Post by anarusinoba on Mar 31, 2014 23:18:02 GMT
NiteNinja also sighs as the recurrance of being a "Battle" resurfaces in his mind, but that is overruled by his datapad vibrating with an alert from Zangetsu *
Balthasar Dorian hears the alert and is temporarily distracted from thoughts of tossing himself into the station's incinerator
]NiteNinja reads over the article, then mutters a "fuck" under his breath*
Balthasar Dorian > huh?
NiteNinja holds up the datapad * They overloaded Zangetsu's reactor, blew half the ship up... *a solemn look crosses his face*
Balthasar Dorian look of pure horror
NiteNinja observes the damage report * ...lost hydroponics, all capacitor control, engines are completely gone, ships without power, gunnery systems are offline, and it looks like the explosions rocketed through the living quarters.... 21,885 lives lost.
NiteNinja sheds a tear as he face-palms * ...all because we thought the universe as we know it because of Eva's return, was going to come to an end...
Balthasar Dorian > I don't understand.....were they trying to jump without a cyno? I..I don't....
NiteNinja > No, although I'm sure the cyno-less hops have weakened the reactors over time. Seems they short circuited the dark matter ancillary arrays, and it fed back straight into the reactors power core, superheating it a million times hotter than a blue star.
NiteNinja tosses the damage report on the datapad over to Dorian *
Balthasar Dorian > That would overwhelm it! Dark mass is 70% of the galaxy!
Balthasar Dorian studies the datapad with a look of horror on his little blue face
NiteNinja rubs his head * I need to go now... I can get all survivors on Serenity, but it seems Zangetsu is lost... as we speak its on a collision course with a small moon
Balthasar Dorian > We need to go! We need to stop it!
NiteNinja makes a bolt for the ship hangar arrays, getting pre-clearance to undock even before boarding the Marauder. With haste he warps off to the coordinates, thankfully still in the same system *
Balthasar Dorian runs straight for his strategic cruiser
EVA syn-class6 notices the Zangetsu disaster
EVA syn-class6 personality is very different when in pur computer form. Her synthetic body is asleep at a hotel
NiteNinja comes out of warp to a shower of flames, burning metal, and a half engulfed ship in flames slowly drifting off towards a moon. Corpses and blown up escape capsules litter along the wreckage, the skies glowing a hellish red *
EVA syn-class6 brings the Exodus out of hyperspace (i.e string wave region)
EVA syn-class6 watches with sadness
NiteNinja swallows a lump in his throat as the scene of sheer utter destruction flashes before his very eyes, watching his very own flagship suffering. He maneuvers Serenity around flying space junk towards the carcass of the disabled dreadnought, seeing its shields completely gone, and no lights within. He attempts to radio in, but no signals were coming from the vessel, seeing that the entire sensor array is completely gone.*
EVA syn-class6 floats in realspace wondering if she is even permitted by the Concordat to interfer so severely in the lives of humans
EVA syn-class6 chats with Xan in the number sequence language
NiteNinja picks up distress beacons from escape capsules, and he radios back coordinates of his ship, as survivors begin to flock to the docking array aboard Serenity as he gets closer, seeing closer that it seems that several decks have been completely wiped out, the shockwaves blasting through entire decks and out the front of the ship, almost cutting it in half lengthwise as well as widthwise*
EVA syn-class6 continues to float barely visible beyond the gamma wavelength and is becoming restless at the sight of such tragedy.
NiteNinja chokes up abit * 21,885 lives, gone, like that... my friends, my classmates, essentially my family... Gotta stop that thing from drifting any further then get any survivors... Engineering, prepare ship for a collision course.
NiteNinja > Engineering: Are you fucking nuts Nite? Do you see the size of that thing? Nite: Just fucking do it, all power to the frontal shield emitters, put the microwarpdrive on standby.
NiteNinja > Engineering: You're going to kill us all Nite. Nite: We'll be fine, just do it.*Serenity flies towards the starboard side of Zangetsu's hull, and at around 100m/s, slams into the side of the hull, shredding parts off the nose of Serenity, blowing through the sensor towers, tearing into the grav backup arrays, and biting into the hull, putting stress on the frame. Grumbing, Nite applied gradual thrust from the microwarpdrive, but finds that the hull of Serenity has ground into the hull of Zangetsu, locking them together as they drift closer towards the moon*
EVA syn-class6 is overwhelmed with sadness knowing that her godlike powers cannot be used to help Nite or to bring back the dead....it would only lead to far greater catastrophe later down the road...
EVA syn-class6 restrains her urge to repair all the damage to the ship and to the dead.....
EVA syn-class6 takes off into the world of infinite superstring oscillations
NiteNinja > Nite to Engineering: Full capacitor power to the thrusters, we need more power! Engineering: We have boosted them up 15% Nite: I need triple the power Eng: We can do it but we'll blow out the engines!
Nite: Just fucking do it!
NiteNinja feels it lurch as he watches the temperature sensors aboard his main screen climb, before a red flag appears, showing that navigation is offline, but was successful in sending the carcass of Zangetsu out of the collision course*
Anaru Sinoba is warping the R.M.S Amani in full speed ahead!
Anaru Sinoba is having trouble reaching Mr. Nite's signature....something really big and horrible must have happened
NiteNinja > Engineering: Now you've gone and done it Nite, now we're part of that wreck too!Nite: Just shut up and get to work on fixing those engines, I'll go and see whats left of Zangetsu...
NiteNinja saddles up his suit then connects a jeffrey tube from the airlock of Serenity to one of the blown windows aboard Zangetsu, and walks in to see a very saddening image...*
NiteNinja overlooks a shelled out floor, from wall to wall all the inner walls were blown completely off, dead bodies everywhere, the sound of people screaming and babies crying echo through the chambers, as very little oxygen is being provided through the infrastructure. The once glorious mall sector is left in complete ruin, fires and electricity spark from the walls and ceiling, water filling up many of the lower decks from the automatic fire suppression system. Hydroponics and the animals within, all perished, just a gruesome site, which will scar Nite for the rest of his natural life*
Anaru Sinoba sends Nite scrambled and incomprehensible static
Anaru Sinoba tries desperately to reach him but with little luck
NiteNinja in haste makes his way through collapsed corridors and ventilation systems to the bridge, which in itself is in very bad shape with ceiling beams collapsed, computer terminals sparking, and no power whatsoever. Shaking his head in misery as he feels completely helpless in this sense. He radios Serenity to bring on rescue parties to bring the wounded and deceased onboard for treatment and proper funerals *
Anaru Sinoba senses that something is very wrong and begins to cry
NiteNinja > ...
NiteNinja takes a seat on the captains chair and rests his face on the palm of his hand, shaking his head as he is in tears himself, thinking that this may not have been a reported reactor failure, but an attack instead*
Anaru Sinoba finally breaks through* Come in Serenity! This is the R.M.S Amani! Do you read me? Over!
NiteNinja gets a patch from Serenity to his personal radio, taps into the frequency and replies back in a shaken up, nearly crying voice * This is Captain Nite-Ninja of Serenity, go ahead.
Anaru Sinoba > Mr. Nite....I'm jumping into system. w-where are you?
NiteNinja transmits the coordinates to Anaru, not saying a word, but written instructions to warp in at 30km *
Anaru Sinoba arrives and begins initiating emergency hull repairs using a high energy stream of logistics nanites. Finds that very little can actually be done to make the environment more stable for rescue teams
Anaru Sinoba gets up in a complete emotional daze and runs full speed to the suit closet
NiteNinja radios out * Don't waste your capacitor... Zangetsu is lost...
Anaru Sinoba stands up against the closet, spreads out arms, and waits for the Talcon-designed Acheron 9000 mechanical materials handling suit to unfold around her body
NiteNinja sees a ominous glow on a table nearby him, standing up, he walks over to see a datapad left there, with a message on it...*
Anaru Sinoba open the airlock and jumps out
NiteNinja > "Captain Nite-NinjaAs you can see, you aren't as strong as you think you are. We have taken over your ship, and destroyed it right from under your nose. Heed this as a warning not to fuck with us.- Anonymous"
Anaru Sinoba is hurling headfirst towards the Zangetsu ruins at 1500 m/s
Anaru Sinoba heart is racing
Anaru Sinoba brings knees up to her chest and ignites feet rockets to slow down
NiteNinja resists the urge to crush the tablet, but instead, puts it in his backpack for further investigation *
NiteNinja radios Serenity * It wasn't a reactor explosion caused by experimentation... it was sabotaged.
Anaru Sinoba lands on a platform within the tangled wreck of the severed hull
NiteNinja collapses back on the old captains chair in the wrecked bridge, sighing heavily again as he gives time for crews to bring in the wounded and deceased*
Anaru Sinoba activates hand lasers and slowly digs through the mangled tritanium in a desperate attempt to assist the rescue crews in finding survivors
NiteNinja takes an emergency welder and carves the hull number off the side of the bridge wall, as a keepsake before exiting the bridge to walk into the mangled mess that used to be the rooftop dining area *
Anaru Sinoba places skinny little legs between two crossed beams and places both hands on a twisted plate. Pulls with all her might
Minerva Serekar > *A ship uncloaks within a few clicks form the hailing Nite, 'NiteNinja, this is Marcus Daven, can i be of assistance?"
Anaru Sinoba enters into an area still burning with exotic fuels of Jovian design. The area is now a stead 40,000 degrees Kelvin.
Anaru Sinoba can feel the heat even through her advanced Hazmat suit
Anaru Sinoba carefully climbs along the wall of the ruined core, using any torn or jagged edge as a handle
Anaru Sinoba almost falls into the deadly pit
NiteNinja being deep in the electrical mess of Zangetsu's superstructure is unable to get any radio signals, seeing that the rescue crews have managed to sweep a good portion of whats left of the accessable portions of the ship, and are now working on the more inaccessable areas trying in hope to find anyone who has survived, and better yet anyone who knows what exactly went on *
Anaru Sinoba is able to sneak though a 1 foot wide, 9 inch deep puncture hole due to the tight fit and thin plates of her suit
Anaru Sinoba falls 200 meters into a river of coolant
Minerva Serekar > *Marcus sighs, and orders a squad of Daven Spartans and Psychomancer sto aid in the evacuation of crew to the Amelia Prime, ordering them to inform Nite of teh situation if contact is made, an dto avoid any hostilities*
Anaru Sinoba tries to remember the Phoenix ship blueprint.....realizes that the coolant will soon empty into the vacuum of space and disable for suit rockets
NiteNinja picks up a bloodied tattered doll from the floor at his feet, looks into the eys of it, and has a vision of the destruction and lack of warning that happened mere hours before *
Anaru Sinoba manages to grab a support beam before falling over a waterfall. It would appear that a high velocity artificial gravity unit is still operational in this area
Anaru Sinoba lifts herself up and carefully crawls along the soaking wet metal beam
NiteNinja pockets the doll then works his way towards the completely blown out engine room, trying to see if he can salvage the situation, but to no avail as he looks at the sheer mess and barely holding superstructure beams *
Anaru Sinoba finds that the strontium canal is polarized metal. Activates boot and glove magnets and climbs up the wall like a spider girl
NiteNinja walks towards where the reactors would be, but just sees a giant hole and the space behind it *
Minerva Serekar > *A group of civilians are found huddled in a life pod that unfortunately didn;t launch, apparently having malfunctioned, Marcus frowns at the report, wondering if all teh lifepods had been sabotaged*
Anaru Sinoba brings more power into the upper region of the suit and punches a vent grate several times
Anaru Sinoba places hands on either side, presses very hard, and pulls herself into the vent
NiteNinja hears some clamoring from a ventaliation duct nearby him and he goes back to the engineering room where he sourced the noise from *
NiteNinja says under his breath * If Maru is here, I swear...
Minerva Serekar > *Despite their power, the Davens are making slow progress
Anaru Sinoba > *Nite finds clear signs of an invader inside the strontium canal
Anaru Sinoba can hear the sounds of women and children screaming
Anaru Sinoba punches through a grate and falls 75 meters to the ground
Anaru Sinoba > *A loud echo can be heard through 2 levels of the ship*
NiteNinja hears a thud in the floor below him, taking the access stairs he steps into the ruined strontium reserves and sees Anaru, and makes a double-take*
Minerva Serekar > *Marcus guides the amaelia closer to where the Zangetsu's reactor use dto be, surveying the gaping hole that was left with several spot lights and scanners
Anaru Sinoba finds the source of the screaming, burns through the door with her laser hands, and is greeted by a room filled with 20,000 degree flames
Anaru Sinoba rushes straight into the fire
Minerva Serekar > *Marcus trie sto comm Nite again, hoping he was closer to them now, "Admiral Nite, do you copy? this is Admiral Marcus Daven of teh Daven Protectorate, we are currently assisting in evacuating civilians from your vessel and ask if you require any additional aid"
Anaru Sinoba runs through metal furniture as the burning metal twists and crumbles at the slightest touch
Anaru Sinoba finds a high heat warning on the helmet interface....promptly ignores it*
NiteNinja hears the transmission, and replies in a broken-up voice from near tears * We'll take any help we can get...
Anaru Sinoba can still hear screaming coming from the other side of the wall using her suit's vibration transform interpreter module
Anaru Sinoba looks around the room even as her body is completely engulfed in a hot plasma storm
NiteNinja goes to the door Anaru went into, seeing the intensity of the ship's hydrogen reserves, tries to engage the emergency hydrogen shutdown, but no avail for the circuitry is damaged beyond recognition *
Anaru Sinoba notices a deep pit in the other section of the room. A powerful plasma jet has burned its way through the engineering level and is gradually burning its way into the level above
Anaru Sinoba remembers this part of the blueprint....if it melts the level above, the heat will quickly traverse the vent ducts and enter the room at the other side of the wall....killing all living things in under a second
Anaru Sinoba makes a quick decision to jump into the pit filled with firey plasma
NiteNinja hears a loud creaking noise, and then a tremor of crashing as several decks collapse in the center of the ship *
Minerva Serekar hears teh response and orders it triangulated, then orders teh ship to activate its gravity tethers to stabilize that section of the ship,
Anaru Sinoba > Suit Interface: WARNING! Arco corona discharge detected! Saturation current imminent. Unit coolant level 62%
NiteNinja hears another explosion, this time coming from the ammo storage rooms, as he mutters a silent "fuck" as he knows that was full of torpedoes. He broadcasts a signal to all frequencies in the area to get the hell out*
Minerva Serekar > *Marcus sees the debris break away from the ship and lets the Amelia's extremely resilient shields take the brunt of it. Meanwhile, he's reciving reports of civilians being found and evacuated, relaying teh info to Nite as he can*
Anaru Sinoba > System re-route external cathodic polarity! Modify external current for relaxation oscillator of environmental corona discharge!
Minerva Serekar > *Marcus hears teh broadcast and orders the few squads in teh dager zone to pull away and bunker down
NiteNinja like the daft bastard he is, runs towards the explosions, attempting to close the emergency blast doors. His suit taking explosions from the pressure waves from the torpedoes as he forces the doors closed*
Anaru Sinoba > Suit interface: Affirmative. Relaxation oscillator stable. Hysteresis of ferromagnetic field stable. Deformation of suit external ferromagnets in T-minus 3 minutes 42 seconds
Anaru Sinoba realizes that after the ferromagnets deform, the remain coolant will only last 2 minutes at most....giving her 5 minutes and 42 seconds to save the families before being roasted alive inside her suit
NiteNinja shivers as the explosions continue, then eventually build up and blows the roof completely off that sector of the ship, shearing through 12 flight decks and right out the roof of the ship, loud metal grinding is heard as the structure shifts from the shockwaves*
Anaru Sinoba feels the whole ship shake and nearly falls headlong into the plasma jet
Anaru Sinoba manages to take hold of a melting metal bar before it crumbles in her hand
Anaru Sinoba screams as she falls 90 meters into a red hot inferno, barely missing the opening releasing the plasma stream
Anaru Sinoba pulls her arms out of the shallow pool of molten metal
Anaru Sinoba looks around and begins the last ditch effort to deactivate the plasma jet
NiteNinja hears another explosion, this time rather distant, discovering that the natural gas lines that provide fuel through the ship are now bursting *
Minerva Serekar > *A squad of spartans come sinto view a few meters behind Nite, pausing, before moving closer, 'Captain Avelus, Spartan Corps, Admiral your orders"
NiteNinja > Search what is left of the living quarters, decks 5B through 14C, before the gaslines blow.
Minerva Serekar > *The five nod as one and move with suprising gace, despite teh bulk of their armor*
Anaru Sinoba realizes that the ambient temperature of the room is now 60,000 degrees Kelvin and that some of the light metals are actually evaporating from the shallow pool of molten sludge
Minerva Serekar > *they head straight for the indicated section and find a few stranded survivors in teh slowly depressurizing section
NiteNinja hears 10 explosions, rocketing the outer hull of the ship from the nose to whats left of the tail as the hydrogen port-side thrusters give way *
Minerva Serekar > *The spartans evacuate as many as they can before the lines blow, having used their psionic minds to pinpoint the minds of survivors, b-lining towards them as best they could and getting them out*
NiteNinja gets a radio from Serenity that they got the engines back online as well as freeing the hull mangle, as the Jovian artifact aboard Serenity already fixes the hull damage to the sensor towers and nose*
Anaru Sinoba > *Meanwhile, Balthasar is back at the Serenity performing emergency medical care. He was brought over by the Davens*
Anaru Sinoba is attempting to mentally calculate electric field areas for single-photon plasma avalanche diodes while her feet slowly burn inside the suit
NiteNinja is thrown by a sudden explosion by a high pressure hydrogen pipe that was nearby him, blowing him through 4 sets of solid Megacyte-laced walls, landing with a thud as his suit managed to absorb most of the impact *
Minerva Serekar > *A psychomancer is startled by Nite's harshlanding at her feet, befor emoving to help him stand, "Damn Admiral, you have a hard head"
Minerva Serekar > "Meeka Daven, Mancer Corps"
NiteNinja shrugs * This suit has taken more. Now I've detected that another has entered the plasma chambers in the main reactor, I need as many hands as possible over there pronto.
Anaru Sinoba > Let's see the p-n junction is reverse biased at voltage 5.381X10^12 Volts per centimeter on Tritanium Mexallon charge leading edge. Must drop below 3X10^5 Volts per centimeter to prevent 76.5 nanosecond avalanche of circuit depletion layer....ummm....um
Minerva Serekar > *Meeka nods, "Aye, i sense the young lady Sinoba's in there, don;t worry, we'll get her out, though odds are, with that suit of hers, she can take a bigger beating then either of us ever could!"
Anaru Sinoba > I-C on branch characteristic is ummm.,,,,ummmm
Anaru Sinoba finds the circuit leading edges
Minerva Serekar > *The psychomancer moves, her body hovering a foot off the ground, propelling herself forward with no obvious means of thrust, ahead of Nite, stabilizing the structure around her as she goes, heaidng towards Anaru's position*
Anaru Sinoba punches the megavolt range Zener diodes with all her might knowing full well that this was the only way to stop the plasma jet. Otherwise ferromagnetic hysteresis will enable breakdown voltage...which lasts indefinately
Anaru Sinoba > Suit interface: WARNING! Suit external ferromagnetic deformation 85%!
Anaru Sinoba checks temp readings: ambient temperature has increased to 91,000 degrees Kelvin and will not drop until the last Zener Diode has been snapped off the conductive ring
Anaru Sinoba > I-I'm almost there....hold on.....just one more....just one more!!
NiteNinja walks with the backup to the inferno, stepping into the blaze as his suit easily converts the thermal energy into electrical energy, which is released in bursts as the suits capacitor is filled. But the flames making it rather hard to navigate as he hears strained metal dissipating around him. *
Anaru Sinoba > Suit Interface: WARNING! Ferromagnetic deformation 100%. Injecting coolant
Anaru Sinoba hears the high powered pressurizer go off as coolant once again ejects from the storage unit in her back
Anaru Sinoba snaps off the last of the Zener Diodes.
Anaru Sinoba > *the Plasma jet rapidly disperses. The temperature is no longer rising and the ceiling is temporarily safe from rupture....however the room will hold at 80,000 degrees Kelvin for several minutes*
Minerva Serekar > *Meeka's psionic barrier easily absorbs teh thermal energy as well, just as Avelus's squad links up with her, passing just as easily, the female Daven moving towards Anaru, 'Lady Anaru, it's an honor to meet you in person, and i see
Anaru Sinoba checks internal timer: 1 minute 25 seconds until collant depletion
Minerva Serekar > your selfless persona is quite true"
Anaru Sinoba climbs up the wall
Anaru Sinoba searches for a maintenance shaft with sealed heat barriers
Minerva Serekar > *Retcon* Meeka and teh Spartans move to evacuate the civilians beyond te firewall, protecting them with psionic barriers and ferrying them out
Anaru Sinoba climbs into the open shaft
Anaru Sinoba > Suit Interface: WARNING! Ambient temperature 76,000 degrees Kelvin. Atmosphere 2044 psi. Coolant Levels 6%
Anaru Sinoba opens the first hatch and crawls through
Anaru Sinoba seals it behind her, then opens the next. The temperature and finally the pressure dropping rapidly with each section of the crawlspace
Anaru Sinoba falls from the hatch and lands on the other side of the thick wall. Gets a glimpse of the families and their rescue by Nite and the Davens before she blacks out from burn-related dehydration
Anaru Sinoba becomes lightly conscious and tries to stand up, barely manages to sit up
Minerva Serekar > *Meeka spots Anaru and rushes over, "oh dear" and move sto help anaru, 'lets get you to the Amelia"
Anaru Sinoba > W-where.......w-where are they.....the babies...where.....?
Minerva Serekar > *Meeka helps Anaru walk, 'Safe, we got them out, you save dthem"
Anaru Sinoba can barely speak
Anaru Sinoba the last of her coolant is being used to make the suit cool to the touch
Minerva Serekar > "Now preserve your energy, you'll need it, else i'll have to carry you the rest of the way" Meeka brings up a barrier ove rthem both to cross the firewall and then helps Anaru to the evac point
Anaru Sinoba > *the exterior of the suit is entirely dent and scratch free but small micromagnets appear to be melted. Clearly the highly advanced suit's main weakness is not damage to the suit itself but rather the few safeguards for protecting the fragile flesh
Anaru Sinoba > within from thermal conduction*
Anaru Sinoba lies on the medical table. Over 75% of her body is covered in gruesome partial thickness burns
Balthasar Dorian hears the alert and is temporarily distracted from thoughts of tossing himself into the station's incinerator
]NiteNinja reads over the article, then mutters a "fuck" under his breath*
Balthasar Dorian > huh?
NiteNinja holds up the datapad * They overloaded Zangetsu's reactor, blew half the ship up... *a solemn look crosses his face*
Balthasar Dorian look of pure horror
NiteNinja observes the damage report * ...lost hydroponics, all capacitor control, engines are completely gone, ships without power, gunnery systems are offline, and it looks like the explosions rocketed through the living quarters.... 21,885 lives lost.
NiteNinja sheds a tear as he face-palms * ...all because we thought the universe as we know it because of Eva's return, was going to come to an end...
Balthasar Dorian > I don't understand.....were they trying to jump without a cyno? I..I don't....
NiteNinja > No, although I'm sure the cyno-less hops have weakened the reactors over time. Seems they short circuited the dark matter ancillary arrays, and it fed back straight into the reactors power core, superheating it a million times hotter than a blue star.
NiteNinja tosses the damage report on the datapad over to Dorian *
Balthasar Dorian > That would overwhelm it! Dark mass is 70% of the galaxy!
Balthasar Dorian studies the datapad with a look of horror on his little blue face
NiteNinja rubs his head * I need to go now... I can get all survivors on Serenity, but it seems Zangetsu is lost... as we speak its on a collision course with a small moon
Balthasar Dorian > We need to go! We need to stop it!
NiteNinja makes a bolt for the ship hangar arrays, getting pre-clearance to undock even before boarding the Marauder. With haste he warps off to the coordinates, thankfully still in the same system *
Balthasar Dorian runs straight for his strategic cruiser
EVA syn-class6 notices the Zangetsu disaster
EVA syn-class6 personality is very different when in pur computer form. Her synthetic body is asleep at a hotel
NiteNinja comes out of warp to a shower of flames, burning metal, and a half engulfed ship in flames slowly drifting off towards a moon. Corpses and blown up escape capsules litter along the wreckage, the skies glowing a hellish red *
EVA syn-class6 brings the Exodus out of hyperspace (i.e string wave region)
EVA syn-class6 watches with sadness
NiteNinja swallows a lump in his throat as the scene of sheer utter destruction flashes before his very eyes, watching his very own flagship suffering. He maneuvers Serenity around flying space junk towards the carcass of the disabled dreadnought, seeing its shields completely gone, and no lights within. He attempts to radio in, but no signals were coming from the vessel, seeing that the entire sensor array is completely gone.*
EVA syn-class6 floats in realspace wondering if she is even permitted by the Concordat to interfer so severely in the lives of humans
EVA syn-class6 chats with Xan in the number sequence language
NiteNinja picks up distress beacons from escape capsules, and he radios back coordinates of his ship, as survivors begin to flock to the docking array aboard Serenity as he gets closer, seeing closer that it seems that several decks have been completely wiped out, the shockwaves blasting through entire decks and out the front of the ship, almost cutting it in half lengthwise as well as widthwise*
EVA syn-class6 continues to float barely visible beyond the gamma wavelength and is becoming restless at the sight of such tragedy.
NiteNinja chokes up abit * 21,885 lives, gone, like that... my friends, my classmates, essentially my family... Gotta stop that thing from drifting any further then get any survivors... Engineering, prepare ship for a collision course.
NiteNinja > Engineering: Are you fucking nuts Nite? Do you see the size of that thing? Nite: Just fucking do it, all power to the frontal shield emitters, put the microwarpdrive on standby.
NiteNinja > Engineering: You're going to kill us all Nite. Nite: We'll be fine, just do it.*Serenity flies towards the starboard side of Zangetsu's hull, and at around 100m/s, slams into the side of the hull, shredding parts off the nose of Serenity, blowing through the sensor towers, tearing into the grav backup arrays, and biting into the hull, putting stress on the frame. Grumbing, Nite applied gradual thrust from the microwarpdrive, but finds that the hull of Serenity has ground into the hull of Zangetsu, locking them together as they drift closer towards the moon*
EVA syn-class6 is overwhelmed with sadness knowing that her godlike powers cannot be used to help Nite or to bring back the dead....it would only lead to far greater catastrophe later down the road...
EVA syn-class6 restrains her urge to repair all the damage to the ship and to the dead.....
EVA syn-class6 takes off into the world of infinite superstring oscillations
NiteNinja > Nite to Engineering: Full capacitor power to the thrusters, we need more power! Engineering: We have boosted them up 15% Nite: I need triple the power Eng: We can do it but we'll blow out the engines!
Nite: Just fucking do it!
NiteNinja feels it lurch as he watches the temperature sensors aboard his main screen climb, before a red flag appears, showing that navigation is offline, but was successful in sending the carcass of Zangetsu out of the collision course*
Anaru Sinoba is warping the R.M.S Amani in full speed ahead!
Anaru Sinoba is having trouble reaching Mr. Nite's signature....something really big and horrible must have happened
NiteNinja > Engineering: Now you've gone and done it Nite, now we're part of that wreck too!Nite: Just shut up and get to work on fixing those engines, I'll go and see whats left of Zangetsu...
NiteNinja saddles up his suit then connects a jeffrey tube from the airlock of Serenity to one of the blown windows aboard Zangetsu, and walks in to see a very saddening image...*
NiteNinja overlooks a shelled out floor, from wall to wall all the inner walls were blown completely off, dead bodies everywhere, the sound of people screaming and babies crying echo through the chambers, as very little oxygen is being provided through the infrastructure. The once glorious mall sector is left in complete ruin, fires and electricity spark from the walls and ceiling, water filling up many of the lower decks from the automatic fire suppression system. Hydroponics and the animals within, all perished, just a gruesome site, which will scar Nite for the rest of his natural life*
Anaru Sinoba sends Nite scrambled and incomprehensible static
Anaru Sinoba tries desperately to reach him but with little luck
NiteNinja in haste makes his way through collapsed corridors and ventilation systems to the bridge, which in itself is in very bad shape with ceiling beams collapsed, computer terminals sparking, and no power whatsoever. Shaking his head in misery as he feels completely helpless in this sense. He radios Serenity to bring on rescue parties to bring the wounded and deceased onboard for treatment and proper funerals *
Anaru Sinoba senses that something is very wrong and begins to cry
NiteNinja > ...
NiteNinja takes a seat on the captains chair and rests his face on the palm of his hand, shaking his head as he is in tears himself, thinking that this may not have been a reported reactor failure, but an attack instead*
Anaru Sinoba finally breaks through* Come in Serenity! This is the R.M.S Amani! Do you read me? Over!
NiteNinja gets a patch from Serenity to his personal radio, taps into the frequency and replies back in a shaken up, nearly crying voice * This is Captain Nite-Ninja of Serenity, go ahead.
Anaru Sinoba > Mr. Nite....I'm jumping into system. w-where are you?
NiteNinja transmits the coordinates to Anaru, not saying a word, but written instructions to warp in at 30km *
Anaru Sinoba arrives and begins initiating emergency hull repairs using a high energy stream of logistics nanites. Finds that very little can actually be done to make the environment more stable for rescue teams
Anaru Sinoba gets up in a complete emotional daze and runs full speed to the suit closet
NiteNinja radios out * Don't waste your capacitor... Zangetsu is lost...
Anaru Sinoba stands up against the closet, spreads out arms, and waits for the Talcon-designed Acheron 9000 mechanical materials handling suit to unfold around her body
NiteNinja sees a ominous glow on a table nearby him, standing up, he walks over to see a datapad left there, with a message on it...*
Anaru Sinoba open the airlock and jumps out
NiteNinja > "Captain Nite-NinjaAs you can see, you aren't as strong as you think you are. We have taken over your ship, and destroyed it right from under your nose. Heed this as a warning not to fuck with us.- Anonymous"
Anaru Sinoba is hurling headfirst towards the Zangetsu ruins at 1500 m/s
Anaru Sinoba heart is racing
Anaru Sinoba brings knees up to her chest and ignites feet rockets to slow down
NiteNinja resists the urge to crush the tablet, but instead, puts it in his backpack for further investigation *
NiteNinja radios Serenity * It wasn't a reactor explosion caused by experimentation... it was sabotaged.
Anaru Sinoba lands on a platform within the tangled wreck of the severed hull
NiteNinja collapses back on the old captains chair in the wrecked bridge, sighing heavily again as he gives time for crews to bring in the wounded and deceased*
Anaru Sinoba activates hand lasers and slowly digs through the mangled tritanium in a desperate attempt to assist the rescue crews in finding survivors
NiteNinja takes an emergency welder and carves the hull number off the side of the bridge wall, as a keepsake before exiting the bridge to walk into the mangled mess that used to be the rooftop dining area *
Anaru Sinoba places skinny little legs between two crossed beams and places both hands on a twisted plate. Pulls with all her might
Minerva Serekar > *A ship uncloaks within a few clicks form the hailing Nite, 'NiteNinja, this is Marcus Daven, can i be of assistance?"
Anaru Sinoba enters into an area still burning with exotic fuels of Jovian design. The area is now a stead 40,000 degrees Kelvin.
Anaru Sinoba can feel the heat even through her advanced Hazmat suit
Anaru Sinoba carefully climbs along the wall of the ruined core, using any torn or jagged edge as a handle
Anaru Sinoba almost falls into the deadly pit
NiteNinja being deep in the electrical mess of Zangetsu's superstructure is unable to get any radio signals, seeing that the rescue crews have managed to sweep a good portion of whats left of the accessable portions of the ship, and are now working on the more inaccessable areas trying in hope to find anyone who has survived, and better yet anyone who knows what exactly went on *
Anaru Sinoba is able to sneak though a 1 foot wide, 9 inch deep puncture hole due to the tight fit and thin plates of her suit
Anaru Sinoba falls 200 meters into a river of coolant
Minerva Serekar > *Marcus sighs, and orders a squad of Daven Spartans and Psychomancer sto aid in the evacuation of crew to the Amelia Prime, ordering them to inform Nite of teh situation if contact is made, an dto avoid any hostilities*
Anaru Sinoba tries to remember the Phoenix ship blueprint.....realizes that the coolant will soon empty into the vacuum of space and disable for suit rockets
NiteNinja picks up a bloodied tattered doll from the floor at his feet, looks into the eys of it, and has a vision of the destruction and lack of warning that happened mere hours before *
Anaru Sinoba manages to grab a support beam before falling over a waterfall. It would appear that a high velocity artificial gravity unit is still operational in this area
Anaru Sinoba lifts herself up and carefully crawls along the soaking wet metal beam
NiteNinja pockets the doll then works his way towards the completely blown out engine room, trying to see if he can salvage the situation, but to no avail as he looks at the sheer mess and barely holding superstructure beams *
Anaru Sinoba finds that the strontium canal is polarized metal. Activates boot and glove magnets and climbs up the wall like a spider girl
NiteNinja walks towards where the reactors would be, but just sees a giant hole and the space behind it *
Minerva Serekar > *A group of civilians are found huddled in a life pod that unfortunately didn;t launch, apparently having malfunctioned, Marcus frowns at the report, wondering if all teh lifepods had been sabotaged*
Anaru Sinoba brings more power into the upper region of the suit and punches a vent grate several times
Anaru Sinoba places hands on either side, presses very hard, and pulls herself into the vent
NiteNinja hears some clamoring from a ventaliation duct nearby him and he goes back to the engineering room where he sourced the noise from *
NiteNinja says under his breath * If Maru is here, I swear...
Minerva Serekar > *Despite their power, the Davens are making slow progress
Anaru Sinoba > *Nite finds clear signs of an invader inside the strontium canal
Anaru Sinoba can hear the sounds of women and children screaming
Anaru Sinoba punches through a grate and falls 75 meters to the ground
Anaru Sinoba > *A loud echo can be heard through 2 levels of the ship*
NiteNinja hears a thud in the floor below him, taking the access stairs he steps into the ruined strontium reserves and sees Anaru, and makes a double-take*
Minerva Serekar > *Marcus guides the amaelia closer to where the Zangetsu's reactor use dto be, surveying the gaping hole that was left with several spot lights and scanners
Anaru Sinoba finds the source of the screaming, burns through the door with her laser hands, and is greeted by a room filled with 20,000 degree flames
Anaru Sinoba rushes straight into the fire
Minerva Serekar > *Marcus trie sto comm Nite again, hoping he was closer to them now, "Admiral Nite, do you copy? this is Admiral Marcus Daven of teh Daven Protectorate, we are currently assisting in evacuating civilians from your vessel and ask if you require any additional aid"
Anaru Sinoba runs through metal furniture as the burning metal twists and crumbles at the slightest touch
Anaru Sinoba finds a high heat warning on the helmet interface....promptly ignores it*
NiteNinja hears the transmission, and replies in a broken-up voice from near tears * We'll take any help we can get...
Anaru Sinoba can still hear screaming coming from the other side of the wall using her suit's vibration transform interpreter module
Anaru Sinoba looks around the room even as her body is completely engulfed in a hot plasma storm
NiteNinja goes to the door Anaru went into, seeing the intensity of the ship's hydrogen reserves, tries to engage the emergency hydrogen shutdown, but no avail for the circuitry is damaged beyond recognition *
Anaru Sinoba notices a deep pit in the other section of the room. A powerful plasma jet has burned its way through the engineering level and is gradually burning its way into the level above
Anaru Sinoba remembers this part of the blueprint....if it melts the level above, the heat will quickly traverse the vent ducts and enter the room at the other side of the wall....killing all living things in under a second
Anaru Sinoba makes a quick decision to jump into the pit filled with firey plasma
NiteNinja hears a loud creaking noise, and then a tremor of crashing as several decks collapse in the center of the ship *
Minerva Serekar hears teh response and orders it triangulated, then orders teh ship to activate its gravity tethers to stabilize that section of the ship,
Anaru Sinoba > Suit Interface: WARNING! Arco corona discharge detected! Saturation current imminent. Unit coolant level 62%
NiteNinja hears another explosion, this time coming from the ammo storage rooms, as he mutters a silent "fuck" as he knows that was full of torpedoes. He broadcasts a signal to all frequencies in the area to get the hell out*
Minerva Serekar > *Marcus sees the debris break away from the ship and lets the Amelia's extremely resilient shields take the brunt of it. Meanwhile, he's reciving reports of civilians being found and evacuated, relaying teh info to Nite as he can*
Anaru Sinoba > System re-route external cathodic polarity! Modify external current for relaxation oscillator of environmental corona discharge!
Minerva Serekar > *Marcus hears teh broadcast and orders the few squads in teh dager zone to pull away and bunker down
NiteNinja like the daft bastard he is, runs towards the explosions, attempting to close the emergency blast doors. His suit taking explosions from the pressure waves from the torpedoes as he forces the doors closed*
Anaru Sinoba > Suit interface: Affirmative. Relaxation oscillator stable. Hysteresis of ferromagnetic field stable. Deformation of suit external ferromagnets in T-minus 3 minutes 42 seconds
Anaru Sinoba realizes that after the ferromagnets deform, the remain coolant will only last 2 minutes at most....giving her 5 minutes and 42 seconds to save the families before being roasted alive inside her suit
NiteNinja shivers as the explosions continue, then eventually build up and blows the roof completely off that sector of the ship, shearing through 12 flight decks and right out the roof of the ship, loud metal grinding is heard as the structure shifts from the shockwaves*
Anaru Sinoba feels the whole ship shake and nearly falls headlong into the plasma jet
Anaru Sinoba manages to take hold of a melting metal bar before it crumbles in her hand
Anaru Sinoba screams as she falls 90 meters into a red hot inferno, barely missing the opening releasing the plasma stream
Anaru Sinoba pulls her arms out of the shallow pool of molten metal
Anaru Sinoba looks around and begins the last ditch effort to deactivate the plasma jet
NiteNinja hears another explosion, this time rather distant, discovering that the natural gas lines that provide fuel through the ship are now bursting *
Minerva Serekar > *A squad of spartans come sinto view a few meters behind Nite, pausing, before moving closer, 'Captain Avelus, Spartan Corps, Admiral your orders"
NiteNinja > Search what is left of the living quarters, decks 5B through 14C, before the gaslines blow.
Minerva Serekar > *The five nod as one and move with suprising gace, despite teh bulk of their armor*
Anaru Sinoba realizes that the ambient temperature of the room is now 60,000 degrees Kelvin and that some of the light metals are actually evaporating from the shallow pool of molten sludge
Minerva Serekar > *they head straight for the indicated section and find a few stranded survivors in teh slowly depressurizing section
NiteNinja hears 10 explosions, rocketing the outer hull of the ship from the nose to whats left of the tail as the hydrogen port-side thrusters give way *
Minerva Serekar > *The spartans evacuate as many as they can before the lines blow, having used their psionic minds to pinpoint the minds of survivors, b-lining towards them as best they could and getting them out*
NiteNinja gets a radio from Serenity that they got the engines back online as well as freeing the hull mangle, as the Jovian artifact aboard Serenity already fixes the hull damage to the sensor towers and nose*
Anaru Sinoba > *Meanwhile, Balthasar is back at the Serenity performing emergency medical care. He was brought over by the Davens*
Anaru Sinoba is attempting to mentally calculate electric field areas for single-photon plasma avalanche diodes while her feet slowly burn inside the suit
NiteNinja is thrown by a sudden explosion by a high pressure hydrogen pipe that was nearby him, blowing him through 4 sets of solid Megacyte-laced walls, landing with a thud as his suit managed to absorb most of the impact *
Minerva Serekar > *A psychomancer is startled by Nite's harshlanding at her feet, befor emoving to help him stand, "Damn Admiral, you have a hard head"
Minerva Serekar > "Meeka Daven, Mancer Corps"
NiteNinja shrugs * This suit has taken more. Now I've detected that another has entered the plasma chambers in the main reactor, I need as many hands as possible over there pronto.
Anaru Sinoba > Let's see the p-n junction is reverse biased at voltage 5.381X10^12 Volts per centimeter on Tritanium Mexallon charge leading edge. Must drop below 3X10^5 Volts per centimeter to prevent 76.5 nanosecond avalanche of circuit depletion layer....ummm....um
Minerva Serekar > *Meeka nods, "Aye, i sense the young lady Sinoba's in there, don;t worry, we'll get her out, though odds are, with that suit of hers, she can take a bigger beating then either of us ever could!"
Anaru Sinoba > I-C on branch characteristic is ummm.,,,,ummmm
Anaru Sinoba finds the circuit leading edges
Minerva Serekar > *The psychomancer moves, her body hovering a foot off the ground, propelling herself forward with no obvious means of thrust, ahead of Nite, stabilizing the structure around her as she goes, heaidng towards Anaru's position*
Anaru Sinoba punches the megavolt range Zener diodes with all her might knowing full well that this was the only way to stop the plasma jet. Otherwise ferromagnetic hysteresis will enable breakdown voltage...which lasts indefinately
Anaru Sinoba > Suit interface: WARNING! Suit external ferromagnetic deformation 85%!
Anaru Sinoba checks temp readings: ambient temperature has increased to 91,000 degrees Kelvin and will not drop until the last Zener Diode has been snapped off the conductive ring
Anaru Sinoba > I-I'm almost there....hold on.....just one more....just one more!!
NiteNinja walks with the backup to the inferno, stepping into the blaze as his suit easily converts the thermal energy into electrical energy, which is released in bursts as the suits capacitor is filled. But the flames making it rather hard to navigate as he hears strained metal dissipating around him. *
Anaru Sinoba > Suit Interface: WARNING! Ferromagnetic deformation 100%. Injecting coolant
Anaru Sinoba hears the high powered pressurizer go off as coolant once again ejects from the storage unit in her back
Anaru Sinoba snaps off the last of the Zener Diodes.
Anaru Sinoba > *the Plasma jet rapidly disperses. The temperature is no longer rising and the ceiling is temporarily safe from rupture....however the room will hold at 80,000 degrees Kelvin for several minutes*
Minerva Serekar > *Meeka's psionic barrier easily absorbs teh thermal energy as well, just as Avelus's squad links up with her, passing just as easily, the female Daven moving towards Anaru, 'Lady Anaru, it's an honor to meet you in person, and i see
Anaru Sinoba checks internal timer: 1 minute 25 seconds until collant depletion
Minerva Serekar > your selfless persona is quite true"
Anaru Sinoba climbs up the wall
Anaru Sinoba searches for a maintenance shaft with sealed heat barriers
Minerva Serekar > *Retcon* Meeka and teh Spartans move to evacuate the civilians beyond te firewall, protecting them with psionic barriers and ferrying them out
Anaru Sinoba climbs into the open shaft
Anaru Sinoba > Suit Interface: WARNING! Ambient temperature 76,000 degrees Kelvin. Atmosphere 2044 psi. Coolant Levels 6%
Anaru Sinoba opens the first hatch and crawls through
Anaru Sinoba seals it behind her, then opens the next. The temperature and finally the pressure dropping rapidly with each section of the crawlspace
Anaru Sinoba falls from the hatch and lands on the other side of the thick wall. Gets a glimpse of the families and their rescue by Nite and the Davens before she blacks out from burn-related dehydration
Anaru Sinoba becomes lightly conscious and tries to stand up, barely manages to sit up
Minerva Serekar > *Meeka spots Anaru and rushes over, "oh dear" and move sto help anaru, 'lets get you to the Amelia"
Anaru Sinoba > W-where.......w-where are they.....the babies...where.....?
Minerva Serekar > *Meeka helps Anaru walk, 'Safe, we got them out, you save dthem"
Anaru Sinoba can barely speak
Anaru Sinoba the last of her coolant is being used to make the suit cool to the touch
Minerva Serekar > "Now preserve your energy, you'll need it, else i'll have to carry you the rest of the way" Meeka brings up a barrier ove rthem both to cross the firewall and then helps Anaru to the evac point
Anaru Sinoba > *the exterior of the suit is entirely dent and scratch free but small micromagnets appear to be melted. Clearly the highly advanced suit's main weakness is not damage to the suit itself but rather the few safeguards for protecting the fragile flesh
Anaru Sinoba > within from thermal conduction*
Anaru Sinoba lies on the medical table. Over 75% of her body is covered in gruesome partial thickness burns
