Void Templar
08-05-2008, 21:56
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"Earlier this week, on the borders of Void Space, the Third Home Fleet sustained heavy losses, after an unidentified hostile force emerged from the Badlands and attacked without warning. Information is limited, but the attackers were believed to consist of only one ship. No official sources are available for comment. We did, however, manage to talk to one Marine before his disappearance." The feed switched to a shivering man, curled in a corner of a dark room.
"The ship came from nowhere. One second we were just sitting there, looking out the viewport and then-" He coughed, a hacking wheezing cough, before continuing. "Then it happened. A small ship, like, like a snail's shell, covered in spines. It just opened fire. The Horona, the command carrier, went down in seconds. The Kusari and the Dusk opened fire, but it had some kind of particle shield. The shots were just absorbed. Then it fired a different laser, a red beam. It cut straight through most of the group, two of the battleships, all of the cruisers... We just bugged out. We lost a tail engine jumping to hyperspace... I just thank Kal we're still alive." It swapped back to the presenter.
"More on this story as it devel-" "STOP BROADCASTING NOW, BY ORDER OF THE ORDINATOR!" There was thumping, followed by the sound of a shot as the door fell in and a Marine carrying a shotgun entered. "GET OUT AND INTO THE TRANSPORT NOW!" The gun turned to the camera, there was a flash, then the screen turned to static.
"Earlier this week, on the borders of Void Space, the Third Home Fleet sustained heavy losses, after an unidentified hostile force emerged from the Badlands and attacked without warning. Information is limited, but the attackers were believed to consist of only one ship. No official sources are available for comment. We did, however, manage to talk to one Marine before his disappearance." The feed switched to a shivering man, curled in a corner of a dark room.
"The ship came from nowhere. One second we were just sitting there, looking out the viewport and then-" He coughed, a hacking wheezing cough, before continuing. "Then it happened. A small ship, like, like a snail's shell, covered in spines. It just opened fire. The Horona, the command carrier, went down in seconds. The Kusari and the Dusk opened fire, but it had some kind of particle shield. The shots were just absorbed. Then it fired a different laser, a red beam. It cut straight through most of the group, two of the battleships, all of the cruisers... We just bugged out. We lost a tail engine jumping to hyperspace... I just thank Kal we're still alive." It swapped back to the presenter.
"More on this story as it devel-" "STOP BROADCASTING NOW, BY ORDER OF THE ORDINATOR!" There was thumping, followed by the sound of a shot as the door fell in and a Marine carrying a shotgun entered. "GET OUT AND INTO THE TRANSPORT NOW!" The gun turned to the camera, there was a flash, then the screen turned to static.