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Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2015-09-13 10:53 pm

warning! warning!

[The nebulas are beautiful in this region of space, at the very least. They gleam as great distorting clouds of space-stuff that your scanners don't even want to attempt to analyze. They affect the ships' instruments much like other areas of disruption have in the past, but these are actually visible as large swathes of light--like giant flames frozen in their swirling shapes, suspended across impressive stretches of space. For once, there's something like scenery to look at, out here in the black...

And then, the proximity alarms begin to blare.

From a gap between the two nearest clouds comes an assemblage of ships! Familiar to some and new to others--they do not respond to hails or communications of any kind, and they're gunning straight for the Fleet without slowing. Their weapons are locking on and firing as soon as they are in range.

Many passengers have been through this before, and many of the ships are bigger and better than they'd been in the previous skirmish. Today, the Drift Fleet will put up a better fight, even punch a few holes in their attackers.

Your augment knows where you need to go! Do you run to your station? Do you dodge your job? Are you unsure how to help? Are the captains giving orders or panicking, and are their crews paying attention? Everyone's got a chance to fight back before the enemy fleet runs them into the nearest nebula--and things suddenly take a bad turn.

As soon as each Drift Fleet ship hits the nebula, its systems overload and short-circuit before going dead. It stays silent for minutes, no radar, no comms, no network. Stubborn stragglers are ganged up on and forced into the cloud, followed by the poor ships on autopilot being bodily hauled into the nebula with tractor beams. Once the entire Fleet has been set adrift as sitting ducks, before the Marsiva can get too close, the attacking fleet... turns and flees through the cloud, seemingly untouched by the nebula that scrambles your ships.

Eventually, the systems flicker back to life, blinking on one by one. It will be several hours before any other effects of the attack will be noticeable. The network shows up as live again, but Atroma never shows up to explain a thing...]



ooc: the out-of-character event post is over here! respond to this post any way you like; you can have action, comm messages, play during the attack, being stuck in the nebula, checking in after the network comes back online, or whatever else seems fitting.
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[personal profile] birdsbirdsbirds 2015-09-14 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, welcome back to consciousness. Crew's fine on this end, if you ignore the lingering sense of dread.
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[personal profile] got_it_memorized 2015-09-15 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I never thought I'd be so happy for a nap to be over.

Glad you guys are all right. Once we find a station or something, holler if you need a hand with anything.
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[personal profile] birdsbirdsbirds 2015-09-15 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Same to you, assuming there's nothing else waiting between here and there.

Your ship got overloaded too, right? Our network was out, couldn't exactly tell by looking out the front window...
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[personal profile] got_it_memorized 2015-09-17 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Here's hoping.

Yeah, as soon as we hit the nebula, everything futzed out. Sparks and smoke, the whole nine yards, but it all booted back up pretty soon after. Can't tell yet if anything's been fried, might have to ask you to come take a peek under the hood once you get your own ship squared away. We don't have an engineer anymore. So far, though, nothing seems too out of whack.

This is getting really weird, though. It's not just me, right?
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[personal profile] birdsbirdsbirds 2015-09-18 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like ours. The guts here are still in good shape, from what I can tell... And our ship's got an engineer to spare, so that's no problem.

Definitely weird. There's a lot about this I don't like.