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.
lord_wizard: (neutral)

[personal profile] lord_wizard 2015-09-23 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Felix curled his fingers into a fist - the only sign of tension he shows on the outside]

Thank you, but I didn't sustain any injuries this time. I don't know how the ship fared this time, forever. Thank the powers for those shields...
peacockherald: (Default)

[personal profile] peacockherald 2015-09-24 02:14 am (UTC)(link)

[ He nodded. ]

Have you found any of the others yet? I do not think the ship is in any immediate danger...

[ He could be wrong of course, having never really been on one, but no alarms were going off and for the most part it seemed intact. ]

lord_wizard: (spooked)

[personal profile] lord_wizard 2015-09-24 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
No. I just found my feet before you found me. But we are, to borrow a phrase, dead in the water. Or at least I think that's the phrase... [Which is creepy enough in it's own right]
peacockherald: (Default)

[personal profile] peacockherald 2015-09-24 02:22 am (UTC)(link)

[ He made an annoyed sucking sound - not with Felix, but with the situation. His magics were not near as useful as he wished they could be at this moment. ]

Perhaps we should seek them out then? And fix issues as much as we can as we go? I do believe that air levels are a concern in these situations.

lord_wizard: (brooding)

[personal profile] lord_wizard 2015-10-05 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not an engineer. I wouldn't have even the faintest clue of where to start. Search and rescue, however, I can do.

[Mileage may vary on the rescue part of that]