Melkor, The Elder King (2)

Namek

The capsule began to blink again, first a blink was every minit, but then the time between blinks began to be closer to one another...

Alpha

Namek
During an FTL-travel...

"Are we there yet?"

"No, but only more two minutes. Why did Ogbur need to go with the Monarch? The other engineers are shrakh at fixing things."

"The only good thing they've done is installing the sprinklers to extinguish fire, were it not they first used grog inside it..."

the_guy545

Alpha Does the great king Melkor need a bounty hunter?

Because I’m your guy.

Alpha

the_guy545 (Melkor isn't here, but hanging around at GSR, where he will be leaving soon. If you would like to contact him, your best shot is attempting communication with the orcs that are fixing the broken FTL on their ships near their homebase.)

the_guy545

Alpha And where could I find them?

Alpha

the_guy545 (In this forum post: )

Alpha Location: Solar system Sigma Niumito in orbit of the planet Eriero

RedAndCosmoteer

zzz waits for reaction zzz

Alpha

RedAndCosmoteer (... I have totally forgotten about that. I thought I answered everything yesterday... Thanks for the reminder!)

"Gund, what the shrakh is going on there?"

"No idea Lorm, what do you think we should do?"

"Let's wait it out, see what happens. I'm not risking an ambush while our FTL-systems are still dead."

RedAndCosmoteer

Alpha ( Let's see how they react to something I'm bringing back from the dead... )

Suddenly, after fifteen seconds, the massive space-time distortions stop. Nothing is seen, because it's so far that it will take forty five minutes for the light to reach you.

Then, after forty five minutes, you detect a large ship appear, on the scale of the late Vengeance probably. It seems to use Fusion drives and Ion engines, and it has a lance cannon that you don't want to see the business end of.

Your sensors detect that it's already a quarter of an astronomical unit away from where it first appeared, it's fusion drives must be extremely fast, and from what you can see, the exhaust plume stretches out thousands of kilometers. What will you do?

( Who remembers my ancient voidship from back in November? )

Alpha

RedAndCosmoteer

Receiving: Transmission

//TRANSMISSION START
You are entering the territory of Melkor, the Elder King. Please state your business here, or get blown to pieces!
//TRANSMISSION END

RedAndCosmoteer

Alpha Captain 'Gills', as he was known by the crew of his Voidship, sat down... in water. He couldn't breathe air... He looked straight into the vast expanse of the void. It was a beautiful sight.

Suddenly, his neural interface would interrupt him, with alerts such as TRANSMISSION DETECTED... He sighed, 'When will I ever get rest...' and he would respond to the transmission.

{ Transmission - BEAMCOMS }
"Greetings, I'm Captain 'Gills' of the Voidship EX-01. We're here on a mission of exploration..."

and he silently added, 'and to get back home...'

Alpha

RedAndCosmoteer

Receiving: Transmission

//TRANSMISSION START
Wait a sec... you sound like a couple pinkskins we have on board. Time travelers?
//TRANSMISSION END

RedAndCosmoteer

Alpha

Alpha you sound like a couple pinkskins we have on board.

(It's grayskins, those Eontenvians. I have no idea how that works but it just does, according to the plot.)

{ Transmission - BEAMCOMS }
"No... Yes... Maybe... It depends on your definition of Time Travel. If time dilation counts then yes, we are. And home is not in the past, but rather, in a galaxy far far away... "

There was slight 'noise' or crackling, links of beam comms like this aren't very stable over distances like this.

Alpha

RedAndCosmoteer

Receiving: Transmission

//TRANSMISSION START
Hmmm, perhaps you should come somewhat closer, so we can check if they belong with your people.
//TRANSMISSION END

RedAndCosmoteer

Alpha

{ Transmission - BEAMCOMS, NOISE VISUAL }
You see a literal fish in water, with FIVE legs. You can only assume the Captain's expression is dead serious when he says, " Do these 'gray-skins' look like the standard hu...man...oid...? "

Alpha

RedAndCosmoteer

Receiving: Transmission

//TRANSMISSION START
They certainly don't look like you. More human-like, yes.
//TRANSMISSION END

RedAndCosmoteer

Alpha

{ Transmission - BEAMCOMS, NOISE VISUAL }
" So... Do you want to say anything else? "

Alpha

RedAndCosmoteer

Receiving: Transmission

//TRANSMISSION START
So, you will just pass by I guess? That's fine. If you need some assistance, please ask.
//TRANSMISSION END

RedAndCosmoteer

Alpha

{ Transmission - BEAMCOMS, NOISE VISUAL }
" We are fine. We will depart now. "

He just cuts the transmission, and later, the ship just leaves by doing the same thing it did to get here...

zergRush99

Alpha
A mediocre fleet of malformed collections of scrap vaguely posing as ships, crammed full of eager pirates and annoyed engineers desperately trying to keep the designs symmetric and nukes protected, are aiming their makeshift FTL drives at a system not far from the Tra'Karr.
image https://i.imgur.com/2V2jhQl.jpg
In orbit around the lush planet, A garrison sent by Melkor, king of the dark, warlord of the blood cult (and any other titles the pirates couldn't bother to remember) Braced themselves for an attack from the uninvited fleet, and attack they did!
image https://i.imgur.com/nPgt3EM.jpg
The engage swiftly spiraled into a battle, with the raiders seemingly searching for something amongst their enemys, before settling on blasting off The Warlord's hull, And bringing their ships closer to dispense throngs of pirates to look through the debris mid-battle.

image https://i.imgur.com/O7rTsNN.jpg

image https://i.imgur.com/nhuWgrn.jpg
The pirate's crude attempts to bunch their enemies (and themselves) up into an easy to board clusterfuck somehow payed off, which was offset by the arrival of the rest of the afterburners.

image https://i.imgur.com/SlvDICr.jpg
Another thing that went not as planned for the pirates was the fact that they didn't manage to find the special weapon they heard was located on Melkor's big black-and-orange flagship, and the efficacy with which these "orcs" managed to cut them to bits.

image https://i.imgur.com/FGSRjdT.jpg
seeing as the raid did not go as planned, the most intact remaining battle cruiser did a quick circle around the field of battle, before deciding to promptly bugger off.

RedAndCosmoteer

zergRush99 makeshift FTL drives at the home system of the Tra'Karr.

the HOME system?

I thought that was in ANOTHER GALAXY

with an unknown location

Alpha

zergRush99
In command of the garisson near Tra'Karr was Garl Ironfist. This mighty commander sat in his chair, sharpening his gauntlets.

"Splendid, chase these agressors, and open me a line to Gash the Golden."

//Transmission Start
"What's the matter Garl? Troubles?"

Garl smiled at his superior commander.

"No Gash, pirates. It's time for fun. Come and bring the big guns."

"Sure thing, shall I contact the boss?"

"No, this is our party. It has been way too long since we've had a good brawl!"

"Good, we should reach you in about 30 minutes. Don't scare them off too much. We may want to catch some of them alive."

//Tranmission End

All ships still functional started chasing the pirates, attempting to destroy their engines.

KrankysFirebrand48

zergRush99 (does bugger of mean warp jump?)