Drakador_Chaos @LeftHandofGod
Silverwind: "Alright, let's do this quick. The lady was nice, and I'd hate to--"
Tiberius: "A Moment, Admiral? I have detec--"
The Ship powers off, suddenly and without much further warning. Emergency power tried to turn on in the ship, but even that was having trouble, and eventually failed.
Silverwind: "Tiberius!? Tiberius, what's wrong!?"
No response...
Silverwind: "Eleanor, are emergency communications working?"
Eleanor: "I'm not getting any radio chatter, sir."
Silverwind: "Dammit! Mannon, see if you can personally find out what is going on."
Security chief Mannon walks to the door and tries to open it, but the keypad is not working. He attempts to force open the sliding doors, but to no avail either.
Mannon: "...The hell!? With emergency power not responding, not even the doors are working!"
Silverwind: "That's... not right..."
Eleanor: "We're stuck on the bridge of a ship that won't work and... Hang on, I think my datapad is going off..."
Eleanor confirms that her Datapad is working and checks to see many notifications pop up from various crew members aboard the flagship.
Eleanor: "At least personal communications still work! I'm getting reports of power out on decks 9... 4... 6... 12... 8... 9 again... Starboard deck 2... It's going to take a while to sift through these notifications, Admiral."
Silverwind: "What I don't get is why are the doors not working? They should still be accessible even if emergency power is offline!"
Mannon: "I blame the blast armor installed on all the doors - they seem to be much heavier than the standard material they had."
Silverwind: "...Wait, the doors were upgraded with armor?"
Mannon: "Affirmative, sir. The Shipyard personnel outfitted the doors with the same material as the outer hull plating, in case the ship was torn in pieces, there would still be some degree of radiation shielding against what is in our previous home sector."
Silverwind: "...Mannon, what else did the mechanics upgrade?"
Mannon: "I didn't see much else. I just remember walking by a pair of mechanic drones working at one of the Armory doors and remarking to myself how it seems kind of silly to have mismatched symbols - some were the typical Vidachos Quorum symbols, while others were upside-down and differently colored. It was kinda--"
Silverwind: "Those spineless, Nerf-herding mother-frakkers! We've been set up from the beginning!"
Eleanor: "Say what?"
Mannon: "Come again, sir?"
Silverwind: "The shipyard was not sponsored by the Vidachos Quorum! It was a trap set by the High Imperium!"
Sedgewick: "...Of Krolon?"
Silverwind: "No, the non-warp-based Imperium! The one against the Quorum - enemies of our allies!"
Eleanor: "With all due respect, we can't do a damn thing about it, Admiral. Tiberius and the Stinger-IV are offline, and - if it is in fact the upgrades to our ship that sabotaged us - we are literally at their mercy. If they sent a ship to hunt and kill us, they would succeed without any resistance from us whatsoever - and we have no method of escape."
Silverwind: "All we can do is... hope the force is with us."
Mannon: "The Force doesn't exist in this universe."
Silverwind: "You know what I mean!"
The Bridge crew bide their time, every tense second passes by with a lingering threat that it may very well be their last. As they seem to be literally at the mercy of their conspirators, all they can do is wait until their inevitable arrival...
((It will be some time before Tiberius reactivates.))