They Notice the fighters and send out a transmission.
//IDS Gleaming Metal//
"Unidentified Craft, please respond, are you of the ones who sent out the distress signal? I repeat, are you the ones who sent the distress signal?"
The Leftovers of war
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Brank
The Fighter with the still working Comms confirms that they sent out a distress signal.
After that he confirms contact to one of the carriers on the ground.
A few seconds of silence raise concern in the colony.
"Did we really just gave our position to some ships that might or might not be dangerous?"
Now they must wait for a response, the colony is at their mercy.
//IDS Gleaming Metal//
"Touch down in the hangar bay and we can discuss further"
With a whirr the ventral hangar of the cruiser opens up, and the ship turns to face this hangar towards the ships, showing its underbelly.
Brank
The scouts relay that command to the colony and ask if they should proceed.
"If you want us to survive, do it"
With a bit of fear and lack of much training the 2 Falcons slowly approach the hangar .
Touch down.
AstroDaFloof
They are met by a handful of IDN Marines, their M-1 Empyria Rifles slung on their back and the pistols in their holster. They Help the pilots out of the craft and ask their names and where they came from. Explaining that they will meet up with the captain of the vessel while the fleet heads towards the location of the beacon itself.
Brank
The two pilots tell them roughly what happend, but they don't know much them self.
To get the full picture they said you should speak to their Officer of Security.
They also describe a good place to land near their basecamp.
AstroDaFloof
The Ships begin setting a course towards the planet and the landing zone
Brank
Seeing the ships prepare to land nearby some of the surviving infantery ready their weapons, just in case.
The others try to prepare some sort of meal with the rations they have left to welcome the guests.
It's clear that the colony is split in opinions on this.
AstroDaFloof The Ships land and bays open up, as a single APC rolls out, approaching the colony and shortly parking, opening the door as the Captain of the ship, 2 marines, and the pilots from the Fighters the colony sent out
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The Colonists form a half circle around the APC almost completly blocking the way because they were very curious.
The Security Officer pushes everyone to the side so he can talk with the Captian.
Hes very nervous since these other people look like a very serious "No Fucking Around" Faction while they were just a
ragtag group of people who just survived the destruction of their colony. Obviously the uniforn of the Officer wasn't the best after that but he still tried to whipe some dirt off before talking to the Captain.
"So, you got our distress signal? I guess we are at your mercy now" He says in a sarcastic and awkward way. He tries to giggle to himself to break up the silence after that very tastleless and bad joke.
Greed, the most common cause of conflict between sentient beings, the next being over foolish ideals. The curse of wanting more for oneself then needed, the curse of wanting power that corrupts the galaxy. Dimensions begin to crumble as the unstable entrance into real space is opened, the dark void now flooded with a warmth and like a flowing sickness. The dark vessels bow slamming through the breach of dimensions as it passes through. The first vessel punching through, shortly followed by a number of other ones, smaller in size. The ship was smaller then the normal war cruisers used by the Imperium and was instead a light cruiser task force that is tasked with random exiting of space in search of hidden galactic features or otherwise. The vessel was small, a mere two kilometers, easily to be dwarfed by any proper war cruiser fielded. The smaller destroyers and frigates followed it, with a small number of support vessels in trail. The small force was one of many that were being randomly deployed, objectives unknown to any higher power but their own. A single specialized frigate hidden itself within the small formation of vessels, a dedicated recon and ECM ship equipped with scanners and trackers for the galactic field. They slowly tracked the unknown signal as they began to approach the planet, engines burning slowly at the arrowhead formation fleet, the light cruiser taking point as the other vessels join the wedge with the cargo and specialized frigate hiding within the center.
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While the Security officer and the rest of the colony greeted the visitors, one of the colony member who stayed behind noticed something on the sensor. "More ships?" He thinks to himself. Must be more vessels of our visitors but then he noticed something, something was off. The ships were going into formation...
"This can't be good" He says worringly. With his worries he investigates the sensor signatures of the ships.
"No, no .. it can't be! Fuck." He says while backing off from the sensor. He tries to make his way to the Security officer but guards are blocking his way because of the important meeting thats about to happen.
With no other way to inform the colony he rushes to one of the ships and turns on the alarm.
Now he has the attention of everyone.
AstroDaFloof The Hesperus-Class Prowler Whisper in The Night drops out of slipspace quietly far away from this carrier group. Using its stealth protocols to remain "invisible" it is curious about what was happening here.
AstroDaFloof
"Indeed you are, but fear not. We dont intend to harm you in any way. If you would be so kind, could i get a brief on what brought you here? The pilots of the fighters you sent gave me a basic rundown, but more details always help. In the meantime the crew of my ships would be more than willing to help around the area with anything that needs to be done."
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The Security officer starts talking about how lovley their colony was and how rich they used to be, right when he got to the part of Imperial ships arrving, the alarm of a ship went off. Everyone looked back at the ship. Standing there in freight was a young man, he waved the Captain and Security Officer over. One of the guards asks: "Should we like, uh , arrest him?" But the Security Officer said it's fine. The man who rang the alert leads them into the senor room.
"So, what's up?" asks the Security Officer. On the screen you could see ships going into formation, they were Imperial ships. "Oh..." says the Security Officer. He pulls the captain who was visiting aside and said "Uhm alright, im sorry that everything is a bit unorganized, like i couldn't even introduce myself, but it looks like the Imperials have followed us to finish what they started.".
AstroDaFloof
They followed the signal like a pack of hunters, moving slowly as if they stalked an unknown prey as they trailed along the signal towards the planet. A large hanger upon the side of the cruiser, its armored hull looking like it shifted when really it was the hanger door slowly opening to reveal the hanger floor. The audible noises of engines warming as the small craft reach power. Lifting off the ground as they begin to fly from the hanger, a number of hatches rising on the cruiser as it seems to fire something from them, like a quick burst barrage. The probes flying forward to begin a recording of the system.
AstroDaFloof
"Hmm, interesting.."
As the alarm goes off and he mentions the imperials, he stands up.
"I will do what i can to protect you,-"
he hands the sec-officer a comms device
"-take this and contact me info, meanwhile i will go and deal with the threat."
*They all return to their ships, the soldiers who were helping to construct stuff stay behind and continue helping the colonists build up. The ships break atmosphere and scan the area for the 'Imperials.'"
Brank
"Test, Test, Test is this working?"
The Sec-Officer tests the comms device and recives an answer.
"Alright, seems to be working, ehm so uh, like the sensors picked up that very small objects are flying around the system. It actually looks like they come from a Imperial ship. You might wanna watch out" He informs the captain.
While that is going down, the colonists show the blueprints of a mining vessel to their visitors and ask if they can help make a few of them.
ONI AstroDaFloof Do I get a reply?