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.
ino: (Bored/talking.)

after the blackout;

[personal profile] ino 2015-09-15 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone's fine. The ship's a bit roughed up from what I can see, but I think we got a few shots in too.
save_the_souls: (tired of this shit)

after the blackout;

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2015-09-15 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad to hear you're alright. [Maybe not so much about the shots fired thing. He's still unsure what to make of that. The Blue Fish fired shots too, it was necessary for survival, but if there were actual people on those ships and they had been successful in harming them...]

[Ugh. It made him sick to think about.]


I think I'd like it if we reach a planet soon. I want solid ground under my feet.
ino: (Waiting impatiently.)

after the blackout;

[personal profile] ino 2015-09-16 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, no kidding. I hate being out here to begin with, but ...

[ Being on solid ground will make her feel a lot more secure after all of this ]

There's got to be something close enough to stop at soon.
save_the_souls: (uuugh)

after the blackout;

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2015-09-16 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
There was last time-

I mean, if those guys were from Atroma, they must be something here to make sure the show goes on.


[If they were anyway, which at this point Allen was willing to bet money]
ino: (Hmm ...)

after the blackout;

[personal profile] ino 2015-09-16 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I wouldn't doubt they are.

[ Which really just makes this even more infuriating ]

As far as I know, no one is dead or even hurt that badly, again ... so it probably is just a ploy to get some excitement.
save_the_souls: (tied up whut)

after the blackout;

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2015-09-16 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a beat. Yeah, he can't disagree with Ino's logic at all]

Arseholes.
save_the_souls: (lean back)

A COUPLE HOURS LATER; SURPRISE 2/2

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2015-09-18 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[A few hours after that last message of his, he sends along another one]

I spoke with Hiro and Clay. I have some good news and some bad news about our situation.
ino: (Pardon?)

[personal profile] ino 2015-09-18 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
What's up?
save_the_souls: (I s2g if you drank catcus juice again...)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2015-09-18 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I asked Clay about the nebula, and it sounds like we're lucky our ships managed to hold together at all. Though he thinks with the high amounts of energy we took by going into a nebula, it might weeks until everything's fixed on our ships. And there's a chance our augments might have some glitches too, so be careful of that.

Also...Timcanpy took some damage in the nebula. Luckily, Hiro managed to repair the worst of it. He's resting right now.
ino: (Facepalm.)

[personal profile] ino 2015-09-18 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, great.

[ She rubs at her face for a moment ... ]

Tim will be alright?
save_the_souls: (I have to fight)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2015-09-18 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope so. He's taking longer than usual to repair himself, but thanks to Hiro I know at least his auto-repair is functioning again. I suppose whoever made him just didn't anticipate flying through a nebula.

[Way to not think ahead as always Nea!!]
Edited 2015-09-18 13:41 (UTC)
ino: (Thoughtful.)

[personal profile] ino 2015-09-19 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think anybody was expecting something like that, honestly ...

Either way, I'm glad to know that he'll get better.
save_the_souls: (I s2g if you drank catcus juice again...)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2015-09-19 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Me too. It really scared me for a moment.