yeah, I literally just shut down.
OKAY DEBRIEF FOR BOTH ROLEPLAYS
RP1 Captain: Iban Ship: Danube
Crew assigned jobs
Distress signal from shipyard
Iban has us hold back and assist the winner, and then kill all survivors
Ops officer, wave motion gun operator, hangar deck crew, and others conspire to turn captain into authorities
Iban finds out about plot
Helmsman made scapegoat of so the plot could continue
As he walks into hangar the mutineers corner him
He escapes temporarily in fighter but is shot down
returns to ship and hides in hull
Ops officer goes insane and overloads wave motion gun
EVERYONE DIED
RP 2 Captain: Barnabas Ship: Lily Refit "Argo"
Crew is en route to R&R when they are retasked to do a patrol on the outer rim of colonies
Crew jumps to outer rim and comes under attack from Xeno battlecruiser
Nuclear warheads used
Crew stands down from red alert to come under attack again
Nuclear warheads used
Ops officer confides in bridge crew rumors of a xeno "god" emerging from sleep
captain orders command be notified of assault
Command replies with further orders to proceed immediately to a grid location
SOS picked up from friendly starship
Ship diverts for SAR
Finds no survivors, and starts getting transient radar blips on scanner
Radar blips become more frequent
Radar blips form one massive target, captain orders red alert and battle stations
Engine is knocked out by attacks from massive target
Nuclear warheads used. The ship only has 12 missiles left, out of the starting 36.
Captain gambles the life of the crew by shutting down all systems and launching ECM drones simultaneously.
Gamble works
hasty repairs begin
repairs are completed and the captain has ordered maneuvering thrusters to be used for movement as engines are still down
More is learned about giant enemy; it's a god that was knocked into submission by an ancient alien race armed with fusion warheads
engines are repaired, sensors pick up chaff from ECM flares and inbound targets
Targets are friendly fighters
captain is given permission for R&R after debrief
~~~~INTERMISSION~~~~
Captain gets genital warts, replaced by Extinction during medical leave
crew heads to last know position of xeno god
Crew locates xeno god after launching multiple ECM drones
Xeno god attacks, but is nearly defeated after all fusion missiles are fired.
Ship is out of missiles, and the cannons have no effect
Ops officer volunteers to pilot the ship into the enemy to allow rest of crew to escape
All crew escape except for ops officer
MISSION SUCCESS!
