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Commander Andreiya
Action: Finding one 10 inch Kospod, attempting to capture it by corralling it into a box he emptied. [I didn't know who was still participating, I just quoted everyone. Sorry for taking so long crying ]

Lysanna’s concerns were well founded, but Vyn was rational about it. Andreiya didn’t trust their host, and for a few seconds he let himself dream about finding something from Velenia. Commodore Lyndin would certainly be pleased if they–oh, but Tenoch was teasing Aliez about how much he liked the Commodore, wasn’t he?

Andreiya bit his lip and kept his mouth shut.

The Velencians around him were already making great progress, between planning, and implementing, and executing. Caelyna was better equipped to remove tiles but he was trying to be resourceful.

He wanted to be successful, too.

While the others worked, Andreiya diligently did the same. He was focused on his task, and while they had made progress in other areas, he still heard skittering under him. The others had tools that were helping them, or they were finding Kosopods in other areas, and he was determined to be efficient. He had an emptied box, but just as he was trying to figure out how to get to the Kosopods under the floor, they decided to make a run for it.

One burst through the tile without him interfering.

Andreiya, not wanting to seem like he couldn’t handle this–especially in front of the others!–quickly tried to usher the Kosopods into the box he’d prepared for them.

Thankfully, it wasn’t particularly big, it was just surprising–and he was pretty sure there were more still, judging by the frantic scuttling towards the dislodged tile.

Cadet Rhysi
Rolls: dealing with # of kosopods
Currently:

Yes, that was exactly what Rhysi thought. The Merchant's assigned value to the kosopods was in their absence, without showing much care as to how that was managed, other than the safety of his collection. Rhysi happened to agree strongly with those kinds of priorities.

Thankfully Commander Vyn had the same thought and voiced it before she felt the need to. If Rhysi could say two words instead of three, she was happy. If she didn't have to say anything at all, even better. life was just so much more efficient when one didn't have to explain themselves.

As for the Earthlings...actually, she felt that asking for them to use their semi-dead worlds and wonders as farms for the kosopods would be a rather tidy way to place most of the burden of labor on them, while the Vanguard could sit back and reap some profits. However, as Rhysi's own projects have led her to associate more commonly with those of the Negaverse, she had to admit that firstly, she wasn't very familiar with the powered individuals of the White Moon, and secondly, they might be hostile towards her, specifically, if they had such intel. Unlikely, but not impossible.

Watching Tenoch bring up his blaster and use it as a weapon finally brought out the same concern and empathy others had shown toward the kosopods' wellbeing. That was a perfectly fine blaster! What had it done to be mistreated in this way? Not only was it abused, but it was misused! As...as if it were a rock! Grimacing, one hand raising weakly at the sigh of this heartless brutality, Rhysi stopped at she saw Commander Vyn's advanced weapon come out and down, her hand dropped limply to her side.

This was fine.

She had to turn away, but it was just to...take some deep breaths. As one had to do. To live.

Thankfully, kosopods began to scurry out, a very needed distraction. Several small ones scurried past her boots and Rhysi aimed her blaster to stun one of them. It wasn't so small that it'd be damaged, right? In answer to her concern, a much, much bigger kosopod entered her peripheral vision, and Rhysi was immediately spinning toward the thing, short bow raised and already firing.

Moving forward a few more steps, the creature slowed and finally paused as it remained stunned. Well, probably stunned. Moving toward it, Rhysi was lifting the thing up in her arms with quick efficiency. She nudged at a few nearby boxes with her boot, until she found one that was likely empty. Tipping off the lid, she plopped the thing down in the contained just in time to see its many little legs start to weakly move.

Firmly shutting the lid, she called out, "One!"

Cypher - Rolling prompt 1 and 2 together to get caught up.

Commander Vyn

Vyn felt his cheeks warm at Tenoch’s teasing.

“I… I wouldn’t be passing up—I mean…” He let his mouth snap shut to stop the stammering, which he disliked immensely. Only when he could trust himself to speak intelligibly did he say, “Would you tease the Commodore the way you tease a Commander?”

He had little chance to say much else. In his attempts to corral one of the kosopods toward a box, the kosopod in question bit at his hand. Vyn squeaked and shook the pain away, then ducked to the side as the second kosopod spit acid at him. He managed to avoid it, but only just. There were so many of them now he’d lost count.

“Are you hurt?” he asked Andreiya.

Vyn nudged at a kosopod with the tip of his boot, flipping it over onto its back to expose its vulnerable underbelly. “Sorry. I’m sorry, I promise I won’t hurt you.” With a quick sweep of his arm now that it couldn’t scurry away, he managed to scoop it into the box without further injury.