Roleplay thread: The Unidentified Xenos Ship

The two Drukhari in the shadows dive out of their cover to avoid the false grenade. Their camouflage cloaks do nothing for them and for a few brief moments the two Xenos are entirely visible to everyone.

Round 2
Dominita Jurgena turns one of the snipers into another pile of ash along with melting a portion of wall behind him. The second Xeno shows themselves to be a coward and flees out the door and down the hallway in a full out panic. He jukes left and right as if purposefully avoiding something in the hallway more than attempting to avoid your weapon fire.

He nearly makes it through the door, but not quite.

Combat Over
Olivia rips the last Xeno apart with her storm bolter as it clicks through the last shot the mechanisms jam again. Perhaps the machine spirit is dissatisfied for some reason?

A quiet settles in the room as combat comes to an end. The hallway the enemy went down leads to a closed door and, now that things are less hectic it is clear that the hallway is trapped.

You also note two doors on either sides of the hallway that the Xeno did not go through despite them being closer. Each of them have something written in their foul language which may, or may not explain why.

Krondo works to fix his galvanic carbine and the scope snaps off entirely. Somewhere along the line it had been stored somewhere too damp and corrosion set in. He’s going to need to entirely replace the scope fittings when he returns. For now he uses some ship tape and makes do.

In removing the traps Krondo locates a Xeno cogitator and is able to get additional information. The rooms on the sides of the hallway lead to promethium storage tanks. Clearly the reason the Xeno didn’t enter was the highly volatile nature of promethium.

He can also, if he wants, attempt to commune with the alien cogitator.

Krondo is able to pull up feeds and data showing this same ship landing on the planet time and again. As if someone on planet has been giving the Drukhari a welcome playground where they might slaughter humans at their whim.

In addition to the evidence of foul heresy the tech priest is able to get a layout and some simple design of the ship.
- Front area: The front area you just came through was where the forces would rush out and attack. Missing from the area are eight hover bikes.
- Xeno pets: You just came from where they would keep the Tyrannid ‘pets’
- Promethium exchangers: The promethium stored here is pumped into the engines
- Play room: This is the room just beyond. It is filled with cages and various devices of torment
- Flight deck: Just beyond the so called ‘Play room’ is where the flight controls can be found
- Warp Convertor: Under the play room and flight deck this device allows the Drukhari ship to enter the webway

Krondo is mere moments from finding out just where the webway gate is when he feels a toxic dump of information into his brain. Impossible ideas and mathematical concepts send him reeling to the ground. He manages to get up, to rid himself of the here-tech, but it is a close thing and when he is done the cogitator has shorted out and begins to smoke.