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driftfleet2015-09-13 10:53 pm
thespaceopera) wrote in driftfleet2015-09-13 10:53 pm
Entry tags:
- !event,
- aiya/gray nightingale,
- alex russo,
- allen walker,
- anders,
- anthony j. crowley,
- belthazar spellscry,
- beverly crusher,
- bran stark,
- cassandra pentaghast,
- cheese sandwich,
- clay terran,
- coil lenn,
- cole,
- cory matthews,
- davesprite,
- eugene ben woods,
- felix harrowgate,
- fenris,
- frobisher,
- hiccup horrendous haddock iii,
- hiro hamada,
- imperator furiosa,
- james potter,
- jove lavellan,
- katniss everdeen/nova,
- lea (axel),
- leanne,
- margaret "peggy" carter,
- margarine "margie" detemps,
- megaman.exe,
- miah lanbatal,
- natasha romanoff,
- nelkeila tarid,
- nunnally vi britannia,
- nux,
- pearl,
- richard castle,
- riku,
- robin redbreast,
- rogue,
- simon tam,
- sokka,
- stanley raymond kowalski,
- syeira,
- tekhetsio,
- the vision,
- toph beifong,
- vash the stampede,
- vima sunrider,
- yamanaka ino,
- yosuke hanamura,
- zessica wong,
- zhas
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.
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.
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The augment is telling her to go one way, but the Force is saying something else...]
I don't know where the button is--[she shuts her eyes and picks the Force.] Hang onto something.
[WHOOSH.]
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She doesn't even look, just grabs onto whatever's closest and hopes she doesn't break something.]
Wh-what button?! I don't-- Whoa! [She doesn't manage to keep her feet, stumbling against the chair she held onto.
Oh, does the button even matter by now?!]
Did you find it?
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I have to make sure we don't get a bunch of holes shot in us! And--[her brow furrows even as the rest of her seems to relax, reaching out into the flow of the Force. Is this how her mother feels when she engages her Battle Meditation?]--who are they?
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I-I don't know! I don't know if it can be the same people as last time, but I... [A huff.] But I don't know who else it could be!
[But that was before Vima arrived, wasn't it? She thinks?]
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Last time?! [so this must be the Trouble that Leanne was talking about. RIGHT ON SCHEDULE, THEN.] What happened with that? Why did they attack?
i'm sorry for the delay!
[Translation: She was still new and had no clue what was going on. ...And had a different crew.]
Maybe they'll stop, too?!
No worries!
thank you!!
[WHOA. Nope, nope, she's not trying to stand again anytime soon.] Maybe... Maybe if we can just hold on a little longer? It really didn't last that long last time!
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How long? [Vima hopes Shirley is right and they can just ride it out for another few minutes, but a few minutes would be really long... and Vima's got one of those Feelings that it might not be the case.]
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[She is no help at all.]
Leanne. LEANNE. Why do I keep calling her Shirley.
[ugh the nebula, it's so inviting... but no, still no?? why???]
AWW, it's okay!!
[She doesn't want to ask, she doesn't want to ask, she doesn't--] ...Can we hold out that long?!
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After a few more evasions in which it's becoming clear that the hits they've already taken are hampering them, Vima decides that they've got no choice, and she bolts for the nebula despite the Feeling that she shouldn't--
--and all the systems promptly fail.]
Shoot! I knew this was a bad idea!
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Oh no.
This is bad. This is sooo not good, oh no, oh no, how is she supposed to--]
A bad idea?! What just happened?!