TEO'S RANGERS: WHO THE **** STOLE 40 PAGES FROM US?!!

[Delora Filth]

There has been report of River Pirates attack on some our goods convoy.

Training is fine and dandy, but nothing beats the real deal, I am scheduling a bunch of drills for the recruits.

Good. I'm making you temporary second in command after Monty while Hyp and I are gone.

****e. They must've spotted the energy surge when you powered up the sensors. Believe me I didn't let a flicker of that pulse through. Powering forward weapons. Shields up. Moving to intercept from starboard.

Don't be so sure about that. Fully blocking out a pulse of that power on every frequency, you'd be so many kinds of brain dead right now, even a Leeran isn't laughing. That said, it seems to be...organic and big. Though it's alone...for now.

Damn. How much did you amp those things during the last retrofit? I'll try to hail them. Maybe they ain't hostile for once.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Well, between all the superconductive materials we got out of Reaver wrecks, Leeran work on regenerative materials and their size...they have to be at least thirty metres away from the vessel before activation and there's a three hundred metre zone of no approach for all the other ship while they're active.



...in short...very. Also, I think we've made a massive breakthrough in the development of radiation weapons.


Doesn't seem to be responding...aaah, that's why.

 

[Delora Filth]

Firing a warning shot across their bow. Though I'm fully expecting it to do diddly-****e.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Fully correct on that account.

We're running out of space...firing a full salvo at the frontal third.

 

[Delora Filth]

Taking out their propulsion. Missile tubes three and six active. Firing.

Well would you look at the shielding on that *****. Prepping transphasic torpedoes.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

That's...not shielding...and it's accelerating.


Oooh ****... .5AU...**** it, I'm checking how much more we can piss it off.
Activating heavy sensors in five, four, three, two, one. Finding out in four minutes.

 

[Delora Filth]

I'll try to bait it towards me while they charge up. "Evasive maneuvers! Fire everything!"

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

It...stopped reacting...manoeuvring away...


It's not changing course.

 

[Delora Filth]

The **** is this ****? It hasn't opened fire on us either. Even though I've thrown three full barrages of everything at them. Barely scratched the paint for that matter. I'm considering making Balefire paralell its course and taking a team over in a shuttle to see if we can make contact that way. Maybe their systems can't recognise our hail frequencies.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Not actually paint.
Care to shuttle back to the fleet? We're gonna catch it on the approach.

 

[Delora Filth]

It's just a bloody expression.

Shuttle what where now? You do remember our fleet is three galaxies over right?

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

You might not have noticed but you have moved a ways out during this little fiasco. Come on, we don't have much time right now.
You gotta see this.

 

[Delora Filth]

****......

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Surprisingly...yes.

 

[Delora Filth]

Enlighten me please. What the **** am I actually watching here?

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Essentially...a space whale.



Kind of. Closer to a Manta, anyway.

 

[Delora Filth]

But what the ****'s it made of? For lack of a better term. None of our weapons did ****e to it. It must have the ****ing mass-density of a neutron star.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

About a third but yes. Most projectiles were deflected. Before impacting.

Try shooting it now.

 

[Delora Filth]

Why would I? It hasn't acted hostile. I'm not about to just blast some innocent space-whale just to see if I can. What did you do?

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Me? Nothing.
Well, other than figuring out it only lets you poke a hole in it when its dead.

Anyway, think you could feel the insides for any obviously synthetic objects? Especially outside the digestive tract?