thespaceopera: (red alert)
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.
summerschild: (♜ lend a mending hand)

[personal profile] summerschild 2015-09-15 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Bran wheels out of his little supply room, still in his pajamas and looking disoriented by the commotion - though not yet frightened.]

What's going on? Can I help?
kill_switch: (Default)

[personal profile] kill_switch 2015-09-15 02:31 am (UTC)(link)

[A short moment while she tries to remember what Atroma had put him in charge of and if it could be spared. She'd want the engineer and com officers at the ready, but otherwise...]

Man the gun;if it's not one of ours , knock it out of the sky.

[That she's asking a ten year old boy this doesn't seem an oddity.]

summerschild: (♜ watch it grow child of wolf)

thought i replied to this alkjshdasd

[personal profile] summerschild 2015-09-21 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[GUNS OH BOY he imitates the salute he's seen other people employ, even though he doesn't quite know what it means, and wheels off to the front of the bridge.]

Yes, captain!
kill_switch: (at what's become)

Re: thought i replied to this alkjshdasd

[personal profile] kill_switch 2015-09-21 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[The salute catches her off guard. She's not familiar with that particular hand gesture, but the meaning of it is a little obvious and leaves her with a funny feeling, coming from someone other than Nux.]

[She shakes it off for now; she needed to focus on the enemies, who were agressively trying to herd them elsewhere. It's definitely a challenge slipping past their maneuvers, but the longer she's at it the better she gets. Nova was following suit, she could only hope Bran would as well.]


Red Fish is going to send us fodder, take it out.