rodiziorobs Posted April 11, 2016 (edited) Location: E01 (Donwarr) Tags: Spying, Land vehicle **** Advance apologies for the quality of some of the photos below. I'll see if I can get some better shots up later in the week. **** Aboard the MANTIS flagship Petticoat: "Look General, I know the paint job isn't regulation, but there isn't anything we can do about it until we return to the docks in Torresta in a few weeks when we deliver Laszlowe to begin his sentence." Well look into it immediately! It's a complete disgrace! **************** Shortly thereafter, the Petticoat picked up an uncommon transmission--one from a black box. MANTIS engineers had managed to reduce the size of this technology, meaning virtually every MANTIS craft could be equipped with it. This enabled the location and recovery of practically every ship, to help engineers better equip the rest of the fleet against future malfunction or mishap. Also built in was a switch that would only turn on after most or all other systems were unresponsive for a determined length of time. Normally, MANTIS black boxes sent tracking emissions only intermittently, so as to conserve battery life. However, this meant that such a signal was unlikely to be picked up by scanners unless they were specifically looking for it, as was often the case when rescuers were searching for a downed ship. This particular emission was even more of a rare case--the black box code identified it as belonging to a small speedboat, the last ship assigned to Scorpio Starstriker and Jessica DuBois, who had vanished on a spying mission nearly two months prior. This was not the most intriguing part, however: the boat had been dispatched to Jurin II, not Donwarr. Although there had been mishaps with the gates before, they were not yet understood. Therefore, a recovery team was dispatched immediately to go down to the surface and bring the black box back for analysis. More pics of the Petticoat in the Flickr album. Warning, though: some of them turned out really poorly, but I don't have time to fix it tonight. **************** Later, on Donwarr's surface... Ick, you know Williams I don't usually mind tough conditions, but the smell here is horrible. That's just the Octan you smell, Private. Figures that this mysterious signal would come from an unrecoverable swamp--probably the only one on Donwarr--that also happens to be crawling with Octan speeders. I hear one coming our way, now! Stay low, and keep your blaster ready. I'll see if I can spy it... Should I take it out? No, it would only reveal our location to the rest of Octan. Only shoot if we're already caught. Looks like he's moved on... Well, which way do we go? North, we're already pretty close. **************** Last known location is right here, and look, there's some wreckage. And what appears to be human remains. Climb in there and get the box, and a bit of the body. See if the lab guys can match the DNA. Yuck. Shut up, Private. **************** Suddenly, there was a soft woooooosh sound, as Private took a dart to the neck. Captain Williams spun around to face the assault, but too late; in a flash, the assailant was on top of her, knife in hand. In the swampy marsh, she could get no footing, and found herself completely disarmed and vulnerable. Who are you? Why do you come to this place? ... Answer! Captain April Williams, MANTIS Marine Corps North. ...MANTIS! After all this time! The attacker relaxed her grip on Williams, who slipped in the mud, from surprise as much as anything else. You've finally come for us. It's been two years! Two years, do you hear me! Where have you been!? Do I...Should I know you? Here my name is only Jex, but before I was Jessica DuBois, MANTIS pilot Second Class. This here is Scorpio Starstriker. Please take us home. **************** Edited April 11, 2016 by rodiziorobs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VK-318 Posted April 11, 2016 ... Whoa. Anyway, I like the technique with posing the minifigs in the mud - torsos only. Some pretty nifty weapons, too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big Sal Posted April 11, 2016 Two years! The Petticoat is great I like how you blurred the speeder shot too Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Junior Shark Posted April 11, 2016 Nice build! So are recolored ships an EB meme now? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Greeble Posted April 11, 2016 Oh sh*t! Plot twist! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kodan Black Posted April 11, 2016 So you are ... dead? I like the swamp and them being waist deep in there. The MCS Hello Kitty is nice too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpacerSteve Posted April 12, 2016 Not Scorpio! Your going to bring him back to life like superman right?.....right? Great story this week! I think you are the first to kill of their Sigfig! Love the white and pink this week. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andromedas Gates Posted April 13, 2016 The judges awarded you 4 points. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
