The Virus

[Pat22]

I kinda felt like joining this but I got to page 7 and realized there were 11 more pages to read and gave up.

So far I've noticed that there's very little science-ing going on and a whole lot of stealthy ships hiding around for obscure reasons. Like... enough that one would look out a ship's window and spot the other ships with the naked eye.

[Ivan2006]

OOC: ...you do realize noone is at the station anymore?
BIC: Ivan: "So, basically we are fighting against something we don´t know and the "Network", as you call it, is the most likely origin while we don´t even know exactly what it is?
Anyway, that interdimensional stuff appears in Mobian history as well, especially considering the legend of the "Old War" that caused the downfall of the Old Strigiforme Empire."

...in the hallway...

Hope: "Jeff, are you okay? You look... very distracted?
Anyway, I´d prefer to continue our talk when there´s less NeoRoman guys around.
I got M-6 access with CODE-9 addition in the EE, by the way."

[Pat22]

OOC: No, like I said, I stopped reading at like page 7 where everyone was very much still at the station and every faction appeared to have at least one hidden ship sitting about in orbit

[Ivan2006]

OOC: Well, we have a lot of interdimensional stuff now, contact Fenway via PM if you want a summary and/or a way to join at this late stage.

[Iv121]

OOC: I never head a cloaked ship sitting near the base ... Until they called the cav .

[Ivan2006]

OOC: Sooo... does anyone want to get back to topic?

[Professor Fenway]

OOC: I do!

BIC:

Fenway switched on the communicator as he received an urgent message from Markus.

"You've got some explaining to do," Markus said. "Alternate universes? Where the hell did this EE fleet come from!" Fenway sighed.

"They came from an alternate universe. The Lyat system anomaly? That's how. They were trying to save their version of Hope. It's sorted out." Markus nodded.

"That makes sense... sort of." Markus disconnected before Fenway could say another word.

//ELSEWHERE//

Prime 1 on ARK-1 slowly began booting up. He hadn't been run for thousands, if not millions, of years. Electricity sparkled as bits of machinery and computer electronics started, deep within the airless, nearly perfectly preserved metal antechamber. The Virus had been wiped from his systems. He had been infected thousands of years before, when he last started up, so shut-down was enforced. He checked the universe- 6 quantum states. He then looked at the data from the station and ARK-3.

Apparently, Rakash had been discovered by the sentients, and now it was taking over everything. Any survivors were evacuating to a distant galaxy, as shown by hidden, never-discovered and fully operational sensor nets. This wasn't good. Rakash could wipe the entire galaxy of sentients.

Prime-1 began running diagnostics of the planet. A race of Bio-mechs had inhabited the planet, though they hadn't penetrated most of the systems. Everything was operational, kept functioning from the Bio-mechs that inhabited it. Excellent.

He decided that he needed to try and stop Rakash. Knowing its strength, he would need more power than ARK-1 could muster. He decided on calling upon the network. He activated the antenna array and tried to signal the Hub in Lyat. He got some sort of response, but it was weak and missing sections. Prime-1 ran diagnostics. It had malfunctioned, and was in a perpetual state of dimensional flux. Not optimal in this time of need.

Prime-1 decided to fix this. He began sending extra-dimensional waves to the station, in the hope that the station would pick it up and correct itself. It succeeded. Prime-1 noted a decrease in instability, and then none at all. He connected and interfaced with it, making sure it was virus-proof. It was. After final diagnostics, Prime-1 began bringing the network online. It began connecting.

//NOT LONG AFTER//

Fenway was contemplating the situation in his office when he received an urgent alert. "Hierarch Fenway, we have a problem," squawked the operator. Fenway noted the source to be from the Lyat main observation outpost. He stood up.

"What happened?" He asked.

"The anomaly has disappeared and the structures we noted earlier are permanently in the system."

"What? This doesn't make any sense."

"We detected some sort of extra-dimensional wave from a yttrium crystal. Sending data and system scan results now." The data screen on the wall lit up and began filling with numbers, graphs, and a small hologram of the system, and the operator disconnected. Fenway looked over it.

They were right. The anomaly was gone, and the structures were there. The message seemed to be one of a reformatting type. Someone was fixing the Network. He brought up a message to Ivan and Markus. "We have a problem," he said. Ivan and Markus, on their respective screens, gave him a puzzled look. "The anomaly at Lyat is gone. I'm taking the Ragnarov and a small fleet there to investigate immediately. I suggest you two come with me."

"Shouldn't we bring the other researchers?" Ivan asked.

"I'll bring Researcher Markus and Jefferson on the Ragnarov. We need to move out now!" He disconnected, and swiftly left his office to prepare to leave.

[Crash Override]

*The guard was directioning him to the hangar bay,where they could board the Ragnarov*

-Yay,seems that they will bring us to the party after all! *He smiled *

[Ivan2006]

Seeing as Markus and Jeff were brought to a ship while she herself was brought elsewhere, Hope asked the guard where he was going to take her.

[Professor Fenway]

(OOC: I assumed Hope would go with Ivan. Sorry for not clarifying that. Hope goes with Ivan.)

[Ivan2006]

(OOC: Okay, my last post is obsolete then...)
BIC:
Hope: "Sir? What are you doing here?"
Ivan: "I personally led a rescue mission to get the team back to working on the Virus, but it seems we won´t be going anywhere anytime soon.
Some stuff including us being in an alternate universe, I´ll explain to you at another time."
Hope: "Is that the Yana? It sure does look´quite badly demaged, but I suggest taking it with us either way, if it´s about interdimensional anomalies, the experimental equipment it has could prove useful."
Ivan: "It should be able to do FTL-jumps, but the shields are down, so in a combat situation it will be a sitting bird.
Fenway, do you think we have time to move 6 machines of 3 to 5 tons each onto the ships we´re using?
Hope´s right, these things could help aget the information we need if we get them to work.
They utilize several of the natural properties of the Mobian Chaos Emeralds to detect dimensional anomalies, but since we are in a different universe, it might just react on everything, honestly, I have no Idea what will happen until we turn it on."

[Ivan2006]

OOC: Since noone else is doing anything here, I´ll just continue this myself.
BIC:
Hope: "Actually, it should work. If it displays everything, I just have to make it scan for everything "normal", nothing I couldn´t do on the way."
Ivan: "Good, so, Fenway, I´d actually prefer to take a small ship, a corvette or something, and meet up with some of the faction leaders from this universe, it would be useful to know where we´re at if we are actually stuck here."

[Prototype]

OOC: wonders when somebody was going to pick up, the following post might be a little weird as I have no idea what I'm doing

BIC: Omega lumbered into the docking bay, NeoRoman forces had already prepared a ship, whether it was suited for his current body type, Omega didn't know, but he could probably hack into it anyway.

Omega started up the engines, plotting a course to NeoRome, and launched from the station

[Crash Override]

*Jeff begin to look at everything,studiyng the ship and everyone there. He have to get the information of his surroudings*

-Look,we are losing time here. With the due respect,WHERE is my whiskey? Nice ship by the way. And if you don´t see me,that´s normal.

[Professor Fenway]

Fenway allowed the equipment to be moved onto the Ragnarov, installed in some of the empty sockets. It was incompatible with the ship's AI, but it brought the quantum states used to 6 to interface correctly with it. He also provided Ivan with an advanced missile cruiser, which (Ironically) was the Halifax. Once this was done, the Ragnarov undocked and headed toward the edge of FTL space.

Fenway turned to Jefferson. "I should note that you are in a universe where there are more quantum states than your stealth is able to hide. So we can see you. The counterpart Darkstar here, however, is another story. We have indirect ways of detecting them, but the most effective is also the most expensive. Only select ships, such as the Ragnarov, have this ability." He opened a channel to Ivan. "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't let you meet the other faction leaders here."

"Why not?" Ivan asked.

"We don't know what would happen, to state the least. It would also cause a lot of confusion, as we had here. It may be akin to letting your past self see your future self, so to speak. A Paradox. It's too risky." Fenway checked on the ship's warp. "The warp is charged, we can slave your navigation into ours."

"We're ready when you are."

"Alright, let's go." Fenway signalled to the navigator, and the ship jumped, followed by Ivan's and a small guarding fleet.

//ELSEWHERE//

The computer of Omega's ship chimed. Omega looked at it and found a small message.

//HIERARCH'S ORDERS//
-Redirect to Lyat System and rendezvous with Ragnarov and NeoRoman Fleet.
//END//

Omega tried hacking into the ship. It failed. Somehow, the AI was actually more advanced than the one powering Omega, though not sentient. Omega pondered this, and then began to scan it to investigate.


//ELSEWHERE//

Prime-1 was alerted as the Network finished connecting. He checked the hub. Countless empires had responded to the call, in a multitude of universes. Satisfied, he began to lay out the rest of the plan.