The Catacomb of Machines

Jagdgeschwader-51

"Nidâs Summeris"
Proud Commanding Officer of an Eridani Scout Ship, he insists to investigate the Catacomb of Machines "himself", aspiring to earn wealth and glory when he returns home to share his loot and knowledge he gained.

Nidâs is an somewhat arrogant, dutiful and experienced Officer, seven years of on-ground combat experience hardened him, both physically and mentally although lead to him prefering to keep to himself.

Gear:

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Eridani Standard Issue Officer Gear

Powered by personal Fusion Core
Personal Shield Generator
Exoskeleton
Built-In Night and Thermal Vision
Magnetically Accelerated Sabot Round Carbine with internal Fusion Core "Gladius"

Lore-Keeper-Loxz

LeftHandofGod
Jagdgeschwader-51
Drakador_Chaos
Undated_Abyss
Alpha
The cheerful music within the carrier drifts away, leaving only the rattling of the ship's interior structure. Within a few moments the bay door opens and the engines whine as they struggle to maintain their current altitude. The pilot turns to speak to her passengers, "This is as close as I can get, any closer and the whole navigation system 'll go haywire." The drop is steep but survivable.

TurboTwinky28

Catacomb of Machines, sounds like a rediscovered ancient Mechanicus cache

Lore-Keeper-Loxz

TurboTwinky28
What lies inside is but tech heresy, my dear tech priest

Undated_Abyss

Lore-Keeper-Loxz
Oh so this is like the subterranean part of Mars that got broken by AI...?

LeftHandofGod

Lore-Keeper-Loxz

"Gertal Vos"

As the fifth daughter of a noble family, Gertal has little to nothing in the way of military or political aspects. When she heard about the Catacombs, she decided it was just the thing to bring back lost knowledge and technology to glorify the High Imperium and earn herself a place in the history books.

Gear:

Light Power armor, rated up to machine gun fire.
Imperial plasma edged broadsword
Plasma submachine gun with grenade attachment.

Drakador_Chaos

Lore-Keeper-Loxz
...Vai´Syrn checks for defensive measurements and atmosphere, with the scanner, should there be be no atmosphere (and no notable defensive measurements) she will use the shield to project an environmental field around her and then jump, using her wings to land softly...

Undated_Abyss

Lore-Keeper-Loxz
...Tallax begins making scans of his own in the hopes his suits systems can map the immediate entry area before drop and detect any hazards or defenses, he then speaks to the pilot: "What exactly is it that would make the navigation system go haywire if you got closer?"

LeftHandofGod

Lore-Keeper-Loxz

Gertal looks down and shrugs, jumping from the plane, and rolling when she hits the ground, arcs of electricity spitting from her armor harmlessly. She gets to her feet and heads towards the gate.

Jagdgeschwader-51

Lore-Keeper-Loxz

Nidâs' activates his personal shield to brace his fall. He draws his Carbine and checks his surroundings precisely. Although the electricity that's arcing from the ground to the suit shouldn't influence any vital components, the strength of the arcs makes him a bit nervous, he proceeds to approach the gate. Nidâs' suit possesses minor scanning capabilites, which he will use to try to decipher the runic writings. Nidâs doubts he will find anything useful though.

Lore-Keeper-Loxz

Undated_Abyss
"Some kind of frequency. I dont know the full effects, thats more for the science people to explain, but it sure does give me a headache."

Drakador_Chaos
At the point of landing an electrical charge can be pulsating throughout the floor, leading up to the gate where it suddenly stops. Archaic runes litter its copper surface.

Lore-Keeper-Loxz

Jagdgeschwader-51
Drakador_Chaos
LeftHandofGod
Alpha
Undated_Abyss
On the Gate the following runes can be seen repeating:
᚛ᚂᚐ ᚃᚑᚂᚔ ᚄᚒᚔᚈ ᚄᚘᚒᚉᚄ ᚊᚔ ᚓᚅᚈᚏᚓᚅᚈ᚜
As all five come into close proximity of the gate, a pillar made of hard light appears behind them, its purpose appearing to be to serve as some kind of console. The electricity seems to stop for a moment before starting back up in a circle around the pillar.

RandomCommander
(Sadly yes)

Undated_Abyss

Lore-Keeper-Loxz
"Good job this suit has the electronics protected by an insulating layer..."
And with that, Tallax also jumps and makes a combat roll upon impact with the ground, which, incombination with the suit's shock absorbers, reduces the impact force to an easily much more safe level

Alpha

Lore-Keeper-Loxz
Pug looks at the jump that awaits him:
"Electricity? An orc can survive worse than that, I once caught an axe with my head."

Pug jumps down and does a very amateuristic combat roll. Now he just stands down there, unharmed by the fall and (almost) ignoring the electricity.

"That tickles! Hahaha, stop it!"

Drakador_Chaos

Lore-Keeper-Loxz
(Wonder if I should post the charactersheet here.)(Also, is the gate open/active?)
...Vai´Syrn walks up to the gate but keeps a respectful distance as of now, she scans the signs and aligns them on the scanner, trying to find out wether they belong to any of the languages registered in the archives or mentioned in history and attempts to make sense of them, she scratched her chin and watched the surroundings while the comparison processes did their work...

RandomCommander

Lore-Keeper-Loxz ((Is it not too late to join?))

Drakador_Chaos

Tson Currently full at least according to the member list.
Also:

RandomCommander ((Is it not too late to join?))

Lore-Keeper-Loxz (Sadly yes)

Drakador_Chaos

Lore-Keeper-Loxz
...Vai´Syrn started mumbling, looking at the results..."Seems like some sort of Offworld dialect?...no, something like morse...is this machine code? (She turned around, facing the pillar.) Is this a Vex data-conflux? Unlikely... Hm..." She stepped closer to the console-pillar, though just close enough to see what it showed...

Alpha

Lore-Keeper-Loxz Pug looks amazed at the console, and starts thinking: "Usually locks open when I break them, so..."
Pug grabs his club, and delivers a mighty swing to the device. Bang!

Strangely nothing happens.
"Should I keep trying?", he asks the rest of the team.

Jagdgeschwader-51

Lore-Keeper-Loxz

Nidâs searches for possible clues, hints, anything that might be useful to know when trying to use the console.

As he hears Pug trying to break the lock with brute force, he answers his questions with a simple headshake

Undated_Abyss

Lore-Keeper-Loxz
Tallax attempts to scan the pillar in an attempt to work out how it interacts with the gate
(Last one tonight I'm gonna sleep)

LeftHandofGod

Lore-Keeper-Loxz
Gertal looks at the console then shrugs and keeps walking forwards.

Lore-Keeper-Loxz

Drakador_Chaos
LeftHandofGod
Undated_Abyss
Alpha
Jagdgeschwader-51
I want to apologize but I will not be on cosmoteer for a while. My life has gotten significantly more complicated as tragedy struck within my group of friends. I am sorry but I will return after I feel I can deliver on the standard I hold myself. To. I am so sorry to everyone who wanted to see how this played out.

Drakador_Chaos

(I suppose I should at least note that my character is a Blood-Vitreus, an about 2.5 meters tall mothlike humanoid, that has two legs four arms and can fold it´s wings and wear them like a royal mantle.)