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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."

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.

Dumb
Dimitri walks forwards add extends his arm
Dimitri "Nice to meet you all, I am Sargent Dimitri Davinichsky A Citizen of the Terran Citizens Union, and this is Ra, sister of Selna"
Ra replies as she bows
Ra "Greetings"

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?"

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"

Jared
"Not that, I mean why are you guys in this hanger? Surely you want some questions answered and the answer just somehow lies in here, right?"

MrBalkenKreuz

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."

Dumb
Ra excitedly moved over to the box to get a better look at the creature
Ra "You Captured some? How?"
Dimitri "That thing is, discussing, but guess you have to do what you can to survive out here"

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."

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”

Dumb

The ship then moved above the anomaly, as a large door along the dorsal hull opened, from this a gantry arm could be seen reaching out into the anomaly. Clasped within the arm of the gantry was a number of containers that began to fill with the fluidlike material from the anomaly as the ship moved above the surface.

Dumb
A screen upon the bridge illuminated with the pings, being linked from the main station up towards the screen for the captain to feast his eyes on directly. Each different shit within the pings suggests the strangeness of the seeming to sift surface. A drop of sweat rolled down the back of his neck. He becomes caustiouse as his order rings out.

"Combat shields, ready weapons for potential ship-to-ship combat."
The order echoes out as replies follow.
"All hands battlesstation, ship to ship combat prep." One station yells out. The acknowledgment of orders sounding off.
"Shields combat, ship to ship. Ready."
"Weapons armed, ship to ship, prepared."
power begins to shift across the cruiser vessel as power is routed around, less going to the engines and now more going to shields and a portion of energy going to weapons. The metallic groaning of gears as cannons shifted.

Jared
"Ya mean the drag? We just deal with it the hard way, with the shields and thrusters."
"And that's why we have so little reserve right now. Of course, we would like some support if available, but we understand even if there ain't any available for giveaway."