Jath's definitive boarding party sequence.
A small stealth ship mag clamps to the side of an unsuspecting ship. The on board computers go to work deciphering the docking bay door's code. In several minutes, the door is hacked and opened. The stealth ship slides into the docking bay and re-magnetizes to the hull in a turret's blind spot. The pilot of the stealth ship, Jatham, and three crew members exit the craft and gets to work. They walk up to an airlock that is logic controlled. This is an easy hack. He uses his PDA to enter the system and a small minigame ensues. It's finished quickly and he's through. Down a cooridor, they come upon another door, this time, it's a blast door and there's no logic blocks on this side. His PDA is plugged in and he begins the minigame, only it's a little harder this time. He trips an alarm.
** BEEP BEEP BEEP, WARNING, INTRUDER ALERT, ACTIVATE AUTOMATIC DEFENSES**
Oh crap, now they know they're here. The closer to the core the harder the hack. He manages to open the blast door on his second try.
He peeks around a corner and sees a small anti-personel turret pop out of the ceiling. He takes his rocket launcher out and pops around the corner loosing a missile. The turret whirs around and blasts in his direction clipping him in the shoulder as he ducks back behind the corner. BOOM, the turret beeps in protest as is tries to continue but is disabled.
They start down the hallway again and looks around the next corner. He sees a guard looking in his direction so he pulls out his sniper and takes aim. BOOM. The guard slumps to the ground. They continues up a ramp. Beep!
Crap, another turret! He ducks behind a pillar just in time to see a shotgun blast whip past him on all sides. One of his crewmen was hit and is lying on the floor. He jumps out and shoots a rocket before it has the chance to take another shot, but a turret out of his view zaps the rocket with a laser incinerating it. He turns and jumps through an open door just narrowly missing getting shot at again. His crewman isn't so lucky and the second blast finishes him off. There's another door and several systems computers nearby. He hacks the computers first. They are disabled and can no longer fire. He calls his fleet, Weapons disabled!.
Jatham glances out the window and sees several ships a fraction of this ship's size drop out of hyperspace. They immediately start pelting the ship he's on. I'd better hurry, he thinks. He gets to the core room. He hacks the door, but the pilot is waiting on the other side with a guard and a rocket launcher. CRAP, Jatham jumps back and to the side as the rocket blasts into the wall he's standing next to killing his other two crewmen. Ringing in his ears as he scrambles to his feet. He's injured pretty badly, but can't afford to loose this fight. He hobbles around the corner behind the previous door and readies his energy blade.
The guard comes through first. SHLING, the guard drops to the floor stunned. Jatham takes out his sniper and fires at the pilot, hitting him, but it's not fatal. The pilot runs back into the control room for a medkit. Before chasing after the pilot, Jatham finishes the guard off with a blaster to the head. He then readies his rocket launcher and rounds the corner.
The pilot has reentered the core. He fires, BOOM!. The pilot is thrown from the core and stunned starts shooting wildly into the air with his laser. Jatham Lines up a shot with his sniper, and ZAP.
The pilot goes limp. Jatham doesn't have time to check if he's finished off or not, he runs to the core and tries to hack it... No luck. He sees several medical cabinets nearby so Jatham decides to heal up. LOCKED. He hacks the locks, relatively easily and fixes himself up. Turning around he sees the pilot is gone and there's a door open in the back of the room. He looks out a window and sees and escape pod launch and fly top speed away from the fray. Now he's got time. He messages his fleet. They immediately cease fire aside from a few missile blasts against the remaining turrets.
He calls for a backup boarding party. Together they sweep the ship and find the remaining guards. Two they capture, placing in the ship's brig, and the third is dealt with otherwise. They locate the encryption computer (faction block). Attempting to hack the computer proves useless. They attempt to get the captives to unlock the computer for them, but they are either too loyal, or just don't know. One is executed, the other begs for his life and swears allegiance to the boarding party.
They place a marker on the computer giving a core drill the exact position inside the ship. They then disable the shielding and evacuate the area of the ship.
Jatham stands near the window looking over the battlefield feeling good about this victory. Still raw from his earlier wounds, his arm throbs, but he likes the feeling. Suddenly, Jatham gasps in horror as an enemy flagship drops out of hyperspace and incinerates the Core drilling ship. Oh crap, the pilot's back for his ship, but this time he's got friends.
