Outside the station in the mines, Jim Groovester and heydude6 have moved to assault the enemy hanger. Before they have gone far, however, they spot 5 lights moving towards the station. By size and how they move, they seem to be individual soldiers.
Jim Groovester jumps out of the mining pod the two were flying in and sets off a Stun Bumb, which seems to have disabled two of the figures who now drift lazily to the floor of the asteroid in the weak gravity.
As the other three figures scatter to cover, Jim then hunkers down behind a large boulder and fires shots at the enemy to keep their heads down and cover heydude's moves.
Meanwhile, heydude6 flies the mining pod up and over through a hole in the asteroid around to try and flank the enemy soldiers. He comes around right on top of one of the very surprised enemies, who is sliced apart by the powerful short range lasers of the mining pod.
The plasma bomb armed maintenance droid trundles forward along the main passageway of the mines, slowly making its way to the remaining soldiers' positions.
Those two soldiers, meanwhile, keep up a barrage of fire on Jim. The rock he is next to splinters as shot after shot impacts against it. Clouds of rock fragments and dust begin to cloud the area near him.
He gains a moment of respite, however, as Shakerag sprints into the mines from the station. The exterminator bounces from wall to wall, making use of the low gravity keep moving and lays down his own fire at one of the soldier's shooting at Jim.
Caz, meanwhile, reaches the mining ops center and quickly puts on the remaining space suit.
Jim manages to land a hit on the soldier still focusing on him, but the shot is absorbed in a flicker of light by a Personal Shield.
The other soldier has ducked away from Shakerag's assault and begun firing upon heydude6 in the mining pod. It's hard shell absorbs the blasts for now, but a few get dangerously close to the delicate control jets on the side of the pod. Heydude6 tries to maneuver around to get close, but it finding it difficult to reach his assailant as the pod scrapes against the side of the narrow tunnel he's come down in.
A few more shots slam into the mining pod, one of which bursts through the shell and breaks an internal pipe. Vapor begins to fill the tunnel near the pod as coolant is vented out into the vacuum. With head gauges rapidly rising in the pod, heydude6 is forced to evacuate.
He comes out of the hatch to find himself facing the business end of a plasma rifle. Before the soldier can fire, however, a blast of plasma arcs out from a side passageway and passes right through his shield to blast a hole in the side of his helmet.
Caz gives heydude6 a wave and moves off to try and flank the last remaining soldier.
Pinned down by fire from both Jim and Shakerag, that soldier's luck is quickly running out.
Moments later there is a rumble throughout the mine and a flash of blinding light as the maintenance droid reaches position and performs its last duty.
The last soldier is flung off of the asteroid by the explosion, and their limp form can be seeing slowing spinning away into the void.
All surviving players are now in the mines. You do not see any moving enemies at this point. Two seem down and dead, two are still
stunned.
You have until
~5pm Pacific Wednesday to get in your next set of actions.
(In case anyone is curious, this battle was played out using d20's to see how effective everyone was. The enemy soldiers got a 1...)
