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"Do you know what the final frontier is?" The disembodied voice asked.

"Who..wh.."

"For thousands of years, it was just the next hill away. Human nomads just discovering what was only a few hundred meters from their communities. Next, it was the sea. Intrepid sailers set out to explore the far reaches of the world, meeting new cultures, sharing new ideas. Then, it was the stars. Humans invented the FTL Drive, and just like the sail of a boat, it opened new doors."

"So space... space is the final frontier...."

"No. You see, the final frontier never changed. It has been the same all along. From nomads to starships - the final frontier, the ultimate unknown, the unexplored enigma: it's always the same thing. It is the impassible boundary that we dare not explore. Do you know what the real frontier is?"

"What?" Jake asked, his voice quivering.

"Death."

Eden kept checking the comms for anything else from the ship. "Bren, I don't like this at all" she said "Communications seem to just well... vanish as they get near that ship."
She checked the sensor readings "Gravity seems to be getting higher in the area as well... without artificial gravity to help them out, they're going to be in for a bad time... you've ever been to a Heavyworld?"

stylesrj wrote:Eden kept checking the comms for anything else from the ship. "Bren, I don't like this at all" she said "Communications seem to just well... vanish as they get near that ship."
She checked the sensor readings "Gravity seems to be getting higher in the area as well... without artificial gravity to help them out, they're going to be in for a bad time... you've ever been to a Heavyworld?"

Sadly for her Bren couldn't hear them very well

"Guys I can't hear you, you are breaking up" he called out trying to get in contact with them

Eden wasn't picking up anything wrong with ship-to-ship communications; the anomaly seemed restricted to just communications with the Rebel ship... which made perfect sense unless...
A Rebel Cruiser uncloaked nearby, letting off a barrage of lasers at both the Scarab and the Pelican. There was no arrogant hail or taunt from their Captain, they just let their actions speak more than words. Also, it was probably affected by its own jamming signal.

"Was going to say that unless you were born on one, a Heavyworld would be painful for normal people" Eden remarked "But the Rebellion seems keen to ruin our fun."

Why should communications be affected outside the danger zone? What have you against pleasant conversations, Bren?

stylesrj wrote:Eden wasn't picking up anything wrong with ship-to-ship communications; the anomaly seemed restricted to just communications with the Rebel ship... which made perfect sense unless...
A Rebel Cruiser uncloaked nearby, letting off a barrage of lasers at both the Scarab and the Pelican. There was no arrogant hail or taunt from their Captain, they just let their actions speak more than words. Also, it was probably affected by its own jamming signal.

"Was going to say that unless you were born on one, a Heavyworld would be painful for normal people" Eden remarked "But the Rebellion seems keen to ruin our fun."

Why should communications be affected outside the danger zone? What have you against pleasant conversations, Bren?

(I feel something is going on to screw with him, that blackhole stuff is screwing with light I think Com links might also be a bit screwed up too)

Bren growled a bit

"Oh fuck you!" he said firing a rail cannon shot right at their cloaking room, hoping to prevent them from hiding from Eden's pirates

"I'm pretty sure ghosts can't light up an entire room. You're starting to sound a little crackly too." Kyrie inched forward some more, finding the door at the other side of the room. "Jake could be anywhere in here and we wouldn't find him without shuffling around all the rooms." You could hear the nervousness in her voice as she opened the door. Glancing down at the stat screen on her wrist, she found it blank. "And we could run out of air and not know it."

Lux took a few deep breaths "Then we should shape up and not panic!" she declared suddenly. "We know how much air we had when we came in here and if we start panicking... we'll use it all up quicker than if we stay..."
Her comms then cut out - no static or distortion. It just... vanished.

Eden moved the Pelican towards the Rebel cruiser in an attempt to board it. However the ship veered away from the two cruisers and began an intercept course towards the derelict ship; the pilot seemed to know what he was doing after he dodged the next few shots from the railgun.
Eden sent a tightbeam laser communication from the Pelican to the Scarab "Do we go in after him or stay here and hope... that whatever experiment went wrong in there destroys him first?"

stylesrj wrote:Lux took a few deep breaths "Then we should shape up and not panic!" she declared suddenly. "We know how much air we had when we came in here and if we start panicking... we'll use it all up quicker than if we stay..."
Her comms then cut out - no static or distortion. It just... vanished.

Eden moved the Pelican towards the Rebel cruiser in an attempt to board it. However the ship veered away from the two cruisers and began an intercept course towards the derelict ship; the pilot seemed to know what he was doing after he dodged the next few shots from the railgun.
Eden sent a tightbeam laser communication from the Pelican to the Scarab "Do we go in after him or stay here and hope... that whatever experiment went wrong in there destroys him first?"

"Not while our friends are dealing with it" he said firing the rail gun and crystal shots this time aiming for the engines

While still on course for the ship, the Rebel cruiser flipped around and fired back at the Scarab. It even launched an Artemis missile (and of course it would be the last weapon to go if Weapons were damaged).
It managed to avoid the railgun shot while doing this manoeuvre, however the Crystal projectiles impacted with the shield and one of them slammed into the engines, causing the Rebel cruiser to veer off course from the gravitational waves of the derelict and force it to try again for another run.