**ACTION** Proxima Centuri

OOC -  Joint post kicking off the action that myself and SMAndy are running. Any questions or ideas go to one of us! Doors open all hours. :DWho: EveryoneWhere: EverywhereWhen: Every.... Now.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--- About 45 Minutes before the end of my last post ---"Are we ready to implement stage one?" Chrys asked, the darkened room blocking all view of faces, or indeed shape.  If there was any light at all, an evil grin would have been highly noticeable."Indeed.  The Mollopods should be attacking right about.... Now." was the reply, but nothing came.  "Ahh well, can't blame me for trying.""The wormhole drive is ready to go as well?" Chrys asked again."Yes.  It's set to go as soon as the first ship attacks.""Then everything is ready, I'm surprised you were able to... Do it... We need to take up our positions so that we are not suspected." Chris said, a serious look on her face as she turned and headed for a door."Until it begins then." Dryad said and smiled evilly.--- A Short While Later ---Where: Drive Room"Commander, we have an incoming transmission from the Mollopod ship off the port bow." a technician said, spinning to face Amber, who was sat in the captains chair."Fine.  Put it through..." she said through gritted teeth.  This was not going as expected.  The Mollopod ships were surrounding them.  Even if the Wormhole drive could get them out of there, it would take several of the other ships with them."This is commander Blurble of the Mollopod Empire.  Your people have renounced our Alliance, and your leader is dead.  You will be destroyed for plunging our empire into Anarchy." He said, and cut off the transmission, not even giving Amber a chance to respond."Smeg." was all she could say.  "Defenses up, cannons online.  We're not going down without a fight." she said, which pushed all the techies into full swing. "Ensign, fire up the wormhole drive, there's no way we can get them all, and at least if we jump away we can fight on our own turf. Set in a course for Earth." Amber said, spinning around to the helm controls, "I'll pilot the thing myself if I have to, at least I've never crashed Her into an ocean" The Dwarf entered it's initial stages of a wormhole jump, the drive slowly winding up to power. Fighters launched from the hangers and swarmed around the Big Blue One, keeping close enough to be kept in the wormhole field when the ship jumped.As promised, the Mollopod ships all opened fire during the Wormhole spin-up phase.  Matter was drawn in through the ram-scoop at the front of the massive ship, giving it the energy it needed to produce the tunnel through space and time.As the first volley of fire struck the mighty hull of the 'Dwarf, the entire ship shuddered with far more gusto than expected, throwing most people to their knees.  The wormhole drive continued to spin up to nominal power, but as the swirl appeared in space, it was a red hue, rather than its usual cool blue.  Something was wrong..."Smegging hell, HOLLY!" she called, "Get Rufus up here NOW!" she yelled, knowing he was the only likely one to be able to figure out what was going on.---- Snip ----"Niiice... I d.. Don't remember any of it... T..That can't b... Be good." An enormous explosion rocked the ship. Some miscellaneous stuff falling off the shelves around him. "What was that, Is Rosette alright? She's not d... D... Dead is she?" "I dunno, that knocked out my internal sensors. You better get up to
the bridge and have a word with your sister, she's yelling for me up there. See ya dude!" And the A.I vanished. ---- End Snip ----Rufus charged onto the bridge, the ship rocking with the occasional Mollopod hit. Jay was still looking for Le Soutener as far as Amber was aware, but God dammit she wished he was sat here not her. Fighters swarmed about the ship like flies around... well.. poop. "What's the matter sis?" Rufus said, out of breath from the jog up to the bridge."What's the matter?! What's the matter is that is out there is beard?" Amber said, swivelling around and becoming distracted by her brothers sudden hobo fetish. "Beard? it's hairy?" Rufus said, temporarily forgetting that he was half naked and hairy."No... I mean... It's red, the facial hair threw me off there for a moment...How did that happen? And where's your lab coat?""Ah, well that's a long story..."  Unfortunately for the Dwarf, before Rufus could do anything to stop the process, the ships were all sucked through thee swirling red vortex... All ships buffeted by solar winds, it looked like several of the smaller vessels would be knocked out by the severe movement, leaving them stranded wherever they emerged...--- Engineering ---Down in engineering, repair and emergency crews fought a valiant battle against a raging inferno, the Wormhole drive was a beacon of fire in the darkness of the metal-cage that made up the Blue Dwarf.  It wasn't too out of control though, but it would at least put the drive out of commission for a while."That doesn't look like a malfunction to me..." Callum said, overlooking the operation.  There were nasty cut marks on the cables, and what looked like organic tissue, smouldering nicely in the heat.--- Bridge ---The wormhole pinged closed behind the small fleet of ships, regardless of whether they wanted to be there or not.  Several of the smaller fighters had been disabled by the nasty buffeting of the dodgy Wormhole, but nothing had been destroyed, at least."Star-charts, find out where we are." Amber said, not seeing the large blue planet, as she was expecting."That looks like Proxima Centuri." Rufus said, gazing through the window.  True enough, the star charts matched up, putting them a good few light-years from Earth."We need the drive on-line... It would take far too long to get to Earth from here... try and find out what went wrong, pass the message out to everyone."--- Engineering ---"Get that sample to Dr Keto, he may be able to analyse the DNA..." Chief engineer Callum ordered, sending someone in that direction.  "We may have a saboteur..."<TAG EVERYONE!> OOC - Right! The sample needs taken to Dr Keto, we know who it is so the relevant parties know what to post there (don't post about who it is please). There are stray Mollopod's around after us to eat us or kill us, they need mopping up too. And of course, the Wormhole drive needs fixed! Plenty to do people! Get posting! Feel free to throw spanners at us if you like!