Dumb
The technician looks at their terminal as the blip bounces back. He grabs the comm device as he rapidly speaks into it.
"Large unknown detected, only thing we got any readings on."
"Navigation plot course."
The ship begins to turn towards the anomaly meanwhile an attempt to modify the shields to try and lessen the resistance is going on.
The colors out of space (multi-faction-ish exploration event?)
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On the outskirts of the system, a shape emerged from the void.....
it resembled a thin angular structure naught but only a few meters long that extended from what one could only describe as a hole through the void and, on its end mounted a what seemed to be a sensor of some sort.
As this object moved slowly towards the anomaly, another object rose rose into view from the hole. This object was comprised of a long tube that extended from the hole, near its end multiple separate curved metal plates were attached at intervals with the tube itself capped by what appeared to be an cuboctahedron with a red optic or light mounted at the center of it.
Encounter rolls halted
The shield certainly forms an antagonist relationship with the weird environmental drag, but only does maximum power diverge to shielding is able to remove such effect completely, not to mention the shield's energy expenditure increase quite significantly with more power input, like a scaled leaching effect from the surroundings.
Before actually identifying the object with visual detectors, the captain feels a tingling sensation, like those times when his vessel is getting targeted and his life lies on the slightest twitch of the enemy's finger, in addition, pings suggest that the object's surface area got slightly more uneven than its original state, but not sure if the object is spinning and they simply had the ping on a different surface, or an actual structural change of the object.
Jared
With several minutes of waiting and a lot of lever pushing for Xar, the group enters a hanger, slightly smaller than the one that houses their shuttle, and a lot more apparatuses lying around. In the middle lies a moderate-sized civilian shuttle with no apparent weapons, doors opened and people are spotted to be carrying out closed boxes composed of styrofoam.
"Hey, how's the catch?"
The catch? What a weird way to greet friendlies, but the receiving side doesn't seem surprised by such, and simply respond casually.
"Eh...lesser than before, but still be enough...by the way, who are these guys?"
"Ah, they are from the Terran Citizens Union, looks like official bodies are finally taking interest in this mess."
Dumb changed the title to The colors out of space (multi-faction-ish exploration event?).
MrBalkenKreuz
A layer formed by little metallic buoys lies in front of the objects, signifying the boundary of the anomaly and sway as the boundary ebb and flows. Most detection only manages to penetrate meters into the anomaly, before scattering and retrieving no data of deeper composition.
Jared
The burly man who replied to Xar took off his glove and accept the hand.
"Hello, I'm the capt. Looks like yall already have a chat with my wife, eh?"
He turns and faces Xar.
"Did they do anything wrong to you?"
"Nah, just some information exchange in the conference room, as well as telling them where this all originates."
"Hm..."
He turns back and looks at the group, his outlook is a bit too primitive for the space era, with just jeans and a workshop apron, while two muscular arms the size of a small tree's trunk jut out from both sides, crossing in front of his chest while his eyebrows furrow.
"So...what are yall doing here anyway?"
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Moving towards the perimeter of the anomaly, the 2 objects closed towards the liquid layer. Upon reaching the anomaly perimeter, the 2nd tube-shaped object began to spin rapidly, as it spun pulsed waves of energy radiated out from it and spread through the local area, as if the object was scanning the local area for other ships.
Seeing that there were no other ships about the objects both suddenly began to rise as the hole they emerged from enlarged to reveal their true origin...
A ship rose from the void, its curved and smooth hull colored in black and burgundy. Upon its forward deck a bridge structure rose smoothly upward, its sides marked with a symbol emblazoned in gold with its top holding the objects from earlier.
Upon emerging 4 hatches situated behind the bridge revealed themselves before momentarily disappearing in a cloud of exhaust as they launched what appeared to be missiles However, these missiles acted strangely as they sped quickly into the anomaly radiating pulsed waves of energy into the anomaly and between themselves.
Dumb
Dimitri "We received information on a strange anomaly that was taking place here, many of our people were curious and so a fleet was sent out to find out whatever they can, and so here we are. We found your ship, and your lovely wife was gracious enough to allow us to board and answer a few of our question"
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Encounter rolls shall start if continue to advance
A disruption of the energy waves is received as the missiles cross the boundary of the strange buoys, but the following waves and rhythm remain normal and constant, at least for the first couple of minutes, before falling into complete silence as if the missiles disappeared...
After losing connection to its probes the ship began to travel around the edges of the anomaly whilst continually emitting its energy pulses, as it attempted to determine just how large this anomaly actually was
Encounter rolls shall start if continue to advance
After who-knows-how-long sailing in the dark void, there doesn't seem to be the end to this anomaly. Estimating based on the curvature, it shows that such field is vasting across several known systems...and for some reason, when they return to their original point where they launch the missiles, that certain coordinate had already been inside the field, as if the anomaly is slowly expanding on its own...
Dumb
Dimitri “Ah yes sorry, well we did get some question answered however when we asked about the… creatures that we saw out there we were told that you and your men have came across some yourselves, mind telling us what you yourself know and have seen about these creatures, any information will help with our adventures further into this anomaly”
Jared
"Ahh those ones, well its easier if you see it yourself."
He wave in one of the personnel, and take in one of the boxes before waving them off again. As he open the box, a white blob the size of a normal grouper lie dormant inside packed with ice, with a flat end where two rows of rectangular teeth can be found, but no apparent sensory organs.
"these things would simply charge at anything that is close to them... at least, when we notice them they are already charging towards us. But fortunately, they are quite vulnerable overall, plus they are edible as well, just make sure you don't use any sharp objects or they just explode in a bunch of shiny things."
"Hey that was an accident"
Someone shouts at the far back, possibly that poor fella who was involved in "said accident"
"Anyway, as for other creatures, recently we had spotted these blobs conglomerate together and form various shapes, although they prove to be way more effective at killing ships, their speed is slower as well, so whenever we detect one, we just haul our asses to the opposite direction."
Jared
(think you mean disgusting)
"Well as i had said, they charge at anything that come close to them, so we simply eject our trash and stun them by ramming into them, which is why we strapped extra engines onto the shuttle, of course, they are too small to be targeted independently, so usually we just charge into a swarm and hope for the best."
The capt turns to Dimitri.
"Although they don't have the best look, they actually taste like pork, more tender pork...with a hint of vinegar for some reason."
4 days later
Dumb
Dimitri “That’s quite interesting. Guess only other question we have for you is how do you guys travel through all of this and find your way back? We would like to find the main system here and see if we can figure out the origins of all of this, but its quite difficult to travel through all of this”