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.
dancingmd: (captain crusher)

after!

[personal profile] dancingmd 2015-09-17 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[See, Natasha, you do care.]

We're all right. Ship's systems are mostly offline, but no one is hurt.
tothefly: (you're joking)

[personal profile] tothefly 2015-09-18 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Despite herself, often. She relaxes just a shade to hear it.]

Once you hit the nebula, right? From what we saw before we hit the cloud, they were herding everyone this way. Probably for this reason.
dancingmd: (chinhands)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2015-09-18 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
No doubt. Sokka and I were just speculating on why they want us in here. If they simply wanted easier targets, they could have destroyed us by now.
tothefly: (tampering)

[personal profile] tothefly 2015-09-19 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Still can't be any good reason for this. Our engineers are working on getting power back online, but we don't have a pilot. We're stuck here until the Marsiva starts moving again.

[She REALLY doesn't sound happy about that.]

Has anyone seen the Marsiva since this started?
dancingmd: (captain crusher)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2015-09-20 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't... but then all our sensors are offline, so it could be there and we wouldn't know it. If it is in here with us, I wonder if is experiencing the same ship malfunctions as the fleet is.
tothefly: (genuine)

[personal profile] tothefly 2015-09-21 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Could be. Or it could be like the ships that put us here, and just waiting to see what we'll do.

[A metallic clang, loud enough to register on the audio, echoes.]

Did you see anyone else before the lights went out?
dancingmd: (what just happened?)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2015-09-22 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
No, I didn't - what was that noise?!
tothefly: (you have no idea)

[personal profile] tothefly 2015-09-22 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
My boot and the console having a disagreement.

[It's not exactly productive, but none of their other attempts to fix or access anything did jack, so...]

We need to get out of here. Sooner the better. I don't like the waiting.
dancingmd: (coffee and croissants)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2015-09-22 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Who's winning?
tothefly: (Default)

[personal profile] tothefly 2015-09-24 03:16 am (UTC)(link)

Hard to tell.

[The console.]

Are comms like this on all ships? Has the rest of the fleet been accounted for?

dancingmd: (captain crusher)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2015-09-24 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea... I haven't talked to anyone else yet, though I think Allen has talked to the Vanquish and the Bishop. Ino, too, on the Three Twins.
tothefly: (Default)

[personal profile] tothefly 2015-09-28 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)

We've heard from the Vanquish and Starstruck, and the Caprine. That still leaves a good half of the fleet unaccounted for. Let me know when you hear from more of them? I'd like to know where we all stand.

dancingmd: (captain crusher)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2015-09-28 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I will.