ONI (thamke)
Deceptive Appearance (Event)
As all that took place, nobody from the facility detected them, as they would expect. Outside the facility, the unloading was finally done. In total, 10 metal boxes were unloaded, which were slightly larger than a human being.
The doors of the facility remained open, with a few scientists still outside, smoking and talking.
After the impressive equipping montage, the team heads out, being greeted by snowfall. They found themselves in a mountainous area, and hiking on top of one as well. It was quite a stunning view, with a few forests at the mountain ends.
However, their focus remained on the mission, and they steadily made their way towards the facility. On their way they saw a few signal beacons. Tall and thin structures, most of them were disabled, or even collapsed.
Eventually they had direct sight on the facility from above. The main entrance was about 3 stories tall, with a flat roof which they could easily reach. There were no staff on the roof, however; they did notice a few vents.
As the cloaked vehicle entered the atmosphere, they quickly noticed a few ideal spots to land on. It wasn’t in direct sight of the facility, not being used at all.
Outside the facility, they did notice a few human sized metal boxes being carried inside. There were 10 total of those boxes, with a few scientists watching over them.
Once teleporting nearby the facility, and approaching it, the Ambassador quickly noticed a few scientists and security guards bringing in 10 large human sized metal boxes which were slightly floating above the ground.
The overground facility was 3 stories tall, with a few windows on the upper floors, with Reman looking through them. Below that on ground floor was a large reinforced door, which was open for the boxes to arrive.
Nobody seemed to notice the Ambassador yet.
Namek The team approaches the entrance. Using grappling mounts from their equipment pouches they aim and shoot at the top of the structure. The barbed ends of the hooks dig into the top side of the structure. Joshua holds back to give the two others cover while they scale the structure in unison. Once Joshua gives an "all clear signal" he too scales the side of the structure. Once he is on top of the building he pulls the grapples out so no one will notice the ropes.
"Emily check if those vents can fit us and check for security measures." James commands. "Glad you can finally join us Josh. This is where the fun begins."
Emily moves towards the vents. Pulling a fiber optic probe out of one of her equipment pouches. She inserts its connector cable into the back of her helmet to provide a live uplinked feed to the probes camera. The probe snakes around the vent, scanning with its "eye". No visible security measures seem to be in place and the vent seems big enough to hold the team.
Namek
Men board upon the vehicle as they ride atop it as they begin to move up the road. Humming to a song as they move up. The bipedal vehicle walked infront of the group as it scaled the road to arrive upon the top, letting off a scan for life and hostiles and weapons with vehicles and other systems.
Namek
The Ambassador seems to be non-chalantly walking towards them at a steady pace. He takes one thorough look at one of the security guards as he walks towards the group, and his fur becomes fuzzier and expands like a cloud of some kind of smoke.
Then, from within the smoke leaves a copy almost identical to the security guard that he stared at. However, some things were changed, such as slightly different adaptations to the guns, a different face, and different body proportions too, then the smoke dissipated quickly behind him.
He acquired the weapon to his hands and quietly moved towards the general group, without saying anything at first, but attent to anything he can eavesdrop.
Namek
The long side of the ship slides inwards like an indent, and then merges back, clashing down into the interior of the wall of the ship and revealing a somewhat large interior of the ship which is simplistic yet functional. From within the ship leaves a team of 8 some kind of mechanical infantry.
The suits are large and stand at about 2,1 meters of height. Humanoid in design, most of their mass seems to be accumulated in the front with large bodies clad in some kind of armor composed of interlocked and superimposed square plates of some kind of metal. On one of the shoulders there is a small turret with a somewhat large calliber, and on the other, another relatively small turret, though this one seems larger.
They all carry unique weapons, two of them carry what seems to be surprisingly heavy weapon, which they have to carry underslung, it has a single prominent barrel leaving a large box, with plenty of pipes and dials to regulate whatever it does along the sides.
Two others seem to carry a weapon with stocks to their shoulders and a large round clip of ammo with an ammo belt that extends into their arm and feeds into the circular belt.
Other three carry a weapon much similar to the previous two, except that this one seems to have 3 barrels and have a much smaller calliber.
Lastly, the other one seems to be carrying a combination of two "weapons", it is something completely integrated into the arm which is fed with a tube through it, and into a somewhat small backpack on its back. On the other arm's forearm, a large rectangle extends covering it in its entirity, and integrated into the arm itself.
They all proceed quietly with the suits, which seem to have a surprising ammount of mobility, though still less than that of a normal human. The suits engage a very basic kind of light difraction cloaking, and make their way to the top of the facility, seeing if there are any good entrances.
The dropship in the meanwhile sits in its landing space cloaked.
The guards who stood at the entrance, and those who brought the boxes inside, hasn't looked at the disguised Embassador yet, nor the scientists payed attention to their existence.
It was odd...
On closer inspection, the scientists who were chatting didn't actually speak. Their mouths were moving, but no sounds were made. It was surreal.
As they approach the facility, they noticed the first obvious entrance, which was a huge open reinforced hanger, in which the boxes are carried. Aside from that, there was a door at the side, simple yet sturdy.
On the second floor was an open window, 5 meters from the ground. At last, there were a few vents 7 meters from the ground.
Nobody has noticed them as of now, but something felt odd... It was unusually quiet, not even a chirp from a bird was heard, aside from their movement.
(Loving the probe :p )
Nobody noticed them scaling the building, as most human activity was around the corner. There were however a few windows, but none were in line of sight of the scaling soldiers.
Once on top, a probe was send to check the vents, and those were indeed large enough to fit them, however, they must be important as enough weight could make it collapse.
There were a few sight points to look down below the vent, with Roman and a few scientists standing below the vent.
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Namek The team sees if they can get their ARGUS systems to get a read on Roman. Through his cologne. The ARGUS system surprisingly is not a new tech. First being used by the UEG in the early 2600s to “sniff” out chemical signatures in insurrectionists explosive devices in space ports and other locations. It was originally used in drones. The team gets the ARGUS systems to get a read on the cologne, uploading its chemical signature into its database. Easily, they could drop down and take on Roman through the vents up ahead but that would jeopardize the mission of taking observing this facility then taking out Roman Why go in loud when you can go in silent.
The probe continues to snake along, looking at the rest of the room trying to figure out what it is.
Once scanning Roman's cologne, something was... Odd. Every living being should have some scent, but the probe couldnt pick up any around Roman. He seemed also quite younger than before.
There were 2 more scientists in the room, and even they didnt have any. In addition, their movements were odd, almost incomplete. Something wasnt right.
The room was quite spacious, with communication devices left and right, with a large window looking outside. Roman was standing still, looking through it.
Namek
The team cared not for the silence, for in the shroud of this ominous lack of action is that they'd move more efficiently. Within the husks of refined exoskeletons whose machinery had engineering precise enough to make noise in a measure no greater than a normal person would, they removed the covering of the vents and quietly sneaked their way into the ventilation system.
Feeling the direction of the wind, they'd follow the winding tunnels down to whatever central pumped the air throught the facility, and thus their plan would initiate.
Namek
He simply walked past them, once again without saying anything, and entered the facility trying to raise as little suspecion as he could.
Quickly looking around for any signage that could indicate him passageway to the deeper levels, he takes the first elevator he can down into whatever floor seems important.
Namek Strange. The team restarts their ARGUS systems and tries again. Taking note of the window. Joshua wonders if he can get in front of it somehow and take Roman from afar. he retracts himself from the vent, and activates his amours SPI mode, becoming camouflaged to not be seen. The other two Spartans stay behind to watch the room from above.
As he confidently walked inside, he noticed the exact same scientists he saw outside, sitting alongside the hallway. Something was clearly off.
There were more scientists and soldiers inside, each stuck in their own movements, repeating them endlessly.
There were a few large elevators, with 10 human sized boxes standing nearby. Perhaps those which were being brought inside. There were small windows on the boxes, in which you can look inside.
The elevators were closed, and required some sort of key.