Treasure Hunters in Space!

Rtfa sighs in relief as the defenses go down and he radios Bug. "Thank you very much bug...and I believe I will now be making my way up to you now...stay put and be safe." He says to them and looks at there the 2 figures were for a moment and sighs as he thinks. "Really stupid of me to try to think no one else would be here...can't make this mistake again." Huffs as he leaves the cargo bay and starts heading to bridge, keeping well aware of his surroundings, looking for any bodies, living or dead. Rtfa turns the radio on to radio Bug again. "Bug, what you said about bodies, there isnt any there with you is there?"

There seems to be only 1 and half bodies in the the bridge of the Boston Paradise. Seeing that there are a few bodies on the bridge indicating not all is right or happy in the world. Unless you count that your in space and in a suit that you might want to decontaminate just for a extra happy measure.

As Rtfa walks a long he does see on some doors there are just signs of do not open and the doors have been wielded shut and the panel broken. Rather disturbing that someone took the time to wield the door shut and break the control panel as an extra measure of paranoia. There are actually a Number of these doors and on closer examinations there is the universal signs of any international ship of illness, quarantine, and danger plastered on ever door Along with notes for incarceration on some of them.

The hallway is dark other then the dull red lights which just parely outline were things are in dim lighting. La'vi's head lamp brightens up the area in front of him showing there are at least 4 doors on the right and 3 on the left. Looking at the doors there is only one that has a blue light over it indicating that there is life support in it, which is the second right door from them. On the other right doors it shows that someone from the out side must of locked them and wielded the two farthest from them off and there are stickers of skulls on them. The left seem to have no distinguishing features.

La'vi flinches internally from the screech from bug before asking, "Hey bugz...bugz." He stops as she switches over and reports why she screeched. "Illness? hmm So means I shouldn't eat any thing then. Great.." He eyes the rooms they came across and grimaces, "Skulls are bad aren't they?" He looks at the last two doors as he spots the stickers.
He shifts anxiously in his want to find something but half of his fun has been taken away. "So what is the likelihood that some group from the battle ship might be alive still." He eyes the door that shows it still has life support on it not comfy with so many unexplored areas. HIs eyes split apart so he can watch either side of him as he turns around to watch the left hallway doors.

"Not very good... Beginning to wonder now if this is worth the trouble after all... This place isn't a crash site. It's a quarantine zone. Maybe we should have scrapped this thing and salvaged it after all.", Zeide thought as he began to slide open a rather stubborn door. The air lock had attempted to engage, but failed at some point in locking with the other side of the frame, leaving the pneumatic pistons extended from the profile of the door.

The darkness of the next room seemed eerily consuming and enveloping, save for the periodic rotation of a dim, red emergency klaxon. As the infrared, crimson glow of the light spun, it revealed more of the same dreaded ambiance from the previous rooms. Alien syntax and plumes of dust floating around amidst the wrecked furniture and details of the once pristine military vessel.

"Zeide here. More of the same here. Not finding anything out of the ordinary yet. Can we get some vital scans on the ship's structure?", he asked calmly through the comms device in his left temple.

Rtfa briefly examines the doors and the signs on them as he passes and sighs. "I think we should get out of here as quickly as possible..." When he hears the screech over the comms, Rtfa tenses up and bares his teeth under his visor and hurries to the bridge. Upon hearing that the body was half-eaten, his eyes widen slightly and he readies one of his wrist plasma daggers and turns on his comms. "Bug! Stay put I'll be right there!" He shouts over the radio.

When he arrives on the bridge, Rtfa looks around quickly for Bug and calls out. "Bug? Bug where are you??" He tenses slightly when he sees the half-eaten corpse and sighs. "Great...things are indeed terrible here..."

The Captain Looks over the scans, She grimaces as her eyes look over the screen of the scans so far. "Zeide... the ship is absolutely sound other the a hole in what appears located in the side...looks like it was from the inside. Almost like the explosion came from the inside. Also ..." Her ears twitch as her nose scrunches up, "The scans so far are showing in the scans there may be a number of living life forms. So far I can find a large group of it in what looks to be a hanger bay about mid ship towards the right of the ship and near the center of the ship. I will need to re calibrate the system if you want me to be able to track single targets." Puzzlement enters her voice as she says, "the only systems that seem to be offline on the ship your on is the auto defenses, communications, gravity, and all their engines. Every one keep your mics on."

(no dea what door you picked so im guessing the left first one.)
The door Zeide opens reveals a small form down the hallway which seems intently forces on one of the doors as they are keeping a force field over a door about 10 yards away. The person seems to be on the small side of some height in between 4 feet and 5 feet. The hands are emoting a good amount even with one hand remaining on what seems to be keeping the shield up. They have a symbol of some kind of white and light blue-violet colored bird on their shoulder. They let go of the shield generator for a moment as something seems to surprise them before they reach out to grab the faltering generator. Their stance seems to become a lot more subdue as their shoulders fall and they look about freezing up as they spot other people.

The half body is floating about in the debris of the bridge. The eyes look to be clawed out as if what ever ate him didn't want to see them looking at them.
The other logs of who was on the ship was mostly rich people from around the local systems.

Zeide slipped into the darkness of the hallway, only illuminated by the yellow vectors of his suit and lenses in his mask, but relatively unidentifiable. "I have visual on some movement, humanoid figure, short in stature. Has some kind of bird marking on its arm. I'm sending a snapshot. It was maintaining a field on a door nearby, but I can't determine for what reason or if the subject is or isn't hostile."

Rtfa blinks as Bug latched onto his back and chuckles. "There you are, glad to see you safe. Hmm?" He blinks at the data slate and takes it to look it over. "Hmmm good work Bug, let's get out of here and gather up what we ca-" Blinks again and sighs as the half-eaten corpse bumps into them. "Ok...this thing is getting annoying..." He kicks the corpse away and uses some of the debris to try to keep it in one place. "There...that should do. Come on Bug, it wont touch you anymore. So let's go get us some shinies, what do ya say?" He asks and approaches the exit and looks back at where Bug went.

Boing Boing Boing...

Bolt skips along the ceiling, heading towards the captain. The lights and air have stopped, and it is curious about where the crew is off to now.
"So, flushed out the -ing... -ing. --! The probly-boo waste disposal. Also scraped the heat sinks. So, anything needed?"

La'vi looks over his shoulder and slowly shifts to watch the entrance of the door and the other unmarked doors. "Zeide just say if you need big guns. I don't like our backs being open with unmarked doors." His suit wobbles slightly as he presses out on one side before pulling back to stay balance with two 'legs'. He turns the light to illuminate the side of the wall so they both get some light, unwittingly silhouetting both of them so the person would not to see them clearly.


((Is the ...pony cleared?))

Captain snorts as she replys, "I have no wish to infect the ship and will be setting up a cleaning booth in the cargo bay and plan on a scrub down of the cargo bay after words." She pauses as she hears Tarsis 3, "Yes i remember Tar- No...No Tarsis 3. No Tarsis 3...You just did it didn't you." Her eyes flick to the screens that show the EMP blast and her pupils turn about before she sighs in relief that the ship is out of range. "He pulled a Tarsis 3. Cash just stay safe...ish" She leans back as she spins about slowly and hears Zeide report in something interesting. As she turns about completely she grabs onto the controls to steady her self so she may look at the snap shot.
"Interesting markings but not attacking? Survivors possibly. Try to establish radio contact. Hopefully they under stand a trader cant."
She turns off her mic to address the helpy helpertin, "Currently I need you to help me either set up a Temporary sterilization station to address possible contamination of objects and personnel. Or you can watch the scanners.... but they should be done soon before starting the next scan."

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Zeide can see the person pull the force field off the door quickly as it turns off. A larger person comes out with clear military weapons on and a marking that seems to resemble a crustacean holding a club of some sort and is a deep blue. He draws his heavy weapon as the smaller figure blocks the door way they were blocking earlier. It keeps one hand on the weapon and the other moves up to their neck to touch the communication device. They go through several unknown languages before it reaches any of the normal trader cants. A male voice says sternly, "State your business on the Battle ship Snow Claw. I am Tien of the Hida Unit of the Battle ship Stone Will, position combat fighter " He makes a weird noise as his partner seems to say in their own language and adds quickly, "You will have to come with us so you can speak with those in charge. Or we can dispose of you here."
The person behind him works at sealing the doors as their shield powers down but they keep behind the Man that stands a good two feet taller then them as if using him as a large shield and he shifts slightly so the other figure is not touching him. A female voice softly says through a translator, "I am Aiko of the Asahina Unit Of the Battle ship Snow Claw, position Tech. I am sorry about the brashness of the Hida but we do need you to come with us...Please." She seems quite timid voice for someone that is suppose to be part of a battle ship.

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The EMP hits it's mark and the asteroid starts to drift off a bit as he hears a communication come in quite quickly, "I am Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz! Why are you attacking my base! Your not even Perry. What your not even from O.W.C.A. What the hell. Your worse then that time in Gimmelshtump, Druselstein when Bradly Dotnfryer stormed my birthday party and smashed my birthday party cake. I mean it was bad enough no one else was here." He stops talking and groans, "Awww. I have to recharge my asteroid-awayinator."

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The passenger rooms are the upper eight stories of the ship. All the rooms are in disorder but it seems like most of the items got left here in the rush to evacuate.

Zeide steps from the dark at the side of the entrance to better reveal himself in the light of the emergency klaxon.

"I'll comply. My name is Zeide, my commander is Captain Terra Rugha. My crew and I were in search of salvage materials when we happened upon this ship graveyard. Your vessel was not emitting a distress signal and we couldn't detect a transponder sign code, so we believed your ship, the Snow Claw, was salvaging material.

Evidently by your presence however... That doesn't seem to be the case... Please, escort me then to your Captain, I'll gladly speak."

Zeide began to move towards the two figures, calling in to the captain. "Captain, they speak our dialect. It would seem there is in fact a chain of command aboard this vessel, identified as the Snow Claw. I'm told I have to come with two of their members to meet with their captain. I'll see how this sorts out. If things get dicey, I'll send a silent distress beacon to my position."

La'vi turns about once there was a language he recognizes and stops looking at the door completely as his closest eye focus on the weapon the big one has pointed at them. He listens to what is said and shifts uneasily, "Hey Zed.... Are we really going with this guy with no problems...and whats with the formal speak. Positions....I suppose my Rank is ...crewman La'vi? Hey Z man I'm not leaving you alone with military nuts. Besides you might need the fire power." He turns his light about so he can see in front of him and turns about.

"Then accompany me. They'll probably go trigger happy if they found you still wandering their ship. Last thing I'd want to have to do is explain that to both crews.", Zeide said as he motions for La'vi to follow behind him.

Rtfa smiles at Bug's accomplishment and thinks for a moment. "How about....we go a few floors down to see what we can find eh?" He suggests as he walks inside with Bug. "Hopefully we'll some more loot than we do bodies. Sound good to you? Oh and we'll stick together this time in the search." He nods again and pushes a button to make the lift descend 5 floors. "Speaking of which sorry for leaving you alone with the bodies in the bridge bug."

Bolt smiles.
"I'll do the cleansy, cleany-clean. Okie, dookie day? Shall I do grade seven, with the full flambe de vacuum?" (A full cleansing, which is autoclave, then allow a period of vacuum to whip out any contaminents.) "Nobuggies going to -ing survive that, less they a high level bug, then best leave the place spaced, k?"

*Unit awaiting specifications before program initiation*

"Otherwise, a base then acid rinse, within survivable conditions of marked species. Do they want lemon freshness or minty, pinty perfection?"

*Unit awaiting customer input*

Bolt skips to the docking bay to enact cleansing, then set up cleaning booth, then cleanse again. Also, an area will be set aside for loot to be cleansed and sorted by toughness versus contaminates.
There will be squeaking.

The Large man shifts to let them through as he lets his companion lead them through the maze of hallways. Pausing as they keep a leery eye out even if this is their own battle ship as if there might be enemies. Eventually they seem to get to check points where they have the first pair of people there stop them with similar suit patterns to the large person that found them. The symbols from then on vary among the people as their are let into an area where there is life support. The two automatically pull of their helmets and expose skin on their arm as the medical people complete tests before clearing them.
Both of their 'rescuers' are quite young looking of late teens (Tien)or early teens (Aiko). Tien looks exhausted as there is blackened shadows under his eyes as if he hasn't been sleeping. They look human except for small cartilage like rigids along the edges of their eyes. They check Zeide with the same procedure but with La'vi they actually jump away when he reveals him self in any way. Automatically people draw weapons on La'vi and keep it on him as they attempt to test him but seem very unsure with how to test him. They go with normal procedures but a lot of it is tested with a ready to flee.
Once they are sure he is ok they let him in and Tein leads them to a very slender man in robes and kneels explaining in his own language to the man before being interrupted. The young man grimaces as he is dismissed in a way it seems like its as if a human dismisses a faithful dog. Tein steps back hesitantly as there is tension in the air between the possible commander and a man from a different battle ship.
A translator steps forward and starts to translate for the man, "Welcome to the Snow Claw. The Crab here has indicated that you were wondering about Why were are stuck here. Well we had a mishap seems like one of our more dangerous illnesses got out but no worries it seems like it is under control."Tein makes a noise as if to argue with the leader before settling back down as those of the same symbol of the leader sneer a him. "We are waiting for those of our sector to come back to retrieve us. And to deal with the so call paranoia of those of the Stone Will." Those with the 'crab' symbols, and exhausted looks, start to stand up in anger before those with the bird symbols rise in opposition as there is a star off. Eventually the ones of the Stone Will step down but their hands remain on their weapons.
"We are sorry for the inhospitably but we can throw a little party for you and your cremates. A good party is always good for people and bringing people together." Tein gets up in a huff as he turns and leaves to go else where no longer wishing to stay with those of different symbols. "Please make your self at home and stay in this area where it is safe." The commander smiles pleasantly at them even with his lips twitching in faint show of disgust as his gaze moves over La'vi.

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The floor they arrive on is one of the passenger decks. As the door opens its in the general state of discarded items strewn about.

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"Try the minty with the full flambe de vacuum. An set up the barred fence with top so people don't try to sneak goods aboard...." She muses for a moment before sighing, "I hate illnesses. They always wreck havoc on crews. Even with our inoculation cocktails... And people not taking them." She sighs as she looks at the scanners and covers her face. "Oh Bolts remind me to get La'vi to vomit any thing out....If needed you have to enter him to check for suspicious items."
She pauses as a scan for movement picks up movement but nothing living. "Hey Bug. Rtfa. I am picking up movement on your ship. But no life forms. Might be droids. I don't see any near you though."

La'vi snorts and wiggles his skin about as they try to test him and seems overly gleeful at the flight responses of the medics as he scares them as he makes his skin move away from them or almost close about them. He chuckles as they freak out before eyeing the people with the guns and lets them conduct their tests. Once clear he seems put off by the floweriness of the commander and makes derisive comments that only Zeide can hear and any one on their channel. "Oh I'm commander look at me. I'm a pretty boy. Don't see why the other guys don't take command. It seems like they know what is going on." He continues his long rambling comments on the people they are meeting which is easy enough to ignore if you are use to him speaking his mind.
After being 'dismissed', as far as he is aware, he tails the large fellow that found them, "Hey buddy. So what happened on the ships. And why do you have so many check points if it is only and illness. It's like you're fighting something with all those weapons."

Zeide takes in the commander's hospitality under a veiled smile, but remains cautious beneath his calm disposition.

"I thank you for your show of care, even during your time of need. I'll need to speak with my chain of command to make a report."

Zeide then turns away, placing two fingers across the top of his left temple to make a silent communication the ship.

"Captain, it would seem the ship's occupied by two factions. Tensions are hot. We've got one still unidentified faction and another calling themselves the Stone Willed, associated by the crab-like tattoo on their arms. All are heavily armed. No conflicts to report. The other faction which seems to be in command is friendly though to say the least. Their... Translator, I guess -- invites us aboard, but I'm getting the feeling La'vi and I don't have the big picture as of yet. They also tell us that they're expecting rescue from people from their native sector. I have no idea where or or when though. The whole thing stinks of trouble though."