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.
openhands: (i can see below)

[personal profile] openhands 2015-09-29 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
That is hardly anything new.
heresyandlace: (sits like a whore)

[personal profile] heresyandlace 2015-09-29 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but now we can tell exactly how clueless we are.

...They knew to use the environment against us. That implies that they knew we were going to be passing by-- at least long enough in advance to pull this maneuver together.
openhands: (but the room)

[personal profile] openhands 2015-09-29 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
And yet all that does is leave is with few options and no power.
heresyandlace: (a fickle thing)

[personal profile] heresyandlace 2015-10-08 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[he clicks his tongue in disapproval.]

Use your head. That's not all it leaves us. We have clues now, at the very least.
openhands: (but all the choirs)

[personal profile] openhands 2015-10-08 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Flatly:] Clues.
heresyandlace: (court is in session)

[personal profile] heresyandlace 2015-10-09 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, clues.

...Do you really see no value in trying to learn something about your opponent?
openhands: (but the room)

[personal profile] openhands 2015-10-09 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
That's not the part I am questioning.
openhands: <user name="anabiotic"> (and i would)

[personal profile] openhands 2015-10-10 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
How could you have possibly derived anything meaningful?
heresyandlace: (a fickle thing)

[personal profile] heresyandlace 2015-10-12 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't think the fact that we're likely not dealing with opportunists is meaningful?
openhands: (we should be together)

[personal profile] openhands 2015-10-15 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
That's information we already had.