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RP: SRSS Yggdrasill Encounter! Enter the Sourcian

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Toshiro

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Toshiro sat in the Captain's chair of the Yggdrasill, preparing for planetary contact...the bridge was oddly empty at the moment, with 2/3rds of the people in the medbay...but it was just like old times, really...the radio was on, as it often was, because of the previous encounter...soon Toshiro would likely contact the Lorath to obtain permission to go planet-side.
 
Space time itself muddled and skewed as light coiled and bent and unfamiliar stars and shapes replaced their native counterparts, intertwined with a dark purple cloud. It painted a rippling hexagon onto the perceptual night's sky of deep space. The purple mathematically perfect shape flickered to a blinding white as a smooth organic form slipped from it's lips out into local space, red and white gasses ebbing across its surface like smoke to disperse into the void.

The dim red shell of a form was smooth and rounded with veins marked beneath it's armored transparent skin. The craft of unknown origin harbored limb-like protrusions which gracefully extended out from points across its body. They behaved like limbs as the object turned about, narrowly missing the Yggdrasill. It's propulsion system sent an echo of its sheer efficiency and shook the Yggdrasill's hull and contents as it glided past on a stream of distorted space and light which it's limbs shone in a cuttle-fish like pulse.

Aboard the Yggdrasill, comms screamed a loud ear-splitting noise through the pass like a razor-blade lost in a turbine. As the proximity grew and the two ships parted, the volume fell and the pitch dropped several octaves in a smooth sound like a voice. The comms growled in a low voice through sharp flickers and purrs of notes. The sound was distinctly like a finger pressed against a fan, growling through sharp flickers, a ribbed organic racket.

The hexagon shifted up into an octagon and briefly a circle before it cracked like glass and shriveled, imploding upon itself with a white twinkling shockwave into space that send another shake through the Yggdrasill.

Although its form shook and shivered as if it were a kludge of the dimensions themselves, the second occupant had arrived and it eagerly chased the first craft, now dubbed UNKNOWN ORIGIN in bold yellow letters which flickered off once every second, an arrow marking out the alien craft as it maneuvered with immense (if not staggering) ease in relative to the Yggdrasill, tracking it as it seemingly opened fire on the void on an area that was little more than a red dot that flickered quickly to form an optic cloud as it was registered by the Subspace Mass sensors.

The second visitor could not be clearly located by the Yggdrasill, jumping around a 3km blur on sensors.
 
Toshiro held onto the chair tightly through the vessel's near-miss, the energy in its wake pushing the ship nearly one hundred meters before the Dynamic Thruster Drive compensated, righting the emerald green vessel. The ship's captain was briefly deafened by the noise of the vessel before the roar became bearable...the 3-D map in front of him was mirrored by the charts on screens in his left armrest, and he brought up a visual of the vessel that almost slammed into his own...

"Toshiro to all hands, report to stations immediately! Unidentified Vessel of Unknown Origin has just appeared! Medbays stand by! Kairi, I need a damage report as soon as you can manage!"
 
Ken jumped from the chair. "Sorry ma'am, but duty calls." he said, before rushing out and to his chair, sliding in. "I'm stationed, Capt'n." he said, making sure all of his controls were up and operational.
 
Remi seemed to jump a little as Toshiro's voice came booming over the ships internal speakers. Seeing her patient gone; Remi sighed a little, and donned a large white labcoat from her suitcase.

The doctor went about trying to prepare for various possibilities. All though one can't be fully prepared for everything.
 
Shaun and Eve had been working on the pod in the men's bunkroom when the shockwave sent Shaun slamming head first against the wall next to him.

Pulling himself to his feet he stumbled for a moment before rushing out of the room heading for the control room. "Looks like you were right Eve. Someone was out there" He wiped the blood from the side of his head off on his sleeve before making it into the control bay and quickly sitting at his console.

"Eve try and get me a clear picture of what's going on out there." Eve was quick to reply "I'm on it"
 
There was an air like hiss that sounded almost like a jet engine through the comms, dropping into a sharp metallic tone. UNKNOWN ORIGIN turned about, tails arching, widening in a dolphin-like manner before contracting, their tips held tightly together.

Again, light shifted and a second shock-wave caressed the Yggdrasill but this time there was no shiver from the ship's hull. A shrilling sound screamed from the cargo-bay, the Kylie and Battlepod shaking, the systems which powered the devices dragging them up into the air against their own weight. With a crisp pip sound, the two fell dead against the floor, deadly silent.

At the same moment, a second object appeared on scopes, robbed of it's invisibility by the strange pulse. Violet thrust from three areas across the strange shaking paper-aeroplane like form poured from swift turns and motions to evade the other vessel's weaponry. It was declared as "UNKNOWN_2". It released a wave of its own, the tip pulsing and shifting in hue from blue through deep purples, glowing. It was quickly redesigned "ENEMY" in red bold lettering by the computer as the alarms sounded.
 
Upon seeing this, Toshiro barked out another series of commands...

"Re-enforce shields if possible! Get us out of that thing's line of fire! It might have a Cone Effect for all we know! This could be a new sort of Mishhu attack vessel or something!"

Lacking a tactical/defensive officer, Toshiro began to record all data on sensors starting from one minute ago in short-term memory onward for the Lorath and Star Army...should they survive the encounter...
 
Remi faintly heard the shrilling sound from the cargo bay; it was little more than a whisper. Still, she heard it reverberating being carried by the metal of the ship.

The doctor uttered a silent curse. "Captain! Just what is going on up there?!" She growled over the internal comms systems.
 
Shaun had his hands on the console rapidly typing in commands "Eve switch power over from the primary weapons to shields for now and don't let the targeting computers lock on without me knowing. We don't want them blowing us to hell and back because they thought we were going to attack"

Eve quickly rerouted power to the shields "Alright Shaun the shields are increased in capacity, but what now?"

Shaun stared at the monitor and turned to face the captain "The waiting game captain?"
 
Serenity kept her balance, her thick tail helping her to keep up straight. With a scared glance around the room, Serenity ducked down under one of the tables in the medbay, whimpering as her tail squirmed down around her leg. She seemed petrified by the sudden shaking and sounds.
 
Toshiro watched, eyebrows furled...

"Doctor, two fighting ships just dropped out of FTL it seems....we almost got broadsided, and things are only heating up. There's no telling what will happen, if we'll have or receive wounded, or anything. I'm sorry but this demands my immediate attention. One is charging what appears to be a superweapon!"

He looked to Shaun next...

"...The way things are going, we may not need to wait long...but yes, we just watch from the sidelines for now...we wouldn't last ten seconds out there..."

He continued to listen to the radio representation of these vessels...

"I don't know if our radio will even work...they seem to be constantly pinging, perhaps using something along the lines of old radar technology...If we try to hail the Lorath using slower-than-light means before they've finished their battle...we may be blown out of the sky if they interpret it as an effort to disrupt their targeting systems...or weapons may automatically hone in on us...I'm beginning to think these aren't even Mishhu ships. I've never heard of a vessel jamming the radio frequencies in this matter..."

Toshiro pondered the situation... "What is the status of subspace channels? Are they also flooded?"
 
The shivering shifting geometric shape of the enemy craft spewed a flickering white light toward its counterpart. It evaded with a sharp burst of motion that on the Yggdrasill's looked like some sort of glitch. The radio noise grew as something extended from the dorsal and ventral, top and bottom, of the organic form.

A spray of green light bombarded the first ship which began the cycle once more, knocked from its vector of flight though the rounds themselves seemed to rebound cleanly from the paper-thin form, the two now locked in some sort of elaborate dogfight, dancing on the tips of what their propulsion systems were capable of.

It was awe inspiring to see such massive objects moving like the wind itself so effortlessly - let alone in space, shifting their center of mass so rapidly and so pricicely, struggling to hit one another as they slid and fell through the sparkling heavens leaving thin wisps of light behind one another.

They had no interest in the Yggdrasill, fighting for their own survival.
 
The woman glared up at where the captain's voice echoed from and cursed to herself more. "Then remain in an unthreatening posture, and get the hell out of their way!" She roared. Remi's ears twitched a little, and she heard the faint pitter patter of feet behind her.

The neko whipped her head around sending black hair flying; Remi looked around, and saw a form under a table. The doctor bent to a knee, and saw Serenity. The poor thing looked scared out of her mind... Remi walked over to the table, and knelt down again her features significantly soft, and comforting. She held out her arms as if ready to embrace or be embraced.

~"Here now, you're ok come here you'll be fine."~ She cooed to the scared Helashio, all the while wearing a small reassuring smile.
 
Shaun glared at his console before slamming a fist against his right knee. "Damn it! its all jammed!"
Shaun spun around in his chair to face the captain "I suggest we try and get as far away from this fight as possible."
 
Toshiro didn't even have to think before responding to that statement.

"...I agree, but stay close thought to maintain visual and sensor range...they seem to be ignoring us, and I want to report this to the military immediately afterward. It could easily be a threat to the inhabitants of this planet...but if they start to attack us, don't hesitate to gun the Hyperpulse Drive and get us out of here."
 
Ken was doing his best to keep the ship out of the cross fire, using the Dynamic thrusters to almost full potential to do this. "Man...it's all over the place...how far do our sensors go? I want to get to that limit and stay there."
 
Toshiro put his hand to his arrest briefly before responding to Ken...

"1 AU for some of them...but we need detailed readings, so go out to perhaps a quarter of a million kilometers for now...just give them some room and keep them on visal, Ken..."
 
And then it happened.

A single round from the chasing object glanced the hull of its organic partner and her engines went dead, caught in the drift of her last high-speed maneuver. No movement and no response, it looked dead and with a sharp ripple in space, the inflictor of damage left leaving the husk of it's partner behind. Gone.

The comms were silent, save for a heart-beat like pulse in two second intervals. They came closer together, the count and form.

1. 2. 3. 5. 7. 11.

1. 2. 3. 5. 7. 11.

1. 2. 3. 5. 7. 11.


1. 2. 3. 5. 7. But no eleven came this time.
 
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