TEAM ADTeam A
((Yep. All UWM personnel are either brainwashed or suicidal. Probably both, given the world they live in.))
Use speech to persuade them to surrender and/or work with us.
If that fails:
If they don't have weapons, try to subdue them and restrain them.
If they have melee weapons, use the monorazor.
If they have ranged weapons or if the situation demands it (they start running towards dome kind of panic room for example), use laser rifle. Try not to shoot if there is danger if hitting teammates, unless it's absolutely necessary.
Try to keep it less than lethal. Try not to damage any equipment.
Team A+D, "Dead Dirtbags" - Milno - D Leader - Ship Alpha - Bridge
"Stand still right now." Milno orders to all the bridge crew at the same time as he activates the MkIII's enhanced movement mode. He's almost sure they'll refuse to comply, so some bashing and breaking of bones is likely to be in order.
Activate EMM. In case Flint's diplomacy doesn't work (likely) or they move (even more likely), start to take out in ways that do not cause perma-death nor damage to the room itself. Shield-bashing, striking, knocking out, knocking down and, if necessary, temp-killing are all cool. In case they don't have anything protecting their mouths or nostrils, spray paralyzing gas around to make things easier.
In case they comply, safely restraining and knocking them out is enough.
Supposedly during combat sequence, to Team H (Sod Controller): "We got the bridge. I advise to just execute all commanders if they turn out to be brainwashed idiots and then try to prevent damage that bad order may cause."
Team A - Ship Alpha | Skylar - Support
Remove any remaining equipment from the cart, then shove the remains of the cart halfway into the elevator, such that the doors would have to close on it, and tape down the hold door button.
Once that's done, if the bridge has been 'cleared' of crew, head over and start examining consoles, looking for important stations and ports to connect into for Steve.
While doing the task of shoving a pile of scrap around, something suddenly occurred to him...
Hey Steve, you said Sod order possibilities were standard, but the numbers were random, right? What sorts of orders are given with those numbers?
Cause if I were designing a remote control solider, I wouldn't bother trying to program in a thousand different movement orders for every possibility. I would have just a few, setup as 'Order: Relocate, location to follow'. Similar for most basic commands. But I *would* code in a ton of codes for failure states, like 'controller compromised' or 'ship compromised'.
So, realistically speaking, how many of the numbers those commanders are spewing could possibly do something we want the Sods to do?
(( What was that you were saying about the cart being ultimately useless? 
))
Team D,"Dead Dirtbags in a box" - Thaddeus - Disguised Grunt - Ship Alpha
Stay at the bridge door and look threatening as Milno talks. When it turns to shit, provide non-lethal covering fire with the laser if possible and cook by 200 degrees Celsius centered on a one foot sphere on their chest for temp deaths.
Flint manages to talk down the entire bridge staff and get them to line up against the wall with their hands on their heads. Well...that works.
In the mean time, Skylar shoves the broken golfcart into the elevator to block the doors and then tapes the hold doors button down. Should be a good combination of mechanical and technological hindrances.
TEAM BTeam B: Wild Weasels
"Alright, you two grab our frozen friend and get over here. Follow the red path. I'll wait until you get here, and then we'll open the door."
Wait for Simus and Xan to get here, then open the door.
Team B - Temperature fuckup concluded.
Alright you're good, Simus. Let's go. Loot that corpse if you want.
To Morul: Morul, where are you?
Head to Morul location. Discard exo bonus again, charge Will bonus. Actually going to use it for something this time.
Team B 'Wild Weasels' - CO Simus
Wasn't an offer to you, Xan. After being frozen solid for a bit, I wouldn't ask you to do that again, you really do need a decomp. Perhaps I might tilt the pay for this a bit - I, at least, will not be in need of tokens much longer.
Now, I hope you don't have any orifices that contain air. You and Morul get the frozen guy back to the medical area of our shell, and then I'm going to expose the whole ship to vacuum, if I can, very quickly and for a short amount of time. The barotrauma alone, not to mention anoxia, should knock out most of the crew.
Simus attempts to find environmental controls relating to air pressure. Familiarize self once there (without touching anything). ((Charge AUX Dynamic Bonus))
Alright so Xan heads over and meets morul. Morul gets the door open which reveals a room full of consoles much like before. It's manned by crew members in red, much like before as well. Perhaps this time they can do something about that that doesn't involve rampant murder.
Meanwhile, Simus screws around looking at the climate control in preparation for trying something.
TEAM CAngel: Team C
Cover the door in case it opens unexpectedly, get ready to breach and clear. Wish I had a proper breaching charge and some grenades
Auron, team C.
Place the barrel of my rifle against the door and begin lasering my way through.
Simply cutting the lock bolts and sliding the door open is also acceptable.
Once on the bridge, stuff the most important looking crewmember in my woefully empty loot sack.
Attempting to cut into the door with a laser rifle produces one notable effect: It don't work worth a damn. You cut maybe an inch into the thing with a good bit of concentrated fire. It could probably work, given an hour or two, but this is not exactly efficient.
TEAM ETeam E
Hover down the path behind my teammate a good distance behind him using buzz mode. Keep a keen eye out for any traps and be ready to disable any that activate as fast as possible. Be ready with a flashbang when we get near the door, incase it opens, and prepare to duck in cover if someone opens it.
Team E - Lerman
We will remember Private Corpse's sacrifice forever. Progress down the path, but be careful not to set off any surviving plates.
Yeah so that hall is all nice and deactivated.
No Resident evil laser hallway for you. But there's a locked door there at the end of it. And someone needs to open it.
TEAM FTeam F
"IGNORE HIM! Just get away from the consoles and I won't have to hurt you. Okay? Unless you want to join us of course."
Talk to the Bridge crew.
Ship Beta: Team F: Grate
Grate sighs at Lars.
"It's really okay if you don't prove me right. Now put me down."
Examine the consoles. Try to figure out how to do anything I can figure out how to do. Ideally, everything the ship can do.
Brother Lars: Team F Chaplain
"It's really okay if you don't prove me right. Now put me down."
Lars laughs at this. "Oh young Brother Grate, have you not learned? Putting our faith in Steve has not yet lead us astray. Brothers Jack and Dominika, could you please cover these folks?"
He then knelt, raising his arms. "O Glorious Steve, please give us your commands so that we may claim this ship to greater glorify your name!"
Puppet Dominika to cover the civvies. Ask Steve on how to interface with the consoles. Do whatever he says. Failing specific instructions, attempt to connect the suit with a console to allow Steve direct access.
Yeah they open fire on you using their side arms because you're all to busy either attempting to talk to them or just running straight for the consoles.
Dominika proceeds to warm them slightly while everyone else gets shot at.
Lars runs for cover, using grate as a shield, but both of them manage to get back out of the room without being hurt. Lucky for them, the crew aren't very good shots. Jack dives for cover behind a control panel and also manages not to get shot. A few of the controls do, however, sustain injuries.
TEAM GTeam G
Get ready for any possible incoming attack, going BT as soon as I detect one. Say to the people in the room:
We came here to take this ship and if you want to live, surrender now. Death awaits any who tries to attack us.
If they don't surrender, disable them all non-lethally, killing the dangerous ones.
Talk in private to my team: Does anyone have diplomatic skills? It would be good if you said it now.
Well.. your ultimatum seems to have frightened them into compliance for now. Understandable.
TEAM HHasala Nabin - Team H Sod Controller
"..."
Test each command on individual Sods, just in case. If/When a code doesn't work, execute the appropriate hostage. With a single baton, and the head should be left intact. If one of them changes their minds and is willing to cooperate, don't kill them yet. Get yet another code for 'transfer control' and test it for validity on a single Sod, again. If it doesn't work again, cut off a hand and leave them to bleed to death. If all of the hostages are executed this turn, cut off their heads for later interrogation.
Additionally, take a closer look at the Sod command center the hostages were using, and have the support Sod examine it as well and tell me what it thinks the stuff is for. What else can be done here?
Finally, how many Sod teams are left on the ship, counting the one that may be sabotaging the ship at the moment?
To Team AD:
"Hey, you know those hostages I had? They're dead. Lying, suicidal, fanatical little... anyway. I've got nothing for you guys, sorry. Good luck. My guys probably won't be there in time to help you."
So you end up executing everyone, namely because none of the codes work. Nothing does anything, actually. It seems that the controls are no longer effecting any of the sods, if there are any living sods on the ship. Your sod tells you that the other sods might have "Turned off control machines" whatever that means.
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