Prologue: Secrets and Lies

[thehitcat]

"Alright let's get this rolling." Anar looks to see if any of the local fauna look particularly dangerous but since he isn't local he just looks for big teeth. "I'll cover you from anything coming at you from this side" he says to Bata'vek and Selena as his indicates the left hand side of the area around the control panel on the tower.

Action

Make sure the scavengers aren't interested in live bait.

[Hayabusa]

OOC

Are we talking creature scavengers or looters?

"Scarm," Kinney draws her rifle, firing of a short burst into the ground a dozen feets in front of her. She looks at the comm tower, thinking how this was the first site the mercs hit and how Bata'Vek and her were alone on the way here.

"You got this, right?" The humans asks the quarian.

[ManWithDoor]

"Of course. While this may be the last piece of unruly equipment I have to deal with at this base, it certainly isn't the first." He shivers slightly, thinking back on what happened since they were last here. What started as a minor malfunction scaled up to a full-fledged assault. He hopes all of their luck doesn't lead them to such trouble. And he'd hoped for a nice, quiet Pilgrimage.

Getting back on track, he takes all of the information and equipment he recovered from the base to repair the comm tower, and send out a directed distress signal to the rest of this measly little planet.

[Vardaen]

*blam* Kinney fires a shot and the little rodents flee into the brush. With Selena and Riak guarding the flanks and Kinney the main approach, Bata'vek sets to work.

[Trogdor]

Selena walks over with Bata'vek to help with the repairs and rebooting. She's not as technically able as he is. But she hopes her training will be of some use to the engineer.

[Hayabusa]

When Bata'Vek begins to work, Kinney begins to stride along the perimeter of the comm tower just to make sure there's not another surprise up here.

[thehitcat]

Anar continues to scan for any movement now that the scavengers have been frightened off for the moment.

[Vardaen]

The work begins, the comm tower is totally rebooted, the power is shut down and started up. Bata'Vek places the core OS disks into the tower and starts the initial bootup sequence installing the OS and various software. The process isn't quick or easy but Bata'Vek knows what he's doing, this is actually the second time he's done it to this tower since joining ExoGeni.

After about an hour the Comm Tower lights flare to life, and the screen flashes ready. The system is back up and working, awaiting your communication.

[Hayabusa]

"I guess we were not only lucky but the turian was also ill-prepared," Kinney says to the Anar. She lets Bata'Vek work without interferring with it but cannot stop thinking about this assault. "I mean, it looked pretty thought through at the beginning when they took out communications and then hit the camp. But he either got the most stupid, unreliable crew or he's sloppy. And since he's a turian I don't think it's the former."

[Trogdor]

"I'm not so sure," Selena says. "If the three of us hadn't been away from camp, it would have been perfect. We'd have been killed with all the rest. Perhaps they got overconfident. But I'm not sure I'd call it sloppy."