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So I guess this is a bit of a roll call to everyone. Please state whether you wish your character to be on the landing party. So far the people who have been active are:

Stirk
Caellath
Aseaheru
Tiruin (still waiting on a definite yes or no
Sirus
Wunderkatze

This leaves me waiting for:
Devastator
Egan_BW
Gigalamesh Despair
HEN

Please respond with a yes or no.

Thanks!

Enter the hangar, and use the speakers to signal my ally to close the hangar doors. If he doesn't react, hop out of LONGINUS and do it myself.
If the enemy mech is too close for the doors to sufficiently close on it, use the wall of the hangar as cover and fire a few shots of the Pulsed Particle Rifle at my opponent - No extra stats expended.

(NPC'ified) Rhodes meets you on the deck, having learned to use the gantry to pick up equipment. He's finally made himself useful.
He closes the hangar doors after you turn on the speakers, projecting your voice with a characteristic echo caused by your voice rebounding in the cockpit.

Now within the refuge of the hangar, you grab a spare fuel tank, and hear a loud banging on the hangar door. Rhodes rushes to get a spacesuit.

Is there any interior cameras? Head to the armory and look for any remote explosives I can find also look for any ship-wide broadcasting device.

Maybe I can convince them of a take over, that is, that they have been taken over.

It seems like a pretty small ship. There are no cameras in sight though it's not above the navy to use hidden ones in order to raise morale without compromising security.

That said, the presence of hidden cameras would restrict your options. Quite a bit.

[3 +> 0] [three 1's] Backtracking to the armory you grab some breaching charges off the wall, and their detonators.
However, in the process of securing the heavy ordnance you are stumbled upon by the repair tech, who came back with a nice welding kit and an electric buzzsaw.

"Whaa..." he stammers hesitantly, catching you in the act.

"Thi' man is a pirate! Th' lowest of th' low! Scum to th' likes f' you! Even worse than th' likes f' me! F' you help me, you'll have th' thanks f' the Navy! F' you help him, he'll stab y' in th' back once y' kill me! Make yer choice now!"

Spend 3 dexterity to dodge the disarming attempt, and 3 reflex to quickly jump back and respond with a point-blank grenade shot, expending 1 ammo.

Abelard makes no attempt to deprive you of the metal arm he is holding. Good, he won't be able to abuse two-handed weapon mechanics anymore. He holds up the plate of the wall he hewed out earlier,

[Regen: 10 => 4 recovered]

You then lob a grenade directly at him. [8 --> 1] The fuse trips, and it bounces harmlessly off the metal plate. Damn.

Abelard snapped his head to the bystander. "HEY! HELP WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED!"

Hold up the metal plate I grabbed earlier, and grab the digitron with my other arm. Try to regen str, and devote 1-2 strength to blocking if I do.

Eddie backs off, giving you a chance to pick up the metal piece of the wall from before. You hear a loud thud, the sound of another grenade being launched, but this time you feel a high note in your bones as the metal plate rings off of the impact.

[Regen: 9 => 3]
[Regen: 9 => 6]

Spend 3 dexterity to dodge the disarming attempt.

((I don't see a disarming attempt in his post, unless you mean you want to hang on to the digitron. That'd mean you can only use one-handed weapons without a -1 penalty.))

Reenter the ship, if anyone tries to talk to me hand motion to them that the suits mic isn't working, try to avoid getting tangled up in talks (spend 6 ref to do so) and explore the enemy ship in search of armories, engine rooms or cargo bays, also note any sort of diversion opportunities like fire alarm sort of things.

Rai re-enters the ship with a heavily-dimmed visor (-1 to all rolls involving sight) and enters the armory (which is right outside the airlock). He finds that the ship is almost empty, wave for waving technicians and the control bridge, whose door is closed. (Rai can't tell if it's locked without testing it and potentially attracting attention)

What his obsession with engine rooms is, no-one could tell. Nobody wants to be in the same room as a nuclear death pit.

There is an Antimatter Storage room though. Looks like having the whole storage system under pressure lets them perform maintenance more easily.

There's also a hangar room in the back, notably empty of its contents. It contains explosive weapons, piles of ammo, and oversized guns. Hmm.

It's a rather simple ship, really. There's also an algae farm and an internal airlock leading to a pressurized cargo bay. He'll have to explore the cargo bay to find out what's inside.

Ryker, who is off in the side lines, wonders what the F*** is happening when just amoment ago he was potentialy being threatened and then another person just came crashing through the wall and questions some of his life choices. then he goes towards the two strangers facing off and gets their attention: Hey wait! don't any of you shoot, Please? the two strangers take notice of Ryker. "okay" Ryker starts, "What the hell is going on, Who are you people,Where am I, and What are the marines doing here?" he asks in a frustrated tone hoping for a proper response from the two strangers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The two men continue to do battle. Riker nearly screams as he expects a torrent of blood from the armored guy's side, but it seems his armor is holding up quite well...

It will take a dramatic intervention to make these two stop, it seems. Neither is willing to let up.

"Come on then! Come an' get me!"

If he gets close, use 4 strength to knock the drill out of his hands, and 4 strength to attempt to break the digitron via snapping it in half with my hands.

Eddie's assailant lunges at him with The Amazing Digitron™, (5 => 1) [7 => 4] while Eddie turns, deftly moving his body out of the way and grabbing the metal arm in order to ruin Abelard's balance.

The metal arm detaches in safety mode to prevent Abelard from getting grabbed. He'll have to spend an action to put it back on.

Abelard then rushes forward, with Eddie preparing a counterattack [Abelard scores 7, 7 => 3]. However he is soon overtaken by the overpowering viridian robed figure, who swings the drill with such tremendous force that the whirling death rips a gaping hole in his flak armor.

[Recovery: 10-7 => 0]
[Recovery: 10-7 => 0]

"Machines take you, menace!"

Rush at hime and spend 6 Str and 1 Dex to 'drill' some advice into him, whil spending 2 Str and Dex on my Digitron to keep him in place. (8 Str and 3 Dex in all) with my megadrill, while frenzying.

(See above for a more dramatic representation)

[5 => 1] Abelard tries to immobilize Eddie to negate his ability to spend speed. His opponent counter-grapples and rips off his digitron, though it actually just detached itself and can be recovered in a single turn if you choose not to attack.
[17 => 7] Abelard drills some sense into the opposition. His damage is reduced by 3, and the target's armor absorbs 1.

I'm not sure whether Warhammer ships have hydroponics, but if they do then they should definitely have stores containing phosphorous. Probably not pure elemental phosphorous, but in a state useful for hydroponics.

So grievous political crimes are out of the question?

Alright, cool. I think I'm sticking with the current character though, unless I get a sudden burst of inspiration from something. *Starts voraciously consuming anime*

Eh, I discarded the idea since it was too cumbersome. The idea was that the uploads are hosted on the station's big computer and they receive sense information from the human they accompany, so all humans get a AI's that think exactly like them. This negates the issue of AI's acting on their own, because it's a copy of the same person.

I basically had 3 questions:

1) Can AI's have human-level intelligence?
2) Is it possible to create an AI copy of a person?
3) Can sufficiently powerful AI's use Augury?