Episode 17: The Die is Cast, Pt 2

139. Capt, Nylund, Prell, 2 security (one named Dalton) and an engineer are on the shuttle.

140. The Dolreans are on a direct course to the moon in question, in doing so they are going way faster than we are and it seems like they know something we don’t.

141. The landing of the shuttle got a little rough but Aldrin pulled it out at the last moment. From the surface comms are unable to raise the Nightingale

142. The Dolreans pass the Nightingale and do not respond to any of our hails. Gary Gary McGee offers to fire a warning shot, which Zodd goes for, and we get one of the ship’s attention.

143. The shuttle finally sets foot on the moon, it’s desolate and empty except for the downed shuttle. Prell scans for the element as the Capt. and the security crew are off to check out the shuttle. Prell picks up the element’s traces at the facility in the distance. Slow Lucas just sits there.

144. Captain scans the downed shuttle. It’s nearly obliterated but there is a life sign. Moving some wreckage reveals Commander Shepard of the commandos with a piece of metal through his chest. There’s no medic, but Prell will have to do. He trudges out with a med kit to see if his Boy Scout first aid can get him through a lung transplant. The capt helps, somehow? It works!

145. Slow Lucas engineers a littel. The Capt and Prell commiserate on how fucked they are and start searching the downed shuttle for anything they can use to contain Omega. Prell finds a way to get into Commander Shepard’s brain.

146. Prell and Cap get the containment device and bring it onto the shuttle and Nylund flies us all the way over to the structure. Prell scans for the element but discovers a dampening field. Cap, Prell and security go down to take down the field as Nylund, Slow Lucas and the last security stay on the shuttle. Slow Lucas is poised to beam the element into the containment cell as soon as the dampening field goes down. Back to the Nightingale.

147. The lead Dolrean ship opens fire, but the shields hold. We return fire twice and miss, leading to clipping one of the fleeing ships.

148. They scan us, we scan them. We hit a little, it’s pretty messy. Then we line it up all smove and blast them. It’s bop for bop. Excelsior grabs up a pod of fleeing refugees. We scan them and find they have multiphasic shielding, same as the shuttle retrofit.

149. Blasting all around, it’s a mess. We lose our shields, knock out one of the other ship’s shields. We kill one ship,  save everyone, including the fleeing shuttles, and barely get away.