Bridge, Shade of Tyranny Luka Loramai watched the view screens as his fleet glided forwards through the black of space, arranging themselves into formation in order to jump to the Human World of Reach. The Covenant had uncovered it's location only recently using a strange artifact from Sigma Octanus IV, and now that they had it's location they were all to willing to get a shot at reach and cripple what was left of Humanities military. The fleet moved into position, and then opened up the slipspace portal, a purple vortex. They entered it and Luka shut off the viewscreen, turning to the others on the bridge "Today, brothers, we shall strike a blow at the beating heart of the human forces!" He declared, to a cheer from the other bridge officers "The world i..." He was cut off mid speech by a jolt as the entire ship seemed to lurch. One of the grunts on the bridge jumped away from his console as it exploded into blue "By the rings!" One of the Elites declared as he watched the terminal report damage to sections. Luka dashed over, reading off the damage report. The gods must be displeased, their ship was being tossed all over the place, it's energy projectors receiving damage, it's troop bays being torn apart. He pulled down the view screen again and watched as part of the ship was quite literally torn off, and one of the fins flew past and then... everything seemed to return to normal "Disengage the drive! Quickly!" He ordered, and the navigations officer nodded and rapidly smashed several buttons. They dropped out of slip space and back into normal space... and were staring at a desert planet with two suns. Luka frowned, they must have been tossed off course, this was not how the planet had been described, nor were the other vessels here "Where are we?" Fal asked as he approached the navigation officer, who tapped several keys in, then frowned and tried again. The terminal beeped in response and changed colour, but nothing else happened. The Officer turned his head to Fal "I don't know, brother... we do not appear to be in any known galactic cluster..." He said slowly, almost in disbelief. But Luka was seeing bigger problems as he watched the view screens. There were other ships. Was this some kind of human experiment, had they brought the Shade of Tyranny here deliberately... no, that was far beyond their technology. Were these ships even human? Why didn't match any known patterns. He proceeded across the bridge to the Luminary, as Ripa entered the bridge to investigate. Fal frowned as he watched Luka "What are you doing, Fleetmaster?" "The Luminary marks all humans as artefacts due to a design imperfection" He stated. In truth, it was a design perfection rather than an imperfection, but neither Luka nor any of the Elites knew of this. He activated it and stared at it, watching as the glyphs popped up. One... then two, then dozens, then hundreds. "Humans..." Ripa said slowly as the Glyphs appeared across several of the ships. So what was on the others? "We must destroy them!" Fal said, watching the glyphs appear and clenching his fists "No. They might be able to get us out of this, we can always exterminate them afterwards. Send out a communications signal, establish contact with all vessels" Tatooine Orbit The purple ship appeared, slowly drifting forwards through the black of space. It's shields raised to prevent the venting of atmosphere from one of it's hanger bays, that had been torn open during the transfer. It transmitted a single message to the other ships "This is Fleet Master Luka Loramai of the CCS Battlecruiser Shade of Tyranny to all nearby ships. We have sustained damage in an unknown accident, we request knowledge on our position and on resource locations for repairs."