LeftHandofGod the_guy545 GoodMorningCosmoteer @Jesus3747 @TheUnleashedPiraat
(Admiral) Silverwind: "Suggestions?"
(Security Head) Mannon: "The initial plan was to intercept the speeding freighter with our Gauss cannons, but it seems even then the damage will be catastrophic, sir."
(Comms Officer) Eleanor: "The speed of that freighter is relativistic, I am pretty sure no living human being would survive such forces, even inside a pressurized environment--"
Silverwind: "I wouldn't put the enemy past them to have advanced life support technology capable of withstanding forces of that magnitude..."
Eleanor: "But it is still likely that it is a Drone-based freighter - in fact, more likely than the advanced life support tech. If that's so, I can attempt to reconfigure the ship's communication array to order a course change..."
Mannon: "We haven't the time to reconfigure the communication array, Officer. We have to act faster than that!"
Silverwind: "Agreed. Tiberius, calculate the shuttle's trajectory and find a good interception point for our Gauss cannon."
(Ship AI) Tiberius: "Affirmative, sir."
Silverwind: "Eleanor, contact the Terran Alliance and the Dimensional Collective, have the TA send their best capable medical ships and professors to synthesize a way to filter out the deadly radiation, and have the DC send in Droneships to carry out the decontamination process once the TA provide the necessary equipment."
Mannon: "Sir... couldn't the Collective just open a rift in front of the Freighter and send it to a different dimension?"
The Admiral thinks for a moment, then shakes his head.
Silverwind: "We don't know if the Collective would redirect it to a different galaxy altogether, and I would much rather that our system take the hit rather than transfer the damage to potentially another civilization that may be out of our reach. That sounds like something the IWO would do."
Mannon: "That's... well... okay. Very righteous of you, sir."
Tiberius: "I have successfully calculated the best estimated interception point. At the speed the freighter is going, it will reach that location in T-Minus 10 Seconds."
Silverwind: "Ready the Gauss Cannons."
Mannon: "They're already warmed up, Admiral."
Silverwind: "Then Fire on my mark..."
The intensity increased exponentially as the time counted down...
Silverwind: "...MARK!"