Upon receiving his recognition codes, the astropath downloaded his encrypted message, and began to speak.  "Fleet Command port Wander, emergency message priority 1.  Ares is under attack.  Port Attica is under attack.  Orbital defenses nonfunctional.  Communications jammed.  Reaver forces assaulting the Lucretia gate.  Prepare your defenses.  Wormhole breach anticipated in 3.5 hours.  Repeat, Port Attica under attack.  No reinforcements requested at this time."  The astropath said, suddenly changing tone and modulation of his voice as he rapidly switched to the addendum.  "PS, Rogue Trader Cortez: Get your fancy ass over here and kick some Reaver brains into the void with my Daddy's ship!  -Commodore Lucretia Aquairre."<br/><br/>Just as the astropath finished his message, Baromir shouted a warning, and a frag grenade rolled into the middle of the gathered group, exploding and sowing carnage among the gathered individuals.  At the exact same time, a pair of hooded and robed men leaned out from the door of the room and opened fire with their autoguns, filling the room with a hail of lead.  The messenger seemed just as suprised as everyone else, while the astropath sat there obliviously.  "Repeat message?  Come to the Blind Eye bar and grill for fine racks of nerphe and the best amnsec in the sector.  Repeat message?"<br/><br/>Cortez 36/32 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=24717)<br/>Baromir 17/21  (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=24718)<br/><br/>(Delila suffers 9 points of explosive damage to the right arm,  Baromir suffers 8 points of explosive damage to the body, Sarah suffers 6 points of explosive damage to the body, Cortez suffers 17 points of explosive damage to the head, Thraxius suffers 5 points of explosive damage to the left arm and Traak suffers 19 points of explosive damage to the body.  Every character gets a reaction, and may dive under the meeting room table to gain 8 points of cover against all attacks, attempt to dodge the grenade, or attempt to dodge the autogun fire; each degree of success negates 1 autogun hit.)<br/><br/>(Cortez takes 2 autogun hits to the body dealing 4 and 9 damage, and an autogun hit to the right arm dealing 6 damage)<br/>(Baromir takes 2 autogun hits to the body dealing 6 and 5 damage)<br/>(Thraxius takes an autogun hit to the body dealing 12 damage)<br/>(Traak takes 2 autogun hits to the body dealing 12 and 13 damage, one to the left arm dealing 7 damage, and one to the head dealing 13 damage)<br/>(Delila takes 1 autogun hit to the body dealing 7 points of damage)<br/>(Thraxius takes 1 autogun hit to the body dealing 11 points of damage)<br/>(Sarah takes 1 autogun hit to the body dealing 4 points of damage)<br/><br/><br/>Initiative Order:   (agility bonus in parenthesis)<br/><br/>Thraxius 12 (3)<br/>Baromir 9 (3)<br/>Cortez 7 (3)<br/>Sarah 8 (5)<br/>Messenger 7 (4)<br/>Traak 6 (5)<br/>Delila 6 (3)<br/>Chaos Cultists 5 (3)<br/>Astropath 0 (3)