Lightning Union: The End Of The Scavangers

Drakador_Chaos

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...the Lightning continues to shoot iron pellets for several hours, nothing happened, the station, the asteroids and the core stayed silent, the barrier stayed inactive...at some point they ran out of iron pellets...

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Drakador_Chaos ok... what if we sent a micro-transmission?

Drakador_Chaos

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...the Lightning Engineers started sending microtransmissions at their surroundings, the barrier activated and deactivated a few times, more microtransmissions were sent between station and asteroid belt, which then sent transmissions to the core, the Engineers were not sure what exactly they did, since they also weren´t sure what they even sent, but it certainly did something...

Sombreroman

jbox1 Is this going to be a reunion?

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Sombreroman nah, unfortunately not

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Drakador_Chaos focus on trying to turn the defences off. If that doesn’t work, SEND IN THE DRONES!!.... sorry I meant continue trying to send transmissions into the core.

Drakador_Chaos

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...the engineers now actually knowing what they should send try to sever the signals of the station, after a few failed tries they start spamming microtransmissions at the asteroid belt with a technique they learned from Jack a long time ago and eventually...the microtransmissions stopped, the lights on the asteroid belt went red and the barrier was now constantly activated...you receive a transmission, thr Engineers frowned, it came from the station...

Sombreroman

jbox1 awe...

Sombreroman

jbox1 The scavengers will recombine eventually though... Right?

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Sombreroman no... don’t get your hopes up. The Scavangers are dead. D-E-A-D dead. Plus they have some revenge to do, and so they don’t want any recombinations getting in the way.

Drakador_Chaos

Sombreroman there are a lot of ps.-es up top you might want to read, aswell, he did state..waita second...

jbox1 also I want to put an end to the Scavanger link to the Lightning Union, it’s really bugging me.

...there, also, telling you now if there were a reunion of the scavangers would be spoilers, wouldn´t it?

Sombreroman

jbox1 I was only getting hopeful because with combined forces they could become powerful again...

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Drakador_Chaos what is the transmission
,!

Drakador_Chaos

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...the transmission plays, it´s a slightly mechanical sounding deep voice, however it seems to be damaged...
"YOU, HUMANS, WHAT HAve YOU DONE? I AM E...E...EMPYRION, THE KEEEEEIPER OF THIS SHIPpppYRAD! MY DEFEnsßsses DO NOT RaEport bACK 1N!"...

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Drakador_Chaos O_O ... erm sorry?

x00 had warped in with perfect timing, having come evading another malicious AI.

/transmission begin/
x00: Erm? Hello? Hello? What’s the issue?

Oh, that. Yes, it would appear your “defences” had come of issues to your refurbishers, so they wanted to deactivate it so they could.... repair you.

(Privately to the Lightning Union) just go along with this, k?

Drakador_Chaos

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...there was silence...then..."Life-support at 23%, Main-Mo...dddddule 34%, Shipyard currently n0n-funk...cdtional, Outer Hull...severly damaged,...transmission louuu..Gggsz: corrupted, ...sevvw..are Core-Malfunction..."....more silence... "...one of your faction has been marked by the Lords...I will allow you to pass,...IF YOU TURN THESE MICROTRABS::;MBBSCHIOnZSs OFF."...

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Now I want to play nimbatus

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Drakador_Chaos ok, sure!

The lightning union obliged, and turned off the micro transmissions

/transmission end/

Drakador_Chaos

jbox1 ...no further transmissions were sent, the barrier between the ateroids turned off, one of the hangar gates of the shipyard opened...well or at least half of it, the other was bent and burnt, hanging in the bay diagonally, yet there was more than enough space to get through with a Lightning or even a Thunderstorm...

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Drakador_Chaos ENTER,

Drakador_Chaos

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...the Lightning vigorously enter the Hangar as if someone stated an order in capital letters...what the Engineers see was, amazing, wreckages of many medium sized ships, deformed apparently by something that happened inside the hangar...well, or whatever through the massive hole in the side of it, the hangar was nearly big enough to hold a small fleet, the leftovers of the ships seem to be technologically quite a bit advanced, the dock the ship and proceeded further into the station until the way split, there were several shields stating directions:
Bridge
AI-Core
Supply-Docking-Station
Laboratory
Crew-Quarters
Data-Center
Mess-Hall
Toilets
Storage
Engine-Room
Workshop

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Drakador_Chaos ...

Drakador_Chaos Mess-Hall

.... foood ....

Ok, anyway let’s see the bridge

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Drakador_Chaos most written in a language they do not understand

Plothole! The other signs were written in english!

Drakador_Chaos there were several shields stating directions:
Bridge
AI-Core
Supply-Docking-Station
Laboratory
Crew-Quarters
Data-Center
Mess-Hall
Toilets
Storage
Engine-Room
Workshop

Ok, ok enough of me pointing out flaws. Here is my response:

Pilot: ... is there an ‘On’ button?
Engineer: all the labels and switches are labeled in an incomprehensible dialect. Like this one that says “allumer les lumières”.
Pilot: So can you turn it on?
Engineer: sigh, no, no I can-not.

The engineer begins to investigate the “mechanical pillar”.