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Mar. 14th, 2014 10:17 pmWith the sudden acquisition of several new members during the tryouts (Candi, Jekkie, Val, Ayla, Laurel, and Zira) and other members besides, the Legion finds itself in the odd place of suddenly having a significant roster and needing to bring many of those new Legionnaires up to speed fairly quickly. Despite protesting of not wanting to be a "babysitter", Wildfire ends up taking the recruits with him on what should be a routine mission to a outer world facing threats of piracy.
When they arrive in system, however, they discover that the sun doesn't match up to the star charts. It's somehow become a red giant, having engulfed some of the closer planets. And the planet they've come to protect shows minimal signs of life. It was a small, colony world, but it is a loss of life all the same. But the world itself appears to be dying in some way. Different than what happened to Trom, but Wildfire's first suspicious are that it's the same people.
Fortunately, they're able to track a distinct ion drive, and after contacting HQ--and making it clear "do not tell Jan!"--they pursue. It's meant to just be a watch operation, though with Drake around, everyone knows that's unlikely.
In the next system over, they encounter a gigantic skull shaped ship, which easily detects them and pulls them on board. There, they come into conflict with the defense robots, fighting their way through the ship, including laboratory levels, which contain bizarre, almost hybrid creatures, and an alien script identifying them that none of the members present can read, though Laurel would note in bears some basic similarities to ancient Daxamite languages.
Eventually, however, they make it to the heart of the ship. Pulsar Stargrave, livid over their disruptions to his "grand goal", takes out Wildfire with one blast, shredding his containment suit, and leaving the rookies to battle him on their own.
A battle which eventually focuses down to Candi and Laurel, as the fighting gets more intense and more drones arrive to distract the others. Eventually, Candi and Laurel begin to get him on the ropes, but still he fights. Until his systems are able to finalize his scan of Laurel, and he suddenly finds himself unable to strike her... allowing the Legion to fully turn the tide. The next punch from the two separates Stargrave's head from his body... revealing him to have been some kind of construct. Whatever programing was in it has jumped elsewhere.
As the ship begins to self-destruct, the Legion flees, including the disembodied Wildfire. They barely make it back to the cruiser in time...
And can't shake the suspicion that Stargrave is still out there, somehow. What is his "grand goal?" What prevented him from striking Laurel? And where will he appear next? And will Wildfire admit that the rookies "done good?"
When they arrive in system, however, they discover that the sun doesn't match up to the star charts. It's somehow become a red giant, having engulfed some of the closer planets. And the planet they've come to protect shows minimal signs of life. It was a small, colony world, but it is a loss of life all the same. But the world itself appears to be dying in some way. Different than what happened to Trom, but Wildfire's first suspicious are that it's the same people.
Fortunately, they're able to track a distinct ion drive, and after contacting HQ--and making it clear "do not tell Jan!"--they pursue. It's meant to just be a watch operation, though with Drake around, everyone knows that's unlikely.
In the next system over, they encounter a gigantic skull shaped ship, which easily detects them and pulls them on board. There, they come into conflict with the defense robots, fighting their way through the ship, including laboratory levels, which contain bizarre, almost hybrid creatures, and an alien script identifying them that none of the members present can read, though Laurel would note in bears some basic similarities to ancient Daxamite languages.
Eventually, however, they make it to the heart of the ship. Pulsar Stargrave, livid over their disruptions to his "grand goal", takes out Wildfire with one blast, shredding his containment suit, and leaving the rookies to battle him on their own.
A battle which eventually focuses down to Candi and Laurel, as the fighting gets more intense and more drones arrive to distract the others. Eventually, Candi and Laurel begin to get him on the ropes, but still he fights. Until his systems are able to finalize his scan of Laurel, and he suddenly finds himself unable to strike her... allowing the Legion to fully turn the tide. The next punch from the two separates Stargrave's head from his body... revealing him to have been some kind of construct. Whatever programing was in it has jumped elsewhere.
As the ship begins to self-destruct, the Legion flees, including the disembodied Wildfire. They barely make it back to the cruiser in time...
And can't shake the suspicion that Stargrave is still out there, somehow. What is his "grand goal?" What prevented him from striking Laurel? And where will he appear next? And will Wildfire admit that the rookies "done good?"
