Old Cult-territory

Dumb

(i am getting an urge to bring my NUNS fleet in here,but havn't found a reason to stay in here ;/)

kola2134

Drakador_Chaos the fleet scrambles 3 squadrons of fighters that pass the boarder
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image https://i.imgur.com/JQUTXYS.png

Drakador_Chaos

kola2134
...as the ships pass the borders they notice the same thing as the drone before, due to the environmental dangers ftl would be most likely near-impossible within the territory...
...as they moved further forward they noticed that the signature in the distance were not only one, but apparently two ships that were in close proximity to each other...

Drakador_Chaos

Currently within or in proximity of the Cult Territory (These are just personal notes and a notification for people that didn´t answer yet):
jbox1 (Jake+Crew, Scavangers, small craft) (waiting for action of other members, watching Commander Johnson instead of jackson)
DarkPearl (Contingency Fleet, approximately around 100 ships(about 10 destroyed)) (pending answer to: Drakador_Chaos )
LeftHandofGod (High Imperium, Cruiser(assimilated), 2 corvettes (1 destroyed due to ftl accident), 2 gunboats) (pending answer to: Drakador_Chaos )
Raider (no faction, damaged Gunship) (pending answer to: LeftHandofGod )
Dumb (formerly Vajra, currently unknown) (awaiting action of other members)
boombox (GSR, 3 Vernichter 5 Kriegskutter(1 lost due to interspace accident)) (currently pending answer to: Drakador_Chaos )
kola2134 (Kola Korp, small fleet of ships (kola2134 ) (currently pending answer to: Drakador_Chaos )
KarolOfGutovo (URoLN, small fleet (KarolOfGutovo ) currently pending answer to: boombox )
Catplayz (Kelran, small ship, Kel´Shir) (currently pending answer to: Drakador_Chaos )
Stormi_chan (No faction, No ships) Sitting at the sidelines and eating popcron. Currently awaiting Drak to finish her modparts.

(Sidenote: People that do not react for extended periods of time ( which would be several days in this case, unless you currently need to wait for someone elses answer) will be expelled and will lose the deployed assets.)

Drakador_Chaos

kola2134
Notification: Kola-Korp has not acted within a week, should it not act within the next 24 hours it will be expelled from Cult-territory.

LeftHandofGod

Drakador_Chaos
The damaged ship ignored the warnings and activated its FTL drive. What happens next unfolds in a matter of microseconds.
As the individual drive modules throughout the ship begin to lift it out of realspace, the failsafe attempts and fails to abort the process. This, in turn, causes the drive fields to fail to properly synchronize. The resultant effect leaves the ship encased in five different FTL bubbles, all with varying speeds and levels of energy attached to them, while parts of the ship are outside any field whatsoever. From the outside, all one sees is a horrifically blinding flash of light as the ship vanishes and anything in its flight path for several AU vaporizes, as the unstable bubbles shed pieces of the ship that emerge into realspace at relativistic velocities, carrying several gigatons of energy apiece. The effect persists even a good way outside the borders of Cult-space, making FTL travel extremely dangerous and perhaps impossible for months to come.

The other corvette, blissfully unaware of what just happened, sees the asteroid, and initiates a full engine burn towards it, gearing up for a fight.
Raider
"This is the High Imperium. We will come and assist...for a price."

Drakador_Chaos

LeftHandofGod
...while the captains Gunboats were talking to the owner of the Gunship, three squadrons of fighters that were apparently coming from a fleet that recently appeared near the borders, were detected, they were apparently heading towards the asteroid field and would pass the ships soon...
In the meanwhile the corvette that followed Jake, moved towards the dwarfplanet, at some point on the surface there are signs of a landing, though the ship these signs belonged to had apparently already left again not too long ago...

Raider

LeftHandofGod we'll pay what ever it takes to get us out alive... What'll it be, 1 quin, 2 quin (btw quin is short for quintillion which is 74x bigger then 1 quadrillion)

Drakador_Chaos

Drakador_Chaos
DarkPearl
...while the fleet was still moving through the asteroid field the pyramid ship that was assimilating the cruiser apparently detected another fleet at the borders of the Cult territory, there were also 3 other smaller ships nearby and a group of small ships apparently moved from the fleet past the borders...

LeftHandofGod

Drakador_Chaos
Sorry about the absence, Cosmoteer was being cranky and crashing on me.

Due to not having received any transmission for several weeks by this point, Imperial Command makes a drastic decision and sends in a massive fleet to find out what happened to the expedition force, and if necessary, eliminate any hostiles with EXTREME prejudice. The following fleet exits FTL at the edge of Cult-space: 3 Storm-class dreadnoughts, 3 Standard corvettes, 1 fighter carrier (18 assault fighters in hangar), 3 FTL carriers (allowing for short-range, one-way FTL slingshot, max 40 km range), and 17 Box-class fighters.

Raider Meanwhile, the gunboats request a transfer of 15 million credits, Galatic Standard, and after receiving the monies, dock with the damaged ship and take on passengers. The Captain approaches them. "So, did you have anywhere you were going in particular? Keep in mind that I can't guarantee your safety here."

Deeper in the asteroid field. the corvette scans the planet, and and the surrounding area at the quantum level, and picks up a faint echo of Jake's signal. The ship comes around and points itself in roughly Jake's direction, give or take a few hundred kilometers.

image https://i.imgur.com/Ix1UzfV.jpg

Drakador_Chaos

jbox1
...as the Crew and Jake were watching Season2 of Commander Jackson, the alarm lights of the ship suddenly activated...
"Proximity alert please adju..."
With a loud screeching sound the ship scraped across a small asteroid that had been in the path but was misplaced on the sensors due to the interferences...
...while the damages were relatively minor, this probably could have also happened witha bigger object, or a crash head on, someone should probably stay in the bridge to look out of the window where the ship is actually going as long as they were in the field...

jbox1

Drakador_Chaos the crew draws straws to choose who has to keep a watch out for more meteors. Soon they were one crew down in the chatter as they continued to watch more seasons of "Commander Johnson"

Drakador_Chaos

jbox1
...after several hours of flight the crewmember on the bridge noticed something, somewhen between the flickering and buzzing of the currently nearly completely useless scanners, something showed up on them that apparently wasn´t part of the field, it would be a slight detour from their original route, though they weren´t quite sure what this thing on the sensors was though...

Stormi_chan

Is the cult territory became like the Warp from WH40k?

Dumb

Stormi_chan well,less chaos spawn and more stuff that you can actually communicate and reason with

Drakador_Chaos

Dumb
Oh the things that rip you apart and eat your innards alive before asking questions are further inside the territory, currently nobody has even passed the outer asteroid field...

Dumb

Drakador_Chaos the things that rip you apart and eat your innards alive before asking questions are further inside the territory

hmmmm.....the frequent ftl signitures and gravity signiture changes may lure them out.....

boombox

Drakador_Chaos
A medium-sized GSR exploration fleet comes upon the old cult territory and decide to investigate further:
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image https://i.imgur.com/hgfk2CV.png
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image https://i.imgur.com/v2RY9VO.png
(I would have used a single screenshot, but I'm not at home and downloaded pictures are all I have :/

Drakador_Chaos

Dumb
They won´t come out by themselves, however they may hunt someone beyond the borders if s/he already entered and got their attention. Though, the attention of a Bloodwraith isn´t exactly something desirable.

Drakador_Chaos

boombox (Gonna answer in a few hours.)

Drakador_Chaos

boombox
...as the GSR approached the borders there was apparently already a fleet present , which recently sent a group of fighters further into the territory, infront of the other fleet the was a small sign which couldn´t be read from the point where the GSR currently was...somewhere furtehr into the territory there were mroe signatures though they currently were still too far away...

Dumb

Drakador_Chaos just having thoughts about an ever changing environment that is definately not player-friendly lol

KarolOfGutovo

//Transmission Begins//
!Warning!Emergency_M0de_lvl2_some_symb0ls_replaced!
<Cmdr_URLN_1>"C0mrade!_My_Singularity_drive_seems_unstable_we_might_fall_0ut_0f_interspace._I_have_t0_exit_it_bef0re_we_get_utterly_ripped._We_lost_tw0_fighters_already,_we_leave_interspace_in_T+10:00sec."
//Transmission Cut//
//Transmission Begins//
<Commandor_of_URLN_2>"Roger that, we will drop when we detect you to give you help"
[Emergency mode level 1! Increased compression of text]
"Blin! Our singularity drive malfunctions, you will have to wait longer Bart! we will travel rest by standard FTL"
//Transmission Cut//

Catplayz

Drakador_Chaos
A small one-person starfighter exits before cult territory. It is manned by Prime Executor Kelran, one of the most powerful psionics and shapeshifters, not only among the Kel´Shir, but most mortals within the known universe. Due to his talents he has great influence among the high priests of the Order of Shadows and has been granted the title of "Seeker".

Drakador_Chaos

Catplayz
...as Kelran left ftl, he was a decent distance from the borders away, though his scanners isntantly notified him of two small fleets which were apparently already present, one of them was slightly further away from the borders than the other...

boombox

Drakador_Chaos As the scanners pick the other fleets up, a discussion unfolds on the bridge:
Officer:"Who is zhat?"
Crewman:"Wir don't know, but zhey have released fighters, so zhere must be a battle going on..."
"Wir came here to scavenge, not to fight with random strangers. Move around zhem."
"Jawohl Oberstabsoffizier!"
"Oh, and zoom in on zhat sign."
"Okay, hold on... hier!"
"Hmmm... Good, who ever zhat Warlord is, he sounds nice. Okay Guys, get a move on! We're moving out!"
The fleet keeps its distance, looking for wrecks or other scrap-able structures...

Catplayz

Drakador_Chaos
Kelran thinks to himself:
I should avoid others. They would only halt me.
He flies along the borders and seeks another entrance into cult territory.