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.
takeabow: (When all those shadows)

[personal profile] takeabow 2015-09-15 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Nova replies to her over the comm ]

Tell me what you need me to do. I'm at my station.

Let's just hope that I can do this...
kill_switch: <user name="sways"> (pic#9540581)

[personal profile] kill_switch 2015-09-15 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
You can do this. [Sorry, was that rhetorical? Also Furiosa doesn't have room for doubt right now; either Nova can or she can't, and the pilot would rather her find out through trial and error than fretting about it.]

Man the gun station opposite Bran. You're a good shot, right? Take out the fast, agile ones, first.
takeabow: (I'm ashamed that I'm barely human)

[personal profile] takeabow 2015-09-15 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Got it. I can do this.

[ and she goes to do that! really she's not bad, especially after settling into it a bit. Her augment can give her all the mechanical knowledge she needs but at the end of the day, practice makes perfect ]
kill_switch: (I treasured every day)

[personal profile] kill_switch 2015-09-16 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[And practice she will get. Once Furiosa's got an idea where the guns are placed in relation to her cockpit, she starts pitching it about to give them the best angle to fire. While her augment as well supplies her with the navigational codes to do so, there's a certain instinct she can pull from having driven a rig crawling with trigger-happy Warboys.]

No mercy!
takeabow: (There's nothing I can see)

[personal profile] takeabow 2015-09-17 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ YEAH. BATTLE CRYYYYYYYYY ]