008 -- video. ( forward-dated to july 30th. )

[kutte]

[ jax is leaned back in one of the seats on the gunnery observation deck, twisting his heavy rings round his finger. the comm is propped ostensibly on his monitor while jax slouches back, ill at ease. ]

While we're chewing over Odessa's offer, I got something else to put on the table.

[ more like a heads up. jax's expression is serious, the twist of his rings a more clear show of anxiety than he's displayed on comms in his entire stretch on the ship. ]

Our rescuers've got us surrounded. Sensors are picking up a mess of ships out there. I figured that's about as worthy of discussion as everything else she and her new best friend are puttin' on the table.

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[forgodssake]

do you have numbers yet or just 'a mess'?

[ Text is a nice, non-panicky medium. ]

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[kutte]

[ good thinking charlie ]

Enough to surround us a couple times over. That's a whole fleet out there, I'd bet my last pack of cigarettes.

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[theroadwarrior]

There's not much to discuss, they're here to take us regardless.

What do we have for defenses?

[WELL LOOK AT THAT danger pops up and he's suddenly chatty cathy]

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[kutte]

[ is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship be still his heart ]

Cannons, turrets. We repaired everything possible, and all that shit's up and running. Plenty of guns for if they board.

Wash's packing down in shuttle bay, if we're planning on taking them on with the shuttles too.

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[vdova]

[ Natasha's on the move, in full Black Widow gear. ]

We got an ETA on when they'll try to board?

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[kutte]

I'm betting we don't got a hell of a lot of time. Has Knutson handed down an ultimatum yet?

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[sorrycharles]

How many?

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[kutte]

Too many. Is a number gonna make you feel better about it?

[voice] [a bit later]

[forgodssake]

Well over a hundred thousand, closer to a hundred and fifty thousand souls. Two very large vessels, larger than the Tranquility, but they're not exactly military, I don't think. Not front lines. A handful of large ships that are, maybe a dozen.

[milagros]

And what do we have?

( genuine question, besides the obvious answer of 'a collective power set of over nine thousand'. since, you know, he runs gunnery. )

[kutte]

Cannons. Turrrets. Whatever Wash's got down in Shuttle Bay.

[ is it enough who knows ]

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[cabins]

[Laura's been in situations like this one before.]

No rescuer that had our best interests at heart would display such force openly.

I do not, and will not trust the Triad and their government. And judging from the responses to your video, I am not alone in this thought process.

We can't out run them, not if we can't pilot this ship.

[She frowns just slightly.] Mr. Teller, I have been in a very similar situation before, on a massive scale.[Cylons attacking what was left of humanity ever 33 minutes. What a great way to start your presidency. Second only to genocide and the twelve mass-graves that their home worlds had become.

They were surrounded here. They were in their star-system. To run would be stupid, and only cause more needless deaths.]

Is there any way to access the FTL drive?

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[kutte]

How'd this play out when you were up against it?

[ should he be optimistic here, or ]

Not that I know of, unless Engineering's made a breakthrough I haven't heard about.

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[oldmanhusker]

None of this sits right. You don't rescue people by pinning them in like this. If this goes south

[And he doesn't think it's really much of an if]

We're in a tight spot.

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[kutte]

Doubting it was a rescue, whatever Knotson's got to say about it.

[ this is a bad scene, that's what. ]

You think we can get out of it?

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[yardbird]

So what're we gonna do about it?

An hour's not exactly much time to get our heads together and come up with a battle plan... or any kinda consensus for that matter. Even if we did, it looks like these people're not givin' us much of a choice.

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[kutte]

Do we have a consensus? People wanna stand and fight, or take the bait?

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[dewittinvestigations]

[ Booker doesn't trust this stranger or her offer of 'rescue,' and hearing about the firepower backing her up doesn't do anything to soothe his doubts. ]

You think they'll try to take us by force?

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[kutte]

I sure as hell don't think they brought all their friends on a casual joy ride.

[ probably :c ]

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[foundafamily]

Great. If they're tryin' to make us feel all cozy and secure, it's definitely workin'.

[Sarcasm out of the way, his expression and tone quickly sober up.]

Where do you want us?

[Not fighting back doesn't even come to mind.]

[kutte]

We need all hands. You wanna come to the main station, we'll figure it out there.

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[throwsdown]

What can we do to stop the bad guys from messing us up?

[Hey, what's happening, I'm here and short and ready.]

[kutte]

[ oh no small child :c ]

Shit, kid.

[ heather will gut him if you get hurt takeshi and yet ]

You asking because you're looking to help out?

[anybodies]

[One presumes she takes a moment to catch up with the rest of the barrage of questions going on across his post.]

How long can we hold them off?

[kutte]

Depends on how lucky we get.

[ they need a week. jax isn't super hopeful, but he knows better than to say so ]

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[goodgodman]

[ Leonard flicks on the video after catching up with the chatter. ]

Mind you I ain't a tactician, but no one shows up with politicians and god damned PR personnel if they got nothing to hide.

They're trying to sweet talk us into playing nice and muscle us into behaving all at once. But what the hell for?

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[forgodssake]

[ Chips in with-- ]

Have you ever heard someone talk to another person who is being unreasonable? Dangerous? Standing on a ledge, or pointing a weapon?

I think it would sound a lot like the Prime Minister and Dr Knutson.

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[doggedly]

I always meant to join up and learn guns.

[The way he says guns has a distant tint of amusement, like he can't quite take them seriously, even after all these years.]

I liked SEC too well, that's all. Oh well. S'ppose the number of shuttles we've got on our side seems a rather inconsequential total when you've just added their total up to 'a mess', eh?

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[alsohawkeye]

Anybody who can shoot should probably get their nanites swapped. I'm going to be flying if it comes to that, but I'll change mine, too.

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[better]

surrounded and rescuers don't really sound like they belong in the same sentence.

[kutte]

Yeah, that'll be the point. I figure we're not really looking at rescue.

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[lostsoldier]

Anybody know what the hell they're firing on us for already? I thought we had an hour.

[kutte]

Maybe they got tired of waiting. It wasn't like Knutson was making any progress.