Operation Guardian Reach {WOE2 Spin-Off}{ATTN: IRON, Hermes}
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:36 pm
. : ooc : . Subplot continued from The Second War of Expansion.
Mars started as the comms came online and spat out a message from the King himself.
His vessel, the ANSS Anandil, had been in transit to one of the systems marked for colonization, and had by now gotten into the halfway point. Why Kemelzar would be messaging him now, he knew not.
He read the message and set his jaw. The king was moving up the timetable for another operation, one which Mars had assumed would be handed off to another of the Eisenfausts after they had succeeded in seeding a colony. Apparently, conditions had changed, to the point that only the Eisenfausts still in transit would be able to get there in time.
"All stop," commanded Mars. "Begin running the computers for consecutive hyperfolds; coordinates being forwarded to the navigation computers," said Mars, as he mentally passed them on to the system.
For a few minutes, the Eisenfaust sat in dead space, as its systems made the necessary maneuvering calculations for the hyperfold. Once completed, the ship vanished back into hyperspace, and once inside, began the fold, vanishing from sensors.
It reappeared far outside the galactic rim, inside what Anikari captains poetically referred to as the Void Infinite, the great blackness that dominated the space between galaxies. Mars scrolled the projected view down, to look at the vastness of the Milky Way Galaxy stretched out underneath them. As the ship's computers began preparing for the next hyperfold, the bridge crew sat in silence, taking in the sight of their home galaxy slowly turning underneath them. The moment soon passed, as the vessel initiated its next hyperspace jump, and the subsequent fold.
-=The Rupil System
Before the period of ESUS history remembered in Arizona Nova as the Frost, when many of its nations withdrew from the galactic political scene, there had been a power of brief and intense existence, named Rupil. Its species, known as the Tkalgren, had cut out an empire on the midwestern fringe between galactic south and north, before these two halves of the galaxy had been so polarized.
Their former domains, in ancient times, had been mapped by Anikari stellographers, and this information had been preserved, first migrated to New Constantinople, and then saved by Black Operations salvage missions after that world's blighting. Now, centuries later, when all contact with Rupil had been lost, Kemelzar had bet that their system still remained, and could be resettled, and what's more, fortified by his forces, and forces allied to them, to serve as an outpost of the nations of the far galactic south. An unmistakeable reminder to IRON and to Hermes that the sovereignty of the neutral nations in that area of space would be respected.
Into this space slid the ANSS Anandil and its sister ship, the ANSS Anithraldur. Bright flashes obscured the vessels as the shields came online, and the gates began to spin.
"Hyperfold drives at maximum heat load. We're in, but we aren't getting out anytime soon," reported the ensign.
"Begin an active sweep of the system," Admiral Mars commanded both vessels, "As well as Rupil Prime. I want to know everything that can be found about this system; we need to know if there is even still a Rupil Prime to land on or if they left the system altogether years ago or whatever, I want to know it, and the king does as well."
Operation Guardian's Reach had begun.
Mars started as the comms came online and spat out a message from the King himself.
His vessel, the ANSS Anandil, had been in transit to one of the systems marked for colonization, and had by now gotten into the halfway point. Why Kemelzar would be messaging him now, he knew not.
He read the message and set his jaw. The king was moving up the timetable for another operation, one which Mars had assumed would be handed off to another of the Eisenfausts after they had succeeded in seeding a colony. Apparently, conditions had changed, to the point that only the Eisenfausts still in transit would be able to get there in time.
"All stop," commanded Mars. "Begin running the computers for consecutive hyperfolds; coordinates being forwarded to the navigation computers," said Mars, as he mentally passed them on to the system.
For a few minutes, the Eisenfaust sat in dead space, as its systems made the necessary maneuvering calculations for the hyperfold. Once completed, the ship vanished back into hyperspace, and once inside, began the fold, vanishing from sensors.
It reappeared far outside the galactic rim, inside what Anikari captains poetically referred to as the Void Infinite, the great blackness that dominated the space between galaxies. Mars scrolled the projected view down, to look at the vastness of the Milky Way Galaxy stretched out underneath them. As the ship's computers began preparing for the next hyperfold, the bridge crew sat in silence, taking in the sight of their home galaxy slowly turning underneath them. The moment soon passed, as the vessel initiated its next hyperspace jump, and the subsequent fold.
-=The Rupil System
Before the period of ESUS history remembered in Arizona Nova as the Frost, when many of its nations withdrew from the galactic political scene, there had been a power of brief and intense existence, named Rupil. Its species, known as the Tkalgren, had cut out an empire on the midwestern fringe between galactic south and north, before these two halves of the galaxy had been so polarized.
Their former domains, in ancient times, had been mapped by Anikari stellographers, and this information had been preserved, first migrated to New Constantinople, and then saved by Black Operations salvage missions after that world's blighting. Now, centuries later, when all contact with Rupil had been lost, Kemelzar had bet that their system still remained, and could be resettled, and what's more, fortified by his forces, and forces allied to them, to serve as an outpost of the nations of the far galactic south. An unmistakeable reminder to IRON and to Hermes that the sovereignty of the neutral nations in that area of space would be respected.
Into this space slid the ANSS Anandil and its sister ship, the ANSS Anithraldur. Bright flashes obscured the vessels as the shields came online, and the gates began to spin.
"Hyperfold drives at maximum heat load. We're in, but we aren't getting out anytime soon," reported the ensign.
"Begin an active sweep of the system," Admiral Mars commanded both vessels, "As well as Rupil Prime. I want to know everything that can be found about this system; we need to know if there is even still a Rupil Prime to land on or if they left the system altogether years ago or whatever, I want to know it, and the king does as well."
Operation Guardian's Reach had begun.