The Virus

[Professor Fenway]

Markus ordered his contingent of the fleet, mainly of Darkstar ships, to link their warp engines in order to jump at the same time. The drives charged up and the FTL engaged, speeding them at nearly one million times the speed of light. As the destination approached the drives cycled down... and stopped.

A massive planet loomed ahead. It was incredibly busy, with many ships and orbital stations everywhere. The core of the planet, visible through the gaps in the continents, pulsed red. "What the hell is this?" Markus asked. He checked the star charts. This was NeoRome... but it wasn't. "What the hell? NeoRome's core is blue, not red!" He was interrupted by a communication alert.

"Unidentified fleet," squawked a voice, "You are in direct violation of NeoRoman border security protocol 236! Stand down and surrender your ships or be destroyed!" Markus clicked the communicator.

"We are not in violation of any known NeoRoman protocol!"

"Your fleet has no known records in the database! Wait..." A few clicks on the other side. "What the hell? The design of your flagship precisely matches the design of our battleship Primeron!"

"This is the Primeron you idiot!"

"The Primeron is currently patrolling the Kalii II Research Outpost!"

"We just came from the Kalii II outpost! The facility was overtaken by the virus!" Markus turned around to the navigator. "Check our course! How did we end up here?"

"Negative, our last report was 20... how the hell do you know about the virus? That's level Tau classified information!"

"I am lead researcher Markus with level Psi clearance! Transmitting verification data."

"Data verified, but it is impossible. Lead researcher Markus is in the Kalii II outpost." Markus turned away from the monitor and checked the sensors. No, the planet wasn't antimatter, but something was amiss.

"On our end, that's impossible. The Kalii II research outpost was overrun by the virus and Overmind, along with most of civilized space."

"Obviously that's not the case. I don't know what's going on, but you are all now under the custody of the NeoRoman Empire. Power down your weapons and shields and decloak all systems. Yes you, we can see you. Your cloaking is primitive." Several of the Darkstar ships decloaked. "Try anything and you will be destroyed, we have 28 Fusion Coil Splicers aimed at your fleet. Dock at the station at our waypoint where you will be put into custody." A point highlighted on the route map. Markus sighed and switched to fleet broadcast.

"There's no use fighting or fleeing, comply with their orders and we may be able to sort this out."

"Sir?" One of the navigators stood up from their chair.

"Yes lieutenant?"

"Our course took us through they yellow zone of the Lyat system."

[cats]

'Ker opened a channel to Marcus' ship. "Lieutenant Shi'Ker, temporary CO of the TSRFM Narok Class Borosh reporting. I have the fastest ship in the sector and Darkstar stealth systems, as well as formidable weaponry. Prepared to assist in any way necessary, though I request a position of escort to whatever ship will be transporting the VIP scientists."

OCC: Wow,how the hell do you get my stealth systems? O.O its my faction special tech

OOC: Bought it. (It's been since pg. 4)

First legitimate post: "This ship has the most advanced electronic countermeasures available and a modified DarkStar stealth system"

[Ivan2006]

Hope:"What do you mean by yellow zone? The EE definetly uses different colour-coding so I have no idea what that means."

[Prototype]

The two extinction classes and e vivisection began to warp to the Neorome fleet

[Crash Override]

Spoiler:

Markus ordered his contingent of the fleet, mainly of Darkstar ships, to link their warp engines in order to jump at the same time. The drives charged up and the FTL engaged, speeding them at nearly one million times the speed of light. As the destination approached the drives cycled down... and stopped.

A massive planet loomed ahead. It was incredibly busy, with many ships and orbital stations everywhere. The core of the planet, visible through the gaps in the continents, pulsed red. "What the hell is this?" Markus asked. He checked the star charts. This was NeoRome... but it wasn't. "What the hell? NeoRome's core is blue, not red!" He was interrupted by a communication alert.

"Unidentified fleet," squawked a voice, "You are in direct violation of NeoRoman border security protocol 236! Stand down and surrender your ships or be destroyed!" Markus clicked the communicator.

"We are not in violation of any known NeoRoman protocol!"

"Your fleet has no known records in the database! Wait..." A few clicks on the other side. "What the hell? The design of your flagship precisely matches the design of our battleship Primeron!"

"This is the Primeron you idiot!"

"The Primeron is currently patrolling the Kalii II Research Outpost!"

"We just came from the Kalii II outpost! The facility was overtaken by the virus!" Markus turned around to the navigator. "Check our course! How did we end up here?"

"Negative, our last report was 20... how the hell do you know about the virus? That's level Tau classified information!"

"I am lead researcher Markus with level Psi clearance! Transmitting verification data."

"Data verified, but it is impossible. Lead researcher Markus is in the Kalii II outpost." Markus turned away from the monitor and checked the sensors. No, the planet wasn't antimatter, but something was amiss.

"On our end, that's impossible. The Kalii II research outpost was overrun by the virus and Overmind, along with most of civilized space."

"Obviously that's not the case. I don't know what's going on, but you are all now under the custody of the NeoRoman Empire. Power down your weapons and shields and decloak all systems. Yes you, we can see you. Your cloaking is primitive." Several of the Darkstar ships decloaked. "Try anything and you will be destroyed, we have 28 Fusion Coil Splicers aimed at your fleet. Dock at the station at our waypoint where you will be put into custody." A point highlighted on the route map. Markus sighed and switched to fleet broadcast.

"There's no use fighting or fleeing, comply with their orders and we may be able to sort this out."

"Sir?" One of the navigators stood up from their chair.

"Yes lieutenant?"

"Our course took us through they yellow zone of the Lyat system."

OCC: i understand everything but don´t call my tech bad u.u i will comply with the roleplay,but they are VERY advanced U..U

*Jeff was starting to comply with some orders and contacted markus trought a species of psionic network*
-I have a bad feeling about this. Appears that they will make everything normal till the time that they infect us. *Jeff was readyng the stealth soldiers*
If they make anything...WHEN they make anything,what we will do? *Jeff said preparing the dark robe and a strange silver tiara on the head,painting the eyes in a strange silve color*
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[Chairman_Tiel]

*Jeff said preparing the dark robe and a strange silver tiara on the head,painting the eyes in a strange silve color*
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He is now FABULOUS!

[Crash Override]

*Jeff said preparing the dark robe and a strange silver tiara on the head,painting the eyes in a strange silve color*
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He is now FABULOUS!

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OCC: I´m very FABULOUS! YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH
Is not a tiara..is more like a stilized silver ring on the head

[Professor Fenway]

OOC: There are three zones of danger. Red is generally if you enter it, chances are bad stuff will happen. Yellow means it's safer, but not generally a good idea to go through it. Think of a Nuclear Explosion. Red zone means essentially right next to the blast so probably dead/severely irradiated, yellow means not necessarily dead, maybe irradiated.

Also, to lightspeed, I will explain why they can see you, no matter how you cloak, or how advanced it is, later. It's part of the plot, see?

BIC:

*Markus replied through the network as well*

-If this was the virus, we'd most likely be dead by now. Why would it go through all these troubles of escorting us? Why would it act in a manner that is completely consistent with standard NeoRoman protocols? And the biggest hitter, why is NeoRome still busy with civilian traffic? The virus would have destroyed them. No, I think we're in an alternate dimension. Stand down, and we may have a chance at living.-

And thinking about it, it gave him an idea... He snapped to when a shudder went through the ship, signifying that they had been docked. Troops shortly entered the bridge to escort them out. Markus kept a firm grasp on a data archive, containing all his data, the researcher's data, and all the other important files he needed. Like access codes. If he was correct, it would work...


ALSO, I need to fill a few holes.

1.) Overmind overrides the thought and action process by destroying active suggestions and implanting new ones using Nanites, while slowly converting the brain into an organic computer to give direct control of it to the virus (New function, not present in original software). Markus knows this, as it was discovered shortly before the facility was infected, but had no time to explain to anyone. For computers, it overrides the script process and implants it's own while inserting the Virus, which it had assimilated. Nanite source is not known, but the virus is now in control of it. The good news? They cannot survive very long in an unprotected environment, especially space.

2.) The Virus was able to spread through essentially any medium through short radio transmissions, then activating on the receiving computer. Novum Paradigma was infected by the Virus after one of the missing escape pods from Alpha Station reached one of their outposts. Not knowing the danger, civilians likely attempted to contact it and became infected. The spread can be killed by Cyber Warfare equipment, but civilian stations don't have that, do they? It overwhelmed the Novum networks and wormed through to the military network, after which contact ceased. NeoRome dispatched a small fleet to investigate, which became infected after an infected data disk was uploaded to one of the ships. The virus took them over, killed the crew, and sent each one to each empire's home-world. The ships contacted the unsuspecting civilians and military, the virus spread through the unprotected systems, and shortly took over nearly everything. Remember- The virus is sentient, actively hates all sentient life, and is attempting to kill them off. It will use them to achieve its aims, but kills them when not needed.

[Crash Override]

OOC: I bet that is something wih brains and organic stuff

*Jeff was going off the ship with some of his crew. Sigithing Markus at some distance going out of the bridge*
-Calm down guards,its just a robe! Do you really want to touch me there?
*The guards were searching for councelead weapons*

[Ivan2006]

Suddenly, Hopes data pad made four short beeps.
When she took it out while walking, it read this:

Psionic activity has increased.
Is there a code-DR or above situation?
[yes] [no]

Hope quickly looked around, pressing the [yes]-button.
Then she gave the now dark pad to the guard who demanded it from her.
When the guard reactivated the unit, it said:

Enter name:
[ ]

Enter security code:
[ ]

[Crash Override]

*The guards went stood up at the front,putting a quantum rope in his hands*

-danm...

*Suddenly in the corner he fitted something move. Someone cloacked,that is,but in a very different manner of him. WIth his advanced sensorial system he tracked the smell of it. Someone was observing then*

"One of us? This should be diferrent...a Whitestar corporaiton maybe? Danm,i hate when someone is cloacked when its not me...* -thinked.

[Professor Fenway]

One of the guards whirled around and pointed the gun down the hallway. "Command just informed us of pressure sensors going off," he said. "Man sized object. Find the cloaked bastard and get him!" A few of the guards split from the unit and proceeded down the hallway. The sense of the person faded. Several alarms went off elsewhere in the facility- security breach. Markus seized his chance as several guards were distracted and inputted his high-security code into his quantum lock. It unlocked-not visibly, and the sensors didn't register it, but enough.

[Crash Override]

-Thats why i hate sensors. [Thinked]

*He went along looking at markus a little confused but trying to stay calm*
-Seens that the bastards are trying to spy on you..OUCH!

*The guard punched him on the stomach*

=Shut up!

[Ivan2006]

Hope fetched her pad back and entered her security confirmation.
Soon, a weapon lock alarm went off, as the EBS Harmony prepared for selective mindfray.
(The pad sent a distress signal to the closest EE communication relay which relayed the call to the HQ which was currently assigned the newly recaptured EES Harmony. As its blasts happen to be ineffective against Overmind-controlled subjects, it had been configured to unleash a psionic storm on people while being able to leave out selected non-targets)
Hope: "Everyone, think of any clock to not die! It´s serious! Now!"

[Crash Override]

-HANDWATCH! *He kicked the guard desesperatly trowing himself on the ground thinking in clocks*