![]() One single shard, itself still a monstrous fragment, drifted into the gravity well of a star and was pulled into realspace. Most of the ejected mass was lost to the depths of hyperspace. Once again the Ghost Ring shifted into the closet hyperspace storm and was lost. The object appeared to have suffered heavy damage, the core of the mass sheared in half with a cloud of debris scattering in all directions. The mass appeared as a confused amalgamation of ships fused together. The fleet was able to catch a single scan of the object before being lost in a hyperspace storm. The Ghost Ring, as it had become known, let forth a burst of energy and vomited out a single object. The ring had been sighted far away from the core worlds by a passing surveying fleet. The lost gate had been found again, over thirty light years away in the center of another hyperspace storm. "That simply means they haven't come through yet."Īt this time a scout runner ship entered the system and broadcast on the emergency channel. ![]() "And who is this.Chaos? You where the first and only one to come through the gate." "We were part of a screening force chasing a chaos fleet, we were following their wake. Representatives from the 14th and Hegemony were present to find out more of the newcomer. The newcomer was escorted to the nearest star, where their ship was retrofitted with the necessary equipment to travel in hyperspace. Upon coming back online, every scan of the gate found the gate to have vanished. The storm flashed, causing every vessel's sensors within a few light years to overload and reboot. "This is Captain Thurben Wyl of the Emperor's Grace, state your intent unknown vessel".Ī short comm exchange then occurred where the newcomer claimed to have come from somewhere called "The Gothic Sector" and that the transition thru the gate had killed both their navigator and caused irreparable damage to their Gellar field emitters, whatever that was supposed to mean.Īt this time the gate's drift suddenly accelerated and drifted into the hyperspace storm. Hails were broadcast and a transmission was received: Long, with a heavy armored prow and a large amount of weapons mounted on the side of the ship. It was of a type and classification hereto unheard of in any historical database. With a surge from the gate, the turbulent surface surged as a vessel ripped through and entered hyperspace. Impossibly, the gate appeared to began drifting toward the nearest hyperspace storm.Īnd then. What was worse, the stabilization thrusters on the gate itself had begun to fail. Instead of shutting down, the gate continued to draw in hyperspace storm energy. Instead it had created some kind of unstable, unconnected wormhole. At this time it appeared the activation of the gate was a failure. Debris from the wrecked probes was then thrown back into hyperspace. Probes with fired into it but those that avoiding the strange energy hit the plane of the gate and shattered upon impact. The 14th pulled their assets back beyond the destructive energies pouring from the gate. Unknown energies poured out of the gate, destroying several nearby scientific vessels. With a violent flash the gate ripped itself open. But not in the same way as historical data stated it should. With a great awe among the those that were on site to witness the event. Experimental quantum resonators attached to the ring began to absorb the poorly understood energies. ![]() Once there, the vast network of thrusters positioned the gate near one of the hyperspace storms. The project took several years and the expense was high, but in the end an entire ring gate was transitioned into hyperspace. One of the dormant ring gates was modified with a large array and thrusters and the perimeter was permeated with hyperspace transition engines. ![]() Strategic assessment of the situation by the faction's analysts show that a sufficiently large force could be assembled to overthrow Hegemony and 14th control.ĭesperate for a way to contact the Dominion, the 14th's engineers came up with a plan. An ambush by a mercenary pirate fleet joined the battle and the 14th suffered a loss of one of their prized Paragons. The 14th Battlegroup was reeling from a recent skirmish with a group of independents in the sector.
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