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Number5Alive, Golddigger, BurtBacharach, CrazyCelt, Blaze, DoYouEvenLyft?, MarcoPolo, MightMakesRight, l33tpally, Bennie, SEA-TAC_Sweetie, Requiesce-in-Pace, MacD, HaveGunsWillTravel, TheDespoiler, Guardian, GunKitty, Chummer, Inquisitor, Lizard, RedFox, SemiSolidSnake, ElfMama, Not_the_Face!, Anonymous3, Anonymous4, Anonymous7, Anonymous9, AggregatorOfSorrows, M.Mollen, WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot, DigDug, BigGunn, Dolcett, Starwatcher, Backlog, DarkAvariel, Knocker, Hullu_Kapteeni, GrimDark, BloodForTheBloodGod, Queen’s_Bitch, BackDat@55Up, DoYouEvenDPS?, MajorTom, Parca, and DarkAngel are in the chat.
CrazyCelt: Oh, god, what the hell was that?
DoYouEvenLyft?: What are you talking about?
CrazyCelt: I can hear purple now! Why can I hear purple?
Backlog: Sounds like someone just turned on their Psy powers for the first time.
Inquisitor: Ugh, my head!
Hullu_Kapteeni: I haven’t felt like this since the last time I tried to outdrink the fighter pilots.
Parca: Just be glad you didn’t try to outdrink the Marines.
Lizard: Did something happen?
SEA-TAC_Sweetie: Well, if you call ‘oh god, the universe bitch-slapped me like an angry pimp’ as something happening, then yes.
BackDat@55Up: Thank you for a wonderful image I’ll never be able to get out of my head. The universe is a pimp, and we’re all its hoes. Lovely.
DigDug: So, anyways, what happened?
GrimDark: I don’t know. I was training with my regiment on Luna, but then everything went strange.
DarkAngel: Regiment? You join the military, Grim?
GrimDark: Yeah, Civil War is long over, and people have noticed what Nomads can do, so I was able to get in the Imperial Marines. Currently a Sergeant.
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot: Update from Coldana. Big time craziness went down, here. Consortium forces and some Black Stars were doing training exercises, while people try and rebuild the system, and suddenly the damn sky rips open! Even crazier, it throws up some kind of interference that makes going FTL damn near suicide!
BloodForTheBloodGod: A rift? What came out of it?
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot: Don’t know. Never seen ships like them before. They had something that looked like sails on them, and they were lightning fast, according to the sensors.
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TheDespoiler: Hmph. A pity, that.
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot: Anyways, the Navy ships fought off the first wave, mostly, but there was something really freaking huge coming behind them. Whoever was in charge of the Black Stars decided to nope on that, and launched a shit-ton of those FTL torpedoes they have at the ship. Big boom, and pretty much every ship in the system is damaged, but the rift, or whatever it was went away.
M.Mollen: Ah, that explains what happened, then.
TheDespoiler: What do you know?
Inquisitor: There was another rift, in Sol. I saw the Imperial Navy fighting with the assistance of the Black Stars, facing off against a veritable horde of ships, all of which were ramshackle, scrap-built pieces of wreckage with more guns and engines than sense put into them. It was great and terrible to behold.
CrazyCelt: You don’t know the half of it, Inquisitor. I’m on Pluto right now. We got invaded by some kind of demon things.
GrimDark: You were there? What did they look like?
CrazyCelt: Big, red, hoof feet like you see in pictures of demons, huge horns, nasty sharp teeth, and a fucking sword that could cut a fully armored battle drone in half. On one swing! And that was the smaller ones! I saw a couple really big ones, too!
BloodForTheBloodGod: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
M.Mollen: How are things now? I know the Navy sent their Marine detachment to help, if they could.
CrazyCelt: The primary habitation dome would have been overrun, if it weren’t for them. Even so, they were getting mauled. Those demons take a lot of rifle fire to bring down.
GrimDark: Is the fighting ongoing?
CrazyCelt: Let me check… No, looks like the blast wave, or whatever it was, cleared them away like they were never there. Would have thought I dreamt it all, if it weren’t for all the bodies, and the fire.
TheDespoiler: So, the Immaterium has revealed itself. It does not matter that the door is closed. The seal is broken, which means we’ll be able to access it, somehow.
Starwatcher: I can’t help but notice that Black Star ships were present in force at both locations, before the battle even began. None of those ships are based in Sol or Coldana, which means they set out at least a week ago to get there just in time.
DarkAvariel: What do you know, Mollen?
M.Mollen: Suffice to say, that I, as someone who runs the largest in-game company owned by Nomads, have access to information and resources in game that you do not. I also have a bunch of very smart people doing analysis for me, and I listen to them when they start telling me about apocalyptic-level events.
GrimDark: So, you uncovered something, probably on that planet you own, that made you, what, realize that the world was about to go mad?
M.Mollen: Suffice to say I found some… interesting technologies which, while not immediately practical at the time, had some scientific data attached which my analysts used to predict an issue, sometime in the coming months. Unfortunately, things happened too quickly, and we didn’t have more time to prepare.
BigGunn: OK, I can accept that you found some ancient alien super pyramid tech or whatever that let you figure out that stuff was about to go down. But why those two systems?
M.Mollen: Both have been lynchpins in some fairly significant events recently, as you might recall. I won’t say too much more without proof, but my people believe that the energy psy powers come from that allows them to bypass annoying things like the laws of thermodynamics comes from that dimension. The Harvester let off a couple big psychic screams.
Starwatcher: OK, but what about Earth?
GrimDark: Terra.
Starwatcher: Fine, fine. What about Terra?
M.Mollen: Some methods of FTL are less kind to the fabric of time and space than others. Sol System is the place with the highest number of Transition drive uses in the galaxy. If there was anywhere that the fabric would be at its weakest, it is there.
CrazyCelt: So, what did that wave do? And why can I hear colors now, and taste sounds?
M.Mollen: I’ll get back to you on that.