Contract: The Don's Request
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#Team High Turnover Rate had a a brief group flashback to the ballistic flight during the third shipment for Don Jose de Cordiliera. Scotty was on the end of a 60' lead attempting to open Hannah Boucher's briefcase. After failing a very critical engineering evaluation of the briefcase, the nanobot mimic dissolved into a swarm and attacked. As the screaming started, Bash, Zuri of House Du'Mansia, and Jerzac Scarlewe started unloading at the swarm. Various grenades (effective), gunshots (effective against Scotty), Jolting Surge (utterly useless), and full auto (effective against both Scotty and Swarm). Roquesta (Rocket) Strauss strafed the ship away throughout the combat to keep the swarm off of the ship. After suffering some significant damage it coated onto Scotty. He touched the swarm (and himself) with a second very powerful Jolting Surge that caused the two of them to blip out of existence. Assuming him dead, the crew goes to the mess for a smoke. 12 seconds later Scotty blipped back into existence unconscious. Jerzac and Bash ran back to the airlock but had to wait for the airlock to cycle. While waiting (rather than risk their own hides rapidly opening the airlock) Zuri hopped into the gunner chair. A perfectly precise shot annihilated the swarm but carried on to evaporate Scotty due to the insanity of using starship scale weaponry in tactical combat.
Rocket leaned over to Zuri to whisper "Excellent choice."
Almost before the red mist that was Scotty froze in the vacuum of space, his crewmates were gambling over his effects and resumed their mission for The Don.