Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-4794494-20141014230422/@comment-4794494-20141106045112

(STARS, I hope you don't mind a bit of collateral damage to your infrastructure)

'Demunth "Terrorists in this district? I thought crime was exclusive to the lower levels."

'Taralam "Brothers. I think we have a problem..."

Attention turns to 'Taralam, who was looking out his balcony. A drone could be seen speeding toward their level with some kind of attachment on its underside. As 'Taralam looked through the scope of his new sniper rifle, he alerted the rest of the team about his findings. Before anyone could react, the drone was literally several meters away from the balcony and started to emit a strange metallic sound.

'Taralam "BOMB! GET DOWN!"

The explosion was much larger than any of them could have anticipated, and it wiped away a large portion of the entire housing complex; three floors both up and down around the immediate point of impact were completely eviscerated, and severely damaged the areas outside of that radius. Flames, debris and broken metal parts were scattered throughout the area like a junkyard.

'Ratam and 'Demunth were able to armor lock and negate damage, while the other Ronin Zealots evaded the inferno. Even though he had his shields active, 'Nosol had his armor burned. 'Quirov throw off a piece of debris that had landed on him and brushes himself off.

'Nosol "More like an invasion!"

Another loud explosion goes off in the distance, indicating another bomb had detonated.

"We need to get to rally everyone to a defense. Do you have your weapons, brothers?"

The sangheili had not been expecting to fight while on the asteroid, and only brought very light armaments, with the exception of 'Taralam and 'Ratam, who had a KRS-10 Sniper Rifle and a Trollvenant Carban, respectively. The other Zealots had plasma pistols, needlers and their energy swords to work with. UFM grimaces slightly at his own lack of foresight for a situation like this.

'Ratam "Lifts are at the end of this hall. We can ride them down to ground level."

The Tacit Ronin dash toward the end of the hall, peeking through the shattered or open doors to find fleeing kig-yar civilians. Before they could reach the elevators, the lift doors opened prematurely to reveal six aliens (3 in each chamber), all wearing red cloaks with strange emblems, who stepped out and immediately fired their sub-machine guns on the sangheili. Caught completely off guard, the Ronin Zealots kicked down doors in the hallway and took shelter in there; one Zealot had so much momentum that he had tripped, forcing 'Quirov to grab him by the leg and drag him into cover as they returned fire.

'Quirov "When STARS said this place was safe, was he referring to pirate standards or ours?"

UFM steps out to fire his plasma rifle at one of the Black Fang mercenaries. A bolt singes the merc's hand and he cowers away momentarily, but the others focused their fire on him, and he lost his shields. The Field Marshall scurries back into cover.

"I have no idea, but I think we can agree that this attack was planned in advance. These guys are too well trained for this to be a random act of violence."

'Nosol "They also seemed to be targeting us."