Chapter 5: Rook takes Knight.

Through the exhilaration of almost crashing the vessel Rondezvue is broadly grinning, after starting to get use to how the vessel moves its agility and responsiveness is increadible, this vessel is a fair addition to her fleet. Reaching low orbit the vessel starts steering towards a small frigate, vibrantly painted.



Holding her hand to her ear to activate the comm bead, Prepare a docking bay for the eldar craft inbound on your port side, I’m coming in to land with our new bridge crew. She then addresses the others in the room, Isnt she beautiful. The Solanasae is faster and more manoeuvrable then most crafts in her size category, and she slides through the warp just as quickly as real space. She relies on her forward mounted weapons primarily, her lance is capable of cutting through ships her size and even larger. A versatile weapon equipped for exploration and commerce but more then capable in a fight.

Once the vessel lands she wills the ship to release her, hoping that’s all that is required

Leaning in closer to Val, Nas makes a comment, "Mmm I take it back, he is a decent pilot since he gets stabbed in the eyes to pilot this thing... I can see why we crashed so much now..."

"Yah. This ship is an amazing piece of technology. But even I'm not insane enough to get into the pilot seat of this thing!"

Once we've disembarked, Val will also inform Rondez regarding the map we have of the fallen Imperial Knight's location, in case she thinks that is something she'd like to consider salvaging.

Rondezvue spends the next few minutes blinking furiously as she makes her way up the her private quarters to go over the details of this find, and old imperial knight will be worth a credit or two in salvage after all, Do we have any clue where the Whispering Carins are? Rondezvue swirls the tumbler of whisky in her hand Seems to be the key to finding this wreck...

"I have a map... Rough but it's something that might provide cursory clues." Nas explains producing the map for examination, "We would maybe need a navigator to correlate places it could be for possibility or a specialist I take it. This skillset is not in my wheel house to be honest."

My love, we must bide our time... I have a new master. Our sweet kisses must be stolen until I can prove my worth of you... Kuros thinks back to his ship.

He turns to his companions "Back to the eldar cairns? Oh it would be wonderful to see the knight in action. I played with knight dolls when I was but a wee lad." Kuros says, accidently dropping to his thick offworld accent at the end as he remembers a difficult childhood. "But I recall the pilot Cyrek saying it may need repairs. Do we have someone that can manage the servitors?"

Val coughs under his breath *AHEM* me! *AHEM*

"This one seems willing and I may assist... but considering it is more likely I will need to provide overwatch since we will not be able to extract once he starts till he is done." Nas comments showing a bit of a pessimistic nature.

"Well, we know how to get to the general area. Then with this map, we try to pinpoint its exact location once we're there. After we find it, I'll get to work on repairing it enough so that it can move, and once that's done, we can drive it onto the Belladonna and get out of there. While I'm repairing it, Nas and Rondez provides ground overwatch while Kuros takes to the air and provides air cover if needed. How does that sound?"

Val then turns to Rondez and asks, "Do you have any guardsmen and technicians available to come assist? The guardsmen to assist if fighting breaks out and technicians to help speed up repairs. We'd also probably need whatever spare parts that are available and if all else fails, a towing vehicle that we can use to drag the knight on board the Belladonna."

We may require more then just the bomber to bring the knight back here, which means using more traditional surface to void freighters. This ship is primarily crewed by tradesmen, and though there fine for boarding actions I won’t deploy them on the ground. We don’t have and military forces aboard with the exception of my private collection of murder servitors, who I can deploy to help on the field. You can lead my technicians into the field as well, but I don’t want those men walking into a nettle field. In fact I don’t want my freighters going into the battlefield, they can touch down near by.