*during a routine maintenance check, some idiot replaced a speaker and put it too close to the surface- so, an instant before everyone began transporting to the CASTLE defense installation-now decloaking and accidentally serving as yet another diversion, albeit a less enticing on, as it had no beam weapons and was not producing very much power- Logan's message echoed through Ops loud and clear: "Attention Dantor Listening Station......."(Off:See my other post for full contents of the message.)

(OFF: we pop up all over the place, mostly communicating with each other over e-mail, but killing our characters by putting them in other RPG's.  The people in the listening post are transporting to CASTLE, which is a small facility in the middle of the ocean designed to protect the technicians (all 8 of them) in case the listening post  is compromised (as it just was).  The listening post itself is a small underground facility which monitors shipping traffic and relays communications between Thunder Dart units and home base (Oupost Gaia in the Expansion Sector board, a thread in either the Dark Passage or the Van'Gu Cluster (I don't remember which one).  In order to mask the facilitie's energy signature, we built it directly under Starphoenix and illegaly tapped ino their power network.  The facility will have to be destroyed now, but the techies don't know that the message was heard by someone other than themselves.  Before you ask, a Thunder Dart is a small spacecraft specifically designed as an infiltration vehicle- a smaller version of the Reaper science vessel, with the stealth capabilities of a Moonlight-class frigate and the armament of a Sovreign-class Force Deterrent Explorer (bureaucratese for battlecruiser-the Enterprise-E was one).  The Reapers and Thunder Darts are used exclusively by TCT, a small RPG that lives on in other RPG boards as one or two threads with maybe two people posting in them.  It almost became a division, but I wasn't able to reply to the e-mail in time and so am back where I started.  I thought blowing up the Moon Dash would be a good start to getting rid of the Expansion branch so we can find another way to keep our little RPG from croaking.  Killing an actual character would be a lot better than killing an NPC, so I located the escape pods too far away for the bridge crew to reach them in time.  Rest assured that this particular character will die befor this is over, and the rest you'll probably take care of no problem, seeing as they are NPC's and no NPC is better than a human. My character is the pilot/captain of the TRU Moon Dash, a Thunder Dart with  a crew of 15.)

*at about this time the Moon Dash was cruising past Dantor on its way home.  Its engines at low power to mask its signiture, it moved quite slowly-at least, slowly for a Thunder Dart Recovery and Combat Unit*
*sees cloud of energy on screen*
"What the f**k?"
*taps a few buttons*
"Attention Dantor Listening Station, we have a bit of a situation up here.  Disengage the cloak, activate the weapons system, and head to CASTLE until we figure out what's going on.  Don't worry, CASTLE can withstand anything short of total destruction of the planet.  You have nothing to fear.  Out"
*taps more buttons*
"HQ, we've got some wierd sh*t goin' on here.  I'm gonna need a Reaper over here ASAP to try and get a better idea of what this thing is."
*presses commbadge*
"Farley, go weapons hot, weapons hot."
Farley: "Aye, sir."
"Perryman, load the Penetrators and standby for Black Alert." *over shipwide comm system* "Attention, we are now at Red Alert until further notice.  Shields up!  Stay cloaked unless I say otherwise."
(OFF: a Penetrator is a combat drone armed with a Quark Field emitter and two Bludgeons, which are weapons that are designed to drain shield energy at a phenomenal rate.  However, the Quark Field produces almost double the energy that will be drained, so they will not be very effective unless used in groups of 10 or more- and a Thunder Dart only carries five.)