Lua VT Sanctuary, Command Room
<4/6 DR, 10:00>


~A general message goes out to the members of the Remnant:
"Tenno, the time has come for us to make our first step in bringing about an end to this endless war. Please make your way to the command center for a mission briefing if you intend to be of assistance.
Mata"~

Mataeru:
He is standing behind the back row of five chairs aligning an additional five chairs he salvaged from the ruins of Lua and simulataneously monitoring the secruity screens displaying each room inside the Sanctuary, as well as multiple locations outside and surrounding the hidden base

~The first set of five chairs is bolted to the ground in a manner that forces those sitting to face forward. Despite this restriction, the chairs are quite comfortably made, a long lost relic of an age lost. The holographic projector is currently displaying Pluto, with a corpus cruiser and several planetary locations highlighted, along with a personnel file, and a small Corpus dropship~

Vuko:
   As per usual the Tenno seems to have responded first to Mataeru’s call, almost like he was just waiting for the message. He walks into the conference room with confidence in his step, and a battle-ready look on his face. In addition to his usual Orokin warrior armor apparel there seems to be a beautiful and well taken care of Eisen sword on his right hip. The dark steel blade shimmering in the light as he passes on the different lights, looking like it just has been polished. The hilt gently reflecting the floor and walls in its almost rose gold hue, and the grip neatly covered in dark, navy blue leather. 

   Without a word being said, Vuko sits on the right-most, front row chair, letting the blade hang from the side. There was no need for speech, as all could be read from his body language ‘Let’s do this boss. I’m ready.’

   After waiting a few seconds, and realizing that no one will come as fast as him, he leans back in his chair and begins tapping the pummel of the sword in anticipation. ‘clang‘ His metal glove hitting the metal ‘cling’ in a rhythmic tone. ‘clunk’(edited)

Isa:
Isa arrived a few minutes after the message had been sent out. She quietly entered the room, remaining near the door for a second, her yellow eyes darting about, taking in the surroundings. She was as expressionless as usual, her face a stone slab that gave no hints as to what was going on within her head.

She walked in further now, stretching her right hand, then forming a fist, then stretching it again, she sat down in the left-most chair of the middle row, rolling her shoulder as she did so. She took a deep breath, then released it. The movements of her left arm stopped as she moved her hands onto her lap and sat looking straight ahead.

Devros von Inie:
A short while after Isa’s entrance, the door to the room hisses once more to reveal another familiar face. There is Devros, the beefy messy haired, glasses wearing boy standing by the doors with the left side of his head wrapped up in bandages – ear and eye alike. Other than that, he appears it spit condition with his Verida suit polished and cleaned and ready for action. Standing next to him is his behemoth of a companion and he seems to be holding something edible in his left hand.

Devros will smile at anyone that looks towards him and walks in, his boots landing with heavy thumps on the floor as if a mountain was on the march. The boy lifts his left hand and takes a juicy bite off what looks like to be a pickled condor chick as if it were a apple, his teeth sinking hard in to the newborns belly with a loud squishy munch, tearing it open like a savage beast.

Mouth full, he plops down to the chair next to Vuko, Garhul occupying the space between the two Tenno. Devros glances towards the Ivara user, with his one currently working eye, and nods at him with a grin, the flesh still swirling inside his maw and slightly poking out from between his teeth.

“Gran’?”

He manages to slur out inbetween chews before gulping down and taking another bite, this time tearing off the chicks left wing and lowering his sullied hand to dangle off the armrest as he munches.

Garhul sits with ease but hoists his head to look towards Vuko, glancing at the boy with a curious look in his dull golden eyes.(edited)

Kapak:
As if the scent of Devros’ food was the carrot on the end of a stick, Kapak barged into the room with a loud slam and screech as he forced the doors open right as they were closing behind Devros.
The twisted corpse of a Warframe slithered across the floor like a drunken serpent, almost seeming like he was made of liquid as he appeared to melt over and onto the nearest chair.
“‘Sup Boss man. Vuko. Devros. Weird Lady.” He nodded to the present members.(edited)

Disruptis:
Following silently behind the Nidus’s rampant outburst, a black and yellow Limbo slowly entered the chamber. The gammacor at his hip pulsed with an intense, orange light. All sorts of lines and small orokin runes rapidly spun in the air along the glow’s surface, accompanied by a quiet, low-pitched humming. Upon noticing the chairs, Disruptis froze mid-step. After a second or two, He quickly scurried up to one and placed a hand on its back. The Tenno pushed down on it, applying gentle pressure, but found it immovable. Without a word, Disruptis paced back into the hallway, the door closing behind him.

A minute later, he re-entered the room carrying a light-weight chair. The chair featured a long headrest and tucked-in footrest. Still without a sound, the Limbo set down the chair to the left side of the seating arrangement at the very front. His hands slid to the side of his recliner and pressed a button, causing the foot-rest to swing outwards and allowing the Tenno to lay back in his seat. He promptly did so, picking up an unidentifiable drink which slid out of the arms of the chair.(edited)

Cev:
A few moments after Disruptis returned, a brightly coloured blue and white Octavia entered. His steps followed a set rhythm in time to the music playing inside his ear. Approaching the back row of chairs, he took the center most chair and moved over to where Disruptis was reclining. He plopped it down beside his old friend and stood, leaning against the back of it.

Mataeru:
he nods to Vuko and smiles appreciatively for the Tenno's punctuality and moves to take his place in front of the holo table, crossing his arms and waiting for the rest of the group to arrive. Upon Isa's entrance he raises an eyebrow and grins
"Studious as ever I see."

He then turns to Devros and his eyes widen slightly in a complicated mixture of horror, intrigue and disgust
"I hope you will be able to finish... that... his pause is noticeable as he attempts to find a word for the food and fails ... Before the briefing begins."

Looking to Kapak he nods in return to the infested monstrosity's greeting.
As Disruptis enters, leaves and re-enters, Mata's look sours at the additional chair, and his sour look turns to one of sheer disgust at the nonchalant behavior
"Disruptis... This is a mission briefing, not a movie and dinner lounge. I expect that chair to be raised to an upright position with the footrest locked away and the drink to be finished before the briefing starts. Otherwise, you will be required to leave and view a recording of the briefing."

Looking to Cev, he nods in greeting
"I trust the music will be at a minimum turned down once we begin."

He waits several more minutes for more Tenno to arrive and frowns in frustration as no one else appears before he dims the lights in the room and brings the holoprojector to full power, casting a bluish hue on the Tenno seated before him.
"Good morning Tenno and thank you for time. As you all know, our immediate goal is to capture Earth and purge the Grineer and Infested from the planets surface. However, in order to do that, we will need some additional firepower, and a safe base of operations. Ideally, an Orokin Tower would serve that purpose best, but until now, there has been no way to take one over."
The hologram zooms in on a Corpus compound on the surface of the planet

"A Corpus Scientist by the name of Tatep Ptau, or Jaren Drau, is an Orokin enthusiast among the Corpus ranks, and has devoted his life and finances to searching for functioning Orokin technology. Luckily for us, he has located an Orokin void gate that connects to a tower that has not been completely overrun by the Corrupted and Neural sentries. On the other hand, he has managed to secure funding from several Corpus houses and and has received military support. While this is good and bad news for us, I have been unable to locate him or the ship he will be using to travel to the dig site."

he pauses for a moment as the hologram highlights several key locations in the installation
"This installation is maximum security and houses the data vaults we will need to access in order to find Drau. Vuko and I will be among the members of the Remnant assigned to an infiltration team to extract the data. If anyone else is capable of extracting data without be detected please let me know and I will also assign you to the group."

The hologram then changes to a supply depot in a different location on Pluto
"The second team will escort Isa to this supply depot and assist her in hijacking a Corpus shuttle. Cause as much of a distraction as you can to give her time to get aboard, hack the systems if need be, and get it out. Once she is clear, we will all rendezvous at an abandoned Corpus dig site south of the depot and pack our Warframes into several supply crates that Isa will smuggle aboard Drau's ship. Anyone who wishes to be a part of the assault team needs to let me know. Anyone else will simply be stationed at the dig site."

The hologram changes images once more to show a Corpus freighter
"It is unknown if Drau will be travelling with a military escort or not. I suspect he will not so as not to draw attention to the Grineer, but we will not know until we are aboard. If there is a military escort, we will need to ultimately destroy or disable them as well."
He pauses for a moment as he changes topics

"Once we are aboard Drau's ship, we will need to disable it. Our infiltration squad will handle that as a full blown assault on the reactor would give Drau the chance to escape. Once the reactor has been sabotaged, we then have two options. Our infiltration team can quietly make a move on Drau and capture him while the crew figures out what is going on, then meet up with the assault squadron to purge the crew. Alternatively, the assault squadron and infiltration teams can join forces and eliminate the crew, then go after Drau together. Let me know what your preferred path is. If there is a military escort, the Assault team will be redeployed into Archwings to destroy or disable the accompanying ships before they are able to reinforce the Corpus aboard Drau's vessel. Depending on the situation, it may be possible to get Isa on board one of the ships and commandeer it, but that will have to be a judgement call in the moment."

The hologram changes to that of an Orokin tower next
"When we reach the dig site, we will need to kill everyone. The Assault team will take care of that while the infiltration team secures a landing site for a single landing craft carrying supplies. Before we set off for Pluto, we will need to stock the landing craft with alternate Warframes, weapons, and additional supplies, as well as several of our shipboard Cephalons. In the event the tower Cephalon is unresponsive, we will need the assistance of our Cephalons to either erase, or reprogram the tower's. Make sure the items you store in the landing craft are appropriate for a long and drawn out seige. While there will not be as many corrupted as a regular tower, there will still be aheft number and we will need to deal with them. There is also no tell how long we will be stranded aboard the tower. The void gate will take some time to repair, and overriding the current cephalon will take hours, if not days' worth of work."

The hologram shuts down and the lights return to their normal brightness
"Questions? Suggestions? Concerns?"
He crosses his arms and looks over the group sitting before him

Muro:
~As Mata finished his briefing, the sound of heavy footsteps could be heard moving fast towards the command room.  As the doors slid open, a rather large Hydroid sprinted into the room, not even trying to be subtle about his entrance.~

Muro weighed his options as he charged into the room, swearing at himself with every step. Under ordinary circumstances, he would never have been late for a meeting like this, but what started as a simple errand for his Cephalon turned into a brawl with a patrolling Grineer squad that took far longer than it had any right to. The way he saw it, he had two options now: either he could apologize profusely as he ran, possible disrupting the meeting more than he already has, or just stay silent and just take whatever punishment Mata would have lined up for him later. Deciding on the latter, he practically slid into the leftmost chair in the front row, bringing his Fragor out from its holster at the base of his spine so he could be seated. As he settled into his chair, he brought the hammer down  head first as gently as he could, resting it between his legs.  Muro looked up towards Mata, feeling his leader's icy gaze upon him. he searched for words to explain himself, but nothing satisfactory came up.  All he could do was hang his head after a moment of what would have passed for eye contact between two Warframes. Whatever the mission was, he would have to find out for himself later.

Disruptis:
Disruptis froze in place. He swirled the liquid around in its glass slowly, trying not sulk in the feeling of betrayal at Mataeru’s reprimand. A reddish-brown smoldered within the contents of his drink, although calling it a ‘drink’ wasn’t correct. It was an experimental solution he had whipped up in order to counteract the abnormal effects of a creature he owned. The effects currently riddled the Tenno’s warframe, slowly breaking down its sword-steel casing into composite metallic powder. He had already tracked an unnoticeable thin layer of dust into the room.

According to what Kapak had told him, whom Disruptis had consulted much on the matter, a little bit of it was enough to begin a chain of reactions leading to the nullification of the mysterious properties. The knowledge little beyond the befuddled Limbo, but tests had proved its success. Additionally, in order to help spreading, it was best to remain lying at an angle closest to 180 degrees as possible. Disruptis didn’t want to be late for the meeting, so he thought he’d just apply it and still be able to listen and partake in conversation. He clenched his hands and lowered his head. Looks like that may have not been the best decision after all.

Mataeru had always been one to jump to conclusions. This time was no exception. A worry formed in the Tenno’s head. The worry that sometime, someplace, he would do something the squad leader would gravely misunderstand, and pitch the two Naramon against each other. He shoved the thought to the back of his mind, then with precise dexterity, poured a line of the dark liquid over his torso.

“Sorry Mataeru, I just need to be leaning back so I can perform some urgent patch-up on my ‘frame while you debrief us. I didn’t want to miss this though.”

Devros von Inie:
The glasses wearing boy follows the projections with his one currently working eye, ever so often taking huge juicy chunks off the pickled condor chick, even the bones. He tries to chew as quietly as possible but the occasional crunch rings out which makes him pause his eating to glance at the people around him before continuing the feast. Breakfast is a important meal, and Devros isn’t one to skip any kind of food so next best thing is bringing the munchies along to the meeting.

He listens intently and studies the images closely, squinting once in a while to get a better look of the projections. Damn, this is a full blown out operation right here. Devros has never been a part of such a organized unit, not to mention this whole thing is held together by invisible strings…there is a lot of ways this can go bad.

But, he smiles, finding it exciting.

Gulping down the last pieces of the chick, he lowers his hand to dangle off the side, to which Garhul reacts, and starts licking it clean from the oozes and blood that stained it.

“I’m wi' any assault 'eadin' on den!”

He booms up as he speaks in his raspy voice. Devros never was a fan of sneaking about or doing delicate things. It’s all about the frontal cheek bash

Isa:
Mataeru's compliment is met with three seconds of cold, unfeeling staring followed by an ever so slight nod. The comments about the others were met with a flash of annoyance in the Tenno's yellow eyes. She didn't care what the others did during this meeting, so long as they absorbed the information given. The Tenno appeared to relax somewhat, crossing her arms now and leaning back in her chair as Mataeru's lecture began. She tilted her head somewhat to the left as she listened to the portion on hijacking a shuttle. She quietly waited, listening until the end and waiting for other questions to be answered before asking her own.

"For this shuttle hijacking, will I be infiltrating the Corpus ranks, or simply joining the assault team using a Warframe? I feel it may be easier to infiltrate and get several crewmen to attempt to evacuate with me. Taking them by surprise with void powers on the shuttle should allow me to kill them easily, transferring into my Warframe if absolutely necessary. The shuttle will not need to be hacked and there will be little need to protect me."

Vuko:
    The Tenno sitting in the front, stops tapping the hilt of his sword as other people start entering the room. He turns around and lightly nods to each person who enters, and even chuckles at Disruptis as he comes back with his own chair. Other than that he stays quiet, nodding along to Mataeru’s presentation, as all is clear to him. Vuko is simply waiting for a go ahead for he has been preparing for days.

Kapak:
Kapak absentmindedly drummed his fingers on the back of his chair, his hands moving like impatient spiders.
He remains wordless, as he would rather listen to the others speak than bombard Mataeru with more inquiries; the only other thing that escaped his maw was a string of yellowish saliva as he watched Devros and his canine finish their snack.

Mataeru:
He looks to Muro and raises his eyebrow
"Assault squad, infiltration team, or standby?"

Raising his gaze to the rest of the group waiting for questions, nodding to Devros' team selection. He turns to Isa next and smiles
"That is a superb suggestion."
He looks back over the squad and updates the task for the assault group
"Alright Tenno, mild change of plans for the Assault team. Isa will infiltrate the Corpus ranks while the rest of the squad assaults the facility. When the alarms sound, she will fly one of the supply shuttles off under guise of evacuation and take it to the rendezvous point."

he runs a hand through his hair, brushing it off to the side and leans against the holo table, crossing one foot over the other on the ground
"If anyone else has questions you may ask them, otherwise you are free to leave. We will begin our operation tomorrow at 08:00 hours. Thank you for your time and willingness to help."

Muro:
Muro weighed his options carefully. He knew a bit about the plan from their last big meeting, enough to know that either side could use a medic, should things go south. Additionally, he had no intention of being sidelined for this mission, so standby was out of the question. He took a quick look around, seeing who else was present. Seeing the present crowd, he answered Mata's question with one of his own.

"I guess it depends boss. Who's going where?" He briefly looked over his shoulder at Kapak, who seemed to be eyeing something very closely indeed at the moment. "Since Kapak and I are the only ones here with any healing abilities to work with, I should probably go with whichever squad he isn't part of. That way, both teams have a way to keep themselves alive if something goes wrong." Muro had a hunch which squad Kapak would join, given what he had seen of the monstrous Nidus so far, which likely meant he would be on the infiltration team. Not his first choice, but he'd go where he was needed regardless.

Disruptis:
“Sounds good to me Mataeru, I vote on the infiltration squad to capture Drau before everything goes bottom-up,” Disruptis offered his opinion, finishing off his treatment, “since it’s Corpus sneak-work we’re dealing with here, I can probably be of some use. I don’t have many cloaking options, but my rift can let you completely ignore laser traps. That being said, would you like me on assault or infiltration?”(edited)

Mataeru:
He nods to Disruptis 
"If you can remain undetected by the enemy, then I will gladly bring you along."

He shifts his focus to Muro
"I will have your squad assignment ready for you tomorrow. Morning depending on who goes where. I will also send you a recording of the briefing for you to review at your leisure."

He then looks out over the Tenno assembled in the room and nods
"You are all dismissed. I will hand out team assignments before we depart for those who do not contact me with their preferred role before then."

Disruptis:
“Yeah, I’ll just bum off a cloak from Vuko,” Disruptis said. His hands tentatively ran over the torso of his warframe, making sure the solution had soaked in. Satisfied by his inspection, the Limbo got up, folded his chair and dragged it to the exit. The door swung open as he paused right underneath it.

“Thanks… Mataeru…”

The door closed.

Kapak:
“Hmmm what? No, the Nekros on Cetus was the one instigating the fight! Vuko was only retaliating with-“ he looked around.
“Oh, sorry, I thought the discussion was on something else,” he grinned nervously. He turned to Muro, finger gunning in his direction with a click of his tongue. As Kapak stood up, he gave a small salute/bow combo to Mataeru, then nudged Vuko with a cheeky grin before exiting the room.

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Muro:
Muro stood up, acknowledging Kapak's gesture to him with a nod and a thumbs up before turning back to Mata.
"You got it Boss. I'll be listening to the briefing in the lounge if you need me."  With that, Muro turned and sauntered out of the control room, the sound of his heavy steps slowly fading as he wandered down the hall towards the lounge.

Vuko:
   As Kapak nudges him, Vuko covers his mouth with the palm of a hand, starts cackling as quietly as he can, trying not to be noticed. After about twenty seconds, once he’s done laughing, the Tenno stands up, putting on a very serious face, and says to Mataeru - “I’m going to finish up making this beauty.” - He taps the hilt of his sword. - “Ready for combat. Until tomorrow.” - He finishes up the sentence with a light nod, and leaves the room with big strides, heading towards the hangar.

[End RP 4/6, 10:25]