NationStates Jolt Archive

The tech is coming to town (super secret IC)

“Mister kayborn “ Said An older senator with a black suit and a blue tie wandering down long shimmering and white lit hulls with holographic panels and maps lining it.
“Yes” replied the even older man with Gray hair a Gray suit brown eyes and a somewhat thin almost fragile appearance, his eyes panned the senator looking slightly passed him at some points as they went down to the secure entrance ahead.
The senator gently sighed his own eyes fixated ahead of him as he saw android centuries guarding the multi force fielded several meter thick doors. He said “I do hope this is worth my time, the senate wants a report on this stuff we only just built this place a year ago, and they are already asking if the funding is worth it.”

Bester responded with a few chuckles his rough hands slipping in to his coat pocket idle taps from both men feet could be heard as they stepped up to the check point. “Well that’s the senate for you; I’ve been the sectary of defense for countless administrations, for several hundred years. You would think they could trust me, I know you have a family at home, how are they doing if I might ask?”
The senator responded with a slight smile coming over his face. “Well my friend, they just moved in to a new floating suite arclogy over the ocean” The stepped on to two scanning devices, labeled one and two, suddenly the human like androids moved their pale grey hands to a few holographic buttons pressing them, bright blue lights appeared over both men’s body scanning them from head to toe, it tingled for them they slightly winched as they tried not to laugh from the sensation. The Floating AI over head said with a soft female voice. “Security scans complete. Please see associates inside of the chamber for future instructions “. Both men slightly scoffed as they entered the chrome, and white glimmering chamber, it was seemingly plated with holographic computer platforms, smooth metal walls and lab equipment. Directly ahead of them was a reactor that stretched beyond what anyone could see, in its center was a rotating ball of space time linked by dark energy beams to conduits around the metal casing.

Doctor Mendez walked up to the two men with a smile. “hola senator hillmen, Hola Mr kayborn, Welcome to black novas dark energy research facility or , DERF for short. I see the senate has sent you two to review it again, well a year is all we needed to make some first generation stuff, thanks to our friends in the black nova Particle physics labs and generous funding from the government.”
Doctor mendez Was always a good fronter, especially in the light of recent senate criticism about the facilities multi trillion dollar price tag , he was born on Tyrian, In the central city quarters, he grew up always interested in exotic science, he once built an android that ran on tachyons , even though it failed it proved he was capable. At that time the CoD was still in control as a peaceful democratic government. Terran prime was still around and people were still complacent about the apparent golden age that wasn’t really happening but was fronted by the government.


Senator Hillmen and Secretary kayborn both knew Mendez when he was just a college student at Servanna university he built an eight atom fusion battery, it didn’t last too long but it exploded and caused the entire lab to be out of commission for weeks . Bester said “Well yes they want to cut funding but they won’t unless we show them real progress here” Hillmen nodded idly peering over the advanced equipment being handled by robots and floating AI, and some repair work being done by odd creatures with fuzzy balls on their heads. Mendez sighed he said with a simple tone “follow me” Bester and hillmen both raised their eyebrows as they started wandering over to the Reactors main control and schematic database. Mendez said “you noticed this big thing we have here correct senior?” They both nodded hillmen said “Yeah what does it do, for those of us not gifted with knowledge of advanced science “He said almost sarcastically. Mendez chuckled at the comment the middle aged scientist with a crew hair cut started pressing a few buttons. He started to speak “Well guys you’re looking at what the peoples tax dollars have made, the first functional first generation space time reactor, created by compressing dark energy in to dark energy plasma, this thing right now even out powers the entire fleet of ships we have but it’s also quite unstable if this thing goes so will this facility and the facilities nearby , the streams you see coming out of the poles are dark energy , that’s condensed in to dark energy plasma by the zero mass condensers here and we get balls of distorted light as you se e over head” he pointed up the two men looked their expressions went from doubtful to bright eyed and drooling.


Mendez continued “these balls of energy go in to these generators through these hatches, they either oscillate as you see in that one” he pointed to a generator the size of a bed with a force field over the slight opening of the smooth meta casing. “Or that” he said pointing to another witch had the balls energy being sucked out from both ends in streams of dark energy. The general feelings of citizens towards such ventures if often a go for it altitude unless its proven to be totally unworkable and a waste of money, but this technology will make lives far easier make produces viable and new ones available to make and use for nearly no cost at all. The thing is what it would take to get the split public to buy in to this stuff.

Mendez stood there his hands behind them looking at both of the men, they looked at him and bester said. “All right, that’s somewhat of a good progress report so far, what about defense applications?”
Mendez’s grin became even wider as he said “Well my main man you might be happy at what you see come on” he wandered over through a secure door merely labeled room 7. Bester and the senator followed m at first they saw. A car sized apparatus, with balls of dark energy plasma fusing together in a generator pack attached. They looked at Mendez with a carious face. He started to explain “All right these friends is what we call a dark energy particle beam, it utilizes dark energy plasma piped from the reactions out in to the barrel as you see we modified a neutron hard beam barrel to accommodate this, at any rate” he continued “ I will show you on this thirty four meter thick boruim wall what just such a beam could do.” He pressed a holographic button, suddenly the barrel erupted with a beam of energized dark plasma, and the outside of the beam was a crackling whitish blue the center a black, the beam struck the metal instantly melting through several meters of it per second disrupting it visually and bending it the metal was bent and warped so much in just a few seconds of operation it broke and melted in to several different pieces and then began floating, And then disintegrating in to atoms. The beam stopped as Mendez tapped another buttons closing it. He smiled as he looked over to the two politicians, they gawked at the beam damage the entire piece of Boruim was just gone easily, warped and disintegrated. They shook their heads , and bester said “My god that was solid boruim alloy..”

Mendez replied crossing his arms “that’s only a first generation beam, now continuing “ he said pointing to another device it was a big as a trike, the two looked up, it had a single barrel pointed at a shielded object , he pressed the button suddenly a white and blue beam of laser energy hit the field, disrupting the shield over a few moments and melting the metal hot slag falling all over the floor.
Bester smiled he was glad to see his investments were paying off he said “I think the senate will be pleased with this “ he looked over to hillmen as Mendez activated an experimental dark energy field , Mendez was silent as bester looked on, the field made a solid boruim alloy block float, Mendez adjusted the field it shifted with an odd blue glow starting to warp and rip apart then he modified it again the object being crushed now. They both stood there watching bester placing his hand on his chin.

“interesting…” very interesting” He said Mendez then spoke “Well sirs these are the military power applications so far this is all we have however with more time and funding we will have a lot more Things to show off."

Both Of them walked through another door a one way force field let them in to a large chamber there was a massive square panel on the floor, there was an object and a waxy jello like figure standing In the middle, Mendez said with a somewhat excited voice. “Gentlemen observe not only will this improve military security, it can be applied to privet sectors as well “suddenly as he pressed a holographic console button the floor lit up with an energetic crackling noise suddenly the metal box shaped object and the jelly human floated in to mid air the metal box was instantly warped vaporized by the field the human just melted out of existence, the senator and secretary looked almost in awe as only a split second passed when that happened. Mendez shut the device off quickly after that.

Bester wandered over to look at the square; he scratched his chin in amazement then turned to Mendez saying “The power consumption of these fields must be enormous.” Mendez replied “yes they are the Dark energy security floor (DESF) for short still has issues with using too much power, we have to refine it before any use can be made of it on ships” “I see” Simply replied the skinny somewhat frail secretary looking to the senator who was busy idly starting out side of a holographic view port to the other side of the facility. Bester and Mendez walked over the light outside of the port somewhat blue tinted as experiments happened with new theories and prototypes. Mendez said as he looked over suddenly peering at obliterated equipment and other things in the corner of the large room, bester and the senator both saw robots and AIs working in that room instead of humans. Mendez idly mentioned.

“This room contains dangerous experiments with dark energy , you can see the failures in the corner. We only allow AI to work in here because of the nature of the material, one wrong move would obliterate half the room. There were many accidents with his equipment we documented one such incident. An android opened the wrong stream of energy while testing a portal device. So Long story short, that’s what you see outside. It vaporized half the facility and even the space around it was warped and bent. That’s why you see a long corridor leading to no place”

Bester chuckled a little at the comment he couldn’t help but laugh at it even though there was a risk of the entire station being destroyed in an instant. He said with another sigh. “What do you have in the way of civilian applications the people want something from them to not just our boys in the field.”

Mendez said his hand slipping in to his coat pocket. “Well sir Dark fusion can improve production by thousands of times, personal portal devices will be available without having to use mass portal centers or stops. Computers will have so much power thanks to micro occultation generators we are making that people will be able to process even the largest sums of data in a split second.”

Hillmen smiled his hands and arms crossing as all three men began walking out in to a long and somewhat regal and metal smooth corridor. The Next day would be a test of a dark fusion core mounted on a ship. Hillmen and Kayborn both had reports to the santé due that night they had seen enough this would revolutionize society and the military as soon as it was ready.

(Non secret IC:)
The ship sat in a large cylindrical dry dock, its massive 1.7 km body ominously floating over the smaller shuttles that moved around it, a large cat walk attaching it to the main body of the yard, it was a Lexington class cruiser, the body was the same.. Most of the guns were but it was different somehow, its body was blackened, its hull hardly reflected any light at all, its engines lay quiet as it was moored in to the dock.
Mendez had just finished think typing a report at his somewhat metal like white marble textured desk, his hand were placed on top of it as he relaxed gently having just completed the tour of the black nova dark matter research, he was hopeful that the report being made out by the senator and defense secretary would be of satisfactory caliber and that it would bring more funding. Or else as the director of black nova said “he would be pressured under review” that thought alone nearly made him scream.

He knew the test of the ship was about to happen, however the secretary of defense and senator had to leave early because of more pressing concerns in new Washington. He stood up from his desk scrolling his hovering chair back he gently sighed as he began walking through the somewhat smooth marble like metal door in to a well lit ornately decorated path.

He wandered in to a rather large room filled with researchers and military advisors the secretary had left behind. The entire holographic screen around the facility was showing empty space, looking at several angles of the dock, Beside the Lexington’s docks where smaller ones that had the UTS talon (swift strike frigate) the UTS Ordos (Ordos class destroyer).

They had been equipped with smaller prototype dark fusion cores and Portal drives.
The massive maw of the glimmering metal dock opened first the. Massive and almost demonic ominous looking cruiser, shimmered out as its moors had been released its massive guns peering strait at one camera almost striking fear even at the researchers of the facility. Of course most of them have never worked on a military ship, it took months to prepare, and even then this was untested content. Everyone thought different, this defied normal logic, this technology these particles this dark energy was strange in appearance and effect. ‘’

On the UTS Lexington things were tense, officers sat in there stations, gravity force belts around them as they worked tapping their holographic console, the helm officer was tied in to the ships Ai directly with mind man interface instruments nearly usual stuff for a federal war ship, what was unusual is the increased equipment to mo niter the engines and reactor due to them being powered by dark energy.

Commander Jameson sat back on his leather like chair strapped in by a gravity belt, a wire running from the back of his neck in to the chair, from this he could communicate instant orders to the crew if he so chooses, this was standard on all ships of the union his blue eyes peered around the somewhat mundanely lit bridge, the white utilitarian lights gently emphasizing the smooth metal surfaces of the bridge. Jameson Moved his black gloved hand to his face gently stroking his five o clock shadow chin.

He started to speak “All stations report “ he had to speak via voice so people at the station could hear him. The stations replied in kind.
“Engine room, The freeman field generator is stable and at 50 percent capacity dark fusion reactor is Green!” said the chief engineer standing on a force walk “Navigation, is ready all coordinates are tied in we’re ready to begin commander” said a young woman tied in to the con.

All status was now green, the massive cruiser floated out of dry dock its engines somewhat of a different color, bluish white streams of particles with a black flame in the middle flew from the drives, as the cruiser accelerated faster than normal. The ship was going fast, really fast the engines pushed it forward in to the void, the smaller ships following behind it. The Lexington was shaking madly, it wasn’t meant for quick acceleration like this. Jameson looked over to his helm officer as his chair shook. “Report!”

The tied in helm officer looked back swerving his chair to look at the commander he started to speak. “Sir we need to tone down the engines, structural integrity can’t take this acceleration stress , I’m compensating for it now by turning the ratio down” Suddenly the shaking stopped, the ship went from a fast move towards shaking itself apart to a moderate, speed. The engines continued to push the vessel it the stream of particle less than before.
The Commander smiled he looked over to the holo camera that was feeding live from the inside of the ship and said. “We are ready to commence faster than light jump” he looked over to the helm officer with a nod..

The space around the intimidating ship was quiet, dark and lifeless the ship was the only thing remotely putting out any signs of life, its millions of machine parts working in tandem to make it function, but Today those parts would be taxed as the first federal cruiser to go through a new type of portal system. The space around the ship warped and bended, the entire ship engulfed itself in warping space as a cloud of dark matter formed around a swirling crackling white and black vortex. The ship phased out of existence immediately being sucked in, the portal destabilized and closed a massive dark energy dimensional shock wave moving through space it wasn’t destructive but it could be seen many, many light years away.

Several million light years away another portal opened with the same effect, in the middle of populated space another shockwave emanated from it as the ship reappeared. The Lexington was shaking widely as it traveled through multiple dimensions at once flying in to normal space; it was unknown were they were all they knew was they could have been seen by any one thanks to the massive dark energy portal wave that happened. The commander gripped his chair arm rest as he looked wide eyed out of the holographic console peering back out in to normal space, he was never so glad to see lifeless back water space before. Ever since he was a kid he was afraid of trying some new things, he remembered being afraid to try a new replicators that made large objects when he was a teen for good reason it malfunctioned and burned him. It was the first one for civilian use ever made. The cruiser floated in to space gently moving its body emanating energies no recognized or seen by anyone in the milky way. The Destroyer and frigate both followed behind, the destroyer ended up in federal space, the frigate never to be seen.

The control room was tense all the feeds had gone out it was feared the experiment was a failure, Mendez’s heart suck as he saw this he was afraid for his job It would have been a disaster of epic proportions. But suddenly two of the three feeds came back on the destroyer and the cruiser both bridge crews cheering because of the success. The frigate however was not so lucky. The frigate had disappeared and been spat out as atoms over mars in sol the portal drive was too strong for its body to handle the stress and the freeman field couldn’t be made powerful enough wit the small generator it had. For now it was time to wait the cruiser had to wait for its drives to start up before it went back so they were stuck in unknown space for now.

(Non secret IC:)
The ship sat in a large cylindrical dry dock, its massive 1.7 km body ominously floating over the smaller shuttles that moved around it, a large cat walk attaching it to the main body of the yard, it was a Lexington class cruiser, the body was the same.. Most of the guns were but it was different somehow, its body was blackened, its hull hardly reflected any light at all, its engines lay quiet as it was moored in to the dock.
Mendez had just finished think typing a report at his somewhat metal like white marble textured desk, his hand were placed on top of it as he relaxed gently having just completed the tour of the black nova dark matter research, he was hopeful that the report being made out by the senator and defense secretary would be of satisfactory caliber and that it would bring more funding. Or else as the director of black nova said “he would be pressured under review” that thought alone nearly made him scream.

He knew the test of the ship was about to happen, however the secretary of defense and senator had to leave early because of more pressing concerns in new Washington. He stood up from his desk scrolling his hovering chair back he gently sighed as he began walking through the somewhat smooth marble like metal door in to a well lit ornately decorated path.

He wandered in to a rather large room filled with researchers and military advisors the secretary had left behind. The entire holographic screen around the facility was showing empty space, looking at several angles of the dock, Beside the Lexington’s docks where smaller ones that had the UTS talon (swift strike frigate) the UTS Ordos (Ordos class destroyer).

They had been equipped with smaller prototype dark fusion cores and Portal drives.
The massive maw of the glimmering metal dock opened first the. Massive and almost demonic ominous looking cruiser, shimmered out as its moors had been released its massive guns peering strait at one camera almost striking fear even at the researchers of the facility. Of course most of them have never worked on a military ship, it took months to prepare, and even then this was untested content. Everyone thought different, this defied normal logic, this technology these particles this dark energy was strange in appearance and effect. ‘’

On the UTS Lexington things were tense, officers sat in there stations, gravity force belts around them as they worked tapping their holographic console, the helm officer was tied in to the ships Ai directly with mind man interface instruments nearly usual stuff for a federal war ship, what was unusual is the increased equipment to mo niter the engines and reactor due to them being powered by dark energy.

Commander Jameson sat back on his leather like chair strapped in by a gravity belt, a wire running from the back of his neck in to the chair, from this he could communicate instant orders to the crew if he so chooses, this was standard on all ships of the union his blue eyes peered around the somewhat mundanely lit bridge, the white utilitarian lights gently emphasizing the smooth metal surfaces of the bridge. Jameson Moved his black gloved hand to his face gently stroking his five o clock shadow chin.

He started to speak “All stations report “ he had to speak via voice so people at the station could hear him. The stations replied in kind.
“Engine room, The freeman field generator is stable and at 50 percent capacity dark fusion reactor is Green!” said the chief engineer standing on a force walk “Navigation, is ready all coordinates are tied in we’re ready to begin commander” said a young woman tied in to the con.

All status was now green, the massive cruiser floated out of dry dock its engines somewhat of a different color, bluish white streams of particles with a black flame in the middle flew from the drives, as the cruiser accelerated faster than normal. The ship was going fast, really fast the engines pushed it forward in to the void, the smaller ships following behind it. The Lexington was shaking madly, it wasn’t meant for quick acceleration like this. Jameson looked over to his helm officer as his chair shook. “Report!”

The tied in helm officer looked back swerving his chair to look at the commander he started to speak. “Sir we need to tone down the engines, structural integrity can’t take this acceleration stress , I’m compensating for it now by turning the ratio down” Suddenly the shaking stopped, the ship went from a fast move towards shaking itself apart to a moderate, speed. The engines continued to push the vessel it the stream of particle less than before.
The Commander smiled he looked over to the holo camera that was feeding live from the inside of the ship and said. “We are ready to commence faster than light jump” he looked over to the helm officer with a nod..

The space around the intimidating ship was quiet, dark and lifeless the ship was the only thing remotely putting out any signs of life, its millions of machine parts working in tandem to make it function, but Today those parts would be taxed as the first federal cruiser to go through a new type of portal system. The space around the ship warped and bended, the entire ship engulfed itself in warping space as a cloud of dark matter formed around a swirling crackling white and black vortex. The ship phased out of existence immediately being sucked in, the portal destabilized and closed a massive dark energy dimensional shock wave moving through space it wasn’t destructive but it could be seen many, many light years away.

Several million light years away another portal opened with the same effect, in the middle of populated space another shockwave emanated from it as the ship reappeared. The Lexington was shaking widely as it traveled through multiple dimensions at once flying in to normal space; it was unknown were they were all they knew was they could have been seen by any one thanks to the massive dark energy portal wave that happened. The commander gripped his chair arm rest as he looked wide eyed out of the holographic console peering back out in to normal space, he was never so glad to see lifeless back water space before. Ever since he was a kid he was afraid of trying some new things, he remembered being afraid to try a new replicators that made large objects when he was a teen for good reason it malfunctioned and burned him. It was the first one for civilian use ever made. The cruiser floated in to space gently moving its body emanating energies no recognized or seen by anyone in the milky way. The Destroyer and frigate both followed behind, the destroyer ended up in federal space, the frigate never to be seen.

The control room was tense all the feeds had gone out it was feared the experiment was a failure, Mendez’s heart suck as he saw this he was afraid for his job It would have been a disaster of epic proportions. But suddenly two of the three feeds came back on the destroyer and the cruiser both bridge crews cheering because of the success. The frigate however was not so lucky. The frigate had disappeared and been spat out as atoms over mars in sol the portal drive was too strong for its body to handle the stress and the freeman field couldn’t be made powerful enough wit the small generator it had. For now it was time to wait the cruiser had to wait for its drives to start up before it went back so they were stuck in unknown space for now.

A small 400 meter plate cruiser was flying through the milky way on a routine engine test. It was a standard C-Class warship with 2 Plate emitters with a Q-emitter on one side and a Super laser emitter on the other side. The captain suddenly noticed a few things. " Report! " All of the insurment panels were going insane. Flashing and sounding off alarms all over the control panels. " Sir, we've detected a massive shock wave, it appears to be trapped in between deimsions, it appears to be some kind of exotic energy. "

" Right, set a course at maximum speed and drop out as soon as possible. "

The plate ship pushed its engines to the limit, the reading was 100 lightyears away and would be in range within half a minute. They didn't know what they would encounter. But whatever the hell it was it caused a huge response. Seconds later the ship dropped at warp and pulled up next to the stricken unknown vessel. The captain ordered yellow alert just in case.

He sent a transmission to the stricken vessel " This is Captain Sean Willing of the ECF Medium Cruiser KDKA. A few questions, who are you, what the hell happened, and is everyone alright?

The energy readings were off the charts...

"Crap, Crap, What's this... Battle stations!"

"Why didn't our sensors pick this
up before?!"

"I... I... dunno... It's something I've... WE've never seen before... We're picking up tell tale signs of Dark-matter though."

"Fire the Destabiliser... no way we're going to let that do anything until we know know what's going on..."

"Sir, there's two ships..."

"I don't care! Just do it..."

Energy from the ships engines quickly flew into the destabiliser buffers it wasn't long perhaps only a few seconds till the shot was ready... First at the UTS Lexington... The energy was beamed directly at the ship, the osciallition, frequency and other attributes of the energy blast would not actually take off-line the energy source but would be attracted to major sources of power and cause serius interruption to the energy flow making the energy available todo things seriously flucuate, making the entire electronics system of the ship un-reliable.

And if time allowed a further shot would be taken on the Ordos...

They would wait... for now... make them prioritise there energy allow them to make sure the communications system stabilises before doing anything else.

" WHAT IN FUCK, RED ALERT "

The cruiser went to red alert, the emitter plates started glowing blue and green, respectively for each type. The shields came online and engines came to 110%. The captain begin giving battle orders. " Swing around and charge super laser emitter to 100% and stay the hell out of his weapons arch, I want a orbiting pattern around that ship, keep it at .56C I don't want that weapon fucking up our systems. "

The plate shipped had its super laser fully charged, ready for a full charged blast. And it kept moving as to not be hit by any large weapons. The captain mordred a channel to the new unknown vessel. " Unknown Vessel, this is Sean Willing of the ECF navy, you have entered this area with weapons charged, you have aggressive intent, STAND DOWN before I decide to get nasty with you. You have no right to jump in here with weapons charged. "

The huge super laser grid still held its 100% charge, ready to be fired whenever the button was pushed. In the meantime the captain sent a message to the unknown ship that had been the source of the dark matter readings " This is the ECF again, is everyone OK over there? I have weapons on full power and can blast that clown out of the sky if the need be, respond if help is required. We will keep our weapons trained on this guy, ECF out "

The energy destabilization shot fired from the unknown ship hit the thickest part of the hull, some of the hull lights flickered and the inside of the ship went dim for a second on the outer decks. Jameson growled a bit he will not have his ship shot at from under his ass. He looked over to the AI floating above the connected tactical officer and nodded, with signal sent directly to his brain the order was given to charge dark energy weapons and target the ships that fired upon them. Though realizing he was still feeding to the research facility he started to speak.
“All dark energy beam cannons focus on that ship”
The research crew and generals nearly choked on their bottles of wine as they saw and heard what was happing they watched in awe.
Suddenly the massive cruisers dark energy turrets swiveled around targeting the unknown ship, energy from the surrounding base was being sucked up almost as space warped and bent severally as the beams charged up. The commander smiled he moved his hand and said “hit their reactor and weapon array but don’t destroy them” suddenly multiple beams from the lighter dark energy cannons fired, beams of crackling blue and black beams barreled towards the target, bending and warping space as it funneled at high speeds.
Thankfully the Ordos as some thousands of light years away to be affected by anything so the ship by the Lexington targeted was not of federal origin.
The beams finally ceased after enough energy was pumped towards the target they charged up again ready to fire, during firing. There was a serious miss balance of energy and power moving towards the guns certain systems this was not due to the blast but due to the quantum compression conduits not being aligned.

The engineer was explaining to the captain “sir certain parts of the ship experiencing a bad drain, I don’t think it was that pulse but I think it has something to do with the compression conduits not being able to Handel the load out and they have to use other conduits to help move the energy towards the weapons I can have the AI take a look at it after we’re done here”
Jameson nodded he waved his hand and said “Agreed let’s hope these weapons are what they dream of it certainly looks it”

The message to the TFU ship had been responded to, they were firing. The captain decided it was time to do some disabling. " Tactical, send a message to the other ships tactical officer, tell him that we're going to tunnel through his shielding and take out his engines. The tactical officer sent a message " We're going for the engines, we will not harm the rest of the ship, try to keep fire in check so we don't end up destroying the whole vessel, watch this "

The tactical officer let the computer program take over and things turned bad for the enemy ship. The 400 meter ship flipped completely over to its other side and transferred all of its weapons power to its Q- emitter capacitors and shot a large burst at the enemy, which most likely knocked out his shielding. The computer then went about the delicate task of disabling the engines.

Thousands of small micro beams shot out of the emitter and begin targeting just the engines, they would be destroyed without damaging the rest of the ship.

Apart from the intended disruption to the energy flow in the UTS Lexington there was no other side effects to the energy de-stabilisation, however it didn't seem to work for they were firing back.

"Damn, this was what I was trying to prevent!" scowled the captain, "evasive procedures!"

"They're taking weapons and engines."

"Thank's for that, Obvious..."

"Energy reading is not familiar... passing informaiton through to AI to analyse..."

And with that the beams struck, severly damaging most of the multiple engines... The bridge was shaken severly, the de stabiliser was taken out but as other weapon systems hadn't been activated, most of them where still in some what of an operating status.

"Well, if we can't disable them through the energy blasts... We have to go te direct route... so be it...

"Sir, another contact... seemingly there coming in close... AI suggests that they're helping us..."

"They're firing at at US!"...

"Getting Comms Sir!"

The message from the Federation ship was heard over the loudspeakers in the bridge.

"Damn those cocky SoBs."

"Do we have any contact with them?...
"No hard data no sir."

"Ok... get me comms... The first contact then the second..."

"Okay... Ready when you are sir..."


Unknown Vessel - This is TGMS Surveyor 103, Captain Jax speaking. We still have weapons that we can use to defend ourselves if necessary. The initial shots we fired were from our Energy De-stabilisers which result in only temporary disruption to high-power devices. We mean to cause no harm, but for crying out loud, cut out firing your beams at us, or we'll have no choice.


"Okay... and 2nd soon..... ready when you are"


Unknown Vessel - This is TGMS Surveyor 103, Captain Jax speaking. A ship with strange energy readings appearing unannounced virtually right on top of us and you attack our engines? If you cared to notice that the shot had done practically no damage to the ship, our Energy De-stabilisers merely should cause enough disruption to prevent weapons and the engines from firing up.


The message was turse, it was obvious that the captain didn't like his engines and weapons being shot off and to him it was a massive over-reaction. His shots didn't do any permanent damage and only were barely effective anyway, from what it seemed. Anyway, it was obvious that he had been put in his place and for now the TGMS Survey 103 just floated in space, waiting for further communications.

Apart from the intended disruption to the energy flow in the UTS Lexington there was no other side effects to the energy de-stabilisation, however it didn't seem to work for they were firing back.

"Damn, this was what I was trying to prevent!" scowled the captain, "evasive procedures!"

"They're taking weapons and engines."

"Thank's for that, Obvious..."

"Energy reading is not familiar... passing informaiton through to AI to analyse..."

And with that the beams struck, severly damaging one of the multiple engines... The bridge was shaken severly, the de stabiliser was taken out but as other weapon systems hadn't been activated, most of them where still in some what of an operating status.

"Well, if we can't disable them through the energy blasts... We have to go te direct route... so be it...

"Sir, another contact... seemingly there coming in close... AI suggests that they're helping us..."

"They're firing at the engines of the first contact..."

"Do we have any contact with them... No hard data no sir."

"Ok... get me comms... The first contact then the second..."

"Okay... Ready when you are sir..."



"Okay... and 2nd soon..... ready when you are"

OOC: Maybe it was a bit confusing, but Im firing on you, not TFU.

OOC: Maybe it was a bit confusing, but Im firing on you, not TFU.

OOC: Edited, my mistake.

OOC: Np, I do tend to jump the gun from time to time.

IC:

" You fired. You will remain where you are until the ship you fired on decides what to do with you. ECF out "

Jameson smiled a bit and sighed motioning his hands, he started to speak “Disengage weapon systems, and open a hailing frequency to them” The con officer nodded a bit moving her hands over the soft and shimmering holographic console in front of her . The commander just looked ahead as the signal went through he started to speak as his massive cruiser loomed over the Ship that attempted to disable it.

He started to say in a logical and commanding cold voice over the comns .
“This is the UTS Lexington of the Tarren federation, you have fired upon our shit with a disabling weapon, and this is an act of war however since you do not seem to exhibit a desire to continue firing upon our ship we have decided it is best to use diplomacy, now state your intentions and why you fired on us, some of your previous message was cut off by our dark energy field “
The com cut and waited for a reply, he sat back in his large command chair tied in to the ship and his fellow bridge crew via neuron link up.

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Mean while back at black nova. , Mendez had calmed a bit he was drinking a small cup of hot coffee he had just replicated, he stood by a general who was just peering at the screen looking at the reaction from the captain, he almost nodded approvingly. Mendez and coughed a bit burning himself because he was shaking in nervousness. The general looked over and raised an eyebrow asking with a hard voice. “Are you all right?” Mendez nodded putting the metal cup down on to a table nearby.

Down in the bowels of the facility was a young man, his name was Thompson Sheppard, he used to be a marine with the 32nd crops out in sohjin . He walked along the ornately decorated smooth yet hologram panel encrusted hall way towards a somewhat silent yet ominous looking door called 42F. He was called to the room because he was chosen out of a random raffle he had participated in earlier, it was mandatory for all marines assigned to the facility to do. He had held the lucky ticket, subject number 8 gamma. He didn’t know what this was for and frankly he wasn’t so sure he would like to go through it. But alas he was uncle Feds toy and did not have much choice.

Several steps before the door, it opened whizzing quietly to the side, he stepped inside of the well lit rather utilitarian looking machine lab, a young lady with brunet long silky hair green eyes and smooth pale skin wandered over to him saying with a soft yet somewhat cold voice.
“All right subject eight gamma welcome to machine lab 42, if you would please step over there near that seemingly standard battle suit we will begin”
Thompson humpfed a bit wandering over to the square indication box by the suit and standing in it he looked over to the woman and said “You know I have a name right, its Thompson Sheppard, who might you be?”
The woman just sighed and said with a glare “I don’t make it my business to get to know subjects for experiments personally and vice versa”
Tom rolled his eyes with a sigh replying frustratingly “fine” the woman wandered over to a console tapping a few buttons on it raising a holographic field around her, she started to move quickly with her hands typing and setting parameters in. She said with a sly cold grin “sit tight”
Suddenly Tom’s body was jerked by the force of an armor chest plate and back plate attaching itself automatically to his semi bionic body the leg and arm shards were next this was a standard Federation battle suit for marines not involved in the true power armor corps. The woman barked another order as Sheppard still reeled from the impacts.

“Put on the gloves attachments and boots as well as your mask” Sheppard did so attaching them one by one; they were armor plated like the rest of the suit but more flexible thanks to the crystalline material used in construction. Almost instantly as he put on the mask his mind was merged with the AI of the suit he was jolted as trillions of bytes of information began being processed by the combined might of the AI and human brain. This was all normal. Accept for the parts were several new options were added to the suit, including a new experimental core using balls of dark energy plasma As well as the ability to polarize a new ablative armor coating. He felt normal and looked around then at the woman and shrugged with in his suit. The Woman said with a sigh and a mutter “simpleton” she looked to him and then ordered “pick up the rifle”
The marine did so picking up an odd looking rifle (think AR2 from Half life) he raised an eyebrow and held it like a normal gun accept this wasn’t it had different options and it relied totally on suit targeting with no iron sights. The woman said pointing to a thick metal target simulating a storm trooper and a republic command outfit made from the same materials.

“Shoot it “Thompson smiled pulling the trigger of the rifle. Suddenly an automatic burst of dark energy plasma pulses were released, the targets were over several hundred meters away the pulses hit them immediately pieces of the armors were taken off instantly as the pulses vaporized them and melted them in to nothingness. More simulated suits came out this time with battle droids in them starting to move around like a real human; Thompson put his training to the test the suit assisting him almost with 100% accuracy in shooting these targets vaporizing them as well. The experiment so far had been a success.

Mean while up in the command center people were still waiting for something to happen in the ships.

Captain Jax gritted his teeth he didn't like this but knew when he was bested, and if he was to create any larger international incident it was his butt on the line, so dismissed the communique from the East Coast Federation and listened to the one from the Tarren Federation, Jax cursed to himself "what's with all these bloody federations anyway" before replying, but even so, he was distracted.

"Sir, confirmation of Dark Energy for both FTL and energy beam attack."


UTS Lexington, This is TGMS Surveyor 103. When you appeared out of no where, with no detection from our sensor array from what was obviously a form of FTL travel, you arrived very close, so close that we could assume hostile intention, the dark enegry field obviously must of prevented communications and and so with the little information we had, our intentions were to negate the chance for aggresive activity by using our energy de-stabilser and then gain more information, assess the situation on a hostility intention and then deal accordingly with the situation. In hindsight, obviously you reacted to our actions, despite neither the aggressive intent, we were both merely doing what we saw fit in achieving a non-aggressive out come. Perhaps we could arrange something to smooth over the current situation? Perhaps we could host a meal for you and perhaps, the others have waged in on this matter?

"Done, sir."

"Bah, hate these diplomatic events... but we must do what we must. I'll be getting ready, patch through any further communications to my chambers.

Jameson sighed he placed his hand on his forehead as he leaned back on his leather like chair, his eyes closed as he heard the request come over. He put his hand down and then looked with a nod to his con officer suddenly, a reply was sent to both ships in Jameson’s voice.
“Right, unfortunately this is an inappropriate time to request diplomatic contact, with this ship at least it is classified information, if you want contact you must FTL to sohjin and contact the office of diplomatic affairs there they will be able to help you.”
The smiled a bit putting his hands down as he nodded to his helms officer, the ship began moving at moderate speeds out in to the shimmering lifeless void its engines glowing greenish black. Suddenly the entire ship was engulfed and disappeared , yet another dimensional wave moving out as it entered a crackling multidimensional portal wit hark matter surrounding it.


Several moments later it arrived at another facility as ordered, it burst back in to normal space it floated gently in to the reddish nebulae surrounded by asteroids and other matter. It pushed through the cloud nebula shimmering gently in the light as it reached a certain distance it stopped. Suddenly a massive vortex opened in front of it was sucked in to the crackling white and blue swirling portal of energy.

Seconds later the massive cruiser came out of the other side, it gently rumbled towards a massive sphere the size of a moon, it was all metal its smooth surface dulled and darkened by the matter from the nebula.


The ship moved through a 4 km bay that opened up in utter silence, this… this was the Hyperion research facility deep within federal space. Built inside of an abandoned dyson - sphere, of course the facility only occupied a fraction of the inside the massive structure it provided an utterly secure and almost invincible fortification. When the sphere was first discovered clues pointed to it being built around an artificial sun, a small rocky core was placed inside from the matter around the nebula and then gas was compressed to form a star inside of the large metal shell it was small, very small compared to other stars, but it was a feat of stellar engineering no country could do alone. The star had burned out mainly because of the sun not having a liquid and active core it eventually burned off its matter and it was left with a dark inner core. It was quiet inside as the ship floated to moor itself on a dock.

It was deathly dark, the massive insides of the dyson sphere pitch black, no stars, just lifeless darkness, save for the few glinting lights of the research facility ahead.Unlike black nova the Hyperion research facility its run entirely by the government, It contained almost exact copies of the technology at black nova although slightly more advanced, its space time core was stabilized and producing power to the entire facility.


The lab even had its own shipyard to develop, new ships it was massive complex even though it occupied a fraction of the sphere it was quickly expanding, with new dark energy research section particle physics and even heavy investment in anti temporal technologies based off of dark energy…

Well, that had settled it, they were off. Really the captain of the TGMS Surveyor 103 didn't really care, it meant that there wasn't enough of an incident to warrent a call to his superiors, but still there was that other ship from the ECF.

Captain Jax came back onto the bridge after just arriving at his quarters and being told that they had just gone sighed.

"Did they communicate with the ECF ship?"

"No, sir no other communications detected."

"Is it doing anything yet?"

"No, sir"

"Alright... I'll talk with it."

"Wehn ready sir."


Thank you so much for taking it upon yourself to interject yourself in this matter, now if you don't mind, I'm going to take my ship and limp back to repairs. Seeing as now the other ship is gone, please excuse us.