Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-4948356-20130801041323/@comment-3580035-20130803025517

"A portal opens and lets out several marines who easily take the cannon, who arm it with an Armor Piercing shell, and aim it at Echo... and fire directly at where the tau airbase is.

The Airbase is Destroyed completely... However it still leaves no evidence for the imperials to find.

The marines retreat back through the portal... leaving the imperial forces confused, and a lot of floating debre."

I thought that all the Ion Cannons were hyper-defended by marines? If 'several marines' can take one, then I may as well wipe them all out now! You are also assuming that the marines instinctively know how to manoeuvre, target, and fire the Ion Cannon. Coercing the crew will mean time wasting for Imperial reinforcements to arrive too. And Ion Cannons are energy weapons that don't fire rounds. Oh well.

-In character-

--Drone Defence System Online--

+Hostile Launch Detected+

++Calibrating Targeting Systems - Tracking Round through Orbit++

+++Ejecting Defence Disk+++

+++Neutron TDM Tracking Target. Standby for Fire. +++

++++Impact Immiment++++

++++Defence Disk Shield Generators Flaring - Failing - Offline++++

+++++Defence Disk Destroyed - Hostile Round Neutralised - Debris Field Scattering+++++

--Drone Defence System Offline--

=Out of Character=

The Defence Disk is basically a huge piece of Fio'tak embedded with sensors and Shield Generator. It gets launched in the way of incoming orbital weapons and is meant to tank the round. Unfortunately, this time the Defence Disk blew up, but absorbed all of the energy of the round, leaving the airbase intact. Of course, no one knows this and believe the debris is from the base itself.

The cloaking field also adapts itself to show a large crater.

Did you really think I hadn't thought of this?