Old Cult-territory (2)

RedAndCosmoteer

Drakador_Chaos (Those that are in the way. Edited.)

DarkPearl

Drakador_Chaos
The Contingency moves further, scaning the lifeforms, with the intention of leaving the field, and if possible, assimilate the creatures.
(How deep are we inside the field?)

Drakador_Chaos

DarkPearl (You are currently just outside the field and approach @RandomCommander and @Jenwuf )

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KarolOfGutovo
...at a closer distance they detected what seemed to be ruins on the planets surface, rather old ones at that, though going there would yield a considerable risk, the ground of the planet they landed on seemed to contain just some basic resources, no warp-fuel though, in the meanwhile scans were run in regard to the other planets, though as expected they were utterly uninhabitable, the planet closest to the dying sun was emitting a vast amount of radiation due to the state of the star, and the constant solar fury had swept away all sorts of atmosphere and water, apart of the outmost planet which seemed to have pretained an icecap on the backside of it´s surface, but even that only due to constantly facing the star with the same side...

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Drakador_Chaos @Raider
...as the Mercenary fleet was floating in space idly, energy suddenly started building up around them, ominous runes of unknown menaing formed around the fleet in various sizes all of them glowing in a deep bloodred, all within a matter of seconds, then...
...the fleet was suddenly gone, leaving behind a faint reading of energy, it appears they had been forcibly accelerated linearly out of Cult-territory, reaching speeds several thousands of times the speed of light and slowly started decellerating several lightyears away from cult territory, severly damaged but, more or less, still functional...
The Mercenary fleet has been expelled from Cult territory...

(Currently next to be expelled if no action is taken: @KarolOfGutovo (Drakador_Chaos ))

KarolOfGutovo

Drakador_Chaos (If I'm not yet expelled, then go ahead, do it. I don't know how to do this particular(nor any other proper)rp)

Dumb

Drakador_Chaos the VF-27y seemed to be anxious to find opponents as it surges forward from the squadron,meanwhile,ghosts are rapidly going into and out of the dulfim class carrier for minimising repairs

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Dumb
...the travel continued, they would most likely reach the end of the field soon, most likely, though due to the interferences it was difficult to tell for sure, as they were moving through the field a presence entered the mind of the VF-27y pilot, it felt...menacing, the voice was old, yet powerful...
"Are you with those who came before you?"

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LeftHandofGod
(Corvette)
...for a while there was a pause, in which it started to become clear that should the cruiser reach full velocity they might even catch the Corvette, though it would take a while regardless, however then a message was sent by the cruiser, on the visuals there was a tall humanoid moth-like creature which seemed to have folded it´s wings around it´s body like a royal mantle, the wings were black with red patterns on them...
"...remove our presence from your sensorlogs and you may pass."
Whoever he was he did not seem to be in the mood to discuss any sort of terms and the amount of weaponry systems on the cruisers certainly supported his "argument"...

(Fleet)
...due to the smaller size of the ships it did ot take them too long to catch up to the mainfleet, additionally to that it appeared that they were close to the outer borders of the field, soon they would be able to leave Cult territory again...

LeftHandofGod

Drakador_Chaos
The corvette paused then removed all trace of the other ship from its logs and sent proof back to the cruiser.
Now reunited, the fleet begins to book it. There are war preparations afoot, and this new information may prove vital.

Does anyone want to take bets on who the Imperium is planning to go to war against? (Hint, the old Quorum clashed with them once.)

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boombox
...as the drones entered the field the signature seemed to be just as subtle in strength as before, either it was the territory itself that was emanating the signature or the source was a considerate way further into the territory...
...in the meanwhile the mining ships seemed to go undisturbed, as long as they stayed at the borders of the field, there seemed to be no need to go further in aswell due to the extraordinary massive dimensions of the field...

boombox

Drakador_Chaos
Stil the mining ships ere guarded at all times in the field, and the drones were sent to go deeper in the field, until they would find something, be that rare materials, wreckage or life.
The base in the meantime got expanded to a large fortress with planetary shields and orbital cannons for defense, and large underground connected areas for living, storage and general equipment.

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RedAndCosmoteer
...the group of ships forced their way through the field, the noticed their sensors started malfunctioning, trying to detect something past their ordinary line of sight got exceedingly difficult, occassionally blurry lifesigns showed up on the sensors, though they disappeared as quickly as they appeared and the crews startedgetting the feeling of being wtached...

RedAndCosmoteer

Drakador_Chaos The fleet starts pressing forward, but they're going at a snail's pace. All railguns, missiles and lasers are armed and their safeties off.

Drakador_Chaos

RedAndCosmoteer
...as they continued to force their way through the field, they started feeling a presence, old, menacing, the feeling of being watch intesified and a few moments later a voice echoed through their heads...
"Leave this place." ...at the same time the crews saw that the movements around them had nearly tripled, from what little their sensors could make out, apparently something was rather displeased about them moving through the field...

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boombox
...as the drones moved into the field again they noticed, just like before that there were constant movements of lifesigns, though always out of their line of sight, further into the field there was a considerably bigger lifesign, though it was nearly off the borders of their sensors range, there did not seem to be much in case of resources apart of the asteroids, it was nearly as if the enitre field was artifical...

jbox1

Drakador_Chaos Jake runs a scan for magnetic edie currents (A fancy way of saying he uses a metal detector) to locate any possible loot he could find

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jbox1
...as the sensors ran there were signs of large-scale old underground electronics though most of it had apparently rotted away by this point, though occassionally there were what seemed to be stores for rare metals, most notably silver, gold, platinum and sometimes titanium and tungsten, they seemed to be mostly underground though some were inside of ruins at the surface, other than that there did not seem to be much which could be found with the scan, apart of natural resources though considering their current position this would most likely not be of interest for them...

Catplayz

Drakador_Chaos
After a few moments of thinking and letting his computer run the math Kelran came to the conclusion that he could use the fastest planet as a "shield" of sorts to protect him from the stars effect. Should the planet rotate in such a way that one of its sides would face away from the star during the travel he could even land on the planet and rest a bit, though he would have to find a suitable and safe landing location.

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Catplayz
...as he did some more detailed scans on the planet it became clear that at least a part of his plan would work, if he´d move in the shadow of the planet he would be relatively safe from the stars effects, however landing on it would be ill advised as it apparently had a rotation speed to match it´s orbiting speed and the surface was emanating massive amounts of radiation due to the continuous effects of the star, it would be only a matter of time until the planet passed by the next time...

Dumb

Drakador_Chaos Brera looks around in his cockpit,hoping to locate the sound,but all he sees are just as usual asteroids after asteroids,soon he gave up,and concentrate his mind to try and resume the conversation
"who do you mean by those? and who are you?"

RedAndCosmoteer

Drakador_Chaos (is this normal for any traveller entering?)

Drakador_Chaos

RedAndCosmoteer (Would you know that?)

RedAndCosmoteer

Drakador_Chaos (no, but i was just wondering out of rp. I would press on, but before i make that reply, i want to know out of rp if it's normal.)

Drakador_Chaos

RedAndCosmoteer (Let me put it like this, you will only be "kicked" if you are inactive for 7 days or violate other rules, other than that all of this belongs to the rp.)

boombox

Drakador_Chaos
In the Intelligence Center at the Fortress:
"Get me zhe Kommandant! Ich zhink he should see zhat!"
"Jawohl!"
Steinfeld comes in:
"Vhat is it?"
"Mein Herr, in zhe whole field zhere are almost no resources, as if cleaned out, BUT zhere is a large lifeform in zhe middle and now hear zhis: Our theory is, zhat zhe whole field is man-made, or alien-made, and zhe reason why zhere is zhis sensor-jamming material in zhere, is because zhey want to hide somezhing... or someone."
"Interessant... Get me my mech suit, I'll personally take a look."
"Jawohl, Kommandant!"
Steinfeld goes to the hangars, where his suit is waiting for him:
"Alright, lets give zhe baby a spin. TYR! AKTIVIEREN!"
Mech Suit Tyr. Nr. 88. Pilot: Confirmed. Status: Locked and loaded. Willkommen, Hans.
Steinfeld greets the mech, then turns to the engineer next to him:
"Everyzhing green?"
"Ja. Particle Engine runs wie am Schnürchen, zhe 8.8cm MG is loaded and ready, scope cleared, zhe Coffee machine is filled up, you're ready to go."
"Gut. You two come with me."
He points at two pilots, which salute affirmatively and get to their Stuka Jets.
A few minutes later the fighter group starts from the fortress and makes its way towards the center of the field at high sub-light speeds.

RedAndCosmoteer

Drakador_Chaos The fleet presses on, despite all the fear and paranoia about being ambushed. All railguns are now loaded with depleted uranium shells. All missiles are equipped with thermonuclear warheads.

Movement has increased to something faster than a snail's pace.

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RedAndCosmoteer
...despite moving faster now, the presence stayed, not only that but it seemed to increase in intensity, causing a considerable psychical stress for the crew, though nothing else could be detected until suddenly...
...the lifesigns halted for a brief moment, as if they waited for something, then without any further warnings large swarms of small ships which seemed to be made of a disturbing sort of flesh started moving from behind the veil of asteroids into proximity of the small fleet, apparently aware of their weaponry they immedietly started closing distance and fired what seemed to be a sort of energy weapon from immediate proximity at the ships due to the effects of the field and the constant movements scanners issues to even pick up how many they actually were...
asked for it
(representative Image, not the actual numbers)