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kola2134

??? if >=960, ??? if >720, Space station if <240
1d1200=68
(Is this the same station?)
1d2=2

System checks show the standard result, and it is estimated that the slowing down is caused by an increase in sheer resistance instead of a decrease in output.
Shortly after, a distant blip is caught in the middle of an omnidirectional ping, showing an object of vast quantities, follow-up pings show the object remains in the same vector and doesn't seem to be moving on its own.

Dumb
Dimitri and Ra both stand up and begin fallowing with the solders lined up behind them.
Ra "Have any of you tried to leave here yet? or has that all been to no success?"

Jared
"As you may have noticed already, this ship is immobile right now due to...damage of the engine, and although we still have our warp drive, I reckon someone as smart as you can imagine what would happen if an object is unevenly accelerated in a high resistant environment."
Xar clasp her two hands together as if she is crushing a beer can.
"Of course, there are smaller vessels which may help drag this ship to exit this field, but that would expand our entire fuel storage and leave us a death sentence out there. Compare to those options, i would rather be staying here for the time being."

Contact detected if >49
1d100=89
???
1d2=2

For the fleet waiting outside, a singular blip is detected, slowly closing towards the station. Its size is close to that of a small shuttle, and it doesn't seem to notice the fleet's presence.

Dumb
Dimitri "How many are on this ship? surely you'll have to abandon it at some point, rations will run out. and I would assume not flying under any government makes that difficult from time to time, what do you call yourselves anyways? Nomads?"

The ships outside are seen blinking coloured flashing lights at one another, nothing can be determined, they begin to move into a defensive position

Jared
"Now now, although we want to believe that you are asking this for good intentions, there is something we want to keep as a secret. As for the supply problem..."
Upon approaching a doorway, Xar fish out her ID card and open the door, no doubt the bridge that she mentioned before.
"Wait here just a sec eh? I'll go get that coordinate that you wish to have."
And indeed she returns minutes after entering the doorway, with an old fashion hard disk on one hand and the id on another.
"Here you go, sorry that we don't have many spare storages lying around, so this would have to do for now. Let's go meet up the boys, as well as to answer your assumption."

The shuttle-sized object remains on its course and speed, be it unaware or ignoring the fleet's presence. Upon reaching certain proximity, another opening, different from where the troops went, lit up, and the now-visible shuttle smoothly enter it, before the hanger door closes behind it.

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.

Dumb
Dimitri takes the disk and hands it to Ra who puts it into their backpack
Dimitri "Thank you very much, hopefully this will help even a little"

kola2134

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.

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?"

Dumb

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