Kenneth will administer a quick, all-natural general anesthesia to Phillip. That is, he will knock him out with a swift blow to the head.
"He'll need a bit of work before we can ask him anything," Kenneth tells Christopher. "Help me carry him to the infirmary."
With Christopher's help, Kenneth will bring Phillip to the infirmary to work on him.
Then Toki is there when Shaftoe and Marina reach him and he too hears the footsteps.
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Kenneth and Christopher are off to the infirmary with their now-unconscious hijacker.
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And I missed Harmony's post... d'oh!
The Captain still isn't responding to your messages, but the thermal sensors in the upper maintenance corridor are coming back and showing that the life signs in there are still strong and moving. The coolant-gassing did not seem to deter them, and you count a full twenty lifesigns!
In order to get the engines back online, you need to regain control of the computer programs that work with them, as the hacker deleted the drivers. Once the fighting starts, since Harmony has already done the ground work, you will be making Fix-It rolls every action-turn to see how many successes you gain.
Your target is accumulating twenty successes, and once you do, the ship will no longer be dead in space.
"...Drivers. Always the drivers..." Harmony mutters, opening up a Cortex search to start downloading the generic drivers for Windows Mesa- the beauty and the flaw of a common NavSat operating system is that it's just as easy to repair as it is to break. She will have to adapt them again to work with the Gan Ying's specific engines, but generics are a great place to start.
And then, the internal thermal sensors came back online. Harmony opens the window, and goes wide-eyed. "...Captain, I'm picking up twenty of them on the other side of the blast door. They must have boarded in suits! The coolant's not doing anything!"
She starts to shut off the coolant vent to save what they have left, and then stops, looking at the oxygen levels. "...I have an idea. Captain, I'm going to detonate the coolant in the maintenance hallway. It might break the airlock, but the blast door will definitely hold. It just might get a little hot up there."
Harmony maxes out the oxygen flowing into the maintenance hatch, and sets the air currents to mix it with the coolant, creating a powerful explosive gas. She disables the thermal sensors while waiting for the gasses to mix to keep them from being fried in the blast. If she has time, she'll start making modifications to the drivers, as well.
Once the mix is ready, Harmony checks her restraints, switches the intercom to page the entire ship, carefully excluding the Maintenance Hallway, and says "All hands, brace for impact!" Then, praying the airlock doesn't break, that the pirates are wearing modern space suits, and that the maintenance panels still have their mandatory fire-proof safety coating, inputs an override command to open the mangled upper maintenance hatch airlock door, creating a shower of sparks.
Marina does the same as Shaftoe. When she hears Harmony's message over the intercom, she holds on to a wall or something with her free hand, keeping the revolver raised and away from everyone.
"Want them all dead, Captain?" Marina asks. "Intruders ain't welcome once, they ain't gonna be welcome again. Might as well show them that."
Harmony, despite having locked herself in the cockpit, is still doing everything that she can to help out her crew. An easy Fix-It roll has Harmony manipulate the oxygen levels within the maintenance hatch, where the intruders heading for the inner blast door. And then, with the push of a button, she sets it all on fire.
The ship jolts violently downwards and there is a horrendous tearing sound as the attacking ship is dislodged. Everyone moving somewhere- Alan and Gabriel back to the maintenance hatch with their guns, Kenneth and Christopher and Nadra to the infirmary with Phillip- are delayed.
Harmony- the thermal sensors in the maintenance corridor have gone offline due to overload. The hatch itself is reading as extensively damaged and unusable. The sensors without the ship are still jammed.
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Those outside the hatch are jolted violently and feel the intense heat coming through the door. Everyone takes 5 damage there.
"Holy hell, what is she trying to do?" Kelly shouts, examing the hatch again. "Shaftoe, remind me to get repairs done."
Toki- you have a light revolver with four tiny clips and a set of nunchaku, for an Encumbrance of 4.
Harmony doesn't bother turning the thermal sensors back on just yet. Instead, she swings the ship around using maneuvering thrusters and locks onto the pirate vessel's engines. If the maneuvering thrusters are also offline, then she'll instead try to use the turrets to do the same: either way, she'll be ready to make the other ship just as disabled as the Gan Ying. "Captain, I'm trying to get a bead on their tail... should I take the shot?"
(I specifically mentioned deactivating the thermal sensors in my last post to prevent them from getting fried)
I missed that, Harmony (I keep doing that, it seems). In that case, the thermal sensors are okay.
The maneuvering thrusters also went offline and is part of those twenty successes you need to roll to get everything working. The turrets onboard Gan Ying are manual-control only, as well. You would have to go get on one.
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Kelly hits the comm unit.
"Did they shoot us?" Kelly asks.
Alan and Gabriel arrive shortly after, and Kelly answers Marina and Shaftoe. He gives a kurt nod. "While they're hurtin'. On three?"
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Team Hijacker gets to the infirmary. Phillip is still unconscious, but he has lost a lot of blood. Marina put a good shot in him, Kenneth. This is starting to look bad.