Their purpose, to carry out the long-term scientific experiments to see the effects of long-term travel in space at speeds just over half the speed of light. In a freak accident, the "Manifest Destiny's" scientific team came across a fungus that had been growing in one of the storage bins and let it cultivate fully inside the bodies of some of the prisoners to see its effects. The fungus was however identified as a mutated strain of Cordyceps that then infected the prisoners making them first, extremely ill, and then, into monsters capable of surviving in the cold dark of space. Though devoid of any uniform shape, they still were horrific. In the many years that followed, maintenance teams that came out of stasis along with prisoners and scientists also scheduled to leave stasis, were hunted and preyed upon by the Ophiocordyceps Animus (as the new strain was called) and their hosts.
When the "Manifest Destiny" had finally reached her target, she had no more active crew members on-board out of stasis to slow her down. Due to this, the "Manifest Destiny" re-entered the atmosphere at too high a velocity to maintain aerodynamic stability due to her signature "goose neck" and "gravity rings". The sudden instability after having spent four centuries in space, has torn the hull and scattered it across the main continent of Serafall. Thankfully, the designers of the "Manifest Destiny" were counting on the accidental entering of the atmosphere as a worst case scenario and thus planned for it. each section of the Manifest Destiny was segmented and pressurized as well as given individual heat-shields and landing chutes. Now in free-fall over the planet, the survivors aboard the many various sections of the "Manifest Destiny" are being awoken forcibly from stasis and sent to their stations to prepare for impact.
Prologue
"Manifest Destiny"
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Ship Status: <Critically Damaged>
Ship Report: <All Compartments have successfully detached from main section; Main Primary Engine Drivers have separated and are reaching critical heat, critical overload to occur in 13 seconds; Command Module has successfully detached and is to land in 5 seconds; 1 compartment has been lost to reentry; Unidentified entities have stowed away on Compartments A-1, A-2, & A-3; Core overload in 9 seconds; beginning data dump now>
Compartment Readout: <Compartments A-1, A-3, A-4, A-5, A-6, A-9, B-1, B-5, B-6, B-7, B-8, C-4, C-5, C-6, C-9, D-1, D-2, and D-9 have successfully entered atmosphere and are on descent trajectories; Compartments A-2, A-7, B-2, B-3, B-4, C-1, C-3, C-8, D-3, D-4, D-5 have all landed on planetary surface; Compartments A-8, B-9, C-2, C-7, D-6, D-7 have begun atmospheric reentry; Compartment D-8 has been destroyed in reentry>
Project Greenlight Status: <Project Compartments in lower holds have been successfully ejected; status of project opera-a-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa>
<ERROR: 021 Information access denied via Classified Intelligence Protocol>
<ERROR: 021 Information query into Project Greenlight denied via Classified Intelligence Protocol>
<Initiating Project Greenlight system wipe; System Wipe Complete via Calssified Intelligence Protocol>
Status of Shuttles: <Shuttle 3 reporting engine failure in Primary Fuel Injector Cells- Status Orange; Shuttles 1 & 2 are all green and are on controlled descent- Status Green; Shuttle 4 reporting unknown entity, shuttle contact has been lost- Status Black>
More rules to follow as needed.
(Also, please try to type more than one-liners in your IC responses. I want this to be very qualitative AND quantitative. Only 30 people may apply and be accepted at any one time in the game.)
Link for the IC PROLOGUE in the Florida Starport just prior to launch: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?ns=1&f=31&t=264982
IC: Not to be given yet.
First in the prologue!
