Out of Pod Experience

"Men! Why they don't ever give you all the relevant data?", tought Ishtanchuk Fazmarai to herself as she fired the evacuation alarm so her crew had a better chance to escape if everything went wrong.

"Nightmare battleship to CONCORD officers, do you copy me?"

Two CONCORD Captain landed on grid, and each one locked and scrambled Random's and ish's ships.

"Nightmare to CONCORD officers, here's Ishtanchuk Fazmarai, I need to talk to you!"

The CONCORD battleships fired, obliteraitng all of Randoms shields and most of his a rmor in a volley, and crashing Ish's massive shield to a few remannts.

"Officers! There's a fake CONCORD officer in that Scorpion! Do you copy me?"

Albeit she was talking through a neural interface, Ish managed to sound as panicked as she was. It would be a few seconds before the police battlehsips fired again, and albeit Ish's nightmare probably could take a couple shots more, that would be the end to Random's Tornado.

"Silakan berhenti penembakan dan mendengarkan!", she shouted, and the neural interface just pitched up her voice. A CONCORD battleship fired on Ish's Nightmare, vanishing its shield and wrecking the armor, and then the other ship held fire before annihilating Random's Tornado. A few seconds passed...

"Officers? Will you listen us now? There is a false CONCORD agent aboard that ship and she's kidnapped a friend, a capsuleer like us!"
"Ma'am, i don't know who you are nor what is this story about, but i strongly suggest all of you to dock inmediately"
"Mistress Fazmarai?", sounded Succus voice on the local chat channel- "Are you OK? I've barely had time to pull a string before those ships were dispatched against you and your friends"
"Succus? you... stopped... CONCORD?"
"Are you Ok, mistress Fazmarai?"
"Yes, I am... kinda... my ship has taken severe damage and also Random's, but at least these officers now are willing to ask before shooting"
"I'll be delivering them some footage from the security cameras, then"
"We better get some explanations, this is beyond irregular..."

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai tried to talk, but she couldn't as her emotions returned to normality. She knew that her body was now relaxing, her heart slowing down and very likely the nanite drain system was eliminating and cleaning the urine she likely had released when the CONCORD captain stopped firing.

"I'm alive. I've been about to lose my ship and likely I just peed myself, but i am alive. And I owe God knows what favor to Succus...", she thought.

The light from the star 24 AU temporarily blinds lailyana as she leaves the station

"Navi, orbit scorpion at 500 meters" lailyana thinks as the merlin spins to approach the Scorpion. Suddently the brightness of the star is over shadowed by an explosion on the scorpion as lailyana scans and sees a tornado firing a salvo into the disabled Scorpion.

"scanner whats the status of the scorpion" lailyana inquired.

"50% armor and dropping" the scanner responded.

well if CONCORD wasnt aware of the situation they are now, and more than likely just a few seconds from really getting this party started Lailyana thought to herself, maybe I should try to reach to the pilot of that tornado and see what assistance I can offer.

"hello this is Lailyana Enaka talking to you from the USS Herp Derp a Merlin Class frigate, you just fired on a ship my friend is being held captive on, how copy.

Sector Captain Petro Grainger watched from the bridge of the Concord Battle ship ‘Extinction’. He stood, looking intently at the vid screen display and moved to the tactical station. He turned to the comms officer and said, “Comms, are you sure that code is valid?”

The comms officer continued to type furiously onto his data screen. “Captain, the code is an older code, but it is valid.”

First officer Gauge also approached tactical, standing a close but respectful distance away. “Captain, the code is a security code. As Sector Captain, you have the authority to over ride.”

The captain grimaced. He hated when things got ‘complicated’. Normally, when capsuleer attacks occurred in High Sec, it was Concord’s job to come in and end the conflict. Not necessarily meet out justice. He sighed heavily. “Yes Gauge, I’m aware.”

“Sensor, Command,” the Sensors operator barked. “We have multiple targets that have just warped in. Three … Interceptor class ships, Crows, sir. Three more contacts coming in. Marauder Class ships, Golems sir.” The sensor operator continued focusing his equipment. "I thought for a moment that they may have off grid links but I cannot get a clear signal.”

Captain Grainger watched on screen as the three Crows deployed in tackle formation around the Nightmare and Tornado. According to their screens, the Nightmare was de-aggressing and by the time any real damage could be inflicted, it would be able to dock. The Tornado, however, was a different story. It maintained its Scram hold on the Scorpion, ‘Cheyenne’. Grainger placed a hand on the Tactical Officers shoulder and asked, “Tactical assessment?”

The Tactical Officer turned to face the Concord Captain. Her eyes were milk white and her slightly enlarged scalp and head was smooth and hairless. “Captain,” she began, her voice tinged with electronic harmonic frequencies, “We are two against ten, certainly not an unwinnable situation. My instinct tells me that the Golems will deploy into bastion mode, making the fight much more vigorous. We will lose contact with the Nightmare as it has now de-aggressed. Dispatching the Tornado will be of no effort. There is a Merlin class frigate in close orbit about the Scorpion but as of now, has made no aggressive actions. Most likely course will be that it will dock up.”

Grainger turned away from the eerily visage Tactic Officer and said, “Command, Comms. Put Sector on alert and request back up from any nearby squadron. Also, request dispatch to covert and observe their link ship. Sensors, when you lock down that signal, get it to Sector command.” He turned and looked back into the Tactic Officer’s eyes, “I don’t mind a vigorous fight, now and again, but Sector command sort of frowns on that.”

“Comms, Command.” The Communication Officer called, “I have your fish on the line.”

“Bring it up, please, Payton.” A chime emanated on the bridge and the Captain said, “This is Concord Sector Captain Grainger of the ‘Extinction’. You, sir, had better have a really good explanation of why I should hold back Concord Punishment. You said something about a false officer,” the Captain said returning to his seat, “You best start telling me about this.”

“Most certainly, Captain. I am currently transmitting surveillance that I have recorded from the situation. You should be able to review it at your leisure but suffice to say, the commander of the Scorpion is going about impersonating a Concord official.”


Succus drew a deep breath clearly over the communications channel and said, “Here, sir is what I’m able to determine…”

As Succus epxlained the situation, he watched on the tactic display. Mistress Fazmarai's Nightmare was freed form the CONCORD tackle and apparently was on its way to docking. The bumping on the Scorpion continued, and probably Yiole was having some fun bumping that ship with ehr MWD-fit Caracal.

Meanwhile he explained the situation, Succus also thought ont he implications of showing his true powers. All along his career he had made a rule about having friends both in heaven and hell, and ensure they owed him a favor. Moving the appropiate CONCORD personnel to Erehwon had been easy, but he only controlled the high command as CONCORD shifted operational officers around periodically. Also, a Captain still had ample authonomy to inflict punishment, punishment which usually implied the death of many innocent crew, so the average CONCORD captain easily developed less-than-empathic traits, be as a defense or as the expression of a natural inclination.

But they also developed a sense of entitlement and righteousness. A false CONCORD officer was something which easily could draw the wrath of any true officer... and Succus didn't wanted that the Scorpion became a target, not as long as miss Hayes was aboard.

Typing on his pad to his CONCORD contact and speaking on the microphone, Succus feverishly loomed a net around the situaiton, a net which diminished uncertainty and drove every actor in the right direction... the capsuleers safe on their ships, the CONCORD officers gone, and the Scorpion docked and ready to be boarded.

And what a boarding could be, now that Twinkle had learned of the situation and was readying one of the toys Succus provided -a military grade armored suit. The fact that Twinkle hadn't tilted his head a single time and was putting on the suit as a zombie showed how stressful was the situation to him. Then, when he was almost in full suit, Twinkle pulled a small patch from a sealed envelope and applied it to his neck. It was a roomba patch, olding the drug which had helped Twinkle overcome a tragedy but eventually destroyed his brain after he tried to suicide and doctors saved his life with drug incompatible with roomba.

Obviously he was blocking something from his memory in order to do what he wanted to do. The suit's helmet was locked on in place and Twinkle grabbed his weapon, an assault rifle. Then he looked at Succus and walked away.

"Good luck, boy", thought Succus.

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As her Nightmare docked, Ishtanchuk Fazmarai sighed in relief and ordered to ready a frigate, and then she got a message from Twinkle.

"Mistress Fazmarai? Could you take me to the Scorpion? if they're going to board it, I want to be there"
"Alright Twinkle... just let me know what dock are you at and I'll fly there once they shift my pod"

Whatever was next, the situation still carried on...

Lailyana watched perplexed as CONCORD let the Nightmare go from its tackle, even with it being a strong ship it wouldve been no match for CONCORD guns. still perplexed Lailyana hails the tornado one last time, "Hello this is Lailyana Enaka coming from the USS Herp Derp a Merlin Class Frigate, how copy?"

"Hey Lailyana this is Random Mcneely, you will have to excuse my inital hesitation, if you can see the situation is, well fluid at the moment." the stern yet soothing voice said.
"I can see this, im currently orbiting the scorpion in tackle position, can I offer assistan..wait hold on."

Out of nowhere two Ospreys came out of warp and immediately began repairing the Scorpin.

"Random, Ospreys just warped in and are repairing the scorpion, I wont have the firepower to take this all out, perhaps we should dock up, Ill be happy to go in as a docking party as well" Lailyana said her eyes moving back and forth between directional scan and comms.

"Ill let you know what happens with this, just take care of yourself and your ship, I think we have things under control, oh and one more thing Lailyana," Random said.

"I'm all ears."

"Keep your comm channel open, if you see laude or her captors stop them, I just pulled your file, you went to the Caldari Naval Academy, I want you to incapacitate them, do not kill them, I reserve that honor for myself, and my sister." his voice suddenly becoming ominous and dark in nature.

"You got it Random, ill keep a comm line open and remain inconspicuous in station." Lailyana said as her thoughts shifted to docking and the merlin began docking procedures.

(meta: sorry for the delayed response im typing this in my programming class in college under the guise of taking notes so I tried to fit as much as I could)

Laud's shampoo was distracting in more than one way it tickled the inside of his nose and as the same time the sent lured Matokin into a scene of relaxation and security.

Suddenly more aware of the tickling sensation in his nose Matokin sneezed out loud the sound of his sneeze echoed through the escape pod like some kind of cramped metal cavern "dam it" he thought, as he heard voices outside and the running suddenly stop by the air lock door to the escape pod.

"You hear that" one said there was a light pause then the other quickly replied "I did, sounded like someone sneezing."

Matokin thought "I have to do something" so quickly he found the emergency blanket threw it over Laud and carefully laid her out on the floor of the pod. “She will have a much better chance in here by herself anyway the thought.” Then Matokin then locked the pods door from the inside knowing it would only be a few seconds for the patrol to override the lock on the door. But it would buy him the few seconds he needed to do one final thing. He got the data pad from one of the storage spaces in the pod and he began typing.

“To who it my concern my name is Matokin Lemant, I was one of the people who took this young women from the bar on the station. But I have had a sudden change of heart as I was once captured and taken from my friends a family by slavers so I know what the feeling is like and how scared and terrified she must be I was lucky enough to escape from my captors during a pirate attack. So why am I doing it to other people? I had no other choice...I am trying to save up enough money to get the Maelstrom class battle ship back that once belonged to me. Thruer was taken by the Ministry of Internal Order as I was using her in Amarr space to attack Amarrr slaver hubs in low security space. But I was captured by the Ministry of Internal Order and the ship was seized and impounded by the Ministry. Attached to this data pad you will find the remanding funds needed to buy the Thruer back form them. Please see that she is given a good home. “

Continuing to type franticly he heard the security officer bypassing the lock on the pod...”only a matter of time now he thought. “

As for the young women in his pod her name is Laudenum Hayes and she is in need of urgent medical attention. Please see that she gets it. Whether or not she realizes it she has made a big impact on me and is the primary factor in my sudden change of heart”

Putting the data pad under the blanked and on top of Laud, Matokin then opened the door to the pod and stepped out being sure to close the airlock behind him. He felt himself grabbed and thrown to the floor thinking on his feet Matokin said “The girl escaped and locked me in this pod, thank good your here”

The two security officers looked at each other before one replied “you know we are under orders to kill you” while pulling Matokin to his feet. As he came face to face with two rather large Civire guards “I figured as much he replied” But he also knew how Sharazzi worked so he said to them “I can tell you where the girl went, you know you will be rewarded big time if you capture her”

The two looked at each other “oh ya where is she then” one finally said where is she headed. “The last time I saw her she was heading toward the EVA station on C-deck.” Matokin confidently replied, the whole while slowing backing toward the exterior launch control on the wall for the escape pod.

When he was close enough he hit the launch button on the panel. There was a loud whoosh as the air left and the vacuum of space entered the seals between the pod and the ship. Which was followed very shortly after by a thud that shook the wall and sounding era as the pod was ejected from the ship.

Matokin then felt himself being stuck on the right side of his head by the butt of a rifle as he crumpled to the floor he thought “Good Miss Hayes is finally off this ship and on her way to being safely rescued” Shortly before everything went black.

Lailyana is getting out of capsule when suddenly people start yelling "there is an escape from the scorpion coming into station!"

"wait could this be laude" Lailyana thought to herself

Reaching into her right cargo pock lailyana pulls out her commlink.

"Random its Lailyana, do you have eyes on that escape pod?"

"Not yet", Randoms voice crackles over comms, "oh wait a second, yup I got it now, scanner has it 9000 meters from station and closing, it appaears to be heading to docking bay 2" Random, said in a hurried tone as if to almost hint to get down there fast.

Reading Randoms mind Lailyana says "Ok ill get down there and let you know what I find, I'll contact you when I'm down there."

At that lail put her commlink back in her pock and started walking at a brisk pace "I really hope this is Laude and not a ploy to make us think it is." Lailyana thought to herself. with that she picked up the pace, almost the jog and started heading towards docking station two.

On board the Cheyenne, Sharazzi heard the message then thought for a brief second. Before her thoughts were interrupted by the tactical officer “An escape pod was just launched, I am detecting one extremely faint life sign” Sharazzi sighed “Is there any way to tell who in onboard that pod?” her voice showing signs of exestuation. “Unfortunately not mam” The tactical officer responded. Although Sharazzi had a pretty good idea of who it was. She shook her head saying “Tell the support ships to get out of here our shields are fully restored and the Golems are just too expensive to risk they forced that nightmare of the field they did their job”

She looked down at the red lights flashing on her displays’...the Cheyenne was barely hanging together. The ship would not even be much of a match for the orbiting Caracal. Accessing the ship wide PA system she said “all personal prepare to abandon ship” he voice was tired yet relived at the same time.

As Sharazzi heard the escape pods start to jettison from the ship, she armed the ships self destruct but did not start the countdown. Despite the Cheyenne being tackled it could still creep along “If I can get close enough to that pod I may be able to take it with me.” She thought. As she brought the ships main engines online and plotted a course toward the pod, knowing she only had to get close enough so it would get caught in the blast radius, before it reached the docking bay.

As the crippled ship lurched forward Sharazzi noticed the Retribution which had undocked form that station just minutes before was now pulled along side of the Tornado. For a brief few minutes she watched them intensely trying to figure out what was gong on, but before she could formulate any sort of reason. The ships coms crackled into life "This is Sector Captain Grainger on the Concord Battle ship Extinction. You are in direct violation of an official concord directive order, stop your ship at once and return to the station, this is your first and only warning"

Sharazzi settled back into her chair. She knew that was defying a direct order from Concord before the warning even came, but the worst concord could do was destroy the Cheyenne. Right now she just needed to get close enough to that pod. Because if she could get the ship close enough, at that range if concord did destroy the Cheyenne they would risk damaging or destroying the escape pod as well. No-matter the outcome in either case, she was not about to let Concord take her alive.

(Thats understandable man, also on a side note I began writing the first part of my story last night, if anybody has any suggestion on a good medium to post it to please let me know, currently its sitting in Microsoft Word on my desktop, i plan on working more on it tonight, also I wouldnt mind getting suggestions as I know almost nohing lore wise of New Eden, while it allows me to be freely creative, I want to attempt to stick to some type of accuracy within the EVE Universe feel free to message me if you can offer any advise or suggestions thanks again o7)