Unknown fate

[Ki'Shar]

Royal Navy Ship Charente

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37th Tau system, proximity of Lorraine anomaly

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It was a rough day for Lauren and her high ranking officers, this blackout had happened twice before they arrived to 37th Tau. Once it happened right next to Malta, luckily the cloaking device was still working. 37th Tau was so close, yet so far with these anomalies but nobody had lost the hope yet. Even so nobody found out the reason why it is happening out of sudden, the reactor should be safe from the tissue because it hadn't reached it yet that was the main concern of the engineering. Due to these anomalies taking place at worst places possible, the command had decided to change the route and head around Lorraine anomaly instead of Freeport, where everyone gathers these days. Lauren was sitting in her seat on the command bridge, quiet humming noises of engines and systems could be heard, the crew was silent, calm, focused. Silence before disaster. The basic maintenance of the reactor room was underway, engineering team consisting of 12 people was trying to seal the room from the tissue. Silence, darkness, alerts beeping, confusion rising. Valor was once again consumed by darkness, systems were offline, engines were shut down due to emergency. Charente was slowly drifting past Lorraine anomaly towards ice field where Tau 23 was located.

This time however cloaking field remained active and to everyone's surprise alien weapons and shield as well. However anything human made was shut down or pushed out of service. With one key difference. Nothing came back online in few seconds.

"Status update?" Lauren asked, but nobody was able to respond to her.