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Line 22: ==Plot summary== ==Plot summary== − [[Hauptmann]] [[Arra Jackson]] is in command of Ghost Company, the [[BattleMech]] company that is guarding a [[Lyran Commonwealth]] salvage operation on the poisonous, inhospitable planet [[Cinnabar]] where a ''[[Soyal]]''-class [[WarShip]], the FSS ''[[Kali (Individual Soyal-class WarShip)|Kali]]'', has crashlanded a century ago following a [[misjump]]. The find is an immeasurably valuable [[lostech]] treasure. + [[Hauptmann]] [[Arra Jackson]] is in command of Ghost Company, the [[BattleMech]] company that is guarding a [[Lyran Commonwealth]] salvage operation on the poisonous, inhospitable planet [[Cinnabar]] where a ''[[Soyal]]''-class [[WarShip]], the FSS ''[[Kali]]'', has crashlanded a century ago following a [[misjump]]. The find is an immeasurably valuable [[lostech]] treasure. As it so happens, the civilian salvage and science team is headed by [[Terrence Larkin]], a native of [[Somerset]] like Jackson herself. They were close until she suddenly up and left for academy to become a [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] eight years ago. Although Jackson is fearful of relationships that could get in the way of her warrior life, they gravitate towards each other and before long make out. As it so happens, the civilian salvage and science team is headed by [[Terrence Larkin]], a native of [[Somerset]] like Jackson herself. They were close until she suddenly up and left for academy to become a [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] eight years ago. Although Jackson is fearful of relationships that could get in the way of her warrior life, they gravitate towards each other and before long make out. Line 30:
Line 30: Sure enough, within a few days a Draconis Combine strike force of several DropShips and including a small WarShip arrives and claims the planet, ordering the Lyrans to leave. Refusing in hopes that reinforcements will arrive with their overdue JumpShip, the dig team prepare a defense and even manage to reactivate some dorsal naval weapons on the ''Kali''; this firepower takes out two approaching DropShips but the enemy corvette in turn destroys the dig team's ''[[Excalibur (DropShip class)|Excalibur]]''-class DropShip with orbital fire, leaving them stranded. In the ensuing battle, superior aerospace and ground forces threaten to overrun the defenders. Sure enough, within a few days a Draconis Combine strike force of several DropShips and including a small WarShip arrives and claims the planet, ordering the Lyrans to leave. Refusing in hopes that reinforcements will arrive with their overdue JumpShip, the dig team prepare a defense and even manage to reactivate some dorsal naval weapons on the ''Kali''; this firepower takes out two approaching DropShips but the enemy corvette in turn destroys the dig team's ''[[Excalibur (DropShip class)|Excalibur]]''-class DropShip with orbital fire, leaving them stranded. In the ensuing battle, superior aerospace and ground forces threaten to overrun the defenders. − During the fighting, a Commonwealth task force around the cruiser LCS ''[[Wagner (Individual Commonwealth-class WarShip)|Wagner]]'' (a WarShip far outclassing the enemy corvette) arrives in-system and makes their presence known, announcing they will arrive in orbit in just over 46 hours. At this point the corvette starts to pound the ''Kali'' from orbit. Jackson bluffs the enemy into moving off by threatening to launch two five hundred kiloton [[Killer Whale]] missiles from the ''Kali'' at them (with techs on the ''Kali'' barely able to open one of the missile port doors, by rerouting power from the gut batteries). + During the fighting, a Commonwealth task force around the cruiser LCS ''[[Wagner]]'' (a WarShip far outclassing the enemy corvette) arrives in-system and makes their presence known, announcing they will arrive in orbit in just over 46 hours. At this point the corvette starts to pound the ''Kali'' from orbit. Jackson bluffs the enemy into moving off by threatening to launch two five hundred kiloton [[Killer Whale]] missiles from the ''Kali'' at them (with techs on the ''Kali'' barely able to open one of the missile port doors, by rerouting power from the gut batteries). It is not enough. Ghost Company is crushed by the stronger enemy force, and Jackson's ''[[Cyclops]]'' is downed in the battle. Barely conscious, she witnesses how the science team destroys the ''Kali'' with explosives to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Although she survives long enough to see the arrival of the ''Wagner'' task force thanks to an oxygen mask she managed to don, the extremely poisonous Cinnabar atmosphere had entered her cockpit and radio traffic informs her that the entire salvage and science team including her old friend and newfound love Terrence Larkin are dead. Previous dialogue suggests she is facing a slow and painful death from the toxic atmosphere and especially the mercury vapor; impaired vision and strange sensations on her skin already suggest the onset of nerve damage. It is not enough. Ghost Company is crushed by the stronger enemy force, and Jackson's ''[[Cyclops]]'' is downed in the battle. Barely conscious, she witnesses how the science team destroys the ''Kali'' with explosives to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Although she survives long enough to see the arrival of the ''Wagner'' task force thanks to an oxygen mask she managed to don, the extremely poisonous Cinnabar atmosphere had entered her cockpit and radio traffic informs her that the entire salvage and science team including her old friend and newfound love Terrence Larkin are dead. Previous dialogue suggests she is facing a slow and painful death from the toxic atmosphere and especially the mercury vapor; impaired vision and strange sensations on her skin already suggest the onset of nerve damage.
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| − | [[Hauptmann]] [[Arra Jackson]] is in command of Ghost Company, the [[BattleMech]] company that is guarding a [[Lyran Commonwealth]] salvage operation on the poisonous, inhospitable planet [[Cinnabar]] where a ''[[Soyal]]''-class [[WarShip]], the FSS ''[[ | + | [[Hauptmann]] [[Arra Jackson]] is in command of Ghost Company, the [[BattleMech]] company that is guarding a [[Lyran Commonwealth]] salvage operation on the poisonous, inhospitable planet [[Cinnabar]] where a ''[[Soyal]]''-class [[WarShip]], the FSS ''[[Kali]]'', has crashlanded a century ago following a [[misjump]]. The find is an immeasurably valuable [[lostech]] treasure. |
As it so happens, the civilian salvage and science team is headed by [[Terrence Larkin]], a native of [[Somerset]] like Jackson herself. They were close until she suddenly up and left for academy to become a [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] eight years ago. Although Jackson is fearful of relationships that could get in the way of her warrior life, they gravitate towards each other and before long make out. | As it so happens, the civilian salvage and science team is headed by [[Terrence Larkin]], a native of [[Somerset]] like Jackson herself. They were close until she suddenly up and left for academy to become a [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] eight years ago. Although Jackson is fearful of relationships that could get in the way of her warrior life, they gravitate towards each other and before long make out. | ||
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Sure enough, within a few days a Draconis Combine strike force of several DropShips and including a small WarShip arrives and claims the planet, ordering the Lyrans to leave. Refusing in hopes that reinforcements will arrive with their overdue JumpShip, the dig team prepare a defense and even manage to reactivate some dorsal naval weapons on the ''Kali''; this firepower takes out two approaching DropShips but the enemy corvette in turn destroys the dig team's ''[[Excalibur (DropShip class)|Excalibur]]''-class DropShip with orbital fire, leaving them stranded. In the ensuing battle, superior aerospace and ground forces threaten to overrun the defenders. | Sure enough, within a few days a Draconis Combine strike force of several DropShips and including a small WarShip arrives and claims the planet, ordering the Lyrans to leave. Refusing in hopes that reinforcements will arrive with their overdue JumpShip, the dig team prepare a defense and even manage to reactivate some dorsal naval weapons on the ''Kali''; this firepower takes out two approaching DropShips but the enemy corvette in turn destroys the dig team's ''[[Excalibur (DropShip class)|Excalibur]]''-class DropShip with orbital fire, leaving them stranded. In the ensuing battle, superior aerospace and ground forces threaten to overrun the defenders. | ||
| − | During the fighting, a Commonwealth task force around the cruiser LCS ''[[ | + | During the fighting, a Commonwealth task force around the cruiser LCS ''[[Wagner]]'' (a WarShip far outclassing the enemy corvette) arrives in-system and makes their presence known, announcing they will arrive in orbit in just over 46 hours. At this point the corvette starts to pound the ''Kali'' from orbit. Jackson bluffs the enemy into moving off by threatening to launch two five hundred kiloton [[Killer Whale]] missiles from the ''Kali'' at them (with techs on the ''Kali'' barely able to open one of the missile port doors, by rerouting power from the gut batteries). |
It is not enough. Ghost Company is crushed by the stronger enemy force, and Jackson's ''[[Cyclops]]'' is downed in the battle. Barely conscious, she witnesses how the science team destroys the ''Kali'' with explosives to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Although she survives long enough to see the arrival of the ''Wagner'' task force thanks to an oxygen mask she managed to don, the extremely poisonous Cinnabar atmosphere had entered her cockpit and radio traffic informs her that the entire salvage and science team including her old friend and newfound love Terrence Larkin are dead. Previous dialogue suggests she is facing a slow and painful death from the toxic atmosphere and especially the mercury vapor; impaired vision and strange sensations on her skin already suggest the onset of nerve damage. | It is not enough. Ghost Company is crushed by the stronger enemy force, and Jackson's ''[[Cyclops]]'' is downed in the battle. Barely conscious, she witnesses how the science team destroys the ''Kali'' with explosives to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Although she survives long enough to see the arrival of the ''Wagner'' task force thanks to an oxygen mask she managed to don, the extremely poisonous Cinnabar atmosphere had entered her cockpit and radio traffic informs her that the entire salvage and science team including her old friend and newfound love Terrence Larkin are dead. Previous dialogue suggests she is facing a slow and painful death from the toxic atmosphere and especially the mercury vapor; impaired vision and strange sensations on her skin already suggest the onset of nerve damage. | ||