thespaceopera: (red alert)
Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2015-07-12 12:21 am

Who goes there?

[After weeks of relative silence, our intrepid passengers finally travel within visual range of a blue planet. Marsiva's slow-and-steady course makes it clear that this is the Drift Fleet's next destination--but just as your ships come within scanning range and your computers begin to gather data, a fleet of quick little watchdog ships zip out of the planet's atmosphere, heading straight for you!

They do not swoop in for an attack, but hold their positions between you and the planet. They look close enough to cause some trouble, and any working Communications Officer can tell you that they have weapons locked on the Fleet in warning.

The tell-tale sound of an incoming hailing frequency chimes over your ship's alert system. Someone would like you to pick up the phone. Thanks to their augment, all passengers instinctively know that they'll be looking for the Captain or the Communications Officer of the ship--but no one says someone else can't pick it up first.

On the bridge, the hailing frequency can be viewed on screen, along with the attached subject: "Identify yourselves." The notification chime goes off every seven seconds. These ships don't look like they're going anywhere, but they don't want to be kept waiting, either.

What do you do? Will you accept the frequency?]



ooc → see the July Star System post for details about this event! there is no real rush in this post (we won't even be around to begin responding to it until Sunday afternoon), so take your time, feel free to tag each other in this post (maybe try to get your Comms officers off their asses), and there is no time too late to tag into this post. the element of urgency is all IC, and there is no OOC pressure at all.
misconceived: (✇just for a second's worth)

[personal profile] misconceived 2015-07-15 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Haha, he gets skepticism. That's his life. He can deal with this. ]

The what? The bug—alien ship? Iskaulit? That's kind of a long story, but... to make it short: it was completely infected when we found it. Everyone on it was basically braindead when we got there and... terminal. We cleaned it out once—they were gone, took it with us in case we ran into any other, uh, healthier ones who wanted it.

[ Not exactly true, Chris can't speak for the rest of the Fleet, but he's not super attached to the thing. He'd readily get it disconnected and leave it behind if it gets them out of a firefight. ]
misconceived: (✇in spite of the way you were mocking)

[personal profile] misconceived 2015-07-16 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
Mind if you stay on the line?

[ Chris is fine with waiting, but if that's going to prompt them to shoot the Fleet out of the sky, he wants a little advance warning. ]