Take us Home as we go

[Erremnart]

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A fireball caused by the explosion of two oxygen bottles and an incendiary grenade initiated by Thorn's team's plasma weapons fire rocked the bridge and its immediate surroundings. The lights went into emergency mode for a few seconds, the fire alarm went off, and all the windows on the bridge were automatically covered with heavy armor shutters to prevent possible decompression.
The sheet metal on the bulkheads was heavily distorted at the site of the explosion, revealing all sorts of pipes and cables running through the walls, some of them damaged and sparking before they were automatically shut down seconds later.

Enemies who had been near the explosive ceased to exist and those who had been lucky enough to be a little further away scattered - shaken and deafened to regroup and rearm at nearby armory. The officers on the command bridge, along with Captain Belle, had no protection from the sudden change in pressure, and so they lost consciousness for a few seconds before their bodies recovered - disoriented, with temporarily damaged hearing, struggling to breathe, but alive.

Virginia was still crouched in her hiding place, clutching a small laser pistol in her bloodied hands, and peeking out of her cover just slightly to see what had actually happened.
"Who's there - friend or foe?", Virginia called out questioningly towards the bridge exit, "This is the Captain and her officers.".


As fast and ruthless as the Insurgency's followers were in the lower decks, it appeared that they were not as numerous as they needed to be. Belle's men and Grant's men maintained a comfortable initiative, and after initial ambushes on their opponents, they began to gain the upper hand. The other crew members were already getting their bearings and dropping their weapons or putting their hands up so that no one could mistake them for the enemy.
"Engineering is ours, remnants of resistance in the engine section.", Sergeant Mark Robin announced over the radio.

For Grant and his men, however, the situation was not so simple - the enemy were gradually being driven into the bow living quarters, where their resistance was becoming tougher and stiffer. After all, they had no way of retreating either - the hangar was on the other side and they had no news of the bridge takeover as yet.
The fact was also complicated by the crew members who were trying to distance themselves from their more radical colleagues and, with their hands above their heads, trying to get through the hardliners and Grant's men to the rest of the ship - to help with steering, defending or simply repairing the ship.


The battlecruiser Roanoke continued to plow through the ice belt without any control, the pre-set course was already beginning to need further corrections and the crew was beginning to be reminded of this fact more frequently and significantly as larger and larger chunks of ice and rock chipped and scraped against the armored hull.
Although more and more gunners were getting to their stations to help with the eventual repulsion of the pirate vessels the 'Cobra' was now single-handedly facing, they were now forced to turn their guns against the flying chunks of ice to protect the ship from further damage.

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