The Perfect System? (FT, OPEN)

[Balrogga]

While Captain C’Thon waited to see what the meatbags were doing, a message was sent to her over the Link, the connection all Ta’Nar shared.

Captain, I have orders from Grand Admiral K’Ing. You are to gain information from the beings at the hotspot on the following vessels.

Yes Sir, I will begin inquiring immediately.

A large amount of data flowed through the vessel’s sensors, data from the attack on the Fist and the scans of the ships which were guilty. The Ships were of unknown design to the Ta’Nar but perhaps one of the others would be familiar with them.

Switching to the standard way of communicating, a transmission was sent out using ordinary means.

Attention all ships in the area.

I am Captain C’Thon of the Ta’Nar frigate The Black Magic. I am seeking information on the identity of these ships.

Along with the transmission was a data stream showing the five ships that had attacked The Fist but hours ago. Four of them were 5000 meter Gargantuan and the fifth was the 10,000 meter Leviathan, all ships belonging to Fulma, a fact still unknown to the Ta’Nar.

[Vetega]

"Shall we reply sir?"
"Negative. We would give away our position to everyone here." he replied,"Make sure you keep our cloak online. We don't know what would happen."
He continued to stay seated although the bridge was a flurry of activity as the crew readied themselves for anything.

[Ordenweltraum]

"I don't like the sound of this kapitan. What say you?"
"Don't give away our position. Maintain radio silence."

Vollner didn't like the sound of the transmission. That was heathen talk, and not of the kind he was used to, so probably alien heathen talk. He'd heard tell of vast xenos empires across the stars, xenos spawned by Satan rather than the Almighty Lord. Order doctrine, and the Gospel of Joachim Neumann stated that a xenos killed was worth twice the heaven points then a human heathen, and three times a heretic. Perhaps ambushing a little xenos craft and cleansing its crew would assure Vollner's ascension to heaven, or at least make his stay in purgatory a little quicker.

But no use getting too far ahead. Who knew how many xenos were in this area? Who knew their technological capablities. By far, their safest bet was to stay here, unnoticed, listening in the void.

[Balrogga]

Any reply from the other ships yet Maria?

No Captain. They are merely sitting there.

Are you keeping an eye on all of them?

Yes, even the cloaked ones. Their presence on the dimensional sensors are quite easy to see.

I agree, I can feel their minds, none of them even has the training to be able to cloak their minds. Filthy mind-dead. I would much rather be dealing with those who are gifted, at least they would be a challenge to locate.

What are your orders?

We wait to see if any of them have the guts or answer or if they will remain under their illusion of hiding.


The Black Magic continued to hold its position. The 60 meter frigate emitted no further transmission, allowing any of the others a chance to answer.

[Vetega]

"Somethings wrong."he said to himself.
The message was snet out to nowhere in particular, but no one answered. Something felt different. The ship that sent the meesage was new to him. He felt something emanating from there, as if it was probing them. Since he was only a captain and not a general or the Emperor, he had training in the field of the mind. No doubt that had to change soon. However, for someone who wasn't trained to do these things he still had a pretty basic understanding of the concept.
"Go to Condition 2. Raise shields but keep weapons offline. And deactivate the cloak, it's not working. Prepare to initiate defense protcols if necessary."he ordered while his fingers flew over the console on the arm of his chair.
"Cloak deactivated. Shields are at 100%."
"Good. Continue to hold position. And send a reply."

"Ta'Nar vessel, this is Captain Anias Telfer of the VFIN Archon. We represent the The Vetegan Federation. We do not know the identity of said ships as we are new to this region of space."

[Ordenweltraum]

"A ships's materialised on scanners kapitan. Its sending a transmission to the suspected xenos."
Vollner shook his head. Why would they reveal themselves? Fools.

"Ta'Nar vessel, this is Captain Anias Telfer of the VFIN Archon. We represent the The Vetegan Federation. We do not know the identity of said ships as we are new to this region of space."

"Mark another civilisation down, probably human, probably heathen, scans show parity tech. We're making our money's worth today."
"Do we come out of cloak?"
"No. Not at all. Stay silent. See if we can gleam any more information from the heathens. There is no way anything could see through this cloaking."

Something was wrong though. A strange feeling was welling up within Vollner, and the faces of his fellow crewmen across the bridge were vague, or ashen white. Who knew what powers these xenos could use? Nothing could be ruled out when dealing with Satan's spawn.

[Vetega]

He couldn't shake this feeling. It felt like he was being watched. Maybe this ship was having an effect on his mind as well. He cleared his mind and concentrated on everything but the Ta'Nar ship. He sensed another out there. However, it did not appear on sensors. He smiled. There was another ship, but they were obviously using some kind of cloak. If they were enemies, then he would be forced to defend himself. But, if there was a chance of diplomacy then he would jump at it.