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.
geonomy: (☆ i don't think the world is sold)

[Audio, fleetwide]

[personal profile] geonomy 2015-09-15 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Clay doesn't know him, but it's really good to hear that the other ships out there are okay, too. He lets out a sigh of relief, then goes ahead to report in as well.]

This is the SS Vanquish, we're okay too. We've taken some damage, but we'll be fine.
cpt_ressentiment: (last rites every friday night)

[personal profile] cpt_ressentiment 2015-09-17 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He lets out a breath he wasn't even aware he'd been holding, clearly just as relieved. ]

Good. Okay. Yeah, we're pretty beat up ourselves, but we're alive, and we'll make it. That's what matters, huh?
geonomy: (☆ in darkness i leave)

[personal profile] geonomy 2015-09-18 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... Yeah, we're alive. I don't know how, but we made it.

[Seriously, for a moment there, he thought for sure they were all going to die. He's still a bit freaked because of it, man.]
cpt_ressentiment: (thinking)

[personal profile] cpt_ressentiment 2015-09-20 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
You and me both, man. [ A hesitant pause ] But to be honest? That kinda bothers me. They really, seriously could have killed us. They were definitely powerful enough. So...

[ Please tell him you can pick up where he's going with this. ]
geonomy: (☆ lately i've found)

[personal profile] geonomy 2015-10-06 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
And they didn't do it for some reason. The nebula knocked all of us offline, we had no way at all to fight back, but...

[They still left them alone?]