Post by EmperorMyric on Dec 16, 2017 18:13:07 GMT
2nd Witch:
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes. [Knocking]
Open locks,
Whoever knocks!
[Enter Macbeth]
Macbeth:
How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!
What is't you do?
Macbeth Act 4, scene 1, 44–49
== o(O)o ==
5.6 months ago.
Umbra-VI Orbited the single star of the Obcasio system, the distance between them so far that the suns light was no brighter then that of a flashlight when viewed from a great distance. Leaving the black gas giant in a state of either a Twilight shade or a faint reddish hew of as the Star dipped below the vast curve of the giants horizon. It was a vast difference when compared to the other brighter planets and bodies closer to the Systems sun.
Orbital facilities and the occasional class one Proxima class city station dotted the dark planets upper atmospheres, Processing plants and refineries largely. Drawing the gasses that made up the shadow giants upper layers into themselves and processing it into multiple fuel and chemical types. Offloading them to Cargo ships and in-system fuel haulers to be Marketed at Obcasio Station to the Cargo ships and trading vessels That docked at the Shipyards there, or shunted off to other points of Trade or interest throughout the Ancerious colonies. The odd Proxima class City station in orbit being there largely for the purpose of housing the workers of the facilities as their two rotation shifts ended, and new crews and workers were cycled in.
While throughout the planets many natural satellites, small facilities and Colonies had been established. The lights of their Settlements and small Surface cities dotting the faces of the moons, overlooking the great swirling blackness of the planet that loomed below them.
Umbra-IV, Despite its whispered reputation among the Tenebrean People of being a bad omen for settlements in the system, was a Very Populated and active location, a source of Exportable fuels and chemicals that would Draw Business for the colonies for many generations.
It was here, in this otherwise quiet and remote place. That the Ervo Appeared without warning, Rifting suddenly into orbit around the Dark planet with a momentary burst of distortion and Greenish light as the Rift opened. The ship slipping through, it’s arrival Perfectly in time with the subsequent Destruction of the Natza Kartania Facility Several hundred light years away.
The great ship appeared, High in the Giant’s orbit. Far above the smaller refineries and Cities that orbited below. But directly in the middle of the routes used by several cargo and fuel haulers on their way to and from those facilities and the Great port city further into the center of the system.
The captains and Crews of these ships Finding themselves suddenly under the path of the gigantic vessel as suddenly barreled down on them from seemingly nowhere. Its sheer bulk Filling their sensors and Readouts, its movement propelled by the momentum produced by its own sudden shunt into the Dark planets orbit, its progress unhindered by the small forward facing Crystal turbines along its hull that remained unfired in the absence of their crew and lesser entities. Rendering the vessel into several trillions of tons of Crystalic metal of dead weight that bore down on the stricken ships in its path. Forcing several of those ships Pilot Calvara and ships entities to proform Near insane maneuvers in order to avoid impacting the face of its Massive Hull. Several of them not being able to, their Own smaller hulls collapsing under the Force of impact of the ERVO as it Bowled into them. Their Crews and Entities perishing in an instant as their engines and Crystal cores Self-destructed under the Damage inflicted to them. Detonating with fragmenting bursts of reddish white light and momentary Flowers of flame in pinpricks along the kilometers high Wave of metal that was the ships hull.
For a period of time, which was later determined to be no more then a half an hour, the Giant ship continued unhindered in its path of destruction, its forward momentum carrying it along, the Gravity of the world below holding it in orbit.
But in time the ERVOs Progress became of a lesser destructive kind, The destructive path of its orbit Lessoning as its orbit began to become established, the gravitational pull of the planet beginning to enact its hold on its massive hull. It’s forward motion beginning to Deteriorate into a sidelong drift through the facilities, which moved out of its path by shifting their own orbits to carry themselves away from the missile the Vortex ship had become.
Finally. Roughly 3 hours after its arrival, the ERVO found itself Slowly orbiting the the Black gas giant, It’s pale Navigation Beacons Glowing softly in the grey outer-system light.
Throughout the orbits, Cargo and security ships alike began to converge on the Vortex ship once it’s speed had been reduced enough to make Docking possible, The latter having been deployed almost immediately By the Col-Sec Facilities in orbit around the giants moon’s. Their Blue and white Schemed Vessels making their way towards the Slowly orbiting titan of metal as it slowly finished Establishing it’s orbit.
In the future, the vessel would find itself docked at a major Proxima class stations Shipyards pending the evacuation of its remaining crew and its subsequent investigation by Col-Sec and Repair-Rescue Teams.
None of the Crews and their Captains Aboard the Ships that bore down on the Derelict could have known just what they would find onboard the darkened and silent vessel, Even as they began transmitting to its channels with short bursts of Crystal oscillations. Receiving only Silence, or odd noises and fragmented bursts of Transmissions of an indecipherable nature.
While some of them surely held their own suspicions of the reasons behind the Lack of response from both the crew and the Ships Primary Entity, some of them of an extremely dark nature, it would have been impossible for them to know just how much Danger had arrived into their system with the ships appearance. Had they known, they would have likely allowed the slow decay of It’s orbit to simply cause the vessel to eventually be swallowed up by the crushing black oblivion that was Umbra-Vis inner atmospheres.
Instead though, they choose to go aboard after communication with the vessel failed. Probing deep throughout the Sprawling maze corridors and Massive Bulkheads of its inner hull, Finding bodies, Survivors, and artifacts/Tokens throughout the vessel that they couldn’t even begin to explain in their Abilities or purpose…
Everything else that happened in the system would follow…
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes. [Knocking]
Open locks,
Whoever knocks!
[Enter Macbeth]
Macbeth:
How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!
What is't you do?
Macbeth Act 4, scene 1, 44–49
== o(O)o ==
5.6 months ago.
Umbra-VI Orbited the single star of the Obcasio system, the distance between them so far that the suns light was no brighter then that of a flashlight when viewed from a great distance. Leaving the black gas giant in a state of either a Twilight shade or a faint reddish hew of as the Star dipped below the vast curve of the giants horizon. It was a vast difference when compared to the other brighter planets and bodies closer to the Systems sun.
Orbital facilities and the occasional class one Proxima class city station dotted the dark planets upper atmospheres, Processing plants and refineries largely. Drawing the gasses that made up the shadow giants upper layers into themselves and processing it into multiple fuel and chemical types. Offloading them to Cargo ships and in-system fuel haulers to be Marketed at Obcasio Station to the Cargo ships and trading vessels That docked at the Shipyards there, or shunted off to other points of Trade or interest throughout the Ancerious colonies. The odd Proxima class City station in orbit being there largely for the purpose of housing the workers of the facilities as their two rotation shifts ended, and new crews and workers were cycled in.
While throughout the planets many natural satellites, small facilities and Colonies had been established. The lights of their Settlements and small Surface cities dotting the faces of the moons, overlooking the great swirling blackness of the planet that loomed below them.
Umbra-IV, Despite its whispered reputation among the Tenebrean People of being a bad omen for settlements in the system, was a Very Populated and active location, a source of Exportable fuels and chemicals that would Draw Business for the colonies for many generations.
It was here, in this otherwise quiet and remote place. That the Ervo Appeared without warning, Rifting suddenly into orbit around the Dark planet with a momentary burst of distortion and Greenish light as the Rift opened. The ship slipping through, it’s arrival Perfectly in time with the subsequent Destruction of the Natza Kartania Facility Several hundred light years away.
The great ship appeared, High in the Giant’s orbit. Far above the smaller refineries and Cities that orbited below. But directly in the middle of the routes used by several cargo and fuel haulers on their way to and from those facilities and the Great port city further into the center of the system.
The captains and Crews of these ships Finding themselves suddenly under the path of the gigantic vessel as suddenly barreled down on them from seemingly nowhere. Its sheer bulk Filling their sensors and Readouts, its movement propelled by the momentum produced by its own sudden shunt into the Dark planets orbit, its progress unhindered by the small forward facing Crystal turbines along its hull that remained unfired in the absence of their crew and lesser entities. Rendering the vessel into several trillions of tons of Crystalic metal of dead weight that bore down on the stricken ships in its path. Forcing several of those ships Pilot Calvara and ships entities to proform Near insane maneuvers in order to avoid impacting the face of its Massive Hull. Several of them not being able to, their Own smaller hulls collapsing under the Force of impact of the ERVO as it Bowled into them. Their Crews and Entities perishing in an instant as their engines and Crystal cores Self-destructed under the Damage inflicted to them. Detonating with fragmenting bursts of reddish white light and momentary Flowers of flame in pinpricks along the kilometers high Wave of metal that was the ships hull.
For a period of time, which was later determined to be no more then a half an hour, the Giant ship continued unhindered in its path of destruction, its forward momentum carrying it along, the Gravity of the world below holding it in orbit.
But in time the ERVOs Progress became of a lesser destructive kind, The destructive path of its orbit Lessoning as its orbit began to become established, the gravitational pull of the planet beginning to enact its hold on its massive hull. It’s forward motion beginning to Deteriorate into a sidelong drift through the facilities, which moved out of its path by shifting their own orbits to carry themselves away from the missile the Vortex ship had become.
Finally. Roughly 3 hours after its arrival, the ERVO found itself Slowly orbiting the the Black gas giant, It’s pale Navigation Beacons Glowing softly in the grey outer-system light.
Throughout the orbits, Cargo and security ships alike began to converge on the Vortex ship once it’s speed had been reduced enough to make Docking possible, The latter having been deployed almost immediately By the Col-Sec Facilities in orbit around the giants moon’s. Their Blue and white Schemed Vessels making their way towards the Slowly orbiting titan of metal as it slowly finished Establishing it’s orbit.
In the future, the vessel would find itself docked at a major Proxima class stations Shipyards pending the evacuation of its remaining crew and its subsequent investigation by Col-Sec and Repair-Rescue Teams.
None of the Crews and their Captains Aboard the Ships that bore down on the Derelict could have known just what they would find onboard the darkened and silent vessel, Even as they began transmitting to its channels with short bursts of Crystal oscillations. Receiving only Silence, or odd noises and fragmented bursts of Transmissions of an indecipherable nature.
While some of them surely held their own suspicions of the reasons behind the Lack of response from both the crew and the Ships Primary Entity, some of them of an extremely dark nature, it would have been impossible for them to know just how much Danger had arrived into their system with the ships appearance. Had they known, they would have likely allowed the slow decay of It’s orbit to simply cause the vessel to eventually be swallowed up by the crushing black oblivion that was Umbra-Vis inner atmospheres.
Instead though, they choose to go aboard after communication with the vessel failed. Probing deep throughout the Sprawling maze corridors and Massive Bulkheads of its inner hull, Finding bodies, Survivors, and artifacts/Tokens throughout the vessel that they couldn’t even begin to explain in their Abilities or purpose…
Everything else that happened in the system would follow…