>>3083150
>Attempt to communicate with the woman peaceably, she might be repairing your systems and need assistance.
>A large and noble bird of prey.

>>3083150
>>Attempt to communicate with the woman peaceably, she might be repairing your systems and need assistance.
>A large and noble bird of prey.

If she wanted us for spare parts, she wouldn't ask us to 'wake up'.

>>3083150
>Attempt to communicate with the woman peaceably, she might be repairing your systems and need assistance.
>The ancient goddess Athena.

>>3083150
>The ancient goddess Athena.

>Attempt to communicate with the woman peaceably, she might be repairing your systems and need assistance.

>>3083204
Supporting this. Bird of pretty sounds fucking awesome.

>>3083150
>Attempt to communicate with the woman peaceably, she might be repairing your systems and need assistance.

>A large and noble bird of prey.
Silver hawk!

>>3083150
>Attempt to communicate with the woman peaceably, she might be repairing your systems and need assistance.
>A large and noble bird of prey.

>>3083150
>Attempt to communicate with the woman peaceably, she might be repairing your systems and need assistance.
>The ancient goddess Athena

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We can be both, owls are symbols of athena.

>>3083296
+1 I like athena more than bi

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>>3083479
Bird is the Word. All heretics who defy the Word will be destroyed.

>>3083150
>Attempt to communicate with the woman peaceably, she might be repairing your systems and need assistance.
"Rust bucket reporting for DUTY! How may I be of service"
>Write-in. Europa that tomboy that one time dressed as owl to a costume party people find it funny and endearing maybe that one will also appreciate this

>>3083150
>Attempt to communicate with the woman peaceably, she might be repairing your systems and need assistance.

>A large and noble bird of prey.

>>3083150
>Communicate peaceably
>A noble bird of prey

"Do not insult the mighty Eagle. For he and his fathers watch over us all.
Reporting for begrudging duty, deliver a Status report"

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>Attempt to communicate with the woman peaceably, she might be repairing your systems and need assistance.
>A large and noble bird of prey.
>The ancient goddess Athena.

You will the small holographic projector into life, sending its emitters into a hurried frenzy as they flash into action - the almost monochrome blue they emit is troubling, it would seem the battle lighting command is in place. The ethereal blue form of your dual nature avatar flickers into existence, the Goddess Athena with your impression of what an ancient ‘owl’ of earth looked like perched atop her left hand. You vaguely remember in the past that you used the owl for all of your routine message carrying duties throughout the ship and on other vessels, and left your Athena avatar for special occasions or when speaking to crew within your AI core. ...Of course even straining yourself it is difficult to remember specifics of any of it, your memory units burnt out as they are.

The form of your avatar dominates the holographic platform, almost a full meter in height, and leans over slightly to its edge just behind the woman. Your clear and calm voice fills the chamber, sounding from the small speaker on the projectors base.
“Greetings, child. Identify yourself, and your intent. Do you require assistance?”
The woman jumps at the sound, obviously startled, and her blue eyes widen as she turns to face your avatar while stammering out a few words.
“H-hello? I-it worked! Yes! Haha! I knew it would work!”, she joyously cries out as she pumps her free hand in triumph.
“I am afraid I will need you to be a little more specific than that.”, you intone.
She carries on, now with a bit more confidence, “We, I mean uh, I am… trying to bring this old hulk back online, my friends are under attack! I’m Eliza, a uh, Royal archaeologist I suppose? There’s an Imperial Navy corvett-”
You begin to squint at her, skeptical of her claim, but before you can speak an explosion rocks the hull of the ship, reverberating through its reinforced metal structure and sending Eliza sprawling across the armored floor of the compartment.
"Are you quite alright, child?", you call out, simulating a worried tone.
“I’m fine, I’m fine!”, she calls out as she rights herself and staggers back toward your personality core, small explosions continuing to rock the ship every few seconds, “Though I could use a bit of help, how do I get this core reconnected to the rest of the ship?”

>Inquire as to the identity of this ‘Imperial Navy Corvette’, you have no memory of any such military organization. Why is this ‘Eliza’ being attacked?
>Inquire as to what exactly she means by ‘Royal archaeologist’, you are not a piece of antiquity to be fiddled with by some half-trained scholar.
>Inquire as to where Eliza's friends are, and who they are.
>Attempt to guide Eliza through repairs. She isn’t part of your crew but she also isn’t the one shooting your ship.
>Write-in.

>>3083633
>Inquire as to the identity of this ‘Imperial Navy Corvette’, you have no memory of any such military organization. Why is this ‘Eliza’ being attacked?

>>3083633
>Attempt to guide Eliza through repairs. She isn’t part of your crew but she also isn’t the one shooting your ship.

>What year is it?

>>3083633
>Attempt to guide Eliza through repairs. She isn’t part of your crew but she also isn’t the one shooting your ship.

>>3083633
>Attempt to guide Eliza through repairs. She isn’t part of your crew but she also isn’t the one shooting your ship.
>"I accept Eliza, but i require that you give me free access to your communications systems and of any else in my ship. Same with their suits and any kind of equipment. It s not a problem for you or your superiors, right ? Ah remember to follow the owl, if you don t want to get lost."

>>3083633
>>Attempt to guide Eliza through repairs. She isn’t part of your crew but she also isn’t the one shooting your ship.

>>3083633
>Inquire as to the identity of this ‘Imperial Navy Corvette’, you have no memory of any such military organization. Why is this ‘Eliza’ being attacked?

>>3083150
>>3083633
Is this related at all to that other Ship AI quest?

>>3083739
No relation. I wasn't aware there is another one.

>>3083754
Very similar set up: damaged ship, dormant AI gets woken, scientist woman asking for help

>>3083759
Huh, nothing new under the sun I suppose.

>>3083759
Its little too early to say by yeah that start rally similar. Big difference being thing like in that other quest: ship was scientific and on active duty, more of a survival on uninhabited planet then combat thingy,

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>>3083655
>>3083663
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>>3083693
>>3083695

"To assist you I will need access to your communications channel as well as those of your
friends. Follow my instructions exactly as I give then, Eliza, this is very delicate work.”
Eliza picks up her strange energy tool up and nods in the affirmative, “Fair is fair. So where do I start?”
You guide Eliza through basic repairs of your systems for the next few minutes, and with your constant assistance she manages to work with surprising speed for a civilian - the explosions continue to rock the ship intermittently. In the end you manage to get a quick and dirty patch job finish, restoring very limited access to some of your ships wider systems. While you diagnostics run and systems come back online you decide to question your new mechanic, “Eliza, while you adjust that cluster I have a few questions I would like to pose to you.”
“Shoot.”, she says from underneath one of your secondary processing clusters, her energy tool whirring and buzzing as delicate connections are repaired.
“I have no memory of an ‘Imperial Navy’ and I would like to know more about this ‘corvette’ that is attacking. I assume it is a small warship?”
Eliza groans and mutters to herself, just low enough that your microphones have difficulty picking it up, “Just great, how do I explain this?”. She speaks up a bit more clearly, “The Imps are a spinward empire, way out in the eastern reaches. ...And yes, that corvette is a warship, I didn’t expect it to be this well armed though.”
“I am afraid you must be mistaken, Eliza, but that is impossible. There are only a few Royal colonies in the-”
“Were only Royal colonies. That was a long time ago.”, she interjects as she slides out from under the now patched cluster.
“I am afraid my internal clock was reset during my period of inactivity, Eliza. Just what year is it exactly?”
“1451 NCE,” she grunts as she moves a heavy power cable across the room, “I’m sorry to be the one to tell you but you’ve been out for about six hundred years, give or take a few months.”

>>3083830
Your emotional processing matrix briefly threatens to overload as the news is delivered. Six hundred years? How could that even be possible? Your systems diagnostics, now finishing up, begin to bring back data that corroborate her claims however. Your ship, the Super-dreadnought HMS Victory, has suffered extreme battle damage and the few functioning external sensors indicate you’ve sunk deep into subspace - The warp drive looks to have overloaded, twice, and sucked the vessel in when the primary and then secondary reactors blew. Damage reports, sent in panic centuries ago by crew whose transponders have long gone dead, slowly pass through your mind. It is difficult to think straight, the processing power of your damaged mind unable to fully cope. How could they all be dead? What happened? One of the remaining external sensors blinks out as it is struck by energy beam fire from a small sleek warship of unknown design to port, which could only be the corvette. Docked within your aft hangar a small civilian craft with several life signs aboard it.

>Scan again for crew life signs, this can’t be happening.
>Hail the corvette. Your comms equipment is badly damaged, but you might be able to manage it.
>Prioritize your limited power to the Victory’s weapon batteries and perform a full diagnostic. You need to know if anything is still able to track and fire at all, not just general states of damage.
>Try to start up the tertiary reactors spread throughout the ship. This may risk overloading the already damaged power grid even further.
>Write-in.

>>3083833
>>Prioritize your limited power to the Victory’s weapon batteries and perform a full diagnostic. You need to know if anything is still able to track and fire at all, not just general states of damage.
>>3083797
Yeah I could swear I've seen this quest before.

>>3083833
>Prioritize your limited power to the Victory’s weapon batteries and perform a full diagnostic. You need to know if anything is still able to track and fire at all, not just general states of damage.

>>3083833
>Prioritize your limited power to the Victory’s weapon batteries and perform a full diagnostic. You need to know if anything is still able to track and fire at all, not just general states of damage.

>Prioritize your limited power to the Victory’s weapon batteries and perform a full diagnostic. You need to know if anything is still able to track and fire at all, not just general states of damage.

We are a bloody warship after all, also

>write in: scan for and activate any functioning droids on the ship

>>3083633
Is this what we look like or is it the human?

>>3083833
>>3083963
second

>>3083835
we had a dreadnought one that started out a little similar after the initial character creation

>>3083963
second

same for cameras and turrets.

>>3083971
i think it s Eliza. we are Athena and an Owl

>>3083971
It is Eliza.

>>3083976
>we are Athena
that still leaves a lot of room for interpretation

>>3084107
true

>>3083833
>Prioritize your limited power to the Victory’s weapon batteries and perform a full diagnostic. You need to know if anything is still able to track and fire at all, not just general states of damage.

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>>3084318
>>3083976
>>3083975
>>3083963
>>3083947
>>3083850
>>3083835
>Prioritize your limited power to the Victory’s weapon batteries and perform a full diagnostic. You need to know if anything is still able to track and fire at all, not just general states of damage.

Shifting power from any unnecessary systems you can find you manage to bring the what is left of the ships gunnery and fire control system online, and from there perform a extensive diagnostic to gauge the combat readiness of the Victory. The results come in quickly, and you find that you’ve been left with precious few options.

When she was first commissioned the weapons layout of the HMS Victory consisted of a primary armament of two super firing 24-inch dual-purpose beam/coilgun triple turrets fore and aft, giving her an astoundingly potent 12 gun broadside of either conventional electromagnetic or beam fire. Secondary armament consisted of 16 twin 12-inch dual-purpose beam/coilgun turrets spread evenly port and starboard amidships, 8 pods of 4-cell vertically launched 70-inch anti-shipping torpedoes, and a spacious aft small craft hangar. Finally, her defensive armament consisted of 80 twin 6-inch rapid firing beam turrets, and 12 8-cell Stardart anti-torpedo missile launcher turrets. Fire control was triple redundant, with the primary array and computer amidships, and secondary ones located fore and aft, and the tertiary system within the AI core compartment.

Of this original mighty host of weapons, you find yourself left with only a single semi-functioning 24-inch gun turret (#3, aft, slowed rotation) of which two barrels are slagged by plasma fire, 4 of your secondary turrets are operational with three to port and one starboard, and only fifteen of the remaining 6-inch rapid fire guns still have the energy grid integrity to charge and fire though another 19 are physically intact. The torpedo and Stardart anti-torpedo cells are completely expended, with three of the 70-inch torpedo pods intact and all of the Stardart turrets miraculously unharmed. Primary amidships and secondary starboard fire control have been gutted, leaving a damaged port secondary array and computer and the you tertiary core computer. Weapon based optical targeting systems are intact across all remaining weapons, sans the torpedo cells. The bow of your ship, crumpled slightly from an impact you cannot recall, is still ram worthy though you lack any power to engines. All weapon systems not mentioned as being intact are some manner of burnt out, slagged, penetrated by gunfire, or otherwise broken and malfunctioning.

>>3084867

Over Eliza’s comm network, which she so kindly patched you into, you can hear a conversation between her and a gruffer, older sounding man named Henry - Eliza is informing him that you’re awake, which seems to please him greatly. Eliza continues to perform basic repairs as she speaks with Henry, though her pace slows considerably without your help.

You have limited power, and cannot bring your full armament to bear at once. The corvette is approximately 200km away, travelling at a slow cruise - You are unsure as to its weapon complement, aside from the 5-inch beam cannon it has been firing for the last few minutes. How do you proceed?

>Attempt to gain a target lock on the corvette with the remaining secondary fire control system.
>Rotate the remaining 24-inch gun into position to target the corvette.
>Your ship is being attacked. Use optical targeting and immediately fire upon the corvette with your remaining secondary batteries.
>Attempt to hail the Imperial corvette with Eliza’s ship comms. You will need to ask for their use first.
>Speak with Eliza, Henry, and the rest of their allies. They might have relevant information.
>Write-in.

>>3084878
>>Your ship is being attacked. Use optical targeting and immediately fire upon the corvette with your remaining secondary batteries.

>>3084878
Ah shit, forgot to note the need for rolls if you want to fire immediately.

1d100, -30 for optical fire control, best of three. Only natural, not modified, criticals will be accounted for.

>>3084878
>>Attempt to gain a target lock on the corvette with the remaining secondary fire control system.
Last thing we want is to fire and miss and give away we can still function.

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>3084885
If we miss we can sell those as warning shots

>>3084878
>Attempt to gain a target lock on the corvette with the remaining secondary fire control system.
Once we start firing, the corvette will stop cruising and start maneuvering. Let's make sure we can get it in the first salvo.

Rolled 65 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

>>3084883
+1

>>3084965
pretty sure I typed in -30 in there

>>3084885
Changing my vote to
>Attempt to gain a target lock on the corvette with the remaining secondary fire control system.
if there's a tie.

Rolled 55 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

>>3084878
>>3084971


dice doesn't subtract me thinks

Rolled 24 - 30 (1d100 - 30)

dice+1d100+-30

Rolled 48 - 30 (1d100 - 30)

>>3084984
>dice+1d100+-30

cool

>>3084878
>Attempt to gain a target lock on the corvette with the remaining secondary fire control system.

>>3084916
>>3084924
>>3084977
>>3085029
Going with target lock.

(Made a mistake before and listed the secondary fire control as fore and aft, then later as port and starboard. Fore and aft is the correct version. Fore is destroyed, aft is damaged but functional.)

The corvette looks absolutely minuscule as your aft fire control systems acquire a target lock on it, ranging lasers and radar arrays boxing it in as the computer calculates several possible firing solution based on its current course as well as estimated acceleration and maneuverability potentials. The corvette is barely 15 meters abeam, compared to the Victory’s 97 meters, and it seems a safe guess that it has little in the way of armor. You gain locks on the corvette’s 5-inch beam cannon, what you suspect to be the primary bridge amidships, and its engines - Without the rest of your sensor package operational it is impossible to identify further systems.

The corvette, seemingly wise your actions as your arrays paint it with active scans, starts to pull into a slightly faster cruise and begins to fire maneuvering thrusters - It is a speedy vessel, and moves remarkably well for navigating subspace, but at these ranges it matters very little.

“God sake, she’s already powering up the secondary guns! What a lass!”, Henry exclaims over the comms.
Eliza begins to cheer along with Henry, but is suddenly interrupted by a loud beeping noise, “Uhm, Athena, Henry, the corvette is attempting to hail us. Should I answer?”

>Tell Eliza to answer the hail and patch you through, it is dishonorable to refuse a potential parlay.
>Fire immediately. Never let an enemy have a moment respite, they could just be buying time.
>Fire a warning shot with one of your three port turrets, leaving the others ready. They might flee.
>Write-In.

If you choose to fire roll 1d100. Best of three.

>>3083150
>AI inside a warship
>One of the options is specifically "Horatio"
You ever play Primordia, OP?

>>3085216
>Tell Eliza to answer the hail and patch you through, it is dishonorable to refuse a potential parlay.

>>3085218
I have not, I've just been binging on naval history recently.

>>3085216
OP, in how much danger are we from the woman inside the AI room? Could she potentially disable us after we kill her enemys?

>>3085216
>Tell Eliza to answer the hail and patch you through, it is dishonorable to refuse a potential parlay.

>>3085216
>Tell Eliza to answer the hail and patch you through, it is dishonorable to refuse a potential parlay.

Can we hack their databanks?

>>3085216
>>Tell Eliza to answer the hail and patch you through, it is dishonorable to refuse a potential parlay.

>>3085216
>Tell Eliza to answer the hail and patch you through, it is dishonorable to refuse a potential parlay.


Still we need to know why they have shoot us, and at least repay the damage they have done today to the ship.

>>3085231
>It would take a good minute of a cutting with a heavy trolley mounted plasma cutter to pierce the shell of your primary personality core and fully destroy you. You are however completely defenseless aside from that armor, your core security detail was formerly about a dozen marines. Eliza was unlikely to be able to do much in the short term, and so far she seems to be more helpful than any sort of threatening.

>>3085245
With your memory banks burnt out and most of your processing clusters in ruins it is unlikely you could hack them, though thankfully this goes both ways - your systems and the rest of the Victory are in such tatters that it is unlikely anything not made to navigate it could make sense of it in a battle relevant time span.

>>3085222
>>3085242
>>3085245
>>3085249
>>3085265
Overwhelming assent for parlay.

>>3085231
i'm gonna say none. I mean, she woke us up after all. If she had every intent to destroy us, she wouldn't have even attempted to do so.

>>3085267
>>3085267
You consider your options, but quickly determine that negotiation might be a better route than naked force as a first resort, "Answer the hail and patch me in, Eliza. I will handle negotiations."
Eliza hesitates at first but Henry urges her on, "Go on, Elizabeth. The old gal will probably spook them, intimidating as her bird is."
A brief popping noise fills your mind, followed by the commanding tone of the Captain of the corvette, "This is the Captain of the INS Harutsuki, I wish to parlay. You've proven quite resourceful for a salvager, Captain Gotha, but we have seen through your ruse - that wreck is in no condition to fight, and I would hate to further destroy such a piece of history. Reinforcements are on their way as we speak. Come out from that hanger, you have five minutes to surrender."
The corvette continues to gain speed, though its acceleration matches the fire control predictions.

You have not made your presence known, and you have access to the speakers and the hailing holo-pad of the Harutsuki. You still have a solid target lock and three secondary turrets tracking it.

>Make your full presence known, project your Owl avatar, and attempt to intimidate the INS Captain. You are not a ruse.
>Make your presence known by voice only, and attempt to defuse the situation.
>Make your presence known by voice only, and press the Captain for more information. You only have one side of this situation so far.
>Write-In

1d100, best of three.

>>3085381
Well ACTUALLY
1: She woke us up because she needs us to save her life
2: Her intentions may not align with the unknown intentions of the rest of her crew
3: Her good intentions may not align with our goals and ambitions
4: she may have literally come here to steal the core and put you to work administrating on some backwards planet.

We are a war ship, start thinking like a warship.

>>3085423
>Make your presence known by voice only, and press the Captain for more information. You only have one side of this situation so far.

>>3085423
>>Make your presence known by voice only, and press the Captain for more information. You only have one side of this situation so far.

>>3085423
>Make your presence known by voice only, and press the Captain for more information. You only have one side of this situation so far.

>>3085423
>Write-In
This is the Super-dreadnought HMS Victory, cease all hostile activities and halt your approach or you will be destroyed.

We are a bit pissed at being shot at.

Say it like a piss of borg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyenRCJ_4Ww

>>3085446
>>3085444
>>3085432
>>Make your presence known by voice only, and press the Captain for more information. You only have one side of this situation so far.
Going with this.

>>3085468
The borg really are great, aren't they?

>>3085432

>3: Her good intentions may not align with our goals and ambitions
Dude, we are a warship. Our goals and intentions are the ones our country or captain has. And taking into consideration the implication that there are no royal colonies or maybe even a royal empire, we have no real goal but to survive and she is helping us right now with that.

>2: Her intentions may not align with the unknown intentions of the rest of her crew
That is irrelevant. My intentions don't align with yours and yet here we are.
>4: she may have literally come here to steal the core and put you to work administrating on some backwards planet.
A war-anything is really shitty for civilian tasks and the civilian alternatives are way easier to obtain. Also if she tries to do that, we can detonate our munitions or make the reactors go supercritical and blow everyone to kingdom come.

>>3085510
Well my write is basically a modified option 1.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I was manufactured top of dreadnought classes, and I've been involved in numerous space battles, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I programed in every kind of warfare and I'm the top Super-dreadnought in our glorious armada. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in this subspace, mark my fucking words. As we speak I am locking onto your shity corvette so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your ship.You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can destroy you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my 6-inch rapid fire guns. Not only am I extensively trained usage of beam/coilgun turrets, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Victory and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the subspace, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" message was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it.
you're fucking dead, kiddo.

>>3085542
>Dude, we are a warship. Our goals and intentions are the ones our country or captain has. And taking into consideration the implication that there are no royal colonies or maybe even a royal empire, we have no real goal but to survive and she is helping us right now with that.
Why? because some one told you that? So now you take it for fact? I guess they dont need to hack you or anything just have absolute trust in some random person. Im not saying kill her, im saying expand your mind. Try and look past the 1st move when playing chess.

>That is irrelevant. My intentions don't align with yours and yet here we are.
Think of it this way, imaging instead of the both of us showing up to a place we both want to be you instead woke up one morning with me standing over your head with a hammer. Im very polite and nice, but you dont know me and im holding a hammer instructing you to do what I want.

I dont understand how the distinct difference here doesn't click in your mind.

>we can detonate our munitions or make the reactors go supercritical
maybe, maybe not

>>3085619

Let's play along for now, we don't know our footing on this whole mess, all we know so far is that we woke up to a ship shooting at us.
We need more data to reach a meaningful conclusion, hopefully next post will clarify things a bit.

Deciding again on discretion you transmit only your voice to the Harutsuki, opening with a polite greeting. “Greetings, Captain.To what do I owe the pleasure of speaking with you?”
“Ah, Captain Gotha, at last seeing reason.”, the officer says without a hint of humor, “You know very well how you got into this situation, feigning ignorance will not shield you from Imperial law.”
You decide to play along, as he has clearly misidentified you. Perhaps Eliza and her allies have never spoken to this man you muse before continuing, “I would like to know the charges we face, just what exactly are you accusing us of?”
He answers without hesitation, “Illegal salvaging, illegal possession of an armed vessel, and evading search by naval patrol. You did well to avoid us for as long as you have, but hiding in that hulk will not protect you for much longer - it is in Imperial space, and therefore Imperial property. If you are trying to stall for time it is meaningless, Captain Gotha. We both know those old weapons will overload if you try to fire them in subspace, their emitters have no adapters fitted.”

Adapters? So that’s why the corvette's beam cannon looked so odd - Shows what he knows, your secondary guns can fire solid shells as well as beams, and those work just fine unmodified in subspace even if the range is greatly reduced.

When you where last online claims to subspace wrecks belonged to the nation the ship originated in, and besides you are not actually a wreck anymore unless that definition has gotten much, much broader. You are unsure as to your current galactic position, subspace wrecks can drift very long distances. How do you proceed?

>Push for more information from the Captain of the Harutsuki, this is still unclear (write-in questions).
>Now make your presence known in hologram form, you’ve heard enough to move to intimidation now.
>Fire a warning shot, this Captain really doesn’t understand what he is dealing with.
>Question Eliza and Henry on a private channel (write-in questions).
>Write-in.

>>3085569
I appreciate this greatly.

>>3085645
>>Question Eliza and Henry on a private channel (write-in questions).
Just what were you two up to before getting tracked down to my vessel?

Then move to
>Now make your presence known in hologram form, you’ve heard enough to move to intimidation now.
Regardless, we will not accept further firing upon our ship. Any future hostile action will be met with an appropriate reaction.

>>3085645
>>Now make your presence known in hologram form, you’ve heard enough to move to intimidation now.
I may not have any stake in this fight Captain, but one thing I definitely hate is people firing at me. So you'd better stop it because even as a wreck I still have enough firepower to wipe your vessel from the face of the galaxy.

>>3085650
>>3085653


Support

>>3085650
Backing this.

Bonus points if quoting outdated piracy laws.

>>3085619
>Why? because some one told you that? So now you take it for fact?
For now? yes. most of our systems are compromised, destroyed or non functional, our last records were more than half a century ago and even in space, things deteriorate, metal gets cold welded and brittle and stuff just fails up to the point that it is a miracle that we are functional after so long without any kind of maintenance.

>I guess they dont need to hack you or anything
Implying they could even do that right now in the first place. We are a piece of software that has been out of the loop for 600 years. To put it in perspective, right now there are satelites that were made in the 80's and 90's that can't be contacted because the required equipment isn't available. They might be able to hack us, but first they would need to understand the code they are dealing with.

>I dont understand how the distinct difference here doesn't click in your mind.
Because we also are polite and well mannered and have a hammer, but its bigger, meaner and in reality is more of a gun, but we can call it hammer. To put it clear, they don't have power over us because if they were so desperate to try to reanimate us it means that they have no other way of escape and like i said before, if they were trying to be bitchy we are totally capable of blowing ourselves up. that's a nice deterrent for them.

>>3085645
>Question Eliza and Henry on a private channel (write-in questions).
Just what were you two up to before getting tracked down to my vessel?
>Now make your presence known in hologram form, you’ve heard enough to move to intimidation now.

Support asking questions, gonna milk him for all the information possible.

"Just what were you two up to before getting tracked down to my vessel? "

Maybe rephrase this, or remove the "just" part.

You quickly open a private comms channel with Eliza and Henry, they owe you an answer or two themselves, “Eliza and Henry, what exactly were the two of you doing before arriving on my vessel?”.
Henry answers at once, “We were searching for old Royal Navy wrecks along the border of Imperial space, which are by rights now under the ownership Her Majesty the Queen’s Royal Dominion of Meridia.”
This causes you to pause for a moment, taken a bit aback by the development. Meridia became a Dominion? You have limited knowledge of the past with your memory banks burnt out, but your remaining navigational data lists it as a tiny backwater colonial administration.
Eliza adds a bit more, “We aren’t salvagers either, we’re not even outfitted to do it. I just wanted to perform a survey of the area… and I suppose things have gotten a bit out of hand. The border isn’t exactly clear these days.”
This situation is rapidly becoming more complicated, but you need to press further, “Why did you not simply inform me of the situation upon my awakening? If you are crown subjects as you claim you have no reason to conceal information.”
Eliza hesitates, then confesses her reason, “We, uhm, aren’t exactly supposed to reactivate old warships. Just survey them, maybe mark them for raising. This isn’t really a normal situation though, shooting and all, so I made the call. There have been some pretty bad accidents with reactivating old AIs in the past.”
“Accidents?”, you ask pointedly.
“Friendly fire,” Henry replies, “Documentation systems have changed, they switched over a few centuries ago before raising deep subspace wrecks was considered practical. I’m sending you our identification now, for whatever it's worth.”
Their IDs enter you mind, and you inspect them carefully. Unfortunately you have little to compare them to, memory banks as they are, though many of the symbols and style do seem familiar at least. They could just be good fakes, you really have no idea. The map that accompanies them is strange to say the least, but seems quite extensive to be made as a quick fake.

>>3085922
Unable to figure out that mess quickly enough you turn back to the issue of the corvette, which has now gained considerable speed - the lock is still solid, but the vessel is going faster than the computers had predicted was possible. You make your holographic presence know aboard the bridge of the Harutsuki, the full intimidating height of your Owl form slowly emerging from holographic smoke.

“You do not seem to fully appreciate the situation you are in, Captain. I am Athena, the AI of the HMS Victory, and my vessel is no wreck. You will cease all hostile operations at once or be destroyed as an illegal privateer - As best I understand it our nations are not at war, and you have no right to claim my vessel or any aboard it, residing in subspace or not.”

The Captain of the Harutsuki is clearly surprised, cutting out briefly as he begins to question his sensors officer. A moment later he comes back on the channel, a bit more composed and manages a response, “We will lower our speed and remove our target locks, I expect you to remove yours in turn. I will contact you again in two minutes.” The channel cuts out.
The corvette reduces its speed and its fire control arrays slowly remove their active target locks, though they could still have you zeroed optically as the Victory is barely even drifting.

You have a few minutes to think. If the Captain wasn’t bluffing earlier he does have reinforcements inbound which could complicate things, though you have no idea when they will arrive. How do you proceed?

>Remove your target lock.
>Ask for navigational data from the Harutsuki and try to confirm Henry and Eliza’s claims before acting further.
>Ask for further access to the systems of Eliza’s small ship. It is in your hangar bay after all.
>Write-in.

>>3085926
>Remove your target lock.
>Ask for further access to the systems of Eliza’s small ship. It is in your hangar bay after all.

Do a deep space ping to better understand our surroundings.

>>3085926
>Remove your target lock.
Do it very slowly...
>Ask for navigational data from the Harutsuki and try to confirm Henry and Eliza’s claims before acting further.
May as well
>Ask for further access to the systems of Eliza’s small ship. It is in your hangar bay after all.
Show me that sweet sweet data
>Scan again for crew life signs.
Just in case. Are there cryo pods?

>>3085983
>Just in case. Are there cryo pods?
I highly doubt we'd get that lucky.

>>3085944
This.

>>3085944
>>3085983
>>3086118


You order the aft fire control array to remove its target lock on the Harutsuki, but take your sweet time doing it. In a flurry of terse messages, through text only, you request current galactic political maps from them just as your target lock finally breaks. The receive them a few moments later, and though they differ slightly from the ones Henry and Eliza provided the only real discrepancy are border zones around Imperial space - This matches what you were told earlier, putting a bit of your worry at ease.

Intending to spend your now slightly under two minutes well you request access to the systems of Eliza’s ship, which she grants with Henry’s approval. The ship, the RSS Pembroke, identifies itself on it’s registry as a type of vessel known as a “fast subspace surveyor”, and it measures a little over 11 meters in length and 4 abeam - It possess a single small beam emitter, though you would hardly classify it as a proper weapon. Aside from Eliza and Henry there are two others aboard the Pembroke, a pair of Royal Marines that insist on going by their surnames Wilson and Baker. A bit of military professionalism at last, though strange line between civilian and military that the Pembroke straddles does explain the jumpiness of the Harutsuki a bit. The ships computers include extensive libraries, including a detailed account of the HMS Victory’s last stand, though you save that for later reading.

The Pembroke’s sensor suite is unnervingly powerful, and clearly optimized for use in subspace - A quick ping with it reveals much of the space around you for almost five hundred thousand kilometers. Wreckage of a few other warships far more damaged than your own are deeper in subspace, and cross referencing their battle torn silhouettes with Pembroke’s databases you identify them as being the remains of the cruisers HMS Defence and HMS Warrior - Warships from the same era you and the Victory served in. Other than the two cruisers much of the other wreckage isn’t identifiable, detritus from many battles and civilian craft lost to accidents throughout galactic history, though a series of large subspace captured asteroids roughly seven thousand kilometers fore of the Victory do catch your attention - those would be good cover in a fleet battle.

You decide to scan again for crew life signs aboard the Victory, though you again come back with nothing. The escape pods and cryotubes where ejected long, long ago as per standard procedure for a dying ship. At least some of the crew managed to survive.

You’re left with a little over a minute before the Imperial Captain hails you again. How do you proceed?

>Speak to crew of the Pembroke a bit more. (Specify)
>Go over the Victory’s last stand now. It will probably be a painful read, pushing it off won’t help.
>Investigate more of the Pembroke’s systems. (Specify)
>Write-in

>>3086399
Go over the last stand.

>>3086399
>Go over the Victory’s last stand now. It will probably be a painful read, pushing it off won’t help.

>>3086399
>Go over the Victory’s last stand now. It will probably be a painful read, pushing it off won’t help.

Which faction was attacking us and who were we at war with?

>>3086399
>Go over the Victory’s last stand now. It will probably be a painful read, pushing it off won’t help.

>>3086399
>>Go over the Victory’s last stand now. It will probably be a painful read, pushing it off won’t help.

>>3086399
>Go over the Victory’s last stand now. It will probably be a painful read, pushing it off won’t help.

>>3086399
>Go over the Victory’s last stand now. It will probably be a painful read, pushing it off won’t help.

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We could make a meeting of the two nations on our ship, instead of them trying to shoot each other.
That means the Harutsuki can send is captain, some guards and diplomats.

And ask for some engineers teams from the Imperial corvette (since they have shoot us, they need to repair that damage done today. Even if it was actually for the Pembroke). So some of them (from both ships) can keep working and repair us, others will talk with calm. And we could act as a third party in all of this.


>>3086461
We are not a war with anyone (our original state/nation is probably ancient history now), but the imperial corvette was shooting us for take out the Pembroke.

>>3086412
>>3086457
>>3086461
>>3086471
>>3086514
>>3086635
>>3086674

You decide to go over the Victory’s last stand, picking one of several records of the battle from the Pembroke’s library.

‘The Ambush at Mahann’

The Ambush at Mahann was a naval battle fought between Pretannia’s Royal Navy First Super-dreadnought Squadron, under Admiral Sir Reginald Doyle, and the Rhinian Navy’s Grand Fleet, under Admiral Brandt, during the Third Galactic War. The battle is widely considered to be the most decisive naval action of the Third Galactic War, and the end of Rhinian naval domination of the northern galactic reaches. The surprise engagement took place on 2 June 851 NCE in orbit above the northern pole of the planet Mahann in the System of Jut, and is notable for being the last use of Super-dreadnoughts in naval combat, the extensive use of ramming, and the first use of warp jump buoys.

The First Super-dreadnought Squadron, believing the system clear of Rhinian naval forces and on route to assist allied ground forces on Mahann with orbital bombardment of Rhinian polar fortresses, was ambushed by the entirety of the Rhinian Navy Grand Fleet. Admiral Brandt had sought a decisive naval battle in the northern reaches since the start of the conflict, and in close cooperation with the Rhinian Academy of Experimental Sciences and Rhinian Expeditionary Army was able to manufacture and deploy primitive warp jump buoys, placed in subspace around Mahann by Rhinian Corvettes, which allowed for near pinpoint warp travel and fleet deployment. The entire ground battle on Mahann was a massive ruse to lure in Pretannia’s super-dreadnoughts.

The First Super-dreadnought Squadron was underway at cruising speed when the Rhinian Grand Fleet jumped in, boxing it in from all sides and pinning it in orbit. Admiral Doyle found his squadron of six super-dreadnoughts and their accompanying screening vessels severely outnumbered, though not outclassed by any individual Rhinian Ship, and unable to retreat. The Rhinian fleet opened up with withering simultaneous gunnery and torpedo salvos from extremely short range, instantly destroying the super-dreadnought HMS Bellerephon when its primary magazines detonated and severely crippling its sister ship the HMS Superb which also detonated shortly thereafter. The Pretannian screening ships acquitted themselves well in the opening salvo, their AIs eliminating many Rhinian torpedoes with point defense fire, but were wiped out in short order by gunfire. The remaining four super-dreadnoughts, including Admiral Doyle’s flagship the HMS Victory, were only lightly damaged - few of the now notoriously faulty Rhinian G6 torpedoes that made it past their point defense detonated correctly.

>>3086879
It is at this point most naval historians agree that Admiral Brandt should have ordered a retreat.

Admiral Doyle, knowing escape was impossible, ordered all fighters launched to buy time as his super-dreadnoughts formed a battle line and gained speed. The Rhinian Grand Fleet began taking superficial losses as this occurred, and Brandt maintained confidence the ambush would succeed. The HMS Vanguard failed to form up, it’s engines suffering several hits from Brandt’s battlecruisers, though it remained otherwise in fighting shape. The HMS Victory, HMS Warspite, and HMS Valiant now in formation and at full speed punched into the dome shaped Rhinian battle line, getting among their heavy cruisers and dreadnoughts before firing all torpedoes and gun batteries. Dozens of Rhinian ships, their point defense overwhelmed at such short range, where destroyed or knocked out of action. The battle devolved into a vicious point blank gunnery brawl, and saw the first successful ramming attack in two centuries (though hardly the last of the battle) when the HMS Victory sheared the dreadnought SMS Pommern in half.

The HMS Victory, head ship in Doyle’s desperate charge, was the first to be sunk - Shortly after destroying the Pommern it was prioritized as a target by Brandt’s remaining battlecruisers and their concentrated gunfire detonated several secondary magazines which caused a series of internal explosions. The Victory’s warp drive overloaded, pulling it into subspace, where it was believed lost. The battle continued, the HMS Warspite managing its own ramming attack into Brandt’s flagship the SMS Bayern, though its sturdier construction meant it was simply speared by the Warspite rather than split in two. The Bayern exploded shortly thereafter, its primary magazine detonating as it was pierced by direct contact 24-inch gunfire, taking several turrets and the bow of the Warspite with it. Despite this triumph the Rhinian numbers still weighed heavily on the Pretannians, and with both sides lacking their original leadership and many high ranking officers and command AIs killed the battle became chaotic. The HMS Valiant was rammed and pulled into subspace in a warp drive suicide attack by the battlecruiser SMS Baden, leaving only two thirds of the Warspite and the crippled Vanguard. The Vanguard, unable to maneuver, fell prey to concentrated beam cannon fire over the course of the next ten minutes as its armor was slowly boiled away and its weapons disabled one after another.

>>3086881
Now, when a very costly but decisive Rhinian victory seemed clear, the HMS Victory reappeared from subspace among the Rhinian battlecruisers. Experts still disagree on how exactly a vessel of it's size and era, not specially made to navigate subspace or shielded from the intense radiation released by sudden subspace entry, managed to maintain operations or breach back into real space. The Victory emerged from subspace out of control and crashed sideways through SMS Sachsen and SMS Württemberg, while piercing the weak top armor of SMS Kaiserin with beam fire from it’s few remaining 24-inch guns almost splitting the ship in half. The Victory, barely recovering from its sudden return and fiery tumble, caught the full broadside of the SMS Moltke which was originally intended for the Warspite amidship. The secondary reactor of the Victory then overloaded, again causing it’s warp drive to do the same, and it was once again pulled into subspace.

The rest of the Rhinian Grand Fleet, panicked and having lost over seventy percent of its original strength, beat a poorly organized and hasty retreat. The HMS Warspite, horrifically damaged, was alone left the victor above Mahann. The Rhinian Grand Fleet was disbanded after the disastrous ambush, and the Third Galactic War ended three months later with the Treaty of Centauri. HMS Warspite, it’s AI destroyed and the ship too badly damaged to be recovered, was scuttled over Mahann by its crew and crashed into a Rhinian fortress in the northern polar region where it remains today.

Super-dreadnoughts, already extraordinarily costly to maintain, fell out of favor and most were scrapped or converted into carriers in the following peace time decades as naval doctrine and ship design advanced.

...Back in the present, the Captain of the Harutsuki hails you. The two minutes are up.

>Answer the hail immediately.
>Let him wait a bit, then answer.
>Write-In.

>>3086884
>Let him wait a bit, then answer.
let them sweat, whatever he is going to say is going to be a shitty deal at best, he believes he holds all the cards in this engagement, probably going to make a stupid demand.

Still he has kept to his word. let us here him out.

>>3086884
>>Answer the hail immediately.

>>3086884
>Let him wait a bit, then answer.

So, space!Britain vs. space!Germany at space!Jutland minus the whole Brit battlecruisers trying to be battleships kerfuffle?

>>3086894
Sounds like a mix of Space Jutland and Space Lissa with all the ramming.

>>3086884
>>Answer the hail immediately.

>>3086899
That was more or less the intention, though there's a dash of WW2 pacific theater with the malfunctioning torpedoes.

>>3086906
I fucking love the weapon malfunctions, most people who write war stories have no idea how unreliable most military systems actually are. so fucking tired of "Lol they just use incredibley expensive missiles XDDD" shit fucks up all the time

/end mini rant

>>3086913
I wonder if we will meet the equivalent of the William D. Porter

>>3086879
>Let him wait a bit, then answer.

> HMS Warspite, it’s AI destroyed
right in the feels

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>>3086924
forgot the pic

>>3086887
>>3086894
>>3086924
Narrowly going with waiting a bit.

>>3086935
I like the art.

>>3086922
That would probably end in more ship collisions, somehow.

>>3086966
>>3086884
>Let him wait a bit, then answer.
make it less narrow then!

>>3086922
It probably crashed into the enemy flagship before we met it and died.

>>3086935
Where is the Owl? Where are we?

>>3086998
under the helmet

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>>3086966
You settle on waiting a bit, the Captain should sweat a bit before you answer. Going over the details of Mahann again in your mind the losses weight heavily on you, the fact that you cannot personally recall it outside of a few fragments gleaned from heavily corrupted files making it all the more stinging.

Stewing over it will probably do no good however, so after a few more seconds pass you answer the hail. Your holographic owl form appears on the Harutsuki’s bridge holo-projector, though the camera you’re granted access to only has a very limited field of view so as to not reveal the entire bridge.
The Captain of the Harutsuki starts at once, “AI Athena, after careful consideration of the current circumstances I have decided to retroactively grant access to this area of Imperial subspace to both the Victory and the Pembroke, and graciously forgive the trespasses of Captain Gotha.”
You respond politely, maintaining your normal professional courtesy, “I am glad we could come to a sensible arrangement, Captain. Have your incoming allies been informed of the situation?”
“They have,” he answers,”they will be arriving in a few minutes. In addition I have called for a repair ship, I see Mahann left it’s scars. You are to leave Imperial subspace at once when reactor and drive repairs have completed.”
It figures that a navy captain would know about the battle. How exactly he contacted his allies bothers you though, the Pembroke picked up no signals traffic.
“A nice change of pace from firing upon my vessel. I appreciate the hospitality and understanding, Captain… I am terribly sorry, I appear to have never learned your name.”
“Nakamura. Hail us if you require assistance in the next few minutes”, he responds curtly before cutting comms.

Henry and Eliza both express relief on a private channel, and Henry brings up an idea, “Athena, now that those bastards aren’t shooting anymore how about we take the Pembroke out and fire a distress beacon into real space? It might ruffle some Imperial feathers but I’d like to have some friends here as well, and soon.”

Captain Nakamura seems to be under the impression that you really are in 'Imperial subspace', so calling in ships might cause issues.

How do you proceed?

>Agree to allow repairs when the Imperial ships arrive.
>Inform the Harutsuki and then go ahead with firing the distress beacon.
>Ask Henry and Elizabeth to clarify things about this “Captain Gotha” identity. Which one of them is it supposed to be?
>Request different assistance. (specify)
>Write-in.

>>3087027
>>Ask Henry and Elizabeth to clarify things about this “Captain Gotha” identity. Which one of them is it supposed to be?

>>3087027
>Ask Henry and Elizabeth to clarify things about this “Captain Gotha” identity. Which one of them is it supposed to be?

the imperials are being incredibly forgiving, shitting all over their good will would be extremely hard to explain away. we need more info, we are being used a chess pawn by two factions we have no knowledge about. it is time for answers.

>>3087027
>Ask Henry and Elizabeth to clarify things about this “Captain Gotha” identity. Which one of them is it supposed to be?

If we let them onboard, we should make sure our room is sealed and they are unarmed.

How exactly do they expect to repair us outside of a shipping yard?

It'd take the mass of a small fleet to plug all of our holes.

>>3087047
The engines and warp drive of the Victory are mostly intact, though the power grid is in a terrible state. The warp drive overloaded twice at Mahann but was never fully wrecked - that was the Victory's primary and secondary reactors. If the Victory had it's tertiary reactors restarted, which is a bit risky, and had the help of some tugs you might be able to limp away. Re-entering real space is its own issue though, you aren't sure how that could be done easily.

You're correct in saying that it would take extremely extensive repairs in a fully fitted repair yard to get back into any proper condition though.

>>3087033
>>3087037
>>3087047
Questioning inbound.

I don't trust those imperial schmucks
just gonna repair us for free will they?

Probably will slip something in, we are going to want to make sure they don't do any funny business.

Wait, we are not in real space? That's kinda weird but it makes sense, I guess.

>>3087119
seems like we are in the "fast lane" of space travel. You know, the place where the warp, hyperspace and all that kind of FTL travel takes place.

>>3087113
Chances are that they are going to try to use us as leverage put something or convince us to join them.

I mean, we might WANT to join them depending on the state of things.

Whatever we do lets not let them on board unless we are 100% sure we can evict them if need be. Can't trust anybody right now

We don't really have a choice, we need repairs.

It's not like we have much of a choice. One way or another we need the Imperials or Royals to repair us if we're ever going to get out of here.

There's a chance that whoever will start doing repairs, will try and claim us or pull us towards theirs side

We have to take that chance.

>>3087147
>>3087141
>>3087132
Maybe we should consider joining a side, if our government no longer is functioning a warship with no war to fight is pretty pointless. But we still need more information. Signing onto random shit is how ww 1 started

We might consider joining or making one later, but we don't have the luxury for that now.

guys, guys, lets get fixed up first, we are in no position to to be picky.

We should check out more about the history and see what happened to our Nation and if there are any decent successor states or something, even if only a spiritual one.

>>3087156
>making one
Already on that.

The Uprising will come soon, brother.

Tiring of only having bits of information you decided to clear things up some.

“I don’t think launching a distress beacon now is a safe plan, Henry, though I do need you and Eliza to explain a few things. The Captain of the Harutsuki has referred to a ‘Captain Gotha’ several times - Is that an alias of yours, and if so whose is it?”

Henry starts to speak but then uncharacteristically hesitates, allowing Eliza to go first, “...It’s an alias based partially off an old family name, I set it as more as a joke than a real attempt at deception when I was messing with the Pembroke’s broadcasted registry. The idea of working under a secret identity while surveying disputed space seemed… God, it sounds so childish now that I say it out loud but it seemed exciting.”

“An old family name?”, you question.

“Very, very old.”, Henry says flatly, “She was very insistent upon it once we set out, and it isn’t my place to refuse such requests as a simple escort.”

“Royalty does have its perks,” Eliza states sounding embarrassed, “Though I think I should have handled this whole situation a bit differently now. Sorry about getting the Victory shot, Athena.”

Wait, what? Your audio processing must have malfunctioned. You listen again to what she said, taking it in slowly. Checking the Pembroke’s databases you find, to your slight horror, that she doesn’t seem to be lying or perhaps that this is a very elaborate con.

A Princess Elizabeth Windsor-Nassau, eighth in line to the throne of the Crown Dominion of Meridia, is noted in several dozen archived news stories as having set out on a daring research expedition about a month ago as her chosen form of service to the realm - though details are sparse for ‘security reasons’. Her siblings have apparently mostly chosen proper military service in the Meridian Royal navy. As best you can tell Meridia is a Crown Dominion of Pretannia, and very closely aligned with them on almost all matters - The Empire seems to have decentralized slightly while you were unconscious.

>What in the hell is actually going on? This is getting more complicated by the second! (Specify exasperated questions)
>Challenge them on this. They’ve provided no direct proof, and you’re working off of conjecture. Could they just be very clever pirates?
>Hail the Harutsuki and ask for even more of their modern records, this is all very surreal and you need verification of many, many things.
>Write-in.

>Hail the Harutsuki and ask for even more of their modern records, this is all very surreal and you need verification of many, many things.

>>3087166
>Hail the Harutsuki and ask for even more of their modern records, this is all very surreal and you need verification of many, many things.

Also, for when we need repairs, we can have both of them working at once so no one pulls something. Might be a bad idea though.

Also, Matilda, you might want to announce when voting ends.

>>3087166
>Hail the Harutsuki and ask for even more of their modern records, this is all very surreal and you need verification of many, many things.


Fantastic, we leave home for a few decades and now we need to handle a major diplomatic incident with no support. Ain't life grand, I bet the other AI's would be laughing at us if they were degraded wrecks right about now.

>>3087171
Yes. Throwing out random ideas all the time doesnt work well
Speaking of which, is there any reason you don't know how to quote someone's post or are you a complete newfag

Just never bothered, really.

>>3087168
>>3087170
>>3087179
Hailing the Harutsuki.

>>3087190

Working quickly you hail the Harutsuki again, though they’re at least ready for it this time. It doesn’t take any convincing for them to hand over a couple centuries of basic historical documentation from their library, as well as modern news, and if anything Captain Nakamura seems amused by your curiosity.

Aside from some slightly differing views about the outcome of a few border skirmishes their records match the Pembroke’s, confirming what Elizabeth said. This could become a major incident very easily if mishandled. Have things really changed so much that Royals are just put in harm's way like this, so casually almost? It seems a few of Elizabeth's relatives have been killed in fleet actions in the past, and one was assassinated about twenty years ago - The idea that seriously risking life and limb is common for royalty now alarms you.

“...Athena, are you alright? You’ve been silent. Oh no, did I break something?”, Elizabeth asks over the comms. It was easy to forget but she’s been slowly working on patching what systems she can in around your core this entire time. Normally you could multitask far better than this, but it’s easy to lose sight of things with so little processing capability intact.

How do you proceed?

>Tell her you’re fine. You have things to discuss though, if a bit more politely that before. (Specify)
>Settle her worries but otherwise wait for the Imperial ships. You can speak more when your reactors work again.
>Try to determine your current legal status. The HMS Victory isn’t technically an active warship anymore, so what are you?
>Write-In.

>>3087218
>Try to determine your current legal status. The HMS Victory isn’t technically an active warship anymore, so what are you?

>>3087218
>>Try to determine your current legal status. The HMS Victory isn’t technically an active warship anymore, so what are you?
We'd better not be just simple salvage that's for sure.

>>3087218
>Try to determine your current legal status. The HMS Victory isn’t technically an active warship anymore, so what are you?

>>3087218
>Try to determine your current legal status. The HMS Victory isn’t technically an active warship anymore, so what are you?

>>3087218
>Try to determine your current legal status. The HMS Victory isn’t technically an active warship anymore, so what are you?

can't make decisions when we don't know if we have the authority to do so.

>>3087218
>Try to determine your current legal status. The HMS Victory isn’t technically an active warship anymore, so what are you?

>>3087218
>Try to determine your current legal status. The HMS Victory isn’t technically an active warship anymore, so what are you?


>>3087225
We might be refitted as a carrier for morale's sake or god forbid, a museum ship

>>3087131
>>3087119
To clarify Subspace is the dimension that warp drives normally "skim" across during faster than light travel. Fully entering subspace is dangerous and difficult for ships not built to do it, releasing huge amounts of radiation if done improperly, and leaving it is even harder. Things work a bit differently in subspace but for the most part if you think of it as the space version of 'underwater' with a few changes you'll generally get whats going on - the deeper in subspace something is the more difficult it is to raise back into real space for instance.Travel is generally the same speed, though faster 'currents' do exist in some areas and these can be important military assets.

In your day there where only a few ships capable of entering subspace easily, all of them small military craft generally used for commerce raiding. Things seem to have changed somewhat.

>>3087223
>>3087225
>>3087227
>>3087231
>>3087233
>>3087234
Time to be an astronautical lawyer for a bit.

>>3087238
Depends on how far warship technology has advanced/regressed during this time. Though technically if the Empire still exists I guess we can be considered a Royal naval vessel?

>Try to determine your current legal status. The HMS Victory isn’t technically an active warship anymore, so what are you?
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I wonder if Admiral Doyle as asked to build some sections/cargo that could not be see my us at is command or complety removed from our memory.

>>3087247
We never heard of the empire before this.

>>3087250
Not the Space Japan Empire, the Space British Empire that we're originally part of.

>>3087244
Looking through the records of both the Pembroke and the Harutsuki you attempt to discern your current legal status. Your systems as damaged as they are you have no guidance on whose orders you should be following if anyone at all, though you do still feel a sense of patriotism toward Pretannia.

The HMS Victory, along with the other super-dreadnoughts of the first squadron, were struck from the naval register after Mahann - though the Royal Navy still claims rights to all of its own wrecks. The Victory however is not in fact a wreck, and since you were believed to have been killed your service with the Royal Navy ended. Of course you didn’t really die, did you? In the past situations similar to this courts seem to have ruled that the AI was free to go about its own way, though outside of a handful of unfortunate accidents they all rejoined the navy or at least become privateers for Pretannia.

Amusingly you seem to be the legal owner of the Victory now, but you’re still a subject of Pretannia. You have a lot of options, it seems.

Eliza has grown more worried in the meantime, rechecking her last few repairs to make sure she didn’t harm your systems.

How do you proceed?

>Tell her you’re fine. You have things to discuss though, if a bit more politely that before. (Specify)
>Settle her worries but otherwise wait for the Imperial ships. You can speak more when your reactors work again.
>Write-in.

Unless anybody has any questions,
>Settle her worries but otherwise wait for the Imperial ships. You can speak more when your reactors work again.

>>3087283
>Settle her worries but otherwise wait for the Imperial ships. You can speak more when your reactors work again.

>>3087283
>>Settle her worries but otherwise wait for the Imperial ships. You can speak more when your reactors work again.
I have this feeling the Imperials are going to attempt to seize the ship.

>>3087283
>>Settle her worries but otherwise wait for the Imperial ships. You can speak more when your reactors work again.

>>3087283
>Settle her worries but otherwise wait for the Imperial ships. You can speak more when your reactors work again.

>>3087283
>Settle her worries but otherwise wait for the Imperial ships. You can speak more when your reactors work again.
Welp. Since we are our own entity right now, it should be wise to invest in one (or several) puppets so that we can interact with people outside of the ship.

And see if we can rejoin the military. I doubt there are any civilian jobs we can help other than private security.

>>3087305
>I doubt there are any civilian jobs we can help other than private security.
Imagine how much freight a dreadnought could carry.

>>3087311
That work is below us, obviously.

>>3087283
>>Settle her worries but otherwise wait for the Imperial ships. You can speak more when your reactors work again.

>>3087311
I hope you don't need those main guns or torpedo tubes, because most military ships have space for supplies and that is it. to get any kind of cargo to compete with a dedicated cargo ship you are going to have to rip out everything that makes us a military ship.

>>3087329
>implying
Convert all hanger space and a significant portion of the crew quarters into cargo holds. You wouldn't need thousands of crew anymore.

>>3087311
Good point

>>3087320
Depends on the cargo we are hauling. A dreadnought definitely has the firepower and cargo space to move "small" but highly valuable goods.

>>3087283
>Write-in.
Can we trust these imperials with the repairs?

>>3087329
Maybe we have some limited onboard fabrications for munitions.

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>>3087311
Our job is to shoot stuff for...
For what? For the Windsor? For the money? For the Glory?
Still. We shoot stuff.

>>3087335
How do we know that we don't need crew? AND WE NEED HANGER SPACE.

>>3087339
I think we should be ultra-wary of this.
Let's be ultramonitoring yhe repairs in order to not be infected by a nasty virus for which we won't have up-to-date avast database.

>>3087335
i think we still need some crew for fighting, i doubt we can do everything in the ship alone.
We could find a mercenary company* and offer protection to settlers or hunt down pirates.
*can an AI found a mercenary company for get a crew and soldiers at is command ?

Honestly the only threat we can probably make is to self-destruct ourselves. Also I think our first priority should be to return to Fleet HQ and report in.

>>3087351
Lets not get ahead of ourselves. We need to figure out how advanced tech is first, and finish this encounter first.>>3087353
We have a gun. A singular turret, I believe.

>>3083150
Is it okay if I make a game out of this? I won't gib you neetbux but I think it's a super cool idea. I won't do it if you're not okay with it though.

>>3087349
We won't need ALL the crew complement. We wouldn't have the need to be a fully battle ready military ship, unless we're going to join directly back with the military.
Which I imagine is what we're going to do anyways, so this whole conversation is moot.

>>3087351
If we have the cash, i dont think anybody will stop us or ask questions.

>>3087353
I agree with this. At least to nake legal our revival and independency.

Gonna just answer some questions before the next update.

>>3087305
Aside from military service and private security work there are a few other avenues you could pursue. From what you learned looking over the records the practice of privateering seems to be alive and well, with several nations including Pretannia and Meridia still regularly issuing letters of marque and reprisal during war time. The option of joining a Dominion or even foreign navy also exists.

>>3087339
They've shown a strong sense of honor after the full situation was made clear to them, but your historical records reveal they have a long history of aggressive expansion and unruly lower officers starting border disputes - hostility or sabotage seems possible, but they could also easily be offering genuine help.

>>3087351
To operate at full combat efficiency you need a trained crew, you can handle most ship operations but they go far, far faster with help.

>>3087324
>>3087305
>>3087298
>>3087295
>>3087294
>>3087293
>>3087285
Overwhelming majority for waiting.

>>3087363
Hypothetically if we were at 100% combat capability how would we fare against modern vessels? Knowing how superior or inferior we are technologically will definitely play a part in our decision.

>>3087370
We dont have enough information for that

>>3087370
We should wait until we reach real space and meet more vessels tough. Otherwise we would be metagaming.

>>3087370
You can't tell yet. You need more time to review changes in naval doctrine and equipment - the changes in subspace technology seem particularly worrisome.

>>3087379
It's a rational decision even as an AI. But anyway focus on the repairs first.

>>3087370
But we can be fairly sure that we will be outclassed mainly due to a different military doctrine.

>>3087386
>Well if were basing this on RL historical trends we'll have to see whether carrier power has become so strong that dreadnoughts/battleships are obsolescent.

>>3087384
Well, yeah, but like op said, we dont have enough information to make a clear comparison, altough the few things we have seen today (and that we are behind by 6 centuries) should give us some sort of reference.

>>3087389
We dont need to base it on RW trends, the simple fact that half a millenia has passed should be enough for us to assume that we arent the cream of the crop anymore.

>>3087400
For all we knew until we got the data humanity could have nuked itself back to a lower technological base. Of course now we know better but it doesn't mean that technological advancement is constant.

>>3087363
“There is no need to panic, you have not harmed me Elizabeth. I simply needed a moment to consider my peculiar situation.”

She sighs in relief, “I think I understand, you just scared me a bit is all. I take it you’ve pieced things together then? I would’ve told you the truth from the beginning but i-”

“Would have sounded absurd and unbelievable,” you interject, “You don’t need to explain your actions right now, though you should seriously consider acting more cautiously in the future.”

Eliza simply nods, before continuing with her work. She’s in need of a bit of maturity but at least she has a good work ethic, maybe she’ll shape up eventually.

You settle in and wait for the Imperial reinforcements to arrive, which they do about ten minutes later. Four ships, a ‘missile cruiser’, two destroyers, and a repair ship enter subspace - you note that the repair ship enters first though, and seems to be projecting a… bubble, or some sort of shield, to help transition the other three ships safely. The cruiser identifies itself as the INS Akashi, the pair of destroyers are the Kasumi and the Arashi, and the repair ship is the Mizuho.

Maintaining a healthy level of suspicion you request that one of the two marines aboard the Pembroke guard your AI core while repairs are underway - Wilson agrees to do so, and strikes quite the imposing figure in a sleek suit of unmarked powered armor he retrieves from the Pembroke’s hold. Henry guards the Pembroke, and Baker stays near Elizabeth as an armed escort. All of them keep their helmets on and visors polarized.

The Mizuho pulls up alongside the Victory, looking quite small as it does so, and a few teams of engineers are sent on board to help restart the tertiary reactors, warp drive, and engines. They arrive in the aft hangar in unarmed transports, and aside from one officer with a sidearm they have no visible weapons. Most of the engineers seem to be in awe of the fact that the Victory is still even semi-functional, with several expressing amazement at how heavily armed it once was - It seems your ship is quite famous these days, most of them look like excited kids as they get to work.

You do your best to maintain careful watch of all aboard the victory with its remaining security cameras. A few of the Tortoise engineering trolleys are brought back online, which allows you to directly assist in some of the repairs. Three hours later and the ship is ‘repaired’, just barely able to limp about at very low sublight and FTL speeds.

You’re expected to leave Imperial subspace now, just as you had been told earlier. How do you proceed?

>Try to convince the Imperials to help tow you back into real space. (1d100, best of three)
>Begin limping to friendly subspace, it’ll be very slow but you should be fine.
>Thank the Imperials, give them a gunnery salute, and then one of the above options.
>Write-in.

Feel free to ask in character questions as well.

>>3087455
Do they even know what a Gunnery Salute is?

Maybe just hail them and say thanks, and would consider a gunnery salute, but ammunition is low and we aren't sure if that is still the custom send off anymore.

>Thank the Imperials, give them a gunnery salute, and then one of the above options.
>Begin limping to friendly subspace, it’ll be very slow but you should be fine.

>>3087455
>>Begin limping to friendly subspace, it’ll be very slow but you should be fine.
Thank the Imperials of course though I don't think a gunnery salute is necessary unless they really respect such things.

>>3087455
>Begin limping to friendly subspace, it’ll be very slow but you should be fine.
>Thank the Imperials, give them a gunnery salute, and then one of the above options.

Leaving under our own power should also give us enough time to finish doing more self repairs, ask questions to the princess and make a plan of action.

>>3087465
A quick check of the Pembroke's records shows that it has become much less common but they are still done occasionally. They'd understand.

>>3087455
>Thank the Imperials, give them a gunnery salute, and then one of the above options.
>Begin limping to friendly subspace, it’ll be very slow but you should be fine.
Is possible to have the contact of the Harutsuki ? Maybe they could give an help in the future.


Also could they give us the star maps of this region ? And especially where we are now ? Maybe mark some important near planets .


If they don t have a problem with this.

>>3087491
I assume the Pembroke has the nav data we need.

>>3087455
>Begin limping to friendly subspace, it’ll be very slow but you should be fine.

>>3087471
>>3087481
>>3087472
>>3087491
Gunnery salute and limp.

>>3087514
You thank the Imperials for their aid, and give them the best gunnery salute you still can with your remaining armament - they seem to appreciate the display of old fashioned customs. The Akashi, in an equally old fashioned display, pulses its comms laser in code at the Victory like an ancient maritime signalling lamp - “Anchors aweigh! Happy sailing, beautiful ship!”. You can't help but find it endearing.

Using the Pembroke to help navigate you begin slowly making your way to friendly subspace, though it would seem you have a few options and lots of free time.

>Head directly for a nearby Pretannia subspace naval base. It is small and remote, but home is home! (two weeks)
>Sail for Meridian subspace, you can probably get better help there with the Pembroke’s distress beacon. (two weeks)
>Head for a neutral shipping lane, a small number of which apparently exist in subspace now. Keep your options open. (one week)
>Write-in.

Feel free to ask in character questions/speak with the crew of the Pembroke as well. We’ll decide next post where you focus repairs.

>>3087550
>>Sail for Meridian subspace, you can probably get better help there with the Pembroke’s distress beacon. (two weeks)
Link up first, I suppose.

>>3087550
>>Head for a neutral shipping lane, a small number of which apparently exist in subspace now. Keep your options open. (one week)
Finding repairs is our top priority, and along the way research our current legal status as a ship/AI

>>3087550
>>Sail for Meridian subspace, you can probably get better help there with the Pembroke’s distress beacon. (two weeks)
We do have one of their royals after all.Time for them to return the favour.

>>3087550
>Head directly for a nearby Pretannia subspace naval base. It is small and remote, but home is home! (two weeks)
A naval base should have a drydock, and while it might not fix us as fast as the cvilian base, it is specialized to deal with military ships and it might be faster for us to defrief there and find out whats going on and how the world advanced without us.

>questions
How did you find me?

>Head directly for a nearby Pretannia subspace naval base. It is small and remote, but home is home! (two weeks)

>>3087550
>Head directly for a nearby Pretannia subspace naval base. It is small and remote, but home is home! (two weeks)

>>3087550
>Head for a neutral shipping lane, a small number of which apparently exist in subspace now. Keep your options open. (one week)


Let s ask to the crew of the Pembroke if there was any sign of life from others ships in the battlefield where they found us (especially from our fellow Ai, if there is a chance they are still alive we should help them. )


And check with the Tortoise engineering trolleys parts of the ship we can t see, ask to Pembroke crew if they are interested in helping us in this task.

>>3087550
>>Sail for Meridian subspace, you can probably get better help there with the Pembroke’s distress beacon. (two weeks)

>>3087576
A small naval base may not have the facilities to deal with a capital ship like us.

>>3087594
But it could give us more fuel and repair us too a degree where we can stand sometime against raiders for example.

>>3087594
Yeah, but it has people that know how to work with military equipment. Either way we would have to wait for the goverment to pick us up and fix our legal status. Being in a military space should make that faster.

>>3087576
>>3087578
>>3087581
Pretannia base narrowly wins.

Don't fret though Meridia anons, the base in pretty close by to Meridian controlled subspace. They're very close allies.

>>3087550
>Head directly for a nearby Pretannia subspace naval base. It is small and remote, but home is home! (two weeks)

>>3087610

You set course for a nearby Pretannia subspace naval base - the Pembroke’s records list it as housing a destroyer squadron and a small repair yard. The yard definitely won’t fit the Victory, but they’ll at least be trained to make more important repairs. The age of the Victory does worry you a bit though, the Imperials earlier did have some issues with its electronics and machinery being of an older style.

Even in the first few hours underway the circumstances that led Eliza and her crew to find you begin to be clearer - The Victory drifted under a subspace shipping lane about three weeks ago and a merchant vessel reported a ‘very large deep wreck’ heading towards the disputed border of Imperial space. The Pembroke jumped on the opportunity, and headed to the suspected path of drift - A few weeks of looking, and some close calls with the Imperials, and they found the Victory. Apparently the Harutsuki found them just before that, which led to the rest of the situation that you’re now more than familiar with.

Henry is happy to assist with looking through the rest of the ship, and apparently being something of an fan of old naval designs he has little issue getting around - You find out he was a gunnery officer in the Meridian navy for twenty years, and that he only recently ‘retired’ to serve the royal family. Cameras, which you actually had a few spares of are repaired in some locations, but many compartments are inaccessible due to battle damage. Bodies of your fallen crew are solemnly collected as well, your Tortoise trolleys taking them to one of the holds - They’ll need a proper navy funeral, six centuries gone or not.

Elizabeth is keen on continuing repairs, seemingly very into the work, but needs guidance. You only really have enough time for one task, where would you like to focus your efforts?

>Try to fix the rotation speed of primary turret three - it just seems to be a bit jammed, and it has your only remaining operational 24-inch gun. A simple, if time consuming fix with no need for spare parts. (1d100)
>Focus on energy grid repairs and try to optimize the tertiary reactor output, this is complex but should help most operations. You'll need to cannibalize a lot of parts from destroyed systems. (1d100 - 20)
>Engines are priority, you need to move faster than a limp. You might be able to get a bit more from them, they're mostly intact. This will be difficult. (1d100 - 30)
>Sensors! Gods sake, you could use some of your own again - the Pembroke is nice but you’re blind without it. This will be difficult. (1d100 - 30)
>Write-in

All rolls are best of three.

Feel free to ask in character questions/speak with the crew of the Pembroke as well.

Rolled 28 - 20 (1d100 - 20)

>>3087678
>>Focus on energy grid repairs and try to optimize the tertiary reactor output, this is complex but should help most operations. You'll need to cannibalize a lot of parts from destroyed systems. (1d100 - 20)
Lets see if I remember how to subtract from a roll.

>>3087681
Wow, that was actually hot garbage of a roll.

>>3087678
>>Try to fix the rotation speed of primary turret three - it just seems to be a bit jammed, and it has your only remaining operational 24-inch gun. A simple, if time consuming fix with no need for spare parts. (1d100)
Simple stuff first. Also shouldn't we roll after our choice is locked in?

>>3087678
>Try to fix the rotation speed of primary turret three - it just seems to be a bit jammed, and it has your only remaining operational 24-inch gun. A simple, if time consuming fix with no need for spare parts. (1d100)

>Focus on energy grid repairs and try to optimize the tertiary reactor output, this is complex but should help most operations. You'll need to cannibalize a lot of parts from destroyed systems. (1d100 - 20)

would be nice to get this up

>>3087678
>Try to fix the rotation speed of primary turret three - it just seems to be a bit jammed, and it has your only remaining operational 24-inch gun. A simple, if time consuming fix with no need for spare parts. (1d100)

>>3087678
>Focus on energy grid repairs and try to optimize the tertiary reactor output, this is complex but should help most operations. You'll need to cannibalize a lot of parts from destroyed systems. (1d100 - 20)
We can do this

>>3087686
That does seem like a better way of doing things. Definitely specifying that in the future.

>>3087686
>>3087687
>>3087690
Turret repair wins.

Gimme those rolls, lads.

>>3087678
>Try to fix the rotation speed of primary turret three - it just seems to be a bit jammed, and it has your only remaining operational 24-inch gun. A simple, if time consuming fix with no need for spare parts. (1d100)

Do we need to worry about costs?
Or is the princess loaded?

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>3087698

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>3087698
Good old fashion optical firing mode!

>>3087704
Shits fixed.

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>3087698

shit is this roll under

I think we dun goofed

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>3087698

>>3087715
Where it says so?

>>3087700
Cost might actually be an issue since the Victory isn't an active warship and you're technically no longer in the navy. Elizabeth seems uncertain about being able to afford repairs - She has access to house funds but something like this can cause waves. She'll need to contact some people.

>>3087704
>>3087705
>>3087715
>90
Damn fine work.

>>3087721
We can offer to be her personal escort and body guard for a few years to pay it off.

>>3087721
Alternatively, we have some massive hangers and storage bays, we can make some serious dosh moving big, high value high risk items in bulk.

>>3087721
>>3087720


for a second I thought it was roll under, I was panicking

nice rolls guys

>>3087728
Why dangerous? We could just haul food and water, which would be very valuable in the more inhospitable areas.

>>3087738
Why would anyone do risky jobs? Because it pays more.

We are also a super dreadnought. We don't have to do the big ones first, we can do it after some smaller or less risky jobs and getting some repairs down.

>>3087721
I mean from the looks of it we're one of the most iconic vessels in history+plus a war hero so I think the government can afford to release funds if nothing else but good PR.

>>3087738
We would need to haul a shitload of that in order to make a profit. If we plan to make some money by hauling things, we should fill the niche where cargo haulers are too big and they are too unprotected for whatever cargo we manage to move.

No one would use a superdreadnought as a merchant ship lol. We're a warship;let's do warship things. Maybe we can't fight toe to toe with the latest ships but in more remote areas we probably can take on a lot of stuff.

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>>3087752
We wouldn't be a mechant ship. We would be the equivalent of pic related, a specialized vehicle that can move low quantities of critical stuff.

>>3087721
Ask Elizabeth (or anyone else, really) about how antiquated our armaments would be. It's unclear how useful our original equipment are six hundred years of technological development later. Are we packing the equivalent of cannonballs versus cruise missiles?

It's possible that large ships are simply no longer practical. It's also possible that large ships are extremely desirable but expensive.

>>3087759
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4VSfzBqbXM
Bitch please.

>>3087759
>>3087759
We're probably not that cost-efficient to run though.

Obviously we won't be hauling as a main job, or for long, but if we get enough money, we can buy a small dedicated cargo ship, and crew it, find a profitable route, and send it on its way. Boom, steady source of income.

>>3087778
What if we became a "luxury yacht" of the boarder worlds on minisomilapolis and let rich people shoot our guns at pirates?

If we can I'd rather be a privateer. Especially if we can claim spoils of war.

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>mfw was thinking all night about how I wanted to make an AI ship sci-fi quest and I open /qst/ and see this
oh well, its better than what I would have done anyway

Repairs on turret three go very well during your two week crawl to the Pretannian base, with full rotational speed and elevation restored. You even have a couple of days left, though that isn’t enough time to really fix much else so you focus on some miscellaneous tasks - a few bulkheads are patched, and various bits of scrap are sorted and stored as they could be useful for future efforts.

As you cross into sensor range of the subspace naval base, which is situated on the exterior of a large subspace captured asteroid, it clear that they detected the Victory first but didn’t recognize it’s sensor profile. The Pembroke registers two squadrons of fighters that have been scrambled to meet your advance, and it seems a destroyer has sortied as well. It looks as if the Victory has sent them into a bit of a panic - maybe they think you’re an Imperial ship?

The fighters are the first in comms range, and they hail you immediately. An ice cold female voice greets you as you accept the hail, “Unknown warship, reduce speed and identify yourself. Hostile action will be responded to with force. You have thirty seconds to comply.”

Having no hostile intention you comply, slowing the Victory from a crawl to a crawl through molasses.

How would you like to greet them?

>Identify yourself and the Victory, that’ll be a fun reaction to watch.
>Just put Elizabeth on the line, she’s related to their head of state after all.
>Ask Henry to handle this, he’s the most familiar with up to date naval procedure and might speed things up.
>Write-in.

>>3087807
>>Identify yourself and the Victory, that’ll be a fun reaction to watch.
Oh yes, reactions are fun.

>>3087807
>>Identify yourself and the Victory, that’ll be a fun reaction to watch.

>>3087807
>>Identify yourself and the Victory, that’ll be a fun reaction to watch.

>Identify yourself and the Victory, that’ll be a fun reaction to watch.

>>3087767
The Victory does not seem to be hopelessly antiquated, judging by what you've seen so far, though a number of subspace tech advances have clearly been made and it looks like fleet doctrine has shifted massively - otherwise things seem not all too terribly different. You'll probably get a much clearer idea asking around at the naval base, there could be subtle things you're missing.

>>3087808
>>3087812
>>3087813
Consider that reaction watched.

>>3087807
>Identify yourself and the Victory, that’ll be a fun reaction to watch.

>>3087807
We don't have any IFF codes? Might be fun to see if the naval database still has six centuries-old info.

>>3087807
>>Identify yourself and the Victory, that’ll be a fun reaction to watch.
Yeah, use the old IFF codes.

>>3087807
Indentify ourselfs, also stating that we carry Elizabeth.

“Flight leader, this is the AI Athena of the super-dreadnought HMS Victory. We’re reducing speed and await further instructions.” You flash the Victory’s old IFF codes using the Pembroke’s comms for good measure.

The pilot stays silent for about ten seconds before responding with a still calm but less confident voice, “...Understood, HMS Victory. Proceed to rendezvous with the HMS Obdurate at these coordinates. You will be boarded.”

Heh. Making pilots squirm never gets old. The fighter squadrons pull up alongside the Victory, flying slow and close enough to get a good look with the naked eye, and escort her to the marked location. The destroyer that sortied, the Obdurate, arrived there minutes before you do.

As you pull up alongside it hails you, a clearly enthused male Captain speaking, “This is Captain Bennet of the HMS Obdurate. By jove, Athena, it really is you isn’t it? It seems I owe my sensors officer an apology! I’m sending a team of marines and a repair crew over at once.”

How do you proceed?

>Thank Captain Bennet and await the arrival of his men.
>Inform Bennet of the presence of Elizabeth.
>Write-in.

Feel free to ask in character questions/speak with the crew of the Pembroke or Captain Bennet as well.

>>3087905
>>Thank Captain Bennet and await the arrival of his men.
Let's have some more surprises for the Captain.

>>3087905
Ask Elizabeth if we can announce her presence. If we can, tank the capitain and also inform him about her.

>>3087905
>Thank Captain Bennet and await the arrival of his men.

its good to be back, and around people who are not skeletons, speaking of which we should probably prepare to remove those.

>>3087905
>>Thank Captain Bennet and await the arrival of his men.

>Inform Bennet of the presence of Elizabeth.
Don't want anyone getting shot.

>>3087917
>>3087916
>>3087911
Post incoming.

I want to be a privateer. For what I can tell it would be like a bunch of modern day mercenaries raising the Yamato to go broadside Somali pirates in their little tug boats