Ghosts of the Past...

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"This is the Sigtryggr, acting captain Deiran, requesting approach to Vanir shipyards."

Commander Grenn: Acting Captain? What has happened to Captain Allineare?

Lieutenant Deiran: I think, sir, when you see our ship things will get alot clearer.

Commander Grenn pulls up a magnified view of the Liberty cruiser. The front, bridge, viewports were broken inwards, bodies still littering the bridge floor, hung up on command consoles or railings. There was a huge hole in the middle of the port side of the ship. Not anything like an energy weapon impact.

Commander Grenn: What the hell did that?!

Lieutenant Deiran: I take it you havent been reading the news reports, or anything from Command?

Commander Grenn: We were ordered into comm blackout. We'd recieved reports of hightened activity out here by the houses. The comm blackout is meant to keep this shipyard a secret, but in addition to that it also keeps us from finding out any news. Our main source of information is the ship crews that end up here. But your the first ship to arrive here in the last week. Grenn finishes typing at the keyboard. There, your cleared for repair dock 13.

Lieutenant Deiran: 13? That many damaged ships?

Commander Grenn: Sort of. We pulled all the wreckage from the conflict with with Rhienland in the Unknown systems, and the Sigma-17 system. Add to that, what we still had left over from the occupation of Rheinland. We pulled all that together and started the construction of new ships from them. We happened to get most of the debris here, at this shipyard. Took all our construction docks during the Rheinland Occupation, now we got at least half of what eas in the Unknown system, and that was a ton by itself. We had to expand our construction into the repair docks. Your lucky to be on a Liberty ship. Most people these days are stationed on captured, rebuilt, or bought Rheinland ships. The Osiris class battleships are all being used by our high command. But enough with that. Tell me about what happened to you and your ship.

Lieutenant Deiran: There have been sightings of some very weird ships throughout the Omicrons and Sigmas, we just recieved a report about some sightings in New York as well. Nowhere else as of yet. A Sin|Tech Dreadnaught got caught up in a fight with one. Its dual Inferno Cannons managed to disable it long enough to get an inspection team on board. They found out more than most have so far. Not a single life on board. But our encounter was a bit more fortunate. We were sent to go find the Chimaera, Captain Soren's ship, or recover its debris. It had found a destroyed version of these ships, and was recover the debris from it to bring it back, to here I would guess. But we lost contact with the ship in the middle of a message being recording for the Lord Captain. It had been able to retrieve a command system from the bridge of the ship, and had integrated it into it's own bridge. Shortly after it took control of the ship and summoned another to destroy it, and we don't have the slightest clue why. We arrived at Planet Cella Dor, where the ship had been but didn't find a trace of any of the ships, in space or on the planet. We spent a couple of hours in the syetem searching, but didn't find anything. We were preparing to leave when another of these ships appeared off our port side and attacked us. It slammed some kind of weapon into our side, then a tentical-like crystal arm straight into our bridge. Only the Captain and myself survived. The former just barely. We then made our way here.

Cammander Grenn: And how is this more fortunate than anyone else?

Lieutenant Deiran: Because they didn't bring back this.

He held up a red pulsing crystal-like substance. Grenn's mouth dropped a open, staring at it.

Lieutenant Deiran: When it attacked our port side this got stuck in a closing emergancy door. Damn thing ripped itself straight out anyway. We thought it would hurt it but the arm attached to the ship immediately started to, for lack of a better term, grow it back. Some kind of high-tech auto-repair system, immediate and efficiant.

Commander Grenn: Well kid, I'd say I'm looking straight at your promotion to anything you want to be. Luciaden is on this station, and knowing him it might not be a complete coincidence like we would be lead to believe. He says he is here to convert a couple in-construction ships to sensor rigs, to try and detect these ships BEFORE they appear, but that wouldn't normally require someone like him. I'd say you havent been the only one going through your thoughts this day. Bring yourself, and more importantly, that down here to the planning command room. You'll meet the Lord Captain there.

(OOC: And this shipyard will remain a secret, by order of the co-story leader =) So you can't find it. It will be playing a part later on in this story, and will require that it be a secret shipyard.)

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