User blog:Pwyll Bainbridge/Training Cruise

​Captains Log:
​We left space dock understaffed with the intention of picking up the rest of our crew compliment when we reached Tau Ceti.

Shortly after leaving space dock, we engaged in a combat exercise. During the exercise we received a distress call from the ERNS Rouncey. Being the closest ship, the exercise was suspended and we responded.

We found the ERNS Rouncey severely damaged and adrift, a cetian science vessel, the Rendezvous, was also present.

After docking up with the Rouncey we began evacuating her crew to the Xuanwu. During the rescue operation we discovered that we had blazed into some form of special anomaly.

After attempting to escape the anomaly, the cetian vessel was able to open a hole large enough to launch a distress beacon through. Apparently, punching a hole in the anomaly destabilized it, and the anomaly began to collapse in on itself.

When the anomaly collapsed, it almost tore our girl apart. We found ourselves almost two light years from our previous location. Once we got our bearing's, and got some of the more serious damage repaired, we started to escort the damaged cetian ship back to Tau Ceti. We didn't get more than a few light seconds when a ship exit hyperspace in our vicinity. The ship identified itself as the HMS Basilisk and demanded the immediate surrender of the Rendezvous.

We engaged the HMS Basilisk to buy the cetian vessel time to escape. However, the Basilisk harpooned the Rendezvous and entered hyperspace. Luckily, they exited hyperspace just a few light minutes away due to the extensive damage we inflicted on them. After defeating the Basilisk, we captured her crew and stripped her for parts.

For our actions in protecting their science vessel, the cetians offered us safe harbor to repair and re-supply the Xuanwu.

According to the cetians, we can not return home. Earth, our Earth does not exist here. There is no Earth Republic, Earth is controlled by an imperialistic faction known as the Empire of Sol.