The Lost Fleet

LeftHandofGod

In the deep places of the galaxy's underbelly, whisper have been going around...A lost fleet of the Old Imperium has been sighted, abandoned and ripe for the taking. And not just any fleet either...an absolutely colossal fleet with thousands of ships and hundreds of dreadnoughts along with a databank ship, containing many of the Elder Power's technological secrets.

RedAndCosmoteer

LeftHandofGod ooo programmable goo

FangTheCat

LeftHandofGod

One of the Remna's Lux fleets moves in immediately, with a number of ships tiny in comparison.. They search merely for life.. or any aggression from potentially automated ships..

Meanwhile, Commanders Kohm and Lumo are having a slappy fight to decide if war is the best option.. except it's not about war now.. just who's better.

RedAndCosmoteer

LeftHandofGod also nanoplagues and larger reality editors yes pls I want

Drakador_Chaos

LeftHandofGod
...as the Lux started boarding one of the dreadnoughts, another group entered the area via hyperspace, several midsized imperial looking ships appeared heading into the field, however in a different sector than the already Remna ships, rather than boarding a ship they started...scanning the field? As if they´d search for something specific...
They however seemed to have no intentions of making contact with any of the present forces...

Mojowuq9

LeftHandofGod A ship arrives within minutes, having been slingshotted across the galaxy. As it solidifies within this reality, it begins to scan for any fighters and cargo freighters.

Fort_Master_Gustav

RedAndCosmoteer oh no, thats an Overseer '-'
(Though I doubt that they have the same alloy composition, which is unrevealed. If you find a REALLY good explanation you could make one, but I REALLY don't want people having any of the Overseer Units, since they are extremely overpowered.)

LeftHandofGod

Fort_Master_Gustav RedAndCosmoteer
Technically, since Editors access things way down at the quantum foam level, past where strings (and therefore TM) matter, I think they can override Overseers. Moving on, though. OMG THIS IS A BAD IDEA, I FORGOT JUST HOW MUCH CRAZY SHIT I'VE DONE OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS!!!!!!

FangTheCat
As the Lux approach, they see the armada, floating silent and cold in the dark. Looming at the center of the fleet are 20 Trisagion class super dreadnoughts, behemoths measuring 100 KM across and more. These titans, impossible to construct or operate for even most of the Greater Powers, were built as the Old Imperium's answer to the OH's Decimator battleships and just one could turn the tide of a war...

FangTheCat

LeftHandofGod

One of the Lux ships docks, not at a dock itself, but connecting itself to the ship..

"Lets see what we can do.."

The Lux ship's Weave-assisted computer attempts to start up the dreadnought remotely, trying to hack into anything it can, all the while protecting itself from any virus or potential malware..

(inside ship conversation between two Lux soldiers.)
"I've seen bigger.."
"No you haven't"
"Yea I have, your mother.."
"That's not even funny, I was born the same way you were.."
"Artificially, yea.. I get it.. let's get this over with."

Fort_Master_Gustav

LeftHandofGod TM by definition is the manipulation of the very basis of reality, it's just an interpretation of the quantum realm, really. Not strings in specific, though it's a good interpretation of TM.
Overseer are basically space metal jellies that can use TM, and fugg they are OP because they are self-replicating, and some other very nasty properties XD

Soundbust11

RedAndCosmoteer Fort_Master_Gustav LeftHandofGod (apologies for the overping, I sensed a scientific discussion that was in dire need of a local nerd. Now then, if quantum foam is whatever quarks are made out of, then you physically cannot interact with it. Quarks are as small as we can possibly see, any smaller and you're poking a stick with a stick to find out what a stick is. This is called the uncertainty principle.)

LeftHandofGod

Fort_Master_Gustav So Editors and TM kind of cancel each other out?

FangTheCat
The Gestalt AI that was commissioned to run the ships contains almost five hundred thousand minds and after several nanoseconds, it asks for validation codes while discreetly beginning pre-start operations on the main reactor systems.

RedAndCosmoteer

LeftHandofGod If Gustav is correct, yes, they could probably cancel each other out.

This does not include situations where either tm or reality editors fire first.

Wait, I thought Qfoam is just the fluctuation of space time on the quantum level?

Fort_Master_Gustav

LeftHandofGod yup yup, they probably are the same thing, though TM in of itself is much more developed than just manipulation of reality.

FangTheCat

LeftHandofGod

The Remnant ship's computer begins testing potential codes, while a secondary system attempts to bypass it completely..

RedAndCosmoteer

~~Fear me y’all I got infinity stones~~

LeftHandofGod

RedAndCosmoteer You haven't even sent a fleet yet. Put up or shut up, buddy.

RedAndCosmoteer

LeftHandofGod Yeah, shut up I will not, it’s a habit for me not to and I can’t exactly control them. As for the fleet, i will put out a larger reply when I get back to my computer, but for now...

Two standard cruiser squadrons containing five cruisers and a number of escorts each drop out of warp to investigate these rumors, see if a massive fleet really is there.

RandomCommander

RedAndCosmoteer Yeah, shut up I will not, it’s a habit for me not to and I ca--

Muffling as LeftHandofGod smothers RedAndCosmoteer with religious amounts of duct tape

LeftHandofGod

RandomCommander RedAndCosmoteer Hell yeah, let's get religious all up in here. And I wasn't handing down a unequivocal declaration of shutting up, just saying that you needed to get something done. And you did. Therefore...........SHIT GETS REAL!

The fleet exits FTL and is confronted with a truth beyond their wildest dreams...or nightmares. However the armada is so vast that they'll need to try accessing the central fleet data net to locate anything specific.

RedAndCosmoteer

RandomCommander Muffling as LeftHandofGod smothers RedAndCosmoteer with religious amounts of d-

Choking as RedAndCosmoteer strangles ~~LeftHandofGod~~ RandomCommander with a rope and an uno reverse card

LeftHandofGod Check later for a response.

RandomCommander

RedAndCosmoteer Choking as RedAndCosmoteer strangles ~~LeftHandofGod~~ RandomCommander wi-

Screaming as RandomCommander ~~chokes~~ burns RedAndCosmoteer with the literal Left Hand of God and an uno skip card.

"We already know this is gonna go on forever" he says, "let's just stop right now an-

--FIN--

~~((That was the weirdest fucking card game I've played since Go Fish))~~

Darknessry

RandomCommander ~~That was a card game?~~

LeftHandofGod

Drakador_Chaos
The fleet exits FTL and is confronted with a truth beyond their wildest dreams...or nightmares. However the armada is so vast that they'll need to try accessing the central fleet data net to locate anything specific.

FangTheCat
After several codes are rejected, the ship net suddenly unlocks, granting the Lux temporary and limited access to the ship systems

>> Main Directory..............................
Level 5 access..........authorized
FTL drive.....LOCKED
Weapons.....LOCKED
Sublight......OFFLINE
Defenses....ONLINE, 13% POWER
Life Support.....OFFLINE