you score a solid hit.


@Epiphany is up, and @Dano needs to defend against the missiles


19 - Zaile [2] <====


17 - Taniya [2]


15 - FPA 1 badly damaged [1]


13 - Connor [2]


12 - Eric [3]


11 - FPA 2 badly damaged [1]


8 - Doug [2]


5 - Eadric [3]


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[Dano]

Eric Bell


Since he was already in the air when the frenzied FPA launched a hail of its own missiles, Eric's instinct forced his hands across the controls and he quickly activating his 20mm Pulse Laser Turret and sprayed the area immediately in front of the mecha in efforts to annihilate the incoming arsenal.


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[Epiphany]

Corporal Zaile Alencar


Zaile lets out a savage cry of triumph as Corporal Bell blows the enemy commander to hell. A few years ago, she would have followed the High Lord's orders to the death. But now she feels only a grim satisfaction that a traitor unable to live peaceably with the Micronians should instead...rest in pieces.


But there were still her loyalists to deal with. They seemed to have no intention to surrender. So Zaile opened up with her forearm particle cannons on the damaged FPA that the good doctor Eadric shot. Best to finish off this enemy...and allow Corporal Bell to finish off the insurgent so determined to avenge the fallen traitor commander.


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[Sherwood]

Eric pulls the trigger and a spray of laser fire fills the air, followed by a series of explosions as the missiles start to detonate in a chain reaction that wipes out all but four of the swarm. Eric's mecha takes a total of 80 MDC, a far cry from the alternative of certain destruction.


Zaile, however, doesn't share Eric's luck. Her attack goes slightly wide and hits the far wall, harmlessly scorching the hull.


@Dannigan is up next


19 - Zaile [3]


17 - Taniya [2] <====


15 - FPA 1 badly damaged [1]


13 - Connor [2]


12 - Eric [5]


11 - FPA 2 badly damaged [1]


8 - Doug [2]


5 - Eadric [3]

 

[Purr]

Staff Sergeant Taniya


Taniya's pride is clear in her voice as she looks at both halves of Commander Serena. "Well done my Red Panda Squadron, especially you, Bell. That is what I call an artistic expression of total destruction." She allows herself a chuckling tease. "Thanks to Bell, there is now an opening in the High Lord position. Zaile? Here is your big chance!"


"Die like warriors, Malcontents..." She lets loose, blasting away with her twin autocannons on the most-damaged of the Female Power Armors...

Spoiler

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Damage (if it hits - Oh wait!)


...and shakes her head with a grin and sigh. "Well, at least the bad luck waited until Commander Serena left the stage, aye, Red Pandas?"

 

[Sherwood]

The smile on your face is quickly replaced with as snarl of anger as the twin auto cannons lock up and jam. Barbara begins to cycle the mechanism. "Give me two shakes and I'll have the guns up and working again!"


FPA 2 also prepares to fire her missiles, but her target is Connor in his Defender. She lets fly with ten mini missiles, hoping to take you out of the fight.


@Beowulf is up next


19 - Zaile [3]


17 - Taniya [3]


15 - FPA 1 badly damaged [2]


13 - Connor [2] <====


12 - Eric [5]


11 - FPA 2 badly damaged [1]


8 - Doug [2]


5 - Eadric [3]


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[Sherwood]

Bumping for @Beowulf. You need to defend from the missile attack, and if you want, you can counterattack.

 

[Soviet Panda]

"Up yours you over sized hunk of alien space metal." Connor said, getting somewhat creative with his name calling as he attempted to get out of the way of the missiles. At the very least make sure only a few hit him. "And for your troubles." he growled after words and returned fire with a tungsten round.


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[Sherwood]

Connor opens fire with the heavy armor piercing rounds, tearing into the Zentraedi unit with a savage intensity. The operator drops with a spray of blood coming out the back.


EDIT: The mecha shudders as the flares fire off, giving you just enough space to keep from getting blasted by the salvo. Your paint job was not so lucky; the shrapnel of the exploding warheads rattle you and scar your armor, but there is no real damage done.


@Dano is up next


19 - Zaile [3]


17 - Taniya [3]


13 - Connor [3]


12 - Eric [5] <====


11 - FPA 2 badly damaged [1]


8 - Doug [2]


5 - Eadric [3]

 

[Dano]

Eric Bell


Upon landing, Eric could hear several of his squad mates cheering at his direct hit on the Commander. "It was a team effort!" he calls back into the coms as a smile lingered on his face. It didn't last long as he scanned the room and noticed there was still one hostile remaining. Squaring up, his targeting system locked on with both of his M-1255 120mm Laser Cannons. "This is for Jack..." he whispered as he let lose a laser storm upon the already damaged FPA.


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[Sherwood]

With the smoke and debris being kicked up along with the radar spoofing of Connors chaff, Eric's blast fires wide.


The last of the Zentraedi hostiles looks around at the superior numbers arrayed against her and does the math. It is clear that there is no way out for the pilot unless she throws in the white flag, and with Serena dead, her morale is at a all time low. She signals, "Hold your fire, micronian. I will surrender. There is no longer any reason to fight; this battle is lost."


Doug levels his cannon at the powered armor. "Open up and climb out slowly. You so much as twitch I'll blow you in two. Comply immediately!"


The pilot shuts off the mecha and pops the suit open, climbing out slowly. As this goes on, Barbara says, "Allied reinforcements are on the way. It's that other Zentraedi squad in their Officer Pods marked with RDF logos, do lets not shoot them, ok? That would be bad. Boss lady, if you get us closer to a working terminal, I can check the status of the fold engines to make sure they are not in overload mode."


True to her word, Bron from the Bata Revo squad radios, "Red Pandas, we are approaching your position, eta one minute. Our IFF transponders are on and broadcasting correctly, so let's avoid friendly fire. What is your status?"

 

[Purr]

Staff Sergeant Taniya


"Bata Revo, Red Panda Squadron here. We are victorious - Commander Serena is slain. One of her warriors is our prisoner, a female power armor pilot. The status of the space fold engine is as yet unknown. We are investigating." Taniya maneuvers The Beast to the control panel and with Tolson, she examines the terminal thoroughly. She knows that there is no true victory until her team is back and safe at Anton-17.


"Connor, get a message through to Major Lang repeating what I just told Bata Revo squad."


"Braidwood, assist us in examining these terminals. There may be more violence ahead of us before we are done."


As for Bell's attempt on getting vengeance for this Jack, Taniya broods for a moment. "Fate is a fickle mistress, Bell. It is an honorable thing you do in your comrade's name. However..." She turns for a moment to their newest teammate. Her tone is razor sharp. "Dorsey, Bell. I want that prisoner restrained, secured, and ready for transportation by the time we leave this room. Make it happen." And with her full trust in her pilots, the leader of the Red Panda Squadron goes right back to examining the terminal and its contents.

Spoiler

I am excluding Zaile only because her player and her husband are probably home right now with their newborn baby. How is it that Zaile gets off the hook and out of the tough work so easily, right? Ha ha! =)

 

[Kaerri]

Sergeant Eadric Braidwood, Field Scientist


"Yes, ma'am." Eadric carefully moves aside the corpses with all the respect due a fallen enemy, even Serena (though he leaves her where she can be seen from the doorway). Stepping up beside his leader, he examines the console along with her, and presumably Barbara. He hadn't quite gotten around to studying spacegoing engines yet, but as Taniya knew, he did speak and read Zentraedi, and perhaps he could use skills gained from other engineering studies to understand what this console was telling him.

Spoiler

Here's the skills that Eadric is hoping to draw on, if any of them can help:


Computer Hacking: 67%


Computer Operation: 98%


Computer Programming: 94%


Electrical Engineer: 62%


Language - Zentraedi: 76%


Literacy - Zentraedi: 72%


Lore – Zentraedi: 72%


Mathematics – Advanced: 98%


Mecha Electronics: 47%


Mecha Engineering: 57%


Mechanical Engineer: 64%


Pilot Destroids: 92%


Protoculture Engineer: 62%


Research: 77%


Sensory Equipment: 72%


Weapons Engineer: 52%


Weapons Systems (General): 72%

 

[Soviet Panda]

"On it." Connor said, adjusting his radio to the correct frequency. "Major Lang, this is Connor McKinley of the Red Pandas. Commander Serena is dead, and we got a FPA pilot as our prisoner. The space fold engine is being investigated as we speak. But we're still here so I personally think we're good here." Switching back to their squad frequency, in fact he got it so Major Lang would be heard from one speaker and the squad from another, he says "Alright, Lang knows. Was he the guy that wanted Serena alive?"

 

[Sherwood]

Connor hits the radio to report in. It takes the major only moments to personally respond, showing that he was waiting in the command center for your call. He listens intently, then asks, "Any casualties in the Red Pandas? No? Excellent. Good work. Don't worry about any fallout from the death of Serena; you were following my direct orders when you terminated her. I will deal with that lieutenant."


Inside the fold engine chamber, Eadric moves to a undamaged terminal and plugs in. As the engine status flashes in your displays, you can see that Serena was indeed trying to set the mechanism to blow. Fortunately, you have gotten control of the situation fast enough to undo the damage and prevent an explosion. It will take you a few minutes to properly shut down the overload, but you anticipate no problem.


As Eadric and Connor do their work, Doug and Zaile secure the one prisoner. The pilot is putting up no resistance. While that is going on, four Officer Pods bearing the RDF logo and broadcasting the proper codes come walking in with three Spartans. Bron pops out of his mecha with a grin on his face. "Hot damn, we did it! The heart of the Malcontent movement has been taken out." He looks over at the body of the High Lord and sighs. "Get a blanket and cover her up. She may have been our enemy, but she was once a respected leader if our people, and she fought for what she believed in. We will show her remains the respect she is due." Finally, the Zentraedi soldier comes over to stand next to Taniya's mecha. "Your team has done some impressive work, sergeant. I would be pleased to fight along side the Red Pandas again in the future."

 

[Purr]

Staff Sergeant Taniya


Taniya takes a long grim look at the body of Commander Serena, leader of the Malcontents. Finally, she turns to Bron and nods to his statement adding only, "Better her corpse than ours."


"Red Panda Squadron, we celebrate upon our return home, but not a moment before. McKinley, request further instructions from the Major. With this area secured, I would see what he wishes us to do next."


"Tolson, Braidwood, I recommend you learn as much as you can with what time have left. It is not every day we have a space fold engine at our fingertips to learn from..." With that, Taniya waits for Major Lang's reply as her team does as they see fit.

 

[Kaerri]

Sergeant Eadric Braidwood, Field Scientist


Eadric nods absently. "Yes ma'am. It looks like we got here just in time; she was in the middle of rigging this just like we suspected, but didn't finish. It shouldn't be too hard to disable, though. Just need a few more minutes..." His voice trails off as he focuses on his work.

 

[Sherwood]

After several minutes of work, the fold engine is successfully rendered safe. Once Eadric has a chance to lean back and take a deep breath, he sees that there are now several RDF mecha in the room along with two more full sized Zentraedi in RDF uniforms cut to fit their huge size. They are clearly recognized as two of the top Zentraedi officers in the combat zone; Rabon and Taru. They look over the displays and make a few keystrokes before giving the thumbs up to Eadric. Taru says, "Excellent work, sergeant. You have a real knack for this." The Zentraedi officer looks over his shoulder and says, "I want this soldier's name for a medal, along with the rest of the squad. Now, let me talk to my fellow Zentraedi." He looks over at Taniya and Zaile with a smile on his face. "Sergeants, I have been following your careers with interest; especially Sgt Taniya as the first of our race to be trusted in a command position of a destroid squad. I am very proud that my intuition about your potential was not wrong. The two of you have served our new allies with distinction, along with your whole team. Red Pandas, your names will go down in the history books for your success today. Let me be the first to thank all of you for your top level work, and I look forward to seeing what you do in the future." He snaps to the position of attention and gives a crisp salute.

 

[Purr]

Staff Sergeant Taniya


Taniya returns the salute just as sharply and nods graciously at his show of gratitude. "I simply figured it would be better if my Red Panda Squadron were the ones to make history today instead of Commander Serena. Bad enough Khyron the Backstabber went out in his misguided blaze of glory - we needed no such reenactment here."

 

[Kaerri]

Sergeant Eadric Braidwood, Field Scientist


Eadric leans back in his mecha's pilot compartment and sighs, then realizes he's not the only one at the console. Given the lack of firing, the two new Zentraedi are on their side; as is confirmed by the subsequent conversation. He smiles to himself at the Zentraedi officer's compliment, but only his acknowledging nod is conveyed by his Spartan. "Thank you, sir." He returns Taru's salute with not quite as much precision, not wanting to miss by accident and smack his mech's head. "We're proud to have her - them - sir. Sgt. Taniya's an excellent squad leader and I'm honored to serve with her and Zaile both."