Author Topic: Departure, Part III- Once Concussed (Read 8236 times)

Ragnar the Red · « **on:** January 17, 2012, 10:27:00 PM »

Suddenly in Teffling airspace there was a bright flash as a large mass of Lorcar space was teleported into the height of the atmosphere. A tattered ship fell from atmosphere, along with a powerful being and pieces of Lorcar.

Calto had been weakened by the teleportation, but he was still conscious enough to survive the decent. That it, until he hit the water and lost all consciousness. He lay there limp, unconscious, and began to sink slowly. That is, until the ship came crashing down.

The smashed bits of ship that was the Stalburfugal plummeted int the water, causing a large splash and a wave that pushed Calto floating toward the shoreline. Several crew members were severely injured on impact, but the artificial gravity had done it's trick. Most people were just bruised, as the forces of the planet's gravity did not have so great an effect. Not only that, but in most rooms the artificial gravity was changed because the automatic functions sensed a leak, and liquid flowing inside some of the rooms. The water would distribute evenly along the sides of any rooms it entered. Seeing this, most of the crew members knew it was time to evacuate. They gathered their belongings, and swam for the surface as fast as possible.

All this was in clear view of several Zarethian cities.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #1 on:** January 18, 2012, 03:03:14 AM »

"Multiple Contacts!" a radar officer calls to a female Admiral. "Uknown classification. One seems like a civilian ship, the others..." his eyes widen. "LORCAR!" he shouts.

"This is Fleet Admiral Sora to any and all ships stationed at Teffilin. Attack immanent! Multiple contacts incoming to the planet. Any and all batteries, you are to blast anything that doesnt look like one of my ships out of the sky, thats an order!" she calls over the radio.

"Roger, Admiral. Planetary Defense Batteries are online, and ready to fire." a Zarethian Officer calls through.

"Command, patch me through to Admiral Vaccon! Do ti now damnit!" she orders.

The batteries, per her orders, began to shot the Lorcar pieces out of the atmosphere, while trying to avoid the civilian ship as it crashed to the planet.

"This is Capitol Defense Command. The ship has impacted on Lake Decadea, 20 klicks to the south of the Capitol. Dispatching local HIRU and PDF Marine forces to conduct SAR, how copy Admiral?" a commander calls in.

"Hard Copy... We are awaiting orders from Admiral Vaccon for us to do otherwise. All units proceed as planned." she answers through.

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Lake Decadea, 20 kilometers south of the Zarethian Capitol City
Planet, Teffilin
1300hrs

Homeland Intervention Response Unit (HIRU)/3rd Fleet PDF Marines aka "The Countess' Gaurd"
JOINT OPERATION-Search And Rescue [SAR]

As the crew reached the beach, they were immediately greeted by guns from the dispatched forces. "Identify yourself!" a HIRU Operative orders them.

Beware Ye Who Enter Here · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2012, 05:37:16 PM »

There was a flurry of response from the thousands of ships above Tefflilin space. The civilian ships scattered and flew into hyperspace at random angles after they saw what came near them. Addler, sitting in a space station above the planet, immediately keyed in several overriding commands and the shield system blazed into life, disentagration shields, energy shields and APsi fields all went up, enclosing the entire system in a blanket of anti psychic forces.

"This is Admiral vas Vacon." A gruff, alert but tired sounding voice returned over all military comm channels. "This is the moment that we have feared, the moment that has cut into our dreams and woken us with terror gripping our pounding hearts. But fear not! For the might of the Zarethian Empire rests in your hands, the people stand behind you, hoping and praying that your skill and bravery can save them from a similar fate! Can you do this men and women of Aser? Those people below seem to think so!"
An image of several children, huddled around the Zarethian flag along with their comforting families.
"Dont let them down, for every man, women and child in known space let us put these creatures to an end right here and now! Let us show them what happens when they threaten us."
With that the screen went blank and an alert for all battlestations relayed out.

Hundreds of Zarethian frigates began to fire upon the lorcar, almost twenty five capitol and super capitols began their fusilade. And then, out of seemingly nowhere, the Prometheus blazed the Lorcar lines with magical fire, fired from its enormous cannons, streaming pulse blasts down on the invaders.

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2012, 06:17:28 PM »

OOC: ...They were dead anyway...

As the crew began to reach the surface, they were shocked to see all the gunfire above their heads.

"Oui gan ever atch ab byeak, gan oui?" an Iapaq asked
^{(We can never catch a break, can we?)}

Beware Ye Who Enter Here · « **Reply #4 on:** January 18, 2012, 06:25:09 PM »

OOC: ...Damn. What a waste of a perfectly narmy speech.

The ship was soon located and three ZPAA armored men approached the ship, weapons raised.
"Is anyone alive?" the lead sayds over intercomm.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #5 on:** January 18, 2012, 06:40:12 PM »

Ooc- lol, the HIRU units are way ahead of you zak.

As they broke the surface, they were immediately faced with the weapons of the HIRU, PDF Marines, and the ZPAA troopers.

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #6 on:** January 18, 2012, 06:48:30 PM »

"Guess not," a matinace worker replied to the Iapaq as they tried to put their hands up.

Beware Ye Who Enter Here · « **Reply #7 on:** January 18, 2012, 06:57:24 PM »

"Who are you?"Asked the leader of the troopers,awoman in red and gold power armor with a black helmet, signalling she was of moderate rank as the Zarethians put these men in cuffs. "As a precaution" They say.

OOC: good thing they're mine too:P

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #8 on:** January 18, 2012, 07:40:38 PM »

Captain Ivilantar, who had just come up for air, at there breathing as all the crew turned to her. Being volunteered, she said, "We are the crew of the Stalburfugal, first exploration of the United Confederation of the Heliphlein outside the Aserical Shadow. We were attacked, and we need assistance."

Beware Ye Who Enter Here · « **Reply #9 on:** January 18, 2012, 08:33:56 PM »

"Well see the fires in the sky? Outside the shields? Your coming here did that." The woman shook her head. "But if you've been attacked we're obliged to help." A hover vehicle bearing a white paint job and an orange circle with a blue star in the middle of it on its sides. "Get in and you will be cared for and debriefed."

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #10 on:** January 18, 2012, 08:39:29 PM »

The chubby Heliphlein science officer was the first one in. The others started muttering to themselves, and Lanq piped in, "One of our guys was outside the ship when we crashed. Can you search for him on the shoreline?"

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #11 on:** January 18, 2012, 08:43:03 PM »

"Already on it" a Hiru officer spoke up. "1st platoon is conducting SAR operations on the lake, per the Capitol Command's orders"

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #12 on:** January 18, 2012, 09:33:10 PM »

They began piling into the hover vehicle.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #13 on:** January 19, 2012, 03:03:22 AM »

After they had piled into the vehicle, a HIRU Officer accompanied them as well. He took his seat next to the Captain, and had his sidearm ready. "Commander Tarkov, Zarethian Homeland Intervention Response Unit." he holds out his hand to the Captain. "Sorry about the guns... We are one high alert seeing as there is a bit of an Executive crisis happening, and adding on to that was the Lorcar remains. We can never be too careful." the Officer informed them.

"I believe that you re going to be debriefed by the Commander of the Fleet you put on alert... She isnt entirely happy though, so you may have to deal with one of her subordinates."

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #14 on:** January 19, 2012, 10:41:19 PM »

"Is that a good or bad?" Ivilantar asked.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #15 on:** January 19, 2012, 11:47:43 PM »

Tarvok drew back his hand after seeing that the Captain wasnt going to shake it. "Fleet Admiral Sora, the Commander of the Third Zarethian Fleet, is a very, very, very intimidating woman. For your sake, you better hope and pray that you get one of her subordinates... " his eyes get wide with a slight sense of fear.

"But, seeing as it was unintentional, and that you were attacked, ect, she'll probably take it easy. So, take it easy Captain..." the Commander said and leaned back in the seat.

The car continued on to a Military Installation near the Capitol Building. "Capitol Command, this is HIRU Agent, Tarkov. Convoy is approaching HIGHCOM HQ. How copy?" Tarkov reports in.

Beware Ye Who Enter Here · « **Reply #16 on:** January 20, 2012, 04:12:01 PM »

"We copy, Tarkov. Proceed as no- Wait, scratch that, over." The man said, pausing in the middle of his sentence as if he was interrupted. "Tarkov, you'rebeing ordered to report to the Rapture base, over."
In the hover vehicle the light indicating their destination was changed to a distant, mountainous region holding the most secretive of the Zarethian Government facilities where no HIRU agent has been, where very few people have been;a place held in local legend as a somewhere people go before they disapear.
The driver paled and turned the vehicle around.

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #17 on:** January 20, 2012, 07:08:00 PM »

"What's going on?" Ivilantar asked.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #18 on:** January 20, 2012, 09:01:13 PM »

Tarkov held on tight as the limo swung around. "Apparently, someone with enough pull to override a HIRU operation is wanting to see you all in a not so public place..." He looks at the blackened out windows.

"My guess is a 5 star, Vaccon, or some councillors... We'll see soon enough though."

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #19 on:** January 20, 2012, 10:17:58 PM »

Ivilantar turned and looked into the trees as they passed.

"What are the Lorcar?" Olix asked.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #20 on:** January 20, 2012, 10:58:58 PM »

"The Lorcar are a parasitic race that destroyed our original home long ago. Locusts..." Tarvok explained and slightly shivered. The car stopped for a brief moment before the driver asks Tarkov to hand over his ID. He does so. The driver talks to what seemed to be a gaurd station for a brief second, and handed it back to him.

"Commander..." the driver calls back to him. "Welcome to Rapture."

(OOC-Bioshock ref FTW!!!!)

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #21 on:** January 21, 2012, 01:34:45 PM »

"That's definately what attacked us," the pilot said, partly to himself.

Beware Ye Who Enter Here · « **Reply #22 on:** January 21, 2012, 09:02:55 PM »

The guard lead the group through a small, dark passageway and ushered them into a spherical bubble. "Prepare to submerge." He said, grinning slightly as the lights dimmed and left his face covered slightly in shadow. The bubblemobile jumped as it started and the glass showed the etched rock, laced with gold and silver light emanating from the rock. The lights clearly shown in the form of letters spelling "RAPTURE".

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #23 on:** January 21, 2012, 09:24:50 PM »

Tarkov stood in the front of the bubbling at ease, as he watched out. "My god..."

Ragnar the Red · « **Reply #24 on:** January 21, 2012, 09:47:19 PM »

The Heliphlein were amazed by this, but then again they were amazed by Tefillin to begin with. Well, except Laniq, who asked, "Did you seriously leave Calto behind?"