A miner incident (Rehy-Galactya first contact)

[Caca]

OOC notes:
Adding “a” to the end of a word refers to a person.
Adding “aa” to the end of a word indicates an ideology/religion.
ie: “Ssca” is the former nation Ssca, “Sscaa” is the demonym, “Sscaaa” is a political ideology.

“Akak” is a vocalisation meaning "do you hear me? a radio conversation ends when “akak” is not said.

Rikeuningerd use names/titles/ethnicities as personal pronouns.
ie: Scyroo is a former Syru (leader) of Rehy, Syru is well respected.

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Ra-Scayi is mineral rich planet positioned 183km from it’s star, a red dwarf. The planet harbors several mining outposts, and is orbited by 3 docking stations owned by Rehy, it has no moons. As Kusua discovered this high gravity ore planet, Kusu industries own a majority of vessels that frequent it, alongside recycling plants, refineries and the like present on it’s surface. Ra-Scayi has not been terraformed due to its stance as a resource, therefor outside of habitable domes , it remains a flat, uninhabitable wasteland.

Ship no. 4343 is a of one the many scrapping ships that visit Ra-Scayi, it’s 1km long, 500m high and 700m wide (a medium sized vessel by Rehy terms) it’s equipped with five mining lasers: a powerful one of the nose, two on each side, these weapons are limited to the front, below the bridge, to allow maximum cargo space. Such a ship is powered by nuclear fusion, and is not designed to enter atmosphere. It’s number, Kusu plus Rehy insignia, and a yellow stripe signifying it as a industrial ship, are painted on it’s side.

434-3 is also one of the many ships contacted to deal with a damaged vessel. It has been idling in a doc.

Ship no. 237: [434-3, this is ship Captain Sca-Ro of 237. Akak]

Ship no. 434-3: [237, this is Captain He of 343. Akak.]

[434-3 we require your assistance. A small civilian vessel has collided with an astroid in planet Deeroo’s ring, easy clean up but theres LOTS of astroids we have to get past, we need an extra to shoot rocks that get to close to us. An easy test for a newly deployed ship. Akak.]

[273, traveling there now]

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He: “exiting doc!”

Crew member: “Moving!” It took a moment to be a safe distance away from the doc to warp, “Safe!”

He: “Initiating warp.”

Crew member: “Systems running good.”

He: “Warping in 3…2…1!”

343 and it’s rather enthusiastic crew travel through another dimension in order to quickly reach there destination, and everything is perfectly well until they arrived. Something is off, planet Deeroo is nowhere in sight, alongside it’s famous asteroid belt, the stars seem different, and most importantly: no one contacted them upon arrival.

He: “Sca-Ro should have radioed us by now. But Captain hasn’t. And the stars…there is different locations, don’t line us with our maps…” He is rather concerned, eyes pinning.

Co-pilot Desysy: “Is it possible where stuck in the warp.”

He: “Friend…” He looks down at the control screen. “KA! I’v incorrectly entered Deeroos coordinates…were way past our target, by…a lot. Well, at least we’re not stuck in an alternate dimension.”

Co-pilot Desysy: “You and your armoured hands,” Jokes Desysy, who wears the same uniform. “We know our origin coordinates, we can get back.”

He was looking at the radar. “What creation of the gods is that.” What he was looking as was a 25km long ship. Miners on the ships left could see it, about 10km away from them, and now that He was aware of its presents, everyone on the bridge looked in its direction. “I’ll contact Rehy headquarters.” Sadly, Rehy headquarters are to far away to contact, it would take a while for a message to get there, if it got there at all.

Co-pilot Desysy: “We’ll just have to wait until they notice us.” The mining ship stays where it is, Rikeuninerd are an inquisitive species and they require knowledge, but there also very cautious.

[Galaxiel]

07/04/6001 P.E.
0 BBT

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Celestial Empire Of Galactya
Quadrant 18, Near The Nebular Termination Point

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The Nebular Termination Point in Quadrant 18. A spherical Bok Globule encapsulating various newborn stars can be seen in the foreground, at the bottom right corner of the image.

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The 7th Border Patrol Fleet, composed of 750 vessels, had entered the Border Hyperlane sections of Quadrant 18. The Patrol Fleets rarely rested, and were on a constant mission of circling the entire Empire’s frontier, constantly travelling among the Hyperlane Border Line and only dropping out of the hypergravital tunnels to inspect anything picked up by the Border Surveillance Systems.

Each fleet was captained by one of the Conqueror Class Imperial Warships, 25 kilometers long vessels whose armament and shielding was updated any time that a technological advancement was made. The Warship was then accompanied by other vessels with various purposes and gradually smaller size, in case a battle was to break out. In the 7th Fleet’s case, the Warship at it’s command was the “Astral Collapse”, one of the oldest ships of it’s class that was constructed more than twelve standard centuries ago.

Soon after entering Quadrant 18, one of the Radar Satellites picked up something, and notified the Fleet.

“Captain! We are receiving a notification from the Surveillance Radar Satellite 18-32. It’s detecting an unusual signature, analogue to that of a warp transit.”

“Noted. Initiate exit from HyperGravital Tunnel! Activate shields and all scanner stations!”

“Activating Ringular Gravity Warp Dive at maximum speed.”

“Anomaly reading tracked and locked on astrolocator. Scanners activated in deep field mode. Ready to scan on arrival.”

“Good. Prepare to deactivate Warp Drives in three seconds.”

“Noted! Warp Drives disengaged.”

“Wonderful. What are we dealing with here? A transdimensional warp anomaly?”

“No, it’s… it’s a ship sir!”

“What?! Nehtar, is it of any nation we know of? Perhaps an ally.”

“No, the contrary. The warp signature excludes Calerostan, Trianarö and even Sereniani ships. And the signature itself is only similar to Drakari and Emeraldian ones, but the background pattern is completely different! We’re dealing with a first contact!”

“Is it armed?”

“It appears to be. Simple photonic laser weapons, similar to the ancient ones used for mining asteroids in the first centuries of Era 2.”

“Mhh, inetersting. With those weapons they won’t be a threat even to the MilliFighters. Qasthkion, are the shields up?”

“Yes, captain. Both Rainbow and Antimatter shields are fully operational.”

“Perfect. Thaisader, activate the Reactionless Drive and set it to 0.76 Cs. Direct the fleet towards the alien vessel. Uirtev, activate the communication array and the universal translators. Prepare to hail them.”

“Yes Captain. Target locked and drives engaged to set speed. the fleet will reach their location in 28 seconds.”

“Communicator array locked and activated Captain. Universal translators have been activated and are fully operational. We’re ready to start hailing.”

“Perfect.”

"ALIEN VESSEL, THIS IS CAPTAIN OPHTEUN XEWASTIN OF THE ASTRAL COLLAPSE. YOU ARE CURRENTLY TRESPASSING ON TERRITORY BELONGING TO THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE OF GALACTYA. IF YOU CAN RECEIVE AND UNDERSTAND US, PLEASE RESPOND AND STATE YOUR INTENTIONS IMMEDIATELY."

[Caca]

The message is received, but being a scrapping vessel 434-3 and it’s crew have no idea on how to deal with first contact, they will have to make do with what’s familiar. Upon noticing the fleet moving towards them, half the crew begin panicking, the others stand in curious silence, of course the most important things occur on the bridge.

On the bridge, Ku-dyko, an atypically tall Kusua, stands in lookout: “Captain, there’s lots more smaller ships. Also, there moving towards us.” Ku-dyko served in the Screea Defence Defence, and is not yet familiar with 434-3’s capabilities. “We need to scan them to see what tech they have, just in case we need to escape. We can’t fight them.”

Captain He: “Soldier Ku-dyko, we can’t do that, this is a mining vessel. We can scan for life, and known/unknown elements.”

Co-pilot Desysy prepares the ship to flee, but is interrupted by the message. “Captain, message, there communicating… they must have a translater, no one should know Scayi. Do you know first contact protocol?”

Captain He: “No. I am a simple miner.”

Crew member Ku-dyko: “I vaguely do. As they are definitely trying to contact us, we need to alert headquarters. He has already tried that, where to far away. That means the next step is telling them who we are: ship details, origins, ect.”

Co-pilot Desysy: “You do that.”

Crew member Ku-dyko:
[This is Scrapping ship 434-3. You have contacted a civilian vessel of Rehy. 434-3 has 1 captain, 1 co-pilot and 28 sapient organic crew. Rehy is a alliance, it consist of many nations. Our home planet is Ruka. Our species is Rikeuninerd. 434-3 has warped here on accident.]

Captain He orders 434-3 into Defencive position-Passive: mining lasers are turned off, and shields put to full power. An announcement to “remain calm” is put over 434-3, although it does little.

[Galaxiel]

“Okay, so… what do we do now?”

“Isn’t there a first contact protocol or something? We should probably follow that.”

“If I remember correctly, what we have to do depends highly on the situation. Different parameters and checkpoints.”

“Yes, you’re right. I just pulled it up from the database, and it all depends on attitude, location, and ship classification. In our case, the aliens seem relatively calm, it’s all happening in deep space and we have big and very armed ships so… we should ask them to track to our ship in order to carry out diplomacy. At least, that’s what it says.”

“Seems relatively straightforward. Let’s hope it goes well.”

“Let’s hope that. Anyways, Uirtev! Activate the link again and be ready to send another message. Everyone else, prepare to open one of the hangars and to reconfigure the atmospheric settings.”

“Everything ready Captain!”

"SCRAPPING VESSEL 434-3, WE REQUEST YOU TO TRACK AT ONE OF THE HANGARS OF THE FLAGSHIP ASTRAL COLLAPSE. SEEING HOW THIS IS A FIRST CONTACT SITUATION, WE WISH TO LEARN MORE ABOUT YOU AND YOUR NATION. PLEASE, SEND US THE ATMOSPHERIC AND SURFACE GRAVITY DATA THAT YOUR SPECIES NEEDS TO SURVIVE. WE WILL ADAPT THE SHIP'S ENVIRONMENT ACCORDINGLY. IN TURN, WE WILL SEND YOU THE TRAJECTORY DATA TO THE DESIGNATED HANGAR. WE DO NOT WISH TO HARM YOU."

“If we’re lucky, they won’t react badly.”

[Caca]

The crew are relieved that the aliens don’t take an offensive, still the shields remain up.

Co-pilot Desysy: “I believe that means they want us to dock.”

Captain He: “Yes. Im locking onto that one over there” He points towards the Flagship.

The tech crew have quickly found Ruka’s atmospheric and surface gravity data: [Atmosphere is 72% nitrogen, 27.1% oxygen, 0.9% carbon dioxide, gravity is 8.29 m/s2.]

Crew member Ku-dyko: “I wonder what else they’ll want to know about us.”

Captain He: “We will find out.”

[Galaxiel]

As the 434-4 reached the large ship and aligned itself to the front of the hangars, it’s folding doors opened, leaving the passage open. Thanks to the airwall, the air inside the hangar bay was not pulled out into outer space, and instead remained still.

After the scrapping ship fully entered the large room, two gravity engines activated, acting as docking clamps and holding it in place. A large foldable staircase rose up from the floor and aligned itself to the vessel’s main exit.

The hangar’s intercom activated, welcoming the new guests aboard.

"CREW OF THE SCRAPPING VESSEL 434-4, WELCOME ABOARD THE ASTRAL COLLAPSE. THE SURFACE GRAVITY DATA AND ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION DATA HAS ALREADY BEEN IMPLEMENTED, AND THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT'S CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN MODIFIED ACCORDINGLY. YOU CAN EXIT YOUR VESSEL NOW. ONE OF THE SHIP'S OFFICIALS WILL ACCOMPANY YOU TO A PROPER MEETING ROOM."