cityship: (Meanwhile...)
cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-08-13 01:21 am

Lirath - Ground Battle

 After dropping off some of the crew at Balisair, it was time for the crew to set course for Lirath. The situation greeting them wasn't the most promising.

The cracked surface of the moon called Lirath was one of its most unmistakeable features. One of the three moons of the planet Kehoe, it had been terraformed and served as a settlement for a hundreds of different species, some humanoid, some not. Despite occasional class struggles, environmental issues, and speciesism blocking their way, the darker parts of Lirath's past were largely left behind, and an era of peace and tolerance had reigned for quite some time. The only problems they'd had recently were with a terrorist group whose cause for their actions had been a mystery, but they weren't tied to any particular species or social group and had been likened to a cult and had largely gone quiet in recent years.

Now the peace on the moon of Lirath had been shattered by the invasion of the Ohm.

The capital city had been destroyed. Now, all that was left of the peoples of Lirath was evacuating from one of its smaller cities, one known as Smyteval. A desert city, existing in a valley in between a rocky range of canyons and mountains, even though it was in the low ground, the natural channels of rock served as bottlenecks for any Ohm attacking from the ground.

GIA squadrons patrolled in space, locked in explosive warfare, protecting the Bleed-gate that had been activated to see the evacuated ships to the refugee world, and a shield created by massively-powerful shield generators extended around the city and up into the atmosphere, creating a shielded tunnel so ships could escape.

Word had come that there was a vital weapon to be deployed on Lirath, one that needed to be destroyed, hence why the Transmigration 9 had been called in. Given the diverse crew, and the ships that were in its hangar, there was at least someone or something on board that could blow the weapon up if it did show.

There was no sign of it yet. Right now, there was just chaos, streams of evacuees boarding ships, armies of Ohm engaged with GIA soldiers outside the shields, and forcefields that everyone hoped would hold out just a little bit longer.

The crew would be following Leon's orders but finding themselves fighting side-by-side with GIA platoons, full of various species that were currently all getting their asses kicked severely.

[ooc: STAGE 1 is now open! Please do not tage STAGE 2 until it's announced as open as well.]

[ooc: STAGE 2 is now open!]

Re: ENGINEERING

[identity profile] neverwastenaya.livejournal.com 2011-08-13 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Tenaya had plugged into a generator console, manipulating the programming to try to boost its power output.

"Okay, rerouting power is go," she said. "How's actually fixing the thing going?"

Re: ENGINEERING

[personal profile] level12headache 2011-08-14 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Querl was silent. His hands moved quickly yet smoothly over several consoles. He had seen several ways to upgrade the shields and he was wasting no time in doing so. If only he had more Coluan technology at his disposal, their reputation with forcefields was well earned. But they would have to do with several more adjustments.

Re: ENGINEERING

[identity profile] neverwastenaya.livejournal.com 2011-08-14 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll take that as an okay," Tenaya muttered, keeping up her work. The aerial battle was creating weak spots in the shield, and she did what she could to strengthen those areas while not leaving others exposed.

"Ironic. All that time I spent trying to crack the Corinth shield..."

Re: ENGINEERING

[identity profile] re-engineer.livejournal.com 2011-08-14 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Angie was doing a little bit of everything. Several of her doubles were dealing with fixing the ships.

One of the doubles, though, was there to help with the shielding, too. "Well, all the experience trying to crack a shield should help with keeping this one up." Several tendrils worked into the machine, connecting herself directly into the terminal she was working at. "Give me a second, I'll back you up."

Re: ENGINEERING

[identity profile] neverwastenaya.livejournal.com 2011-08-15 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Thanks," she answered.

The programming was streaming through her brain faster than a normal human would be able to keep up with. Even then, there were limits to just what she could do.

"Weakened again in the lower part of the tunnel," Tenaya growled, rerouting power once more. "It's just a big target. See anything that might work as a defense? A power surge might cripple it completely."

Re: ENGINEERING

[personal profile] level12headache 2011-08-15 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Querl frowned. "What simpleton designed this. Some neanderthal- There. I have installed new subroutines that should correct the problem short- SPROCK!" Said subroutines failed spectacularly as they came into conflict with another program that shouldn't remotely be a problem. "Imbeciles!" A few more adjustments and- "There! That should hold. If I ever meet who designed this..."

Re: ENGINEERING

[identity profile] re-engineer.livejournal.com 2011-08-15 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll hold them." Angie frowned, concentration taken up by working to shore up other areas that were failing. "I swear, this is all held together with the programing equivalent of spit and chewing gum. Programming duct tape would have been better." Not a lot, of course, but it still would have been better. "I'll take over the power systems, keep the surges to a minimum. That should help with the regulation somewhat."

Re: ENGINEERING

[identity profile] neverwastenaya.livejournal.com 2011-08-16 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
"This is useless," Tenaya muttered, taking a device out of her pocket. It was a prototype based on the Series Black Rev Morpher, designed to provide an energy shield around the user--not quite as powerful as the Series Black Invincibility Shield, but longer lasting.

"This is not how I wanted to test the RPM shield. I'm plugging what I've been working on. Let's see if we can incorporate any of the program. It's better that what this thing's made of."